The True Size Of Africa

AREA km? Top 100 Countries Russia 17.098.242 11,50 The True Size of Africa Canada 9.984.670 6,70 6,40 3 China 9.596.961 Area in square kilometers, Percentage of World Total Sources: Britannica, Wikipedia, Almanac 2010 United States 9.629.091 6,40 Brazil 8.514.877 5,70 A small contribution in the fight against rampant Immappancy, by Kai Krause Australia 7.692.024 5.20 India 3.287.263 2,30 Graphic layout for visualization only ( some countries are cut and rotated ) But the conclusions are very accurate: refer to table below for exact data Argentina 2.780.400 NETHERLANDS 2,00 1,80 Kazakhstan 2.724.900 10 Sudan 2.505.813 1,70 BELGIUM Algeria Congo 11 2.381.741 1,60 12 2,344.858 1,60 13 Greenland 2.166.086 1,50 14 Saudi Arabia 2.149.690 AREA 1,40 1,30 COUNTRY Mexico 1.964.375 15 PORTUGAL SWITZERLAND x 1000 km? 1.860.360 1.759.540 16 Indonesia 1,30 United States 17 Libya 1,20 1,10 18 Iran 1.628.750 China 9.597 FRANCE 19 Mongolia 1.564.100 1,10 20 Peru 1.285.216 USA 0,86 0,86 9.629 21 Chad 1.284.000 SPAIN GERMANY Niger Angola Mali South Africa 22 1.267.000 0,85 India 3.287 0,85 0,83 23 1.246.700 ITALY 24 1.240.192 Mexico 1.964 25 1.221.037 0,82 26 Colombia 1.141.748 0,76 Peru 1.285 27 Ethiopia 1.104.300 0,74 28 Bolivia 1.098.581 0,74 France 633 Mauritania 1.025.520 29 0,69 30 Egypt Tanzania Nigeria Venezuela 1.002.000 0,67 Spain 506 31 945.087 0,63 32 923,768 0,62 0,61 33 912.050 Papua New Guinea 462 EASTERN 34 Namibia 824.116 0,55 801.590 796.095 35 Mozambique Sweden EUROPE 0,54 0,53 441 istan Pakistan 36 Europe 37 Turkey 783.562 0,53 Japan 378 38 Chile 756.102 UNITED STATES 0,51 0,51 39 Zambia 752.612 Germany 357 Myanmar Afghanistan Somalia 40 676.578 0,45 0,44 0,43 41 652.090 Norway 324 42 637.657 632.834 622.984 43 France 0,43 Italy 301 C. African Rep 44 0,42 0,41 45 Ukraine 603.500 New Zealand 270 46 Madagascar 587.041 0,39 47 Botswana 582.000 0,39 United Kingdom INDIA 243 48 Kenya 580.367 0.39 49 Yemen 527.968 0,35 50 Thailand Nepal 147 513.120 505.992 0,34 0,34 51 Spain Turkmenistan 488.100 52 0,33 Bangladesh 144 53 Cameroon 475.442 0,32 0,31 54 Papua New Guinea 462.840 Greece 132 INDIA PART 2 55 Uzbekistan 447.400 0,30 0,30 0,30 56 Morocco 446,550 TOTAL India 441.370 30.102 57 Sweden 58 438.317 Iraq Paraguay 0,29 59 406.752 0,27 0,26 60 Zimbabwe 390.757 AFRICA 30.221 377.930 357.114 61 Japan Germany Rep o.t. Congo Finland 0,25 62 CHINA 0,24 0,23 63 342.000 64 338.419 0,23 65 Vietnam 331.212 0,22 66 Malaysia 330.803 0.22 In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as “immappancy", meaning insufficient geographical knowledge. 67 Norway 323.802 0,22 68 Côte d'Ivoire 322.463 0,22 0,21 69 Poland 312.685 CHINA 70 Oman 309.500 0,21 PART 2 0,20 0,20 71 Italy Philippines 301.336 72 300.000 73 Burkina Faso 274.222 0,18 A survey with random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of their country. Not entirely unexpected, but still rather unsettling, the majority chose “1-2 billion" and largest in the world", respectively. 74 New Zealand 270.467 0,18 0,18 75 Gabon 267.668 76 Western Sahara 266.000 0,18 0,20 0,17 Japan 77 Ecuador 256.369 78 Guinea 245.857 United Kingdom Uganda 242.900 241.038 79 0,16 80 0,16 0,16 UK 238.539 238.391 81 Ghana 82 Romania 0.16 Even with Asian and European college students, geographical estimates were often off by factors of 2-3. This is partly due to the highly distorted nature of the predominantly used mapping projections (such as Mercator). 83 Laos 236.800 0,16 84 Guyana 214.969 0.14 85 Belarus 207.600 0,14 86 199.951 Kyrgyzstan Senegal Syria Cambodia Uruguay 0,13 0,13 87 196.722 88 185.180 0,12 181.035 176.215 89 0,12 A particularly extreme example is the worldwide misjudgement of the true size of Africa. This single image tries to embody the massive scale, which is larger than the USA, China, India, Japan and all of Europe.. combined! 90 0,12 JAPAN 91 Suriname 163.820 0,11 92 Tunisia 163.610 0,11 93 Nepal 147.181 0,10 Bangladesh istan Tajikistan 94 143.998 0,10 95 143.100 0,10 0,09 China 96 Greece 131.957 97 Nicaragua 130.373 0,09 creative commons 0,08 0,08 98 North Korea 120,538 No Rights Reserved This work is placed in the Public Domain 99 Malawi 118.484 100 Eritrea 117.600 0,08 TOP 100 TOTAL 132.632.524 89,34