“In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there should also be a concept as “immapancy”, meaning insufficient geographical knowledge.”

As a map-nerd and a geography-geek, I couldn’t agree more.

This shows the true size of Africa. It is hard to map how huge this continent is so to give it some perspective, Kai Krause created a map within a map. He effectively shows how the United States, China, India, Japan and all of Europe COMBINED have slightly less land area than all of Africa.

Perspective, my friends, what a perspective.

Seen here: True Size of Africa