The traditional (folk? premodern?) Finnish view of the world places Finland at the bottom.
This map is not upside down
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#32As 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
You lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.
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#33My uncle had a south-up map of the US on his wall when I was growing up. I always thought it was funny and slightly profound.
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#34Another fun arbitrary thing is which meridian you decide to cut, because the earth is round.
If you do an image search for, say, "world atlas," you'll see all the maps have cut the Pacific in half, so the West Pacific is at the right edge and the East Pacific is at the left edge of the map.
Now, if you search for, say, "세계전도", then you'll see that most maps have cut the Atlantic in half, because otherwise kids (for whom those atlases are intended) would see their own hometown shoved all the way to the end of the map.
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#35A similar map was published by the Brazilian government:
https://www.gmexconsulting.com/cms/the-world-from-a-brazilia...
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#36This map feels confusing because Canada, Russia, Greenland and antarctica are the same color, I feel like they should not be the same and antarctica should not be a country color
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#37Is there a way to purchase this map for printing so Robert Simmon gets compensated?
Print regular map in a design you like and hang it upside down. It's literally that. Or if you want to be strict you can use "flip" function in image editing tool. You can compensate me for saving your money
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#38Is this map projection making Russia look small an artifact of the projection (i.e. we expand the land in the north more than the south in this projection in general) or an optical illusion? Russia looks small flipped on its head and I can't quite figure out why.
I don't think Russia looks small on this map, it's just not as blown-out as on Mercator maps. When I was growing up in Russia, the map I had in my room was a similar projection -- except with the North up, of course -- and Russia was about the same size on it.
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#39As 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
You lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.
That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.
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#40Also, I was quite old by the time I learned that "Oriental" literally just means "direction of the sunrise". So to "orient" would specifically mean looking East.
Before compasses all indicated North, "the North" was associated with cold and evil, the south was associated with warmth and prosperity, and the East was considered neutral when establishing bearings.