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I've never seen a sinocentric modern map before. Weird that they decided to go with portrait mode.
here’s another
Arguable. It's more Pacific-central instead of the usual Atlantic-central.
That's what every map looked like when I lived in Korea. Took me a while to get used to.
The one posted by OP really took me a minute to wrap my head around.
It's not really sino-centered though. It's indian ocean centered at best. As another user pointed out, it says it exists to see the world from a different perspective. It's not to be useful, only to show how things can look so much different with different perspectives.
How else to fit both poles so close to the middle
'Cos it was the only way they could slice the americas the way many western maps slice asia