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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by rhn_mk1 on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:45PM (#31813239)
> All of continental Europe seems to fit roughly east of the Hudson Bay when shoved into Canada

Your math does not quite check out.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

> Area 10,180,000 km2

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

> Total land area 9,093,507 km2

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Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide by cgh on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:15AM (#31819791)
So roughly the same size but Canada's entire population is just over half of the UK's. Europe's train system works because of how crowded it is.
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