Here are 10 world geography facts that you might find surprising or interesting:
1. Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Cape Town, and Sydney are each thousands of miles apart and are known for having unusually pleasant year-round climates, and they are all almost identical distances from the Equator.
2. Glasgow is about 280 miles north of London. Keep going another 250 miles north for Stockholm, another 370 miles north to reach Reykjavik, and 413 miles north to reach Hammerfest, Norway, which is almost 5,000 miles north of the Equator.
3. The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is a wee bit smaller than the state of Louisiana.
4. If you combine England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, then together they are a bit smaller than the deceptively large state of Michigan. |
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5. France is about 30% larger than the state of California.
6. About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.
7. About 90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
8. If you are trying to get a handle on the climate of India it helps to know its northern border is the same as the northern border of Mexico in Tijuana, and the southern border is about the same as the southern border of Panama.
9. Sunny and just-barely-tropical Rio de Janeiro is about 25 miles farther from the equator than Hong Kong.
10. Scientists recently discovered that Florida and Hudson Bay in Canada are getting about 1 inch closer every 36 years. Pass the SPF-30, eh? |
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