Fun fact: the southern most capital in south america is actually Montevideo in Uruguay at 34° 53' 01" South - definitly not the capital that comes to mind when you think about that.
In prehistoric times, Greenland was home to several successive Paleo-Inuit cultures known today primarily through archaeological finds. The earliest entry of the Paleo-Inuit into Greenland is thought to have occurred about 2500 BC. From about 2500 BC to 800 BC, southern and western Greenland was inhabited by the Saqqaq culture. Most finds of remains from that period have been around Disko Bay, including the site of Saqqaq. From 986, the west coast was settled by Icelanders and Norwegians, through a contingent of 14 boats led by Erik the Red. They formed three settlements, the Eastern Settlement, the Western Settlement, and the Middle Settlement (very original names), on fjords near the southwestern tip of the island. Norse Greenlanders submitted to Norwegian rule in 1261 under the Kingdom of Norway. The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century after the Black Death hit Norway. In the early 17th century, Dano-Norwegian explorers reached Greenland again. When Denmark and Norway separated, Greenland became Danish in 1814 and was fully integrated in the Danish state in 1953. Greenland was granted home rule in 1979, and they voted for self-government in 2008.
Huh, I hadn't realized that the south orkney islands (part of the antarctic archipelago) is at basically the inverse latitude of the regular orkney islands, and yet so much less hospitable. By the way, I have an 'evil trick geography questions' quiz I'd love to see how many of them you'd get right
Also while I was writing this the post-roll advert was someone singing "it's great to be a cat" and I had to double check it wasn't something you'd put on the end of the video
@@brandonm8901 Currently just in my google docs. Sample questions would be 'which country has the highest lowest point' and 'how many EU countries does France share a land border with'
Did you know the most northern city with over a million people is St Petersburg, the most southern is Melbourne, the most eastern is Auckland and the most western is San Jose. Interestingly enough all of them are English speaking with one exception, and all of them are white. Edit: to everyone saying that Honolulu and other west coast cities have more than a million people, you need to check your facts, only Los Angeles does, that was until early this year when San Jose got to a million, so I’ll edit my comment. Sorry about that. Still, most of you are thinking of the wrong cities
Metro Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and Honolulu all have over a million and are more westerly than LA. Honolulu, if you were to go off of metro areas would be the most west, if not it would be Vancouver. Honolulu is mostly not white, with Asian being the largest demographic
isn't it weird how the uk's capital city is technically not a capital since london is technically just a local authority made of towns which joined together and the only two cities are westminster and the city of london
I find it funny that despite ToyCat stating his videos would never improve, and that the money would only go into Donair Kabobs. His videos continue to get better. 😂
I'm surprised you haven't been to Longyearbyen. Flights from Oslo are only about £150, and there's a SAS Rabdisson hotel there. The northernmost capital is actually Alert in Nunavut Canada at 83.3 N
Southernmost national capitols: Wellington, New Zealand Canberra Australia Montevideo Uruguay Buenos Aires Argentina Cape Town South Africa Santiago Chile
Somehow I just KNEW he would end up in Svalbard. But I sure as hell didn't expect him to advocate nuking it. Having said that, having made a good case, I voted thumbs up.
The most Northern city in the world with over 100K residents is Noril'sk, Russia 🇷🇺. Honorable mentions are Anchorage, Alaska, USA 🇺🇸, Which houses almost half of Alaska's population. Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸 which is the most Northern capital city of any country in the world. Murmansk, also in Russia 🇷🇺.
THIS VIDEO GETS MY THUMBS UP !! 👍👍👍👍 Svalbye!! Anyways, I love how I had a little hunch that the East/West divide was in London when I saw the map. Love these second-channel vids almost as much as the m onesain.
as an icelandic person, born in iceland and lives in iceland i can say this is true🙏 and if you dont belive me im icelandic then “hæ ég heiti benni, ég er frá íslandi og er alin upp þar” 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸
Toycat: "Reykjavik is the northernmost capital." Svalbard: "Uhm, it's actually Longyearbyen." Toycat *nukes Svalbard* "As I was saying, Reykjavik. Any objections?" Greenland: "No, thanks. We'll settle for second place."
So wait, is toycat saying that Earth's 0, 0 spawn point is an ocean challenge in the South Atlantic Ocean about 1000 km off the coast of Africa? Only a 700 km swim east to Annobón Island for trees to start crafting. Awesome challenge! Lol Also, nuke Svalbard 😂😂
In geospatial circles the 0,0 point off Africa is jokingly called Null Island because if the coordinates are missing (i.e. null) than the point is put at 0,0
In the UK do you learn to say that the Prime Meridian goes through London? In school in the US, we learned that the Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich specifically, not just London in general (also was taught the correct pronunciation of Greenwich).
While not a capital, you could’ve talked about Alert, Canada It’s the northernmost inhabited place and makes me question why people would live there simply by existing
Did you realize that you are using the small WW2 Fat Man Bomb as an illustration? At least you could have used the Tzar Bomba that the Russian used to nuke the neighbor Novaya Zemlya. That being said, I enjoy living in the northern most capital of a fully sovereign country! Edit: On second thoughts, you will loose the Svalbard Global Seed Vault if you nuke it, so that might make it less desirable.
Actually we should get rid of those seeds so after the apocolypse we can all live happily on healthy paleo diets consisting exclusively on game and line caught fish. Jordan Peterson approves.
is there actually a geographical scientific reason why there isn't as much land area in the southern hemisphere as in the northern hemisphere or is this just simply how earth came to be?
Okay, we need to kick out Greenland and the Faroe islands from the union, so we can say that 3 former Danish colonies, which is now independent countries make up 3 of the top 5 northern most capital cities!
Lol only reason Australia's capital isn't the most populated is because the 2 most populated city's fought over it then someone said neither of you are having it made it basically half way between
@@AO968 I am able to find pretty clear borders for Reykjavík but not for Nuuk. But even taking the northern most point of Nuuks peninsula is about 10km more south than Reykjavík
Wait, is that "Nuke Svalbard" or "Nuuk, Svalbard"? Are we advocating for Savlbard to not only become independent, but to also annex Greenland?
Noril'sk am I a joke to you?
No, he wants a plane to fly from nuuk to svalbard
England is my city.
I agree
@@TvMan258 Me two
Shut up Boris
And my collar is popping
England is not my city.
Hey Toycat. I thought you put no money into these videos but the cartoon edits give away the increase in quality. You’re even wearing a suit!
He’s a filthy liar. Instead of just spending it on himself like he promised, he’s actually improving his videos. I’m disgusted.
Like I said earlier he is a liar he is even using props to explain
Thumbnail was looking rather edited, i [refer a screenshot from the video
Treading on thin ice again, he tried stealth increasing video quality before and we told him off, time to get the pitchforks again!
No, it's ok, he didn't cut his hair and used the camera to do it instead.
this video is like asking god for a southern hemisphere update
That's because it is
He has to wait for the Earth 2.0 release. Coming real soon now.
@@AndyZachYeah, it’s coming with the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025!
Fun fact: the southern most capital in south america is actually Montevideo in Uruguay at 34° 53' 01" South - definitly not the capital that comes to mind when you think about that.
In prehistoric times, Greenland was home to several successive Paleo-Inuit cultures known today primarily through archaeological finds. The earliest entry of the Paleo-Inuit into Greenland is thought to have occurred about 2500 BC. From about 2500 BC to 800 BC, southern and western Greenland was inhabited by the Saqqaq culture. Most finds of remains from that period have been around Disko Bay, including the site of Saqqaq. From 986, the west coast was settled by Icelanders and Norwegians, through a contingent of 14 boats led by Erik the Red. They formed three settlements, the Eastern Settlement, the Western Settlement, and the Middle Settlement (very original names), on fjords near the southwestern tip of the island.
Norse Greenlanders submitted to Norwegian rule in 1261 under the Kingdom of Norway. The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century after the Black Death hit Norway. In the early 17th century, Dano-Norwegian explorers reached Greenland again. When Denmark and Norway separated, Greenland became Danish in 1814 and was fully integrated in the Danish state in 1953. Greenland was granted home rule in 1979, and they voted for self-government in 2008.
Toycat is back again, attempting to min max the earth's geography
Yes
Lmao
Huh, I hadn't realized that the south orkney islands (part of the antarctic archipelago) is at basically the inverse latitude of the regular orkney islands, and yet so much less hospitable. By the way, I have an 'evil trick geography questions' quiz I'd love to see how many of them you'd get right
Also while I was writing this the post-roll advert was someone singing "it's great to be a cat" and I had to double check it wasn't something you'd put on the end of the video
Where's the quiz? 👀
@@brandonm8901 Currently just in my google docs. Sample questions would be 'which country has the highest lowest point' and 'how many EU countries does France share a land border with'
@@mjj29 Nice, I'm done some similar by the sounds of it 😊 putting them on a quiz site like JetPunk can be fun
@@brandonm8901 Do you want to compare notes?
the 0, 0 spot in my long term survival world is also in an ocean
Haha
Did you know the most northern city with over a million people is St Petersburg, the most southern is Melbourne, the most eastern is Auckland and the most western is San Jose. Interestingly enough all of them are English speaking with one exception, and all of them are white.
Edit: to everyone saying that Honolulu and other west coast cities have more than a million people, you need to check your facts, only Los Angeles does, that was until early this year when San Jose got to a million, so I’ll edit my comment. Sorry about that. Still, most of you are thinking of the wrong cities
White?
@@Ivan-nl4im (the majority of the populous would be seen as racialy "white" common term in english)
Metro Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and Honolulu all have over a million and are more westerly than LA. Honolulu, if you were to go off of metro areas would be the most west, if not it would be Vancouver. Honolulu is mostly not white, with Asian being the largest demographic
@@oaxtec765 Even if you define cities strictly by the city limits, San Jose is still over 1 million.
That’s not true Honolulu definitely has over a million people, plus several west coast cities are west of Los Angeles
isn't it weird how the uk's capital city is technically not a capital since london is technically just a local authority made of towns which joined together and the only two cities are westminster and the city of london
LOL the nuke Svalbard segment had me in tears
Where the link in description with the discount code for nuking Svalbard? 😢
Plot twist: Svalbard nukes him
Yeah. No. We are not going to allow you to do that to Svalbard.
11:13 My brain expected the MrBeast outro song to start playing there.
Canada should pull the megachad move and change their capital to Yellowknife
ask the dutch to reclaim land in the sound
create your own country
gg's
Hi from Cape Town
When he said Molten Core all I could hear was BY FIRE BE PURGED
I find it funny that despite ToyCat stating his videos would never improve, and that the money would only go into Donair Kabobs. His videos continue to get better. 😂
An a Norwegian I would like Svalbard to not be nuked.
I'm pretty into Uzbekistan's geography
as you should
@@dew62169 Holy shit, you're real! :o
based
@@d.c.8828 indeed i am
You can't nuke Svaalbard, it's got the world seed vault. I know it's well protected underground, but not good for those who go to collect the seeds
So let's wait until Antarctica's ice melted, found a bunch of new countries in the archipelago and BAHM we have new south capital
I think all the penguins of Antarctica should assert their sovereignty from all the evil countries claiming their territory
Like the emus did with the Australian hinterland.
happy feet made real
the fact he used coordinates changed my perception of the world
Hold on, this is a suspiciously high amount of quality for a second channel video
I'm surprised you haven't been to Longyearbyen. Flights from Oslo are only about £150, and there's a SAS Rabdisson hotel there.
The northernmost capital is actually Alert in Nunavut Canada at 83.3 N
? Alert is a military base. If Ellesmere Island had a capital it would be Grise Fiord.
There's an American research station (Scott-Amundsen) right on the South Pole.
I love the sponsor for this video
I really never "like" videos. But if that's what it takes to put those Svalbardians in their place, then that's what I have to do
Southernmost national capitols:
Wellington, New Zealand
Canberra Australia
Montevideo Uruguay
Buenos Aires Argentina
Cape Town South Africa
Santiago Chile
I feel like you should be increasing the special effects budget.
Good to see that toycat is still suffering from invisible polar bear trauma
Somehow I just KNEW he would end up in Svalbard. But I sure as hell didn't expect him to advocate nuking it. Having said that, having made a good case, I voted thumbs up.
The most Northern city in the world with over 100K residents is Noril'sk, Russia 🇷🇺. Honorable mentions are Anchorage, Alaska, USA 🇺🇸, Which houses almost half of Alaska's population. Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸 which is the most Northern capital city of any country in the world. Murmansk, also in Russia 🇷🇺.
Your editor is too good. I'm disappointed with the quality improvements of these videos. We were promised there wouldn't be any.
what a nice video to start a lovely afternoon :)
You though posting this at like 2am NZ time would mean no Wellingtonians could watch this. Incorrect
THIS VIDEO GETS MY THUMBS UP !! 👍👍👍👍
Svalbye!!
Anyways, I love how I had a little hunch that the East/West divide was in London when I saw the map. Love these second-channel vids almost as much as the m onesain.
"farthest" when referring to measurable distance
i just got back from longyearbyen, and can confirm your nukes worked
my favourite geography teacher!
I love how this vid has the most editing in an ibx2cat video
as an icelandic person, born in iceland and lives in iceland i can say this is true🙏 and if you dont belive me im icelandic then “hæ ég heiti benni, ég er frá íslandi og er alin upp þar” 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸
upp þar looks like "up there", to me at least, which feels fitting considering how far north you are
Normalise the East Pole and West Pole
Toycat: "Reykjavik is the northernmost capital."
Svalbard: "Uhm, it's actually Longyearbyen."
Toycat *nukes Svalbard* "As I was saying, Reykjavik. Any objections?"
Greenland: "No, thanks. We'll settle for second place."
You say no one wants to go to the core but a few movies would disagree(/j,/lh)
So wait, is toycat saying that Earth's 0, 0 spawn point is an ocean challenge in the South Atlantic Ocean about 1000 km off the coast of Africa? Only a 700 km swim east to Annobón Island for trees to start crafting. Awesome challenge! Lol
Also, nuke Svalbard 😂😂
looking extra dapper today, Toycat!
The improving quality of these videos is absolutely NOT what I signed up for
That animation earned my like (I had already liked the video)
That would be a strategic nuclear weapon.
In geospatial circles the 0,0 point off Africa is jokingly called Null Island because if the coordinates are missing (i.e. null) than the point is put at 0,0
another way to fly over the polls is to fly from Germany to Belarus
that took me about 5 seconds of No that wont wo .......oh OH YEA I see.🤣🤣
In the UK do you learn to say that the Prime Meridian goes through London? In school in the US, we learned that the Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich specifically, not just London in general (also was taught the correct pronunciation of Greenwich).
We learn Greenwich, hence GMT. He just said London for ease
South Georgia and the South Sanwich Islands has a capital called King Edward Point, Look it up
Ottowa, Canada to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia would go directly over the north pole
Truly the highest quality content on YT
We flew over the North Pole from Dubai to Houston!
the way both Svalbard and the South Pole is actually is claimed by Norway :)
We all know that if antarctica would have a capital it would be at the south pole base. Checkmate northeners
Toycat be lookin classy again
Argentinean here, Can confirm the Falklands certainly exist 👍
And yet you did not use their proper name...
@@randallgvideos Had to dumb it down
I like the video, but I like Svalbard more
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Otto Witt from the film Zulu?
that is mad😭😭
travel to cape town pls !!!
1:31 the province capital of green land - nuuk is located further north than reykjavik
He said country capital
Love the speed with which you go from offending Serbia to offending Argentina! International high speed trolling
While not a capital, you could’ve talked about Alert, Canada
It’s the northernmost inhabited place and makes me question why people would live there simply by existing
Nuuk Svalbard!
It would be funny if anyone from Svalbard watches this channel. Unfortunately we'll never know as we can't see the dislikes.
what about the one closest to 0 0
Total Thermonuclear Annihilation
0:25 Too soon Executus!
Svalbard ❤❤ Nukes 😢😢
I am learning more history on TH-cam than I did in school. 🙃
Maybe that is because you spend more time on TH-cam than you spent in school
Did you realize that you are using the small WW2 Fat Man Bomb as an illustration? At least you could have used the Tzar Bomba that the Russian used to nuke the neighbor Novaya Zemlya. That being said, I enjoy living in the northern most capital of a fully sovereign country!
Edit: On second thoughts, you will loose the Svalbard Global Seed Vault if you nuke it, so that might make it less desirable.
Actually we should get rid of those seeds so after the apocolypse we can all live happily on healthy paleo diets consisting exclusively on game and line caught fish. Jordan Peterson approves.
Yes I was wondering if he’d mention Novaya Zemlya (“new country” I believe?) since it was nuked so many times and is not far from Svalbard
You could do a video on countries where the capital isn't the biggest city
Damn poor Svalbard :
Toycat, I’m disappointed with the increased editing quality. Why have you not been spending your Patreon money on kebabs?
a fellow Squishmallow™ appreciator 😺
Despite being a one hit wonder, Capital Cities is a good band
Was that a nuke or a firecracker?
You can try to hide behind the 2nd channel kebab, but you are old school vanilla youtube :P
Yes, nuking Svalbard, why didn't I think of that...
Enjoyed your video by the way, weird as it was. :-)
It can’t be 0,0 I spawned no where near there
is there actually a geographical scientific reason why there isn't as much land area in the southern hemisphere as in the northern hemisphere or is this just simply how earth came to be?
Doing my part 🤝
Okay, we need to kick out Greenland and the Faroe islands from the union, so we can say that 3 former Danish colonies, which is now independent countries make up 3 of the top 5 northern most capital cities!
Not the seedvault
Interesting way to get me to like the video
Why did Nuuk sponsor Svalbard?
The recent editing has been too good for this channel 😕
This channel is getting too high tech that little add of nuking Svalbard is way too high tech 😢
**Nuuk Left The Chat**
Lol only reason Australia's capital isn't the most populated is because the 2 most populated city's fought over it then someone said neither of you are having it made it basically half way between
Hi toycat!
If we count the northern most points of Nuuk and Reykjavík then Reykjavík is still the northern most capital
Not by much, though, a few hundreds of degrees difference at best, and it kinda depends on where you consider the highest point of each capitol to be.
@@AO968 I am able to find pretty clear borders for Reykjavík but not for Nuuk. But even taking the northern most point of Nuuks peninsula is about 10km more south than Reykjavík
Coordinates aren't even real