The two groups now control two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of France.
In total, the African Union has just 7, 000 soldiers and police across an area the size of France.
There is only a single track through the black-cotton soil cutting across an area the size of the Netherlands.
That could have dispersed harmful or even potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields.
Much of it comes from Queensland, where an area the size of France and Germany combined is underwater.
In 2006-10 across China they sold land-use rights to over 22, 000km2 of land, an area the size of New Jersey.
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The Islamist extremists toppled the tribe and seized control of two-thirds of northern Mali, an area the size of France.
The fire, which covers an area the size of a football pitch, broke out in fermenting green waste on 30 November.
President George W Bush has banned fishing in an area the size of Spain in US-controlled waters of the central Pacific.
Training in an area the size of a basketball court, 12 commandos wear goggles that display high-resolution 3D images delivered wirelessly (pictured).
It houses 5, 000 plants, covers an area the size of 10 tennis courts, and has taken more than two years to build.
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Our correspondent said the plane broke up on impact, scattering debris and passengers' belongings across an area the size of a football pitch.
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The fire, which covers an area the size of a football pitch, broke out in 1, 000 tonnes of fermenting wood mulch on 30 November.
According to the plaintiffs, there are nearly a thousand of these pits in the Oriente, scattered across an area the size of Rhode Island.
Agency experts believe the weed only appeared at Davidstow this summer but it has already occupied an area the size of a tennis court.
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"It is just impossible to control midges across an area the size of Europe, " Prof Drew told the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee.
The United Nations estimates some 13 million hectares of forest are lost worldwide each year, equivalent to an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua.
The Rhiannon wind farm would be around 19km (12 miles) north-east of Anglesey and cover an area the size of the Isle of Man.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
Not only does it cut out the party middleman, says Mr Beattie, it is the only feasible way of staying in touch with 325, 000 voters scattered across an area the size of Belgium.
It first demanded, and quickly got, the demilitarisation of a jungle area the size of Switzerland in the southern part of the country, so that it could prepare for talks without the fear of attack.
Then-President Andres Pastrana ceded an area the size of Switzerland to the guerrilla group, but he ended negotiations after rebels launched a series of attacks across the country in an apparent bid to strengthen their position.
But in the naysayers' view, it is precisely these idyllic scenes that are under threat from machines that may cover an area the size of Manhattan and be taller (at 134 metres) than the Statue of Liberty.
The observatory has 24 telescopes and 1, 600 detectors covering an area about the size of Lancashire.
To match that output using wind energy, you'd need a land area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
The fish swam lazily near the shoreline, pausing to hover over an area about the size of a bathtub.
In 1995, forest fires in Canada burned more than 17 million acres, an area half the size of Florida.
There are currently only a few thousand African union troops trying to safeguard an area roughly the size of Texas.
Anyway, even though Samuell is classed with the other biggest schools in its area based on size, mass numbers does not equal athletic quality.
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In geographic terms, it spans all or portions of 25 Texas counties, covering an area roughly the size of the State of West Virginia.
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