Patchwork fields, yellow rapeseed, green crops, tilled earth
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You wouldn't gather it from this photo, but we're looking at the most populous state in the European Union's most populous nation. While these checkerboard farms grow grains and veggies, not fruit, they lie smack in the center of the Blue Banana: The sweeping region of Europe that includes the bulk of the continent's people and industry. Even as part of the most urbanized region in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia still contains more than 50% farmland like this—after all, the Banana's 100 million people gotta eat.
黄龙
毛绒球平原
淡咸水藻华
一个虔诚而岌岌可危的地方
韦托雷印象
带我飞往...
天然“教堂”
巨大的红色沙盒
