#4: Russia Is Almost Pluto-Sized in Surface Area
This comparison is often repeated a little too strongly, so it needs a careful version. Russia is not larger than Pluto’s surface area under current measurements, but it is close enough to make the imagination stumble. Russia covers about 17.1 million square kilometers. Pluto, using the radius measured from New Horizons data, has a surface area of roughly 17.7 million square kilometers. That means the largest country on Earth is in the same neighborhood as the surface of a distant dwarf planet.
provided by constative.com