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Both the Mercator and Goode Homolosine Projections share which distortion characteristic?

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"Both the Mercator Projection and the Goode Projection attempt to plot the total landmass as accurately as possible. Thus, the Mercator Projection represents the world in a rectangular plane, enlarging the size of the poles and, therefore, distorting the distances of the territories close to them."

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