Geography August 2010 Archive

Interstate 95, which is the longest north-south interstate highway in the United States, is almost complete. The 1,920 mile highway has a 12-mile gap near the border of Pennsylvania ... Read More

Tropical Storm Earl has become Hurricane Earl and the fifth named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to become a major hurricane within the next 24 hours. ... Read More

Take a look at these latest articles about a variety of places... Geography of Russia Geography of Lebanon Countries Bordering China Provinces of Pakistan

Newsweek has ranked 100 countries of the world (out of 195) and has determined that Finland is the world's "best" country. I'm not fond of the title but they ... Read More

Pakistan's flooding is beyond devastating. It is estimated that about half of the country has been inundated and anywhere between eight and sixteen million people have been severely affected. ... Read More

China has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy. New numbers released by China show that is has become the primary Asian superpower after growing by record ... Read More

China is planning to build a replica of Salvidor Dali's coastal hometown of Cadaques, Spain as a tourist attraction. "The developers hope that the replica town will become popular with ... Read More

Radical Cartography produced a dramatic chart showing world population by latitude and longitude. Mouse over the chart to see a world map and to visualize how much of the ... Read More

I am seeking one or two geography interns for the upcoming fall semester to write features here on Geography at About.com. Any undergraduate or graduate student in ... Read More

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has met and has added 21 new sites to the listing of World Heritage Sites. Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Tajikistan had their first sites ... Read More

Next January, residents of southern Sudan will vote in a referendum on independence from Sudan. Sudanese officials are calling on the south to demarcate a precise boundary of the ... Read More

Here's a roundup of some geographic news from around the Web... Following the International Court of Justice decision that Kosovo's declaration of independence was legal, Serbia's legislature had declared that Serbia ... Read More

Amanda Briney has posted a great listing of the ten top summer travel destinations around the world. That has caused me to seriously catch the travel bug and think ... Read More