I think my face was doing similar things to your friend's as I was reading through that so I read it out to J and he said THAT'S MORE DRIVING THAN DAYS THEY'RE HERE FOR.

Though I had to double check where I thought Norway was (it is where I thought it was) and I'm still probably missing something but I don't understand how they thought Australia was about the same size. Even using the flat projection and if you stretch and just go across one dimension.

A friend of mine said a lot of Europeans they knew seemed to have no concept of how vast some other countries were as a lot of the European countries you can kind of drive over in like half an hour (may or may not be a slight exaggeration).