How Giant is Africa?


How Giant is Africa?
The True Measurement of Africa in comparison to contiguous U.S. (screenshot from thetruesize.com)

6 March 2024

Whilst visiting southern Africa in January I used to be inspired at how massive the continent is. Africa is very large – so large that the contiguous U.S. can are compatible within it thrice, as proven above.

For example, the air distance from best to backside of Africa – Tunis, Tunisia to Cape The town, South Africa – is farther than Seattle to Toyko.

4, 894 air miles from Cape The town to Tunis (map from Wikimedia Commons, purple notes added)
4, 792 air miles from Seattle to Toyko, Japan (map from Wikimedia Commons, purple notes added)

This animation displays how Africa compares in dimension to different continents.

from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Report:MapAfricaSize.gif

Asia is the one continent higher than Africa.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report:Seven_continents_Australia_not_Oceania.png

And Asia is the one continent with a bigger human inhabitants than Africa’s. Africa is available in 2nd in each circumstances.

Global inhabitants by means of Continent (screenshot from Wikipedia)

To get an concept of this by yourself, take a look at thetruesize.com to peer how large issues are.

(credit are within the captions)

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