Americans, Know Thy World: The Size of a Country (Part One: A-L)
Published February 15, 2007
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Gabon is slightly smaller than Colorado. The Gambia is twice the size of Delaware. Georgia is three times larger than New Jersey. Germany is more than twice the size of Wisconsin. Ghana is slightly smaller than Oregon. Greece is slightly smaller than Louisiana. Grenada is slightly smaller than Atlanta, Georgia. Guatemala is the size of Tennessee. Guinea is slightly smaller than Oregon. Guinea-Bissau is slightly less than New Jersey and Connecticut combined. Guyana is the size of Idaho.
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Haiti is about the size of Massachusetts. Honduras is slightly larger than Virginia. Holland (see The Netherlands). Hungary is the size of Indiana.
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Iceland is the size of Kentucky. India is one-third the size of the United States. Indonesia (17,000 islands) covers more area than Alaska and South Dakota combined. Iran is slightly smaller than Alaska. Iraq is slightly larger than California. Ireland is about half the size of Arkansas. Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Italy is slightly larger than Arizona.
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Jamaica is a little smaller than Connecticut. Japan is slightly smaller than Montana. Jordan is slightly smaller than Indiana.
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Kazakhstan is slightly more than one and a half times the size of Alaska. Kenya is about twice the size of Arizona. Kiribati is about the size of Kansas City, Missouri. Kuwait is three times the size of Delaware. Kyrgyzstan is about the same size as Nebraska.
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Laos is twice the size of Pennsylvania. Latvia is slightly larger than West Virginia. Lebanon is slightly smaller than Connecticut. Lesotho is the slightly less than half the size of West Virginia. Liberia is slightly larger than Tennessee. Libya is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Liechtenstein is not quite as big as Washington, D.C. Lithuania is about half the size of Alabama. Luxembourg is about twice the size of Los Angeles, California.
This concludes Part One of "Americans, Know Thy World." If you made any guesses before you started, how have you done so far? If you found an error, please feel free to post the correction in the comments section below.
Check back tomorrow for passage to "Americans, Know Thy World: The Size of a Country (Part Two: M-Z)."
Diana (nee Gulick) Hartman is the Culture and Tastes Editor for Blogcritics.org. She is a freelance writer, mother of three, and a (Ret.) US Marine spouse. She is a Wichita, Kansas native, having also lived in the California desert, eastern North Carolina and Stuttgart, Germany. She currently resides in Oceanside, California. She is a contributing writer to Holiday Writes.
- Americans, Know Thy World: The Size of a Country (Part One: A-L)
- Published: February 15, 2007
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
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Amazing! That was very interesting and must have been a lot of work. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Great job,
Just a small correction, Diana. Israel is the size of New Jersey, Delaware and New York City combined. This includes Judea and Samaria (where I live) and the Heights of Golan.
"Judea and Samaria" is code for "illegally militarily occupied Palestine." "Heights of Golan" means a part of Syria.
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Fascinating stuff Diana, looking forward to part 2.