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- CrixMaydine, on 01/13/2009, -29/+414This just in! Continents are larger than countries. The only people who don't understand how large Africa are the same people who can't find Africa on a map.
- ulmedas, on 01/13/2009, -6/+287One must really appreciate how the Mercator projection has distorted our view of scale.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -7/+249I'm learning!
Thanks Digg :D - Mightbiteyou, on 01/13/2009, -13/+233Interesting, so a continent is larger than a country?
- Ortega08, on 01/13/2009, -5/+208Ah, the country of Africa.
- defy, on 01/13/2009, -12/+187That's what she said.
- puffinfresh, on 01/13/2009, -4/+161I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
- ajonsey, on 01/13/2009, -2/+117Antarctica is technically the world's largest desert.
But still, enormous - Onji, on 01/13/2009, -4/+90Western Europe isn't a country.
- rlode6762, on 01/13/2009, -4/+85They forgot Alaska.
- freddoo, on 01/12/2009, -12/+87The Sahara, with a size of 8.6 million km², is the world's largest desert
WOW almost the size of the USA - lava, on 01/13/2009, -5/+74Well, yeah, Africa is a continent, and the rest are countries. Africa is the only continent that doesn't get proper recognition. People just group all those countries of it as one blob, and this picture perpetuates that.
- metik, on 01/13/2009, -6/+75This just in!
North America is bigger than Canada AND the united states!
Proof: http://www.map-of-north-america.us/north-america-m ... - Zsinj, on 01/13/2009, -15/+65Yes, continents are big. And?
- icabodane, on 01/13/2009, -2/+46@davidkeithjones: You're the one making a big deal about race. This was clearly a penis joke
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -3/+46This map is confusing. Can Americans now drive from Florida to Europe?
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -2/+44I don't appreciate it at all.
- MacEnvy, on 01/13/2009, -2/+44Not in Australia.
- ctabone, on 01/13/2009, -2/+43These comments are full of people attempting clever one liners.
- Tomholius, on 01/13/2009, -1/+40the worst part is this really happened
- lex0nyc, on 01/13/2009, -5/+43Things from Africa are bigger? Where have I heard that before?
- kevincupp, on 01/13/2009, -5/+43Comparing countries to continents?
- dannymb877, on 01/13/2009, -1/+38No, I actually DID know how big Africa was, but thanks anyways.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -4/+40I believe the proper term is "African American"
- Claverhouse, on 01/13/2009, -11/+46China may be much smaller, but they are fixing this by expanding into Africa.
They think they can do better than the current occupants. - CDoug03, on 01/13/2009, -8/+42number of pirates in africa: 31,785,190
number of pirates in other named countries: 17 - thatonekid393, on 01/13/2009, -4/+38Wow, amazing. I never knew that, except for all those times I looked at a map.
- ashwinmudigonda, on 01/13/2009, -1/+34Ok. Cool. Let's do Asia now.
- Shaggy3, on 01/13/2009, -2/+30I heard 95% of the population is black, too.
- maxsunset, on 01/13/2009, -3/+31Neither is Africa...
- djvchris, on 01/13/2009, -0/+26Well...glad to see we got that out of the way early.
- peters1023, on 01/13/2009, -0/+26And Penis is not a race.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -2/+27 It seems pretty much everyone can do better than the current occupants.
- puffinfresh, on 01/13/2009, -1/+25It looks like Italy is about to kick the USA's wang
- CrixMaydine, on 01/13/2009, -0/+23I would image ALL the countries could fit on Pangaea. Right?
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -2/+24Canada?
I wish my country mattered, eh? - hiPpymIck, on 01/13/2009, -1/+22there a cycle of corruption that screws up their development (encouraged by Western business)
guy gets to be leader
Western companies lobby him for favors
eg access to natural resources
with very lavish corporate hospitality
he develops taste for a 5 star lifestyle
he opens a Swiss bank account
Western companies ply him and his supporters
with gifts and money for continuing favors
he lives the high life as ruler for a few years
then he does a runner to the West taking
as much as he can steal with him
leaving his country back where it started ten years earlier
its been going on for years - sh8kedown7, on 01/13/2009, -0/+20They have exports, but they're being fought over because Africa isn't one country.
- CrixMaydine, on 01/13/2009, -0/+19http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
Fun stuff! - casuallyevil, on 01/13/2009, -0/+19Continents are not necessarily bigger than countries. USA > Australia, Canada > Europe, Russia > Antarctica...
- thedead, on 01/13/2009, -2/+21Asia is much bigger... 44,579,000 km²
- IntoxicatedLuke, on 01/13/2009, -1/+19Welcome to Digg.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+18The Womens club...
- kvgirard, on 01/13/2009, -1/+18thats what she said
- aNte, on 01/13/2009, -2/+18Yes it seems to be like that, but we are still in progress of investigating it.
- aamer, on 01/13/2009, -0/+16Larger than all of those countries combined ... and probably poorer than any single one of those countries.
- Jowsley, on 01/13/2009, -3/+19"we'd put it in perspective by transposing as many of the world's OTHER COUNTRIES over it as we could."
Africa isn't a country. I thought we already covered this... - ulmedas, on 01/13/2009, -0/+14heh, but you do seem to enjoy being snarky.
- theselfishgene, on 01/13/2009, -1/+15Almost all diamonds and gold come from Africa.
- akchrs, on 01/13/2009, -0/+13or Hawaii.
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