3 mo. ago • 97%

Another map showing the true size of Africa

41 comments

Why doesn’t the larger continent simply eat the smaller ones?

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- Give it a few hundred million years.
  
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  Was thinking just this, hahahaha!
  
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- Are they stupid?
  
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- The "other ones" are not continents!
  
  I'm tired of seeing all the diverse countries of Africa being lumped together as if they were homogenous.
  
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So much land to ~~exploit~~ explore. Explore.

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- You explore land, you expand your empire, and then it all kind of gets fuzzy and controversial after that
  
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- So much land to scramble for.
  
  FTFY
  
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- Explore for exploitation.
  
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Shockingly as well, if you take all of the 50+ countries in Africa and arrange them carefully, they fit pretty much perfectly inside Africa.

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- Funny how comparing countries to continents works, amiright?
  
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All sorts of fun to be had overlying various things. I guess Africa is about 2 Russias in size.

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- I love when I'm talking to an American and they try and tell me that I " just don't understand how big Texas is". So then I tell them that if Texas were in Australia, it would only be the fifth largest state, sixth if you include NT (which you should, their lack of statehood while having the largest percentage population of Indigenous Australians is telling).
  
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  Wow, great map. Thanks, really shows some perspective.
  
  Also, you should qualify that with "some" Americans. Some Americans have no concept of the US, like where the bulk of the population lives (65% live between Georgia and Boston), how empty the mid-west/west is, etc.
  
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Big if true

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- Could even be true if big.
  
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The UK: “This is not what we voted for!”

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I've been burned before by these.

I checked it thoroughly for a smaller Africa inside it before taking it seriously.

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- That's exactly what someone who would hide a small Africa inside a map of Africa would say!
  
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Oh wow, I never realised that Japan is so long compared with Great Britain.

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- If you line up the latitudes you can see Japan is roughly comparable to the coasts of the US.
  
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I'm so fucking done with maps lumping Central Europe into Eastern Europe. Like you wanna tell me that Austria, Greece, Finland are somehow not eastern but Czechia is. Or how sometimes the Baltics are not eastern but Hungary is.

In this thread: westerners telling me what I should think. Well gee, next time maybe tone down the imperialism a bit.

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- Finland and baltics are northern Europe, not eastern.
  
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  And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.
  
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- Typical Europeans: colonizing this post about Africa to make it about themselves instead. \s
  
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- I mean, I am fucking done with maps portraying Europe as a continent. It is called Eurasia, you just like feeling extra special but geographically you are not 🤪
  
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  Show me your continental plate, "Europe"
  
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- I've never heard anyone claim the Baltics are not Eastern Europe. Then again, I'm on a different continent.
  
  As for the rest, it's all down to which side they were on/put in during the Cold War.
  
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- Austria is literally lumped into "Eastern Europe" on this map lol
  
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  No, it's not. That's why it has its own specific label...
  
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- Eastern Europe is not real
  
  Not in, like, the "there's nothing there" way, but in the "there's no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region" way
  
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  I mean there is, its the old Soviet block countries, its just not really relevant anymore.
  
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- that's pretty angry
  
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No wonder we never found kony

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It took me way to long to realize what I was looking at...

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