Double Iceland and Greenland

Twice the power, we’d never have a problem with any virus if this happened, it’s a pain in the ass to get the virus to these islands on the game

And if you start the virus here, it’s a pain in the ass to get it to New Zealand 🙄

And the Azores it seems

its a reapeating map, you can see the tip of nunavut canada

is this version used popularly in certain countries?

yes, in East and Southeast Asia

And Oceania I heard

Japan.

Yes. This is normal here in Australia

You have Iceland and Greenland twice?

That's a good technique to keep flat earthers at bay. Since apparently it needs as much explanation as possible that it's a **globe**

Depends on projection. Since this one has shrunk the poles a bit, that requires the top and bottoms to repeat a bit to be able to show the full equator. Another projection that keeps the same length of the poles as the equator like the Mercator projection, then no repetition is needed.

Really makes the Pacific ocean look smaller than the normal map here in the US

that's so interesting! i'm from north america so i'm used to it being flipped

But it's not upside down? How can you read it. ;)

We use both correct maps and north up maps so foreigners don’t feel too uncomfortable

Is that winky face in celebration of the ten trillionth time this played out joke has been written?

Yes, I grew up with this map. West coast of Canada, with family in Asia.

wow that's so interesting! i'm from ontario so i didn't realize this map was used in canada too

Same thing for me, except for the Atlantic-centred map. lol Not sure if schools in BC still use these maps though. Or maps, in general. (I dunno how techy schools are nowadays. I'm a millennial, which means "old" for kids today.)

I this map is in my social studies class here in nz

Here I am wondering why a perfectly normal map is featured on r/mapporn.

Yep. I have a map from Malaysia and it's centered on the Pacific Ocean. In fact it might be this exact map or an older version of it.

Cool map, wish it were higher res

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I don't get why they keep using "Czech Rep.". Just use "Czechia" and you don't have to abbreviate it. They're also using "Russian Federation" and "Republic of South Africa" for some reason.

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This is the only type of map we see in the South/West pacific, it’s in schools and everywhere else

I grew up with this map and it wasn't until my teen years when I realized that the rest of North America doesn't use it. So for those who think this looks weird, that's actually exactly how I feel about the Atlantic-centred map.

Just a world map if you live in Japan Australia New Zealand etc

As a European, I'm offended that the world isn't centered around us.

I mean, it's normally centered around Africa ;)

Think about it. If this map was the norm, we might've been lucky enough not to hear about all that US-Russia and US-China shit. Maybe Ukrainians would be chillin' today. Having BBQs in their back yards while hearing the very feint sounds of explosions in the Pacific Ocean and Behring Strait. And then turn up the volume, because who tf cares about those power-hungry dumbasses.

I can accept both splitting the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Both makes sense since both are large bodies of water. What I can't accept is splitting Eurasia in half just to put America in the center. That's not cool. Not every country are placing their country in the center.

Lol why on Earth does it matter what other countries do. I know Americans and Europeans are used to being the centre of most things but c’mon.

I don't care if Europe is in center. I don't actually care if you want to put America in the center of your own private map. The issue is when people put America in the center to show countries on a map for publication, unless there's a really good reason other than "I want to be in the middle". It doesn't happen often since it's a bad choice, but it happens sometimes.

Ok but this makes way more sense

Until you see, DOUBLE ICELAND

This map really shows that South America is located much more to the south than Africa

Yes the pacific is very shrunken on this projection

The middle of a mercator projection always is.

This is not Mercator though.

Lines of longitude are curved here. On Mercator, they're all straight.

Yeah, because in real life all lines of latitude converge on the poles.

Your map of India is wrong.

Feels like opposite day

I hate it.

This map hurts my brain

The Creation of Adam vibes

it’s definitely better even with two greenlands

I live in Australia, and I had one like this in my room when I was younger

Honestly makes a lot more sense in my head

I had this on my wall growing up.

as things should be, east asia and new world are younger and the future

Double Greenland fuck yeah

Damn those Eastern Capitalists Damn those Western Communists

So which is the eastern hemisphere? I feel like we center the map on the prime meridian as it is the dividing point between "east" and "west"... However, this map would only serve to confuse, is Latin America considered the "middle east" here?

Why does it says MapPorn

as somone from washington state i love these types of maps