How we view the world --and all things in general -- is often inaccurate, distorted, biases and/or, at the very least, incomplete.
Here is a great example. Although I can't vouch for the accuracy of this graphic, it does a nice job of exposing our tendency toward what the creator defines as "immappancy."
As someone with a social science degree, I am a bit ashamed to admit that I would have visualized the US as larger than shown here.
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