I love it when people confidently assert something that is completely wrong or blindingly obvious. As you say, everyone should include Alaska and as it turns out, everyone does. This is not the source of the dispute over whether or not the US or China is the third-largest country. The dispute centres on the inclusion or otherwise of US coastal waters, which sources such as the CIA World Factbook do for the US, but not for other countries. Leaving out China's disputed claims (in the South China Sea, Taiwan and the Himalaya) and the US's coastal waters, China is indisputably the larger of the two countries, though they are nonetheless very close in size.
Whether you include enclosed bodies of water or not, China is larger than the US. The US only becomes larger when you include oceanic waters in its figure. If you exclude enclosed bodies of water both the US and China leapfrog Canada, with China going to 2 in the world and the US to 3. It's difficult to find a like for like comparison that puts the US ahead of China in area.
If you mean that Pakistan and Turkey were very close to being part of this quiz, that is not the case. Pakistan is the 33rd largest country by area and Turkey is 36th.
What do you mean "consider"??? This isn't a list they made up of big countries, this is the actual list of the largest countries of the world by area! How do you "consider" making a country bigger than it actually is?!
I don't understand this site's complete exclusion of the area of Greenland. Whether it stands alone or as a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it (Nuuk/Copenhagen) should come 12th on the list just after DR Congo at 2,166,086 km2 for just Greenland or 2,210,408 km2 for the entire Kingdom of Denmark.
Regardless, excluding it as a country because it's part of Denmark but not including it as a part of Denmark is incredibly confusing. It's nearly 1.5 percent of the world's total land area just completely missing
It's a gray area, and saying that Denmark is one of the largest countries in the entire world just bc of an autonomous area is a bit of a stretch, and saying that Greenland is a fully independent country is too.
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1. Russia (16,376,870 km squared)
2. China (9,388,211 km squared)
3. USA (9,147,420 km squared)
4. Canada (9,093,510 km squared)
5. Brazil (8,358,140 km squared)
6th-10th in land + water areas stay in their same spots, and #10, Algeria, is especially peculiar because they have 0% of their area in water.
Good quiz though.
Regardless, excluding it as a country because it's part of Denmark but not including it as a part of Denmark is incredibly confusing. It's nearly 1.5 percent of the world's total land area just completely missing
Denmark is 2.166 million km^2
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