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What are limitations of Mercator Projection?

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  • There is greater exaggeration of scale along the parallels and meridians in high
    latitudes. As a result, size of the countries near the pole is highly exaggerated.
  • Poles in this projection cannot be shown as 90° parallel and meridian touching them are infinite.
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