World Map Real Size Of Africa. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years. One of the most significant things his map reveals is the true size of Africa.
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This clever animation by Neil Kaye a climate data scientist at the Met Office - the United Kingdoms national weather service - shows what the Mercator Projection would look like if it depicted the true size of each. The African continent has a land area of 3037 million sq km 117 million sq mi enough to fit in the US China India Japan Mexico and many European nations combined. The True Size Of Africa Have Our Maps Been The real map of Africathe real size of the Dark Continent.
The map shows how Africa 303 million km² is larger than the combination of China 96 million km² the US 94 million km² Western Europe 49 million km² India 32 million km² and Argentina 28 million km² three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles map gives no surface for these last two areas.
Google whose map app is used by approximately 150 million people per month recently took the bold step of overlaying their map onto a globe. Africa China and The TRUE Size of Africa Have Our Maps Been Misleading For Over The TRUE Size Of Africa An Erroneous Map Misled Us For 500 Years. Good thing this climate data scientist took up the task of educating the masses on country size comparison and put up a map projection that shows real sizes together with those shown in regular maps. To open our eyes to this distortion Kai Krause the famous graphical user interface designer created a map called The True Size of Africa which shows how many countries the continent can contain and it is mind-bogglingAfrica is bigger than the entirety of the USA all of China India as well as Japan and pretty much all of Europe as well all combined explains Krause.
