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[–] remon@ani.social -2 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

Canada total area: 9,984,670 km^2

USA total area: 9,866,624 km^2

Have a look a the respective 2nd digits of those numbers and consider that 9 is indeed bigger than 8.

Source: Wikipedia.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Total land area: 9,093,507

You are counting ocean as part of Canada, a thing not represented on maps.

Imagine being this condescending and wrong.

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[–] remon@ani.social 7 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

No oceans were counted. But the total area does includes lakes and rivers.

And I already said earlier that the US slightly larger when you just look at land area. It's no where near 10% though.

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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago

Your numbers add up to about 1% difference in size, not 10%

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Imagine being this condescending and wrong

You're the one doing it

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