Here's a fun collection of people showing us how maps can be deceptive.
This is due at least in part to an inability to adequately reconstruct a 3D sphere on a 2D flat surface.
We wind up centering things, and enlarging the scale (North America I'm looking at you!) on maps, and it makes everything more confusing to visualize correctly.
It's no wonder some people get confused about geography in a spatial sense. And since I'm on that topic, here are some thoughts about what we often get wrong.
And just because I have a pet peeve about it, the earth is a globe. Anyone who suggests that it's flat is …. well … stupid.
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