Is the USA the most geographically diverse country in the world? (home, beaches)
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What hurts America is much of the lower 48's interior is plains and farmland. So even though it has diverse landscapes your typical worldly person would claim its not diverse compared to a country like Europe for that reason.
Atleast that is the way i see it.
Europe is not a country, but even if it was, the United States and China would still have more climactic diversity. Look at the Koppen Classification map:
Thank you sharing this knowledge. Like someone else mentioned already, Europe and the US are more or less equal in size. As geographical diversity tends to vary with distance, it makes more sense to compare equally sized entities like Europe and the US than to compare individual countries to a large area like the US. The fact that the OP failed to notice this subtlety, does not make it less true.
Thank you sharing this knowledge. Like someone else mentioned already, Europe and the US are more or less equal in size. As geographical diversity tends to vary with distance, it makes more sense to compare equally sized entities like Europe and the US than to compare individual countries to a large area like the US. The fact that the OP failed to notice this subtlety, does not make it less true.
What hurts America is much of the lower 48's interior is plains and farmland. So even though it has diverse landscapes your typical worldly person would claim its not diverse compared to a country like Europe for that reason.
Atleast that is the way i see it.
I think a "typical worldly person" understands the difference between a country and a continent comprised of multiple countries. Derp!
Thank you sharing this knowledge. Like someone else mentioned already, Europe and the US are more or less equal in size. As geographical diversity tends to vary with distance, it makes more sense to compare equally sized entities like Europe and the US than to compare individual countries to a large area like the US. The fact that the OP failed to notice this subtlety, does not make it less true.
It doesn't make the fact that the US and Europe are similar in size less true, but that's not what the OP was comparing. The OP asked about countries, and so that's what people are comparing... if you don't feel the metrics are fair, then start a thread comparing countries to continents with the same question.
Definitely not Canada, which is uniformly cold across the entire country, and lacks a plethora of habitable climates commonly found in other large countries. But certainly China. Here is a list of the world's "mega diverse" countries based on biodiversity:
In terms of being the most diverse, It's a run-off between America and China. Like America, China is centered around different climactic zones. It has a frigid north, and a tropical south. China also has large swaths of desert, plains, and mountains. India, Madagascar, and South Africa are also very diverse.
You have to look at the title of the thread which is geographic diversity and not just biodiversity. In this regard of Canada, it is no laggard when it comes to diversity in landscapes, geography and climate. For anyone interested in the geographic and climactic diversity of Canada, these article do a good job displaying Canada's panopoly of geoclimatic regions.
Clearly anyone who says Canada is uniformly anything uniformly does not understand the country. I would agree it isn't on the same level as the U.S but I just find your post too dismissive and narrowly focused regarding Canada's geoclimatic/geographic diversity.
Last edited by fusion2; 03-21-2014 at 10:56 PM..
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