Cool graphic to show just how large Africa really is:

[okaawhatever]

[hlthe2b]

1. That is cool.... It really drives home the point

(though for the Sarah Palins of the world, who think Africa is a country, there may be little hope)

[progressoid]

2. That aint right. Murica is the biggest bestest in the wurld.

[central scrutinizer]

5. That's why we always use the Muricator projection on our maps

nfm

[Name Unpronounceable]

18. This is obviously a Marxist Socialist Communist

map made up by a LIEberal.

[treestar]

3. That is great

It's always helpful to see something like that.

[Jamaal510]

4. K&R

[Scuba]

6. Cool graphic to show just how we see Africa:

Thanks for the other graphic okaawhatever. Much appreciated.

[TBF]

10. ^^ This ^^ nt

[Scuba]

19. Go Bucky!

[Walk away]

25. But we'll be back to Frack! nt

[bvar22]

37. Huge continent, with vast "unmined" resources.

That is WHY the IMF jumped on the the chance to piggy-back on the legitimate Arab Spring uprisings
to "remove" Gaddafi.
He was a major road block between the Global Banks and the Global Resource Extraction Corporations
and the riches of North Africa.

” For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

[oldandhappy]

7. wow

Big chunks of the world. Africa's time is coming, but not yet. Wish I could be here for it.

[fascisthunter]

8. Where'd you Get That from?

[okaawhatever]

15. A twitter feed. Did you want to post it elsewhere? nt

[fascisthunter]

23. Yeah!

[okaawhatever]

26. Go to the pic. Right click. Click on Copy Image URL. Paste wherever you want it. The pic won't show

at first. You usually have to refresh to see it come up in picture/graphic form. Here on DU if you paste a pic you can click preview and it will show the pic/graphic if you did it right.

[fascisthunter]

27. Ok, Thanks!

[kentauros]

9. "What fits into Russia"

[Motown_Johnny]

11. HELP! Germany Is Crushing Me! n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

12. !!!

[Ilsa]

13. I don't see Alaska and Hawaii.

It isn't the US without the last two states.

[Vashta Nerada]

14. I didn't know there was a country called "China Part 2".

[okaawhatever]

16. Well, China calls it Taiwan. lolz nt

[underpants]

17. That's one big country

just kidding of course

[NYC_SKP]

20. K/R and *****FIVE additional ways to look at the continent of Africa*****:

Last edited Wed Apr 2, 2014, 08:31 PM - Edit history (2)

1. Infant Mortality:



2. Human Poverty:



3. Life Expectancy:



4. Female Life Expectancy:



5. And, finally, National Income:



Feel free to share.

Credit to http://www.worldmapper.org

[cyberswede]

21. National Income: oh.my.god.

That is amazing.

[NYC_SKP]

22. It's utterly shocking, as is the female life expectancy vs life expectancy for all.

WTH is going on with that?!

Typically, women outlive men.

FUCK!

[dsc]

24. my guess

child birth (women dying during) and sex selection both pre and post birth. I would be pretty sure of the first and somewhat sure of the second.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. A baby girl is more likely to be killed as males are considered to be more valuable.

[mathematic]

38. Women outlive men in africa too.

You're reading the graphic wrong.

http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/EN_WHS2013_Part3.pdf?ua=1

[NYC_SKP]

31. There are plenty more. Carbon Emissions:

[Scootaloo]

29. Another interesting one...

[NYC_SKP]

32. Cool, though it would be more cool if they'd left out the Prime Meridian.

AKA the Greenwich Meridian AKA 0 degrees latitude, which runs through the Royal Observatory in England, among the most notorious colonists.

About the map:

Cyon drew these boundaries based on a study of political and tribal units in 1844, the eve of Europe’s “scramble for Africa.” He oriented it with south at the top to subvert the traditional Europe-on-top orientation.’ Be sure to check out the dozens of other maps compiled by the Washington Post‘s Max Fisher.

http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2014/01/25/this-weeks-top-picks-in-imperial-global-history-4/

[Scootaloo]

33. Well, longitude is completely arbitrary

If you're going to measure it, you have to start somewhere, though, there has to be a "zero" point. Might as well be Greenwich just as easily as it might as well not, really.

[NYC_SKP]

35. It's location is Anglocentric, while the map purports to be Afrocentric.

Was my point. Who creates the system gets to name where point zero is, this is true.

[Nye Bevan]

34. Yes. I refer to it as the "fuck colonialism meridian".

Anyone who refers to it as the Greenwich meridian is probably a racist.

[cemaphonic]

36. I've seen this one discussed before on a map forum.

It has some odd ahistorical (for the 19th Century) aspects to it, such as the re-Reconquista in Iberia and Sicily. Also, I don't think that Songhai was anywhere near that big by then.

Still a neat map.

[malaise]

30. That's why everyone wants a piece

It's a magnificent continent.

[Flying Squirrel]

39. It should totally be worth more than 3 armies in Risk.