Which country is the most scenic?
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Which country is the most scenic?
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first place: switzerland
Second place: China
Last Place: USA(just highways and sprawl)
the USA is arguably the most beautiful country on earth
Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Russia, China, Southern Germany, Southern France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Mexico all are better than the US.
No lol
Anything you can see in those countries you can see in the USA. America has an insane variety of scenery and landscapes. I'm not American btw, so this isn't patriotic bluster
Sure I can see most of that but then I can't enjoy great food in each of those places, speak to interesting people with different perspectives on life, drink decent beer or wine, not get shot, robbed, or threatened.
Ok you're just a garden variety stuck up yuropeasabt pussy. I figured.
Based anon. Better to be there than google stuff.
not being biased but I agree with the US being the most beautiful. The landscapes in the Western states and New England are incredible. You can find little microcosms of other continents in the US. That's not to say other countries are not beautiful either, but we have a variety of national and state parks that are jaw dropping.
lmao moron, anything in the world is ""arguably"" the best anything, but sans an argument you don't have much to go on.
>nowhere near the best forests
>nowhere near the best mountains
>nowhere near the best women
>nowhere near the best food
>nowhere near the best lakes
>nowhere near the best valleys
>nowhere near the best shores
>nowhere near the best towns
only thing us has is most suburbs and skyscrapers
and some rad dust sprawls
US has best forests by far.
USA has the best forests, the best valleys (including canyons) and the best shores (Hawaii and Alaska carry hard here). The Alaskan mountains rival the Himalayas in scale. Lakes are definitely among the best at least, the Great Lakes, Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe and it's a reservoir but Lake Powell is excellent.
I'll give you towns I guess. We have good cities though
The best lakes in the US are small ones nobody would post about on a tourist board.
nah, for me to be the "best" lakes need to be pretty but also large. there are nice little picturesque lakes all over the world.
alaska has just one mountain that rivals the himalayas.
nah there's a few. The Saint Elias Range (partly in Canada) and Alaska Range I'd say are the next best mountain ranges after the central Asian ranges when it comes to vertical relief and just general impressive scale. The high peaks aren't as numerous but at least Denali, Logan (Canada), St Elias and Fairweather rival Himalayan giants in various ways.
Even the "smaller" Alaskan Ranges like the Wrangell (pic related) and even the Chugach are massive.
You could argue the Himalayas has only one mountain that is as dramatic as Denali from a purely scenic perspective.
actually the himalaya(and karakoram and hindu kush) has dozens.
He's actually correct. McKinley is the 3rd most prominent mountain in the world, a good 1500m greater than the second most prominent Himalayan mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_peaks_by_prominence
nope. the most impressive mountains in Himalaya are obscured by all the other massive mountains around it.
>K2 isn't as dramatic as Denali
>Annapurna isn't as dramatic as Denali
plus a bunch of others
Completely false. You should feel stupid for being so ignorant.
Point is this is highly subjective in the first place. Lazily asserting that Alaska only has one scenic mountain is just straight-up moronic. My claim was "you could argue" and sure enough a bunch of other anons started arguing about it, confirming my point.
That other anon's point being stupid doesn't make your point being any less stupid.
It is not stupid. Mine is quite reasonable especially as phrased, the other is not. You are barely sentient and only go off base emotional reactions and so can't tell the difference.
Either this is the classic "American things are bad because they're American" or a low effort troll
America - specifically, the Western states.
Accessibility of remote scenic areas by 4x4 motor vehicle - absolutely #1 in the world, no other country comes close.
The variety of climates and scenery in the American West is amazing. However, there are no tropical climates - Mexico and Colombia have us beat in the tropical variety department.
How many Chinese visit American national parks? Millions and millions.
How many Americans visit Chinese national parks? Basically zero. China doesn't even have a West Coast, for godsakes. Plus, 2023 China has so many more people and a much more ruthlessly exploitative attitude toward natural resources than 2023 America does.
China's interior highlands are nowhere near as spectacular as the variety found in and around the Andes Mountains of South America, or hell, even Mexico. Himalayas are shared with Nepal, and the south side is much more biodiverse and interesting - though quite degraded by shitskin shittery.
Why are Americans so fragile?
Not only is China beautiful it has unique landscapes that you can't find anywhere else on Earth
The American West is full of rock pinnacles, here in Colorado they are a dime a dozen. Low clouds are rare in most arid regions, but still happen. This past summer in Colorado we had long-lasting incursions of humidity from the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes sending low clouds up to the Continental Divide.
>"Year of the Low Clouds"
I'm not denying that China is beautiful, especially through a professional's eye and zoom lens like picrel. Low clouds always make the mountains look magical.
How is road tripping in China? You do know that it is easy to take back roads and completely bypass population centers when driving across most of America. Only sheep travel America on the interstate highways and see those rest areas sprawled over hundreds of yards of space that Europeans love to mock for some reason. The real problem is, we don't have enough truck parking.
Also, if you didn't say this was China, I could've assumed it was one of the canyons in Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental during a rainstorm.
Laos gets my vote
personally i prefer the Karsts in Laos and N Vietnam but s China looks pretty too
> muh karst
The US also has unique landscapes not found anywhere else, certainly not in and first world country
They hate Chyna, plus most of them weren't even there in the first place. Can't really blame them, Chinese are reminding them of America in the 1800s.
I thought the question was about full on countries. Sure China has some amazing places but also land sores, pollution and concrete. Like US. Mostly a shithole but with some differences.
>However, there are no tropical climates
what about Hawaii and south Florida?
Rent free.
This but the us is not last place,far from it in fact.
Forgot to continue
That's kinda of a stretch,the us has a wide variety of scenery and national parks but non of them feel uniquely breathtaking.I do agree though with the other anons itt that pointed out how the nature in the us is really well preserved.
>the us has a wide variety of scenery and national parks but non of them feel uniquely breathtaking.
kek have you even been to any of them?
Have you walked through the Redwood Forest, tallest canopy in the world?
Visited the Giant Sequoias, the most massive trees in the world?
Have you ever seen a distant mesocyclone on the high plains?
>Niagara Falls was touristified before we cared about keeping things wild.
I think the issue was less that it was "touristified" but that the surrounding areas are very favorable to human living (fertile soils, drinkable water, flat land, access to waterways). Plus the location became increasingly important due to Great Lakes shipping routes. It was always going to be "touristified" because cities were always going grow in the area. Both the American and Canadian sides of the falls were settled by Europeans before 1800. Both countries built hydroelectric power plants there. Niagara Falls, NY today is literally a suburb of Buffalo and the Ontario side is its own substantially-sized city.
All these places are beautiful,but none of them leave a distinguishable mark on the mind once viewed like grindelwald does.The only such place im willing to concede on truly is hawaii.
Nobody really cares about your peculiar opinion or what you're personally willing to concede on. Most people find that the natural beauty in the US does indeed leave a mark on the mind as deeply as Switzerland.
If you say so.Lol why are you so uppity about it we are just having a discussion.
You came in being a dickhead right off the bat by lying to yourself about America not having great scenery
First off im not lying.I stated what i belive and what you know i belive.
Second i was never a dickhead or obnoxious,i even praised the american way of perserving their nature(which they have and is beautiful even if it's not breath taking),i even defended it
which you and all the other butthurt yanks choose to ignore.Im sorry if the truth hurts but the us doesn't come up in the top spots of the"most scenic countries"conversation .
there's nothing quite like Yellowstone in terms of geothermal features. Redwoods and Sequoias are the tallest and largest trees on Earth. The entire desert southwest has incredible beauty, from the vastness of the Grand Canyon to the sublime features of Arches, Bryce Canyon and countless other landmarks. Pretty much all of Hawaii is unmatched. Denali is arguably the most impressive mountain in the world.
And plenty more locations that might not be unique but are still world class like Yosemite Valley, Glacier NP, the Cascades volcanoes, Alaska's glaciers and mountains and coast, parts of the California and Oregon coasts, Niagara Falls, Carlsbad Caverns, and plenty more
>non of them feel uniquely breathtaking
No one who has been to somewhere like Canyonlands would say this.
Least obsessed Euroshit
>USA(just highways and sprawl)
Correct. Your other points a wrong though
What country is this?
Pretty sure that's Mt. Rainier.
Lol @ this homosexual you're a peon
The USA has Monument valley, so we're already number on.
This is my opinion so I know some salty mutts will get angry at my number 1 and two spots but it's all subjective
1. China
2. Japan
3. America
4. canada (though I wouldn't visit this shithole)
Five would probably be India or Brazil but I never went to these places yet. In the future I would like to go to India to experience the next supapowa and coom.
#1 america
#2 america
#3 america
>t. doesn't even have a passport
don't need to have one in america
Probably USA, Canada, and China
One slip and I would have been offered to Basaseachic. Park security guard was very upset with me
Hiking down to a hot spring deep in cartel territory - we say armed guys with laden donkeys bringing cargo from the mountains to a pickup truck.
Mexico looks like THAT?
1. America (specifically California)
2. France
3. Mexico (picrel)
>dry highlands
>the south and coast have some nice places
Look at some satellite imagery on Google Maps and look around.
The insecurity in Mexico means that the most spectacular parts of the country are rarely visited or explored by gringos. Bunch of chickenshits.
Hell, I used to work with an 80 year old American lady named Fiona who would venture alone into the most wild and lawless regions of Mexico and Central America for weeks at a time. She had zero fear, and was never harmed or molested.
italy
I mainly travel for hiking and nature sightseeing. I have actually been to these countries instead of just looking at some webms.
>USA
AAA+. Nothing more to say.
>Canada
Same but with a little less variety.
>China
Good but, many many many good natural places are heavily restricted and not only in Tibet. The wilder it is, the more restricted it is. Annoyingly enough, they have built too many tourist-friendly crap to bring more people. For them hiking means “take the elevator at the mountain, walk for 10 minutes and enjoy the view”.
I even saw fricking cameras and speakers everywhere on some birdwatching island.
>Southern France
Nice looking but ABSOLUTELY SHIT nature management. Catastrophic. Only the Alps are the saving grace. Everything else is dead and sterile. Urban development and mismanagement of woods are a disaster. Absolutely shit for wildlife.
>Italy
Exactly the same as above.
>Spain
The best option of Southern Europe. It surprisingly has good and unique biodiversity for Europe. Good National Park management, far superior to those of Italy and France. Better understanding of it.
>Austria
(Very) Nice mountains, but like much of Europe, forest and park managements are shit. Thinks replanting the same tree species = recovering nature. No understanding of different habitats.
>Switzerland
Same as above.
I’ll add my own:
>Sweden
Not visually impressive, mostly quite flat in the South but pretty good nature management. Good for wildlife watching. Good for camping.
>Norway
Perhaps the prettiest European country, nature-wise. Same as Sweden, but more impressive.
>Iceland
Extremely unique. Must do if you’re into hiking and nature. For wildlife, only birds matter there, not a huge variety BUT this country has quantity during the breeding seasons. It also has species that are normally only found in North America.
Geological wonder. Unique landscapes.
>t. yuropoor that is about to live in North America just for that reason
USA or Canada
Switzerland is un fricking believable. The most beautiful place I had ever been in my life was Yosemite National Park until last year when i did Switzerland. The Matterhorn and Zermatt are indescribable. The view from the top of the Gondola in Zermatt was the most amazing natural beauty I've ever seen.
>this makes the Amerimutt seethe
USA has nothing precisely like the Alps (or Himalayas) and yes The Matterhorn is incredible but in terms of majestic mountain beauty the US not lacking at all and overall has much more variety than any one European country (or even Mexico and Canada).
When I hike in Austria or Germany, there's a hit waiting for me with good food and beer on top of the mountain. There's not such thing in the US. People don't even walk on sidewalks in America.
>there's a hut waiting for me with good food and beer on top of the mountain
Huts don't make anything more scenic.
Also there are lots of huts in the US mountains.
https://huts.org/
They're just not usually at the very top and they cater to backpackers and wilderness adventurers more then casual dayhikers because most mountains in the US aren't surrounded by heavily-populated valleys.
Let's be honest though, German food sucks and you've never been to the US. I was in California this summer mountain biking at Snow Summit. They had a "southern" style pit BBQ going on top of the mountain. It was infinitely better than anything I've ever eaten in Austria in Germany.
It sort of depends on what you like to look at, doesn’t it?
Anyway, I live in Switzerland and find many places here spectacular from many angles. But if mountains bore you it won’t be your bag. And mountainous areas in Austria and Italy and parts of France are all at least as pretty, and fairly similar, if we are being honest, Switzerland is just a bit cleaner.
I used to live in the US, and agree with pro-Merka anons; it is home to some of the most stunning natural spaces on Earth, whatever haters might like to pretend.
I found about 80% of Costa Rica extremely beautiful to look at, although the contrast between the beauty of the nature and the general ugliness of most towns/built environments can be startling. Nearly all of Central America is noticeably worse than the US in that respect, no matter how gross American strip malls and highway service areas might be in some places.
The Kenyan national park system includes some absolutely jaw-dropping landscapes. Plus animals. Of the parks I have visited, Tsavo West probably had the most interesting landscapes, while the somewhat duller savanna of Masai Mara gave me the most National Geographic for my buck, and largely wet, flat Amboseli had the most photogenic elephants.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Asia, too, but most of it not too far out in nature, so I wouldn’t want to argue that anyplace deserves a Most Scenic Country on Earth badge based on my limited evidence, but there are without question some beautiful coastal, riverine, and delta/mangrove environments scattered around.
Definitely between China and USA for diversity. I think Hawaii and Alaska carry USA to the win.
Also USAs beauty is more accessible but still kept fairly wild. A lot of China is either extremely remote and difficult to access or it's restricted, or it's easy to access but over touristified. Some places in USA are over touristy like Niagara Falls or Old Faithful, we at least try to keep things wild for the most part, Niagara Falls was touristified before we cared about keeping things wild.
Scotland unironically
Despite the rain the Highlands and coastline is almost mythical and the Hebridean Islands are stunning
Also Scotland has the best camping laws in the world which also helps
How do these countries stack up?
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Kyrgyzstan
Indonesia
Mongolia
Afghanistan
>How do these stack up
Pretty well, I think.
Never been to Kyrgyzstan, but pictures I’ve seen look pretty. I’ve also never been to the scenic parts of Afghanistan (mostly the Wakhan Corridor, I’m guessing?), just to Kabul, which is ugly, but I have spent some time in some of the most scenic parts of Pakistan (Hunza Valley, 10/10 Pakistan looks like THAT?) and think they can hold their own against any vistas anywhere in the world (although that part of the world is a lot less pleasant in most respects than it was once upon a time). So I’m sure the good-looking parts of AG are also very good looking when you’re not getting blown up.
Indonesia has some astounding beaches and coastlines. Also supposedly some scenic mountainous bits but I haven’t seen those.
And I personally found Mongolia a bit monotonous scenically, but the huge-sky, no-people parts of the steppe are definitely striking for a few days.
Others can comment on Latin America; I saw some great scenery in both Peru and Bolivia, and I assume Colombia and Chile have much to offer, but I was only in cities in those countries. Some nice beaches with mountains in the background not too far out of Valparaiso, as I recall.
Kyrgyzstan is very beautiful, Mongolia is very empty.
Kazakhstan is kind of underrated because it has both mountains and vast steppes, but not as visually impressive as the neighbors.
Depends what you find scenic, people seem to love mountains and beaches but the Australian outback, the US southwest deserts and the badlands of Spain are beautiful too.
USA, Canada and Australia to the best at actually preserving it, but most countries in the world are scenic in some way.
Pretty much what has already been mentioned. Despite the doom and gloom posted on here, North America in general has some incredible natural beauty. Peru has some gorgeous views too as you go down towards Lake Titicaca, amazing views of the Andes.
>Mexico
>Scenic
Not really, most of the country is dry highlands, sure, the south and coasts have some nice places but it's the minority when compared with the totality of the country
>t. Mexican
It's also true that most Mexicans are too chickenshit to explore their own country.
Mexicans in Morelia: "Don't explore Tamaulipas, it is very dangerous, you could be kidnapped and murdered!"
Mexicans in Tampico: "Don't explore Michoacan, it is very dangerous, you could be kidnapped and murdered!"
Me: "LOL, white privilege gueys"
Mexicans are lazy and also incredibly insular. They rarely leave their home states unless their family is elsewhere. For a lot of them just visiting a different Mexican city is overwhelming because it's an unfamiliar place.
believe it or not cartels try to not mess with foreigners, other Mexicans on the other hand...
New zealand
USA wins because it has literally every climate and type of scenery
New Zealand is gorgeous
China has amazing variety
Mauritius is paradise but no variety
Iceland gets my vote.
The coast of Croatia is pretty fricking amazing. It looks like this for 1000 miles.
on a per-area basis, it’s gotta be Switzerland. On an absolute basis, USA and China sit alone in the top tier.
italy, If we count its whole geographical, cultural and historical area Its even more added scenery (dalmatia included even tho its not geographic, but historical and architectural/ landscape)
Too bad Its managed like absulute shit and there is absolutely complete indifference and zero valorization of our heritage
1. USA
2. Chile
3. Indonesia
4. Venezuela
5. Russia
6. Nepal
7. Brazil
8. Ethiopia
9. Mongolia
10. Namibia
11. Canada
12. Norway
13. Mozambique
14. Australia
15. Congo
16. China
17. India
18. Pakistan
Argentina. From Andes to glaciares salares and then Iguazu Falls.
Scottish Highlands, Switzerland, Italy, Southern and Western Germany here and there
2575586
There is basically nowhere else on Earth like Canyonlands or Yellowstone. If this is bait, it sucks
yet you still took the time to respond to it.
Canada, from sea to shining sea to shining sea.
Norway is up there
This year I liked the scenery the most of both Greece and Taiwan
I'd really like to do the islands in Greece. It looked so amazing as I flew over. Because Athens was a dilapidated shithole with one nice street in the center of the city.
1. America (Zion National Park)
2. Himalayan Mountains in North India-Tibet-Nepal border
3. Iceland with inactive volcanoes and northern lights.
Not America, that's for sure.
America is full of suburban homes and utterly redundent cars, fat people, and mass murderers with guns.
That's not beauty, that's bigotry.
Suburban homes are beautiful
Anywhere you see green. Open to expanding
There are a couple spots in S America that would definitely fit the bill
This map was pretty much based on Google Maps imagery, and I forgot what thread I made it for. There are probably areas in Colombia, Southern Argentina, Northern Italy, and more that can be included
did you make that yourself?
you don't think there aren't any scenic places in south america or europe?
The alps of course
There isn't a spot on the map that shouldn't be painted green
For the size Croatia has very vast and beautiful scenery, from mountains to beaches to waterfalls. Also the Azores
just Alaska and Hawaii put America in the top 3. Then when you include Utah, Maine, Colorado, California, Montana, and Florida USA is easily #1 just based on how much diversity there is in the environments.
China has amazing scenery that nobody gives a frick about cause it's China.
I've gone down one hell of a rabbit hole, I've been researching mountains by height and prominence and ORS and meme metrics (jut etc.) by some guy on reddit
anyway it's basically just confirmed what I knew that the Karakoram and Himalayas (mostly the Nepalese part) are on a league of their own as ranges but Denali, St Elias and Logan are as close as you can get to them outside of them. I sure know a lot more mountains than I did yesterday though
The Wrangell-St Elias range is legit, as impressive as the other central Asian ranges: Tien Shan, Hindu Kush, Pamir, Eastern (Chinese) Himalayas. The Alaska range is much smaller but mighty.
After these the Alps seem like the next most impressive range to me, followed by sections of the Andes (Peru and Patagonia), then other parts of the Andes, Canadian Rockies, North Cascades/Coast mountains, Antarctic Peninsula, and coastal ranges in Greenland, Baffin, Norway and New Zealand.
and it'd be a shame to not mention some big volcanoes Kilimanjaro, Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Rainier, Fuji, a few in Ecuador
can i get a mt. baker WA rating
visited this summer, nearly as impressive as Rainier
Shuksan right next to it is quite nice as well, very photogenic
Pakistan betifulncountry,,, please come enjoy time here friend of people
Most shitholes has some nice spots dotted like acne on the map. As a country in whole I'd say Switzerland, Croatia or Vatican.