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Couldn't find this town on Googlemaps. There is a "Three States Church" about a mile east of the point you reference, but Streetview shows no town there.
There is a business establishment there called Magnolia Clubhouse, in Louisiana, which can be seen in the satellite view on Google maps. Just west of it are two buildings, about 200 feet apart. One is a house, in Texas, and the other is a commercial building in Louisiana, backed up square against the Arkansas line, with a truck parked behind it in Arkansas.
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Don't know if I said this already, but California's southernmost point touches the Mexican border, and it's northernmost point is at the latitude of the Great Lakes. Los Angeles and San Francisco are like 6-8 hours apart I think. Something else is that Texas takes an entire day to drive across....it's northernmost point nearly reaches Kansas' southern border, and it's southernmost point, without looking at a map, is further south than Florida or almost as far south. Other geographical oddities I know of exist with regards to East Omaha.
At one time, the Missouri River had a slightly different course, but due to a change in it, Iowa's state line actually briefly crosses and encompasses the west side of the Missouri River. Also, I-24 actually crosses from Tennessee into Georgia, then back into Tennessee. Only interstate in the country to cross the same state line multiple times. Finally, with regards to far southeast Missouri, below Cape Girardeau...Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee are all a short commute away.
There is a business establishment there called Magnolia Clubhouse, in Louisiana, which can be seen in the satellite view on Google maps. Just west of it are two buildings, about 200 feet apart. One is a house, in Texas, and the other is a commercial building in Louisiana, backed up square against the Arkansas line, with a truck parked behind it in Arkansas.
I just checked that out and it's very interesting. You could just walk around that building and go in and out of three states!
Antarctica is arguably the most inhospitable place on Earth. It's almost totally covered in ice and it larger than Europe. It has no permanent residents. Even the approximately 29 million penguins that go there to breed do not actually live on the continent.
Besides Rome and Vatican City, Kinshasa and Brazzaville are the two closest capitols. This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are facing one another and in sight of each other on opposite banks of a river but I'm pretty sure they are not even connected via bridge.
That's quite the understatement. Here's something amazing:
To go from Kinshasa to Brazzaville by car only (without any ferries), you're looking at 13,308 kilometers one-way, through Angola (not sure why by looking at the map), Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon and finally Congo. Safe to say, you better take the ferry.
There is no bridge on the Congo river from Matadi (roughly 140 km from the ocean) to just west of Kisangani, 1350 km upstream.
To go from Kinshasa to Brazzaville by car only (without any ferries), you're looking at 13,308 kilometers one-way, through Angola (not sure why by looking at the map), Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon and finally Congo. Safe to say, you better take the ferry.
There is no bridge on the Congo river from Matadi (roughly 140 km from the ocean) to just west of Kisangani, 1350 km upstream.
I just imagine a scenario where I guy in Brazzaville is like "Hey man, I'll meet you in Kinshasa for lunch. Oh wait, the ferry is out? Uh, better make that next week..."
Although in regards to GoogleMaps driving advice, is that route trying to avoid any potential warzones/rebels/tribal warfare as well by taking such a long route? It seems like even to avoid ferries across the Congo, you'd be able to get around the region without having to go all the way north to the Sudan and Chad. But maybe there's not good enough roads to get through the region more directly?
Also, I-24 actually crosses from Tennessee into Georgia, then back into Tennessee. Only interstate in the country to cross the same state line multiple times.
The Georgia - Tennessee borderline, just recently, is being hotly debated. Archival evidence now suggests that the state line originally was at a different latitude than where it is now. Water rights of the Tennessee River are involved, and one of the states covets the water supply which now belongs to the other state.
Besides Rome and Vatican City, Kinshasa and Brazzaville are the two closest capitols. This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are facing one another and in sight of each other on opposite banks of a river but I'm pretty sure they are not even connected via bridge.
Vienna Austria, and Bratislava Slovakia, are almost as close to each other.
I just imagine a scenario where I guy in Brazzaville is like "Hey man, I'll meet you in Kinshasa for lunch. Oh wait, the ferry is out? Uh, better make that next week..."
Although in regards to GoogleMaps driving advice, is that route trying to avoid any potential warzones/rebels/tribal warfare as well by taking such a long route? It seems like even to avoid ferries across the Congo, you'd be able to get around the region without having to go all the way north to the Sudan and Chad. But maybe there's not good enough roads to get through the region more directly?
That's what I thought initially but I looked more closely and there just aren't any bridges. Sometimes when you don't zoom in enough, it looks like some cities are connected, but there's just no bridge on the Congo or Ubangi rivers. The best example is the route from Gemena, RDC to Bangui, Central African Republic. There seems to be a ~100km road between the two but it stops right at the river just southeast of Bangui, so since those ferries aren't programmed into Google Maps, the directions give a 9000 km loop (same loop as Kinshasa-Brazzaville basically). There's no north/south road close to the Atlantic either.
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Couldn't find this town on Googlemaps. There is a "Three States Church" about a mile east of the point you reference, but Streetview shows no town there.
