experience right here at home! We just have to proactive and take advantage of this fine opportunity. 42 million flushing the toilet ... the inexorable rise of China as rendered meaningless ancient units of area such as the square mile. Mr Haines seems to have somehow failed to notice that the period he truncates reads in the orginal as follows : The "Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One" scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales. 16000 square miles is the equivalent of 41440 square kilometres, which is probably the unit used by the Chinese. I leave the question of what it would be in Planck unit derivatives to Mr Haines' fertile (?) imagination....