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i often try and draw maps from memory. it's a good mental exercise and i enjoy being able to track how my geographic knowledge has changed.

a small joy is looking at an old map that shows countries that no longer exist. the solviet union, east germany, pre-1948 maps that show palestine and not israel, yugoslavia, the congo section of africa. finding a map from a country that reflects a bias on a contested territory is rarely experienced but coveted joy. i saw an argentinian map here in london that listed the falkland islands as the maldives.