Your geographical misconceptions

Paraguay and Bolivia signed a peace treaty in 1938, but the (new) border wasn’t agreed upon until 2009. https://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/news/boundary_news/?itemno=7949&rehref=%2Fibru%2Fnews%2F&resubj=Boundary+news+Headlines

Border disputes from the 1930’s among Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia weren’t finally settled until 1999. Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute - Wikipedia

How is that different from Puerto Rico, American Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam?

Yes, part of the kingdom, but that turns out to be irrelevant to whether it passes my test for being part of the main country. To reiterate, my test is

Has your definition caused you many problems in your relationships with foreign governments?

And Canada has a (disputed) land border with Denmark.

Hans Island

No, for some reason it hasn’t been an issue. :slight_smile:

It’s really just for answering trivia questions. In fact, I didn’t come up with it, but rather it’s the rule used in a small trivia group I participate in.

The Statue of Liberty is another monument that’s not as big as people think.

Part of it is people tend to think of its base along with the statue itself. Another factor is people see images from movies like this.

Here’s an actual photo of the statue’s head during its construction.

I remember reading that in the movie “Cloverfield”, in the scene where the then-unseen monster hurls the head of the Statue of Liberty through the air and it lands in the road near the protagonists, they had to make the head roughly twice as large as it really is so that it would still loom over the crowd…

We have a Rijksministerraad, which consists of the Dutch and the island cabinet ministers. But we have a different system of government in that we don’t have local representation on that level. Saba, Bonaire and St Eustatius vote for the Dutch government, Curaçao, St Maarten and Aruba are comparable with eg New Zealand in that the head of state is our King, but they have their own government. So in that sense they’re not part of The Netherlands proper. Does that answer your question?

Plus they are not part of the EU.
(I consulted my husband over this and he keeps feeding me new info😁)

Yes, thank you.

Went to visit Jamestown and the ranger said people say where is the rock? Confusing it with Plymouth rock. I thought Pocahontas was at Plymouth but she was at Jamestown

Pocahontas is in Gravesend in the county of Kent, England.

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For those who confuse geography with geology, geology rocks, but geography is where its at.

I suppose we could go on and say “… and geophysics is why”. :wink:

When I’d drive California to Colorado, when I’d get to Albuquerque I’d mistakingly keep thinking only an hour and a half to Raton.

probably most famous geography major is Michael Jordan. He went back and finished his degree at UNC.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
- Sir Terry Pratchett

You should have taken a left turn at Albukoikee.

Geography is Nice, but geology is gneiss.