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Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
Chicago usually brings to mind snow, ice, and more snow, but those other cities? Not so much.
Again, what?!?!
It sounds impossible, geographically, but Alaska's uninhabited Semisopochnoi Island lies just west of the International Dateline, technically making it the easternmost point of the United States.
The Mercator Projection distorts land masses in the southern hemisphere, making them look smaller than they actually are. In reality, Africa, the second-largest continent in the world, is huge.
The moon is pretty freakin' big, with a surface area of 14.6 million square miles. But Asia, the largest continent in the world, practically dwarfs it in size — it takes up 17.2 million square miles.
It's hard to think of Canada as being south of... well, anything, but Windsor, Ontario, actually lies south and east of Detroit.
Massive northern hemisphere cities like Tokyo and New York City account for the disparity.
Deserts aren't measured by grains of sand or amount of camels; it's all about precipitation, and Antarctica takes the cake. The roughly 5.5 million square mile continent only gets about eight inches of rain a year.
At 29,035 feet, Everest is by far the tallest mountain above sea level. Because much of Mauna Kea's height is underneath the ocean, only 13,796 of it rises above sea level. In total, though, Mauna Kea rises to 33,500 feet from base to peak, making it nearly a mile taller than Everest.
Thanks to a bulge in the earth's shape around the equator, the peak of Chimborazo — which rises to 20,500 feet above sea level — is farther from the earth's center than that of Everest.
It is the land of 10,000 lakes, after all.
With more than 125,000 miles of coastline, Canada far outpaces more obvious choices like Australia or the Philippines. Too bad Canada doesn't have beach weather year-round.
Thanks to Russia's expansive size, the exclave of Kaliningrad, and parliament's 2014 decision to reinstate the impressive number of time zones, the world's largest country has a lot of time on its hands. Pun intended.
That's 85 letters long. It means “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one" in Māori.
Hulunbuir is a prefecture-level city that lies over 101,913 square miles. France, by comparison, is 248,573 square miles.
The Bosphorus River separates the European and the Asian sides.
Russia shares a small land border with North Korea.
Alaska and Russia are separated by the Bering Strait, which is 55 miles wide at its narrowest point.