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
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •👍 Here's a very nice article about the subject:
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/maps-distort-how-we-see-the-world
Maps Distort How We See the World
Tomas Pueyo (Uncharted Territories)Dr David Mills
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Matt Hall
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map?wprov=sfla1
map projection
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Equal Earth Wall Map - Home
equal-earth.comOne World One People
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •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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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The equal earth map is a good one. It does not have this area distortion problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection
pseudocylindrical, equal-area map projection
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Tired: Mercator
Wired: AuthaGraph
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •100%
But Africa ain’t a country, if you do continent to continent, North America is pretty close! Africa still bigger though.
I didn’t add the smaller central American countries or Greenland.
Continents be big!!!
Dzso
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •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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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •jackcole
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Another perspective from the flat map is this simple graphic:
#Africa #Geography #Maps
vampirdaddy
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •*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.