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The world's largest nations (in area, not population)
Posted by Hels • 11 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: geography, nations
If you were at a Trivial Pursuit tournament and asked to write out the world's 19 largest nations in order, could you manage it?
The CIA World Fact Book says:
1. Russia, which is double the size of the next biggest nation.
2. Canada
3. USA
4. China
5. Brasil
6. Australia, which is double the size of the next largest nation
7. India
8. Argentina
9. Kazakhstan
10. Sudan
11. Algeria
12. Congo, DR
13. Greenland
14. Saudia Arabia
15. Mexico
16. Indonesia
17. Libya
18. Iran
19. Mongolia.... then the rest of the world.
User Comments
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I asked everyone at work and most people guessed the six biggest nations correctly, and in the correct order. But then the wheels fell off.
Noone included The Congo.
Noone believed the Indonesian islands were bigger than large mainlands like France and Egypt.
People argued about whether Greenland and Mongolia were independent nations etc etc -
hmmm, now that I have seen the answers, I can't play. I would have probably included India in the top six.
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