Maps are always wrong.

Yes, you read it right. Maps are always wrong! Surprised? I can explain.

Let me start with a small question. “What is the shape of the earth ?” Of course not flat, round - No! spherical? - No! Ellipsoid- No! A geographer out from the readers is shouting “Geoid” - No not a geoid as well. Well, then the teachers and scientists were actually fooling you all these years? First of all, understand that the earth has no regular shape. We consider it as a spherical or a geoid for the ease of many purposes. The actual earth may look like something in the figure below (vertically exaggerated).

Either Shape or Area or Distance or Direction or in combination of these are distorted for every map.