My favorite one is that the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every country in the Americas (along with Cabo Verde) than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil

@silas__3994

10 ай бұрын

That's actually such an awesome fact

@juliusnepos6013

10 ай бұрын

Yeah

@LilacVeritas

9 ай бұрын

The longest land border France holds with another country is with Brazil

@blackrainbow4467

5 ай бұрын

​@@LilacVeritasYayyy an Enter Shikari fan🤟

@joshuakim3734

5 ай бұрын

Thats obvious.

Coolangatta Airport doesn't just cross a state border. Half the year it's in two different timezones. An absolute nightmare for people trying to catch flights!

Related to that last fact: if you draw the line of latitude at the southernmost point of Canada, obviously all of Canada is north of that line, but in fact there are more people living the the USA north of that line than the entire population of Canada.

@rosiefay7283

10 ай бұрын

Related to that last fact: a large part of the Can-USA border lies along 49°N. Of people living in Canada, more live south of that than north of it.

@lauraketteridge324

5 ай бұрын

@@rosiefay7283 95% of people living in Canada live further south than 95% of people in the UK.

@Zombie-lx3sh

5 ай бұрын

​@rosiefay7283 In fact 50% live south of 45.7.

@lancekirkwood7922

5 ай бұрын

In the US, living in Detroit area and further north, you have to drive south to go to Canada.

@BeefinOut

5 ай бұрын

Over half of Canada's population lives further south than Seattle

As a Brit the Edinburgh thing did indeed blow my mind

@lauraketteridge324

5 ай бұрын

Back in the 1970s, the UK weather maps was aligned to have the south of England horizontal. This deviation from the N/S orientation many maps present has twisted the perception of locations in the UK.

@RestitutorEuropa

5 ай бұрын

As someone who isn’t a Brit but still is familiar with UK cities this also blew my mind

I love that Japan is further north, east, south and west from the entire Korean peninsula

@Oznej

5 ай бұрын

Similarly, Greenland reaches further north, south, east, and west than Iceland. The same is true of Norway for Finland, of Italy for Slovenia, of China for Mongolia...

@crazydog1750

5 ай бұрын

@@OznejSame with The Vatican and Italy! 😂😂 After reading this though I am trying to think of some more non-trivial answers… I wonder if Sumatra reaches farther than Borneo? Because then Indonesia would be farther north, south, east and west than Malaysia.

@alienoidyt1

5 ай бұрын

​@@crazydog1750 yes, that's correct

@samuelcheung4799

5 ай бұрын

@@crazydog1750It unfortunately isn't. All it would take for Indonesia to reach further north, south, west and east of Malaysia would be to acquire the Nicobar Islands from India.

@crazydog1750

5 ай бұрын

@@samuelcheung4799 Dang. Well, at least it I for Brunei. And Singapore. And East Timor. Although they’re not very impressive. 🤣

My dad and I have been collecting these for years. I think our best ones are: * Marseille is south of Florence * Miami is west of Lima (or -- same underlying misintuition -- Boston is west of Santiago) * Prague is west of Vienna * Málaga is south of Tunis * Venice is west of Palermo And here's a trivia question: what's the closest US state to Baghdad?

@samuelseefeld

10 ай бұрын

The closest US state to Baghdad? Well, it must be an easterly one like Maine or Florida, right?

@samuelseefeld

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, definitely Maine

@deepbackwardandsquare

10 ай бұрын

@@samuelseefeld Nope

@mikespearwood3914

10 ай бұрын

So what is it? Hawaii or Alaska I guess?@@deepbackwardandsquare

@deepbackwardandsquare

10 ай бұрын

@@mikespearwood3914 Yep, it's Alaska. I made some pictures to prove it, but it turns out I can't link to them, here. Basically, it's a shorter distance over the North Pole to the northernmost point of Alaska than it is across the Atlantic to the easternmost tip of Maine. It's one of those counterintuitive facts that come from our map-befuddled understanding of the world being 3-dimensional. See also: Sydney is closer to Reykjavik than it is to London... it took a globe and a piece of string to convince my daughter of that one.

Similar to the Panama question. You actually travel south across the bridge from Detroit in USA to Windsor in Canada.

@HweolRidda

5 ай бұрын

Posed a bit differently.. Detroit is a US city that is north of Canada.

@dmwebby

5 ай бұрын

Born and raised in South Detroit = Canadian

I always got a kick out of that 'Panama Canal Fact'... and unreasonably pleased with myself for having independently noticed this! (I was even going to point it out myself, had you not done so!) Few things I like better than browsing through atlases and maps for no particular reason -- just, 'because... '

One of my favorites: The Niagara Falls are shy south of the city of Marseille in southern France at the Mediterranean Sea.

With that exact wording, Dili of Timor Leste is the closest capital city to Darwin

When it was built in 1906, the Goldfields pipeline in Western Australia was the longest freshwater pipeline in the world, being just shy of 600 km long.

There's also the one where the both the easternmost and westernmost points within the USA (not including territories) are both in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where the westernmost Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian.

As a Swede, it blows my mind that all of Mongolia is further south than all of Sweden.

@smorajs

5 ай бұрын

Europe is generally very north compared to the rest of the world thanks to the gulf stream. Stockholm for example is on the same latitude as mostly uninhabited wasteland in Canada

@MinusMOD98

5 ай бұрын

@@smorajs A straight line from Boston, MA across the Atlantic leads you to the small Galician village of Oia in Spain.

@SouthShoreSonics

5 ай бұрын

@@smorajs Barely any of Great Britain is south of the 50th, and as someone who lives on the 43rd in Canada, that seems quite north.

@jack2453

5 ай бұрын

As a non-Swede it is no surprise at all. Everyone knows that Sweden is seriously Northern.

@nbartlett6538

5 ай бұрын

That's not even a tiny bit surprising.

Point Roberts, Washington is a great one. It's in Washington, but it's only accessible through Canada.

@scottcarter6623

10 ай бұрын

second this one it is really cool. Schools were actually bussing across two international borders twice a day.

@theoztreecrasher2647

5 ай бұрын

Campobello Island is only accessible for part of the year via the bridge from Lubec in Maine. When weather permits there are ferries to other parts of Nova Scotia. The North-west Angle of Minnesota is only accessible via the road through Manitoba.

@ManicMercurianAstrology

5 ай бұрын

Blaine, WA represent ! ... Go Borderites 😂 (Yes that is actually the school mascot)

@HweolRidda

5 ай бұрын

​​​@@theoztreecrasher2647Campobello Island is not in Nova Scotia and there are no ferries going there.

@theoztreecrasher2647

5 ай бұрын

@@HweolRidda My apologies. New Brunswick. And is Google Maps incorrect now in showing a ferry to Deer Island and thence by ferry to the mainland? I presume that the Deer Island Ferry is/was seasonal?

I really enjoyed your video and it is so refreshing to hear a familiar Australian accent!. I live in Lavington, NSW, a suburb if Albury. There is an unnamed island in the Murray River near here which is in Victoria which can only be accessed from NSW. There may well be others along the river, but the one I'm talking about, but there are several farms on this one. I have search for this island's name, but so far have been unsuccessful.

@reine_higashikata

4 ай бұрын

If you happen to track down a historical record of what its name is you should submit it to the NSW gazette! I check out new locality naming proposals here in QLD occasionally when I'm bored and often see otherwise ignored geographical features finally recognised after centuries of having no formal name in the eyes of the law. There could be an Indigenous name for it recorded somewhere as well if it turns out the colonial one is lost to time.

My fav one is the one I learnt about on a deployment to one of Australia's most remote territories - the Cocos-Keeling Islands. It is closer to Sri Lanka than it is to Perth while remaining (in some degree) part of WA.

@Jonesy1701

5 ай бұрын

Yeah... Here's the thing, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (not Cocos-Keeling) is NOT part of WA. It is its own territory with its own flag and own capital being West Island. And it's represented in the House of Representatives through the Division of Lingiari in the Northern Territory.

If you zoom in and follow the Mississippi River you’ll find quite a few weird cases. Mostly due to the River changing course since the border was defined. A lot of one state owning land across the river only bordering another state by land. A big one is the Kentucky Bend. It’s surrounded on most sides by Missouri, to its south is its only land border, which is with Tennessee, and it has no connection to Kentucky proper, even over river.

@kevingreene1514

5 ай бұрын

My favorite quirk with the Mississippi is that it has changed course so aggressively that at one section (south of Davis Island, SW of Vicksburg, MS), the river actually flows the opposite direction as it did when the border was drawn, for a length of about 3 miles.

I'm so glad I found you today. Howdy from Texas. I love geography facts. Not that I'm good at geography. I'm not. That's why I like learning about it. I subscribed. It looks like I have many videos to catch up on.

The northern most islands of Australia Bramble Cay (uninhabited) and Boigu Island (inhabited) are north of both Port Moresby the capital of PNG and Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Another interesting fact is that the eastern border of South Australia is aligned with majority of the border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia at 141° East

@martin6123

10 ай бұрын

I've just looked this up. Awesome! But, I find it so strange when a country owns islands right next to the mainland of neighbouring countries. For example, the UK owning the channel islands next to France or Greece owning Rhodes which is right next to Turkey.

It is shorter to fly from the East Coast of Australia (Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne) to San Francisco than to Los Angeles (by about 100-200km depending on which city) You think it is the other way due to LA being that much further south, not thinking Sam Fran being that further west make any difference - but I guess it does! Lol

Perth to Cairns (3441 km) is a shorter air line than Perth to Brisbane (3606 km)

New South Wales has the longest land border of all the Aussie states and territories. It adjoins Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory, making a total of 4 635 kilometres.

A fun fact like this about my native Finland that I like to throw around is the question of "What is the largest port east of Helsinki in Finland". The answer is Oulu, but this really doesn't fit the mental map of the country most Finns have.

A good chunk of Northeast TN (like most of the area east of I 75 and North of I 40) is closer as the crow flies to Canada than Memphis

Very fun and thank you for going through them without excessively dragging it out like many creators. Subscribed!

Norway is the number one country in terms of distance between undisputed northern and southern territory. Norway has both Svalbard and Bouvet Island, which spans 135.4 degrees. Including the Antarctic claim, that becomes a whopping 171 degrees. Second is the UK at 111.7 degrees from the Shetland Islands to the Falkland Islands (including the british antarctic claim: 120 degrees) Third is France at 100.3 degrees from Northern France to the Kerguelen Islands (including the french antarctic claim: 101 degrees) Only considering inhabited territory, France remains quite high at 72.1 degrees (northern France to Reunion), but Chile beats it with 73.4 degrees (all mainland territory!). Then there's Australia at 54.5 (Bamaga to Cockle Creek, Tasmania), the US at 52.2 (Utqiaġvik/Barrow, Alaska to Naalehu, Hawaii), Brazil at 38.3 (Uiramutã to Chuí), and so on. Norway falls down to only 20.3 degrees (Svalbard to Mandal) and the UK is a measly 10.1 (Shetland Islands to Isles of Scilly). Also, Norway's mainland goes from being as far west as Amsterdam to being as far east as Antalya, Turkey. Many people think of Norway as this tiny vertical country at the top of the map but it's got some serious geographical flexes.

@matc241

4 ай бұрын

The Falklands are inhabited though?

great to see a new video of yours! i just recently found this channel and i was sad to see it inactive but i subscribed anyway!

There was also a small pocket of NSW that was inaccessible from NSW but accessible from the ACT like your SA / Victoria pocket. However the ACT is going to purchase the land from NSW and redraw the border to expand a housing estate in the ACT.

@mikespearwood3914

10 ай бұрын

So the ACT is going to get slightly bigger soon?

Cool facts! Thanks NSW is north of the Murray River. Vic. is South of the Murray River. But the Barmah Hotel, in Victoria, is the only hotel north of the Murray River. Broken Hill, which is in NSW, actually runs on the SA time zone.

One that always mess with my brain is the Montreal is more south then Paris. The weather are so opposite!

detroit michigan is surrounded by Canada on 3 sides ( north, east and south)

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador mostly borders Quebec, but it also shares a tiny land border with the territory of Nunavut, on Killiniq Island, just north of Cape Chidley, the northernmost mainland part of Labrador.

Great video, I love geography stuff like this so my KZread recommended actually did something right for once

The southernmost point of Greenland is further south than the northernmost point of Scotland.

Something about the US state borders, if they are a straight line, they are almost always, maybe even always, either on a parallel (42nd parallel for example) or half of a parallel(36th and a half parallel for example).

I was not surprised by Edinburgh and Bristol. Quite a number of years ago, the British weather maps were not aligned North-South, but with the south coast of England positioned horizontally. Not sure when the map became N/S aligned, but it was at that point I started checking out the long, lat of places. It felt very weird, as if I had been lied to all my life.

My favourite Australian one is that Tasmania shares a common border with Victoria. Apparently, there is a small island between Tasmania and Victoria that is jointly owned by the two states - hence they have a border!

4:25 reminds me of a river near my house which crosses into my county, and then about 100ft further downstream it crosses back into the neighboring county.

@C0lon0

5 ай бұрын

One of the disputes that Brazil have with Uruguay is because there is 2 possible origins to a river and both has exactly the same lenght.

Very interesting video, well done!

For the river-border intersections, there is another in Australia! Along the north-western border between NSW and ACT, there is a suburb-sized region which is closed off from the rest of NSW by the Murrumbidgee River and Ginniderra Creek. My personal favourite facts are: that Harbin, China (famous for its ice festivals and generally being very cold) is at the same latitude as the northernmost point of the Mediterranean, at the town of Monfalcone, Italy, and that France shares its longest country border with Brazil, thanks to French Guyana

A few hundred metres east of the southern end of Coolangatta airport is a gated community called Kirra Shores. The only car entrance is at the intersection of Appel St and Binya Ave, which is in Qld, though all the property is in NSW. A few of the houses on the edge have private personal gates through the fence, but cars can only exit by going to another state.

I think it has been covered many times before. There is a part of the USA that is cut off in Canada in a town called Point Roberts.

One of my favorite geography quirks is that New York and Rhode Island have a shared border, just it's over water. Another one is just how close some states get to each other without actually bordering. Louisiana and Oklahoma are only 49 miles apart, New Jersey is really close to both Maryland and Connecticut, Maine is really close to Vermont and Massachusetts, Texas and Colorado are only 30 miles apart, and there's a bunch of other combinations, too

I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about South Australia so much in 1 video before

@hritikasharma8740

9 ай бұрын

literally same. I actually feel acknowledged for once.

A fun fact to go along with the Canada/California bit is that while the 49th parallel defines the bulk of the US/Canada border, 70% of Canadians live south of it.

My favorite one is that France's largest land border they share is with Brazil.

The point on the southeast corner of Queensland, on the coast at the border with New South Wales, is closer to: -every other Australian state -New Caledonia -Vanuatu -New Zealand -Papua New Guinea -and Solomon Islands than it is to Boigu Island, the furthest point from it in Queensland.

There are six US state capitals, that are west of Los Angeles, CA: Sacramento, CA, Carson City, NV, Portland, OR, Olympia, WA, Juneau, AK, and Honolulu, HI.

@alexandremuniz9486

5 ай бұрын

The capital of Oregon is Salem, but your point stands.

One I love is that the southernmost point in Canada is more west than the entirety of South America

Interestingly, California is known for its wine industry. So is the southernmost part of Canada.

If you want strange border stuff there is always Baerle-Duc and Baarle-Nassau at the Belgium and Netherlands border. And the many Spanish enclave in Morocco like Ceuta or Penon de Velez de la Gomera, and Llívia in France

I have 2 favorite geography facts: St martin is an island so nice they named it thrice And The city of london is a city in a city in a country in a country

One of my favorites: The US state of Arkansas borders six other states (Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma); it is possible to cross from Arkansas to each of these six states while traveling directly south.

There are a couple of examples of land getting cut off from the rest of its territory along the US-Canada border. Point Roberts in Washington and Angle Inlet in Minnesota (which is also the northernmost point in the continental US)

If you are in Detroit, Michigan, the fastest and easiest way to go to Canada is to go south.

out of all the big west coast cities (seattle, portland, SF, Sacramento, LA) portland is simultaneously the furthest from the ocean and the furthest west of them all

The most interesting border in Australia which not only is the shortest land border between two states but is also the only land border between Tasmania and Victoria. It is located in the Bass Strait on what is called Boundary Islet.

In North America, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the U.S./Canada border. The library has two different addresses: 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, Vermont, USA, and 1 rue Church (Church Street), Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.

Some cool city ones in the North America are Point Roberts, which is just weird, and there’s one city in Mexico in that little nook between California and Arizona where going in any cardinal direction ends you in the US. Also it’s always weird for me to remember that Paris is north of most of the population of Canada.

The surprising one for me was learning that the US-Canada border, specifically the 49th Parallel portion, is not actually a straight line. At the local level it swoops around a lot because of the low tech survey equipment used at the time, but because the line cuts through a lot of forested area you can actually see the political boundary from satellite because of all the cleared away trees xD

The southernmost tip of the North Island of NZ is 125 km south of the northernmost tip of the South Island. The Cook Strait ferry from the North Island (Wellington) travels North West to get to the South Island (Picton), and travels South East to get from south to north.

One that I got for you, Winnipeg the coldest provincial capitol of Canada is further south than 16 European capitols, all cities with vastly warmer climates than Winnipeg.

In Albury Wodonga there an island in the murray River that is in Victoria, but you can only access by driving into Nsw. Must've been hard for the people living there during the border closures!

I've flown in and out of Coolangata Airport several times for the Indy races 15 years ago. I had no idea!

I think the thing British people find difficult to wrap their heads around with Bristol/Edinburgh is that Bristol is the West Country city - it's the big city where everyone talks like the Wurzels and it's in the south west, so obviously it's further west than a city on the east coast of Scotland, right? Obviously not!

@mikespearwood3914

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, seems counterintuitive that the east coast of Scotland is further west than the west coast of England!

@mikespearwood3914

10 ай бұрын

Another counterintuitive one is the west coast of South America: Santiago, Chile, is further east than the east coast of the USA: New York!

The municipal borders of the state of New Jersey form a near straight 67.5 mile long line from Hillsborough Township to Little Egg Harbor. It's the remnants of something called the Kieth Line.

All those weird facts were pretty interesting. Edinburgh really got me because Britain seems quite North South but aint. BTW I thought a friend who also likes weird facts would be surprised by a Vic Tas land border but he already knew about it. Common Trivia Night question he said.

@rictechow231

10 ай бұрын

I'll try him with this batch.

There is a similar point in northern Minnesota, called the northwest angle, that is completely cut off from the rest of the country by a lake. When the lake isn’t frozen over, residents have to travel either by boat or through Canada to reach the rest of the state. It is actually the most northern point of the continental US.

@marksandstrom4248

5 ай бұрын

contiguous US, not continental US (Alaska is definitely North America)

Just discovered you. Like the videos. Live in London, UK..........well north of Australia 😂😂

I drove to Point Pelee just so I could stand at the tip of mainland Canada. Well, you can't drive there. You drive as far south as you can and then walk. And it really does come to a point.

There is a part of NSW that is also isolated by a river and the ACT border. As Canberra grows, this area is proposed to become a residential area and has become subject to discussions about a potential border shift.

Nsw and Act. There is a small section of Nsw only assessable from Act because of a river. Though I heard that are trading the land from Nsw to Act.

One of my favorites is the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the coldest cities in the Continental United States is about the same latitude as Bordeaux, France.

I never looked at a map of the UK in detail before but I always generaliser Scotland as being more west then England and Wales given the shape of the continent so I guess I knew Edinburgh was further west

The little pocket cut off by the river can also be found in my home state of Kentucky! It’s called New Madrid and it’s completely surrounded by the land of Tennessee and the Mississippi River. Another interesting fact is it’s a seismic hotspot home to one of the largest earthquakes in USA history, which caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards creating what is now Reelfoot Lake!

2:50 - Technically Port Moresby, and Dili are closer to Darwin (need to reword the claim to "closest Australian capital city).

The Coolangata airport (officially called "Gold Coast Airport") had trouble during Covid - when Queensland decided to open it they had trouble because half the employees are from NSW, which was locked down. I don't have more details on how they dealt with it.

Similar to the part of South Australia that is only accessible by land from Victoria due to a river, the southwestern-most part of Kentucky is only accessible from Tennessee due to a bend in the Mississippi River.

Yes, it is about the 42nd parallel. It was the border with New Spain back in the day.

a)Check out the lines on longitude between the Welland Canal and the Panama Canal! b)the shoreline of the Great Lakes is about 10,000 miles c) You can fit Wales into Lake Huron- twice!

there's also a part in the USA called Point Roberts, that's in the northwest separated from the rest of the USA, and kids in high school have to travel in Canada, then back into the USA that's not separated just to go to high school.

Los Angeles, California is east of Reno, Nevada. That one blew my mind!

My favorite geography thing: out of the six extremes in the United States (highest point, lowest point land point, easternmost, westernmost, southernmost, and northernmost - and only looking at the 50 states); four of the six are in Alaska. Hawaii is southernmost, California is Lowest (Death Valley); and Alaska is north, west, east (Crosses 180, though the date line bends around the Aleutian Islands), and highest (Mount Denali).

The easternmost point of Norway, is further east than Istanbul. It just stretches out so much towards the north, similar to the UK example, it's much more diagonal than at least I imagined

the westernmost point of new jersey is almost perfectly lined up with the westernmost point of Chile

I was born in Bristol, and the Bristol/Edinburgh fact was certainly a surprise. It's counterintuitive because Edinburgh is on the east coast wheras Bristol is on the west coast.

To the point on the Gold Coast airport how you touch the tarmac in New South Wales first but the plane stops in Queensland, there is another interesting fact for most passengers. They nearly all live in Queensland, but when we drive to that airport, we drive down the highway from Queensland into New South Wales and back across the border into Queensland to park our cars as the highway sort of curves and loops around the border. It’s only for about 300-400 metres but it happens.

@frostedflakesgd

10 ай бұрын

When I went to Sydney, I went north ( I live 30min from the NSW-QLD border) to the GCA, and then flew south to Sydney.

A fact I find wild is that the most direct route from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Santiago, Chile would be to go north through Russia and the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. It looks crazy on a Mercator projection but makes more sense when you switch it to a globe projection

Western most point of the island of Great Britain ? It's not Land's End in Cornwall, it's Ardnamurchan Point in Scotland. Smiles

In New Zealand when traveling from the North Island to the South Island via ferry you actually spend more time traveling north to get south. Same going South to North spend more time going South

As a kid from the Detroit area, going south to Canada 🍁 was a favorite geographic anomaly of mine. 😅

Chicago, USA is slightly south of Rome, Italy. Rome receives almost no annual snowfall while Chicago receives 94 cm.

The southernmost airport in Canada is closer to Atlanta Hartfield Airport than Miami Airport The flight from Melbourne to Auckland is shorter than the flight from Melbourne to Perth If you fly non-stop from Sao Paulo to Seoul (shortest route), you fly over Europe, but if you fly non-stop from Sao Paulo to Tokyo, you fly over North America. You can sail in a straight line from England to New Zealand

If you fly internationally to the Gold Coast, you cross the border again while you queue up for passport control. It's marked on the floor, but it's in a no photography section on the airport.

My favourite party trick is telling people the United States sits about 3.75km from Russia

i remember reading about the california fact and i was so shocked i had to check myself

I’ve always loved the fact that Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, AND easternmost state in the US (because the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° line). And since Hawaii is the southernmost, that means that none of the other extremities of the US are actually in the continental states. 😂

One of my favorites is that Atlanta is West of Detroit

There are 6 states that border Arkansas in the US, and you can travel to each of them by going in a straight line south from different points in Arkansas, only crossing the border once.

Medellin Colombia is further east than Miami, Florida, despite Colombia being in the north west corner of South America.