What is the country with the most climate zones (forgot the real term but I mean like deserts, rainforest, tundra, taiga, etc)?
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Last updated Jul 15 2021.
griffinj
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griffinj 22 year member
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The USA (inc. Alaska) has all five climate zones (tropical, dry, temperate, cold and polar). It's the only country I can find that does. The following link has a good explanation of the five different climate zones:
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Dec 11 2003, 4:56 PM
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griffinj 22 year member
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This map gives eleven zones, nine of which can be found in the US, including Alaska. This probably goes to ten if Hawaii is added. The only one missing is tundra/ice cap, if one includes Hawaii as wet equatorial. (How does the climate of So. Florida compare to Hawaii?)
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Dec 11 2003, 5:10 PM
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Australia does not do too badly. More snow than Switzerland, rain forests, both tropical, sub tropical and temperate, deserts, grasslands, old growth forests, and this all in one large and one small islands.
The following link calls the climate zones "biomes" and finds the following for Australia: