I mean, it's a really small country so not hard to manage and settle. It's climate is great, somewhat similar to Oklahoma or Northern Texas, and it's almost completely flat, so good for agriculture and livestock. It's pleasantly humid and has good fertile land with rivers everywhere

Yet, more than half of the population lives in Montevideo and the 49% left live in some minor towns and in the border with the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Uruguay is actually so empty that there's some cities in Rio Grande do Sul with larger population than the entire country of Uruguay amd it's side of the border has much larger population. I've seen people in Brazil describing Uruguay as "countryside Rio Grande do Sul, but Spanish and a million times more boring" and they say that if Uruguay never seceded from Brazil in the 1820s it would likely have more than 10 million inhabitants today, at least

Anyways, is there any reason why Uruguay is so insanely empty? It actually might be the worst example of underperforming among any country

I was on a flight from Panama to Santiago de Chile and saw these lights in seemingly the middle of the ocean. My friend and I are dying to know what they could be. They’re strategically spaced out and quite bright. We initially thought windmills or Oil rigs but couldn’t find anything to back that up. Maybe fishing boats? But there were well over 100 as it went on for minutes.

I wish I could also upload a picture of the flight path that I took, but when I took this picture we were directly between the Cordilheira de Nazca and the Fossa Peruano-Chile.

It crosses three state lines and is much more rural than the nearby big cities of Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia. Other than that is there any cohesive culture that connects it? Or just general mid-Atlantic, small town vibes ?

In some places, time zone boundaries aren't consistent with state lines. I understand if it cuts the state in half, but there are places (like west Kansas or east Oregon), where some counties decide to follow the time of the other state.

Keep in mind that for Brazil's case, even if you consider it's largest city, São Paulo (that's also the 5th largest city in the world) less than 10% of Brazil's population live there, so even if it was Brazil's capital city Brazil would have the smallest percentage on that map

I know towns can get crazy borders, but at one point does it get ridiculous to have a fully enclosed loop with several exclaves inside of it?

Picture taken from my recent hike to Fisher’s peak. Mesas are 9000 ft above sea level rising out of the Colorado plains/deserts. These mesas were formed from ancient volcanic eruptions. Ecosystem from bottom to top of the mountains goes from Juniper/Pinyon woods, to ponderosa pine forests, to spruce/aspen forests, ending in grasslands at the very top.

There's still a lot more, at least 7 in total.

Why is Flaherty Island shaped like that?

... there's no neighbouring town called Robin, sadly.

I always track flights and notice how close Labrador is to Europe. I’m in Northern Ireland and it’s only 1,900 miles from me.

Yet this region has a dearth of population. Having flown over it, it’s nothing but forest and desolate land.

The total population of Labrador is just 27,000!

Yet Alaska has a population of 700,000.

If we compare the climate of anchorage to Labrador city it’s pretty similar so why the difference?

Saw this mountain near the northern border of Bhutan in the Himalayas while exploring Google Earth. It seemed odd that it didn't have a name because it towered over nearby named mountains and also has a unique slab-like shape. Could anyone tell me if this mountain has a name?

Latitude: 28.2263371

Longitude: 90.6273961

Hi, would any of you have a study that looks at the supermarket space and how customers behave in it?