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[–] [email protected] 108 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Ah yes China or Russia, countries famously small enough to have a single simple climate.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The map shows Russia as having climates similar to Nebraska as well as Greenland. I don’t think that’s really a single simple climate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I think the concept might be mapping them so there's some kind of scale proportion between the countries their NA equivalent, as well as a climate one. There's still some misses, though. I'm not sure how "Eastern Europe" compares to the continental divide, and Ukraine has got to be larger than Japan.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

To be fair, those areas of North America don't have a single simple climate either. It is pretty unhelpful though, I'll grant you that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, there aren't a lot of areas around that size in the world with deserts, jungles, and monsoons. It's a pretty good comparison, as much as it's possible for there even to be one between regions that large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I dont think it snows in that area, i might be wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee don’t really have the same climate as the sun belt states either so I was taking it as the climate in northern china vs SE china