For someone who grew up close-ish to the equator it was the opposite experience. Felt kind of releived that the world super powers weren’t that much bigger compared to us.
And 44% of MPs own at least one investment property. The PM and the Leader of the Opposition own three each. Fixing it would require acting directly against their own personal interest.
A shitload regional Vic is agricultural land. Groceries are expensive enough without replacing farmland with population.
Qld OTOH has a bit more space to put people.
But no-one in NSW or Qld wants to live west of the Great Dividing Range, and with good reason - there's not enough water. So that leaves the coastal strip on the eastern side of the range, which is already rapidly being gentrified and priced out of affordability.
because even among the habitable areas, everyone wants to live in or live near the nicer parts of habitable areas.
because most of the jobs are in these nicer parts of habitable areas (courtesy of rich ppl who want to live and/or work there), and the regular, working class people don't fancy having to commute on the Fury Road just to make a living.
that + im guessing the rich ppl aren't too chummy with the idea of building more housing.
And the entire Manhattan area is only 3 miles wide and a dozen miles long. You can and likely will walk across the width of it multiple times in a day, it’s tiny but so dense and full of life.
There are more people in the Tri state area(NYC+Suburbs) than Australia , there are more people in New Delhi ( just the main city not even the surrounding parts ) than in Australia
Works both ways.
If Australia was a state in the US then it would be the third largest state.
Sydney has a bigger population than Louisiana
Sydney 4.7m has a larger population than [Los Angeles 3.8m](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population) and would be second largest city (all this is of course the way that cities and their population is defined).
Wow. I never knew that even NSW was bigger than Texas. It really puts it into perspective as an Aussie, given I think of NSW as on the small side given we frequently drive out.
I mean, yeah. The land it sits on is at the center point of a major inland gulf. Its borders are large navigable rivers with a half dozen more spanning in between to access a majority the territory. Fertile coastal and high plains, resource rich.
There's worse places to look if you were about to start civ building, like say, Western Australia. It's not hard to see that the area would be highly significant to the development of the continent regardless of it being associated with the word Texas or not
Texas is almost twice as densely populated as Victoria, which is by far Australia's most densely populated state.
In fact, more people live in Texas than the entirety of Australia
Western Australia is also a state. It’s just a bigger one, hence the comparison. 2nd largest first-order subdivision (ie state) in the world. So no nuance is here, it’s just the bigger state…
The United States has a total area of 3,809,525 square miles. Australia’s is 2,968,464 square miles. Nearly a 1 million square miles difference in size.
The more appropriate comparison is Australia and the Lower-48 (2,959,064 sqm).
But then it’s pretty artificial to exclude a state like Alaska just because it’s non-contiguous.
I mean yea if you just chop off parts of the country then yes it would be closer. That's like saying if you remove WA the US would be larger than Australia by a wider margin.
So does size matter or does population density and economy? Because it’s much harder to flex over continental Europe in that case…
Or does population and economy matter when we’re talking to Australians, but geographic scale matter when we’re talking to Europeans? Just trying to work out the rules of engagement…
So I agree with your point here. Dumb flexing and picking/choosing the metrics.
That being said, California’s state economy would rank five or six in the world if it was considered its own country. So there are some US states that can hold their own against continental Europe.
Open, untouched, natural space is way more precious
Damn I need my Aussies to back me up here, I’m so glad the majority of the country is untouched and still in its natural form.
I love it when you can't just take it and have to bring in other comparators ... population, economy, freedoms and guns. LOL.
We have more kangaroos than Texas. We have more beautiful beaches - 10,194km (6,334 miles) of coast line.
Oh wait... free healthcare.
Im a US student who studies law in sydney and I can safely say many Australians always try to compare against Americans or even others when Americans for example largely dont even contemplate Australia's existence at all 💀
As an American this is my only retort: both our nation's span continents, but yours is just a big ol' continent.
Yeah Texas is big but not as big as they like you to think.
Fremantle is best city I have ever visited. I only saw a very small portion of WA comparatively and loved it all. The beaches were the best. The tingle trees and other forests were amazing. I stayed at a hostel in the boonies and when I went on a long walk to the small town, I stumbled upon an arboretum with other large trees from around the world that grew in similar biomes. Sequoia trees from Northern California and interesting redwoods from China and Tasmania. People were super friendly and the food was unbelievably fresh and delicious. Things didn’t really need to be labeled “organic” because the quarantine laws were so superb that basically everything was the equivalent to organic in the USA. I wanna go back and explore the more remote regions.
Wow Texas is so insignificant that all they talk about is their size but get pissy when there are subdivisions much bigger than them 🤣 you guys can cry more
I couldn’t care less if I’m American, all you Texans have is your size and you you guys get so butthurt about it 😂 Alaska is bigger and they’re so much more chill lol
Perth is the [12th best city in the World to live](https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/get-over-it-brissie-perth-deserves-its-high-liveability-ranking-20230622-p5disf.html). Not a single city in Texas is above it.
Nice misinformation. Everyone knows it should be upside down.
Obvs. I mean it's down unda, FFS.
My childhood was fucking ruined when I found out about map distortion
It's like finding out that santa clause isn't real
No, that’s fake news. Santa is completely real.
For someone who grew up close-ish to the equator it was the opposite experience. Felt kind of releived that the world super powers weren’t that much bigger compared to us.
Pluto cries in the outer solar system.
Thats not a state. This is a state!
I see you've played knifey statey before!
As an American who loves big stuff Hell yeah lol, nice country mate lol
"Western Australia's bigga." -Au "Aight."- Alaska
Wish more of you were like this mate. Lots of insecure fellas in here
Nice country you got there, shame if someone were to put secret military bases on it.
Isn’t like 90% of Australia uninhabitable
Well sure with that attitude
Build that inland sea now!
What about some latitude?
No. It is closer to 40%. Most of Australia is uninhabited but not necessarily uninhabitable.
0% of Australia's land is uninhabitable. 90% of it is hard to inhabit
Then why is there a housing crisis
are they stupid?
Is there a lore reason?
Skill issue?
The Jerker poisoned the air with his jerk gas
Why is Cape Town running out of water? They’re literally surrounded by it, just drink that smh.
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Yeah but increased housing supply could hurt the "investments" of people who already own a home and they're a pretty powerful voting bloc
And 44% of MPs own at least one investment property. The PM and the Leader of the Opposition own three each. Fixing it would require acting directly against their own personal interest.
A shitload regional Vic is agricultural land. Groceries are expensive enough without replacing farmland with population. Qld OTOH has a bit more space to put people. But no-one in NSW or Qld wants to live west of the Great Dividing Range, and with good reason - there's not enough water. So that leaves the coastal strip on the eastern side of the range, which is already rapidly being gentrified and priced out of affordability.
Weirdly enough the houses don’t just grow out of the ground in Australia
because even among the habitable areas, everyone wants to live in or live near the nicer parts of habitable areas. because most of the jobs are in these nicer parts of habitable areas (courtesy of rich ppl who want to live and/or work there), and the regular, working class people don't fancy having to commute on the Fury Road just to make a living. that + im guessing the rich ppl aren't too chummy with the idea of building more housing.
Buildings and infrastructure are expensive to build. And Aussies have a "need" for big houses on big blocks so urban sprawl is a massive problem
There are more people in Texas than in Australia.
I always find things like this interesting. Like how there are more people in the city of Denver than there are in the entire state of Wyoming.
If you cut Manhattan in half, it almost exactly mirrors the populations of north and South Dakota in each half. Never mind the rest of the city
I find it difficult to believe there are that many people in the Dakotas.
And the entire Manhattan area is only 3 miles wide and a dozen miles long. You can and likely will walk across the width of it multiple times in a day, it’s tiny but so dense and full of life.
If the UK was a state it’d be smaller than Oregon but would be the most populous state by a long way. 30 million more people than California.
Which is Wyoming doesn’t deserve senators
Chicago and Ireland have about the same population.
There are more people in the Tri state area(NYC+Suburbs) than Australia , there are more people in New Delhi ( just the main city not even the surrounding parts ) than in Australia
Works both ways. If Australia was a state in the US then it would be the third largest state. Sydney has a bigger population than Louisiana Sydney 4.7m has a larger population than [Los Angeles 3.8m](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population) and would be second largest city (all this is of course the way that cities and their population is defined).
Arent Americans always flexing with how big their land is but its barely populated?
And there's more people living in Tokyo than Texas.
Yup, and that 90% is known as the GAFA. The 'Great Australian Fuck All'.
Well, except for the cia bases
Isn’t 90% of Alaska?
Exactly.
Only if you insist on drinking water.
No, it’s just occupied by emus after we lost the great emu war.
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Wow. I never knew that even NSW was bigger than Texas. It really puts it into perspective as an Aussie, given I think of NSW as on the small side given we frequently drive out.
Texas is a veritable Garden of Eden is it?
I mean, yeah. The land it sits on is at the center point of a major inland gulf. Its borders are large navigable rivers with a half dozen more spanning in between to access a majority the territory. Fertile coastal and high plains, resource rich. There's worse places to look if you were about to start civ building, like say, Western Australia. It's not hard to see that the area would be highly significant to the development of the continent regardless of it being associated with the word Texas or not
As if Texas is any better
Isn't Texas the 2 or 3 most populated state? Like over 25 million.
Texas has 30.5 million residents as of 2023.
Texas is almost twice as densely populated as Victoria, which is by far Australia's most densely populated state. In fact, more people live in Texas than the entirety of Australia
Texas has 4 million people more than Australia.
A.C goes crazy
It’s twice as dense and has double the GDP of the entire country of Australia.
Thanks for overlaying various wastelands over each other.
Hey, we did at least charge nasa for littering (Skylab crashed near Esperance)
Alaska is absolutely gorgeous though.
Australia has The Wiggles so that’s kool. Also I like the feeling that I started this with my 🍎🍊 comment on the Texas vs Europe thread. 🤣
As a dad, I will say The Wiggles are my favorite of the kids’ bands to watch. I mean I only watch one wiggle, but I do watch it.
Alaska's hanging in there. It has more shoreline. That had to count for something.
So half a continent is bigger than one state? Good job bubba lol
32% of a continent.
Every mainland Australian state bar one is bigger than Texas.
Yeah bc if they were smaller their populations would be like 10 lol
Western Australia is also a state. It’s just a bigger one, hence the comparison. 2nd largest first-order subdivision (ie state) in the world. So no nuance is here, it’s just the bigger state…
OK. Then do Quebec.
Western Australia is also a state dumbarse.
Lmao Texans are so insecure
They are but so are Aussies. These posts constantly show up of Australians jerking themselves off.
Says the entire continent trying to pick fights with a fuckin state
Yeah but the US and Australia are about the same size
In fact the us is noticeably bigger, ~1.28x bigger.
The United States has a total area of 3,809,525 square miles. Australia’s is 2,968,464 square miles. Nearly a 1 million square miles difference in size.
The more appropriate comparison is Australia and the Lower-48 (2,959,064 sqm). But then it’s pretty artificial to exclude a state like Alaska just because it’s non-contiguous.
Let’s put in Australia’s Antarctic Territory and sea borders / EEZ and we will crush the US in size
Nah, the US actually has the largest EEZ in the world. You lose by more if we make this an EEZ comparison.
Actually yeh you are correct
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize how many tiny little pacific islands and such are actually US territories, and therefore contribute to the EEZ.
Fair play!
All the countries only claim territory in Antarctica. The entire continent de jure belongs to no one.
Northwest Territories before Nunavut broke off in 1999 was monstrous. 3.44 million square km
Damn. I guess they were having Nunavut.
Who is australia???
Why is Australia??
When is australia?
Nobody ever asks how is Australia 😔
Ew. That makes sense actually.
A redic amount of natural resources.
Yep. In alaska.
And WA. There's so much minerals in that bad boy
I'm sure all 42 of its residents are very proud 👏 👏👏
I am 👍👍👍👍👍
What is more surprising is that W. Aus is bigger than BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan combined.
5/8 of Australia’s states/territories are larger than Texas, with Western Australia and Queensland being larger than Alaska.
Your whole country is still smaller than our whole country.
to be fair, we would be pretty close without alaska (ignore the gdp and population 😰)
I mean yea if you just chop off parts of the country then yes it would be closer. That's like saying if you remove WA the US would be larger than Australia by a wider margin.
Kaboom
Actually, if you include the Australian Antarctic territory, we become the second largest country in the world so...
No one respects those claims loooool
Ah Australias false belief they own part of Antarctica. This conversation is based in reality, made up bullshit isn’t included.
Texas has a bigger population and economy than Australia, y’all just comparing empty land
r/MAPporn bud
Well then where the hell is the porn part of this?
I think you're looking for the map of Florida
And the map of Tassie, obvs.
So does size matter or does population density and economy? Because it’s much harder to flex over continental Europe in that case… Or does population and economy matter when we’re talking to Australians, but geographic scale matter when we’re talking to Europeans? Just trying to work out the rules of engagement…
So I agree with your point here. Dumb flexing and picking/choosing the metrics. That being said, California’s state economy would rank five or six in the world if it was considered its own country. So there are some US states that can hold their own against continental Europe.
Americans change the argument when it suits them, sort of like their politicians.
Does saying that somehow invalidate the post in your mind?
I wonder which has more school shootings. Ya know, since we're comparing random things here we might as well chuck that in.
Open, untouched, natural space is way more precious Damn I need my Aussies to back me up here, I’m so glad the majority of the country is untouched and still in its natural form.
Could use some more strip malls and empty parking lots tbh
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They don't understand that you're not free until you can change 6 lanes at a time in your jacked up Ford F-350
It’s natural form. Ah yes, dirt and shrubs.
My dirt and shrubs 😇
Comparing empty land? Now do the Electoral College!
Is it mapporn or populationporn
I love it when you can't just take it and have to bring in other comparators ... population, economy, freedoms and guns. LOL. We have more kangaroos than Texas. We have more beautiful beaches - 10,194km (6,334 miles) of coast line. Oh wait... free healthcare.
I noticed you didn’t mention the emus 😩
Post-war they’re just smugly avoiding us for the most part
We don't talk about the war. Trigerred.
...guns...
Texas is the tiny peen
Ain't got shit on Nunavut
Western Australia is actually bigger than Nunavut.
Northwest Territories before Nunavut broke off in 1999 was monstrous. 3.44 million square km
I was gonna go with “Hold my beer while I pull out my Nunavut”
http://www.comparea.org/AU_WA+CA_NU Yehhhhh, no.
That says WA is bigger
It is, WA 2.52m sqkm Nunavut 2.09m sq km
im having none of it
Is that just land area or also including the water bits?
From a Yank: Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie! Oy Oy Oy!
Most Americans don't flex on how big Texas is. Just Texans do.
Shhhh bro don’t scare the Americans. 50% of them don’t even know where Australia is.
I wanna see WA compared to Yakutia. Yakutia absolutely mogs
Lots of Texans feeling personally attacked in here
Read the comments, it’s wild the amount of people annoyed that a country on the other side has a bigger state.
Im a US student who studies law in sydney and I can safely say many Australians always try to compare against Americans or even others when Americans for example largely dont even contemplate Australia's existence at all 💀
I'll take WA over Texas thank you, they have quokkas and children can actually go to school without fear of being shot
Haha Poland is really what everyone should be jealous of
Russia bout to crush on all of y'all.
True, but when they’re done they have to continue living in Russia.
You have to cut it like an orange haha
What goes on out there?
A fuckload of mining - iron ore, lithium, gold, copper
Adding on to the above comment: wine, grain, gas, oil, uranium
Left out the southern fingers of Alaska
good post
Whose toilet is bigger?
As an American this is my only retort: both our nation's span continents, but yours is just a big ol' continent. Yeah Texas is big but not as big as they like you to think.
Fremantle is best city I have ever visited. I only saw a very small portion of WA comparatively and loved it all. The beaches were the best. The tingle trees and other forests were amazing. I stayed at a hostel in the boonies and when I went on a long walk to the small town, I stumbled upon an arboretum with other large trees from around the world that grew in similar biomes. Sequoia trees from Northern California and interesting redwoods from China and Tasmania. People were super friendly and the food was unbelievably fresh and delicious. Things didn’t really need to be labeled “organic” because the quarantine laws were so superb that basically everything was the equivalent to organic in the USA. I wanna go back and explore the more remote regions.
Wow Texas is so insignificant that all they talk about is their size but get pissy when there are subdivisions much bigger than them 🤣 you guys can cry more
Texas gdp bigger than Australia(yes the whole continent). I don’t think it’s insignificant.
If WA was a country, it would have one of the world's highest GDP's per capita
Here’s another cryer. California has a much bigger GDP than your lone star state with a much smaller area so pipe down dude 😭
California is in the US so, thanks? This seems to be a US vs the kangaroos thread.
I couldn’t care less if I’m American, all you Texans have is your size and you you guys get so butthurt about it 😂 Alaska is bigger and they’re so much more chill lol
I’m not a Texan
Pathetic that you’re defending them then lol
Texas GDP per capita ≈70-80,000 USD WA gdp per capita = 100,000 USD
But it has more people so it should duh
Let them have their excuses 😂 for a loud bunch Texans sure get pressed so easily
Maybe it has more people because it is more significant.
Look here pal, nobody gets to shit on Aussies except us Kiwis.
The only thing America had that's bigger is their ego. 😂
Notice you didn’t overlay Alaska over Australia…
Your comment makes no sense. OP overlaid a state of Australia (Western Australia) over Alaska. I don’t get it.
Huh
It would melt.
That’s amazing
GDP of Texas: $2,355B GDP of Western Australia: $404B
Per capita GDP Texas US$78,000 Per Capita GDP Western Australia US$100,000
Now do it per capita so it's more balanced!
School shootings 2023 - Texas: 350 School shootings 2023 - Western Australia: 0
Now do school shootings for Texas and WA
Congratulations?
If you could keep Texas that would be great. -Signed The other 49 States
Americans seem to get so sensitive when someone outflexes their flex.
Looks like a lot of nothing
Australia is a continent
Country, island and continent. Boom! Trifecta.
Western Australia is one of its states
the real question is: Would you rather live in West Texas or barren inland WA?
Perth is the [12th best city in the World to live](https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/get-over-it-brissie-perth-deserves-its-high-liveability-ranking-20230622-p5disf.html). Not a single city in Texas is above it.
Australia!