Grandpa Pencil
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The Comparative Sizes of
Earth's Land Masses

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The Continents

The area of the continents in Sq. Km

Asia
44 250 000

Africa
30 264 000

North America
24 398 000

South America
17 793 000

Antarctica
13 209 000

Europe
9 907 000

Oceania

8 543 000

The Smaller Countries

 

Vatican City
0.44 Sq. Km.
0.17 Sq. Mi.

Monaco
1.89 Sq. Km.
0.73 Sq. Mi.

Nairu
21.0 Sq. Km.
8.10 Sq. Mi.

San Marino
60.5 Sq. Km.
23.4 Sq. Mi.

Liechtenstein
160 Sq. Km.
61.8 Sq. Mi.

Maldive Islands
298 Sq. Km.
115 Sq. Mi.

Malta
316 Sq. Km.
122 Sq. Mi.

Grenada
344 Sq. Km.
133 Sq. Mi.

St. Vincent
389 Sq. Km.
150 Sq. Mi.

Seychelles
404 Sq. Km.
156 Sq. Mi.

The Larger Countries

Canada
9 976 139 Sq. Km.

China
9 561 000 Sq. Km.

USA
9 519 666 Sq. Km.

Brazil
8 511 965 Sq. Km.

Australia
7 682 300 Sq. Km.

India
3 287 590 Sq. Km.

Argentina
2 776 889 Sq. Km.

Sudan
2 505 813 Sq. Km.

Zaire
2 344 885 Sq. Km.

The Larger Islands

Greenland
2 175 600 Sq. Km

New Guinea
820 657 Sq. Km

Borneo
743 245 Sq. Km

Madagasgar
587 930 Sq. Km

Baffin (Canada)
476 068 Sq. Km

Sumatra
473 623 Sq. Km

Honsu (Japan)
230 329 Sq. Km

Great Britain
229 878 Sq. Km

Victoria (Canada)
212 688 Sq. Km

Ellesmere (Canada)
212 199 Sq. Km

Australia and the Islands

Australia is generally regarded as an island continent and as such, at 7 682 300 square Km, is the largest island on the planet.
Take a look at Great Britain in the pie charts, above and left, and you will see why I left Australia out of the graph above.
Great Britain is a little less than three and a half times the size of Australia's island state, Tasmania, which is Australia's smallest state with a population of just under 500 000 people.
Included, below, is a pie chart showing the difference along with Victoria, Canada.

     

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