To see this title in action, click here! The title is made from buildings in Tucson, Boise, Minneapolis, Calgary, Chicago, Tucson again, Hamburg, and Tucson again. I guess they like to erect buildings in letter shapes in Tucson. You can even zoom in on the letters and get more information about their location, thanks to Google Maps technology. Get yours at Geo Greeting. Everytime I turn around, there’s more geography on the net. The latest is the new Google Street View that city folk are talking about, but those of us in Podunk don’t have a chance to see our cats in the window. In the last couple of months, there’s been a whole slew of quizzes trying to make you fveel like you don’t know your way around the world. Today, you’ll have a chance to knock yourself out with them. And here’s some other stuff, too.

 
Geography Family Feud

George Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow helped this boy in 5th grade remember how to spell geography.

Nikolas Schiller combines geography with art. He takes aerial photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey and transforms them into beautiful kaleidoscopes, quilts, and political statements. Also LOLmaps.

If you want to set up a meeting with a friend somewhere between where you both are, you can consult A Place Between Us. Watch out, there have been reports of meeting places set up in the ocean! (via the Presurfer)

Ask a GeoGeek is a Berkely site with lots of fun facts, quizzes, and funny stuff about geography aimed at grade school and middle school kids.

Antique Maps. Compare these to what we know now, and imagine the difficulty of creating them with the technology of the time. (via Ursi’s Blog)

Geography exists in fiction too. Check out this Dictionary of Imaginary Places, from Andua to Zinj. Some fictional places have detailed geography websites of their own, like Star Trek, Mordor, and Narnia.

Flash Earth. A really neat map application, combining quite a few others. I zoomed from outer space all the way to the front yard of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Manhattan. W00t! (via Dump Trumpet)

Found
This is the story of Rodney, the only survivor of the crash of Oceanic flight 815 to escape the Island.  

Maps of War presents The History of Religion, an animated map and timeline spanning 5,000 years in 90 seconds, and The Imperial History of the Middle East, which combines a timeline with maps to show you how the Middle East has been ruled by various empires over the ages.

Homo Escapeons thinks that the USA state borders should be redrawn to make them neater.

Kymaerica. The strangest geography lesson you’ll ever see.

Find the most off-color places on earth with this Google Map. Be mindful that the terms are British, which is kinda like English, but some words may confuse Yanks. (via b3ta)

Icaro Doria’s flags are graphs with legends that will make you think twice.

Geographical Quips

* I stubbed my foot on a recent visit to an Indonesian volcano.
* Krakatoa?
* Yeah, bloody painful it was.

* The wife and I took a caravan holiday to Poole.
* In Dorset?
* Yes, I'd thoroughly recommend it.

* My wife's going to the West Indies
* Jamaica?
* Of her own accord.

* Where did your mother go on vacation?
* Juneau
* No, I don't, where'd she go?

* Alaska
* Never mind, I'll ask her myself

See old Hoss to the right? He's proud of that shirt!

Diner

Waitress: Hawaii, Mister? You must be Hungary.

Gent: Yes, Siam. And I can't Romania long, either. Venice lunch ready?

Waitress: I'll Russia table. What are you Ghana Havre? Aix?

Gent: You want Tibet? I prefer Turkey. Can Jamaica cook step on the Gaza bit?

Waitress: Odessa laugh! Alaska, but listen for her Wales.

Gent: I'm not Balkan. Just put a Cuba sugar in my Java.

Waitress: Don't you be Sicily, big boy. Sweden it yourself. I'm only here to Serbia.

Gent: Denmark my check and call the Bosphorus, Egypt me. There's an Eire. I hope he'll Kenya. I don't Bolivia know who I am!

Waitress: Canada noise! I don't Caribbean. You sure Ararat!

Gent: Samoa your wisecracks? What's got India? D'you think this arguing Alps business? Why be so Chile? Be Nice!

Waitress: Don't Kiev me that Boulogne! Alemain do! Spain in the neck. Pay your Czech and don't Kuwait. Ayssinia!

Gent (to himself): I'll come back with my France and Taiwan on Zanzibar is open.

Secret Places of Google Earth

Quiz Time!

See how many countries of the world you can find with this map game. I scored a 54 the first try. (via Innings)

Can you place all 50 Unites States on a map with a timer running? I could! (via MarkJamesMurphy)

Can you name all 50 states without a map? I admit I consulted the map in my head as I did this quiz from Ironic Sams. You have ten minutes from page load to type in all 50 states. Yes, spelling counts. I did it in just over four minutes. It would have been much faster except I skipped Nevada and had to search my mental map for it. (via Metafilter)

Now for a real challenge: how many of the 192 countries who are members of the United Nations can you name in ten minutes? I got nearly half of them. The nerve-rattling clock and my typing skills betrayed me. (via the Presurfer)

OK, now try it with 44 European Countries.

And then 53 African Countries.

Did you think those were too hard? Try a quiz with no timer. The State Capitals Quiz. (via Konagod)

You Really Know Your State Capitols

Miss Cellania got ALL the state capitals correct! She’s either a geography buff... or has an excellent memory.

 
Previously on Miss Cellania: Geography, Geography 2, Geography 201, and Location, location, location.

Thought for today: Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. -Robert Byrne

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