Can you say something about your country that makes no sense?

I never understood why the South of Egypt is called upper Egypt 🤔

Upper Egypt is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. -wikipedia-

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BlueVeins · 22-25

The American southeast is just called the South, but the southwest is called the Southwest.

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M

@BlueVeins Was that the same before the Civil war? I'd guess it wasn't.

SW-User

@BlueVeins Crazy when Maryland gets called the "South".

And then you have the Midwest, which is west of the East Coast and the originally settled part of the country, but to those of us on the West Coast, there's nothing "west" about the Midwest.

In California, "east" and "west" are determined by the northwest-to-southeast running fault lines, so you have a city like East Palo Alto, which is literally due north of Palo Alto, but it gets called "east" because if we see the fault line as north/south, it can only be east.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether The naming convention dates back to the founding of the US, to my understanding. It's like that because the US was originally just a nub on the east coast of North America.