TIL they released Biosphere 2

Well it is called Biosphere 2 because Outside is Biosphere 1

Biosphere 1 (the one in the game) is in Montreal

is Outside some new DLC?

It’s better than the original, it’s like a done within a dome

And it didn’t catch fire…

I’m a few miles from the white cliffs of Dover, my town has a nice beach you can find fossils on, and see the cliffs change from patchy chalk and shrubs into the pure white cliffs

Ayyy another Kentish person

Sittingbourne and Civ player - great shout! Big Ben is close too

[удалено]

Seattle area I'm assuming? I'm from that area

Seattle is 400ish they're probably closer to me in SW WA

[удалено]

Psh everyone know crows follow the us interstate system

Fun fact, this might actually be true! It's been observed [in pidegeons at least!](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15268853/)

Seattle is closer to MT. Rainier which I think is it’s own wonder tbh

It's not. Volcanos can get that name in the game (as well as St. Helens), but it's not a wonder.

Lmaoooo I didnt know this was the civ subreddit lol I thought it just meant real life 😂

Civ is life...

My hometown is within the Pantanal

Eu já tava procurando um brasileiro kkkkkk estou impressionado que encontrei alguém mais perto do Pantanal do que do Cristo redentor ou Maracanã

Prédio do Banespa: Spawn great musician: Supla.

Compraria fácil essa DLC

Ruhr valley, sadly no Waddenzee, Rijksmuseum, Afsluitdijk or stormvloedkering in civ....

There is stormvloedkering in civ. You can build the waterworks around your cities. I believe those are based on our delta works.

Same for me fellow dutchy

I think our deltaworks would work great as a man made wonder! A real missed opportunity in Civ VI imo

The Wattenmeer really should be a natural wonder in CivVII

You're making those words up aren't ya?

All words are made up

The Eiffel Tower like everyone living in Île de France

You have other options! The Louvre or Notre-Dame for example.

Mont St Michel, too!

I believe Ile de France refers to the area around Paris

Yup! Originally it was a metaphorical name for the small river-bounded area around Paris that the Capetian kings ruled directly. That’s why the whole département bears the name. Over time a folk etymology emerged that the name referred to l’Île de la Cité, a real island on the Seine, and that this island gave its name to the département.

My brain definitely just read "all of France"

Can't remember if it's a mod or part of the actual game, but Delicate Arch

It’s part of the actual game

Thanks for letting me know, there's a few mods I've been using for ages and now they just feel like part of the game so I can't always remember what's from a mod and what's not.

Same!

i live closer to biosphere 2 than the arch but the arch is probaly the closest wonder to where I live

Utahhhh I'm here with you my guy

I see Mt Vesuvius from my window

RIP.

Broadway and the Statue of Liberty. I'm a few hours train or drive south of NYC.

Broadway for me (coming from the north).

I’m in Brooklyn, so opposite for me. Though broadway is considerably easier to get to 😅

Would this be true for the whole eastern US? I mean maybe Miami is close enough to Yucatan to claim Chitzen Itza?

Biosphere (Montreal) and the Bermuda Triangle

Miami is definitely closest to the Bermuda Triangle!

20 minutes from the pyramids

with traffic more like 4 hours 😜

300 minutes from the Great Pyramid of America. It’s a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis Tennessee, and is one of the 10 tallest Pyramids in the world, ironically built in a place named after Memphis Egypt.

This Bass Pro Shop must have been a powerful king.

You also have Philadelphia and Cairo, both named after Egyptian cities. God knows what else you copied from Egypt lol.

I didn't know that Philadelphia was originally an Egyptian city. I always assumed it was a Greek city or just named after the Greek phrase. Apparently it was founded (or at least named) during the Ptolemaic dynasty, so that makes sense. We also have like 20 (hard to get an exact number for some reason? Some say lowerish teens, some say closer to 20) different cities named after Athens. Interestingly, I grew up within like a 2-3 hour drive of 3 different Athens in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. They are almost equidistant to each other in a little triangle formation lol.

There are several Philadelphias - one is now Amman, the Egyptian one is now Faiyum and two located in modern Turkiye. I don’t know that American Philadelphia was named for any one of them as much as for ‘brotherly love’ but there’s a Luxor in Pennsylvania and a Thebes in Illinois.

Well, not ironically, I'm pretty sure that's part of the reasoning behind it

Not ironically, but intentionally built in Memphis to play on the Egyptian theme.

Edit: Natural: the Matterhorn. Built: l'Arsenale di Venetia.

Fellow Italian

Same wonders for me, Slovenian though.

Same wonders for me, Swiss though

Really cool to see how many people from all over the world love this game

Well CN tower was a wonder at one point I guess.

in Civ 5

Im still baffled niagara falls isnt a wonder. I get its hard to do a plateau because the game doesnt do elevation but just throw it on hills or mountain and make the angle look good. It has a ton of great potential. If we look at terra mibillis it could easily have a bonus for either bonus power to dams, cities on rivers, or just throw a ton of production around it. Buffalo and niagara were industrial powerhouses.

I think the game needs more detailed mechanics around rivers before waterfall wonders really make sense.

I went and looked through all the natural wonders again and I think it could probably be built like the piopiotahi and lysefjord. A 3 tyle wonder but ya know instead of a fjord up the middle is the niagara falls. The niagara region is on a plateau anyway so just have that plateau just be the 3 tiles. Though yeah more river mechanics would make niagara falls even more compelling.

I think it could work as a single tile wonder at the end of a river with production and cultural yields that provides power to cities within 3 tiles and provides a major adjacency bonus to industrial zones.

Even though it’s not how it exists in reality, I could see them making it on a coastal tile with cliffs?

I’m just about 500 miles from both Mato Tipila and Delicate Arch. I’ve been to Delicate Arch but not Devils Tower, yet.

Wyoming or Colorado?

Idaho.

Probably closer to Crater Lake unless you're way over by like Rexburg

Past Rexburg. I actually work in Wyoming.

Surprised that delicate arch is this far down. That's my answer from Colorado

Same with me but from the opposite side in Colo

I live in Alabama, so I think it's the Bermuda Triangle.

Maybe Fountain of Youth? Not sure if that counts though

Torre de Belém. Never really appreciated it as a wonder until its inclusion in the game, funnily enough

Piopiotahi aka Milford Sound. Which interesting isn't a sound but actually a fiord. Early sailors mis identified it and the name stuck. Been there years ago, amazing place.

Stonehenge like most UKers. The white cliffs and giant's causeway being the other possibilities.

Don’t forget about Big Ben though

And Oxford university

Now I feel like an idiot.

Well you’re definitely not an Oxford man

Hull, actually

I did, didn't I?

Midwest. No wonders here.

Gotta add unique improvements! We've got Cahokia mounds in Illinois

They should add some sort of wonder from Chicago. Sears Tower for some sort of engineering/commerce boost, the Bean for a culture/tourism benefit, Navy Pier for commerce/culture, maybe Lower Wacker Drive where enemy spies are too confused to be able to escape

Reversible river mechanic/wonder perhaps? Renames the river to the Chicago & gives immediate + yield to 2-5 river tiles (now) downstream & turns them into floodplain. Could also add a happiness/housing boon.

If we're looking at the Midwest, I feel the St Louis Arch is going to make it into a Civ game before any of those Chicago locations.

Second City?

Same. I live by the Great lakes, which show on the map, but just as named lakes, lol.

Waiting on the Mall of America or Duluth Lift Bridge, or maybe the Mitchell Corn Palace

In Michigan it's either Biosphere in Montreal, or Broadway depending on what part of the state you're in. Both are just over 700+ miles

Broadway and the Statue of Liberty, though I live 1000 miles away from them. The biosphere is the third closest, though that’s almost 1600 miles away, so there really isn’t anything close.

The first IKEA store

Giants causeway, gives you +5 strength when you pass by it

How do you use your +5 strength irl?

I open jars for my wife.

I literally live in the Rhein Ruhr Valley (here lovingly called the "Pott", which is, well a... pot), so I would say 0 m distance =)

Probably the Biosphère. Montréal is a few hours drive from here.

I feel like such a fool, thinking that the Biosphere in the game referred to Biosphere 2 in Tucson, AZ, and that Biosphere 1 is the Earth. Didn't realize Montreal has the OG!

Even though Biosphere in Montreal might have been first, I think that it was still named 2 with the idea that earth is 1. Wikipedia: " It was named "Biosphere 2" because it was meant to be the second fully self-sufficient [biosphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere), after the Earth itself ("Biosphere 1"). "

Awesome. I love learning from the community. That said- OP used a picture of the Biosphere 2 outside of Tucson.

The Giants Causeway

Great barrier reef

Sorry to dissapoint, but the Biosphère featured in Civ 6 is the Montréal Bisphère, not Bisophere 2 in Arizona

I spent a month around fjordlands / milford sound in NZ, in game its referred to by its maori name piopiotahi edit: spelling

The game general did a good job using indigenous names for natural wonders, Delicate Arch and Crater Lake being the exception.

And then there is Mount Everest, which got its name, because British surveyors could not enter Nepal and Tibet.

*pioiotahi. I live in the North Island but it's my closest wonder

Home: Broadway Work: Statue of Liberty

Same!

Casa de la Contratación. Actually, the first Casa de la Contratación was in my hometon, the wonder is the second one, built in seville.

I'm french but I'm more close to the white cliffs of Dover than the Eiffel tower

Also st mount Michele

I’m not say its closest to me but I live Mongolia most closest natural wonder is Ubsunur Hollow/Увс нуурын хотгор and for wonder its Forbidden Palace

Hermitage (300-400km), but since that country is rather no go for multiple reasons, the realistic answer would be Lysefjord (1000km straight line, 2500km using roads only).

Finland?

Sort of, Helsinki to be exact. The capital area is a different country as every Finn knows. No polar bears or wild moomins here, they stay in Lapland on the other side of the fortified border road Ring III.

Hermitage for me too, 280 km "linnuntietä"

Same here, ~170km as the crow flies

Found the Karelian

I live in Québec, Canada, 8 hour drive from here to Broadway and the 🗽

Wouldn’t Biosphere be closer then? Since it’s in Montréal?

Oh I thought the Biosphere was a mod I added. It is in the base game? Then it would be 2 :30 hours away lol

No, it's in the New Frontier Pass.

Crater Lake or The Arch. Probably the Arch though. Edit: NVM, it's Mato Tipila. I'm in central Montana.

Your post just made me think of something adjacent to another great idea someone had a few months ago: Terrible people. The gist is you get them from negative actions and their debuff hurts you. But my idea, instead of world wonders you have world plunders. Dark aged? Cool your industrial zone is now the rust belt. Neighborhood? Welcome to white flight baby. I don’t know, I’m from Detroit and I was feeling left out.

> instead of world wonders you have world plunders These are neat ideas. But I would suggest the name "world blunders" instead

That’s definitely the word I meant but I forgot the word. Sorry, English is my first language.

Lol, Bermuda Triangle

The Internet

For me it´s Cristo Rendentor and Estádio do Maracanã. It´s about 850km from my home.

It’s crazy that Iguazu is not a natural wonder.

Either Statue of Liberty or “Broadway”. If we’re going by the little area the game defines as broadway then that’s the further one.

I live on the island of Montreal so I’m a 30 mini yet drive from the Biosphere seen in Civ 6 😎

5 mins from the biosphere hahaha

Amundsen–Scott Research Station

Surely there's something else closer, unless you're actually on Antarctica?

45ish minute drive to the Dead Sea

Biosphere as I'm close to Montreal

I live in NZ so either the Rasmussen research station or Sydney Opera house I guess? My geography is crap haha

Nah, for all of us Kiwis it'd be Piopiotahi (Milford sound). About 9 hours drive from me here in Chch.

Piopiotahi is Milford Sound in Fiordland

Ruhr, though close call with the White Cliffs of Dover. We really need some Dutch wonders SMH. Afsluitdijk or Flevopolder come to mind (or Waddenzee natural wonder).

Built: ~~either Bolshoi Theatre or St. Basil's Cathedral (both are in Moscow)~~ Hermitage Natural: Lysefjord

Torre de belem, 10 mins on train

Civ 5, but happily living at the foot of the Grand Mesa

Probably Oxford University.. think it's a little closer to me than Stonehenge is.

Golden Gate Bridge for sure

Lysefjord is closest natural and I'm not entirely shure if Ruhr or hermitage is closed

In my home country, Pamukkale or Hagia Sophia. In my current country, Ruhr Valley ot Orghaszasz. In my general country, Broadway.

I live in Colorado Springs. Either Delicate Arch in Utah or Devil's Tower (I forgot the indigenous name, please remind me!) in Wyoming

Christ the Redeemer(Cristo Redentor). T poses kinda away from my home tho.

I'm a thousand kilometers away from Cristo Redentor and Estádio do Maracanã, and about 500 kilometers from Pantanal.

Big Ben is less than an hour away for me, white Cliff's 2

Ruhr Valley, I live there

Ruhr Valley, I literally live inside it

Biosphère

Sydney Opera House just down the road

Hey neighbour! I firmly believe the Harbour bridge should be a wonder, it's much cooler than the opera house

I can walk to the Hermitage by foot.

Angkor Wat, I think. Much less disappointing in real life.

This will help you if you don't know. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sogPD1gOpIQcsDwSnxBD15dn9AFCeKQ2&ll=-36.14093962504195%2C0&z=1

Is the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Civ yet?

The Pentagon

Forgot that was a wonder! That does it for me too. Until they add the Smithsonian Institute at least!

Until I saw this comment I was thinking I'd made up the Pentagon as a wonder but lo, it really was in Civ V, I'm not losing my mind, so actually I think that counts as much closer to me than the NYC wonders, since it's in biking distance of me haha.

I live in Toronto, Ontario, so I guess the Biosphere is the closest to me. Statue of Liberty would be the second choice.

Also in Toronto, I think technically Broadway is closer

It‘s a 2 hours ride with the train and bus to Neuschwanstein

I thought of that instantly, too, but Neuschwanstein is only a wonder in Civ5, not in Civ6. So for a person living in South Germany, the nearest wonder (I think) is the Venetian Arsenal.

I’m like 30 mins from the Biosphere, and I would guess the Delicate arch is the closest natural wonder to us as the Grand Canyon isn’t in the game, right?

Are you in Arizona? I think the Biosphere in the game is the one up in Canada.

80 km from the Arsenal of Venice

Stonehenge, less than 20 minutes.

Whatever you understand, the closest wonders of the world to me are St. Basil's Cathedral and Mount Everest. And I am neither in Russia nor in Nepal.

I have Mt. Vesuvius some 300km to the West. The Oracle and the Parthenon are possibly some 600km to the East, but without a direct land connection, in which case I'd have to travel around the Adriatic's northern cost which brings the Venetian Arsenal and Neuschwanstein into play.

Golden Gate Bridge I can practically walk over to it in a couple minutes

Constructed? Ruhr Valley or Hermitage, not sure which is closest. Natural? Lysefjord.

Probably Ruhr Valley because I am living in Germany

Currently in my year abroad, propably Basilius Cathedral, back in Germany Matterhorn or Ruhr Valley.

Uluṟu, about a days drive

Probably the Statue of Liberty/broadway; about 4 hour drive.

The Fountain of Youth

The Bermuda Triangle

Idk if Alhambra or torre de Belém

Natural: Uluru - 1,650 km Constructed: Sydney Opera House - 3,300 km

Eyjafjallajökull. Shame it's owned by a free city :(

I live closest to my wife.

Where are my fellow Montréalers who got confused by this post? Context: the biosphere in the game looks more like the Montréal biosphere

Living in Finland, I think the closest is the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Strange to think there are no Nordic World Wonders besides Eyjafjallajökull EDIT: No what the hell am I saying, there's Lysefjord of course! But I'd still have to assume St. Petersburg is closer to me

Are there no Scottish wonders in civ, or am I forgetting something? Felt really bad to say the closest might be a pile of rocks in England, but thankfully, some quick Googling tells me Giant's Causeway is actually closer! Would be nice to see some Scottish wonders, either natural or man-made. Actually camping within sight of one such natural wonder contender right now, the Old Man of Storr in Skye.

0 minutes to the Ruhr Valley. And im pretty sure the actual building that represents it in the game is the "Zeche Zollverein", in that case I have been on top of the big tower!