Most write-ups about North Dakota’s edges pick one border and stop. The Canada line gets all the attention because of the crossings and the lonely-prairie-town romance of it. But North…
The United States holds more than 102,500 lakes large enough to map, and the spread between the biggest and the rest is almost comical. Lake Superior alone could swallow the…
Lesotho is a small mountain kingdom with one enormous job: it makes the water that keeps a chunk of South Africa running. Locked entirely above 1,400 metres, the whole country…
Here’s the thing nobody tells you up front: Wisconsin and Iowa don’t actually touch on land. The entire border between them is the Mississippi River, running down the main channel…
Quick answer: Papua New Guinea borders exactly one country by land — Indonesia. But that single fact hides the more interesting story, because PNG also shares maritime borders with Australia…
Table of Contents The Michigan-Wisconsin Border, Briefly The Michigan-Wisconsin state line runs almost entirely along water — specifically the Menominee River, which drains into Green Bay at the bottom of…
Tonga has lakes — just not many people know where they are. Most travel coverage of the Kingdom focuses on humpback whales and coral reefs, and the lakes get buried…
Thirteen U.S. states share a border with Canada — and if you didn’t know that, you’re probably forgetting Alaska. The full list, in alphabetical order: Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,…
Table of Contents The Massachusetts-Vermont border runs roughly 40 miles through some of the most underrated countryside in New England. No dramatic mountains slice it in two, no major river…
Table of Contents Norway is a country carved by water. Glaciers shaped the terrain over millennia, and when they retreated, they left behind a network of rivers that drain some…