A cool guide to the size of Africa.

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Russia looks Mercator'd. Would be better if they' picked a projection to get a truer shape of Russia to overlay.
Canada?
30Mm² is dam large.
Comparing a continent against countries...

How is this supposed to be informative?
- Right? This isn’t a good one
- Was going to say the same thing. How’s north America compare.
It's of course totally accidental that the Mercator projection was chosen for the world map, that makes Africa look much smaller compared to other countries.
- I thought it was because of its use in with constant straight lines and angles could be used for travel
  
  In talking about the world map specifically. Nobody would use that for plotting a course.
- Good thing Africa is a continent
  
  Yea. It would sink if it was incontinent.
- Big Greenland doesn’t want us to know the truth.

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