Africa is big

[Lefty]

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

It's massive.

 

[Billy69_uk]

its is MUCH bigger than people realise, mainly due to the way the map of the world is distorted to appear on a 2D square page

https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/maps-that-show-why-some-countries-are-not-as-big-as-they-look/

 

[FlapJacks]

It is an entire continent, so we shouldn't be too surprised.

 

[FatCat]

It is a beautifull place as well!

 

[FlapJacks]

It is a beautifully place as well!

It is lovely. Many people lump its countries together as one giant place, but each country has something different.

 

[FatCat]

If it was up to me and I had the means I would go there every year on safari

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

The main takaway I get from that map is that there is a China part 2.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Totally unintended pun there.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Totally unintended pun there.

The unintended ones are the best. The Mao puns the better

 

[Lightweight]

if you Ghana make puns about African countries I’ll have Togo

 

[goalscrounger]

Kenya not think of any better puns?

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

The spooky coincidence about the last few puns posts is that I'm just about to join a Chinese vessel and go to Ghana

 

[goalscrounger]

The spooky coincidence about the last few puns posts is that I'm just about to join a Chinese vessel and go to Ghana

What could go wrong?? (being serious....good luck and stay safe!!)

 

[Hap]

It's a huge place but, even having lived there, the map showing its size in relation to other countries surprised me.

 

[bumface]

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[Anton_Berg]

The USA comes out of this looking very big, too. My neighbours cycled from London to Cape Town a couple of years ago. They should have looked at this first.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

I was lucky enough to see plenty of it during my time in the navy.

I've been down the West Coast to Dakar (Senegal) / Freetown (Sierra Leon) / Abidjan (Ivory Coast). Although I must give Legos (Nigeria) a shout out as one of the worst places I've been.

I visited Tunisia and Egypt whilst transiting the Suez (although Cario was a 4 day jolly off the ship to see the pyramids). I have to say very underwhelming. Just people hassling you for sh*t ornaments and camel rides whilst dodging flying crisp packets and other rubbish.

Also visited Cape Town and Simons Town in South Africa. Good Times

 

[SmallTown]

The USA comes out of this looking very big, too. My neighbours cycled from London to Cape Town a couple of years ago. They should have looked at this first.

The USA is big! Again another problem with the Mercator projection that we use to render 2d maps: Canada looks much much bigger than the US. Bit, because the top bits are so stretched it is bigger but only slightly.

 

[Millbrook]

Amazing Lefty thanks for that.