Fun Fact: Singapore with a population of less than 6 million has a higher GDP than Pakistan and Ethiopia combined, who have a population of more than 360 million.

@edotensei7917

3 ай бұрын

Of course, It's easier to deal with 6 millions people in a tiny surface area than +100 millons in a big country.

@handlesnipe

3 ай бұрын

Also signapore has a higher GDP then malaysia, the very country it was kicked out of.

@rizkyadiyanto7922

3 ай бұрын

singapore is where elites in indonesia and china launder their money. basicaly just like ireland.

@mmmmmmmmmmm7786

3 ай бұрын

Iq

@svonegov8199

3 ай бұрын

Not fun fact, rather bad reality

Thanks for the quick shot of Balluta Bay in Malta, at around 11:40. When I lived there, I heard the saying that "The Brits drive on the left, the Italians drive on the right, and the Maltese drive in the shade."

Liberia's capital is named after former USA president James Monroe ie Monrovia

Just a tip mate, it's never correct to say "comprises of". That's equivalent to saying "consists of of". Just says "consists of" instead.

@philphildebeers2075

3 ай бұрын

0:58 Area is not expressed in distance and 'kilometers squared' is not the same as 'square kilometers'.

@sarahlouise7163

2 ай бұрын

or... comprises

Suriname as the only Dutch speaking country in South America. Also many different cultures and languages . 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷✌️

@rizkyadiyanto7922

3 ай бұрын

it has the largest muslim population in south america, brought by the dutch from java in modern day indonesia.

@riazedn4728

3 ай бұрын

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 also a lot of muslims from India. We have mosques, jewish temples and hindu temples

@hkrohn

3 ай бұрын

I'm going there next week!

@riazedn4728

3 ай бұрын

@@hkrohn you are welcome in switi sranan🇸🇷❤️

Some mistakes, especially that only former Uk colonies drive on the left. At one time half of Europe drove the same as the UK. Indonesia was a former Dutch colony and drives on the left, Macau formerly Portuguese drives on the left. Thailand and Japan were never UK colonies and drive on the left. Sweden and Iceland were the latest to change from this in the 60s.

@schaxor3807

21 күн бұрын

Sweden is an odd one, they changed from LHD to RHD over night (or I even think it was during daytime), but on the other hand most Swedes already had their steering wheel on the left like in RHD countries, and since Norway, Finland and Denmark always was RHD it was probably inevitable. Iceland I don't know about, they could probably have stayed LHD since its an island, but I guess they probably wanted to fit in with the rest of the Nordics, and with such low population it was probably not that hard.

Seeing an upload on my birthday just warms my heart.

@TheAmazingA

3 ай бұрын

Happy birthday 🎉

@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71

3 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday

I enjoy watching your videos. They are full of interesting facts about world geography.🎉🎉🎉

1:26 well if it is so rich, why is it called Singapoor?

@jnl7196

3 ай бұрын

SingaPORE cause it’s might makes you sweat

@beorlingo

3 ай бұрын

I reckon they have no good singers at all.

@DinulMindula

2 ай бұрын

I think it means something like city of the Lions

The US doesn't use imperial measures, but pre imperial English ones. Is Canada really more metric than the UK? Other than road signs.

@Iamtheliquor

3 ай бұрын

Canada is more metric. For example. We in the UK still have speed limits and distances in MPH and Miles. Canada uses KMH & KMs

@davidbull1914

2 ай бұрын

I guess the measurements in the US are Imperial in the same sense that the majority language is called English, both are broadly similar to the British version but with a few differences as the two countries diverged after 1776.

@NicholasJH96

2 ай бұрын

@@Iamtheliquorshort answer yes as unfortunately Uk still does use a mix. Unfortunately we don’t drive on same side as most of Europe

@nirfz

18 күн бұрын

Pre imperial makes no real sense, as this would mean before the british had an empire. Imperial in this case means "from the british empire" and at the time their now called customary units became customary to the US, The territory was part of the british empire, and those measurements were those of the british empire at the time. (which included posessions in Noth america, middle america, south america, the carribean, africa and asia. It wasn't at it's biggest expansion, but already an empire.) Hence them being called imperial measurements by people from anywhere else. That the british changed a few things after the US stopped being part of their empire doesn't disqualify the US measurement for the name imperial. We could also call it the colonial system, as the only ones still predominantly using it, are former colonies of the british and have kept using that even when they gained their freedom. Any other former british colony has changed to metric after ganing it's freedom. ...a further seperation from the empire... (And that's why i always shake my head when US people call their customary units "freedom units" as this name would make more sense for the metric system. Many countries that got their freedom choose to use that system instead of the ones of their colonial masters.)

It puzzled me that when I traveled to the UK their roads were signposted in miles and not kilometres yet they switched to metric 50 years ago. A bit slow off the mark transitioning

@mehrcat1

3 ай бұрын

In the UK I know a sign warning of an arch. The distance to the arch is given in miles, the height of the arch in meters.

@Likasense

3 ай бұрын

It's actually pretty simple, when something is about roads or track that is fairly long it's in miles, but when it's shorter or it's about the width or many other things then it's the metric system.

@andyt8216

3 ай бұрын

The switch was supposed to be made in 1973 but unfortunately never happened. But signs are often metric distances. A reason you see things like “2/3 mile” signs = 1 km or “220 yards” = 200 metres. It an embarrassing situation IMO.

@OscarOSullivan

3 ай бұрын

The Republic of Ireland was able to make a full switch

@ourjeffie

3 ай бұрын

@@Likasense Pretty simple? Wouldn't it be more simple to use just one system, like most of the rest of the world?

11:50 There is Metric and then there is US Imperial system and the UK Imperial system. The differences between the imperial system and the U.S. system is in volume measurements. Not only are the number of ounces in pints, quarts, and gallons all larger in the imperial system, the size of one fluid ounce is also different. So you have to convert between them reducing precision.

Israel is like an Oasis compared to its neighbours. Botswana is the same. New Caledonia is much more modern than other tropical Pacific Island nations. Belize in Central America. Armenia and Eithopia being Christian countries. New Zealand stands out as a mountainous country especially when approaching by ship from Australia

Do you do a voice over for a radio advert for the “1000 mile challenge”?

Singapore and Jordan are some of countries I think about when we're talking about this topic, they're so different from their neighbours

@AbdulKareemAbdulRahman

3 ай бұрын

why jordan?

We in Belize also use the imperial system.

There's a valley on the border of France n Spain (I believe it's near the Atlantic coast) where the place was so hard to get to back in the day that no one ever bothered to invade n they didn't interact with the outside world much. They have their own language (as well as learning either French or Spanish depending on which side of the border they're on) n this language has an origin that scholars have yet to uncover but it defs isn't proto-indoeuropean

10:50 I was paused here trying to guess the country he was going to say. I was sort of drawn toward Armenia being surrounded by red.

Quick tip from an Estonian resident: Hungarian is NOT a Finno-Ugric language like Finnish and Estonian, but IS a Uralic language. Think of Uralic languages as the tree, with Hungarian on one branch and the Finno-Ugric Languages (Finnish, Estonian, Sami, Karelian, Etc.) on the other. Finno-Ugric languages are actually quite similar and share many words. They can be partially cross-understood (Estonians and Finns for example), similar to Spanish + Portuguese. Hungarian is related (Uralic family, same tree), but is much farther apart (different branch), so comparing Finnish and Hungarian is more akin to comparing English and Swedish: both in the Germanic family but on different branches, so little to no cross-understanding but a similar structure in grammar and phonetics.

@colinafobe2152

2 ай бұрын

actually and officially, all three languages, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are members of big Uralic language family. yes Estonian is an Uralic language too. However, Hungarian belongs to other subdivision (Ugric) together with some Siberian languages and it is very different in terms of vocabulary than Finnish/Estonian/ Karelian which are Finnic subdivision

The US doesn't use the Imperial system, but a PRE-Imperial system. "Imperial" is a 19th-century redefinition of the traditional units. There are 128 fl oz in a US gallon, 160 in the Imperial. Liberia uses the US one. (No idea what Burma uses.) A number of countries in the Caribbean and Latin America still sell fuel in US gallons.

8:04 Hungarian speakers make up the majority of two counties in central Romania: 82% in Harghita and 63% in Covasna. They shall be coloured as green.

In Ireland weight is metric as in I am 72 Kilos, distance is metric as in Kilometres as is speed. The only imperial measurement used is Pints as in Beer in Pubs

@OwenCradock

2 ай бұрын

Height is still more widely known in feet and inches at the moment, but I can imagine that will start to change soon too

Anomalies, anomalies everywhere.

Side of road, blame Napoleon! Lhs is natural side, because knights on horses were right handed. True.

In Ireland to old body weight stone system is fading out to the kg .

In South America , languages include spanish Portuguese english and dutch !

More countries in Europe used to drive on the left, however as cars became more common and especially after Napoleon and Hitler pretty much all of the mainland started to drive on the right.

I'm so happy for you mentioning my country Hungary and our unique linguistic affiliation. Although we are certainly not Finno-"URGIC" 💀 even the term Finno-Ugric is deemed archaic by some, Uralic is the more widely accepted name of our family.

12:20 The US does not use the Imperial system but the customs system. 1 UK gallon does not correspond to 1 US gallon. 1 barrel UK is not 1 barrel US. 1 pint UK is not 1 pint US. 1 inch English pipe threads is 33mm instead of 25.4mm.

The first one is based on economy. But in term of culture and history, its funny how you said it should be in europe which is the "best continent". When for a matter of fact is that Singapore wouldnt be significant anywhere if not because of it's strategic location.

You forgot australia!

The country of Belize is an anomaly for me. It's a country in Central America where every other country around it has Spanish as the official language and is more aligned with Latin American culture, whereas Belize has English as the official language (Belizean Creole as the vernacular language) and is much more culturally aligned with countries in the Caribbean region

FEWER than 6 million Singaporeans.....not "less". Canada is also mixed use metric/imperial

As for use of metric, Canada should also be classified as "mixed".

@ToadTendo

19 күн бұрын

I am Canadian, in all official business we use metric, not mixed. We often use stuff like feet as measurements in casual conversation, but by all means Canada is fully metric, not mixed, when it comes to anything important beyond just casual conversation.

“Comprises of”, “Finno-Urgic”, . . .

Countries that use the UK standard but have the priority diamond:Uganda,Cyprus,Mauritius

Belize, english speaking country in a spanish speaking area...

The Philippines is the only Maritime Southeast Asia country are driving on the right thanks to American soldiers who help to liberate the country after the Battle of Manila so at first the right hand drive are only for military but it was not on civilians until 1946 which is opposite of Indonesia where it was remained left hand drive until today

I really wouldn’t label Japan as “non-religious”. It’s mainly indigenous Shintoism mixed with Buddhism side by side.

Well in Europe when the countries border each other , it is normal that everyone would drive on the same side. For Ireland we have to blame the English for driving on the other side to the rest since ruling Ireland (still part still today) for many years.

Since when are the Seychelles in Africa? I could've sworn they were a maritime archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. Also, I thought Venezuela had given up on their (ridiculously hyperinflated) currency a few months ago and were using the US dollar now. So I had been given to understand.

@jonadabtheunsightly

2 ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 So Iceland is part of North America, Puerto Rico is part of South America, and Sulawesi, Fiji, and New Zealand are part of Australia? No? No. It doesn't work like that. Iceland and Cyprus have always been considered part of Europe, Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean (though you could say it's part of Latin America, which includes South America but also Mexico, Honduras, etc.), Sulawesi is most closely associated with Asia, and Fiji and New Zealand are in the South Pacific.

You don't show Malta or Cyprus on your map. They drive on the left. Czechoslovia and Austria used to drive on the left before before the occupation by Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Sweden only changed in 1969 to drive on the right. China only changed in 1945/6.Driving on the right comes from Napoleon in countries occupied in mainland Europe. The only exceptions are the USA and Canada, and mainland European ex territories and colonies throughout the world.

11:00 Taiwan is 35th.

Fun fact: 'Why does Ireland drive on the left?' .....To get as far away from the British as they can😅🤣😂 (this is meant humorously of course)

I think that press freedom index thing has been discredited by this point in time.

"kilometers squared"? Why making it so complicated? Why not just say "squarekilometers"?

Belize--An English-speaking country in Central America.

I still can't get over the fact that you still use "stones" for weight. I'm not sure if the American Lb is the same as the old English one and I just wish the whole world go kg. It would be so much easier.😂😂

4:14 Taiwan is not in europe

Strange how Europe and US drive on the wrong side of the road!

4:01 that’s cause Egypt was conolzied most of Israel gdp is from USA

Belize the only central american country where english is the official language

Europe can't help being where it is, it would be quite unfair to force them to drive on the correct side of the road.

using imperial measurments is like using roman numerals......outdated.

Map at 8.20, you should erase the blue color for the Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian population who used to live in the South Western part of Azerbaijan. Indeed, the Armenian population there is 0 now since September 2023. Now it's the Turkic speaking Azerbaijanis who are gradually living in that part of their country. Please clarify that as soon as possible.

Turkey

@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71

3 ай бұрын

No

@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71

3 ай бұрын

No

@rizkyadiyanto7922

3 ай бұрын

Yes

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Km2 is not pronounced kilometres squared, it is pronounced square kilometres, easier to say and understand.

2:39 Nigeria Kosovo Bosnia Ivory Coast r Muslim too

The other countries are very religious then.

"Finno-Urgic" ? Read that again.

the philippines is the only christian majority country in southeast asia

Very interesting but the speaker is intolerable… ehsia really 😢

7:56 the map is fake

@tarielkaroldan4106

3 ай бұрын

How so?

4.5 million km2 is NOT A DISTANCE. IT'S AN AREA. I MAKE THE SAME COMMENT TWICE AT EVERY VIDEO OF YOURS AND YOU NEVER LEARN. PRIMARY SCHOOL SHIT

@philphildebeers2075

3 ай бұрын

Dead right and 'kilometers squared' is not the same as 'square kilometers'. He'll never learn, he's an idiot.

I don't really understand when girls want a 6 feet guy. Like, I'm 186 cm but I only gut two feet

You could include Cyprus as being the only EU country that isn't in Europe!

Israel

@zachv

3 ай бұрын

Is a nation that exist because it’s their land learn history

singapore barely is a nation. pointing its economic numbers is like comparing a city to the countryside or to the national average of somewhere else

You got the religion one wrong. Uk is mostly Muslim

@zaynosman5162

3 ай бұрын

Huh?

@ThemeParkLuke

3 ай бұрын

@@zaynosman5162 most people who reside in the UK follow Islam these days

@zaynosman5162

3 ай бұрын

@@ThemeParkLuke No your statement was pretty much self explanatory but I am calling cap on that

@ThemeParkLuke

3 ай бұрын

@@zaynosman5162 come to Bradford, you'll understand

@ChickenSando

3 ай бұрын

@@ThemeParkLuke Most people amongst who actively practicing a religion? Maybe. In certain regions? Maybe. But to say that there are less atheist and people who call themselves Christian in the whole country? I doubt that.

This video is a random pile of crap

@jontalbot1

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 Oh yes it is

@jontalbot1

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 or maybe it’s just a random pile of crap

@jontalbot1

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 l have a Bachelor, Masters and PhD. I have written a couple of books, currently writing another so in all likelihood l can spot made up crap for the impressionable. There are various types of crap: this is of the how-about-that-I-just-made-up kind.

@jontalbot1

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 They can go alongside your crappy video

@jontalbot1

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 It’s a spurious concept to say a country does ‘not belong’ among its neighbours and then alight upon something you have arbitrarily chosen to demonstrate it. It’s crap because you can choose anything so that any country is anomalous according to you. Fact is all nations are different from one another in some way. So what

Israel also stands out in the middle east for being a democracy and having fair treatment towards women and minorities.