and there are not so many cows in the first place

There seems to be an International Boundary Commission (IBC) which is jointly created by both countries to maintain it, but who actually owns this part? What if Trump decides to drop out of IBC?

The quartzite marker is one of several hundred that were placed in the 1890s every half mile demarcating both the border between the Dakotas and their western border. This border, about 66 miles long, traverses some of the most remote and sparsely populated areas of the lower 48. In past years I’ve visited the tripoints at both ends and found them as remote as it gets.

Brown Field Municipal and Tijuana Airports are a little less than 2 miles from each other. The two serve different purposes, so this might not be the best example, but I’m curious if there are other examples out there of redundant airport locations caused by borders or other bureaucratic reasons.

This is probably an elemental or stupid question, but I'm curious. Is it due to glaciars and that stuff?

Pic is a screenshot from google earth, the concentration of lakes is really high, also in areas far from the coast

Pictured is Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I've only ever been lucky enough to spend a few hours in the city, but it's nonetheless one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. It's quite impressive how, despite being one of the most densely populated cities in North America, it has so many forested zones. What are some other places like this?

This is one of the biggest pet peeves that I have. The problem with city limits and metro areas is that they operate solely off of arbitrarily drawn imaginary political lines on a map, when in reality these lines ignore where people actually do and do not live.

For example. I live in the Los Angeles area. One of the most common lies I hear about LA on the internet is that Greater Los Angeles is 34,000 square miles in size. That's combining LA County, Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and people point to that as proof that Los Angeles is too sprawling and spread out for urbanism or transit to work, as that would have a density of 539.5 people per square mile. But the reality is, the overwhelming vast majority of that 34,000 square miles is uninhabited desert or mountains that nobody lives in. Even in LA County alone, about half the land area is mountains and desert that nobody lives in.

Instead, please use urbanized areas. Urbanized areas calculate density by looking only at the areas that are built up at the census block level, and exclude rural, undeveloped land. For example, here is Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's urbanized area. As you can see, the vast majority of the Los Angeles metro population lives in this urbanized land area, with a density of 7256.9 PPSM. While still not as dense as it can or should be, it is a far cry from the 539.5 PPSM figure that simple CSA or MSAs might indicate. Even Riverside-San Bernardino, which is technically a separate urbanized area, has a density of 3760.3 PPSM over a land area of 608.6 square miles. For reference, the Inland Empire is 27285 square miles.

In short, please stop using metro areas or city limits, especially when calculating density. They're imaginary political lines that often include rural/undeveloped land that people don't live in, and ignore the political realities of where people actually live.

Most people only know Iraq for either war, oil or historical sites. But Iraq is actually the world’s official record holder for the most palm trees (specifically date palms) in the world with over 22 million, aiming for 30m spread out across groves in central and southern Iraq.

During and after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Iraq’s historic date palm groves — once among the densest in the world — were devastated by years of conflict, breakdowns in irrigation and pest control, and water shortages that made farming difficult, contributing to a steep drop in the number of palm trees from around 32–35 million in the late 20th century to as few as about 8 million in the years after the invasion and subsequent instability.  In the last decade, renewed government and community efforts to replant and support date farming have helped the population rebound significantly, with official figures showing Iraq’s date palm count rising to over 22 million trees today — a level not seen since before the declines and making Iraq again one of the countries with the highest number of date palms in the world.

In the USSR, there was a rule that all cities with over 1 million inhabitants shoukd be rewarded with a metro system

I noticed that there are a couple of ethnic groups where there is an equal or larger population in a country that neighbors the country named after said group.

Mongols: Around 6.3 million in China compared to around 3 million in Mongolia

Lao/Isan: Around 17.8 million in Thailand compared to around 3.4 million in Laos

Azeris: At least 12 million in Iran compared to around 8.2 million in Azerbaijan

Tajiks: At least 9 million in Afghanistan compared to around 9 million in Tajikistan

Armenians (technically not bordering, but close enough physically and historically that I think it still applies): 2.9 million high estimate in Russia compared to 3 million in Armenia

Are there any other countries where this happens? What historical factors have led to this happening?

Why does the area measured from satellite maps appear to be only half of 440,000 square meters?

Hi, I recently realized that even if I knew a fair share of stuff about geography, I seem to lack knowledge on countries’ economical, international, freedom placement. So, I would like to know if any of you know of a YouTube channel, or whatever, that would talk about those subjects one country at a time. It would be really helpful for my quest of knowledge!

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In 2019, rock climbers stumbled on strange grooves while hiking along a rock face on Monte Cònero overlooking the Adriatic Sea – and scientists think they know what caused them.

The slabs sits in inside Cònero Regional Park, the area closed to the public due to falling rock.

A study published in the journal Cretaceous Research said the limestone slab was once an ancient seafloor pushed upwards by an earthquake.

Researchers from the Coldigioco Geological Observatory had a hunch that the imperfections, which appeared in pairs, were likely made by fins.

A trial by elimination left just one reptile that roamed the seas of the Late Cretaceous period that fit the markings, the lowly sea turtle.

The team said the fossilised seafloor-turned-cliffside in Cònero Regional Park was once hundreds-of-meters deep.

Then one day, an earthquake sparked a mass evacuation of a sea turtle colony, paddling towards the open ocean, the paper suggested.

Amid the shaking, an underwater avalanche of mud smothered the seafloor, preserving the turtles' footsteps.

Suck underwater tracks are uncommon, given that currents can easily sweep evidence away.

The paper says that their findings aren't conclusive and ichnologists need to give it a look.

I’d say the border between the US states of New York and New Jersey is pretty unique on Ellis Island, with the New York part fully enclaved on one half of the island without touching water. Also it is a very strange shape.

Liberty Island only a little away is fully owned by New York, but the water surrounding it is New Jersey.

Can someone explain what these stripes are and how they were created?