[chriscjcj]

I know this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge, but...

          _,--',   _._.--._____
   .--.--';_'-.', ";_      _.,-'
  .'--'.  _.'    {`'-;_ .-.>.'
        '-:_      )  / `' '=.
          ) >     {_/,     /~)
  snd     |/               `^ .'

[murderfs]

U+1F5FA does it in 4 bytes!

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F5FA

[cwmoore]

Enhance!

[Retr0id]

I asked deepseek to turn this into an offscreen-canvas-based ascii renderer: https://retr0.id/stuff/worldgolf.html

Weighs in at 379 bytes (or 378 if you trim the newline). Obviously it is font-dependent, but it works on my machine!

Edit: golfed a bit further, but unsure how reliable it'll be with different fonts: https://retr0.id/stuff/worldgolf2.html

[chriscjcj]

BTW... full credit to the artist, Shanaka Dias.

https://asciiart.website/artist.php?artist_id=121

https://asciiart.website/preservation/poster.php?person_id=1...

[sethev]

it said recognizable, and I recognize this :)

[TacticalCoder]

One could probably map this in JavaScript in 3D on a rotating sphere and it'd be a "recognizable world map" of sorts.

[cwmoore]

180?