By Marc D. Langva, CFP®, Founder & CEO at WorkOptional
What if I told you the world map you have been looking at your entire life is inaccurate? You would say “Marc your crazy!” But it’s true. The global map we all grew up with is called the Mercator map, which was created to make navigation easier while sailing. The map on the left is called the Peters Projection map; this map, unlike the Mercator map, more accurately represents the size, scale, and location of the Earths continents. It turns out that Africa is fourteen times larger than Greenland!
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