Damn big place!
Actually, it's much bigger than a lot of maps (or map projections) make it out to be. (See also: http://xkcd.com/977/) (h/t +Vic Gundotra)
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Absolutely mind-bending.
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True size of Africa
Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this tends to dictate how we perceive the size of countries and continents. If you look at the world map on Google, for example,…
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