Do people generally think Africa is not that big?

That's what the commentary on the map itself says, but ignoring that, if you look at a Peters projection, would you think you could fit all that in the Dark Continent?

What percentage of people do you think understand why there are different projections in the first place, much less grasp the limitations of any given one? What input are they getting that would tell them the information in the surface area-alone comparison? I doubt many people are doing the math in their free time.

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I'm not saying it's not a useful pedagogical tool, it's a nice demonstration of relative size, just - my mind is not blown. I keep seeing links to that with great expressions of amazement and I feel left out.

I knew Africa was huge, but seeing what else fits into it, for lack of a better explanation, gives me a much better idea of the actual size. I do much better with side-by-side comparisons.

Maybe it's just that I'm not super visual so seeing it doesn't particularly trip my eureka switch. Or maybe I spent too much time playing with a globe as a kid.

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It's probably in our attic.

I'm not saying it's not a useful pedagogical tool, it's a nice demonstration of relative size, just - my mind is not blown

If you already know that Africa is bigger than all those countries combined, then it has little surprise value for it. If you don't reel at how many different ways there are to take the information from the surface of a sphere and fail to replicate it in 2D, similarly unimpressive. I don't think any one thing every blew everyone's mind, and it's not a cool kid club to be blown or unblown. So you knew. Or you don't care. Is that surprising?

It did surprise me because I thought China was bigger than that and Japan smaller. But it didn't super surprise me how big Africa was, if that makes sense? Sort of?

Very often the ___ I thought I owned? I do not in fact own. My dad does, I just was so familiar with it being around that I assume I simply must have it here!

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He got a lot wilder right after I stopped filming, which is why I stopped filming, so I could remove him from my head, which takes two hands.

Washed out now.

Is that surprising?

Apparently. In that I am surprised.

If you don't reel at how many different ways there are to take the information from the surface of a sphere and fail to replicate it in 3D

I don't think I get what you are saying here. If I had to actually read the thing rather than just look at the illustration, I didn't do that.