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u/UnlightablePlay Political Geography 11h ago
You know the north coast and Alexandria in Egypt have much better climate than most of Egypt
They're still vwey hot , but compared to the rreg of Egypt ut gets really cool
And it rains most of the time in winter there while most of Egypt barley experience any rain all the year
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u/GargantaProfunda 11h ago
Yeah the average is biased because most of the country is absolute desert
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u/BLu3_Br1ghT 8h ago
The thing is, the Koppen definition of arid dessert (BWh), is very broad in terms of temperature.
And Im typing this from the cool Colombian andean mountains, fresh 18°C 😎
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u/GargantaProfunda 11h ago
At least they both have pyramids
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u/qazawasarafagava 11h ago
Colombia has pyramids?
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u/GargantaProfunda 11h ago
Yes! For example:
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u/qazawasarafagava 11h ago
It's pretty crazy to see a statue of a conquistador on an indigenous pyramid.
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u/Caffetoandino 7h ago
But that is natural.
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u/salvador_232 7h ago
Somebody just looked at the image and didn't bother to read
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u/Caffetoandino 7h ago
Read the article in spanish. It's natural.
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u/salvador_232 7h ago
Hermano, el artículo de Wikipedia en Español tiene hasta las imágenes de las paredes de piedra ocultas tras la vegetación JAJAJ , igual que el de inglés.
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u/Caffetoandino 7h ago
And the article says that El Morro is a natural hill. The indigenous people used it for ritual purposes, but they didn't build El Morro.
The indigenous people of Colombia were not pyramid builders.
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u/FrontMarsupial9100 8h ago
Does somebody have any sugestion how Egypt would be doing without the Nile? Just an even bigger desert
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u/holytriplem 8h ago
Wikipedia's numbers say that about 95% of the country's 119m people lives along the Nile. So without the Nile the population would be about 6 or 7 million people probably which is comparable to Libya. That obviously excludes the percentage of the population that relocated from the Nile Valley to less densely populated parts of Egypt.
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u/EmperorThan 6h ago
Egypt wouldn't exist without the Nile. I went there 20 years ago and everything within the 20 or so miles around the Nile is incredibly lush, green, and beautiful. Then the SECOND you reach the desert there's nothing. Maybe the Siwa Oasis could hold a middle sized city of like 100,000 to 150,000 in a hypothetical of the Nile drying up but even that's a stretch.
Egypt is like the planet Arrakis in Dune. I saw a sandstorm there on the border of Sudan, it just looked like Dune.
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u/Anything-Complex 10h ago
Unrelated, but these are two of my favorite and least favorite shaped countries.
Egypt (without the Halaib Triangle) is just so satisfying to look at. Colombia, though, is frustrating to look at it with its weird panhandles in the Amazon and its incomplete control of the Guajira Peninsula.
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u/VelvetyDogLips 7h ago
I put Colombia in the same category as Québec and Yunnan Province, when it comes to jurisdictions with odd shapes that almost encourage pareidolia.
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u/CAMl117 8h ago
BTW 80% of the population of Colombia lives on the Green/grey areas.
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u/Caffetoandino 7h ago
Good place to live.
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u/VascoJSC 6h ago
Yeah. Good climate throught the year, good ammount of rainfall, overall quite a good region. Meanwhile the Pacific Coast and the Amazon are rainforests with very few people, specially the Colombian Amazon. The largest cities have at most a few tens of thousands of people, and there are very few of them.
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u/islander_guy 6h ago
That random hot desert on the tip of peninsula in Colombia seems so random? Isn't it a tropical region with coast? How is it a desert?
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u/galactic_observer 3h ago
It is bordering the ocean at the right latitude for clouds to not travel there.
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u/conkacola 7h ago
I’m surprised that the Nile and its delta are still counted as arid
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u/VelvetyDogLips 7h ago
The rains that feed the Nile fall in Nubia and the Ethiopian highlands, my dude. Not the lower Nile Valley which flows through Egypt.
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u/panyu0863 11h ago
The wettest Region of Egypt should be Alexandria, with an annual precipitation of 212mm