Blaze@lemm.ee to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 8 months agoRailway map of China, with colored lines showing high-speed rail. At the beginning of 2007, China had zero kilometers of high-speed raili.redd.itimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down13
arrow-up162arrow-down1imageRailway map of China, with colored lines showing high-speed rail. At the beginning of 2007, China had zero kilometers of high-speed raili.redd.itBlaze@lemm.ee to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 8 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoI was curious, why the West is so empty. Seems like the whole South West is just the Tibetan Plateau, a widespread mountain range north of the Himalaya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau And the loop all the way in the West, that seems to be on the outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert
I was curious, why the West is so empty.
Seems like the whole South West is just the Tibetan Plateau, a widespread mountain range north of the Himalaya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau
And the loop all the way in the West, that seems to be on the outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert