The true size of Africa - Visualized

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Blame the Mercator projection, blame the lack of geographical knowledge, heck, blame the full moon, but regardless you can pretty much assume that most people don't quite realize how absolutely huge Africa is..
This - from Kai Krause - should set you right
(click to embiggen monstrously)

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