Theological Geography
Here's a perspective I hadn't thought of before now ...
After a few moments of thinking to myself "well that makes sense" I realized that with logic like this we could simply tuck Israel (20,770 km²) into Montana (381,156 km²) and no one would notice. There's lots of free space there. That's why the Postal Service abbreviates the state name MT. Do you think that there is anyone in the Treasure State that would mind?