Geographical facts that surprise you (cheapest, tickets, directions)

[ben young]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I forgot about Texas.

Was that remark necessary?

The poster cant help it,he seems to dislike anything good or interisting about the USA.

[SlashNBurn]

Originally Posted by jtur88

The average annual rainfall at Dungeness, Kent, is 24 inches per year, more than double the threshold for classification as a desert, and it doesn't even meet the criteria for semi-desert. In nearby Hastings and Folkestone, the average is around 35 inches. It is raining lightly in Dungeness at this moment, as I write.

Dungeness decidedly met the semi-desert classification threshold for a few years in the early 2010s.

A far better example of a British semi-desert would be St Osyth in Essex, which just meets the threshold at 496mm rainfal per anum.

[deneb78]

I may have mentioned this before but I was surprised when I discovered that all Australian cities are mild to warm in winter and none need any snow removal equipment. I remember as a child I was told that their seasons are opposite to ours which means I thought they get snowstorms in July... not so

[SlashNBurn]

I was always quite surprised by the fact that Edinburgh (Scotland) is actually further west than Cardiff (Wales).

[The Anglosphere Miracle]

France has territories in all Continents except Asia and still has colonies.

[The Anglosphere Miracle]

There are more than one hundred territorial disputes all over the World, despite the fact that we only hear about the Middle east disputes.

[cebuan]

Originally Posted by The Anglosphere Miracle

There are more than one hundred territorial disputes all over the World, despite the fact that we only hear about the Middle east disputes.

Yes, yhe USA is involved in six territorial disputes with Canada and three more in the Caribbean ad two in the Pacific..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States

[B87]

The winter (Dec-Feb) mean temperature in Portsmouth, UK (50N) is 7.3c, which is comparable to that of Atlanta (33N) with 7.4c.

Aberdeen is further west than Bournemouth.

Fair Isle (60N) has an all time record low of -5.6c, warmer than the record lows of Tampa or Orlando.

[cebuan]

Despite their confusingly similar names in English, Austria derives from the word "east" in German, and Australia from the word ''south" in Latin.

[yofie]

There's also Tanzania vs. Tasmania, of quite different etymologies as well.