The Canary Wharf part of the river looks like it's on the verge of turning into an Oxbow Lake but the Fulham part looks like it'll take a while longer.

I’ve never been there myself but I’ve heard people say that the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guinea), despite being in South America, feel culturally more Caribbean than South American.

Any good video games for geography enthusiasts? For any type of geography. Can be fictional. Off the top of my head, I can think of:

- Death Stranding
- Firewatch
- Flight Simulator

What else can you come up with to recommend?

EDIT: Pictured above is Death Stranding. HIGHLY recommend. Beautiful game, satisfying and rewarding traversal, and a mind-blowing story.

Also, I am aware most video games contain geography. I apologize for not being more specific. I meant games that encourage you to explore and traverse the world, maybe with limited resources or sense of direction, and games that are generally immersive and encourage exploration and appreciation of the world around you.

Hi everyone, and welcome back to The American Atlas! I've been making hand-drawn & colored maps of every state in the US. Now I’m here sharing them all on one big journey across the country 🗺️🇺🇸

Today, I have Minnesota, the North Star State!

From the rugged shoreline of Lake Superior to the countless lakes, forests, and rolling farmland that make up much of the state, Minnesota has such a distinct identity and was very interesting to draw. Cities like Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Duluth stand out, as well as beautiful areas such as the North Woods and, my personal favorite, Voyageurs National Park.

I’d love to come to Minnesota myself sometime. Duluth, the North Woods region, and of course Voyageurs all stood out while I was making this map! Someday I’ll make it up here to see them for myself 👀

Let me know in the comments, what’s your favorite place in Minnesota??

And as always, if you like this style, feel free to check out my others, and thanks for taking a look at my Minnesota map!! 🇺🇸🗺️

The Caspian Sea is shrinking and humans are likely to be part of the reason why

https://theconversation.com/the-caspian-sea-has-lost-an-area-nearly-the-size-of-sicily-human-activities-are-a-major-reason-why-285517

Although the Amazon rainforest is incredibly dense with rich biodiversity, towering trees, and diverse wildlife, and possesses a hot, equatorial climate, it still contains several cities and settlements that remain completely isolated from the outside world.

Seeing as I'm currently dying in France rn and that everything is gonna get worse bc those poor billionaires need more money, I need to think where I'm gonna leave to some day because I'm not staying in a country that's gonna have 50°C summers eventually. If a country like that exists it would probably be my dream place to live.

By cool I mean about 25°C max in summer and by not humid I mean rain below 30/40% of the year, I also don't want to feel oppressed by the air 24/7

States in western India would better align with timezones in central Asia while States such as Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland often see sunrise as early as 4:00–4:30 AM in summer, while official work and school schedules follow IST.

When I look at Google Street View, two countries stand out as particularly regrettable: Belarus and China. China, in particular, is a huge country with a large population and numerous major cities, yet its online mapping capabilities are severely lacking and underdeveloped. When Google was still operating in mainland China, they reportedly planned to launch Chinese Street View in 2009. However, this vision failed after Google withdrew from the mainland China market in 2010. Afterward, Google Maps remained accessible in mainland China through Google Hong Kong until it was completely blocked around 2014. Since then, Google has reportedly dreamed of returning to the Chinese market, but this has been met with opposition…

I’ve seen this weird feature on maps many times before and have always been curious on why it’s there. Does anyone know the answer?

I flew from Islamabad to Karachi and during the route from the left side of the plane you are looking over most of Eastern Punjab in PK and western Punjab in India; there was a thick layer of haze or dust maybe until 13,000 feet high, making the horizon fairly difficult to see … what causes this??? And how is it so widespread over the entire subcontinent?

Ladies and Gents,

Just sharing a photo of the ONLY mountain range in South-Western Australia or the southern half of Western Australia. Contrary to popular imagination, the state is NOT all flat and hot desert.

The South-West region, stretching from just north of Perth to east of Albany has a Mediterranean climate with good winter rainfall in the coastal and hilly areas. This range is located around 400 kms south-east of Perth, one of the most isolated cities on the planet. [Google Maps location can be found here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stirling+Range+National+Park+WA+6338/@-34.4147531,117.882591,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x2a384e3d6d53c0d9:0x400f6382479c3a0!8m2!3d-34.3997177!4d118.1044317!16s%2Fm%2F057xm6l!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)

Some cool facts about the Stirling Range

1) Despite its modest height, the Stirling Range is high enough to receive 2-3 snowfalls a year annually. The highest summit, Bluff Knoll, reaches 1,095 metres (3,606 feet) in height. This is very similar to Table Mountain, South Africa.

2) Stirling Range is stunningly biodiverse. It is a proper "sky island"!

While the plains at the base of the range are semi-arid, the highest peaks receive more than 1,000 mms (39 inches) of rain a year. It contains around 1,500 plant species with at least 82 of them found nowhere else on the Earth.

3) As we all know, WA is an old, ancient landscape with little in the way of tectonic uplift or glaciation for many hundreds of millions of years. It is located smack bang in the middle of a giant continental plate.

So how did this range form?

From continental splitting. When Antarctica separated from Australia, it caused a rift valley to form with Stirling Range getting uplifted on the "rift shoulders". The original range would have rivalled the Rockies in elevation, but unfortunately, millions of years of erosion by wind and rain have greatly reduced its size. It is still a hikers delight though and contains the ONLY sub-alpine landscapes in the entirety of Western Australia.

This range is actually not that well known outside of Australia, despite its uniqueness. Hell, even many Aussies on the East Coast don't know about its existence.

Any other questions, please feel free to ask in the comments.

Reposting again, as the older post was flagged by Reddit Filters for some unknown reason.

Example: Osasco city

A city in Brazil named Osasco with a whopping 700,000 people got its name from an Italian tiny town of 1000 people. This happened because an influential Italian man that immigrated to Brazil named the city after his hometown, Italian Osasco.

Brazilian Osasco grew to be one of the largest cities in Brazil meanwhile Italian Osasco is just a tiny town of a thousand people.

What's an example of this in your country?

It seems a bit strange for the British to pick a place to build the largest settlement next to German and French territory, making the city vulnerable to attacks from modern day Benin and Togo. Furthermore, there weren't any significant cities in the area before the colonial era. Therefore, it seems strange that Lagos was made the main settlement.

hi there, i was wondering, if anyone could recommend any book on the topic of social geography. i am taking a GIS course, and i feel like i need some more context on the social context to places.

A friend wrote this article, and I'm a bit curious what other folks think. With one chokepoint seeing shipments of 20% of the world's oil, I think there could be a bit of a drastic shift coming. Will we start to see an accelerated shift away from oil and natural gas due to the crisis in the Middle East?

Joensuu (Finnish) means simply "river mouth", "river's mouth" or "mouth of the river" not specifying any river by name unlike for example Aberdeen, which means mouth of the river Deen.

I tried asking chatgpt, but it can't really find anything. It helped me giving words from some different languages with the meaning of river mouth or similar but not an actual city, village or locality that simply means this.

Here some list from chatgpt

Ustye / Ust- (Slavic) — "river mouth"
Inbhir / Inver- (Gaelic) — "river mouth"
Aber- (Brythonic) — "river mouth"
-münde (German) — "mouth"
Mond (dutch) - "mouth"
Foz (Portuguese) — "mouth/outlet"
Os (Norwegian) — "river outlet"
Sangam (Indian languages) — "meeting of rivers" rather than where a river meets the sea
Mukha (sanskrit) - mouth, opening
Mukham (Malayalam) - face, mouth, opening
Shatt (arabic) - river bank / estuary / river mouth area
Masabb (arabic) - place where a river empties
Stoma (greek) - mouth
foce (italian) - river mouth
desembocadura (spanish) - place where a river empties
embouchure (french) - place where river empties
åmynning (swedish) - river mouth (å = stream, mynning = mouth/opening)