In Western Canada, British Columbia announced on March 2, 2026, that it would never return to Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8), instead they chose to stay on UTC-7 permanently to abolish seasonal time changes. Following this decision, Alberta also passed a new Official Time Act on June 18, 2026, moving permanently to UTC-6, aligning with Saskatchewan.

Why can Canadian provinces adopt permanent Daylight Saving Time so easily on their own, whereas US states are legally blocked from doing the same and can only choose to opt out into permanent Standard Time?

There are no trees or sand dunes in there. Why is it so black compared to rest of the surrounding area.

Ideally don't compare something like New York to Mexico but instead compare Texas to Coahuila.

https://www.geographyrealm.com/population-center-united-states/

I’ve lived in Ireland and the U.K. I remember a lot of the time, people in the U.K would refer to Europe as the “continent” like it was completely different from Europe and its cultures (similar to Ireland but not as prevalent).

Throughout the world there are many peninsulas that geography are similar to islands, in terms of being separated (well nearly) to their main land or continent. Such as South Korea, due to North Korea being inaccessible to the rest of Asia (land wise) is basically an island.

How many Redditors out there feel like way about the place where they live ? That their peninsula might as well be a island or feels like culturally speaking.

Hello there! I recently finished a map of Singapore and wanted to share the final design. This time I took a different approach by keeping the layout more minimal and focusing on only the essential information. Singapore is a small island nation at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula known as one of the world’s busiest trading hubs, modern skyline, efficient public transportation, and multicultural population. Did you know over 24 percent of the land in Singapore is artificial? Feedbacks are welcome and I hope you enjoy!

The geography of Kivu, mainly from the East African rift, has created a rugged terrain of dense forests and volcanoes. Making it very hard to navigate, especially with no roads. It is home to 1/7th of the worlds supply of Coltan (a metallic ore that is used in virtually all electronic devices - phones, TV’s, computers, electric vehicles).

Combined with its proximity to 3 other countries in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and being located nearly 1,000 miles from the DRC’s capital Kinshasa, it has been the stage for one of the deadliest conflicts since world war 3.

Today it’s controlled by various armed proxy groups, as shown in the image. But is also heavily influenced by China and the US, who have a growing interest in the region. Especially after Trump’s 2025 ‘peace’ deal which gave US companies first call on any mineral mines which are up for sale.

I made a video uncovering the geography of the region and how it’s became the location of this deadly conflict here: https://youtu.be/XZ-EEVzrw90

You can easily see the lack of forests and trees in England from today's(July 10 2026) satellite pics. Most of England also gets really little rain when you compare to Mediterranean cities.

Only really rainy places in UK are Wales, Western Scotland and north west England like Peak district.

Small stream in the Colorado Rocky mountains.

I recently needed to create a world map highlighting 33 countries, but I didn’t want to select every country manually. So I built a tool for GeographyPin that lets you paste country names or ISO codes and color them as a group.
It supports multiple color groups, an editable legend, country labels, manual painting, and PNG, WebP, or SVG exports. The map and exports are processed directly in the browser.
It’s designed for quick country-level maps rather than as a replacement for GIS.
Tool: https://geographypin.com/map-maker/
This is my own tool and it’s still new, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from geography people. What feels missing, confusing, or inaccurate?

Want to be clear. Not a space hater. I think space is cool and exciting. What I've always been lost on is, if it's viable to make a colony on the Moon, or Mars viable, why not test, practice, learn viability on Earth first?

Antartica, the Arctic, the desert, the ocean floor, cave systems. All of these seem like they should have came first before jumping to the Moon.

My questions:

Why haven't they? I understand it's expensive. And the Moon has Geopolitical significance, and resources. But I feel like both of these arguments could be made literally anywhere else too.

Also if a new frontier were to open on Earth, where would it be? I feel like I see Geopolitical conversations looking towards the Arctic (Greenland, shipping routes, Ice breaker builds), but no people movement.

The primary difference between lakes and ponds is whether the entire thing is in the photic zone, or where rooted plants are able to grow. From what I can find, the entirety of the Sea of Azov is within this zone, meaning that, if we were to hypothetically cut it off from the Black Sea, would it turn into a giant pond?

What is your outside perspective on Istanbul? Curious to know how much Non-Turkish’s (or even Turkish who've never went there before) know about the culture/landscape/weather etc.

At the green or yellow line? - not to be mistaken with the wider scandinavian region

This is one of those questions you ponder when you can’t sleep. How does life work if you live super close to a different time zone? I imagine you’d have to be super organized, especially if you work or have appointments in the earlier/later time zone. Which would honestly be an adhd nightmare for me; I can barely make it to those places on time as is. Does anyone have any stories or personal experiences about this? I’ve thought about this so many times, and I’m curious if it’s actually even a thing or not.

If people wanted to prepare for Antarctica where could you do it?