> an area nearly as large as Kuwait.
Do journalists all have some tool where they enter the number of acres something is, and it tells them the state or country that's the closest in size?
Do journalists all have some tool where they enter the number of acres something is, and it tells them the state or country that's the closest in size?
About 0.2 Wales or 1.3 Rhode Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(area)
It only has a few examples for each order of magnitude, so in this case we'd get just "between Jamaica and Belgium". Still, I find these pages useful for getting a general idea of what something means, and as fodder for further researching evocative comparisons.
The bad decision over there was doing it a second time for made up reasons.