Or they have been looking at Mercator projections. http://www.bestworldmap.info/wp-content/uploads/map-of-world/4/world-map.gif
Yes, I'd say that most people would look at that and guess that the US is a bit smaller than Africa. Maybe half the size. Certainly the US and China together would be at least the size of Africa and Greenland is about the same size as Africa. Judah On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Comparing continents to countries seems to me to enhance geographic > ignorance, not alleviate it. Anyone who does not know that the > CONTINENT of Africa is larger than the COUNTRY of the United States is > very poorly educated. > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Of course it is a continent. Many people, however, tend to think of it >> as being about the size of the largest countries in the world. Kai's >> map points out that the United State, China, India, UK, Japan and all >> of Europe would fit inside of Africa. Honestly, that surprised me. I >> mean, the US and China are big places. >> >> Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329114 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
