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re: Random geography trivia
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:05 pm to starkvingrad
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:05 pm to starkvingrad
Just googled it. Saw a source that it's only 2.4 miles away due to the partition of the Diomede Islands. Very cool.
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Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:09 pm to WinnPtiger
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Brownsville to somewhere in the Panhandle(I forget) is farther than that spot in the Panhandle to Canada
I live in the Panhandle - when I was in Cali, Colombia I was closer to home than when I visited my brother in San Diego.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:12 pm to East Coast Band
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Tristate, Tri-points or Triple points, aka trifiniums all mean the same thing. These are places where three States come together at a common point. Almost everyone is familiar with Four Comers in the southwestern U.S., where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet at a spot in the Navajo Indian Reservation. However, not many people realize that there are sixty-one other spots where three States join. Of this total of sixty-two, thirty-eight either have markers or should have markers on land. The rest are in the middle of rivers, streams or lakes where no identifying marker can be placed.
I got two of 'em last year: TX/LA/AR and AL/GA/TN.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:13 pm to RougeDawg
Mmm, not actually correct, if you're referring to pretty much every city in AK. Anchorage, Fairbanks, Nome, Juneau, are all closer to NOLA by a long distance.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:14 pm to starkvingrad
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The world's deepest lake is Lake Baikal in eastern Russia. It is a freshwater lake that is 5,315 feet deep. Can you imagine a lake more than a whole mile deep?
Lake Baikal is so deep that it contains nearly 24% of all surface freshwater in the world, and more than all five North American Great Lakes combined.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:16 pm to canyon
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Key West is closer to Habana than Miami.
Everyone knows this
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:16 pm to Auburn80
quote:Only because they had a chronological incestual jump on Arkansas.
West Virginia is the only state with 2 panhandles.
Expect Arky to have four or five panhandles soon.
They've been working overtime to narrow the gap.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:20 pm to LegendInMyMind
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-Mt. Everest Isn't as Close to the Moon as Mt. Chimborazo
Alright explain this one
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:23 pm to Wishnitwas1998
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-Mt. Everest Isn't as Close to the Moon as Mt. Chimborazo
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Alright explain this one
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Earth isn't actually round, but oval, with an inflated middle.
Although Ecuador's Mt. Chimborazo is only 20,564 feet in height, its equator location pushes it closer to the stars than Mt. Everest, at 29,035 feet.
*ETA: That is if you believe that the Earth is, in fact, round.
This post was edited on 6/3/21 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 6/3/21 at 2:24 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Probably already been covered. But it’s further from Beaumont to El Paso than it is from Beaumont to Jacksonville and El Paso to Los Angeles.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 3:00 pm to East Coast Band
Out of the states with ocean coast lines (pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico)
What state has the shortest measured in miles?
New Hampshire 13 miles
Posted on 6/3/21 at 3:57 pm to East Coast Band
Africa is much bigger than most people realize.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 4:01 pm to East Coast Band
It’s a Duck!
Posted on 6/3/21 at 4:09 pm to BRich
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got two of 'em last year: TX/LA/AR and AL/GA/TN.
Visited them?
There's a group of people who like visiting confluence points. 31N 90W, 31N 91W, etc.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 4:21 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital that does not have a McDonald’s.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 4:40 pm to Mufassa
How about Maine or Michigan?
This post was edited on 6/3/21 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 6/3/21 at 4:56 pm to LSUHeights
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There is land in Virginia that is further north than land in New Jersey
Posted on 6/3/21 at 5:12 pm to East Coast Band
There are at least 100 uncontacted tribes of people around the world that have no idea outside modern society exists, aside from aircraft flyovers. The vast majority are in the remote Amazon Rainforest but there are also tribes in Africa and India.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 5:35 pm to VADawg
Posted on 6/3/21 at 6:16 pm to SCLibertarian
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Reno, NV is farther west than Los Angeles.
I had to look at a map for this one.
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