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This article has been reworded by blogs since 2010 some time: http://calabarboy.com/2010/10/11/the-true-size-of-africa-kai-krause/ http://calabarboy.com/2010/1
by benologist 13y ago
This article has been reworded by blogs since 2010 some time:
http://calabarboy.com/2010/10/11/the-true-size-of-africa-kai-krause/ http://calabarboy.com/2010/10/11/the-true-size-of-africa-kai...
- leeoniya 13y agopardon me, but where's Alaska? they list 9.629M for USA, Google says 9.827M. Alaska, according to Google = 1.718M. WAT?
- pacala 13y agoWhere is Canada? If we are to count huge landmasses hostile to human habitation, here we are: Sahara desert: 3.629 million sq miles (9.4 million km²) Canada: 3.855 million sq miles (9.985 million km²)
- joshuarrrr 13y agoYes, and the idea of comparing Africa to other countries is certainly not new. Here's an example from 2006: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/35-the-size-of-africa http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/35-the-size-of-africa At the time, the Economist also redid the exercise starting with an equal-area projection: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartograph...