Western Immappancy of Africa

It's so easy to misinterpret the relative sizes of countries, particularly since our Mercator projection maps tend to distort and exaggerate the size of first world states in the northern hemisphere--this condition is dubbed "immappancy" by GUI designer Kai Krause. His image below of the true size of Africa refutes what most Westerners think about the geography of a continent that most have never actually visited, despite their many opinions.

Puts so much of the region into perspective...