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

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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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @02:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @02:34PM (#941045)

    It's broken up into three now, but there used to be a cattle station (Ranch) in Western Australia that was bigger than Texas. Literally. One farm, and it was bigger than the whole state of Texas.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @08:02PM (#941181)

    Sounds like the Wong Ranch, which occupies the entire western hemisphere of Mars, in about a thousand years.