#Basic Geography

[geographicbook]

Lifeline of National Economy of India

India, with its vast geographical expanse and diverse economic activities, relies heavily on a multitude of infrastructural elements that form the backbone of its national economy. From the sprawling network of roadways and railways to the bustling seaports and modern airways, each component plays a pivotal role in facilitating trade, communication, and overall economic growth. In this article,…

[noctilionoidea]

Yeehaw it’s my favourite western character Texas man from British vampire gothic horror by famous Irish guy

[nem0c]

Always assumed every major american city has the population of London and only realised the error recently.

NYC is smaller than London, Chicago and LA are each two Birminghams stapled together. San Fran is actually smaller than Birmingham.

Other major cities like Detroit and Denver and Seattle are comparable (though larger) to a Manchester or Leeds

I live in a city actually the size of New Orleans which doesn't feel right at all.

They've got states in the West whose largest cities are smaller than Blackpool.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

for a site claiming to be full of former gifted kids yall are dumb as hell

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

At a certain point blaming the school system for failing to teach you every fact becomes an excuse to absolve yourself from learning on your own time as an adult. Maybe you had bad teachers and curricula, maybe you never did the assigned reading, maybe you were taught propaganda, but it’s okay to start now. It’s okay to learn geography from online games. It’s okay to get entry level books from the library on a subject. It’s okay to explore Wikipedia and other reputable websites as a start. You can learn as an adult. You should continue learning as an adult.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Random assorted stuff about the Forgotten Realms setting: For fic and roleplaying needs, or whatever. Brief stuff about language, "I'm going to kill everyone in this party except Wyll, who actually greets me like he lives in this setting," religion, magic, time and the calendar and holidays

The proper name of the world is Abeir-Toril, which translates to "the cradle of life" in an unknown long extinct language. It's abbreviated to Toril in common use. Fourth Edition decided that the Realms to retcon Abeir-Toril into being two sister worlds, Abeir and Toril, locked in orbit but not always connected so that it could force the Dragonborn in. *grognard voice* Even though there were ways to do that without literally blowing up the setting...!

You say hello by saying "well met." It's the default phrase and it's used all the time, despite only Wyll using it, for some reason.

Common is a trade tongue, simplistic so that it can be easily learnt for it to be spoken widely and understood by pretty much everyone. It is not much use for expression or for discussing complicated topics. Most people cannot read common if you wrote it down.

The language spoken in Western Faerûn (including the Sword Coast) is Chondathan, which is something like a romance language in structure. It is not unsimilar to common, but is more complex.

The majority of Faerûnian languages (including common and Chondathan) are written in the Thorass script.

Waterdeep is part of the Sword Coast North - also just called the North, and both Chondathan and the Northern language Illuskan are spoken there. Gale might speak both. (Illuskan is basically a Germanic language.)

Toril's inhabitants are polytheistic. The people worship all the gods who are relevant to their life: You pray to Chauntea for a good harvest, to Tymora for luck, to Waukeen for financial success, to Umberlee for safe sea voyages, to gods like Shaundakul and Selûne for safe travel in general... Generally you pray to the good and neutral deities for protection and help, and the evil gods in order to pacify them so they won't capsize your ship or have their priests sacrifice you or something. Some religious individuals also favour and worship one god above the others, not all of whom are clerics. Most of them are still polytheists, even clerics, and it's unusual for somebody to devote themselves to a god at the exclusion of all others. Apparently gods keep an eye open for undedicated mortals whose behaviours and beliefs align with themselves and often try to sway those mortals into worshipping them through dreams and omens and such.

All magic comes from the Weave (Mystra is the middleman between a god and their priest in this regard) and all magic is the domain of the gods. A ranger or druid must worship a nature deity who they receive their spells from, as paladins and clerics must serve a deity. Arcane spellcasters are not required to worship, and Mystra would only be allowed to cut off a mage in response to literally Earth-levelling degrees of stupidity, but many worship her by choice for similar reasons.

Days are 24 hours long. The equivalent to a week is 10 days long, and referred to as a "tenday" or, less commonly, as a "ride." Most people do not own clocks or other means of telling the time, and nobody really tries to keep track of an hour, mostly getting by through keeping an eye on the sky/light levels, as well as the activity of the people around them, and using habit and intuition.

In human lands (that is to say, pretty much all of Faerûn) the Calendar of Harptos is used. Twelve months long, 30 days in a month. It does weird leap year stuff with an additional five festival days between months, with the celebration of Shieldmeet occurring once every four years. January = Hammer - Midwinter/Deadwinter Day Feburary = Alturiak March = Ches April = Tarsakh - Greengrass May = Mirtul June = Kythorn July = Flamerule - Midsummer -Shieldmeet (occurs once every four years) August = Eleasis September = Eleint -Highharvestide October = Marpenoth November = Uktar - Feast of the Moon December = Nightal

Midwinter: Traditionally a day for making or renewing alliances between the nobility, who celebrate it with parties. If you're a commoner and you live in the North there are no parties and you call it "Deadwinter Day" and it's a day to hope your food stores hold out and that you don't freeze this year.

Greengrass is a festival to welcome spring. Traditionally, the wealthy gift flowers to the commonfolk who wear them or offer them for the gods relevant to summer (Lathander, sun god of renewal, for example)

Midsummer is about music and feasting and also pretty much it's valentines day, with betrothals and new courtships and dancing. If the weather is bad on Midsummer then that's a bad omen.

Shieldmeet is the leap day on the calendar. Traditionally rulers are to open their council to the common folk and listen to their voices on this day. Competition and tournaments (including ones for spellcasters) are a common feature in the festivals.

Highharvestide is, as the name implies, the harvest festival as the crops are all pulled in for winter. It's also the day travellers who haven't already left wherever they're staying leave before winter sets in

The Feast of the Moon is a holiday for honouring the dead and your ancestors.

[yourplaceinaugust]

i am way too lazy to actually search for this but since mbav takes place in Ontario i wanna know whether they're closer to Ottawa or Toronto. bc Erica mentions flying into the city in 1x01 and yes there are several cities in Ontario, but it would also make sense that she's referring to Toronto or Ottawa bc those are the two main cities in Ontario (Ottawa being the capital of Canada and Toronto being the capital of Ontario). but mainly i wanna know this bc in 1x07 Ethan's dad gets hockey tickets for Ethan and Benny and then they trade them off to the guys who tried to attack them so it would make more sense that it's a major NHL game instead of just like a local game or something bc of the hype around the tickets. so i need to know if the game was a Toronto Maple Leafs game or an Ottawa Senators game

[iridiss]

how did Laurance graduate high school pretty sure medieval education wasn’t the best lol

I can guarantee it was like. 75% Garroth helping him with his homework and filling him in on everything he missed, and then 25% cadenza helping him with his homework,

[sailorsleepymoon]

How we feeling about the Tim walz vp pick gang

[sesamenom]

been poking around at a numenor-based pokemon region for the past year or two

here's the concepts for the grass gym leader (he's basically a dancing-bear selkie) and his ace pokemon Laurelord (based off laurinque + the white tree)

[syunkiss]

I still don't know if Connecticut is actually real or if it was invented here on tumblr

[geographicbook]

Manufacturing Industries in India

Introduction Manufacturing industries play a pivotal role in the economic development of a country like India. They contribute significantly to GDP, employment generation, and technological advancement. However, the importance of manufacturing must be balanced with the challenges it poses, such as industrial pollution and environmental degradation. In this article, we delve into the significance…

[lesbian-elrond]

I've been saying I'm terrible at geography for years, because other people seem to have this innate knowledge of where things are that I do not have/have been trying to teach myself from scratch as an adult. It's only occurring to me now that we were never shown a world map (or even a map of europe) when I was at school....is that normal? Did yous get that? Anyway now I'm curious

Pls reblog and put your country in the tags!!

[two-hands-toward-the-sun]

i lose braincells every time rosalía shows up on a “latin” mix

[cornedbread]

I did so much studying of the Russian oblasts and Japanese prefectures just for BBAU 😭 also a little bit of Philippine regions and UK countries.

I literally did not care about geography before, I knew it was important but I wasn’t interested. But ever since I joined BBAU, I’ve become somewhat invested. I’m really happy I’m finally incetivised to learn about these topics. @floororangejuice can vouch for how crazy I went.

[murderousphoenix]

Lanceposting Wednesday!!! my best friend’s dad took the last one btw