It's no joke New Yorkers think we're the best. We're the cultural capital of the world, we draw one third of America's tourists, and we have the best pizza in the solar system.
That's just a fact.
Well, this perspective rendered map from the David Rumsey Map Collection illustrates an accurate rendering of how New Yorkers see America and the world at large. That's to say we think we're the center of the planet.
Because ... aren't we?
Reportedly drawn in 1970 by an unknown artist, the map, as you can see, denotes NYC to take up most of the country. On the outskirts of New York City lie tiny versions of Miami, D.C., L.A., Texas, and San Francisco.
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And laughably tiny across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are Italy, Spain, France, England, Ireland, Russia, Japan and China. They're all more or less ambiguous, and look exactly the same.
Which, if we're being honest, is how everywhere that isn't NYC still looks in our minds, right?
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