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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

, it's actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it's a little smaller than Italy).

I think this is something that many Europeans seem unable to grasp. The US is massive

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Last winter there was a question about why a freeze warning in the northern plains states didn't apply to other states to the East and West. And people were like "well, the mountains..." this and "uh, the Mississippi..." that, but I couldn't get over how "y'all, you're missing the big thing here. It's not weird that so few states have the same weather, it's weird that so many do."

    If you put the US over Europe, with New Mexico over Portugal, Maine would be over Moscow. The contiguous 48 states is basically the same size as China. By itself, it's bigger than three whole continents (not combined).

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