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15. Actual Sizes: Venezuela, Texas, Ukraine, Oklahoma (to pick 2 countries in the news and compare them

Reply to sl8 (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 04:58 PM

Dec 1

to Texas and Oklahoma) --

You got me curious; I was surprised to learn that Ukraine is smaller than Texas. Sure enough:

Areas in square miles:
Venezuela: 353,841
Texas 268,597
Ukraine 233,031
Oklahoma: 69,895

So Venezuela is 1.04 times the size of Texas + Oklahoma combined

Texas is 1.15 times the size of Ukraine

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This is the proportion of territory Ukraine is being asked to give up (not actual size): [View all] applegrove Dec 1 OP

Compromise Turbineguy Dec 1 #1

that's right, comrade, Florida will take one for the team. Conjuay Dec 1 #5

for you twodogsbarking Dec 1 #7

No we won't! rubbersole Dec 1 #16

Groan. nt Tommy Carcetti Dec 1 #10

Ouch. rubbersole Dec 1 #17

By percentages, maybe, but by actual area the two aren't even close. sl8 Dec 1 #2

I'll update the op. applegrove Dec 1 #4

Percentages are often misleading, on purpose at times. A 50% increase in a disease could be from five to ten or twodogsbarking Dec 1 #8

Those are 100% increases JoseBalow Dec 1 #12

Foolish me. So a one hundred percent increase could be five or five million. Thanks. twodogsbarking Dec 1 #14

Actual Sizes: Venezuela, Texas, Ukraine, Oklahoma (to pick 2 countries in the news and compare them progree Dec 1 #15

Mr. trump really enjoys appeasing Putin. Torchlight Dec 1 #3

Of Course! Mr.Bee Dec 1 #6

Hey - keep the east coast out of it! The mid-west and south will welcome putin. erronis Dec 1 #9

They're not being asked Bayard Dec 1 #11

Fuck No!!!!! BurnDoubt Dec 1 #13

NO Way! NO How! Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦🌻 electric_blue68 Dec 1 #18

Thank you for posting this LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #19

I have a friend in Kyiv and he considers eastern Ukraine like we consider the southern states Wanderlust988 Tuesday #20

It is the industrial heartland of Ukraine. applegrove Tuesday #21

It was also an area whose population voted overwhelmingly for independence from Russia Emrys Tuesday #22

The constant obsession with simplistic estimates of acreage is typical when so many real estate hoodlums are involved Emrys Tuesday #23