Pick a country and watch it break into its climate zones — then see another country that shares each climate.
Every place on Earth has a climate "type" — how hot, how wet, how seasonal it is. For each type, we find the country with the most land in that climate worldwide and use it as the match. So a zone labeled "climate of China" just means China has more of that climate than any other country.
Inside each zone we scatter a few real cities of the matched country that actually have that climate — bigger zones get more. Each city sits roughly where it does in its own country, so eastern cities land toward the east of the zone.
Climate: Köppen-Geiger 1991–2020 (Beck et al. 2023). Borders: Natural Earth. Cities: GeoNames (population ≥ 1M or national capitals).
Each zone is shaded by its Köppen climate type. Here's what each one means: