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The real size of Australia (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@dormi.zone to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
 
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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australia is approximately the Roman empire?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Long roads forging through nowhere? Check.

Has a senate? Check.

People being killed by scary animals? Check.

Uncontested on it's continent? Check.

On the edge of a giant desert? Check.

Seems about the same.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uncontested on its* continent

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what is the rule exactly? "Australia's" and "Rome's" both have an apostrophe, and that's what "it" is standing in for here.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, seems kind of goofy. For a word like "his", there is no counterpart "hi", but there is an "it".

[–] malijaffri@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm assuming that "him" is related to the hypothetical counterpart "hi"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a lot smaller than I thought. There’s all that water in the middle that I always thought was land.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Great land down under

Gets em' every time

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So big it needed extra jpeg compression.

[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Feel free to share a better version if you have, I'll update the link

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alternatively, for those of us more familiar with Australia, this is the a map showing the real size of the Mediterranean and surrounding countries.

Australiteranean looks really nice, actually.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I opened the full-sized image and still cannot read any of the text

[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow that's much better, thank you

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'm too American for this to mean anything to me. I see the spaghetti place tho.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And none of the usable land was lost (idk, probably not really true)

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I fully support this revision.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: Australia is roughly only one Montana smaller than the US

[–] pelerinli@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

New MB2: Bannerlord mod is lit!