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Were the fishes named after the island or the island after the fish?

Or they are utterly unrelated and just superficially similar ?

Lake Titicaca. In the distance you can see the Ancohuma mountain, part of the Cordillera Real in the Andes.

Ok, I am thinking of moving to a different city in the USA, but right now I feel like I live in a time in history where its harder than ever to decide where to move too. Am I the only one that feels this way?

I saw this on a podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqOlOP4Dtl4 , and its interesting what they said and I had an eye opening moment.

I am 40 years old now but back in the 90s when I grew up, New york city, Los Angeles, and Chicago, were like the kings of the USA. Chicago actually used to be #2 by the way in the 80s, and its why it was nicknamed "2nd city". It always felt like these cities were the place to be if you like to "feel like your in a big city" and be around the most people, and feel that energy. I've been to all 3 of these cities in the past and loved all 3 of them.

I have a theory that ever since the pandemic hit in 2020 with the lockdowns, its as if New york city, los angeles, and chicago are losing records amount of people. When you look at the largest cities in the USA, those 3 are losing more people every year than gaining, and then you hear of places like dallas, houston, phoenix or atlanta, gaining massive amounts of people. I think I heard something that dallas could even surpass chicago as the 3rd biggest metro in the USA soon in the next decade, WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT? That's astonishing to me

I would like to move to a big city today, however I don't want to move anywhere that is going to become small in the next 5 or 10 years either.

I am curious how long it will be till NYC or LA is no longer the top 2 biggest cities in the USA, or do you think they will rebound it self and be at the top as it always has?

OR: could this happen?

https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/visualizing-us-cities-2100/#:~:text=The%20future%20of%20America%20may,the%20country's%20most%20populous%20cities.

This article predicts that The future of America may lie in Texas. Based on current migration trends, moveBuddha predicts that by 2100, Dallas, Houston, and Austin will replace NYC, LA, and Chicago as the country’s most populous cities.

Like I said from the beginning of this post, right now I feel like I live in a time in history where its harder than ever to decide where to move too. To many cities growing and predicted to out pace others and the biggest cities losing people.

A common one is El Paso, TX is closer to San Diego, CA than Houston, TX.

What are some others? I just tested one in Google that surprised me. Baker, MT is closer to Minneapolis, MN than to Troy, MT up near the Idaho panhandle, by about 100 miles. Montana is massive.

There is only a few kilometers of canal that would have to be built in order to create a Northwest Passage shortcut that directly connects to the great lakes and thus waterways connecting to the Hudson River and the Mississippi. This would avoid the need to use the Labrador Sea and Hudson Strait which are stormy, dangerous, remote and known for icebergs. The Nelson River already drains into Hudson Bay and connects to a series of lakes which starts at Lake Winnipeg, which continuously connects to waterways leading to Lake of the Woods. Lake of the Woods is only about 90 km from another series of waterways along the Canada-US border that connects up to Lake Superior. Not all of these waterways are presently navigable, but a few canals would create a much safer and cheaper passage to Asia for many parts of the Eastern USA. This also might technically turn Eastern Canada into an island.

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I cant remember the name of the website. But you pick out all the countries you know to test your knowledge.

It’s not complete)

Any point of that region below 1500 meters shouldn't be valid.

So, I'm a writer, and one of my characters is supposed to be a huge nerd about geography. She is a geography professor, and she's someone to lecture you about concepts within the field and to know weird geography facts off the top of her head. I've thought she could definitely point at any country on a world map, she probably has a pretty good idea of how borders have changed throughout history. Other than that, I'm... Not sure.

Do you have an interest in any weird geography-related subjects? What are they?

Edit: All suggestions are welcome, but I also want to mention that this character is Norwegian and so has a particular fondness for Norway and other Nordic countries.

Edit 2: More direction. She's more on the arts side, not the science side of geography. She likes pure defining and mapping of borders. Coordinate systems, absolute locations of things, etc. It extends to star maps and just maps of anything. She also has a sort of side interest in history, so I'd say she leans more the geographical history side of things. But again, all facts are welcome. I need things to write her lecturing people about over dinner.

Does someone have an idea on how I can present Karst Fields visually in my High School to make it intriguing for the class so they do not get bored. I already have the material ready. It would really help and have a nice yall!

Shouldn’t it be more of a sea? It’s like a million times smaller than all the other oceans

Many states are well known for certain features. A good example is Oregon and Washington being known for their volcanic peaks, evergreen forests, rain, and foggy coastlines. I'd always heard of the rain shadow effect but you best believe I was shocked at how much of a true desert the eastern halves (almost 2/3, really) of those states were when I managed to visit years ago. Experiencing this in person is different than just learning about it in school.

What are examples of regions in state that don't fit the mold of what we typically associate with that state?

Also during tsunamis do they displaced seafloors stay like that forever?

"Mom, can we go to Paris?" "No, we got Paris at home." Paris at home:

Melbourne’s climate confuses me ngl