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"THE WORLD IS A LOT DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEY TOLD YOU IN THE CLASSROOM."

"Greenland, for example, looks as large as Africa when, in reality, it is 14 times smaller!"
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"Scandinavian countries seem much larger than India on the map, though the latter is thrice the size of all of them put together.

Canada is only 1.2 times the size of the US, but looks much larger"
"North America seems about as large as Africa. In reality though, you can fit the whole of United States and Canada in Africa and still have room for India, Pakistan and a few other countries."
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