On May 26, 2009, at 14:30, P. J. Alling wrote:
The 20% larger doesn't tell the whole story, Australia is fairly compact, Canada contains some large areas of open sea...
I would wager that the "square mileage" numbers try not to include open sea as part of the calculated area. Tricky math, to be sure.... but it seems that it would be cheating to include non-land as part of the land area in the numbers.
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