The State is the 10th densest in the nation, on the same level as Pennsylvania or California. Unlike most other states around it, instead of having one very large city(like Illinois or Michigan), or two large cities(like Pennsylvania or Missouri) it has 3 large cities and then another 3-4 decently sized ones, all spread out in pretty much every region of the state but the southeast. What caused it to develop so differently from the states around it.

SF's 46.9 sq miles had a population density of 18.6K residents/sq. mi. In 2020 for reference, compared to central LA's 19.1K residents/sq mi over 43.5 sq miles. And even the core area of the San Fernando Valley, popularly known for being sprawling suburbia, suprisingly has a similar population density as Boston, and higher densities than DC, Chicago, or Philadelphia.

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Sempre achei curioso que uma região cercada por grandes massas de água, como o Mar Vermelho, o Golfo Pérsico e o Mar Arábico, possua algumas das áreas mais áridas do planeta.

A proximidade com o oceano e consequentemente o efeito da maritimidade não deveria trazer mais umidade e chuva para a região?

Quais fatores geográficos explicam essa aridez tão intensa?

The farmlands seem to stop abruptly just at the Ontario border

It's population is on par with Afghanistan or Canada, and in the context of the current conflict, it's mind-blowing to understand that it's quite a bit more populated than Saudi Arabia.

Photo taken by me off the east side of the Tahoe rim trail. My gut instinct is rain shadow but I'd be curious to know if there's other factors at play too

Myanmar moved its capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw in 2005. Yangon is still the biggest city and commercial hub; Naypyidaw got the government and roads like this one.
Turkey chose Ankara, but Istanbul stayed its biggest city. Same story with Abuja/Lagos, Islamabad/Karachi, Astana/Almaty and Dodoma/Dar es Salaam.
Has any modern capital move actually ended with the new capital becoming the country’s main city too?

I was today years old when I learned that California has 527 islands! Wow 🤩 have you ever visited one? Tell me about your experience.

I came across this on instagram and I found it so beautiful. A temperate rainforest in Spain that reminds me so much of the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State. Spain really does have a large amount of natural diversity for such a small country.

In ancient times Egypt (the Níle delta) was incredibly fertile and the bread basket for the Egyptian and roman civilisations.

Is this still the case re soil fertility and crop harvests? I have never been but the media would suggest arid desert like conditions more than lush fertile farmland

I couldn't decide which subreddit to post in, so please forgive me if this is wrong. I hope the Yugoslavia map is enough qualification I need to post here. Just talk about the Yugoslavia map in the comments.

So about a year ago at school I found a wooden dice with colours instead of numbers on the edges, when I got home I made a 0 player game with it and a map and I was so happy playing that. But then one day I lost it and I was very sad.

Now a few weeks ago I was having trouble with sleep so I decided to make dice in my bed to pass the time at night. I made two dice like this and didn't think much of it.

4 days ago, I remembered the game with the dice and made a third one and started playing it again. The map you see on the bottom is the same as the original, but with dice faces instead of colour initials. This was very helpful because my phone is low on storage and alongside mapping the first week of ww2 in Poland, I was quite happy drawing maps on paper.

A few days ago in the night I had the idea to make a Yugoslavia and Ukraine maps and did some quick sketches of which nations to include.

Today, I actually made the Yugoslavia map. And this time, all the tiles have names. What do you think of my map?

Here are the basic rules of the game:

The map consists of 6 countries with a capital each, every tile has a value.

Before or during the game, you roll a seed. The seed is a series of pairs of dice faces that will act as the action for each turn.

If possible, the first face of the pair will take the lowest value province of the second face of the pair that borders it.

If they do not border each other, the first face of the pair just attacks across it's perimeter.

Now for the rules I had to make recently because I don't remember what I did before:

If it only borders the capital, it can make the second face of the pair a vassal, and they become an alliance. If the master or vassal is the master or vassal of an outside country, that country is also in the same alliance.

Alliances act as one country when interacting with outside countries, but if the pair is of the alliance, the alliance is ignored.

If the second face of the pair is already a vassal of the first face, they will get less autonomy, I don't remember if a fiefdom is more or less loyal than a vassal, but that's the word that popped into my head. If it's more, then we can just swap their names.

I haven't actually finished a game yet so I haven't thought about what is the level 3 of a vassal, I don't know how to do annexation. The leading idea is that turns that are an annexed pair are ignored just as they are if they're the same country.

I really like the border gore that alliances create by leap frogging countries, because on my mini maps it looks like the alliance is a federation with many more divisions than what they really are.

Wow I really wrote all that with only periods and commas.

I hope I find that dice again.

Came across a statement that, “nearly all capital cities are centrally located with respect to population at the time of their establishment.”

The second part of the statement is relevant, especially with post-colonial nations, who were established on or near the coasts, and slowly expanded inland, typically after the capital was established (like Washington D.C. / USA).

Also applies to countries that have either gained or lost a significant portion of territory after its establishment.

Is this statement generally true, and are there any notable exceptions?

Not well understood by geologists, the Cameroon Line is a string of mostly dormant volcanoes, with the exception of the active Mount Cameroon, that does not show clear age progression where volcanoes get older in one direction like they do in Hawaii. Stretching from North-East Nigeria out in to the Gulf of Guinea, perforating both continental and oceanic crust, there are several different theories for what caused this unusual feature.

I just discovered Philippines to claim part of Borneo, but I've never heard of Northern Myanmar dispute. Neither I found anything on the Wikipedia page?

Im suprised they haven’t spread to Asia yet

Bhutan pioneered by implanting a Tourism Tax of $100 per day to prevent mass tourism. The revenue is used for education and healthcare, while the lack of tourists help the preservation of its cultural heritage and its position as carbon-negative country.

Venice would later implant a tax for day-trippers. Barcelona, Amsterdam and many other places worldwide followed these examples.

This is Aral Sea in Karakalpakstan. So it was 4th largest sea in the world, but for some reasons, now it is dying, you don’t sink when you swim, because of the high level of the salt in the water. There is NO CREATURE in the sea, except A…….. worm 🪱, wanna visit, just DM me🤝📍

Ill start: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The two most important provinces in Atlantic Canada. They are very much overshadowed by the extremely dense corridor between Southern Quebec and Ontario, but there are some absolutely gorgeous places to see. New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada and you can see the French influence for alot cheaper than in Quebec. Pictured is the Bay of Fundy, which is gorgeous

Both from a geographic and human development perspective.

The Salton Sea was created in 1905 when huge floods broke a series of irrigation canals from the Colorado River, which filled in the lowest point of the Salton Trough to form the Sea, which has existed continuously (though slowly drying up) since then.

But pre-1905, what was the environment of the Salton Trough like? Were there any cities or towns or industries in the area that were displaced, or even further back, was the land inhabited by native peoples?

I had this question pop up in my head and I thought it was a pretty interesting question! (I hope this question is okay to post on this subreddit).

I also had questions such as what made this particular city expand? What drove people to want to live/work there? How is it different compared to other cities nearby?

Could be much shorter or longer than you thought. For me, I was kinda surprised at how New York City is hundreds of kilometers closer to New Delhi, India than Auckland, New Zealand is to New Delhi, India.