Geography stories

A Railway Embankment Belongs to Belgium and Cuts Five Pieces Out of Germany

There Is No Border Between Germany and Luxembourg

This State Has Passports, Embassies and Stamps, but No Land

He Found a Gap Between Two States and Declared a Country There

Deaf Children in Managua Invented a Complete Language

A border runs across Germany that you can only hear

More Than 800 Languages Are Spoken in This One Country

The Island Where Whole Sentences Are Whistled Across Ravines

These countries run on almost fully renewable electricity, for a reason beyond climate policy

The Hottest Summer Western Europe Has Ever Measured

The Largest Desert on Earth Is Made of Ice

The Loneliest Place on Earth Is a Spacecraft Graveyard

In 2012 a Research Vessel Sailed Straight Through an Island

Mapmakers Invented This Place as a Trap, Then Someone Built It

The Country That Deleted a Day From the Calendar

In This Country the Sun Rises at Ten in the Morning

Nicosia is a capital with a buffer zone running through it

Bangui claims a country the state rarely holds in full

Belarus is a plain whose state faces east

Hanoi remains the capital of a country whose weight lies on the Mekong