It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

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