How are equal-area projections of Earth inaccurate
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Equal area projections accurately represent the size of landmasses and oceans, but distort shape, scale, and/or angle. A projection can be either conformal or equal area, but never both. Equidistant projections accurately show the distances between some places, but not other places.
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They are inaccurate because the distance between longitudes is changed so that the longitudes appear parallel. This is done in order to depict the map on a plain surface.
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