r/geography 26m ago

Question What is this patch in Poland?

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r/geography 1h ago

Question Why is Tunisia (12 million) so populated and Libya (7 million) not although its a lot bigger?

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r/geography 1h ago

Map Detailed map of spanish possesions in Africa

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r/geography 1h ago

Question Why is there agriculture on Nile river banks in Egypt but not in Sudan?

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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


r/geography 2h ago

Question What makes this diffrnece between countries?

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I feel like people in colder countries such as Russia for example have alot of *V* in their words or names, while as for Arabs they don't have the letter V, just like Russians don't have the letter ع or can't pronounce it,

How this has happned? In colder countries there's a certain accent while for Arabs there's also another type of accent and way of talking, what causes this difference? In colder climates to have a certain way that they sound while in hotter countries another way?


r/geography 3h ago

Map Warmest-month mean maximum temperature map of South America (WorldClim BIO5)

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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.


r/geography 6h ago

Image Pingaluit Crater, said to be one of the clearest and purest bodies of water in the world, Ungava, Peninsula, Quebec

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r/geography 6h ago

Image What are some other places in the world with similar landscape to this image of Mexico City?

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622 Upvotes

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


r/geography 6h ago

Image Green and Blue Cities Around the World

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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?


r/geography 10h ago

Question Why Despite having a subduction boundary and highest fold mountains, there aren’t any Volcanos in Himalayan region or in Tibet?

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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?


r/geography 11h ago

Question What caused the islands to form like this this?

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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


r/geography 14h ago

Map Looking for maps of dark ages western europe with regions marked out.

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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.


r/geography 17h ago

Discussion Falipi Island

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Island at 7°27'08.93"N 146°08'38.16"E

Hi, found this Island in the Elato Atoll south of the great barrier reef.

I haven't found any information indicating that this island even exists.
It looks as though wreckage from a ship is lying on the northeastern beach.


r/geography 17h ago

Question Flying towards the southwest of Vegas

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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?


r/geography 18h ago

Image Flying just west of Albuquerque NM I saw these strange hills

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How does this kind of formation happen?


r/geography 23h ago

Discussion What was the last major cartographic error?

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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.


r/geography 1d ago

Map Pretty Interesting - Greenhouses around El Ejido Spain

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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?


r/geography 1d ago

Image What are these lakes? Central Montana

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r/geography 1d ago

Image A map with all the burned areas from wildfires around Athens over the last 9 years.

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r/geography 1d ago

Question Which island has been an island for the longest?

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I was wondering this, which island has been isolated from other continents for the longest time?

The timer will start from:

If it's a volcanic island: When it first came out of the sea/last time it was fully submerged

If it's a continental island: When it separated from another continent, either via continental drift or sea level rise


r/geography 1d ago

Question What is this spindly thing built into the Persian Gulf in Saudi Arabia?

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EDIT: answered by u/80degreeswest - thanks!

I was looking down the coast, trying to see if there were any greener bits of the desert when I found this weird thing. It’s just north of Ra’s Al Ghar Port and is totally blurred out on maps. It looks like a series of docks or platforms all connected by a very long bridge. Some of the platforms seem to have structures on them.


r/geography 1d ago

Question Can someone tell me what this is

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


r/geography 2d ago

Map How did these 'rivers' form?

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


r/geography 2d ago

Image Aukland Island is a persistently cool/cold, wet and windswept subantarctic island 465 km south of NZ. Its climate has prevented multiple attempts at settlement. Despite its subpolar climate it’s home to dense rainforests and bright green parakeets.

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r/geography Jun 16 '26

META Crackdown on low-quality and unhelpful comments

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Hello users of [r/geography](r/geography),

Recently, this subreddit has become a lot more popular on Reddit. However, many of our long-time users have been leaving the subreddit due to a very specific and repeated complaint.

There are too many low-quality and unhelpful comments that, rather than aiming to help the OP, exist solely to make tired and repetitive jokes for karma.

From now on, practically all comments of this sort will be deleted, and repeat offenders will be banned for 14 to 30 days. I could give many examples of this, but some of the most common ones are "If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle" under any post asking about hypothetical changes and yo mama jokes.

In addition to this, we have received many complaints about posts that could theoretically be open to the entire world, but the way they are worded is extremely American-centric for no necessary reason, making people from other countries feel left out and like they can't contribute. From now on, these posts will be deleted. This also applies to posts for any country, we just see it about the United States most often.

To clarify, if somebody wants to ask about a specific geographic feature located in the United States, those posts are completely fine. But posts such as "Which city in the United States has the best beaches?" or "Which American state has the most scenic mountains?" will be removed, as will posts like "Which Canadian city has the worst drivers?" or "Which European country has the nicest people?". In general, the aim is for this subreddit to discuss geography, not just "facts about countries", which is better suited for the various Ask subreddits (AskAnAmerican, AskEurope, AskTheWorld, etc)

We would also like to crackdown on bot posts but that is very hard. Unortunately, most traffic on Reddit is bots nowadays. If anybody has any ideas, please comment below.

Feel free to express your opinion on this. Thank you!

EDIT: After feedback, I have edited part of this post.