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The galvanizing issue was the future of a 213 sq mi territory in the Shandong Peninsula and the surrounding sphere of influence, which Germany had seized from China in 1898.

Elephants and hippos were also killed by a 2003-4 outbreak in Namibia's Kasika Conservancy, Sikopo said, but this is the first incident in the 2,422 sq. mi.

The city proper is home to 2.3 million, but the greater Houston area sprawls across 10,000 sq. mi.--about the size of New Jersey--with a population of 6.3 million.

Until recently, Guam, 210 sq. mi. of U.S. territory at the bottom of Micronesia’s Mariana Islands chain, would not have been familiar to many Americans.

Covering a total area of 9 sq mi, the new complex is designed to eventually handle 75 million annual passengers—rivaling even that of Capital Airport in Beijing.