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Why do some countries print themselves at the center of the world map? How does a world map handle a country that sits on both sides of the date line? Why do disputed borders look different on Google Maps depending on where you open it? How do you flatten a round planet without tearing it apart? Why does Greenland look bigger than Africa on most world maps? What does the Mercator projection get right that newer maps do not? Who decides which unrecognized country appears on a printed world map? Why do some atlases put the Pacific Ocean in the middle? Which projection does the United Nations emblem use and why? How did sailors navigate with a map that deliberately distorts distance? Why does Greenland look as large as Africa on a Mercator world map? Why is the world map you grew up with not the same as your neighbour's? Why does every map projection distort something and which distortion can you live with? How big is Russia really compared with Africa? Which countries end up at the edge of a world map and does that matter politically?

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