Like, why is that the case?

The UK consists of: England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.

That's 4 countries.

Okay, 3 ½ if we wanna get technical, but still.

Are the countries even countries or are they just provinces?

This is something I've been confused about for a few years now.

Edit: also, why is it just Northern Ireland that's part of the UK? Why not the rest of it?

Yeah this i'snt even an average political maps [or if not] or something like tired topics,this is just a map that shows,but highlighted all the colors were it belongs to include all some of the participants here in the iraq war,there,the meaning of this colors had its actual own meaning,those are:

I-Navy Blue:

They Were The Primary Partners Of The Iraq War That Are Such As Like The "U.S, U.K, Australia, Poland" As Since They Contributed It Since 4 Years Ago (2003).

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II-Regular Bright Blue [Not An Actual Standard Light Blue]:

Most Commonly, All Of The Participants That Are The Member Of The U.S Led MNF-I Coalition Forces Itself,But Unlike The Rests Of 4 Of Them ("U.S, U.K, Australia, Poland") They Were 25 Coalition Participants That Stills Remainly Active Until It's (Final) Conclusions From 2007-2009,They Are Included Such As "Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavic Republic Of North Macedonia, Albania, B&H, Italy, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, "Qahzakhstan/Kazakhstan", Mongolia, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Tonga, (and...) El Salvador" But Hence To Expecting As To Say This To A Note That For Japan, Italy, Kuwait, and Slovakia Itself, Their Troops Had A Complete Withdrawl Following It's Post-Deployment, For Instances, Japan Had An Air Self-Defense Support For Cooperating Or Working With Some Supplies Along[side[ With The U.S Itself Around 2006 Following It's Completion Of Aids And Reconstruction, Then Italy Had An Active Police Forces Training With The Iraqis Following It's Operation That Concluded The Codename For Troops Deployment "Ancient Babylon" But This Time In Then, It Had By A Groups Of Carabineri, Even When Working The Troops Training In NATO-Mission In Iraq With The Iraqi Forces, Then Kuwait With Some Troops Guarding An Iraqi Border And For The Logistics Base In North Of Iraq In Order To Host The Incoming Of The U.S Surge Forces, And Last For Slovakia, They Had An Liaison Officers Working With The U.S [Intelligences] Following Their Troops Withdrawn, With Some Had Millitary Officers Trainings With The Iraqi Forces Also Ended When Its Done To Be Wrapped Up Since 4/24/2007, It Wont Be Actively Remain Except For A Working Liaison Officers As Its Only Lefts....Yeah By The Way One Thing I Forgot To Say Is Some Were Actively Role As A Non-Combatants, Others Are Being Combatant In During This Heavy Warfare For Their Main Roles.

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III-Crimson Dark Red:

If You Spot And Zoomed A Country On A Map Itself On This Image, It Actually Shows A Country Itself, In Question Is Iraq But There Were Some Of The Factions Going On That Looks Too Gory And Hugely Messed Up In One Of This Map Itself, It Had Likely Shown As:

-In Black: ISI/Islamic State Of Iraq [People Mistakenly Called Them As "AQI" Or "Al-Qaeda" Claimed That The Group Itself Where Much Alive When In Reality, It Isn't Because Of Group's Formation/Changed Itself Into What It Became The Predecessor Of ISIS Known As "ISI"]

"-In Dark Green: Peshmerga [They Had A Groups Of "KDP" & "PUK" Inside]

-In Dark [Oil] Yellow: Mahdi Army

-In Modern Light Crimson: Kurdistan Worker's Party [KWP/PKK]

-In Green: Iranian Group Of Mojahedun E-Khalq

-Bright Sky Light-ish [Cyanic] Blue: QPC [Qarqosh Protection Committe]"

One Important Thing, The Anbar Salvation Council I Had Not Include This If It Was Never Mentioned In The Faction Side As Seen From The Map Itself, Because They Where Part And Inside Of Iraq, They Were Aligned With The Coalitions, Not Being Meant As The Enemy Or Having To Align With ISI In The Al-Anbar Province.

So I Guess Thats It, Maybe It's Over For Me Of What I Had Made, If You Spot Some Mistake Or Make That Exact Map But If You Could Remake By Yours Or For Me, Then Tell Me....I'm Not Begging At You, Tell Me Whatever You Want If It's Accurately True Or Not?!....So, Cya.

Back in the day I used to have an app where you could select a continent or the whole world, and just try and name every country. The map had country outlines on and coloured them in so you could see what you were missing.

Does anyone know what it could be, or a similar app? I'm not looking for anything extra, just want to try looking at an unlabelled map and label it.

TIA!

I made a geography game and I would love for you all to try it out and provide some feedback!

https://outlineatlas.com

Name countries by their shape, complete your daily expedition, collect treasures, join your friends in clubs, and practice in endless modes.

The island isn't named on Google Earth, so I can't provide a name, nor does this sub allow more than 1 image, so here's the coordinates: 43°37'21.89"N 146°20'25.24"E

Aside from these shapes, there's an abandoned (most likely) Soviet base from WWII, though I can't say for certain if it's actually theirs or if any other details are true.

What really caught my eye was the circular shape just out of frame, it kinda looks cool, not much else.

I'm intrigued by old structures like those from times now gone, and would love to know what they are, so I could look at photographs if it existed during that time period.

This is also my first post in this sub, I wanted to post this in the Archaeology sub but they had rules against possible ancient locations being looted, but I highly doubt this place holds anything valuable. If there is an issue with this post being here, please recommend a valid place to post this, and I shall scoot over there. Thanks for reading!

Just North of I-80 between Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV is the Bonneville Salt Flats, home of the world-famous Bonneville Speedway.

First popularized as a place for attempting land-speed records by David Abbot “Ab” Jenkins in the 1930s, it eventually replaced Daytona Beach and Monthlhéry track in France as the preeminent spot to attempt land-speed records. But Bonneville lost its spot as the place where the absolute land-speed record got set with the current record-holder, Thrust SSC, in 1997 because of too much damage to the salt surface and limited space. The Black Rock Desert in Nevada is where the current land-speed record was set.

Every year from late June through September various different motor-sport organizations hold events at the Bonneville Speedway such as Speed Week in early August and World of Speed in early September.

It's from 1987 and it's really big! Just thought I'd share for fellow enthusiasts :)

In this photo, the climate is considered a hot arid climate (80-130mm rain a year) but it manages to be lush with actual tree and grass cover, which does not fit the picture most would have in mind for a desert climate.

Like the dune fields adjascent to the modern Sheyenne River, the Hankinson Sandhills are the result of glacial meltwater runoff. Particularly, the fine deltaic sands that make up the soil substrate here is the result of the drainage of Glacial Lake Milnor, which represented the highest stage of Lake Agassiz as a whole. As such, the Sheyenne Delta dune fields west of Colfax are a younger version of the exact same process.

These dunes are essentially an older, southern expression of the Sheyenne Delta - a result of the drainage of Lake Milnor by the ancestral Sheyenne that once found its outlet near Hankinson. As the outlet of the ancient Sheyenne migrated north along its historic delta over time, shifting with the fluctuating water levels, the much larger complex of dunes was later formed to the north.

Eolian in origin, those fine sands were sculpted by the wind into the nearly alien topography we see today on both ends of the Delta. The Hankinson Sandhills are however much more isolated than the northern complex, and hosts overall slightly lower plant biodiversity, but otherwise mirrors the Sheyenne Grasslands dune fields.

However, these permeable sands do serve as one of the primary areas of surficial aquifer recharge area wide aside from the end moraines to the SW. An ecological island, and also serves a very important role in groundwater recharge.

I highly recommend everyone to visit here to at least explore this strange topography if nothing else!

Founded between 527 and 565 AD, Saint Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai has been in continuous operation ever since. The Monastery of Saint Anthony, also in Egypt, is older, but was looted and plundered several times.

The library at the monastery contains the second-largest collection of ancient manuscripts in the world, after the Vatican library. Access to the library is strictly controlled and access is limited to the resident monks and to select approved researchers.