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Post by Jaga on Jan 11, 2009 22:10:56 GMT -7
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Post by kaima on Jan 12, 2009 1:01:53 GMT -7
You can add me to the list of people who had no idea it was so big! That is quite a map.
Kai
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Post by karl on Jan 12, 2009 6:12:28 GMT -7
That is most amazing in-deed! The most of us are very much aware of Africa being as very large, but whilst placed in prospective, it is simply un-believeable...
Karl
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Post by archivist on Jan 12, 2009 12:16:02 GMT -7
That surprised me too, especially the size of the USA by comparison.
Neville
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Post by kaima on Jan 12, 2009 13:39:33 GMT -7
I was just checking size of the USA and came up with the usual ambiguities associated with geography. No two numbers seem to agree, but that is quite normal in my experience. Even two land surveyors measuring a small piece of land cannot agree, (and they usually say their predecessor made mistakes and should have done it my way and come to my conclusion).
I am perfectly willing to accept the presentation as is; my ego told me to right justly claim Alaska's 1,477,000 square km of area we contribute to the USA number.
It is a bit surprising that they just include "western Europe", however!
Kai
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Post by Jaga on Jan 12, 2009 20:31:08 GMT -7
I think the best comparison is to realize that Africa is almost twice as big as South America. Both continents of the map looks almost the same. They "match" to each other.
Here is a list of the continents and their sizes:
Asia - (44,579,000 sq km)
Africa - (30,065,000 sq km)
North America - (24,256,000 sq km)
South America - (17,819,000 sq km)
Antarctica - (13,209,000 sq km)
Europe - (9,938,000 sq km)
Australia/Oceania - (7,687,000 sq km)
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