Don't know why I zoomed in expecting to be able to read it
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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this is gorgeous thank you so much for sharing it. so interesting. terrible projection for many reasons of course but fascinating for so many more
The box in the bottom right corner literally says "see the world from a different perspective".
从另一个角度看世界
(cóng lìng yīgè jiǎodù kàn shìjiè)
Slicing the Americas in half is brutal, took me a minute to figure that out
When I was a kid, a lot of US maps where US-centered. They would chop Eurasia down the middle and include some overlap on the edges (so places like India might show up twice).
I feel the blood rushing to my head
I've never seen a sinocentric modern map before. Weird that they decided to go with portrait mode.
'Cos it was the only way they could slice the americas the way many western maps slice asia
It's not really sino-centered though. It's indian ocean centered at best. As another user pointed out, it says it exists to see the world from a different perspective. It's not to be useful, only to show how things can look so much different with different perspectives.
Arguable. It's more Pacific-central instead of the usual Atlantic-central.
That's what every map looked like when I lived in Korea. Took me a while to get used to.
The one posted by OP really took me a minute to wrap my head around.
How else to fit both poles so close to the middle
I'm so stupid, I'm always thinking about traveling the global like east and west just go fucking north.
The way the map is layed out definitely makes it the hardest map I've ever tried to understand.
Panama can go soak, I guess...
Good old "Zhonghua".
Xianghua is a top 3 Soul Calibur character fosho
That's probably 香花 (xiāng huā), "fragrant blossom". Fitting name, she smells amazing.
In case anyone is OOTL, that's the Chinese word for China, and it can be translated as "middle kingdom" or similar, implying that they are literally in the center of the world.
It's a way every culture tends to think about themselves, TBF.
It's 中国 (Zhōngguó).
Much like the Mediterranean.
5 says every china border on that map is wrong
This is not a political map
Unable to view a quality version
Wrong. It's just literally all China. /s
I love the one that shows Japan at the top very heavenly looking, and then the British Isles at the very bottom looking like the savage end of the world
Having been to both places... Yeah I understand.
Cries in anjin
Cursed
Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.
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