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Re:True size of Africa by Aloisius on Sunday February 16, 2014 @08:21PM (#7250137)
China, the US and Canada are all nearly the same size (9.5 million, 9.1 million and 9 million km^2, respectively).

Russia on the other hand is significantly bigger (16.3 million km^2) - bigger than even Antarctica (14 million km^2).

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Re:True size of Africa by johnsonman on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:48PM (#7250352)
Wikipedia says 9.6, 9.8, and 10.0 million km^2 respectively. Do these numbers include something (e.g. water) that the numbers you quoted don't? (They also peg Russia at 17.0 million km^2)
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Re:True size of Africa by Aloisius on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:12AM (#7250732)
The numbers are land-only, but there are multiple conflicting ways of calculating it often due to land disputes. For instance, Taiwan/Tibet/etc. wrt China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_area...

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Re:True size of Africa by ska on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:36PM (#7250323)
Are you sure of those numbers? Sources I've seen has the area of Canada larger than that of the US, and US close to that of China.

Russia is significantly bigger, as you note.

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