Geographical facts that surprise you (Korean, distance, water)

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by slowlane3

This thread is almost identical to another one on the "WORLD" forum called "ODDITIES OF GEOGRAPHY" which has over

1,300 comments and is still being added to. Nearly all your comments have been repeated already on that thread. Please

everyone, type "Oddities" in the search box here to bring up that thread, and use THAT one, to save yourselves all a lot

of time repeating the same information.

This one IS in the World Forum. The other one is in the USA forum, and is (usually) restricted to USA Oddiites. World Oddities would be off topic and out of place there, so keep them here..

[green_mariner]

The world's northernmost city of 100,000 or more residents is Norilsk,Russia, located around 69 degrees N.

[Joe90]

Vancouver Island, is the biggest Island in the Pacific, east of New Zealand (thanks Wiki)

[B87]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Malaga,Spain(in the very south of Spain) is located closer to Great Britain than it is to Madrid(think about Gibraltar for a moment).

You mean the UK; Great Britain is an island.

[green_mariner]

Despite being thought of as an Eastern European city, Prague is actually located further west than Vienna.

Estonia and Finland both share land borders with Russia, but their respective capital cities are closer to each other than they are to Moscow or St. Petersburg.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by B87

You mean the UK; Great Britain is an island.

I thought they were the same place, just different name.

[green_mariner]

Recife, Brazil is closer to Dakar, Senegal than it is to western Brazil.

Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, Russia is closer to Sapporo,Japan than it is to Vladivostok,Russia.

Part of Alaska is west of Wellington,New Zealand.

[green_mariner]

If you drive due south of Detroit,MI, you will be in Canada, the only major city in the USA where this is possible.

Miami,FL is closer to the Panama Canal than it is to Boston,MA, despite sharing the same coastline and the same highway.

Miami,FL is closer to two national capitals(Havana,Cuba;Nassau,The Bahamas) than it is to Florida's state capital, Tallahassee.

[green_mariner]

In the wintertime, Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada share times zones with Santiago,Chile, despite Halifax being on the Atlantic Ocean and Santiago being close to the Pacific.

[green_mariner]

The northernmost point in the lower 48 states was created by a mapping error, The Northwest Angle in Minnesota