Everytime you said "oh but that's a big state, can we all agree" I laughed and laughed because you were still on the smaller ones! And when you discovered Portugal and did that double take I cried laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🧡
@@Kepi_Kei I don’t know what he said about Portugal but it’s one place I’ve been hearing some really good things about recently. Plus as a literary person I know it has produced two world classics Love of Perdition and the other title escapes me at the moment.⚛️❤️
@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd He was comparing the size of Portugal to our states, and he kept saying they were big states. Then later he found Portugal and almost lost his mind when he saw how small it is. It's hilarious, you should watch!
@@ruas4721 are you bringing up the population densities? We're not looking at population densities in this vid bud. Looking at total land mass. I would to see our Portugal friend here to do a video on it though.
@@ruas4721 Maybe I should have said "compact" and not "small". I grew up in San Diego, CA and heading north it's about 900 miles to even leave the state. I live in Denver, CO now, and I can drive about 500 miles in any direction before hitting another major metro area. The idea that London and Berlin are about as far apart as Denver and Kansas City is just so bizarre to me. One trip takes you through multiple countries and cultures and topographies and the other is nothing but corn and wheat fields.
It's not that Americans aren't interested in traveling to other countries - we are. But the USA would take a whole lifetime to see by itself, & it doesn't require a passport, different currency, or another language. And as everyone knows, we Americans are all about convenience, LOL! Thanks for your reaction.
It also doesn't require traveling across an ocean. (Hawaii is a 6 hr flight from here.) I live in the PNW and have been to Canada many times. I have a 4 hour flight if I want to see my grandchildren in the US.
I always point out that most of us don't get enough time off to travel so far and God knows we don't have the money because of our "healthcare" system.
I love my country but it would be good for every American to get outside this country for 1 year. Go anywhere, it doesn't matter where. Our leftists would never take a knee to our flag again in their lives.
@@deemariedubois4916 yes euros have a long tradition of criticizing us for not learning their languages too along with just about everything else they can think of but where would they even be without us ⚛️❤️
@@loreemackay9960 as a life-long left/liberal I agree that even in the most advanced countries you can find really awful things going on as bad as anything here and I’ve never been ashamed of our flag or to even hang it outside my home⚛️❤️
I don't want to be this person but as a cattleman from Texas, I might need to. Texas has a ranch (Kings Ranch) that is larger than the Country of Luxembourg and a state of the United States. For comparison: Kings Ranch is 1,289 square miles. The state of Rhode Island is 1,034 square miles. Luxembourg is 998.6 square miles.
For Comparison: Australia, South Australia, Anna Creek Cattle Station is 23,677 sq/km (9,142 sq/mi) At 5.8 million acres it is the largest farm in the world and larger than the US state of New Jersey. Anna Creek is 7 times larger than Kings Ranch.
@@lancearn7332 Having a quick look at google and that farm is not looking too well. a dozen eggs is 10$... just because its a lot of empty land doesnt mean its a good farm. Look at Kings ranch in Texas and you'll see nice developed land and very green. Alot of unused land that could be put to good use in Australia.
I've driven 33 hours (north east Michigan to Reno, Nevada), and 28 of those hours were on the same road 😮 Interstate 80 from South Bend, Indiana right into Reno.
Use to make a drive from Seattle to Phoenix every year, was about a 24hr road trip with lots of long deserted roads but, beautiful, xept the bugs >.> aphids nearly clogged up my engine one year lolol, had to stop twice to scrape them off the windshield just to be able to see.
80 is a great interstate highway. I've driven from NYC to Illinois a couple of times staying on the same highway. I've also driven on 80 to/from NYC and Ohio several times.
I've made almost the exact same drive, from south east (metro Detroit) to Reno. Did it in less time though, my buddy and I took driving shifts. Because you most likely are a good 5 hour drive or more from where I started.
I'm about 3 hours north of Detroit. The first hour was spent getting onto I-75, north of Saginaw, than I-69 to I-94, before borrowing my buddies couch in South Bend 😅@BubbaWill-sw6lp
I had a children’s encyclopedia growing up. If you looked up another country, you’d get the square mileage, plus a comparison to a US state. So you would get a statement like “X country is the size of New Jersey.” I wish I still had that encyclopedia.
One of my favorite tidbits on size: the longest road in the UK is A1, which runs 410 miles between London and Edinburgh. That wouldn't even get you *halfway* across Texas on Interstate 10. And the segment in Texas is only a third of the full length of I-10. And I-10 is only the fourth-longest Interstate.
Salt Lake City, UT is 400 miles from Las Vegas, NV and LA, CA is 350 miles from Las Vegas. I used to drive that every week for work. Each segment is a 5 hour drive if you just stop for gas (CA has a lower speed limit than Utah.)
I’ve lived in California, Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Stayed in New York for two months. I’ve been to Europe. The ease of moving around the US with the same money and citizenship makes it so much easier.
Also the ease of going to Mexico, Caribbean, Hawaii, and Central America, gives us so much to do. It’s that huge pond between EU and Us that creates a little barrier like that…
"If Portugal appears here, I feel like you guys will get surprised by how big Portugal really is." Lol, I was thinking you'll be surprised by how small Portugal actually is. Fun fact, if you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the 3rd biggest state. Alaska is massive. It's simultaneously the most Northern, western, and eastern state in the USA
“Most eastern” is just a technicality because part of it (the Aleutian Islands) cross the 180th meridian. But relative to the overall continental US, it is entirely toward the west (and north).
@@kc9scott Yes but they are in what you would say the far east Asia. That may be a technicality for you, but they are east of Japan and Korea. They are closer to those countries than they are to say Washington State.
Tennessee isn’t very big. But now you guys in Europe who can’t believe that many of us in the US commute to our jobs and it’s an hour each way when you take traffic into the equation! We think it’s cute though! 😂
Yes, my office has quite a few people who live in Colorado Springs and drive to Denver every day (about an hour and a half each way). It's about 75-80 miles (120-128 km) each way, depending on the exact start and stop locations. When I went to Europe about 20 years ago, it was utterly AMAZING to me that driving that distance could easily take you through at least a couple of completely different COUNTRIES with completely different languages and rich histories! A real mind-blower!
@@EarlyMusicDiva Stop talking dumb things, beside a few dwarf countries that are nothing more than independend cities you go nowhere with 120km. Maybe you cross a single border if you start close enought, but that would be the same for the US and Canada. In many european countries people drive easily the same distance every day for work, especially in the bigger ones like germany or france.
@ oh I know, I’ve been there. But I was commenting that he thought it was a really big state and maybe it’s because I grew up in California that I don’t think of it as a big state. It’s all perspective! I loved Tennessee when I went! 😀
That's why we all need cars in the United States, we're not traveling 30 km traveling across the country on holiday, some of us travel that much every day going to work.
@vi-r22 the us keeping gas prices so much lower then Europe is the main reason we can afford to sprawl if we payed European cost for gas we would probaly be forced to build much more densley economics would force it
@@xerty5502 We are going to be pumping more and that will make the prices go down again here, you all buy yours yes? No? IDK. It is because of much more than just the price paid for fuel. 😜 Geography for some Climate for some, natural recourses for others.
Few Europeans - and not many Americans, to be honest - realize that every US State is a literal State, in the same sense that France is a State of Europe. Every US State has its own: ~ Constitution ~ 'President' (aka Governor) ~ 'Congress' (Legislature, usually bicameral) ~ 'Supreme Court' (aka Superior Court) ~ Law Enforcement (aka State Police) ~ Some form of Military Each US State is very much its own country - as much in the legal sense as in the geographic sense - excepting a few powers explicitly ceded to the United States Government: ~ Producing and regulating money ~ International relations (commerce, treaties, etc) ~ Primacy of the US Government (Federal Law overrules State Law, etc) As well as the Reciprocity Clause of the US Constitution, requiring that every US State recognize legal acts and documents from all other States. This last is why so few Americans have passports; we can freely travel from Washington to Florida, from California to Maine, and anywhere inbetween with no more documentation than the Drivers' License from our home State. The continental US (aka 'Lower 48') is a smidge larger than the entirety of Europe (sans Russia), so there's plenty to see and do without ever needing to cross an international border.
This is good information, but I would say the primacy of the US government is inaccurate. The Constitution outlines what governments can do, not people and specifically what the Federal government can do. Most people in the US do not understand what a Federal system is. Its not that federal law supercedes state law, its that the Constitution supercedes all laws. The Constitution is not particularly bias to federal laws, many laws are reserved for states and states will win where the federal government has overstepped its jurisdiction. This is an important distinction, because many people focus on the Bill of Rights, when in fact the Bill of Rights was not the guarantor of a particular right, it was insurance by the Federalist to the Anti-Federalist, that there would be (no) misinterpretation that these rights were reserved for the people. Which I find amusing because whenever someone tries to tell me that the Second Amendment is about the ability to raise a military, beyond the fact that they have no historical context and dont understand what the words meant, my reply is that its irrelevant. Even if there were no 2nd Amendment a person would still have the right to bear arms. It is unfortunate that now people look prove what rights a person has when the entire document would have never been (ratified) if it wasnt for the fact that everyone agreed this is about what rights and limitations a government has. Which is fundamentally different from most countries.
@@JaceBrenner-l4k I'm glad you clarified the part about federal law not superceding state law. If that were the case then states would be forced to allow gambelling to be legal since it is legal at the federal level but illegal in 48 states. A lot of Americans don't understand what a federal system is. They think it's just what a national government is and we know this because they will often describe other countries government as their federal government even when those countries are not federations, like France.
@@JaceBrenner-l4k That was one of the objections, in fact, to a Bill of Rights, that the enumeration of those rights would cause people to assume it was comprehensive, and that anything not mentioned was fair game. We even see that in the Second Amendment, with people trying to claim that the inclusion of the word "militia" means that the Second Amendment does not apply to private citizens (because they don't know what "militia" means) just the National Guard. Ironically, a literalist interpretation would mean that you don't have the right to pistols or hunting weapons, or home defense, ONLY for military weapons. The first clause of the Second Amendment basically translates to "sometimes you need to shoot at the government officials and military, so the people need to be equipped on a par with the Army & Navy".
@@Gunleaver That is a good point, its a bit sad that they documented their thinking process and the dangers they were worried about and still people forgot the fundamental principles of the Constitution. But unfortunately civic literacy was replaced with dogma in many schools in the US. Most Americans have no clue how good their life is. Or how uncivilized the world can be when things go wrong.
I've spent my life living in some of the biggest states. Born in Texas, Raised in New Mexico, and now living in Nevada. I've driven from New Mexico to the canadian border for a road trip. We're used to it out here.
@@TheMyrmo Then you're probably American, yup. (tho, likely some Russians& Chinese, do the same. I'd say Canadians, but they aren't all that keen on roads (kinda makes sense, tbh, they'd get no healthcare to pay for the roads if they did, as they'd likely need new ones every other year at least). But no disparagement meant, and I don't KNOW, I'm just working on I heard you just have the one that connects all the Providences or w/e you call your 'state' equivalents, so I'm just supposing.
The US itself is about the size of Europe, each "state" is the size of a country. One of the things Europeans seem to have a lot of trouble wrapping their heads around is just how far things are from each other in the US (or Canada for that matter).
@@catherinesearles1194Europe is twice the size. Russia alone is bigger. The rest of Europe is 40000 square miles larger. You ain't as big as you imagine you are. None of your great cities are bigger than London.
It's one of the reasons that Americans don't travel abroad. Someone from California can go to Colorado and go from beach to skiing in one day. We have just about every type of climate you might want. Within our own country. Love you💕
Yeah, some who can afford it, have homes in two or more states to avoid the bad weather in mid summer or winter. Every State has it's own history to learn about and it's tourist destinations to go visit. Some states have theme parks and or water parks to vacation at. It is like having 50 countries to visit in your lifetime as a citizens of the USA but, dont need extras like passports/other currency/unknown laws to go do so any time of the year you got free to do so. Canada and Mexico get a lot of USA visits yearly. The only countries I have ever been outside of all that is Australia and NZ and I still have not seen any of the states in the NE, like NY or most of the states in the central south... been to Florida twice but, that is it for the east coast.
@cp368productions2 the point was that in the USA one can find nearly every environment from around the world. We have different cultures within our own borders.
If you are not from the U.S., this is difficult to comprehend. From Portland, Oregon (on the Pacific Ocean) to Portland, Maine (on the Atlantic Ocean) is right around 3,000 miles (give or take). People in the U.S. don’t think twice about driving for 600 miles in one day. If you were to drive 600 miles a day, it would take 5 days to drive from one Portland to the other.
My husband drives an hour everyday to and from work. We have family in New Orleans, Washington, Illinois, etc. I myself have lived in southern Wisconsin, Las Vegas NV, Washington state, and Savannah GA. I have driven across the US many times. The second I got my drivers license and a car I was taking road trips to NYC, Boston, Las Vegas, Phoenix AZ, etc. That was just as a teenager.
The way I heard it was: Europeans think 200 miles is a long way, Americans think 200 years is a long time.😂 I once posted in a forum about doing some work at a US Post Office that was built in 1840. A Brit commented that his local shops were older than that.
ikr. That list was terrible. So many EU countries are MUCH smaller than US States I lived in Germany for a few years and it took like 2 hours to get to Paris That is the next town over in Texas....
@@the_algorithm What a dumb comparison. If you live on the border in the US you are in a canadian city within an hour too. When you live in eastern germany and want to drive to Paris you have a long ride too. Berlin to Paris is around 11h and thats a great connection between the cities. In fact there are only 4 states bigger than germany or sweden and only 2 bigger than france or ukraine. And one of those states is Alaska, a place where noone lives, the other one is Texas, an endless wasteland. Dont act like the US is the biggest shit the world have ever seen, thats just wrong and shows that you have no clue about anything around the world. There are so many bigger places and none of this countries cry about it like americans do. China, Brasil, Canada, Russia, Australia .... literaly everyone shows more interest in the world than americans, even people from bigger countries. Its just a cheap excuse for you, nothing else.
@ruas4721 I've lived in Germany, Turkey, Italy. Traveled to France, Spain, Portugal, Thailand, Canada. In the US, I've lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, California, and Hawaii. The only state I've not been in is Alaska. Texas is not "a wasteland " You have no idea what you're talking about. I was just making a comparison from experience. You are just being a pompass azho. Frankfurt is my favorite place in the world. Looks like and has similar climate as Connecticut, but the city is so fun and cultured. Get over yourself.
(I checked the area per square KM on this.) For scale, Ukraine is roughly the size of Texas. (Ukraine is a little smaller though.) Ireland is roughly the size of South Carolina, and both have approximately the same population. (Ireland is a little bigger though.) Wyoming is roughly the size of the entire United Kingdom (the UK is a little smaller though.) Here is another fact: The population of the U.K is over 68.35 million people. Wyoming only has 584,057. A little over half a million. That means the population of Wyoming is less than 1% the amount of people living in the United Kingdom.
As an American, I don't need a passport to travel ANYWHERE in the USA, I also don't need to worry about currency conversion, language barriers or lack of beautiful countryside. I currently live in the city. If I wanted to go to a beach, I simply drive (x) amount of hours (depending on how much 'beach' I was looking for (I can find a lake beach within a half hour drive or I can drive 8 hours down to Virginia or North Carolina for an ocean beach). If I want to see desert, simply jump on a plane and 4 hours later I'm out in Arizona. Want to wander around the woods? Pick the state you're in and choose the state park (some even have natural waterfalls) want to go see a racetrack/sporting event? A quick Google search will send you options in your area and others cross country. We have no need to go outside of the US, because everything we'd want to see is already here
As a European, I dont have to worry about currency (Euro) or Visas (Euro Passport), I can find the same in Euro also, beaches, deserts, mountains, skiing, but I also go alot more culture. There is a big difference between Germany and Italy, compared to Oklahoma and Texas. Not to mention, how close North Africa, Middle East are to us. You may be able to see Luxor in Las Vegas, but I prefer the real thing in Egypt or seeing the actual Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the Sistine Chapel in Vatican Square, so a big difference my friend.
NC has the privilege of being able to see the sunrise on the beach and watching it set in the mountains on the blue ridge parkway that same day. My state is beautiful
@@eaglehead1 20 Countries have the Euro, and 6 countries do not use the Euro. Buddy you can use you credit card to avoid the currency exchange, the bank gives you that days exchange rate. Or guess what you can withdraw money from the ATM. Also most of them use Euros unofficially, kind of like going to Mexico. You are for sure American, you can go visit the The Tabernas Desert in Spain. And Guess what? If you want fly a short distance to North Africa you can have all the desert you want
It's not unusual to drive the distance from the top to the bottom of Portugal for a holiday visit. Any longer and many people fly. But a 10hr drive is sort of "normal" for us.
@@kristend344 Yep at least twice a year we'd drive from Southern California to San Francisco to visit my parents best friends and it took about 8 hours. We'd leave super early in the morning and get there usually around noon. No big deal.
Any drive 12 hours or less is pretty much a guarantee that we'll drive instead of fly. Anything more than 12 hours, and it would depend on how long we're staying
This is why you PLAN YOUR VACATION WISELY or you will just be going from one place to another without actually seeing anything! Unless you drive -then you are still limited by time for travel. From where I live to Orlando, Fl is about a 20-21 hr drive with only very brief stops.
When going from deep Florida (West Palm Beach area) to school in East Texas (Tyler area basically right over the border) it was 1,400miles 980 of which were in FL.
A flight from Lisbon to Moscow is only a few kilometers different in length than one from Los Angeles to New York, and neither LA or NYC are the tip of the country on their respective coasts. Massive is an understatement. That said, our population distribution is very different, especially in the western half of the country.
This is why we're so happy to see and have opinions from someone from Portugal my friend! I'm in New York. I don't even know anyone from Wyoming, and our idea of culture is we see who's moving into the area around Buffalo next and see if they're opening any Restaurants! We have many nearby cultures and foods.
No offense, but new Yorkers are dense. I encountered one the other day who was under the impression that my fly over state living a$$ had never heard of Saratoga before. Think I pissed her off when I responded "Nope, never heard of Fort Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County or the Battles of Saratoga."
Ive only been to 20 states. When i was in my late teens and early 20s some of us use to talk about visiting Europe while others were saying see the America first. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it was like a "right of passage" to drive cross country. Not sure if its still that way today. The great thing about driveing cross country was meeting other people doing the same thing.
I drove cross country (NYC to San Diego) by myself about 10 years ago. It was quite the experience and am glad to have checked it off my bucket list. So far I’ve been to 30 states and look forward to seeing the remaining 20 (which are mostly in the south and east coast).
These types of videos always make me laugh. The U.S. is MASSIVE! We have everything. This is why a lot of "Americans" never travel overseas. It can take a lifetime just exploring our own country!
Europe is twice the size of the USA. Russia alone is a bigger land mass. And the rest of Europe is 40000 square miles larger. You ain't as big as you imagine you are. As a city London is bigger than any American city. Dwarfing New York, LA, Chicago...
I'm in Texas.. I'm still working on seeing the sites in Texas. I've been to NY, Wyoming, OK, NM, LA,Tenn, Fl, WV, even into Canada, plus a few places in Austria and Germany... There's just so much to see here in the good ol USA.
My husband left today to go to California, we live in central Texas... it takes 9 hours just to get from the middle of Texas to NewMexico border (El Paso) . He will drive thru New Mexico, Arizona and then to Southern California and it takes about 19 -20 hours depending on bathroom/gas stops. It's about 1300 miles.
Now you see why a lot of Americans don't leave the Country, we have so much here to see already. Roadtrips here have a whole new meaning when you go State to State. Biggest trip I had was from Pennsylvania out to Colorado and back; we went through Ohio (Oh-High-Oh for pronunciation), Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and then Colorado itself (We were there for my brother who was in the military and the trip took us a number of days because you had one adult and two small children since I was seven and my younger brother was six).
Doesn't 99% of Canada's population live within 100 miles of the border? Having unimaginable quantities of completely unused land is kind of cheating. Nunavut and The Yukon make Alaska look down right populous.
Massive tracts of uninhabitable permafrost. 90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border. The rest of the country is a frozen wasteland that not even the natives want.
@@mystrenula3911correct. Also 50 percent live in the part below the 49th parallel where it dips down north of the Great lakes. Literally half in that small region
If you drove in a car, from the west coast of the U.S., Pacific Ocean, San Francisco in Calif to the country's east coast (Atlantic Ocean), Virginia Beach, Virginia, driving straight thru, you would be driving for a solid 45 hours if you didn't stop. That's about 3,000 miles. If you drove from Southern border of Texas, northward to the Canadian border in North Dakota, it would take 24 hours or 1,500 miles driving with no stops. Every region in the U.S. has different vegetation, flora, & fauna. Some states are great for hunting & camping, or hiking. Some get very. Very hot, and some many get very, very cold. AZ may hit 117• (farenheit) in summer and Alaska may be negative 30• in the winter. I suggest a Spring trip for most states. U.S. is beautiful. I've lived in several Euro countries. In the U.S., you need a car. Transportation isn't typically as good as Europe.
I live in Denver and a bunch of my family lives in Houston. For most of my childhood we would drive the equivalent of a trip between Lisbon and Paris annually lol
Yeah... the US is enormous. 3rd largest country on the planet. Maryland is a tiny state for us. And even it is bigger than countries. Ive lived in Texas, Colorado, Utah. Driven through or visited at least 2/3 of the country. The US is just massive and endlessly varied. And honestly I would recommend a repeat visitor to spend a 2 week time and drive coast to coast through the heartland. Enjoy it. It is beautiful and you'll see an American that will blow your mind in terms of people, culture, foods, etc as you drive from city to suburban to rural to empty wide prairies dotted with tiny towns.
@@izamalcadosa2951 The US and China are close enough to the same size that how you count disputed territories and territorial waters changes the order. If you count all disputed territories as in favor of the US or China, or if you count each side's claimed territorial waters, China is 3rd largest. If you don't include any disputed territories in either country and either don't count territorial waters or count UN Recognized territorial waters, the USA is the 3rd largest. A lot of sources fall between those two extremes, making the place on the list different depending on who compiled the list.
Andre, the other day I watched a video that pointed out that Alaska is bigger than the next smaller states (Texas, California & Montana) combined. That really put it into perspective for me.
Even people in America don't realize how big some pretty average sized states are. I live in the westernmost part of NY state and I can drive to Indianapolis, three states over, quicker than I can drive to NYC. And that's not considering traffic, just straight up distance. New York state is big but doesn't look that big on a map. That means I am going through a small section of PA, the entirety of Ohio east to west, and half of Indiana quicker than going across one state. I can't even imagine driving across Texas or California north to south must be really long.
I drove from California to Florida on Interstate 10. I spent a lot of time driving across Texas. I live in Central California, and it's a long trip to San Diego, similarly driving north to Oregon.
Hey I love your channel. I am from Rhode Island and it is indeed the smallest state in the country. It takes us about an hour to get from one end to the other. Also, I really love your channel and videos. I have Portuguese blood in me and glad to see creators who have the same blood. I wish you a safe and happy holidays.
@@european-reacts I live in California, and there are two adjacent counties (Inyo and San Bernardino) that are as big as Scotland. California (also true of 10 other states) is bigger than the UK. The USA is as big as the whole continent of Europe, Canada is as big as the USA, and Mexico is bigger than France, Spain and Germany combined. The North American continent is huge. And South America is 80% larger than North America.
@@catherinehalloween Right. What I said is only half true. If one ran a marathon east to west I think one would exit Rhode Island, but south to north one would still be in the same state. As someone who lives in the western states, I've only been to the northeast a few times, it's almost a different world back there.
Dude I paused it right when you noticed Portugal The look on your face is hilarious especially if you play it in slow motion is what you just realize Tennessee is the same size as Portugal lol😂
To put it in another context. I drove from Miami, Florida to rural South Carolina and back once (look it up on the map in comparison to the size of the U.S). Think it was somewhere around Charleston. I was doing 80mph most of the way there and 90mph most of the way back. It took me 16 and a half hours. I only encountered one traffic jam the entire time which delayed me about an hour. I stopped once for gas, and twice for the bathroom. So almost all of that time was spent speeding on almost entirely clear highways.
Even our small states hold their own. I was surprised by Switzerland most. Having been there it felt much bigger. I'm now realizing that was just from the fact that mountain travel adds distance up and down and winding. Wow.
It's actually pretty large if you drive from east Tennessee, to west Tennessee. Like driving from Tallahassee, to Miami FL. It really puts into perspective how large even the SE states are. The NE states are kinda small though.
@@ruas4721 Total (Overseas, Canada, and Mexico) U.S. outbound travelers 80.7 million in 2022. Mexico (33.5 million) Canada (9.1 million) Overseas countries (38.1 million) Top overseas countries visited were the United Kingdom (3.7 million), France (3.1 million), the Dominican Republic (2.7 million), Italy (2.6 million), and Germany/Spain (both 2.0 million). International Trade Administration An analysis of travel data reveals that Europeans predominantly visit European destinations. Of 1.1 billion trips taken by European nationals in 2019, 96.3% were to European countries, according to Eurostat. Asia and Africa are the most popular destinations for trips outside Europe, accounting for 44.3% and 35.1% of trips in 2019 respectively. Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, and Thailand are the countries with the highest number of visitors. Turkey, Egypt and Morocco are medium-haul destinations. They are relatively easily accessible by Europeans from all over the continent and are well served by air, including by low cost carriers (LCCs).
@@ruas4721 In 2023, 48.9M Americans traveled overseas (Obviously, this does not count travel to Canada or Mexico). That is 14% of Americans. In 2023, 43.1M Europeans traveled abroad. That is 5.8% of Europeans. So please educate yourself before making a fool of yourself.
@@Diane-d3pumm not really a lot of Americans can speak several different languages i speak English, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese and a lot of people around me mainly speak English and Spanish
Kind of a missed opportunity for the states not to have their flags along with the US flag. Would have been even cooler if it also said which state number it was. Also would have been cool if they had more countries the states are comparable to.
O my yes! I drove thru the UK years ago, and figured out that the distance from London, England to Inverness, Scotland was just about the same as that from my home near San Diego, California to San Francisco, also California.
Just to put it into perspective.....I drove from Florida to Texas.......it was a 16hr drive one way, no stops, except for gas or Petrol as you call it, about 1600 to 1700miles or 2575km to 2736km. The USA is huge lol
A 100 mile drive is nothing, I have to drive 121.9 miles one way just to see a dentist for check-ups and scheduled cleanings. Have to dive a 62 mile round trip just to get my oil changed or buy tools from a hardware store.
My hometown (Fremont, Nebraska) is 200 miles from where I live now (Topeka, Kansas); it takes 4 hours to drive. My husband & I actually returned home yesterday from spending Christmas with my parents & brother. We each drive half the distance; my husband can drive his 100 miles without stopping; I stop to stretch & get some food after 50-60 miles. The drive from Fremont to my college town (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is 150 miles, a 3-hour drive. I would make that drive almost monthly during the 4 years I was in college, & again, I would stop about every 50 miles to stretch & get some food. I was ALWAYS alone for those trips, since I didn't meet my husband till after I graduated from college.
I am an American from Minnesota. I enjoyed your content. There is a reason that most Americans never leave the country as there is just so much to see within our borders. That said I hope to get to see Portugal in the future. I have always been interested. God bless and I subbed!
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I feel sympathy and empathy for our country, low income earners are suffering to survive, and I appreciate Wayne. You've helped my family with your advice. imagine investing $10,000 and receiving $35,460 after 28 days of trading.
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@@jobereinicke7430 The whole world's population could fit inside Texas. THE WHOLE WORLD! Yes, I understand they could fit much more comfortably in Alaska but gees who wants to live in Alaska?
@@ruas4721 didn't say you specifically man. Was commenting on Andre reacting to it as a european.... Also, crazy that 44 countries would be bigger than the USA if we were cut down to half size 😅 Calm down buddy ❤️
Good news, you won't have to visit Texas 7 times, as there is only Central Texas, North Texas, East Texas, West Texas and The Valley. And yes, they each have their own accent, and favorite foods. And smaller areas inside them, like The Hill Country in Central Texas, that still speaks a dialect of German.
Texas is almost 8x bigger than Portugal. The entire US is larger than Australia and about twice the size of the entire EU. One of the frequent things that I hear from people who visit the US from other countries is that they had NO IDEA how large it was, until they got here. (2nd place: people who thought cricket noises were just a movie trope to let the audience know it was night-time)
I am from Wisconsin. If I drive from the east border to the west border; that is enough for one day by car. BUT if you drive from the southern border to the northern border, you better get an early start and you will be driving all day. ...If you drive all day by car every day to tour the country and do not make many stops, the scenery will dramatically change all day. Hubbie and I took a 3-week road trip; we packed for 100 degree desert night time temperatures and winter coats/boots for blizzard conditions.
I loved traveling to Europe. My dad worked for a Dutch airlines so we flew free as a family. Once you arrive in the Netherlands you can get to various bordering countries within a few hours. I’m fortunate to have been able to see most of Europe and I loved it. As an adult it would cost me about $1000 just to step foot in Holland from where I live in the US. For me, cost is the primary reason why Americans don’t travel to Europe
If you look on a property scaled globe you can see that the US alone is basically the same size as the entirety of Europe (3.8 million square miles US to 3.9 million square miles Europe) and Canada is even larger than us.
Most Canadian population though is within 100 miles of the US border. And within the continental US, there's a huge difference in population from Kansas eastward vs west of Kansas (to pick one central state).
There was a saying by our Founding Fathers when they created the United States: "we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately." Originally, each colony was wanting to separate but they realized they were weaker that way. Oh, I haven't seen every frame so I don't know if it's been said but Texas is larger than France.
I'm actually from Massachusetts, here it is commonly pronounced like "Mass a choose its" I can understand why people would have trouble pronouncing it.Great video. New sub here.
I'm a native Californian and have lived in New York, Nevada and Colorado, but the majority of my 62 years are here in California ❤. BTW love your videos and your joyful ways! God bless you Andre and your family!
New England is one of the most geographically compact areas in the US. Six states in a relatively small area. It would still take you roughly 8.5 hours on Interstate 95 to drive from Southern Connecticut (Greenwich) all the way up to Houlton, Maine where I95 begins/ends. This isn’t even the topmost part of Maine. Edit: for those not familiar, New England consists of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
I live in downstate NY. It would take approximately 8 hours to drive from my home to Buffalo, NY. New York State is a lot bigger than people think. Israel is approximately the same size as New Jersey. South Korea is about 52% smaller than New York State but has over 50% more people.
I grew up in downstate NY, and I remember trying to explain to a British friend that Niagara Falls was not a short drive away. Her: "But I thought you said that you lived in New York _State_ and not the city!" I was struggling to think of a polite way to express: 'Well, kudos for understanding that the state is much more than the city, seriously, that's great, but you're still a...a bit off in your full understanding of the geography involved here."
@elkins4406 I used to work for a European company in their US headquarters. A majority of my colleagues in Europe had no clue the vastness of the country. We had to hold back laughter when two colleagues talked about flying into Ft. Wayne, IN, then driving over to Oklahoma City and flying home in 1 day. We explained that would be impossible and they would need to fly from Ft. Wayne to Oklahoma City. Once they came here and went to both cities, they got a better understanding.
@@elkins4406 parts of the state are sparse - you realize, if you want to draw a line dividing the state in half by population, the east to west line goes thru The Bronx? Westchester is "upstate" (tell them that to P*ss them off)
Europeans have the same issue with Canada. For some reason they think Canada is small and can visit the whole country in a matter of hours. I had a friend who landed in Toronto and wanted to rent a car to drive west. They never realized their destination would take 4 hours by plane and close to a week by car.
I was born in Maryland but both of my parents are from northern Illinois which is where I currently live. Growing up I’ve lived in several different states, Norfolk Virginia, Charleston South Carolina, New Orleans LA, lived 3 years in Guantanamo Bay Cuba -my dad was in the US Navy.
I have pretty much lived in WA, CA and Nevada for most all my life. Made quick trip to Florida twice, visited family in AZ a handful, made trips through Idaho and Or many times and over to Wyoming once for a family trip and when younger, visited a large dairy farm in SD to visit some of my dad's siblings. That is about it for my state living and or visits lol.
Absolutely. Some states, like my home state of Texas, while legally are just states, culturally might as well be countries. We have our own dialect of English (with a few regional variations, our own economy, that while effected by federal regulations, tends to weather the self destructive policies of our national politics much better than other states, many unique traditions, and a large selection of our own cuisine that you will be hard pressed to find the further North, East, or West you travel. To put this more into perspective. If you enter Texas on interstate 20 from Louisiana going East you will drive roughly 1024 km before it merges onto Interstate 10, East of New Mexico, and you still have almost 2hrs to go before you reach El Paso Tx, the last city before you leave TX. That is driving 75 MPH, or about 212KPH. If you enter Texas on interstate 35 going South, you will travel about about 810 kilometers before reaching the Gulf coast.
@DanaTheInsane If you are crossing the border into Mexico, the policies that made it dangerous for you are the federal policies that have made the drug cartels and human traffickers richer, bolder, and more powerful. If you are talking about crossing state lines, you are delusional, and your danger is overactive imagination driven by ideological programming.
As an American, when I've heard friends I've made from Europe talk about how a 30-45 minute drive is a long drive/distance for them, I laugh. A lot of Americans have a 30-45 minute drive to work!
I've lived in a few foreign countries. While I enjoyed it, it's nothing compared to living in and visiting 48 of the 50 states (sorry Maine and Alaska). The different states are all, in their own way, culturally diverse. And you are proud of each and every state. It's a BEAUTIFUL country. The mountains, deserts, farmland, oceans, prairies, tropics are amazing things. All with using the same currency and language (we won't talk about Louisiana with the Cajuns). 😁😁 It is pronounced MASS-AH-CHEW-SETS
Lol I'm always amazed at the amount of American people that don't realize that we have many Cajun people down here that still only speak French! Mostly older people now, sadly. Unfortunately, our parents and grandparents were punished in school for speaking French 😢
This is why I laugh when people from other countries generalize about Americans. The American people are not a monolith. We are comprised of indigenous people, and immigrants from virtually every other country on Earth, spread out over a massive landmass. No two states are alike, and you'd be hard pressed to find many Americans that are alike either.
Yes, that's so true and sometimes it's not even the states, you could travel to a different city and find a whole different culture just less than an hour away
As a born and raised Oregon native I was waiting for you to get to our state. I was thrilled to hear you say that Oregon is beautiful because I feel the same way. I have only left the US once, a trip to Canada, however in Oregon we have about every type of environment. You can ski in the mountains, visit deserts, enjoy windsurfing in the Columbia river, bask in the beauty of the rugged Oregon coastline, go shopping and enjoy fine and unique dining experiences in Portland. As you can tell. I love my state. I would love to explore other countries but will continue to enjoy them virtually. Would love to show you the best of Oregon.
@@markhathaway9456there's definitely something there just not on that road to be seen especially in Northern Texas, you wouldn't think there's anything or anyone but you'll be surprised to see many towns in any direction you go
Andre, you're English is perfectly fine and getting better all the time. Here's some help with pronunciation on a few words. Comparison = com-pare-uh-son Your Connecticut was perfect, the 2nd "c" is not pronounced. Massachusetts = mass-uh-chew-sets Arkansas = are-can-saw New Hampshire = new hamp-sure Don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois. Everything else was perfect, Merry Christmas to you and the family!
Also keep in mind we have non states too . Like PR , US virgin islands , American somoa , guam , mariana islands . And about a dozen pure military islands that have larger populations than greenland
I have a friend from France and I've learned for a lot of Europeans, it is incredibly hard for them to grasp just how vast the U.S. is. Like for example you can drive from France to Germany in about 4 hours, while a lot of our states can take 8 hours to get across just ONE state. It takes over 30hrs to drive from the North to the South of the East Coast (this is about 3 hours of flying), and it would take about 1 week of driving to get from the East coats to the West Coast(about 6 hours of flying)! Hope this helps put it in to perspective a little! XD If you really think about it, states in the U.S. are almost like their own little countries, each state has its own governments and cultural/regional differences, not only that but the geography allows for so many different climates and environments that visiting a different state is almost like visiting a different country for us!
I live in the province of Ontario, Canada. 1,076,395 square kilometers Most people in North America measure distance in TIME. you dont say how far something is away.... you say how many HOURS it will take to drive there. It's 5 hrs from my place to Ottawa :)
Yes many of our states are bigger than entire countries but the truth is in some of them such as Wyoming almost no one one wants to live there and for very good reasons⚛️❤
Everytime you said "oh but that's a big state, can we all agree" I laughed and laughed because you were still on the smaller ones! And when you discovered Portugal and did that double take I cried laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🧡
Same
@@Kepi_Kei I don’t know what he said about Portugal but it’s one place I’ve been hearing some really good things about recently. Plus as a literary person I know it has produced two world classics Love of Perdition and the other title escapes me at the moment.⚛️❤️
@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd He was comparing the size of Portugal to our states, and he kept saying they were big states. Then later he found Portugal and almost lost his mind when he saw how small it is. It's hilarious, you should watch!
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Same. I'm thinking, "No, those are just regular sized states. Wake me when you get to Texas."
As someone who grew up and has lived most of my life in the western US I struggle wrapping my head around how small Europe is.
If you mean "much bigger" with saying "small" you are right.
@@ruas4721 are you bringing up the population densities? We're not looking at population densities in this vid bud. Looking at total land mass. I would to see our Portugal friend here to do a video on it though.
@@ruas4721 Maybe I should have said "compact" and not "small". I grew up in San Diego, CA and heading north it's about 900 miles to even leave the state. I live in Denver, CO now, and I can drive about 500 miles in any direction before hitting another major metro area. The idea that London and Berlin are about as far apart as Denver and Kansas City is just so bizarre to me. One trip takes you through multiple countries and cultures and topographies and the other is nothing but corn and wheat fields.
@@adion24 I live in San Diego and can back you up on this. I've also driven to 40 states in the US.
@@ruas4721 Europe has as many people as the western US, but the space they're in is much smaller.
It's not that Americans aren't interested in traveling to other countries - we are. But the USA would take a whole lifetime to see by itself, & it doesn't require a passport, different currency, or another language. And as everyone knows, we Americans are all about convenience, LOL! Thanks for your reaction.
I've been to 42 different states and didn't even crack the surface.
Because most don't have the many thousands of dollars to spare to do so without a second thought!
Well said!
It also doesn't require traveling across an ocean. (Hawaii is a 6 hr flight from here.) I live in the PNW and have been to Canada many times. I have a 4 hour flight if I want to see my grandchildren in the US.
@@kristend344 I meant besides the countries bordering the US.
"Wait -- where is Alaska?"🤣
Just you wait, my friend.
YEP!
Aside from Canada it's closer to Russia than anything. The Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia is only 53 miles wide
@@gugurupurasudaikirai7620 Yep! And in the SE corner of the country, we're only 90 miles North of Cuba.
I have heard Europeans criticize us for not traveling there. So many Americans are still trying to see all of our country.
I always point out that most of us don't get enough time off to travel so far and God knows we don't have the money because of our "healthcare" system.
Most of us never will see every state within our own country. lol.
I love my country but it would be good for every American to get outside this country for 1 year. Go anywhere, it doesn't matter where. Our leftists would never take a knee to our flag again in their lives.
@@deemariedubois4916 yes euros have a long tradition of criticizing us for not learning their languages too along with just about everything else they can think of but where would they even be without us ⚛️❤️
@@loreemackay9960 as a life-long left/liberal I agree that even in the most advanced countries you can find really awful things going on as bad as anything here and I’ve never been ashamed of our flag or to even hang it outside my home⚛️❤️
I don't want to be this person but as a cattleman from Texas, I might need to.
Texas has a ranch (Kings Ranch) that is larger than the Country of Luxembourg and a state of the United States.
For comparison:
Kings Ranch is 1,289 square miles. The state of Rhode Island is 1,034 square miles. Luxembourg is 998.6 square miles.
For Comparison:
Australia, South Australia, Anna Creek Cattle Station is 23,677 sq/km (9,142 sq/mi)
At 5.8 million acres it is the largest farm in the world and larger than the US state of New Jersey.
Anna Creek is 7 times larger than Kings Ranch.
@@lancearn7332 Yeah, you tell 'em!
Sit down, Texas. You're not as impressive anymore. 😄
@@lancearn7332 That's pretty impressive when you consider like 90% of Australia is uninhabited by humans.
Have comfort knowing that Australian states are bigger than any American states. Queensland is bigger than Texas.
@@lancearn7332 Having a quick look at google and that farm is not looking too well. a dozen eggs is 10$... just because its a lot of empty land doesnt mean its a good farm. Look at Kings ranch in Texas and you'll see nice developed land and very green. Alot of unused land that could be put to good use in Australia.
I've driven 33 hours (north east Michigan to Reno, Nevada), and 28 of those hours were on the same road 😮
Interstate 80 from South Bend, Indiana right into Reno.
Use to make a drive from Seattle to Phoenix every year, was about a 24hr road trip with lots of long deserted roads but, beautiful, xept the bugs >.> aphids nearly clogged up my engine one year lolol, had to stop twice to scrape them off the windshield just to be able to see.
80 is a great interstate highway. I've driven from NYC to Illinois a couple of times staying on the same highway. I've also driven on 80 to/from NYC and Ohio several times.
I've made almost the exact same drive, from south east (metro Detroit) to Reno. Did it in less time though, my buddy and I took driving shifts. Because you most likely are a good 5 hour drive or more from where I started.
Drove from Michigan to Seattle and seemed like we were in Montana forever, even with their straight highways and lack of speed limit.
I'm about 3 hours north of Detroit. The first hour was spent getting onto I-75, north of Saginaw, than I-69 to I-94, before borrowing my buddies couch in South Bend 😅@BubbaWill-sw6lp
I had a children’s encyclopedia growing up. If you looked up another country, you’d get the square mileage, plus a comparison to a US state. So you would get a statement like “X country is the size of New Jersey.”
I wish I still had that encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias were fun because while trying to look for one thing you would get distracted by a picture and end up reading about Puffins or something.
One of my favorite tidbits on size: the longest road in the UK is A1, which runs 410 miles between London and Edinburgh. That wouldn't even get you *halfway* across Texas on Interstate 10. And the segment in Texas is only a third of the full length of I-10. And I-10 is only the fourth-longest Interstate.
The drive from Northern Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Fl is a bit over 1000 miles on I-95, and there is plenty more of that road I wouldn’t be using.
Salt Lake City, UT is 400 miles from Las Vegas, NV and LA, CA is 350 miles from Las Vegas. I used to drive that every week for work. Each segment is a 5 hour drive if you just stop for gas (CA has a lower speed limit than Utah.)
The entire length of A1 would barely get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
I-70 is 2,172 mi. (3,495.5 km.)
I have lived in England. The A1 is an easy drive.
I’ve lived in California, Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Stayed in New York for two months. I’ve been to Europe. The ease of moving around the US with the same money and citizenship makes it so much easier.
Also the ease of going to Mexico, Caribbean, Hawaii, and Central America, gives us so much to do. It’s that huge pond between EU and Us that creates a little barrier like that…
@@bridaw8557 Europe's multiple cultural barriers are harder to cross than the Atlantic.
Most of Europe has the same money (the Euro) and they don't need passports for most of it (The Schengen zone)...
The UK is an anomaly...
"If Portugal appears here, I feel like you guys will get surprised by how big Portugal really is." Lol, I was thinking you'll be surprised by how small Portugal actually is. Fun fact, if you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the 3rd biggest state. Alaska is massive. It's simultaneously the most Northern, western, and eastern state in the USA
“Most eastern” is just a technicality because part of it (the Aleutian Islands) cross the 180th meridian. But relative to the overall continental US, it is entirely toward the west (and north).
@@kc9scott Yes but they are in what you would say the far east Asia. That may be a technicality for you, but they are east of Japan and Korea. They are closer to those countries than they are to say Washington State.
Also has the longest coastline
Europe is twice the size of the USA. Russia alone is bigger.
@Yewchoobarkontz only half of Russia is in Europe..half is in Asia. It's split by the Urals.
Alaskans joke about splitting the state in two and making Texas "the 3rd largest state".
Lol Bring it, Alaska! Texas says that earthquakes will turn California into an island but Texans will separate by their own free will.😂
@@Tbill6763 I think the eastern counties of California will form their own state before Texas separates from the USA.
NOooo I don't want to be 5th. 4th is already not in the top 3. Stay big Alaska!! 😅
This Texan says, "Ho, Ho, Ho!!!" ❤😂❤
That’s hilarious!
Tennessee isn’t very big. But now you guys in Europe who can’t believe that many of us in the US commute to our jobs and it’s an hour each way when you take traffic into the equation! We think it’s cute though! 😂
Yes, my office has quite a few people who live in Colorado Springs and drive to Denver every day (about an hour and a half each way). It's about 75-80 miles (120-128 km) each way, depending on the exact start and stop locations. When I went to Europe about 20 years ago, it was utterly AMAZING to me that driving that distance could easily take you through at least a couple of completely different COUNTRIES with completely different languages and rich histories! A real mind-blower!
If you go from Memphis to Mountain City, you’re looking at a 543 mile drive, minimum. Tennessee, by itself, is about half the width of Europe.
@@EarlyMusicDiva Stop talking dumb things, beside a few dwarf countries that are nothing more than independend cities you go nowhere with 120km. Maybe you cross a single border if you start close enought, but that would be the same for the US and Canada. In many european countries people drive easily the same distance every day for work, especially in the bigger ones like germany or france.
Tennessee isnt big north to south but it IS one of the longest east to west states
@ oh I know, I’ve been there. But I was commenting that he thought it was a really big state and maybe it’s because I grew up in California that I don’t think of it as a big state. It’s all perspective! I loved Tennessee when I went! 😀
That's why we all need cars in the United States, we're not traveling 30 km traveling across the country on holiday, some of us travel that much every day going to work.
Ya, known someone who drove 3 hrs to and from work every day, that is crazy to me, I would of just moved closer to my work place lolol
@vi-r22 the us keeping gas prices so much lower then Europe is the main reason we can afford to sprawl if we payed European cost for gas we would probaly be forced to build much more densley economics would force it
@@xerty5502 We are going to be pumping more and that will make the prices go down again here, you all buy yours yes? No? IDK. It is because of much more than just the price paid for fuel. 😜 Geography for some Climate for some, natural recourses for others.
I drive 725Km every night just to move freight only part way to its destination in only a small part of the US. The US is huge.
We really manifested tf outta some destiny...
Few Europeans - and not many Americans, to be honest - realize that every US State is a literal State, in the same sense that France is a State of Europe. Every US State has its own:
~ Constitution
~ 'President' (aka Governor)
~ 'Congress' (Legislature, usually bicameral)
~ 'Supreme Court' (aka Superior Court)
~ Law Enforcement (aka State Police)
~ Some form of Military
Each US State is very much its own country - as much in the legal sense as in the geographic sense - excepting a few powers explicitly ceded to the United States Government:
~ Producing and regulating money
~ International relations (commerce, treaties, etc)
~ Primacy of the US Government (Federal Law overrules State Law, etc)
As well as the Reciprocity Clause of the US Constitution, requiring that every US State recognize legal acts and documents from all other States. This last is why so few Americans have passports; we can freely travel from Washington to Florida, from California to Maine, and anywhere inbetween with no more documentation than the Drivers' License from our home State. The continental US (aka 'Lower 48') is a smidge larger than the entirety of Europe (sans Russia), so there's plenty to see and do without ever needing to cross an international border.
This is good information, but I would say the primacy of the US government is inaccurate. The Constitution outlines what governments can do, not people and specifically what the Federal government can do. Most people in the US do not understand what a Federal system is. Its not that federal law supercedes state law, its that the Constitution supercedes all laws. The Constitution is not particularly bias to federal laws, many laws are reserved for states and states will win where the federal government has overstepped its jurisdiction.
This is an important distinction, because many people focus on the Bill of Rights, when in fact the Bill of Rights was not the guarantor of a particular right, it was insurance by the Federalist to the Anti-Federalist, that there would be (no) misinterpretation that these rights were reserved for the people. Which I find amusing because whenever someone tries to tell me that the Second Amendment is about the ability to raise a military, beyond the fact that they have no historical context and dont understand what the words meant, my reply is that its irrelevant. Even if there were no 2nd Amendment a person would still have the right to bear arms. It is unfortunate that now people look prove what rights a person has when the entire document would have never been (ratified) if it wasnt for the fact that everyone agreed this is about what rights and limitations a government has. Which is fundamentally different from most countries.
@@JaceBrenner-l4k I'm glad you clarified the part about federal law not superceding state law. If that were the case then states would be forced to allow gambelling to be legal since it is legal at the federal level but illegal in 48 states. A lot of Americans don't understand what a federal system is. They think it's just what a national government is and we know this because they will often describe other countries government as their federal government even when those countries are not federations, like France.
Each state here is it's own country...that somehow fell in lock step with vaccine and lockdown mandates?
@@JaceBrenner-l4k That was one of the objections, in fact, to a Bill of Rights, that the enumeration of those rights would cause people to assume it was comprehensive, and that anything not mentioned was fair game. We even see that in the Second Amendment, with people trying to claim that the inclusion of the word "militia" means that the Second Amendment does not apply to private citizens (because they don't know what "militia" means) just the National Guard. Ironically, a literalist interpretation would mean that you don't have the right to pistols or hunting weapons, or home defense, ONLY for military weapons. The first clause of the Second Amendment basically translates to "sometimes you need to shoot at the government officials and military, so the people need to be equipped on a par with the Army & Navy".
@@Gunleaver That is a good point, its a bit sad that they documented their thinking process and the dangers they were worried about and still people forgot the fundamental principles of the Constitution.
But unfortunately civic literacy was replaced with dogma in many schools in the US. Most Americans have no clue how good their life is. Or how uncivilized the world can be when things go wrong.
I've spent my life living in some of the biggest states. Born in Texas, Raised in New Mexico, and now living in Nevada. I've driven from New Mexico to the canadian border for a road trip. We're used to it out here.
when you measure distances in HOURS rather than MILES.
@@TheMyrmolol not hours but days lol New Mexico to Canada if the weather is perfect is at least a 3 day drive. 2 days if you don’t stop lol
@@TheMyrmo Then you're probably American, yup. (tho, likely some Russians& Chinese, do the same. I'd say Canadians, but they aren't all that keen on roads (kinda makes sense, tbh, they'd get no healthcare to pay for the roads if they did, as they'd likely need new ones every other year at least). But no disparagement meant, and I don't KNOW, I'm just working on I heard you just have the one that connects all the Providences or w/e you call your 'state' equivalents, so I'm just supposing.
@@tinosmo1 Yup. It only took us 3 because we were in a giant uhaul, with a small dog that needs to pee all the time lol
The US itself is about the size of Europe, each "state" is the size of a country. One of the things Europeans seem to have a lot of trouble wrapping their heads around is just how far things are from each other in the US (or Canada for that matter).
It is a good drive between most Cities within a State as well.
@@robertsmith4681 we are larger than Europe
@@catherinesearles1194 Europe is 4mil sq miles, while US is 3.8mil sq miles. We're close in size, but not bigger.
@@catherinesearles1194Europe is twice the size. Russia alone is bigger. The rest of Europe is 40000 square miles larger. You ain't as big as you imagine you are. None of your great cities are bigger than London.
@@Yewchoobarkontz Well, London IS one of the world's great cities.
It's one of the reasons that Americans don't travel abroad. Someone from California can go to Colorado and go from beach to skiing in one day. We have just about every type of climate you might want. Within our own country.
Love you💕
Where I lived in SoCal you could surf in the morning and be skiing by noon the same day! Every surfer I knew did this to say they did! 😂
Yeah, some who can afford it, have homes in two or more states to avoid the bad weather in mid summer or winter. Every State has it's own history to learn about and it's tourist destinations to go visit. Some states have theme parks and or water parks to vacation at. It is like having 50 countries to visit in your lifetime as a citizens of the USA but, dont need extras like passports/other currency/unknown laws to go do so any time of the year you got free to do so. Canada and Mexico get a lot of USA visits yearly. The only countries I have ever been outside of all that is Australia and NZ and I still have not seen any of the states in the NE, like NY or most of the states in the central south... been to Florida twice but, that is it for the east coast.
And we have 2@. God Bless America. Happy birthday Jesus.
You can ski in California, why go to Colorado to ski?
@cp368productions2 the point was that in the USA one can find nearly every environment from around the world.
We have different cultures within our own borders.
If you are not from the U.S., this is difficult to comprehend. From Portland, Oregon (on the Pacific Ocean) to Portland, Maine (on the Atlantic Ocean) is right around 3,000 miles (give or take). People in the U.S. don’t think twice about driving for 600 miles in one day. If you were to drive 600 miles a day, it would take 5 days to drive from one Portland to the other.
5 days of nothing but driving. Even longer if you want to see things! It’s crazy long drive
My husband drives an hour everyday to and from work. We have family in New Orleans, Washington, Illinois, etc. I myself have lived in southern Wisconsin, Las Vegas NV, Washington state, and Savannah GA. I have driven across the US many times. The second I got my drivers license and a car I was taking road trips to NYC, Boston, Las Vegas, Phoenix AZ, etc. That was just as a teenager.
I have driven from Kentucky to Oregon in about 3.8 days. Drug ass a bit at the end, but I was proud of it.
We don't have to go to Colorado to ski. We can literally drive from the beach to a ski resort in a couple of hours in CA.
@@ShonnMorris I live in Reno, Nevada. I’m only 30 minutes from a great beach (Lake Tahoe) and world class skiing (again, at Lake Tahoe). :)
The old joke: an hour drive is far to a European and hundred years is old to an American.
The joke is "100 miles is a long way in Europe, 100 years is a long time in America"
@@Princess_Celestia_ Same principle, different words.
The way I heard it was: Europeans think 200 miles is a long way, Americans think 200 years is a long time.😂
I once posted in a forum about doing some work at a US Post Office that was built in 1840. A Brit commented that his local shops were older than that.
Now that you see the scale of things, you'll see that "American food" means a whole lot of things. Each zone has it's own flavors for you to explore.
Even just barbecue. So many different styles. Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, to name a few.
Different variations of pizza and burgers.
I am surprised they didn't show Germany by Montana, or France by Texas. Also Greece is half the size of Colorado.
ikr. That list was terrible.
So many EU countries are MUCH smaller than US States
I lived in Germany for a few years and it took like 2 hours to get to Paris
That is the next town over in Texas....
@@the_algorithm What a dumb comparison. If you live on the border in the US you are in a canadian city within an hour too. When you live in eastern germany and want to drive to Paris you have a long ride too. Berlin to Paris is around 11h and thats a great connection between the cities. In fact there are only 4 states bigger than germany or sweden and only 2 bigger than france or ukraine. And one of those states is Alaska, a place where noone lives, the other one is Texas, an endless wasteland. Dont act like the US is the biggest shit the world have ever seen, thats just wrong and shows that you have no clue about anything around the world. There are so many bigger places and none of this countries cry about it like americans do. China, Brasil, Canada, Russia, Australia .... literaly everyone shows more interest in the world than americans, even people from bigger countries. Its just a cheap excuse for you, nothing else.
@ruas4721 I've lived in Germany, Turkey, Italy. Traveled to France, Spain, Portugal, Thailand, Canada.
In the US, I've lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, California, and Hawaii. The only state I've not been in is Alaska. Texas is not "a wasteland "
You have no idea what you're talking about.
I was just making a comparison from experience. You are just being a pompass azho.
Frankfurt is my favorite place in the world. Looks like and has similar climate as Connecticut, but the city is so fun and cultured.
Get over yourself.
@@ruas4721 You just proved yourself wrong by comparing countries to states
This American always enjoys spending a few minutes with you to rediscover my own country.... cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I checked the area per square KM on this.)
For scale, Ukraine is roughly the size of Texas. (Ukraine is a little smaller though.)
Ireland is roughly the size of South Carolina, and both have approximately the same population. (Ireland is a little bigger though.)
Wyoming is roughly the size of the entire United Kingdom (the UK is a little smaller though.)
Here is another fact:
The population of the U.K is over 68.35 million people.
Wyoming only has 584,057. A little over half a million.
That means the population of Wyoming is less than 1% the amount of people living in the United Kingdom.
Europe overall has more than twice as many people and only Texas and Alaska are realy big (and realy empty).
That video should have shown one European country for every US state, I think it would have been more interesting that way.
@@Johnny_Socko Yeah, that would be cool. For each state, one country in Europe (or somewhere else in the world) that is the rough equivalent in size.
As an American, I don't need a passport to travel ANYWHERE in the USA, I also don't need to worry about currency conversion, language barriers or lack of beautiful countryside. I currently live in the city. If I wanted to go to a beach, I simply drive (x) amount of hours (depending on how much 'beach' I was looking for (I can find a lake beach within a half hour drive or I can drive 8 hours down to Virginia or North Carolina for an ocean beach). If I want to see desert, simply jump on a plane and 4 hours later I'm out in Arizona. Want to wander around the woods? Pick the state you're in and choose the state park (some even have natural waterfalls) want to go see a racetrack/sporting event? A quick Google search will send you options in your area and others cross country. We have no need to go outside of the US, because everything we'd want to see is already here
As a European, I dont have to worry about currency (Euro) or Visas (Euro Passport), I can find the same in Euro also, beaches, deserts, mountains, skiing, but I also go alot more culture. There is a big difference between Germany and Italy, compared to Oklahoma and Texas. Not to mention, how close North Africa, Middle East are to us.
You may be able to see Luxor in Las Vegas, but I prefer the real thing in Egypt or seeing the actual Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the Sistine Chapel in Vatican Square, so a big difference my friend.
NC has the privilege of being able to see the sunrise on the beach and watching it set in the mountains on the blue ridge parkway that same day. My state is beautiful
@@Thealmightysanchez Great state but if you from the GLBT Community, not a very safe place to be.
@@shawnanderson6313 not every country has the euro and you don't have deserts.
@@eaglehead1 20 Countries have the Euro, and 6 countries do not use the Euro. Buddy you can use you credit card to avoid the currency exchange, the bank gives you that days exchange rate. Or guess what you can withdraw money from the ATM. Also most of them use Euros unofficially, kind of like going to Mexico.
You are for sure American, you can go visit the The Tabernas Desert in Spain. And Guess what? If you want fly a short distance to North Africa you can have all the desert you want
It's not unusual to drive the distance from the top to the bottom of Portugal for a holiday visit. Any longer and many people fly. But a 10hr drive is sort of "normal" for us.
My parents are 11 hours away,driving. We do this several times a year.
We used to do 15 - 18 hrs one way.
@@kristend344 Yep at least twice a year we'd drive from Southern California to San Francisco to visit my parents best friends and it took about 8 hours. We'd leave super early in the morning and get there usually around noon. No big deal.
Any drive 12 hours or less is pretty much a guarantee that we'll drive instead of fly. Anything more than 12 hours, and it would depend on how long we're staying
You can't even get out of Texas in 10 hrs.
This is why you PLAN YOUR VACATION WISELY or you will just be going from one place to another without actually seeing anything! Unless you drive -then you are still limited by time for travel. From where I live to Orlando, Fl is about a 20-21 hr drive with only very brief stops.
When going from deep Florida (West Palm Beach area) to school in East Texas (Tyler area basically right over the border) it was 1,400miles 980 of which were in FL.
That was interesting to see the size comparisons in this way. Thanks for showing this video.
A flight from Lisbon to Moscow is only a few kilometers different in length than one from Los Angeles to New York, and neither LA or NYC are the tip of the country on their respective coasts.
Massive is an understatement.
That said, our population distribution is very different, especially in the western half of the country.
This is why we're so happy to see and have opinions from someone from Portugal my friend! I'm in New York. I don't even know anyone from Wyoming, and our idea of culture is we see who's moving into the area around Buffalo next and see if they're opening any Restaurants! We have many nearby cultures and foods.
No offense, but new Yorkers are dense. I encountered one the other day who was under the impression that my fly over state living a$$ had never heard of Saratoga before. Think I pissed her off when I responded "Nope, never heard of Fort Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County or the Battles of Saratoga."
Ive only been to 20 states. When i was in my late teens and early 20s some of us use to talk about visiting Europe while others were saying see the America first. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it was like a "right of passage" to drive cross country. Not sure if its still that way today.
The great thing about driveing cross country was meeting other people doing the same thing.
That's about how many I've been to, and that's actually more than average. It takes some doing to get to that many different states.
Jack Kerouac wrote a book about it.
I'm proud to say I've been to all 50 states.
I drove cross country (NYC to San Diego) by myself about 10 years ago. It was quite the experience and am glad to have checked it off my bucket list.
So far I’ve been to 30 states and look forward to seeing the remaining 20 (which are mostly in the south and east coast).
Did you take the northern (I 70 or I 80) or southern (I 40) route?
Tennessee is actually the 36th largest state, putting it close to the bottom 25% according to size.
These types of videos always make me laugh. The U.S. is MASSIVE! We have everything. This is why a lot of "Americans" never travel overseas. It can take a lifetime just exploring our own country!
Europe is twice the size of the USA. Russia alone is a bigger land mass. And the rest of Europe is 40000 square miles larger. You ain't as big as you imagine you are. As a city London is bigger than any American city. Dwarfing New York, LA, Chicago...
Americans don't travel cuz they don't get federally mandated vacation time. Absolutely zero. And yet they bleat about freedom...
When I was a kid I remember hearing the adults talking about how they would never visit Europe because they were scared to fly over the ocean
@@YewchoobarkontzWe don't need to imagine anything. We can simply look at the numbers.
@@Yewchoobarkontz Russia is massive as well. The rest of Europe are piss ants. Enjoy mediocrity
I'm in Texas.. I'm still working on seeing the sites in Texas. I've been to NY, Wyoming, OK, NM, LA,Tenn, Fl, WV, even into Canada, plus a few places in Austria and Germany... There's just so much to see here in the good ol USA.
My husband left today to go to California, we live in central Texas... it takes 9 hours just to get from the middle of Texas to NewMexico border (El Paso) . He will drive thru New Mexico, Arizona and then to Southern California and it takes about 19 -20 hours depending on bathroom/gas stops. It's about 1300 miles.
Now you see why a lot of Americans don't leave the Country, we have so much here to see already. Roadtrips here have a whole new meaning when you go State to State. Biggest trip I had was from Pennsylvania out to Colorado and back; we went through Ohio (Oh-High-Oh for pronunciation), Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and then Colorado itself (We were there for my brother who was in the military and the trip took us a number of days because you had one adult and two small children since I was seven and my younger brother was six).
Tennessee is only about 112 miles from the southern border to the border with Kentucky. But 440 miles from west to east.
You should check out the sizes of some Canadian provinces. The maritime provinces are small, like eastern US states. The rest are ginormous.
Yupe! The West and Central Canadian provinces are massive and make most U.S. states look little!
Doesn't 99% of Canada's population live within 100 miles of the border? Having unimaginable quantities of completely unused land is kind of cheating. Nunavut and The Yukon make Alaska look down right populous.
Ontario is bigger than Texas, but Quebec is bigger than Alaska. Quebec being the biggest province and Ontario second biggest.
Massive tracts of uninhabitable permafrost. 90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border. The rest of the country is a frozen wasteland that not even the natives want.
@@mystrenula3911correct. Also 50 percent live in the part below the 49th parallel where it dips down north of the Great lakes. Literally half in that small region
6:47 every state has different laws and cultures. I love America so much
If you drove in a car, from the west coast of the U.S., Pacific Ocean, San Francisco in Calif to the country's east coast (Atlantic Ocean), Virginia Beach, Virginia, driving straight thru, you would be driving for a solid 45 hours if you didn't stop. That's about 3,000 miles. If you drove from Southern border of Texas, northward to the Canadian border in North Dakota, it would take 24 hours or 1,500 miles driving with no stops. Every region in the U.S. has different vegetation, flora, & fauna. Some states are great for hunting & camping, or hiking. Some get very. Very hot, and some many get very, very cold. AZ may hit 117• (farenheit) in summer and Alaska may be negative 30• in the winter. I suggest a Spring trip for most states. U.S. is beautiful. I've lived in several Euro countries. In the U.S., you need a car. Transportation isn't typically as good as Europe.
Very close with your Massachusetts pronunciation. Its four evenly timed syllables. MASS-UH-CHEW-SETS. You can rhyme Massa with NASA if that helps.
I live in Denver and a bunch of my family lives in Houston. For most of my childhood we would drive the equivalent of a trip between Lisbon and Paris annually lol
Yeah... the US is enormous. 3rd largest country on the planet. Maryland is a tiny state for us. And even it is bigger than countries. Ive lived in Texas, Colorado, Utah. Driven through or visited at least 2/3 of the country. The US is just massive and endlessly varied. And honestly I would recommend a repeat visitor to spend a 2 week time and drive coast to coast through the heartland. Enjoy it. It is beautiful and you'll see an American that will blow your mind in terms of people, culture, foods, etc as you drive from city to suburban to rural to empty wide prairies dotted with tiny towns.
U.S. is 4th largest country in land size behind Russia, Canada and China. U.S. is 4th and Brazil is 5th.
@@izamalcadosa2951 The US and China are close enough to the same size that how you count disputed territories and territorial waters changes the order. If you count all disputed territories as in favor of the US or China, or if you count each side's claimed territorial waters, China is 3rd largest. If you don't include any disputed territories in either country and either don't count territorial waters or count UN Recognized territorial waters, the USA is the 3rd largest. A lot of sources fall between those two extremes, making the place on the list different depending on who compiled the list.
@@Eldin_00 and actually, the US is larger than Canada by actual land area. Canada has a LOT of lakes. You count the lakes in, Canada, Dry land, US.
Andre, the other day I watched a video that pointed out that Alaska is bigger than the next smaller states (Texas, California & Montana) combined. That really put it into perspective for me.
Even people in America don't realize how big some pretty average sized states are. I live in the westernmost part of NY state and I can drive to Indianapolis, three states over, quicker than I can drive to NYC. And that's not considering traffic, just straight up distance. New York state is big but doesn't look that big on a map. That means I am going through a small section of PA, the entirety of Ohio east to west, and half of Indiana quicker than going across one state. I can't even imagine driving across Texas or California north to south must be really long.
Driving across Texas on I-10 from west to east is 880 miles...ridiculous
I drove from California to Florida on Interstate 10. I spent a lot of time driving across Texas. I live in Central California, and it's a long trip to San Diego, similarly driving north to Oregon.
Hey I love your channel. I am from Rhode Island and it is indeed the smallest state in the country. It takes us about an hour to get from one end to the other.
Also, I really love your channel and videos. I have Portuguese blood in me and glad to see creators who have the same blood. I wish you a safe and happy holidays.
Ty so much. Happy holidays 🙌
Someone said their goal was to run a marathon in all 50 states? Can one even run that far and still be in Rhode Island?😀
@@european-reacts I live in California, and there are two adjacent counties (Inyo and San Bernardino) that are as big as Scotland. California (also true of 10 other states) is bigger than the UK.
The USA is as big as the whole continent of Europe, Canada is as big as the USA, and Mexico is bigger than France, Spain and Germany combined. The North American continent is huge. And South America is 80% larger than North America.
@@Anon54387 Haha very funny. I meant by driving it takes an hour. Walking it'll take much longer.
@@catherinehalloween Right. What I said is only half true. If one ran a marathon east to west I think one would exit Rhode Island, but south to north one would still be in the same state. As someone who lives in the western states, I've only been to the northeast a few times, it's almost a different world back there.
Dude I paused it right when you noticed Portugal The look on your face is hilarious especially if you play it in slow motion is what you just realize Tennessee is the same size as Portugal lol😂
To put it in another context. I drove from Miami, Florida to rural South Carolina and back once (look it up on the map in comparison to the size of the U.S). Think it was somewhere around Charleston. I was doing 80mph most of the way there and 90mph most of the way back.
It took me 16 and a half hours. I only encountered one traffic jam the entire time which delayed me about an hour.
I stopped once for gas, and twice for the bathroom. So almost all of that time was spent speeding on almost entirely clear highways.
Even our small states hold their own. I was surprised by Switzerland most. Having been there it felt much bigger. I'm now realizing that was just from the fact that mountain travel adds distance up and down and winding. Wow.
We can all agree that Tennessee, in fact, ain't particularly large. Honestly, I was surprised at how big Portugal was.
It's actually pretty large if you drive from east Tennessee, to west Tennessee. Like driving from Tallahassee, to Miami FL. It really puts into perspective how large even the SE states are. The NE states are kinda small though.
Tennessee is wide, like my home state of New York. It's about an 8 hour drive across the bottom of the state (the widest part).
The USA and Europe are about the same size. Keep that in mind whenever Europeans are critical of Americans that never travel abroad.
And we can only speak English! That’s the only language needed! ♥️🇺🇸♥️
Imagine europeans travel to europa and to other continents ... americans not.
@@ruas4721 Total (Overseas, Canada, and Mexico) U.S. outbound travelers
80.7 million in 2022.
Mexico (33.5 million)
Canada (9.1 million)
Overseas countries (38.1 million)
Top overseas countries visited were the United Kingdom (3.7 million), France (3.1 million), the Dominican Republic (2.7 million), Italy (2.6 million), and Germany/Spain (both 2.0 million).
International Trade Administration
An analysis of travel data reveals that Europeans predominantly visit European destinations.
Of 1.1 billion trips taken by European nationals in 2019,
96.3%
were to European countries, according to Eurostat.
Asia and Africa are the most popular destinations for trips outside Europe, accounting for 44.3% and 35.1% of trips in 2019 respectively.
Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, and Thailand are the countries with the highest number of visitors.
Turkey, Egypt and Morocco are medium-haul destinations.
They are relatively easily accessible by Europeans from all over the continent and are well served by air, including by low cost carriers (LCCs).
@@ruas4721 In 2023, 48.9M Americans traveled overseas (Obviously, this does not count travel to Canada or Mexico). That is 14% of Americans. In 2023, 43.1M Europeans traveled abroad. That is 5.8% of Europeans. So please educate yourself before making a fool of yourself.
@@Diane-d3pumm not really a lot of Americans can speak several different languages i speak English, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese and a lot of people around me mainly speak English and Spanish
Kind of a missed opportunity for the states not to have their flags along with the US flag. Would have been even cooler if it also said which state number it was. Also would have been cool if they had more countries the states are comparable to.
Alaska is 1/3 the size all 50 states. The archipelagos that come off the bottom almost stretch the length of the whole United States.
LOL. You do realize that Canada has some of that, right?
And we bought it from Russia for $7.2M. LOL
As an US army brat who grew up in Germany and saw much of Europe via bus tours, I was laughing right off the bat! 😂
O my yes! I drove thru the UK years ago, and figured out that the distance from London, England to Inverness, Scotland was just about the same as that from my home near San Diego, California to San Francisco, also California.
Just to put it into perspective.....I drove from Florida to Texas.......it was a 16hr drive one way, no stops, except for gas or Petrol as you call it, about 1600 to 1700miles or 2575km to 2736km. The USA is huge lol
This demonstrates why a 100 mile drive is nothing to many, if not most, Americans.
A 100 mile drive is nothing, I have to drive 121.9 miles one way just to see a dentist for check-ups and scheduled cleanings. Have to dive a 62 mile round trip just to get my oil changed or buy tools from a hardware store.
@@Princess_Celestia_ Its called terrible infrastructure.
My hometown (Fremont, Nebraska) is 200 miles from where I live now (Topeka, Kansas); it takes 4 hours to drive. My husband & I actually returned home yesterday from spending Christmas with my parents & brother. We each drive half the distance; my husband can drive his 100 miles without stopping; I stop to stretch & get some food after 50-60 miles. The drive from Fremont to my college town (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is 150 miles, a 3-hour drive. I would make that drive almost monthly during the 4 years I was in college, & again, I would stop about every 50 miles to stretch & get some food. I was ALWAYS alone for those trips, since I didn't meet my husband till after I graduated from college.
I am an American from Minnesota. I enjoyed your content. There is a reason that most Americans never leave the country as there is just so much to see within our borders. That said I hope to get to see Portugal in the future. I have always been interested. God bless and I subbed!
That's why the U.S. has a huge car culter😆
When you visit the United States you can explore the state of Maine, it is beautiful. And you can proudly say your country Portugal is larger!
It's not that US States are big, it's that other countries are small.
You can fit Germany, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and Spain into Alaska and still have a little room left over
Merry Christmas from our family in Virginia. Our state and your country are similar in size. Very interesting.
If you rotate it right, you can fit the entire Mediterranean Sea inside the borders of the US.
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the european mind trying to grasp the size of the U.S. is comical XD love the video
btw, 19 states could fit inside of alaska, including new york.
@@jobereinicke7430 The whole world's population could fit inside Texas. THE WHOLE WORLD! Yes, I understand they could fit much more comfortably in Alaska but gees who wants to live in Alaska?
@@lennybuttz2162 We'd all be able to fit inside Rhode Island if we each had roughly half a square meter
If you cut Alaska away the US is by far smaller than Europe, so no, i dont fail to grasp the size of the US, its not that big at all.
@@ruas4721 didn't say you specifically man. Was commenting on Andre reacting to it as a european.... Also, crazy that 44 countries would be bigger than the USA if we were cut down to half size 😅 Calm down buddy ❤️
Good news, you won't have to visit Texas 7 times, as there is only Central Texas, North Texas, East Texas, West Texas and The Valley. And yes, they each have their own accent, and favorite foods. And smaller areas inside them, like The Hill Country in Central Texas, that still speaks a dialect of German.
I know I'm late but as a Minnesotan I have to share this fact. Minnesota has more miles of shoreline than Hawaii, California, and Florida combined.
That was very interesting. Thank you for sharing the video. I hope you show more of your country.
Texas is almost 8x bigger than Portugal. The entire US is larger than Australia and about twice the size of the entire EU. One of the frequent things that I hear from people who visit the US from other countries is that they had NO IDEA how large it was, until they got here. (2nd place: people who thought cricket noises were just a movie trope to let the audience know it was night-time)
I am from Wisconsin. If I drive from the east border to the west border; that is enough for one day by car. BUT if you drive from the southern border to the northern border, you better get an early start and you will be driving all day. ...If you drive all day by car every day to tour the country and do not make many stops, the scenery will dramatically change all day. Hubbie and I took a 3-week road trip; we packed for 100 degree desert night time temperatures and winter coats/boots for blizzard conditions.
I loved traveling to Europe. My dad worked for a Dutch airlines so we flew free as a family. Once you arrive in the Netherlands you can get to various bordering countries within a few hours. I’m fortunate to have been able to see most of Europe and I loved it.
As an adult it would cost me about $1000 just to step foot in Holland from where I live in the US. For me, cost is the primary reason why Americans don’t travel to Europe
If you look on a property scaled globe you can see that the US alone is basically the same size as the entirety of Europe (3.8 million square miles US to 3.9 million square miles Europe) and Canada is even larger than us.
Most Canadian population though is within 100 miles of the US border. And within the continental US, there's a huge difference in population from Kansas eastward vs west of Kansas (to pick one central state).
We should start a coalition of squarish states and hold conventions where we dress in blocky suits like Lego mini figs.
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I'm actually surprised Iran was closer to Alaska in size. I thought it was closer to Texas in size so the ending was very interesting to me as well.
Texas, almost 700K sq kilometers, 695K sq kilometers and a bit more, Alaska is 1Million 733Thousand square kilometers.
There was a saying by our Founding Fathers when they created the United States: "we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately."
Originally, each colony was wanting to separate but they realized they were weaker that way.
Oh, I haven't seen every frame so I don't know if it's been said but Texas is larger than France.
I'm actually from Massachusetts, here it is commonly pronounced like "Mass a choose its" I can understand why people would have trouble pronouncing it.Great video. New sub here.
They're more used to how a British person would pronounce their city names and leave out half of the syllables.
@@qchronod naturally. :)
i was born in Alaska, one thing i can say.. YOU CAN GET LOST IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING VERY EASILY!
I'm a native Californian and have lived in New York, Nevada and Colorado, but the majority of my 62 years are here in California ❤. BTW love your videos and your joyful ways! God bless you Andre and your family!
New England is one of the most geographically compact areas in the US. Six states in a relatively small area. It would still take you roughly 8.5 hours on Interstate 95 to drive from Southern Connecticut (Greenwich) all the way up to Houlton, Maine where I95 begins/ends. This isn’t even the topmost part of Maine.
Edit: for those not familiar, New England consists of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
I live in Caribou, an hour north of Houlton and there's still more north.😂 Aroostook county is like a state in itself.
@@robynsmith3040
Yep! Aroostook County is larger than Connecticut and Lil Rhody combined!
Mainer here too but further south.
I live in downstate NY. It would take approximately 8 hours to drive from my home to Buffalo, NY. New York State is a lot bigger than people think. Israel is approximately the same size as New Jersey. South Korea is about 52% smaller than New York State but has over 50% more people.
I grew up in downstate NY, and I remember trying to explain to a British friend that Niagara Falls was not a short drive away. Her: "But I thought you said that you lived in New York _State_ and not the city!" I was struggling to think of a polite way to express: 'Well, kudos for understanding that the state is much more than the city, seriously, that's great, but you're still a...a bit off in your full understanding of the geography involved here."
@elkins4406 I used to work for a European company in their US headquarters. A majority of my colleagues in Europe had no clue the vastness of the country. We had to hold back laughter when two colleagues talked about flying into Ft. Wayne, IN, then driving over to Oklahoma City and flying home in 1 day. We explained that would be impossible and they would need to fly from Ft. Wayne to Oklahoma City. Once they came here and went to both cities, they got a better understanding.
@@elkins4406 parts of the state are sparse - you realize, if you want to draw a line dividing the state in half by population, the east to west line goes thru The Bronx? Westchester is "upstate" (tell them that to P*ss them off)
Europeans have the same issue with Canada. For some reason they think Canada is small and can visit the whole country in a matter of hours. I had a friend who landed in Toronto and wanted to rent a car to drive west. They never realized their destination would take 4 hours by plane and close to a week by car.
I was born in Maryland but both of my parents are from northern Illinois which is where I currently live. Growing up I’ve lived in several different states, Norfolk Virginia, Charleston South Carolina, New Orleans LA, lived 3 years in Guantanamo Bay Cuba -my dad was in the US Navy.
I have pretty much lived in WA, CA and Nevada for most all my life. Made quick trip to Florida twice, visited family in AZ a handful, made trips through Idaho and Or many times and over to Wyoming once for a family trip and when younger, visited a large dairy farm in SD to visit some of my dad's siblings. That is about it for my state living and or visits lol.
Wow! 💁🏻♀️ I didn’t realize that my home state of Tennessee is almost as big as your country, Andre! 🤯
Absolutely. Some states, like my home state of Texas, while legally are just states, culturally might as well be countries. We have our own dialect of English (with a few regional variations, our own economy, that while effected by federal regulations, tends to weather the self destructive policies of our national politics much better than other states, many unique traditions, and a large selection of our own cuisine that you will be hard pressed to find the further North, East, or West you travel.
To put this more into perspective. If you enter Texas on interstate 20 from Louisiana going East you will drive roughly 1024 km before it merges onto Interstate 10, East of New Mexico, and you still have almost 2hrs to go before you reach El Paso Tx, the last city before you leave TX. That is driving 75 MPH, or about 212KPH.
If you enter Texas on interstate 35 going South, you will travel about about 810 kilometers before reaching the Gulf coast.
And laws that make it dangerous for my spouse and I to even cross the border.
@DanaTheInsane If you are crossing the border into Mexico, the policies that made it dangerous for you are the federal policies that have made the drug cartels and human traffickers richer, bolder, and more powerful. If you are talking about crossing state lines, you are delusional, and your danger is overactive imagination driven by ideological programming.
As an American, when I've heard friends I've made from Europe talk about how a 30-45 minute drive is a long drive/distance for them, I laugh. A lot of Americans have a 30-45 minute drive to work!
Yes alot of our States are essentially countries. I can spend 1/4 of a day to travel across mine from west to east all on highway.
I've lived in a few foreign countries. While I enjoyed it, it's nothing compared to living in and visiting 48 of the 50 states (sorry Maine and Alaska). The different states are all, in their own way, culturally diverse. And you are proud of each and every state. It's a BEAUTIFUL country. The mountains, deserts, farmland, oceans, prairies, tropics are amazing things. All with using the same currency and language (we won't talk about Louisiana with the Cajuns). 😁😁 It is pronounced MASS-AH-CHEW-SETS
Lol I'm always amazed at the amount of American people that don't realize that we have many Cajun people down here that still only speak French! Mostly older people now, sadly. Unfortunately, our parents and grandparents were punished in school for speaking French 😢
This is why I laugh when people from other countries generalize about Americans. The American people are not a monolith. We are comprised of indigenous people, and immigrants from virtually every other country on Earth, spread out over a massive landmass. No two states are alike, and you'd be hard pressed to find many Americans that are alike either.
My respect to you
Yes, that's so true and sometimes it's not even the states, you could travel to a different city and find a whole different culture just less than an hour away
As a born and raised Oregon native I was waiting for you to get to our state. I was thrilled to hear you say that Oregon is beautiful because I feel the same way. I have only left the US once, a trip to Canada, however in Oregon we have about every type of environment. You can ski in the mountains, visit deserts, enjoy windsurfing in the Columbia river, bask in the beauty of the rugged Oregon coastline, go shopping and enjoy fine and unique dining experiences in Portland. As you can tell. I love my state. I would love to explore other countries but will continue to enjoy them virtually. Would love to show you the best of Oregon.
You can drive in the same direction at 70 mph for 12 hours and still be in Texas
And for much of that the roadsign would say, "There's nothing here".
@@markhathaway9456there's definitely something there just not on that road to be seen especially in Northern Texas, you wouldn't think there's anything or anyone but you'll be surprised to see many towns in any direction you go
Andre, you're English is perfectly fine and getting better all the time. Here's some help with pronunciation on a few words.
Comparison = com-pare-uh-son
Your Connecticut was perfect, the 2nd "c" is not pronounced.
Massachusetts = mass-uh-chew-sets
Arkansas = are-can-saw
New Hampshire = new hamp-sure
Don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois.
Everything else was perfect, Merry Christmas to you and the family!
I love that the maps also show the basic terrain and water features
Also keep in mind we have non states too . Like PR , US virgin islands , American somoa , guam , mariana islands . And about a dozen pure military islands that have larger populations than greenland
"I think you'll be surprised by how big Portugal really is." Me: (laughing in Kansas)
"Toto, we've been driving for eight hours and we're _still in fucking Kansas."_
I have a friend from France and I've learned for a lot of Europeans, it is incredibly hard for them to grasp just how vast the U.S. is. Like for example you can drive from France to Germany in about 4 hours, while a lot of our states can take 8 hours to get across just ONE state. It takes over 30hrs to drive from the North to the South of the East Coast (this is about 3 hours of flying), and it would take about 1 week of driving to get from the East coats to the West Coast(about 6 hours of flying)! Hope this helps put it in to perspective a little! XD If you really think about it, states in the U.S. are almost like their own little countries, each state has its own governments and cultural/regional differences, not only that but the geography allows for so many different climates and environments that visiting a different state is almost like visiting a different country for us!
Merry Christmas, Andre!!
I live in the province of Ontario, Canada. 1,076,395 square kilometers Most people in North America measure distance in TIME. you dont say how far something is away.... you say how many HOURS it will take to drive there. It's 5 hrs from my place to Ottawa :)
Yes many of our states are bigger than entire countries but the truth is in some of them such as Wyoming almost no one one wants to live there and for very good reasons⚛️❤
Besides the cold, what are the reasons?
@There are many. How much time do you have?⚛️❤️
@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd everyone's on Christmas break
You don't like 130 kph subzero winter breezes? Cleans the sinuses I say.
I don't think it's so much that no one wants to live there more like they can't live there because there's no way to earn a living.