Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is ...

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Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the sizes (and even shapes) of continents, countries, and bodies of water.