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This is the true size of Africa

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Jonathan (@JonathanMBR@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 image The great map myth was incredibly unfair to the 'mother continent': This is the true size of #Africa https://www.green.earth/blog/true-size-map-africa

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Okay, now this is getting ridiculous. You put this same thing on a typical equal-area projection and it will still fail.

Projections distorting things isn’t a conspiracy, it’s guaranteed by mathematics.

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