The article “Why World Maps Are Misleading” talks about different map projections and how they are flawed. The challenge of displaying a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface is impossible to complete without distorting or interrupting something. All maps express some bias and fail to show the world without distortion. For example, the Mercator projection portrays Africa as the same size, if not smaller than Greenland while Africa is actually fourteen times bigger. The word for this bias is ethnocentrism, the act of judging, and in this case portraying, another place by its wealth, power, and the author’s opinion based on where they are from. Human geography principles are evident in this article because the distortions of a
