R code<\/a> available upon request.<\/p>\nHere you are. A list of US states along with countries and dependencies that are roughly as large as them:
\nSmaller than Rhode Island<\/b> (4,002 sq km):<\/p>\n
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Bermuda, Comoros, Cook Islands, Dominica, Gaza Strip, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guernsey, Holy See (Vatican City), Hong Kong, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius,\u00a0 Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Seychelles, Singapore, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Tonga, Tuvalu<\/p>\n
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As big as Rhode Island<\/b> (4,002 sq km):<\/p>\n
Cape Verde, French Polynesia<\/p>\n
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As big as Delaware<\/b> (5,061 sq km):<\/p>\n
Brunei, Cyprus, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, West Bank<\/p>\n
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As big as Connecticut<\/b> (14,359 sq km):<\/p>\n
Bahamas, East Timor, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia (The), Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Qatar, Swaziland, Vanuatu<\/p>\n
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As big as New Jersey<\/b> (22,590 sq km):<\/p>\n
Belize, Djibouti, El Salvador, Israel, Slovenia<\/p>\n
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As big as Vermont<\/b> (24,903 sq km):<\/p>\n
Republic of Macedonia<\/p>\n
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As big as Massachusetts<\/b> (27,337 sq km):<\/p>\n
Haiti, Rwanda<\/p>\n
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As big as Hawaii<\/b> (28,314 sq km):<\/p>\n
Albania, Armenia, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Solomon Islands<\/p>\n
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As big as Maryland<\/b> (32,134 sq km):<\/p>\n
Belgium, Bhutan, Denmark, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Moldova, Netherlands, Republic of China (Taiwan), Switzerland<\/p>\n
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As big as West Virginia<\/b> (62,758 sq km):<\/p>\n
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Togo<\/p>\n
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As big as South Carolina<\/b> (82,898 sq km):<\/p>\n
Austria, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Panama, United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n
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As big as Maine<\/b> (91,652 sq km):<\/p>\n
French Guiana, Jordan, Portugal<\/p>\n
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As big as Indiana<\/b> (94,327 sq km):<\/p>\n
Hungary, South Korea<\/p>\n
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As big as Kentucky<\/b> (104,664 sq km):<\/p>\n
Iceland, Serbia and Montenegro<\/p>\n
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As big as Tennessee<\/b> (109,158 sq km):<\/p>\n
Guatemala<\/p>\n
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As big as Virginia<\/b> (110,771 sq km):<\/p>\n
Benin, Bulgaria, Cuba, Honduras, Liberia<\/p>\n
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As big as Pennsylvania<\/b> (119,290 sq km):<\/p>\n
Eritrea, Malawi, North Korea<\/p>\n
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As big as Mississippi<\/b> (125,443 sq km):<\/p>\n
Nicaragua<\/p>\n
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As big as Louisiana<\/b> (134,273 sq km):<\/p>\n
Greece<\/p>\n
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As big as New York<\/b> (141,090 sq km):<\/p>\n
Nepal, Tajikistan<\/p>\n
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As big as Iowa<\/b> (145,754 sq km):<\/p>\n
Bangladesh<\/p>\n
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As big as Wisconsin<\/b> (169,652 sq km):<\/p>\n
Suriname, Tunisia<\/p>\n
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As big as Missouri<\/b> (180,545 sq km):<\/p>\n
Uruguay<\/p>\n
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As big as Oklahoma<\/b> (181,048 sq km):<\/p>\n
Cambodia<\/p>\n
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As big as Washington<\/b> (184,674 sq km):<\/p>\n
Syria<\/p>\n
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As big as South Dakota<\/b> (199,742 sq km):<\/p>\n
Kyrgyzstan, Senegal<\/p>\n
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As big as Kansas<\/b> (213,109 sq km):<\/p>\n
Belarus<\/p>\n
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As big as Idaho<\/b> (216,456 sq km):<\/p>\n
Guyana<\/p>\n
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As big as Minnesota<\/b> (225,181 sq km):<\/p>\n
Laos, Romania, Uganda<\/p>\n
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As big as Michigan<\/b> (250,737 sq km):<\/p>\n
Ghana, Guinea, United Kingdom<\/p>\n
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As big as Colorado<\/b> (269,618 sq km):<\/p>\n
Burkina Faso, Gabon, New Zealand, Western Sahara<\/p>\n
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As big as Nevada<\/b> (286,367 sq km):<\/p>\n
Ecuador<\/p>\n
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As big as Arizona<\/b> (295,274 sq km):<\/p>\n
Italy, Philippines<\/p>\n
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As big as New Mexico<\/b> (314,924 sq km):<\/p>\n
Congo (Republic of the), C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Finland, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Poland, Vietnam<\/p>\n
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As big as Montana<\/b> (380,847 sq km):<\/p>\n
Germany, Japan, Zimbabwe<\/p>\n
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As big as California<\/b> (423,999 sq km):<\/p>\n
Cameroon, France, Iraq, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen<\/p>\n
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As big as Texas<\/b> (695,673 sq km):<\/p>\n
Afghanistan, Bolivia, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Zambia<\/p>\n
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As big as Alaska<\/b> (1,700,133 sq km):<\/p>\n
Algeria, Angola, Chad, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Greenland, Indonesia, Iran, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Niger, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan<\/p>\n
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Twice as big as Alaska<\/b> (3,400,266 sq km):<\/p>\n
Argentina, India, Kazakhstan<\/p>\n
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As big as the United States<\/b> (9,826,630 sq km):<\/p>\n
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China<\/p>\n
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Twice as big as the United States<\/b> (19,653,260 sq km):<\/p>\n
Russia<\/p>\n
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Map credit:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_map_projections#mediaviewer\/File:Miller_projection_SW.jpg<\/span><\/p>\nCountry Areas: http:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wouldn’t it be cool for US readers to see how big foreign countries are by comparing them to presumably familiar US states?
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