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> At 2:54 AM +0000 11/2/07, Jeff Richard wrote:
> > > I don't know much about Texas, so its always good to add to my
store of
> >> knowledge about all those tiny American states.
> >
> >Tiny? Texas is the size of France. Montana is bigger than Germany.
> >New South Wales is about a quarter bigger than Texas.
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> Exactly. And New South Wales isn't even one of the big states. Tiny.
Hardly. Now I know you are talking from the perspective of a Western
Australian, which admittedly is a lot of territory. Heck, Western
Australia is larger than Alaska and is the second largest subnational
entity in the world. And it consists of you, some sand, a few dingoes
and a lot of holes in the dirt.