Geography
Australia Is Wider Than the Moon
geographyAustralia stretches roughly 2,500 miles from its east coast to its west coast — wider than the Moon's diameter of about 2,160 miles. The Moon is vastly larger…
The Gambia Is So Thin It Was Drawn Around a River by Two Colonial Powers
geographyThe Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, is a narrow strip of land stretching 480 kilometers inland but only about 50 kilometers wide — because in…