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Map of the World
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I've only ever seen maps of the world with the UK in the middle and therefore the US is in the West and Asia in the East. Why is this and are maps the same all over the world. Are there any with other countries in the middle and therefore the East/ West provinces are different.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This is only speculation on my part, but perhaps most of the maps we see are 'Eurocentric' because the Greenwich meridian is the centre of longitude, so it makes sense to put it in a central position on the map. Having said that, there are other kinds of maps; here, for instance, is a Japanese world map: http://www.umsl.edu/~wolfordj/courses/a11ws02/japw
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suggest it's because Great Britain were top dog of invasions empires and importance at the time; here is a page about world maps and the G.M. Line; http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopic
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No, norman dyson, the world maps in the USA do not "ALL" have the Americas in the center. The overwhelming majority still are the way they were described in the question. I wonder if *you* have a passport; clearly you have never been to other countries to look at their world maps, or else you would know better.
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I don't believe you and I beg to differ! I AM an American and have seen a good many more U.S. maps than you have, considering that I have spent nearly every day of my life here!!!! Where, exactly, were you looking at all of these maps you claim to have seen? In a museum devoted exclusively to rare, America-centered maps?