is 890,000 square miles larger than 460,000 miles?
You CANNOT compare " square miles" to "straight miles". If you wish to compare them, you must either take square root of "square miles" or square the "straight miles". So, we have:
Sqrt(890,000) =943.40 This is the sraight miles on one side of the square. So, it doesn't compare to 460,000 straight miles.
