30 Countries Compared To The United States With A Real Scale Perspective

A LOT bigger than I thought

Does this mean platypus supplies will be available in petsmart now?

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Haha! Point out where Melbourne is on the map without looking it up! By the way, it is the third largest Greek city in the world, based on the size of its large Greek community.

The caption tho 😂

New Zealand is also quite a bit larger than what I had in my head. Lovely country, with real leadership.

To think it use to be one connected island but they made a canal for migrating sea otters

Not shown is that the upper-west coast of the South Island is national park, so no people OR sheep there. Most of us humans live in Auckland or Wellington and most of the sheep are in the central North Island.

Sweet Bro

My husband and I had considered moving there, and I had it pictured as just a small series of islands. Boy was I wrong!

My desk map of the world suggests Russia is 4 times larger than the US. Strange.

Visual proportions are way off... Screenshot...4da23a.png

Huuuuge, or yuge (help to ...)

Just think if only half of that land wasn't a frozen turd..

Kind of looks like a galloping horse to me.

I had no idea Brazil was this huge

@TheExtremeSmell I think it was for a reason with God... He said it himself when the world did only speak one language and tried to build a latter to heaven they failed and he gave the world different languages so we could be separated so it wouldn't happen again... Jus terrible how certain countries and races feel superior over others and take advantage..

That's my home country. She's big and beautiful for sure.

Brazil kind of looks like the digestive system of a lady who's 9 months pregnant

I thought it was a LOT bigger than it is. Apparently the maps we use have distorted all our mental pictures to an appalling extent.

About one third the size, if you include Alaska, but almost quadruple the population!

I had no idea Australia was bigger than India.

Google maps switch to 3D view and a spheric world when the distortion wouldn't be good ;)

Dang I thought india was twice as big. Weird

And a great clip from The West Wing explains it well: https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY

Yes, we're tiny and beautiful :-)

Once got in an argument with a woman living in Belgium who called all our U.S. government officials morons because we hadn't eradicated rabies in the United States. That we should follow their lead by dropping pieces of meat with the vaccine injected in them by helicopter. Couldn't get her to understand that was impossible and she just kept calling us idiots. Really made me not want to ever visit such a place.

Belgium 🇧🇪 is lovely, particularly Bruges. Everyone should go visit.

Such good waffles

Ghent, not Gent. A gent is a polite British bloke.

Interesting to include Taipei here. Quite a political statement! I guess the taiwanese government will see this differently...

Why is Tibet included? They do not consider they Chinese themselves...

I love these what do you see pictures. It looks like a guinea pig with a dragon head coming out of its back

If you were to add Alaska & Hawaii on the land tally The US clinches this one.