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If you walk far enough, you'll fall off the edge of the world. For this world is not round, but flat. What lies beyond the edge? No one knows.
In ancient history, many cultures believed the Earth was flat. Certainly the curvature is so slight that it wasn't until the Greeks that the spherical Earth theory took hold (contrary to popular belief, [[Dead Unicorn Trope
Flat worlds typically only appear in fantasy. They will usually be a circular disc, although other shapes have appeared. The edges will either be [[The Wall Around the World|surrounded by walls]] (often [[Invisible Wall]]s in video games) or will be unguarded, [[Nonstandard Game Over|so that the unwary may fall off]]. Occasionally, there are no edges - the world goes on in all directions [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|for infinity]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The [[Cyberspace|Digital World]] in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' consisted of seven discs stacked one on top of another.
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