Which of the following statements about maps and how they work is false?

Map projections represent the curved Earth on a flat surface, so they always distort some feature, such as area, shape, distance, or direction. Therefore, the statement that projections always create undistorted representations is false. The other statements are true: maps can show information beyond location, latitude and longitude form an imaginary grid, and political maps show boundaries between countries.

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