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Explanation:
The scale on a map represents the actual distance of any geographical or man made entity with respect to the map units. For example a scale of 1:10000 states that 1 unit of any mode of measurement on map is equal to 10,000 mode of measurement on ground. This mode of measurement could be cm, km , feet etc. Thus 1 cm of map may represent 1000 m, 10000 km , 200000 feet etc.
The scale is used to represent the relative distance in both horizontal and vertical directions.
