I had this knowledge lurking in my lizard brain from sometime back, but had totally forgotten about it until this landed on my desk yesterday. Completely mind-boggling really.

The True Size of Africa offers up a real representation of the incredible size of the continent, away from all the distorted maps which make it look smaller than Europe. It ain’t. Absolutely amazing.

Madagascar almost the same size as the U.K.? Wow. Anyhoo, here it is in video format too if you are preferring the moving pictures, sahib.