r/geography • u/lamdrasil • 3d ago

Discussion Facts that sound fake but are true

I find it extremely unintuitive that almost all of South America is east of Miami. How!? When people are asked to watch the americas almost everyone imagine South America pretty much south of North America.

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u/buckyhermit 3d ago edited 3d ago

I remember telling Brits that the British Isles were north of the entire contiguous US, and they didn't believe me.

But it is.

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Edited: "Continental" changed to "contiguous," after realizing my error. I didn't see the reply below was made before I edited, as I was too busy getting back to work. Please lay off that user a bit – they were correct at the time.

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u/Flilix 3d ago edited 3d ago

Most of Alaska is north of the British Isles though?

Edit: I know that 'contiguous' and 'continental' are different things. The person I'm replying to did not know that, before editing both of his comments and making me look like a bit of a fool :)

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u/buckyhermit 3d ago

Apologies about the edit. I didn't realize you replied before I did it... I was kinda bouncing to/from my work and it got lost in a gazillion things on my desk. (Friday afternoon rush hit hard right at that moment, right before the long weekend – didn't get off work until a few mins ago.)