Yeah, not to walk on Sly's point, Africa is Big! But showing just the lower 48 doesn't really give the proper sense of the size of the US. From Cape Blanco on the south coast here (the furtherest point west in the 48) to the Eastern Maine boarder is about 2426 nautical miles, but the most western part of Alaska to the Maine board is damn near twice that far. From the western edge of Africa to the east of Oman, damn near to India
In looking at the width of Africa leads me to think that the hypotheses put forth in Guns Germs and Steel is some what suspect. Africa is just as accessible to take advantage of the combined east west orientation of Africa - Asia as is Europe - Asia. Didn't happen. But that is the reason why Europeans have been successful, according to Guns Germs and Steel's author, uber liberal Jared Diamond.
Though it doesn't really help Africa's case that most of the east/west area up north is a giant desert.
Algeria 38,295,000 Chad 12,948,000 Egypt 84,605,000 Ethiopia 86,614,000 Mali 16,678,000 Mauritania 3,461,000 Morocco 32,950,000 Niger 17,493,000 Sudan 35,150,000 Tunisia 10,889,000 More than 300 million people live in that North part. I guess the desert didn't slow down everything.
The ones in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia do. I forgot Libya in the list. Most of the People in Eygpt live along the Nile River. Nearly half live in a country without a coast line. Libya 6,323,000
nowhere in your rambling, incoherent message did you resemble even the slightest mention of PA. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
Russia doesn't fit in the length of Africa, forget about the breath. It flummoxed Sly, so he move on.
