The True Size of Africa (2015)
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The True Size of Africa (2015)
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#2It’s only 6m sq km more than North America - but a major significant part of that is Canada.
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#3Projections can be tricky. Early memory I have in college:
I walked into my professor's office and she had a curious looking map on her wall. It had Australia at the center and the US was distorted and upside down.
As someone from North America (US) this was a nice lesson in perspective.
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#4The edited title is incorrect, in that it is a comparison with countries. How big is Africa compared to Asia? Okay, there’s one comparison with Europe (scroll down). Otherwise it’s a matter of how many countries one could cram in there. Of course, Africa already has a bunch of countries, so I guess I just didn’t get it. Comparing to, say, North America or something would be a better visualization for me.
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#5The edited title is incorrect, in that it is a comparison with countries . How big is Africa compared to Asia? Okay, there’s one comparison with Europe (scroll down). Otherwise it’s a matter of how many countries one could cram in there. Of course, Africa already has a bunch of countries, so I guess I just didn’t get it. Comparing to, say, North America or something would be a better visualization for me.
> A veritable shitstorm of responses latched onto the tiniest of tiny details. People complained “you missed Ibiza”, “how could you make Belgium the same color as the Netherlands” “and on and on and on...
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#6If you find this fascinating try the intractive version! https://thetruesize.com/
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#7It’s interesting as I always thought Africa is over populated but then if the whole of France was the Sahara it would be over populated as well.
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#8It says "United States with Alaska & Hawaii" but I don't see them anywhere.
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#9I remember flying to Munich once from Cape Town and a German colleague guessed the flight was three to four hours. I said no, it was over eleven hours and he was shocked. I laughed and told him to check out a globe sometime - not a map - so he could trace for himself how massive Africa really is. The surface area of the moon is only 20% larger.
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#10It says "United States with Alaska & Hawaii" but I don't see them anywhere.
Right, HI is probably not material, but considering AK is 1/4 the size of the contiguous US, that’s pretty substantial.