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And it's crazy to think that Europe would fit into North America many times. I would like to see the NA city subways/trains added then compare them to Asia
Most of the euro side of that map, fits into texas alone. The USA has shit rails but acting like Europe has even half the distance that's needed to cover the usa like it looks in this map is dishonest.
I miss spoke, but the size of the EU vs the usa is no where near the same.
https://www.newgeography.com/content/005313-which-countries-would-fit-inside-texas
EU 1.7m sq miles USA 3.8m sq miles
Not even in the same ballpark.
Texas is about the size of France, with The Netherlands tacked on. Europe would fit east of the Mississippi, not in the second largest state.
Alaska, however, is bigger than Europe
you need to familiarize yourself with how Map projections distort the shape and size of land masses, because that's the only way i can imagine you got this idea.
it's not even close, Alaska is way smaller than Europe. go look to some actual statistics. with all of its landmass combined the United States is 0.98x the size of Europe. it's smaller, but barely. they are nearly exactly the same size if you made them both into a circle.
If you added in russia....russia doesn't count because 95% of it is baren wasteland with no rails.
please look things up to confirm before you comment.
this is not true. Russia is not included in this stat. Russia is way bigger than America on its own.
why does everyone on this website have wild misconceptions about the size of America and Europe. it goes both ways, I've had to fight Europeans that thought America was "nearly as big as eastern Europe" on here before too. why are so many people so confidently incorrect about such an easily confirmed fact???
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#%3A%7E%3Atext=Europe+covers+about+10.18+million%2Clargest+after+Asia+and+Africa.
Europe land mass absolutely includes a large chunk of russia. The land mass of the EU does not and is much smaller than the USA. When you include russias chunk it's roughly the same size of the USA.
Alaska is smaller then Europe by quite a bit.
Alaska is 1 477 300 km2
Europe is 10 180 000 km²