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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.

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in...

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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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