Really?

I learned today that Africa is large enough to fit the United States, China, India and several Ruroppean countries inside it, honestly, my brain needed a moment. I opened a map to check then started comparing borders, sizes, time zones,deserts and oddly shaped countries. One fact somehow became a geography investigation. Forty minutes later?

iwas zooming around IGoogle Maps, wondering why school maps madevthe world look completely different from reality.