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blacksmith_tbyesterday at 11:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Africa isn't a country? There are 54 countries in Africa, and it has almost twice the area of all of North America, not just the USA [1]

1: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/continent-size-comparison/no...


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ladbergtoday at 12:18 AM

Where did the parent commenter imply Africa is a country?

EDIT: I can't read, sorry all!

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yieldcrvtoday at 12:41 AM

Sovereignty in Africa is a joke, the nation state concept shouldn’t have been applied there and the colonial work on imposing that is vestigial at best

And that’s the 99th percentile answer on that side of the bell curve

When people want to refer to a country on that continent, they do. There is little reason to refer to most countries on that continent because they are basically not separate administrative districts

Just fiefdoms that have nothing to do with the borders drawn and lots of area in between

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