Friday, April 19, 2013

Japanese lifestyle ~ 47~ World map

The world map which is used in Japan looks like this.
  Japan comes the center of the world map.
Japan is so small country.
  When I was kid, I used to think everybody in the world uses this world map.
But the map in your country shows your country at center, right?
  I have got used to seeing this kind of map.
  I am interested in what the world map used in Australia is like...

5 comments:

Unknown said...

:)
Things look somewhat shifted in comparison to what I am used to. Now I have studied common geography in Bulgaria, so I remember the Wolds as it was presented there :)

http://digilicious.org/gallery/worldmap/Worldmap_long_names_small.png

you are right - looks like each county shifts the map, so that it is at the rough center of the World :)

I can't see well on the map that you provide, but I think all country names are written in Japanese? In our version, each country name was written in the language that was official there - so, Japan was written in Japanese, Russia, was written in Russian, Germany was written in German....

Interesting how people can find differences even in so common things as a map of our common planet :)

Saku said...

In Germany we also have Germany in the center :D
But the names of the countries are all written in German. (^_^)
It really is interesting how different everything is... haha

marimari said...

To Shantal ForSD

The map you showed me is very interesting.
I have never seen such a map.
The map I showed here is written in
Japanese.

Thanks for sharing!!

marimari said...

To Saku

So... Japan must be located in right-hand corner of the map...

Anonymous said...

See I think that Japan should be on the prime meridian just cause the map looks cooler