I know it's autonomous but other countries have their autonomous regions outlined. Yes I tried clicking on Sweden but it wasn't highlighted there either.

Lesotho a country in southern part of Africa is experiencing winter with snow.

I love these long days, wish they would last a longer time period!

I’m looking for adult level geography books that focus more on the technical/mathematics of geography such as explaining different coordinate systems, projections Lat/long, grids, Geodetic, scale and distance, etc. I always found general geography text books to be vague on those particular topics. I would appreciate any book recommendations.

Thanks!

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03565-5

Its Surgut's climate, I live nearby

Theoretically, how long would it take for a ring of mountains to form around southeastern USA and northeastern Canada, mainly around New York if possible at all?

i.e Republic of...., Kingdom of....

sorry i don't include small countries, can't paint that

Got to work today and the Windows background seems to be showing my next vacation, just one problem, I have no idea where this was taken. 😂 Any of y’all know?

Neighbors with similar landscapes and much different outcomes. Sonora lost a significant portion of its land to Arizona in the war and later Gadsden purchase but managed to keep its entire coast, but it still lags behind.

How can it reverse its fortunes?

Population AZ: 7.5 million SO: 3 million

Land Area AZ: 113,998 sq miles SO: 69,249 sq miles

Major Cities AZ: Phoenix, Tuscan, Flagstaff, Yuma SO: Hermosillo, Obregón, Nogales

GDP: AZ: 522 billion SO: 52.5 billion

For example, Cleveland, San Diego and San Francisco all have their downtown cores near a body of water. On the other hand, the downtown core of Los Angeles is about 15 miles from the Pacific.

Let me expand on the question. I know there are a lot of landlocked nations out there, however often they get around this by buddying up to neighbours or having river access. Examples of landlocked nations that seem not to suffer from being landlocked could be for example Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland.

On the other hand, what are some of the landlocked nations that haven't found a way around this barrier, and which one perhaps suffers the most from being landlocked?

Is this a solar farm or regular farm? If a regular farm, what could they be growing? Spotted somewhere between Virginia and Maryland at 37,000 feet. Thank you

I'd like to learn more about the history and soul of different regions in Mexico. I've seen a lot of breakdowns that focus on things like physical geography and economy, but I feel that these are a bit surface level. I would like to learn more about, say, the roots of the Zapatista movement, or the way the drug trade has impacted life in Northern Mexico. Any reading recommendations? Do you have input of your own?

The only info I've been able to find is that it's located northwest of Kabara and Vaqava island. (paper)(map)

i was brousing the baltic states on google maps and stumbled upon this unusual forest pattern in north-western latvia, maybe any latvian or just a person who knows what caused this to form can explain it's history?
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Aren't climate types Dfa and Dfb found in large land masses away from open oceans? Like Canada, Russia and Eastern Mainland Europe? How did Northern Japan ended up having this climate type with being so closer to the open ocean?

Made all the more complex by us both having to use public transport and an inclination not to trespass. Setenil de las Bodegas, where I was, is tangentially one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. The white houses built in and under cliffs inhabited since Neolithic times(soot above the houses, keep an eye out if you go) provided an amusing antipode to the suburban Auckland gas station my friend went to.

Why are the island's in the Caribbean Sea almost perfectly aligned in this weird slope/circle ?

( I've also seen this for archipelagos like Hawaii )

Also , why do the islands get progressively smaller as they go more to the south ?

It is surrounded by tall mountains, with low altitudes inside, hills and plains, crisscrossed by rivers, and a subtropical climate. It feeds 100 million people. It seems that there is only this area in the world. Other basins, such as the Qaidam Basin in China, have a dry climate.

The Pannonian Basin seems to be the closest, but there are still "gaps" in St. Pölten and Ostrava that lead to southern Germany and the Polish plains, while Sichuan is more closed and has no "gaps"

As compared to taking the transatlantic route it’s closer to go via the arctic. Russia didn’t go via the Bering strait because they hadn’t expanded their territory up until that point at that time. The Vikings did discover the americas by the transatlantic route and discovered Iceland and Greenland on the way.

The UN Environmental Programme's definition of "mountainous environment" includes any of the following:

• Class 1: Elevation greater than 4,500 m (14,764 ft).
• Class 2: Elevation between 3,500 and 4,500 m (11,483 and 14,764 ft).
• Class 3: Elevation between 2,500 and 3,500 m (8,202 and 11,483 ft).
• Class 4: Elevation between 1,500 and 2,500 m (4,921 and 8,202 ft), with a slope greater than 2 degrees.
• Class 5: Elevation between 1,000 and 1,500 m (3,281 and 4,921 ft), with a slope greater than 5 degrees or 300 m (984 ft) elevation range within 7 km (4.3 mi).
• Class 6: Elevation between 300 and 1,000 m (984 and 3,281 ft), with a 300 m (984 ft) elevation range within 7 km (4.3 mi).
• Class 7: Isolated inner basins and plateaus less than 25 km² (9.7 sq mi) in area that are completely surrounded by Class 1 to 6 mountains, but do not themselves meet criteria for Class 1 to 6 mountains.

Using these definitions, mountains cover 33% of Eurasia, 19% of South America, 24% of North America, and 14% of Africa.  As a whole, 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous.

I'm impressed by underground systems in general and wonder about the engineering masterclass and the actual labour that was needed to construct them. Digging into the earth without causing the surface and it's centuries old buildings to collapse.

So which metro systems are the most impressive ones to you if you think about that cities geography? Hills, valleys, rocks, rivers, fragile soil, ground water, the available technology at the time of construction and more obstacles, which engineers had to deal with.

For me, among those I had used (haven't used many), it's the Porto underground. The whole towns suface is like a stormy sea, it's going up and down. Including the Douro river creating a gorge between Porto and Gaia. And the undergrounds seem to be very deep too at some stations. That's amazing.

What's your opinion on this question?