Stuff Americans say US big

Facebook comment (default username redacted, 1d, 884 laugh/like reactions): "Europe isn't very big. What would you do for 2 weeks?"

Social media comment thread (username redacted). First (22h): "No but we don't really care about where your from. Each state is as big as a country over here. We got more to worry about where we are." Reply (18h): "lol"

Social media comment (default username redacted, 3w, View 14 more replies): "Who says we're afraid? Europe is tge size of an American parking lot, we've got room to be comfortable."

Twitter/X thread. First post (username redacted, 16h): "When you see the best selling vehicle in America on a French street, you realize how ridiculous it is that we let this infestation happen in the US." Credit @briceperrin. Photo shows a narrow Parisian street with a cyclist and small European cars, dwarfed by one massive American pickup truck. Reply (14h): "And then you realize that you could fit almost 18 countries the size of France in the US and suddenly it makes sense."

Motherboard (TECH BY VICE) article screenshot. Headline: "American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces". Subhead: "The changes to parking space standards have not kept up with the explosion in vehicle sizes." By Aaron Gordon, 08 February 2023. Illustration shows an aerial view of a parking lot with oversized vehicles overflowing their spaces

Facebook comment (username redacted, 4h, /laugh reactions, View 34 more replies): "Look at a map of Europe and a map of the US and you will understand why we do not provide mass transport.. NYC to Chicago would be similar to crossing all of Europe...." Partially visible reply: "ever heard of th..."

$Social media poll and comments (Japanese interface - "????", "??", "?????"). Post tagged #cars #Memes #Funny with US flag emoji. Poll: "Yep we need smaller cars" 24% vs "Bigger the better" 76%, 1,782 votes. Comments: "Just get a small car if you want a small car. Get a big one if you want a big one. Why get the government involved?" (US flag emoji) "The average size of euro vehicles is directly proportional to their amount of freedom." "Try picking up your 80\" led tv for the superbowl in that tiny car". (cut off) "We need smaller cars but not some..."$

TikTok video showing a suited man standing casually among other customers in what appears to be a KFC, with text overlay: "In Iceland The president orders his own KFC And waits in line." Comment below (username redacted): "Your country is as big as Colorado soooooo"

X/Twitter thread. First (bearded name redacted, 4h): "Europe is the size of one US state." Reply (curly-haired young man mirror name redacted, 4h): "and your brain is the size of one mcdonald's fry"

Facebook comment thread. First (username redacted, 23h, /laugh reactions): "EU will have a bad winter. Russia will have a bad couple of decades." Reply (username redacted, 22h, 15 laugh/like reactions): "Boohoo...'The Whole Big Bad Europe' is smaller than TX. They will be a good kitteh and play nice, as they should."

YouTube video screenshot showing BBC News coverage of "Los Angeles immigration raid protests" with riot police in full tactical gear marching down a street. Below, a Replies drawer with comment (username redacted, 3h ago): "One block in America is like once city in Europe"

Reddit post from r/tacobell by u/carolsalice (9h): "my 'medium' drink. are they downsizing the drink cups everywhere?" Photo shows a hand holding an enormous clear plastic cup filled with bright turquoise-green soda in a car, the cup nearly as long as the person's forearm.

Facebook post sharing a TIME.COM article: "U.S. Response to COVID-19 is Worse than China's. 100 Times Worse" (1 hr) with photo of paramedics wheeling a patient on a stretcher. Comment below (highlighted in red box): "Us is far larger with a larger population. Numbers do not give an accurate measure China also pulled people from their homes by force! Do you want that here? I had friend die of a heart attack. If he even had a trace of antibodies of COVID they will count him as a COVID death. He Died of a heart attack! Ridiculous! Numbers in the US are inflated"

Twitter screenshot (Portuguese interface - "Em resposta a", "Tweete sua resposta"). Original tweet with two maps comparing passenger rail transportation USA vs Europe, showing the dense European rail network versus the sparse US one: "Passenger rail transportation USA vs Europe. US needs to catch up, infrastructure is poor and expensive. Also if you want clean, this is a good start". Reply: "Please show these maps to the same scale. Europe is about the size of Texas"

Reddit comment thread. WringedSponge (ranked badge, 11h, "Cork bai" flair): "West Cork is great! East Cork has the midleton distillery and nice beaches. The city's only OK. I would travel from Cork to Kerry, all the way up the west coast. Kinsale, Clonakilty, Dingle, the Burren, Galway city. Mayo up to Donegal is nice if you have time too." Reply from LoverOfChaos (11h, "Probably at it again" flair, -4 downvotes): "I live in texas so im sure i can walk the entirety of Ireland. Itd be a joy"

Social media comment thread (username redacted). First: "Texas is like twice the size of Europe alone." Reply: "fun fact: its not"

Social media post. Text: "Best selling car in [Italy flag] vs [US flag]. With such a small car, i have no idea how Italians do their weekly Costo/Walmart grocery run" with upside-down face emoji. Below, a carsized.com side-view comparison showing a tiny Fiat Panda 3 (3.653m long, 1.551m tall) next to a massive Ford F-150 (5.89m long, 1.961m tall) - the pickup towers over and extends far beyond the Panda, which barely reaches its door handle

TikTok comment thread (Dutch interface - "reacties", "Antwoorden", 1450 reacties) over a video showing someone sitting in a train looking out at scenic countryside. Four comments: (4u) "Europe is the size of Texas so yea we refer to it as one location because it is to us". (4u) "you don't need a dna test, you're 100% american". (4u) "Actually the continent of Europe is 3,93 million square miles, while the whole united states is 3,8 million square miles. So Europe is a bit larger then USA." (partially visible) "no one counts eastern Europe. we're not visiting that"

Reddit/YouTube screenshot. YouTube comment (1 day ago, US flag + muscle emoji): "Pure American MUSCLE easily pushes over puny tight European roads once again". Below, a Reddit post from r/mildlyinfuriating by u/BlueTycho (4h, i.redd.it, 2 Premios): "An American Pickup in Europe" with photo showing an enormous American pickup truck parked on a European street, taking up almost the entire road width between parked cars and a tree-lined sidewalk with bicycles

Twitter thread. Original tweet (username redacted, 12:00 PM, 2022-09-20): "US spans an entire continent. In the same land area, there's 9 races in Europe" with clown emoji. Reply (21h, replying to original and @F1): "The thing is, Europe isn't one big state :O it isn't about land area, but the countries, but I don't expect Americans to get that". Reply (username redacted): "The thing is, the USA is 50 states. :O And those states are as big and often larger, in size/population, than your countries as well as being more diverse, but I don't expect Europeans to get that."

Reddit comment thread. Stiebah (5h ago): "Wait, hes 23, what level of dystopian hell is this happening that you have to even ASK anyone if you can have a pasport. Ive had one since im 12..." Reply from RolandTwitter (4h ago, -8 downvotes): "You probably live in Europe? To be fair, there isn't as much of a reason to get a passport in America with how big the country is"

Social media post. Text: "You can drive 13 hours in Texas and still be in Texas. The European mind cannot comprehend." Below, an Apple Maps screenshot showing driving directions from point A (near Denver/Colorado area) to point B (near the Texas-Mexico border), route via I-37 S: 13h 38min, 930 mi, Light traffic

Google search screenshot. Search query: "size of moon compared to". AI Overview (citing NASA +3 sources) with image of the Moon overlaid on a map of the US: "The Moon is about as wide as the United States or Europe, which is roughly the size of Texas." (phrase "roughly the size of Texas" highlighted). "The Moon's diameter is 3,474 kilometers (2,159 miles), which is about one-fourth the size of Earth's diameter."

This is what the 48 contiguous states of the USA would look like on Google Maps if they were just above the Equator in Africa

What the 48 contiguous states of the USA would look like on Google Maps if the USA was in northern Africa

Important note: The Web Mercator projection that Google Maps uses makes everywhere look bigger than it really is the further from Equator you go. So if you’re comparing the USA to Europe, for example, the map above is misleading. If you instead place the 48 states directly over Europe, they look bigger and it gets more exaggerated the further north you put them.

However, it remains a fact that if the USA was just above the Equator in Africa instead of where it really is, this is how it would look on a Mercator map of the world.

You may not be surprised by this but some clearly would be - and it’s still a rarely seen and mildly interesting view.

Thanks to thetruesize.com.