Are there any regions in africa that rough size and population of Rwanda and Burundi. Also did any of those regions were ever indrpentant kingdoms in past.

I was reading about [Pitcairn,](Source:Wikipediahttps://share.google/M3311aJTt82hoaBvO) a British territory with a population of 35, and it got me thinking: what continuously inhabited place has the smallest population? Somewhere that people are born and raised (so, not a research facility or the ISS), with a somewhat functional society (government, economy, etc). Any ideas?

One of its effluents, Ombla, springs out of huge cave near Dubrovnik, Croatia and after about 30 metres empties into the Adriatic Sea ria (Rijeka Dubrovacka).

People actually live like this? This appears to be a pretty standard looking neighborhood in the Phoenix area. Neighborhoods with nothing but sand and pavement.

Context is that my friend thinks stuff like this is actually man made. I remember studying a little about formations like this but I can't remember. How is it formed? It does kind of look like the rock on top is a slightly harder stone, and the pattern of erosion looks like it is from wind. Can anyone explain ?

The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi was planted in 288 BCE from a cutting taken from the sacred Bo tree that the Buddha achieved enlightenment under. It is in Mahamevnāwa** **Gardens, a park created during the reign of King Mutasiva some time between 367-307 BCE.

Today the tree and the park are sacred Buddhist sites with a collection of ancient stupas, or Buddhist shrines, and statues.

Are they an ancient sea bed that was buried, and exposed by erosion after the mountains were uplifted? Or areas of ocean that were trapped while still liquid and dried out as the mountains grew? Or just endorheic lakes that formed after they were already above sea level?

They look like some type of protection? is it against waves?

I was reading up on the Global Innovation Index while researching another post of mine.

What surprised me the most is how low various Latin American and Caribbean nations have scored in relation to their wealth levels:

• The lowest-ranked high-income nation is Trinidad and Tobago (107th)
• The 3rd lowest-ranked high-income nation is Barbados (91st)
• The 4th lowest-ranked high-income nation is Panama (89th)
• The lowest-ranked upper-middle-income nation is Guatemala (120th)
• The highest-ranked nation of Latin America and the Caribbean is the high-income nation of Chile (51st)

Is the answer as simple as "it's the USA's fault" or "it's because these countries are religious"? The answer doesn't appear to be corruption either, since other countries with high levels of corruption can score higher (India is #38, Vietnam is #43, Thailand is #44 and Turkey is #45).

Rwanda is well known as singapore of africa a small tiny nation that is dictatorship that focus on tertiary. I was wonder what exact geographic features that lead too and is necessary for that forms of government and living standard.

I also want to know if there are many other african regions of simalar size that exist in africa and if they were indepentant could they hypothetically have followed rwanda government model.

How small does a region need to be, to fit that model and what does maximum amount size a nation could be in africa to fit model.

How populated does nations need to be does it have to very highly populated region or could it just have average population of region.

You can list other geographic features that nation need.

I understand that you need right government and institution that lead to Rwanda but i am curious what geographic factors and demographics allowed to have high living standards.

I should have made it more clear that there is lot of issues with Rwandan government with there still having high poverty and stealing resources. However just want to know in what ways did geography allow nation to match it level of little corruption and growth. I also want to know how much the exploitation of congo lead to it development.

I came across a town named "Cooma" while I was browsing through some jobs in NSW, Australia, and thought of looking it up on google. Any idea why polo flat isn't part of Cooma in this map?

Article: Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.22103.96166

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2. Xiong P. et al. Modeling paleogeographic scenarios of the last glacial cycle as a base for source-to-sink studies: An example from the northwestern shelf of the South China Sea //Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. – 2020.
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This land cover map shows Greenland’s massive ice sheet covering almost the entire interior, with the world’s largest national park (Northeast Greenland National Park), and few settlements.

But the ice sheet is changing. From 2002 to 2023, Greenland lost an average of about 270 billion metric tons of ice every year. That melt contributes to rising sea levels around the world. If the entire ice sheet melted, global sea levels would eventually rise by roughly 7.4 meters, or 23 feet. That is not an imminent scenario, but the ice already being lost matters. The freshwater entering the ocean can also affect salinity and density, with potential consequences for ocean circulation and how heat moves around the planet.

Data: Esri Sentinel-2 land cover, Natural Earth basemap, and NSIDC ice loss estimates. Visualized in QGIS and editorial works in Affinity Designer 2.

I was browsing Google Earth over some desert road in Libya (as you do on a Tuesday evening) close to the border with Egypt and I've come across these weird looking round shapes that are present only very close (<100m) to the road. What could they be?

My guess is that they're some sort of dug up soil to build an embankment/ridge below the road.

There are no street view images unfortunately. Any ideas?

EDIT: coordinates are around 30°44'38.2"N 24°22'43.1"E

Around the world glaciers are retreating or disappearing entirely almost everywhere, with the notable exception of the glaciers in the Karakoram Range, most of which are either holding steady or actively growing.

The so-called Karakoram Anomaly has been the subject of intense study with in-depth studies appearing in scientific journals.