17,000,000 square km - and counting

The cold sucked, but in the summer the tundra sucked when the dust was kicked up by moving vehicles whose engines choked as a result, and it sucked in the spring rains where the "roads" turned into mud pits.

Don’t forget the mosquitoes that sound like attack choppers when hunting you

Oh, man, I need to see what gnarly mosquito variant lives in that particular edge of nowhere.