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leeoniya on Aug 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps

pardon me, but where's Alaska?

they list 9.629M for USA, Google says 9.827M. Alaska, according to Google = 1.718M.

WAT?

pacala on Aug 16, 2013 [–]

Where is Canada? If we are to count huge landmasses hostile to human habitation, here we are:

Sahara desert: 3.629 million sq miles (9.4 million km²) Canada: 3.855 million sq miles (9.985 million km²)

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