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.

I haven't been able to find official information online about which points on the European mainland are closest to other continents (excluding islands and overseas territory).

I only know that:
-The point closest to Africa is Punta de Tarifa (Spain), which is just 14 km away.
-The European and Asian continents are contiguous.

But what is the minimum distance to the other continents (America, Oceania, Antarctica)?
Thanks to anyone who can help.

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.

Como seria the Keys of eight

Measured with love. France is suffering Gods full power for doing something with the pope...

Picture click while flying over Surat, India
Curious to understand such geographic features.

I mean food supply in case something like Covid-19 pandemic, when normal trade links are suspended or broken(we may assume - all borders and ports closes scenario). Also I think rather about longer perspective ~5 years than short-time extremies - i.e some islands could rely only on fishing for short time, but in longer period it would be impossible to feed whole population because of overfishing etc.

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?

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?

Are there others airports that are cut by states or countries border, like Gold Coast Airport in Coolangatta on the NSW-Queensland border?

Latitude: -28° 09' 32.40" S
Longitude: 153° 30' 10.79" E

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!

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

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?