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Africa is bigger than China, the US, Eastern Europe & India combined.

Since Earth is a sphere, flat maps dramatically distort the size of continents.

Source: Bryan Christie & Kai Krause for Scientific American #SharedPlanet #science

A map of continents where India China, the US and others are laying over an outline of Africa.
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@brar Alternate image description: this is where your country will end up due to climate change 😈
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Baron Woke of Carlsberg
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I am such a dumbass. It took me too long to notice that the countries had been overlayed on Africa. I've literally spent 30 seconds looking for Africa for comparison.
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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)
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I ran into this equal-area projection and I really like it: equal-earth.com/

Equal Earth Wall Map - Home

A wall map in the Equal Earth projection showing countries of the world. The map is free of charge.
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One World One People
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TWW: The size or speed you observe is based on your perspective and that is the only thing you can change. *When I was young…. So it always begins but in case it’s yesteryear as today…. I loved globes because they are 3d maps. Today as multi projection becomes the norm that map on your phone will pop out into a view where relative size, depth and distance will be an actual representation. Technology is part of the modern human condition to be shared for Peace. OWOP
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Dragondon
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Well this is dumb. African is a CONTINENT while China is a COUNTRY. By these standards, ‘America’(the continents….rememebr, there is a North AND South America) are larger than Africa.

I agree that flat maps are a bit of a band-aid solution but come on man…..at least use the right classification when doing comparisons. Feel free to pick any one of the 32 countries within the continent eh?

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An odd comparison of continents to countries. Is Africa bigger than North America or Eurasian would be a better comparison.
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Atreides
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I saw a picture not so long ago in which India was overlayed on Australia. Australia is more than twice as big and there living only ca. 20 miljoen people. 1 billion in India. Found the picture 😅. Origin from @KatCopseyGreens
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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
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Western cartographers purposefully chose a #map grid projection embigenning Europe.
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SeaCaptain(Ret)
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Thank you, Mr. Mercator. Plenty of confusion (look at Greenland) about projections and it seems like every decade a better one comes along. As a lifetime in Merchant Marine, Mercator is the most common, Genomic is 2nd, only because it’s easy to draw the shortest route between 2 points on Earth. Computer navigation changed all that and gps made my sextant obsolete.
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enoch_exe_inc
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It doesn’t *look* like it, but Africa is actually larger than North America, and by quite a bit. The Mercator projection quite heavily distorts the Earth the further north you look.
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Dzso
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You mean Africa can fit a few large countries and a couple small ones just like Asia and North America?

- Asia: 44.58 million km²
- Africa: 30.37 million km²
- North America: 24.71 million km²
- South America: 17.84 million km²
- Antarctica: 14.00 million km²
- Europe: 10.18 million km²
- Australia/Oceania: 8.56 million km²

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*EVERY* map projection is a compromise.

The usual Mercator is angle-true, thus great for navigating with clock and sextant. It was never intended to be area-true.

Other map projections are true to distances, xor true to form, xor true to area - or a compromise with other constraints.

e.g. radio operators use radial projections centered on their place - great for rotating a directional antenna, useless for pretty much anything else.

Choose your map for your purpose.

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