TIL : World Map

As they say everyone has blind spots in their Knowledge and sometimes they can be baffling. I know I have lot, apparently lot of them. I thought about taking at least one of them head on ( I am hoping to make a mini series out of this )

So my findings over at Starbucks

World Map , Basic geography of India and countries:

1.          World map we see in textbook and Google maps is grossly misleading in many cases. Check out this Video from west wing explaining it pretty nicely.  Two main reason the world map is the way it is, are 
1. It has western influence to suit their perception ( aptly explained in video ) 
2. Its difficult accurately mapping globe in rectangular format.
2.  Asia, has more than half the World’s population (4.5+ Billion out of estimated 7 ).  I often find it funny that more than 1 billion people in India and people forget that we are also from Asia. Also, Middle East – Saudi, Iran, and Iraq is also Asia. So don’t understand how only oriental people (Mongoloid race) are called Asian in North America ( Ignorance ?)
3.  Bangladesh is in really strategic position for India to connect to its North Eastern state. It's religious demographics is strikingly similar to that of Pakistan, Yet skirmishes between Bangladesh and India are far and few. Probably because India helped Bangladesh gets freedom.
4.  When you look at the map, you may get the feeling that USA/Canada/Greenland is farthest to India but in reality its Chile ( because need to consider travelling antipodal also) . 

I still don't understand formatting in blogger. Grrr

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