Africa's size

Last week the subject was Africa. Most of us have no concept of the mammoth size of the African continent, so check this out.

Re-post from 2015:

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Big Africa

The only way to get a good idea of the relative size of continents on earth is to look carefully at a globe. But we probably look at a flat map much more often, which gets more and more distorted moving away from the equator - so we have a skewed impression.

photo: economist.com