TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow - eviltoast

  • Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    Straight Border Syndrome.

    The straighter a places borders are, the less likely it is that there’s anything there worth fighting over, and the more likely that the lines were drawn thousands of miles away by people who’d never even been there.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      That’s most of the US/Canada border. That little tick where Minnesota sticks up into Canada is because a treaty was made with a map that didn’t actually show the accurate geography there.