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The study of the Earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. Founded 2008 · 1.7M members

1.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 81.3K upvotes, which works out to 49 per 1,000 members.

49peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.7Mmembers
81.3Kbest post
12.3Kmost comments
928posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

70% 11% 9%
Image 70% Question 11% Text 9% Link 5% Video 4% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 264 Discussion 170 Map 164 Image 95 Article/News 28 Video 23 Physical Geography 14 Human Geography 11 Meme/Humor 8 GIS/Geospatial 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Huge landslide causes whole village to disappear in Switzerland

↑ 81.3K 💬 2.2K image 2025

The true size of Hawaii compared to the continental United States

↑ 77.7K 💬 1.2K image 2025

I'm surprised I didn't even know this switch happened until seeing this. The yellow is really all gone?

↑ 70.5K 💬 1.4K image 2025

I’m sad more people don’t acknowledge Native American Historic sites in the United States

↑ 56.8K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free.

↑ 49.7K 💬 3K image 2025

What's the most alien-looking place on Earth?

↑ 49.1K 💬 2.2K image 2025

A map of nations when asked the question "Which country is the largest threat to world peace?" - in 2013

↑ 47.8K 💬 4.5K image 2025

a side of a country you couldn't believe its existence

↑ 46.6K 💬 2.4K image 2025

Pretty impressive

↑ 45.3K 💬 3.5K image 2025

I went to an unknown (for me) island 2 hours from home and mapped it from scratch with a compass and a rangefinder!

↑ 45.1K 💬 545 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/geography, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/geography?
r/geography describes itself this way: The study of the Earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.7M members.
How many members does r/geography have?
r/geography has about 1.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 928 of its posts; the biggest reached 81.3K upvotes, which is 49 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/geography?
"Huge landslide causes whole village to disappear in Switzerland" reached 81.3K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/geography.
What subreddits are similar to r/geography?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/geography?
Of the posts we hold, 70% are image posts and 11% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/geography?
Across 928 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 12:00 UTC (17.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (16K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/geography?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/geography has 31.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 295 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/geography, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.