10 stories tagged geography, newest first.
156 points by nicocarsui | 32 comments
An interactive world map overlaying about 38,000 player-drawn borders and coastlines from the Borderline geography games, on 184 countries.
220 points by kspacewalk2 | 72 comments
A Substack post investigating why Yemen's commonly cited area of 555,000 sq km differs from map measurements, tracing a century-old misinformation.
36 points by rustoo | 22 comments
A SAGE journal article modelling how urban form and city shape affect travel distances; the page shown is a Cloudflare security verification screen.
441 points by MilkMp | 87 comments
Show HN project: a searchable, exportable archive of CIA World Factbook data from 1990–2025; the page returned an HTTP 503 error when captured.
379 points by tombh | 153 comments
All The Views presents the longest lines of sight on Earth found by an exhaustive algorithm, topped by a 530km view from the Hindu Kush to Pik Dankova.
341 points by aagha | 489 comments
Maps.com article by Joshua Stevens about a south-up world map designed by cartographer Robert Simmon that challenges the north-up convention.
504 points by venusgirdle | 163 comments
An interactive world map highlighting obscure islands like Pheasant Island, Ailsa Craig, and Tristan da Cunha with short descriptions of each.
1351 points by trevin | 391 comments
A Substack article by Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories explaining why Chile is so long and thin, and how its geography shapes the country and its people.
599 points by yarapavan | 291 comments
A Tomas Pueyo Uncharted Territories newsletter post presenting 30 maps showing how map projections distort perceived country sizes, especially near the equator.
598 points by thunderbong | 242 comments
A geography trivia page listing record islands and lakes, culminating in the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.