A picture graphic shows the shear enormity of the African
continent by
showing how many other countries fit inside it. It covers the
same
surface as 13 countries - including the United States, China, UK
and
India - and the whole of Eastern Europe.
In
total, Africa is more than 30million sq km. But this graphic illustrates
that
its
size is not shown accurately on a standard Mercator map, where countries
in
the centre appear smaller than they are.
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