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The upstream reply asked "I don't think I've ever seen a map that places United States in the center. Is that really a thing?"

So, your question is different.

But yes, to answer your question, in school we also had global maps that centered the Americas and split Asia so that China was on the left and Europe and Africa was to the right

I think it was split somewhere to the west of India, as I recall. The projection may have been over the US, but Im not positive. It was awhile ago

Edit: here you go: https://crosscultcomm.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/compart_wo...

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As far as I recall, that map was never used in my American education. I'm guessing it's decided by state education boards, so either you always had it or never had it.