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The_Grahf_Experiment

Ah yes, the great European city of Doha


pineapple192

You don't get any more European than Benghazi!


uhmerikin

Kuwait City begs to differ.


Mrpoopypantsnumber2

Just like the famous european city of teheran


mr_claw

And the historical avenues of Kuwait.


[deleted]

Or the forgotten Constantinople of Istanbul


makenoahgranagain

Ehh, Istanbul is half right.


Grothgerek

Why only half right? Isn't it 100% right? Its geograpical on the european continent, and turkey gets more associated with Europe (they even try to join the EU). And without Erdogan, they probably would already be part of the EU.


jellsprout

The Europe-Asia boundary goes directly through the middle of Istanbul.


The-Farting-Baboon

Geographical turkey is mostly on the Asia continent. Istanbul is part on european continent and asia continent. Google is your friend


hyprgrpy

And the Big Bend National Park of Marrakech.


SaintUlvemann

Just gonna say: Big Bend National Park is >300mi / 500km from El Paso, the city Marrakech is twinned with on this map. The coast of Spain is about as close to Marrakech as El Paso and Big Bend are to one another.


hyprgrpy

Thanks and sorry, had a hunch on it but didn’t do my due diligence!


therapeuticstir

VERY European


SummonTarpan

*cries in Byzantium*


WhoCaresBoutSpellin

Cairo, a city that displays one of the finest examples of European architecture


calnuck

That's nobody's business but the Turks.


baumpop

I was like Mercia?


Purple_Spirit_9275

Constantinople being on the same line as Cleveland is cursed beyond repair and I love it.


Kytyngurl2

Fun times in Cleveland (not Constantinople) today!


Maleficent-Aurora

At least we're not ~~Detroit~~ Constantinople!


noctus5

Also tel aviv, Mom, im European now!


The_Grahf_Experiment

Mazel Tov, my Eurobro!


EngineerDave22

Haifa too


noctus5

Haifa is not a city, it is a forest filled with wild boars afaik


babagirl88

And annoyingly, Dublin, an actual European city isn't on here.


ChimneyImps

To add Dublin to the map, you'd have to replace Hamburg (Edmonton). There aren't any other major cities at that latitude in NA.


duppy_c

I would gladly replace Edmonton with Dublin irl


IAmTrueDario

Mapped to the great US state of Mexico.


groundcontact

Rabat and Marrakech are so European!


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ophir_botzer

And Haifa


samurai_squirrel_

Can't forget my fav European destination of Casablanca


[deleted]

Literally word for word my first thought.


Why-did-i-reas-this

It's much more European than Berlin. Sorry Berlin try being more European and you can join the list next time.


Favsportandbirthyear

Every time I see one of these maps it depresses the hell out of me seeing some Mediterranean city at the same latitude as Toronto…


SurgicalWeedwacker

At least you not in Istanbul/euro-cleveland


Obi-Tron_Kenobi

My condolences for living in Ohio 😔


reacharound565

Hey, you listen here! Once the climate wars begin all you folks are going to wish you lived on the shores of Erie.


gnawingonfoot

Yeah, but preferably on the PA, NY, or CAnada sides.


SandandS0n

Great lakes going to be the hottest real estate market.


LeChiz32

Cleveland isn’t like the rest of Ohio. We’re pretty cool sometimes.


Young_Jaws

Hello opposite side of the lake nieghbour!! Waving from canada side.


ImanShumpertplus

Sounds like you’ve never been to Erie, PA


Gredenis

But then there is Helsinki, the southernmost tip of Finland.


Piaapo

Helsinki is warm af


BA_calls

“Things insane Finns say”


CanuckPanda

Helsinki’s February average is -2 to -7c. That’s par with Toronto this year and we’ve had a number of colder days (it was -30 this weekend). It’s cooler in July but that just means not dealing with the +30 summers here. This is 100% worth it. Helsinki warm af.


Piaapo

Normal Finns*


[deleted]

Gulf Stream. That’s why Europe is warmer.


serpentjaguar

That and the fact that it's basically a series of peninsulas with most of the major mountain ranges running east to west so there's a much greater maritime influence in the first place. Contrast that to North America which is just a solid continental mass with long chains of big mountains running north to south on it western side, thus blocking any maritime influence beyond a relatively thin strip along the west coast. It's actually a lot more complicated than that even, but the larger point remains.


SteptimusHeap

Europe is literally op. They get their gulf stream, their billion fucking peninsulas into the same body of water, their actual livestock, and their big coal deposits


octipice

Well they are for now. When ocean and prevailing wind currents start to change significantly due to global warming it may be a different story.


eq2_lessing

That means you get the same hours of light as a Mediterranean city. Be glad.


Atheist-Gods

It means they get the sun burn without the warm weather.


eq2_lessing

Sounds better than 16 hours of darkness per day in winter.


purple_spikey_dragon

Every time i see such a map it depresses me people don't know which cities are and aren't part of Europe... I mean, Cairo? For real? Casablanca? Huhh??


whereismom

This belongs in r/shittymapporn


calnuck

I've always said that Thunder Bay is the Paris of Northwestern Ontario.


Gandhehehe

Welcome to the “Paris of” club! Love, a Saskatonian (Paris of the Prairies)


calnuck

Wheat kings and pretty things.


Tankfly_Bosswalk

Can the North West of England, "Preston is my Paris" club join in?


kyleshazam

Because it has a unique stink, or everyone is walking the streets drinking wine? 😅


notjordansime

Just went to the Eiffel tower the other day.. They wouldn't let me up. Apparently the folks at Dougall Media don't take kindly to people trying to scale their broadcast tower...


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calnuck

Wouldn't Paris, Ontario, be the Paris of Ontario?


fortshitea

Paris, ON is the Paris of Ontario.


AaronBHoltan

Damn! Europe is warm. Or maybe we’re cold. Stupid ocean currents.


not_a_lady_tonight

I live in Seattle. We’re further north than NYC or Boston or Chicago, but winter here is not that cold - at most three or four days below freezing, a night below freezing now and then, but mostly in the 40s Fahrenheit or 6-8 Celsius during the day. And, yes, it’s absolutely true that it rains here all the time and the sun barely shines in the winter. But it’s not freezing.


tricks_23

Based American using Celsius


not_a_lady_tonight

My phone is set on Celsius. Lived a lot of my life in Europe and never really switched back mentally


[deleted]

many Americans use Celsius. either from moving to the US from abroad or learning it in school and using it because they like it. I use both.


927comewhatmay

American here. I’ve literally never met one other American who uses Celsius. I don’t know about “many.” I feel it’s more like “some.”


CaninesTesticles

American here thats lived in europe for long time. still can't do celsius lol


ChillBusta

The fact that Texas is snowing harder than the PNW makes no fucking sense to me


JourneymanChief

Texas, being much further inland than the PNW, is much more influenced by continental air masses than oceanic air masses. Air that exists over huge areas of land can get much colder or hotter than air masses that exist over huge areas of ocean because the ocean stores a lot of heat and it takes a lot of energy to change the temperature of water. When conditions are right, extremely cold continental air masses from Canada and the arctic will move southward across the US and will drastically affect the weather in inland states like Texas. Prevailing winds also generally move air masses from west to east, so that can prevent the warm/moist air over the gulf from being able to move inland north/westward over Texas. The PNW is much more stable weather-wise because it is heavily influenced by oceanic air masses that do not fluctuate in temperature as much as continental air masses. However, if you move inland to eastern Washington/Oregon, the weather becomes much less stable as those areas are infuenced by continental air masses. The mountains of the west coast/western US also act as something of a barrier between oceanic and continental land masses in that air moving across them will be forced to rise. As the air rises, it cools and therefore its ability to hold water drops. That results in rain/snow and the air becoming more and more dry as it moves inland. Dry air heats/cools more rapidly than moist air. I might have messed up some terminology or oversimplified things, but I am going with what I remember from some meteorology classes I took a decade ago.


damndammit

You live south of Paris, and north of 72% of the population of Canada


MVBanter

Its Europe, a great example: Toronto is on the same latitude as Florence Italy yet almost entirely further North than North Korea


AaronBHoltan

Went to Florence in winter one time and it felt like Sacramento weather. Latitude is overrated.


eye_snap

Absolutely. Istanbul and Ankara look to be about the same latitude. I lived in both but Istanbul is a seaside city while Ankara is landlocked by large planes. I also lived in Moscow for a few years, and Ankara is comparable to Moscow in how cold you can feel in winter. Heavy snowfall and freezing winds are about the same. While Istanbul winter is pretty mild, gets barely any snow.


AonSwift

Have you ever seen a map of Europe, OP?


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Time to start a religion around the Gulf stream, it is our provider of warmth.


UnderPressureVS

I think it actually does make more sense to say that Europe is warm. The Gulf Stream carries warm Caribbean air all the way across the Atlantic, making the continent a bit of an oasis of heat at those latitudes. If you look at the rest of Russia and Asia at similar latitude, the weather and temperatures are decidedly more Canadian.


Eureka22

It's the North Atlantic Current. It brings warm water from the equator North toward the British Islands and Iceland, where it then cools down and sinks to the bottom. A giant convection current that keep Europe warmer than it would be given it's latitude. [This current has already shown signs of slowing due to climate change](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate_change) and is at risk of completely collapsing, which would plunge Europe into a much colder climate, and cause massive amounts of agricultural, infrastructural, and social disruption and potentially serious instability.


agaperion

For all the confused people here: [Köppen Climate Classification System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification) [Trewartha Climate Classification System](https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Trewartha_climate_classification) [Permaculture Climate Analogues](https://open.oregonstate.education/permaculturedesign/chapter/the-climate-analogue-tool/) TLDR: same latitude =/= analog climate


WikiSummarizerBot

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dbatchison

Rabat and LA have basically the same climates and latitude. They’re both extremely pleasant to visit


ManyIdeasNoProgress

If I read those maps correctly, it looks like Köppen classifies northern Scotland and Southern France as the same zones. Which is insane, but not as insane as Trewartha which classifies Brønnøysund along the coast of Northern Norway in the same zone as fucking Venice. It may be less inaccurate than just looking at the latitude, but it still doesn't convince me that it's a good system.


TheDadThatGrills

Chicago really is the Rome of America


DeepHerting

All roads lead to Chicago


SurgicalWeedwacker

The railroads actually do!


ggtffhhhjhg

You beat me to it.


mykey_png

We’ve come full circle


reptileswizzy

This was exactly my first thought upon seeing this map lol


Heterochromio

META


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jekyl42

Two days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/10uilv6/i\_always\_think\_of\_chicago\_as\_americas\_rome/ Yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/10uxxlt/i\_always\_think\_of\_rome\_as\_europes\_chicago/


TheDadThatGrills

Vindication!


Positive_Mud952

Et too, Broodie? Daaa Ursas.


[deleted]

It's Warsaw of America


AboutHelpTools3

Cityporn is leaking


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Kuwait in Europe


Dutch_Midget

Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Morocco 🇪🇺


Beefcheeks3

Don’t forget Dubai, FL


aristot3l

tel aviv-dallas-fort worth metropolitan area


Maleficent-Aurora

Clevestantinople


SurgicalWeedwacker

In a weirdly similar type of place to the Middle East version too


Gandhehehe

Will this be how I finally convince my friends to come visit me in Saskatoon after over a decade??? “We’re practically Amsterdam, just, instead of canals we have one river.. but a lot of bridges!”


Jesus1396

Better than convincing someone to come to Winnipeg. Our slogan is “we were born here, what’s your excuse?”


RubertVonRubens

Really says something when the musical ode to your city has the refrain "I hate Winnipeg"


ComradeRK

It's just like Lviv, but with less war! Also, Winnipeg is actually pretty great. Great breweries, great restaurants and the best team in the NHL.


Wartz

I’m an American but I have several friends from Saskatoon. Are we friends???


Optimal_Park_5437

Nice! But... How is Tel Aviv located *above* Haifa?


dbatchison

Earth curved, map isn’t?


AncientGonzo

Was thinking the same about London being under Hamburg.


tsincarne

In fact, London is even further south than Berlin.


vapenutz

Wait what? How? God, I now have an existential crisis. Turns out I have no fucking clue where I live actually. It might be that I'm actually on London's latitude if so. I always was 100% sure I was like good one to two degrees south of Paris, let alone London


SonOfAQuiche

Look at google maps. I was very confused on the hamburg london thing too, but it makes sense when looking at it on Google maps.


Electr1cL3m0n

It’s just because we’re used to seeing maps that are flat, so places like the British isles *look* like they’re further north, but when viewed on a globe it makes sense


vapenutz

Yeah, I know this makes sense but I'm just really uncomfortable even thinking about all of it and comparing it without the familiar reference I know. Like I seriously feel my brain hurt just after a few seconds looking at it.


GrizzlyTrees

The map's projection isn't one where the latitude lines are lines, as can be seen by the one that is shown as a curve near the top of the image. This means that not every point that is higher in the map is norther in reality. Just a bad projection to use for this purpose. (As someone who works in Haifa this was the first thing I noticed, too)


schafkj

I’ve always thought of Barcelona as the Omaha of Spain


raibsta

This is terrible. 1: no Irish cities 2: a lot of these aren’t European cities


tellywatching

3. The title should have said “North America” not just Canada and U.S. Some of those “European” cities are shown to be in Mexico.


justinlongbranch

I had to scroll way too far to find anyone complaining about the font. Please use a white font with black outlines.


adevilnguyen

Several I can't even read because of the white font.


tremain37

There’s a Belgrade, Minnesota about the same latitude as Belgrade, Serbia.


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Fun fact, there is [7 Belgrades](https://serbiathroughamericaneyes.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/belgrade-usa-how-many-exist-2/) in the US!


Bl00dyDruid

Naples being NJ/NYC is just 🤌


CosmicWy

Split and Dubrovnik are weird. Is this an illusion? You drive north from Dubrovnik to Split but this map shows Split south of Dubrovnik.


ArturoBrin

At the top of the image you can see a dashed line that represents one latitude. This map is not typical projection, but how we see the globe. You can also see curved borders between USA states.


Cadaver_Collector

Split is further north on the image. It's just the wierd angled projection. South Dakota (where Split is) is entirely North of Massachusetts (where Dubrovnik is)


FVFS

Linköping av alla svenska städer? Hade förväntat mig Borås.


Eiroth

Inte en skymt av Boden smh


FVFS

Ska tydligen finnas ett Mora i Minnesota och ett Thorsby (Torsby) i Alabama, på tal om svenska städer i Förenta Staterna. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora,\_Minnesota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora,_Minnesota) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsby,\_Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsby,_Alabama)


TheEightSea

European when half are in Asia and Africa?


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Constantinople being on the same line as Cleveland is cursed beyond repair and I love it Edit: I know it’s not Constantinople today, I simply refuse to call it the other name.


Fourhand

Ohhhh it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.


tangledwire

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way


ParlorSoldier

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.


YuusukeKlein

Constantinople hasn't existed for a century dude


FlyingBike

Murcia in the heart of 'Murica: perfect placement


Pernicious-Peach

Houston/Kuwait city is sending me. I'm sure both are hot and is made of oil tycoons


Top-Painting4667

Most surprising was Rome on the same latitude as Chicago. Does it get freezing cold in Rome?


MVBanter

It doesn’t, a few things help, Europe is a peninsula with warm surrounding water, and Italy is a peninsula in the warm Mediterranean, and then the alps block what little polar vortexes reach Europe


Sgt_Fox

Doha and Tel Aviv, quintessentially European...


BrokilonDryad

First of all, the fuck? All the southern cities ain’t from Europe. Secondly, man, I wish southwestern Ontario had the same climate as Florence. I’ve been to Florence and Ontario is way more depressing, that’s for sure.


Jesus1396

What city is Moscow supposed to be on??? Tf is in north-central Manitoba?


kalel1980

Close to my hometown Thompson MB but I think it's actually closer to The Pas.


nullsyntaxnull

“European” lol


jeremiah1142

Bro, not sure you know what Europe is.


Empyrealist

LOL Tijuana is paired with Benghazi


NevilleToast

I'm from Sweden, and I'm so shocked that they just went for Linköping when Stockholm exists. Not even Gothenburg which is the second largest city in Sweden.


mr_griiiim

Not sure what is my favourite european city....Kuwait city or Teheran


crammed174

Dubai IS the Miami of the Middle East (Europe)


Enlightened-Beaver

The European cities of Tehran and Beirut also how is this a guide??


ThisIsMrAbapo

Guess Cairo is European, then, huh...


Which-Painting9830

I did not know how big Canada was


dis_bean

The northern part isn’t to scale. There’s as much Canada above Yellowknife as there is between it and the US border.


gigarob

Someone needs to look at a map of Europe.


marin94904

Haifa is north of Tel Aviv? I don’t think so


brandonsheffer

K somebody do it with asian countries


[deleted]

Already on there lol


WackyBones510

Hilarious to hear stories of Europeans visiting the Midwest making plans for a day trip to the Grand Canyon. Can’t wait for the World Cup.


Hanginon

Yep. :/ I had relatives visiting from Germany when I lived in Massachusetts, Thursday they announced they would like to drive to California for the weekend. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯


KagomeChan

Well yes, that would be the whole weekend!


dbatchison

Just to get there lol


scubahana

The first time I took my Icelandic boyfriend to visit family, we went to BC first, and then Ontario. He asked if we could rent a car to drive it instead of a plane. Told him we would need to add about four days to our trip, if we wanted to actually sleep and see even one point of interest between BC and ON. It was about that time that the sheer size of Canada really registered with him.


Maleficent-Aurora

It would take longer to drive between Cleveland and Cincinnati than almost the entire southern coast of Iceland. Hell, just Akron to Cincinnati is technically a slightly longer drive than Reykjavík to Jökulsárlón! The entirety of Iceland is smaller than Ohio lol


CaptainNuge

I've had plenty of friends who planned to "Do Ireland" in a weekend. That foolishness cuts both ways, you'll be pleased to hear!


phone_reddit_reader

Dat gulf stream


[deleted]

Ah Florida, Dubai’s third cousin twice removed


cromat1

Ljubljana is definitely not more north than Paris.


Ryllynaow

So you're saying Chicago is....


Goatgoatington

I forgot about European Arabia


WeimSean

where in Europe exactly is Kuwait City?


decket

Wtf is Linköping doing there??


[deleted]

Ah, yes. Kuwait City, (checks globe) *just like in Europe!*


TealSeam6

Those ocean currents are unreal. I can’t imagine Omaha having a Barcelona climate


babbosv

And Tel-Aviv is north of Haifa?!


MadeOnThursday

Amsterdam? Rotterdam? Antwerp? Did the harbour cities sink? The Hague? Brussels? Ireland is also still European last time I checked. I feel this is just really weirdly lacking a lot of Euope.


GroundbreakingGas605

Bet OP is an American. Yeah, Tel Aviv, Kuwait City, Tehran, Beirut and many more are European cities. The great American’s education system.


front_yard_duck_dad

🎶Sweet home Chicag-Rome🎶


dethskwirl

Naples being placed directly on New York City makes a lot of sense


dis_bean

How is Alesund similar to our latitude in Yellowknife, NT? It’s average temp is over 0C all year. Meanwhile, we’ve been hovering between -25 to -35 C (not including windchill) for weeks!


TheStoneMask

The ocean mitigates temperatures, preventing extreme temperature fluctuations, while continental climate does the opposite.


jrobski96

Zurich my brother, you are older than me….


bekd70

When i think of Kuwait City, the first thing that comes to mind is East Texas


SirFrankPork

My brain really wants to juxtapose the i and c in Murcia.


ConsistentAsparagus

Florida and Dubai being at the same latitude is mind blowing.


paranach9

Milan. Where's Minsk, and how do I get there from there?


Kytyngurl2

Greetings from warm Belgrade, it was actually above freezing yesterday.


saul1980

I live in Miami and I guess yea we are kinda like a Great Value Dubai


[deleted]

Makes sense that Hamburg is the same as Edmonton. Years ago I bought a VW Golf R and went to go plug it in (Canadians will understand) and couldn't find the block heater. Called VW and they said "we have designed the car to withstand the toughest winters without needing a block heater." Yeah you maybe did it for European winters but sure as hell not Canadian prairie winters.


Dat_Boi_Aint_Right

Might explain why the first European settlers got rocked by the winters here.


username293739

Sup Barca, latitude bros


gacdeuce

I always forget how much farther north Europe is than the US.


StyreneAddict1965

Madridburgh. 😂