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Geographic literacy. Do you has it?

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Geographic literacy. Do you has it?

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I plan to post cool info i find about geography on this thread.

If you find something cool to share, then have at it.


http://www.good.is/post/what-is-the-tru ... of-africa/

Step one.

Africa is HUGE!
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Step Two.

Europe looks like a bacterial slide with them chomping at eachother in this 1000 year time lapse of national boudaries.

Very interesting. You would have to pause and "enhance" the image to see everything going on there.

http://www.wimp.com/europeanhistory/
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johnson1010 wrote:I plan to post cool info i find about geography on this thread.

If you find something cool to share, then have at it.

http://www.good.is/post/what-is-the-tru ... of-africa/

Step one.

Africa is HUGE!
I remember seeing that map, very interesting. I didn't know Africa was that freakin' big
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http://www.wimp.com/countriesyears/

age and wealth represented in an animated graph.

We should all appreciate the power of statistics.
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Check this view of Hong Kong:

http://61226.com/share/hk.swf
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that is really cool!
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http://www.wimp.com/scalemaps/

Your map has been telling fibbs.

Check this out.
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http://www.wimp.com/unusualplaces/

cool stuff found on google-earth.
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This is very enlightening.

go here
http://maps.google.com/

type in japan to china

it brings up a map on how to travel between the two.

check step number 42.

Notice the distance.
haha!
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johnson1010 wrote:This is very enlightening.

go here
http://maps.google.com/

type in japan to china

it brings up a map on how to travel between the two.

check step number 42.

Notice the distance.
haha!
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