*Which countries' maps should I use next?*

@xsuperl

11 ай бұрын

I'd love to see about africa as a continent with the different countries

@protacofan

11 ай бұрын

Mexico

@Lucasneo21

11 ай бұрын

Brazil

@franzo.one.franzo

11 ай бұрын

what if italy had never united?

@93juan

11 ай бұрын

España

The Buddhist region in the north caucus you wanted know about it it’s name is called republic of Kalmykia it’s is the only Buddhist minority place in europe

@Zimo-fx8lk

11 ай бұрын

*majority

@lucasresno2076

11 ай бұрын

We were there in December, the capital, Ellista is a very small city but it's really beautiful and nice. Russia is diverse and tolerant, in the caucasus as well there are several muslim republics as well as oblasts with orthodox christian majority, so many different religious and ethnic groups living together without fighting and so on

@eddiester

11 ай бұрын

@@lucasresno2076 tolerant? ridiculous

@tonyawan1964

11 ай бұрын

@@eddiester I wouldn’t say tolerant although in my own opinion I do think they are slightly more tolerant towards minorities compared to America I’ve been in both countries im not trying to be a jerk or bash America either so you can attack me but I’m just sharing my honest opinion

@lucasresno2076

11 ай бұрын

@@eddiester How is it ridiculous ? There isn't much racism in Russia. People all live together without any issues.

as a russian, I think high crime rates in less populated areas are very much explainable. These regions also happen to be the poorest ones.

@MrSumkinFedor

11 ай бұрын

exactly.

@ptero

11 ай бұрын

Except for Yakutia, it's pretty rich. I think it's simply because the life overall is more depressing. Alaska is also similar in this regard.

@XJureth

11 ай бұрын

​@@ptero Crimes is main source of riches in Yakutia. Actually, as with Moscow and the whole Russia, all the money of any region are concentrated in it's main city leaves nothing to other towns and villages.

@ptero

11 ай бұрын

@@XJureth ??? I didn't get the first part

@platzhalter2581

11 ай бұрын

​@@ptero Mafia as form of government, with a godfather at the top...

The Buddhist region in the Caucuses is known as Kalmykia. It is a region whose main ethnic group, the Kalmyks, are a Mongolic people who migrated from Dzungaria (in what is now Xinjiang, China) and settled there in exchange for military service to the Czar.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

That's very interesting! What year was this in?

@Lulubelgique

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Apparently in the early 17th Century according to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Kalmykia

@robertosantiago1206

11 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@General.Knowledge I remember right it was the 1650s but it was definitely the late 1600s early 1700s. It was within 25 years of setting the area. The Russians used the Kalmyk Khanate as a buffer state between them and the Islamic world while they dealt with European affairs.

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

Why you call Kalmikia a Cacuses? Kalmikia is flat with steppes and desert while Cacuses is snowy rocky mountains.

@rafanadir6958

11 ай бұрын

​@@robertosantiago1206yeah and less than 100 hundred years after that, when they didn't have to be afraid of the Europeans and decided to go after the Islamic empires, they simply gobled up the Kalmyks. Says a lot about them and their mentality.

It's strange that people judging population differences can't get a simple idea - humans love comfort; it's clear that warm summer (+25C) and medium winter (-30C) is way more preferable than cold summer (+10C) or cold winter (-50C or even -73C) for most part of population.

@jmi5969

11 ай бұрын

True. "People still settle in agricultural regions", how unusual is that?

@yaturkenzhensirhiv

11 ай бұрын

-30C is terrible winter. It is medium only by Russian standards (or Canadian for that matter)

@jmi5969

11 ай бұрын

@@yaturkenzhensirhiv We haven't seen -30C in central Russia for many years. Used to be quite common, not anymore. If it's what they call global warming, I'm 100% for it, thank you Greta.

@benmm01

11 ай бұрын

@@yaturkenzhensirhiv -30C isn't common for majority of where Russians live. Usually it's around -20C which is actually not as bad as it sounds

@PyromaN93

11 ай бұрын

@@benmm01 still terrible for most part of the world

9:51 the reason why these North Siberian regions have higher GDP per capita is not just because of the small population size, but also because they extract the majority of Russian oil and gas (it is even shown on your map at 11:02). I would even say that because of that these regions are quite rich.

@lubricustheslippery5028

11 ай бұрын

The people are poor. Norilsk company is rich

@user-tw2vy2hk9x

11 ай бұрын

@@lubricustheslippery5028 this isnt exactly the truth tho.. despite me not living in norilsk anymore, i still visit it from time to time and people here say that "golden times" have long since passed, but they are still able to earn a good amount of money and live relatively happy. but i agree, norilsk company is the one whos rich here🙂

@al1sa920

11 ай бұрын

@@lubricustheslippery5028 you can't be poor in Norilsk like you can't be poor in other cold regions. You either earn enough to fully sustain yourself there or you move to warmer more populated regions

@zirlok3529

11 ай бұрын

​@@lubricustheslippery5028Google salary. They're not poor at all

@toriyshaov2245

11 ай бұрын

@@zirlok3529 Google real expenses. Surviving in the North of Russia is like surviving in Mars.

You called the railway in the east limited!!!! 😂 It was one of humanity's greatest ever construction projects

@risoi.original

10 ай бұрын

it's indeed limited, just look at the density of it. you have only trans-siberian railway and "BAM" in Zabaykalsky Kray for example, and this region is HUGE

@gabrielevitariello425

10 ай бұрын

There's a railway that connects Europe with the pacific. Yeah, it's cool, but that's kinda it. Travelling through various territories in Siberia is a pain in the ass

@raluxx13

5 ай бұрын

@@risoi.originalwhy would you need to go elsewhere. What’s so important in a frozen shithole where no one lives?

@cmconley33

5 ай бұрын

Yes, the Trans-Siberian Railway was a massive engineering project-but it IS limited. It completely ignores Siberia except for a small area in the South. It doesn’t go anywhere NEAR Siberia’s largest territory, the Sakha Republic/Yakutia. In fact, a large part of north-eastern Russia is inaccessible by car, train, or boat-you actually have to fly there, although I suppose dog-sled might be another possibility.

@leifkhas7425

3 ай бұрын

They aren't mutually exclusive. Yes it was an incredible feat of engineering, even if built today. But, it also doesn't connect much of Siberia to European Russia; most only southern Siberia.

Russia, the mind boggles. Norway to North Korea! Vladivostok to Volgograd! I remember an old Yugoslav song, "My love for you is massive, as massive as Russia" something like that. Endless country, endless fascination.

@Mindpxwer

11 ай бұрын

😊

@telebubba5527

11 ай бұрын

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война Nice try, but it doesn't work. Borussia stand for Prussia and has absolutely nothing to do with Russia or Belarus. The name comes from an ethnic group of Baltic citizens, just like the Ests, Lets and Lithuanians (amongst others). The only connection is that nowadays its former capital is in the hand of the Russians: Konigsbergen (I won't use the name of the massmurder that the Russians have given it). Their history lies with the Polish/Lithuanian and later on with Germany which was in 1870 70% Prussia. It was never part of Russia otherwise which ever way you want to twist it. But Russia never reached that far. Only in the 20th century did it gain controle over the last piece that was available. Belarus has more or less the same history as Ukraine, which also lies for a large part with Poland and Lithuania. Both languages are related to each other and can understand each other. Russian does not fit in with that and both languages are unintelligible for Russians.

@hirdbarding3399

11 ай бұрын

@@telebubba5527 because russian language is artificial lingua franca of different asian and european languages

@lred1383

11 ай бұрын

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война Ну что ты несёшь вообще. Украинский и белорусский это другая ветвь старорусского, маринованная в польском пару сотен лет в позднем средневековье, а остальные языки по своему возрасту зачастую старше начала русской государственности. Ну, с южными славянами там сложно, у них вообще скорее диалекты чем разные языки. Про Пруссию вообще херни наговорил какой-то. Соловьёва хватит смотреть, одно сжижение мозга

@hirdbarding3399

11 ай бұрын

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война and sure you have a proofs for that, other then russian propaganda ? :D

Conditions of living and social benefits are depends on a certain region. We are people who live in Arctic Russia, have 80 days vacation, almost double-triple average russian salary and paid plane tickets from a government if we go to vacation, and many other things like social flats and early pension. Natives are paid for kids. they have free boarding schools, free education and etc but their main problem is alcohol. Far eastern region is low populated and thats why government give us free land here, we even have islands where you have no tax for 20 years if you start a business. Meanwhile we have very poor regions like Kalmykia or Tyva and many others.

You too have common misconception about who Russians are. Russians (россияне) are all the citizens of Russia. In turn, majority of population in Russia are Russkie (русские), and there is minorities like Tatars, Kalmyks, Buriats, who are Russians, but not Russkie.

@GeorgeS360

11 ай бұрын

True Rossiyane=citizens of Russia Russkie=nationality

@jamilya420

11 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeS360 типичная ошибка. Для англоговорящих nationality означает принадлежность к нации, т.е. стране, то же самое, что и гражданство. Правильно использовать термин ethnicity, этническая принадлежность. Rossiyane = nationality. Russkiye = ethnicity.

@theonehappyorc1235

10 ай бұрын

@@jamilya420 спасибо!

@maximkirenenko5454

10 ай бұрын

По-английски русских правильно называть "Ethnic Russians". В общем, всё верно. Ethnicity != nationality; гражданство != этнической принадлежности.

Russian overall homicide rate used to be quite high but has been dropping each year for a couple of decades and is currently only 4 per 100,000. When you compare that to a homicide rate of 87 per 100,000 for St. Louis in 2022 it is a little shocking.

@carelgoodheir692

11 ай бұрын

Is that 4 per 100000 homicide rate statistic true? In a country with a high proportion of alcoholics and a lot of organisd crime?

@ShallIMove

11 ай бұрын

​​@@carelgoodheir692 it depends on which maps you will look at. Russian, European, American or objective.

@user-rs5pd2fs3p

11 ай бұрын

​​@@carelgoodheir692де вы алкоголиков то взяли? Вот живу в России, из родственников, знакомых, коллег никто этим заболеванием не болен. Бред какой то

@fdtnightingale9161

11 ай бұрын

​@@carelgoodheir692 Alcoholic and organized crime issues exist in movies only. In reality alcoholism is normal or even low if compared with equal habitats and religion proportion countries. Organized crime way more funny cuz its almost does not exist in a way movies shows. The main gang there is goverment probably cuz all the drugs and stuff under corrupted policeman officials. So no gangs, no territorial wars and shit like this. At least in big cities with over half of a million of population. Average citizen who is not searching for drugs prostitute or illegal weaponry never will face any organized crime structures in his life in Russia.

@allygotchannel3563

10 ай бұрын

​@@carelgoodheir692alcoholics and gangs?😂😂😂 You clearly never been to Russia. It's such a 90s stereotypes. If in doubt, look up statistics - numbers don't lie. It's quite hard to encounter anything illegal, you have to actively dig for it. You have more chances to being shot in USA than to even see a gun in Russia.

Crime rates ARE higher in rural areas. They're just spread out. That is true in the US as well. Not a weird finding.

@jmi5969

11 ай бұрын

True. But the other issue, different from the US, is that the eastern territories were populated by convicts and ex-convicts.

@Mr.Nichan

11 ай бұрын

@@jmi5969 That does make me wonder how many outlaws populated the western USA. I think there were some spacetime regions like Cochise county Arizona in the late 19th century where crime was like half the economy. That was much longer ago, of course, and we also got various other kinds of immigrants*, like the Mormons. *I think a lot of the criminals in Cochise county became criminals AFTER they moved there, though, not before. Also, the relevant point I know of in the USA was just that the law was too weak to stop them and other kinds of employment were hard, not that they came from prison camps like in Siberia or Australia (and Australia's case was even longer ago).

@thomthom6268

11 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Nichan 19th Cent. Mormons. Oh, you mean people with an alternative lifestyle. So they went to Deseret Valley. /s

@Mr.Nichan

11 ай бұрын

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война The first part of your comment at least was a good point. What people usually mean by "rural" is not any region with low population density, unless you mean on a much smaller scale than regions of a country. In terms of population in cities vs. not in cities, the southwestern USA is actually the most urban part of the country, because the land is too dry for much farming, so the population is mostly in cities, with very low population desert, ranch land, mountains, forests, etc. in between the cities. On the other hand, other parts of the country actually have significant rural populations, which is part of why they have higher population densities on the scale of entire states.

@assertivekarma1909

11 ай бұрын

What criteria are using for crime rates being higher in rural areas, sounds like some skewed metrics being utilized, likely for some ideological perversion.

What’s most interesting to me is that both Bangladesh and Java in Indonesia have more people than the entirety of Russia

@widodoakrom3938

11 ай бұрын

Java is equal

@mazardam11

11 ай бұрын

Потому что холодно

@o_s-24

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, bigger countries have usually surprisingly low populations (except for US and China). Like Canada has less people than Tokyo

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Population density really is interesting. How people live so sparsely in some places but so tight together in others. Real Life Lore's recent video on Mongolia is a good example.

@pepster3864

11 ай бұрын

That’s more due to Bangladesh and Java being some of the most densely populated places on Earth, rather than Russia being sparse. Bangladesh also has more people than Canada and the Western half of the US combined.

9:43 well I am from one of these Northern Siberian Provinces, Yamal. The GDP per capita is so high there simply because of gas and oil. Here is Gazprom and Lukoil. For instance Yamal makes approximately 70% of all russian gas, so the region is rich not because of little population at all... Many other regions have much lower population than Yamal by the way although have not so high GDP.

@user-tw2vy2hk9x

11 ай бұрын

oh it's nice to see a fellow living in the same region as me.. but yeah, the moment i heard him saying this, i said to myself: "thats not the truth. this area has been known for supplying russia and other countries with enormous amounts of gas and oil. its only natural for it to be that successful in those ratings".

Despite the fact that most of Russia's population are ethnic Russians, around 80% I think, it still means that there are millions of people belonging to other ethnicities, equivalent of the populations of Belgium and the Netherlands combined actually or 3/4 of the population of Poland. The biggest ones are Tatars (around 5 million) and Ukrainians (2,5 to 5 million depending on the source), who themselves are counted in millions as you can see, of which I belong to the latter minority group

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

True, Russia's big size and big population makes it so that even a small percentage ends up representing a big group in absolute numbers.

@prokrastinatia

11 ай бұрын

IT IS due to the fact, that All nationalities are welcome in Russia, especially Slavic ethnicities. It is to be mentioned, though, that there is some prejudice against people from middle east and from Muslim regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, as they tend to be hot-tempered and even aggressive, commiting (I reckon) more crimes than the others. However, it is only an opinion among regular folks and not supported or imposed by the government

@macanaeh

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge I'm just pointing out that Russia is more diverse than many people think, but maybe I just get this impression because I live in a very big city. Also diversity in Russia doesn't mean lack of prejudice and outright racism, that's in no short supply sadly

@xenotypos

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge For today's standards though, Russia's population isn't that big anymore. And it will be considered less and less big in the future (Russia is projected to be only the 15th most populated country in 2050 if I'm not wrong).

@rafanadir6958

11 ай бұрын

​@@prokrastinatiawow what the Russians are currently doing to the Ukrainians do not support the opinion that Russia's is very welcoming other Slavic peoples.

That area in the southern Caucuses is called Kalmykia. It's home to the native Kalmyks, a people of Mongol origin and is about 48% Buddhist. One of the most unique places in the Russian Federation. It's flag and national symbol is the lotus flower.

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

Firstly it's strange that English comments put Kalmykia into Caucasas as K. is flat with steppe and desert while C. is rocky snowy mountains. Secondly it's not unique as Kalmyk and Buryat share same cultural and religious practices and often have mixed marriages while located on different continents and separated by thousands of miles.

@beauty-boy

11 ай бұрын

I don't understand why so many people mention Kalmyk.It's not that unique.Kalmyk is not in the Caucasus,But on the Volga River, the western part of Kazakhstan.Before Kalmykia, it was inhabited by Kipchak Turks.Many Kipchak Turks, such as Kazakhs, Nogais, and Bashkirs, still live on the Volga River now.They are very close to the Kalmyks.And there are also Mongols and Buddhists live in Siberia, Russia, for example, Buryat is a Mongolian and Tuva is a Buddhist.

@mrfayf

11 ай бұрын

@@dickystrike6966 according to this logic, southern Dagestan is also not part of the Caucasus, because the whole south is a steppe - a desert

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

@@mrfayf this logic is twisted. First of all you are correct that it's not a Caucases (mountains) but populated with peoples (there are plenty) of mountain origin. Same with Chechen rep. as you cannot see mountains even from Grozny (and that city was founded as Russian emperial fortres on the road to Cacuses and btw named after Ivan the Terrible (as Grozny is (mis)translated to English). Twisted logic it is as Stavropol is somewhow considered 'the gateway to Cacuses' and it's completely flat and populated by both Kuban (aka Kossak) and Cacuses peoples.

@gold_coin7

Ай бұрын

⁠@@beauty-boyit’s not related to Kazakhstan. Why you spamming this comment? Kalmyks are Western Mongolians (Oirat tribes) that migrated from Djungaria (modern Xinjang, China) to the Volga region because of Khalha Mongolian arguments and Chinese wars.

Other nationalities represented in Russia are not necessarily displaced. This creates a negative image, which often does not correspond to reality. The Soviet Union often sent specialists after training to develop new territories, to work in new enterprises and to populate new lands. Therefore, representatives of various nationalities could end up in completely different parts of the Soviet Union, including with their families. For example, Ukrainians at certain times could end up in many republics of the Soviet Union and were technical specialists at factories even beyond the Arctic Circle, and Russians, as well as representatives of many other nationalities, ended up in Ukraine during the development of the fertile lands of Ukraine and the construction of various enterprises and energy facilities. As a matter of fact, it was not forced resettlement, but labor contracts, after which many remained to live in the regions of their work, as they acquired property and families over the years.

@user-yq1rc1ti2l

10 ай бұрын

Напоминаю, что многих стран и национальностей не существовало до революции 1917 года. Такие национальности как украинец или казах буквально были созданы искусственно из местного населения. Почти вся территория украины (исключение небольшая территория западной украины) это бывшие российские территории, на которых проживали преимущественно русские люди. Города там построены по приказу русской императрицы Екатерины Великой, а именно князем Потёмкиным. В этом видео много подмены понятий, введение в заблуждение и откровенной лжи.

@justaguy2795

10 ай бұрын

​@@user-yq1rc1ti2lпро ложь я не согласен - в этом видео видны некоторые заблуждения, присущие иностранцам, но они скорее берут корни из недопонимания, чем из злого умысла

@youseeio7519

10 ай бұрын

@@user-yq1rc1ti2l Напомните себе, пожалуйста, посмотреть лекции возникновения украинского государства, а то мне как русскому россиянину стыдно такое читать...

@yuliakatkova

10 ай бұрын

@Soichy2 I'd like to say yeah you are right "it was not forced resettlement" but as a matter of fact my great great father died in jail in the area of Kazakhstan which is now Uzbekistan. He was a collective farm chairman (Romanian/Moldovan descent) - the reason was that his wife (Ukrainian) was rich and religious and he refused to divorce her and 'kill' their children; so he was sent as political enemy to the Central Asian jail. Wife followed and that was the reason why my family was 'relocated' there

@yuliakatkova

10 ай бұрын

@@user-yq1rc1ti2l зачем вам русским людям столько территории если вы то, что имеете не можете содержать? ***вопрос риторический, можно не отвечать...

I find it incredibly interesting that Canada and Russia have very similar GDP numbers with Canada having slightly more even though having slightly less territory. They are also a good comparison because both countries have similar areas of sparsely populated parts of their country.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Very true! You could even add Brazil along with it, who also has a very unbalanced population density - especially in the interior.

@faberion2258

11 ай бұрын

Yea, but Russian population is 3.5 times lesser…

@dustgreylynx

11 ай бұрын

Except that Canada has 4 imes less population, and Hence much richer per capita

@sdrawkcabUK

11 ай бұрын

To an extent however Canada is blessed with two ice-free coastlines and has generally being on excellent terms with its neighbours, this letting it develop in peace without needing to spend huge sums on defence like Russia

@recoil53

11 ай бұрын

Here is a worse comparison, but perhaps really shows how poorly developed Russia is: Russia had a GDP of about $1.78 Trillion (pre sanction) Tokyo $1.60 T New York City $1.59 T.

When you see huge empty territories in Russia, don't forget that most of a year these are ice deserts with extreme temperatures below 0

This was a great vid! I love maps, study maps and can spend as much time poring over a map in detail as reading a book! Thank you so much for keeping maps in peoples minds. The younger generation just seem to get their maps in small chunks for where they are going at the moment and don't look at the bigger picture as it were!

The unfriendly countries map shows that Russia recognises both Chinas 🇨🇳 🇹🇼

@saucy743

11 ай бұрын

Well, not really. Russia has relations with Taiwan, so i guess that's why it shown it as a nation.

@ChinnuWoW

11 ай бұрын

You mean Taiwan and West Taiwan? Hehe

@jmi5969

11 ай бұрын

The Bad Boys List is not about countries sensu stricto, it's "countries and territories". So there is Taiwan, and also Isle of Man and Isle of Guernsey as separate entries.

@benmm01

11 ай бұрын

Russia has relations with both China and Taiwan, as it does with both Israel and Palestine

@iMost067

11 ай бұрын

Map not include Crimea as part of Russia, therefore made not by Russians

The modern model for calculating the size of countries' economies is not relevant. Thus, a country with an economy equal to one of the Benelux countries would not have survived so many sanctions. Russia is the largest resource country in the world, with a well-functioning infrastructure and technology to extract and process these resources. I am talking not only about energy, but about agriculture, water resources and so on. All this ensures food security and energy independence. For example, nuclear energy, which generates electricity in excess. And of course, proximity to friendly countries in the east, which are reliable and traditional economic partners.

1:05 Everyone always forgets about Kaliningrad which is honestly sad, but can’t say it’s unexpected and that makes it even more disappointing tbh Edit: 2:12 Yeah, they definitely forget about us over here lol Edit #2: 9:38 Yup… and now we’re grey, I can only wonder what that’s supposed to mean lmao Thanks for the video though :))

@user-gf4fc8pb7n

11 ай бұрын

Да, верно вы подметили. Тоже устала править чужие карты. Постоянно пишу письма в компании, которые забывают про Калининград, кую область

@bellflower7124

11 ай бұрын

Зато как переименовать, так сразу про вас вспомнили! 😆 Калининград, как вы там, кстати? Продукты, медикаменты, стройматериалы - нормально доходят? Вы же в начале прошлого года в блокаду попали. Сейчас, вроде, пассажирское сообщение есть. А всё остальное для жизни как?

@villidar6010

11 ай бұрын

@@bellflower7124 Да в принципе всё нормально, однако цены на продукты всё растут, а зарплаты не особо 😅 и работу всё так же сложно найти. Туристов всё больше, доставка из большой России дороже, да и на самолёте теперь дольше лететь. Ну а так живём, как и раньше

@bellflower7124

11 ай бұрын

@@villidar6010 ну, хорошо, что у вас "плохо" наступает теми же темпами, а не опережает 😅

@ethiop_frum

11 ай бұрын

Это говорит лишь об одном - эти западные крысы хотят прибавить себе территорий

During a civil war in Mongolia in the 16th century, the Kalmyks lost and fled across the Eurasian plain to what is now Kalmykia. Like the Mongols, the Buryats and Tuvans they practice the Tibetan branch of Buddhism.

@beauty-boy

11 ай бұрын

Why do so many people mention Kalmykia?It's not that Special.Kalmyk is not in the Caucasus, But on the Volga River, the western part of Kazakhstan.Before Kalmykia, it was inhabited by Kipchak Turks.Europe is not white since ancient times.Many Kipchak Turks, such as Kazakhs, Nogais, and Bashkirs, still live on the Volga River now.They are very close to the Kalmyks.And there are also Mongols and Buddhists live in Siberia, Russia, for example, Buryat is a Mongolian and Tuva is a Buddhist.

@stvk99

11 ай бұрын

@@beauty-boy I think it is special because it's the most Western Buddhist region

@beauty-boy

11 ай бұрын

@@stvk99 Buddhism originated in India and was introduced into Mongolia through Central Asia.Central Asia used to be dominated by Buddhism, and it is not surprising because Volga is near Central Asia.

@XICKO

11 ай бұрын

@@beauty-boy because the video creator asked what kalmykia is from the viewers lol

Для тех кто любит циферки ,расскажу интересный факт. ВВП по ППС на душу населения Ямало-Ненецкого и Ненецкого автономных округов выше чем в Люксембурге. Но к сожалению в этих регионах всё равно не мало проблем, хоть они являются достаточно преуспевающими.

@GeorgeS360

11 ай бұрын

Просто ввп и ппс на душу населения составляется так ВВП номинальный/население. Там просто человек не много. Там и ИЧР тоже запредельный ~0.900, выше только в Питере и Москве

@Bonpoc4er

11 ай бұрын

да херня все эти ввп и прочая срань, это объективно ничего не говорит об уровне жизни. Всё решает цены, зарплаты, социалка и прочее

One should be critical about life expectancy in the Caucuses. These regions tend to depend on the federal subsidies that are calculated per capita. They are also known for a higher corruption rates thus you wouldn't be surprised that the authorities in these regions tend to inflate their poplulations on paper to get more money from the feds.

@iivarilappalainen9836

11 ай бұрын

Call me cynical, but i would expect any official russian stastics to be tweaked one way or the other with intent. While im by no means economical professional, reading the 2023 russian official economic numbers about budged released by the state are very, erm, quite something. Lets just say it like that.

@vladimir.zlokazov

11 ай бұрын

@@iivarilappalainen9836 they're degrading the quality of stats that they relaease and classify some of them, that's true.

@iivarilappalainen9836

11 ай бұрын

@thorru sure buddy :D

@user-ze5zb2jr1q

11 ай бұрын

Внимание, анекдот (изначальный текст просто закинул в гугл переводчик) An elderly Caucasian comes to the store and addresses the seller: - Sell me two suits. - Grandfather, why do you need two? You are already eighty years old. Take one, enough for the rest of your life. - I take one for myself, the other for dad. - Listen, if you are 80, then dad is probably 100-105 years old!? - Yes, you're right, we just want to be smart at our grandfather's wedding. - If the father is 105, then the grandfather is probably 130 years old!? Does he want to get married? - He doesn't want to, his parents force him to.

@catadoxas

11 ай бұрын

@@iivarilappalainen9836 do you have any idea how corrupt the US is? whats the missing pentagon buget again? 32trillion?

Amazing Stats. Great video. Thank you

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

Great vid: love maps, so much info at a glance!

GREAT selection of topics, some real surprises there.

9:44 GRP for Capita is a good indicator, those west Siberian provinces are actually very rich. That's because they're the regions of oil and gas industry. Same goes for Sakhalin (island near Japan) and Northeast Siberia, which are generally also major natural resources exporters (Gold, platinum, diamonds) Of course, if you live in a poor northern village, you dont have those benefits, but nonetheless, cities are developed well and people there make a lot of money. Though not everybody wants to live in harsh climate, that's because many people who work there only live there for a half a year.

@patrik259

11 ай бұрын

В общем да, я сам живу в Якутии, в 185 километрах от Якутска, поселок городского типа. Дача 180 квадратов, чистый воздух, есть газ, электричество, мобильный интернет даже быстрее чем в Якутске. Охота рыбалка прям хорошо обеспечивает мясом и рыбой)

@ptero

11 ай бұрын

@@patrik259 Неплохо

@SOYUSE

11 ай бұрын

Actually, some food are 5 time expensive in this regions, so people at North don't have the profit. Also you should remember, all the money income goes to the center and then it is redistributed to regions.

@cat-mk2996

11 ай бұрын

Получают больше, но доход вырастает несущессвенно за счёт стоимости товаров

@scovronechko

11 ай бұрын

In fact, the regions in which natural resources are extracted are not as rich as they could be - in our country, the federation levies a tax on such activities, not the region, and therefore most of the benefits go to the general federal budget, although of course the regions are left with a corporation tax

7:31 Now I am Mari, and plenty of Rural Mari practice what others call paganism or tribal religion, but we call the traditional faith. According to one survey, about a quarter of Mari practice it, and of course it's not because it's a border region. I would say, it's because there is a big divide that rural areas of Mari El are predominantly ethnic Mari, while cities have ethnic Russian majority. So, people in villages kept the practice of praying in sacred groves through the years.

@Das_Michael

11 ай бұрын

Где и как я могу научиться марийскому языку? Я недавно узнал, что по отцу я мариец (всю жизнь думал, что по отцу я казах) и теперь хочу изучить вроде как родной для меня язык.

@user-fh6rl3hy3n

11 ай бұрын

Oh, this is very cool!

@steelclackers2611

10 ай бұрын

I'm from Mari El as well. Not Mari though. It's always nice seeing sacred groves when you drive outside the capital. I have warm feelings towards the culture. I am just proud to live here.

Geographically speaking, Russia is much smaller than it looks on the map. It is a distortion caused by Mercator projection. On most of the maps it looks bigger than Africa while in fact it is just the half of it.

@user-mh6pz8rq9d

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, and for the same reason Indonesia is much larger than people think... and India is a whole continent with a lots of peoples and traditions

@user-ff5tm8ip7w

11 ай бұрын

Ну и что что она меньше ? Что в моей жизни изменится от этого ? И Китай больше по размеру если его двинуть на север станет , что с того . То на то и выйдет.

@user-fr4sv1hl7y

11 ай бұрын

С Магадана до Калининграда 11.463 км. Половину месяца ехать на машине. Александрия - Кейптаун 9.929,4 км

@tiortedrootsky

11 ай бұрын

In Russia most common projection for the world map is not Mercator, but some version of polyconic projection (поликоническая проекция цниигаик). Sizes are much closer to reality, but still, stuff thats closer to the poles is too big.

@arthurkhvan6675

11 ай бұрын

@@user-ff5tm8ip7w так он просто констатировал факт, что у вас за реакция? Как будто у вас комплексы по поводу родины. Это довольно интересно, что Россия воспринимается многими гораздо в бОльших масштабах, чем она есть на самом деле. И касается это не только территории, но и населения, размера экономики, и тд. Как было показано на карте, малюсенькие Бельгия, Нидерланды и Люксембург сопоставимы с Россией по номинальному ВВП, хоть и в сотни раз меньше

"[Russia is] a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." --Winston Churchill

Thank you for this video, it was very interesting to learn new things about this country👍 Could you make a video about modern South America

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Okay! South African maps is a good idea

The only reason Moscow has such a "high" contribution to GDP is because all oil, gas and other resource excavating and exploiting companies have headquarters in Moscow. Basically this is consolidation of Moscow power as all the taxes from theses companies end up in Moscow while that gas and oil is excavated in other regions. Vertical power allows Putin to have economical grip on all the country.

@Siberian_Bear72

11 ай бұрын

The federal budget of Russia is not the budget of the city of Moscow.

@hirdbarding3399

11 ай бұрын

@@Siberian_Bear72 someone forgot to tell it to muscowites

@Siberian_Bear72

11 ай бұрын

@@hirdbarding3399 , просто попробуйте почитать Бюджетный кодекс РФ. Узнаете много интересного о распределении налогов в России.

@OctavChelaru

11 ай бұрын

Indeed, also why no Russian like the Muscovy outside Moscow.

@Paul020253

11 ай бұрын

@@Siberian_Bear72 Юрий, не глупите, ваш вопрос подразумевает, что вы думаете, что ваша аудитория может быть достаточно непредубежденной, чтобы благосклонно относиться ко всему пророссийскому! Отличный шанс!! (Не уверен, что это клише переводится на русский!)

Far east sea infrastructure is actually pretty solid in Russia. It was a major hub for South Eastern Asia transit to Europe, with sea+rail (or rail only) transportation being faster alternative to sea only transportation. It facilitates not only needs of european part of Russia, but also was one of the dependable routs to EU (especially with sea freight cost inflation in 2021).

When comparing countries between countries, any economic data is completely distorted if the 2 fundamental data are not taken into consideration... one is the PPP, i.e. the quantity of goods that can be purchased with a single dollar... the other is the need to purchase of goods and services that a certain country has compared to another with the same industrial capacity ... Russia is very capacious in all the raw materials (from food to mining and energy) that it may need for the following centuries .

@RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df

11 ай бұрын

Good clarification.

10:00 The high GDP per capita in those mysterious Northern regions is not only because of their low population but because these are main oil and gas extraction areas. People in Khanty-Mansiysk are told to live much better than many in Central Russia.

@Luminisque

11 ай бұрын

Как житель ханты мансийска могу сказать, что уровень жизни не больше не меньше, так как здесь зарплаты высоки так же, как и цены. Но город ухоженный, красивый, дороги хорошие, это да, видно, что деньги вкладывают:) В якутии еще выше зарплаты, но люди там не богато живут, все по той же причине

I didn't realise that the eastern area was so mountainous. I thought it was steppes all the way to the Pacific.

@realaurorien

11 ай бұрын

kind of explains why noone ever tried invading russia from the east, except for the mongols, they are built different

@user-kf7kv8zp5v

11 ай бұрын

Steppe lies between Don and Volga river down to Caucasus mountains.

@user-kf7kv8zp5v

11 ай бұрын

​@@realaurorien How come they invaded Russia if it haven't existed back then?))

@tony_winner

11 ай бұрын

I live in this "mountainuos" region and there r no mountains for thousands kms around. Its just a flat surface, thou high above 0 degree

@someperson1829

11 ай бұрын

@@realaurorien Yeah, except Mongols didn't invade Russia, because it became Russia way after the Mongol conquest. Rus was more or less the size of Poland back then.

Very much welcomed, thanks a lot.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

This was way more interesting than I ever expected it to be! Love it!

Russian current population is over 146 million people. Novosibirsk, a city of over 1.6 million people sits in the middle of Russia and is about 2,000 miles from the western edge of Russia. Kaliningrad (population 491,866) to Novosibirsk flight distance is about 2,860 miles. Shortest distance from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok is over 4,500 miles and if you take a train (about $200 to $300) it would take about 7 days. I would call that a large country. Kaliningrad used to be called Konigsberg but was taken from Nazi Germany in WW 2.

@nfdafds32423

11 ай бұрын

Kroleviec, not kaliningrad

@scovronechko

11 ай бұрын

​@@nfdafds32423Every person has their own nightmare, every Russian has his own Pole.. This city was honestly given to the USSR under an agreement with the Allies because we fought and deserved it, I understand that our peoples are repugnant to each other, but to have basic respect for the enemy is to have self-respect. We have not yet stooped to renaming your cities and countries to Ivangorod, because it's just wild

@nfdafds32423

11 ай бұрын

@@scovronechko how russians can talk about respect during the war in Ukraine?

@scovronechko

11 ай бұрын

@@nfdafds32423 Ukraine is very dear to you, yes, yes.. You also attacked us and nothing - I can understand why and I don't lose my temper

@nfdafds32423

11 ай бұрын

@@scovronechko I attacked you, or what? You live in a bubble, you russians are taught by propaganda that everybody wants to attack you...

You've forgotten to colour Kaliningrad region in the first slide - which is a bit of a shame.

@Clint_Beastw00d

11 ай бұрын

That was intentional, Crimea isnt coloured either. Referendum will be held and Kaliningrad will be part of Czech Republic once again, under its former name - Královec.

@alexivanov5433

11 ай бұрын

@@Clint_Beastw00d why the hell is Czech Republic here? Are you good at geography, Mate?

@Clint_Beastw00d

11 ай бұрын

@@alexivanov5433 Are you good at history m8? Bohemian King Ottokar II? Královec - Königsberg? No? I swear, you orcs these days...

@alexivanov5433

11 ай бұрын

@@Clint_Beastw00d dream on!

@karugs9032

11 ай бұрын

​@@Clint_Beastw00d California used to belong to Mexico. The Czech Republic used to belong to the Germans. You talk stupid

Very informative - thank you.

Great video! Thank You!

Very interesting video. Congrats

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

3:40. That's because there's so few people out East that even a couple murders are significant. 1 murder amongst an area of 100 people weights heavier than 50 murders amongst 10,000 people.

I love these vids keep up the good work

Thanks by bringing this to the light

3:49 - The fact that in sparsely populated areas the crime rate is higher is quite normal. Exactly also, for example, in Greenland

For a northern country, like Russia, or Canada, it is best to eschew Mercator projection maps, even if you have to add a curved Arctic circle to them.

great presentation!

Спасибо за видео! Thank you for the video!

I think the crime rates are explained cuz of small populations and the rating being per 100,000 people. Like Chukotka having even less than 100,000 people so if one or 2 crimes are committed it might be higher than in more populated areas (which could have 10 or more with over a million people)

Thank you for a most interesting and informative video. Given the current difficulties and anti_Russian feeling there is in the West, could you possibly do a part two to this video, to help us understand Russia better?

good presentation I would suggest that you slow down your narration 25-50 percent along with your screen changes. Maybe it's because I am weak minded; but I found myself having to pause certain screens to study them before you switched to the next slide.

Finally, some unbiased info about my country. Thank you, random dude in my recommended videos :)

Russia's population is basically along the old Silk Road.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

If so, do you think it's a causal effect of people settling there because the original silk road passed through? Or did the original silk road pass through there *because* there were significant population centres already?

@jwhite5008

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Outside European portion it is actually centered around trans-Siberian railway line, some of which kind-of sort-of in the vicinity of the old silk road. The railway is the lifeline - almost the only connection - for the cities along it as Russian roads tend to destroy cars that travel any significant distance along them. Its importance cannot be overstated. The railway was built to connect some of the cities that probably existed there because of travel routes such as the silk road and allowed them to flourish whereas the other ones faded away.

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

​@@General.Knowledge yes.

@user-kf7kv8zp5v

11 ай бұрын

​@@General.Knowledge The Silk roads were created by Scythians (From Greece to Tian-Shan) and Turanians from Tian-Shan to Korea. Obviously through settlements which provided food, shelter and spare transportation enough for merchants and guards, but insufficient for an invading force.

@annasolovyeva1013

11 ай бұрын

Because everything to the north of it (in east Russia) is barely habitable

Neat video

Good stuff!

Great video!

When you think about Russia could be one of the richest countries on the planet, likely sitting in the 2nd or 3rd place and yet they do not realize it. They are quite literally walking atop wealth and no I am not just talking about hydrocarbons, but rather metals, gems, forestry, agriculture etc. to bad they can't seem to curtail their corruption to any meaningful degree, which would allow them to pursue meaningful economic development on that kind of scale, also funneling money from their hydrocarbon sales which could have been used to exploit those other resources into their MIC doesn't help and didn't pan out well in the long term either.

@santyel9580

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, many people forget, including Russians themselves, that the Russian economy is not as old as the economy of other developed countries. Being the USSR, they were economically isolated from the rest of the countries for decades. And after the collapse of the USSR, its economy was completely destroyed, In the nineties many industries were abandoned, many people could not receive a salary for years and worked for free. The current Russian economy began to build up around the end of the nineties - the beginning of the two thousandth, so it is a little more than twenty years old. And for some reason, many people forget that it is harder to manage such a huge and diverse country than small states. And for a country of this scale, more human resources are needed to grow the economy. The twentieth century was very cruel to Russia: World War I, revolution, civil war, emigration, mass famine in the thirties, World War II, Stalin's repressions, the collapse of the USSR, followed by the hungry "dashing" nineties, in which robbery and corruption flourished. In this regard, there was a new huge wave of emigration from the country. Of course, Russia is incomparably calmer now than in those days, and of course, there are people who say that in the nineties there was complete freedom, in the sense that everything could be done, but even more people are afraid that something like this will happen again. This is only the main part of the traumatic events that happened to Russia not so long ago. During the twentieth century, Russia lost several hundred million people. This is just a small remark for reflection to your words that Russia could be the richest country in the world. And no, contrary to your words, people in Russia understand this very well.

@HypnoticChronic1

10 ай бұрын

@@santyel9580 I disagree with several of your points, in regards to the Russian economy not being as old well that is a tad of a misnomer, while it took a while to get it really kicked started under Peter the Great (technically speaking the Russian economy is older than the US's own) and while the USSR did hamper the growth, (being they isolated themselves not the other way around) being a post Soviet state likewise does not immediately negate the possibility for rapid growth if the will is there to do so Poland is a good example of this despite lacking the absurd natural abundance Russia has at its disposal. And to your point of a large and diverse state being hard to manage this isn't wholly untrue either, as scale does matter and plays a role in affecting growth however, I yet again point to the US here whom has everything from deserts to arctic tundra to contend with and was likewise large with largely untamed wilderness for the gross majority of its history (many could argue it still is), but they made it work and aside from the effects of the Great Depression has largely seen unhampered economic growth and exploitation of its natural assets for the majority of that history. To your point of the 20th century being very cruel to Russia again I counter with Poland, Poland didn't even exist on the map at the start of it (in no small part thanks to Russia) and had its territory divided by 3 nations, while facing the full effects of WWI being the primary location of combat for the eastern front and only regaining independence after cessation of hostilities. Not to long after which it was forced to fight a war with the Russians and not to long after that got likewise invaded on two fronts by the Germans and Russians and divided and wiped off the face of the map yet again during WWII, when in said conflict the country was both leveled and heavily depopulated only to be put under the Soviet jackboot upon cessation of hostilities. Thus being forced to rebuild from the ground up from its ashes while under communism, while dealing with famines and the repression by Soviet authorities throughout the duration of the Cold War. Only gaining its freedom and independence a mere 34 years ago from communism to transition into a market economy, just like Russia had to do not long after the only difference being is how they went about that transition is where Poland flourished and Russia stagnated and regressed and that is the key difference and where the corruption comes into play. In Poland's case the state came to a consensus on how to move forward, they held onto all the former state owned assets with the full intention of selling them all off and only gradually sold them off once prospective buyers and or investors showed interest be they domestic or foreign (a process which is still ongoing some 30 years later), conversely upon the dissolution of the USSR Yeltsin was fighting with the Supreme Soviet with the former wanting rapid liberalization and privatization, while the latter wised to retain more socialist policies and thus led to a breeding ground for economic chaos by not coming to a clear consensus on how to proceed. The system in which they chose to privatize as well was hampered by problems, as the voucher system they employed precluded any foreign investment into sectors to act as a counter balance to what became the oligarchs centralizing their own ownership and power over key sectors of the economy, whom now have a death grip on the current Russian economy and are something the current government has to contend with if it wants to get anything done and likewise make it near impossible to move forward in any meaningful way as nearly no competition exists to apply pressure for improvement, especially given that a gross majority of its economy was centered around its MIC during the USSR, Russia opted to keep that largely intact rather than let it die and invest money into more profitable civilian sectors, which likewise became a drain on financial assets as Russian arms became less and less sought after due to being outdated and lacking production quality and quantity. Suffice to say Russia is far less a victim of external or even internal circumstance, but rather a product of their own making and poor decisions. I say this as a response to your statement of implication that Russia could not have made better choices nor had the opportunity to do so, they simply just chose not to. However, I will grant you that the Russian people likely understand the wealth they stand on, that was merely a hyperbolic statement on my part regarding the minimal to near nonexistent exploitation of those assets and I apologize for the confusion if there was any to be had. I do also have a hypothesis, now that Russian populace is more familiar with the mechanisms of market economy these days than upon the dissolution of the USSR, if the populace could start another "revolution" to wrestle control of the government and economy away from the strongmen and oligarchs, which seems more viable now than ever before given the economic, military and political constraints Russia is currently facing which makes those individuals positions in power shaky and thus making slightly more viable to oust them, I see a better and more prosperous future ahead of them if they choose to do so.

Is there a software or website that combines Google Maps with other geographical and demographic maps like these shown here? I love to look at my world atlas but I would love to zoom in, you know :D Google Maps's main focus is on traffic, navigation etc and not exploring the world, learning about mountain ranges, river basins, population density etc.. But I would love to have that as it would be the greatest geographic tool ever, the ultimate online interactive atlas. You could filter out different modes like "show population density", "point out the worlds railway network no matter how far you zoom out" and things like this....

@merijnfluitman5761

11 ай бұрын

That's a bit niche, considering the amount of work needed to make that. But it does appear you found a hole in the market. I'm sure General Knowledge and Atlas Pro would be very grateful if you made it happen.

@immermitderruhe

11 ай бұрын

@@merijnfluitman5761 If I would be Elon Musk or Bill Gates I would definitely start a company developing something like this.

@brinjoness3386

11 ай бұрын

Check out "Felt map overlay"

Awesome video.

The video is only 13min long - I wouldn't have minded some more data or in-depth explanation. It was packed with goodies all throughout. In this case, more is better!

The most interesting part is managing budget between Moscow and ALL OTHER REGIONS. Even if some regions have greater GDP, most of taxes and fees are come to Moscow firts and every authority in region have to beg Putin to return some small pieces of their own money back to region budget. This is insane centralization for control country.

As far as i know the distribution of ethnicity is counted with the population census, and even if technically people have ethnicity different from russian they still can write themselves down as russian, ethnicity is not that big of a topick in russia, if you don't look like stereotypical russin you still can be called russian if you want.

@brunetka_361

10 ай бұрын

Yep, when census went here my dad who is native siberian and speaks 2 languages said to the census worker that we all russians and speak only russian just because it was easier and faster to say, not because it's true. And everything in Russia you can divide on 3 easily. Statistics doesnt work in Russia. Even GDP doesn't show real economy situation. Shadow economy is approximately about 20% of official Russian GDP, but I think it's way more.

@Eridelm

9 ай бұрын

My ancestors are Germans/Russians and Udege people, passport is still marked as Russian ethnicity, even through I have a german surname and my russian dna contribute less than 20%. I still have right to change it but It's such a headache to be honest.

@sodinc

9 ай бұрын

@@Eridelm ethnicity in a passport? how?

I'm from Russia, actually. And in my geography books we have detailed maps of any interest. If you want, I can send you some

Как же смешно читать на комментарии европейцев, которые в истории восточной Европы вообще ничего не знают и даже не хотят узнавать😂

Here in Canada we also have more violent crime per capita in our less populated areas so it's no surprise to me. Same with drug and alcohol abuse. I still like living in the north though because there are so many fewer people overall and lots of beautiful nature per capita. So even though there are more problem people per capita, there are far fewer problem people overall. Maps about Canada would be cool.

@RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df

11 ай бұрын

This is a universal problem of the global North...

@user-xm6zs6ez6i

11 ай бұрын

Firstly, in Russia, not the dollar, but the ruble, for example, bread is 10 times cheaper than in Canada. Therefore, it does not make sense to compare economies in dollars (this was invented so that the US could show its superiority, for fools). If we compare the price of bread, then Russia is 10 times richer than Canada and other countries. Let's compare economies by the price of bread, not by the number of dollars. Or let's compare economies by the amount of gold (bread and gold are a real valuable resource). How much gold do you have? Who are the leaders in gold? I can buy 10 times more bread (other goods as well). Secondly, Russia is under your sanctions. You imposed sanctions against Russia and after that you talk about the size of the economy, a very honest approach, bravo) But. Russia is a leader in space, in the nuclear industry, in rocket engineering and, in carbon fiber, Russian programmers are in high demand. Russians always win science Olympiads (now the Chinese have become strong, but you are not). All you can do is compare economies in dollars, this is the only field where you feel superior, otherwise you are losers.

@IusedtohaveausernameIliked

11 ай бұрын

@@user-xm6zs6ez6i What are you talking about? Are you even responding to the right comment? This is completely unrelated to what I was commenting on.

@user-xm6zs6ez6i

11 ай бұрын

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked The Anglo-Saxon remembered the rules, funny))). Me doesn't care about your comment, in the video itself they compare about your Saxon Canada. Fakes about the economy and fakes about everything else (including about crimes, because in Russia in any city children walk until late). Russia and Canada are not subject to comparison, and I briefly explained above why this is so.

@ivanmargosdoesEverything.2923

8 ай бұрын

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked He is copy and pasting the comment saw it in another post

Two corrections: 1. Those Benelux countries are $1,4 trillion as shown, but Russia is $2 trillion 2. Russia's population is 146 million, and not 143 million

@user-fh6rl3hy3n

11 ай бұрын

130 million maximum:)

@benmm01

11 ай бұрын

@@user-fh6rl3hy3n ?

7:20 Not that you couldn't look it up, but you told me to say it if I knew, which I already did: The Buddhist region in the Caucasus is Kalmykia, and, in addition to being Buddhist, they're language is Mongolic, so it's actually for basically the same reason that there are Buddhist-majority regions bordering Mongolia. Based on looking it up on Wikipedia just now, I don't think the Kalmyks specifically reached the Caucasus until the 1618 "Torghut migration" from the Irkutsk river to the Volga river, but it should be remembered that the Mongol empire definitely did long before that (in the mid 1200s) and the region was ruled by (other Mongol/Turkic ("Tatar") states) the Golden Horde throughout the 1300s and most of the 1400s and the Astrakhan Khanate from ca. 1466-1556 (I think 1556 was about when Russia took over), so I would guess the general Mongolic nature of the region dates back to the original Mongol Empire at least in some sense.

As a Russian I found this video surprisingly entertaining

One thing I would really like to see is the comparison of sizes with other country without the mercator stretch. Russia is huge, but it looks way bigger then it really is in the end. Its confusing at first but Interesting nonetheless.

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Yes! I did a video on the true size of countries a while back. But I can make an updated version if you want :)

@truefranck

11 ай бұрын

I know, the map. Make it look bigger than Africa, when in actuality it isn't.

@tobio1988

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge if you have the time and think it could be interesting, go for it!

@tobio1988

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge I just rewatched your mercator video and it still holds up pretty well(all things considered, you improved since then, but it was still on a pretty good level).

@xolang

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge that'd be awesome! perhaps you can also mention the fact that Russia's relative proximity to the pole also causes it to have so many time zone. if Russia were located on the equator, it probably would have only around 6 time zone (which is still a lot). on the other hand, İndonesia would have around 7 time zone if it were located on such high latitudes as Russia.

Finally an overview over Russia by region, not the country as whole with average numbers

Can you do portugal next?

An indigenous Yakut here. Your Sakha (Yakuta) shows wrong numbers. The ethnic Russians (Slavs) are at least 50 percent there. If you count the mixed population that looks very much Russian anyways, you get all 75-80%.

Really interesting video, as someone who is part Russian and are really into Russian history I agree that maps such as this helps us understand the country more and its history, also appreciate the Soviet/Russian marches as the background music

@alchang1515

11 ай бұрын

Soviet/Russian marches as the background music... yuck1

I'm from Russia. I love your videos very interesting🎉❤

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! :)

@jwhite5008

11 ай бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Also from Russia. Thanks for unbiased and accurate info.

@markparkhomenko6358

11 ай бұрын

@@jwhite5008 Also from Russia. The video is not objective. Just another video about how big Russia is and how it should be divided. Видео не показалось мне объективным. Просто еще одно видео о том, какая большая Россия и как ее надо делить.

@al1sa920

11 ай бұрын

@@markparkhomenko6358 блять, чел, ты угрозу уже видишь в любом анализе

Great!

Кайдан карталарны аласың? Where did u find these maps?

The Buddhist region in the caucasus is the Republic of Kalmykia

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

Check Caucusus on 5:30 map. It's huge mountain Kalmykia is Dune like sand desert with some steppe.

What an amazing, mysterious country. And to think that on a clear, summer day you can see it from the American state of Alaska. Hopefully one day I get to experience that with my own eyes.

@IAOHUM

11 ай бұрын

Why look at Russia from a distance if you can just visit it? We don't bite :)

Comparison of transport infrastructures! (europe, usa and china, India, Middle East!) highways, railways + high-speed railways, waterways sistems, the largest seaports and river ports, the largest airports, oil pipelines, energy lines networks and all presented on beautiful maps! I would like to see how connected the population centers are, it would be especially interesting to see South America. I think that such a project would show how much we have globalized and connected the planet and which centers are the most isolated! (Australia)

@anatmandr

11 ай бұрын

Согласен, когда я только нашёл ресурс onlinerailroadmap или как то так, был удивлён системе железных дорог в разных частях мира)

fun fact: there are 2 borders between russia and china: one is one the east part of russia and the second one is between Mongolia and Kazakhastan. The second one is about 50 km.

we measure GDP by the dollar, and the dollar is just paper, not even paper, but numbers in a computer. the real value is the resources that Russia is rich in, but after the collapse of the USSR, the Anglo-Saxons robbed it if BRICS abandoned the dollar then everything will change for the better

Kalmykia is indeed very surprising. It was basically Mongols who migrated there and to this day it is a Russian-minority region and the only Buddhist-majority region in Europe. Anyways, great video and спасибо

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

Oh I see! Thanks, and thanks for watching

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

Tatars were key migrated Mongols but were converted to Islam.

@notfound9816

11 ай бұрын

​@@dickystrike6966 tatars are Turkic, Also there was islamic Turkic people called "bulgar" way before Mongolic invasion

@dickystrike6966

11 ай бұрын

@@notfound9816 Gengis khan was 'black' Tatar and today Gengis is common Tatar name

@notfound9816

11 ай бұрын

@@dickystrike6966 just like iskander (alexander) is common name in Iran

3:38 After that, it would be interesting to see a map of alcohol consumption per capita.

Buddhism is practiced traditionally in the Republic of Kalmykia on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. The Kalmyks came from Asia in the 17th century and plagued both the local Tatar tribes and Moscow. After long struggles and treaties, this Mongolian people accepted Moscow's suzerainty, but retained some degree of autonomy.

The economy size comparisons are misleading. Most families have their own government given property and have health care and education taken care of, they basically only need their salaries for food and entertainment

Gostei muito do Video, por favor faça um video assim com os EUA e o Brasil

Fascinating.

Salam aleckym from Respublic Dagestan

Russian GDP nominal is $2.3 bln nominal according to latest IMF, or 8th in the world. Regional autonomies often have their own languages. The regions who are richer than Moscow have a lot of oil and gas.

@Clint_Beastw00d

11 ай бұрын

Nominal GDP doesnt account for the inflation or deflation, so it is not very telling. Real GDP or GDP per capita is a different story. Rural Russia is very poor and undeveloped. Russia is 56th in GDP per capita, even behind countries from eastern bloc like Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Poland, which is baffling given how much natural resources they have.

@andreimoutchkine5163

11 ай бұрын

@@Clint_Beastw00d You mean GDP PPP? Russia is 6th there, slightly ahead of Germany. It is not behind Romania.

@Clint_Beastw00d

11 ай бұрын

@@andreimoutchkine5163 PPP just mean purchasing power parity. There is a difference between GPD PPP and GDP PPP per capita.

@andreimoutchkine5163

11 ай бұрын

@@Clint_Beastw00d Like Duh! Russia still ain't behind Romania.

@Clint_Beastw00d

11 ай бұрын

@@andreimoutchkine5163 Mate...world bank data says otherwise. You can freely search and confirm this info.

7:25 - the Buddists region in the Northern Caucasus is Kalmykia, or Republic of Kalmykia. It's home to the Kalmyks, a people of Mongol origin who are primarily of Buddhist faith 😊

It's the largest country in theory. This winter you could see on the Earth Wind map, how cold it is in Siberia, or around it's as cold as in Groenland, where no on can live. A map of the whole country makes no sens, because a large part of it belongs to the polar climate, and is inhabitable.

Looking at these maps, it’s clear that Russia 🇷🇺 has always been more focused on Europe than Asia. Although Putin now wants to have a more intense political and economic relationship with Asia, especially with China 🇨🇳 and India 🇮🇳

@vedser

11 ай бұрын

Because he sees the danger to his rule from the western democracies. Also because western countries themselves distanced from Russia because of the war

@General.Knowledge

11 ай бұрын

I guess historically it makes sense that the focus was on Europe. Now, both with Europe being against Russia's foreign policy and simultaneously Asia being a new major economic centre, it's understandable the focus has shifted.

@xenotypos

11 ай бұрын

It wasn't really a matter of focus: the country is born in Europe, it was a pure European country, that expanded eastward.

@aruak321

11 ай бұрын

That's because he has no choice

@benmm01

11 ай бұрын

I mean there is really no choice. Western countries became hostile and tried to shut out Russia, so Russia must look elsewhere

The Western Europe is unique in many aspects of its geographical and geological features, this leads to its unique cultural, political and technological position in the world. The only one similar region in the world is Far East of Russia. But it located far from civilisation, in much harsher climate. And so, it will be developed later.

@ethiop_frum

11 ай бұрын

Надо ли напомнить, что в Европе не зародилось ни металлообработка, ни обработка земли, ни животноводство, ни колесо, ни верховая езда? Почему европейцы все же вырвались вперёд в средние века? Германские племена основывали свои империи на основе уже существовавшей римской империи, беря от нее все идеалы! А идеал римской империи - захват и колонизация всех соседей. Колонизация земель Карфагена - это то, что дало толчок к развитию Рима. Колонизация - это настоящий ресурс Европы. Россию пытались колонизировать много раз. Частично преуспели. Именно поэтому бывшие и существующие колонии запада поддерживают РФ.

@user-fh6rl3hy3n

11 ай бұрын

@@ethiop_frum а кто колесо изобрёл?

@user-is1eq9jm2t

11 ай бұрын

​@@user-fh6rl3hy3nпарни с Ближнего Востока, либо из Северной Африки

@user-fh6rl3hy3n

11 ай бұрын

@@user-is1eq9jm2t не читал про радио Попова-Маркони? Многие вещи придуманы во многих местах, без знания о других разработках. В любом случае, это странное утверждение.

@user-is1eq9jm2t

11 ай бұрын

1. БВ и СА стали первыми очагами оседлой земледельческой цивилизации и крупных государств. Так что шанс на то, что они первыми это сделали, предельно высок. Отсылаю к С. Хантингтону "Столкновение цивилизаций" и Д. Даймонду "Ружья, микробы и сталь". 2. Переход на личность сразу делает твой аргумент невалидным, спор так не ведётся. Либо веди спор, чтобы действительно либо доказать свою правоту, либо принять правоту другого, либо завали 😘

About religions it is needed to be added that despite a majority believes in any god, only 7% of population visited church in last year. As Russian I also can approve that people are not religious in their routine practices. We can see it in the way what are the main holidays - New Year, 23rd of Feb, 8th of March, 9th of May, 12 of June, 4th of Nov None of it is religious.

4:50 what is the blue line here ?

@user-pg3hs1wb6j

11 ай бұрын

Border of the Permafrost. Northern of that line ground is frozen for all or most of the time. Upper layer of soil is getting warm in the summer, but down below it's frozen all the time.