THE STUPENDOUS SIZE OF RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 6

THE STUPENDOUS SIZE OF RUSSIA

Few people in England ever realise the stupendous size of the Russian Emis, of course, an exaggeration, although Russian Asia alone covers an a «a nearly 6,600,00'J square miles (nrite Hnrrv de Wmdt, m "Russia as I Know It”). ‘ Mr. George Kennan, tne Aulcrlcal ? traveller, perhaps afforded the most graphic illustrat.oa of its enormous extent when he wrote as follow?. "If it were possible to move entire countries from one part of the, gtobe to another vou could take 'he nholc of the United States of America, from Maine to California, and from Lake n ™ the Gulf of Mexico, and set it donn in the middle of Siberia nM llO "*... in? anywhere the boundaries o ftb e l«t ter territory. You could then take Maska and nil th? States of Europe and fit them into the remaining margin like nicer® of a dissected map, and after having thus accommodated all of the United States, including .Maska, and all of Europe (excent Russia), you would still have more than 309,000 square miles of Siberian territory to spare-in other word®, vou would stiH leave unoccupied in Siberia an area half as large again as tho Emniro of Germany. And all this is exclusive of European Russia, which has an additional area of over 200,000 square mile®!