How big is 97,300,000 square perches?
It's about six-and-a-half times as big as The Isle of Wight
The size of The Isle of Wight is about 15,300,000 square perches.
(England, United Kingdom)
The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel, just off the English mainland, measures 15,300,000 square perches in total area. The Island hosts the world's largest and longest-running regular regatta — Cowes Week — which has brought over 1,000 yachts to the island each August since 1812.
It's about one-fifth as big as Brisbane
The size of Brisbane is about 626,340,000 square perches.
(Greater Brisbane region) (Australia)
Brisbane, the most populous city in Australia, measures 626,340,000 square perches. Winding through the city is the Brisbane River, which is lined by the 870 m Bisbane Riverwalk.
It's about seven times as big as Detroit
The size of Detroit is about 14,210,000 square perches.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 14,210,000 square perches in total area. The city is known for its automotive industry and its popular music legacies in the soul, hip hop, pop, and rhythm & blues genres
It's about seven times as big as Philadelphia
The size of Philadelphia is about 13,830,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Philly, a.k.a. The City of Brotherly Love) (Pennsylvania)
The largest city in Pennsylvania as of 2009 and at one time the second-largest city in the British Empire, Philadelphia measures 13,830,000 square perches in total area. The city is known as a center of great historical importance and as the one-time capital of the United States.
It's about one-tenth as big as Lake Ontario
The size of Lake Ontario is about 749,600,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Lac Ontario) (surface area)
The smallest of North America's Great Lakes (by surface area), Lake Ontario has a total area of 749,600,000 square perches. It borders the cities of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York.
It's about eight times as big as Dublin
The size of Dublin is about 12,550,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 12,550,000 square perches. Dublin is home to the Spire of Dublin, a stainless steel monument built in 2003 that rises to 121.2 m in height.
It's about one-tenth as big as Wales
The size of Wales is about 819,680,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Cymru) (total area)
The area of the country of Wales (in the United Kingdom) is 819,680,000 square perches. More than 30,234,000 square perches, or about 4% of the country's land area, is made up of the fifty-plus islands in the Irish and Celtic Seas off the coast of the Welsh mainland.
It's about nine-and-a-half times as big as Edinburgh
The size of Edinburgh is about 10,400,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 10,400,000 square perches. Edinburgh Castle, atop Castle Rock, is the centerpiece of the city and has been continuously-occupied for over 1,800 years.
It's about one-tenth as big as Lake Erie
The size of Lake Erie is about 1,020,000,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Lac &ri&) (surface area)
The fourth largest of North America's Great Lakes and the thirteenth largest lake in the world (by surface area), Lake Erie has a total area of 1,020,000,000 square perches. It borders the cities of Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio.
It's about eleven times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 8,908,000 square perches.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 8,908,000 square perches in total area. The size of the park has increased over the years as donated parcels of land have been added to it, with the last expansion in 2008 adding 312,300 square perches.
It's about one-tenth as big as Hawaii
The size of Hawaii is about 1,119,332,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Moku'āina o Hawai'i) (United States)
The "Aloha State," Hawaii measures 1,119,332,000 square perches in total area. A total of 137 islands make up the Hawaiian archipelago, with the eight principle islands measuring 657,675,900 square perches in combined total area.
It's about one-tenth as big as Belgium
The size of Belgium is about 1,207,000,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Kingdom of Belgium, a.k.a. Koninkrijk Belgi&, a.k.a. Royaume de Belgique, a.k.a. K&nigreich Belgien)
Belgium measures 1,207,000,000 square perches in total area. Contrary to their name, french fries were developed in Belgium (known at the time as the Southern Netherlands) in the late 17th century.
It's about one-fifteenth as big as Vancouver Island
The size of Vancouver Island is about 1,236,900,000 square perches.
(a.k.a. Quadra's and Vancouver's Island) (British Columbia, Canada)
Vancouver Island, in the northern Pacific, measures 1,236,900,000 square perches. The island is home to the Comox Glacier, which reaches 1,960 m in height.
It's about fourteen times as big as Washington, D.C.
The size of Washington, D.C. is about 7,000,000 square perches.
(formally the District of Columbia, a.k.a. Washington, a.k.a. the District, a.k.a. DC) (United State)
The United States' capital and only federal district, Washington, D.C. is a 7,000,000 square perches area located between the states of Virginia and Maryland. Washington, D.C. is known as the center of each of the three branches of the United States federal government and as home to many of the nation's monuments, museums, and foreign embassies.
It's about twenty times as big as Hilton Head
The size of Hilton Head is about 4,304,060 square perches.
(a.k.a. Hilton Head Island) (South Carolina)
Hilton Head Island measures 4,303,980 square perches in total land area. The island (and city of the same name) is located in the Atlantic Ocean and is known as popular vacation destination.