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Rhys 🕊:
New Zealand has many volcanoes. Auckland city with over 1 million population is built on 49 dormant volcanoes, known as Auckland Volcanic Field. White Island is the most active volcano with the last eruption from March to September 2000. The largest ski resorts, Whakapapa and Turoa, are built on Mount Ruapehu, which had its last eruption on 25 September 2007.
Yay I don't live in Auckland
Rhys ;)
Extol:
Huzzah! I love geography! And I like these surprising facts and bits of trivia. A few others, mostly about population:
--There are 10 cities in India--and 11 in China!--that have more people than Chicago.
--More people live in El Paso, Texas than in Wyoming.
--While Minnesota is called the land of 10,000 lakes, Alaska has around three million lakes. I would guess this is easily more than the other 49 states combined.
--Columbus is the largest city in Ohio, with more people than Cleveland and Cincinnati combined.
--The largest city in the San Francisco Bay area is not San Francisco or Oakland...it's San Jose.
onelovedread:
Great, Extol. Now here's the first "test" question: What is the only city in the U.S. that borders two states on either side? Essentially, the western border of this state is at the city's western border, and it's eastern border is the border of another state?
Easy one!
Extol:
That sounds like Warshington. Am I correct?
I'll think of some more fun facts later. 8)
cjwood:
johnchris, would the answer to your test question be texarkana?
claudia
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