American's are very good at ignoring the world. We're taught little and remember less. Geography? Oh yea, its capital is Berlin. No,thats GERMANY.
Our ongoing personal edification series takes on Africa today. Hardly 2 adults in ten can name more than 5 countries in Africa. Locate them on a map? As if. That's how an international news organization broadcast a completely bogus map and no one batted an eye. We hadn't a clue.
This map is more representative of modern Africa.
What concerns us today is size. Just how large is the place?
Enlarge the photo. Now, do it again.
Kai Krause has put the map of Africa into understandable perspective.
But you knew that.
But you knew that.
Toad
thanks to Joan for the first map.
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