Americans have posted their shock on social media over the size and scale of Australia's bushfires.
After an American science celebrity, Kyle Hill posted a tweet of the locations of the Australian bushfires on a map of the United States, people flooded Twitter with responses.
Many Americans were shocked and puzzled at the overall size of Australia.
"Wow. I honestly never realised it was that large of a landmass. This is eye-opening," said one person.
Another person was puzzled by the width of the map.
"I didn't realise Australia was so large! Is this to scale?"
Other Twitter users were astounded by the scale and destruction brought on by the fires.
"Australia is as large as the US? Didn't know that. Good lord is happening, the whole continent truly is burning," said one person.
One person said the map was based on hotspots.
"It's based off hotspots, which aren't the most reliable indicators of a fire and doesn't accurately show the scale of the fires.
"I think it's fairly spot on in vic and nsw but to my knowledge Queensland is pretty good atm. There's no fires that are a threat to people atm."
Another person believed most of the fires were isolated.
"One thing to understand about this is most of those fires are nowhere major populations, Australia is a very remote country.
"Some of the fires are near people, mostly in the south-east. But the majority of these fires are extremely isolated."
So far 480 million animals have perished in the wildfires while 12.25 million acres have been ravaged by the flames, 23 people have died and 28 individuals have been declared missing.
