Geographical facts that surprise you (schedule, nonstop, airline)

[bruhms]

Africa is bigger than half of the world.

[smool]

^erm....

[bruhms]

Look it up.

[ABQConvict]

The Earth has a total surface area of 196.9 million square miles (510.1 million sq. km).

The terrestrial surface area of the Earth is 57.2 million square miles (148 million sq. km).

Africa has a surface area of 11.6 square million miles (30.22 million sq. km).

Unless you have some defintion of 'world' that I have not considered, I think you may be mistaken.

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by bruhms

Look it up.

Africa's landmass (20.4% of the world) is nearly 10% smaller than Asia

[bruhms]

You cannot simply measure length like that on a sphere.

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Originally Posted by bruhms

Africa is bigger than half of the world.

Originally Posted by bruhms

You cannot simply measure length like that on a sphere.

[viribusunitis]

Originally Posted by bruhms

You cannot simply measure length like that on a sphere.

Oh dear...

[LINative]

Originally Posted by bruhms

Africa is bigger than half of the world.

Something is wrong.

If Africa is bigger then half the world and Asia is larger then Africa..... well things don't quite add up!

[tarzan_taborda]

Rome is closer to Riga than to Lisbon.