Re: OT: Renaming the continents

Tim May wrote:

>Incidentally, have you ever seen a world map made in, say, Japan?  Old
>world on the left, Americas on the right.  It's struck me that East
>Asia and Western Europe (and other countries at similar longitudes)
>are privileged in that they can put themselves more or less in the
>middle of a world map without either cutting continents or
>reduplicating them at the edges.
I don't think the Soviets were exactly sad that they had to cut the USA in
two in order to give the Soviet Union a central location on world maps ...

Tangentially, what about post-Soviet Russian maps? Do they stick to this way
of cutting up the thing, or have they switched to the (literally)
eurocentric verison?


                                                               Andreas

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