Africa In Perspective: It’s big. Really big.

2008 June 1
by Doobybrain

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I’ve always known that Africa was a very big continent. But I didn’t know it was this big! [via]

The African continent is apparently big enough to fit the United States, India, Argentina, Western Europe, and most of China in it’s space! In fact, all together, these 5 countries still do not make up the total square kilometers of Africa.

Anyway, on a related note, if you like maps, you’ll probably love The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (11th ed.), available at Amazon.com for $157.50.

I wish I owned this book. If anybody wants to get me an easy gift, this book would be it.

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2008 June 2
Stephanie

That’s crazy!

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2008 June 2
meneame.net

África en perspectiva: Es grande. Realmente grande…

Cuando vemos en las noticias lo que pasa en el continente africano, no nos llegamos a hacer una idea de que lo que estamos viendo son historias de miseria y guerra de un conjunto de paises que ocupan una superficie superior a la suma de EEUU, Europa oc…

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2008 June 3
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2008 June 3
JM

See http://www.petersmap.com/

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2008 June 3
FranMollina

Comparan paises con un continente ….

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coso reply on June 3rd, 2008 3:24 am:

Gran observación!

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Juan Jose reply on June 14th, 2008 6:03 am:

Los gringos ven a Africa como un todo, lo cual no es asi por mas que quieran. Igual nos quieren ver a nosotros, Republica Dominicana y Haiti, como un solo.

Ilusos!

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2008 June 3
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2008 June 3
Arwen

Y si ponemos a rusia que seria? rusia china y india?

Es grande, pero no se puede hacer uno una idea si se comparan paises con un continente entero. Sud America es más pequeño que Africa, pos eso ya es una buena comparación no?

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2008 June 3
Arwen

Me acabo de mirar el planeta en google, Rusia es mas grande que Africa entera :s

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coso reply on June 3rd, 2008 3:24 am:

Arriba lo pone JM, mira este mapa:

See http://www.petersmap.com/

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2008 June 3
Oleg

Arwen, te acaban de decir que todo es cuestión de perspectiva en los mapas. Mira en cualquier enciclopedia, y descubriras que aunque parezca en los mapas que Rusia es más grande que África, en realidad África tiene casi el doble de kilómetros cuadrados que Rusia (30.000.000 contra 17.000.000)

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2008 June 3
DavidSO

Grande en extensión pero muy pequeña en cuanto a riqueza. Reflexionemos.

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Jose Enrique reply on June 3rd, 2008 5:52 am:

Africa es enorme en riqueza, alli hay diamantes, bosques, petroleo….

está asediada por nuestro putrefacto mundo

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2008 June 3
ayfrika

comparad la poblacion entre Africa y el conjunto de esos paises…

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2008 June 3
BernatDesclot

Joder… pues si tienen que venir todos los de africa en españa… ¿donde los metemos?

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Fernando Barboza reply on June 3rd, 2008 6:05 pm:

Señor Desclot no se preocupe que cuando se fueron todos los europeos a äfrica a colonizar, esclavizar y a cometer todo tipo de genocídios no se vinieron todos a España. el mundo es interdependiente y que piensa usted que todo el mundo quiere venir a España, no se lo cre ni usted

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2008 June 3
telenius

Neither Europe nor Western Europe are a country.

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2008 June 3
Spaniard

You are comparing a whole continent against a few countries. You also say “5 countries”, but “Western Europe” is not a country.

However, Africa has been represented smaller than it is, because the maps become too big or the “important” countries too small. If somebody wants to watch an map of Africa with precision, he will use one specific, while a mapa mundi can be used to locate smaller countries like the ones in Europe.

Here is a mapamundi in real scale:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_OBLhGXFVaJg/R7MW5fJCOmI/AAAAAAAAApk/9gRjSWCHx1A/s1600-h/peters.jpg

I guess I got to explain also that Spain is NOT in South America, but in Europe. You think spaniards are poor, but we are like italians, including the culture.

Another thing important is that in South America are MANY countries, and just ONE of them is Mexico. When in your films you show spanish people, it doesn’t mind wherever he is (even Spain, in Europe). You always use the mexican speech. That’s no sense. Peru is different from Argentina, from Spain, from Cuba, from Mexico…

Sorry for the lesson, but I really think it was necessary. Please, excuse my english, but it’s not my first language.

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Daddyorama reply on June 3rd, 2008 10:22 pm:

Sorry Spaniard but Mexico isn’t a South American country. It is on the North America Continent. You are correct that the Spanish speaking countries, like the English speaking countries, are all different in the way they speak but Mexico, because of it’s close proximity has the biggest influence in Hollywood films.

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Spaniard reply on June 4th, 2008 2:07 am:

Yes, you are right. In fact, we have two ways to divide America. South/North (Sudamérica/Norteamérica) and South/Middle/North (Sudamérica/Mesoamérica o Centroamérica/Norteamérica).

But to refer to spanish countries, we use “Latinoamérica” or “Hispanoamérica”. So, while I was writing, I mistook South America with “Latinoamérica”.

I also understand the reason why Hollywood uses mexicans to represent every spanish in the world. But it is a big mistake. It is not just the speech. The culture is totally different. Kechua are only in Peru, Mariachis in Mexico. People in Spain and Argentina are completely white skinned, not bronze (avoiding sun bath and exceptions, of course).

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alipio reply on June 23rd, 2008 7:49 am:

doh.

Mexico is not in South America, where the hell are you from?

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2008 June 3
Scott

you are comparing a continent against 5 random “countries.” maybe you should say, “Asia in perspective, It’s fucking huge”

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2008 June 4
redundant replyier

Africa and Western Europe are not countries…where did u go to school?

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2008 June 4
kristy

Spaniard beat me to it; this comparison is ridiculous. What a waste of time.

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2008 June 9
M

what happened to france?

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2008 June 10
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2008 June 10
karlontxo

acabo de verme la chota.. es mas grande que las dos manos de tu hermana…. o la boca de tu vieja

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2008 June 12
jamie

great….with all those natural resources put in the hands of dictators…they deserve what they get…it’s darwinism in action….let them destroy themselves so the continent can be put to good use for the rest of the planet

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2008 June 16
honercek

Africa is a big continent

I had no idea about how big the Africa is before. By putting many countries on the Africa, it’s apparent to give us the direct perspective.

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2008 July 11
A.Alaalas

Could you then compare that map with one sized to population? Another instructive Africa image is the nighttime satellite view with so little urban light except for Cairo, Nigeria and S. Africa.

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John reply on December 1st, 2008 8:32 pm:

Population information would indeed be very useful alongside this, and much more relevant to almost any point this could be trying to make. A rough estimate using Wikipedia- Africa has nearly a billion people; China and India have over 1bn each, Europe (which is what’s pictured, how you could call all that “Western Europe” is beyond me) has 700m, US has 300m, and Argentina (why Argentina? I for one have no idea how big that is, and it surely suffers from the same shrinkage on maps as Africa does) has 40m. So that’s over 3 billion, three times Africa’s population.

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