Coastline

"Only a little over eighty million kilometers—this really was somewhat unexpected. It seemed the visual distortion had indeed been quite significant." Ernst looked at the newly recalibrated East African coastline and muttered to himself.

He had not noticed it before, but now Ernst thoroughly understood the geographical gap between East Africa and those maritime powers.

Just comparing it with the future Far East Empire's coastline made East Africa's disadvantage obvious at a glance. Before this, because East Africa's coastline had been incomplete, Ernst had not noticed this issue.

There was no doubt that, if only its mainland was counted, East Africa was a nation spanning two oceans. On a globe, East Africa's coastline should have appeared longer than that of most countries in the world, yet that was not actually the case.

For instance, the Far East Empire was a typical Pacific nation. The straight-line span between its northern and southern seaports—counting only the mainland and excluding Outer Northeast—was roughly 2,600 kilometers, from Jinzhou to Xuwen Port.

Yet the distance from Mogadishu, East Africa's northernmost port city, to New Hamburg City (Richard Port), its southernmost port, exceeded 3,700 kilometers.

However, the Far East Empire's mainland coastline directly exceeded 18,000 kilometers, while East Africa's Indian Ocean coastline was only around 5,000 kilometers. Even adding Angola and Southwest Africa (Namibia)—that is, East Africa's West Coast—East Africa's coastline was only a little over 8,000 kilometers long.

In other words, despite possessing the coasts of two great oceans, East Africa's actual coastline was not even half as long as that of the Far East Empire, which faced only the Pacific.

This also showed that East Africa's coastline was overly straight and lacked fine natural harbors. In this regard, it resembled India. India faced the sea on two sides—or arguably three—yet its coastline was also