Maps are of little help when it comes to size comparisons, World Population Review says. They can be misleading because they’re two-dimensional representations of a three-dimensional world. A more accurate way to compare countries is by the area of each, usually measured in square miles or square kilometers.
When it comes to comparing areas of the country, however, there’s a distinction between the land area and area that’s covered by water bodies like lakes, reservoirs and rivers. While the total surface area of countries is made up of both, there’s a significant difference between the countries with higher land area like the U.S., compared with Canada, which has numerous inland water bodies.
The transcontinental country, which spans Asia and Europe,has a total surfacearea of 17.1 million square kilometers – Russia consists of land area for the most part, and only about 4% of the total areaaccounts for territorial waters. In contrast, about 9%of Canada’s surfaceapproximately is covered with water.
In fact, Russia is so large it has nine time zones and borders 16 other countries.
What are the three largest countries in the world?
The U.S.and China have been head-to-head for the position of the third largest country in the world. Considering the total surface area of both countries including land andwater, the United States takes up 9.8 million square kilometers while China has 9.6 million square kilometers, according to World Atlas. However, China leads when it comes to the land area compared with the U.S. World Atlas says China is approximately 2% larger than the U.S. in terms of land area.
According to history.com, Vatican City is the smallest. Located inRome, Italy, the home of the Pope spans less than half a square kilometer.
Followed by Vatican City, the Principality of Monaco and Nauru take the spots for the second and third-smallest countriesin the world, according to World Atlas.
The U.S. is approximately half the size of Russia when compared to its landmasses. According to NationMaster.com, Russia is 1.8 times larger than America.
Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica).
China, with a total area of 9.38 million square kilometres (3.62 million square miles) according to the World Bank, is the largest country to observe just one time zone: Beijing (or China) Standard Time.
Most countries, especially the smaller ones, have only one time zone. There are 23 countries with at least two time zones. Since all lines of longitude coverage at the North and South Poles, Antarctica and the Arctic technically have all time zones.
1. Russia. The world's largest country is Russia. With a total area of 17,098,246 square kilometers, it is roughly 45 times larger than Japan and makes up 13% of the planet.
Altogether, France covers 12 different time zones—ranging from UTC -10 to UTC -12. More than any other country. Some sources say they have 13 or 14 (probably a daylight saving time issue), but at least everyone agrees that France is #1.
There are eleven time zones in Russia, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight saving time (DST) has not been used in Russia since 26 October 2014.
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The Federated States of Micronesia is a single nation comprising more than 600 islands covering an area estimated by the World Bank to be 700 square kilometres (270 square miles). The country is divided into two time zones (UTC+10 and UTC+11), making it the smallest country by area to adopt more than one time zone.
The country that is furthest behind in time is American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the U.S. territory of Samoa. American Samoa observes the time zone known as "UTC-11," which is 11 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The title of "first to celebrate" belongs to a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean known as Kiribati. Specifically, the Line Islands, located east of the International Date Line, are the first to see the new day.
You can see that the most extreme time zones are +14 hours at Line Islands (Kiribati), and -12 hours in and around Baker Islands (US). Therefore, the maximum possible difference between times on Earth is 26 hours. That means that at 11:00 PM of a Monday in Baker Island, it is 1:00 AM of a Wednesday in Line Islands.
The correct answer is France. Countries are sorted by the total time zones in their region. The time zones of a country include dependent territories (except for Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica).
It is also referred to as the "latest time zone" on Earth, as clocks in it always show the 'latest' (i.e., most advanced) time of all time zones. UTC+14:00 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati.
Russia: The only country in the world that has all its time zones over the mainland is Russia. Once the biggest country in the world, Russia has 11 time zones. Russia is the country to have most consecutive number of time zones.
Owing to the number of territories it governs beyond Europe, France has 12 (and for a period of the year 13) time zones. Metropolitan France operates on Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), while its dependencies range from Tahiti Time (UTC-10) in French Polynesia to Wallis & Futuna Time (UTC+12) in the South Pacific.
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