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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' features a tropical rainforest paradise right beside a large desert. It's made even more confusing in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride the sequel]], where it's shown that the jungle is connected to the Pridelands through the barren, dusty gorge. There's a river with a waterfall running through that rain forest. Perhaps it never rains in that region, and so all the wildlife grows right by the river.

* In Melanie Rawn's ''Literature/DragonPrince'' trilogy, a major river has its source on one side of a group of mountains, flows up through them, and empties out in a bay on the other side. Yay, gravity! This can happen in real life, if the river is older than the mountains it flows through; it cuts through them as they rise, creating a water gap. This can also happen in stream capture, where two streams erode towards their sources and one captures the other. Which isn't to say that that's what Rawn was thinking of when she drew this map...

* Christopher Paolini's ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' has a desert right next to a dense forest in an otherwise medieval setting. Justified due to the forest being noted to have been grown with the elves' magic and the desert also being very close to a twelve mile high mountain range. The numerous large lakes that lack either tributary or distributary rivers without emptying or overflowing are a little harder to explain.

* In the SF ''Literature/WellWorld'' series by Creator/JackLChalker, the surface of the Well World is divided into regular hexagons, each featuring its own environment, often startlingly different from its neighbors in climate, biome, atmosphere, gravity, or even achievable tech level, with no apparent separating mechanism other than force walls that just about anyone can shove through without noticing. {{Justified|Trope}} as the construction of {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s.

* A minor example in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' is the Poison Swamp in Goblin Valley; John immediately pegs it as artificial, noting that the land should have been much too dry for a swamp.

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* The transition between the northernmost regions of Spain and the rest of the country is somewhat dramatic, when you go from the endless, almost flat, and with few trees Spain's plateau to the lush and mountainous Green Spain as is known after crossing the Cantabrian mountains. Weather makes it even more so[[note]]And even more when you have to transverse a tunnel, as happens if you want to go to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturias Asturias]] via highway, as can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgvklmbsZT8 here]][[/note]], especially in summer when you can have in the plateau cloudless skies and searing hot temperatures and in the other side cloudcast skies and (often) drizzle, as well as quite milder temperatures.

* The transition between the northernmost regions of Spain and the rest of the country is somewhat dramatic, when you go from the endless, almost flat, and with few trees Spain's plateau to the lush and mountainous Green Spain as is known after crossing the Cantabrian mountains. Weather makes it even more so[[note]]And even more when you have to transverse a tunnel, as happens if you want to go to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturias Asturias]] via highway[[/note]], especially in summer when you can have in the plateau cloudless skies and searing hot temperatures and in the other side cloudcast skies and (often) drizzle, as well as quite milder temperatures.

[[caption-width-right:256:Yes, that is a desert on the same latitude as the frozen tundra.]]

* ''Webcomic/DarkLegacyComics'' treats the subject with an eye to one of the potential [[http://www.darklegacycomics.com/409.html ramifications]].

* In ''Webcomic/UrbanUnderbrush'', [[http://www.lepusstudios.com/uu0171.html this is how you find the capital city -- it's surrounded by this, not the one on the major trade route.]]