Northwest and Southeast

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Northwest noun - The direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point.

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Southeast and northwest are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Southeast" with "Northwest", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: northwester, northwesterly

Southeast noun - The compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees.

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Northwest and southeast are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Northwest" with "Southeast", this nouns are similar.

The first game◊ has a long, diagonal strip of land going from the southwest to the northeast, with oceans in the middle and southeast/northwest corners.(inverted◊ in the remake) It's still a toroid, however.

Source: Law of Cartographical Elegance
Thankfully, it can be bypassed simply by moving the northwest and southeast ones in one direction once and the northeast and southwest ones in the other direction.

Source: Solve the Soup Cans
Chaos Online, dubbed as 'Korean DOTA' at first, but has more similarities to League of Legends (though the map is designed like southeast-northwest as opposed to the typical southwest-northeast).

Source: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena

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