80% of Americans Live East of This Line (And Other Interesting Population Patterns)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2018
- A line of cities stretching from San Antonio to Winnipeg marks a cutoff of population, with 80% of Americans living on one side, and a mere 20% on the other. Today on That Is Interesting, we explore population patterns such as this across the globe.
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Surprised this comment doesn’t have more likes after it came in my recommended
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the fact that less people live out west has nothing to do with availability of water or natural resources
it's because places lie the south and midwest have conservative cultures and most people in the country are conservative so if they were born in the south the midwest or the northeast they don't see any reason to leave
the place they were raised in is conservative and so are they
Wrong. 50/50 centerof population was St Louis per US Census.
And the majority of Canadian cities are within 2 hours of the US border.
I didn't know that. Thank you.
And the only city in Canada (that has over a million people) that does not reside 2 hours within the US border is Edmonton
Great Person oops 😂
That's due to climate, its the same reason all the major Australian cities are on the coast and zero in the interior.
@Christian Alcaba Canadians live in the south because thats the most suitable land for growing crops. If you look at a map you'll see majority of Canadians are concentrated close to the St. Lawrence River which of course gives access to the Atlantic ocean, trade, etc. Settling the north was too difficult for the English/French which is why Canada's cities are also in the south.
I feel like its hard to comprehend how empty the western US is until you've driven through it.
I’m gonna buy hella land there, it’s probably cheap
@@teal4675 I gotta get some too.
@@teal4675 depends on where you are, you will most likely get a large area of land that will take a while to make livable (if you plan to live on it) because it's still pretty expensive for a nice piece of land with water and electricity. And be ready for flat dessert. But in comparison it's a loootttt cheaper then most places
I know... it's fucking awesome
The West is my favorite. The landscapes out there are so varied, and as an East Coaster, we have nothing like it over here
71 million people in western U.S., 40 million of those live in California, so over half of the west coast is just people in California.
Yep
29mil in California the rest is in Oregon and Washington
@@jamarihunt4165 we have have 40 mil not 29 mil, fyi we have more people than Canada
And half of the population in California is homeless BRAVO
Matthew Viramontes We are also half the coast so that is not surprising
Why? In short: WATER.
Lol
Ok
Well, yes but. . . Yes, But not the shortage of water. East of the "population line" has a humid continental climate which is far more conducive to agricultural production. Look at ALL the populated areas in the entire world and think "is this great Agricultural land" The answer is pretty well YES!!!!!
Exactly - water.
Water and flat land vs. mountains
Well the east coast was colonized first so I can see why.
Abraham Lincoln That was over 200 years ago Mr Lincoln!
Interesting, but wrong. The Spanish settled New Mexico long before the British settled the east coast. Santa Fe is much older than any of the East Coast cities
@@ggjohn303 well the east is a lot closer to Europe. If you want to get to the west you have to go across or go through mexico or the pacific.
@@ggjohn303 BTW that's a nice moustache you have there.
Also majority of the migrants throughout the US history came from europe which all landed and settled in the east whereas the west was only recently gained by the US via purchases and war with mexico
I live in that big area with only 17 million people, my city is Phoenix and I’m glad we don’t get tornados, hurricanes, blizzards of earthquakes here.
It’s jus hotter than hell
I have a winter place in Az. We (snowbirds around us) say the safest time to visit is in the summer as even the devil finds it too hot to stay there then.
Just unbearable summers.
Flagstaff is in AZ, but has cool summers and blistering cold winters.
@@meandyouagainstthealgorith5787 I have been to Flagstaff and it is very nice. I could live there.
Albuquerque checking in from the barren West
ohhhh breakingbad
Salt lake city checking in from the middle of an arid basin.
Denver for me. Also representing!
Pheonix here checking in from the middle of the desert
Lol didn't expect to see the 'crack' expert here. Always a pleasure
1 year later TH-cam recommends this to me. Not sure why but it is for sure interesting. liked
2 years for me
@ @@jonathandavis132 , yes
2 years for me
1 year for me! 🙋♂️
2 years later for me
85% of Australia's population live on the coast, it's crazy how it's such a large land mass with little sight of humans in central
Yea ikr cuz it's just a desert in the central
Only Canberra and Hobart are major cities not on the coast
Abbad 707 Hobart is on the coast?
777 Lover that awkward moment when you live right next to a city called Hobart but it’s definitely no where near a coast (Chicago area)
@@jalene150 There's A place called Jamaica near Jew York,I mean New York.
Hah, only 3% of Egypt's lands contain around 97%-98% of the overall are of our country. It is just One big string if you look on it from a night map
Nile river best river
Lol and Cairo is the most populated city in Africa,no wonder.
@@abbad707 I thought that was Lagos
@@itzpro5951 It is
The Nilus, i love this river!
California *alone* : 39 million people
Canada : 37 million people
That’s crazy if you rly think about it
Yep California is a huge country by itself. It has more than twice the population of my whole country, the Netherlands.
Ever heard about bihar Or utar pardesh
@@Bertuzz84 california isn't a country. i would know because i live in california
@Safwaan maybe the people on the east coast actually have a life
I always thought the west side from Colorado to California is a lot more interesting because of the variety of landscapes such as mountains, deserts, canyons, and forests despite having less cities there.
Wish I lived in CO
@@jq7323 I live in Colorado and wish I lived in Utah or Arizona ... Ha!
@@curtbecker-rockhopperbroom44 AZ is pretty nice. I always laugh though when I see tourist taking pictures of the cacti
@@jq7323 you wouldn't want to anymore.
@@jq7323 Yes most of CO completely sucks now days unless you like very stuck up hoighty toighty people and lots of homelessness there's not much in between
Represent that 17 million 😤🙌🏼
Aidan Peairs, I’mma just rep. Everything in between NYC and Chicago
Aidan Peairs I'm so sorry.
Same. I'm a proud dweller of Washington.
Well you’re a big bitch
same
The fact that North Korea is completely dark then South Korea is just lit up really says something about the two countries
That North Koreans remember to turn off the lights before going to sleep?
@@eduardof7322 A country that populated shouldn’t go almost completely dark you gotta remember some people have different sleep schedules and also street lights exist if everyone sleeps at the same time and North Korea doesn’t use a lot of streetlights then I could understand
NK has a pretty big population, just most of it is rual towns
Also South Korea has Seoul
Best Korea doesn’t need lights!
Me in DC: Damn I have to go to Philly! That's a freaking 2.5 hour drive!
West Coast Commuter: 🙄🙄 East Coast problems...
Yeah, it takes around 7 hours just to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco
You wouldn't be commuting that far metro la has more people than DC and Philly combined.
DC GANG
@@michaeltnk1135 its 5.5. trust me ive done it many times
Dutch people start complaining when they have to drive for longer than 40 minutes. We only like driving when we're going to a camping in France.
I’m a part of the 20%
K1DFR3SH77 same
Im part of the 80%
Same
80% gang gang.
Same
So that’s why Fort Worth PD has the “Where the West begins” slogan. Can’t relate, I live in a Dallas suburb.
for real 💯
"Where the East Ends" would be more apt. There's nothing "west" about about Dallas-Fort Worth.
@@helloim3j Nothing west? I guess we can ignore the dryer terrain and scrubby vegetation and importance of cattle and beef? Come on now. I live in the Twin Cities, and they say Saint Paul is where the east ends and Minneapolis where the west begins. But Dallas and especially Fort Worth are far more "western" in every way than Minneapolis is.
DFW gang gang lol
Hey what's up Funkytown! 😁
I've driven across the U.S. a number of times and the first thing I noticed was that the line shown by the night map corresponds exactly to where the scenery turns from green to brown and vice versa. The arid west just couldn't support that many people and only really grew from the 1950's on due to technology. Nice presentation!
Yeah I live there and I really wish we got more rain
the 100th meridian
Wow that's so interesting John, ill have to drive east one of these days. Since I'm already in Phoenix we tend to road trip on the western side of that line. It'd be nice to see green everywhere.
@@dustin628 The best way to go then is I-40. I-10 and I-20 are too far south. On I-70 the Rocky Mountains are the dividing line in Colorado and the change is less gradual. I've taken all these roads and I-40 is the best for this. It also follows the classic Route 66.
@@John_Fugazzi my favorite is still I80
One intresting thing when driving thru the Western States (Utah, Wyoming, Montana, ext) is your see countryside scenery with little to no buildings around then all of a sudden houses and buildings will show up followed by a river then a few more miles of houses & buildings, then it goes back to grassland & mountains, (or desert) with very few buildings for another 50 or 100 miles until your reach another river or lake.
I live NYC, all I see are houses and building, lmao.
@lefu87 Williford i live in nevada vegas bro. i feel you.
Coming from the metroplex of Seattle, you drive over the Cascades to the east and the amount of people drops off almost immediately. We call the Eastside of the state "The Barrens" for a reason
A lot of what you see in the cities in the West looks brand new. In particular Phoenix and the surrounding area. I was very aware of that when I moved near there from Ohio. It appears much cleaner too but everything also seems overpriced and undersauced. Lol
@@TheEndingAbyss imagine living in a house in the middle of central park and that's what it is like out west. Go West young man.
Fun fact: No one searched for this video. It just came out as a 'recommended' after a few years later from it was first posted.
Well.... not necessarily I was doing research on how different the east vs west are and found this well under that search. So no I didn't seach for this but it wasn't just recommend
Water=life basically. More people live on coasts rather center of landmass.
There's even more to that story. Not only as source of hydration, but large body of water is very helpful for carrying shit ton of stuffs using ships. When you got Mississippi river letting you carry ton of goods, the market can extend so far and commerce just explodes. I suspect that's part of how US got so opulent during industrial revolution and how midwest side didn't enjoy the benefit as much.
to primitives that is
@@MagicSteel1 wrong region, midwest is at the head of the Mississippi
But we don’t consume ocean water. Lakes are more useful
@@BRBallin1 but the rain from the ocean feed lakes and rivers... usually (but not always)
Also, coasts are good places for ports, which creates economic opportunity on and near the coast
Yes yes tell me more about how people usually don't like living in barren wastelands.
Well, basically, since it is a barren wasteland it has led to people not wanting to live in it. Due to the fact that it's harder to live there.
Sam Gibson there*
@@TJ-tl8ol Thx
Bad soil maybe mountainous terrain or deserts
@@toasterstore8031 Both
It’s kinda weird that all the huge and revolutionary tech companies aren’t on the east.
Its mainly California I think.
@@sitfish1113 ya. But Washington has Microsoft, Amazon, and I think Nvidia.
ikr. Maybe the labour is cheaper?
@@firstname1317 I think it might be because some big tech companies started there. And it kind of just grew and grew. Maybe? I don’t know. That what I heard.
@@halochief3373 ik that but it's odd that some new companies started there *because* of the location. Wouldn't it make more sense to stay away from your completion? It's just like opening 3 ice cream shops on the same block.
DC-NY could literally be it’s own country.
@FoxIslanderSteve the northeast would have the 4th. And at 1/3 the size of California.
Texas, California, and the combined states from DC-NY are the only places in the USA that could break off from the USA and still do well on their own as their own countries. if we're talking about single states, probably only Cali and Tx.
@@JhonnyBoi you’re wrong. the northeast megalopolis has 52 mil people. CA has 40. No area in the US is as economically efficient as CA.
@@cfc8juveacm21 I was referring to physical size. 56,200 square miles compared to California’s 155,959. The Northeast represents 20% of the country’s GDP ($4.4 Trillion) vs California’s 14% ($3.1 Trillion).
That’s 4.4 Trillion dollars packed into an area smaller than San Francisco to Los Angeles. So yes there are more efficient areas.
so glad I moved from that area
how does this channel not have more views?
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Because people don’t care about geography 🤷♂️
Because... It's Stupid 🤔
The voice :(
because a 3rd grader runs it
Guy: The lights show you where people live
North Korea: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
Winston Churchill is an OG
they are just ahead of there time - North Koreans - the rest of the world need to emulate them
yes North K you are.
sad mountain noises
North Korea should be a great place for amateur astronomers.
This video left me saying, "That is interesting".
Thank you for the amazing content even if I am discovering it years later.
Very nice thank you for exposing us to this.
Thank you, Lance & Patrick.
It seems like more than half of the 17 million live in Denver, Texas, or Phoenix
Cristian the part of Texas west of the line
True
Yeah dude
he said 71 not 17
@@luciferangelica No, 53M people live near the coasts watch the entire video
Great videos I really enjoy them, but I feel I should critique the reason behind the East vs West line separating the USA population.
As someone who lives in Lincoln and am very familiar with the area between the line and the Rockies, your basis of foothills or rougher terrain being the cause is wrong. While the elevation does increase, it is slow at best. The great plains in this area are very fertile and easy to navigate, making it a great place to settle and build cities.
I would argue the line is formed because of four main factors. First would be the discovery of precious minerals in the west. The prospect of becoming wealthy quick drew people to skip the great plains. This was counter to the slow westward expansion the US had that allowed larger cities to pop up as the new gateways to the west i.e. St Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. This can also be seen in where the Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, etc started.
Of course that wasn't possible without the second reason: transportation. The transcontinental railroad starting in Omaha provided a fast and much safer route west. More railroads and later cars and planes exponentially decreased the need for larger towns and cities close together. There are many studies on the distance between cities and their size based on the distance someone can travel in one day to do their business and return home safely. This boom started around the time the cities along that line we're starting to boom.
Third factor is climate and weather. Although modern technology like air conditioning and newer irrigation techniques have made it less of a factor, the Great Plains are still subject to more arid conditions and a climate of extremes. The area is subject to great fluxuations is temperatures due to a weather phenomenon called continental effect. The further an area is from a major body of water, the greater the extremes because water doesn't heat or cool as quick as air. This keeps coastal areas, especially those with steady winds cumming in from the ocean, more steady in temperature ranges. The lack of large bodies of water create over 100° f differences every year in those areas making less attractive to live. This phenomenon is also responsible for low populations in Western China and Siberia Russia.
The fourth and probably least responsible reason for the line is environmentalism. Starting under Theodore Roosevelt, the protection of natural environment became a huge movement that continues today. Making less land available to settle. Areas that would normally be huge draws to live in the modern day because of their beauty are off limits to live in. This effect can be seen easily in maps of national parks with nearly 90% of protected land being west of the line.
Thanks for reading, it's an area I've studied for years and am passionate about.
Thanks for your feedback!
Living in Colorado I can agree this is true, Denver is the biggest exception from this pattern, and is there because of the mix of transportation with agricultural lands, and being at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and thus was a transportation hub to reach the high Rockies. East of Denver is largely difficult to reach and very dry, while west is the Rocky Mountains.
Yeah until you get to the foothills it’s basically still just flat
Wow a detailed response, I enjoyed reading this! :)
SledgeMonkey it is still rain isn’t it? That makes all the difference in the world
That was one of the most interesting video ever, make 100% sense, just never heard it explained like that, plus learned some random facts!! Kudos
3:06 no one has ever included Portland Maine as part of the N.E. megalopolis. It ends in boston metro area on the north side.
ehhh, it's under a two hour drive from Portland to Boston, that has to count. Especially if Portland > Seattle >Vancouver are each two and a half hours apart and make up a megalopolis
@@onesob13 my reason is a population one. I think Portlands population is alot less than boston, pjilly, jersey city or Newark
@@gabrielM1111 the Portland metro area pop is 500k. But yes, as a Portland resident we are very small
I always thought it was interesting how the US and China are so strikingly similar in size, geography, and climate. They both even have a north/south cultural and economic divide.
@Thx I hate it yeah, but the nice thing is that the people living in the countryside are not effected by government at all
@Thx I hate it I'm from China, the some of countryside is poverty but other parts (for example small town life) are great
Edit: and yes the dog and cat stereotype did came from there but only like in 1-2 provinces
Not too similar in Geography tho. US is coast to coast, has access to two oceans, lots of navigable rivers while China has just one coast and the western parts are almost uninhabitable like Tibet, Xinjiang etc
US has much better geography is what I'm saying.
The answer is easy. Its the rocky mountains and rivers. The Mississippi river allows for easy transportation of goods
and toxic chemicals dump
I would say it has more to do with aridity, that "line" is still considerably east of the Rockies but are in it's rain shadow and does not receive moist air from the gulf of Mexico
Glad I saw this video, great job!
Bro Thanks for this video. Honestly its amazing, the thought the graphics, the voice over. All on point !
Please do this on my country. (South Africa)
Well I mean , it shows that literally almost no one is in the Yellowstone blast radius
Its inhospitable without a supervolacno under your feet!
I live in the yellowstone blast radius lol
Ah yes
Well I won't die of the blast but the 8+ inches of ash would end me slowly :)
@@Amongus_2_Revenge_of_the_Sus I am like an hour outside of Yellowstone... I might die
Very very cool video, I'm very impressed, keep it up!
You were so right! That was interesting!!! Thank you 😊
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This just popped up in my recommended today. So then I decided to subscribe 😛👌🏽
Educational yet very detailed and thorough. Subscribed ❤️
I see this channel growing in the future
Just found your channel, and I like it a lot! I can see you having a future here on TH-cam :)
Great channel. I wonder why it only showed up as a suggestion now. Anyway, you've earned a subscriber, and a few more after share this with my friends.
I dont know why I have never seen this info presented before. Interesting stats!
Almost 2 years later this was in my recommendations. You learn something new every day I guess :D
Your channel is great, keep it up.
This is like half as interesting, but on topics never covered. Purely great content lad!
Every odd number has an “e” in it.
Fantastic work! Thank you.
I like your videos a lot. And what's cool is I never previously would have considered myself interested in geography at all. But I find myself very interested when I watch your videos and like all the different aspects of "place" that you go into.
Your channel is going crazy man!
TH-cam logic:
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January: Nah
February: Nope
March: Not now
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Idk what this reply is
Nice original comment bro I loved it :)
The Algorithm has been weirder this week. Weirder than normal.
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These types of comments have ruined the comment section
Thanks for this..
TH-cam's algorithm be hitting sometimes 🎯💪🏾 🤣🤣🤣
That was interesting - keep up the good work and your channel will continue to grow. Good Job!
Wow, Fargo actually made a video!
One of the most refreshing presentations that I've seen in my whole life (comparing to academics too) 😁
Job well done pal! Good vid and yes!! That was very intersting!
The fact that more people live in the New York Metropolitan area than live in the entire west side of the US excluding the coast is amazing to me
I'm part of that 71 Million that live west of the line.
(Edit: This is the most likes I've ever had! Thanks!)
(Also Edit: I live in Nevada)
me too
Same here
probably from california which up majority of western usa population
Ye
I live right on the line, does that count as being one of the 71M?
What about European part of Russia vs. Asian part of Russia?
Nickola Fifteenzerozero it’s pretty much the same as the US %80 of the population lives in the European part mainly Moscow region while the middle of Siberia is home to next to no one and then there are small settlements on the western end of Russia by China but very small pop
@@Bamiyanbigasf Don't forget about North Korean labor camps in Siberia.😐
@@kuykasamjoktar6191 😐 yourself. Y ou seriously believe it... bruh. That is all I have to say. 😐
@@user-up7nb6id1f North Korean Labor camp in Siberia (Tynda): th-cam.com/video/4_G1uVrzLU4/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the video.
Excellent & informative video.
Hey, good job on pickling an interesting subject. Just two suggestions, take them as you will:
1. maybe change the background music, the epic soundtrack was somewhat distracting.
2. cut down on the lists a littlebit, I started to get a littlebit bored by the third quarter of the video, haha.
Otherwise, I think this was a very interesting video and would like to see more of these. Good luck!
that line is also the 100th W longitude or the line that seperates the desert with the humid climates
More people need to do a video of the 100th medrian.
Super interesting. Fun to learn!
Hello from the 20%, wish I was in the 80% ❤️
Worst part is I’m not even Californian
My opinion is, the biggest political threat in the west usa were north korea and china. So yeah, it's better to live in the east
I agree the east is so much nicer
@@soulburn8987 I do agree that the northwest is a very nice place but other then that I would take the east because I overall think the east is a very underrated place as long as you go to the right areas
Every odd number has an “e” in it.
That’s why I’m in the east
Very well made video 👍
You should really say Washington D.C. so people know what you mean, not just Washington
80% of people knew what he meant
@@WilliamRayner3 lol
Every odd number has an “e” in it.
Thank you. That was very interesting
Fun fact: Since the Mississippi river connects with the St-Lawrence through the Illinois river and the Great Lakes, it means that the entire east coast is arguably just an island.
🧐
Only with human help.
Dang bruh !
Even continents are just really big islands.
@@Catlily5 The earth is an island.
Very interesting how different population was in Eastern United states, great video!
well I’m literally on the line
Resume
Same
@Resume Same here but on his map I'm in the half of my city that's just east of the line
When?
Great video! Keep it up man.
Very cool vid bro. That is interesting.
Something easterners don’t understand about the west is that our cities are much denser overall. You look at a satellite image of Salt Lake, Vegas, or Phoenix and you’ll see they have very distinct urban borders where the metro area suddenly ends. You go from an endless sea of houses to an absolute cutoff like someone took scissors to a map.
Of the 10 most densely populated urbanized areas, 9 are in the West. Of the 4 census regions, the West is the most urban with 89.8% of its population residing within urban areas, followed by the Northeast, at 85.0%. I believe this is due to water availability. You can’t just go out and build your own house with a local source of water. You need many people to justify the cost to extend infrastructure into an area where water is piped in from mountain water sheds hundreds of miles away.
IDK about that.
Just look at a satellite image of a random Salt Lake City suburb and compare it to a random Boston suburb - you’ll understand why the west is the most urbanized region. The average lot size in UT (7.5k sq ft) is half the size of one in MA (15k sq ft). Ave lot size in NV is half the size of NY’s whopping 11k sq ft. Eastern cities have much more sprawl compared to the west.
@@jayc222 you're just wrong on this one bro
Huh that's interesting. Where I live it's just thousands and thousands of houses lol
These are facts and data points. If you don’t understand them, that’s on you to figure out. Anyone can just say “you’re wrong bro.” Doesn’t take much to do that. 🙃
At 6:54 you can see a rough outline of North Korea just by looking at the dark area between China and South Korea
North Korea looks like it doesn't exist except for the tiny dot where pyongyang is.
candlelight
Great video 👍
That was interesting... thx TH-cam suggestions... New Sub
I once had a pilot tell me that everything is nice and regular and laid out on sort of a grid until you hit Kansas City then it's vast nothingness (except Denver) until you get to the coast.
Dude why you only have 14.8k subs you deserves more.
Wow!! Your good in naming all cities and capitals in the world...
I like this one👌
Dope. Subscribed.
THAT IS INTERESTING!!!!
You stole my comment 😅
Jk of course
But really though , THIS IS INTERESTING!!
BTW this video (in fact, this whole channel) got recommend to me just now...
Almost three years after this video was uploaded
TH-cam algorithm is mysterious and weird
Is this because of the time of day that the satellite image was taken? If it were 9:00pm on the East coast (lights on) that means it is 6:00pm on the West coast (lights off)......
I often say that things can change your perception for good and I think this was one of those things. Thanks.
you deserve every single subscriber you have + more. Your videos are very high quality and are very well... interesting. In other words, nice vid bro
That line is I-35/I-29
I-35 Laredo, TX to Kansas City, MO (Laredo - San Antonio - Austin - Dallas/Fort Worth - Oklahoma City - Wichita - Kansas City)
I-29 Kansas City, MO to Pembina, ND via (Omaha, NE/Council Bluffs, IA - Sioux City, IA - Sioux Falls, SD - Fargo, ND - Grand Forks, ND)
Yup, I immediately thought of 35 when I started the video
This was indeed interesting, I live in osaka, used to live in kobe and Tokyo so yes I’ve stocked near cities most of my life. I hope you’ll keep up your work, excited for more content.
Is this channel one of TH-cam's hidden gems? Loving this content even though I'm late to the party
Neat! I've biked from Seattle to Tucson and most of that space is empty outside of cities 🤷
You've biked! That's so cool! I've always wanted to bike a long distance like that. But that's awesome that you did that!
Wait a minute. My paternal family has been in Texas for over 165 years, and my maternal relatives were part of the 1889 Oklahoma land rush. Well acquainted with both states for all my life (and I'm 63), I can definitely state that San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Oklahoma City do NOT "sit where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains end," as this video claims. In fact, all of these cities are on the Great Plains of the western US or the Grand Prairie of North Texas. A combination of gently graded flatlands and low rolling hills, but nowhere in the vicinity of any mountains or even foothills of mountains.
The only Texas city that "sits where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains end" is El Paso, and that city is at the extreme western edge of the state in a region known as the Trans-Pecos -- almost in New Mexico. (Been to the Trans-Pecos many times. It's a blend of the Chihuahua Desert and the trailing southern tail of the Rockies.)
As for Oklahoma, no major city in that state comes within 350 miles of the "foothills of the Rocky Mountains" (as measured by a straight line from Oklahoma City to Tucumcari, New Mexico, the geographically nearest point that actually IS "where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains end").
Whoever scripted this video desperately needs to return to school for a heavy course in remedial geography.
Considering that the narrator sounds about 14 years old, maybe we'll get an updated version once they've graduated college!
Yes, I choked at that part. I thought the video was going to explain why the great plains move from green and fertile to dry and barren past the 100th meridian, well before reaching the Rocky mountains foothills. Unsurprisingly, people only settled the green areas. Same is true northward in Canada, people are not leaving close to the border as is usually assumed, but much further north, where plains green up again.
165 years then your ancestors were Mexican.
@@Luciopiacenza333 Or Native American. Or German. Or Scottish. Or Irish...
good to know
Never heard of anyone considering St. Louis and Louisville being part of the Great Lakes region.
Geographically no, economically some consider it the southern extent of the region
Amazing content 😍😍😍😍
Good job dude. I love maps this was great to watch. New follower ✔
From Sioux Falls here, can confirm if you go west of this city it is nothing but cornfields, and a literal shrine to corn called the "Corn Palace"
Corn is very important
And a giant Muskie :)
Narrator: the lights show you where people live
Me: so that’s why Canada is so dark.
While the Bakken oil fields sure seem to be lit up ....
Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world with the population of the city of Jakarta (35 million) that is why.
@John Smith. I live there, there are a lot of ppl in the south, but almost none in the north.
@@g.o.a.t2202 I live in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Most people live no further than 300 klm from the US border and the middle prairie Provinces are vast empty wheat farm land.
& months of cold weather keeps the population down.
Southern Ontario and BC coast is warmer but the price of housing is crazy.
Even without a mortgage the taxes are crazy.
Over 90% of Canadians live within 100km of the southern us border and 10% of the population is in the city of Toronto
Well put together vid