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>27 million people live on a continent the size of North America

What? North American is more than 3x the size of Australia.

> North [America] is more than 3x the size of Australia.

A generously loose interpretation of the original claim is that the continental US, rather than North America, is about the same size as Australia. Which is true.

The sizes match, but I’ve never heard someone use the North America to refer to the US. Someone else replied to the comment with “we also have a dessert almost as large as North America as well”.

I'm seeing 7.6m km^2 vs 9.8m km^2?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America

24,709,000 km^2

That’s the size of the US, not North America.

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