pg 96 – 97

Right naming and placement for countries(most).

Popular or Distinct features of countries on the land mass of the country.

Australia was split in parts.

Total World Population.

Total population of countries.

Time zones.

Compass Directions.

Oceans.

Total Area Square Miles.

No Madagascar on the map.

Stars.

From this map what I see first is the exaggerated sized and distorted shapes of the countries making me want to believe that the cartographer who had made this map did not draw the map to scale or scale was not the primary focus. She made the fonts of some countries visibly larger than others like the United States and China. Personally, I think this was done in order to show How significant some countries are in maybe politics, culture and many others therefore shifting the focus from geographic accuracy to symbolic importance, reflecting each location’s global influence rather than its physical size. Looking at this map generates the question “How does the way we represent places shape our understanding of their importance?”