THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA? Americn Couple Reacts "Why Africa's Map Is Drawn Wrong?"
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- American Couple Reacts "The True Size of Africa | Why Africa's Map Is Drawn Wrong Relative To Its Size" | The Demouchets REACT
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Yes, it's already been proven how big my motherland is!!!! Extremely proud to be African, East African, Uganda, to be exact!
🇰🇪🇰🇪❤kenya here
Rwanda 🇷🇼🇷🇼❤
Because of its unique and beautiful shape, Africa is the ONLY continent who’s image is used everywhere by its descendants to display everything from love for it to arts.
Very true
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So true I have African rings and earrings
@@michellemirembe6057 yup it is the only continent whose image can be used like that. I say try to curve out any other continent to display/wear and see how that turns out 😃, yup only Africa’ has the right curves like it’s daughters. Coincidentally, Africans are the most socially creative of all humanity; arts, appearance, rhythm, speach…
So true
3:02 I'm so proud of you guys you made it your mission to focus on Africa. I know you have videos of other countries of other parts of the world but you've made your focus Africa. That means a lot to every person of African descent around the world.🔥🔥👍🏾props.
Africa's shape is very nice and cute... that's why it makes a good tattoo and also a good necklace pendant...
Africa's shape could be a curse.God has serious questions/misgivings about it that's why it is shaped like a question mark.
@@pietrojenkins6901 You are mad
Are you ok 😂😂😂😂
This is what happens when your Enemies define you. You get belittled and disrespected. LITERALLY !
It makes sense how 1 African country can have 50-100 different ethnicities and tribes because our continent is HUGE! I’d like to know the size comparison to Asia now excluding the Middle East.
Both combined they are still small , asia is not big it has so many islands merged as asia even if they are not!…
Proud to be born on this continent.
5:08 The expression on your wife's face was priceless. She knows. Africa has so much and should not be listed as the poorest continent. So much potential.
Why and it's poorest?
@@rihannaajie3866 because USA, EU and China own all the natural resources in the main countries like Nigeria and South Africa.
If they didn't those two countries would probably be way richer than the UAE and Saudi
Africa looks like an African woman's face in profile looking to where the sun rises, towards the future. Our motherland is a mother🥰. Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.
Africa's map shape or drawing is the most recognizable shape in the world
Yes! way more recognizable than a circle or the square .
Her smile when he said Africa is the Mother continent (9min) 🤣🤣. Love your content guys. Thank you for the representation.
The thing is that you cannot properly depict the true size of landmasses on a 2D map.
Landmasses near the poles are automatically stretched and appear larger than it is.
Africa being more over the « middle » it appears smaller than it actually is.
Fun fact, you can almost fit 2 Russia in Africa
This! It is really hard to flatten a globe without any distortion.
One concern would be how come the distortions mainly benefit the perception of the size of the northern hemisphere, for example and not Africa
So the point they are trying to make is that from being portrait on a map it looks smaller compared to the others
@@bradleylefika9209 oh I totally agree with you. Just thought that it was important to point out that the Globe Vs. Map representation of landmasses is geometrically tricky 🙃
But yeah the (mostly European) superiority complex did biais the size of Africa on maps.
Exactly thank you for that 🙏
Im South African, from the Southern part of the continent 🌍
A flight from Kenya or Ethiopia, on the east coast, takes ten hours to get to Senegal on the west coast. It takes the same length if time to fly from South Africa to the Uk or Germany.
That’s actually true. I flew from SA to Germany thinking it was gonna be an exhausting trip estimated 12 plus hours and little did I know Europe is close by 😂
Wowww
@Mac Dee Time wise we are an hour apart.
@@macdee150 you to to sleep and wake up in Germany😁
The fascination and love you have for Africa, makes me fall in love with you guys all over again. Keep up the good work and thank you!
Have you ever noticed, if you take an elephant head picture hide/ cover 1 side/half of it's face, you can see the map of Africa 👌
I just want to point out that there is no conspiracy behind this. It is also not a secret or a new discovery like the video claims. The maps you see today are drawn using Mercato projection. This projection makes continent in the center (equator) appear smaller in size than it actually is. That is why Globe is more accurate than map. Yes, Africa is massive.
A perfect example is comparing Florida and Ghana on a map, Ghana is bigger yet Florida looks huge
Hi guys, it's strange that I come across your Chanel, had a dream 3 times of being shown African map way bigger than than what I learned from school, I've been searching for maps from 1500 to 1814, I like to hear from you about what you just showed. Thanks for the great service to the continent.
Awesome video guys! And I love how there's little commentary for viewers to draw their own inferences. Nice one!👍🏾
6:47 My family is from Somalia, which is located in a region called the Horn of Africa. If you tilt your head when looking at the shape of Africa then you can see how it got that name. It actually looks like a rhinoceros with a horn or something lol. About the size of Africa... I've always been interested about this topic. One thing that surprised me is when I used a website that tries to depict countries as they really are called True Size Of and Somalia turned out to be the same size as almost the entire East Coast of the United States! Whereas maps always portrayed it as being roughly the same size as Florida =o
What's the name of the site?
@@marangponto9560 it's out there. Google it.
Horn of Africa
This is why people get annoyed when we hear AA's saying AFRICA as if its this one small island.
No 1 African person knows the whole continent no matter how well travelled you are u well never know and master the whole continent with 2000 different languages.
Africans are so innately creative we keep reproducing and recreating diversity every now and then. Example Im a 4th generation Zulu born and raised in Joburg and just recently moved to Durban the heart of KwaZuluNatal a province the sad thing is my accent lingo language is so different you might as well say Im from another country just 400 mile shift is worlds apart imagine a 4000 mile shift.
Though we anthropologicaly and culturally similar we are worlds apart. Its on of those crazy things about the continent. Its whole different world.
What's even worse is the lack of infrastructural development between us even makes us more diverse as we do not connect easily with each other further diversifying our cultures.
to top it all off most of what you would hear and know about South African urban culture would be based on the smallest province called Gauteng which hosts Joburg.
South Africans are so diverse one tribe can produce tens of diverse cultures. Theres different urban cultures and musical genres based on which side of city you are in and with township on the side of the city. In other words each side of one city can produce a number of genres of music and this goes for each and every city.
Then theres diversity in rural culture each province produces tens of different culture accents and dialect so diverse that people will even class each other based on accents and culture EG a Zulu from Umsinga is different in behaviour and outlook from a Zulu from Ulundi and Umlazi and this is one province Imagine a Zulu from Joburg (another province) not to mension another complete different tribe. Zulus in KZN (KwaZulu Natal) dont even believe Gauteng Zulus are Zulus let alone Zimbabwean Zulus called Ndebeles and their Ndebele is totaly different from the Ndebele in South Africa yet more Similar to isiZulu from KZN. Its a great mess.
It gets hecting considering theres 54 countries with even worse (or better) dynamics EG NIgeria is 4000 miles from South Africa with 300 languages they dont even undertand each others languages.
I remeber 1 day I asked a Nigerian lyrics to a Nigerian Song and the way he responded body language an all was as good as asking an African American. He was like I dont understand this language waving his hands across each other shaking his head as if to say "I dont even want to start. :)))
That was a mouthful, but worth the read. In summary Africa is complex :-)
Thank you ,and sending my love from South Africa
at 8:09 the name of Africa was Ethiopia
Love you guys. Your contents are always educative.❤️
Thank you so much for highlighting the African continent and also for your love which genuinely shows on you guys . Keep up showcasing this great content. Love you loads. Best regards from 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Much love!
Thanks for educating the world yet again...
Because the earth is round. Only possible accurate depiction of the earth is a globe. Every flat map has distortions not just for Africa but every continent. We use the mercater which heavile expands the far north and south around the poles and africa just happens to be on the equator. So as long as you can remember antarctica and greenland/canada/russia/scandinavia are exaggerated you’ll be fine
True. I also mentioned something similar in my comment. No matter how you try to do it, you'll always end up with some kind of distortion.
Yes Africa has a youthful population, which places them on the path to greatness. Unlike the world's population who seems to have an ageing population
A large number of young people or just few old people. When there is poverty and hunger and viruses and other diseases then you won't live to be old.
Everytime I witness people understand this reality I'm amazed. I understood this fact when I was in the third grade in grammar school 1958. It was obvious to me as a child that the sizes of land masses were exaggerated. Better late than never.
Great African content. Proud of you guys
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It’s time for us Africans to draw our own Map
Family I'm glad you know why you are godess on this earth ❤️🌍 proudly African sister... I can't wait for you family to visit the continent and show your beautiful children who they really are much love.. 🌍
This is something that has been discussed frequently over at least the last 20 years. The maps have been drawn the way they are for the purpose of influencing others to believe in European superiority. The orientation of the map is also known to be upside down as well. Even Greenland is often depicted much larger than its true size.
You're mistaken about why maps contain distortion, and in your assumption that the distortion varies with Eurocentrism, ethnicity or any other arbitrary bias. In fact, the distortion is symmetrical North-to-South, and varies exclusively with distance from the equator. That's why Greenland is outsized compared to Great Britain, and why Botswana is disproportionally large as compared to Kenya.
Other schools of thought also says the reason why AFRICA size was reduced is to make the measurement easy
Colonization of (Alkabulan) Africa Map 1910. The scramble for Africa hand drawn Map.
The rooooooots Africa... let's gooooooo... proud to be here.... even me I'm learning some of this things in this videos...one ❤
We knew and we do have the understanding of that!
In Grade 6 my History teacher told us that Africa is the largest Continent with the largest population.
The Demouchets, on your free time try to watch the video titled “Africa 4k-scenic relaxation film with calming music” .. never seen Africa like that before
It's all geopolitics. You should check out Luispot. He goes into more detail as to why Africa is made to appear smaller on maps, and other countries are made to appear bigger. Before that video, I didn't even know Africa was that big, and I'm from her.
true talk.
It is not geopolitics . It has nothing to with Africa specifically. It is just part of the math of projecting a 3D sphere on a 2D plane . It is a Mercator projection .
Areas closer to the equator look smaller than in reality and areas closer to the poles look larger than in reality. A projection from 3D to 2D is not going to be perfect and will sacrifice some information. There’s many different projections you can google This projection is used because it preserves angles and can be used to navigate . But it does not preserve size .
Exactly My thought,I projected France and Spain including Germany to be bigger than Nigeria on the map but I'm it real sense Nigeria is bigger than they all
It’s not geopolitics it’s literally map distortion on a globe earth. Why do you think Antartica and Greenland look so big when they’re not?
Solid intro
Wow nice one, I'm proud to be a Nigerian Africa.from Milan.
Fun fact for you guys. The African elephant has the same shaped ears as our beautiful continent.
When I was young at school the only way I could remember how to draw this map for my exams is the imaginary I had in my mind,looking like a face with the mouth wide opened like the continent is crying out or screaming till today that's what I see!!
Africa is motherland
My dad use to teach at Uni in the 60's...and since I was like 5 years old (yup he taught all 9 of us to read by the time we were 5 years old 🤦🏾♀️😅, when your dad is a teacher 🤷🏽♀️), he told us for example the size of DRC Congo, compared to Belgium. Yep, that's when we started wondering just how bug Africa is 🤔
Main reason why i watch this channel bcz I get to learn more about my own continent
Welcome to Africa
I love Africa❤
This makes me love my continent more
Wow I love this
Hi guys great content. Wow and wow I'm so shocked to learn at 50 yrs the my beloved Africa is 14times as big as it's shown on a map. 😮 I feel cheated.
4:13 very true, can't agree more.
There is a NEW TOMORROW my AFRICAN DREAM.
The reason mercator map was used it to navigate the sea.
To us in Africa we know.
I truly respect and cherish the contents of this channel……i personally change the name of it…to ….FOCUS ON AFRICA….😂❤…keep it up…yu are doing a tremendous job on introducing THE MOTHERLAND to the globe…respect and much luv from MALAWI….Africa…please react to my young nation of MALAWI….PLEASE…PLEASE….PLEASE…PLEASE🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Greenland ( 836,300 sq miles ) is depicted much closer to the size of Africa which is about 14 times bigger (11.7 million sq miles) than Greenland.
That is really educational. Thanks, guys, for your focus on the motherland. We have a population of 1.3 billion; it's no joke. Africa is the richest of all the seven continents in terms of mineral resources (which other continents need to advance technologically and more). Yet, the poorest in terms of GDP - it's not really adding up. The reason is not far-fetched - the continent is being raped every now and then. That is why we need a unified front - a United Countries of Africa (UCA). Let's draw our own map and make our own things, too, so that others will not determine our fate, anymore.
Not entirely. There's also the fact that it's difficult to flatten out a globe without any distortion.
@@arnitaxavier9446 One has to always wonder why the distortions do not end up making Africa appear bigger, but consistently smaller
@C & S One doesn't need to wonder cause even if you look at the size of Antartica on most maps, you'd see it's also distorted given it's just a little bigger than Australia or the USA.
It really does bother me when people try to imply something nefarious regarding this subject when it's not that hard to explain. If you truly want a good representation of the world, you're best looking at a globe, not a flat map. You'll rarely ever get an accurate flat representation of the world as the planet isn't flat.
It's not that Africa is bigger, it's that other countries are smaller when represented on the Mercator projection.
Check this.
If my country Nigeria has population of over 220m people and imagine the land mask we occupy.
I have always said they are lying about something
Africa is where the world started
Africa is the biggest continent of all time 😊
The current Africa map 🌍 is a drawing of a gun when turned to the left side, with Nigeria being the trigger. Look at it again
Guns are not good!
This is because you can't draw a spherical globe on a plane paper.
The farther you go away from the equator, the bigger it gets from it's actual size
Funny how many people dont knoè this... i laughed so hard watching one of Bill Gates most recent video trying to potray as of most of us Africans only have an average farmland less than the size of a bedroom .. the lies they formed over generation are falling so hard so fast
The sizes of the continents are relative to how it's viewed. For starters the map of the world is still drawn on the round nature of the earth. So depending on the projection of the drawing Africa or the lower parts of map is obscured based on the fact that the view is projected from the upper part.. Here's an example. If you put different stickers on a ball.. If your interests of view is the top orr upper parts of the ball you don't see much of the sticker on the lower part. You will clearly see all the stickers on the upper part.. Thats exactly what the west wants us to see. To see more of Europe and the upper continents and less of the lower continents..
As well every single continent has an Unique shape, come on people.
Wow
If we suppliers of raw material since..1650s and in 2023 we are still the leading continent in raw material that says a lot about how "big" other countries are.
Hope you also understand that when other people say Africa is overpopulated, it's a false narrative, we are neither poor nor overpopulated, just mismanaged
Here is the Pride we, Afrikans, need. When you are not proud of your Motherland, how do you advance her!?
I'm just saying it again, your hair is nice!
y'all should watch the video by, Jane Elliot that depicts how the world map was distorted.
U can get African earrings, rings, we all own a jewelry pice with the African map
Can you please check out the problem with Africa's border by atlas pro
We'll research first.
Africa is big, however when u take flights from various African countries, from one country to another, you will then realize that some continent are bigger in size due to the flight time from one country to another which may represent a city to another in different continent.
How many times did you guys practice to say the intro simultaneously? 😂😂😅
Looks like an elephant's ear and it is unique. Proud african🇰🇪❤
the shape of Africa is not by accident, when you look at it very well it look more like human skull viewed from the side, and indication of cradle of mankind
Hmmm that's something to think about!
Tropics of Cancer, Capricorn and Equator all run through Africa!
Question every thing u taken for granted before
Africans should are up to establish the real size of their homeland instead of leaving it to outsiders!!!!
Peter's Projection Map one of the most accurate world maps. See youtube vids about it. You can get it on Amazon.BTW before the construction of the Suez Canal, the so called Middle East was actually Northeast Africa. Check out the Documentary North East Africa the Hidden truth on youtube. Cheers!
Africans love to give birth. It is a blessing for us.
Not really, it leads to overpopulation, dependent women and poverty. Obviously, this does not relate to Africa alone, but everywhere where large families are the norm.
@@rmyikzelf5604 alright!
God bless our motherland Africa. The only Continent created for humanity, vegetation, wildlife, fauna and many more Africans are warm hearted people. Black people are unique and blessed. Well come to mother Africa with love from❤❤💃💃🇳🇦🇳🇦
This makes me so proud to see just how large our land could be (by saying our I'm including all black people around the world)
can u guys do an american couple of world cup (soccer) ? its rare to see americans that are into soccer
In fairness, most countries are not properly sized on the globe or maps. There are more accurate maps, but people do not believe it because it looks so drastically different that people do not want to accept something that radical. Google most accurate world maps to date and you will see them.
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Hahaha dead by "just because Africans have more babies" but it's true though 🤣🤣🤣
Funny and true🤣🤣🤣
Asians have even more but are nowhere as hated as Africans.
We have more babies, but our population is not even 20% of the global population, despite having the largest land mass. However it would be more pragmatic to create more opportunities for our people while conserving our environment as much as possible. I'm sure we can balance both to leave the land protected the way our ancestors expect of us.
You can take satellite images at same altitude at different angles but around 90 degree. Medium age in Africa is lower than global average because of low lifespan. With improved standard of living there will be more people that will spur more economic growth - just like China has done
God's home💯
Well to be fair no map is drawn to scale, it says that on any map you look at, have anyone seen the size of Antarctica ? Also if you go by the 7 continents rule then yes Africa is the second but some are thought The Americas are one continent which would be bigger than Africa, others are even thought that Eurasia is one continent as well and I’ve even read of Europe, Africa and Asia as one. It’s very difficult to two dimension a 3D globe. Easier said than done but informative, never actually looked up the actual size of Africa until now.
My Dear. If we can not tall our hoistry somebody have to..am happy we no
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If you see the different projections in the video, you see almost no change in Africa, so technically Africa is the only continent that's presented about right and the more north or south you go the more the map will be warped (blown up). But this is all common school knowledge, nothing new. We had a globe in school for that reason. Of course the Africans never draw a map of Africa, they didn't had the means or technology (big ships to sail around the continent) to do that. And of course the first maps where off, try sailing around a continent the size of Africa with primitive navigation tools and draw an accurate map, people have no idea what a challenge that is. All the maps of the interior of Afrika are more recent, because Europeans couldn't really enter the continent itself before the invention of modern medicine, it was just too dangerous and deadly. Before 1800 Europeans just roamed around the coastlines.
As an AFRICAN I once asked a tourist why they had to jet to Europe to come to Africa in the 90s and he said that the US goverment then had told them Africa is way too far. This to me was to ensure there was air traffic btwn US and EU for them to capitalise. What's shocking is that the dust from the Sahara desert actually reaches Newyork. There was a time there was an outbreak of Ebola in west Africa l can't rem presicely when, so I was jetting to Europe and then the airhostess says we have to go through some test to clear us in. I laughed knowing we were from Kenya are wayyyyy far, the guys in London are actually closer to Liberia than we Kenyans are! We should be checking you!
Africa's shape is that of a Gun and it's trigger position is the Igbo-land located in the south eastern Nigeria, Nostradamus prophecy almost 600 years ago about a small country located in a trigger of a Gun, and the world have been ignoring Biafra as a sovereign State because of this fear
Guns are not good!
6:54 For me Africa's shape looks like a rhino's head with Somalia being the horn of the rhino. Maybe that is why it's called the horn of Africa 🤷.