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The Politico-Geographic Pattern of the World

ORDINARY political maps represent only legally recognized distinctions in political control of areas and thus hide the reality of essential differences in political character. For a century before 1914 they ignored the existence of Poland and the Ukraine; they commonly make no distinction in kind between Canada and Nigeria, between Denmark and Liberia, or between Uruguay and Paraguay; and they lead students to think of Brazil as a state