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This is false. Europe North-South is comparable to the US East-West coast distance. Europe East-West is comparable to the US North-South. The US has more land
by haspok 9y ago
This is false.
Europe North-South is comparable to the US East-West coast distance.
Europe East-West is comparable to the US North-South.
The US has more land mass (and there is Alaska, which is the jolly joker card here - we can counterbalance this with the russian-speaking regions of the European continent, it is debatable whether they are "Europe" or not), let's say the lower 48 US is maybe two times the area of "classical" Europe. Europe is also much more densely populated.
So if you consider the USA to be the size of two postage stamps, then you might actually be correct :)
ps. http://www.comparea.org/USA+EU http://www.comparea.org/USA+EU
- Turing_Machine 9y agoNo, it is not. Area of Oregon: 254,806 km2 Area of UK: 242,495 km2 Area of Texas: 696,241 km2 Area of France: 643,801 km2 Area of Alaska: 1,717,856 km2 Area of Western Europe: depends on which definition you use. But smaller than Alaska by most. "Europe is also much more densely populated." Yes, it is. It is smaller and more densely populated, which means that rail transportation makes sense (note that you also see rail transportation in the more densely populated regions of the United States, such as the BosWash Corridor, Chicagoland, etc.)