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As someone from the Southern Hemisphere, the article's point falls flat. There's more land area in the top so it makes it easier to look at it
by emulatedmedia 1y ago
As someone from the Southern Hemisphere, the article's point falls flat. There's more land area in the top so it makes it easier to look at it
- boringg 1y agoYou lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.
- hughes 1y agoThat seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.
- sltkr 1y agoNot just land area; ~90% of the world population lives on the northern hemisphere, so it's more important in that sense, political and historical considerations aside.