The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

These sections are usually divided up by continent ... a globe or map, there are a series of lines. These are the lines of latitude and longitude. The main line of latitude is the Equator, located ...

Identifying the seven continents ... There's an imaginary line that runs around my middle, which is always closest to the sun. There it is, the Equator. It marks the difference between my two ...