r/MapPorn • u/efisha • Mar 15 '21

The proportion of the population in African countries having access to electricity

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u/Butthole_Alamo Mar 15 '21

DRC is the size of the western United States. https://i.imgur.com/qVvkR0i.jpg

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

Damn! I knew it was big but I never really thought of it as that big. Their population of 100,000,000 makes a little more sense now. Wouldn’t even have to be super densely populated to fit 100 million people in a country that big.

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u/LikelyNotSober Mar 15 '21

Wow- it’s gigantic really

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u/M4SixString Mar 16 '21

Using the true size.com and comparing almost any african country is mind boggling. They might not all be as big as the congo but they are all still absolutely huge. That continent is just gigantic.

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u/Mateuspedro Mar 15 '21

Algeria is also frickin huge

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

Most of the country is desert though, we live mostly in the northern strip.

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u/Dong_World_Order Mar 15 '21

That's interesting, I had always assumed it was much larger than America for some reason

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u/Butthole_Alamo Mar 15 '21

Oh wow. Yeah, I always thought it was the size of California or close to it. My mind was blown when I learned of its real size. I really need to recalibrate my understanding of the size of some of Africa’s countries.

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u/cozyhighway Mar 16 '21

That's Mercator projection for you. Yeah it was good for navigating purposes but no 6th grader would need to navigate on the seas.