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Hace 4 días · Trending generally from northwest to southeast, the mountains consist of two ranges—the Greater Caucasus (Russian: Bolshoy Kavkaz) in the north and the Lesser Caucasus (Maly Kavkaz) in the south. Mount Elbrus in the Greater Caucasus range, at 18,510 feet (5,642 metres), is the highest peak. The watershed of the Greater Caucasus, the backbone ...
Hace 2 días · The Aral Sea (/ ˈ ær əl /) was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. The name roughly translates from Mongolic and Turkic languages to "Sea of Islands", a reference ...
Hace 5 días · The Gibraltar Strait is the closest point of connection between Africa and Europe. It is a narrow waterway, approximately 14 kilometers wide, that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea. However, no land-based border connection currently exists between the two continents.
Hace 4 días · Mongolia, historically Outer Mongolia, landlocked country located in north-central Asia. It is roughly oval in shape, measuring 1,486 miles (2,392 km) from west to east and, at its maximum, 782 miles (1,259 km) from north to south. Mongolia’s land area is roughly equivalent to that of the countries of western and central Europe, and it lies ...
Hace 3 días · Thank you for reading Eric’s Substack. This post is public so feel free to share it. We are a gregarious species. People need to love and be loved. A steady diet of solitude starves the soul. Yet we criticize, tease, attack, defend, and separate ourselves from each other in myriad ways. We crave intimacy and fear it. We’re taught that safety lies in defense. But defense strangles love.
Hace 5 días · The geographic entity North Africa has no single accepted definition. It has been regarded by some as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east, though this designation is more commonly referred to as northern Africa. Others have limited it to the countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, a region known by the French during ...
Hace 4 días · Land. More than three times the size of the U.S. state of Texas, Greenland extends about 1,660 miles (2,670 km) from north to south and more than 650 miles (1,050 km) from east to west at its widest point.Two-thirds of the island lies within the Arctic Circle, and the island’s northern extremity extends to within less than 500 miles (800 km) of the North Pole.
