25 Mind-Bending Geography Facts That Will Change How You Think About The Planet
I haven’t thought about geography since high school, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to learn something new. Take these mind-blowing geography facts people are sharing in this Reddit thread.
How many of these did you already know?
1. “Virginia goes farther west than the westernmost point of West Virginia”
2. “Maine is the closest US state to Africa.”
3. “If you travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal, you go from east to west.”
4. “Reno is as far north as Philadelphia”
5. “Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles, California.”
6. “Toronto, Canada, is south of Minneapolis, United States.”
7. Chile can fit inside of North America
8. “Canada is 41 times the size of the UK and also has a Provincial park larger than Switzerland.”
9. “New York City (waaaay up there in North America) and Naples (waaaay down there in southern Italy) are on the same latitude.”
10. “Palm trees grow in Ireland, at 53 degrees North.”
11. Map of North American cities transposed onto the opposite continent at the same latitude
12. “Australia is wider than the moon”
13. “The easternmost point of Brazil is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point”
– Thessiz
14. “The distance between New Zealand and Australia is roughly the same as the distance between the Netherlands and Libya.”
— Javanz
15. “Africa is HUGE, and maps you’ve seen your whole life are hugely misleading.”
— Izodius
16. “If you took a boat out of Reykjavík and sailed directly south, the first land mass you’d hit would be Antarctica.”
17. “Alaska is simultaneously the furthest west, east, and northern point in the US.”
— robexib
18. “Relatively speaking, we live on the skin of an apple. That’s about how thick the Earth’s crust is in proportion to its volume.”
19. “Detroit is farther east than Atlanta.”
20. New Zealand is about as “long” as the Eastern Seaboard
21. Bermuda is smaller than Cleveland, OH
22. This is how big India is compared to the United States:
23. European states overlaid on the map of the US
24. Russia is bigger than the United States…but not THAT much bigger.
25. Florida and Egypt are around the same latitude
