eli5 How do we decide which one is North Pole and which is south pole? The space is almost infinite on all directions. So what we see on map might be wrong right? I mean it could also be upside down too.
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It’s just how people decided to map the world. The North Pole is at the “top” of the world if you travel north, the South Pole is at the “bottom” of the world if you travel south. Early people had to agree to how they would map out the earth and orient themselves to maps so they could coordinate travel and trade and all that good stuff.
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