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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

A website called The Drawn World has been created, featuring 37,500 hand-drawn maps of the world as people remember it. The website was created by Habib Iyer, a software engineer and artist, who started the project in 2012. The maps are user-generated and range from simple sketches to detailed illustrations. They are organized by country and can be filtered by continent, decade, and other criteria. The project aims to showcase how people's perceptions of the world differ from the official maps created by governments and cartographers.

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