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by kingcharles 1603 days ago
Do you have a citation for that? I suspected it was because of the political issues, so I tried hunting down the reason one day and came up blank.

[Microsoft had this same issue with the timezone map in Windows. The early versions were cool and had country borders, but then I think it was India/Pakistan threw a fit and it was simplified to take the borders out]