The USA is the fourth largest country by area in the world measuring 9,525,067km². By comparison, the UK is just 242,495 km².
Hurricane Harvey has shown just some of the problems that come with attempting to provide support over such vast distances.
The state of Texas, for example, which has been most badly damaged, is 696,241 km² nearly three times as large as the UK - but which other states could the UK fit into?
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