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I like playing Map Fight: https://mapfight.appspot.com/ with friends. After playing it for a while you get a pretty good feeling for most countries' relative size.

What are the rules of the game? That is how do you "play" it?

Texas to Minnesota fits India so well. Ganges just south of great lakes, India's south eastern border roughly following Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

True fact: texas is larger than the USA

What are you smoking? Texas is part of USA. A part cannot be bigger than the whole.

Now, if you said Texas Fact: Texas is larger than the USA, I would have bought into your humor

you are using euclidian geometry rather than texas geometry

Indeed. Another slightly less well known true fact is that the standard hotel Texas waffle is larger than Rhode Island.

To be fair, Rhode Island is all syrup no pancake.

I think the size of North America in general is underappreciated.