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This article contributes to the developing literature on childhood and nati
onal identity by considering the ways in which children imagine other natio
ns. Focusing in particular on on-line interactions between children in 12 B
ritish and 12 New Zealand schools, the article explores their imaginative g
eographies of each other, and assesses the ways these visions are endorsed
or contested by the children to whom they refer. The article not only illus
trates the sources and importance of stereotypical understandings of landsc
ape, people and patterns of daily life in other nations, but also the ways
these may be contested through on-line contact.