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distortion
Two-dimensional.
The main problem is that the earth is approximately spherical and therefore maps covering large areas suffers from distortions due to projection from 3-D to 2-D.
No. The rules of two dimensional geometry can only be used for two dimensional geometry. You can take the basic principles of two dimensional geometry and alter them slightly to be able to apply to three dimensional solids