Which place in the world has the most diverse climates and landscapes in the most compact area?

Question

What I mean is: Which region of the world has mountains, deserts, forests, snow regions, etc. in the smallest area possible? I know, for example, that California has all those features within its boundaries, but is there a smaller place that features them all?

Answer 1

Michigan, perhaps.
* Oldest mountains in North American (Porcupine Mountains).
* No deserts, but a lot of sand dunes (Sleeping Bear Dunes, Saugatuck Dunes, for example).
* Hundreds of islands.
* Heavily forested (Hiawatha National Forest, Ottawa National Forest, for example).
* Snowy in the winter.
* Many bogs and swamps.
* Thousands of miles of shoreline.
* Hundreds (thousands?) of beaches.
* Four Great Lakes.
* 11000+ inland lakes.
* Hundreds of rivers, streams, and bayous.
* Hundreds of water falls.
* Rocky outcroppings (Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, for example).
* Lowest point in United States (depths of Lake Superior, 732 feet below sea level, hundreds of feet deeper than Death Valley).

Answer 2

The Hawaiian island of Hawaii (aka The Big Island). Depending on the classifications of climate zone, Hawaii is said to have all or all but two of the specificed climates zones.

(ive heard 10/10 or 10/12 or 24/26, so it all depends on the strict classification).

But the long and short of it is that in approximately 4000 square miles, all most every geographical climate zone can be found ranging from tropical rain forest to desert to alipine/snow cap and on and on. As far as I know, this is the most compact example of highly diverse climates.

Answer 3

Portland, Oregon. A 30-mile drive puts you on the glaciers of Mt Hood. A 60-mile drive gets you to the coast. Eastern Oregon's deserts are a short drive away. Vast tracts of state forests are around Portland.

Answer 4

maybe india .there u have mountains, forests,grasslands,alluvial plains ,delta region,desert,surely u can find snow ,a long coastline,a little bit of coral reef along the coast & i think there also had some volcanic activity in ages past though i can'nt gurantee that it is the smallest such region.

Answer 5

Washington State. Ocean beaches, temperate rainforests, mountains, forests, inland waterways or fjords (creates micro-climates), desert (scrub, dunes, and reclaimed irrigated farmland).

Elevation goes from sea level to 14,410 feet (Mt. Rainier - one of 5 active volcanoes in the state).

Answer 6

California, where i live i can drive 2 hours west and be at the ocean, or i can drive 2 hours east and enjoy the mountains with lots of snow in winter, or i can drive 2 hours south and be in the dessert. i live in the central valley we grow 75% of the worlds food

Answer 7

"every person who's dabbled interior the project of climate substitute is familiar with those variety of environmental failures are led to with the aid of human interest. " i'm afraid this is faulty. this isn't any longer at the instant attainable to characteristic particular climate activities to climate substitute, in basic terms to word that particular sorts of activities are probably to grow to be extra or much less probably as a results of ongoing adjustments interior the climate. So it fairly is attainable to declare that Perth is possibly to journey extra known warm days and much less known rainfall (and to contemplate that on stability, those would have extra destructive than constructive outcomes), it fairly is an overstatement to characteristic any particular climate journey to climate substitute.

Answer 8

I suggest you to visit Venezuela, we have all that what you asked and within one hour from one landscape to antoher. From deserts at the north, to amazonic forests at south, snow mountains, valleys, beaches, etc, etc

Answer 9

Australia.

Answer 10

nope New Zealand has arid lands , sandy beaches, glaciers, vast amounts of snow, rugged mountains, rain forrest, coral reefs all in a very small package