How Japan is 600 Kilometers From the USA - Asia's Strange Geography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- Asia is a gargantuan, diverse continent full of interesting little surprises all over the place, so given the popularity of my video on Europe's weird geography, I decided I'd follow it up with some of Asia's most fascinating geographical phenomena.
(4,000 likes and I'll do another continent [Africa, perhaps?])
MUSIC:
"Great Wall of China" by Sight of Wonders
"Sights of the Tokyo Tower" by Sight of Wonders
"World of Dreamers" by Jhukane Bada
"Road to Tibet" Edward Karl Hanson
"The Bloom of Cherry Blossoms" by Sight of Wonders
"A Fair Lady" by Sight of Wonders
(all via EpidemicSound)
👕 MERCH!
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📖 SOURCES:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangsee...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
www.worldatlas.com/articles/w...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
*Just because I have sources doesn't mean my research is infallible. Though I aim for as much accuracy as I can manage, there are likely some facts I have gotten wrong.
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Since everyone's asking, the 3 random frames between 2:30 and 3:00 are just random animation glitches. Believe me, they were even worse in earlier drafts of this video.
Lol no likes
@@shrekboiyeet7511 hahahahahahagagagghahahajijhrwqdhkjcehahahhlje
you deserve more subs
4th reply XD
Love from Nepal
Fun fact: the earth is bigger than Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica combined!!!
OMG WOW REALLY
Yeah, our continents are smaller than our oceans.
Did you know that London are bigger than your and my house combined ?
@Indra Servo You haven’t seen how big my house is
Texas is bigger than Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, The entire earth and a portion of mars tucked in there
Asia is bigger than Algeria, Chile and Germany combined!
Np way
:O
The U.K. Is bigger than Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Vatican city and San Marino combined.....
the_world_citizen dude, thats likw nothing
Wow!
Antarctica: The continent where there’s north, other north, this north, that north, and also north
The only place where "going north" means digging underground
@@xexpaguette no it's Antarctica
@Adam Aboushady no it's Antarctica
@@indraservo5764 no it's Antarctica
@@xexpaguette its Antarctica bro
Let's not forget that Philippines has an island in a lake in an island in a lake on an island
A man of culture! :)
Same as canada
xD
It’s already gone tho, because Taal exploded, which evaporated the lake in its crater
Islandception
New info I learned: Nepal is further away from Sri Lanka as it is from China.
Thanks! I didn't know that
you need to learn geography from me LOL
same
xD
Generic Grammar Nazi comment
*didn't know
there's only 1 country between norway and north korea
And before ww1, there was one country between Germany and China
Ruben van Belzen 0*
Qingdao was German, same with part of Tianjin and that both bordered China.
If you’re talking about mainland Germany, then I can understand.
@Connecticut Ball its called russia
I was like *Really who*
Oh yeah Russia
@@octave1 Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
Never thought that I would ever heard "ONLY the population of Germany"
Damn
Hear*/be hearing*/have heard*
@@Gamer-uf1kl Ironic of you to correct some dude's comment when some of your comments in other videos don't have proper grammar or punctuation.
Everyone makes mistakes, and anyone can correct anyone else's mistakes.
@@Gamer-uf1kl Sure, guess you're right, but it's kind of a shitty solution to problem of hypocrisy.
Yeah, in European terms the German population might seem large but in China terms!?
Western Australia is an island within an island.
Jaymo J and Tasmania
Inception
a joke only australians will get
Because it is so isolated?
I thought it was an American posting nvm
“Nepal is farther from Sri Lanka, than it is from China”. This man is so smart.
Yes, I was amazed too.
So smart he went to Germany
Omg what!! That’s crazy 🤯
Stating the obvious is ok but it's a bit of not a regular thing when explaining with showing a distance using a map is it?
Short answer: Iwo Jima and the Northern Mariana Islands
Long answer: Just watch the video, it's super interesting
Ah, I was thinking Guam or something haha
@@krissp8712 I was thinking the same thing! To be fair, Guam is also part of the same island chain as the Northern Mariana Islands, and there are even proposals to merge these two US territories into one, so it kind of makes sense that we would think that.
Fun fact:
If you draw a straight line from easternmost point of Russia (on Big Diomede island) and its westernmost point (in Kaliningrad oblast) the line doesn't touch any other part of Russia
Oh my god, i live here, but i didn't know this before
Wow that’s actually really cool
It touches siberia
@@galaxya6406 it doesn't
@@nikolajankovic96 it only will work if you go through the pasific not siberian so it's only work one way
Fun fact: You can actually see Mainland China from the Taiwanese controlled Kimmen Islands
You can also see it from Beijing
@@infinitejinpachi lool
Islands which the CCP tried several times to invade just because of how close they are to the mainland.
Heard of some one who argued that the ROC 'stole' Kinmen from the PRC
Cop
And Russia is only 6 kilometers from Japan.
And North Korea borders Russia
France actually borders Netherlands in Carrabian...
UK borders Spain in gibrotor
France borders Brazil
UK borders Cyprus
As an Indonesian, thank you for doing your best to pronounce our cities with an indonesian accent :)
KhAnubis: With a population of over nine thousand
Vegeta: Ah I see you're a man of culture as well
Oh hey you again nice to see you buddy
U are everywhere....literally everywhere
How have you commented on almost every video I watch lol
dude you're literally everywhere. enjoy the sun, it's nice :')
Hi dude.
So when the USA invaded Iwo Jima in World War 2 we took over a part of Japan's capital of Tokyo?
Good question.🤔
I don’t think it was administered like that back then, but too lazy to look it up so not sure
So that's why Japan lost the war.
@@theyoshi202 I'm not sure, but if I am researching correctly, Iwo Jima has been part of Tokyo since 1940, so yes, the US military technically invaded (and raised it's flag) over a part of Tokyo itself! For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima#History en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogasawara,_Tokyo#History
They took part of Tokyo prefecture, not the Tokyo metropolitan area or the city
Actually, Jakarta is divided into 5 administrative cities (North, East, West, South, and Central) and also 1 regency (another type of division i couldn't explain because i don't really know the definition) which is Kepulauan Seribu (thousand islands)
Great video btw! Love from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Btw, "thousand islands" in Filipino is "sanlibong kapuluan". I can really see the language connection here!
@@xenbitt yeah, our language have so many similarities wkwk
@@xenbitt Same language group, yeah? Indo-Pacific or something if I remember correctly. S'from like Malaysia to (Aboriginese) Australia to probably even Micronesia. I think.
@@YataTheFifteenth Austronesian, it originates from Taiwan, and includes Tagalog, Malay (Indonesian is a dialect of Malay), Javanese, Maori, Hawaiian, and many others that i can't mention.
Yo bro. Regency is somewhat can be compared to county. Usually regencies are countryside with a lot of rural areas, albeit still have some urban areas (such as the district capital of the regency) compared to cities with urban areas. Regencies also usually have a lot more area compared to cities (usually cities only have like
I appreciate the fact that there are already subtitles, it makes it easier to watch it as soon as possible
Did you know that depok and bekasi is parts of Jakarta metropolitan area known as Jabodetabek
(Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tanggerang-Bekasi).
Putting 5 of the cities combined, Jabodetabek will become the second largest metropolitan area, only behind Tokyo.
@@risannd some how that name (Jabodetabek) makes me hungry.
Wow, a TH-camr that puts actual effort into their pronunciation??? I wish I could sub again!
And yes, africa please!
Can you talk about how the balance of power changed Europe?
That's a pretty good idea
BORING
5:36 lmao this is such a hidden but fantastic use for the joke
Fun fact
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh would be the fifth most populous country in the world if independent
“Java is the most populous island in the world”
Afro-Eurasia: Am I a joke to you?
Its a landmass :/
A continent can't be considered island
“With a population of over 9000”
*I see what you did there.*
Iwo Jima part of Tokio - we have a similarity to this in Germany: the tiny wadden sea islands of Neuwerk and Scharhörn in the North Sea near the beaches of Cuxhaven are part of the city of Hamburg 150 km away. The oldest building of Hamburg is the lighthouse of Neuwerk :-)
“I’m not here to get into the sovereignty debate”
South China Sea has left the chat
*One China Policy has left the chat
Keep up the good work!
I just found out this channel and after like 1 minute and 50 seconds. I subbed 😂✨
You should continue the series, it is amazing!
Are you in west or east Berlin.
Kreuzberg, so west
@@KhAnubis ohhh u such a traitor of Eastern Germany:/
@@benismann he's american moved to Germany.
Benismann what is Easter Germany?
@@Charll it is Germany on the Easter holidays
fun fact: London is 5,875.58 km away from London and 390.89 km away from London it is also 1338.63 km from London or 696.24 km away from London and also 9,101.87 km away from London
The london I'm measuring from is London, Ontario
the 5,875.58 km away is London, Uk
the one that is 390.89 is London, Ohio
1338.63 is London, Arkansas
and 696.24 is London, Kentucky
the farthest away is London, Kiribati
why so much traitors to the crown named their town "london".
Fun Fact:
France is closer to the United States than it is to Poland.
Please continue,they are highly educative
I think there’s a glitch at 2:46. Also Yonaguni is part of the Yaeyama Islands. The inspiration for Bandiaterra
Kim Jong-un is a man of culture, you see
You make me so happy when you include Oman, Kazahkstan and Armenia as *Asian*.
Namely Armenia and Oman. People keep misclassifying the Middle East and Asia as two continents, and Armenia as Europe "becuz it's European culturally" when it's not... Really.
It doesn't matter what the culture is. I can easily say Turkey is pure European and ignore the fact Anatolia is in Asia.
Europe isn't a continent dumbass it's Eurasia and Armenia culture is more in part with Europeand anyway
Frank Woods Well, most people identify Europe as a seperate continent from Asia, though the issue is that a continent is really more of a term we humans applied on the earth to divide it up so there isn’t really a clear reason for organization that everyone would agree with.
I've been making jokes about crowded locations referencing Jakarta since middle school.
You make really nice content and you are underrated. I wish you the best you seem like a nice man.
From all videos about Indonesian geographics, this is only the video where Jakarta is said to have cities.
Actually Jakarta (or the Special Capital Region of Jakarta Province) is comprised of 5 administrative cities (East Jakarta, West Jakarta, Central Jakarta, South Jakarta, North Jakarta) and 1 administrative regency (similar to county) (Kepulauan Seribu or Thousand Islands Regency). Thousand Islands is actually kinda like Tokyo's Ogasawara islands, but the different is Thousand Islands is not 1100 km away, It's close on Jakarta bay.
I said administrative cities and regency, where It's cities and regency has a decent government like the rest of Indonesian cities and regencies, but have a difference where there's no election for mayor (and regent for regency). The mayor and regent for these administrative cities and regency are appointed directly by the governor.
FYI, the cities of Bekasi and Depok in West Java province is actually a part of the Jakarta Metropolitan area (Jabodetabek) as these cities are literally the neighbors of East Jakarta and South Jakarta respectively. The police in these cities are also administered by the Jakarta Metropolitan Provincial Police, rather than the East Java Provincial Police. So these 2 cities are the only cities in East Java that has a Metropolitan police. Bandung is the capital of East Java, but Bekasi is the largest city in East Java due to It's position beside the capital.
2:37 i feel bad for sri lanka .
It was Ceylon
Then again, Myanmar was Burma so Idk
Yeah, I believe Sri Lanka was administered as a separate colony. I could be wrong though.
It was a separate colony called Ceylon, hence why it’s not colored in
@@legowagfles7287 Burma was too
IVaV No it was a part of British Raj
I don't know why but I'm genuinely impressed you knew about Norfolk Island hahhaha, KhAnubis for the win.
I just subscribed yesterday and when I woke I’m greeted to a new video
I love geography. Thank you for doing this.
Do a Middle East video like this, please! Oceania may also be quite interesting
Him, does this
Yt: perma demonotization
Yeah a video on Oceania the British the current cultures and Australia and New Zealand and their relationship and influence in the area would be really interesting
he just did with in this video already. West Asia is just that.
@@sirBrouwer it was kind of skipped over, though
I love how everything is massive in comparison to us Europeans
How much effort do you actually put into your research??? Your place name’s are so very well pronounced!!!! 👌👌
5:20 I don’t know why but this made laugh so hard
7:25 Greetings from Semarang, Indonesia!
Pualam Nusantara tahu tidak kalau Perancis punya perbatasan dengan belanda
Di Karibia
@@rudaleru Tahu, di pulau Saint Maarten, di salah satu bagiannya ada bandara yang pesawatnya kalau take-off dan mendarat rendah banget.
@@rudaleru perbatasan paling panjang prancis itu sama brazil, bukan spanyol atau jerman.
Can you make a video about the complex diversity of the Middle East?
It's nice that you're updated with the Philippines islands count 😊
This needs a part 2 and 3
*When you are so early the video has 256 views*
I was here when the video had 14 views
I was here when the video had 9 views
I am here when there are 1.3k views
I am here when 1 view
@@Gamer-uf1kl oof
Jakarta is actually divided into 5 cities. Perhaps you forget Central Jakarta.
- Jakartans
And 1 regency named Kepulauan Seribu ( thousand islands )
Wow, your English is so good!
Good video
5:37 its over 9000
i didnt watch the video
but i think i already know...
islands 🌴 like 🇬🇺 guam 🇬🇺
or other islands maybe
thats my guest....
tell me if im wrong but thanks 😊.
🇲🇵Northern Mariana Islands🇲🇵.
About half of Indonesia is considered Asia, as another half is Australia with Wallace Line dividing it
Only the island of New Guinea is considered part of Oceania/Australia, nothing to do with the Wallace Line, that's more about species and their distribution.
Correction: Sapporo is actually closer to Denver than Izmir. Denver is 8,650km away, while Izmir is 8,800km away
That’s what he said
Phillipines: I have over 7000 islands!!
Indonesia: Pfft, I have over 18000 islands!!
* amateurs *
Phillipines and Indonesia: Huh?
Scandinavian Countries: AMATEURS
Croatia & Greece: ...are you finished?
Canada: 😓
Philippines & Indonesia : wait what, islands in a lake? thats illegal!
Taal
@@andygian5523 wdym, in the Philippines theres a lake inside a volcano inside a lake....
@@abcdtemp Well Indonesia also have that, but nothing like Canada and Scandinavia countries, they have hundred or thousand island in lake and lake inside of island. but you know, Island inside lake hardly consider as island itself.
Once you used Mercator projection, your argument is invalid.
🙄
In what part of the video did I use Mercator?
@@KhAnubis 3:47 etc...
@@iamgreat1234 why are you gae
Just kidding
@@iamgreat1234 if he was using mercator for measurements, he wouldn't have curved that line...
Can you do Africa next?
Yo whats going on with your renders ? I keep seeing the map flashing once in a while.
Oh my you are a German! You have an almost perfect English accent but I can just tell because of your pronunciation of "th" xD
Hes not German, hes an American living in Germany
I'm an American with a weird microphone
@@KhAnubis Ooooo
Funny it is that i was drinking a Sapporo beer when you mentioned the city
Fun fact: the United States are actually closer to Canada then they are to the UK
1:17 Nice to see my parents' native country mentioned
I like this series.
0:47 u just said my 3 favorite cities
This is cooool
You showed a map with Lienchiang County on it. This county is part of Fujian Province (aka Hokkien, depending on what Chinese you're speaking). The county, and therefore the province, are split between the PRC and the ROC. (The PRC romanizes it as "Lianjiang", but it's the same in Chinese characters.)
3:44-: in practice in my country, many people share the fact that the united states owns many military bases here in japan. please note that the real distance in people minds is 0km because they own their territory here.
5:37 Over 9,000!
Philippines also has Turtle Islands and Mapun. Turtle Islands is a few kilometers away to Malaysian Turtle Islands than it is to the nearby town Mapun. But Mapun is also isolated from the rest of the country leaving the two towns on the southwestern Sulu Sea.
Well a flight from Turkey to Japan technically does go into Europe once you fly over the Caucasus but I guess that isn’t the point cause it’s going from Asia to Asia.
I really liked how you tried to pronounce Bangladesh correctly, it wasn't perfect but was way far better than others, thanks for that.
Due to the large distance teams have to travel, Asian champions league is divided into East and west groups and they only meet at the final, last version’s final was played between a Saudi club and a Japanese club and both teams had to fly all the distance to play in both countries
Please, make South America next! Boa Vista is closer to Miami than to Rio
I think that quite a few of the islands in Indonesia, and I assume the Philippines, are just very large rocks sticking up out of the sea.
Same as the Scandinavian countries. South-East Asia is maritime, the definition of an Island can only be a land that is habitable, so it's not rocks sticking out of sea.
I bet the south pacific/Australia has interesting features with all those tiny islands so far apart
3:01 Cries from Nepal and Bhutan
Even tho the Taal lake is no more...the Vulcan point which is the island in a lake, in an island in a lake, on an island survives the explosion during Taal eruption.
5:36
Vegita: That's my line
In Europe, you can ride a bus for 30 minutes and reach another country, meanwhile in India, you can ride an overnight train and it still in the same state.
You can probably ride to another country from india in not too long if you're close to the border
Ernest Jay if you're 30 mins from a border yes of course. But you can do that in any country
@@Iamtheliquor the thing is a lot of European countries are just that small. If i would drive from the Netherlands to France i can drive across Belgium with in a hour.
it's even doable to drive from the Netherlands to Spain in one day. Crossing 3 countries in between. (Belgium, France, Andorra) Not counting both the time in side of the Netherlands or Spain.
@@sirBrouwer France is far from being small its about 1/6th of the size of india. India is big but its not huge. only six countries are so huge its rediculous and that is, Autralia, Brazil, US, China, Canada and obviously Russia.
@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 but small enough to drive across it from the Netherlands cross Belgium and France to Spain in one day.
You should have talked about how the UAE has land surrounded by Oman surrounded by the UAE surrounded by Oman
In 1941, the distance between Japan and the USA was 0 km.
USA hasn't even entered WW2 in 1941.
You're more likely to walk from Paris to Moscow than swimming from Los Angeles to Tokyo
Another interesting fact about Indonesia is that the the country is so vast that the eastern most point to its western most point is about the distance of London to Kabul, Afghanistan
Do Antarctica next!
Oh so cute when you mentioned those indon cities...
Please make video on pacific ocean islands
It’s cool how the city of Tokyo make up the population of Australia and New Zealand combined
0:53 I hear Denver, I like.
So is there more continents videos
"with size comes some weird geographic anamolies"
I mean if you think about it, Spain for example could be touching china, because of the embassy
Fun fact! La is closer to tokyo than it is to washington dc
Can you make a video like this about Africa
Fun fact: Germany is only 1 country away from Brazil because of French Guiana