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30 Of The Weirdest And Most Interesting Geography Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
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Geography is an ever-changing and fascinating subject, encompassing a range of physical, social, and environmental sciences. By comparing collected geographic data we can find insights into the diversity of cultures, as well as learn how big or small some countries used to be.
However, due to the field's complexity, going in-depth and analyzing different facts is time-consuming. But luckily for us, there are many geography fans who just love finding new and interesting information and sharing it with the lazier population. One such example is the Instagram page geography._.facts, which offers various comparative and eye-opening maps.
So, Pandas, whether you are a geography aficionado or simply curious, we invite you to explore our list because we are sure you will find something intriguing that you are yet to learn.
Also below, you will find an interview with the hosts of 80 Days: an exploration podcast, who kindly shared about their geography-inspired content.
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#1
People in Mississippi voted in the referendum for a flag change. This is going to be a new flag of Mississippi state
Ian Reynolds 3 years ago
What about the people in Mississippi who don't believe in God? They are not represented by their state flag.
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Rylee Evergreen 🇺🇦 3 years ago
how the f did this conversation about Brazil and France turn into the USA
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David Paterson 3 years ago
Yes, we don't have to worry about any high tech threat from North Korea. They're the ones at risk.
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Sponge Blob 3 years ago
My wife (brown eyes) and I (blue eyes) agreed on everything regarding our kid like approach to religion, education, raising methods etc. but we didn't agree on our wish about the eye colour. I wanted my kid to have blue eyes, wife wanted her to have brown eyes. So she has one brown and one blue eye. The universe is twisted sometimes :D
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David H 3 years ago
people forget historic poland was even larger than this before the 3 wars of sequestration in the 1700s. People forget Ruthenia region around Lviv/Lvov had many ethnic poles, and historically was poland. The soviets kicked out a lot of the poles when they assigned it to Ukraine post WW2, but today Poland an Ukraine are good friends, and Poland no longer lays claim to those areas. But people always wonder why Poland feels so close to Ukraine and helps them so much, it is because so many people have family on both sides of the border in the Ruthenia region
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TOP 5 Highest female to male ratio:
Djibouti - 83:100, Hong Kong, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia - 86:100
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TOP 5 Lowest female to male ratio:
Qatar - 339:100, UAE - 256:100, Bahrain - 153:100, Kuwait - 138:100, Saudi Arabia - 130:100
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Natalie Cilla 3 years ago
I am happy to correct this map: same-sex marriage is now allowed in Switzerland, too. Has been since July ‘22. Late as always but better than never.
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The age at which a person's, typically a girl's, consent to sexual intercourse is valid in law
Ridiant 3 years ago
Is this taking into account the Horny Teenager laws that basically exist to stop high school couples getting put on various Registries, or does Europe just have a disparity between the age of consent and the age of majority across the board? I'm taking into consideration that our brackets (AUS) are 16-18 and 18+ so even assuming Horny Teenager laws are present on the map these numbers seem almost absurdly low to me.
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Glengoolie Blue 3 years ago
And it's 100 degrees colder on that little peninsula tip than the rest of the island
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troufaki13 3 years ago (edited)
So... if no-one's claiming the south-west part... maybe I should? Dibs!!
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
This needs some explanation. How is the unrepresentative British First Past the Post system and unelected Upper House and unelected Monarchy as head of state more democratic than say Italy?
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
I'd question that here in Germany- We don't really have censorship, but the framing towards the narative the government wants to tell is very obvious.
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Dagen H (H day), today usually called "Högertrafikomläggningen" ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day on 3 September 1967, in which the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The "H" stands for "Högertrafik", the Swedish word for "right traffic". It was by far the largest logistical event in Sweden's history.
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There were various arguments for the change:
All of Sweden's neighbours drive on the right, including Norway and Finland, with which Sweden has land borders, and five million vehicles cross those borders annually.
Approximately 90 percent of Swedes drove left-hand drive vehicles, and this led to many head-on collisions when passing on narrow two-lane highways. City buses were among the very few vehicles that conformed to the normal opposite-steering wheel rule, being right-hand drive (RHD).
However, the change was unpopular; in a 1955 referendum, 83 percent voted to keep driving on the left. Nevertheless, the Swedish Parliament approved Prime Minister Tage Erlander's proposal on 10 May 1963 of right hand traffic beginning in 1967, as the number of cars on the road tripled from 500,000 to 1.5 million and was expected to reach 2.8 million by 1975. The Statens Högertrafikkommission (HTK) ("the state right-hand traffic commission") was established to oversee the change. It also began implementing a four-year education programme on the advice of psychologists.
As Dagen H neared, every intersection was equipped with an extra set of poles and traffic signals wrapped in black plastic. Workers roamed the streets early in the morning on Dagen H to remove the plastic. A parallel set of lines was painted on the roads with white paint, then covered with black tape. Before Dagen H, Swedish roads had used yellow lines.[citation needed] Approximately 350,000 signs had to be removed or replaced, 20,000 in Stockholm alone
Rainclouds Radio 3 years ago
If you're wondering why the freeway on ramps in Sweden are very short... They used to be the exits
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UpupaEpops 3 years ago
So, apparently, it means: "City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra's behest."
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~260 sqkm connected by only 2,4 km
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I like this one. It recognises the fact that it is human nature to try to escape. I think this is true in some other countries also.
#31
Half of the vater in Balkhash lake is fresh and half is salty.
The lake is divided into two parts by a narrow strip. So the water in both parts is not able to mix. The first (by flow) part is supplied by rivers - so it's fresh. The second part doesn't have any outflow - so the water just evaporates and the water is slaty
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Donkeywheel 3 years ago (edited)
Because that’s the European time and the smart thing to do. In Western countries we don’t live with the sun anymore. noon is not the middle of the day and midnight not the middle of the night. It’s smarter to adapt the time zone. Guess who didn’t do it?
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Hans Georg 3 years ago
Der, die, das. Wer, wie, was? Wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm!
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Food, animal food, living animals, print media, Public transportation, tickets for cultural establishments and eating in a restaurant only have a tax of 7% here in Germany
#42
One for Scotland and the second one for the rest of the UK. The Ulster Banner is used to represent the Northern Ireland, hopefully it won't offend anyone
#43
This place is located on Sicily islands in Italy
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Turnip and a Frog 3 years ago
True story 🙂 The Oder (Odra) and the Neisse River (Nysa). The border runs downstream the Odra river up to Widuchowa, where it also separates into East Oder and West Oder.
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Hans Georg 3 years ago
The federative system is one of the problems in Germany, in my opinion. Bavaria should just split off from Germany.
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Coffee is actually the most popular beverage here in Germany aside from plain water
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Fish On The Table 3 years ago (edited)
For those that do not know - "The Treaty of Trianon is one of the Paris peace treaties that ended the First World War. It was concluded between Hungary and the Allied and Associated Powers on 4 June 1920 in the Grand Trianon Palace situated in the Versailles Palace park. It sanctioned the dismemberment of the Hungarian state." It is less well known than the Treaty of Versailles.
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LK 3 years ago
There are many other contiguous transcontinental countries, and there are also non contiguous transcontinental countries. My favourite transcontinental fact is Denmark now shares a land border with Canada. Han Island was a source of disagreement as to whether it belonged to Greenland (part of the Kingdom of Denmark) or Canada. It has been decided, and it's pretty much an even split.
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Стеван Радоичић 3 years ago
Errrr, incorrect - it is available in the Balkans, at least where I live! :)
#58
Paris is actually really small (this refers to the city of Paris not the metropolitan area)
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Aren't most cities like this? Boston proper is quite small, but the Greater Boston Area encompasses nearly a third of the state of Massachusetts and nearly two-thirds of the state's population.
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The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World. This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political and economic divisions. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term Third World has decreased in use. It is being replaced with terms such as developing countries, least developed countries or the Global South. The concept itself has become outdated as it no longer represents the current political or economic state of the world.
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Büsingen am Hochrhein , "Buesingen on the High Rhine" commonly known as Büsingen, is a German municipality (7.62 square kilometres (2.94 sq mi)) in the south of Baden-Württemberg and an exclave entirely surrounded by territory belonging to Switzerland. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabitants. Since the early 19th century, the village has been separated from the rest of Germany by a narrow strip of land (at its narrowest, about 680 metres (2,230 ft) wide) containing the Swiss village of Dörflingen.
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Politically Büsingen is part of Germany, forming part of the district of Konstanz, but economically it forms part of the Swiss customs union, along with the principality of Liechtenstein and up until 2019, albeit unofficially, the Italian village of Campione d'Italia. As such there have been no border controls between Switzerland and Büsingen since 4 October 1967.
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Büsingen is a holiday destination for much of the year and attracts a significant number of visitors from around the region as well as from further afield, for its recreational areas along the Rhine and proximity to the Rheinfall waterfalls in nearby Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Many dwellings in Büsingen are holiday flats which are accompanied by a number of small guest houses
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
And you can still see the border from space due to different street lights
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago (edited)
Because last time they messed with the West Coast it didn't end that well... (sorry, couldn't resist a history joke with that caption)
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Got hacked lol 3 years ago
germans paid for the whole speedometer, they're going to use the whole speedometer
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Jellicle bat (he/she/they) 3 years ago
This is like the 5th country compared to europe. We get it, we're not the biggest continent on earth
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Mat O'Dowd 3 years ago (edited)
[In a French accent] No surprise zere, we are quite into getting laid ! We can get laid on any country, try us !!
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Thomas Bentley 3 years ago
The severn always seemed to be the river equivalent of dads hearing that petrol was three pence cheeper an hour away.
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ЛеснойКороль(ForestKingHe/Him) 3 years ago
i hate looking at this. we have no right being that big.
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Jan Rosier 3 years ago
The Netherlands and Belgium : Sinterklaas, 5 or 6 december depending on the country. You know, the guy the states used to copy/paste and update a bit into Coca-Cola ads...
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Richard Keel 3 years ago
Why would anyone chose Messenger over WhatsApp? I'd rather use SMS than the godawful bloatfest that is Messenger
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Brett Hughes 3 years ago
Not sure what this is trying to show? individual people in these States generate as much economic activity as individual people in other countries??? And what do the colours mean???
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