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There are other web sites that explore the practice of measuring areas using Belgiums (Belgia?) and other country-sized units. Here are a few more…

””Congratulations to Albania, the latest region to qualify for the Amazon Deforestation Comparison World Cup: the size of Belgium, the size of two Belgiums, half the size of Belgium (�Belgium� is a global standard for Amazon measurement, apparently),””
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/003218.php

Wales is also a surprisingly popular unit of measurement. Sadly Simon Kelk’s “size of Wales” website is no more, but here is a link an archived version of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160404220625/http://www.simonkelk.co.uk:80/sizeofwales.html

Here is an article in Scientific American:
“Scientific American: About the Size of It – A contemplation on the states of our perception” http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00000934-FD6A-1CDB-B4A8809EC588EEDF&ref=sciam&chanID=sa006

Wikipedia has an entry for Belgium in its page of “Strange Units of Measurement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement#Wales.2FBelgium

Also on the BBC’s h2g2 web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1066484

This one is dedicated to the Rhode Island unit of measurement: http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=12

This site allows you to drag a nation on the globe and drag it to a different location so that you can compare the size of two countries.

TheTrueSize.com

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