Oddities of geography

Despite being a one of the smallest nations on Earth, Liechtenstein has 11 municipalities, of which 7 of them have (sometimes multiple) Enclaves and Exclaves.
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The most northern point in Ireland isn't in Northern Ireland.

Virginia stretches further west than West Virginia.
 
Edinburgh, on the east cost of Great Britain, is further west than Bristol on the west coast.

Anna Creek Station, a cattle ranch in South Australia with only eight full-time employees, is larger than Israel.

The Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, a subdivision within a subdivision, would be the world's 36th largest nation if it declared independence; and with a population of 60,000, almost half of which live just in Kalgoorlie, would also have the lowest population density of any nation at 0.09 people per square kilometre, beaten by Mongolia by a factor of 20, and only beaten overall by Svalbard & Jan Mayen and Greenland.
 
Jimlaad43

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Looks worse than it is, but still drives slower than the speed limit.

This was the consequence of early freeway design, before federal design standards and when freeways / expressways were usually just for connecting one part of a city with another, before any sort of connection with other freeways existed. So many city streets were given access ramps, thinking it would reduce overall traffic, but it just creates major congestion, after all, they weren't designed for travel spanning long distances.

In this example, the Dan Ryan was given additional Express Lanes for those that weren't going to weave on and off the Interstate for just a short distance, but head to more major destinations (for example, where this one splits off into the Chicago Skyway, and heads to the Indiana Toll Road).

The typical rule of thumb for modern limited-access roads in the US is to use no more than than one exit per mile of freeway, except if it has separate east-west or north-south exits. In this stretch, there's nine exits for that mile in downtown Chicago.
 
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Barra333
Why don't they close a bunch of them and just leave the northern and southmost ones?
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It would probably then create gridlock on the surface streets because then there would be backups to get onto the desired highway. You could lengthen the ramp by using the closed-off exits, which does occur sometimes when rehabbing an old freeway corridor.

In the end, lowest bidding works project wins out and that's how it goes.
 
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Turn here?
No.
Here?
Wait.
This one?
No.
Here?
I said wait!
Here?
Wrong lane!
Not here?
Here! Go! Missed it.
You said wrong lane…


Legit scene there.
 
I guess this fits kinda.

Australia is wider then the moon.
Mt Chimborazo is closer to space then Mt Everest.
 
At 0°N 0°E there is a place called Null Island, but it's not an island, or really a place, it's just a buoy taking climate readings.

edit: Also, frustratingly, it's never the answer on GeoGuessr.
 
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OMG, the picture makes it plain that the on-ramps from those cross streets merge on the left side! :indiff::crazy::guilty::eek:
 
It's possible to travel south from Arkansas into every single one of the seven other States that surround it, despite it being in south-central USA.
 
Famine
It's possible to travel south from Arkansas into every single one of the seven other States that surround it, despite it being in south-central USA.
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I find it funny that you can literally travel south from Arkansas… into Missouri. Which is a Midwestern state. Thanks to the bootheel.
 
Famine
It's possible to travel south from Arkansas into every single one of the seven other States that surround it, despite it being in south-central USA.
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Arkansas borders six states: Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and
Oklahoma. It does get close to Kentucky to its northeastern side and Kansas to its northwest, but they do not share a legally-defined border.

Curiously, New York and Rhode Island share a maritime border, as do Michigan and Illinois. I believe those are the only water-only borders in the contiguous continental US.
 
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Delaware and New Jersey don't touch by land, but are across the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from each other. Counting the river probably isn't "maritime," even if it is only a short stretch and fairly wide there. (Otherwise there would be numerous state pairs separate by water.)
 
I watch a ton of this stuff in video format. Here's one I found the other day: The state of Michigan, USA, has the largest singular exposed volcanic rock on earth.

 
wfooshee
Delaware and New Jersey don't touch by land, but are across the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from each other. Counting the river probably isn't "maritime," even if it is only a short stretch and fairly wide there. (Otherwise there would be numerous state pairs separate by water.)
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This is false. Although it is not well known, there are two portions of Delaware that are on the eastern bank of the Delaware River and thus share a land border with New Jersey.
 
I don't know if this is weird or not but Rottnest Island has several lakes inside it.
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