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Re:Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014) by epimetheus on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @09:36AM (#11909209)
There's single buildings larger than a lot of countries.

The Boeing plant in Everett, WA is over 399 km^2 in floor space. That puts it larger than something like 45 Sovereign states/countries[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

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Re:Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014) by AshleyGrant on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @11:12AM (#11909786)
The Boeing plant is 0.4 km^2, not 399 km^2. 1 km^2 = 1,000,000 m^2.
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Re:Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014) by epimetheus on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @12:14PM (#11910197)
You're right, I posted without thinking and didn't do the math. It's on par with Vatican City though (slightly smaller), but yeah, that 45 country figure is way off. Thanks for that correction.
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