DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 23, 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: metropolitan France measures 1,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
Metropolitan France is nicknamed the Hexagon; no side of it runs much beyond 1,000 km.
Common miss: players tend to inflate metropolitan France when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Africa measures 8,000 km (height), which is 3× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Africa spans roughly 8,000 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress Africa when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Italy measures 1,200 km (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, California at 1,240 km.
Italy’s long axis is why the Alps and Sicily belong to the same country.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Italy when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Australia measures 4,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Australia is nearly as wide as the contiguous United States, with a tenth of the population.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Australia when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the contiguous United States measures 4,500 km (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, Brazil at 4,320 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 Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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