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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:04:26 -0500
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Subject:        Maps showing countries with romanized versions of their own
(native) names?
Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:28:16 -0400
From:   Ben Ostrowsky <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi folks,

Please reply off-list (to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>); I
promise to summarize the responses I get.

Do you know of any world maps that label each nation with a Romanized
version of its own native name, e.g. "Daehanminguk", "Nihon", "Zhonghua"
for "South Korea", "Japan", and "China" respectively? (It would also be
great if the labels included the English names and the native names in
their own script, but those are bells and/or whistles.)

If so, could you give me a citation so I can try to track one down? I'd
love to have a map showing the nations of the world as they see
themselves, with somewhat less linguistic bias than usual.

Thanks,
Ben Ostrowsky

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