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The True Size of Countries
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#12A few years ago I wrote (as a joke) some javascript to make a municipality of Brazil (Alegrete - RS) wander about the globe.
http://alquerubim.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/jangada-de-pasto.h...
It's the largest of 497 municipalities in the state (it has an area of 7,804 km²).
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#13It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.
Is Australia not an island?
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#14It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Greenland is the biggest island. Australia is a continent.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Australia not an island?
It's a continent. Otherwise, we may as well call North America an island.
Well, since you bring it up, Australia isn't connected to another continent by land like North America is (as are Europe, Africa, and Asia). You'd have to say "the Americas" are an island, or "Afro-Eurasia"
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#17It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area Greenland is the biggest island.
> even though arguments can be made whether it is technically a continent, or merely part of a larger continent also called Australia
A technicality. While people thinking Greenland is bigger than Australia is not, which is the point I was trying to get across.
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#19It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Greenland is the biggest island. Australia is a continent.
There isn't really a single universally accepted list of continents. Some count Australia as continent, some count it as part of Oceania. And some define the continent Australia as the country Australia plus all those islands that would otherwise be Oceania.
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#20The UK fits within the Gulf of Mexico.
