Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!: The true size of Africa

Friday, October 15, 2010

The true size of Africa

Reginald Bassey posts an enlightening map and chart. (Click to biggify.)

The most common system for drawing maps is the Mercatur projection which makes the land masses of the northern hemisphere look larger than they really are. Africa is actually larger than the USA, China, India, Japan and the whole of Europe combined.

The total land area of the world is 148,940,000 sq k (57,510,000 sq mi.)

Africa is 11,668,598 square miles or more than one-fifth of the earth's landmass.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

C.D. Jewell,

Liberalstein,

"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."