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Explain the limitations of Mercator’s Projection.
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Limitations-
- There is greater exaggeration of scale along the parallels and meridians in high latitudes. As a result, the 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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