42. A New Way Of Designing Maps
The Mercator Projection is not a new way to make maps by any stretch of the imagination. In 1569, Gerardus Mercator is thought to have been the first person to offer his way of making maps. Cylindrical projection is making a cylindrical projection by using meridians, lines of latitude and longitude, and the equator as a guide.
42 A New Way Of Designing Maps
This type of cartography is still used today, especially for making charts for navigation. Using this method to make maps is that it doesn’t always give the correct answers. Since the lines that show where the continents are on a flat map may not always indicate exactly where they should be.
43. Japan’s Actual Population
The majority of the countries in East Asia are in China, Japan, and South Korea. People often think of Japan as a small country made up of islands off the east coast of Asia. However, this is not entirely true. Japan looks smaller on maps than it really is because of Mercator’s Projection, but maybe this helps put things in perspective.
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Japan is quite a bit bigger than the east coast of the United States, even though it may not look like it. Also, more than 126 million people are living there at the moment. Even though Japan is much smaller than the United States, it has about a third of the population.
