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[Andy_G]

America has over 14 times the population of Australia, living on about 3/4 the land area ?

[unknownuser]

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The land areas of both nations are of a similar magnitude. The United States is the world's fourth largest country at about 9.1 million square kilometres (or 3.6 million square miles), and Australia comes in sixth at about 7.6 million square kilometres (or 3 million square miles). Australia is about four-fifths the size of the States. If you compare Australia to the "lower 48", taking Alaska out of the equation, the sizes are even closer, with Australia at about ninety-five percent the size of the continental U.S.


(Originally posted by: Michael Lytle)

[bogie]

We gave the world Bose.

[xluben]

India:

Area: 3,287,590
Population: 1,080,264,388

United States:

Area: 9,629,091
Pouplation: 295,734,134

Three times the people in one third the area!

[bogie]

So? We've also got lots and lots of car stereos.

> India:

> Area: 3,287,590
> Population: 1,080,264,388

> United States:

> Area: 9,629,091
> Pouplation: 295,734,134

> Three times the people in one third the
> area!

[damkor]

> America has over 14 times the population of
> Australia, living on about 3/4 the land area
> ?

That makes Australia almost 19 times less populated than the US, and 170 times less densely populated than India. Probably between 30 and 50 times less densely populated than most European countries.

No, I didn't realize that. But now that I do, I'm afraid us yanks are going to have to take over your rather sad and empty country and finally make it interesting.

BTW, did you know that, if you gave every man, woman and child on earth their own 20 foot cube to live in (for example, an 800ft2 high-ceilinged duplex 1 bedroom apartment - a decent urban flat - a lot more private sheltered space than most people in the world have), you could fit them all...inside the Grand Canyon. That's assuming 5 billion, and all below ground level in the Canyon.
(Obviously, plumbing and electrics would be a serious challenge.)

And yet, if you laid them end to end, they would reach to the moon and back seven times.

[wg_ski]

> America has over 14 times the population of
> Australia, living on about 3/4 the land area
> ?

That explains why they have a better attitude.

[wg_ski]

> BTW, did you know that, if you gave every
> man, woman and child on earth their own 20
> foot cube to live in (for example, an 800ft2
> high-ceilinged duplex 1 bedroom apartment -
> a decent urban flat - a lot more private
> sheltered space than most people in the
> world have), you could fit them all...inside
> the Grand Canyon. That's assuming 5 billion,
> and all below ground level in the Canyon.
> (Obviously, plumbing and electrics would be
> a serious challenge.)

If you did that you'd have 5 billion people ready to kill one another in about 20 minutes.

[donparsons]

Then you could bulldoze the place and start fresh..

[dancarroll]

> We gave the world Bose.

But Oz gave the world Vegemite.

[thylantyr]

> America has over 14 times the population of
> Australia, living on about 3/4 the land area
> ?

You should live in my city, can't walk without
a human collision. /hehe

[bill]

> If you did that you'd have 5 billion people
> ready to kill one another in about 20
> minutes.

A significant number are already ready to do that, or don't you read the papers?

Peace,
Bill

[wg_ski]

> A significant number are already ready to do
> that, or don't you read the papers?

> Peace,
> Bill

That's why I don't live in a !@#%^ apartment. The very last time I lived in one (1991), I came home to find the door blocked, and when I peeked in, I was looking down the barrel of a gun.

[johnastockman]

> We gave the world Bose.

bogie, LOL! Embarrassing to say the least, but I am repenting for all my years in retail audio...

John A.

[johnastockman]

> Then you could bulldoze the place and start
> fresh..

...as long as you throw bose in there, too!

John A.

[Andy_G]

> I'm afraid us yanks are going to have to
> take over your rather sad and empty country

Tell ya what, you can have all the stuff that's more than 200km from the sea. You can do what you like with it !!!

[wg_ski]

> Tell ya what, you can have all the stuff
> that's more than 200km from the sea. You can
> do what you like with it !!!

It would make a great place to go test speakers - and no one around for miles to b*tch about the noise.

[Andy_G]

> It would make a great place to go test
> speakers - and no one around for miles to
> b*tch about the noise.

well, at least til you fill it up with Americans ;-))

[biff]

well, use your imagination...

[irishbreed]