European map

The 16th-century European map is way off in regions far from central Europe, but has much of the shape of the land correct. Europe, the Middle East and Asia are all far larger than in real life, probably because the Europeans had explored them the most, and so had discovered the most individual places, which all would have felt very far away from each other, making the entire continent larger. Africa is also far wider than in real life, because it would have been explored a fair amount due to its nearness to Europe, but because of the many cultural differences the Europeans probably found (in Africa and from Europe-Asia), each place would seem very far from the next. On the map, North and South America are both very far off from the truth. South America is far skinnier than in real life, and North America is almost non-existent, showing that knowledge of the two was very scarce, and that not many explorations to the Americas had been made. North America was particularly small, because even if expeditions had been made, the Europeans would not have found any large civilizations, and so would not have regarded it as of much importance.
A Chinese map might have portrayed China as larger than most of the world, but also would have most likely made the oceans between Africa and Asia larger, because of the large number of sea voyages. They also might have made the Americas much larger, especially North America, because it is possible that they made a voyage to the Western coast of what is now the U.S.
An Ottoman map might have portrayed the ottoman empire as larger than life, partly because they were very powerful, and most likely knew it.They might have portrayed the Americas even smaller, because they were probably of little significance to them.