DAILY NO. 28 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 28, 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: Japan measures 3,000 km (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Japan’s island arc extends around 3,000 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to compress Japan when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Australia measures 4,000 km (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Australia is nearly as wide as the contiguous United States, with a tenth of the population.
Common miss: players tend to compress Australia when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Africa measures 8,000 km (height), which is 2.7× as big as the reference, Japan at 3,000 km.
Africa spans roughly 8,000 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress Africa when it sits beside Japan — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Manhattan Island measures 21.6 km (height), which is 232× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Manhattan is about 21.6 kilometres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress Manhattan Island when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — 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.
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