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It's the location.

'A projection is a system for mapping the round Earth on a flat surface. The Mercator projection map shows the accurate locations of the continents and oceans. The land and water areas, however, are greatly distorted toward the North and South Poles.'

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The shape and size of the continents are shown accurately on the Robinson projection map, but the water areas are expanded to fill the extra space.

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Mercator is a type of map projection, in which the shape of the continents is exaggerated the further away you go from 30 degrees north or south latitude, so the answer is no.

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no it distorts shape near the poles which is evident with Greenland. on the Mercator map Greenland is as big as south America which is not true, the best map is an equal area or Robinson

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A globe avoids the distortion found on flat maps of the world.

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