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The True Size of Africa (2015)
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you say the US is homogenous for it’s size, are you referring to the physical geography or the demographic make up of the population, or something else entirely? (I think I would disagree, but good faith requires I actually try to understand what you meant before I take issue with it.)
I think america is diverse, and shockingly homogenous given its diversity. For example, chinatown in NYC does not seem particularly different from chinatown in SF. Yes, the midwest calmer and the south is friendlier, the east is more uptight and the west is more chillaxed, and the cuisine is different in different parts of the country, but these are pretty much details at the edges. Everyone speaks english, the low-e…
Western chillaxation is put-on.
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#113becase why not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
^ Africa video by TOTO
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#114Why isn't Canada or Russia, the two largest countries by land mass, included?
Canada isn't as big as you think it is.
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#115Why isn't Canada or Russia, the two largest countries by land mass, included?
You can make your own comparisons on https://thetruesize.com/ (Spoiler: Africa is still big.)
Dragging Indonesia around was very illuminating for me. Somehow I know the least about Indonesia of all places.
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#116Africa has 54 countries, thousands of languages and 1.2 billion people. As an African, whenever I see this map I'm more astonished by how densely populated Europe and India are, how big and populated China is and how homogeneous the US is compared to its size.
I'm always surprised to hear people say "The world is overpopulated" - I'm thinking there's plenty of room to grow in regions that live sustainably.
What would those regions be ? The Sahara isn't overpopulated if you look at the density of population, but it can't really sustain anybody.
I'm sure there are some rain forests left to cut so we can grow more food for 1 or 2 billions extra people, but what's the end goal ? The world is overpopulated.
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#117>> The Good Design Grand Award, arguably Japan’s most prestigious award for design, went out to architect Hajime Narukawa’s completely groundbreaking design for a map of the world. His map, the AuthaGraph World Map, isn’t your average map of the globe: It’s a near-perfect representation of the continents and oceans as they exist on our spherical planet, all laid out on a two-dimensional surface. https://totravelistol…
This projection seems to really skew shapes. For example, Alaska looks skewed diagonally, Brazil looks really stretched east-to-west, and the west half of Australia looks too big compared to the east half.
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#118Africa has 54 countries, thousands of languages and 1.2 billion people. As an African, whenever I see this map I'm more astonished by how densely populated Europe and India are, how big and populated China is and how homogeneous the US is compared to its size.
This is especially funny when I look at my home country Germany. It's one of EU countries with the densest population, but it doesn't feel that way. Especially the east is very empty in the countryside.
This is very much a question of reference points, I'm sure even the Belgians will insist there are sparsely populated areas in their country :)
Scrolling around on a map of Germany, I could find a forest about 10 km across in the eastern bit that only looked to have a few roads marked on the map. Go into northern Sweden and you'll be drawing completely empty circles 50 km across...
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're comparing a continent with a country. A person in Canada has very little in common with those in Mexico and/or Panama, etc. The same could be said about most continents.
I was answering the question how the USA are considered homogenous, not how the Americas are.
GP is saying that if you're comparing to the US, it would make more sense to compare to e.g. Ethiopia (a single country with several ethnical groups and languages) than compare Malawi to Guinea (two different countries, thousands of miles away from each other)
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#120I don't know why, but I thought of this song when I saw "Africa."
Cesaria Evora - Africa Nossa