Arizona Fire Sky

This sunset made my jaw drop.  After a cloudy, gloomy day during which I ruminated once more over the fate of our beloved photo and life sharing site, this brought joy to my evening and hope into my night.


I needed a diversion, so I did all of this work today and thought I'd share it.  Arizona has such BIG SKIES I thought it would be fun to compare its size with other places.

So here is a list of areas.  Any surprises?
1.   British Columbia*: 364,764 mi² / 944,735 km²
2.   California: 163,696 mi² / 423,970 km²
3.   Germany: 137,847 mi² / 357,022 km²
4.   Italy: 116,347 mi² / 301,338 km²
5.   Arizona: 113,909 mi² / 295,023 km²
6.   New Zealand: 103,483 mi² / 268,021 km²
7.   Oregon:  98,466 mi² / 255,026 km²
8.   Michigan: 96,716 mi² / 250,494 km²
9.   United Kingdom: 94,058 mi² / 243,610 km²
10. Florida: 65,755 mi² / 170,304 km²
11. New York State: 54,556 mi² / 141,300 km²
12. Greece: 50,949 mi² / 131,957 km²
13. New Jersey: 8,729 mi² / 22,608 km²
14. Israel: 8,019 mi² / 20,770 km²

*Canada is just too darn big.  Oops...should have probably put France on.  Pretend they are number 2...(I'm guessing)

EDIT:
France: 247,367 mi² / 640,679 km²

PS  By the time you read this you might already have heard that the preferred bidder for Blipfoto is Polaroid.