Sheril KirshenbaumAfrica 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
Dragondon@Sheril 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?