What are the five largest constellations?

I hate these kinds of questions! If I were to give my list, in terms of area on a globe, it looks like the following list, ranked approximately in terms of surface area...note you cannot use a star chart because flat charts distort areas near the poles...that's why Greenland and Antarctica always come out looking the size of North America! Anyway, here's my list from a 3-D globe:

Draco
Ursa Major
Hydra
Centaurus
Pegasus
This is by eye-balling a globe, so the individual rankings may be debatable. The main thing is that you cannot use a 2-D star chart to do this exercise.
Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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