Seattle to Miami is farther than London to Baghdad

@mehere8299

4 ай бұрын

St. John's Newfoundland to London, England is closer than St. John's to either Vancouver or Calgary.

@lsw1224gd4

4 ай бұрын

@@mehere8299what the hell

@GhostOfJulesVerne

4 ай бұрын

Halifax is closer to Porto Portugal than it is to Vancouver.

@appalachianenthusiast9499

4 ай бұрын

​@@mehere8299 Here's an even weirder one: St. John's is 36 miles closer to Helsinki, Finland than it is Vancouver.

@kenaikuskokwim9694

3 ай бұрын

​@@mehere8299St John's is slightly closer to Regina than it is to London, but slightly farther from Saskatoon. It's also about ⅜ of the way from London, Ontario to London, England.

I was expecting a mention of Murmansk for the most northern large city. Ain’t 1,000,000 people, but 300,000 is still fairly large.

@mysteriousDSF

4 ай бұрын

It's absolutely enormous for its latitude

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

No mention of Murmansk but atleast they mentioned Edmonton which is as far north as Hamburg.

@crazydog1750

4 ай бұрын

@@roevhaal578 It’s always so weird to realize just now far north everything in Europe is. I use Newfoundland Island and the Bay of Biscay for my mental reference, since they’re at like the exact same latitude. That puts London farther north than like half of Quebec.

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

@@crazydog1750 Yea it's probably pretty close to half, a bit hard to judge. I think the largest settlement north of London (51°30′) is Chisasibi with a population of 5k.

@mysteriousDSF

4 ай бұрын

@@crazydog1750 and we had 15 degrees at Christmas in London

“Although it is named Null Island, there unfortunately isn’t actually an island there.” Not gonna lie, he had me in the first half.

@cairnex4473

4 ай бұрын

...wouldn't the entire ocean "technically" be "Null" island? as in there is NO island there?

@crazydog1750

4 ай бұрын

@@cairnex4473 Interesting thought… yeah, I guess so. I was thinking null as in all of its coordinates are zeroes.

7:15 - I think it's not clear that you are considering THE 2 most populous cities in each country for the following examples. If you consider all large cities (>1M population) in the same countries, some of the most distant are: Manaus and Porto Alegre - Brazil - 3122 km Boston and San Francisco - USA - 4333 km Vancouver and Montreal - Canada - 3695 km Urumqi and Shenzhen - China - 3382 km Perth and Brisbane - Australia - 3620 km Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk - Russia - 3910 km

@crystal12344

4 ай бұрын

For China, Urumqi to Xiamen is actually further than Urumqi to Shenzhen I believe. Urumqi to Xiamen is around 3500 km. Xiamen having a population of 4.29 million as of 2019.

@noahmeijers8748

2 ай бұрын

@@crystal12344 If the island nation of Indonesia counts. Medan 2.4m to Makassar 1.4, is 4450km

Perth with over 2.3 million is still considered the worlds most isolated city of over a million people

Distance between indonesian westernmost city of sabang to easternmost city of merauke is the same as the distance between ireland capital city of dublin to pakistan city of islamabad Or between moscow and beijing

Jericho, with a population of 20,907, is the lowest city at 258 meters below sea level.

@Z01Xy

4 ай бұрын

city 20k isn't a city (unless it's the uk)

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

@@Z01Xy It's difficult to define what is and isn't a city. A place of 100k can be an insignificant suburb or the most influential city for 100's of kilometers depending on where it is.

Not allowed to die there? Do they have the death penalty for violating that law?

@dzastin0713

4 ай бұрын

If you die, they might bury you in mainland Norway

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

Yea that's just plain bullshit, you can't bury uncremated bodies there and Longyearbyen doesn't have the most advanced medical care (since it's a town of just 2k people) or elderly homes so it's usually not practical to be there for people close to death but that's about it. There is even a graveyard in Longyearbyen for urn burials, though most prefeer to be buried elsewhere as few people have strong ties to the island. The birth thing is also bullshit, pregnant women generally leave the island 1 month before their due date to give birth somewhere that's better equiped to deal with compilations. But every once in a while there are people born there.

Great video as always! Ur videos are the best! Keep up the good work! :) Cheers from Norway

Very interesting and unique channel!

In Australia we define city populations by their greater metro area as most Australian city Centres have small populations.

I think that the title of most extreme position belongs to Norilsk, Russia. City with 180k population deep inside Siberia with no road/rail connections with rest of Russia. The port that Norilsk uses is on a river that flows into Arctic Ocean and freezes during winter. There is airport though. It's above polar circle so in the winter there is 17 day period of total darkness. It's in fact the northernmost city in the world. The reason it exists are Nickel mines around the city. They produce so much pollution that life expectancy is 10 years lower than Russian average. I would call it the remotest city in the world. There is not a single soul for thousands of kilometers.

Depends on what world map you use to determine the center of the Earth. In Asia, their world map's are centered over the Pacific Ocean.

@Monatio79

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Nevertheless, the Prime Meridian Line and the International Date Line are antipodes, meaning they are both technically "the center of the Earth".

At 5:39 you said Cambodia instead of Colombia 😊

@tastylemoncake

2 ай бұрын

he points that out

Truly amazing

I'm surprised you didn't mention eastern and westernmost cities/town (Westernmost City would be Honolulu US, Easternmost is Tauranga NZ) For towns, Easternmost is Tavuki, Fiji and westernmost is Waiyevo, Fiji.

Related to Null Is. are the four 45°/90° halfway points. Only one is easily accessible, at tiny Poniatowski, Wisconsin. There is a display in a cornfield. BTW, it's HEL-sinki, accent on the Hell.

Part 2 to this video could be climates or population centers without utilities

Bogota is really high, international artists hardly handle attitude, for instance Billie Eilish almost fainted

Closest capital cities should be that of the Congos

@RafaquaQuetta

4 ай бұрын

It's Rome and Vatican

@Z01Xy

4 ай бұрын

@@RafaquaQuetta true fax

@Z01Xy

4 ай бұрын

also san marino and italy monaco and france!

I never knew that 😮

sick! but what about the lowest cities tho 🤔

6:50 capital of New Caledonia is closer than Canberra

@TheGreatLordDufus

4 ай бұрын

New Caledonia isn't a nation, being an offshore French territory, so it holds true for national capitals. "National" isn't stated in the script, however. If Noumea was to be included, it has closer capitals than Wellington (e.g. Port Vila). And from Canberra's perspective, Wellington is still the closest national capital - closer than Port Moresby - so the record would hold. Speaking of Noumea; from there to somewhere in northern France, Lille perhaps, may be a contender for the largest distance between to cities of 100k in the same nation including offshore territories with a permanent population. 16,537 km.

3:41 Puerto Williams is the southernmost settlement on Earth?? buddy you're forgetting an entire continent. Not to mention the small settlement at Cape Horn.

@TheGreatLordDufus

4 ай бұрын

It does seem "inhabited settlement" is doing some heavy lifting here. Antarctic bases have no permanent populations, though most are permanently populated. I'm guessing that's the distinction here, people are stationed there for months or maybe a couple of years but its not their residence. Arguably no people are "settled" there. 49 of the 50 most southern belong to Chile, Argentina or New Zealand - not all 50 as stated. Stanley in Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas is in UK territory (without arguing the rights or wrongs, that's the political reality).

How can Canberra and auckland be the most distanced capital cities?

@Z01Xy

4 ай бұрын

Because they are real cities and not towns. and there are no closer capital cities near them

Vladivostok is a pretty large city, and of course it's a monumental distance from there to St. Petersburg.

Brasilia is the capital furthest from any other capital for countries not located on islands

Wouldn’t Halifax to Vancouver be close? That or Brisbane to Perth?

@greatpyramid4348

3 ай бұрын

No

You can't count Kaliningrad to Siberia if you won't also count Alaska to Miami. You said contiguous, not continental.

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

Maybe they watched to much Russian propaganda

@greasher926

4 ай бұрын

Even then those are not the furthest apart towns in Russia. Russia is pretty far up north and very wide, so it’s not as simple as finding the westernmost and easternmost towns. Baltyisk (26,796) to Anadyr (12,998): 6,625km (city pare in the video) Baltyisk (26,796) to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (162,992): 7,474km Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (162,992) to Sochi (446,599): 7,814km

I was surprised that Ushuaia, Argentina did not make the cut here - billed as the southernmost city in the world and the closest city to Antarctica. Seems like it qualifies as both extreme and remote.

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

This video isn't that good, talking about extreme cities should mention Murmansk for far north, Ushuaia as far south and La Rinconada for elevation (5,100m (16,700ft)) but Edmonton is worth talking about somehow.

@rekrapretep6657

3 ай бұрын

Ushuaia is only the end of Argentina, but it is enough to look at any map to see that south of that city there is more territory and it is Chilean territory = Puerto Williams, Cape Horn Archipelago and Diego Ramirez Islands. Argentines are used to lie for tourist purposes about the "end of the world", but geography does not accompany them. Besides, it is from Chile where most of the tourist and scientific expeditions to Antarctica depart. Last year alone, Mr. Best, Camila Cabello, Will Smith, Lewis Hamilton and Diplo went to Antarctica from Chile.

@roevhaal578

3 ай бұрын

@@rekrapretep6657 Ushuaia is an actual city though

@zddxddyddw

2 ай бұрын

@@rekrapretep6657 This isn't the first time I see you commenting on videos calling Argentinians liers. You seem to be very resentful towards us. It's no lie, Ushuaia is indeed the southernmost CITY in the world. No one has ever said that it is the southenmost territory. And I don't know where you got the idea that most expeditions to Antacrtica leave from Chile. It is well established everywhere that most such expeditions leave from Ushuaia. Only now are Punta Arenas and Port Stanley trying to compete. But Ushuaia recently expanded its port terminal, so it's still way ahead of the other two.

I'm gonna be that guy but your syntax makes no sense unless you are taking it word for word from someone else but trying to avoid copyright infringement

New York to Boston is farther than Paris to Tokyo🤔

London to Port Stanley is 7,878km

"Most northernmost" is a bit redundant. You can just say "northernmost" to mean what you want to say. Super interesting video though!

@TheBatugan77

4 ай бұрын

So it's redundundundant.

0:22 Do you know what 'Null' means? I wonder why it would be called that......

@mil87_

4 ай бұрын

It's a term constantly used in computer science used to denote a number with no defined value (not even 0), and this is most often because of some sort of glitch. From Wikipedia: *The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have erroneously been assigned the coordinates 0,0. Although "Null Island" started as a joke within the geospatial community, it has become a useful means of addressing a recurring issue in geographic information science.*

Adelaide has a population of over a million. It’s about 1.3 million. Otherwise, great video!

@glasscity3104

4 ай бұрын

And Perth over 2.2 million

Amsterdam for being the lowest capital in the world (literally under sea level)

@kenaikuskokwim9694

Ай бұрын

Baku, Azerbaijan is lower than Amsterdam.

Cambodia???

Puerto Williams can't be considered a city (no matter how much Chile tries to portray it as such). It's a tiny town with a population of just 2000 people, over half of which don't even really live there because they're rotating military personnel of the naval base. The true southernmost city is the nearby Ushuaia in Argentina, with a population of over 81.000 people and its position as the main cultural and economic hub of the area, with both international air and sea ports.

Lowest cities?

Normally enjoy this content but a lot of these comparisons seemed strange? New York and L.A. are hardly located in exteme positions, plus there's a load of cities/millions of people between them, not like they're remote. Murmansk is commonly thought of as the northern-most city, and Ushaia the soutern-most but neither got a mention. Still, I found it interesting that no one can be born or even die in Longyearbyen

@greatpyramid4348

3 ай бұрын

Well, they are the furthest away first and second biggest city from each other

Point of correction: Brazzaville and Lubumbashi are not from the same country. They are in the republic of Congo and the democratic republic of Congo respectively

1:00 Alert, Canada:

Honolulu in Hawaii and some other city in the US

@greatpyramid4348

3 ай бұрын

Hawaii is in the US

Urumqi, China is the most land locked city on the planet, 2500 km from any coastline.

San fransico Usa to manila philippines is far away

@Lqg7379

3 ай бұрын

So surprising

I'll bet San Juan, Puerto Rico and Unalaska, Alaska are farther apart than those two cities in Russia. Or better yet, Quoddy Head, Maine and San Jose, Northern Mariana Islands. Making the US the country with the greatest distance between 2 towns.

@roevhaal578

4 ай бұрын

San Juan, Puerto Rico is further away from San Juan, Mariana Islands than Quoddy Head. American Virgin Islands and Guam would be a bit further apart still at about 15,300km but France would probably win this. France has Bayonne and Nouméa which are 17,400km apart.

@mushroomsteve

4 ай бұрын

@@roevhaal578 Good examples!

You don't have to say most northernmost you can just say northernmost

Delhi to Mumbai or Chennai 🤷

@katyayanjaiswal2110

4 ай бұрын

After seeing Lahore to Karachi, I checked distance between Delhi to Chennai (~2000 km)

7:02 "...and just stick to the country's contiguous land..." You mispronounced "contiguous", which takes a hard-G sound.

not gonna lie.. the description for camp barneo sounds suspiciously similar to the wikipedia article

Greatest distance between 2 population centers within one country. Well I think France will not agree with this statement. Even The Netherlands beats Russia in this category. With the distance between Kralendijk on Bonaire (a special municipality within the country of The Netherlands) and Delfzijl in the province of Groningen. The distance between these 2 Dutch cities is 7,947 kilometers.

I thought Quito was the highest capital?😅

It gets me kinda tilted that you never even attempt to pronounce things correctly.

'Most northernmost', 'ever so slightly more southern than', 'most populated' - FFS learn some English.

@TheBatugan77

4 ай бұрын

FFS watch your mouth.

@raymondqiu8202

Ай бұрын

What's wrong with "most populated" ?? That's proper I think