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> A veritable shitstorm of responses latched onto the tiniest of tiny details. People complained “you missed Ibiza”, “how could you make Belgium the same color

• joe_the_user 5y ago
  No, the parent makes a good point that stacking countries insides different continents doesn't give one much of a comparison. The visualization winds-up more "factoid" than fact. Africa is approximately three times the size of Europe, 2/3 the size of Asia, 5/4 the size of North America and so forth. Obviously it's a large place but so is every continent. Edit: This isn't to take away from the point that historically, the size, importance, history and so forth of Africa have been neglected. But it seems like this should be dealt with more holistically than the infographic size comparison approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Area_and_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Area_and_population
  • dleslie 5y ago
    The importance of Africa was historically neglected? I don't think that fits well with the "Race for Africa" and the long history of Mediterranean conflicts involving North Africa. Africa wouldn't still be recovering from the effects of colonialism if it weren't as historically important as it was.
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• Turing_Machine 5y ago
  The fact that countries and continents are two different things is not a "tiny detail". If you're comparing continents, Asia is larger than Africa, and North America is nearly as large. If you're comparing countries, the largest African country is Algeria, which ranks 10th.
• NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
  > A veritable shitstorm of responses latched onto the tiniest of tiny details. For a second there I thought you were talking about hn.