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Which is larger? Yours, or mine? Australia or the United States of America, that is. With the bushfires in Australia out of control incinerating large swathes of the country a map was produced to visually depict how widespread the fires are. For emphasis the map was overlaid on top of America to give people an idea of the scope of the problem Australia is dealing with. Americans responded with disbelief that Australia was just as large as the USA. People were also in shock over how large an area, measured by size of US states, are currently burning. Responses on social media show how shocked and dumbfounded people were learning this.
- Area of Australia = 7.692 million km2
- Area of USA, excluding Alaska = 7.653 million km2
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Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @08:37AM (1 child)
good to hear that canada was returned to the native americans then. and brazil. and mexico. and chile and argentina. and the other ones (no, I never liked learning stuff by heart, so I don't know all of the countries in the Americas).
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:43PM
Large swathes of Canadian territory effectively remain in native hands today. Large chunks of the BC interior. Lower Alberta from Lethbridge all the way east to Kenora, ON, are heavily native. Regina, Saskatchewan, is full of native influence. The Maritimes, too, are quite dominated by MicMacs and others. Non-native Canadians are clustered in a handful of places like Calgary and Toronto. White Canadians were not the robust, aggressive colonizers Americans were and did not displace the Indians wholesale (or like the Australians, who brutally removed the aborigines). The country today feels a lot more like New Zealand in the detente reached with prior inhabitants.
Washington DC delenda est.