Brilliant infographic from Kai Krause (perhaps the Kai Krause?) to combat rampant ‘immappancy’
(Now corrected for map projection errors by marauding carto-nerds – thanks Manuela Schmidt)
I would perhaps twin it with these:
(Credits: USA – Bill Rankin, Radical Cartography, Antartica – NASA, Australia – unknown)
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HOW STUPID
Whyy is it stupid
What makes the truth so stupid? Enjoy! http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/
I think there’s an irony in there somewhere, coming from Ireland and all.
Did you try the Peters` model? It is more bleeding, if possible.
Oh, there is no such country like “Eastern Europe”…let’s do better map studies next time ;)
thx form PL :)
Enjoy! http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/
Great! What about South America?
It’s annoying to click on the first visualisation and see such false facts as “This single image tries to embody the massive scale, which is larger than the USA, China, India, Japan and all of Europe……. combined!”
Big chunks of Europe are missing! Just take a look here, to see what Europe is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg
Please update the post, otherwise that infograph will create factoids that people keep on repeating…
pit – You are missing the point – Eastern Europe – although not a country is a geographical region consisting of many small countries including Norway, Greece, Poland, Ukraine… As many of these countries are very small, it makes sense to group them together as the region ‘Eastern Europe’ for this representation.
JD – It is annoying that so many people repeat this sort of thing without checking the facts, however it is very close to being true.
USA (9 629 000) + China (9 597 000) + India (3 287 000) + Japan (378 000) + All of Europe (10 180 000) = 33 072 000 is only a little GREATER than the area of Africa at 30 200 000! (NB. All rounded to nearest thousand)
Although the image may show all of Europe (if you look closely at the image of Eastern Europe it does seem to include Denmark/Norway/Finland/Sweden in north, & maybe parts of Turkey, Kazakhstan & Russia in the far East), but the map needs to be much better than this to prove the point.
FYI: Norway is not part of eastern Europe. It is up in the north-west. 67th place in size, border to Sweden which is on 57th place in size. The whole Scandinavia is missing in the map.
Ireland is NOT part of the UK. Geographically the correct term is British Isles!!
Actually we are trying to avoid using the term British Isles when talking about Ireland. at least historians are!.
i know its hurts to read couse africa has always been seen as the dark place of the world so has not sinifcance but it if the larges land mass and where all human life began
Who is this one fooling, misleading people with this wretched misrepresentation? This is the total land area of all continents, showing that Africa isn’t so large a continent as to be equal the total land area of Asia, North America, Europe…like that silly map shows.
The World: 57,308,738 Sq. Miles (148,429,000 Sq. Km) 100%
Asia (plus the Middle East): 17,212,000 Sq. Miles (44,579,000 Sq. Km) 30.0%
Africa: 11,608,000 Sq. Miles (30,065,000 Sq. Km) 20.3%
North America: 9,365,000 Sq. Miles (24,256,000 Sq. Km) 16.3%
South America: 6,880,000 Sq. Miles (17,819,000 Sq. Km) 12.0%
Antarctica: 5,100,000 Sq. Miles (13,209,000 Sq. Km) 8.9%
Europe: 3,837,000 Sq. Miles (9,938,000 Sq. Km) 6.7%
Australia (plus Oceania) 2,968,000 Sq. Miles (7,687,000 Sq. Km)
Why are *you* trying to mislead people?
You are seriously misrepresenting/describing what that top map purports to show. It has no label of “North America” – it includes only the U.S., not the sizeable
nations of Mexico and Canada. (Actually, it *does* fail to include the very large state of Alaska; the pic of the U.S. should be labeled the “lower 48″). The map has no label of “Asia” – China and India, yes, but it makes no claim to include huge Russia/Siberia, or the central Asian nations, or the nations of southeastern Asia. It does not show “Europe,” only selected pieces of it. The failure to include Alaska/Hawaii as part of the U.S. is rather insulting, but not especially misleading,
since the picture is clearly of the lower 48. Assuming the national/regional boundaries are drawn in proportion, the map is not misleading.
more reading
http://www.petersmap.com/table.html
Who cares? Its big – so what? What’s the point?
Editors,
please fix the broken link to the corrected image: http://yfrog.com/f/8677vp/