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    Europa sieht klein aus, aber sein „Umkreis“ (die Küste) ist riesig. Afrika hingegen hat eine sehr lineare Küstenlinie

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    6. lNFORMATlVE on

      Is this really true or has Africa’s coastline simply not been mapped to such a fine degree (and has then just been linearly interpolated) in readily accessible data because it is typically forgotten/ignored in a worldwide economic sense?

    13. from-the-deep-south on

      But isn’t that only because the seizure canal? Really, Africa and Europe are both incredibly hard to sail around but you have this shortcut thata was made….

      So your map is accurate but misleading because of this artificial canal

    15. ctothel on

      This is super interesting but isn’t it a bit confusing to base it on the Mercator projection?

    17. DrainZ- on

      One great feature with this map is that countries with long perimeter relative to their size being bloated up makes it more visible how jagged their shoreline is. Especially Norway.

    18. EggoSkrr on

      This has had a massive effect on trade and economy in the history of humans.

      Longer coastline means more harbours and cover, protecting societies and easier to station and protect ships for trade and navy. Linear coastlines are difficult to anchor and breach. This knock on effect is one of the reasons Europe historically prospered (at least in the post-shipbuilding era) and Africa has struggled economically. Also explains why the mass European migration to North America was easier in terms of the actual travel and why creating colonial settlements was so easy.

      Idk if it’s this black and white but certainly played a part.

    26. euclide2975 on

      On the other hand the length of any coastline can be as long as you want

      You can measure the coastline of Great Britain and get a light year

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