Here Are 35 Of The Most Hard-To-Believe Geography Facts You Probably Never Knew

There are a lot of crazy things that are hidden in the world and geography helps us to understand them.

Daphnie

• Published in Facts
• July 12, 2022

The internet is used for many different things every day such as communication, sharing photos and videos, researching topics, working, and also learning. One of my favorite things to do is learn something new and so I love exploring opportunities where I can learn random things that I didn't know before or even just learn random facts I can tell others.

Most of all, learning is something that is incredibly useful whether it is information you can use immediately or not. With all that being said, we are here to educate you a little bit more by using this post.

Geography is something that many people don't understand or don't learn about regularly, but it's important to know things about the world that we live in. This article is going to go through some of the coolest and most interesting geography facts that you might not have been taught in school.

Overall, geography is one of those subjects that many people weren't paying a lot of attention to, or maybe it just wasn't offered in all curriculums, but either way, we are here to give you the education you never received in school.

Here are 35 surprising geography facts that you probably didn't know.

1. Though this isn't what we asked for, it is still super interesting.

2. This is actually insane to even imagine.

"Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined."

3. Okay This is both clever and interesting.

"Antarctica is the world's largest desert, since it doesn't get all that much rainfall. Also, if you put a cherry on top of it, Antarctica is the world's largest dessert."

4. Okay, Canada but be bigger than I imagined.

"My parents in Canada live closer to me in England than they do to my in-laws in Canada."

5. Okay I knew they were all more rare than Diamonds though. However, this isn't geography.

"Rubies and Sapphires are in fact, the same mineral, and both of them, as well as Emeralds, are actually rarer then Diamonds."

6. I really can't even imagine this, but I believe it.

"Palm trees grow in Ireland, at 53 degrees north. In Canada at 55 degrees north there are polar bears."

7. Oh now this is a pretty cool fact.

"France's longest border is with Brazil."

8. This is pretty interesting too and now we can't complain about the dust because it's needed.

9. The world is a really crazy place.

"If you took a boat out of Reykjavík and sailed directly south, the first land mass you'd hit would be Antarctica."

10. Now this, I literally feel like I can't believe.

"Australia is wider than the moon"

11. This was a lot of useful information, but clearly this person knows what they are talking about.

12. A lot of the actual proportions of places aren't right on the map.

"Alaska is actually HUGE. It’s larger than Montana, Texas, and California combined. Yet, illustrated on maps as being tiny."

13. This is actually wild to think about.

14. Tis is true by the way that the states and country lies.

"Despite Canada being the US’s “neighbor to the north”, the majority of Canadians live south of Seattle."

15. This makes no sense to me when you see it on a map.

"The distance between New Zealand and Australia is roughly the same as the distance between The Netherlands and Libya."

16. Wow Asia has more mountains that I thought.

"There are 14 mountains over the height of 8000 metres. All of them are in Asia."

17. This literally looks like it's from the future.

"Perth is the most isolated metropolis in the world"

18. Again, the way we think countries are laid out is completely wrong.

"How far north Europe is. I always pictured Europe as roughly parallel to the US, so northern Europe would be the same latitude as Minnesota and southern Europe as Florida.

Not even close. The UK is almost entirely north of the lower 48 states and Rome is further north than New York City."

19. This is actually pretty crazy to think about.

20. Isn't it wild how all this geography stuff works.

"California is the closest state to Hawaii , but Hawaii is the furthest state from California"

21. Both of these facts are absolutely astonishing to know.

"Texas is large enough that I could fit Copenhagen, Brussels, Zagreb, and Warsaw with their real life distances from each other inside the State lines.

The Great Lakes contain enough fresh water to flood an area the size of Great Britain in over 100 meters of water."

22. Okay that's it, I'm moving to Australia.

23. This one gives u s a lot of new information to work with.

24. That comparison is unbelievable.

25. I didn't know that France was like that with multiple islands.

26. Canada and America are best friends.

27. I just want to know how this makes sense.

"Alaska is simultaneously the furthest west, east, and northern point in the US."

28. I had no idea that this was a thing.

29. How did I not know this was a thing?

30. Here's another one with a handful of awesome facts to learn about.

31. This is actually insane and I had no idea it was that long.

32. 14 countries?! That's wild.

"China has 14 neighboring countries."

33. The map makes everything look much different than it is in real life.

34. Well that's a short plane ride.

35. That's crazy when you put into that perspective.

"Although I'm on the other side of the planet, only 1 country separates me from North Korea."

These geography facts have me wanting to look at a globe to figure out if some of these things are true. It's really wild what we don't know about our planet, other countries, and just what types of things are happening in the world today.

We hope that you learned at least one new fact today from this article.

Daphnie