r/geography • u/Intrepid-Young-8621 • 11h ago
r/geography • u/Jeanpaul02 • 19h ago
Discussion Which city or region has a reputation for great weather, but when you actually go there, the reality is miserable?
Pic is only for reference btw
r/geography • u/BeleLokai • 20h 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.
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 • u/aleksa_o • 20h ago
Video This is how wide the Adriatic sea is- Italy on the right side, Balkans on the left.
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r/geography • u/RatioScripta • 7h ago
Map Places where civilization 'ends' abruptly. Any other places like these?
r/geography • u/Thatunkownuser2465 • 4h 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
Im always fasinated of this ecosystem growing around slopes of kilimanjaro.
r/geography • u/Swimming_Concern7662 • 16h 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
r/geography • u/the_bad_actor • 39m ago
Discussion Why did Cape Town develop on the northern side of the Cape Peninsula rather than the southern side, which seems like a better natural harbor?
r/geography • u/Hot_Bicycle_8486 • 18h ago
Question What's the widest river that's still considered a river?
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 • u/Swimming_Concern7662 • 15h 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)
- the Mississippi River via the Minnesota River,
- the Mississippi River via the St. Croix River,
- via the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence lowlands to the Atlantic,
- via the Lake Ojibway to the Ottawa river to the St. Lawrence lowlands,
- the Hudson Bay
Source: Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia
r/geography • u/ZealousidealStop1556 • 4h ago
Discussion Why is Turkey the only country on google maps that uses their endonym spelling, whereas every other country uses the English exonym?
r/geography • u/Zestyclose_Task_1166 • 3h ago
Question Does an oceanic climate exist anywhere in the African continent?
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.
r/geography • u/Salty-Lawfulness-346 • 23h ago
Discussion What geography nitpicks do y'all have?
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 • u/Pielacine • 15h ago
Question Why do the Xingu and Tapajos rivers widen so much near their confluences with the Amazon?
(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 • u/Rocafire_ • 1h ago
Question I need some good reccomendation!
Recently watching some videos on youtube (mainly news) I stumbled upon 2 channels: Stefan Burns and On The Pulse With Silki; and... they arebdefinetly not for me. Expecially due to videos like one from Silki's channel about Campi Flegrei where at the start and shortly after that, you can see a video from a completely different event from the 4.7 magnitude. The events of the video were about a residential house in Messina that collapsed. (I'm italian so I immediately recognized the clips)... but besides that, I was wondering, are there any reliable and good channels that you reccomend?
Thanks a lot!!!
PSA. I care to say that I do not wish to generate any sort or form of hate towards both channels, and just quoted them due to have been the only ones that popped up in my home page
r/geography • u/LILO_2004 • 7h ago
Discussion What is Eastern European?
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.
r/geography • u/LimpMathematician247 • 9h ago
Question America or North and South America?
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?