Compare · United States vs western Europe
United States vs western Europe
France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy and the United Kingdom together measure 2,349,888 km². The United States measures 9,439,564 km². The six famous countries are 25 per cent of it.
This is not all of Europe. It is the six countries that fill the mental map. The whole continent, Russia included, is larger than the United States. These six are not.
The United States laid across France, Germany, Spain, Poland, the UK and Italy, on Equal Earth. Most of the American outline is still empty. Open this scene on the full map.
Areas are the shapes drawn on Map Real Size, measured on the sphere. Official land-area tables differ where they include inland water, a different coastline, or a disputed border. Drop the USA on Europe.