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Geographical Facts that have surprised you when you realized them
Geographical Facts that have surprised you when you realized them
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In terms of population Leeds is the third biggest in the UK behind London and Birmingham
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steerforth 11 Sep 17 12:10
I once had a pub quiz question, which two of the UK's four national capitals are on the same line of longitude? The answer surprised me. ------------ Not me - Edinburgh and Cardiff Lots of people would get their Longitude and Latitudes mixed up - and say Cardiff and London. ----------- Similarly - 'If you travelled due South from Glasgow - Which English county would you first cross?' The majority would say - Cumbria ... But the answer is, in fact, Devon. |
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In terms of population Leeds is the third biggest in the UK behind London and Birmingham
_____________ not remotely possible KL punter -it's got to be Glasgow or Manchester depending on which units you use - Leeds is like a provincial town by comparison |
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it's all because the UK sits at an angle - same as with all the others .
sometimes UK is shown too upright so it fits easier on the screen |
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Having driven around a lot of Texas this one still gets me. San Diego Ca is closer to El Paso Tx than Houston is!
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Here's one that occurred to me when I was on a putting green on Cromer's seafront a few weeks ago.
So I've looked it up and had near shock! If you got in the sea on the north Norfolk coast and started swimming directly north, what would be the 1st land you'd get to? Nope, not the Shetlands, or Norway, or Spitzbergen.... given that the north pole is not land..... It would be the north coast of eastern Russia not far from the Bering Strait. It's VERY close to the gap between Russia and Alaska. It's almost, but not quite, all the way to Antarctica. Just skirting NZ on the way. All mi oan wurk  |
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It's Wrangel island nature reserve to be exact.
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I recall a quiz question which was... In order which country is nearest to the Isle Of Man, England Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland? The answer was the exact inverse of what I actually believed.
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recently it surprised me that the population of the 4th largest city in the US (Houston) was only just over 2 million.
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The population of India is about double that of Europe and four times that of the USA.
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Yes , I think Australia has 4 cities larger than Houston.
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I was pleasantly surprised that Great Britain has a turlough - had assumed there wouldn't be any.
And then found that the island of Ireland has a dozen or so. Still find it hard to credit that the Shannon is the longest river in the Brit Isles, that there is a mountain on Mars twice the height of anything Nepal and Pakistan have got. |
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Coachbuilder
Largest Cities by Population www.ukcities. co.uk populations London 7.2 million Birmingham 992,000 LEEDS 720,000 Glasgow 560,000 a provincial town....I think not |
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one thing blew my mind a few weeks ago when I finally realised just how big russia is, it blew my mind!
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Hey pxb. This is really interesting. You've got to be talking about Harwich/Manningtree vicinity. Am i correct? Cheers
The south side of Harlow. Alongside Latton Common and Woods (the edge of the morraine). I recall reading that prior to the glaciation, the River Thames ran in that area and reached the sea on the present day coast of Essex near the Blackwater Estuary. http://www.geoessex.org.uk/files/thames_and_medway.jpg |
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I think the Thames and the Rhine were 3 ends of the same river back then.
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Loving this thread - got me looking at a map. I had no idea that the Republic of Ireland extends further north than Northern Ireland
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Measuring cities by population is a tricky one. Different definitions of what constitutes a city etc. Take this list of cities with a population over 1 million...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities#/search Only one Australian city makes the list - Brisbane, with almost 1.2 million. Houston has almost 2.5 million. This next list sees both Sydney and Melbourne make the world's top 100, at 87th and 89th respectively. Houston 64th, Brisbane unsighted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population Finally, metropolitan area: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population Again Houston comfortably ahead of the Aussie cities. Using that last list, and bearing in mind how massive Australia is, it's interesting to note that 9 'cities' have a larger population than the whole of Australia. |
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Using that same list, Tokyo has a larger population than Canada, the 2nd largest country in the world!
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As a kid, I calculated that you could draw a straight line from the highest point of the Latton Woods morraine all the way to the Ural Mountains without encoutering a higher elevation. Might find it's not true if I did the same on Google Earth.
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Coachbuilder lol
Largest Cities by Population www.ukcities. co.uk populations London 7.2 million Birmingham 992,000 LEEDS 720,000 Glasgow 560,000 a provincial town....I think not Don't belive any of them - someone has been messing about with things again (boundaries etc) idiots can't stop meddling with things - traditionally Glasgow or Brum /Greater Manchester -not a lot has changed. |
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not sure how Glasgow is half the size either ha - i know a lot have moved down south lol
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they've done the same to my town - despite the fact the town keeps edging out further and further /more and more building over the last 20 years into the countryside , the population has mysteriously gone down in the last 40 years - yeah right
 tbf - they mess about with it so much i can't be bothered to check the figures any more . G;asgow btw is anything up to 2.5 million - which again is ridiculous -but a Wegie will tell you it's somewhere around the 1m figure |
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pxb - in a Rising damp episode , Rigsby mentioned there was nothing between his top floor attic room and the Urals
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It was a common belief in that part of Essex that the east wind blew directly from Siberia. Some truth to it.
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The land we are currently sat on now (UK) used to be south of the Equator.
You can find fossils from the bottom of the sea on the top of Snowdon. Inverness on scottish east coast is further west than Liverpool |
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Canada has a bigger area than the USA, but the USA has a bigger land area than Canada.
Half of Ireland was part of the American land mass, and half was part of the European land mass. http://all-geo.org/metageologist/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/574px-Iapetus_fossil_evidence_EN.jpg |
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Western Australia is 2% of the world's entire land surface area.
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STUDYFORM 11 Sep 17 21:14
If you got in the sea on the north Norfolk coast and started swimming directly north, what would be the 1st land you'd get to? ------------ None - You would either Drown or Freeze to death. |
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New Zealand was above Australia opposed to being below it.
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The country that makes the map always puts their country in the centre of the map and no reason why North is always at the top of the map so really NZ is not above, below nor at the side of Australia.
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The only tollgate in London that requires payment to pass through is in College Road, Dulwich.£1.20 a pop.
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"Inverness on scottish east coast"
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it's sort of east coast in a funny way
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well it's not on the north south or west coast.
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that Inverness situation can also equally apply to Edin burgh
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