Geography oddities

[Monello]

Montauk, NY on Long Island is closer to Boston than it is to Manhattan.

El Paso, TX is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.

The distance between the summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, and Badwater Basin in Death Valley, the lowest point in North America, is only 86 miles.

The only "five point" in the USA, where you can be in five counties at the same time, is in the middle of Lake Okeechobee (FL) and you'd have to be in a boat.

It's further from one end of Tennessee to the other than it is from Tennessee to Canada.

The Panama Canal is east of Miami.

The northeast corner of New Mexico is only about 50 miles from the southwest corner of Kansas.

If your crossing into Canada from Detroit you are traveling south

 

[RoseRed]

Well, what do you know. The Panama Canal is east of Miami!?!

 

[Kyle]

Well, what do you know. The Panama Canal is east of Miami!?!

Eastbound and down

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Maine is closer to Africa than Florida.

 

[HypertensiveTiger]

Reno, NV lies further west than does Los Angeles.

 

[Toxick]

The Panama Canal is east of Miami.

In Panama, you will find much of the area has the Atlantic Ocean to the West, and Pacific to the East.

 

[vraiblonde]

Key West FL is more than twice as far from Jacksonville FL as it is from Havana, Cuba.

More bikers showed up to the 75th anniversary Sturgis rally than live in the whole state of South Dakota.

When the Huskers have a sold out home game, UNL stadium becomes the third largest city in Nebraska.

 

[Monello]

Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are the only states which have no natural political borders. Their boundaries are defined solely by lines of latitude and longitude.

Atlanta is west of Cleveland and Detroit.

The whole state of Florida is south of of the southernmost point of California.

Atlanta is closer to Chicago than it is to Miami.

Rossville, GA (Chattanooga suburb) is 56 miles closer to Cincinnati, OH, than it is to St. Mary's GA (far southeastern corner of GA)

Chicago is west of the entire continent of South America.

Virginia Beach is north of the entire continent of Africa.

Miami is closer to Bogota, Colombia than it is to New York.

Austin, Texas, is the seventh-closest state capital to Dalhart, Texas.

 

[Sneakers]

You guys are REALLY bored, ain'tcha?

 

[Rommey]

Driving to either the Northwest Angle (Minnesota) or Point Roberts (Washington), parts of the Continental US, are only accessible through Canada.

Aroostook Valley Country Club straddles the US/Canadian border. The parking lot is in the US and the clubhouse is in Canada. This was built when prohibition was all the rage and this was a way to get around it.

 

[Monello]

You guys are REALLY bored, ain'tcha?

COVID man.

 

[Monello]

Delaware is the only state with an arc as part of its boundary.

Juneau, Alaska is more than twice the size of the entire state of Rhode Island.

Buckeye, Arizona is larger than New York City.

Phoenix is larger in land area than Los Angeles.

Houston, TX is closer to Tallahassee, Florida (4 states away) than to El Paso, TX.

The total shoreline of Louisiana is more than twice that of California.

West New York is in New Jersey.

 

[vraiblonde]

Aroostook Valley Country Club straddles the US/Canadian border. The parking lot is in the US and the clubhouse is in Canada. This was built when prohibition was all the rage and this was a way to get around it.

Now I want to go there

Point Roberts, WA isn't physically attached to Washington State; it's a suburb of Vancouver and to reach it by land you have to drive about 15 miles through Canada.

 

[Monello]

Sioux City is in IA
North Sioux City is in SD
South Sioux City is in Nebraska

South Bend is in northern Indiana.
West Bend is in eastern Wisconsin.
North Bend is further south than Bend, Oregon

Denver International Airport is larger than the island of Manhattan.

North East, Pennsylvania is in the north west corner of Pennsylvania.

South Charleston WV is Northwest of Charleston WV.

Miami is closer to the Bahamas than it is to Naples FL.

Key West, FL is closer to two international Capitals (Havanna and Nassau) and an overseas territorial capital (George Town, Cayman Islands) than it is its own state capital, Tallahassee.

 

[Bird Dog]

Alaska is the Northern most, Eastern most and Western most state.......

 

[Monello]

Alaska is the Northern most, Eastern most and Western most state.......

But only has 2 time zones.

 

[Yooper]

The empty space between the ears of someone who believes Biden received 81 million votes is 2x greater than the Gobi Desert.

Yes, I guess I did ruin the spirit of this thread. But it had to be said.

--- End of line (MCP)

 

[Monello]

After a brief detour, back on track.

Pittsburgh is further east than Miami Beach.

Easter Island has the distinction of being the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Easter Island's nearest inhabited neighbor, Pitcairn Island, is 1,289 miles to the west (about the same distance as New York City to Omaha.)

Hells Canyon, located on the Oregon/Idaho border, is nearly 2000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

West St Paul, MN is due South of St Paul.

Oklahoma has 4 mountain ranges, the Arbuckles in south central OK, the Ouachitas in southeast OK, the Wichitas in the southwest and the foothills of Ozarks in the northeast.

The southernmost point of Spain is also the southernmost point of continental Europe.

 

[Monello]

The only island shared by three nations is Borneo (southeast Asia), which is split between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

There are no freshwater rivers in the Bahamas.

There are several places on Earth where islands contain lakes with other islands, which in turn contain lakes with islands – triple islands. The largest island on an island on an island is a 4-acre island in a lake on an island in a lake in south-central Victoria Island, Canada.

Cimaron County, OK, is the only county in the US that borders four states: CO, KS, NM, and TX.

Boundary County, ID, and Coos County, NH, , are the only US counties that border two other states and a foreign nation.

Anchorage is due north of Tahiti.

 

[RoseRed]

Lake Atitlán (Spanish: Lago de Atitlán, [atiˈtlan]) is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range. It is in the Sololá Department of southwestern Guatemala. It is the deepest lake in Central America.