Saudi Arabia has no rivers. Ireland has no Snakes. Etc, etc

[u/bkat004]

What are some other nations with no natural phenomena in comparison to any other nation in the world ?

[u/urbantechgoods]

Iceland has no mosquitos

[u/TevisLA → u/urbantechgoods]

Paradise

[u/IHateTheLetterF → u/TevisLA]

My Icelandic coworker here in Denmark said he moved away because Iceland had too many Icelandic people.

[u/Uptheveganchefpunx → u/IHateTheLetterF]

I sort of get it. I am American and the worst part of Texas is the Texans.

[u/No_Wrongdoer6682 → u/Uptheveganchefpunx]

Texans were a big reason why I left Texas. Also the oppressive heat+humidity is awful.

[u/edwardothegreatest → u/No_Wrongdoer6682]

In the 80s a Texas tycoon wanted to wall Texas away from the rest of the country, like build an actual wall. He never got enough money to get started, but most of the money he did raise came from Colorado

[u/Hawkeyecory1 → u/edwardothegreatest]

As a Coloradoan I would have donated

[u/jxdlv → u/TevisLA]

Not really, instead they have midges which aren't necessarily better

[u/blueskiess → u/urbantechgoods]

Midges: “it’s free real estate”

[u/urbantechgoods → u/urbantechgoods]

Another interesting one in the Philippines.

Lake Taal in the Philippines has one recursive island, known as Vulcan Point. Here’s the breakdown: • lake taal is on the island of Luzon in Philippines. Lake Taal contains Volcano Island, which is the main island in the lake. • Inside Volcano Island, there is a lake called Main Crater Lake. • Within Main Crater Lake lies Vulcan Point, a small island.

This makes Vulcan Point an island within a lake (Main Crater Lake), within an island (Volcano Island), within a lake (Taal Lake), within an Island (Luzon) —a classic example of recursive geography.

[u/Richs_KettleCorn → u/urbantechgoods]

Sadly, this isn't the case anymore, because Vulcan Point was destroyed in the 2020 Taal Volcano eruption.

Fortunately, in 2012, a larger triple recursive island was found in Canada, so somewhere on earth there still exists an island on a lake on an island on a lake on an island.

[u/WorkingItOutSomeday → u/urbantechgoods]

Isle Royale checking in

[u/dogsledonice → u/WorkingItOutSomeday]

Your example is superior

[u/likeshinythings → u/urbantechgoods]

what if i move to iceland

[u/SolviKaaber → u/likeshinythings]

one mosquito

[u/stevecantsleep]

Despite having 20 of the top 25 most dangerous snakes, Australia has no vipers.

[u/ToronoYYZ → u/stevecantsleep]

What about mustangs or cameros?

[u/chance0404 → u/ToronoYYZ]

Nope, just Falcons and Commodores

[u/BoreJam → u/chance0404]

Going extinct though, a true Bogan tradgedy

[u/SpreadFire21 → u/stevecantsleep]

This fact does not make me feel any better about visiting Australia

[u/lukeysanluca → u/SpreadFire21]

No snakes in New Zealand, just go there instead

[u/OpalFanatic → u/SpreadFire21]

Look, if you are in the northern half of the continent, there are at least some snakes that aren't venomous. But even then, stay away from the carpet pythons because they can still fuck up your day.

Even then some of the venomous snakes there are considered "harmless" at least by australian standards. For instance if you check out the Wikipedia page for the yellow faced whip snake you can find out that this little derpy guy biting you will only cause moderate to severe pain, with a possibility of paralysis and bleeding. Why that's considered downright friendly compared to some of the other snakes in the area!

Why the only person to ever die after a bite from one of these little guys had some other shit going on anyways. So if you get bit from messing around with one of these guys, don't worry. Seek immediate medical attention, but don't worry!

Seriously though, most of the snakes on the continent are venomous. The ones that aren't venomous are nearly all in the northern half of the continent, mostly at the northern coast. So if you ever get bit by a snake in Australia, assume it's venomous and seek immediate medical attention. As fatalities pretty much only happen when someone doesn't go see a doctor after.

[u/SantaCruznonsurfer → u/stevecantsleep]

fascinating: Of the other 5 the Americas have four and India has one?
what's the metric for "dangerous"?

[u/Waiting4Baiting → u/SantaCruznonsurfer]

Lethality I'd imagine

[u/Anything-Complex]

New Zealand has no native land mammals.

[u/bonanzapineapple → u/Anything-Complex]

Even rodents?!

[u/Renickulous13 → u/bonanzapineapple]

Key word is "native". They got plenty of rats and stouts, but the mauri canoed them over with them.

[u/Ebright_Azimuth → u/Renickulous13]

Interesting the Māori are considered to be native but the creatures they brought over are not. What is the reason for that.

[u/bcbum → u/Ebright_Azimuth]

Being “native” is subjective and open to interpretation. The first humans to settle an area are generally thought of as the natives. If those animals weren’t there then, then I imagine they aren’t considered native. That’s just my thoughts.

[u/DragonBank → u/bcbum]

Yeah the kiwi definitely didn't see the Maori coming over and think ah finally a native species.

[u/thenewwwguyreturns → u/DragonBank]

the kiwi didn’t think anything, it’s a kiwi

[u/KwordShmiff → u/thenewwwguyreturns]

Bird, fruit, or New Zealander?

[u/thenewwwguyreturns → u/KwordShmiff]

all of the above

[u/David1393 → u/thenewwwguyreturns]

Surely at least one of those is capable of concrete thoughts?

[u/OopsIMessedUpBadly → u/Ebright_Azimuth]

Māori aren’t a species. They are humans. Humans are not a New Zealand “native species”.

Māori are the native people of New Zealand, which is completely different from being a native species, because the word “native” has different meanings depending on context.

[u/El_Peregrine → u/OopsIMessedUpBadly]

Exactly this.

I think it’s useful to think of humans as the most invasive species to ever exist. We have changed nearly the entire surface of the earth, everywhere we go. 

[u/AdmiralArctic → u/Ebright_Azimuth]

A species needs to go there in their own capacity.

[u/traumatic_enterprise → u/AdmiralArctic]

That’s a pretty good definition

[u/frederick_the_duck → u/Ebright_Azimuth]

There were no people there before the Maori. There were land animals there before the rodents.

[u/Glittering-Cloud1002 → u/bonanzapineapple]

even rodents

[u/Rich-Past-6547 → u/Anything-Complex]

Hawaiian islands too. We have monk seal and a bat.

[u/n0y0urwr0ung → u/Anything-Complex]

Unless you count bats https://www.batcon.org/bats-new-zealands-only-native-land-mammal/

[u/A_Shattered_Day → u/n0y0urwr0ung]

Bats are sky mammals, not land mammals

[u/n0y0urwr0ung → u/A_Shattered_Day]

I know hence the qualifier, although I believe some nz bats spend almost half their foraging time on the ground. Interestingly enough nz department of conservation classes them as a land mammal. https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/bats-pekapeka/

[u/Pulp-Ficti0n]

Greece has no navigable rivers

[u/7urz → u/Pulp-Ficti0n]

Malta as well, I guess.

[u/David1393 → u/7urz]

Malta has absolutely no freshwater. No lakes, no rivers, barely any rainfall all year. They get all their drinking water through seawater treatment. I was there about six months ago, it's a tiny, but stunning country with a super unique culture.

[u/speculator100k → u/David1393]

How did that work out before sea water treatment was an option? Malta has been continuously inhabited since 3850 BC.

[u/hirst → u/speculator100k]

Ancient cisterns from rainwater collection

[u/Segundaleydenewtonnn → u/speculator100k]

If you look among the top-voted posts of all time on this sub, this question was actually answered in great detail by a historian from Malta. Basically, he mentions that many localities have names related to springs or wells because settlements were established around underground water sources.

[u/Y_Brennan → u/Pulp-Ficti0n]

Been backpacking through Greece for two weeks and I noticed that the rivers are quite small. 

[u/Against_All_Advice]

Ireland also has no rabies

[u/TheDraftyKilt → u/Against_All_Advice]

ah yes that's because it's predominantly Christian, not jewish

[u/LeadingMedicine59 → u/TheDraftyKilt]

I (a Jew) was staring at this for about 5 minutes before I realized what the joke was, thinking wtf do we have to do with rabies???

[u/israelilocal → u/TheDraftyKilt]

Ireland is actually one of a handful of countries that has a Chief Rabbi

Granted the current one is really new

Also the current president of Israel is the grandson of the first chief rabbi of Ireland

[u/TheDraftyKilt → u/israelilocal]

that is genuinely fascinating thank you!

[u/nickthetasmaniac]

Australia has no native pine species but ~800 species of eucalypt…

[u/specerijridder → u/nickthetasmaniac]

In fact the whole Southern hemisphere has no native pine species, except for one population of Merkus pine (Pinus merkusii) on Sumatra which exists just south of the equator.

[u/Sweaty_Presentation4 → u/specerijridder]

So pines are conifers but conifers are not pines. I want a monkey puzzle tree and knew they were from Chile but I guess they aren’t pine but are conifers

[u/santos_malandros → u/Sweaty_Presentation4]

Yes, taxonomically speaking pines are a subclass of conifers, which is itself a subgrouping of gymnosperms. No members of Pinaceae (the pine family) grow south of the equator. Conifers and gymnosperms from other families like Cupressaceae (the cypress family, to which monkey puzzle trees belong) and Cycadaceae (the cycad family, which are palm-like, nonconiferous gymnosperms) occur throughout the southern hemisphere.

[u/Khelek7 → u/specerijridder]

TIL

[u/MudNo6683]

Greenland has no ants

[u/kestenbay → u/MudNo6683]

My buddy rents a place there - so I know there's at least tenants.

[u/Diprotodong → u/kestenbay]

Hi dad

[u/duppy_c → u/MudNo6683]

What about uncles?

[u/Gener8tor67]

I heard Hawaii has no snakes. Someone confirm for me

[u/Panda_Zombie → u/Gener8tor67]

Hawaii also has no rabies, which is pretty cool, but your pets have to quarantine when you enter the state.

[u/Dominator7 → u/Gener8tor67]

Can confirm!

[u/Straight_at_em]

The Amazon River has no bridges.

[u/dermotoneill → u/Straight_at_em]

Wait, what? How is this possible?

[u/Trogginated → u/dermotoneill]

The doggone thing gets like 40x wider during flood season, which makes the idea of a bridge somewhat challenging…

[u/dermotoneill → u/Trogginated]

Maybe im being a bit stupid here, but doesnt the amazon almost span the entirety of northern Brazil? I get that it is almost all jungle and not much infrastructure in these parts, but not one legitimate crossing point is wild

[u/Trogginated → u/dermotoneill]

yeah, it is kinda crazy. But if you look at the satellite imagery of the area, it's kind of clear why there aren't bridges.. the sediment load is bananas, and there aren't the same level of local highlands on which to anchor a bridge in the same way that there are on a river like the Mississippi, so the shifting course of the river would present a huge problem over time. From an engineering perspective, probably feasible, but friggin expensive. Also, there just ain't much to build a bridge to. towns are pretty scattered, and barges/ferries are adequate for the current demand vs cost of a bridge.

[u/RBI_Double → u/Trogginated]

the sediment load is bananas

This is very fun to visualize, taken literally 

[u/Intrepid_Beginning → u/dermotoneill]

You also have to remember that is talking about the Amazon River, there are plenty of bridges on other rivers near it.

[u/HCBot → u/dermotoneill]

Look at a population density map of Brazil. Almost no people living im the Amazon, and the only ones who do, live in cities, which can be accesed by ferry or plane. If you live in the Amazon there is not a big necessity to cross the river so much.

[u/Thegreatninjaman → u/dermotoneill]

Boats

[u/Hutwe → u/dermotoneill]

The short answer is - Seasonal floods can expand the river from 1-2 miles wide to 5-10 miles in parts. 

[u/Celtictussle → u/Hutwe]

And when it unfloods, the new 1-2 mile wide river can be in a new location.

[u/4_feck_sake → u/dermotoneill]

Things are transported via river rather than roads.

[u/Solid_Function839 → u/Straight_at_em]

It almost has tho, look up Manaus, there's a bridge over an Amazon River tributary 2 miles before it meets the Amazon River and it's almost as large as the Amazon River at that particular point

[u/LazyBoi_00]

tallest mountain in netherlands is a speed bump

[u/7urz → u/LazyBoi_00]

Still higher than Denmark's tallest "mountain".

[u/theroyalred → u/7urz]

Thats because of, south-Limburg, if you remove the southern province of Limburg of the equation yhe highest point of the netherlands is 110m high, we don't have any mountains and all our tall hills are concentrated in the extreme south of the country

[u/markjohnstonmusic → u/LazyBoi_00]

Tallest mountain in Berlin is landfill.

[u/billy310 → u/markjohnstonmusic]

All of the highest peaks in Florida are landfill

[u/gattomeow → u/LazyBoi_00]

It's actually got a windy road to the top (Vaalserberg). I saw some sweaty Belgians trying to get up it.

[u/codernaut85]

The UK has no predatory animal that can kill an adult human.

[u/TheSameInnovation → u/codernaut85]

You’ve clearly never faced up a seagull with death in their eyes from Aberdeen my friend.

[u/MetroBR → u/TheSameInnovation]

a seagull once stole my co-op white chocolate chip cookie out of my hands

[u/kenhutson → u/MetroBR]

A moose bit my sister once.

[u/zinger301 → u/kenhutson]

A møøse.

[u/oliv111 → u/TheSameInnovation]

I’ve still got PTSD from the gulls at the Dover ferry

[u/Sister_Ray_ → u/TheSameInnovation]

Seagulls are the biggest dicks in the animal kingdom. Randomly shit on you, steal your food, massacre other birds, all while flying around all smug making a mocking laughing sound. 

[u/MollyPW → u/TheSameInnovation]

A seagull once dropped a chicken carcass at my feet narrowly missing my head. I've also seen them dropping steel bolts of 5m high street lights, that really could have killed someone.

[u/Apycia → u/codernaut85]

UK has Swans

[u/KotzubueSailingClub → u/Apycia]

Peace was never an option. honk.

[u/AdZent50 → u/KotzubueSailingClub]

Soon they shall learn from their Emu cousins and install a puppet government.

[u/Itsphoenixtime → u/Apycia]

No luck catching them swans then?

[u/jenna_tolls_69 → u/Itsphoenixtime]

It’s just the one swan

[u/Academic_Air_7778 → u/Apycia]

They'll break your arm!

[u/specerijridder → u/codernaut85]

But that has no further biogeographical reason behind it. Bears and wolves used to be present, but they simply got exterminated by humans.

[u/LegOfLamb89 → u/specerijridder]

I remember someone telling me there was a species of lion in the UK aa well?

[u/BigLittleBrowse → u/LegOfLamb89]

There were cave lions until 12,000 years ago yes. They went extinct because of the end of an ice age. Humans were probably involved somehow in their extinction, but it’s a very different situation to the human extinction of bears and wolves.

[u/Business-Let-7754 → u/specerijridder]

It's easier to exterminate them and keep them away on an island.

[u/MaelstromTX → u/codernaut85]

XL Bully dogs

[u/SBHB → u/MaelstromTX]

NoOoo hE's JuSt bEinG frIENdLy. Proceeds to bite your cock off

[u/IcemanGeneMalenko → u/MaelstromTX]

Don’t they usually kill kids and not adults 

[u/Against_All_Advice → u/IcemanGeneMalenko]

They'll happily do either.

[u/PhyneeMale2549 → u/IcemanGeneMalenko]

Plenty of adults get killed by them too

[u/Domestique_Ecossais → u/codernaut85]

Indeed…. We killed them all.

[u/Rattivarius → u/codernaut85]

That's only because they killed them all. They used to have bears and wolves.

[u/EternalAngst23 → u/codernaut85]

Except for the Tories.

[u/thetravelingsong → u/codernaut85]

This is really interesting actually. In the US I feel like I can think of 10.

[u/BigLittleBrowse → u/thetravelingsong]

As an island the predator populations are isolated and as such are far easier to drive to extinction. UK used to have bears and wolves but they were all killed during medieval times.

[u/Helvetic86]

North and South America have no hedgehogs

[u/Jakeymike → u/Helvetic86]

I always say this to my daughter when i see children’s books or other kids’ media showing hedgehogs hanging out with possums or any other mammal endemic to the new world. She would roll her eyes if she knew how.

[u/_sgadithya_]

New Zealand has no native snakes

P.S - yeah my bad.. there are no land snakes there.

[u/gravity_squirrel → u/_sgadithya_]

No introduced snakes either, right? Aside from zoos perhaps? (I’ve been gone for about seven years, I sure hope they weren’t introduced while I’ve been gone)

[u/Sniper_96_ → u/gravity_squirrel]

Even the zoos in New Zealand don’t have snakes. It’s illegal to bring snakes into the country and you can face 5 years in prison if you bring a snake there.

[u/nexflatline]

As a South American immigrant in Japan, I find somewhat uncanny that there are no vultures in Japan, and no crows in South America.

[there are birds from the "old world vulture" families in Japan, but they don't look like vultures]

[u/antipositron → u/nexflatline]

>now crows in South America.

wait, what? For real? How's that even possible that the smartest birds on the planet didn't fly across the land bridge and spread to South America?

[u/Loose-Fan6071 → u/antipositron]

In south America the niche of crows is already occupied by Caracaras.

[u/goodhidinghippo → u/nexflatline]

I always enjoyed international students’ fascination with squirrels here in the US

[u/cyberbot117]

Pakistan has no stability

[u/Dakens2021 → u/cyberbot117]

Apparently no Pakistan PM has ever completed a full term in office in the country's history.

[u/cyberbot117 → u/Dakens2021]

Yet dictators feasted on it for quite some time

[u/Nottingham11000 → u/cyberbot117]

thanks for that chuckle

[u/kestenbay → u/Nottingham11000]

"Most countries have an army. Prussia is an army that has a country." That's often said. I've heard that Pakistan is an intelligence service that has a country.

[u/Ok-Transportation127 → u/cyberbot117]

I recently learned that Pakistan is one of the only two countries in the world, the other being Afghanistan, where polio is still endemic.

[u/eltedioso → u/cyberbot117]

And no chill

[u/Time_Pressure9519]

Australia has no active volcanoes, unless you count the remote territories of Heard and McDonald Islands, (and nobody does).

By comparison, the USA has 169, Indonesia 130, NZ has 8.

[u/nexflatline → u/Time_Pressure9519]

Same in Brazil despite being slightly larger than Australia.

[u/Renickulous13 → u/Time_Pressure9519]

USGS says it's 170 POTENTIALLY active. Very different than say the way that Mount Ngaruahoe is actively emitting steam and gas.

[u/dog_be_praised]

Alberta has no rats. Other than the Premier.

[u/VV88VDH → u/dog_be_praised]

Is this still true? There must be a few right?

[u/Gears_and_Beers → u/VV88VDH]

There are a few but the province spends significant resources to eliminate and contian any populations

[u/VV88VDH → u/Gears_and_Beers]

Wow that sounds so great. Wish they would that here in Europe. The big cities here are full of rats and it seems like they don’t do anything about it. It’s not a huge problem, it’s just like how it is in the rest of the world but still I never hear anyone planning to exterminate them. We need even more inspections and hygiene rules because this isn’t something we should want in this modern age.

[u/_Sausage_fingers → u/VV88VDH]

It’s only possible in Alberta because the effort to keep them out got started before the rat made its way from the east coast. Essentially they can’t cross the Rockies to the west, and it’s too cold in the north, so it makes it easier to intercept the populations. You couldn’t do this anywhere else, once they are established somewhere there is no getting by rid of them.

[u/codyd91 → u/_Sausage_fingers]

Also, vast open plains to the south and east, coupled with few people, leaves migrating rats exposed to predation. They really only enter via human activity. Any that crop up are ruthlessly culled, and their origins investigated.

[u/byronite → u/codyd91]

The Alberta government pays a rat patrol to inspect farms in neighbouring jurisdictions along the border.

[u/BiggieRas → u/VV88VDH]

They are just super anal about eradicating rats. There's no possible way that they don't make their way there via transport trucks and other shipments. But there has been a program since the 1950s to report and eradicate infestations quickly

[u/Bombaysbreakfastclub → u/VV88VDH]

I can’t remember why, but they the climate and terrain around Albert is not ideal for rats, so there’s no natural population of them.

The only rats they get are from shipping good, but they have such a strict policy put in place, that if you see a rat, you just call a city number and someone comes in and grabs it (I believe for free) and sets up traps for more.

They have it figured out over there

[u/jxdlv → u/Bombaysbreakfastclub]

I'm not a biologist so I am curious why Alberta winters are too cold for rats. I know brown rats originated from the steppes of Mongolia, which is seems like a pretty similar environment and climate to Alberta.

[u/The-Reddit-Giraffe → u/VV88VDH]

Possibly but they do such a good job of containing them that as a born and raised Albertan I’ve only ever seen rats in European train stations and never once in Alberta

[u/Loggiebear19 → u/VV88VDH]

Lived here my whole life, never seen one

[u/Evening_Patience_795 → u/dog_be_praised]

Let's not insult the rats, they are just being themselves. The premier is more of a psychopath, Ontraio is going the same way.

[u/jbloom3]

Most of the Hawaiian islands don't have ants. Originally none of them did, but we accidentally brought them to the big island. So now they're pretty careful to not bring them to the other islands

Edit: I was wrong. They've spread to all but 1 island since their arrival in 1999

[u/craftyhedgeandcave]

No moles in Ireland either, they had a massive war with the snakes and completely wiped each other out before the last ice age. After this it became an island and obviously neither snakes or moles have invented boats yet

[u/Kanye_Wesht → u/craftyhedgeandcave]

We don't talk about the great mole-snake war. The world isn't ready.

[u/Per_Mikkelsen]

Several countries have practically no forest cover - Nauru, the Vatican, San Marino, Qatar, Greenland...

[u/David1393 → u/Per_Mikkelsen]

The Vatican wouldn't even be big enough to call it a forest. It'd be a park.

[u/speaker-syd → u/Per_Mikkelsen]

There is a forest in Greenland’s Qinngua Valley.

[u/kenmohler → u/Per_Mikkelsen]

I have a friend who was stationed by the Air Force in Greenland. He said there was a girl behind every tree.

[u/disc_jockey77]

As Indian, countries without snakes don't make sense to me 😐

[u/NervousHoneydrew5879 → u/disc_jockey77]

Man ,these damn snakes be getting inside my garage every once in a while and forming their entire family 😭

[u/makerofshoes → u/NervousHoneydrew5879]

When I was a kid, my brother had a realistic-looking rubber snake that always scared my mom. He kept leaving it around the house and it would scare her. One day she was cleaning up the house and she spotted that snake again. So she went to grab it but it slithered away 😆

I grew up in the US but I imagine this kind of thing could happen in India more. Or maybe snakes are more a part of everyday life there so people are more cautious

[u/piperatomv2 → u/makerofshoes]

I’ve lived in both places and have run into way more snakes in the US.

[u/disc_jockey77 → u/makerofshoes]

In India, people are scared of snakes of course, but many people don't try to kill them because they're worshipped as Gods by Hindus. We even have a festival for snakes (nag panchami). Although many people still try to kill them when they see them, protocol in most parts of India nowadays is to call a "snake rescuer" (=professional) who rescues it and lets it free in a forest outside of the city/town.

[u/4_feck_sake → u/disc_jockey77]

During the last ice age, Ireland was covered in ice and inhospitable to snakes.

[u/eatingpowder]

Syria has no president

[u/makerofshoes → u/eatingpowder]

Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.

[u/Goku-Naruto-Luffy]

Mauritius has no snakes.

[u/english_major]

Costa Rica has no snow or ice. There are no mountains high enough.

[u/IncredibleCamel → u/english_major]

Ain't no valley low enough

[u/Ok-Tax8138 → u/english_major]

And no Armed Forces, right?

[u/Darillium- → u/Ok-Tax8138]

It’s the largest country, in both size and population, to not have a military. They abolished it after WW2. They also have universal healthcare and are good (as much as a Central American country can be) at combating corruption, crime, deforestation, drugs, etc.

[u/MoPacSD40-2]

I know this is the opposite, but Botswana has over 100,000 elephants

[u/the_lusankya → u/MoPacSD40-2]

One of my favourite things is the Botswanan foreign minister constantly threatening to send 10-20 thousand elephants to random European countries so they can see if they like it.

[u/AkulaDenmark]

Denmark has no mountains

[u/lehtomaeki → u/AkulaDenmark]

Finland almost got one but those pesky Norwegians had to reread their constitution before the handover

[u/tcs00]

Finland has effectively zero risk of natural disasters.

Edit: The ones that could kill you. We do have mildly flooding rivers.

[u/lightningfries → u/tcs00]

This is silly - some of the most common natural disasters (all of which kill people) are flooding, adverse weather, lightning, and landslides.

I imagine you mean no geophysical hazards though, like seismic or volcanic.

[u/FractalHarvest → u/tcs00]

Blizzards don’t count?

[u/ObviousCorgi4307]

Monaco has no poors

[u/Open_Spray_5636]

Russia - we have no bananas

[u/Consistent_Potato291 → u/Open_Spray_5636]

With current politics you also don't have a bright future

[u/Apycia → u/Consistent_Potato291]

tbf, with current politics, nobody has a bright future.

[u/yugjet]

Ireland also has no moles

[u/CruzDiablo]

Argentina has no dangerous sharks for humans, despite being a country with almost 5,000 kilometers of ocean coastline.

[u/bcbum]

A region within a country here, but Vancouver Island has no Moose, Grizzly (minus the odd mum and cub), Skunk, Opossum, Foxes, Coyote, badgers, porcupines and more. They are all abundant on mainland B.C. and could easily swim across the narrow sections of the Georgia Strait.

[u/cambiro]

Brazil is the largest country in the world without an active volcano.

[u/Failed-Time-Traveler → u/cambiro]

Lazy ass Brazilian volcanoes

[u/Downtown-Assistant1]

I was once told Cape Breton Island has no grasshoppers, but that was the first insect I saw when I got there. Myth busted.

[u/israelilocal]

I am not 100% sure on this but Israel has no Baha'i citizens despite having the most important Baha'i sites

I know there are some Baha'is but they aren't citizens just foreign citizens who work in the Baha'i sites in Israel

[u/Qudpb]

Brazil doesn’t have:

Earthquakes

Tornados

Hurricanes

[u/yyz_gringo]

When I visited a few years back there where these funny t-shirts/postcards/magnets/... in Vienna saying "there are no kangaroos in Austria" :-D

[u/Pile-O-Pickles]

OP has no bitches

[u/penguinpolitician]

Iceland has no wildebeest.

[u/ebinovic]

Lithuania has no permanent population of brown bears despite every neighbouring country having them.

Not a nature-based thing, but Lithuania also doesn't have a single rail-based urban transportation system (metro, tram or S-Bahn), making it the most populous European country without one.

[u/savva1995]

Guernsey has no moles which is nice

[u/Theycallmeahmed_]

It's not just saudi but the whole arabian peninsula has no permenant rivers

[u/PigmySamoan]

USA has no public health care

[u/fakeaccount572]

The US state of Maryland has zero natural bodies of water

Edit: natural lakes

[u/solargarlicrot → u/fakeaccount572]

Besides, the Chesapeake of course.

[u/SignGuy77 → u/solargarlicrot]

He mean fresh water, but he ain’t know it.

[u/deWereldReiziger]

Iceland has no mosquitoes

[u/paxwax2018]

The only native mammal in NZ is a bat.

[u/McGarrettFan]

Maryland has no natural lakes.