Thanks for fixing that. As a South African (South Africa is a country), it can be quite annoying when people refer to Africa as a country. “I’ve been to Africa, ooh Africa is so nice, oh nothing beats the African sky”. Hate it. There are more than 50 countries on this continent.
Africa is 12 x 10^6 sq mi, approximately. The U.S. and China are each about 4×10^6 sq mi, or, when combined, about 2/3 the sq mileage of Africa. Seems about right.
Yes, Alaska is big, but I don’t think the point of the map was to say that the U.S. is tiny. It is merely showing the scale of the African continent, and it succeeds. Thanks for this.
Great show of size. The U.S. looks really small. However, “other countries” isn’t quite true because Africa’s a continent, not a country.
True…Fixed.
Thanks for fixing that. As a South African (South Africa is a country), it can be quite annoying when people refer to Africa as a country. “I’ve been to Africa, ooh Africa is so nice, oh nothing beats the African sky”. Hate it. There are more than 50 countries on this continent.
Interesting. I would have assumed you meant “other countries” as in countries other than those that are actually there.
Yes, that’s what I meant…but it was ambiguous, so I edited. Don’t wanna look dumb, you know? :)
really interesting graphic!!!
France on top of Algeria? I wonder if that was intentional…
I see that Canada isn’t in the picture… is that because Canada is too big to fit into the continent of Africa? ;)
The scale of different countries on many world maps & globes is not consistent. Are you sure this isn’t the case here?
Africa is 12 x 10^6 sq mi, approximately. The U.S. and China are each about 4×10^6 sq mi, or, when combined, about 2/3 the sq mileage of Africa. Seems about right.
Part of India got cut off.
The whole NorthEastern section is missing.
And the U.S. is missing a two states. I hear one of them is kinda big and might change our perspective.
How cool!
Woah. Africa is immense. Far more immense than I had ever imagined.
Very cool…except that the United States is missing it’s LARGEST state (Alaska), which is TWICE the size of Texas.
Yes, Alaska is big, but I don’t think the point of the map was to say that the U.S. is tiny. It is merely showing the scale of the African continent, and it succeeds. Thanks for this.