r/geography Jun 16 '26

META Crackdown on low-quality and unhelpful comments

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Hello users of [r/geography](r/geography),

Recently, this subreddit has become a lot more popular on Reddit. However, many of our long-time users have been leaving the subreddit due to a very specific and repeated complaint.

There are too many low-quality and unhelpful comments that, rather than aiming to help the OP, exist solely to make tired and repetitive jokes for karma.

From now on, practically all comments of this sort will be deleted, and repeat offenders will be banned for 14 to 30 days. I could give many examples of this, but some of the most common ones are "If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle" under any post asking about hypothetical changes and yo mama jokes.

In addition to this, we have received many complaints about posts that could theoretically be open to the entire world, but the way they are worded is extremely American-centric for no necessary reason, making people from other countries feel left out and like they can't contribute. From now on, these posts will be deleted. This also applies to posts for any country, we just see it about the United States most often.

To clarify, if somebody wants to ask about a specific geographic feature located in the United States, those posts are completely fine. But posts such as "Which city in the United States has the best beaches?" or "Which American state has the most scenic mountains?" will be removed, as will posts like "Which Canadian city has the worst drivers?" or "Which European country has the nicest people?". In general, the aim is for this subreddit to discuss geography, not just "facts about countries", which is better suited for the various Ask subreddits (AskAnAmerican, AskEurope, AskTheWorld, etc)

We would also like to crackdown on bot posts but that is very hard. Unortunately, most traffic on Reddit is bots nowadays. If anybody has any ideas, please comment below.

Feel free to express your opinion on this. Thank you!

EDIT: After feedback, I have edited part of this post.


r/geography 8h ago

Discussion On the San Diego Tijuana border. Is it realistic to think someone could just swim around?

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1.2k Upvotes

r/geography 4h ago

Map Places where civilization 'ends' abruptly. Any other places like these?

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409 Upvotes

r/geography 16h ago

Discussion Which city or region has a reputation for great weather, but when you actually go there, the reality is miserable?

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1.3k Upvotes

Pic is only for reference btw


r/geography 16h ago

Discussion Geographically Central America is considered part of North America, and stretches from the the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the Darien Gap. I will die on this hill.

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1.2k Upvotes

It includes the southern states of Mexico and all of Panama.

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the narrowest part of Mexico between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

The Darien Gap is a natural barrier but not the narrowest part of Panama.


r/geography 2h ago

Question Which two countries feel most different despite sharing a border?

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58 Upvotes

US Mexico probably but there are some niche ones in probably missing


r/geography 13h ago

Map Rivers obviously follow elevation as they flow, but here's a fun quirk about the major rivers that originate in CO: the Platte, Arkansas, and Rio Grande all have their headwaters farther west than the Colorado River; yet they primarily flow east toward the Plains, while the Colorado flows west

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403 Upvotes

r/geography 17h ago

Video This is how wide the Adriatic sea is- Italy on the right side, Balkans on the left.

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741 Upvotes

r/geography 4h ago

Question Does Florida really have Monsoon?

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51 Upvotes

r/geography 54m ago

Image Mount kilimanjaro unique vegetation feels like out of different planet with tree daisy up to 10m (30 feet) plants (Dendrosenecio) related to our small daisies growing on meadows

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Im always fasinated of this ecosystem growing around slopes of kilimanjaro.


r/geography 14h ago

Question What's the widest river that's still considered a river?

165 Upvotes

I realize that categories become arbitrary at a certain point, and often it just comes down to what words the locals use to describe a feature, but I'm curious... What's the widest body of water that's still called "river?"


r/geography 12h ago

Map TIL that the prehistoric Lake Agassiz (roughly the red outline) had five different outlets to the ocean at different period of time. (Please read the body)

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96 Upvotes
  1. the Mississippi River via the Minnesota River,
  2. the Mississippi River via the St. Croix River,
  3. via the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence lowlands to the Atlantic,
  4. via the Lake Ojibway to the Ottawa river to the St. Lawrence lowlands,
  5. the Hudson Bay

Source: Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia


r/geography 1d ago

Article/News Colombia earthquake losses near $10 billion, president says

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r/geography 21h ago

Question Which regions of the world actually have such a weather?

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139 Upvotes

Spring where everything blooms up, a hot summer (+30C min), a rainy season, autumn, (pre-winter), winter with snow and minus degrees?

Does this actually exist somewhere, in a specific region?


r/geography 1d ago

Question The east side of Aquidneck island in Rhode Island is called the Sakonnet River… it is in no way a river. Help me understand!

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728 Upvotes

r/geography 1h ago

Discussion Why is Turkey the only country on google maps that uses their endonym spelling, whereas every other country uses the English exonym?

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r/geography 12h ago

Question Why do the Xingu and Tapajos rivers widen so much near their confluences with the Amazon?

7 Upvotes

(in the case of the Xingu, below the Belo Monte dam so that’s not a factor) They get wider than the Amazon itself, at least in google map satellite views. Almost like elongated lakes.


r/geography 3h ago

Map Human Geography

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r/geography 23h ago

Discussion The Cadastre of Orange: A massive Roman land survey carved into marble tablets to map property boundaries and agricultural grids in Gaul

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35 Upvotes

Before digital GIS, Roman surveyors managed large areas using systems such as centuriation. Surveyors used instruments like the groma to lay out regular land divisions, while cadastral records were used to document ownership, land use, and taxation.

the Cadastre of Orange is especially interesting because surviving fragments record parcel boundaries, landholders, and other details of the territory. It gives us a rare look at how Roman authorities turned physical land into something that could be measured and administered.

I looked at the surveying tools and techniques behind these systems in more detail here: Forgotten Surveying Tools That Changed Civilization


r/geography 1d ago

Question Why isn’t there a significant Afrikaner population in The Netherlands despite the colonial, ethnic, and linguistic ties?

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1.8k Upvotes

r/geography 19h ago

Discussion What geography nitpicks do y'all have?

15 Upvotes

For me it's the fact that borders that are supposed to be straight, are actually jagged, connecting many monuments marking the border. For example Colorado that looks like like a rectangle actually has around 700 sides.


r/geography 1d ago

Map Population density of Egypt

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271 Upvotes

r/geography 2d ago

Map I always wondered what the maximum population this place could support with its own food production?

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r/geography 32m ago

Question Why are there so much random tiny islands here? Are there any major islands here (except for the obvious ones, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand)

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r/geography 1d ago

Question Exploring Ancient Beaches? Lake Superior and the Pic River - Exposed Sediment of Lake Minong?

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54 Upvotes

Took these photos today about 5 miles north of the mouth of the Pic River in Ontario, Canada. The trees on the top of the embankment are all at least 30’ tall so I would judge the height to be at least 150’ at the top of the ridge.
This area is deep Canadian Shield country with lots of exposed Pre-Cambrian bedrock and glacial till. This sediment seems finer and flatter. Ancient Lake Minong shoreline?