Geography Of The World

Geography

USA States (Two-Letter Abbreviations)

According to the US systems and tradition, all the states or territories are represented by abbreviations and codes for different purposes, including data processing and postal addresses.

Geography

Deepest Oceans And Seas

Oceans and their marginal seas are the world’s largest, deepest waterbodies. The world’s deepest point, the Challenger Deep, is located in the Pacific Ocean.

Geography

Latin America

Latin America is a vast region in the Western Hemisphere that encompasses Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

Geography

Geography Of Iceland

Iceland comprises one big island, at least 30 smaller islands, and numerous rock formations. However, the sizes of these islands vary due to sea action and volcanic activities.

Islands

Capri Island

Capri Island is a mountainous island located in the Campania region of Southern Italy, on the southern edge of the Gulf of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Geography

Near East

What constitutes the Near East has evolved over time. In the 19th century, the terms “Near East” and “Middle East” meant two different things.

Islands

Ischia

The Island of Ischia is a mountainous volcanic island about 30 km southwest of the Italian city of Naples, on the northern edge of the Gulf of Naples.

Islands

Margarita Island

Margarita Island is a Venezuelan island in the Caribbean Sea. Together with Coche Island and Cubaga Island, it forms part of the state of Nueva Esparta.

Geography

Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen British Colonies were a group of colonies established along the Atlantic coast which had similar legal, constitutional, and political systems.

Islands

Saint Helena Island

Saint Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It forms a part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

Islands

Ascension Island

Ascension Island is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Along with Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha, it forms a British Overseas Territory.

Islands

Cyclades Islands

The Cyclades Island group comprises about 220 islands and is geographically positioned in the southern part of the Aegean Sea in southeastern Greece.

Peninsulas

Delmarva Peninsula

The Delmarva Peninsula is a peninsula on the eastern coast of the United States. It is occupied by the State of Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia.

Islands

Hispaniola

Hispaniola forms part of the Greater Antilles island group in the Caribbean Sea. The east is occupied by the Dominican Republic, and the west by Haiti.

Geography

British Indian Ocean Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory includes all the 55 islands of the Chagos Archipelago and occupies a total land area of 60 km2 and about 54,340 km2 of ocean.

Islands

Bali, Indonesia

Indonesia comprises over 17,504 islands. Bali is the westernmost island in the Lesser Sunda group and a province of the Republic of Indonesia.

Islands

Santorini Island

Santorini (officially, Thira) is a volcanic crater island that is located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea in southeastern Greece.

Islands

Sporades Islands

Often referred to as the Thessalian Sporades, the Sporades Island group is made up of 24 islands that are positioned in the northern Aegean Sea.

Geography

Continental Divide

A continental divide is defined as a natural boundary that separates a continent’s precipitation systems that flow into different oceans or other major water bodies.

Geography

Latitude And Longitude

Latitude (shown as a horizontal line) is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds of a point north or south of the Equator.

Geography

Four Corners, United States

The Four Corners is an area located in the southwestern region of the United States which serves as a meeting point of four different states.

Geography

Indiana Territory

Indiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory that was created by an Act of Congress and signed into law on May 7, 1800, by John Adams.

Geography

Northwest Territory

Originally referred to as the “Territory Northwest of the River Ohio,” the Northwest Territory was the first organized incorporated territory of the US.

Islands

Sea Islands, United States

The Sea Islands are a low-lying chain of more than 100 sandy islands that are located off the Atlantic coast in the Southeastern United States.

Geography

Balkan Countries

The term “Balkan Countries”, or simply “The Balkans”, refers to the countries that are located on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe.

Islands

Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are a group of islands that are located off the western coast of Greece in the eastern part of the Ionian Sea.

Islands

Rhodes, Greece

Rhodes is the largest island in the Greek Dodecanese Island group. It is situated to the northeast of Crete island and southeast of the Greek capital, Athens.

Islands

Dodecanese Islands

The Dodecanese Island group comprises 15 large and 150 small Greek islands in the southeastern part of the Aegean Sea.

Islands

Åland Islands

The Åland Islands are an archipelago located in the Baltic Sea, at the southern end of the Gulf of Bothnia in southwestern Finland.

Geography

Southeast Asia

The Southeast Asian region comprises 11 sovereign states.It lies almost entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and partly extends into the Southern Hemisphere.

Rivers

The Missouri River

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Its source is the Rocky Mountains from where it flows east and south for 2,341 miles.

Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean that forms a self-governing autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Rivers

The Mississippi River

he Mississippi River is the second longest river in North America measuring a total length of 2320 miles from its traditional source at Lake Itasca.

Straits

Straits Of Mackinac

The Straits of Mackinac are positioned between the Upper and the Lower Peninsulas of the US state of Michigan and connect Lake Huron with Lake Michigan.

Rivers

Amazon River

The Amazon River is the largest river in South America. It is the lifeblood of the world’s largest ecosystem, the Amazon Rainforest.

Islands

Argo-Saronic Islands

The Argo-Saronic Islands (Saronic Islands) are an archipelago located within the Saronic Gulf, just off mainland Greece.

Islands

Gotland

Gotland is the largest island of the Baltic Sea located 60 miles off the coast of Sweden’s mainland. It is categorized as an island, province, dioceses, county, and municipality.

Islands

Los Roques Archipelago

The Los Roques archipelago comprises more than 350 uninhabited cays, islands, and islets and is situated about 128 km to the north of Venezuela.

Islands

North Aegean Islands

The Aegean Sea is dotted by numerous islands and islets, the majority of which are administered by Greece and some by Turkey.

Canals

Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal is an artificial waterway connecting the Ionian Sea’s Gulf of Corinth in the northwest with the Aegean Sea’s Saronic Gulf in the southeast.

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