>>But on both measures... either total country size or size that is in Europe, Russia still wins. >Evan
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>Russia isn't all in Europe.
>The portion that is in Europe - I wouldn't know if it's the largest country therein.
>If you mean the largest country in the world, then I thought Canada was (surprising as one tends to think of the vastness of Russia and China)

I think you are trying to read something more profound into my post that was intended. Both Russia and Turkey are countries that are in both Europe and Asia.
- for total size of country, regardless of continent, Russia is bigger than Turkey
- for total size of the portion of each country that is in Europe, Russia's european part is bigger than Turkey's European part
- if you look at the largest European countries that are completely within Europe (Germany, France, Spain), the part of Russia that is on the European continent is still larger than any of those.