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Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief

posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:05AM   
from the let's-measure dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

Here is the image under discussion.

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• Re:Occupied territory (Score: 3, Interesting) by kazzie on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:28AM

  by kazzie (5309) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @10:28AM (#940989)

  Lastly, maybe the other colonial masters were better but it's kinda funny that the British can have the cheek to start something called the "Commonwealth Games" AND many of their ex-colonies actually bother to participate...

  Technically they invented the "Empire Games", and later changed its name when they didn't have an empire any more!

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