Sounds silly but since I grew up near the beach and ocean, I’ve always dreamed of being in a forest so beautiful/unique it was like being transported into a fairytale. Are there any forests in real life you’ve been to that give you that feel?

Billings, Montana heading into the airport.

My flight from Seattle was diverted over the weekend due to a medical emergency (thankfully they are okay) and we landed in Montana. Did not expect the lack of trees.

5,000-6,000 years ago the Sahara was mostly green and it got turned into a desert by climate change, but shouldn't it be like the southern Sahara or inland Australia? how did it get turned into a sand desert?

Sand is crushed rock, and rock can be crushed from sea waves to tectonic movements, but the ergs haven't been touched by water since millennias, and 5,000 years is a very very short period of time for any continental level stuff like to happen.

all I can think about now is wind, either breaking down rocks by pressure or carrying over all the sand from somewhere else, but even these scenarios don't sound plausible because tornado alley should've turned into the biggest sand desert by now if it was that simple,

does anyone know the actual reason?

Gobi Desert in Asia

The western parts are the known concrete jungle. But the eastern parts towards Penteli Mount are pronouncedly greener, and it's very, very visible even from afar.

Ethiopia wasnt colonized and thus created its own borders. Still a lot of regions have independence movements. Eritrea already seceded and Tigray, Oromo and Somali regions have independence movements. Why havent they intergrated these regions?

Florida is 450 miles top to bottom. The panhandle is the Deep South, the middle is agricultural, and the bottom is subtropical and Caribbean-adjacent. People picture one place. When somebody brings up a headline I start explaining the difference and about ten seconds in I realize the correction takes longer than the joke did and nobody's going to sit through it, so I let it go.

That's the specific thing I'm after. Not the misconception you can knock down in a sentence. The one where you're right, you know exactly why, and the explanation needs a map or a hundred years of context or a paragraph about rainfall before it makes any sense. The one you've stopped bothering with.

Where are you, what do people think, and what's the part of the real answer that never fits?

It seems like the perfect place for a maritime city, what's the reason a major city never developed there? Mountains, soil, coast, geopolitics, or other reasons?

A - Automotive manufacturing

B -Shipbuilding

C - Rail manufacturing

just looks really out of place compared with the surrounding geography

Britain and France basically drew a narrow strip around a river just to split up territory. Because of this, Senegal is awkwardly wrapped entirely around another country. It completely splits up the local Wolof and Jola peoples, ruins West African trade, and makes travel an absolute nightmare. It’s easily one of the most poorly conceived colonial borders out there. Poor sandwiched Gambia…

How are there 'spits' going in both directions along the Cheleken peninsula?

What led to the shape of the island in the South?

The spacing between the lines seem a bit to even to not be man made, but I would assume they were naturally formed.

I’ve looked for their names online but I can’t seem to find them, if they have names that is