Mapping 3D on 2D creates size problems, something readily seen on Statista's size of Africa map.
It's not that Africa is shown as being too small on the majority of world maps, it's how almost every other part of the world has been artificially inflated. If we want someone to blame for this distortion, then we need look no further than the year 1569 when the cartographer Gerardus Mercator devised a solution to the problem of representing a globe on a 2D map's surface.
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