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by 27183 26 days ago
Yes. Here's a map of the entire world in 1 byte. Both hemispheres. The northern hemisphere is depicted above, the southern hemisphere is depicted below:

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How is that "recognizable"?
I claim it's obviously recognizable as the entire surface of a 3-sphere projected onto 2 dimensions, and therefore is clearly an acceptable answer to the original question posed. I added some helpful and clarifying prose expounding upon which hemisphere is what, but could have left that as an exercise to the reader without loss of generality.