How big is 187,000 feddans?
It's about half as big as Houston
The size of Houston is about 357,300 feddans.
(Texas)
The largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Houston measures 357,300 feddans in total area. The city is known for its broad corporate base, prominence in oilfield equipment, and for its port, which accepts more cargo than any other port in the United States.
It's about half as big as London
The size of London is about 375,900 feddans.
(a.k.a. Greater London) (London Region) (England, United Kingdom)
London, one of the most important global cities in the world, currently occupies a total area of 375,900 feddans. For more than one hundred years, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was the largest city in the world by population.
It's about two times as big as The Isle of Wight
The size of The Isle of Wight is about 92,400 feddans.
(England, United Kingdom)
The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel, just off the English mainland, measures 92,400 feddans in total area. The Island hosts the world's largest and longest-running regular regatta — Cowes Week — which has brought over 1,000 yachts to the island each August since 1812.
It's about half as big as Stewart Island
The size of Stewart Island is about 399,900 feddans.
(a.k.a. Rakiura) (Southland, New Zealand) (total land area)
Stewart Island, New Zealand's third-largest island measures 399,900 feddans. Eighty-five percent of the Island, or about 333,300 feddans, is Rakiura National Park, which opened in 2002.
It's about two times as big as Detroit
The size of Detroit is about 85,580 feddans.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 85,580 feddans in total area. The city is known for its automotive industry and its popular music legacies in the soul, hip hop, pop, and rhythm & blues genres
It's about two times as big as Philadelphia
The size of Philadelphia is about 83,290 feddans.
(a.k.a. Philly, a.k.a. The City of Brotherly Love) (Pennsylvania)
The largest city in Pennsylvania as of 2009 and at one time the second-largest city in the British Empire, Philadelphia measures 83,290 feddans in total area. The city is known as a center of great historical importance and as the one-time capital of the United States.
It's about two-and-a-half times as big as Dublin
The size of Dublin is about 75,580 feddans.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 75,580 feddans. Dublin is home to the Spire of Dublin, a stainless steel monument built in 2003 that rises to 121.2 m in height.
It's about three times as big as Edinburgh
The size of Edinburgh is about 62,800 feddans.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 62,800 feddans. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about one-third as big as Cape Town
The size of Cape Town is about 585,800 feddans.
(a.k.a. Kaapstad, a.k.a. iKapa, a.k.a. The Mother City) (Western Cape, South Africa) (for Cape Town metro area)
Cape Town, South Africa's legislative capital, measures 585,800 feddans in total metro area. The core of Cape Town lies at the base of Table Mountain (a.k.a. Huriǂoaxa, a.k.a. Tafelberg), a 1,084.6 m peak.
It's about three-and-a-half times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 53,630 feddans.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 53,630 feddans in total area. The size of the park has increased over the years as donated parcels of land have been added to it, with the last expansion in 2008 adding 1,881 feddans.
It's about one-fourth as big as Yosemite National Park
The size of Yosemite National Park is about 720,540 feddans.
(Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties, California, near Mariposa, California) (total land area)
Famous for its granite cliffs and Giant Sequoia groves, Yosemite National Park is 720,540 feddans in total area, of which 49,514 feddans is the well-known Yosemite Valley. The Park is known as the home of Yosemite Falls — the highest waterfall in North America and sixth highest in the world at 739 m (2,420 ft)
It's about four-and-a-half times as big as Washington, D.C.
The size of Washington, D.C. is about 42,100 feddans.
(formally the District of Columbia, a.k.a. Washington, a.k.a. the District, a.k.a. DC) (United State)
The United States' capital and only federal district, Washington, D.C. is a 42,100 feddans area located between the states of Virginia and Maryland. Washington, D.C. is known as the center of each of the three branches of the United States federal government and as home to many of the nation's monuments, museums, and foreign embassies.
It's about one-fifth as big as Rhode Island
The size of Rhode Island is about 952,587 feddans.
(a.k.a. The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a.k.a. RI) (United States)
The "Ocean State," Rhode Island measures 952,587 feddans in total area. Several large bays totaling 644,158 feddans make up 32.4% of its total area.
It's about one-fifth as big as Kangaroo Island
The size of Kangaroo Island is about 1,049,000 feddans.
(a.k.a. Karta) (state of South Australia, Australia)
Kangaroo Island, off the southern coast of Australia, measures 1,049,000 feddans in total area. The island is famous for its ligurian bee colonies, exporting over 100 tonnes of honey each year.
It's about one-fifth as big as Fort Bliss
The size of Fort Bliss is about 1,080,000 feddans.
(near Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas)
Fort Bliss is the United States Army's second-largest installation with a total area of 1,080,000 feddans. It is known as the largest TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) site, the Army's largest maneuver area, and the country's largest contiguous tract of open airspace.