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Daniel Richards

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Thursday, August 30, 2007 02:01 PM
Original article: Hey, Americans can too find the U.S. on a map!

Indonesia

Ahem, Indonesia is actually to the south*east* of Singapore. For the most part. Part of Sumatra lies west of Singapore, but the vast bulk of the archipelago (by population, land area, and number of islands) is to the southeast. Not to malign Manjoo's geographical knowledge or anything.

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