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Actually Canada has more climactic diversity than any other country in the world.
You mean from cold and wet, cold and dry, and cold as ****?
Per the question the US because there's almost everything there. The two extremes between Barrow Alaska and Saipan Northern Mariana Islands and everything in between. China a little less so as they have fewer colonial outposts and is landlocked on their western border. Maybe they have similar climatic and landscape diversity, but not as appealing to human society.
Topographically speaking, China takes the cake. China is the most topographically interesting country on Earth. The Alps and the Rockies don't hold a candle to the ranges that criss cross all over western China. Basically everything outside of the yellow river plain part of China is very topographically interesting. There's some incredibly bizarre topography all over southern China that 99% of Europeans or Americans know nothing about.
Topographically speaking, China takes the cake. China is the most topographically interesting country on Earth. The Alps and the Rockies don't hold a candle to the ranges that criss cross all over western China. Basically everything outside of the yellow river plain part of China is very topographically interesting. There's some incredibly bizarre topography all over southern China that 99% of Europeans or Americans know nothing about.
I would agree with that, I have never been to the USA, but china does indeed have amazing topography.
I would agree with that, I have never been to the USA, but china does indeed have amazing topography.
The US is pretty decent, but outside of Denali, there's nothing that comes close to the scale of the ranges in China. And in Sichuan and Yunnan, they go from subtropical to glacier, whereas most of the Rockies in the US are cold and dry on bottom too, so you don't get the same gradient shift. The Appalachians are cool, but China just has millions more acres than the US of Appalachian like landscape.
The US is pretty decent, but outside of Denali, there's nothing that comes close to the scale of the ranges in China. And in Sichuan and Yunnan, they go from subtropical to glacier, whereas most of the Rockies in the US are cold and dry on bottom too, so you don't get the same gradient shift. The Appalachians are cool, but China just has millions more acres than the US of Appalachian like landscape.
I was going to mention Sichuan and Yunnan specifically, however they are the only two "Southern" Chinese Provinces I have been too, so I was not in a position to comment on the entire reigon.
I have travelled to 60 countries myself, and from my experiences I would put that region of the world at the very top without a doubt.
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