They've wiped us off the map
Laura Vozzella
Originally published Dec 27, 2006

National Geographic has news for Baltimore: You're Nowheresville. The
magazine with the yellow borders and voice of earthly authority has just
tucked a pullout world map inside its pages, and in it, Baltimore gets a
big, fat cartographic snub.

Idaho Falls, Idaho (pop. 51,000), rates a little black dot. Yuma, Ariz.
(pop. 89,000), gets a shout out, too. But Baltimore, pop. 635,815? Good
ol' Natty Geo never heard of the place.

Sure, Charm City sits in a crowded corridor, where it's hard to squeeze
in much more than state capitals. And yes, Annapolis made the cut.

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