See Africa’s true size on a map - African History | Zoonk

See Africa’s true size on a map - African History | Zoonk

See Africa’s true size on a map

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Clean equal-area silhouette of Africa centered, with smaller labeled silhouettes of the United States, China, India, Japan, and much of Europe packed inside it to show Africa’s 30.3 million km² size.

Africa is huge

Africa is about 30.3 million square kilometers. It is bigger than the United States, China, India, Japan, and much of Europe combined, but some familiar maps make that hard to see.