When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

He divided the world into 96 different sections and then printed them onto an inflated tetrahedron. This was then flattened and cut along the edges to produce a proportionally accurate world map.

IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually accurately illustrate the globe’s countries and continents. When this world map was charted i… ...