I'm puzzled why this one keeps popping up. I'm 34, and I had it hammered into me in geography classes that Africa was the second-largest continent, second only to Asia. And yet, people seem amazed by this.

I'm vaguely reminded of the story about a guy in NYC whose French coworkers asked him about the best directions to the Grand Canyon - they wanted to drive over to it that Saturday.

ETA: Mind, the linked projection correction is nice. I thought France, Germany, and Spain looked ridiculously large in that first one.