Antarctica and the United States compared in size

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Antarctica’s surface spans 14.2 million square kilometers (5.5 million square miles), it is the 5th-largest continent and nearly twice the size of Australia. The US is the world’s 3rd largest country by total area (10.1 million square kilometers or 3.9 million square miles) and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe.