Internet Oddities and Eccentricity at Bunch of Nerds » Africa http://bunchofnerds.com A blog for nerds from nerds Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Africa is really, really big http://bunchofnerds.com/2008/11/geography/africa-is-really-really-big/ http://bunchofnerds.com/2008/11/geography/africa-is-really-really-big/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:27:43 +0000 Nerds http://bunchofnerds.com/?p=1250 No surprise to anyone, but Africa is a huge huge piece of land! A bit old but really awesome nonetheless. Coming from the Times Atlas we have an amazing graphical comparison of the African continent in comparison to other landmasses we all are much more familiar with.

The graphic shows how Africa (30.3 million km²!) is larger than the combination of China, The USA, Western Europe, India, Argentina and the British Isles. Very cool!



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