Edukatin ur kidz----------Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World | RealClearScience

Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World | RealClearScience:
"Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so.
Why?
Because the Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes.
Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America. "