a, australia can take a fair chunk of that as well b, how much of that is arable, temperate and capable of sustaining the same population of the countries you've stuff into it?
My first reaction was that this might be wrong due to some misunderstanding about map projections. But no, I checked it out (by sight) on google earth (which conveniently uses a globe) and it looks about right. I suppose you could argue the US is missing its largest state by far - Alaska.
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b, how much of that is arable, temperate and capable of sustaining the same population of the countries you've stuff into it?
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yes geographically that interesting, but there is an implication after all they choose not to use australia or antartica
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Only, the soil is mostly arid fossil or actual desert.
So it could prolly sub for USAnia as the Sahara, in the map.
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It gives an interesting view of how the people of the world are distributed.
It makes the UK look more like you'd expect if you listen to the press.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_area