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		yencabulator on April 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Big Is Mexico? You can put your fingers on the extremes of Europe, and then move your hand over to Americas.

simonh on April 14, 2023 [–]

You can do, but how many people actually do that in practice when building an understanding of the relative size of regions, relative to looking at them on a flat map?

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