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Most people's mental map has basically all of Africa in the southern hemisphere, but geographically that is far from the case. We have 195 countries in the wor
by semi-extrinsic 5y ago
Most people's mental map has basically all of Africa in the southern hemisphere, but geographically that is far from the case.
We have 195 countries in the world and only 33 of those are entirely on the southern hemisphere.
Here is one example of an illustrative map:
https://i.redd.it/w2tv9dda1xzy.png https://i.redd.it/w2tv9dda1xzy.png
- redisman 5y agoWhoever came up with the term must think that the “south” starts at the tip of Italy
- semi-extrinsic 5y agoYeah, basically. That puts almost all countries in Africa, and the Middle East, Mexico, India etc., in the "south". Or not necessarily that the inventor of the phrase thinks like that themselves, but rather that they think most people think that way.