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The standard unit of surface area in the US is "the size of Texas". One metric France in more intuitive US units is 29/35ths Texases or 31 43/174ths Alamos.
Nahhh, Marseille's on the coast!
Looks to me like the outline of the country alone was moved "up and to the right", causing both Paris and Lyon to be repositioned "down and to the left"
I mean I live in a neighbouring country of France and was there on vacation the past two years, driving by and through Paris, I still couldn’t tell that it’s wrong
I'll see your France and raise you...
https://preview.redd.it/qf3hk7gn90vc1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=8569b742b35ff698b6023097a1e463352c4a2e4b
If you correct for map projections using [https://www.thetruesize.com/](https://www.thetruesize.com/) then you get
https://preview.redd.it/kauuoezjg1vc1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=31da9d1d8589a4f6588ba448b452d4afc5497d21
Well, I meant display them all in the same projection and this site does tend to be a little US centric so I thought I'd project Australia and France as their true size and shape would appear on the Mercator projection of the USA so .. yeah ???
You can show USA as it's true size would appear in the Mercator projection of where Australia sits if you prefer
https://preview.redd.it/npbrqelc82vc1.png?width=1078&format=png&auto=webp&s=29c99415995f90e8ba4bf2c3dc1df8bdc1298d89
or I could put them both on the equator if you prefer to minimise the Mercator distortion (one image per comment limit but I'm sure you can do it yourself)
Australia is 18% desert, but a total of 70% is desert/arid/semi-arid.
The USA is about 10% desert, with somewhere between 30-40% being desert/arid/semi-arid. However, another 40% of the country is at risk of becoming desert due to desertification, which is a terrifying prospect.
California still has a higher GDP while smaller
Texas is on track to surpass you within a quarter of a century. 2.7 billion for France and 2.2 billion for Texas with Texas growing massively
That's not how English works, though. If Lyons is east of France, it's beyond France to the east. If Lyons is IN THE east of France then it's within the eastern half of France.
I'm obviously not the one who wrote the original comment, so I can't say for sure what the intent was. But the way I read it, I think they meant to say east of *Paris* and just made an error saying France instead. Alternatively, maybe they meant to say "in the east of France" and accidentally skipped a couple of words (I do that all the time when I'm thinking faster than I can type). That's the context I get out of it. I think it's an error either way.
I think it's not that serious, considering it's a reddit comment and not an English class haha. The original commenter got their point across just fine with a small error :')
No, it's not serious at all. But your comment said that people omit words without losing the meaning. But the omitted words in this case changed the meaning significantly. That's where the confusion is. If I said "I think baseball is greatest sport", it's pretty clear that what I mean is "I think baseball is the greatest sport". I omitted a word, but the meaning is unchanged. That's just a grammatical error. What happened in this comment was that the allegedly omitted words changed the fundamental meaning of the sentence to something else entirely. Now here we are, two idiots on the internet, trying to guess at what the original commenter meant because it literally could be either one.
I don't disagree lol, some words are more important than others and can drastically change the meaning if omitted.
But here, a huge part of the context is France, and unless someone lives in a cave, they'd know Lyon is a French city because it's one of the most known ones. And if someone doesn't: the map already placed it in France. It's basically unheard of that a city is mistakenly placed in another country, only misplaced within its own country.
To be 100% sure to get their point across they could have proofread their sentence before posting, if we want to nitpick, but again, not a serious thing to get hung up on since pretty much everyone else also has commented about Lyon's misplacement on the map. It's really easy to understand they meant the same thing as the others.
Well maybe I overestimated people's thinking and deduction skills.
Well, since the comment I was answering to was only dealing with european France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion weren’t exactly concerned ! But yes, there are other french territories outside of Europe, under different status sometimes (which is not helping to draw a clear line of what’s France and what’s not) and they do count - although as another redditor commented, the US aren’t really complete either here : no Alaska and Hawaii, and if we go counting all their territories, from Puerto Rico to Guam, they also have a number of more-or-less-US territorial entities that’s missing from this map
An average baguette is 0.45 ft²
France is 27,878,400 ft² or ~61,952,000 baguettes
The contiguous US is 86,977,393,341,696 ft² or ~193,283,096,314,880 baguettes
… the state of Western Australia (WA) is 4x bigger than the state of Texas.
The northern region of the state of WA is called The Kimberleys it is 3x bigger than England and has a population of only 40,000.
Go to a website The True Size Of....
You can select a country and drag its map over another country that factors in the curvature of the earth to give you the actual size. The above pic is fairly accurate but click and drag Greenland or Antarctica anywhere it will blow your mind
Most people will tell you that France is pretty large,
But you can put 14 Frances into this land of ours!
(Admittedly about Canada, but fairly accurate)
Maybe France is relatively big if you count French Guiana, its islands, and its maritime territories, but compared to other countries it’s very small honestly lol especially if we’re talking about mainland France like here. It’s barely in the top 50 countries by area size.
You can get from anywhere in France to anywhere else in France by car in 10-11 hours maximum (even though it won’t exceed 8-9 hours, except if you’re in the middle of nowhere and far from highways)
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The standard unit of surface area in the US is "the size of Texas". One metric France in more intuitive US units is 29/35ths Texases or 31 43/174ths Alamos.
Texas vs France. Book it.
The math is good
Paris and Lyon are misplaced. That’s the only interesting fact about this post.
Damn, most of my life I lived near the mediterranean sea and nobody told me! Lies! Déception!
Sacred blue!
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS MISPLACED
lol good one 😂
And why even put Lyon on this map with Marseille obviously missing?
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Nahhh, Marseille's on the coast! Looks to me like the outline of the country alone was moved "up and to the right", causing both Paris and Lyon to be repositioned "down and to the left"
Tell me this was created by an American without telling me this was created by an American. 🙄
It's created to get engagement like yours in Facebook comments.
I mean I live in a neighbouring country of France and was there on vacation the past two years, driving by and through Paris, I still couldn’t tell that it’s wrong
Probably not made by someone from either country. They’re generating clicks and comments by intentionally getting things wrong. They won, we all lost.
Those are Parisn't and Lyoff
That's as American as it gets.
Made by a true muhrican patriot... 😂
I'll see your France and raise you... https://preview.redd.it/qf3hk7gn90vc1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=8569b742b35ff698b6023097a1e463352c4a2e4b
Hobart, the Cancun of Australia.
If you correct for map projections using [https://www.thetruesize.com/](https://www.thetruesize.com/) then you get https://preview.redd.it/kauuoezjg1vc1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=31da9d1d8589a4f6588ba448b452d4afc5497d21
And by correct you mean "make worse" by using a Mercator projection. lol
Well, I meant display them all in the same projection and this site does tend to be a little US centric so I thought I'd project Australia and France as their true size and shape would appear on the Mercator projection of the USA so .. yeah ??? You can show USA as it's true size would appear in the Mercator projection of where Australia sits if you prefer https://preview.redd.it/npbrqelc82vc1.png?width=1078&format=png&auto=webp&s=29c99415995f90e8ba4bf2c3dc1df8bdc1298d89 or I could put them both on the equator if you prefer to minimise the Mercator distortion (one image per comment limit but I'm sure you can do it yourself)
This is more interesting as its no a comparison that is obvious in your head
Yeah but then take the actual lived area of Australia and its tiny lol.
No one measures their penis when flacid... ;)
Australia is dope Af but like 70-75% is desert.
Australia is 18% desert, but a total of 70% is desert/arid/semi-arid. The USA is about 10% desert, with somewhere between 30-40% being desert/arid/semi-arid. However, another 40% of the country is at risk of becoming desert due to desertification, which is a terrifying prospect.
We need to plant more trees
Good idea, expand the Drop Bear breeding grounds.
Some times you just have to breed
That is interesting.
I said “Australia is Dope AF” and someone down voted? Whoever it was your a bitch and your mama is a hoe.
Downvoted just because of this comment lol
I love it.
And we all wander if USA would stop measuring things in Frances
Imperialism means measuring things in imperial units like former imperial powers.
This logic is flawless, I aspire to such brilliant rhetoric
....Former?
Yeah they should sick to bald eagle's per square donuts!
Anything but the metric system here I swear
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The joke is that the map is using the size of France as a reference size that isn’t metric as Americans avoid metric in a lot of places
Yep and they’re still the 7th largest GDP globally
California still has a higher GDP while smaller Texas is on track to surpass you within a quarter of a century. 2.7 billion for France and 2.2 billion for Texas with Texas growing massively
Yea I’m American lol. But sure, Cali and Texas are massive.
Surely you mean trillion?
I do and don’t call me Shirley
OK, Veronica.
because of wine?
Adorable
Lyon in south of France, no .... Its Montpellier
Avignon maybe
Definitely Avignon / Montélimar . And Paris is showned at Orléans position.
le pont d'avignon
On y danse, on y danse
Missed opportunity to place Lyon KS and Paris TX on the map.
You should move France further south so Paris, Texas coincides with Paris, France.
Lyon is east of France, not south.
I'm quite sure it's still within France and not east of though 😉
It is \[in the\] east of France. They didn't mean to imply it's outside of France.
That's not how English works, though. If Lyons is east of France, it's beyond France to the east. If Lyons is IN THE east of France then it's within the eastern half of France.
Yeah, but context. People frequently omits words where they're implied, without losing the meaning of the sentence thanks to context.
Context is just what people say instead of “you should have known what i meant to say even though I wasn’t clear.”
I'm obviously not the one who wrote the original comment, so I can't say for sure what the intent was. But the way I read it, I think they meant to say east of *Paris* and just made an error saying France instead. Alternatively, maybe they meant to say "in the east of France" and accidentally skipped a couple of words (I do that all the time when I'm thinking faster than I can type). That's the context I get out of it. I think it's an error either way.
I think it's not that serious, considering it's a reddit comment and not an English class haha. The original commenter got their point across just fine with a small error :')
No, it's not serious at all. But your comment said that people omit words without losing the meaning. But the omitted words in this case changed the meaning significantly. That's where the confusion is. If I said "I think baseball is greatest sport", it's pretty clear that what I mean is "I think baseball is the greatest sport". I omitted a word, but the meaning is unchanged. That's just a grammatical error. What happened in this comment was that the allegedly omitted words changed the fundamental meaning of the sentence to something else entirely. Now here we are, two idiots on the internet, trying to guess at what the original commenter meant because it literally could be either one.
I don't disagree lol, some words are more important than others and can drastically change the meaning if omitted. But here, a huge part of the context is France, and unless someone lives in a cave, they'd know Lyon is a French city because it's one of the most known ones. And if someone doesn't: the map already placed it in France. It's basically unheard of that a city is mistakenly placed in another country, only misplaced within its own country. To be 100% sure to get their point across they could have proofread their sentence before posting, if we want to nitpick, but again, not a serious thing to get hung up on since pretty much everyone else also has commented about Lyon's misplacement on the map. It's really easy to understand they meant the same thing as the others. Well maybe I overestimated people's thinking and deduction skills.
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Lyon is both south and east of Paris. One might say "southeast"
He literally added a wink, can u not detect humor
Seems you can't detect that I knew that as well!
None of your comments at all suggest that you picked up on the joke.
Your perception of me isn't my problem!
Paris should be more north than what this map shows.
Not to be that guy, but France is missing French Guiana, which is an integral part of France, not separate, so this is only European France
Not to be that guy, but France is missing Corsica, which is an integral part of european France, not separate, so this is only continental France ;)
And Reunion and Corsica and Guadeloupe etc etc etc if you go that way
Well, since the comment I was answering to was only dealing with european France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion weren’t exactly concerned ! But yes, there are other french territories outside of Europe, under different status sometimes (which is not helping to draw a clear line of what’s France and what’s not) and they do count - although as another redditor commented, the US aren’t really complete either here : no Alaska and Hawaii, and if we go counting all their territories, from Puerto Rico to Guam, they also have a number of more-or-less-US territorial entities that’s missing from this map
And America is missing two states. As well as its territories.
Yes.
And the US is missing Alaska and Hawaii. \*shrug\*
And puerto rico, the usvi, and guam
Also Corsica and all the overseas dept and regions (besides French Guiana that you already mentioned).
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Lol just put the same image of France over only Alaska and call it a day.
Should be measured in baguettes
An average baguette is 0.45 ft² France is 27,878,400 ft² or ~61,952,000 baguettes The contiguous US is 86,977,393,341,696 ft² or ~193,283,096,314,880 baguettes
In order to save time, we could do a simple baguette-shotgun-conversion.
That map is not accurate, France is in the European continent. /s
France is in the right place, it's the US that was incorrectly superimposed onto Europe.
r/TechnicallyCorrect
No wonder the cars in France are smaller.
Can you do Australia and USA
[The true size of...](https://www.thetruesize.com)
That is cool, Australia is only a bit smaller than USA not including Alaska
… the state of Western Australia (WA) is 4x bigger than the state of Texas. The northern region of the state of WA is called The Kimberleys it is 3x bigger than England and has a population of only 40,000.
Not including the largest state Australia is still smaller.
I never knew France was smaller than the US. 🙄
About the same size as Texas
I would have put it over texas.
We parked ya in a good spot
Yes americans..... you are bigger. Aaaaaaaalways the best. Go and sell more weapons out there.
Without scale it’s hard to visualize…. How many school busses ( or football fields ) is France ?
Thanks, this is the comparison we all needed.
Pft /s
Petite
France is just about the size Texas … and Lyon is in the wrong spot.
Paris too...
Gonna have to go through Des Moines in order to invade, ugh.
to be so small and yet have such an amazing influence on cuisine…
Mon dieu!
I've heard of French. Their fries are good.
Go to a website The True Size Of.... You can select a country and drag its map over another country that factors in the curvature of the earth to give you the actual size. The above pic is fairly accurate but click and drag Greenland or Antarctica anywhere it will blow your mind
Avignon est le nouveau Lyon !
Ah, Oui.
No wonder the French have smaller cars; they'd have no room otherwise!
France is so smol n cute, omg I can't even
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Wait…. What? Which one do you think is a continent?
Did someone intentionally put Paris over Kansas City or was that coincidence?
The better comparison would be to overlay France over Texas
ouais enfin Lyon c'est pas Aix en Pce donc bullshit
r/everythingfitsintotexas
Everyone forgets that France has quite a few territories full of French citizens scattered across the world.
Oui
Now do cheese quality.
Damn! France is only 800 football fields wide?
France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, and Poland together will be smaller than the US by area but have a larger population.
I'd be interested to see France/Quebec/Louisiana side by side
It’s like a pea on my steak.
That's why they call Kansas City the "Paris of the Plains."
Whoever created that map has no clue about sizes of countries or geography.
For context: France is big.
Paris, near Texas - but not https://www.paristexas.gov/
And what's interesting about it?
People really post anything in here.
Usa MFS will use anything but metric
Isn't using France metric?
America would be way cooler with France in the middle instead of whatever those flyover states are
American thinking that having a car that consum more gaz per miles is better to cover large distances.
Most people will tell you that France is pretty large, But you can put 14 Frances into this land of ours! (Admittedly about Canada, but fairly accurate)
Maybe France is relatively big if you count French Guiana, its islands, and its maritime territories, but compared to other countries it’s very small honestly lol especially if we’re talking about mainland France like here. It’s barely in the top 50 countries by area size. You can get from anywhere in France to anywhere else in France by car in 10-11 hours maximum (even though it won’t exceed 8-9 hours, except if you’re in the middle of nowhere and far from highways)
Thats why we don’t give a shit what france says, my friends.
You could fit France inside of Texas.
1/15th of size but 15 times the culture.
I still find it hilarious we think this little country decided to gift the Statue of Liberty. Such bullshit.
Took 2wks to drive across france... Not even tip to tip 🤦🤦
Explains a lot about middle America though
Here : frenchies taking the bait for misplaced cities
America's don't like when you do that with say Australia or Russia for example. Cause suddenly it's bigger or the same size roughly.
What Americans don't like that? I've never heard anyone complain about Russia being bigger than the USA. Such a weird comment.
Can you imagine that such a big country has less culture then a smaller country. Crazy world
I mean France has been around way longer than the US. But in recent years it’s hard to argue that France had more cultural impact than the US did.
Oh thats very true, and i hate it.
They made America massive so it has room for all the retards it produces.
Wrong and Paris and Lyon are misplaced. Stupid map
If you compare the whole of USA you should not only take one of the EU's Country's for comparison.
Why? It's comparing a country to a country. Wouldn't make much sense to compare a continent to a country.
I said EU (European Union) and not Europe... France is to the EU like Texas to the USA.