Have you ever taken the time to actually study a map of The Middle East? I have! As I looked at how miniscule Israel appears, in comparison to the hugeness of most of the other countries over there, I began wondering: "What is the relative size of these countries on the other side of the world, as compared to our 50 States?"

So, I spent all day and night, researching, reading, copying and pasting. then used my laptop calculator to figure the numbers out. Trust me, it was no small task!

Anyway, I saved the entire document in WORD, in html format and then came here to copy and paste it. Well, as per usual, this STUPID little BOX here that MATT MILLER refuses to FIX - WRAPS all the carefully formatted lines of text - AND - until you click "Update Work" and then Re-open the file under your Den, you don't have a clue as to whether or not the final Product will actually be correctly Readable - OR NOT!

SO - Pilgrims, if this works - GREAT! If NOT - like they used to say in the Russian Army - "Tough-gie-Shitz-sky!"

Perhaps I'm the only Idiot on this here Big Blue Marble that cares about such trivial B-S, but I was surprised as to how much bigger these countries are, when compared in this way.

While each of these Countries is a Sovereign Nation, or State - I also found it fascinating that OUR FEDERATION truly WORKS BETTER! Just think about it - we can drive from Coast to Coast without a Passport, or Visa, and still be in OUR COUNTRY!

NO BORDER GUARDS OR PATROLS to deal with! We really have it GREAT, don't we?

Those of you who may appreciate my efforts here, may feel free to COPY this article, if you wish. If someone knows that all this work has already been done, and is available online somewhere - please keep it to yourself, OK?

That's about it - nothing "Earth-shattering" just some interesting "poop" if you happened to be curious, like me and GEORGE!

OH - the Total for these 21 countries is approximately 3,558,000 Square Miles -

Our 50 States are about 5,985,000 - Almost TWICE the size - How about THAT ???

Ciao! Tom.

The Middle East Countries
Comparative Area Size
TOM HYLAND Page 1 10/27/06


Saudi Arabia 757,000 1.3 > Alaska (570.4 K) 1
Iran 636,300 5.6 > Arizona (113.6 K ) 6
Egypt 384,300 1.5 > Texas (262.0 K ) 2
Pakistan 349,600 2.9 > New Mexico (121.4 K) 5
Turkey 301,400 1.9 > California ( 156 K ) 3
Afghanistan 252,000 2.4 > Colorado ( 104 K ) 8
Yemen 203,900 2.1 > Wyoming ( 97.1 K ) 9
Turkmenistan 188,500 2.0 > Oregon ( 96 K ) 10
Iraq 168,300 2.0 > Utah ( 82.2 K ) 12
Oman 82,000 == ID 11, UT 12, KS 13
Syria 71,500 1.04 > ND 17, MO 18, OK 19
Jordan 35,600 == Indiana ( 35.9 ) 38
Azerbaijan 33,400 1.08 > Maine ( 30.9 K ) 39
United Arab Emirates 32,000 1.06 > S.Carolina ( 30.1 K )
Georgia 26,900 1.12 > W VA ( 24.1 K )
Armenia - 11,500 1.8 > Hawaii (6.4 K )
Israel 8,000 1.03 > Connecticut (4.8 K) 48
Kuwait 6,900 3.45 > Delaware ( 2.0 K ) 49
Qatar 4,400 4.4 > Rhode Is. ( 1.0 K ) 50
Lebanon 4,000 4.0 > Rhode Is. ( 1.0 K ) 50
Bahrain 260 4.0 < Rhode Is. ( 1.9 K ) 50

NOTES:
1. Square Miles obtained for Middle East Countries from: Wikipedia.com
2. For U.S. States from: http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/usabysiz.htm
3. Other than (2) == Equal To, and (1) < Less Than, ALL are expressed in > Greater Than.
4. Times Sizes are Rounded to two decimal places.
5. See Below for State Sizes.


USA States (ranked by size)

(revised 10/15/03)
State Rank

01 Alaska
02 Texas
03 California
04 Montana
05 New Mexico
06 Arizona
07 Nevada
08 Colorado
09 Wyoming
10 Oregon
11 Idaho
12 Utah
13 Kansas
14 Minnesota
15 Nebraska
16 South Dakota
17 North Dakota
18 Missouri
19 Oklahoma
20 Washington
21 Georgia
22 Michigan
23 Iowa
24 Illinois
25 Wisconsin
26 Florida
27 Arkansas
28 Alabama
29 North Carolina
30 New York
31 Mississippi
32 Pennsylvania
33 Louisiana
34 Tennessee
35 Ohio
36 Kentucky
37 Virginia
38 Indiana
39 Maine
40 South Carolina
41 West Virginia
42 Maryland
43 Vermont
44 New Hampshire
45 Massachusetts
46 New Jersey
47 Hawaii
48 Connecticut
49 Delaware
50 Rhode Island SquareMiles

570,374
261,914
155,973
145,556
121,365
113,642
109,806
103,729
97,105
96,003
82,751
82,168
81,823
79,617
77,122
75,898
68,994
68,898
68,679
66,582
57,918
56,809
55,875
55,593
54,314
53,997
52,075
50,750
48,718
47,223
46,914
44,820
43,566
41,200
40,953
39,732
39,598
35,870
30,865
30,111
24,087
9,775
9,249
8,969
7,838
7,418
6,423
4,845
1,955
1,045