From a purely geographical perspective, Gloucester should be one of the largest cities in Britain. Why is it so small?1yr ⋅ donkencha ⋅ r/geography
The Nordic Council: Who is most likely to join, and will the nations ever integrate further?2mo ⋅ LeoMatteoArts ⋅ r/geography
What city punches the furthest below its weight economically compared to its population?2mo ⋅ throwaway-adnauseum ⋅ r/geography
Ok so I just learned that Liechtenstein, the 6th smallest nation was offered Alaska by the Russian empire. They apparently refused and regretted that decision when the US found gold... Please Discuss and explain more!!11mo ⋅ FezzieMilky ⋅ r/geography
What is this formation in the gulf of Mexico? And why does It have such good resolution in Google maps?10mo ⋅ alikander99 ⋅ r/geography
What is a country that looks small but is actually bigger than people think4mo ⋅ karinasnooodles_ ⋅ r/geography
The Biggest Private Ranches in Texas (Labeled as requested) - Assembled using county GIS data.9mo ⋅ Convillious ⋅ r/geography
So someone hacked my girls phone and this random pic was in there and we don’t know what the hell it is. Looks like a map of some kind?6mo ⋅ Mackey_Corp ⋅ r/geography
Iowa has 99 counties. It could have an even 100 if not for Kossuth. Thanks for nothing, Kossuth.1yr ⋅ Idhanirem ⋅ r/geography
In the spirit of yesterday's post, which of these three unifications would be the most challenging: Pan-Arabism, Pan-Iranism, or Pan-Turkic3wk ⋅ MoonyMeanie ⋅ r/geography
What are some of the most un-important US capitals? (Location, Importing/Exporting goods, living)3mo ⋅ Special_Yam_8447 ⋅ r/geography
What are the closest two foreign capitals? Would it be Helsinki and Tallinn?1yr ⋅ portexpat ⋅ r/geography
You have to start a new civilisation in an empty Europe. Where would you start it?6mo ⋅ HolyDictatorFelixDoy ⋅ r/geography
a straight line between the easternmost and westernmost points of asia will pass on exclusively european land6mo ⋅ the_arab_eagle ⋅ r/geography
This is an actual US exclave near London, gifted by the Queen in 1965.4mo ⋅ rimjob-connoisseur ⋅ r/geography
What is life like in one of China's dozens of 3+ million cities for the average person?6mo ⋅ Belisarius4 ⋅ r/geography
Why is this region being talked about as the safest protected against climate change and will see a lot of growth?8mo ⋅ RecordingFancy8515 ⋅ r/geography
Flying over the desert in Western Australia. Can you imagine getting lost here??5mo ⋅ colapepsikinnie ⋅ r/geography
What led to this formation in Calabar, Nigeria? It's farm land smack dab in an urban environment. Crater? It looks flat in streetview1mo ⋅ parsippanyplains ⋅ r/geography
Why Indonesia despite being large landmass & population is relatively unknown to the world and has low global political, cultural and cuisine influence ?1mo ⋅ srikrishna1997 ⋅ r/geography
What Ski resort did I fly over somewhere in between Indianapolis and Cincinnati1mo ⋅ Zers503 ⋅ r/geography
How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama6mo ⋅ illiteratearrear ⋅ r/geography
Apparently only 25% of people in Brussels are Belgian, and only 12% of people under 18 are Belgians. It seems like an insane statistic to me, is there even a single European city with comparable demographics?1yr ⋅ Stockholmholm ⋅ r/geography
Perhaps the wrong place to ask, but hypothetically, would the Soviet project of the Siberian Sea soften the climate of Central Asia?9mo ⋅ XMrFrozenX ⋅ r/geography
Why is the Strait of Flagellan so significant and famous? I don’t see how it cuts any remarkable amount of time from a passage around South America, it just seems dangerous9mo ⋅ RecordingFancy8515 ⋅ r/geography
This picture was taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in central Africa. Yes, that's snow and ice (high up in the Rwenzori Mountains, 5100m/16,000 ft). It's mind-blowing this exists a few miles from the equator, next to the Congo Rainforest.2mo ⋅ Inzitarie ⋅ r/geography
Why isn't Hainan more important in Chinese Foreign Policy? It has a great position but the government rarely talks about it and mostly focuses on Taiwan3wk ⋅ _Kuroi_Karasu_ ⋅ r/geography
Are China and India the only pair of countries with a border in three separate segments?1mo ⋅ hovik_gasparyan ⋅ r/geography
You must choose any city (population >100,000) in mainland Africa to live in for one year. You get an average one bedroom apartment and bills are paid for. Which do you choose, and why?4mo ⋅ donkencha ⋅ r/geography
What sense does China see in controlling the Xinjiang and Tibet regions?7mo ⋅ gnarled_quercus ⋅ r/geography
Did Anyone In The Soviet Political Bureaucracy Raise Alarms About The Slow Destruction Of The Aral Sea?7mo ⋅ TaraTrue ⋅ r/geography
Is Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage as their internal waters legitimate, or should it be international waters.1mo ⋅ PunjabiCanuck ⋅ r/geography
Why are there so many people in that part of Namibia? Do they like Angola?8mo ⋅ GalleryH ⋅ r/geography
The Island of downtown Kansas City, surrounded on all sides by rivers of interstate6mo ⋅ jeb2026 ⋅ r/geography
At what time are there the most people simultaneously awake in the world?4mo ⋅ sweatysexconnoisseur ⋅ r/geography
How did Louisiana and Florida get so much more coastline than Mississippi and Alabama?10mo ⋅ scottkellogg ⋅ r/geography
Kyrgyzstan looks like the evolved form of Hispaniola. What are some other “countrymons” that you consider part of the same evolutionary line?6mo ⋅ Late_Bridge1668 ⋅ r/geography
What is your favourite place? Mine is Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland2mo ⋅ Dark_Light_2023 ⋅ r/geography
How did Gambia get its borders? It looks like someone just carved out the river from Senegal1mo ⋅ lolikroli ⋅ r/geography
What are these small, wide strips of land called? What happens there?10mo ⋅ Jsansfrontieres ⋅ r/geography
why does the red have a name (Scandinavian Peninsula) but not the whole peninsula in pink? does it have a name?11mo ⋅ zzz_ch ⋅ r/geography
Can someone tell me why the border between Belize and Guatemala is a dashed line?10mo ⋅ ShieKassy ⋅ r/geography
Why is there so many people and large settlements on the eastern side of the Red Sea but barely any on the western side?1yr ⋅ anonymoususer6407 ⋅ r/geography
Is it the most beautiful wooden church in the world? Church of the Transfiguration , Kizhi island , Russia .1yr ⋅ DangerousChalk111 ⋅ r/geography
From all these seaboard national capitals, why isn't Vilnius? And why wouldn't it want to be?11mo ⋅ bkat004 ⋅ r/geography
How was this long line of land formed between these 2 cities? Were they formed naturally?8mo ⋅ Vincentkk ⋅ r/geography
Why or how does a city of 7.677 million exist in the middle of nowhere?1yr ⋅ splash9936 ⋅ r/geography
are there any ancient cities that have been preserved as well as rhodes?7mo ⋅ Potassium-- ⋅ r/geography
How and when did this gap between the south slavic languages and the western/eastern slavic languages happen?5mo ⋅ kontoforporr ⋅ r/geography
Why was this area of the southeastern US unclaimed by Europeans as late as 1750?5mo ⋅ slimb0 ⋅ r/geography
Why is Slovakia’s capital placed so weirdly? Why is it so far west?11mo ⋅ HolyDictatorFelixDoy ⋅ r/geography
Why did Houston, TX develop more inland and not directly on Galveston Bay? Was the flooding risk too high or some other reason?1mo ⋅ cd637 ⋅ r/geography
If you’re ever wondering why nobody lives in Saskatchewan, CA, this is why.2mo ⋅ jareesenses ⋅ r/geography
If there was a small continent in roughly this area between Africa, Europe, and North America; what would its hypothetical geography, climate, and terrain look like?1yr ⋅ sleepingonstones ⋅ r/geography
Why isn't it a bigger deal that the sizes of countries and continents are egregiously distorted on world maps? Why is a map this flawed accepted educationally?7mo ⋅ ProofJob5661 ⋅ r/geography
How different would be the climate in these countries if Brazil just disappear?2mo ⋅ lokopokoXD ⋅ r/geography
Why is there a billion difference between the top two and the rest in terms of population?1yr ⋅ LevelMedicine3539 ⋅ r/geography
Why does the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have straight lines?2mo ⋅ Wishbones_007 ⋅ r/geography
The world's largest river delta, the Ganges Delta, in Bangladesh (via European Space Agency)1yr ⋅ delugetheory ⋅ r/geography
If all the ice were to melt and the Arctic Ocean was an open ocean, what countries would stand to gain the most, and what issues would exist in creating building cities, ports and trade routes?1yr ⋅ triviafrenzy ⋅ r/geography
How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama3yr ⋅ Iason_13 ⋅ r/geography
Is my map straight up wrong or does a city called Ambardoj or something similar exist/existed in the New Siberian Islands of Russia?2mo ⋅ WilliamCrack19 ⋅ r/geography
Why is the Sentinelese population estimated between 35 and 400 when the island is so big, and natives are almost always encountered when people get too close? Surely thousands of people live on the island?1yr ⋅ cityfeedback ⋅ r/geography
Guys, we've been on a roll with these map posts lately. I just had to share with you all the absolute best one I've come across.11mo ⋅ ZebulonThackeray ⋅ r/geography
This might be a dumb question but why do towns along the Nile and often all over the developing world look like this? Why are they so cramped with open land all around?2mo ⋅ SupremeAiBot ⋅ r/geography
My interpretation of the Midwest as a cultural region irrespective of state and national boundaries. Very much open to criticism as I know this is one of the great debates in human geography circles.7mo ⋅ ThatNiceLifeguard ⋅ r/geography
If Tibet was an Inland Sea, would the Gobi Desert be habitable?4mo ⋅ Downbound_Re-Bound ⋅ r/geography
Why does northern Chile have a coastal desert with a mountain range to the east and while southern Chile has a coastal mountain range with a desert to the east?1mo ⋅ ipawnn00bz ⋅ r/geography
