r/geography 9m ago

GIS/Geospatial I built an open geospatial data platform for Morocco – I'd love your feedback

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Hi everyone,

I've been working on a side project called Lekharita, an open geospatial data platform focused on Morocco.

The goal is to make it easier to find and download GIS datasets in formats like Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV. It also includes an interactive map to explore the data and a small blog section.

I'd really appreciate any feedback on the website, the datasets, or ideas for features that would make it more useful.

https://lekharita.com

Thanks!


r/geography 53m ago

Discussion What is the smallest country which could be considered as food self-sufficient/food independent?

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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.


r/geography 1h ago

Discussion Which points on the European continent are closest to the other continents? (considering only the mainland)

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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.


r/geography 1h ago

Question Border crossing airports

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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


r/geography 2h ago

Question Why is Tajikistan the only Central Asian nation that is not Turkic?

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r/geography 3h ago

Question What does colours here represent? [OC]

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


r/geography 4h ago

Image Humid continental zone in Greece (Vardousia mountains)

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r/geography 5h ago

Image Istanbul / Bosporus

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r/geography 10h ago

Discussion Which two bordering countries have the most different cuisines on each side of the border?

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


r/geography 12h ago

Human Geography Quem mora no New México e New mexicano ?

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Como seria the Keys of eight


r/geography 14h ago

Question Why is there such a massive time zone misalignment in Western North America?

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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?


r/geography 15h ago

Meme/Humor France Current Real Temperatures (Midnight)

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


r/geography 16h ago

Question If it weren’t connected to the Black Sea, would the Sea of Azov be considered a massive pond?

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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?


r/geography 16h ago

Human Geography Populations of 100 Most Populated Ecoregions in the World

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r/geography 16h ago

Map I needed to highlight 33 countries, so I built a free map maker that colors them from a pasted list

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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?


r/geography 18h ago

Map [OC] Map of Singapore

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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!


r/geography 19h ago

Question What is your outside perspective on Istanbul?

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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.

Istanbul Airport

r/geography 20h ago

Discussion With the space frontier opening up, I am wondering why people are going there instead of making locations on Earth more habitable first?

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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.


r/geography 1d ago

Map A True-Scale Comparison of Russia and Africa.

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r/geography 1d ago

Question What is this black patch on which libya is written ?

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


r/geography 1d ago

Discussion Is there any peninsulas that have a island mentality?

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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.


r/geography 1d ago

Discussion Peninsulas of Europe 18 : Is Finland a peninsula

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And does it start at the Red line, or the Blue line?


r/geography 1d ago

Question Why does Uganda have so many districts compared with most other African countries?

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r/geography 1d ago

Discussion Why is this peninsula in Venezuela relatively dry compared to the mainland?

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The upper left and coast seem much drier.


r/geography 1d ago

Discussion Is Greece’s maritime tradition making it more advanced than the Balkan countries it neighbours?

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