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A tyranny of so many map projections is that they distort area in favour of preserving shape and distance, the Mercator Projection being perhaps the most well known. Such distortion can visually inflate some regions, a power of its own.

And so I have been especially enjoying playing with this map tool by Josh Horowitz that maintains area/scale across two views as you zoom and pan:

https://joshuahhh.com/projects/same-scale/#3.73/55.96/-6.27/-40.60/173.20/Map

Here is my home country of Aotearoa New Zealand, compared to both Japan & the UK.