Gall–Peters projection

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I'm not a fan of this projection. Africa and Greenland are both horribly distorted in shape, and it makes it look like the best way to fly from Canada to Norway is to head east, rather than north.

I say get rid of all flat maps-of-the-world from schools and replace them with spherical maps.

(Edit: I just just meant maps of the world. Flat maps of single countries where distortion is minimal can stay.)

Whilst I agree regarding globes as obviously the best representation, the point of this projection is not to facilitate navigation, but to show how insignificant in area North America and Western Europe really are in comparison to the vast swaths of South America, Africa, and Asia.

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