20 world geography facts that might surprise you

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5-3-2008 10:19 PM

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Portland, Oregon, where it rarely snows, is about 130 miles further <EM>north</EM> than Toronto, and over 200 miles further <EM>north</EM> than Boston.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">On France’s southern Mediterranean coast, Cannes, the sunny summer playground of the rich, which is sometimes incorrectly called ‘tropical’, is about 10 miles further <EM>north</EM> than Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><DIV class="thumbnail-frame"><IMG width="250" height="188" border="0" title="Sydney, Australia" alt="Sydney, Australia" src="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/files/images/Sydney.jpg" /><DIV class="thumbnail-caption">Sydney, Australia</DIV></DIV>Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Cape Town, and Sydney are each thousands of miles apart and are known for having unusually pleasant year-round climates, and they are all almost <EM>identical</EM> distances from the Equator. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The 49th Parallel, which makes up the long and straight US/Canada border in the west, is about 120 miles <EM>north</EM> of Estcourt Station, Maine. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is a wee bit <EM>smaller</EM> than the state of Louisiana.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">France is about 30% larger than the state of California.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/08-04/20-world-geography-facts-that-might-surprise-you.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5A18837-A8D6-4AEE-85DE-6C808BF380EB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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