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>"top" is arbitrary"

Sure, but at the end of the day you've got to pick a frame of reference and people have settled on North being the 'top'. You can draw a map that ignores this convention and still have it be valid but you're going to confuse a lot of people.

For what it's worth there's more landmass and population in the Northern Hemisphere so make of that what you will.



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