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If the world map is supposed to represent the entire world your dwarves live in, then the planet the dwarves live in is either inanely large or small but non-spherical. The Mercator projection used in real-life maps are highly distorted near the north and south poles, so landmasses like Greenland and Australia are much larger than they actually are. Yet in Dwarf Fortress, the distances are uniform no matter how far north or south you go. 1 square region at the equator is exactly the same as one at the north or south poles, where a square map as the Mercator projection is so distorted as to be unmappable. Is the DF world map just one part of an infinitely large planet where every terrain combination exists? Or is it just dwarven physics saying that the planet isn't even spherical at all? What do you think?

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