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Theoretically, transferring a curved Earth to a flat map involves selectively stretching some parts of Earth’s surface more than others. For example, imagine two cities are 1,000 miles apart and the land between them gets stretched a great deal during the map-making process. Now imagine that elsewhere on Earth, two other cities are also 1,000 miles apart, but the land between them gets stretched just a little to make the very same map. On the resulting maps, the distance of 1,000 miles isn’t portrayed the same.