Amazing Map: Visualizing the True Size of Africa

[Lee Cruz]

Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa

Published February 19, 2020

By Jeff Desjardins

Mapped: The True Size of Africa

Take a look at any map, and it’s clear that the African continent is a big place.

However, despite the common perception that Africa is a large landmass, it’s still one that is vastly underestimated by most casual map viewers.

The reason for this is that the familiar Mercator map projection tends to distort our geographical view of the world in a crucial way — one that often leads to misconceptions about the relative sizes of both countries and continents.

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