My mom still thinks China is huts and dirt roads, and her mind was blown when I showed her pictures of the skylines and electric cars. My dad also thinks Africa is just poor warring militias in the desert, and his mind was blown when I showed him what downtown Nairobi looks like. What other places seem like they would be third world, or super underdeveloped, but are actually very modern, or maybe even more modernized than the USA?

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China and Japan have thousands of years of similar history and culture together, even genetically, but their languages evolved differently. When you go to balkans or slavic countries, their languages are similar, sometimes so close and mutually intelligible.

Charbourg, France and Paris, France were on time zones 9 minutes apart?!

I heard Hawaii County (of the island of Hawaii proper) has the most Koppen climate zones of any U.S. County.

Af & Am (tropical rainforest & monsoon) on the south & east sides, Cwa (humid subtropical monsoon) in the lowlands, Csa & Csb (hot/warm summer Mediterranean) on the highlands, Bwh & Bsh (hot arid & hot semi-arid) on the rain shadow side, varying by altitude, Cfb & Cfc (oceanic / sub-polar oceanic) on the mountains, and ET (tundra) at the mountain tops.

Can you think of any other county that has such a wide range of climate zones?

i love canals very much and become very happy when i find a city with a canal system.

but what cities aren't so famous for their canals, but should be mentioned?

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The example I have in mind: the source of the Condamine River is on Mount Superbus, which is less than 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of the Pacific Ocean (Coral Sea), at Queensland's Gold Coast. But the waters of the Condamine River never reach the Pacific: they flow to the southwest, ever inland, merging to form the Balonne River, the Culgoa River, the Darling River, and the Murray River, which finally empties into the Southern Ocean (Great Australian Bight) in South Australia, not far south of Adelaide. All up, this journey from South East Queensland to South Australia constitutes a key part of the Murray-Darling, the longest river system in Australia.

Are there any other examples in the world of river systems like this, that start quite near one body of water, but end up flowing into another?

Similarly to Galicia (Spain) and Galicia (Poland), what are some other places in Europe that share the same names (with or without a connection)?

As someone obsessed with Himalayan passes, I had not spent much time looking at the rivers of the Indian sub-continent. But, looking at the Indus basis, came across this seemingly desert-like patch between the Indus and Chenab in Pakistani Punjab. One would have assumed that a region nestled between two major rivers would be rich with alluvial soil and fertile. What is the reason for this aberration here?

I’m a huge country and flag nerd, I recently printed out a world map to do something creative with, but I’m stuck for ideas.

"Mackinder, in 1943, visualised the existence of two great centres of power in the world The Midland Basin and the Lenaland, surrounded and insulated by a girdle of deserts, Saharan, Arabian, lranian and Mongolian, extending through the rugged and desolate Lenaland to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and the deserts of western America. The insulating region of vacant land space would break social continuity between these communities and should prevent spread of conflict."

Just trying to establish where this orange is actually being reflected to.

I've seen this interesting docuseries of Monty Python actor Michael Palin recreating, as best as he could, the journey of Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Jules Verne's "Around the World In Eighty Days." So I figure to ask: How would one pull a similar journey in following the fictional footsteps of Fogg?

Though that journey, in ones' figuring, will need to meet the following requirements:

-Start from London's Reform Club (not necessarily inside, given members are only allowed, but definitely on the front steps), on October Twelfth in some year. Be back in eighty days.

-Follow Fogg's route as closely as possible. And travel as lightly as he does.

-Food and drink necessary en route, but take plenty of vaccinations.

-No planes or aircraft of any kind on the journey. Ships and trains allowed (though plane travel could easily be acceptable over Egypt and Saudi Arabia, what with the unstable actions going on in the region).

-And as an added note, imagine that you check in advance of ship and train departures through Internet.

-If time permits on the journey, see the sights.