First, a couple of newsworthy items. Donald Trump could be indicted on Thursday . Second, Japan beat the USA to win the championship of the World Baseball Classic. Ohtani struck out Trout to end the game. We're now cruising Australia, and I was somewhat surprised about how large it is, and how similar our countries look with the South Pole at the top. Did not realize how large Russia was. In square miles of land. World 57,510,000 Russia 6,323,740 Antarctica 5,500,000 China 3,600,950 Canada 3,511,023 USA 3,531,905 Brazil 3,266.584 Australia 2,947,336 India 1,147,960 Argentina 1,056,640 Kazakhstan 1,042,400 Algeria 919,595 Not only does Australia have about the same shape as the U.S., but we are almost the same size. Australia is more than 2.5 times larger than India. However, Australia ranks #55 in number of people with 26.4 million. Madagascar and Nepal with 30 million each have more people. Yemen has 34 million and Canada has 39 million. The U.S. has around 3
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