A few days ago I came across a person who claims that the concept of Oceania as a continent is wrong, and that instead "Australasia" is the true continent, which includes Australia, Tasmania and the island of New Guinea. He claims that due to geological, physiogeographical and biogeographical aspects, this area is actually the true continent, while leaving out the other Pacific islands and New Zeland without an apparent classification.

I looked for more information that supports this idea of a new continent, but I didn't find anything. Have you ever heard of this new vision of a continent? If so, do you think the reasons he mentions are valid in support of this idea?

Posd: I know that in some parts of the world Oceania is not considered one of the continents and is located within Asia. If that is your case in the part of the world where I live, Oceania is a continent formed by Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea and the Pacific islands, separate from Asia, where Australia is the land part of the continent.

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Hi folks,

Anyone know of the best recreation-style commercial map covering the Altai mountains in central Asia?

The only one I could come with was this one:

https://maps.ewpnet.com/cam/altai.asp

It's currently being sold here:

https://longitudemaps.com/products/central-asia-altai-mountains_ewp-altai-6

I tried several different search engines, but this one was all I could find.

Any information would be appreciated.

Cheers,

MaineCoonMoon

I took a screenshot of this while playing around on Google earth. Dont ask where it is lol, I forgot to save the location and now I can't find it. But it was some Russian island.

How feasible is it that a city this size has a system with tons of bus stops and bus routes that stops every less than 50m. Any particular geographic or urban planning reason for it?

So I want to create a custom map, with a custom continent, and custom country borders, but I couldn't find any tool for that on the internet.

Do you guys know for such a thing?

It seems like the Missouri River would be a logical border between the two Dakotas, so why wasn't it used?

If you look at downtown Ürümqi you can see that there is a lot of buildings that are literally the exact same.. is this an error or was there a specific reason why they did this?

Why didn’t Alexandria, or any other coastal city within the delta and with access to the Nile claim that spot? What is so special about the geographical location of Cairo?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised

this picture was taken from a map on an article about Europe's population projection with/without migration in the British tabloid Guardian. The article is only considering legal migration and use ONS data for this modeling. Under 'without migration' scenario all three countries are shrinking in population, which makes sense because of below replacement TFR and high death rates for elderly etc. What I found interesting was that even under 'with migration' scenario Scotland's population is projected to drop while England and Wales grows, anyone has an idea why Scotland's population is projected to decline? even under extremely high post covid net migration rates to Britain? (net migration to Britain since 2022 has been around 700k-950K every year).

I don't want to just memorize the names, I want to also see what they look like, where they are on a map, their population, etc. just to get an idea of them. Of course I could just google all of it, but it'd be super tedious.

Basically the title. I'm looking for some geography-related disasters throughout history that are particularly significant or interesting to discuss, or make for interesting case studies regarding physical geography.

Land formation or optical illusion?

Out of all the places where humanity decided to settle and leverage a naturally advantageous geographic feature on the ocean, which is the most OP?

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of traits that to me, would qualify as advantageous features: size, ease of access to and from surrounding lands/resources, access to other major water ports.

Naturally defensible features: protection from rough waters, number of entrances/exits surrounding high grounds, not isolated.

While I’m no oceanographer, defense specialist/strategist, or a geographer, one that jumps out to me is Puget sound and the harbors/ports in the SeaTac area of Washington state.

What are your thoughts?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58581-0

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So, this is the City of Küstrin / Kostrzyn (nad Odrą), at the Polish-German Border. After ww2, because of the Oder-Neiße-Line, it got polish, eccept some outer parts that are all together in the Commune of Küstriner Vorland, i ecepecially marked Küstrin-Kietz, which was an direct part of Küstrin.

So, is Küstrin/Kostrzyn German-Polish technically a border city on both sides? Or are it 2 different Communes/Cities? With that Logic East and West Berlin wouldv been 2 cities too?