Mental Maps

This mental map is a map of the world from a child's mental image. It is not a detailed map, and certain areas are enlarged, but this image shows that children as well as adults have different ideas of how a map is created. Since the Northern areas of the map are enlarged, maybe that child is from that region and thinks of it as larger than it really is.

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