I mean.. what happened to make this happen, what earth movements led to this? I haven't been good at Googling it and would like a little more information. Thank you in advance guys, is my first post here but I always enjoy reading this subreddit.

Edit: didn't put the link 😭

Does it have anything to do with reservations? Why does it extend out so far into the desert?

Minnesota: Hat Iowa: Head Missouri: Shirt Arkansas: Pants Louisiana: Boots Tennessee: Pan Kentucky: Chicken

It’s always weirded me out. Could that northern chunk ever drift away?

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Every time I look at this part of the world, the thought comes to me that something is missing here. I don't know if it's because they seem to have ripped out a section between Spain and France, but the thought always comes to mind. Is there any explanation why this part has this particular formation? It seems very peculiar to me.

Wtf?! All my life I thought the Iberian peninsula was just Spain and Portugal…. IT INCLUDES A BIT OF FRANCE?! I am terribly shocked by this information. Surely I am not the only idiot who didn’t know this..

Looking for some new Geography related rabbit holes and oddities to go down on wikipedia/google maps! I feel like my own personal list is pretty extensive, feel free to look up some of my favorites:

• Lake Kivu exploding • Poles of inaccessibility • Sable Island • The Lodge on the Elliðaey • Por-Bazhyn • The Lena Pillars • The Mad Trapper of Rat River • Smoking Hills in Canada’s Far North • Lake Natron • Migingo Island • Scott’s Hut Antarctica • Lake Hillier • Coober Pedy •Tree of Tenere • Snake Island Brazil • Richat Structure • Wall of Tears Galapagos • Clipperton Island

Hoping to learn something obscure, at the risk of sounding pretentious I already know about North Sentinel, Darvaza Crater, Socotra, any top 10 list place 😅

Lets get some “bottom of the iceberg” locations!

Milan metropolitan area has more than 6 million residents. It grows beyond city limit on north, extending toward border with Switzerland. However on south, there are very few suburbs and some part within city limit is still a farmland. Given south of the Milan is more flat and close to Poe river, how did this phenomenon happened?

I found these on some east-facing coasts on the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati. I thought they might be reefs but the regularity of the shape and the straight line pointing to the shore made me think they could be manmade. Each arrow faces to the east and are about ~70m in length. Looking at older satellite photos they are also clearly visible.

1°36'45.58\"N, 172°58'0.73\"E

This was taken in 2007.

And this in 2005.

They weren't restricted to this one spot and can be found on a few other of the islands in the area. What could they be?

Buena Park, La Mirada, and La Habra all in one area

Glacier valleys create a great place for a small city to thrive: usually a river, protection, energy source because of the gradient of the walls, etc.

But I can’t think of any major cities that have developed in one. I guess they could just be too small. But what is the most economically active glacial valley city.

Some ones in the alps I’m thinking of: Innsbruck Bolzano Cortina D Interlaken All of Lichtenstein

If you guys (like me) spend hours on google earth and maps just looking at random stuff, I highly recommend mapcrunch.com. It’s a random street view generator for basically all over the world (or you can filter by country or by map area) and it’s so addicting to just play on it omg

If anyone has any other fun websites that have to do with maps or geography lmk :) I also like browsing atlas obscura for funky and unique landmarks/places

It seems majority of the developed world are mainly in the 5c - 20c regions

Hi! Hopefully I am not breaking any group rules asking if anyone has a resource for this. My 5-year-old is very interested in tectonic plates. The maps showing the tectonic plates in the books we've borrowed from the library are 2D maps that are distorted - so he has a mistaken (I think) impression that the antarctic plate is the largest one, due to the projection method used by the map. I think he understood, but I have been looking for printables - like 12 gore printable earth maps for creating a 3D globe, and I can't find one that has the tectonic plates on it.

Anyone geography enthusiasts have an image like this with the tectonic plates that I could print and use to create a 3D globe with my son?

Moscow has a metro population of over 12 million. For reference, if you move the Moscow metro into the United States, it would be the second largest metropolitan area (by population) in America only behind the NYC metro.

That is very big for a city that inland. It takes like 8 hours to drive to the nearest ocean coast. Plus the winters are long and brutal in Russia. Usually a population center that big won’t pop up in an inland place with cold winters (like the American Midwest). So how did Moscow get so big despite being so cold and inland?

Correction: The Moscow metro area has over 22 million people, making it comparable to the NYC metro in terms of population

Shaanxi earthquake, deadliest in recorded history, ~730,000 (indirect) deaths.

Yellow River Flood, 930,000 - 2,000,000 deaths. Deadliest flood ever recorded.

Deadliest cyclones, China has the deadliest toll in the 19th and 20th century.

Deadliest famine between 15-55 million deaths, deadliest famine known to man.

Haiyuan landslide possibly the deadliest landslide with ~73,000 deaths.

On the list of deadliest earthquakes ever recorder, China has 4 on a list of 16 worldwide.

On this list of deadliest floods ever recorded, China is the most mentioned country, with the 4 deadliest floods being in China.

Now I know it's a very big country with many different landscapes, but other countries in the world are very big with very different landscapes yet China beats almost every record of deadliest catastrophic events.

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