Africa is BIG
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@infobeautiful You are comparing a continent to countries.
@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.”
@infobeautiful Actually I was more shocked about the size of Russia and Brazil in comparison to Africa than by the size of Africa.
I mean particularly Russia has more than enough land and still wants Ukraine.
@infobeautiful @AnthoDerv Australia, the Gen-X of the continents
@infobeautiful Comparing apples to oranges
@infobeautiful there is no way its larger than russia 💀💀💀
We need to start using a world-map that does not change sizes of the continents.
@infobeautiful Good stuff, though would have liked to see Greenland, since on a map they look similar in size.
@infobeautiful you must know that Taiwan Island is a part of China
@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.
@infobeautiful The India comparison surprises me most. I thought India was bigger than Brazil.
@infobeautiful This map should be in high school history classes, hell in grade school.
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