bodleingGreater Manchester, England UK13,810 posts
Conrad73: Newest results according to WIKI.
Seems like I'm not the only one confused about this.
"I have always been hearing people say that now Canada is bigger than Russia in terms of land size after the USSR broke up...
But from the latest statistics on Encarta and Infoplease.com Russia is still bigger.
If so, what is the discrepancy between the two varying comparisons? Is there a little something that they are comparing differently that may end up in different rankings?"
LARGEST COUNTRIES1 (in sq mi)*: 2002 1. Russia 6,592,735 2. Canada 3,851,788
bodleing: Seems like I'm not the only one confused about this. "I have always been hearing people say that now Canada is bigger than Russia in terms of land size after the USSR broke up...
But from the latest statistics on Encarta and Infoplease.com Russia is still bigger.
If so, what is the discrepancy between the two varying comparisons? Is there a little something that they are comparing differently that may end up in different rankings?"
LARGEST COUNTRIES1 (in sq mi)*: 2002 1. Russia 6,592,735 2. Canada 3,851,788
Source: Infoplease.com
I watched a recent documentry the other day,and it said russia was,occopying 1/5 of the land mass of the world. Whos got a tape measure ?
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