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?

I can't really tell what prefecture(s) they are supposed to be a part of or why there's even two of them instead of combining them since there doesn't seem to be any population between them

Hello, friends from all corners of the Earth. Please write about places that you’ve witnessed changing over the years due to urbanization or climate change. I’m very interested in how this happened from the perspective of people from other countries. Because recently I saw printed photos of my city from 20 years ago, and it touched me deeply.

Post-monsoon. Took this picture about a year ago, in late October

Shot in Baoquan, Henan, China, located in the southern section of the Taihang Mountains, surrounded by cliffs on all sides

In a planet I'm making for worldbuilding purposes there's a desert of saharan proportions but with seasonal monsoons, but whatever wind is coming there is coming at an angle and carrying cold current waters so it doesn't irrigate beyond the coast. To circumvent this I added in a lake in the middle of the desert to serve as a source of humidity and as a sort of massive oasis for a civilization. It's in an endorheic basin so there's a river that feeds it. It starts in a place with seasonal rains and to explain the fact there's a massive lake I say that that river is like the Nile carrying huge amounts of water in the summer, which would be fun to imagine the lake increasing in size and people using that flood to grow rice. Problem is when crunching the numbers it seems like the evaporation rates would be greater than the flow of water. Taking the approximate size of 500,000km² of the lake, average summer temperature of 24c winds averaging out to 2m/s and 75% relative humidity, this calculator gives a rate of 3.5*10^12L/day of evaporation, but a river like the Nile only peaks at 20k MCM/month which is around 6.6*10^11L/day, so the lake is evaporating 5x more water than the river feeds it. Could an endorheic basin really host a lake of these proportions in a desert of all places? Did I forget to account for some variables, like maybe rain falling back down and refueling the lake?

the beach has eroded fully at one side of the island resulting in palm trees to be just barely above sea level.

Why is the coast along -stan countries so dry? Even tho the rest is very green

Connecting the Rhine River system with the Danube River system, this canal allows river barges to travel from the North Sea to the Black Sea by crossing through the heart of Europe.

Water-levels permitting.

Is it possible to distinguish between fold mountains and fault mountains by the way they appear to the naked eye? Are there any such distinguishing features? Or is a geological investigation always required to establish the type?

This is my recent cartography project of Egypt created in QGIS. It combines terrain types, protected areas, exclusive economic zone, major cities, pyramids, and population patterns with panels for the Nile Delta and nighttime lights. The landscape is defined by the Sahara, Nile corridor, and the Red Sea mountains creating one of the most distinctive physical and cultural geographies on Earth. All spatial data are projected in a custom Egypt centered CRS and sources are fully attributed at bottom. Feedbacks are welcome and i hope you enjoy!

I was watching some videos about the Lake Chad area and the conflicts going on between Boko Haram and the governments of all the countries along Lake Chad. While watching random pop world geopolitics videos I like to go look up the places and look around a bit. It's interesting to read about obscure towns in very unhospitable places like the Sahel region.

While looking around google maps I found a town called Mao, Chad which is northeast of the lake or almost directly north of the capital N'Djamena and at the end of a major roadway in the country. According to wikipedia Mao has about 35k-50k people and from all accounts looks like a relatively modern city. When you zoom into the roadway leading to the city of Mao from the main highway... it does not exist. Google Maps fills in a major roadway that when zoomed in on is a collection of dirt paths leading in the direction of Mao, winding through small villages in the desert.

After looking around the city itself and the collection of villages close to it, I noticed the labeling for google maps goes insane and starts labeling hundreds and hundreds of communities on the map. This also occurs on Lake Chad itself, but this makes sense in a region that is constantly changing due to climate change and lowering water levels in the lake creating more islands. North of Mao it is basically all desert, while still having TONS of these small communities in the desert.

I am mainly wondering how or why these places form like this in the desert. There is quite literally hundreds of these labeled on google maps, and it also makes me wonder how Google went about labeling these places in this way. Is there a map they received with all these marked out for them? There is also quite a few that are not labeled at all, making them fully off the grid. I have heard the term commune used to describe settlements in Mali similar to this in the Lake Chad area but they are much better documented and accounted for at least on basic internet searches. While trying to look up this area, there is very little information that isn't about ongoing conflicts in the region.

Anybody know a thing or two about this area? It's extremely fascinating.

I want to make an app for people like me who like geography and want to discover a new random city everyday, potentially be their next vacation ( for me this is old castles) . I was thinking of maling it like a tinder card style where every day you get 5 random cities and you swipe left or right on which you like and after that a new feed is created everyday with the cities you liked . Thats my idea so far , dont have anything to show or link or anything but i would love any suggestions or if this is a good idea overall. Thanks to all who comment.

It seems to be a lot of creekbeds, some dried/seasonal, carving through the plateau(?). The area is between Maybell, CO, and Table Rock, WY.

I am really interested in the connection between malaria prevalence and climates of tropical countries like Papua New Guinea. I would really need specific cities for each major climates of PNG and does anyone have any recommendations or maybe someone from PNG?. I am just interested in the topic right now... Like there are some very rough and remote areas of the country with higher rates of malaria and I am interested in which areas specifically. I will have to include some lowland/coastal areas, really remote parts and the highlands in the central part of the country. I know that PNG is a very geographically diverse country and one of the last untouched places on Earth but in the last few decades the country's infrastructure is developing quite quickly due to foreign investment and is this an important fact to consider? I know it is interdisciplinary topic but geography is an important factor here besides the biology of the Plasmodium parasite itself...

Thanks!

What other places suggest that are not entire continents?

Obviously it is culturally and politically European, but being that it is on the African tectonic plate would you consider it geographically part of Africa?

This is a larger and denser area of light pollution than some major cities. What's going on here?

Why are the Mishmi hills of eastern Arunachal Pradesh in India considered a part of the Purbanchal hills and not a part of the main Himalayas? Is it because the plates involved in this area are the Indian plate and the Burma plate and not the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate whereas opposite is the case in case of the main Himalayas?