: Why there are N-E-S-W directions when our Earth is round(spherical).

Question

Why America is always referred to WEST and countries towards India referred to EAST?

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Answer 1

There is no one correct way of viewing a map. You could flip the map upside down and it would still be correct. Antarctica would be on top but still south of Argentina and the Americas would still be west of Europe. So the NESW works perfect on a sphere.
Put Japan as the center of the map and all the references are still maintained, the US would still be east from Asia.