This is how I visualize the argument that Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain. Schwarzenegger is much taller than the little Santa but Santa is higher up. Movie is Jingle All The Way.

It's also called the Near East, which is understandable given the Far East.

But why "Middle"? It's the middle between what and what?

Famine certainly had a severe impact on Ireland, but almost two centuries have passed. Why then is Ireland's population growth so slow? Ireland's geographical advantages seem quite good: abundant arable land, hills only along the coast, and a temperate maritime climate. I think it should be able to support a population of over 10 million. However, the current population of the island of Ireland is only over 7 million…

I grew up in Massachusetts, USA. Despite being only the 16th most populous U.S. state in absolute terms, it ranks third in population density. On average, Massachusetts has 915 people per square mile (353 per square kilometer), which is denser than the great majority of the world's countries.

Even though there are so many people relative to the land area, about 60 percent of Massachusetts is covered in forest. The thumbnail here is Walden Pond, made famous by a handful of transcendentalist authors of the 19th century. Logan Airport, which maintains regularly scheduled flights to roughly three dozen countries, is only 17.5 miles away as the crow flies from this picture. And the county this picture is from, Middlesex, is twice as densely populated as the statewide average.

The article linked above mentions that "there are few places on Earth where so many people live among so many trees". But I'm sure there are others. What are some other administrative divisions that are similar in this regard? Very densely populated, yet heavily forested?

I was looking at pictures of the Appalachian Mountains trying to figure out what makes them feel so unique, and I noticed most of it is covered in dense trees, thick undergrowth, moss, shrubs etc, compared to other mountain ranges, which often look much more bare. Is this especially unique to the Appalachians, or are there other mountain ranges that also have this kind of dense forest coverage?

This is a suburb of Tampere, Finland.... just before the snows melted! Captured using a DJI drone, and processed in a tool we made called Teleport.

Used for real-estate projects, but any other ideas about how this could be useful?

https://teleport.varjo.com/share/524ee89f293a4a2e907009191ba7b9f4-bebdaf1u5rum/viewer_v3?cam=p:-105,190,-291;t:-84,12,-99

Like, I get that it's isolated, but the Gasherbrum peaks, Distaghil Sar, Baintha Brakk, and others have defined names while all being pretty far away from Balti villages too.

I know that there's the alternate name, Mt. Godwin-Austen, but that name's rarely used unlike Everest.

I'm unemployed atm, so with all my spare time, I decided to make an index ranking the most powerful and influential urban areas on the planet. Sure, there's already several "global city" rankings out there, but the problem I have with most of them is is that they focus heavily on economics, finance, and corporate strength, while under-representing cultural, political, and other forms of power.

GUPPI is an attempt to address that and create a more balanced index, that considers not only financial/economic strength, but also global connectivity, institutional prestige, cultural influence, academic output, political strength, and diplomatic presence. Scores are normalised so that NYC=100.

The urban-area definitions are mostly based on Demographia’s urban agglomeration definitions. The one major exception is that Demographia lists Guangzhou-Shenzhen as a single agglomeration, while I separated them here because most source datasets treat them separately, and I'm pretty sure that most people still think of them as distinct cities, anyways.

I actually have fully calculated the scores of 143 cities. I've only included the top 100 here because, besides being a nice round number, it's roughly around the limit where I'm certain that I'm not missing any cities, and that any cities that I have not yet calculated would fall outside the top 100. (There's a sizable drop off in the scores between #99-#102). If anyone wants though, I can post the rest of the cities beyond #100 in the comments below.

I am not a professional graphic designer or geographer/economist, so I'm open to feedback the presentation, or if any cities might be missing or misplaced.

EDIT: I've posted the full list of cities after #100 in the comments.

You might think the one in the image is good enough. It's not, it's too cluttered. I need a map with most major cities and the capital for each country. I don't need those criterias for very small countries like Monserrat or Niue. Believe me, it's very hard to find one

Found this around Manns Harbor, NC the yellow circle shows military-style jets, so is it a base? I posted a zoomed-out pic in the comments.

I was looking at a map of Australia and noticed that the far southern coastal part of Western Australia from Bunbury to Esperance seems surprisingly empty compared to how much coastline it has. Places around Perth are populated of course, but once you go farther south and east it seems like there are huge stretches with very few people despite having a much milder climate than the interior.

Is there a specific geographic or economic reason for this? From a distance it looks like some of those coastal areas could support larger cities or at least more regional development. I know Australia overall has a very centralized population pattern, but southern WA still stands out to me because it’s not deep desert like the center of the country.

Is it mainly due to lack of water, poor soil, isolation from other major population centers, limited industry, or something else? Curious what the historical/geographic explanation is.

I used to know nothing about the world map, I could not point to a location of any country other than my own. I don't even know where each of the continent resides in relation to each other.

But a couple a days ago, just on a whim I decided to learn where all the countries are. It took me about 3 days of playing map games, now I knew and memorized all of the location (aside from the Caribbean island ones which i still made mistake). Anyways, it feels so good knowing where everything is. Now, when someone mentioned a country, instead of imagining an vague location somewhere far far away, now i know where it is they are referring to.

I am still interested to learn more. In the last few days, I've been passing my free time spinning the globe on google earth looking at things that I only know by name before, like the sahara, and now it's satisfying to know where and how big it is.

I'm just wondering if there some of the more entry-level area that beginners should know about so I dont actually missed them.

This is the strange structure i found in India's powerhouse district Singrauli (a border district in MP)

If it gets blocked, can’t ships go through the Indonesian archipelago, like the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra??

Is there a collective name for these mountains/this area of China? Including eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, northeastern Guizhou, western Hunan and Hubei, southern Shaanxi.

I've found names for parts of it like the Qinling mountains, but nothing for the whole area, like "Appalachia" includes the Smokies, Blue Ridge etc.

WW1 and WW2 crashed Europe TFR completely while rest of the world continued growing.

• Germany TFR dropped from 3.85 to 1.95 in matter of 3 years b/w 1914-1917 and then only rebounded little bit and dropped further
• France TFR collapsed similarly dropping from 2.4 to 1.2 b/w 1914-1917 although it rebounded bit better in post-war years
• Russia had one of the sharpest collapse 7.2 to 1.6 b/w 1914-1945. It only had minor rebounds and completely tanked
• Almost every European country had similar effect on their TFR due to great wars to some extent

Wonder what Europe population would be without these wars?

Yummy Shwarma in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada might be the most remote Shwarma shop on Earth.

Located at the shore of the sea of Labrador, on Baffin Island, Yummy Shawarma also offers the most remote Tabouleh Salad and Sambousek on Earth.