Is it Palm? Is it Kush? What’s goin on out there in that Marshall Island ring?

The Boreal Forest in Canada could be the same size or larger size than some countries, larger than the Amazon Rainforest. It has a million lakes inside the forest and has the Canadian Shield.

I commute from my home to work and encounter this on my way. I reside in State of Madhya Pradesh in India. The white line beneath the Plaque is the Tropic of Cancer

High up in the Hindu Kush mountains along the banks of the Kokcha River in Eastern Afghanistan is the little town of Sar-e-Sang, source of the highest quality lapis lazuli anywhere in the world for over 6,000 years.

More valuable than gold for most of its history, lapis lazuli from Sar-e-Sang found its way in to art and artifacts from the very first civilizations to today. Sar-e-Sang lapis is featured prominently in King Tutankhamen’s funeral mask. During the Renaissance ground up Lapis from Sar-e-Sang was used to make extremely expensive ultramarine blue paint that artists charged extra to use and was usually reserved for images of the Virgin Mary.

You can still buy lapis lazuli from the mines in Sar-e-Sang, the highest grades costing $100 - $150 per carat, the lower grades being significantly cheaper.

In the late 1800s there was a major river regulation project in Hungary, where they regulated the Tisza river to it's current state, which was a good idea at the time, because since it was a mainly agricultural economy and this allowed a lot more land to be cultivated and it climate change was not an issue. Today however it's causing massive droughts which will get even worse in the future.

Legend:

First Picture:

• Light blue: Areas covered by water for longer or shorter periods during floods
• Darker blue: Areas permanently under water, or under water for most of the year
• Dark blue: Present-day lakes

Second Picture:

• Green: No drought
• Yellow: Mild drought
• Orange: Moderate drought
• Red: Severe drought
• Dark red: Extreme drought

Here is a higher res image for the first picture

I have a lot of trouble remembering these regions and I found this map identifying the countries and territories with national color coding to be helpful.

Stumbled upon it on the Wikipedia article about New Caledonia.

Every citizens or people that live in the most populated areas in the south, while few people live in the north back in 2025. It is a big country with almost all the citizens living in the south, making the southern provinces to have more population.

Vancouver, BC Proper Population: 662,248
Seattle, WA Proper Population: 784,777

Vancouver Metro Population Estimate: 3,108,926
Seattle Metro Population Estimate: 4,145,494

Seattle has over 100,000 more people inside its city limits than Vancouver and over one million more people in its metro area.

Apple is very detail-oriented. I don’t know what the criteria is on Apple Maps for the text size of cities because it doesn’t appear to be population.

Looks like there are more examples of this happening such as DC and Philly but this is the one that caught my eye.

Original Source: u/associationcortex

Is there a place in the world that connects something like a desert and a tundra together? Where one side has snow and the other with sand?

Which world atlas would you recommend that contains the most thematic maps, such as information on economy, agriculture, languages, culture, etc?

Bisti Badlands NM sunrise

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I'm wondering why considering the mainland could probably be a nicer spot for the capital city in my opinion.

The attached chart shows what an outlier the current Sea Surface Temperatures are along the equator in the Pacific between 120W-170W. This is in the ENSO3.4 region, which is the most closely monitored area for El Niño. It’s about time for a new y-axis.

(source: NOAA via ClimateReanalyzer from the Univ of Maine)

Olá, pessoal! Como vai?
Prazer, meu nome é Henrique Laydner Von Schilgen e recentemente criei uma regionalização para o Brasil, já que gostei muito de saber sobre esse tipo de matéria e sobre os Quatro Brasis, Complexos Geoeconômicos e as Regiões Oficiais do IBGE.
Para minha obra, utilizei como critérios a integração econômica, logística e cadeias de suprimentos como critério central, conectando os territórios a partir das suas dinâmicas produtivas, eixos de transporte e fluxos econômicos.
E se não atrapalhar, observem e deem os seus palpites, ficarei feliz em melhorar minha primeira regionalização. Obrigado.

For Aix-En-Provence near Marseille in France, it is "Sainte Victoire", around 950m high and popularized by the painter Cezanne in his painting (this mount appears on 80 paintings from him).

What's yours ?

From my understanding Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, with the intention of joining Albania at some point. Well nearly 20 years later it's still separated from Albania. Usually when countries have been divided for a long time the likelihood of unification/reunification becomes more minuscule with each passing year, think Cyprus and Greece or the Koreas, due to the obvious divergence in politics and culture since they're separate countries. However with the case of Kosovo and Albania, from what I can find there is still a hope of unification, but what I'd like to know is are there people, Albanians or Kosovar, that would like their countries to remain seperate? Like Kosovo stays Kosovo seperate from Albania? And if not than why are they so warm to the concept of unity compared to other ethnic groups nationally divided? Is it too soon for that opinion to sour?

I was thinking of random enclaves and exclaves this morning like Cueta in Morocco , the Angola one above the DRC, that one Spanish town in France, Kaliningrad etc. I coincidentally happened to stumble on this area in UAE. I’m surprised I never heard of it before, or seen this degree of enclaveness lol

Both have cold ocean currents and mediterranean climate but nothing like in the mediterranean sea. California has may-june gloom and Santa ana winds in October which makes December coldest month and makes sept-oct hottest month in California.

Does chile have unique features like these?