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skew-aberrationtoday at 6:29 AM1 replyview on HN

Continents are in truesizeof btw. Asia is much bigger than Africa, North America is only a little smaller. When you account for the Sahara Desert of course, there is more usable land in North America.


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structwafeltoday at 7:46 AM

https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/b35... Figure 10 shows that Africa has more Arable land than North America.

And I wouldn't call 29.6 <> 21.3 a little smaller, Africa is 39% bigger than North America.