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Do the people in the Southern Hemisphere consider north our north pole, or is their north actually the south pole?
Question Date: 1998-01-09
Answer 1:

Their North is the same as ours. There are far fewer people in the southern hemisphere than the north, and most of them live in countries colonized by Europeans, who brought their maps with them.



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