Which is Greatest? #3

3 commonwealths (Australia, the Bahamas and Dominica), people's republics (Bangladesh, China and North Korea), and principalities (Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Monaco). There are 5 uniteds (Mexico, the UAE, the USA, Tanzania, and Manchester the UK).

In order, it's Williamsburg (2,227.48m), Brooklyn (1,825m), GWB (1,450.85m) and Queensboro (1,135m).

The Rhode Island Red weighs about 3.5kg on average, beating out the Texas Horned Lizard (60g) and the Ringtail (1kg) combined.

Adwaita lived to be around 255, while British rule in India lasted for 190 years (between the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and Indian independence in 1947).

It's no contest. The Alaska Purchase was worth 151 million USD in modern money, while Alaska's budget would be around 47 million USD today. As an aside, however, as far as I can tell every MCU movie since Iron Man 2 has exceeded the Alaska Purchase. I propose a new metric for the cost of expensive things.

المملكة العربية السعودية is Saudi Arabia (2,149,690km²), ປະເທດລາວ is Laos (236,800km²), বাংলাদেশ is Bangladesh (148,460km²), and Հայաստան is Armenia (29,743km²).

Sweden's highest was 38.0°C, Finland's was 37.2°C, Denmark's was 36.4°C, and Norway's was 35.6°C

Kilimanjaro reaches 49.9m, which is about double Sebastian Steudtner's record wave at 26.21m or the record 22.45m-long fishing pole.

Rome has 73, Berlin 175, Madrid 242, London 272, and Paris 308, as of August 2023.

The MTT 420-RR motorcycle reaches 122m/s, the Shanghai Maglev train can reach 128m/s, and the Spirit of Australia boat gets to 142m/s. None compare to a bullet, at 375m/s.

1712 in Sweden had 367 days, as they reverted from a modified Gregorian calendar to the Julian. 1964 in Italy had 366 days, being a leap year. 1853 in Spain was a normal year of 365 days. 1582 in France was 355 days long, as France adopted the Gregorian calendar that year.

20 first moves are possible in Chess (the eight pawns may move one or two squares, or the knights have two squares each), 19 characters remain in Guess Who after the 5 glasses-wearers are gone, 17 unique UNO cards could be played (0 to 9, the four actions, and three other 2s), and 15 tiles in a game of Battleship would be ships after losing a 3-long submarine.

It's not even close. NRW alone beats the others. Combined with Hesse, R-P and Saarland, it has a population of 29,391,205, beating the East German states (16,133,290) and the three states named Saxony (14,901,507).

Mentioned by Randall Munroe at xkcd's What If, where I learned of this coincidence. Their volumes are nearly identical (within 99.5%), but the sphere is slightly larger at 4.188790205km³ to 4.168181825km³.

Akmolinsk lasted 129 years (1832-1961), Tselinograd 30 (1961-1991), Astana 22 non-consecutive years as of today (1998-2019, 2022-2023), Akmola 9 non-consecutive years (1830-1832, 1991-1998), and Nur-Sultan 3 (2019-2022).

Titan (the orangey-smooth one) is +8.40, the Andromeda galaxy (the wide flat one) is +3.44, Mars (the textured one) is +0.71 and Saturn (the ringed one) is +0.46.

Sapphire has a value of 9, emerald between 7.5 and 8, amethyst 7, and opal between 5.5 and 6.

Narwhals have 2 teeth, their famous horn and a second hidden tooth. Humans have 32. Snails have several thousand, varying between 2 to 25 thousand depending on age, species and diet. Mosquitoes, meanwhile, have none, despite a popular misconception that they have 47 - these aren't teeth, as they don't chew but instead saw and poke.

WW2 took 21,500 Bulgarian lives, while WW1 took 187,500. Other countries seeing more deaths in WW1 than WW2 include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, and (depending on who you ask) France and Portugal.

Mr. Bean had 15 episodes. Even including the movies and unaired sketches, this goes to 19.