The Mercator projection of the world map ... allowing you to see many more orders of magnitude of distortion. Because this yields a map several times taller than it is wide, it is shown sideways ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating back to 1569 ... The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the ...

But to most people, the Mercator projection is highly misleading. Tissot's indicatrix, a geometric equation used to show distortion on maps, explains the problems with Mercator. One of the best ...