If there is one image that screws-up your world view at a very early age, it must be the Mercator Projection.
About five hundred years ago, the Flemish cartographer did a brilliant job for the seafarers by projecting the globe on a flat surface. But for the rest of us, it continues to be a distortion of epic prroportions - especially for continents further away from the equator. Greenland, for instance, look four times the size of Australia when it is actually it is just the opposite!
Africa, however, takes the cake. It takes a map like this to show how things really stand -
You can fit 18 large countries, including India, China and USA into Africa, and still have plenty of room to spare.
'The True Size of Africa' is really an eye-opener.
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LINKS
* 8 Maps that will change the way you look at Africa -- http://www.one.org/us/2014/03/13/8-maps-that-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-africa/
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