When you look at the usual flat map of the world and it appears that Greenland is nearly as big as Africa. But it’s not even close. Africa is 14 times larger. Flat maps significantly distort the sizes of countries and continents, the result of converting a spherical surface to a handy rectangle. The area of landmasses becomes increasingly exaggerated toward the poles.

As a result, we tend to underestimate the size of countries close to the equator, and substantially overestimate the size of countries closer to the poles. On our actual planet, Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe—combined! Scientific American just published a correctly proportioned image to show how Africa swallows up these nations, with Japan thrown in. It also turns out that Saudi Arabia has more area than France, Spain, Germany, Poland and Italy together.

For the record, below are facts about Africa you probably didn't know about;

DID YOU KNOW?

° Area of Africa = 30.37 million km2

° Area of China = 9.6 million km2

° US area = 9.8 million km2

° Area of Europe = 10.18 million km2
● Africa is bigger than all of Europe, China and the United States of America combined.

● But on most of the world maps in the books, Africa is represented in reduced dimension, and this, to create the visual effect of a small Africa.

Manipulation, brainwashing.

- Africa is 60% arable land;
- Africa is 90% raw material reserve;
- Africa has 50% of the world's bauxite reserve
- Africa is 40% gold reserve;
- Africa, 33% of the Diamond reserve;
- Africa is manganese, it is iron, it is wood.
- Africa is three times the area of China, three times the area of Europe, three times the area of the United States of America.
- Africa is thirty and a half million km² (30 415 875 km ²).

#áfrica #factsDontLie #AwakeOIsrael

Source;https://blogs.scientificamerican.com

Wow! Mind blowing facts.... Unfortunately, we are not blessed with good leaders

We are punished with blind, greedy and selfish religious and political leaders.

Very Insightful thanks for sharing

Rossonero:
Very Insightful thanks for sharing

You're welcome

sorry Donnie, this post contains no snake or BBnaija nudity to make it to frontpage.
Bobrisky is not mentioned not talk of Buhari and et cetera

Lalasticlala won't see this type of post SMH

Thanks Shalum!

MJBOLT:

africa is bigger doesnt mean it is better,those places you mentioned are more developed than africa.

The stole from us and destroyed us systematically. Its time awake.

kehnton:
Thanks
Shalum!

Shalom.

It's not possible to properly represent the continents on a map.
Remember you are representing the surface of a spheroid on a flat map.