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It's about thirty times as big as Christchurch
The size of Christchurch is about 726,000,000 square yards.
(a.k.a Ōtautahi) (urban area) (New Zealand)
Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand's gateway to Antarctica, measures 726,000,000 square yards in total area.
It's about thirty times as big as Chicago
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The size of Chicago is about 703,500,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. The Windy City, a.k.a. Chi-town, a.k.a. Second City, a.k.a. Chicagoland) (Illinois)
The largest city in Illinois and the twenty-third-largest city in the United States as of 2009, Chicago measures 703,500,000 square yards in total area. The city is known as a major Global Financial Center and as host to O'Hare International, the second busiest airport in the world.
It's about thirty times as big as The Isle of Man
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The size of The Isle of Man is about 684,000,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Mannin, a.k.a. Ellan Vannin, a.k.a. Mann)
The Isle of Man, a self-governing territory of England, measures 684,000,000 square yards in total area. The territory of the Isle of Man also includes the small island of Chicken Rock, which adds an additional 1,200 square yards.
It's about one-thirty-fifth as big as Texas
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The size of Texas is about 831,955,950,000 square yards.
(United States)
The "Lone Star State," Texas measures 831,955,950,000 square yards in total area. Texas covers so much area that Texarkana — a city in the state's northeastern corner — is about 30 km closer to Chicago, Illinois, than it is to El Paso — in the western corner of Texas.
It's about 40 times as big as San Jose
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The size of San Jose is about 542,000,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Capital of Silicon Valley) (California)
The third-largest city in California as of 2009, San Jose measures 542,000,000 square yards in total area. The city is known for its large technology industry.
It's about 50 times as big as The Isle of Wight
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The size of The Isle of Wight is about 464,000,000 square yards.
(England, United Kingdom)
The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel, just off the English mainland, measures 464,000,000 square yards 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 55 times as big as Detroit
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The size of Detroit is about 430,000,000 square yards.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 430,000,000 square yards 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 55 times as big as Philadelphia
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The size of Philadelphia is about 418,500,000 square yards.
(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 418,500,000 square yards 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 60 times as big as Dublin
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The size of Dublin is about 379,700,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 379,700,000 square yards. 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 70 times as big as Edinburgh
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The size of Edinburgh is about 316,000,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 316,000,000 square yards. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about 85 times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
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The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 269,500,000 square yards.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 269,500,000 square yards 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 9,448,000 square yards.
It's about one-ninetieth as big as Alaska
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The size of Alaska is about 2,054,536,600,000 square yards.
(United States)
The "Last Frontier," Alaska measures 2,054,536,600,000 square yards in total area. Alaska is home to over 100,000 glaciers — half of the world's total — including the Bering Glacier complex near the southeastern border of Alaska, which covers 6,972,622,000 square yards.
It's about 100 times as big as Washington, D.C.
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The size of Washington, D.C. is about 212,000,000 square yards.
(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 212,000,000 square yards 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 150 times as big as Hilton Head
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The size of Hilton Head is about 130,198,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Hilton Head Island) (South Carolina)
Hilton Head Island measures 130,195,000 square yards in total land area. The island (and city of the same name) is located in the Atlantic Ocean and is known as popular vacation destination.
It's about 200 times as big as Disney World
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The size of Disney World is about 121,000,000 square yards.
(a.k.a. Walk Disney World Resort, a.k.a. Walt Disney World, a.k.a. WDW) (Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida) (total site)
Disney World currently occupies 121,000,000 square yards. Part of the former total area of 144,000,000 square yards now comprises the Disney planned community of Celebration, Florida.
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