which enables users to place maps of countries and continents directly over other landmasses to discover how big they really are. Using this tale-of-the-tapes function, it turns out that Britain ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart ... This rifting extended southward over time, reaching northern Kenya by 25 million years ago. The rift consists ...

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa with China, India and America all fitting inside. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The continent is 30.37 million km² and covers 20 ...

But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe ... That notion finds support off Africa’s eastern coast. A mid-oceanic ridge in the Red Sea is dividing ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another commonly misplaced continent is Africa ... say they’ll be flying over the North Pole. When looking at a globe instead of a flat map, it makes sense.