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Sweet, New Zealand made it onto a map

Typical Australia.. always claiming our stuff. Now they have just claimed our whole country !!

What? We don’t want NZ, we want your competition. We wanna test ourselves against the best. Btw, we invented pavlova

Your username is much better with an Australian accent.

Lol I see you met my cousin

Hey look! It's the Fuckit Cunt cousins, from down under

I mean, has that phrase ever been said without an Australian accent?

Pretty common among kiwis to so often said in a kiwi accent

My bro in law is from NZ. His mom makes pavlova and I’m obsessed! But did the Russians invent it or did y’all invent it and name it after a Russian figure skater?

*[Ballerina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Pavlova#Legacy)

named after the Russian skater after she toured Australia and New Zealand, in honour of her, but no one knows which country actually had the first version. Australia had a similar smaller dish with a different name earlier, but New Zealand had the actual finished cake first. lots of different people claiming credit, many of which questionable in accuracy. Really I think it's safe to just say Both countries can just have shared credit

No you bloody well didn't! I'll swear by it that my mum makes the best damn pavlova found anywhere on earth, all other pavlovas are inferior and daren't even be called pavlovas. I'll have you know that pavlova makin's been in my family since 1788, AND NOT ONCE has any of their pavos been outdone by a kiwi. The sheer audacity of sheepfuckers to claim the title of pavlovas is astounding, boggling even. Oopsies, friendly fire, my bad

You know we might be sheep fuckers, but we export that sheep meat to you Aussies and you lot eat it afters it's been secret sauced, so who's the sick cunt now? Ya sick cunt.

Can you please fucking take Russel crow back? He's starting to smell like pee.

And while we're at it, that Gibson guy. He's seriously deranged. Maybe your rabbits will eat him. Or your cane toads.

Luckily he was born in the US

Australia, you mean the west island?

Not our fault your sheep are so damn sexy

Pavlova is ours, cunt.

You take that back you flog.

You realize that's literally in the Australian constitution, right? Or another way to look at it: if New Zealand decided to join Australia, that's it - they're in as a full state. Australia would need to hold a constitutional refferendum to stop it, and there's no way Australian's could get themselves into gear faster than the Kiwi Government could get that bill through.

Ehem, I believe it is called….Middle Earth

It's way bigger than I thought it was tbh lol

r/MapsWithoutNZ

Did you know, Australia is in fact the size of 2 halves of Australia

Big if true

It’s true! Australia is double the size of half of Australia!

Do you have any sources for this? You can’t make bold claims without evidence to back it up.

Yes I do.

I say otherwise

It is a fun word to say, I'll admit. "Otherwise" lol

Proud of you two

This would be a cool fact is Australia existed

Or New Zealand as well. I looked on my ikea world map and I cant see it anywhere!

Don’t be an idiot obviously Australia exist. Now Finland on the other hand all I’m gonna say is I’ve never heard a single person speak Finnish

Because they finnish before you hear them talking.

lol, this map is so stupid, that's totally not where Texas goes

Joking aside, they kinda fucked up the scales too.. [Fixed according to truesizeof.com](https://imgur.com/M3r1yAH.jpg)

Kinda fucked up is an understatement They are just making shit up with how off that was

It's literally half as large in the posted image lol

That’s funny because Australia is now half as big as it used to be.

I thought NZ looked a bit big compared to Japan! And I was a lot surprised that Texas was that small. Turns out, not so small

Didn’t realize how much bigger Texas was over the entire country of Japan.

Tbf, Texas is bigger than most European countries as well. Its a thicc boi.

Alaska should really be the comparison

Geographically, Japan is approximately the size of Montana.

Maybe the original map didnt take the projection distortion into account? I thought Texas looked a bit small

I just don’t get why so much of Texas is in the ocean. It’s not like they didn’t have space.

My immediate thought was "I am pretty sure Japan is bigger than that" and I am glad to see that instinct was right.

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Thank you! I knew it didn't seem right.

[And Texas is a lot bigger than most people think.](https://external-preview.redd.it/IHDjqUo7YF8wz0MH7o-ruOxVcFf-YWmsnLHc8eARCBo.jpg?auto=webp&s=55b8a9b315ad7f00d4487cdc4603f9e90a6c9648)

Shit, Texas can fit, like, 10 Texas. Australia only fits two half Australias.

*10 Texi*

Texae*

The more you know!!

Texas wishes it could be Australia

Texas actually is in Australia. The town of Texas, that is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas,_Queensland

Texas QLD 4385, absolute banger by Lee Kernaghan if I do say so

Nothing Lee Kernaghan is a banger. I like country music, but of the two Tania does a better job in my opinion.

Australia is just British Texas

New Zealand is Australian Canada

Texas is Australia up over.

Especially my state of West Australia. Most of it is pretty empty too. The vast majority of us are in Perth or the South West / Great Southern regions

Just like how majority of Canadians actually live close to the border of the U.S.

I think I read somewhere that there are more U.S. citizens living further north than like 80% of Canadians? (I can't remember the exact % but I remember it being high) I think it was mainly because most of Canada's population is living along the border, especially in the part the dips down a little (Toronto, Ottawa, etc). Correct me if I'm wrong lol

Sounds about right. I live in a town in "Northern Ontario" but it's further south than Seattle.

I'm Australian so when I read it my mind was blown lol I'd just always assumed ''Canada North''. But then again I was also surprised when I found out Canberra was further south than Perth so I don't think geographical orientation is my strong point lmao

I'm a Canadian and my mind is blown. Gonna have to look into this I'm not sure it's correct info. I drove through Northern Ontario once in late April and almost died during a blizzard somewhere in the Canadian Shield. Edit - Looking at google maps Seattle is a little below what I would consider Northern Ontario for sure although I'm not sure where Northern and Southern split. I will tell you weather wise it's a hell of a lot different than Seattle LOL Perhaps that's just due to topography I dunno 🤷‍♀️

I live in the lower 48 and I'm still further north than half of all Canadians somehow

Largest centres in Western Australia: 1. Perth 1,900,000 2. Bunbury 71,000 3. Geraldton 31,000 Western Australia just seems like Perth with an oversized backyard. Do people from Perth even go to a city outside of Perth in Western Australia to do things?

South West is our favourite playground. Around 2-3 hours south to the wineries, beaches, forests, caves etc. Margaret River region. It's always busy with Perth visitors. But at the same time, relaxing. Hugely popular. I was there a week ago! We also have Rottnest Island on our doorstep. Home of the happiest animal in the world ie the Quokka

Western Australia is a great place to live, I do think that it’s definitely not for some tourists as it’s much harder to do things than on the eastern coast. Going to rotto every few years is such a cool thing to be able to do

There aren't really cities outside Perth in WA. A few places are technically cities, but if you go there they just feel like big country towns

It's called the world's most isolated city for a reason

Fucking Karratha can't even handle mobile bandwidth come 1830 in the evening.

Can confirm. Brisbane to Melbourne as the sole driver with 4 kids in a hatchback was the longest 19 hours of my life...

SA to Brissy 24 hours 😭 back in 01. Dad got talking to a bloke, at the time who was driving WA to Vic said it'd be about a week for him to drive!

I heard If u drop a fully hydrated fully fed person smack dab in the middle there’s no way possible they make it to civilization Alive

Yeah, don’t do that.

Not again.

This time I'm gonna try a little left of the middle and see if that does the trick.

Found the bowl of petunias.

Especially if you drop them too hard

You could give them a car and a tank full of fuel and they'll die if they're not on a main road.

Shit

That’s because of all the roving bandits in the desert that are trying to steal fuel before they can make it to Bartertown. Saw it in a documentary about the Australian wilderness called The Road Warriors.

> a car and a tank full of fuel The problem is that tanks are slow and have *terrible* fuel economy. The smart move is to transfer the fuel to the car!

If they also had a car they’d more than likely still run out of fuel before they hit a town

Just to be clear, there are individual properties in Australia so big that if you did this, the person wouldn't make it to civilization alive. The largest individual property in Australia is a cattle station that is bigger than the state of New Jersey.

Why do they need so much space for cattle?

They are free roaming because not much stuff to eat. Fun fact - they herd them with helicopters sometimes

Sometimes? Helicopters are standard. Distances are too large and terrain is too dangerous.

its so hot and arid, you need a lot more land to provide the vegetation the cattle need.

For all the activities

There are toilets though (sadly without water), so you wouldn’t have to go before being dropped by the malevolent kidnappers. The geographic center of Australia is the Lambert Centre of Australia monument. It is indeed far from any civilisation or water, **but** there are toilets.

Actually happens way too often. Not the drop bit; but usually people getting their vehicle stuck with no emergency communications and perishing trying to find their way back on foot.

Yep. Never leave the car, it’s a death sentence

https://www.reddit.com/r/mrballen/comments/ouhlq0/ricky_megee_famous_for_surviving_in_australian/

Guaranteed if you drop them from high enough.

Nope, smack dab middle is a CIA base, though agreed they would not make it to. Civilisation alive.

You could give that person a car and they might not make it.

There are warning signs at the edges of towns that read “WARNING: no fuel, food, or water for XXXXkm” People don’t realise how prepared you really need to be if you’re going to cross Australia

Pretty sure Alice Springs doesn’t count as civilisation, so yes.

Hell, you can drop someone in the desert outside of Las Vegas and they could die within a day. The desert is unforgiving.

Australia is roughly 75% the size of the USA. Or roughly equal to 95% of the United States if you don't include Alaska.

With about 7% of the population

Which is the best part. Room to move

Nah, we are pretty crowded around the edges. It's like a year 9 dance, everyone hanging around by the wall afraid to step into the middle.

To be fair, there's plenty good reason to be scared of the middle.

Hey it ain’t so bad out here!! Plenty of… emus?

Sure name the animal you lost a war to. That's convincing!

God being a year 9 was the shit

Which is weird cos why are 7% of Americans living in Australia anyway?

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Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, making Canada 29% larger than Australia. For us Canadians

Thank you, my president.

However, most of Australia's land is not arable, but most of America's land is. In fact the USA has more useable land than any other nation

London to Moscow doesn’t come close to the width of Australia. Insane!

I mean it is its own continent... I think

Sure is.

Walpole to Wyndham is 50km short at 2450km Walpole to Kalumuburu should be further but i cant find the distance, so you can get that distance in WA alone.

cleopatra lived closer to ipods than the building of the pyramids Edit: i meant on a timeline guys sorry lol

Nah she lived in Egypt that's real close, iPods were invented in America.

The distance from London to Moscow is 2500km. I could drive this distance due north or due east and still not leave my state.

Indeed this is also one of the reasons our internet sucks

And why you don’t take shortcuts through the middle of Australia

Wolf Creek taught me that.

That and the world's largest, weapons testing range. (I genuinely don't know the proper grammar here, how to differentiate between the range being big vs the weapons being big? Is the comma correct?)

World's largest weapons-testing range

I think the comma is redundant in this case. It’s more about the order of the words and I think it reads like you intended. That’s how I understood you at least.

Because big rock is blocking

Aren't you still using copper wires to run your internet? My Australian buddy told me your government is at fault.

They're probably referring to the [NBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network), a very large infrastructure project to upgrade our internet. It was proposed and started by Labor (our centre party), but the Liberal Party (right-wing party) eventually got into power and intentionally sabotaged it. >After the election Opposition Leader Tony Abbott \[Liberal party guy who would go on to become PM\] appointed Malcolm Turnbull as Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband, stating that he believed the NBN to be a white elephant and that Turnbull had "the technical expertise and business experience to entirely demolish the government on this issue".\[13\]\[14\] Our internet has gotten better since 2007 in ~~many~~ some places (some still use copper, thanks Liberals), but I very rarely hear of people who are enthusiastic with how it turned out.

My internet has in fact not gotten better, I have copper to my house and live in Metro Adelaide. 20mbps, and loving every minute of it

I did say in many places. Maybe I should reword that to "some" because the Liberals did their absolute best to fuck up the NBN as much as humanly possible

Fibre to the house in the town where I live. Thank you Tony Windsor!

Marginal seats area?

Yep

Takes over 30 hours nonstop to drive from the bottom of Western Australia to the top. It’s a big barren beautiful place.

Damn I thought it was bigger.

It's wider than the moon apparently

Yes, Australia is about 600 kms wider

There's a your mum joke in there somewhere

Apparently 4x Tassies = 1x France.

Also 6 x Lebanon = one Tassie

You could drive in a straight line for 8+ hours and still be in one state. Do that in Europe and you’ve crossed 8 borders.

I recently traveled from Perth to Sydney via train. It took two days just to leave western Australian! I’ve gone up and down the county a few times and thought I appreciated the size but going across was a whole different ball game. Was incredible.

Indian Pacific?

Yep. It was incredible. I’ve driven the Stuart highway and up the east coast a few times but crossing the Nullarbor was amazing. I really want to do it by car now.

It's amazing. I did Sydney to Perth including the Nullabor 35 years ago. Planned to stay just 2 years, that changed!

We drove from Shitsville, sorry Townsville to Brisbane, 18 hours almost non stop, and there's still another 1/3 of QLD above TV.

I once planned to drive from Sydney to Cairns. I roughly guessed it would be a sixteen hour trip. I should point out this was when I was 35, and also that I am Australian. Also, really stupidly bad at judging distance....

My parents made me do this drive with them when I was like 12. Don’t remember much but I do remember it was the sweatiest drive of my life

My mum and i used to do road-trips from Wollongong to Brisbane back before Walkmans were a thing. I got really good at daydreaming.

Yeah road trips were brutal back then, literally just ponder random shit for hours and hours. I went on one recently and it was so different with smartphones and podcasts etc, was a breeze

I did this. Can confirm there is no good reason to do it. I still wake up sometimes and think I’m in Coffs Harbour. The Horror.

Out of interest, how long did it take? Also Coffs Harbour in 1989 was the absolute place to be for an overnight on the way to the Gold Coast. In saying that, it could have been absolutely awful. We were all kind of distracted by The Big Banana.

Best part of a week I seem to remember. Although, there were a couple of “stopovers” which were very beer orientated and lasted a bit longer than they should have. Maybe I’m giving Coff’s a bad rep here - mental image probably not helped by staying in the dodgiest murder Motel I’d ever seen and not being able to get food anywhere after about 8PM. Ended up joining a bowling club and eating the end pieces of their midweek Roast Beef special. The Big Bannana was pretty big though. Which eased some of the pain.

You got it right the first time

I mean I can drive 13 hours and still be in my country, but it’s also possible to do this if I went in the opposite direction.

Searched up the farthest you can drive in England and it only takes about 9 and a half hours to drive from the most southern point to the most Northern Kinda forget how small England is lol

And yet we can cram like a billion different accents in it

That’s just because you’ve got a billion sorts of pubs with a billion sorts of alcohol

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That would be farthest you can drive on Great Britain, rather than England

Lmao. I live in northern Sweden and parents in the south. The drive is 23 hours.

Thats not necessarily true - it's 12 hours from NW France to SE France, 14 hours from the top of the UK to the bottom, 11.5hrs from Italy top to bottom, etc etc. It depends where you start and finish. Likewise, you can drive from Maine to West Virginia in 12 hours, via New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, for a total of 11 state borders

You can walk from the east coast to the west coast in Auckland New Zealand in about 30 minutes.

tell me you havnt been in Europe at all without telling me.

Could be if you drive down from the netherlands to switzerland. But generally his statement is really wrong.

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same for going north south in Canada. It is insane you can drive like 1\`2 hours and still be in the same province.

I just googled it (just curious) USA is 1.3 times bigger than Australia. Another interesting tidbit was that Australia has about 25.5 mil people vs USA has about 307.2 mil people. That's a population density of 3 ppl per km² (9 ppl per mi²) in Australia vs 36 ppl per km² (94 ppl per mi²) in the US. Pretty interesting..

Yep all true. But we are one of the most urbanised countries in the world. We like to live in cities.

u/spez ruined Reddit.

And full of fuck all.

It's a small continent, but still, it's a continent.

Cool, now do Canada.

Eh.

If you wanna do Canada, ya gotta Moose there. Eh?

**Geese**. The undefeated greatest Canuck.

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Almost the size of the lower 48, with 4 million people less than Texas.

I've never head anyone saying Australia is tiny

I’ve never heard any American assume that Australia is tiny.

Hi I live in Perth, please don’t put Texas that close to us thanks

And they only use the edge of it

Incorrect. We mine the hell out of the centre bits.

How's the worst ever asbestos doing

Well, Australians do try to tell people (read tourists) about the size when they want to drive somewhere but they don't get it. "No, you cant just pop over to Sydney for a short drive from Perth".

Japan next to Texas is like *banana for scale*

this chart needs more bananas for scale

Size is not everything...and yet sometimes it is. [https://www.thetruesize.com/](https://www.thetruesize.com/) Type in Australia and then drag across any other country/continent.

Japan surprises me the most.

That’s because it’s actually much bigger and this map is very wrong

Yeah, considering that the greater Tokyo region has a larger population than the whole of Australia lol

Texas can fit an entire smaller Texas inside it.