Which is larger?
Africa has a mapped area of 29,820,053 km², compared with 3,155,814 km² for India. That makes Africa about 9.45× larger. Because both values come from the same map geometry and spherical calculation, the ratio is internally consistent.
Africa is not country-sized
Africa's mapped footprint is about nine and a half times India's mapped area. India is itself a very large and populous country, which makes it a useful scale reference without treating a continent and a country as equivalent political units.
This page compares geographic footprint only. It deliberately avoids combining a continental population aggregate with a single-country population value assembled under a different update schedule.
Why this page compares area only
Country population values and a multi-country regional aggregate should not be combined without a shared reference year and aggregation policy. This comparison therefore stays focused on the consistently mapped geographic footprint.
This comparison is a geographic visualization, not a statement about territorial claims. Read the methodology and data sources before reusing the figures.