Geographical facts that surprise you (Portuguese, Arabic, system)

[smool]

the world's largest city (population) is no longer Tokyo (37 million), but the Pearl River Delta single city of Guangzhou-Foshan-Dongguan-Shenzhen (37 million), across the border from Hong Kong. It's metro population is 45-63 million depending on where you stop counting. HK isn't included because of the border.

[improb]

Trieste is closer to Lviv (897 KM), Ukraine, than it is to Catania (912 KM), Italy

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by smool

the world's largest city (population) is no longer Tokyo (37 million), but the Pearl River Delta single city of Guangzhou-Foshan-Dongguan-Shenzhen (37 million), across the border from Hong Kong. It's metro population is 45-63 million depending on where you stop counting. HK isn't included because of the border.

Not a single city
4 Cities or 3 MSA's or 1 CSA.

[smool]

nope^ that may have been a few years ago but now theyre one contiguous city, having joined up by a large urban strip by the river (check it out on Google Earth). They fit in about 45 million people in an area smaller than LA.

Basically everything in grey-white in the north and east is now one single city, where you can walk from street to street to street with buildings all around. The only division is the river between Guangzhou on one side and Dongguan on the other.

Before (left) and after (right):

www.sensysmag.com

This is what it looked like back in 2010 (it's grown by 5 million since then). The city we're talking about is just the right hand side, and north:


spotila, www.skyscraperpage.com/forum

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by Summerwhale

The narrowest point of the atlantic ocean is 1,832 miles from western Mayo to east Canada

It's less than that from Brazil to Sierra Leone.

[Max96]

Khabarovsk is closer to Bangkok than to Moscow.

[jtur88]

Nearly all of Portugal is further west than the Faroe Islands.

Oslo, Helsinki and the northern suburbs of Stockholm are further north than the southern tip of Greenland.

[Magnatomicflux]

In Saint John, New Brunswick, at Stonehammer Geopark, you can see what is basically the birth place of the Atlantic Ocean.

On one side of the reversing falls, you have the rocks of Africa, and on the other, South America.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Magnatomicflux

In Saint John, New Brunswick, at Stonehammer Geopark, you can see what is basically the birth place of the Atlantic Ocean.

On one side of the reversing falls, you have the rocks of Africa, and on the other, South America.

There are about 100 such Geoparks as designated by UNESCO, and Stonehammer if the only one in North America.

Edit: Tumbler Ridge, in Brfitish Columbia, became the second one on the continent, three months ago, but the Wikipedia site has not yet caught up.

[jtur88]

Mexico (with 80) leads the world in the number of indigenous animal species that are venomous, followed by Brazil and Australia.