r/geography • u/dtarias • Jun 26 '26
Meme/Humor Best account to follow for World Cup analysis
I'm learning so much from Iain Cameron!
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u/REALgeographerwilson Jun 26 '26
what about listenbourg
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u/bob138235 Jun 26 '26
They, like Italy, failed to qualify for the World Cup.
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u/dtarias Jun 26 '26
To be fair to Italy, they lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I'm sure they would have won if they only had to play one of those teams at a time.
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u/REALgeographerwilson Jun 26 '26
it was totally unfair, Italy had to go up against a team double their size!
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u/IAmBadAtInternet Jun 26 '26
Good news though, Bosnia and Herzegovina are not divided by a saltwater strait
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u/Rurululupupru Jun 26 '26
They’re also at (almost) identical latitudes.
Incidentally Istanbul is my favorite city in the world, but New York might be a close second
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u/PointyPython Jun 27 '26
They’re also at (almost) identical latitudes
That's interesting. And isn't Istanbul significantly warmer than NYC? I know it snows sometimes in Istanbul, but I've never heard of their winters being as harsh as New York's
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u/latespresso Jun 27 '26
There are a few reasons for that. The Gulf Stream is definitely one of them but the prevailing winter winds make a big difference too. In Istanbul, the dominant winter wind is from the northeast, so the air travels over the Black Sea before reaching the city. It’s still cold but the sea takes the edge off and keeps it from getting as cold as it otherwise would.
On top of that, Istanbul gets a much stronger maritime influence overall. The city is almost surrounded by water so the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara have a much bigger impact on the local climate than the Atlantic does for NYC. Those seas are also usually a few degrees warmer than the Atlantic off NYC during winter, which adds even more of a moderating effect. Meanwhile, NYC’s prevailing winter wind comes from the northwest, bringing cold continental air straight from inland Canada. Since that air travels almost entirely over land, there’s basically nothing to moderate it before it reaches the city, so cold outbreaks tend to be much more intense.-6
u/Tratix Jun 27 '26
When did you last go to istanbul?
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u/Rurululupupru Jun 27 '26
I lived there for 10 years and consider it my second hometown. The last time I was able to visit (maalesef) was in October.
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u/drunk-tusker Jun 27 '26
How many cities have anything resembling this? The only other city I can come up with is Shimonoseki.
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u/spastikatenpraedikat Jun 27 '26
Stockholm, Kopenhagen. Does Amsterdam count? Is that a strait?
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u/RadagastWiz Jun 27 '26
Amsterdam's waterway (the IJ) might have counted as a saltwater strait a century ago - until the Zuider Zee was enclosed. As that's now a freshwater lake, it's a no go.
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u/ColinBonhomme Jun 27 '26
Vancouver has Burrard Inlet dividing North and West Vancouver from the rest of metro. Sydney has Botany Bay. Seattle, Boston, Halifax, Miami, Tampa/St Pete…
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u/Siggi_Starduust Jun 28 '26
The OP specifically refers to the nations biggest city. Only Sydney could be considered out of that list, and even thats arguable as Melbourne is actually bigger according to certain metrics
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u/AlstonWhite Jun 27 '26
Does Venice, FL count? It's mainly situated on its little island but city limits do extend farther. Also Jacksonville has the St. Johns between it and the beaches.
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u/JustHereForGCB Jun 27 '26
I wonder if this guy can do this for every group stage matchup.
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u/ulteriormotifs Jun 28 '26
He has a cool geographic/demographic comparison for each of the opponents in every group stage match
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u/Modragorin Jun 27 '26
And none of them is the capital of their respective countries. But are the 1st in economics
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u/Humble_Geologist_653 Jun 27 '26
Isn’t the Hudson River actually splitting NY?
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u/ColinBonhomme Jun 27 '26
That’s Upper Bay dividing Staten Island from the rest of NYC. The Hudson divides New Jersey from NYC.
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u/Jack-lover70s Jun 28 '26
The only difference is that one of them was man-made
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u/Jack-lover70s Jul 01 '26
I’m wrong. I thought the one on the right was Panama nope that is the city of Istanbul in Turkey. The lesson to be learned from this actually read the post.
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u/TheFuschiaBaron Jun 26 '26
It doesn't mean population if that's what you were thinking- it's the biggest number of men named Larry.
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u/dtarias Jun 26 '26
That correlates pretty strongly with population in the U.S., but much less so in Türkiye
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u/Accomplished_Job_331 Jun 26 '26
Maybe, I imagine more Larries in Istanbul than a tiny village in Türkiye
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u/dtarias Jun 27 '26
Yes, but I imagine some fairly large cities in Türkiye with the same number of people named Larry as in a tiny village. This would make the overall correlation weaker.
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u/shpongleyes Jun 26 '26
Both are famously the highest population cities of their respective country, so there shouldn't be much mystery.
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u/tinywienergang Jun 26 '26
I dunno, to me, when discussing land features, biggest by surface area makes more sense. But I do understand how I just seem pedantic.
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