The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-20
COMPARATIVE AREAS.

From the Globe-Democrat.
Ireland is about half the size Of Mis-
souri,.
Canada is a little larger than the United
States.
Europe Is less than one-fourth the size
Of Asia.
Asia is the largest continent, 100000
square miles.
Macedonia proper was near the size OF the
state of Illinois.
Corea is exactly the size of Kansas,
81, 600 square miles.
Siberia has an area of $1,000 miles, about
the size of Indiana.
Brazil has one province larger than any
three OF our states.
The Roman province of Gaul was little
smaller than Texas.
There are provinces in China larger
than any of our states.
Ecquador has 900 square miles, about
the size of New Mexico.
Pennsylvania has 5000 square miles more
land than Ohio, or $1,000.
The empire of Charlemagne covered
about 200 square miles,
Bulgaria proper has 5000 square miles,
about the size of Indiana.
Africa is three-fourths the size of Asia,
or 12,000,00 square miles.
Nicaragua and New York have the same
area, $4,000 square miles.
Australia is about the size of the United
States, excluding Alaska.
Borneo has 100000 square miles, equal to
three of our largest states.
The arabic land of Egypt Is said not to
exceed 100000 square miles,
The two Americas are, combined, almost
exactly the size Of Alaska.
Germany claims in Africa q territory of
nearly 1,OOO00O miles Of area.
The Palestine of the time of Christ was
about the size of New Jersey.
Great Britain has 121 900 square miles,
being little larger than Arizona.
Ancient Attica, the land of the muses.,
was about the size af Connecticut.
There are a dozen Russian provinces,
each larger than the state of Kansas.
There are five states of the German en-
pire each smaller than Rhode Island.
The state of Oregon equals in size the
combined area of Missouri and Ohio.
The Persian empire, In its palmiest days.
comprised about 100000 square miles.
Iceland, 5000 square miles, lacks only a
thousand of being as large as Kentucky.
Hawaii has 5000 square miles. the COM
bined size of Connecticut and Delaware.
England has an area Of $1,000 square
miles. or a little smaller than Arkansas.
Greece has $1,000 square miles, being al
most exactly twice the size of Maryland.
India has 100000 square miles. or nearly
two-thirds the size of the United States.
The territory of the Spartans comprised
district about equal in size to Delaware.
The Greek empire, under Alexander the
Great, comprised about 100000 square
miles.
In the most prosperous days of Poland
its territory comprised about 6OO, 900 square
miles.
France has 100000 square miles, a little
smaller than Colorado and Idaho COM
bined.
Chill is little larger than Texas. The
former has 293, 900 square miles, the latter
265, 900.
Belgium, 1000 square miles, is about the
combined size of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
Portugal has $1,000 square miles, and is,
therefore. little smaller than the state
of Maine.
The Spanish West Indies have an area
of $4,000 square miles, little larger than
Tennessee.
The empire founded by Napoleon COM
prised at its greatest extent about 100000
square miles.
Mexico has an area of $4,000 square
miles, or nearly one-fourth that Of the
United States.
There are several counties in the great
Western states considerably larger than
Massachusetts,.
Siam has 25O, 900 square miles, about the
area of North and South Dakota, with
Minnesota added.
The desert of Sahara is as large as all
that portion of the United States lying
west of the Mississippi.
The Netherlands have 1900 square miles,
being about the combined area of Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut.
Japan is almost as large as California
having 147OOO square miles, while the
American state has 15S,OOo.
The British empire and its dependencies
and colonies embrace II, ,000O 600 square miles,
or about the size of all Africa.
Venezuela has an enormous territory
claiming $780, 900 square miles of area. 1t Is
about as large as Alaska and Arizona.
The empire of the Spaniards founded In
this country after the discovery comprised
about r. OOO, 900 square miles Of territory.
Italy has 114,0OO square miles, 1000 miles
more than Arizona. or about the combined
area of Kansas and the Indian territory.
Norway has $4,000 square miles. almost
exactly the size of New Mexico, or about
the combined area Of Minnesota and Mis-
souri,.
Nearly seventy states the size of Rhode
Island could be carved out Of Missouri;
ffty-six out of Illinois, fifty-three out Of
Arkansas, 265 out of Texas.
The Chinese emperor has his dominion
acknowledged over 4,218,OO0 square miles
of the earths surface, a territory one
fourth larger than that of the United
States.
Russia has a territory in Europe of
| 2,095, 600 square miles. nearly two-thirds
that of the United States, while in Asia
this gigantic power holds 6,500,00O miles
more, a total of 5000 of square miles Of
the earth's surface ruled by one man.