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The size of continents and countries are scaled down, so they get scaled down. If you're looking at cartographic map, the size/scale of each country will depend by that country's population, GDP, etc.

as well, on flat maps, the most northern and the most southern parts of a map would be distorted. Greenland and Antarctica on a flat map look HUGE. while in comparison to a globe, it would look much smaller on said globe. This is because a map is usally square, or rectangular, and the countries need to be "stretched" to fill the missing space.

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