Geography | Questions and Answers

Where Is The Tornado Alley?

It is rather a loosely defined territory in the United States and the term refers to the areas where the occurrence of tornadoes is more frequent than the rest of the nation. It is a ...

Cypress is a small suburban city located in north western Orange County, California, to the east of the San Gabriel River Highway (605) in the United States. The city is approximately 21 kilometers north of ...

Where Is Mesopotamia?

Mesopotamia refers to the area between the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East. It corresponds to modern day Iraq and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey. The name comes from two Greek words mesos "middle" ...

Where Is Transylvania?

After being for millennia under the Hungarian Empire, the territory of Transylvania was bound to the Kingdom of Romania under after the World War I. It is still a moving issue for many Hungarians. Transylvania ...

Where Is Yellowstone?

Yellowstone is America’s first national park and it is extends across in the three US states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Wyoming houses 96% of the park by land area. The park’s land area is ...

Where Is Stonehenge?

It is located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometers west of Amesbury. It was declared a World Heritage Site in 1986 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization). Archeologists say ...

Where Is Springfield?

Where is the City of Homes? It is a city in the county seat of Hampden County in Massachusetts in the United States. It is the third largest city in the state of Massachusetts. It was ...

Where Is The Bermuda Triangle?

It is an imaginary area which resembles a triangle situated off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States. If is roughly the area contained by the (imaginary) lines connecting Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. ...

When Was Venezuela Discovered?

Venezuela, in South America was discovered in 1498 during the third voyage of Christopher Columbus. More explorers came in the following years and Alonso de Ojeda, a Spanish navigator, was one of them. He was ...

Where Is Auburn?

Auburn is the largest city in east Alabama and it is located in the Lee County, Alabama in the United States. The locals also call the city ‘the Loveliest Village on the Plains’ but the ...

Where Is Rodanthe?

Rodanthe is an unincorporated community situated on Hatteras Island in Dare County, North Carolina, in the US. The community is famous for its celebrating ‘Old Christmas’ on 6th January each year instead of 25th December. ...

Where Is The North Pole?

There are two north poles: the geographic North Pole and the magnetic north pole. The Magnetic north pole keeps on changing its position so the distance between the two is not fixed. By definition the ...

Why India Is Called A Sub-Continent?

A landmass is named a subcontinent if it geographically and politically distanced from the rest of the continent. The same definition applies to South Asia. That is why it is called a subcontinent and ...

Where Is Pearl Harbor?

Where is Pu?uloa? The Pearl Harbor (known to Hawaiians as Pu?uloa) is a lagoon harbor located on the island of O’ahu Hawai’i on the west of the island of Honolulu in the Pacific Ocean. It houses ...

Where Is St. Lucia?

Where is Saint Lucia? Saint Lucia or Sainte Lucie is an island country situated in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Saint Vincent and the Lesser Antilles is a neighbouring nation. Castries is the capital of St. Lucia. ...

Where Is Persia?

Where is Iran? Iran is located in the Middle East bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Caspian Sea and it is sandwiched between Iraq in the west and Pakistan in the East. The official name ...

Where Is Normandy?

Normandy is situated along the English Channel coast of Northern France and comprises territory in both France and Britain. It is sandwiched between Brittany to the west and Picardy to the east. The name of ...

Where Is Korea?

The modern term refers to two nations – North Korea and South Korea. The region is collectively known as the ‘Korean Peninsula’ and it borders China to the west and Russia to the north. The Korean ...

Where Is Patagonia?

The Patagonia is a geographic region comprising of the southernmost portion of the South American continent. It spans across two countries, Argentina and Chile. Its area is 1,043,076 square kilometers and around two million people ...

Where Is Lake Tahoe?

Lake Tahoe is situated in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on the west of Carson City in the state of Nevada in the United States. It also borders the state of California. The lake is famous ...

Where Is Machu Picchu?

Where is the lost city of the Incas? Machu Picchu is an ancient Inca city located on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, South America. It is situated at 2,430 meters above the ...

Where Is Mount Rushmore?

Mount Rushmore is located near Keystone, South Dakota in the United States. The mountain is famous because of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, which houses the sculptures of the heads of four former presidents of ...

Where Is Mount Saint Helens?

Mount St. Helens in situated in Skamania County, Washington in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the Cascade Mountain Range and is a part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, ...

Where Is Jamestown?

Jamestown is located on the Jamestown Island in the state of Virginia in the United States. The city was founded in 1607 and it is considered as the first English settlement on the continent. It ...

Where Is Mount Everest?

The Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world. It is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is also known as Mount Chomolungma and it is the highest mountain ...

When Was The United States Discovered?

The United States, often referred to as a part of the New World, was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. He and his crew saw first came across the land, which is known as Bahamas ...

Where Is Guantánamo Bay?

Where is Bahía de Guantánamo? Guantánamo Bay is located in the Guantánamo Province in the south-east of Cuba. Although it is in Cuba, the area is run by the United States. The US leased the area ...

When Was Troy Discovered?

A self-taught German archeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, excavated an area near Dardanelles,Turkey in 1870 and declared he had found the city of Troy. His claims were taken with a pinch of salt back then, but now ...

Where Is Hell’s Kitchen?

Where is Clinton and Midtown West? Hell’s Kitchen is a Manhattan neighborhood in New York City and it borders the Hudson River. It provides infrastructure support such as hospitals, warehouses and transportation to the Midtown Manhattan ...

When Was The Sphinx Discovered?

Unlike many ancient structures, the Sphinx of Giza in Egypt was never buried in the sands of the Egyptian deserts, so its existence was always known to the people traveling in the area. Although it ...

Where Is Kosovo?

Kosovo is a landlocked region in the Balkan Mountains in Europe. It borders Central Serbia to the east and Albania to the west. The region is a disputed territory. It declared independence on 17 February, ...

How Deep Is The Pacific Ocean?

To answer this question, many people turn to something that can be measured and compared. For example, encyclopedias and geography texts show the tallest mountain in the world to be Mauna Kea in the Hawaiian ...