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Is 175 square miles as big as a Postage Stamp?

It's about 1,000,000,000,000 times as big as a Postage Stamp
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The size of a Postage Stamp is about 0.000000000200 square miles.
(average; United States dimensions)
A typical postage stamp measures an average of 0.000000000200 square miles. One of the most prized stamps among collectors is the US-issued "Inverted Jenny" stamp printed in 1918, which features an upside-down image of Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") airplane; a single stamp sold for $977,500 at a 2007 auction.
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