It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.
America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
The more I go to Australia, the more I realise how enormous the country is and how much there is to see. There's really nowhere like it.
Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.
Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
Your country is bigger than baseball.
I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.
