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mac 9th February 2005 |
Antarctica is actually owned by a number of different countries and therefore can not really be considered an individual entity except as a continent. |
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Ron Klatt 9th February 2005 |
The claims on Antarctica are not recognized by most nations, therefore it is not "OWNED" by anyone but the rest of mac's statement is very accurate. It is not a country, it is however the fifth largest continent. Unfortunatley people he is right about Canada as a land mass (Edmonton, AB here). It is only 9,093,507 KM2 land with 891,163 Km2 fresh water (lakes and rivers) which equals O.J's magic 9.9M Km2 or 9,984,640 Km2 to be accurate. |
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sjc1963 4th March 2005 |
Canada is the 2nd largest nation in the world when based on volume and area. Canada also has the most fresh water than any one nation as well. About 9% of the world's fresh water supply. If you are only counting area that isn't covered by water than you have to exclude Antarctica totally since 99.9% of its surface is covered in water. Ice and snow are water. |
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Simon 1st April 2005 |
Lakes and rivers are part of a country's territory and are always included in the total land area. Canada's land area is: 9,976,139 km2. |
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bernie 1st April 2005 |
I followed many of these stats with interest, I even thought they were official until I clicked on to the "largest" page. Now, I know we eat a lot of junk food and are becoming larger but the USA is not yet larger than the second largest nation in in the world; "Canada" Do the research! Look at some official data like an encyclopedia. |
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A.C. 30th April 2005 |
jimbo, 140,000 species is nothing, not when it covers every type of organism. Canada has 193 mammals - Ecuador, at a fiftieth of its size, has 320. According to your source, Canada has 420 species of birds, Ecuador has over 2000. How about insects (which after all are about half the named species). Huge Canada, around 30,000, tiny Ecuador, over one million. |
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Lawless 24th May 2005 |
It's amazing that a country's general information page doesn't contain its land area. That's one of the most important things there are to know about a country. Finding a country's land area proved very difficult. |
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Brad 4th June 2005 |
Despite where this thread may go, size doesn't matter, so who cares if Canada is bigger than America or not. Let it go. |
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Lesismore 5th June 2005 |
Canada as far as I remember has always been #2 Russia (formally USSR) Canada and then China. This is what for many years we were taught in school. |
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anon. 8th June 2005 |
Canada is no 2 in *total* area, which includes much of the water sorrounding the islands north of it, and the great lakes. furthermore, the US has a lot of water in the great lakes and lakes around the country. that's why US and Canada are lower on the list than usual |
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Robbie 9th June 2005 |
For Dino. You say that the United States has more room for population growth, this is correct in terms of livable space, but the fact that Canada has roughly 34 million people we have more space to grow as oppossed to the United States, with over 230 million peoples. And if the States shouldn't have enough water for electrical or living needs, just buy it off Canada.... |
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Zym 19th June 2005 |
Canada is #2. Playing over lakes and waterways is idiotic. Do you count the mountain slopes and elevation changes into the land mass numbers? Russia, Canada, China, US,.... |
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Ron Klatt 16th July 2005 |
People he is right about Canada as a land mass (Edmonton, AB here). It is only 9,093,507 KM2 land with 891,163 Km2 fresh water (lakes and rivers) which equals O.J's magic 9.9M Km2 or 9,984,640 Km2 to be accurate. |
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Fred McGuinness 22nd July 2005 |
Your website has some large mistakes in it, you should consider revising it. Canada definitely has a larger land mass than china and the united states. |
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Mike 26th July 2005 |
Canada is the second largest country in the world. Simply no way around it. Ask anyone with a grade 4 education should be able to point that out by just looking at a simple map. However most Americans think Canada is nothing more than a small spec on the world since their "Huge Texan Hold 'Em" States are all they really know. It's a shame since we are side by side. |
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Johnson 4th October 2005 |
Even if you just count land area (not water), the other three sources I googled still put Canada second. |
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Chris 22nd October 2005 |
This site is full of misleading information. Word stuff how you will, I am informing my the Dean of Science at my university so it can be blacklisted as a source of reference. |
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Anoynoumous tipster 25th November 2005 |
Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world u douche of a site owner get the facts right u selfabsorbing american hippy. |
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Ahmed 14th December 2005 |
I would like to point one more mistake in your website. Sudan is the largest country in africa, thus it should placed before Algeria. |
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Shane Thompson (Arthur Nebraska) 11th October 2006 |
I think that US is the best damn state in the whole darn world. |
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Claire Shea (Canada) 25th January 2007 |
Dam Canadians need to shut there pie holes and go play some more hockey! |
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Patrick Perdu (Costa Rica) 8th May 2007 |
Funny enough, you list French territories but not France. How comes? |
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MacDougall (Ontario, Canada) 8th May 2007 |
Wow. What retards. Yea, America is definately bigger than Canada. Learn English, (not American) and learn that you are SMALLER than Canada. Not larger. Look at any reputable source besides your own shoddy website. |
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Nathan (Washington, US) 17th October 2007 |
Would you people please read the title of the list before posting that it is wrong. Canada is the second largest in TERRITORY, not actual land. Land is the rocks and unconsolidated materials not covered by water. Please look at an atlas or globe to see how much water there is in Canada. It has most of the world's lakes and is made up of many islands. Also, Antarctica has land under the ice and snow, the same as Alaska and Canada have land under their glaciers. The argument can also be made that, because ice meets the definition of a mineral, it should be counted as land, not water. |
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Vincent Chowa (Lusaka, Zambia) 6th December 2007 |
Yes Sudan is bigger than Algeria therefore it should be on top of Algeria. Your statistics are very good apart from minor errors. |
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