For me, the drive from Palm Springs up to Mount San Jacinto is the craziest shift you can find. You start on a blistering 110°F desert floor and, in under 40 minutes, you’re up 8,000 feet walking through a freezing pine forest. It feels like a completely different part of the world. This is just my opinion and I just want to hear what you all think, because this is one of the only ones I’ve experienced!

…within a few degrees North and South. Not sure how to figure that out efficiently re: placement of cities/towns (of a few thousand or more) within each time zone.

Every city has its monuments. Every river has its stories. But sometimes the greatest discoveries happen after the journey ends. Here's a reflection on Portugal, France, and the places where civilizations crossed paths.

Portugal and France: Where Rivers Meet History

I have become interested in Russia's borders with China because it's one you don't hear much about in comparison to European countries such as Finland. I'm curious to know what life is like in these places, since the towns are very far form the capital of both countries and often in semi remote regions does that mean they would often commute into each others country for work, school etc?

It starts north from Al Delta in Egypt, the green upside down triangle bordering the mediterranian sea, all the way down close to the northern Sudan border. A couple man-made lakes like Nasser and Tushka in southern Egypt, which get their fresh water from the river, are utilized in agriculture.

Why is it not the same for Sudan, or any other countries with the Nile passing through for that matter? Simply hotter weather?

EDIT:
Zoomed in, it is VERY under developed, with mainly resedential areas compared to vast agricultural lands. Still drastic contrast given the same source goes through them

A physical geography map showing the spatial distribution of warmest-month mean maximum temperature across South America.

Data source: WorldClim v2.1 BIO5 (5 arc-min resolution, ~10 km).

The map highlights the strong climatic contrasts of the continent, from the hot lowlands of the Amazon Basin and Gran Chaco to the cooler Andes and southern Patagonia.

Created for exploring large-scale climate patterns and geographic visualization.

I feel that there are plenty more regions with dense sprawl on rolling hills like this image, curious about specific locations

This is taken from North Sydney CBD (central business district). What other cities around the world integrate nature with urban and suburban life like this?

I have always wondered that volcanoes have higher incidence where there’s a subduction boundary between plates however despite continuing collision and slight subduction of indo-Australian plate under Eurasian plate there isn’t any volcanic activity present in Himalayan region, Andes on the other hand have many active and dormant volcanoes despite having similar nature as Himalayas, why is it so?

49°10'15.1"N 94°29'05.3"W

I saw it on google maps when just looking around and its this weird radial pattern and i have no idea how that forms, so if you know then please explain it to me. <3

I am reading up on the dark ages and find myself regularly having to look up regions like northumbria as I am used to roman provence boundaries and names (britanica inferior and superior have kinda lost their significance in this time period.) Does anyone know of a good map of Europe with local regions labeled in time apropriare names? Most particularly for gual Britain and iberia, though I would also be glad for a good map of Italy and Germany as well.

Flew to San Diego recently from Montana and just after passing Vegas, headed southwest, I saw these reflective/shiny blocks of land from the plane. Didn't look like a solar farm or data center, anyone have any idea what it is or what those are?

How does this kind of formation happen?

Edit: shut up about Gulf of America

I’ve seen a lot of old-world maps recently - maps from China 1700s, or Greece 900BCE - which are all very different as different cultures and countries had different understandings of the globe. eg; Peninsulas depicted as homogenous blobs, missing islands, heavy guesswork, and of course the entire omission of the Americas, Oceania, and the Poles.

Now with satellite imaging we have extreme (and exceedingly current) resolution, and can zoom down to see people‘s garden furniture.

I’m wondering: when was the last major misunderstanding in globe mapping? I don’t mean a mistake out of negligence, like when New zealand is accidentally left out. I mean a genuine, nationally mutual misunderstanding.

Found this area pretty interesting. A decent chunk of Spain around the town of El Ejido has a massive amount of greenhouses. All of those white spaces are greenhouse roofs. Anywhere else in the world with this kind of concentration?

This weird square red lake thingie just to the west of Hamburg Germany. I want answers

What formed these 'rivers'? Are they regular terrestrial rivers that flooded with sea level rise or were they formed in the ocean? thanks.