Because it was only two miles wide, by war's end it was largely in ruins.
The National Weather Service said Monday's tornado was 1.3 miles wide as it tore through Moore.
The spacecraft has measured Eros at 21 miles long by 8 miles wide and 8 miles deep.
Now it had to home in on a patch of ground four miles wide by twelve miles long.
Thirty miles south of the Bahamas sits Grand Turk Island, seven miles long, one and a half miles wide.
The lighthouse is at the northwest end of the island, which is 19 miles long and 6 miles wide.
The deep channel is only about 2 miles wide at its narrowest point.
Togo is a strip of a nation that averages about 60 miles wide, nestled between Benin and Ghana in West Africa.
By April 28th, as The Economist went to press, it was 100 miles wide and only 16 miles from Louisiana's shores.
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You know, Gaza's only 26 miles long and four miles wide, and imagine like that's all you see your whole life.
The plane performed its weightless maneuvers over a chunk of airspace 100 miles long by 10 miles wide over the Atlantic Ocean.
Chile is nearly 3, 000 miles long, but averages just 112 miles wide.
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The Goodwin Sands are a series of shifting sandbanks, 11 miles long and six miles wide, that are also the site of historic shipwrecks.
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Photographs taken from far overhead cover an area many miles wide.
Remember that, before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide.
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Completely in a category of its own, the hurricane's eye measures about 1, 250 miles wide and is surrounded by fluffy white clouds the size of Texas.
"With the storm being 1, 000 miles wide, we are closely monitoring road restrictions, flooding and power outages" to determine if more closings are necessary, he added.
Some 290 miles long and 85 miles wide with a long border on the Mediterranean, it is surrounded on land by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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Marjah has a population of about 75, 000, spread out over a vaguely rectangular area some 12 miles north to south, and about six miles wide at points.
Galveston -- a city in which about 8, 000 people died in a 1900 hurricane -- is about 50 miles southeast of Houston on a barrier island 2 miles wide.
The mushroom cloud alone was stretched out 41 miles high and was over 59 miles wide, essentially one big cloud from Hyannis to Boston, Massachusetts, or surely enough to cover Manhattan two times over.
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The drifting chunk of ice, more than 32 miles long by 12 miles wide, forced the drill ship Noble Discoverer to move off the planned well as a precaution, company spokesman Curtis Smith said.
During the rainy season, the Amazon crashes over its banks, turning entire forests into inland seas and swelling to an average of 28 miles wide along its inland length and 300 miles wide at its mouth.
This farm will be located 20 miles offshore so that the curvature of the earth will prevent it from being visible from shore and will contain 100 5MW turbines in a grid four by eight miles wide.
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The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma (above) with such power and destruction last Monday afternoon, was an EF5 with peak winds of about 210 miles per hour (340 kph) and was 1.3 miles wide at its peak (2.1 km).
So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express, " in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the Indian Ocean, showing an unexpected skill at seafaring to reach Australia across a strait that was at least 40 miles wide.
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Great Diomede is only 6.4km (4 miles) wide so everyone was really concerned that I might just miss the island.
Astronomers calculated recently that there are nearly 1, 000 asteroids at least a kilometre (0.6 miles) wide which cross the Earth's path.
The largest underground body of water in Antarctica is known as Lake Vostok, which is 250km (155 miles) long, 40km (25 miles) wide and 400m (1, 300ft) deep.
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