Visit the site below to look at The Wide Ranging World Map, a relatively new world map that visually represents border disputes and environmental concerns (heavily polluted marine areas and endangered rainforests) and that labels prominent indigenous nations as well as cultural regions that are not co-terminous with nation-states. If Levine's turnabout map produces discomfort for the map reader, perhaps The Wide Ranging World Map does also. What is the source of discomfort here? What story does this map tell us about the link between a place and the name for that place? Or about a place and the name for the people who live there? How does this map handle the concept of a political border?
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