Africa's True Size : African Union called on Friday August 15, 2025, for adoption of world map that shows continent's true size instead of the 16th-century Mercator map that minimized the map of the African continent. The African continent is 30.4 million square km². The US is 9.8m km² , Russia is 17.1m km², China is 9.6m km², Europe is 4.9m km², India is 3.3m km². And as we see in the picture below, the US, China, India and most of Europe can fit inside the African continent. But when we look at the current world map, the US, China and even the Greenland look bigger than Africa!!! The million dollar question is: What is the reason Africa is shown smaller than its actual size on the world map? - Tamboura Tamson #Africa #AfricanUnion #AfricanMap #WorldMap #MercatorProjection