Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
About 10 years ago I was in Sydney with the missus and we went into a small souvenir shop to browse. In there was a map showing Australia roughly where Canada is now, so all the continents as we know them are shown in an inverted position. The shop owner joked that this is how the world really is, with Oz at the top, albeit upside down. When I pointed out two major flaws to his argument, i.e. South Australia is now to the north of the island and Western Australia is now in the East he shut up pretty sharpish !
A Chinese map of the world is different from a standard map. The Chinese word for China is 中国 (Zhōngguó), this translates as the 'Central Kingdom'. So, on a Chinese map, you will see China positioned towards the middle east.