Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown

Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by throwaway0888 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:55PM (#22753390)

> China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country.

Isn't China bigger than the States by land area?

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:15PM (#22753593)

America is slightly bigger. According to Google, USA is 3.797 million sq miles, and and china is 3.705 million square miles.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by throwaway0888 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:41PM (#22753815)

It's an old infamous error, where they measure water surface for the US but not China in order to appear higher in rankings.

China is larger though by all accounts.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by tathougies on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:45PM (#22763579)

I mean, not by much though. They're about equivalent in size.

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