[jboynyc]

The true size of Africa: http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/

The historian Marshall Hodgson referred to the Mercator projection as the "Jim Crow projection." This is why.

[cLeEOGPw]

I found my mistake. When looking at Europe for some reason I mentally subtracted first the Scandinavia and then Russia, that's why it seemed so tiny. Looking at wiki I can see Africa is only 3 times larger than Europe, which is what I would have expected.

[mxfh]

Try rotating this :) http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/#GRL