Geographical facts that surprise you (movies, college, beaches)

[green_mariner]

In Mongolia, there are more horses than people.
Papua New Guinea has the most languages spoken in any country, 750.
Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.

I suppose you could also say it's the only continent with 24 time zones.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by pch1013

I suppose you could also say it's the only continent with 24 time zones.

It is possible when considering what Michael Palin once said. He said that the South Pole is one place where you can walk around the earth in 3 seconds.

[Mac15]

Originally Posted by jtur88

That's nine, right?

Let's see ---.
USA
Canada
Mexico
Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama.

That's ten.

You might have added that the areas of France and Thailand are also within 5% of each other. Given that their populations are growing at different rates, there is certainly a moment in the recent past when their populations were exactly the same.


Also, the areas of Cambodia and Uruguay differ from each other by only a few city blocks, less than one square mile. So Uruguay is bigger than Cambodia when the tide is out, and smaller when it is in.

USA and Canada are north America to me. Not el savador, Belize. I mean 8n is not northern!

[french user]

Reversed western Europe:
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Reversing the 5 major countries (sorry for the others) of western Europe reveals a new vision of how western Europe is latitudinally constituted.
This image shows the UK, Spain, France, Italy and Germany reversed on a north-south axis that pass about thru Luxemburg, using a mercator prejection. Which means that only longitudes are reversed but latitudes are keept identical.
As such we can quickly take concience of some correpondances:
- For exemple we realise that Spain is much further south than Italy. someting we might forget: Spain is situated at southern Italian latitudes only, even the cool northern Spanish Castilla-y-leon are in line with south-central Italy. The "celtic" Galicia and Asturias are in line with Montenegro.
- The UK occupies latitudes from Czech/Polish border to the extreme south almost to Stockholm in the north. Scotland in entirely lined with southern Sweden and Denmark. England with northern Germany.
- Southern Germany (Bavaria and Baden-wurtemberg) are line with the northern corner of France while northern half of Germany (including the former east Germany) is lined with England and Netherlands.
- France is between central Italy and central Germany, its gravity center being about lined with Tessino in switzerland. Corsica being in line with Catalunia, Britanny with Austria, the northern quarter (normandy, Paris, Picardy, NPDC) with Bavaria. All the south of Loire with the northern half of Italy; the pyrenees with southern Tuscany/Umbria.
- Italy is actually far more north than many usually think. The northern half (from Tuscany to trentino alto-adige) lies in line with France as far north as Tours. The friuli and venetia being lined with La Rochelle region.

[Mac15]

I'm in the water

[green_mariner]

Italy is actually far more north than many usually think. The northern half (from Tuscany to trentino alto-adige) lies in line with France as far north as Tours. The friuli and venetia being lined with La Rochelle region.

Milan is about as far north as Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA.

[green_mariner]

Via the Arctic Circle, Vancouver,Canada is closer to Murmansk,Russia(the European part) than Tokyo,Japan, even though Tokyo is across the Pacific.

[Mac15]

I'm closer to Barrow than Atlanta is. .

[Davy-040]

Los Angeles is 250 miles closer to Miami than it is to Honolulu.

Boston-Seattle and Boston-Medellin, Colombia is the same distance.