Share this article. Share. This graphic shows Africa is bigger than the land masses of the US, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece put together. It also lists the top 100 countries in the world in terms of biggest land size.
Definition of ground cover. 1  1 : the small plants on a forest floor except young trees. 2  2a : a planting of low plants (as ivy) that covers the ground in place of turfb : a plant adapted for use as ground cover.
An area within the maximum range of a weapon, radar, or observer, which cannot be covered by fire or observation from a particular position because of intervening obstacles, the nature of the ground, or the characteristics of the trajectory, or the limitations of the pointing capabilities of the weapon. 2.