Bigger or smaller: country size game

How to play Bigger or Smaller

Bigger or Smaller is a higher or lower game with countries. You see one country with its total area and a second country with its area hidden. Decide whether the second country is bigger or smaller, then tap the button or press 1 for bigger and 2 for smaller. If you are right, the hidden country becomes the new one to beat and your streak grows by one. One wrong answer ends the run.

1. Choose Practice or Daily challenge. In the daily, everyone gets the same chain of countries today, so you can compare streaks with friends.
2. Pick a region in Practice to compare only countries on one continent, or play All for the whole world.
3. Keep going. The first few pairs are far apart in size; after that the gaps get smaller and harder to judge.

Areas are total area in square kilometers, including lakes and rivers inside the country, with square miles shown underneath. No pair is ever closer than 10% in size, since sources differ slightly on exact figures.

Tips

• Maps can fool you. Common world maps stretch land near the poles, so Greenland, Canada and Russia look bigger than they are, and Africa looks smaller.
• Learn a few anchors. France is about 550,000 km², Germany about 357,000 km², and India about 3.3 million km². Compare new countries to an anchor you know.
• Remember the giants: Russia, Canada, the United States, China, Brazil and Australia are the six largest countries.

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