Which of the following statements about cartography and the creation of maps is false?

A map projection represents Earth’s three-dimensional surface on a two-dimensional map, and this process inevitably distorts some properties, such as shape, area, distance, or direction. Cartographers choose projections to reduce or manage the kinds of distortion that matter for a map’s purpose. Therefore, the claim that projections never show distortion is false; the correct choice is “Map projections never show distortion.”

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