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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Texas is smaller than the state of Western Australia, while the USA is only slightly bigger than Australia.

[โ€“] quentangle 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The state of Western Australia is 3.6 times larger than Texas, making it larger than Alaska.

In fact, Australia has five states/territories larger than Texas, and only has two states that are smaller. It is just a large country with relatively few divisions of its land.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Earth is a ball, maps are flat. It's hard to show the curvature on a flat map. Something like that

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yay! We big. I am yet to travel the length of it. But from the Israelite Bay in the south all around up to derby in thw north.