Education & Reference GD Atlas thread

[Shell]

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 27% larger than Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~25.5 million people (307.2 million more people live in United States).

 

[craigos]

Would have been one hell of a east coast road trip.

 

[Forward Press]

I love geography trivia.

- The only land border between the Netherlands and France is in the Caribbean
- The longest land border that France has is with Brazil
- Borneo is the only island in the world that has three countries on it

Hit like and subscribe for more useless geography facts

 

[Shell]

I love geography trivia.

- The only land border between the Netherlands and France is in the Caribbean
- The longest land border that France has is with Brazil


Hit like and subscribe for more useless geography facts

I'd like you to explain all those first.

 

[Forward Press]

I'd like you to explain all those first.

First one is Saint Martin island, which is French Saint-Martin in the north and Dutch Sint Maarten in the south.

Saint Martin (island) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Second one is that France have multiple borders with countries in Europe, but the longest one is with French Guiana and Brazil in South America - French Guiana (and various other far flung places like New Caledonia and Reunion island) are considered to have the same status as mainland France.

French Guiana - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Overseas departments and regions of France - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[akkaps]

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[Forward Press]

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I have plenty, I posted many in the useless trivia thread, but I'm not going to be a selfish campaigner (unlike how I usually am right?) and post them all at once. Unless you have specific requests...

 

[akkaps]

I have plenty, I posted many in the useless trivia thread, but I'm not going to be a selfish campaigner (unlike how I usually am right?) and post them all at once. Unless you have specific requests...

Meh, I’m happy to waiting. I love my geography as well, so can’t wait to see what this thread brings

 

[Syd]

Gazatteer > Atlas



Come at me

 

[Shell]

The planets- distance from the sun ranges from Mercury at 57.9 million kms to PLuto at 5,900 million kms.
Earth is 149.5 million kms

Takes Mercury 88 days to revolve around the sun, while it takes Pluto 284 years + 292 days.

 

[peternorth]

Promise the world, delivers an atlas.

 

[HomerThompson]

Obscure Simpsons joke: 25,000 miles is the Earth's circumference so the next Flicky's restaurant is the one just passed.

 

[Forward Press]

The planets- distance from the sun ranges from Mercury at 57.9 million kms to Pluto at 5,900 million kms.
Earth is 149.5 million kms

Takes Mercury 88 days to revolve around the sun, while it takes Pluto 284 years + 292 days.

...should I?

 

[raskolnikov]

Same.

The "perth is further north than Sydney" still bamboozles me.

To me it's always seemed strange that Queensland shares a border with South Australia.

 

[Shell]

...should I?

Its a dwarf planet last time I heard

 

[Syd]

The planets- distance from the sun ranges from Mercury at 57.9 million kms to PLuto at 5,900 million kms.
Earth is 149.5 million kms

Takes Mercury 88 days to revolve around the sun, while it takes Pluto 284 years + 292 days.

Didn’t Pluto get downgraded to a planetoids making Neptune the furthest planet?

 

[Forward Press]

Its a dwarf planet last time I heard

Didn’t Pluto get downgraded to a planetoids making Neptune the furthest planet?

Dwarf planet, but that includes dozens of objects. Officially, it's no longer a planet planet.

Related trivia: all the planets (including Pluto if you swing that way) fit within the average distance between the Earth and moon.

 

[Shell]

I like Pluto

 

[74561347]

The only problem with an atlas is they're all to scale so they can't fit all the places you want to see on the map

If it was 1:1 scale they could fit much more detail on it

 

[HomerThompson]

Love the West Wing ep with the cartographers

 

[Hawk Dork]

 

[revo333]

The majority of Canadians live south of Seattle (I like weird geographical factoids too)

Thread back on track!

 

[ioppolo]

France's little part of North America;

Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Probably fairly common knowledge, but China has one timezone for the entire country.

Point Roberts, Washington. The part of the USA that is only accessible by land via Canada;

Point Roberts, Washington - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This extremely thin stretch of land surrounded by swamp and the Atlantic Ocean in North Carolina also fascinates me.

 

[Catfish Alley]

This little place to the south of my city intrigues me. Point Roberts looks like it really should have just been part of Canada but a big fuss was caused over it in the 1950s and they kept the 49th parallel as the border. The people there are fairly isolated now with Covid restrictions. Only about 20% of residents stayed.



Another Canadian one is Zavikon Island. This is the smallest international bridge in the world. It just connects to someones backyard.

 

[Shell]

This little place to the south of my city intrigues me. Point Roberts looks like it really should have just been part of Canada but a big fuss was caused over it in the 1950s and they kept the 49th parallel as the border. The people there are fairly isolated now with Covid restrictions. Only about 20% of residents stayed.

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Another Canadian one is Zavikon Island. This is the smallest international bridge in the world. It just connects to someones backyard.

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You seen that show Island Hunters??

Some of those islands are very remote.. idk if I'd wanna live on my own island. Kinda creepy and also in emergencies not like an ambulance can just be there in 5 minutes.