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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
It's still apples to oranges because Africa is a continent, not a country. Should be comparing each continent. But does this help people learn the size of the African continent anyway? How about looking at a complete world map? Many animals are capable of telling what thing is bigger at a glance.
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North America is continent.
About looking at the map; one of the most important points were the map distortion. There is no map on flat form, that shows everything correctly. You can't just look at normal map and judge sizes based on that. Especially when you are looking different places north-south wise. In sailing these projection errors are calculated on the map, so that you can take it into account. Usually the distortion is so that objects near equator looks smaller and objects near poles larger. Thus for example Africa looks smaller than it is and US larger than it is. Or if you want to apply this to North America; Mexico looks smaller than it is and Canada larger than it is.