- Distortion class
- Neither equal-area nor conformal
- Graticule type
- Perspective azimuthal
- Creator
- Ancient Greeks (used by Hipparchus, among others)
- Year
- 2nd century BC
- Area
- Distorted; only the center is free of distortion, and areas are compressed more and more toward the edge of the disk
- Shape
- Highly distorted near the edges (foreshortened perspective)
- Distances
- Distorted: distances measured from the center shrink toward the edge of the disk
- Angles and directions
- Distorted; only the center of the map is free of distortion
Add countries from the tools panel and drag them to other latitudes. The outline keeps its true shape and area on the globe, so any change in its size on the map shows this projection's distortion. Tissot's indicatrices and the area distortion map show the same effect across the whole world.
