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Geography shapes human life in multiple ways, from the resources we have available all the way to our diverse cultures. How we study it has evolved significantly over the years, moving from basic drawings to more sophisticated high-resolution satellite maps and interactive GIS platforms. In this collection, you’ll find 50 photos of interesting geography from around the world. The images not only highlight breathtaking landscapes and oceans, but also a variety of maps and charts. They also give us a fascinating glimpse into how we interact with the world around us and how geography influences our daily lives.
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#1
Canada Still Has 91% Of The Forest Cover That Existed At The Beginning Of The European Settlement
S Bow 4 months ago
Unfortunately the last few years, including this one, Canada has been on fire. So sad 😞.
StrangeOne 4 months ago
I'm hoping our forests will recover. It will just take some time.
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Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
It will be interesting to see if climate change forces agriculture north and if land will be cleared for it. Probably not in my lifetime. Apologies on behalf of us Boomers. Understand if it's not accepted.
StrangeOne 4 months ago
There would be a lot of push back on that from the Indigenous communities.
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#2
I Went To An Unknown (For Me) Island 2 Hours From Home And Mapped It From Scratch With A Compass And A Rangefinder!
#3
Thought This Sub Would Appreciate A Window Seat Picture Of The Maldives
#4
Friendly Reminder Of Just How Ridiculously Big The Pacific Ocean Is
#5
The Sahara Desert After Heavy Rain In Morocco
Auntriarch 4 months ago
After a heavy rain the sand between Dubai and Abu Dhabi sprouted mushrooms. No I didn't try them.
#6
Mt. Fuji From The ISS
#7
Fun Fact I Found On A Snapple Cap
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
Yeah. Remember that, peeps - us Brits are *scary*. Only, we got totally pwned by the Dutch, so maybe you should look out for them instead. 😉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway
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Gerry Higgins 4 months ago
A lot of them weren't nations at the time. They became nations after. Like the US or South Africa.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
The residents certainly thought they were a nation.
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The Scottish Highlands, The Appalachians, And The Atlas Are The Same Mountain Range, Once Connected As The Central Pangean Mountains
Dusty's mom 4 months ago
I don't get the placement of the land masses. Are they reflecting how close together they used to be?
fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
florida is not part of the Appalachians. along with mississippi and louisiana.
Norm Gilmore 4 months ago
You're not thinking in geological time lengths...
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Nicole Weymann 4 months ago (edited)
It is nowadays. However, if you go back in time roughly 140 to 200 million years the surface of planet Earth looked quite different.
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Tracking Of An Eagle Over A 20 Year Period
#10
LA Is A Wasted Opportunity
Imagine if Los Angeles was built like Barcelona. Dense 15 million people metropolis with great public transportation and walkability.
They wasted this perfect climate and perfect place for city by building a endless suburban sprawl.
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago
If that is a real picture of LA, then I know what my Hell will look like if the Christians are right.
Scott Rackley 4 months ago
It is. That is a picture of the 110 looking south.
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BrunoVI 4 months ago
The small, urban core of Barcelona, within the city limits, is 40,000/sq mi, which is very high compared to Los Angeles (12.500/ sq mi), but the city limits of Los Angeles include mountain ranges, national forests and more. The vegueria of Barcelona has a population comparable to city limits Los Angeles (5.2 m vs. 3.8 m), but a population density of 5,200/sq mi. If you add the various enclaves surrounded by LA or between LA and the ocean, you get a population higher than the vegueria of Barcelona, but in an area considerably smaller.
Gerry Higgins 4 months ago
Suburban sprawl where you're not on top of your neighbor and you have room to breath and relax. You want to be overcrowded .... move to New York.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
"The Los Angeles metropolitan area's GDP was $1.295 trillion in 2023. This makes it the second-largest metropolitan economy in the United States, after New York. In comparison, Los Angeles County's GDP alone was $790.0 billion in 2022." "Barcelona's GDP exceeded 100,000 million euros for the first time in 2023, reaching 103,589 million euros, according to the Barcelona City Council. This represents a 9.6% increase compared to 2022. Barcelona's GDP is a significant portion of the Catalan economy, accounting for over a third (35.4% in 2022). The city's economic growth is outpacing both Catalonia and Spain as a whole, largely due to the strength of its service sector." Might be apples to oranges, but if LA were built like Barcelona would the GDP be similar? Quality of life would definitely be higher.
NoRestfortheQWERTY 4 months ago
I was a surfer! I had a skateboard! I was so heavy, man, I lived on the strand! LA was so wasted! It was wasted.
#11
This Person Really Took The Time To Travel To The Right Spot
聖楷Thomas 4 months ago
Historic photo, since Toblerone is no longer allowed to use the Matterhorn as its logo, since the chocolate it's no longer produced in Switzerland …
Carl Roberts 4 months ago (edited)
Countless people have traveled to that exact spot to get photos of the Matterhorn
Canuck 4 months ago
Yes. But how many did it with a Toblerone in their pocket ?
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Topography Of The Indian Subcontinent
Maps play a crucial role in the study of geography. From cave wall drawings to inscribed clay tablets, a variety of maps have existed for decades. The oldest ones in the world date back to the 9th Century and were created in Babylon. By the 20th century, satellite imagery and aerial photography had transformed mapping into a sophisticated and precise science.
#13
While I Was On The Highway I Witnessed The Eruption Of Etna Live... It Was Exciting
#14
Devil's Tower, Wyoming. A Large Butte, It Reaches 5112 Feet Above Sea Level
Multa Nocte 4 months ago
Funny, I have an overwhelming compulsion to make a mashed potato replica of this very site . . . .
Kimberly Alison 4 months ago
The name “devil’s Tower“ is seen as disrespectful to Native Americans of that area. The native name translates to “Bear Lodge”. Please use that name instead. It’s a beautiful place.
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago (edited)
The Tower stands 867 feet, 386 meters, above its base. 5112 feet, 1558 meters above sea level.
Pferdchen 4 months ago
This was hilariously featured on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert the other night, in a discussion about the sighting of an alien. It's definitely good for a laugh! The relevant portion begins at 5:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0EqZBHgVOU&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv_Wnk63rZyF93rzDvjZJhNX&index=3
Willem Andries Oosterhof 4 months ago (edited)
If everything is ready on the dark side of the moon play the five tones.....
#15
Namib Desert: Yesterday’s Underrated Desert
Fog is the primary source of water in the site, accounting for a unique environment in which endemic invertebrates, reptiles and mammals adapt to an ever-changing variety of microhabitats and ecological niches.
#16
There's A Lake In Finland That Looks Like Finland!
Rali Meyer 4 months ago
yes, by the same guy who tried to free the Evergiven in Suez Canal
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The Parking Lot By My House Has Been Flooded Long Enough For Google Maps To Recognize It As The Natural Wonder That It Is
fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
there’s a lake in mississippi named big lake. guess the name of the lake right beside it. little big lake.
#18
A Modern Photo Compared With A Photo Taken Over A Century Earlier In The Same Place
Cheese 4 months ago (edited)
The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. This is the Ute trail that goes through it. The photo was taken in 1913
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Hassel Davidhoff 1 month ago
This country has been destroyed in the name of industry. One day we will read histories of how stunningly short-sighted and downright stupid those decisions were.
#19
[Close-Up View] Of Antarctica From Space
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
It is. Just reach your hand out and touch the picture. See, it's flat.
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#20
Fun Fact About Patagonia That Most People Don't Know: 90% Of It Looks Like This
Toika Gao 4 months ago (edited)
Mostly on the Argentinian side. The Chilean side is green and lush.
Florencia Renedo 3 months ago
The Argentine side, close to the mountains, is also covered in lush green forest. This is the rest of the landscape a,ll the way to the ocean.
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Look At This Curiosity!
#22
50 Percent Of Canadians Live South Of The Red Line
Dancing Armadillo 4 months ago
This is why #5 is possible… their forests are untouched because no one really lives out there.
#23
How Antarctica Would Look If All The Ice Melted
Rali Meyer 4 months ago
with temperatures at the fringes ONLY and only in summer over freezing for a few hours per day, it's NEVER going to melt
#24
No Hurricane Has Ever Crossed The Equator
Janissary35680 4 months ago
I wondered about this the first time I saw this map many years ago and I researched it. It seems that landforms and sea bottoms support currents that channel frigid circumpolar seawater northward east and west of South America and this prevents the formation of the tropical waves that lead to hurricanes.
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 4 months ago
Huge difference land masses make in breaking the intensity of hurricanes and typhoons. All that unimpeded vast Pacific Ocean to draw power from.
K_Tx 4 months ago
I asked Google and it said that South ofmthe Equator, they are typically called cyclones. Cool to know!
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Bro Why Not Use The Metric System?
Jerome Lenovo 4 months ago
this is simplified. Here's a picture that is actually more accurate. Because UK still uses imperial system FT_gltGWAA...5c670d.jpg 
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago (edited)
Nah, the UK has been strictly SI since the 1970s. All our units are defined in terms of SI standards. Yes, our roads are marked out in miles - but you know what? When the Ordnance Survey re-triangulated Britain starting in the 1930s, all the surveying was done in metric. All UK education, trade, science, industry - everything - is done in SI units. The fact that our road signposts use miles and you can buy beer and milk in pints is just - well, "quaint traditionalism". The definitions of miles and pints are 100% SI.
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#26
Europe Used To Look Like This!
PeepPeep the duck 4 months ago (edited)
The bigger parts are the areas my great grandparents before me travels around - Bohemia mainly, but also Salzburg & Styria and little more south. Lots of areas banned Gýpşyș from their counties and towns at this period
Nicole Weymann 4 months ago
The map seems to be from the pc game Europa Universalis (4 or 5?), in which case it's supposed to be roughly between 1320 and 1350.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 4 months ago
And they each had their own cheese. (Sorry I just made that up, couldn't resist)
Nicole Weymann 4 months ago
Risking a whoosh: the map shows the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. No "acquiring" necessary.
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Huge Landslide Causes Whole Village To Disappear In Switzerland
#28
Madagascar Is Way Bigger Than I Thought
#29
Chances Of Being Born In Each Continent
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Oh great. I lucked out by being in that 5.44%, and I'll I got was this lousy economy
Mahiera Etsuhae 3 months ago
Uh... guys? This adds up to 103.85%. But I guess once you get past 8 billion people no one cares about accuracy of this statistic.
#30
Cross Sea Is A Very Beautiful And Rare Phenomenon That Happens When There Are 2 Wave Systems In The Sea Moving At Oblique Angles
It might be beautiful from above, but if you get caught in these waves, your vessel can easily turn upside down or lose its way.
#31
A Map Of Nations When Asked The Question "Which Country Is The Largest Threat To World Peace?" - In 2013
S Bow 4 months ago
That map is probably mostly red, white and blue this year, thanks to the chaos caused by the orange menace.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago (edited)
What I want to know is why the French are apparently most worried about the United Arab Republic which only existed from 1958-71. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic - the flag is similar to that of Ba'athist Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Iraq#Ba'athist_Iraq_(1963%E2%80%932004)
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Sara Frazer 4 months ago
I'm in America and if someone asked me that question I'd also say America 😂💀🫠
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
France figured that the largest threat to world peace is ... The Netherlands?!?
Pedantic Panda 4 months ago
Pretty sure France is covered by Syrian flag.?
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Jason Boyd 4 months ago
So India hates Pakistan, I get that. I'd have thought Pakistan would return that a hundred-fold, but they seem to hate the US even more!
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
Jason Boyd: this isn't about who hates who. It's about who you think is the biggest threat to world peace. Pakistanis don't think that India's going to cause global catastrophe.
Load More Replies... Cheese 4 months ago (edited)
No matter who was president, other countries would always view us like this. It's actually probably gotten worse now.
Load More Replies... John West 4 months ago
Yet, all the hordes of illegals from those countries south of America head to the US.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago (edited)
Yet, all this nonsense talked about "hordes of illegals" is propaganda lies intended to distract ordinary Americans from the real threat that you face: your problems aren't caused by poor foreigners, they're caused by rich Americans lying to you and exploiting you. Here in Europe we tax the rich (maybe not enough) and no-one goes bankrupt and then dies because of health care costs. And there you are in the USA, so proud of your country - but why? What does your country do for you? The US will happily take your last penny as you struggle to pay for overpriced insulin or the last round of cancer treatment - then let you die when you can't pay any more.
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Ripley 4 months ago
Coming from one of "those" countries - no thanks. I can't think of anything worse. Quite happy here in Australia with our socialised healthcare and complete lack of mass school shootings.
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#32
The Roman Empire Administrative Divisions In 395 Ad
#33
I Feel As If Someone Just Got Bored Of Naming Things Here
#34
Estonia Is The Northernmost Country In The World With No Part Of It Being In The Arctic
Russell Bowman 4 months ago
But, a winter in Tallinn ... with the wind howling off the bay of Finland ... sure felt like the Arctic
Rali Meyer 4 months ago
well, that's sounds like half pregnant. Or: the Lac Leman is the most northern lake without being part of the Pacific
#35
All Cities In The World
#36
The Actual Map Of Ship Traffic
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
All the dicking around to find the Northwest passage and nobody uses it???
Alfred Wessex 4 months ago
I’m thinking it’s the map of actual ship traffic. Though, technically, it *is* an actual map of ship traffic I guess.
In addition to making up over 97% of the Earth’s water, oceans also cover 71% of the planet’s surface. The Pacific Ocean, which is the largest of the five major oceans, makes up 31% of the surface and averages about 13,000 feet in depth. Second in size is the Atlantic Ocean, which covers 20% of the planet’s surface. Surprisingly, only 5% of the world's oceans have been explored, with the other 95% remaining a complete mystery.
#37
Countries With State Religion
Adrienne FWB 4 months ago
And in all that green, on the Mediterranean, is a tiny, tiny speck called Israel, whose State religion is Judaism. It's so small you can't even see it.
Jerome Lenovo 4 months ago
soon, ameriKKKa will have one. Maga has christian friends in the dems party that will help. You know, the christians who think they are nice and open minded but who think we shouldn't be allowed to point out problems in the christian realm (don't point out p3do priests its not nice). You know who you are :P ......... may the spaghetti monster help you 3:)
Jonas Fisher 4 months ago
B******t. Jerome, you're an idiot. To establish ANY religion as a state religion, the US would have to -- in whole or in part -- repeal the first amendment. Doing that requires another amendment, which requires support from 2/3rds of the House, 2/3rds of the Senate, and 3/4ths of the States. If you think that 38 States are going to vote to undo the First Amendment, you're a moron. I don't believe you think that. I believe that you are a different kind of moron, an inflammatory one who wants to be edgy and knows that most of the time people don't call him out on B******t like this. Well, I'm calling it out, moron.
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#39
Every Territory England, Great Britain, And The UK Ever Controlled
Auntriarch 4 months ago
France? When we had bits of France we were practically French, that scarcely counts.
#40
Mean Age Of Women At Birth Of First Child
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 4 months ago
The Center for Disease Control in the US put out a statistical report which included the following: Women's Mean age at first birth increased over time and rose 0.9 year from 26.6 in 2016 to 27.5 in 2023.
Jerome Lenovo 4 months ago (edited)
i guess america it is 15-16, with all those pregnant teens from the bible belt, p3do maga and whatnot
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Mean is never a great way to compare averages like this. The median age in the USA is 27.7 as of 2023. But this varies a lot per region. For instance, in San Francisco it's 31.9.
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#41
Never Knew These Big American Cities Were So Close Together
Jerome Lenovo 4 months ago
i think its called megalopolis, if my memory of geography classes in france is correct ..... I checked, naming the area "megalopolis" started in 1961. Apparently nowadays americans use the fabricated name BosWash
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
I've lived in NYC, Philly, and DC. This was the first time I heard of BosWash. We call it the I-95 Corridor. It's a highway that runs from Miami Florida through Maine and into Canada.
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Ripley 4 months ago
Which makes it about 700km, and 5 significant cities - total population just under 12M. Sydney (biggest city) and Melbourne (second biggest city) are 876km apart, with no other cities in between - total population just under 11M. Honestly, there's no real reason for my comment other than I thought it was an interesting comparison and may have got carried away.
Load More Replies... fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
driving on i-95 must be hell—considering the traffic. i-65 from birmingham to nashville is bad enough—i can’t imagine i-95…
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
It's only really bad between DC and Baltimore. I never go to Boston though, except by plane
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#42
North Korea Is Strange
#43
U.S. Counties With A Life Expectancy Above 80 Years
Dancing Armadillo 4 months ago
I guess all that Southern Fried Food and all those g*ns isn’t the secret to immortality.. looking at you South.. lol.
Kelly H. Wilder 4 months ago
Also a great deal of poverty. Lack of access to resources (such as proper medical care and/or decent education), food insecurity, and a deep-seated distrust for change fuel the detriment of the people here. (I live in one of the not-green areas.)
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#44
Who Owns More Wealth, The Bottom 80% Or The Top 0.001%?
#45
American Fast Food Chains In Europe
Willem Andries Oosterhof 4 months ago
Taco Bell the Netherlands just went belly up this week. There were only six stores.
Zero Costa 4 months ago
only a few places you can be at the combination of taco bell and pizza hut...
#46
Nato As Of 2024
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I probably ought to go for a walk, I saw the city lights as explosions...
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
Would you believe NATO? https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/
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Jeremy Klaxon 4 months ago
Austria and Ireland aren't part of NATO?? I checked and apparently they're not
Jihana 4 months ago (edited)
Austrian here, we're a neutral country and staying out of military organisations is actually in our constitution. Other countries insisted on it after WW2 in order for us to stay an independent country.
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