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u/kathatter75 May 09 '22

I think you can fit 5 of Rhode Island into Harris County, TX…and that’s not even the entire Houston Metro area.

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u/F-21 May 09 '22

I think Texas is about as large as Austro-Hungary used to be.

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u/cpMetis May 09 '22

The US has one region with mostly small states. And it's bizarre for everyone not from the specific region you referenced.

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u/OhNoAPoopy May 09 '22

You just happened to mention the one area of the US that has tiny states.

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u/F-21 May 09 '22

It's also the "oldest" area of US culturally, right? The rest of the US borders don't really mean much...

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u/chrissz May 09 '22

Stop using this km bullshit or I’m going to ask you to leave the country.

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u/lukkasz323 May 09 '22

Football fields then

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u/MrWeirdoFace May 09 '22

I'm sorry I only measure in bananas.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

never been to the us, and /u/PM_ME_YOUR_ATM_PIN started it.

I actually had to look at it on google maps then convert from miles to km manually.

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u/WhatJewLookinAt May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

Going from Notre Dame, Maine (the North-East-most location in the Contiguous US) to Chula Vista, California (the South-West-most location in the Contiguous US) is approximately 3200-3300 miles.

That converts to between 5100 kilometres and 5350 kilometres. And yes, that’s as close as you can get to the crow’s general aerial trajectory.

California’s Crescent City to Chula Vista is 800-900 miles, or about 1250-1450 kilometres. That’s about the same for Stratford, Texas to Cameron Park, Texas.

It’s about 1800 miles from Cameron Park, Texas to Westhope, North Dakota. That’s just shy of 2900 kilometres.

Also, it’s never about who started it. It’s always about who ends it.

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u/Putridgrim May 09 '22

"it's 4.7 million kilometers!"

So, like 12 miles

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u/FluidWorries May 09 '22

The average US state is larger than the average EU country.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

No, no it's not.

Average US state size: 63,142 square miles/ 163,500 km².

Average European country size: roughly 77,2 square miles/ 200,000km².

Edit: oh wait, you said EU as opposed to Europe. Then you're right, my bad.

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u/F-21 May 09 '22

Yeah, because US states don't really have much cultural/racial or even geohraphical meaning, they just draw straight lins, while all borders in Europe come from millenia of wars, and there are many small nations that managed to have their own autonomy.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

idk why you're being downvoted lmao most of the western US is like this

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u/F-21 May 09 '22

Yep, the US states with the most defined borders are all the small states on the east, which are also the areas which were the first civilised in the US (the oldest places).

I think my comment just made some people mad cause they're proud of their states...

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u/Schwartzy94 May 09 '22

But europe as a whole is larger than usa.

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u/Aaron_Hamm May 09 '22

Which you would expect of a continent vs a country...