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Kansas City is a geographic oddity mess all by itself with the big Kansas City in Missouri, suburban cities called Kansas City, KS and North Kansas City, MO and even a small town just outside of Kansas City, MO called Missouri City!
But what I have found odd since moving to DC is that most people don't realize that KC is nearly twice as close to Washington DC as it is to San Francisco. Most people think KC is like where Denver is or something.
California University, Indiana University, Wyoming Seminary, Delaware Community College and Washington School of Nursing are all in Pennsylvania.
Washington , Oregon, California, Nevada and Mexico are all cities in Missouri with over 1,000 population. So is Columbia, but not British.
Austin, Texas, is the seventh-closest state capital to Dalhart, Texas.
West of New England, the two state capitals that are closest together are Denver and Cheyenne.
Colorado's east and west boundaries run straight north and south, but at the southern border, they are 21 miles further apart than at the northern border. Because of this, the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan has zigzags in it, to enable land sections to be perfect squares. The city of Flin Flon has the MB/SK border running east and west through it.
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Speaking of Denver, the city itself and almost all of its suburbs are actually located on the same (mostly) flat plain that tilts gently for hundreds of miles to the Mississippi River, and includes Omaha and Kansas City.
Omaha is about 4,000 feet lower in elevation than Denver, but that is due to the constant tilt of the plain rather than any sudden topographical eruption such as hills or mountains.
Also, people tend to have little conception of how gigantic the continent of Africa is. Here's a map with the lower 48 states of the US superimposed against the bottom of the Nile River basin:
The contiguous US could fit into the continent of Africa almost 3.7 times, and the US including Alaska, Hawaii, and inland bodies of water would still fit over three times. The straight-line distance from Cape Town, South Africa (on the southern coast of the continent) to Algiers, Algeria (on the north) is almost 5,000 miles, which is greater than the distance from Fairbanks to Miami.
Also, people tend to underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean. The air distance from Los Angeles to Beijing is about 6,260 miles, which is substantially more than the 5,070 miles from London to Beijing. In fact, Los Angeles is only closer to Tokyo than London by a few hundred miles.
This map does pretty well at showing where the various US Cities lie in relation to Europe. As many have pointed out on here, it's somewhat suprising what the equivilant latitude would be in Europe... The Northern Mediterranean seems much different with it's palm trees and mild or hot temps than what's at a considerable latitude in the US(although the Med can be suprisingly cold in parts in winter, although it's more like the California Coast in winter). And San Francisco is practically at the latitude of Sicily.
There should be a subsection of this tread dedicated solely to Cairo Illinois. I actually traveled there 3 months ago just out of complete curiosity, and there are not many more stranger places in the country you will find than Cairo.
There should be a subsection of this tread dedicated solely to Cairo Illinois. I actually traveled there 3 months ago just out of complete curiosity, and there are not many more stranger places in the country you will find than Cairo.
My mother's friend grew up there in the 40's and 50's. Her father was the fire chief of Cairo. She lived there until the rioting started in the late 60's. I've heard many stories about Cairo and it is and was a strange place. At one time they had shops and stores that sold things that could not be found short of going to Chicago. Cairo had a Jewish population at one time along with the white and black southerners that lived and still live there. Sure is a depressed town now though. It's also one of the only places in Illinois where the southern dialect is the most common dialect spoken.
You must travel northeast from the southern tip of Illinois to go into Kentucky.
The Geographic Center of New York Is North of the Northernmost point of Massachusetts.
NYS has land east of the easternmost point, west of the westernmost point, north of the northern Most point, and south of the southernmost point of Connecitcut
The northern and southern borders of both California and Georgia are not parallel to each other. Each state's northern border runs due east/west, but California's southern border trends slightly northeastward, while Georgia's southern border trends slightly southeastward.
Delaware's western border does not run due north/south. It trends slightly northwestward.
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