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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by jessriedel on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:39PM (#21561496)
> completely over the US and part of Canada.

No. Australia is large, but it is slightly less than the area of the continental US.

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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by ddeck on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:52PM (#21561555)
In area terms that's true, but it does pretty much fit "over the US and part of Canada" as can be seen here:

https://www.aboutaustralia.com/australia-size-compared-to-us...

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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by jessriedel on Monday November 18, 2019 @10:48AM (#21565197)
You conveniently left out the word "completely" from the original statement.
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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by lisper on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:47PM (#21561522) 

  Area of Australia = 2.97M sq mi
  Area of USA = 3.78M sq mi
  Area of Europe = 3.92M sq mi
  Area of Canada = 3.85M sq mi
Ain't Google grand?
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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by Thorentis on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:49PM (#21561541)
Yeah, the area of Australia is smaller. But in my OP I said "edge to edge" by which I meant (ambiguously, sorry) west to east edges. People don't realise driving from west coast to east coast US is the same distance as Australia.
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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by hydrox24 on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:04AM (#21562036)
Area of mainland USA = 2.96M sq mi.

Area of mainland Australia = 2.93M sq mi.

I think this is the apples to apples comparison. Don't include Alaska or Tasmania, or Hawaii, which tend not to be what people are thinking of.

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Re:The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland by mynegation on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:20PM (#21561853)
Australia is overlaid on a map of contiguous 48 states and DC, and that area is about 3.12M square miles. Yes, google is grand
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