Africa’s true scale dwarfs Russia

Posted by vladgrinch

40 Comments

  1. StrictlyInsaneRants on

    Actually that made me realize how big Russia is in proportion to other things. Of course the greed and waste of going to war to want more instead of developing what you got is quite staggering too

  2. HalfHorseHalfMann on

    Take one african country and place it into Asia and be amazed….no?
    Okay, same with this.

    Africa is not a country.

  3. Here come the comments thinking they’re smart for pointing out that Africa isn’t a country

    The reason these comparisons get made is precisely because on the Mercator map projection (which the average person would have internalised the most) Africa looks smaller than or at least equal to Russia

  4. For some reason i thought India was bigger than that. Maybe just because of its population numbers.

  5. First off, def a repost. Second. ITS A DAMN CONTINENT OFCOURSE IT WOULD BE BIGGER THAN ANY COUNTRY!!!!

  6. Yeah a continent with 54 countries is slightly bigger than Russia.
    I really don’t see how you can say “dwarfs” if anything it shows how big Russia is compared to all the other countries.

  7. Europe is 10.1 million km². Slightly bigger than the US (9.8 million km²).

    Both still fit easily in Africa together btw.

  8. It’d be interesting to see a map of the true scale of Africa based on seaports, navigable rivers, and freshwater lakes. Don’t know how exactly that would look, but these poor tiny countries will finally get a break from being compared to Great Africa.

  9. Actually mindblown that north Africa to south Africa is almost the same distance as Russia‘s most western point to its most eastern point.

  10. Africa is not a country. What’s the point of putting countries in Africa. It’s a continent.

  11. betacarotentoo on

    Aaa, no, Africa is less than twice the size of Russia, so it’s a bit forced to say it “dwarfs” it.

  12. I’d say it does the opposite. Russia is a country. Its more than half the size of Africa. A continent.

  13. Finish_Desperate on

    Breaking news: whole continent is bigger than many countries and some other continents.