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Aww, cripes. I didn't know I'd have to write a description. How many words is that so far, like a hundred? Soooo, yeah. Mildly interesting stuff. Stuff that interests you. Mildly. It's in the name, ffs.

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[–]alienware 6 points7 points ago

Seems a lot smaller on the world maps. Interesting picture!

[–]tijuanacarwash 3 points4 points ago

Yeah, it is often the same size as Greenland.

[–]Vexillae 3 points4 points ago

Mercator had a polar bias... he just loved to discriminate against the equatorial lands.

[–]Commander_Ninja 13 points14 points ago

A continent is bigger than a country. Who knew?

[–]online222222 7 points8 points ago

You could almost say it was mildly interesting

[–]FauxShizzle 0 points1 point ago

This is depicting how the average map does not properly illustrate the actual size of Africa compared to the other landmasses of the world.

Or, what this person said.

[–]duderock 2 points3 points ago

[–]RedSeed 1 point2 points ago

China is fucking huge!

[–]Icsifil 0 points1 point ago

/r/dataisbeautiful

Makes sense: a continent would contain many countries.

Hmm, sort of reminds me of the "Don't compare issues of areas that are on different scales" thing.

[–]SonicDuck 0 points1 point ago

Asia is bigger than Africa, so what?

Did you know that all of the continents fit inside the Earth? How interesting is that!

[–]Redwraithvienna 0 points1 point ago

Compare Africa with the US for example on a standard mercator map. Then you ll see why this is interesting.

[–]SonicDuck 0 points1 point ago

US is smaller? Wow, who'd've thunk it

People look at Canada. None of the sizes are different, they're just looking at North America as a whole instead of the visibly smaller continental states.

[–]MistahFinch 0 points1 point ago

It's unsettling that US Teens think the US is the worlds largest country when their own figures say that it's atleast up there?

[–]brandonhardyy 0 points1 point ago

This belongs in /r/mapporn

[–]bitbotbot 0 points1 point ago

Stop makeupwordisationing!!

[–]Apostolate[M] -1 points0 points ago

This has been posted on Reddit multiple times in the past (confirmed through karmadecay). This is specifically against the submission rules. This will now be removed.

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[–]Icsifil 0 points1 point ago

Broken link.