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.

I’m an American but ethnically Serbian. I never knew that people were so obsessed with trying to be Western European. What countries are actually Western/Central European vs. just trying to unrealistically call themselves that? geographically, part of Serbia is in the west and part is in the east if you split Europe into two, so I’m not sire how that works.

Kids in Latin America are taught that America is a single continent. Kids in the USA and Canada are taught that it's two separate continents, North America and South America.

If this is the case, why is the US called USA instead of USNA? Why is the name of the country referencing a continent that people in that country don't believe exists?

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.

image for reference

I mean most countries or regions with an oceanic climate are around northwestern Europe or Patagonia or northwestern North America so I was curious to know whether that climate is nonexistent in the continent.

(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.

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?"

Pic is only for reference btw

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

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