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Tag: Africa
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Learn: Your Perspective of the Size of the World’s Continents is Wildly Skewed
Little did you know, you’re not where you think you are — at least on the world map. When it comes to cartography, the greatest myth the mapmakers ever pulled was making us believe we’re bigger and more important than we actually[...]
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Perspective: This is the TRUE size of Africa
Perspective is a valuable, and this quick post from The Economist will likely change yours. Africa is a big continent, but we tend to think of it all together as one place. Perhaps that’s not ideal. Click the first picture below the[...]