Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of opinion flying around at the moment about map projections (including comparative pros and cons). If you're interested in reading about the history of maps and maps projections I can wholly recommend Paulina Rowinska's Mapmatics:
World Map: Real Size Comparison
Alt: On a world map, the sizes of countries oscillate between their relative sizes on a Mercator map and their relative sizes in the real world, demonstrating one of the weaknesses of this map projection (it has strengths, too).
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