>You could fit Europe inside the US.
If we're considering contiguous US, then no.
Europe is 3.93 million square miles.
Contiguous US is 3.15 million square miles.
If we're considering contiguous US, then no.
Europe is 3.93 million square miles.
Contiguous US is 3.15 million square miles.
As a non-contiguous later addition, with a small population, where statistically nobody lives there per sq mile, and is not pertinent to the discussion of population density as related to infrastructure problems?
Except in what's holding US bureucratic efficiency down (what we were discussing), and requires spending inflated federal budgets for little returns, Alaska is a big factor relative to its size...