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Re: OT: Renaming the continents

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 9:54
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 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail