A single point in Minnesota, USA called the Hill of Three Waters near Hibbing splits rain into three different major water bodies in three different directions: south to the Gulf via the Mississippi, northeast to the Atlantic via Lake Superior, and northwest to Hudson Bay via the Red River (yes, some Minnesota rivers flow north, a legacy of glacial Lake Agassiz). One of the flattest states around, somehow feeding into water bodies in 3 totally different directions.

28°17'31.65"N, 85°31'25.04"E

my favorite things was seeing union of soviet socialist republic and yugoslavia lmaoo

If you were to divide California into 4 roughly equal strips of area, a hefty majority of its 39 million residents live in the southernmost strip containing the LA+San Diego metro areas, with nearly half of the state (~47%) living in the Greater LA metro area alone. If it were its own state, Southern California, with primarily just LA and San Diego metro areas, would compete with Florida for title of 2nd most populous US state.

The SF Bay Area, Sacramento, Monterrey, Fresno, and most of the Central Valley and put together are short of SoCal by over 9 million residents, but on its own this area would compete with Illinois for title of 6th largest state.

The strip sandwiched between Southern California and the Bay Area, containing Bakersfield plus other farming towns in the Southern Central Valley and most of the towns of the Central Coast, has about more people than Utah or Connecticut.

Suprisingly, despite how empty it can feel, there are still over a million people still live in the strip of CA north of Sacramento, containing about as much people as Hawaii and New Hampshire, albeit of a larger area.

Ultimately, one way to better understand the scale and density of California, is to conceptualize it as Florida + Illinois + Utah + Hawaii, all packaged in one single state under one single state government

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I saw some latitude maps the other day and noticed that they placed USA slightly more south than it was since it didn’t overlap with Poland even though Poland is about 15 miles into where the USA upper border is with Canada

No major roads for miles, Very little population, And the tri-state border is rarely visited. I can only find a handful of photos of it online.

• In black: Catalonia
• In dark grey: Rest of Spain
• In red: countries that have explicitly rejected the Catalan Republic
• In light grey: countries that have ignored the Catalan Republic

A bridge here could mean someone from one side could go drive to the other side without having to go through Melbourne.