Size of contiguous United States Not counting Alaska & Hawaii, the 48 contiguous states occupy a combined area of 3.12 million sq. mi. While Australia is 2.99 million sq miles - I never realized they were so close in size!

This one looks rather impressive.

I don't get why the map was done so inaccuratelly? can somone explain?

We do not have kangaroos and koala beers over here, though. :( (And, well, also no giant spiders.)

The map of the earth is a 2 d representation of a 3 d object, that's why the size is different, because the map is distorted.

Wow!

This one looks quite surprising!

Nope. The width of South America at its widest point is 2,705 miles (4,353 km), The width of Canada at its widest point is 5,780 miles (9,306 km).

But California has SUN!

Russia ~17100k sq.km China ~ 9600k sq.km

Now it even contradicts the very first picture...

It all has to do with putting a round object onto a flat, rectangular presentation. Locations near the poles get stretched and distorted, appearing much larger. The point of the map is that IF Japan was in that particular geographic location (closer to the North Pole), it would look much larger when transcribed onto a flat map.

And with global warming, this is rather alarming . . .

Wholly Molley! No wonder I get so many customer service agents in India.... that is one HUGE country.

but 2/3rds of Canada is uninhabitable because it's in the f-ing article circle.

Except Quebec is not covered in ocean and you have the upper half of Canada transposed over Canada.

Funny this should be mentioned; Look at the actual map of the world: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h149v85z Look at the size of Australia in comparison to other land masses. Look at where *Antarctica* is because it's not where we are generally told it is. This also happens to be the same map the U.N uses. This is the actual earth map, and surprise surprise, there is no globe. You live on a flat plane. Even the guy who creates the pictures of earth at NASA admits that beautiful ball we see in pictures, is nothing more than a picture https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/RSimmon.html His very words on the NASA website: "Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space" There you go folks

Ok, so I no longer trust a single picture in this article after this one. Now Canada is similar to the USA, when the first picture shows the USA being about the same as Australia, and another picture shows Australia as quite a bit smaller than Canada. Calling BS on this whole thing. Too much contradiction.

All you have to do is look at the sq km by country...none of this adds up

Wow!! I didn't know that! It's totally not like Canada and America are completely lined up with each other! Oh gosh oh gish, i didn't know that!!

Confusing maps. I want to see all the countries on the same scale.

Not Sea of Japan BUT East Sea or Eastern Sea.

thank you for sharing. all very informative!

We are so f*****g annoying as a species. We'll argue about anything. I'm bigger! NO! I'm WAAY bigger than you...most of you is uninhabita...shut up you! You're teeny! Blahblahblahfuckingblah Lmao

Us = Canada = Australia. We get it already!

Chad Boomershine But you don't have to cross a border to get into Nunavut. It's within the contiguous area of Canada. They didn't buy it from another nation. Canada, Australia, China, Brazil and Russia could all decide to form one country. But they'd be a bunch of disjointed pieces of land, like America.

Why did not compare any African country sizes to the rest of tge world?

How are they pretty much the same size when Quebec and all of Atlantic Canada are in the Ocean and the Territories are overlapping ON, SK, and MB?