Geography Thread - From demographics to maps to landscape

[Ronnie McNutt]

I like watching and reading stuff about countries, cultures and their way of living so I might as well make a thread about it
I personally like knowing more about countries in Africa and how people live with it, like Nigeria which is developing pretty quickly and with a growing agricultural sector, and how Botswana turned from literal shithole to a decent living experience

What I like the most is living in the most wacky and remote places like Greenland and deep into Siberia, it's something about them that makes me more interested in zooming into random places on google maps and discovering towns and cities with people in them

 

[Santa Fe Swag]

For some reason i autisticly obsess over the latitude and longitude of places. Also coastlines and how they correspond with the borders of countries.

 

[Breadbassket]

43.645074, -115.993081​

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Say, where is that 'Ukraine' place anyway?

 

[hhaergenreyt]

there are too many places

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

there are too many places

Agreed
The only country that should exist is the good ol' United States of America. Every other country is an irrelevant Communist shithole

 

[Absolutego]

Something cool that I learned (as part of a way off-topic tangent in the Biden megathread) is the distinct shape of the Snake River valley is largely due to Yellowstone's repeated eruptions over the years slowly digging a hole into the Rocky Mountains.
It's like the continental equivalent of that string of first islands, then atolls, then sub-marine mountains that streaks NW from the Hawaiian archipelago as the Pacific plate slid over whatever hotspot is in the Earth's mantle.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I like extraterrestrial geography.

Like the former 9th planet having that heart-shaped region on it.

Too bad there aren't that many worlds known.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Turns out Botswana success lies in not having the same guy rule for thirty years

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Say, where is that 'Ukraine' place anyway?

On the border.

 

[Flavius Anthemius]

On the border.

It means the borderlands basically.

Also It's nice to have a geography related thread here for like minded individuals, it has such a wide impact on so many different things more then people realise.

Geo was my favourite high school pastime and I actually liked learning about it, later on it would introduce me towards certain offshoots of learning like niche areas of history.

 

[hhaergenreyt]

Dmitry Galkovsky, "The Infinite Deadlock"

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

i like how kiribati has some interesting names for places

you can see places like london, paris, poland and my favorite, "banana"

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

These are the borders of two countries. The center belongs to the large mass in the image. Nahwa, check it out.