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Re:True size of Africa by johnsonman on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:48PM (#7250352)
Wikipedia says 9.6, 9.8, and 10.0 million km^2 respectively. Do these numbers include something (e.g. water) that the numbers you quoted don't? (They also peg Russia at 17.0 million km^2)
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Re:True size of Africa by Aloisius on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:12AM (#7250732)
The numbers are land-only, but there are multiple conflicting ways of calculating it often due to land disputes. For instance, Taiwan/Tibet/etc. wrt China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_area...

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