ayoub jabnouni *Nope, they speak Maltese more often, which happens to be influenced greatly by Arabic, Italian and English. You’ll notice how English it is when you watch some Maltese shows such as The Voice.*
@Lokz gic yeah, but the official languages in Malta are Maltese and English. You could also argue, Serbian and Croatian are the same language with a different alphabet but nowadays they are different.
fun fact: because of Croatia's weird shape,the geographic center of Croatia is located in Bosnia also Croatia is simultaneously north,west,south and east of Bosnia
@@backtothefront9696 Hrvatska mi je, poslije BiH, bukvalno druga najdraza drzava na svijetu, a Srbija bi dijelila mjesto sa njom samo da imaju more :) Salim se, balkan u 💙
Hi, you seem to have forgotten The Netherlands, wherein the Overseas Territories border the Virgin Islands of US possession, hence Germany is only one country away.
In the Caribbean, the territorial sea of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has a direct boundary with France (Sint-Maarten / Saint-Martin), Saint-Kitts and Nevis (Sint-Eustatius). Furthermore, the exclusive economic zone of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean has boundaries with the United States (US Virgin Islands), the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom (Anguilla and British Virgin Islands) and Venezuela. So technically speaking there's no border between the territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the US, only between their EEZs.
@@teixeira476 According to Wikipedia, you're comparing Lisbon metro with Luanda city proper. Luanda metro: 8,069,612 Lisbon metro: 2,827,514 Luanda proper: 2,571,861 Lisbon proper: 505,526 Lisbon is smaller than Brasilia as well.
@@sohopedeco fair enough but those 500k people from lisbon are only in the smallest possible urban division of cities of portugal. That is the "capital municipality" of the "capital city". It does make sense to refer to the city of Lisbon as the whole metro area (mostly because our country isnt big and the metro area is small too). Everyone here in the metro considers it part of the city.
The northernmost point of Antarctica is the same distance from the South Pole as my home town's distance from the North Pole. My home town is close to Stockholm.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 Vatican is only 0.44 km2. That makes the number of popes per km2 in Vatican 2.(27) Edit: Also, since there is only 825 citizens of Vatican There is also an average 1.(21) popes per 1000 citizens
Yes, because if you look at Norway's coastline, it is very curvy and articulated coastline, which adds up. Australia's coastline is very straight, so while it may seem longer, it actually isn't.
If it is measured very incorrectly then yes. This is actually called the coastline paradox, RealLifeLore made a video about it: th-cam.com/video/kFjq8PX6F7I/w-d-xo.html
Also interesting: You can travel by train from London to Beijing by only changing trains twice. London --> Paris (Eurostar, hourly service) Paris --> Moscow (1 train a week, 2 additional trains a week from Berlin) Moscow --> Beijing (2 trains a week, one via Manchuria one via Mongolia)
Only if you are a Russian or Belarusian national. Otherwise you are forbidden from crossing the land border between Belarus and Russia (source: by.ambafrance.org/Voyages-en-provenance-de-la-Bielorussie-a-destination-de-la-Russie-pas-de ).
In Paris, you only have to walk two streets to change trains, from Paris Nord to Paris Est. In Moscow, it's worse. Trains from Europe, and also from Paris, arrive to Moskva Belorusskaya and trains to Beijing leave from Moskva Yaroslavskaya or Kazanskaya, which are side by side but 7 km away from Moskva Belorusskaya. So practically, every traveller would take the Moscow Metro between the two, which would be a fourth train :D
Correct, it technically doesn't have an official capital, but it does have one. It never made any legislation to assign one such a title/honor, but it does have one _de facto._
@@heronimousbrapson863 Not necessarily, the capital of The Netherlands is Amsterdam, as defined in the Dutch constitution, but the seat of Government is in The Hague.
Dr Congo is stupid. The other Congo was the DR Congo only a couple decades ago, and is two insane dictators away from flipping again (at least we hope so, for their sakes). Call it Congo (Brazzaville) or Congo (Kinshasa) like everyone who doesn’t have to deal with their governments does.
The Canada/Denmark border dispute is one of my favourite quirky conflicts. I was sad to hear that it’s probably going to be resolved soon because I’ve always had a low-key desire to go to Canada one day, hire a boat and claim the island for myself in the same way the two nations often do (sending a small expedition every 6-24 months to check on the island and replace the other nations flag on the flagpole at the centre of the island, claim a bottle of Canadian or Danish spirits left by the last group, and leave your own bottle behind for the next time the “enemy” come and take the island)
If maritime borders do not count, Germany is 10 countries away from the U.S.: Germany --> France (French Guiana) --> Brazil --> Columbia --> Panama --> Costa Rica --> Nicaragua --> Honduras --> Guatemala --> Mexico --> United States
Denmark and Canada have solved their border dispute (the so called Whisky War) by now and divided Hans Island, so Germany is now two countries away from the US even discounting naval borders
I never thought that my Home City (Freiburg) would ever get any attention whatsoever, since it is really isolated from the Rest of Germany, if you look at a topographical map, you will not only see that it is in the extreme South West of Germany, but also has the Black Forest (Immensly forested Mountain Range) to the east, practically sealing it off from the rest of the Country except for a small corridor along the Rhine...but apparently that distance from our capital makes international geography folks interested in us...
And it's the same in France, on the other side of the Rhine. Some people in Alsace even call « France de l'intérieur » (inner France) the part of France which is on the other side of the Vosges and Belfort.
New Delhi is bigger then New York but it has less English-speakers. Kinshasa on the other hand has even more French-speakers than Paris as 90% of its 15 million inhabitants speak French.
As a German, I have to point out, that your German pronunciation is incredibily good. You really sound like a native. Also I found the video very interresting scince I also love geography.
@@TheMrNalsur I didn't know he lives in Berlin. That explaines a lot. But still he has a US passport. So it is still impressive, he may not be a native speaker.
Update the one for germany bordering the USA, go up to denmark, who has control of greenland who has a border with Canada who borders the USA. It's not a maritime border its a split island between Greenland and Canada
Here's a couple I have not seen: - The Netherlands and France share a land border, on the island of Saint Martin. - Also, the Netherlands has a maritime border with Venezuela and the Dominican republic (Aruba) and the US (between Saba and the US Virgin Islands), making Germany be only one country away from the US. - The Dutch province of Flevoland is man made and lies in the former Zuiderzee, now IJsselmeer. - Even though Russia is a huge country it has no access to a four season port that does not require passing through territorial waters of other states (Pass through Denmark and Sweden from Kaliningrad. Pass through Turkey and Greece and either also Egypt, or Spanish, Moroccan and even British waters from the black sea ports). Monaco is the only acknowlegded european microstate that is not landlocked (unless you also count Malta as a microstate, which is an archipelago). - Liechtenstein is the only european landlocked country locked between landlocked countries. - As you touched on the placement of Berlin as the capital of Germany may seem a bit odd as it is not central in Germany at all (after 1945/1990). This is even more pronounced with Vienna in Austria and Bratislava in Slovakia. In all of these cases the choice for the capital is based more on historical or legal reasons (there is already a system in place, heads of state are there, parliaments and diplomats go there etc.) more than location.
4:35 kinda like how Hong Kong is closer to Taipei, Hanoi, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Manila and Bandar Seri Begawan than to China's capital Beijing
5:17 it's actually a private port, my dad who's from moldova, used to transport bulls there, he was not allowed to go there himself, he was with some brokers that did the paperwork, the port is used often for corruption purposes and trafficking
I suspect you are fully aware and have probably done a video on it, but just in case, the Haan's Island dispute between Denmark and Canada has been resolved. Canada now has its 2nd International land border after the United States, now also with Denmak. I looking forward to walking from Canada to Denmark soon 😅
Fun fact: Kinshasa was the actual capital of France for a short time, during WW2 the Free French settled their governement there before Operation Torch when they then moved to Algiers.
so this video is 3 years old but now Germany is also only 2 countries away from the US with its Denmark border, Greenland and Canada actually share a land border now, so this is the only example of an actual land border between US and Germany, and and of course now somehow Denmark borders Canada.
Wow this city at the westernmost point of "insert country here" is closer to "insert a foreign city" than it is to "insert city on the opposite side of the country".
@@karjalatakaisin I swear to God these geography channels are just posting the most stupid ass content, like WOW GUYS DID YOU KNOW THAT SEATTLE IS CLOSER TO VANCOUVER THAT IT IS TO NEW YORK!!!! NOW GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON FOR MORE COOL GEOGRAPHY FACTS!!!!
ok, me as someone who met the Duke, or Count (idk), of Liechtenstein feel offendend that you said Lichtenstein ist the capital of Lichtenstein, it's VADUZ! but still, great video xd
Is it the prince of Liechtenstein you mean? As San Marino's capital is San Marino and Monaco's is Monaco, he probably just named the countries accidentally instead.
@@GeographyWorld 1. yeah i meant prince, in german we have 2 words that translate to prince, the ruler of Liechtensetin is called "Fürst" wich is higher than what we germans would call "Prinz", so i confused "Herzog" (duke) with "Fürst" (now i know it's called prince) and 2. it was just a joke, many people who are good at geografie don't know that Vaduz is the capital, because it's so tiny
"...which really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capitol..." well... Germany used to have more territory in the east and Prussia was the biggest power when germany was founded and Berlin was their capitol so these are 2 reasons why Berlin is the capitol.
It is because we tend to assume that one part of a geographical entity (a country, a region or a continent) is always closer to another part of this entity than to a place from another entity. Real geography does not work like how we tend to simply things in our heads... For exemple, Marseille and Lille are two cities within The country of France. Yet, the fact is that Marseille is actually not only lot closer to other cities of other countries like Barcelona, Milan, Madrid or Oma than it is to Lille, but it is also closer to another continent (Africa) than it is to the city of Lille. When you are in the southern coast of France you are closer to north Africa than you are to the north of your own country... Also, it might surprise some that Even the city of Paris, that many people tend to think as a « northern city » is closer to algiers than it is to stockholm
4:34 "[Freisburg im Breisgau's location] really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capital." Considering how it was more or less dead centre in the former German Empire, (and by extension all the territories historically held by Prussia and in the surrounding HRE) it has more to do with border changes than anything else.
Dresden and Leipzig would be closer. In fact geographical centers don't have much to do with capitals irl. Berlin is Germany's capital because it was Prussia's capital, which it in turn was because it was Brandenburg's capital. Had Wolfsburg been Brandenburg's capital, it now would be Germany's...
Germany borders France, that borders the UK via the Chunnel. The UK, on the other hand, owns the British Virgin Islands, that have a maritime border with Puerto Rico, which belongs to the US! Two countries apart as well!
You got me on the New Delhi being the largest English speaking city, i only knew that it was in India. HOWEVER i knew that Kinshasa was the largest French speaking city
Every country borders every other country that they recognize, if you count embassies (which are legally sovereign territory of which ever embassy it was, rather than paying rent like all foreign bases of which I know).
As a Canadian I always found it amusing that the distance between Warsaw Poland and St. John's Newfoundland is only 8km longer than the distance between St. John's and Victoria British Columbia
Your eye glass prescription needs to be adjusted. The last I checked - just a moment ago - Poland and Belarus are legal countries. They have capitols and elected governments..
You might find the small country of the Netherlands intresting. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands The Caribean Netherlands consists of 3 areas that are officially part of European Netherlands.
Being annoying but new Delhi is actually a enclave city surrounded be Delhi, Delhi has the 21+ million while new Delhi is surrounded by Delhi and new Delhi is the capital while Delhi is a city. Confusing
For the language facts, you should've overlaid a map of the language borders (by mutual intelligibility) to see how weirdly the shapes of "countries" change. Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg simply cease to exist, Norway and Sweden merge, Germany gains territory all over the place all the way into Italy and several territories suddenly gain independence.
Another fun fact: The most democratic country (according to Democracy Index) of the world, Norway, is only one country away from the least democratic one, North Korea. Only Russia separates both.
Fun Fact : China has only 900km more coastline than Greece. Yes, GREECE, a country with 0.78% the population of China is only 900km from beating China in terms of coastline.
It's funny that youtube suggested me this video. I actually live near Freiburg and have thought about how many capitals are closer to me then Berlin before. Actually I even talked with my sister earlier who came back from China recently how wierd it is for her chinese friend who can drive for 8 hours and still be in the same province and we could be in Paris in maybe 5 hours or even faster if you take the high speed train.
You must've meant same LONGITUDE between East Coast of NA and West Coast of SA...
Yes I did... kind of easy to get those names mixed up sometimes
@@KhAnubis
You are wrong about Malta technically they speak Arabic most of the words they use are Arabic words look it up
@@KhAnubis I realized that as well
ayoub jabnouni *Nope, they speak Maltese more often, which happens to be influenced greatly by Arabic, Italian and English. You’ll notice how English it is when you watch some Maltese shows such as The Voice.*
@Lokz gic yeah, but the official languages in Malta are Maltese and English. You could also argue, Serbian and Croatian are the same language with a different alphabet but nowadays they are different.
Fun fact :- Egypt is smaller than Russia Canada and China combined.
You can fit entire Vatican City in Egypt and still have plenty more space for San Marino and Lichtenstein combined
Impossible...
My mind is blown
I just came in my pants
Unbelievable, thank you for this amazing piece of knowledge. Never knew about this before.
The Vatican has the highest percentage of popes per people in the world.
and male citizens
Amir Fromage and emigrates, since nobody is born there.
@Justin O'Brien So are you gonna slice the pope in half?
@Justin O'Brien The current one,Pope Francis
bruh
Ukraine is simultaneously north, west, south and east of Moldova.
Italy is also north, west, south and east of San Marino and the Vatican City
@@shadopulse5185 yea but that's cause Italy literally surrounds them from all sides,plus they are enclaves tehnically speaking
Greenland is the same towards Iceland
Russia is simultaneously north, west, south and east of Ukraine. And Moldova I guess.
Lionking ye lmao.
Warsaw and Alaska used to be in the same country
It wasn't the best time in Warsaw history.
So were Montreal, Sydney, and Delhi
Russia!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m polish and don’t remind me of what
Also Belgrade and Bagdad.
fun fact: because of Croatia's weird shape,the geographic center of Croatia is located in Bosnia
also Croatia is simultaneously north,west,south and east of Bosnia
North, west and south but not east
@@eclectic505 east as well. Bosnia has access to the sea which cuts off Dubrovnik from the rest of Croatia
@@benas_st more like south east but okay
@@backtothefront9696
Braatee
@@backtothefront9696 Hrvatska mi je, poslije BiH, bukvalno druga najdraza drzava na svijetu, a Srbija bi dijelila mjesto sa njom samo da imaju more :)
Salim se, balkan u 💙
Hi, you seem to have forgotten The Netherlands, wherein the Overseas Territories border the Virgin Islands of US possession, hence Germany is only one country away.
This. This is a gross omission.
Didn't know that Saba is close to US Virgin Island. I thought that Anguilla or French Saint Martin is closer
Britain shares a maritime border with Germany in the North Sea and the US in the Virgin Islands.
Oh that is true so that makes 6 examples of it! haha
In the Caribbean, the territorial sea of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has a direct boundary with France (Sint-Maarten / Saint-Martin), Saint-Kitts and Nevis (Sint-Eustatius). Furthermore, the exclusive economic zone of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean has boundaries with the United States (US Virgin Islands), the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom (Anguilla and British Virgin Islands) and Venezuela. So technically speaking there's no border between the territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the US, only between their EEZs.
Europe is a peninsula, that is made of more little peninsulas
leandro rodrigues that means Africa is a huge peninsula
@@ace_amello-yt5939 or a gigantic island
Then America is a huge weird shaped island
@Carl Kirchhoff (Western) Europe fractal dimension is 1.47 :)
Madcomz Eurafrasia is technically an island.
Largest Portuguese-speaking city: São Paulo
Largest Portuguese-speaking national capital: Luanda
how?
Lisbon: 3M people
Luanda: 2.5M people
@@teixeira476 metropolitan areas I guess, or without them
@@teixeira476 According to Wikipedia, you're comparing Lisbon metro with Luanda city proper.
Luanda metro: 8,069,612
Lisbon metro: 2,827,514
Luanda proper: 2,571,861
Lisbon proper: 505,526
Lisbon is smaller than Brasilia as well.
@@sohopedeco fair enough but those 500k people from lisbon are only in the smallest possible urban division of cities of portugal.
That is the "capital municipality" of the "capital city".
It does make sense to refer to the city of Lisbon as the whole metro area (mostly because our country isnt big and the metro area is small too). Everyone here in the metro considers it part of the city.
@@teixeira476 but then you need to compare it with the metro area of Luanda as well
Finland is only one country apart from north korea.
So is Poland and Lithuania
Ch ng Chong you are wrong russia does not have a board wth North Korea so you’d have to go through China making it 2 co7ntry
Norway too
So is Vietnam,Laos,India,Nepal,Myanmar,Bhutan,Thailand,Mongolia and Kasakhstan
So are all of the countries that border Russia and/or China
The entire coast of Antactica is technically North Antarctica
Oh my god you're right
The northernmost point of Antarctica is the same distance from the South Pole as my home town's distance from the North Pole. My home town is close to Stockholm.
@@lars-akesvensk9704 Pretty impressive
@@lars-akesvensk9704 vilken stad bor du i?
@@Adam-dd5fx Sundsvall
Fun fact; Vatican city has 2.4 popes per square kilometre.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 Vatican is only 0.44 km2. That makes the number of popes per km2 in Vatican 2.(27)
Edit: Also, since there is only 825 citizens of Vatican There is also an average 1.(21) popes per 1000 citizens
@@mateuszchoda5560 They do have 2 popes in Vatican City, an active one and a retired one, which means the pope density is 4.5 popes per km².
4:33 it's almost like Germany once had more territory
Elsass Lothringen, rip
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It did have African colonies once tho
@@ishandey6061 Yes Camaron , Namibia , Tanzania, ruanda and burundi next to congo , togo
Bosnia: I want to swim.
Croatia: *n o*
we do actually have a tiny bit of coast called Neum that splits Croatia in two
look it up
Ukraine be making Croatia look generous with its coastline
@@reptile_loki As far as I know 20 km of coastline
@@petartoshkov2076 yes,it's about 23 km,at least we have a port lol
Lionking it has 8km, Slovenia has 24km
2 fun facts about Norway:
Norway is a single country away from North Korea
Norway also has the second biggest coastline. First is Canada
Norway has a bigger coastline than Australia?
Yes, because if you look at Norway's coastline, it is very curvy and articulated coastline, which adds up. Australia's coastline is very straight, so while it may seem longer, it actually isn't.
@@WombatSteve It depends on how it's measured
@@WombatSteve what about Russia's coastline??
If it is measured very incorrectly then yes. This is actually called the coastline paradox, RealLifeLore made a video about it: th-cam.com/video/kFjq8PX6F7I/w-d-xo.html
The capital of Liechtenstein is Vaduz not Liechtenstein ;)
@@bnj9031 sure, but when you're a fact based channel, then you should at least get your facts right...
Also interesting: You can travel by train from London to Beijing by only changing trains twice.
London --> Paris (Eurostar, hourly service)
Paris --> Moscow (1 train a week, 2 additional trains a week from Berlin)
Moscow --> Beijing (2 trains a week, one via Manchuria one via Mongolia)
Only if you are a Russian or Belarusian national. Otherwise you are forbidden from crossing the land border between Belarus and Russia (source: by.ambafrance.org/Voyages-en-provenance-de-la-Bielorussie-a-destination-de-la-Russie-pas-de ).
In Paris, you only have to walk two streets to change trains, from Paris Nord to Paris Est. In Moscow, it's worse. Trains from Europe, and also from Paris, arrive to Moskva Belorusskaya and trains to Beijing leave from Moskva Yaroslavskaya or Kazanskaya, which are side by side but 7 km away from Moskva Belorusskaya. So practically, every traveller would take the Moscow Metro between the two, which would be a fourth train :D
There is a direct rail service from Portugal to Singapore, taking 21 days, and in which one does not need to change train at all
Another fun fact would be that France and the Netherlands border each other on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.
Everyone clap
Funfact: Switzerland actually does not have a capital. Bern is only the seat of government.
Correct, it technically doesn't have an official capital, but it does have one. It never made any legislation to assign one such a title/honor, but it does have one _de facto._
Well, Switzerland allways try to be "special". But, Berne is the Capital de facto.
A city constituting the seat of government is by definition the capital, official or not.
@@heronimousbrapson863 Not necessarily, the capital of The Netherlands is Amsterdam, as defined in the Dutch constitution, but the seat of Government is in The Hague.
Many countries don't have official capitals, for example France. That doesn't mean they don't have capitals. Bern is the capital of Switzerland.
You truly are a man of honor for including my home city Freiburg im Breisgau
Endlich andere Deutsche hier haha
Ummm...I CHECKED ON GOOGLE MAPS AND I FOUND THAT YOUR CITY IS CLOSE TO WINDEN. Bro don't try to explore weird looking caves. Okay?
i used to live there too and its not really that close dont worry lol
peacee greetings from freiburg aswell
Capitals of Austria and Slovakia are so closely situated, that you can see both of them simultaneously while flying on a plane over them.
That sounds impressive until you find out Kinshasa and Brazzaville of both the Congo Capitals border each other with a river between them 😂
if the planes view angle is 30 deg then it must be at a minimum of 400 km up (250 mph for sussy big mac freedom speakers)
The best doctor, Doctor Congo has finally made his return
Belgium has entered the room.
Dr Congo is stupid. The other Congo was the DR Congo only a couple decades ago, and is two insane dictators away from flipping again (at least we hope so, for their sakes). Call it Congo (Brazzaville) or Congo (Kinshasa) like everyone who doesn’t have to deal with their governments does.
Dr Congo, I presume?
Me: * reads the tile *
* thinks about my country *
Me: Yeah checks out
Due to the fact that the lines of longitude are closer together the higher your latitude: Part of Norway is further east than Istanbul.
Greenland Is Simultaneously East,West,North And South With Iceland
How
@@appleslover yes
Still not green though
The Canada/Denmark border dispute is one of my favourite quirky conflicts. I was sad to hear that it’s probably going to be resolved soon because I’ve always had a low-key desire to go to Canada one day, hire a boat and claim the island for myself in the same way the two nations often do (sending a small expedition every 6-24 months to check on the island and replace the other nations flag on the flagpole at the centre of the island, claim a bottle of Canadian or Danish spirits left by the last group, and leave your own bottle behind for the next time the “enemy” come and take the island)
Denmark just got the land border with Canada.
Fun fact( most people know about it): Brazil borders a French speaking country. Namely France, in French Guyana
It's the longest french border.
3:41 Now they actually have land borders 🤔
The Nederlands have oversea territorys which boarder to Venezuela
The Netherlands have overseas territories which border Venezuela.
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 The Netherlands has overseas territories that border Venezuela
@Swapn Lok Venezuela Borders 3 Dutch Territories : Aruba,Bonaire and Curacao.
@@CrazExtra Ah,yes,the ABC islands
@Andrzej Duda Habsburg*
If maritime borders do not count, Germany is 10 countries away from the U.S.:
Germany --> France (French Guiana) --> Brazil --> Columbia --> Panama --> Costa Rica --> Nicaragua --> Honduras --> Guatemala --> Mexico --> United States
Or also 2:Germany->Denmark(Greenland)->Canada->US
@@malster1239 That's a maritime border: Canada and Greenland share no land border.
@@marcellkiss-redey8451 They do. One rock in the sea bleongs to both of them
@@onnimannimaki8846 There is no border on it; it's a border dispute; both claim all of it, so neither claim leaves a land border.
Columbia? I thought that was the capital region of the USA.
Now that Denmark split an island with Canada The Kingdom if Denmark properly borders Canada
Denmark and Canada have solved their border dispute (the so called Whisky War) by now and divided Hans Island, so Germany is now two countries away from the US even discounting naval borders
I never thought that my Home City (Freiburg) would ever get any attention whatsoever, since it is really isolated from the Rest of Germany, if you look at a topographical map, you will not only see that it is in the extreme South West of Germany, but also has the Black Forest (Immensly forested Mountain Range) to the east, practically sealing it off from the rest of the Country except for a small corridor along the Rhine...but apparently that distance from our capital makes international geography folks interested in us...
And it's the same in France, on the other side of the Rhine. Some people in Alsace even call « France de l'intérieur » (inner France) the part of France which is on the other side of the Vosges and Belfort.
@@a.nonymous9877 Salutations de l'autre côté du Rhin
And a beautiful city it is :)
New Delhi is bigger then New York but it has less English-speakers. Kinshasa on the other hand has even more French-speakers than Paris as 90% of its 15 million inhabitants speak French.
As a German, I have to point out, that your German pronunciation is incredibily good. You really sound like a native. Also I found the video very interresting scince I also love geography.
I believe he _is_ Germany. A guy who lives in Berlin and has a slight German accent when speaking English... Probably German, :D
@@TheMrNalsur I didn't know he lives in Berlin. That explaines a lot. But still he has a US passport. So it is still impressive, he may not be a native speaker.
@@OnkelJajusBahn and I didn't know he has a US citizenship. Guess we both learnt something new today :)
@@TheMrNalsur Yes, you're right.
@@TheMrNalsur OK but he isn't the country of Germany since he is a human.
Update the one for germany bordering the USA, go up to denmark, who has control of greenland who has a border with Canada who borders the USA. It's not a maritime border its a split island between Greenland and Canada
Here's a couple I have not seen:
- The Netherlands and France share a land border, on the island of Saint Martin.
- Also, the Netherlands has a maritime border with Venezuela and the Dominican republic (Aruba) and the US (between Saba and the US Virgin Islands), making Germany be only one country away from the US.
- The Dutch province of Flevoland is man made and lies in the former Zuiderzee, now IJsselmeer.
- Even though Russia is a huge country it has no access to a four season port that does not require passing through territorial waters of other states (Pass through Denmark and Sweden from Kaliningrad. Pass through Turkey and Greece and either also Egypt, or Spanish, Moroccan and even British waters from the black sea ports).
Monaco is the only acknowlegded european microstate that is not landlocked (unless you also count Malta as a microstate, which is an archipelago).
- Liechtenstein is the only european landlocked country locked between landlocked countries.
- As you touched on the placement of Berlin as the capital of Germany may seem a bit odd as it is not central in Germany at all (after 1945/1990). This is even more pronounced with Vienna in Austria and Bratislava in Slovakia. In all of these cases the choice for the capital is based more on historical or legal reasons (there is already a system in place, heads of state are there, parliaments and diplomats go there etc.) more than location.
What about Vladivostok? You could sail northward from there, pass close to Sakhalin and then go across towards the Pacific bypassing Japan.
4:35 kinda like how Hong Kong is closer to Taipei, Hanoi, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Manila and Bandar Seri Begawan than to China's capital Beijing
5:17 it's actually a private port, my dad who's from moldova, used to transport bulls there, he was not allowed to go there himself, he was with some brokers that did the paperwork, the port is used often for corruption purposes and trafficking
I suspect you are fully aware and have probably done a video on it, but just in case, the Haan's Island dispute between Denmark and Canada has been resolved. Canada now has its 2nd International land border after the United States, now also with Denmak.
I looking forward to walking from Canada to Denmark soon 😅
Fun fact: Kinshasa was the actual capital of France for a short time, during WW2 the Free French settled their governement there before Operation Torch when they then moved to Algiers.
Good news: Canada and Denmark now share a land border on Hans Island.
There's only one country between Norway and North Korea.
My country
@Swapn Lok ok
so this video is 3 years old but now Germany is also only 2 countries away from the US with its Denmark border, Greenland and Canada actually share a land border now, so this is the only example of an actual land border between US and Germany, and and of course now somehow Denmark borders Canada.
France technically borders the Netherlands, because of Saint Martin and Sint Maarten, an island that is shared by France and the Netherlands
Canada now borders Denmark, so maritime borders don’t need to be counted
Wow this city at the westernmost point of "insert country here" is closer to "insert a foreign city" than it is to "insert city on the opposite side of the country".
Wow!!!!11!!!1
Wow, Vladivostok is closer to Tokyo than it is to Moscow, how cool is that
@@karjalatakaisin I swear to God these geography channels are just posting the most stupid ass content, like WOW GUYS DID YOU KNOW THAT SEATTLE IS CLOSER TO VANCOUVER THAT IT IS TO NEW YORK!!!! NOW GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON FOR MORE COOL GEOGRAPHY FACTS!!!!
4:48 Liechtenstein has capital, its called Vaduz.
I mean-my country is just one country away from Kim Jong Un. And I live in EU.
Jestem humanem Russians are also European, and we are their neighbors! Take that haha
Hey that’s me
Kim Jong-un Are you alright? Heard you got in the hospital dear Supreme Leader and General!
Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania? Poland?
@@aetu35 Could also be Norway or Finland.
Isn't the border dispute settling, splitting the island in half, meaning that the two countries away is actually legit without maritime borders?
ok, me as someone who met the Duke, or Count (idk), of Liechtenstein feel offendend that you said Lichtenstein ist the capital of Lichtenstein, it's VADUZ!
but still, great video xd
Is it the prince of Liechtenstein you mean? As San Marino's capital is San Marino and Monaco's is Monaco, he probably just named the countries accidentally instead.
@@GeographyWorld 1. yeah i meant prince, in german we have 2 words that translate to prince, the ruler of Liechtensetin is called "Fürst" wich is higher than what we germans would call "Prinz", so i confused "Herzog" (duke) with "Fürst" (now i know it's called prince)
and 2. it was just a joke, many people who are good at geografie don't know that Vaduz is the capital, because it's so tiny
I'm pretty sure it's the Emperor of Liechtenstein lol
@@francescoseverino3913 The Holy Lichtensteinian Empire
Can I buy a nobillty title in Lichtenstein or something?
7:11
Well, the last few times Germany tried to spread its language, it didnt go all to well
"...which really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capitol..."
well... Germany used to have more territory in the east and Prussia was the biggest power when germany was founded and Berlin was their capitol so these are 2 reasons why Berlin is the capitol.
Japan is more north, south, east and west than North Korea
"Europe's Geography", proceed to make a video centred on the USA
1:10 as a swiss, that hurts:) Half of my country swallowed.
It is because we tend to assume that one part of a geographical entity (a country, a region or a continent) is always closer to another part of this entity than to a place from another entity. Real geography does not work like how we tend to simply things in our heads...
For exemple, Marseille and Lille are two cities within The country of France. Yet, the fact is that Marseille is actually not only lot closer to other cities of other countries like Barcelona, Milan, Madrid or Oma than it is to Lille, but it is also closer to another continent (Africa) than it is to the city of Lille. When you are in the southern coast of France you are closer to north Africa than you are to the north of your own country...
Also, it might surprise some that Even the city of Paris, that many people tend to think as a « northern city » is closer to algiers than it is to stockholm
Germany also has one country between it and Brazil, actually, with French Guyana
4:34 "[Freisburg im Breisgau's location] really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capital." Considering how it was more or less dead centre in the former German Empire, (and by extension all the territories historically held by Prussia and in the surrounding HRE) it has more to do with border changes than anything else.
Dresden and Leipzig would be closer.
In fact geographical centers don't have much to do with capitals irl. Berlin is Germany's capital because it was Prussia's capital, which it in turn was because it was Brandenburg's capital. Had Wolfsburg been Brandenburg's capital, it now would be Germany's...
@@doffer115 why Brandenburg not Brandenburg's capital
4:53 you kinda forgot Austria
Even Little Liechtenstein made an appearance
It would have been funny if the most populous German speaking city was Qingdao.
0:06
Um, actually, the word you're looking for there is "longitude". Latitude is the east-west lines.
Jesus he actually unironically said "um, actually"
Canada has a direct land boarder with Denmark now!!
What's this kaliningrad you're talking about all I know is the amazing former Prussian capital *Königsberg*
AUF DAS KAISERREICH
Ich versteh es auch nicht
Can't be a capital without any Royal Castle or Prussian palace, though. Have you seen it's castle recently?
Germany borders France, that borders the UK via the Chunnel. The UK, on the other hand, owns the British Virgin Islands, that have a maritime border with Puerto Rico, which belongs to the US! Two countries apart as well!
You got me on the New Delhi being the largest English speaking city, i only knew that it was in India. HOWEVER i knew that Kinshasa was the largest French speaking city
English is an 'official' language in India, but no way do most inhabitants of New Delhi speak English.
It's new York
To think i was expecting a video about europes geography
Finland is one country away from North Korea
So is Norway
Germany is also one country away from Canada. It borders Denmark which owns Greenland which shares a maritime border with Canada.
Germany borders the USA directly if you count military bases.
No, those bases inside of Germany are technically still German soil. The US has to actual pay a x amount to keep using them.
Every country borders every other country that they recognize, if you count embassies (which are legally sovereign territory of which ever embassy it was, rather than paying rent like all foreign bases of which I know).
As a Canadian I always found it amusing that the distance between Warsaw Poland and St. John's Newfoundland is only 8km longer than the distance between St. John's and Victoria British Columbia
did not know that. thanks 4 pointing that out 👍
Slovakia: I want podkarpatsky rus back!
Ukraine: *n o*
Hungary: #Ungvár magyar! #VesszenTrianon!
That was excellent! I enjoyed that immensely! Thank-you for posting that.
I'm so proud of myself for remembering Malta.
Your eye glass prescription needs to be adjusted. The last I checked - just a moment ago - Poland and Belarus are legal countries. They have capitols and elected governments..
France is 1 country away from bordering Colombia
france->brazil->colombia, all land borders
@Swapn Lok what kind of drugs would you smuggle from France to Colombia true Brazil? or is that to return it if your batch was not good?
You might find the small country of the Netherlands intresting.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands
The Caribean Netherlands consists of 3 areas that are officially part of European Netherlands.
Cool
TH-cam automatically creates Dutch subtitles =D
6:35 as a native from delhi believe me the majority of the people are not fluent in English. (Thankfully)
When you say it like thay, the uk borders spain and cyprus
yup i walked from cyprus to the uk
4:30 I know I‘m insanely late but thanks for including my hometown in this this was very cool to see (great pronunciation as well)!
4:36 Well, Berlin was positioned much more centrally, before all that losing of the territory in the east!
Being annoying but new Delhi is actually a enclave city surrounded be Delhi, Delhi has the 21+ million while new Delhi is surrounded by Delhi and new Delhi is the capital while Delhi is a city. Confusing
For the language facts, you should've overlaid a map of the language borders (by mutual intelligibility) to see how weirdly the shapes of "countries" change. Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg simply cease to exist, Norway and Sweden merge, Germany gains territory all over the place all the way into Italy and several territories suddenly gain independence.
Norwegian is closer to Danish than to Swedish
The largest non Russia country in europe in denmark, a country much larger than alaska
China has a fairly long border with Kazakhstan, whose western end intersects the Ural Mountains, making it a partly European country.
The largest non-Russia country in Europe isn’t in Europe. It’s Greenland
Another fun fact: The most democratic country (according to Democracy Index) of the world, Norway, is only one country away from the least democratic one, North Korea. Only Russia separates both.
lol
Europe is just a big peninsula of Eurasia.
Fun fact: Indonesia can span across the entire Atlantic ocean
no it doesn't i am pretty sure it is stuck where it is. We would have shipped it over ages ago if it did.
You got me there, Brouwer
@@dogedude3859 i am very smart I know.
if you look the distance from east most to west most of Indonesia, it will farther than New York to Istanbul. Check it out.
@@sirBrouwer shut up
Hey 👋🏼 Nice video!!! But I have been to New Delhi and most of the people don’t speak English! ☺️ 👌🕺🏻
Starts video with 10sec image of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s border - brace yourselves in the comments!!!
Fun Fact :
China has only 900km more coastline than Greece.
Yes, GREECE, a country with 0.78% the population of China is only 900km from beating China in terms of coastline.
“Europe has weird geography”
*colonizes most of the earth*
Moldova is probably the one country who wants sea level to rise so it has coastline lol
I'm Maltese! Thanks for including us.
I honestly really want to go to Malta one day (preferably once we're allowed outside again though)
Wow! That's awesome (it won't be long I'm sure, stay safe)
@Scientific Humanist Nice! That's amazing. Did you try the pastizzi?
Oh my GOODNESS finally someone who doesn’t absolutely butcher pronunciations. Well done lol, very enjoyable video
I have been to Delhi and can say about half of them can and do speak English very well.
It's funny that youtube suggested me this video. I actually live near Freiburg and have thought about how many capitals are closer to me then Berlin before.
Actually I even talked with my sister earlier who came back from China recently how wierd it is for her chinese friend who can drive for 8 hours and still be in the same province and we could be in Paris in maybe 5 hours or even faster if you take the high speed train.