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Old Jul 13, 2011, 3:12 pm
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ExitRowOrElse
 
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"The US is big" argument doesn't work.
Oh really?

Here are a few facts:

The UK (93, 800 sm) is slightly smaller than Michigan (96,716 sm)

Germany (137,882 sm) is smaller than Montana (147, 042 sm)

Italy (116,346 sm) is larger than Arizona (113,998 sm) and smaller than New Mexico (121, 589 sm)

Austria (32,383 sm) is just a bit larger than South Carolina (32,020 sm)

Switzerland (15,937 sm) is just a bit less than half the size of South Carolina

France (260,558 sm) is smaller than Texas (268,580 sm)
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