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It Has Been Said That "All Maps Lie" and That

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It has been said that "all maps lie" and that most maps include political biases. What types of biases or distortions might you suspect or imagine while looking at the maps in this chapter? What other ways might map boundaries, place names, or symbols have been used to either reduce biases or show other types of biases?


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