We are different. When traveling, we found that the map of the world abroad is like this.

The world map provides great convenience for our travel, but friends who often travel abroad may find that the world map abroad looks different from our domestic one.

A common map of the world in western countries is centered on the prime meridian, which is the 0-degree meridian in geography.

Russia can't be completely presented on the previous map, and there will be a corner missing. Move the whole map to the left a little, and you will get this commonly used map, with the center line at east longitude 10 degrees. With China on the right, left west and right east, it is not difficult to understand why China is a mysterious ancient oriental country.

Americans sometimes use a map of the world centered on the United States. It seems that people all over the world like to regard the land where they live as the center of world geography.

The map of the world of the motherland is centered on 150 degrees east longitude. The Pacific route can be displayed completely, but the Atlantic route cannot be displayed.

This map of Dapu in Ming Dynasty is the earliest map of the world drawn in China, which puts the east of Asia at the center of the world map and is the blueprint of the domestic world map since then.

World maps centered on the Pacific Ocean are very common in Asian countries, such as this map of Japan.