DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 16, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is 2.2× as big as the reference, California at 1,240 km.
The span is real, but Mercator maps still inflate Greenland’s area by about fourteen times.
Common miss: players tend to compress Greenland when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: California measures 1,240 km (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, Italy at 1,200 km.
California is roughly 1,240 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress California when it sits beside Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the contiguous United States measures 4,500 km (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
The lower 48 stretch roughly 4,500 kilometres coast to coast.
Common miss: players tend to compress the contiguous United States when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Brazil measures 4,320 km (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Brazil is almost exactly as wide as it is tall — roughly 4,300 km either way.
Common miss: players tend to compress Brazil when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Italy measures 1,200 km (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, Great Britain at 1,000 km.
Italy’s long axis is why the Alps and Sicily belong to the same country.
Common miss: players tend to compress Italy when it sits beside Great Britain — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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