Africa in Perspective

As we all know, maps lie. As the United States has adopted the Mercator Projection as its standard in classrooms, many people have been falsly informed on the "true" sizes of our physical landscapes. The worst on the map being that Greenland is represented as being approximately the same size as Africa, when it fact is shares a square area closer to the size of Mexico.The map above really gives you a good idea of how large the continent of Africa really is.