Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each ...

The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent is nearly 14-and-a-half times larger.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and ...