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Is Africa Misrepresented On World Maps?
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:20 pm
The map shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles (map gives no surface for these last two areas).
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Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:22 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Wow
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:26 pm to Sleeping Tiger
It is a BFC
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:27 pm to Sleeping Tiger
IDK but more people in Africa have Aids than the entire population of Australia.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:31 pm to Roger Klarvin
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IDK but more people in Africa have Aids than the entire population of Australia.
And, as I understand it, more die from dirty water related illness than aids and malaria combined.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:34 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Yes. It is impossible to portray a round earth on a flat surface without distortion. Someone has to get the geographical shaft, and that someone has been Africa by and large for centuries
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:37 pm to genro
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Yes. It is impossible to portray a round earth on a flat surface without distortion. Someone has to get the geographical shaft, and that someone has been Africa by and large for centuries
It's probably a coincidence that they got the shaft on the maps created by those that gave them the shaft in real life.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:39 pm to Sleeping Tiger
If you're looking for me to defend Europe's treatment of colonial Africa, you're barking up the wrong tree
Posted on 4/13/14 at 7:43 pm to Sleeping Tiger
africa is still pretty frickin big on a map
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:01 pm to Sleeping Tiger
It's like the people in Africa were there first, but they're a century behind everybody else in technology.
This post was edited on 4/13/14 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:04 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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It's like the people in Africa were there first, but they're a century behind everybody else in technology.
Just subtle enough to almost be serious. I laughed.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:07 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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And, as I understand it, more die from dirty water related illness than aids and malaria combined.
If you're a woman born in Africa, you have about a 70% lifetime risk of being raped. It is estimated that 85% of all the world's rape victims currently live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:07 pm to genro
I thought the Pacific Ocean got the shaft?
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:09 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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It's like the people in Africa were there first, but they're a century behind everybody else in technology.
It doesn't help that every bug that evolved alongside us and is capable of killing us resides there
Africa has worms that crawl up your penis while you're swimming, insects that burrow into your skin and lay their eggs and protists that live in fluid in your eye.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
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It doesn't help that every bug that evolved alongside us and is capable of killing us resides there
Africa has worms that crawl up your penis while you're swimming, insects that burrow into your skin and lay their eggs and protists that live in fluid in your eye.
I think centuries of foreign invasion and occupation, a raping of natural and human resources, slavery, and puppet dictators might have more to do with it than bugs.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
And there a few, if any, domesticable animals native to subsaharan Africa. If you look at the concentration of world power throughout the centuries, it directly correlates with the availability of domesticable animals in that region at that time
This post was edited on 4/13/14 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:14 pm to Roger Klarvin
Wow, now you sound like the Africa Tourism Bureau. 
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:14 pm to Roger Klarvin
Did they leave Tibet out for China?
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:18 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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I think centuries of foreign invasion and occupation, a raping of natural and human resources, slavery, and puppet dictators might have more to do with it than bugs.
Meh, hasn't kept India down too much.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 8:19 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Africa has worms that crawl up your penis while you're swimming, insects that burrow into your skin and lay their eggs and protists that live in fluid in your eye.
That all sounds like so much fun.
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