Reviewed true-size comparison
Russia vs Africa: True Size Comparison
Africa is about 1.8 times larger than Russia.
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Measured comparison
| Russia | 17,098,246 km² |
|---|---|
| Africa | 30,023,968 km² |
| Larger-to-smaller ratio | 1.8 to 1 |
| Absolute difference | 12,925,722 km² |
Land and inland-water territorial surface area; EEZs, maritime claims, and map-projection display area are excluded.
Context and caveats
Russia's full transcontinental area is one country value and Africa is the 54-state sum; this comparison is not a claim that all of Russia lies in Europe.
Russia’s high northern latitudes receive strong cylindrical-map enlargement, while Africa’s equatorial position makes familiar map intuition especially unreliable for this pair.
The sum covers the 54 reviewed sovereign-state Atlas records assigned to UN M49 Africa. Dependent areas and Western Sahara are outside this published-state reference set.