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It's about one-fifth as big as Lake Ontario
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The size of Lake Ontario is about 7,320 square miles.
(a.k.a. Lac Ontario) (surface area)
The smallest of North America's Great Lakes (by surface area), Lake Ontario has a total area of 7,320 square miles. It borders the cities of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York.
It's about one-fifth as big as Wales
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The size of Wales is about 8,004.70 square miles.
(a.k.a. Cymru) (total area)
The area of the country of Wales (in the United Kingdom) is 8,004.70 square miles. More than 295.250 square miles, or about 4% of the country's land area, is made up of the fifty-plus islands in the Irish and Celtic Seas off the coast of the Welsh mainland.
It's about seven times as big as San Jose
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The size of San Jose is about 175 square miles.
(a.k.a. Capital of Silicon Valley) (California)
The third-largest city in California as of 2009, San Jose measures 175 square miles in total area. The city is known for its large technology industry.
It's about one-tenth as big as Lake Erie
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The size of Lake Erie is about 9,920 square miles.
(a.k.a. Lac &ri&) (surface area)
The fourth largest of North America's Great Lakes and the thirteenth largest lake in the world (by surface area), Lake Erie has a total area of 9,920 square miles. It borders the cities of Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio.
It's about eight-and-a-half times as big as The Isle of Wight
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The size of The Isle of Wight is about 150 square miles.
(England, United Kingdom)
The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel, just off the English mainland, measures 150 square miles in total area. The Island hosts the world's largest and longest-running regular regatta — Cowes Week — which has brought over 1,000 yachts to the island each August since 1812.
It's about one-tenth as big as Hawaii
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The size of Hawaii is about 10,930.980 square miles.
(a.k.a. Moku'āina o Hawai'i) (United States)
The "Aloha State," Hawaii measures 10,930.980 square miles in total area. A total of 137 islands make up the Hawaiian archipelago, with the eight principle islands measuring 6,422.6160 square miles in combined total area.
It's about nine times as big as Detroit
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The size of Detroit is about 138.80 square miles.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 138.80 square miles in total area. The city is known for its automotive industry and its popular music legacies in the soul, hip hop, pop, and rhythm & blues genres
It's about nine-and-a-half times as big as Philadelphia
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The size of Philadelphia is about 135.10 square miles.
(a.k.a. Philly, a.k.a. The City of Brotherly Love) (Pennsylvania)
The largest city in Pennsylvania as of 2009 and at one time the second-largest city in the British Empire, Philadelphia measures 135.10 square miles in total area. The city is known as a center of great historical importance and as the one-time capital of the United States.
It's about one-tenth as big as Belgium
The size of Belgium is about 11,787 square miles.
(a.k.a. Kingdom of Belgium, a.k.a. Koninkrijk Belgi&, a.k.a. Royaume de Belgique, a.k.a. K&nigreich Belgien)
Belgium measures 11,787 square miles in total area. Contrary to their name, french fries were developed in Belgium (known at the time as the Southern Netherlands) in the late 17th century.
It's about one-tenth as big as Vancouver Island
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The size of Vancouver Island is about 12,079 square miles.
(a.k.a. Quadra's and Vancouver's Island) (British Columbia, Canada)
Vancouver Island, in the northern Pacific, measures 12,079 square miles. The island is home to the Comox Glacier, which reaches 1,960 m in height.
It's about ten times as big as Dublin
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The size of Dublin is about 122.60 square miles.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 122.60 square miles. Dublin is home to the Spire of Dublin, a stainless steel monument built in 2003 that rises to 121.2 m in height.
It's about twelve-and-a-half times as big as Edinburgh
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The size of Edinburgh is about 102 square miles.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 102 square miles. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about fourteen-and-a-half times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
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The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 86.990 square miles.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 86.990 square miles in total area. The size of the park has increased over the years as donated parcels of land have been added to it, with the last expansion in 2008 adding 3.05 square miles.
It's about one-twentieth as big as Lake Michigan
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The size of Lake Michigan is about 22,300 square miles.
(surface area)
The third largest of North America's Great Lakes (by surface area), Lake Michigan has a total area of 22,300 square miles. It borders the cities of Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Green Bay, Wisconsin
It's about eighteen-and-a-half times as big as Washington, D.C.
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The size of Washington, D.C. is about 68.30 square miles.
(formally the District of Columbia, a.k.a. Washington, a.k.a. the District, a.k.a. DC) (United State)
The United States' capital and only federal district, Washington, D.C. is a 68.30 square miles area located between the states of Virginia and Maryland. Washington, D.C. is known as the center of each of the three branches of the United States federal government and as home to many of the nation's monuments, museums, and foreign embassies.
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