How big is 2,706 square kilometers?
It's about six times as big as San Jose
The size of San Jose is about 453 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Capital of Silicon Valley) (California)
The third-largest city in California as of 2009, San Jose measures 453.0 sq. km in total area. The city is known for its large technology industry.
It's about seven times as big as The Isle of Wight
The size of The Isle of Wight is about 388 square kilometers.
(England, United Kingdom)
The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel, just off the English mainland, measures 388 sq. km 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-tenth as big as Lake Ontario
The size of Lake Ontario is about 18,960 square kilometers.
(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 18,960 sq. km. It borders the cities of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York.
It's about seven-and-a-half times as big as Detroit
The size of Detroit is about 359.50 square kilometers.
(Michigan)
The largest city in Michigan as of 2009, Detroit measures 359.5 sq. km 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 one-tenth as big as Wales
The size of Wales is about 20,732 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Cymru) (total area)
The area of the country of Wales (in the United Kingdom) is 20,732 sq. km. More than 764.7 km, 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 seven-and-a-half times as big as Philadelphia
The size of Philadelphia is about 349.90 square kilometers.
(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 349.9 sq. km 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 eight-and-a-half times as big as Dublin
The size of Dublin is about 317.50 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Baile Átha Cliath) (Leinster, Ireland) (for metro Dublin City)
The city of Dublin and its surrounding metro areas measure 317.5 sq. km. 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 Lake Erie
The size of Lake Erie is about 25,700 square kilometers.
(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 25,700 sq. km. It borders the cities of Cleveland, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio.
It's about ten-and-a-half times as big as Edinburgh
The size of Edinburgh is about 264 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Edinburgh, a.k.a. Dùn Èideann, a.k.a. Edinburgum) (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, measures 264 sq. km. 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 Hawaii
The size of Hawaii is about 28,311.110 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Moku'āina o Hawai'i) (United States)
The "Aloha State," Hawaii measures 28,311.11 sq. km in total area. A total of 137 islands make up the Hawaiian archipelago, with the eight principle islands measuring 16,634.5 sq. km in combined total area.
It's about one-tenth as big as Belgium
The size of Belgium is about 30,528 square kilometers.
(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 30,528 sq. km 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-tenth as big as Vancouver Island
The size of Vancouver Island is about 31,285 square kilometers.
(a.k.a. Quadra's and Vancouver's Island) (British Columbia, Canada)
Vancouver Island, in the northern Pacific, measures 31,285 sq. km. The island is home to the Comox Glacier, which reaches 1,960 m in height.
It's about twelve times as big as Abel Tasman National Park
The size of Abel Tasman National Park is about 225.30 square kilometers.
(Tasman District, South Island, New Zealand)
New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park measures about 225.30 sq. km 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 7.9 sq. km.
It's about fifteen-and-a-half times as big as Washington, D.C.
The size of Washington, D.C. is about 177 square kilometers.
(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 177 sq. km 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 one-twentieth as big as Lake Michigan
The size of Lake Michigan is about 57,800 square kilometers.
(surface area)
The third largest of North America's Great Lakes (by surface area), Lake Michigan has a total area of 57,800 sq. km. It borders the cities of Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Green Bay, Wisconsin