This is mind boggling - Africa is actually bigger in area than China, USA, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, PNG, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece combined!
Also a great example of the power of visual/graphic data display.
More info and an enlarged version of the image above at:
http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/
Thanks to Izzy for this.
My ignorance about Africa appears wilful - this prompts me to find out more about this huge landmass
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