Bad Geography

Bad geography is a common feature of poor quality fanfiction. Common examples include setting a story in a particular city without bothering to consult an actual map, thus placing locations that are actually nowhere near one another quite close by, underestimating the time it would take to get from one to another, and sometimes transplanting whole landmarks from somewhere else entirely. 
Lack of knowledge of regional climate can also be glaringly obvious. A mountainous landscape in Colorado should not look like a backlot in California, but it all too frequently does. 
Bad geography might not be obvious to anyone unfamiliar with the locale in question, but anyone who lives there will spot it right away, and when it's bad enough it can destroy the believability of the entire fanfiction. 
==Types of Geographical Aberrations==
===Geographical Compression===
Geographical compression is probably the most frequent type of bad geography. When a writer severely underestimates the distance between two locations, the space in between, and all objects in it, are compressed into the new, smaller, space.
Geographical expansion also exists, but is less common.
===Uncanon Locations===
Some fanwriters may insert anything from an extra room to an entire solar system into the canon. Sue princesses often come from entire countries that shouldn't exist. A location can only be declared uncanon if canonical maps or detailed descriptions exist that do not permit the existence of the location.
===Misplaced Locations===
Everything from buildings to entire countries have been found switched around, located where they shouldn't be, or even moved into an entirely different continuum.
==See Also==
===Other Bad Things:===
*Bad Biology
*Bad Psychology
*Bad Physics
*Bad Characterization
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