Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S
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Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S
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#2I didn't read the article but the first thing that jumped into my head is why are they comparing the size of a continent to sizes of countries?
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#3Blog spam (sorta). Original source: http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html
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#4I didn't read the article but the first thing that jumped into my head is why are they comparing the size of a continent to sizes of countries?
Because the countries, being smaller, can be arranged to fit into Africa.
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#5This has come up before on hn, but I always find it interesting how hard China is pushing into Africa economically:
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2163955...
http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-embracing-africa-but-no...
http://qz.com/217597/how-a-million-chinese-migrants-are-buil...
(that third article is probably the most interesting)
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#7For those interested in seeing the exact sizes here's the area of each continent in km and miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Continent#Area_and_populatio...
One thing I noticed from looking over the above wikipedia comparison is that a lot of the land mass is probably uninhabitable, and it made me wonder how much is uninhabitable when comparing land-masses. The closest thing I could find was a chart of currently uninhabited regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_uninhabited_regions
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#8I didn't read the article but the first thing that jumped into my head is why are they comparing the size of a continent to sizes of countries?
In other news, look how many continents can fit in the ocean. See how many moons can fit in the earth. Lots of smaller things can fit in larger things!
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#9This has come up before on hn, but I always find it interesting how hard China is pushing into Africa economically: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2163955... http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-embracing-africa-but-no... http://qz.com/217597/how-a-million-chinese-migrants-are-buil... (that third article is probably the most interesting)
They don't have the baggage of all the atrocities of the past, they aren't overtly racist on principle, and they have no qualms taking advantage or the situation and participating in the corruption and exploitation. How is that surprising?
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#10...and by Europe it means Europe minus Nordic countries, part of Russia and most of ex-Soviet states.