Africa...big?..no huge

[Mugwump]

This picture graphic shows the shear enormity of the African continent by showing how many other countries fit inside it

In total, Africa is more than 30million sq km.

But this graphic illustrates that its size is not shown accurately on a standard Mercator map, where countries in the center appear smaller than they are.

According to designer IO9, accuracy is compromised for neatness and 'straight lines'.

This graphic shows Africa is bigger than the land masses of the US, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece put together.

It also lists the top 100 countries in the world in terms of biggest land size.

Russia (more than 17 km-squared), Canada, China, the US and Brazil make up the top five.

[PaulineMi]

That is amazing.  I never realized that Africa was that big....er, huge!