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every country can be in the middle horizontally according to the map today.
but its impossible for China to be in the middle vertically according to the map today.
Source: wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
China is called Zhongguo (中國 or 中国) in Chinese. The character zhōng (中) means "middle" or "central," while guó (国 or 國) means "state". The term is commonly translated into English as "Middle Kingdom", but is also sometimes translated as "Central Kingdom".[1]
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∙ 12y agoBecause they believe their land is located in the center of a larger land.
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