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Geography lesson from the White House: Trump says Crimea is the size of Texas and is in the middle of the ocean

The US state of Texas is 25 times larger than Crimea. But not according to US President Donald Trump.

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US President Donald Trump, on whom the fate of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea largely depends, probably doesn't even know where it is.

In an interview with The Mark Levin Show, Trump said that Crimea is "in the middle of the ocean" and is the size of the US state of Texas. This is not true – the state's area is 695,662 km2, while Crimea's is 27,000 km2, or nearly 25 times smaller.

In the podcast, Trump once again reiterated that Crimea was handed over to the Russians not during his administration, but that of Barack Obama (2014), accusing the then-president of weakness and indecisiveness towards Putin.

Before the meeting at the White House with Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, Trump hinted that Ukraine would not be able to return Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, provoking a conflict that led to a wider invasion in 2022. Kiev categorically rejects the possibility of giving up its territories occupied by the Russian army, including the illegally annexed Crimea.