If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.

@pungetello

Жыл бұрын

and a few dozen guards lol

@Neo36563

Жыл бұрын

And the cold, hunger, North Korean Army, Potential Deportation and the camps, Families Sent to camps, and way more

@isirlaughsalot2675

Жыл бұрын

Same with the US to norway. Technically, you can go from the Canadian border with Greenland to Norway by only traversing Canada, the US, and Russia.

@QuantumScratcher

Жыл бұрын

don't do that... 🔒,🔑->🕳

@Jochen-iq8vx

Жыл бұрын

@@Neo36563 chill, mate. It was a joke.

the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia

@WonkyWater-YT

Жыл бұрын

Laughs in Bengal

@moon_fake

Жыл бұрын

Well to be fair Java is not that tiny tho

@WonkyWater-YT

Жыл бұрын

@@ReekyCheeks you just combined two of the facts in the video...

@Peanut_eata

Жыл бұрын

@@moon_fake it’s pretty tiny. Have you seen it on a map?

@makotopark7741

Жыл бұрын

tiny? Comparing to other countries' size Java is still larger but yeah the way 100+ people fits into a place as small as that

Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world

@davidanderson2357

Жыл бұрын

He had a lot of help from his dog.

@cynicalsayonara7169

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@binkwillans5138

Жыл бұрын

810 million, 452 thousand, 5... er...5 hundred and ... darn! 1...2...3

@katherineirving7189

7 ай бұрын

Not every tree.

@linkevan9613

7 ай бұрын

@@katherineirving7189 bro go outside and go make friend please

I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.

@WhangaFish

8 ай бұрын

I'm a Kiwi (who was born in Canada) and honestly I can't believe I'd never heard this before! Mind blown

@BenSussmanpro

7 ай бұрын

This is nothing - most Americans can’t even name a city in the southern hemisphere. Americans are geography illiterate- even engineers & other professionals. When I told friends about a trip to Costa Rica from Baltimore, that it took less flying time than from Baltimore to San Francisco they were astounded - some didn’t even believe me. I could go on and on. BTW I’m American but love learning about geography.

@adamrodaway1074

7 ай бұрын

I once flew from Shanghai (population c.25M 4000/km2) to New Zealand (population c.5M 20/km2). A definite contrast!

@michaeldover

7 ай бұрын

@@BenSussmanpro Most Americans could not point out their own state on a blank US map. I'm one of those who can, btw...and point out all of them on a blank map.

@overnightpartsfromjapan01

7 ай бұрын

I had to look this up: this is true for the distance between the Australian east coast and the North Island (1868 from Port Macquarie to Cape Reinga), but Australia is closer to the South Island (1648km from Cape Howe to Doubtful Sound) than any point of Canada is to Mexico (from what I could tell, about 1820km from Tijuana to the 49th parallel). Tasmania is even closer again, about 1491km from Milford Sound.

I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha

@ojl5055

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

Sure, and they named it in honor of Mia Khalifa...

@EpsteinNoSeppuku

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I also think the presentation of it is a bit misleading considering the people climbing start around 6.5 burj Khalifa's up lol

@A808K

Жыл бұрын

The comparison is apples and oranges and applies only to height. To actually see Everest fairly up close for the first time is an experience never to be forgotten. So overwhelmingly magnificent it brought a tear to my eye.

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

@@A808K Magnificent? It is a mountain, nothing more, sure, it is arguably the highest mountain, but I see nothing special about that... If that brought tears to your eyes, what have you done when you saw the whole planet? Or the sun? As Hegel wrote, one can't find aesthetical pleasure in things that were not made by human beings. You were overwhelmed by some mountain, but I am much more impressed by something that no other living thing has made, such as Burj Khalifa, and other real wonders, things made by human beings.

the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil

@sanderappel4499

Жыл бұрын

The westernmost point of China is also closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point. But yeah, it's baffling how large Brazil is

@grizwoldphantasia5005

Жыл бұрын

Took a couple of seconds to sink in that you meant (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (N Brazil to S Brazil). I had thought you were saying (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (S Brazil to Canada) and trying to figure the distance south from S Brazil over Antarctica and on to N Canada. Now that would be an interesting fact -- are there any such surprise distances going the opposite way over one of the poles?

@LordOfLight

Жыл бұрын

Well I checked that on Google Earth and found that the distance from North to South Brazil is about 2,716 miles, whereas the distance from North Brazil to Canada is 2,760 miles. Which would make you wrong.......if I'm right.

@pedromenchik1961

Жыл бұрын

@@LordOfLight you're probably using the wrong points. From Monte Caburaí (northernmost of Brazil) to Cape Sable Lighthouse in Canada there are 2,654 miles. From the same Monte Caburaí to Barra do Chuí (southernmost point of Brazil) there are 2,732 miles

@pedromenchik1961

Жыл бұрын

in fact, the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every single country in the Americas than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil

The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.

@MrAdriancooke

4 ай бұрын

It's actually a jungle and not a rain-forest

The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance

@nolesy34

Жыл бұрын

That is a mind f- NOLESY ok ok mum

@mikejones-go8vz

Жыл бұрын

So to get to the East, one heads West. Interesting, that’s the best fact

@richardharris8867

Жыл бұрын

Yes, to go from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Canal you go west to eat...

@nolesy34

Жыл бұрын

@@richardharris8867 me* makes cars movie inner voice sounds *to go right, go left

@ontheroad5317

Жыл бұрын

I was going to make this same observation. Well done!

Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world's smallest non city-state country! :-)

@landonbarneyteamseas7756

Жыл бұрын

Oh ok!

@nicolebiewald18

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if Australia makes Nauru a territory

@therealusman

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolebiewald18nauru isn’t apart of australia

@jonahmazzone

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say cuz Vatican City is the worlds smallest country. Good catch!

@saturnsfr

Жыл бұрын

@@therealusman yeah. that's why they said imagine

#19 4:41 You meant "kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared". It's distance, not area.

@TheGeographyBible

Жыл бұрын

Think I need to hire a proof listener!

@stevenlubick2689

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too. When he said area, and he should have said distance.✅✅

@TransportGeekery

Жыл бұрын

The distance is also wrong by 1,000 km or so. The distance from Hawaii to Maine is also further than Hawaii to Florida/

@-_James_-

Жыл бұрын

@@TransportGeekery But this wasn't to Hawaii. It was to Kure Atoll which is west of Midway.

@TransportGeekery

Жыл бұрын

@@-_James_- doesn’t matter. Maine is still further east.

1:33 Here's a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn't quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony. So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.

Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how "hard" it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa's from sea level.

@bmfsnc8466

Жыл бұрын

So really, it's only 3.5 buildings to be as tall as mnt everest, wow

@davidanderson2357

Жыл бұрын

Ah, yes... but we know that many many dozens of people have successfully climbed Everest. How many have climbed Burj Khalifa? On the outside, I mean. Stairs and elevators don't count.

Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia's population lives within 50 km of the coast.

@sanderappel4499

Жыл бұрын

I love the Maine fact

@johnr797

Жыл бұрын

​@@sanderappel4499 not surprising at all if you think about it

Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.

@PrenticeAviation

Жыл бұрын

And Wisconsin :)

@usmale49

Жыл бұрын

That's what I thought...good catch!! Thanks!!

@Danflave

Жыл бұрын

@@PrenticeAviation Lol I live in Wisconsin! How could I forget?? 🤣

@kittyhouse1028

Жыл бұрын

How can we forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? I have heard it is a dangerous lake. I'm more familiar with Lake Michigan.

@draco4540

Жыл бұрын

@@kittyhouse1028 o i'm from marqutte, mich. which i live my whole life. you learned from an early age to be careful of the great lake. when gordon lightfoot wrote the song, "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald", he became an "yooper". he by passed the "honorary" part. he's a great canadian folk singer. much respect to him and his songs. he has a lot of great songs.

I stumbled across your video today and loved it! I know you posted it ages ago, but I’m just giving it a thumbs up and comment today 😊

4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing "9400 kilometers squared" from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!

@dr.borsuk1538

7 ай бұрын

Yep, stopped watching after that

@effkay3691

6 ай бұрын

Yep I too stopped watching squared!

@lruss2004

6 ай бұрын

I had it just playing in the background, at this point I stopped watching. 👎🏽

@billboggs6641

6 ай бұрын

Vatican City to Rome. About 2 inches

@aj.meso26

5 ай бұрын

I wondered about the distance between Hawaii and Maine, as wouldn’t Maine be higher North?

geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they're actually good at geography

@Swede1066

Жыл бұрын

...but in all fairness, he did pronounce Chongqing and Nauru incorrectly.

@AgonizingAmbush

Жыл бұрын

Kihrihbat

@Tuberex

Жыл бұрын

Is it Kiribas?

@johnr797

Жыл бұрын

Or Seychelles

@inside1283

Жыл бұрын

@@Swede1066 then he pronounced baku wrong

Nauru isn’t the smallest country. 3:25

Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don't believe them. 1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest. 2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don't hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador. 3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine. 4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands. 5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston. 6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.

@grizwoldphantasia5005

Жыл бұрын

Related to No. 2, few people know that going from the Atlantic to Pacific via the Panama Canal, you travel northwest to southeast -- you actually go "backwards", so to speak.

@michaelplanchunas3693

Жыл бұрын

The Canadian border in Lake Erie is south of Chicago city limits.

@matts9781

Жыл бұрын

Regarding number 2, I think you mean westernmost tip of Ecuador. Thanks for the interesting facts.

@pmbrig

Жыл бұрын

@@matts9781 Yes, or course, the westernmost tip, my bad.

@lostcause1206

Жыл бұрын

Reno , NV is west of LA

I LOVE this channel! Please continue with videos like this.

The greatest distance in the US being 9400 km^2 is indeed mindboggling.

@yyyuiu5773

8 ай бұрын

Yeah wtf lol

Here's a few more: 13 US States have ALL of their territory north of the southernmost point of Canada. 27 US States have at least part of their territory north of the most southernmost point of Canada (one of which is California). Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Atlanta, Georgia is further west than Detroit, Michigan. Alaska has the furthest North, East, and West places in the United States. There are two places in the US where water flows to both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

@Greatdome99

6 ай бұрын

Seattle, WA is 250 miles north of Toronto.

Cool video! Should note though that the footage of “Jamaica” used at 5:43 is actually of Jamaica, Queens, NY - not the island nation of the same name.

@joeylawn36111

Жыл бұрын

The way things are going in NYC, they may just catch up to the country of Jamaica.... 😮😳

@soaringvulture

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that. I didn't think that's how Kingston looked.

@ryantaylor687

Жыл бұрын

It's actually Brooklyn, you can clearly see the Atlantic Armory Shelter. Very strange, makes the entire video of dubious quality.

@rmcguirephoto

Жыл бұрын

The traffic driving on the right side of the road was the giveaway. In Jamaica, they drive on the left like the UK.

@pamelaleigh4225

Жыл бұрын

​@@joeylawn36111 lol

3:22 Nauru is actually the third smallest country. Monaco and Vatican City are smaller

@aliquida7132

10 ай бұрын

In other parts of the video he has said "this excludes city states and autonomous regions", I assume that he intended to include that disclaimer when calling Nauru the smallest country.

You can compare Hong Kong to Western Australia & Mongolia combined however Western Australia & Mongolia are mostly barren desert land. A better comparison would be a Hong Kong against the US state of Alabama. Alabama is humid subtropical just like Hong Kong with it being 118 times bigger in land area but the entirety of the Alabama holds less people than Hong Kong. Alabama - 50,750 square miles Hong Kong - 428.64 square miles Alabama - 5,097,641 people Hong Kong - 7,291,600 people Alabama - 100 people per square mile Hong Kong - 17,011 people per square mile

@tedyu1735

Жыл бұрын

i personally live in hong kong and you get why its so densely populated by looking at skyscarpers

@alukuhito

Жыл бұрын

Irrelevant. You must be from Alabama.

@bryanconley8202

Жыл бұрын

fewer people

@razorhawk9808

6 ай бұрын

Yes Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate, but only a couple degrees fahrenheit below the tropical climate threshold in December and January. Meanwhile Alabama is NOT bordering a tropical climate on its southern coast.

Props to the people who counted every tree on Earth 👏

@katherineirving7189

7 ай бұрын

Not every tree.

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you

The most southern point in Canada is actually south of Detroit, Barcelona, & Rome.

@brianbrandt25

Жыл бұрын

Most Canadians live south of Minneapolis mn

@johnr797

Жыл бұрын

​@@TechedCanvas where the hell did you get 45 million? It's barely 38

@jamesdignanmusic2765

Жыл бұрын

And if you go due south from Detroit the first country you pass through is Canada!

@TechedCanvas

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 point pelee is south of Erie, PA!

@elwoodblues9613

Жыл бұрын

I was about to write that,@@jamesdignanmusic2765. Canada is north of the USA, but driving there from Detroit MI USA to Windsor ON Canada means driving *south.*

Great video!! Another interesting fact: the northernmost point in Brazil is closest to Canada than Brazil's southernmost point.

@lucianomezzetta4332

7 ай бұрын

An illiterate and thus a confusing answer, try "closer to Canada than to Brazil's southernmost point."

3:20 it’s the 3rd smallest behind the Vatican and Monaco.

Hey I love this kind of videos thank you. I thought that the Vatican City was the smallest country not nauru island

8:53 it also means the point in the ocean that is furthest away from land

3:18 - Nauru is not the world's smallest country. The world's smallest country is Vatican City, which is approximately 1/40 the size of Nauru.

@melonslicezmpg1045

Жыл бұрын

you are A nerd read the correction in the comments 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

@FerdinandCesarano

Жыл бұрын

@@melonslicezmpg1045 - Ah, I clearly did not read all the other comments before leaving mine. Thank you for the (as we say in Esperanto) atentigo.

Lake Superior is shared between Canada and the U.S.

Shout out to the person that counted all those trees.

4:45 : The greatest distance between two points in France is 16100 km (about 10000 mi) : Kerguelen island (by the Antarctic 49°S 59°E) and Miquelon island (south of Newfoundland island, 46°N 56°W)

I was just blown with the fact that Barcelona Istanbul and New York City fell on the same lattitude and just went to google maps instantly after hearing it... 😳😳

@GRice999

Жыл бұрын

Madrid too, which I knew. Another mind blowing fact is that London is more north than Newfoundland, but south of Berlin.

0:01 hello timed commenters

@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2

10 ай бұрын

hey

Alternate title: Roasting Africa for 11 Minutes

Very interesting stuff. Much of it I didn't know.

It's amazing how New York is at a similar latitude to Rome, Barcelona and Istanbul when you consider the temperatures of each of them, and yes I did check the map because it didn't sound right.

6:13 similarly, England has only the 6th largest population of English speakers (behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines)

@user-jn1tr8mo3g

Жыл бұрын

You assume that everyone in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines can speak English. They can't. Mind you, neither can the entire population of the U.S. or the U.K. (note, U.K. not England, there is a difference you know).

@brucetucker4847

Жыл бұрын

Only the first has more native speakers, though - it's a second language for almost all speakers in the latter four.

1:33 Seeing Saint Pierre & Miquelon makes me want to bring up the fact that these small islands off of Newfoundland is the last vestige of what was once the vast territory of New France (it's also the only place in North America where the guillotine was used). After losing the Seven Years' War, France ceded its North American possessions to Britain, but were allowed to keep St. Pierre & Miquelon. The collectivity's unofficial flag is actually pretty cool, it has the Basque, Breton, and Norman flags respectively for the groups that settled there as well as a big ship in the middle. 4:44 The greatest distance between any two points in the US is inaccurate when you consider the country's territories. Greatest distance between any two points within the US including all territories is actually 9,514 miles/15,311 km from Point Udall, Guam to Point Udall, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (yes, same name).

@waddsbadds

Жыл бұрын

St Pierre & Miquelon is also the only place in North America where the euro is used as currency

@brianarbenz1329

10 ай бұрын

I took a French language class taught by a woman born in Saint Pierre & Miquelon (well, one of those islands). She spent her childhood there and in France, specifically the province of Centre, south of Paris. She was from the old and new worlds.

Another amazing random fact: I have stopped to rewind this video a minute or two to listen to a couple of things I just heard more than any other KZread video, maybe even any video, in my life.

Nauru isn’t actually the smallest country. It’s the smallest island nation and smallest non-city-state country at 21km^2 (8.1mi^2), but Monaco is smaller at 2.02km^2 (0.78mi^2), and Vatican City/The Holy See is the smallest at 0.49km^2 (0.19mi^2).

I live in luxembourg and still am as poor as dirt

@user-jn1tr8mo3g

Жыл бұрын

I live in the U.K. and am filthy rich.

@koxtheknight7087

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jn1tr8mo3g is that so

This vid was so well made that it made me subscribe. Good video :)

Thanks for these nice facts! I should do lots of shorts for more popularity

I loved it. These facts got my juices flowing. Your mellow Geordie accent was also very pleasant to listen to. It made a change from the fast-spoken and grating American accent that invariably narrates on YT videos.

@popstar3687

Жыл бұрын

funny that youre complaining about american accents on an american site

@Eurobazz

Жыл бұрын

@@popstar3687 You really are talking a load of crap.

9:18 Why did you show a bird caught in the barbed wire.... some interesting information here and well presented, it flowed well from one to another and some great images. 17million people in one city, half of Canada.

@robertpittman118

8 ай бұрын

Don't worry, was just a kite, not a real bird

Interesting data from around the globe. Curious if the reference to Big Dimoede was different from Big Dimoede Island in Alaska?

@soaringvulture

Жыл бұрын

Big Diomede is in Russia. Little Diomede is in Alaska. They're about 2 miles apart so if you lived on Little Diomede you could see Russia from your house.

Awesome facts!

@user-jn1tr8mo3g

Жыл бұрын

But wrong.

4:43 - A distance is measured in kilometres, not in km², which is a measure of area.

Nauru is actually the 3rd smallest country Following the Vatican City in 1st and Monaco in 2nd

@martinkoskuska

10 ай бұрын

Maybe there is a difference between a state and a country. Vatican is a state in a country Italy so the Monaco. And Nauru is a country by it self... But maybe I am wrong.

I read "four hemispheres" and I have a cognitve disonance... Let's see if I get it: "hemi" = "half" and "sphere" = exactly that, a sphere. So in any given sphere, you can only have 2 hemispheres. In this case we can "draw" the line in the equator, as traditionally, and have a North and South hemisphere, we can draw it in a North-South axis, and have a West and an East hemisphere, or even in any "diagonal" axis that we like, and call them as we please, but they still would be just 2 of them. If you set 4 divisions, then they are not "hemispheres", they would be "quadrants" or call them "quarterspheres" if you please. And yes, I understand what was meant and sorry for the rant, but I just thought that a channel about Geography should use this basic term properly, right ?

Nice video. Where in the UK do you hail from? Your accent sounds a bit Geordie to my American ears- just a guess.

At 0:52 this doesn't make any sense the way he phrases it, but the fact is still unbelievable, he's referring to the total length of wall ever built, including sections that overlap or were rebuilt multiple times

Wow, the human geography facts really show the incredible and unjustifiable income, food, water, and personal security/insecurity between northern and southern hemispheres.

@LockedinEden

7 ай бұрын

so sad what mainly northern hemisphere peoples did to the rest of the world by colonizing them. robbers and thieves

7:00 all 4 hemispheres? Do we have 2 spheres? 😂

@FenrizNNN

7 ай бұрын

Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern hemispheres.

@bryanfongo327

7 ай бұрын

@@FenrizNNN there is no such thing as a western and eastern hemisphere geographically, those boundaries are made by politics

Interesting point - when I did A-level geography in the nineties the terms were human geography and natural geography. (England)

Canada's most easterly point (Cape Spear, Newfoundland) is closer to Rome than its most westerly point (Boundary Peak 187, Yukon)

@oneblankspace4919

Жыл бұрын

St John's (Newfoundland) once had a team in the UK's Elite Hockey League; it is closer to the UK than to many of the North American cities in the ECHL where they play now.

4:52 9,400 kilometres squared? Distance would be linear not area.

Ok I gotta say it because I promised myself I would every time I came across a video that mentioned the world's longest river, because the fun fact a learned blew my mind, it is WILD: the longest river is not the Nile, it absolutely the Amazon, and lemme tell ya why; when they finally found the source of the Nile, while measuring, they, and I kid you not, took into account the length of the coast of Lake Victoria, all the way down into ANOTHER river that flowed into the lake, arguing it was a tributary of the Nile. They did all this finagling, just to get the Nile even close to beating the Amazon's length (which was measured straight up as you can get for a river, mind you) and it STILL only ended up being 250 km longer in the end. The took into account the freakin LAKE and an ENTIRELY unrelated river JUST to get to 250 km MORE than the Amazon. So, any time someone says the Nile is the longest river, I have to set the record straight because it makes me irrationally angry the way these random British guys measured a river over a century ago.

@jameshepburn4631

Жыл бұрын

Sorry misfit. In physical geography, which is the kind of geography that measures lengths of rivers, Lake Victoria is just a wide spot in the stream which began at the source of the tributary river. In political geography it's three entities, the two rivers & one lake, but river lengths & flows fall under physical geography. As a side note, in the U.S. "Civil War", the North and South had different names for the same battle like Bull Run or Manassas. One's physical geography, one's political geography.

@misfits9294

Жыл бұрын

@@jameshepburn4631 Yeah, but do you know how ridiculous that is? It doesn't make any sense, and it's real unfair to apply this tactic to the Nile, but NOT the Amazon (though people have certainly tried and have!). And then you have to ask, which side of Lake Victoria do you measure. And naturally, they chose the tributary that just so happened to be the longest to add to the measurement. Seems like bs to me.

Mistakes: 1. How can you have a distance of kilometers squared? 2. Lake Superior is in both Canada and the U.S. 3. Nauru is not the world's smallest country; if you think Vatican City and Monaco don't count, Monaco is a U.N. member.

@XaviRonaldo0

4 ай бұрын

3. He said excluding city states. Vatican definitely is I'm not sure about Monaco

Besides saying only Canada when giving the location of Lake Superior, your joke also wasn't really on target. Its name - lac supérieur is from the French for upper lake not that it is bigger than any other lake.

It's a mistake to compare the height of Mt Everest to the tallness of buildings. While the top of Mount Everest is 8850 metres, it is only some 3500 metres higher than its surrounding plateau, so it's really only 4 times the height of the Burj Khalifa.

Fun fact: the US has more people in its prison/jail/detention system that has all countries in Africa combined and also lost more people to Covid than Africa did

For #19 is it just states or are you including territories as well

“Lake Superior is of course in Canada” Sure we’ll go with that, Duluth MN and the entire Arrowhead do not exist 😂

@oneblankspace4919

Жыл бұрын

and the site of the coldest measured US temperature

Fact 28< doesn’t France have land in every hemisphere

@nolesy34

Жыл бұрын

Not every hemi sphere Cars like dodge and chervolet had American made hemis

Love this

"Some of the facts in today's video might well blow your socks off" Me who dosen't wear socks: *_I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you_*

3:05 Well that didn't stay accurate for very long..... If you're including wind chill at least, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded -108F/-77.8C.

nauru isnt the worlds smallest country

@TheDabbinLaddin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Nauru is the 3rd smallest, only behind Monaco and Vatican

@UselessGOAT555

Жыл бұрын

Not counting city states

4:55 Others may have already noted, but the distance from Florida to Hawaii (or any distance for that matter) is in Kilometers, not kilometers squared.

Some corrections: 4) "Wealth" and "Development" are per capita assessments. You'd have to divide the GDP of both by their respective population and you'd find they are "2/3rds of California's". California would be #5 on the world's list ($93K GDP-PPP) and "the Nordic countries" would be #22 ($59K GDP-PPP). However, the "wealthy and developed" country they were talking about was Norway--#8 on the current list just above the United States at #9. 11) Kuwait is a city-state. How can they not be if more than half their people live in one city. The history of Kuwait mirrors that of Genoa is many ways. Abu Dhabi at 32% is your winner. 17) 1/4 of people are under the age of 14, not 15. That's **exactly** two billion people. 19) "Any two points in the United States" includes the territories. That's 15,311 km from Point Udall in Guam to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The number you cite is within the boundaries of the enumerated states. 28) There are only two hemispheres. "Hemi-" means "half". If you insisted on using four "quadraspheres", then every single nation on the planet is the confluence of four quadraspheres. Also, did you see that line on that map? You can make anything happen when your lines are drawn by drunken sailors. 34) You literally put the definition on the screen and then misread it. If your qualifier is "Furthest away from the coast", that may be the middle of an ocean. Antipodes are poles of inaccessibility. Also, you can clearly shift that entire circle eastward until the perimeter meets the Bohai Sea allowing you to draw a circle with a slightly longer radius. And extra: 14) There are seven total countries with a higher nominal GDP than the entire continent of Africa.

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3:19 Nauru is the 3rd smallest country behind Monaco and Vatican city. Makes me wonder what other "facts" here aren't true🤔

@oneblankspace4919

Жыл бұрын

he mentioned excluding city states

Where was that 2nd last video of the city? It looks beautiful!

5:05 I would swear the lowest was Amsterdam. Nice bit of random info there

@oneblankspace4919

Жыл бұрын

Baku is 28 m below mean sea level ; Amsterdam is only 2m below

2:27 And of the 800 million people living in the Southern Hemisphere, about a third is Indonesian...

Lake Superior is in both Canada and USA. (Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin)

@devineliason84

Жыл бұрын

And the U.P. of Michigan from someone who lives in Superior Wisconsin at the mouth of Lake Superior I was so caught off guard when he said it was only found in Canada and instantly went looking for a comment like this haha

4:42 #19 you mentioned Miami to Hawaii as a distance of 9400 Km SQUARED? That would be a measure of area.

How the hell does Australia have that many trees?! There's even the Nulabor Plain, the "no tree plain'. I know it's the size of the 48 eastern states of the USA but it's a desert.

@XaviRonaldo0

4 ай бұрын

Australia is only slightly smaller than Brazil. Whilst yes it's land area is made up of arid regions covering about 70% it still has rainforest and woodlands especially on the east coast where the Great Dividing Range helps to provide adequate rainfall. It even gets snow despite the highest point being 2.2km ASL. Tasmania is also a large island which is almost completely covered in woodland. The eastern part of Victoria is woodlands too. Another interesting fact is that despite it being the world's driest inhabited continent it still has some very wet areas. Sydney for example despite being firmly in the sub tropical high pressure zone receives over 1,200mm of rain on average per year. In 2022 it received about 2,300mm. Don't forget a large percentage of the land is coastal tropical areas subject to the wet season. Despite only having a population of about 26m it has 5 completely separate cities of over 1m. All except one is wetter than London on average. Half the population of Australia lives in just 3 cities. Melbourne and Sydney both about 5m and Brisbane about 3m with nearby Gold Coast about 600k

Norway has 239,057 islands. What you are using is an old statistic counting only coastal islands

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Lake Superior is SHARED between Canada and the USA!

Someone really went out on a limb to count all those trees.

The fact that Lake Superior is in Canada will surprise a lot of Americans!!

@TKainZero

Жыл бұрын

It is in both, and more surface area is in the USA than in Canada.

@jmh7286

Жыл бұрын

I've been to Lake Superior several times but have never been to Canada!

I would suggest a correction for fact #10 : the municipality of Eeyou Istchee Baie James in Québec is 297 000 km2, which make it the biggest land ruled under a single municipal administration 😊

@B3Band

Жыл бұрын

Notice that you can't say "city," though. You refuted your own point.

Largest tidal range in the world - Bay of Fundy, Canada, surprisingly the second largest is the Severn Estuary between England and Wales. This Severn bore creates the longest surfing waves in the world albeit in the river! The record is over seven miles standing on a surf board.

great vid

#19 the furthest distance if you remain within the 50states is Alaska (end of the tail) to Florida 8821miles If you add in territories, than it's Guam to us virgin islands 15283miles

@B3Band

Жыл бұрын

There is no reason to set the arbitrary restriction of staying within the United States though.

@ralphtorres6948

Жыл бұрын

@@B3Band it's not arbitrary he stated the longest distance in the United States

@Nikki-tx1wd

Жыл бұрын

My first thought was Hawaii to Maine and not Florida, but yeah, Alaska to Florida is farther

@ralphtorres6948

Жыл бұрын

@@Nikki-tx1wd had the same first thought

@taflo1981

Жыл бұрын

There's something wrong with your numbers. 15283 miles is more than 60% of earth's circumference, but the largest possible distance on earth is half its circumference.

The other country in all 4 Hemispheres is the USA, which is obviously in the northern and western hemisphere, but also has island territories in other hemispheres, i.e. American Samoa, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, and Guam, which is in the Eastern Hemisphere

@Gynra

Жыл бұрын

The same could be said of the United Kingdom. The main island of Great Britain is located in the Eastern, Western and Northern hemispheres, with territories (such as the Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha) in the Southern Hemisphere. There may be other countries with a similar claim. There are only two points on earth where all four hemispheres meet: where the Equator crosses 0 and 180 degrees longitude. The former is in the Atlantic Ocean, Kiribati is at the latter point.

@B3Band

Жыл бұрын

We own those territories, but they are not part of the United States. It's like actual tooth implants vs. getting a grille.

@joeylawn36111

Жыл бұрын

But the point he's making that Kiribati is the only place where the Equator and either 0° or 180° Longitude (Kiribati) meet. (The Equator and 0° Longitude meet in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa)

@jameshepburn4631

Жыл бұрын

You don't need Guam. The Aleutian Islands in Alaska extend into the Eastern hemisphere to appx 179.8° East. Technically Alaska is our farthest Eastern state, leaving Maine way behind in the dust. Alaska is also our most Northern and most Western state also, a triple crown winner.

@FenceThis

Жыл бұрын

there are no eastern and western hemispheres. It’s a concept so profoundly erratic that it’s hilarious.

[EDIT: I see your self-correction below] 3:20 What reference told you that Nauru is the world's smallest country? Vatican City and Monaco are much smaller. Do you not count them as countries for some reason? 7:45 Lake Superior is in Canada and the U.S., according to the graphic that was on the screen at the exact time when you said that Lake Superior "of course is found in Canada."

@happygilmore5948

2 ай бұрын

It's in reference to the previous fact he mentioned about Canada being the country with the most lakes.

@HolySoliDeoGloria

2 ай бұрын

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The footage at 5:40 isn't Jamaica, the island nation. It isn't even Jamaica, the neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It's actually closer to the latter than the former. This is a view of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

7:43 did he really just say it belongs to Canada? It belongs to Canada _and_ the U.S.A

@alukuhito

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't mean it doesn't belong to Canada. He was still right.

@EmmanuellaUdofia

Жыл бұрын

Salty. Nobody cares

@sarahhaney987

Жыл бұрын

@@alukuhito he’s not wrong but as a Michigander I’m upset

@FenrizNNN

7 ай бұрын

Common michigander L

The fact that amazes me the most is that Brazil is so big of a country that: - its northenmost point is closer to Canada than to its own southernmost point - similarly, its easternmost point is closer to Africa than to its own westernmost point

@amcken9316

Жыл бұрын

I see about 4385 kms between northern-most and southern-most Brazil, and about 4300 to Canada. :)

@clipsburg412

2 ай бұрын

@@amcken9316 You are using the wrong points.

@amcken9316

2 ай бұрын

Yet my numbers agree with the previous post. @@clipsburg412

I think you erred at #19. First in saying the distance from Kure Atoll to Long Point was 9400 km squared, which would be an area not a distance. If you meant 9400 km, which = 5,841 miles, it is, surprisingly a bit greater than the distance from Long Point to the most remote Aleutian Island, Attu. Darn these Mercator projections!

Awesome!