Now, this may come off as laughably naïve or even solipsistic to you all, but think about it. For those who have never been to another country (I've only twice briefly been to Canada and live in the southeast USA) it's often easy to not think about the other ones. Perhaps what we consider our "country" is really just a collective hallucination, and geography isn't as obvious as maps make it out to be? Do you consider the USA, or perhaps your own non-USA country, to be the "default" or "main" country? I do.
Maps were wrong in the past, and, while we may have satellites now, I trust them, but not completely. Computers can glitch out, and what those satellites put out often looks different.
Consider this: the entire world population could fit into the state of Texas here in the USA, and only at the density of Mumbai, or perhaps even less. Doesn't that suggest to you that there may well be discrepancies either about how much land we have or how many people there are?
Maps were wrong in the past, and, while we may have satellites now, I trust them, but not completely. Computers can glitch out, and what those satellites put out often looks different.
Consider this: the entire world population could fit into the state of Texas here in the USA, and only at the density of Mumbai, or perhaps even less. Doesn't that suggest to you that there may well be discrepancies either about how much land we have or how many people there are?
