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Hot-Specialist-6824 t1_irbrjpc wrote

Reply to comment by ThenaJuno in TIL the length of the US rail network is twice that of Europe by Pardon_my_baconess

No, the United States is just under one and a half times the geographic size of Europe. US almost 3.8 mill sq miles, EU just over 1.6 mill sq miles.

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WBurkhart90 t1_irbsqyb wrote

You realize that's 2.5x the size roughly, right? 1.6 x 2 is 3.2 mill sq miles.

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sektabox t1_irbyrrn wrote

> EU just over 1.6 mill sq miles

The OP title says "Europe" - not EU.

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