I’m missing some countries, but to be fair, apart from Liechtenstein, they’re all city states.
Also works for surface area of Americans.
It’s not about size, but what you do with it :((
Makes you wonder how many people live in the wilderness as hermits off the grid in Alaska…
I bet Siberia has a higher population density than that state.
Ok I’m gonna say what we’re all really thinking here
…..yet they can’t find 11 good soccer players eh
Spain’s and sweden’s sizes are always surprising haha
A reminder that France is massive.
And also that even though roughly the same size, California have almost 4 times the population of Sweden.
Great Britain (209km) would be just under Kansas (213km)
And the UK (242km) is a little smaller than Michigan (250km)
I don’t want to be that nerd but it seems like the flags of the Netherlands and Luxembourg got mixed up? I believe the Luxembourgish flag has brighter shades of red and blue and the Dutch flag darker shades of red and blue, but that seems to be swapped in this graph. Extremely pedantic, I know. Sorry lol
France BIG.
Poland is bigger than Italy? Interesting
TIL Sweden is bigger than Germany.
OK we’re pretty conservative in some cases but putting us between Louisiana and Mississippi is honestly a little bit too much /s
Now do Canada
Yes, Estonia is bigger than the Netherlands, despite having 13 times fewer people.
We can once again see how empty USA is. Only the Nordics are comparable in population density.
I have used California as measurement to explain to Americans that Sweden is not really that small. There are at least two problems with this, they either do not know the size of California or they do not consider California very large since it it just one state.
And this is why high-speed rail isn’t feasible in the US on the same scale as Europe
Well, you can have a shit ton of space but who cares when it’s just desert. What matters is good quality land that you can use for farming.
And by population? Or even by GDP? Do empty spaces have any relevance?
ALASKA STRONK
Maybe Sweden is not thickest but it’s longest.
France is smaller than Texas yet number 1 in soccer and number 2 in basketball 😎
US:
Any number of individual EU nations: yes but why can’t a nation the size of the failed Roman Empire have nice, agreeable government?
Everything is always about the US even in an Europe subreddit!
Nice representation, however each State has its own flag. Why don’t you use these flags instead, as you did with EU countries?🤔
What? Greece is larger than Bulgaria?
Love this, but maybe a version with each US State would be cool
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Tools used: R, RStudio
R Packages used: ggflags, ggplot2
Sources:
[Eurostat, 2015](https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/key-facts-and-figures/life-eu_en)
[U.S. Census Bureau, 2010](https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/2010/geo/state-area.html)
I did this while half asleep and being completely new to R, after seeing [a comment on Reddit claiming that every U.S. state is bigger than *any* European country](https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/sb87mk/they_eventually_got_there/), so please excuse my spaghetti code:
`ggplot(data = us_eu_land, aes(y = reorder(GEO, +AREA), x = AREA)) + geom_col(aes(fill = FEDERAL), width = .8) + geom_flag(x = -48000, aes(country = FLAG), size = 10) + scale_fill_manual(values = c(“EU” = “#001489”, “US” = “#B31942”)) + expand_limits(x = -20000) + scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(from = 0, to = 2000000, by = 200000), sec.axis = dup_axis()) + ggtitle(“Surface Area of EU Countries and U.S. States”) + xlab(x_expression) + ylab(“”) + labs(fill = “”) + theme(legend.position=”top”, plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5), plot.margin = margin(20, 20, 20, 20, “pt”)) + labs(caption = “U.S. Census Bureau, 2010; Eurostat, 2015”) + theme(plot.caption = element_text(hjust = 0.5))`
I also included U.S. territories as a bonus.
yeehaw.
I’m missing some countries, but to be fair, apart from Liechtenstein, they’re all city states.
Also works for surface area of Americans.
It’s not about size, but what you do with it :((
Makes you wonder how many people live in the wilderness as hermits off the grid in Alaska…
I bet Siberia has a higher population density than that state.
Ok I’m gonna say what we’re all really thinking here
…..yet they can’t find 11 good soccer players eh
Spain’s and sweden’s sizes are always surprising haha
A reminder that France is massive.
And also that even though roughly the same size, California have almost 4 times the population of Sweden.
Great Britain (209km) would be just under Kansas (213km)
And the UK (242km) is a little smaller than Michigan (250km)
I don’t want to be that nerd but it seems like the flags of the Netherlands and Luxembourg got mixed up? I believe the Luxembourgish flag has brighter shades of red and blue and the Dutch flag darker shades of red and blue, but that seems to be swapped in this graph. Extremely pedantic, I know. Sorry lol
France BIG.
Poland is bigger than Italy? Interesting
TIL Sweden is bigger than Germany.
OK we’re pretty conservative in some cases but putting us between Louisiana and Mississippi is honestly a little bit too much /s
Now do Canada
Yes, Estonia is bigger than the Netherlands, despite having 13 times fewer people.
We can once again see how empty USA is. Only the Nordics are comparable in population density.
I have used California as measurement to explain to Americans that Sweden is not really that small. There are at least two problems with this, they either do not know the size of California or they do not consider California very large since it it just one state.
And this is why high-speed rail isn’t feasible in the US on the same scale as Europe
Well, you can have a shit ton of space but who cares when it’s just desert. What matters is good quality land that you can use for farming.
And by population? Or even by GDP? Do empty spaces have any relevance?
ALASKA STRONK
Maybe Sweden is not thickest but it’s longest.
France is smaller than Texas yet number 1 in soccer and number 2 in basketball 😎
US:
Any number of individual EU nations: yes but why can’t a nation the size of the failed Roman Empire have nice, agreeable government?
Everything is always about the US even in an Europe subreddit!
Nice representation, however each State has its own flag. Why don’t you use these flags instead, as you did with EU countries?🤔
What? Greece is larger than Bulgaria?
Love this, but maybe a version with each US State would be cool