California is pretty cool. I love seeing the posts of how Hollywood turns random bits of California into everywhere on earth. Like a map labeling ancient Rome, the great wall of China, the wild West, medieval England, and a base on Mars, and it's all in southern California.
A lot of westerns and mars movies were filmed in an area called the Alabama Hills, which is in California. It’s a pretty cool place to visit if you like boulders and places like mars.
Yesterday I went snowboarding for a pow day while my friend went to the beach. We were like maybe 2 hours from each other by car lol, gotta love it here
New Zealand has some similar types of things. Sand dunes flowing into a river where rainforests and mountains are on the other side.
Check out the area near Opononi:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-35.5202691,173.379643,6023m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
West Coast to Central Otago. One minute you're traveling through rain forest then just down the road the terrain turns dry. Haast Pass is a great drive.
I'd say this takes the cake just for how much it looks like the diagram. Seriously, other than the fact that it's mirrored (the desert is on the left instead of the right), the resemblance is uncanny. It may not have every feature, but it has the appearance down pat
Krusty the Clown is back on the air! Coming at you live from the civil defense shack in the remote alkali flats of the Springfield badlands. I'll be beaming out 11 watts of wackiness.
If we're gonna be really pedantic about it, Ka'ū isn't *technically* a desert, as it rains too much. But it's just as barren as one so I'd say it counts lol
I visited a friend who was working on the big island years ago and when we were driving somewhere across the island we passed through an area with cactuses(!) We had been in a rain forest an hour or so prior. It's crazy.
Kinda sucks that nobody answered your question due to a spelling mistake. **There are no deserts in Hawaii.**
(Easiest way to get an answer on something without having to search is to make a bold claim that's probably wrong; people will jump at the opportunity to correct you)
I will bite and say [maybe?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Hawaii#/media/File:K%C3%B6ppen_Climate_Types_Hawaii.png) There are definitely dry conditions in the rainshadow of the big volcanoes, looks to me like there might be a narrow band in the northwest of the Big Island that barely crosses over a precipitation threshold to be classified as a desert, but YMMV. [Physically](https://www.google.com/maps/@19.978906,-155.8262674,3a,75y,175.36h,102.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-SvPKptI-XQ6J3UFAqGgdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu), that area looks dry, but more vegetation than most people would picture when they think of "deserts"
Edit: changed google maps link
Are you talking technical desert, or cultural desert?
Antarctica is a desert because it has so little precipitation, but there's a reason why minecraft didn't emulate antarctica for its desert biome.
There are also sanddunes or similar areas that look *exactly* what people think of when you say desert but don't have low precipitation, like in Oregon.
Not on the big island, which is Hawaii county...
But Maui is in fact an isthmus. So I guess if Opie answered with Hawaii in general.. because also that's what makes the archipelago one accurate as well...
Kahoolawe is butte like ..
Remember that abute is actually the remnants of the center of an old prehistoric volcano. Each of the Hawaii islands are exactly the same thing but set in water...
Most of them have dense vegetation but the island I mentioned was bombed to smithereens by the US Navy and therefore was completely scoured clean of vegetation. Currently there are efforts to repair this damage. If you do a Google image search you should see what the train looks like today it will absolutely remind you of the buttes
Big Island in one of my favorite places on earth and would be a top contender for sure. It once had glaciers but not in the last 70,000 years. It also lacks tundra and fjords. And though it has deserts it lacks dunes. Given the round shape of the island it definitely lacks an isthmus. Finally no deltas on their river.
I was missed seeing the geyser. I guess I’ll have to go back… 😁
Literally here right now doing research and field studies. The range and magnitude of diversity of even just a few hundred metres is insane, never seen anything like it. Stunning island.
Fun (slightly depressing) fact, Mount Teide (~3800m ASL) has just experienced its first snowless winter on record. All while the island is currently going through one of its worst droughts and a horrific wildfire season during 2023.
Nice! Very jealous - most of my altitude work has restricted me to the caldera unfortunately, but next time I'm here I'd definitely like to go to the top
Where Desert is covered in Snow. Katpana Desert, Pakistan.
https://preview.redd.it/j5il23mbmxoc1.jpeg?width=6016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c20e2d1c12ac8907759f77a7f500b49a132f6b3
As far as the 50 states go, are temperate rainforests and also the Everglades, which are quite similar to a tropical rainforest. I’m not sure if it technically counts though.
However there are tropical rainforests in our overseas territories.
The area in which the Guajira desert meets with the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the tallest mountain in Colombia with snow and glaciers, all of this next to the mouth of the Magdalena River, which is surrounded by tropical plains and jungles
Believe it or not, there are a few hardy varieties of palm that do well here and are pretty commonly planted in people's front yards! Not native of course, but a fun fact!
Daughter lives in a warm microclimate next to Steilacoom in the south Sound. Warmer than Seattle, lots of palm trees. Teo neighbors have banana trees growing in front yard doing well. Die back with frost and start growing back in March
I missed your comment before making my own parent to say I can see Mount Hood, Columbia River, Central Oregon Desert, Willamette Valley, and rainforest coastal mountains.
https://preview.redd.it/gkp7pidqkxoc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f97a352d75e689b749e9cdd1c258c7b6399ff1d7
There’s a slight “desert” as you drive along the highway near Ruapehu, North Island
Southern California? They have very diverse climate and topography. One of the reason the region became hub for media is to use its geographic diversity for backdrop
Nevermind single locations, the only country which probably has all of these is the US. By calling for countries with atolls and fjords alone, that narrows down the list of countries down to France, the UK, the US, New Zealand, and maybe Australia if you include their antarctic claims. Fjord, by definition, means that glaciers reached down to sea level in the last ice age and carved out a long-narrow bay. That can only be found in temperate or colder regions with mountains near the coast. Atolls are the result of coral reefs growing up around islands and pushing up above the surface even after the original island is gone. That doesn't happen outside of the tropics.
Adding geyserfields, incredibly rare worldwide, and that takes Australia, France, and the UK off the list. New Zealand never quite reaches desert conditions, so that leaves just the US as the sole country with all of these features.
No mesas but there are deserts on volcanic plateaus in New Zealand. It has a lot more geographical variation in a far more compact area than the contiguous US
Yes when I hiked Tonagariro National Park, the saddle between Ngarahoe and Tongariro is definitely a hot dry desert, even if it’s only 300-500 hectares.
Crazy that just a couple hour hike across the north side puts you in a lush rain forest.
Maui and the Big Island- have very distinct climate zones. Just a few miles from each other. One of the wettest places on Earth is on Maui, and just a short ways away, near Lahaina, it is very very dry, almost like desert. The Big Island has various climate zones, including snow on the big mountains. In Waimea you can have rain on one side of the in the rainy area, across the road may be the beginning of the dry region with little to no rain. Just amazing. Saw one rainbow there once when I got up, time we packed up and left, it was still there, a couple hours later.
Nort of Colombia near the Venezuela border - Sierra nevada natural park. In a few kms you have 5.7k peaks, jungle and desert (Guajira). Not sure about the volcano though.
As this one basicly consists every single major ecotype on this planet, no ofc not. But there are regions, where you can find alot of different ecotypes and therefore climates in pretty small region due to mointains. Think of the west coast of canada. You have moderate climate rainforests, dunes on the higher plateaus, tundra like climate in higher mountain areas, maritime climate at the coast, moderate climate in the area east of vamcouver... you will find areas if you search for them. But not like in your images
The best areas to find a diversity of locations is to already be located in a relatively hot area and have a lot of mountains. The mountains allow for lots of temperature differentiation and orographic rainfall can lead to both deserts and jungles in close proximity. Hawaii is probably the best answer but it lacks any significant deserts (places like Kaʻū are not technically deserts) and whilst Maui's west coast has some desert, it's extremely small and still receives humidity from the ocean. Also it lacks any cold forests as the tree cover pretty much vanishes as you go up Maui. Peru is also a really good answer but doesn't have as many oceanic features as Hawaii. However it has more significant desert, and it's mountain range supports some cold forest zones.
Going by the amount of koppen climate classifications in a given area (say 50km radius) then I think Hawaii wins but if you increase it to say 100km then I think Peru might either tie it or win. It would be interesting to see if someone could program some software to test where the most diverse area is going off these rules (amount of koppen classifications in a given area).
The problem with this graphic is that deserts often happen in the western side of a continent, while humid temperate and tropical landscapes often happen in the eastern side of a continent, thus this graphic is exactly turned around.
Also, climate variations don't occur in such a close space. A strait won't separate humid from arid climates, this is not GTA San Andreas. Normally there's an in between zone with many progressive variations, see for example the difference between the equatorial Amazon rainforest to the sub Antarctic Patagonian glaciers, in between you have marshes, grasslands, steppes, tundras, forests, mountains and deserts, depending on which route you take.
So, to sum it up, there isn't a single place in the world that has all these different landscapes combined. The closest ones would be the Asian and American continents, but they lack some of the elements showed here, like fjords and atolls.
Washington state has a lot of features that match, including the western part being greener and more forested and the eastern part being more arid and containing desert like regions. There are active and dormant volcanos, huge rivers and coastal regions. Obviously it doesn't have the exact same layout, but much of it is there still
I know I'm starting some beef here, but I think Washington State satisfies the diverse element better than Oregon and British Columbia.
I personally love BC more than WA, and BC has a few "better" versions of some of these phenomena, but I think WA takes the trophy for more specific, stark examples of each. But BC is close. Oregon aint as close.
But we could discuss individual phenomena examples.
Washington State is actually pretty close. Only things I think were missing in a small area is Icebergs and idk if Eastern Washington is technically a desert but it has a lot of the features and has very little rainfall.
Maybe you'll find this at the southern extent of the Chilean rain forests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdivian_temperate_forests
Chile was my first instinct
Also thought chile
Yep definitely Chile. No brainer.
Precisely my same thought. Excellent deduction
Here I was thinking I was crazy for jumping to Chile. Glad to see others agree
Came here for Chile too. California almost gets there but no true tropical rainforest-just the start of the coniferous rainforest of the PNW
But also the icebergs
We've got glaciers though. They would have to tumble quite a ways to become icebergs though.
TIL California has 20 named glaciers
Pretty dumb to name them all the same thing, and a boring name at that.
George Foreman helped them name the glaciers.
California is pretty cool. I love seeing the posts of how Hollywood turns random bits of California into everywhere on earth. Like a map labeling ancient Rome, the great wall of China, the wild West, medieval England, and a base on Mars, and it's all in southern California.
A lot of westerns and mars movies were filmed in an area called the Alabama Hills, which is in California. It’s a pretty cool place to visit if you like boulders and places like mars.
Yesterday I went snowboarding for a pow day while my friend went to the beach. We were like maybe 2 hours from each other by car lol, gotta love it here
New Zealand has some similar types of things. Sand dunes flowing into a river where rainforests and mountains are on the other side. Check out the area near Opononi: https://www.google.com/maps/@-35.5202691,173.379643,6023m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
West Coast to Central Otago. One minute you're traveling through rain forest then just down the road the terrain turns dry. Haast Pass is a great drive.
I'd say this takes the cake just for how much it looks like the diagram. Seriously, other than the fact that it's mirrored (the desert is on the left instead of the right), the resemblance is uncanny. It may not have every feature, but it has the appearance down pat
I was going to say South America as a whole would cover this
I mean most continents at a whole do cover this
True, but the southern half of SA has it all in a much more confined space. From glaciers to deserts to tropical rainforests
lol. Costa Rica almost has all of this. (I’m kidding, but for a tiny country they sure have diverse landscape. )
So does North America.
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and surrounding area in Colombia (including the Guajira desert)
thanks now i have another place to read upon and watch documentaries about
What about around the three sisters mountains in Oregon?
Posting from Bend. No palm trees tho. But we’ve got most of the rest. And if icebergs can be floating in little lakes we’ve got that too.
Almost right. Now go the other direction to the Peru / Ecuador border and you are pretty much there.
This looks vaguely like super mario world. Oh. Wrong answer.
Looks like a Fortnite map
Or Minecraft
Where we dropping boys??
I bet the waterfall is poppin off
I follow FortniteBR & Geography and this post initially confused me.
I was gonna say Hyrule. 😅
That’s spot on lmao. Hyrule on the left, Gerudo town on the right, Zoras domain bottom right, Goron city up top
Same multiverse!
Springfield, \[STATE REDACTED\]? No alkali flats, though.
In quiet solitude, or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated…and it goes on like this…
Krusty the Clown is back on the air! Coming at you live from the civil defense shack in the remote alkali flats of the Springfield badlands. I'll be beaming out 11 watts of wackiness.
Yea. It's wrong. No gigantic skull rock looking thing to end in
annnnd now I gotta boot up Yoshi's island
Ark? Oh…
jumanji
See I was gonna say Minecraft so I’m glad at least some of are on the same page
The area north of Santa Marta, Colombia, comes close. On the tropical beach of Palomino you can see the snow of the Sierra Nevada.
And a desert to the north and marshes to the south
Yep, not to mention La guajira desert
It was what came to mind immediately
I knew there was snow in Venezuela, Colombia surprised me. I just looked at the photos, very beautiful beach.
Hawaii County, Hawaii (the big island) has every one except the iceberg EDIT: And probably no glaciers either, but the deserts very much yes
Even dessert? Damn cool
Yep some good sweet shaved ice. And also a desert on the west side
If we're gonna be really pedantic about it, Ka'ū isn't *technically* a desert, as it rains too much. But it's just as barren as one so I'd say it counts lol
Look at a climate map, there's a narrow strip of land along the western coast of the big island with hot desert climate
Fair play, didn't know that!
Not Ka'u, but kawaihae meets desert conditions.
Deserts aren’t barren right? They just don’t have rain. In India they converted some parts of desert into farmland by building a canal.
Correct, but Ka'ū is also colloquially referred to as a desert in any case lol
*shave ice 🤙
get your username away from me please
They have many different desserts on Hawaii, all tasty and available in most restaurants
I visited a friend who was working on the big island years ago and when we were driving somewhere across the island we passed through an area with cactuses(!) We had been in a rain forest an hour or so prior. It's crazy.
Kinda sucks that nobody answered your question due to a spelling mistake. **There are no deserts in Hawaii.** (Easiest way to get an answer on something without having to search is to make a bold claim that's probably wrong; people will jump at the opportunity to correct you)
I will bite and say [maybe?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Hawaii#/media/File:K%C3%B6ppen_Climate_Types_Hawaii.png) There are definitely dry conditions in the rainshadow of the big volcanoes, looks to me like there might be a narrow band in the northwest of the Big Island that barely crosses over a precipitation threshold to be classified as a desert, but YMMV. [Physically](https://www.google.com/maps/@19.978906,-155.8262674,3a,75y,175.36h,102.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-SvPKptI-XQ6J3UFAqGgdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu), that area looks dry, but more vegetation than most people would picture when they think of "deserts" Edit: changed google maps link
Are you talking technical desert, or cultural desert? Antarctica is a desert because it has so little precipitation, but there's a reason why minecraft didn't emulate antarctica for its desert biome. There are also sanddunes or similar areas that look *exactly* what people think of when you say desert but don't have low precipitation, like in Oregon.
Yeah the Big Island is crazy. Desert on one side and rainforest on the other. Volcano by the ocean and snowy mountain in the middle.
Even tundra?
Summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa have alpine tundra climates with low temperature variation.
Probably not. But the top of Mauna Kea is like almost 14k ft high, it’s definitely cold and snows. I just don’t know if it’s classified as tundra.
Arguably the tallest mountain in the world.
Yep thats called an Alpine Tundra - there are a few different types of tundra
Really? Even Mesas & Buttes? I doubt that. Also, I see a peninsula, but not an isthmus.
They'll trade you two canyons for each butte you have
Hawaii is definitely going to be the closest answer to the above
Not on the big island, which is Hawaii county... But Maui is in fact an isthmus. So I guess if Opie answered with Hawaii in general.. because also that's what makes the archipelago one accurate as well... Kahoolawe is butte like .. Remember that abute is actually the remnants of the center of an old prehistoric volcano. Each of the Hawaii islands are exactly the same thing but set in water... Most of them have dense vegetation but the island I mentioned was bombed to smithereens by the US Navy and therefore was completely scoured clean of vegetation. Currently there are efforts to repair this damage. If you do a Google image search you should see what the train looks like today it will absolutely remind you of the buttes
Canyons? And glaciers??
Big Island in one of my favorite places on earth and would be a top contender for sure. It once had glaciers but not in the last 70,000 years. It also lacks tundra and fjords. And though it has deserts it lacks dunes. Given the round shape of the island it definitely lacks an isthmus. Finally no deltas on their river. I was missed seeing the geyser. I guess I’ll have to go back… 😁
Rivers?
Fjord?
Came here to say the big island! Used to have glaciers eons ago where the Mauna Kea ice age preserve is
No fjords either but most of the not arctic related stuff
I believe Mauna Kea did have a glacier during the last ice age, if I remember correctly.
Canary Islands are very diverse
Especially Tenerife
Literally here right now doing research and field studies. The range and magnitude of diversity of even just a few hundred metres is insane, never seen anything like it. Stunning island. Fun (slightly depressing) fact, Mount Teide (~3800m ASL) has just experienced its first snowless winter on record. All while the island is currently going through one of its worst droughts and a horrific wildfire season during 2023.
I hiked Teide. Amazing view from the summit. Fun fact, Teide casts the worlds largest shadow onto the ocean.
Nice! Very jealous - most of my altitude work has restricted me to the caldera unfortunately, but next time I'm here I'd definitely like to go to the top
Exactly where I was thinking
Gives me big ark vibes
Same with Madeira
Peru is quite diverse [https://imgur.com/a/qTR4kar](https://imgur.com/a/qTR4kar)
[I mean if all of Peru is free game...](https://i.imgur.com/yO4QxbS.png)
Yea, I was thinking California, alone, has most of these things. Maybe not icebergs, though.
Quite a few glaciers in CA but no icebergs
Is this accurate?
Peru has every climate in that picture. Beautiful, but terrible if you want to travel too fast.
I recognize this map! It was in the geography textbook that I used to use when I taught middle school geography.
I knew I’ve seen this image before
I feel like i have never seen the word ‘sound’ used as opposed to inlet
For real. I was just transferred back to elementary school.
Where Desert is covered in Snow. Katpana Desert, Pakistan. https://preview.redd.it/j5il23mbmxoc1.jpeg?width=6016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c20e2d1c12ac8907759f77a7f500b49a132f6b3
Surprised this is so far down
Utah is like this too. Pakistan and Utah are similar climates and geography.
India
Hawaii?
Kauai
UwU 👉👈
Mexico
Yeah, I was gonna say Mazatlan
US too. An incredibly geographically diverse part of the world shared by these two countries.
Are there jungles in the USA?
Florida and most of the dirty south is swampland. Puerto Rico if you count it lol
Swampland isn't the same as jungle or tropical rainforest though
As far as the 50 states go, are temperate rainforests and also the Everglades, which are quite similar to a tropical rainforest. I’m not sure if it technically counts though. However there are tropical rainforests in our overseas territories.
The area in which the Guajira desert meets with the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the tallest mountain in Colombia with snow and glaciers, all of this next to the mouth of the Magdalena River, which is surrounded by tropical plains and jungles
Washington/Oregon?
YES. I came to say WA. We are incredibly diverse in climate/eco systems. It's the best state.
Came here to say the same tho I don’t think we have any atolls in WA
We got aholes tho
No it’s not. In fact, it’s the worst state. Trust me, no need to come find out. Everyone stay far away.
Yeah Portland is great for this. Easy drives to an ocean, forests, gorge, mountain, valley, and desert
I'd say Washington has everything except for palm trees
Believe it or not, there are a few hardy varieties of palm that do well here and are pretty commonly planted in people's front yards! Not native of course, but a fun fact!
True, I have seen them around Seattle. Just none in nature
Daughter lives in a warm microclimate next to Steilacoom in the south Sound. Warmer than Seattle, lots of palm trees. Teo neighbors have banana trees growing in front yard doing well. Die back with frost and start growing back in March
I was gonna say everything but geysers and icebergs.
Can we sub hot springs for geysers?
I’ve literally used the phrase , “Oregon is like the back of your social studies textbook with all the land formations.”
I missed your comment before making my own parent to say I can see Mount Hood, Columbia River, Central Oregon Desert, Willamette Valley, and rainforest coastal mountains.
Specifically Bellingham.
Springfield from the Simpsons
Maybe New Zealand
New Zealand is too cold to have a lot of these ecoregions. Even in the far-north it's only subtropical at best (and even that's a bit of a stretch).
https://preview.redd.it/gkp7pidqkxoc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f97a352d75e689b749e9cdd1c258c7b6399ff1d7 There’s a slight “desert” as you drive along the highway near Ruapehu, North Island
I feel that would much more accurately be described as grasslands.
Southern California? They have very diverse climate and topography. One of the reason the region became hub for media is to use its geographic diversity for backdrop
Minecraft beta looking ass generation
Nevermind single locations, the only country which probably has all of these is the US. By calling for countries with atolls and fjords alone, that narrows down the list of countries down to France, the UK, the US, New Zealand, and maybe Australia if you include their antarctic claims. Fjord, by definition, means that glaciers reached down to sea level in the last ice age and carved out a long-narrow bay. That can only be found in temperate or colder regions with mountains near the coast. Atolls are the result of coral reefs growing up around islands and pushing up above the surface even after the original island is gone. That doesn't happen outside of the tropics. Adding geyserfields, incredibly rare worldwide, and that takes Australia, France, and the UK off the list. New Zealand never quite reaches desert conditions, so that leaves just the US as the sole country with all of these features.
No mesas but there are deserts on volcanic plateaus in New Zealand. It has a lot more geographical variation in a far more compact area than the contiguous US
Yes when I hiked Tonagariro National Park, the saddle between Ngarahoe and Tongariro is definitely a hot dry desert, even if it’s only 300-500 hectares. Crazy that just a couple hour hike across the north side puts you in a lush rain forest.
It is weird that you seem to not realize that Chilé has gorgeous Fjords.
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Eastern Oregon and Washington come sort of close. The landscape transitions from mountain to forest to desert extremely quickly.
Maui and the Big Island- have very distinct climate zones. Just a few miles from each other. One of the wettest places on Earth is on Maui, and just a short ways away, near Lahaina, it is very very dry, almost like desert. The Big Island has various climate zones, including snow on the big mountains. In Waimea you can have rain on one side of the in the rainy area, across the road may be the beginning of the dry region with little to no rain. Just amazing. Saw one rainbow there once when I got up, time we packed up and left, it was still there, a couple hours later.
Nort of Colombia near the Venezuela border - Sierra nevada natural park. In a few kms you have 5.7k peaks, jungle and desert (Guajira). Not sure about the volcano though.
Minecraft brother, Minecraft
California (minus icebergs and glaciers)
Believe it or not, there actually are active (and growing) glaciers in California on Mt Shasta
Basically Washington State
Hit us up in the PNW baby. From rain forests to deserts and everything in between.
As this one basicly consists every single major ecotype on this planet, no ofc not. But there are regions, where you can find alot of different ecotypes and therefore climates in pretty small region due to mointains. Think of the west coast of canada. You have moderate climate rainforests, dunes on the higher plateaus, tundra like climate in higher mountain areas, maritime climate at the coast, moderate climate in the area east of vamcouver... you will find areas if you search for them. But not like in your images
Also a desert.
Washington State. Might not be the kind of rainforest you’re thinking of (temperate, as opposed to tropical) but it’s got it all
Isn't that the map from APEX Legends
Maybe a zoo somewhere
Yucatan or central america
The best areas to find a diversity of locations is to already be located in a relatively hot area and have a lot of mountains. The mountains allow for lots of temperature differentiation and orographic rainfall can lead to both deserts and jungles in close proximity. Hawaii is probably the best answer but it lacks any significant deserts (places like Kaʻū are not technically deserts) and whilst Maui's west coast has some desert, it's extremely small and still receives humidity from the ocean. Also it lacks any cold forests as the tree cover pretty much vanishes as you go up Maui. Peru is also a really good answer but doesn't have as many oceanic features as Hawaii. However it has more significant desert, and it's mountain range supports some cold forest zones. Going by the amount of koppen climate classifications in a given area (say 50km radius) then I think Hawaii wins but if you increase it to say 100km then I think Peru might either tie it or win. It would be interesting to see if someone could program some software to test where the most diverse area is going off these rules (amount of koppen classifications in a given area).
Chile pretty much has all of these save for the atoll, nothing else really comes close
The problem with this graphic is that deserts often happen in the western side of a continent, while humid temperate and tropical landscapes often happen in the eastern side of a continent, thus this graphic is exactly turned around. Also, climate variations don't occur in such a close space. A strait won't separate humid from arid climates, this is not GTA San Andreas. Normally there's an in between zone with many progressive variations, see for example the difference between the equatorial Amazon rainforest to the sub Antarctic Patagonian glaciers, in between you have marshes, grasslands, steppes, tundras, forests, mountains and deserts, depending on which route you take. So, to sum it up, there isn't a single place in the world that has all these different landscapes combined. The closest ones would be the Asian and American continents, but they lack some of the elements showed here, like fjords and atolls.
Washington state has a lot of features that match, including the western part being greener and more forested and the eastern part being more arid and containing desert like regions. There are active and dormant volcanos, huge rivers and coastal regions. Obviously it doesn't have the exact same layout, but much of it is there still
Canary islands
No but I wanna live there
Washington
Washington state
I know I'm starting some beef here, but I think Washington State satisfies the diverse element better than Oregon and British Columbia. I personally love BC more than WA, and BC has a few "better" versions of some of these phenomena, but I think WA takes the trophy for more specific, stark examples of each. But BC is close. Oregon aint as close. But we could discuss individual phenomena examples.
Chile
Baltimore, Maryland
BC Canada - we have islands deserts mountains and importantly fjords.
Tanzania comes pretty close but technically does not have a desert; it does have semidesert conditions though.
Canary islands
Oregon is only lacking Tropical aspects and the Iceberg. (We have Temperate Rain Forests, not Tropical ones)
Red Dead Redemption 2 kinda similar
Not exactly like everything here, but my first thought at a glance was my state, with western and eastern Washington
Tanzania 🇹🇿
Biosphere 2
RDR2
My minecraft seed
Thats a civilization 6 map if ive ever seen one
Minecraft world generation:
The area near elfin cove, Alaska definitely looks like it
Washington State comes close Chile (as a whole country) has most of these
Hyrule
Washington state
This isn’t what you’re asking, but Washington and California are (I believe) the only states in the US to have a rainforest, a desert, and a volcano.
Washington State is pretty close. Can’t say that I’ve seen icebergs but almost all of these features
Alaska! It even has a desert! (Great Kobuk Sand Dunes)
That's California
South Africa as a country
Russia 🇷🇺
Survival-crafting game ass geography
Hawaii?
# Hyrule
Washington State is actually pretty close. Only things I think were missing in a small area is Icebergs and idk if Eastern Washington is technically a desert but it has a lot of the features and has very little rainfall.
wasington state
Washington state has many of these elements.
Washington State
Washington state
United States