Quick Answer Iowa borders six states: Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west. Four of…
Table of Contents The Quick Picture Azerbaijan sits at the bottom of a drainage funnel. Nearly every river in the country — over 8,000 of them, though the vast majority…
Table of Contents TLDR Senegal has essentially two lakes worth knowing. Lake Retba, better known as Lac Rose or the Pink Lake, sits about 35 kilometers northeast of Dakar and…
TLDR Neusiedler See, straddling Austria and Hungary, is Europe’s shallowest lake of any real size — its average depth barely clears a meter, and in dry years it has come…
TLDR The Nevada-Utah border is almost entirely empty desert, and only two settlements sit directly on it: the twin towns of Wendover (Utah) and West Wendover (Nevada), and the tiny…
Syria doesn’t get filed under “lake country” in most people’s heads, and until December 2024 it barely got filed under “places you can go” at all. But the country has…
Table of Contents TLDR Equatorial Guinea is small, split across a mainland region (Río Muni) and several Gulf of Guinea islands, and its rivers reflect that split geography. The longest…
Most lists of Lebanon’s lakes hand you a stack of pretty photos and leave you to figure out the hard part: can you actually swim there, how long is the…
Here’s the short version: Bangladesh has exactly one bay, and it’s a giant. The Bay of Bengal is the largest bay on Earth, and the entire 580-kilometer southern coastline of…
No US state borders Alaska. It’s one of two non-contiguous states (Hawaii is the other), separated from the rest of the country by a foreign nation. So if you came…