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Information Is BeautifulAfrica is BIG
haliphax 👾@infobeautiful Leaving out Alaska and Hawaii? 😭
Liam Proven@infobeautiful It is worth saying that you can do your own versions of these with the splendid TheTrueSize website:
@infobeautiful P.S. Use the trashcan button to remove existing countries and clear the map.
Use the compass rose to spin your selected country to help it to fit better.
:-)
DavidM_yeg
@DavidM_yeg @infobeautiful Canada? Not used to seeing it that way round...
We recently had visitors from Namibia so I was curious to see how we fit there.
Hdunagan@infobeautiful This map should be in high school history classes, hell in grade school.
Susanna the Artist 🌻@infobeautiful The India comparison surprises me most. I thought India was bigger than Brazil.
JamesWNeal@infobeautiful Well, it is a continent, after all. The U.S. just has some folks running it who think we are, too.
Which is the best explanation I've got for his obsession with Canada, Mexico, as well as all of Central and South America.
clutch_lever@JamesWNeal @infobeautiful "manifest destiny" has been around a lot longer than the 🤡 has...
Anne@JamesWNeal @infobeautiful yup! Much like North America is a continent with Canada, Mexico, and the USA, Africa is a continent made up of 54 countries.
RedRabbity@infobeautiful you must know that Taiwan Island is a part of China
Alexander CampbellAnd the USA?
@Alexander_Campbell @infobeautiful Alaska and Hawaii are indeed parts of the United States. However, as a Chinese national, I am more concerned with the integrity of China's territory on the map. That is perfectly understandable, isn't it? China's territory is sacred and inviolable!
@RedRabbity @infobeautiful
I believe the USA should also be part of China,, its become a bit of a hell hole.
I believe the USA should also be part of China,, its become a bit of a hell hole.
an actual bus@infobeautiful Good stuff, though would have liked to see Greenland, since on a map they look similar in size.
Ulrik Nyman ⬡We need to start using a world-map that does not change sizes of the continents.
TiTiNoNero 
Why would you do that? If size matters the most (for someone it looks it does) probably an histogram with country areas in km² would be best. If it's confusion about spatial placement of continents that you seek, then that map is great.
However for Africa comparison, I agree it's incredibly huge. But if it is for fairness, it would be fair to compare apples with apples. Not countries with continents. Yes, Europe comes out the tiniest fly both as a political entity and as a continent anyway you look at it.
@77nn @infobeautiful If you want accurate spatial placement, then a globe is the only real solution.
@77nn @infobeautiful Why are you calling Africa a continent.
I am from the continent of Afroeurasia.
Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"
Raven@infobeautiful there is no way its larger than russia 💀💀💀
Solitha@RavenPunk The areas listed are reasonably accurate.
Asia is the largest continent, and Russia the largest country. But compared against the continents, Russia ranks behind Africa, North America, and South America.
@solitha @infobeautiful Damn, I always though russia was the largest... This is very interesting 😅😅
Crovanian@infobeautiful could be bigger.
auser@infobeautiful Comparing apples to oranges
PDH@infobeautiful Actually, I was shocked more by the size of Russia and Brazil in comparison to Africa than by the size of Africa itself.
Particularly Russia has more than enough land and still wants Ukraine.
Particularly Russia has more than enough land and still wants Ukraine.
Flaming Cheeto@infobeautiful The Brazil one reminds me of Al Gore's joke
The Harvard Crimson:
He recalled a time in the sixth grade when a classmate pointed to the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa and asked if they had ever fit together. The teacher said that was not the case
“The student went on to become a drug addict,” he joked. “And the teacher went on to become a scientist in the Bush administration.”
RWF@infobeautiful
Incredible!
Incredible!
Sharon McCarthy@infobeautiful You are comparing a continent to countries.
millennial fulcrum@ienvision @infobeautiful with the exceptions of Europe and East Poland, yes indeed!
did you have a better way to visually demonstrate the size of Africa relative to high-familiarity geographic areas? I would love to see and boost it.
Jac@infobeautiful
Size matters 😉
Size matters 😉
The USA is (at this moment) incontinent.
FeliAfrica Is Not A Country FFS. 😡
Ika@infobeautiful Hey, United States oft Trump! Here is something you should learn!
Doc Chaotic 🇺🇦🖖@infobeautiful Imagine if colonialism hadn't wrecked that continent. An African union of nations in cooperative partnership for better economic competition with other world powers and better environmental outcomes? African countries joined as a global power? No wonder the colonial powers burnt civil structure down on their way out. Empires destroy what they can't control and wonder why people are happy when they die.
Domo@infobeautiful Why does it say excluding russia if russia is there? 🤔
Update: its an asterisk for Europe. Thank you!
@domo That footnote refers specifically to the comparison to Europe. Russia crosses the continental divide from Asia into Europe, with some 4.1mil km2 on the European side.
@solitha @infobeautiful thank you!
trissc̈hen@domo @infobeautiful it is Europe where Russia isn’t included
@trisschen @infobeautiful thanks!
hukl@tomster kennst du https://thetruesize.com/
Compare Countries, States, Provinces, and Regions with This Simple Tool
Drag, drop and rotate countries, states, provinces, and regions around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
Where is the comparison to Canada?