Friends, help me expand my geographic knowledge. Tell me a fact about your geographic sub-region of your country. (Not the country, please. I’m looking for ways to associate map places.) This can be a state, province, county, prefecture, city, barangay, barrio.
If you live in any part of the Southern US with wetlands, you have probably enjoyed mayhaw jelly. Mayhaw is a hawthorn that grows along creek bottoms and other wetlands, super sour but makes excellent sweet-tart jelly.
Vancouver is one of the largest cities in Washington State. In 1925 the KKK showed up in a big way. By this time our congressman was Albert Johnson, a well-known racist working hard to clear the US of “alien blood.” By 1945 we went from 8K Black residents to 400.
Yonkers is the third-biggest city in New York by population. It lies on the Hudson River, bordering The Bronx to the south. Yonkers is one of two municipalities in Westchester County that opted not to become incorporated into the City of New York in 1898.
The Great Trinity Forest in South Dallas is one of the largest urban forests in the U.S.
I live in Orléans, France (which gave its name to New Orleans). It’s the northernmost point of the Loire River which goes from East-South-East to West-South-West of 🇫🇷, and the closest to Paris (1 day by carriage). Wine from Burgundy, the Rhône valley and even Italy would ship (1/n)
The state of Missouri in the US has no natural lakes. All lakes that exist there are manmade
You can follow the highways out of Northeast/East Atlanta on a satellite view and roughly treat it as a timeline of sprawl. I-985 is the OG and most dense. I-85 is getting there. Atlanta Highway had its time in the sun, but 316 is taking over as its conversion to controlled access proceeds.
Idaho is a 100% made up word invented by a French dude who said it was a Native American word. That said, we have more national forests than any other state and a canyon deeper than the grand. Oh and we trained astronauts to be ready to walk on the moon.
I live on a chunk of Earth's crust called the Wrangellia Terrane, which only joined the rest of North America about 100 million years ago. But not completely; the part i'm on is still an island. :)