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

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

Enhance!

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

it said recognizable, and I recognize this :)

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

180?

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