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xkcd #2951: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas (xkcd.com)
submitted 4 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.

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[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

That is so amazingly bad on the eyes

[–] pipows@lemmy.today 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Took me a while to figure out that it's only the USA, I was trying to understand where's the other countries

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

An American POV world map.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I dont understand this.

Someone please explain