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Maybe but there's also just lists like this. It's the most basic fact to find I should hope any journalist wouldn't need a special tool to get that kind of fact
by rtkwe 5y ago
Maybe but there's also just lists like this. It's the most basic fact to find I should hope any journalist wouldn't need a special tool to get that kind of fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
- TomSwirly 5y agoThe point is that even for educated people, comparing something to the area of Kuwait is obscure and unhelpful.
- jfengel 5y agoWikipedia also has a set of "Orders of magnitude [length, power, area, etc]" articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(area) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(area) It only has a few examples for each order of magnitude, so in this case we'd get just "between Jamaica and Belgium". Still, I find these pages useful for getting a general idea of what something means, and as fodder for further researching evocative comparisons.