Fun fact: you could fit 3 USAs into 1 Africa

Or we can take what we have of Africa here and return it to sender.

Trivia: What U.S. state is closest to the continent of Africa? And, no, it's not Florida.

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Or we can take what we have of Africa here and return it to sender.

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Just think how much less violent our society would be if our forefathers had picked their own cotton...

Maine. This comes up on this board about once every 3 months.

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It's fascinating just how large a landmass the continent of Africa is.

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Even more fascinating is their lack of progress despite vast amounts of resources.

Yes because USA is a country and Africa is a continent.

Everyone understands that, and it has nothing to do with anything. Europe is a continent and smaller than the USA.

People in this thread understand that the USA is thought of as a big place and to see how small it is compared to Africa is pretty neat. Globes and maps distort their relative sizes.

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Trivia: What U.S. state is closest to the continent of Africa? And, no, it's not Florida.

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Maine.

The USA has a decent amount of desert land but the Sahara is 3.6 million square miles (~95% of the area of one USA) and there’s additional desert in South Africa and Namibia that brings the total of arid and semi-arid lands to well over 4.3 million square miles in Africa.

Contrast the US’s desert areas (mainly CA, AZ, NV, UT, & NM) of ~ 500,000 square miles.

All told, the African continent without deserts is twice as much area as the area w/out deserts of the US.

Canada is just a bit larger than the US: 3.8 million square miles. Very little technical desert land there (around Kamloops, cool place to visit)