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Wow That's Big...
I was watching 'World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides' and Henry Cole was riding in Australia and claimed that Western Australia was bigger than Europe,that shocked me so I thought I'd check his claim out and was surprised it's true,which then lead me on to other country sizes compared to each other.
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That's extraordinary.
To fly east to west coast (Sydney to Perth for example) takes about 4 hours, so is the equivalent of flying London to Istanbul more or less.
The same trip via train takes 72 hours (speaking from experience, that was a looonnng journey). One of those 'glad to have done it but never again' type experiences.
An 8 hour car journey for the average Aussie is a relatively short drive, whereas we'd view such a journey considerably differently.
Amazing country, would encourage anyone to visit given the opportunity.
Must have a staggering amount of uninhabited land (uninhabited by humans that is!)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/mind-boggling-australian-maps
Having been right through the centre of Australia on a train, I can confirm there isn't much there
They do lay claim to the longest stretch of straight train track in the world.
It gives @Tikay10 butterflies.