Is Africa bigger than China or not?

An image has been going around for some time, showing that Africa is bigger than China, USA, India, Japan and all of Europe combined. Indeed, Africa is 3 times bigger than China. China is the third (or fourth biggest country, depending on the definition) in the world with an area of 6.4% of the total of the world. read more

On our actual planet, Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe—combined! Scientific American just published a correctly proportioned image to show how Africa swallows up these nations, with Japan thrown in. read more

This graphic shows Africa is bigger than the land masses of the US, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece put together. read more