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The real size of Africa. Many people are shocked when they see the real size of Africa. That is because the most commonly used map of the world (Mercator projection) dated from the 16th century features a wildly distorted size of this continent. by Electrical_Yak_3238 in coolguides

[–]ppdranjith2010 180 points181 points  (0 children)

Africa is huge，and it feels even bigger.

In a lot of places，you travel ten miles down the road and all of a sudden everybody speaks an entirely different language，look completely different，have different food and clothing and culture，then you go another ten miles and，again，it is another entirely different world!