China is second-largest country in land area | World Bank

[Hamartia Antidote]

The difference is made by whether you count lakes or not.

True, but even the second set of numbers (which I assume is doing that) doesn't match Martian's.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Subcontinent + Oceania + Africa + southern American and Freedom+Democracy

https://geography11.wikispaces.com/...x-Map_of_the_British_Empire_in_the_1920's.jpg

WTH?? You include even our other European peers ?? Lol. Nahhh we never colonised any country in europe, not because we didnt want to but simply because we couldnt. @Gabriel92 .

 

[Cossack25A1]

Subcontinent + Oceania + Africa + southern American and Freedom+Democracy

https://geography11.wikispaces.com/...x-Map_of_the_British_Empire_in_the_1920's.jpg

Huh?

Last time I checked my history books, the only time the Philippines was under the British Empire was in the year 1762 and ended in 1764. In the 1920s, we were an American colony.

 

[Jlaw]

Source (World Bank): Land area (sq. km) | Data | Table

Chart link: Land Area / Countries of the World

hey bro, welcome back.

What happened to Canada? Did America steal more Canadian land?

Well we are having issues in the north pole. Russia, US, Denmark and Norway are claiming the north arctic. Right now US ships are passing through Canadian arctic water without following our guidelines.

Most of the British empire land is in colonizing India.

bump

Subcontinent + Oceania + Africa + southern American and Freedom+Democracy

https://geography11.wikispaces.com/...x-Map_of_the_British_Empire_in_the_1920's.jpg

agreed. Democracy is better than having clean water and toilets in every household

 

[j20blackdragon]

The British Empire consisted of colonizing and taking land from 'Stone Age' groups such as the Native Americans, Sub-Saharan Africans, and Aboriginal Australians. The British Empire lasted a few centuries and is now gone.

The Chinese Empire consists of several thousand years of incorporating some of the strongest groups in East Asia, including warrior groups such as the Mongols and Manchu in recent centuries.

It's like comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Keel]

Source (World Bank): Land area (sq. km) | Data | Table

Chart link: Land Area / Countries of the World

Hello Martian2
Long time no see!

are you back Martian? not worried about those stalkers?

hahaha Martian2 is going to attract the attentions of the Japanese, the Viet-american, the Indians and their gang
Just jazz it up baby, shall we!

 

[Oldman1]

But US is already bankrupt.

But we still paid for it.

 

[rott]

Welcome back @Martian2

 

[Gabriel92]

WTH?? You include even our other European peers ?? Lol. Nahhh we never colonised any country in europe, not because we didnt want to but simply because we couldnt. @Gabriel92 .

Meh.... you did. So who Jeanne d'arc fought against for.... what is the 100 years war.... who did we fight to de colonize our territory ? :

 

[mike2000 is back]

Meh.... you did. So who Jeanne d'arc fought against for.... what is the 100 years war.... who did we fight to de colonize our territory ? :

Ahahahah....forgot that period of our troubled history. You do know that she still ended sarcastically in another way in our hands this mordern day , dont you?

French horror as Joan of Arc to be 'killed' by English again


The French navy helicopter carrier Jeanne D'Arc
Picture: AFP / GETTY
By Henry Samuel in Paris
6:25PM BST 13 Jul 2009
French naval chiefs reacted with horror after it was announced that one of the country's best-loved warships, the Jeanne-d'Arc, is to be sent to England to be broken up.

One senior officer said that the prospect of the ship being "burned, martyred and dismembered" in England would be too much to stomach after the old enemy's earlier hand in the death at the stake in 1431 of France's national heroine, after whom the ship is named.

The ageing vessel, which is used by the French as a "floating embassy" in a similar role as the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, is due to embark on its 45th and final world tour, after which it will be dismantled. Able UK, the British shipbreakers based on the River Tees, is reportedly in pole position to win the tender.

The Jeanne-d'Arc has come to symbolise the soul of the French navy, and has been used as a training vessel for all French sailors since 1964.

"Joan of Arc is the heart of the French nation," said Pierre-François Forissier, the French navy's chief-of-staff.

The idea that it might end its life on English soil was, according to naval officials cited by the newspaper Le Monde, "sad, painful, even unimaginable".

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Many officers privately expressed a preference for the 13,000-ton boat being scuttled rather than taken apart by English hands. However, this is against international regulations, particular as it is constructed with dangerous materials, including asbestos.

Those prepared to speak on the record were more diplomatic.

"The English are Europeans after all, we have the same values," said Vice-Admiral Hubert Jouot, in charge of decommissioning French vessels.

"But, every now and then, a certain national pride manifests itself, like in sporting competitions."

Plans to turn the boat into a museum or a heliport in Saint-Tropez have foundered.

Able UK was recently chosen to dismantle another rusting French warship, the Clemenceau.

Vice-admiral Jouot warned fellow navy officials to stop getting sentimental over the Jeanne-d'Arc's fate. "We must stop being emotional; we will follow the public markets procedures. The best placed in the competition will win," he said.

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl born in eastern France, asserted that she had visions from God that told her to regain her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War.

She led the French army to a string of key victories that helped Charles VII be crowned King of France at Reims. However, she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court and burned at the stake at the age of 19. She was later canonised.

French horror as Joan of Arc to be 'killed' by English again - Telegraph



For those who dont know about what me and my compatriot Gabriel are talking about. We indeed invaded and ruled to some extent parts of france, though it was a to and fro battle that carried on from Britain dominating to france then having the upper hand to liberate their territory for over a hundred years. Lol

The Hundred Years' War

 

[Gabriel92]

Ahahahah....forgot that period of our troubled history. You do know that she still ended sarcastically in another way in our hands this mordern day , dont you?

French horror as Joan of Arc to be 'killed' by English again


The French navy helicopter carrier Jeanne D'Arc
Picture: AFP / GETTY
By Henry Samuel in Paris
6:25PM BST 13 Jul 2009
French naval chiefs reacted with horror after it was announced that one of the country's best-loved warships, the Jeanne-d'Arc, is to be sent to England to be broken up.

One senior officer said that the prospect of the ship being "burned, martyred and dismembered" in England would be too much to stomach after the old enemy's earlier hand in the death at the stake in 1431 of France's national heroine, after whom the ship is named.

The ageing vessel, which is used by the French as a "floating embassy" in a similar role as the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, is due to embark on its 45th and final world tour, after which it will be dismantled. Able UK, the British shipbreakers based on the River Tees, is reportedly in pole position to win the tender.

The Jeanne-d'Arc has come to symbolise the soul of the French navy, and has been used as a training vessel for all French sailors since 1964.

"Joan of Arc is the heart of the French nation," said Pierre-François Forissier, the French navy's chief-of-staff.

The idea that it might end its life on English soil was, according to naval officials cited by the newspaper Le Monde, "sad, painful, even unimaginable".

ADVERTISEMENT

Many officers privately expressed a preference for the 13,000-ton boat being scuttled rather than taken apart by English hands. However, this is against international regulations, particular as it is constructed with dangerous materials, including asbestos.

Those prepared to speak on the record were more diplomatic.

"The English are Europeans after all, we have the same values," said Vice-Admiral Hubert Jouot, in charge of decommissioning French vessels.

"But, every now and then, a certain national pride manifests itself, like in sporting competitions."

Plans to turn the boat into a museum or a heliport in Saint-Tropez have foundered.

Able UK was recently chosen to dismantle another rusting French warship, the Clemenceau.

Vice-admiral Jouot warned fellow navy officials to stop getting sentimental over the Jeanne-d'Arc's fate. "We must stop being emotional; we will follow the public markets procedures. The best placed in the competition will win," he said.

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl born in eastern France, asserted that she had visions from God that told her to regain her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War.

She led the French army to a string of key victories that helped Charles VII be crowned King of France at Reims. However, she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court and burned at the stake at the age of 19. She was later canonised.

French horror as Joan of Arc to be 'killed' by English again - Telegraph

Lol.
And lol at the british medias.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

this Report is not correct , the second largest country in the world by
land area is Canada @ 3,854,085 sq miles !

Iran smaller than Saudi Arabia, and Libya...?

yes Iran is 636,372 sq mi

Saudi Arabia is 830,000 sq miles

its larger then Iran by almost 200,000 sq mi or 193,628 sq miles to be precise

Libya is @ 679,359 sq miles is slightly larger or 42,987 sq miles larger to be precise

 

[mike2000 is back]

Lol.
And lol at the british medias.

Lool Jeanne still ended up in our hands though. Whoever goes against us perishes.

 

[Gabriel92]

Lool Jeanne still ended up in our hands though. Whoever goes against us perishes.

Meh... where is your french pride ? Why are you with these rosbif ?
They dont even respect their flag...

See the difference...
Some are proud of their flag... some not!

 

[Huan]

This is nothing compare to the peak of our land territory during the Qing period.

If China gets back Mongolia (Outer Manchuria) and Outer Manchuria (currently under Russia's control), will she be in first place?