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What can stand in place of a country but still fold away in a drawer?
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it. What is it?
My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches.
Has no feet, but travels far. Is literate, but not a scholar. Has no mouth, yet clearly speaks.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?