habit, policy, history, all create generalities to express the complex circuitry that is "territory". Africa/Maghreb/Middle East/Southern Asia, these geographical subregions are convenient, but discount the difference that grows exponentially when specified. Is geography relevant when addressing and concerned with "a people"? Perhaps in analyzing behaviour, but does the "territory" attract "a people"? Does "where" it is, the image attached, the denotation of a dessert landscape, or an impenetrable jungle, the "mid"west (a void), the middle east (the center) - do these names add meaning in and from themselves?
the heart of darkness, the asian tigers, the orient

The orientation of a map is the relationship between the directions on the map and the corresponding compass directions in reality. The word "orient" is derived from Latin oriens, meaning East. In the Middle Ages many maps, including the T and O maps, were drawn with East at the top (meaning that the direction "up" on the map corresponds to East on the compass). Today, the most common – but far from universal – cartographic convention is that North is at the top of a map. Several kinds of maps are often traditionally not oriented with North at the top.

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