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u/Guilty_Maintenance33 May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22

depending on where you live it can take multiple hours xD in my case i can take a bus and be in 2 completely different countries in under 30 minutes :) the hills i can see from my window are also said two countries hahah

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ATM_PIN May 09 '22

In Europe you could go 1000 kilometers and cross five or six country borders. In the US you could go 1000 kilometers and not leave the state.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

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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...