“Is Africa Really Three Times Bigger Than America?”

Africa is far bigger than you may think. If you look at a map or globe, the continent looks pretty large compared to other land masses, but this representation is not accurate. In reality, Africa is enormous. In fact, you could fit China, India, all the states in the contiguous US, and most of Europe into the space it actually takes up. So why is Africa so small (comparatively) when displayed on a map? "The map is not the territory," Alfred Korzybski once stated when explaining how people tend to confuse models of reality for reality itself, and this expression…