On: The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude ...

[sgillen]

Looking at China and India, I forget how big the US actually is compared to an average country. Same goes for our abundant natural resources which we don’t really talk about much (in the media at least).

[patfla → sgillen]

Yes China and the US are basically the same size in area. India is smaller. What, to my mind, gets paid less attention is that the US is, in fact, the 3rd most populous nation in the world.

[djsumdog → patfla]

Yea and it's a sizeable gap too. You're going from billions of people to ~330 million.

If you look at Australia, it's got almost the same land mass, but it's under 40 million people .. and much of that land is totally inhabitable too.

[endorphone → sgillen]

I'm curious what you mean relative to China. China is almost the same size as the US (10 million square kilometers) as the US, though of course normal distorted projections make the US look much larger.

[jamiek88 → endorphone]

With over a billion people! That’s the point the US is huge, massive urban areas and modern wealth yet it’s old fashioned commodity wealth is still massive.

Easy to forget the sheer scale.

[sgillen → endorphone]

Yeah sorry I was referring to people. Although the US is a massive landmass too which I also forget sometimes.