Which country is bigger than africa

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps.

First posted in late February, the video had gained around 8.5 million views as of March 14 with just under 400,000 likes.

In the video, footage of an interactive map shows an outline of Russia, which at first appears to dominate a huge section of the map.

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However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, Russia begins to shrink.

By the time the outline of Russia is placed on the equator, it is significantly smaller than it appeared at first and is dwarfed by the continent of Africa.

The video amassed thousands of comments.

Some users expressed surprise or confusion that the true scale of countries, as illustrated by most world maps, is incorrect. One person asked: "Why did it get way smaller?"

Many other users expressed shock that others were unaware that most world maps do not accurately portray the size of countries.

As one TikTok user noted: "It amazes me how many peo

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