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Is 4,000,000 acre feet as big as The Gulf of Mexico?

It's about one-five-hundred-thousandth as big as The Gulf of Mexico
The size of The Gulf of Mexico is about 1,973,000,000,000 acre feet.
(water volume)
The Gulf of Mexico contains 1,973,000,000,000 acre feet of water. Every second, the Mississippi River empties 9.7290 acre feet of water into the Gulf.
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