Our Map of the Month for December 2022 is the Peters World Map Political Wall Map.
The Peters World Map shows countries in proportion to their relative sizes. It is based upon Arno Peters’ 1970s decimal grid which divides the surface of the earth into 100 longitudinal fields of equal width and 100 latitudinal fields of equal height; it treats the rectangles around the equator as squares and builds the other rectangles onto these in proportion to the areas they represent. the zero meridian on this system is combined with a proposed new international date line.
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