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...
:)
ReplyDeleteThings 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 :)
In Germany we also have Germany in the center :D
ReplyDeleteBut the names of the countries are all written in German. (^_^)
It really is interesting how different everything is... haha
To Shantal ForSD
ReplyDeleteThe 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!!
To Saku
ReplyDeleteSo... Japan must be located in right-hand corner of the map...
See I think that Japan should be on the prime meridian just cause the map looks cooler
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