Alaska is very large, but there is some exaggeration at the north and south ends due to the choices this map style makes to flatten a sphere into a rectangle[1]

Alaska is very large, but there is some exaggeration at the north and south ends due to the choices this map style makes to flatten a sphere into a rectangle[1] [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Uses