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As a Swede, it was mind blowing to see that California is nearly the same size area wise, but about four times larger in population. Plenty of room for us to gr
by mstade 7y ago
As a Swede, it was mind blowing to see that California is nearly the same size area wise, but about four times larger in population. Plenty of room for us to grow still!
Also interesting to see both Russia and USA fit inside of Africa, more or less.[1] I always thought Russia was much bigger.
[1]: https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY2NjQzMjQ.MTYzNzcxMQ*Mzc2NTY1Nw(Mzc2NTY1Nw~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTQ0NzM0Mjk.MjU4NjcwODY)MTA~!RU*Nzk3NjE2NQ.OTEyNDc4OQ)MTE https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY2NjQzMjQ.MTYzNzcxMQ*...
- lordnacho 7y agoWhat I thought was interesting was that the south of Sweden is as far away from north of Sweden as it is from Rome.
- mstade 7y agoAlso, the distance between the northern and southern tips seems to be around the distance between Chicago and New Orleans, which is a road trip I did earlier this year. Even did the drive back, by way of the great smoky mountains and other sights – great trip! Clocked 3330 miles, thankfully the rental included unlimited miles! Edit: the reason I mention this is because I've wanted to do the north to south – or vice versa – Sweden trip for years, just always thought it was too long to do on my own. For some reason (Mercator projection, let's just be honest) I didn't think Chicago to NOLA would be that big a deal. It wasn't trivial, but also the distance wasn't really that bad, so I think I finally will do the cross Sweden trip at some point now.
- seniorivn 7y agoThe worst thing about Russia in that regard is that Russian people think it's much bigger too, and if you exclude uninhabitable territories, it gets even smaller. But establishment liked to bargain about geographical size for centuries so it's really hard to change the narrative now.
- frutiger 7y agoIt may not as big as it looks due to Mercator, but Russia is still the world’s largest country by a very large margin (almost a factor of two).
- vinceguidry 7y agoYou can rotate with the compass widget on the bottom-left https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ3MzgzMTY.MjQzMTI1Nw*MzI2Mzc2NzM(NjU4Njg5MQ~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTMzNDI0OTY.MjU5MDcwODA(NzI)MTA~!RU*Nzk3NjE2NQ.OTEyNDc4OQ)MTE https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ3MzgzMTY.MjQzMTI1Nw*...
- mstade 7y agoI was looking for a way to do this, thanks! :o)
- slowhand09 7y agoCool, I hadn't noticed that.
- Sharlin 7y agoWell, Sweden is really really sparsely populated. As are Norway and Finland, the latter of which I hail from. The northern parts are simply wilderness.