Posted by charles on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 4:01pm.
A globe shows the earth to scale, with continents and oceans shown in the shapes and relative proportions they really are.
However, most globes are too small to show much detail. Huge globes 10 or 12 feet in diameter are too expensive for most people or museums. Besides, it's not practical to carry around even a 12-inch globe.
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The earth is round... a globe is round. Therefore, you are seeing the actual relationships between the countries that you would not see if you are looking at a map on a flat surface.
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