Mar 1 2023 - Size Matters

Do you enjoy comparisons?  I do, and especially ones I hadn't considered before.  At exporedplanet.com visual maps of various countries and their characteristics are shown - quite often in overlays.  How interesting and curious some of the comparisons turn out to be.  This one is the size of Australia compared to the U.S. The United States is around 9,833,517 sq km, while the land down under is 7,741,220 sq km. In mathematical terms, America is about 1.3 times as large as Australia, or 27 percent.  The Majority of the US has a smaller population than LA County.It has 10 million people.  Here's China vs the United States. It has over one billion people, but a little less land mass than the U.S. By using a bit of imagination, you can see that if you reconfigure the shape of China, it is almost the same size as the US. But, at the end of the day, China is just a bit smaller, at 9,596,961 sq km, while the United States comes in at 9,833,517 sq km. And what's this?  Cuba fits into Hudson Bay. The Hudson Bay's surface area is 1,230,000 sq km, while Cuba has an area of 110,860 sq km. With that size difference, no wonder Cuba looks like nothing more than a sandbar on this map. Many more are HERE. There's everything from noise pollution, metric vs imperial measurement, left-side vs right-side driving. The final map is what the world map "should actually look like flat.  March is the start of the spring flowers.  Look at these flaming tulips. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca