Geography News Roundup

Here are a few of my favorite geographical news stories, culled from my continual postings on my Twitter feed:

• In 50 to 200 million years, the new super-continent of Amasia (a merger of North America and Asia) will converge around the North Pole, forming a successor continent to Pangea.
• China, the world's most populous country, is planning on building a super-mega-city of 42 million people that would be about twice the size of New Jersey.
• Geographer Martin Lewis wrote a series of posts about the Caucasus on his GeoCurrents blog. His latest asks the question, should the Caucasus be considered to be a separate geographic region?
• Also from GeoCurrents is an interesting article on the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. He writes about Sochi's less-than-ideal winter climate for the Olympic Games (especially since Sochi's average winter temperatures are well-above freezing). Here's a listing of past Winter Olympic Games cities, most of which are more climatically appropriate.
• Here's a strange one! Lawmakers in Azerbaijan are considering changing that country's name to North Azerbaijan. This change would upset Iran, which would then be home to South Azerbaijan.
• Maybe this is stranger? News sources are reporting that WikiLeaks is considering moving their Internet servers to the not-a-country abandoned oil platform known as Sealand. In case I wasn't clear: Sealand is not a country.