17 June 2009

The size of Africa


This is several years old, but is worth sharing. Found at the very interesting Strange Maps blog, which offers this additional observation:
What’s also quite bizarre is the fact that a relatively sparsely populated country such as Argentina (about 38 million inhabitants) is not that much smaller than India, the world’s second-most populous nation, which currently has a population of about 1,1 billion people.

2 comments:

  1. Dan IsaacsJune 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    Odd that it refers to "Other named countries". Is this making the all-too frequent mistake of considering Africa as something other than a Continent?

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  2. MinnesotastanJune 17, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    @ Dan - Also "Western Europe" isn't a "country," nor "the British Isles." I suspect it's just linguistic imprecision rather than lack of knowledge on the creator's part.

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