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

On 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 at zero degrees latitude, halfway between the North ...

Running around the middle of the planet is an imaginary line called the Equator. Well I’m on the half that’s above the Equator, which is called the Northern Hemisphere and he lives on the half ...