Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent ... The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland. The country appears to be about the same size as Africa, however, the continent is nearly ...