AREA OF SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Aug 21, 1855

AREA OF SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

Russia in Europe	2,120,397	Prussia	107,921
Austria	257,368	Spain	182,270
France	207,145	Turkey	210,585
Great Britain	121,912	Sweden and Norway	293,313

To these, Mr. DeBow adds the area of 26 other European States, the whole making only 3,811,594 square miles. The territory of this Republic covers over one-third the entire area of the North American continent. It is nearly ten times as large as that of Great Britain and France combined; three times as large as the whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Denmark together; one and a half times as large as the Russian Empire in Europe; only one-sixth less than the area covered by the fifty-nine or sixty Empires, States and Republics of Europe, and of equal extent with the Roman Empire, or that of Alexander, neither of which is said to have exceeded 3,000,000 square miles. In less than sixty years our territory has increased over three-fold. The following table, showing the comparative distances between American and foreign cities, affords a good idea of the extent of our continent:—

	Miles		Miles
Pittsburg to Boston,	616	Paris to Vienna,	625
New York to Mobile,	1,476	Paris to St. Petersburg,	1,510
Philadelphia to Pensacola,	1,443	St. Petersburg to Constantinople,	1,450
Boston to Nashville,	1,590	London to Constantinople,	1,490
N. York to Charleston,	790	London to Vienna,	760
Boston to Galveston, Texas,	2,256	Stockholm to Madrid,	2,160
New York to New Orleans,	1,640	London to Rome,	910
Source to mouth of Mississippi,	2,986	St. Petersburg to Thebes, Egypt,	2,800