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To be fair, also blame the fact that the area of the US is 25x that of Japan (10x if you count just the lower 48).
by dkasper 17y ago
To be fair, also blame the fact that the area of the US is 25x that of Japan (10x if you count just the lower 48).
- xenophanes 17y agoAccording to your figures, alaska + hawaii is 15x the size of japan, and thus 1.5x the size of the lower 48 states. that's wrong.
- jibiki 17y ago(Hawaii: 28,311 km²) Alaska: 1,717,854 km² Other 48 states: 8,080,464.25 km² Japan: 377,873 km² Now we calculate: (28,311+1,717,854+8,080,464.25)/377,873 = 26.0051108 8,080,464.25 / 377,873 = 21.3840741 So, the whole US is 25x, but "contiguous 48", as wikipedia calls them, are only 20x.
- dkasper 17y agowhoops good call, I knew that didn't seem right. I was looking at square miles for the contiguous 48 and square kilometers for Japan.