Many maps are lying to us. I don’t mean this in a flat earth kind of way, but rather in the sense that they tend to give certain countries preferential treatment. Much as Americans and many others in this world would like to act as if the United States is the center of the universe, …
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15+ Strange And Useless Maps That Laugh In The Face Of Cartography
Drawing a map is as much an art as it is a science. No-one’s going to care where all those countries are unless they look pretty, but it’s also important to put things in the right place, too. We can learn a lot from studying maps, not all of it especially useful — as these …
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