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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

even Russia is smoll compared to Africa

[โ€“] Maco1969 19 points 10 months ago

The Mercator scale on maps makes everything equatorial look tiny compared to northern and southern latitudes.