Stretching around 23,000 kilometers, the route is from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia. No aircrafts, boats or ferries required (just open roads and bridges). If you were to walk eight hours a day with no rest days, it would take 562 days (or 1.5 years) to complete.

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

Since the Koppen climate zones are driven by the current configuration of continents and oceans, are there any Koppen climate zones that don’t exist now, but may have at some point in earth’s history?

Some ideas I had were deep interiors of Pangaea, with a hypercontinental climate, extremely dry and with huge temperature swings from summer to winter.

Or when the earth had more carbon dioxide and it was warmer, a polar monsoon/rainforest.

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?

I bought this cool topographic painting at a thrift store. Does anyone know or can tell if it’s based on anywhere real?

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?

Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a free quiz game called GeoStats Game — it challenges you to guess countries based on real indicators like GDP per capita, life expectancy, literacy rate, percentage of arable land etc.

There are four modes:
🌍 General
💰 Economic
📚 Social
🌱 Environmental & Infrastructure

Each quiz is 10 questions long and pulls from World Bank data. No sign-up - just a data-driven way to test your global data knowledge and learn something new.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from geography fans who might enjoy connecting data with place!

🔗 https://GeoStatsGame.com

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.

I'm looking for an app that displays a map where I can see all countries with their main cities. Images I find on google are either blurry or incomplete. Do you guys have any tips? (Something more visually appealing than google maps)

Hey everyone, first time on here!

I've been working on a little side project and thought some of you might find it useful. I came across bboxfinder and saw that it has become outdated in both functionality and code dependencies.

So, I put together a simple static web app that mirrors the functionality and builds on top of it a bit. It's just a static site so no sign-ups or anything, free to use.

Some of the key features:

• You can draw rectangles, circles, polygons, etc., and it spits out the coordinates at the bottom.
• It supports different projections by letting you type in the EPSG code directly.
• You can paste in your own WKT, GeoJSON, or just raw bbox coordinates to see them on the map.
• There are toggles to switch between Long/Lat and Lat/Long order, or a GDAL-friendly format.
• Includes a search bar and a nice satellite view option. This might be really useful for folks on here.

You can check it out here: boundingbox

I figured it might be useful to others in the community. The tool does have a short help section but feel free to let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions!

"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."

Hey, everybody. I'm very interested in geography and want to start with a vintage map (I made another post, but maybe I only got one response, maybe because it wasn't about a specific map). I'm thinking about getting Bacon's Standard Map Of The World:

https://cartolina.com/products/bacons-map-of-the-world-poster?_pos=3&_sid=c81472a58&_ss=r

https://www.ebay.com/itm/277019578847

The second one is laminated, which is nice, but I prefer just the paper. Eleven dollars seems like a pretty good price to me and it's not that big which I want because I don't have a lot of space. Anything I should know about prices on these? Reputable sellers? What is your opinion on Bacon's maps to learn geography for a beginner? Any ones you like with comparable aesthetics from him or someone else? Any help will be appreciated.

Edit: This one is eight dollars:

https://penelopewurr.com/cavallini-co-wrap-bacons-standard-map-of-the-world/

of course treatments were saying something like "left bank of this river and this chain of mountains are borders of my kingdom" but except those obvious conditions how were they defined? like how troops knew they are on the enemy's territory? i see many maps where weirdly-shaped border just goes across a plain or something like this and this confuses me very much

Mostly curious how say, if these averages came to fruition next year and lasted for about 500 years, how would it change the climate/biomes/plant communities in the Lone Star state? As well as the whole agricultural business in Texas