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Where can I get a map of the world that shows real proportions?

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Hi Eric,

This is very difficult to do since when you take a sphere and make it flat, there is distortion that occurs.  The mercator is one that has a lot of distortions but both the Sinusoidal and Dymaxion have the least.  A globe has no distortion.

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