Awesome. This is exactly the kind of quantification I've been hoping would start to happen.

Someone submitted this link for separate discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587026

Pretty cool. If anybody else wants to have a go, here's a useful resource.

http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm

As an aside, that is one of the coolest functional tests I've ever seen. It's thorough, well-documented, and includes nice visualizations (the table at the bottom, not the pie chart up top).

The title is wrong. Québec is Canada's largest province, bigger than Ontario by about 500K km^2. Nunavut is the biggest land mass of the country, considering territories and provinces.