• trafficnab
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    2 months ago

    LA to NYC is roughly the same distance as Lisbon to Moscow

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yup. Europe is only slightly larger. And that’s europe, not the EU. Europe on the whole is significantly denser in population, though.

      If you want to compare direct numbers, the EU has ~450 million to the Us’s ~350 million and 3.9 million (or cia’s fact book, 4.2) km^2 compared to 9.8 million km^2.

      The other countries that are similar are India, china and Russia.