Multiple choice general knowledge

The best-known world-map projection is the:

  1. Bottomley projection

  2. Lambert conformal conic projection

  3. Mercator Projection

  4. Chamberlin projection
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Explanation

The Mercator projection, created by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, is the most famous world map projection. It was designed for marine navigation and is still widely used today, despite its distortion of areas near the poles.

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