August 11, 2006

Matters of size or Does size matter?

World
land area about 16 times the size of the US

Israel
slightly smaller than New Jersey

Lebanon
about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut

Syria
slightly larger than North Dakota

Iraq
slightly more than twice the size of Idaho

Afghanistan
slightly smaller than Texas

Iran
slightly larger than Alaska

Ireland
slightly larger than West Virginia

United Kingdom
slightly smaller than Oregon

United States
about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; almost two and a half times the size of the European Union

United Arab Emirates
slightly smaller than Maine

European Union (That's Europe to you)
less than one-half the size of the US

China
slightly smaller than the US

Canada
somewhat larger than the US

Mexico
slightly less than three times the size of Texas

Thanks to the CIA for this information