🌍 Why All the World Maps Are Wrong

Think the world map you learned in school is accurate? Think again.
Most world maps — especially the popular Mercator projection — are full of distortions.

They stretch the northern countries, shrink the Global South, and paint a skewed view of the world.
Learn why Greenland looks massive (but isn’t), how Africa is way bigger than you think, and why it’s so hard to flatten a round planet without warping the truth.

A short but eye-opening look into how maps have shaped our understanding of the world — and why they’ve been wrong all along.

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