The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

Comments

1. Mia: still gets me every time, someone actually scaling it down to earth
2. Veraokafor: hard to believe it took a U.N. map for people to get geography right
3. Freya Karim: finally makes sense now, no wonder history classes were so... inaccurate

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