The size of Africa

[andrewducker]

Comments

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

a, australia can take a fair chunk of that as well
b, how much of that is arable, temperate and capable of sustaining the same population of the countries you've stuff into it?

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

not andy personally i mean
yes geographically that interesting, but there is an implication after all they choose not to use australia or antartica

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Actually, Australia's the same size as the US.

Only, the soil is mostly arid fossil or actual desert.

So it could prolly sub for USAnia as the Sahara, in the map.

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

Try a google image search for 'map population'

It gives an interesting view of how the people of the world are distributed.

It makes the UK look more like you'd expect if you listen to the press.

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

My god! Africa is a country with the maverick united states in it! Too bad it can't fit the two other members of NAFTA in it, too.

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

My first reaction was that this might be wrong due to some misunderstanding about map projections. But no, I checked it out (by sight) on google earth (which conveniently uses a globe) and it looks about right. I suppose you could argue the US is missing its largest state by far - Alaska.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_area