40 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts
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the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia
Laughs in Bengal
Well to be fair Java is not that tiny tho
@@ReekyCheeks you just combined two of the facts in the video...
@@moon_fake it’s pretty tiny. Have you seen it on a map?
tiny? Comparing to other countries' size Java is still larger but yeah the way 100+ people fits into a place as small as that
If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.
and a few dozen guards lol
And the cold, hunger, North Korean Army, Potential Deportation and the camps, Families Sent to camps, and way more
Same with the US to norway. Technically, you can go from the Canadian border with Greenland to Norway by only traversing Canada, the US, and Russia.
don't do that...
🔒,🔑->🕳
@@Neo36563 chill, mate. It was a joke.
Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world
He had a lot of help from his dog.
Lol
810 million, 452 thousand, 5... er...5 hundred and ... darn! 1...2...3
Not every tree.
@@katherineirving7189 bro go outside and go make friend please
I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.
I'm a Kiwi (who was born in Canada) and honestly I can't believe I'd never heard this before! Mind blown
This is nothing - most Americans can’t even name a city in the southern hemisphere. Americans are geography illiterate- even engineers & other professionals. When I told friends about a trip to Costa Rica from Baltimore, that it took less flying time than from Baltimore to San Francisco they were astounded - some didn’t even believe me. I could go on and on. BTW I’m American but love learning about geography.
I once flew from Shanghai (population c.25M 4000/km2) to New Zealand (population c.5M 20/km2). A definite contrast!
@@BenSussmanpro Most Americans could not point out their own state on a blank US map. I'm one of those who can, btw...and point out all of them on a blank map.
I had to look this up: this is true for the distance between the Australian east coast and the North Island (1868 from Port Macquarie to Cape Reinga), but Australia is closer to the South Island (1648km from Cape Howe to Doubtful Sound) than any point of Canada is to Mexico (from what I could tell, about 1820km from Tijuana to the 49th parallel). Tasmania is even closer again, about 1491km from Milford Sound.
Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world's smallest non city-state country! :-)
Oh ok!
Imagine if Australia makes Nauru a territory
@@nicolebiewald18nauru isn’t apart of australia
I was about to say cuz Vatican City is the worlds smallest country. Good catch!
@@therealusman yeah. that's why they said imagine
I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha
Exactly my thoughts
Sure, and they named it in honor of Mia Khalifa...
Agreed. I also think the presentation of it is a bit misleading considering the people climbing start around 6.5 burj Khalifa's up lol
The comparison is apples and oranges and applies only to height. To actually see Everest fairly up close for the first time is an experience never to be forgotten. So overwhelmingly magnificent it brought a tear to my eye.
@@A808K Magnificent? It is a mountain, nothing more, sure, it is arguably the highest mountain, but I see nothing special about that... If that brought tears to your eyes, what have you done when you saw the whole planet? Or the sun? As Hegel wrote, one can't find aesthetical pleasure in things that were not made by human beings. You were overwhelmed by some mountain, but I am much more impressed by something that no other living thing has made, such as Burj Khalifa, and other real wonders, things made by human beings.
The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.
It's actually a jungle and not a rain-forest
The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance
That is a mind f-
NOLESY
ok ok mum
So to get to the East, one heads West. Interesting, that’s the best fact
Yes, to go from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Canal you go west to eat...
@@richardharris8867 me* makes cars movie inner voice sounds *to go right, go left
I was going to make this same observation. Well done!
the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil
The westernmost point of China is also closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point. But yeah, it's baffling how large Brazil is
Took a couple of seconds to sink in that you meant (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (N Brazil to S Brazil). I had thought you were saying (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (S Brazil to Canada) and trying to figure the distance south from S Brazil over Antarctica and on to N Canada. Now that would be an interesting fact -- are there any such surprise distances going the opposite way over one of the poles?
Well I checked that on Google Earth and found that the distance from North to South Brazil is about 2,716 miles, whereas the distance from North Brazil to Canada is 2,760 miles. Which would make you wrong.......if I'm right.
@@LordOfLight you're probably using the wrong points. From Monte Caburaí (northernmost of Brazil) to Cape Sable Lighthouse in Canada there are 2,654 miles. From the same Monte Caburaí to Barra do Chuí (southernmost point of Brazil) there are 2,732 miles
in fact, the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every single country in the Americas than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil
Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia's population lives within 50 km of the coast.
I love the Maine fact
@@sanderappel4499 not surprising at all if you think about it
1:33 Here's a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn't quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony.
So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.
Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.
And Wisconsin :)
That's what I thought...good catch!! Thanks!!
@@PrenticeAviation Lol I live in Wisconsin! How could I forget?? 🤣
How can we forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? I have heard it is a dangerous lake. I'm more familiar with Lake Michigan.
@@kittyhouse1028 o
i'm from marqutte, mich. which i live my whole life. you learned from an early age to be careful of the great lake. when gordon lightfoot wrote the song, "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald", he became an "yooper". he by passed the "honorary" part. he's a great canadian folk singer. much respect to him and his songs. he has a lot of great songs.
#19 4:41 You meant "kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared". It's distance, not area.
Think I need to hire a proof listener!
I noticed that too. When he said area, and he should have said distance.✅✅
The distance is also wrong by 1,000 km or so. The distance from Hawaii to Maine is also further than Hawaii to Florida/
@@TransportGeekery But this wasn't to Hawaii. It was to Kure Atoll which is west of Midway.
@@-_James_- doesn’t matter. Maine is still further east.
4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing "9400 kilometers squared" from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!
Yep, stopped watching after that
Yep I too stopped watching squared!
I had it just playing in the background, at this point I stopped watching. 👎🏽
Vatican City to Rome. About 2 inches
I wondered about the distance between Hawaii and Maine, as wouldn’t Maine be higher North?
Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how "hard" it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa's from sea level.
So really, it's only 3.5 buildings to be as tall as mnt everest, wow
Ah, yes... but we know that many many dozens of people have successfully climbed Everest. How many have climbed Burj Khalifa? On the outside, I mean. Stairs and elevators don't count.
Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don't believe them.
1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest.
2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don't hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador.
3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine.
4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands.
5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston.
6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.
Related to No. 2, few people know that going from the Atlantic to Pacific via the Panama Canal, you travel northwest to southeast -- you actually go "backwards", so to speak.
The Canadian border in Lake Erie is south of Chicago city limits.
Regarding number 2, I think you mean westernmost tip of Ecuador. Thanks for the interesting facts.
@@matts9781
Yes, or course, the westernmost tip, my bad.
Reno , NV is west of LA
geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they're actually good at geography
...but in all fairness, he did pronounce Chongqing and Nauru incorrectly.
Kihrihbat
Is it Kiribas?
Or Seychelles
@@Swede1066 then he pronounced baku wrong
You can compare Hong Kong to Western Australia & Mongolia combined however Western Australia & Mongolia are mostly barren desert land. A better comparison would be a Hong Kong against the US state of Alabama. Alabama is humid subtropical just like Hong Kong with it being 118 times bigger in land area but the entirety of the Alabama holds less people than Hong Kong.
Alabama - 50,750 square miles
Hong Kong - 428.64 square miles
Alabama - 5,097,641 people
Hong Kong - 7,291,600 people
Alabama - 100 people per square mile
Hong Kong - 17,011 people per square mile
i personally live in hong kong and you get why its so densely populated by looking at skyscarpers
Irrelevant. You must be from Alabama.
fewer people
Yes Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate, but only a couple degrees fahrenheit below the tropical climate threshold in December and January. Meanwhile Alabama is NOT bordering a tropical climate on its southern coast.
Here's a few more: 13 US States have ALL of their territory north of the southernmost point of Canada. 27 US States have at least part of their territory north of the most southernmost point of Canada (one of which is California). Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Atlanta, Georgia is further west than Detroit, Michigan. Alaska has the furthest North, East, and West places in the United States. There are two places in the US where water flows to both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
Seattle, WA is 250 miles north of Toronto.
Nauru isn’t the smallest country. 3:25
The greatest distance in the US being 9400 km^2 is indeed mindboggling.
Yeah wtf lol
Naru is the 3rd smalles country
I stumbled across your video today and loved it! I know you posted it ages ago, but I’m just giving it a thumbs up and comment today 😊
3:20 it’s the 3rd smallest behind the Vatican and Monaco.
Cool video! Should note though that the footage of “Jamaica” used at 5:43 is actually of Jamaica, Queens, NY - not the island nation of the same name.
The way things are going in NYC, they may just catch up to the country of Jamaica.... 😮😳
I was wondering about that. I didn't think that's how Kingston looked.
It's actually Brooklyn, you can clearly see the Atlantic Armory Shelter. Very strange, makes the entire video of dubious quality.
The traffic driving on the right side of the road was the giveaway. In Jamaica, they drive on the left like the UK.
@@joeylawn36111 lol
The most southern point in Canada is actually south of Detroit, Barcelona, & Rome.
Most Canadians live south of Minneapolis mn
@@TechedCanvas where the hell did you get 45 million? It's barely 38
And if you go due south from Detroit the first country you pass through is Canada!
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 point pelee is south of Erie, PA!
I was about to write that,@@jamesdignanmusic2765. Canada is north of the USA, but driving there from Detroit MI USA to Windsor ON Canada means driving *south.*
8:53 it also means the point in the ocean that is furthest away from land
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3:22 Nauru is actually the third smallest country. Monaco and Vatican City are smaller
In other parts of the video he has said "this excludes city states and autonomous regions", I assume that he intended to include that disclaimer when calling Nauru the smallest country.
Props to the people who counted every tree on Earth 👏
Not every tree.
Fun fact: the US has more people in its prison/jail/detention system that has all countries in Africa combined and also lost more people to Covid than Africa did
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3:18 - Nauru is not the world's smallest country. The world's smallest country is Vatican City, which is approximately 1/40 the size of Nauru.
you are A nerd read the correction in the comments 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@melonslicezmpg1045 - Ah, I clearly did not read all the other comments before leaving mine. Thank you for the (as we say in Esperanto) atentigo.
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you
Mistakes:
1. How can you have a distance of kilometers squared?
2. Lake Superior is in both Canada and the U.S.
3. Nauru is not the world's smallest country; if you think Vatican City and Monaco don't count, Monaco is a U.N. member.
3. He said excluding city states. Vatican definitely is I'm not sure about Monaco
Great video!! Another interesting fact: the northernmost point in Brazil is closest to Canada than Brazil's southernmost point.
An illiterate and thus a confusing answer, try "closer to Canada than to Brazil's southernmost point."
0:01 hello timed commenters
hey
Lake Superior is shared between Canada and the U.S.
Alternate title: Roasting Africa for 11 Minutes
If that 1 Omani homeowner decides to build a swimming pool in his backyard then the entire country becomes deforested 😆
6:13 similarly, England has only the 6th largest population of English speakers (behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines)
You assume that everyone in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines can speak English. They can't. Mind you, neither can the entire population of the U.S. or the U.K. (note, U.K. not England, there is a difference you know).
Only the first has more native speakers, though - it's a second language for almost all speakers in the latter four.
Ok I gotta say it because I promised myself I would every time I came across a video that mentioned the world's longest river, because the fun fact a learned blew my mind, it is WILD: the longest river is not the Nile, it absolutely the Amazon, and lemme tell ya why; when they finally found the source of the Nile, while measuring, they, and I kid you not, took into account the length of the coast of Lake Victoria, all the way down into ANOTHER river that flowed into the lake, arguing it was a tributary of the Nile. They did all this finagling, just to get the Nile even close to beating the Amazon's length (which was measured straight up as you can get for a river, mind you) and it STILL only ended up being 250 km longer in the end. The took into account the freakin LAKE and an ENTIRELY unrelated river JUST to get to 250 km MORE than the Amazon. So, any time someone says the Nile is the longest river, I have to set the record straight because it makes me irrationally angry the way these random British guys measured a river over a century ago.
Sorry misfit. In physical geography, which is the kind of geography that measures lengths of rivers, Lake Victoria is just a wide spot in the stream which began at the source of the tributary river. In political geography it's three entities, the two rivers & one lake, but river lengths & flows fall under physical geography. As a side note, in the U.S. "Civil War", the North and South had different names for the same battle like Bull Run or Manassas. One's physical geography, one's political geography.
@@jameshepburn4631 Yeah, but do you know how ridiculous that is? It doesn't make any sense, and it's real unfair to apply this tactic to the Nile, but NOT the Amazon (though people have certainly tried and have!). And then you have to ask, which side of Lake Victoria do you measure. And naturally, they chose the tributary that just so happened to be the longest to add to the measurement. Seems like bs to me.
Shout out to the person that counted all those trees.
82,400 kilometres squared? Wow, so 6,789,760,000 square kilometres. That's MASSIVE!
It's amazing how New York is at a similar latitude to Rome, Barcelona and Istanbul when you consider the temperatures of each of them, and yes I did check the map because it didn't sound right.
I was just blown with the fact that Barcelona Istanbul and New York City fell on the same lattitude and just went to google maps instantly after hearing it... 😳😳
Madrid too, which I knew. Another mind blowing fact is that London is more north than Newfoundland, but south of Berlin.
One million kilometres squared? Even MORE WOW! That's 1,000,000,000,000 square kilometers. MASSIVE!!!!!!
One more fact. The largest freshwater lake is Baikal in Russia. It holds 20% of all fresh water in the world.
I live in luxembourg and still am as poor as dirt
I live in the U.K. and am filthy rich.
@@user-jn1tr8mo3g is that so
Nauru isn’t actually the smallest country. It’s the smallest island nation and smallest non-city-state country at 21km^2 (8.1mi^2), but Monaco is smaller at 2.02km^2 (0.78mi^2), and Vatican City/The Holy See is the smallest at 0.49km^2 (0.19mi^2).
4:45 : The greatest distance between two points in France is 16100 km (about 10000 mi) : Kerguelen island (by the Antarctic 49°S 59°E) and Miquelon island (south of Newfoundland island, 46°N 56°W)
Someone really went out on a limb to count all those trees.
Fact 28< doesn’t France have land in every hemisphere
Not every hemi sphere
Cars like dodge and chervolet had American made hemis
Besides saying only Canada when giving the location of Lake Superior, your joke also wasn't really on target. Its name - lac supérieur is from the French for upper lake not that it is bigger than any other lake.
Lake Superior is SHARED between Canada and the USA!
#19: the distance between two points is not measured in “kilometers squared,” which is a measurement of area, not distance.
4:43 - A distance is measured in kilometres, not in km², which is a measure of area.
“Lake Superior is of course in Canada” Sure we’ll go with that, Duluth MN and the entire Arrowhead do not exist 😂
and the site of the coldest measured US temperature
Largest tidal range in the world - Bay of Fundy, Canada, surprisingly the second largest is the Severn Estuary between England and Wales. This Severn bore creates the longest surfing waves in the world albeit in the river! The record is over seven miles standing on a surf board.
Lake Superior does not belong exclusively to Canada. The US actually owns more of the Lake than Canada. The Canadian, US border runs through Lake Superior
4:52 9,400 kilometres squared? Distance would be linear not area.
2:27 And of the 800 million people living in the Southern Hemisphere, about a third is Indonesian...
Another amazing random fact: I have stopped to rewind this video a minute or two to listen to a couple of things I just heard more than any other TH-cam video, maybe even any video, in my life.
I like the fact that the most Easterly, Westerly, and Northerly places in the United States are all in Alaska.
nauru isnt the worlds smallest country
Yeah Nauru is the 3rd smallest, only behind Monaco and Vatican
Not counting city states
1:33 Seeing Saint Pierre & Miquelon makes me want to bring up the fact that these small islands off of Newfoundland is the last vestige of what was once the vast territory of New France (it's also the only place in North America where the guillotine was used). After losing the Seven Years' War, France ceded its North American possessions to Britain, but were allowed to keep St. Pierre & Miquelon. The collectivity's unofficial flag is actually pretty cool, it has the Basque, Breton, and Norman flags respectively for the groups that settled there as well as a big ship in the middle.
4:44 The greatest distance between any two points in the US is inaccurate when you consider the country's territories. Greatest distance between any two points within the US including all territories is actually 9,514 miles/15,311 km from Point Udall, Guam to Point Udall, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (yes, same name).
St Pierre & Miquelon is also the only place in North America where the euro is used as currency
I took a French language class taught by a woman born in Saint Pierre & Miquelon (well, one of those islands). She spent her childhood there and in France, specifically the province of Centre, south of Paris. She was from the old and new worlds.
Haha...Jokes on YOU...I dont wear socks!!
FYI.. Lake Superior borders Canada and the United States
Nauru is actually the 3rd smallest country
Following the Vatican City in 1st and Monaco in 2nd
Maybe there is a difference between a state and a country. Vatican is a state in a country Italy so the Monaco. And Nauru is a country by it self... But maybe I am wrong.
Wow, the human geography facts really show the incredible and unjustifiable income, food, water, and personal security/insecurity between northern and southern hemispheres.
so sad what mainly northern hemisphere peoples did to the rest of the world by colonizing them. robbers and thieves
Very interesting stuff. Much of it I didn't know.
The footage at 5:40 isn't Jamaica, the island nation. It isn't even Jamaica, the neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It's actually closer to the latter than the former. This is a view of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
It's a mistake to compare the height of Mt Everest to the tallness of buildings. While the top of Mount Everest is 8850 metres, it is only some 3500 metres higher than its surrounding plateau, so it's really only 4 times the height of the Burj Khalifa.
At 0:52 this doesn't make any sense the way he phrases it, but the fact is still unbelievable, he's referring to the total length of wall ever built, including sections that overlap or were rebuilt multiple times
7:00 all 4 hemispheres? Do we have 2 spheres? 😂
Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern hemispheres.
@@FenrizNNN there is no such thing as a western and eastern hemisphere geographically, those boundaries are made by politics
4:42 #19 you mentioned Miami to Hawaii as a distance of 9400 Km SQUARED? That would be a measure of area.
Canada's most easterly point (Cape Spear, Newfoundland) is closer to Rome than its most westerly point (Boundary Peak 187, Yukon)
St John's (Newfoundland) once had a team in the UK's Elite Hockey League; it is closer to the UK than to many of the North American cities in the ECHL where they play now.
Norway has 239,057 islands. What you are using is an old statistic counting only coastal islands
Fun fact: Africa is so insanely massive, it can fit the entirely of the United states, Australia, China and Earth inside with room to spare.
"and Earth" ??
@@amcken9316 Yes.
Africa is part of Earth. How can the whole planet fit inside Africa? Africa covers just 11.7% of the Earth's surface.
Do you mean Europe, not Earth?
@@amcken9316 No, obviously Africa is even bigger than the Earth, and possibly the moon too. Uh huh.
How the hell does Australia have that many trees?!
There's even the Nulabor Plain,
the "no tree plain'.
I know it's the size of the 48 eastern states of the USA but it's a desert.
Australia is only slightly smaller than Brazil. Whilst yes it's land area is made up of arid regions covering about 70% it still has rainforest and woodlands especially on the east coast where the Great Dividing Range helps to provide adequate rainfall. It even gets snow despite the highest point being 2.2km ASL. Tasmania is also a large island which is almost completely covered in woodland. The eastern part of Victoria is woodlands too.
Another interesting fact is that despite it being the world's driest inhabited continent it still has some very wet areas. Sydney for example despite being firmly in the sub tropical high pressure zone receives over 1,200mm of rain on average per year. In 2022 it received about 2,300mm. Don't forget a large percentage of the land is coastal tropical areas subject to the wet season. Despite only having a population of about 26m it has 5 completely separate cities of over 1m. All except one is wetter than London on average. Half the population of Australia lives in just 3 cities. Melbourne and Sydney both about 5m and Brisbane about 3m with nearby Gold Coast about 600k
The fact that Lake Superior is in Canada will surprise a lot of Americans!!
It is in both, and more surface area is in the USA than in Canada.
I've been to Lake Superior several times but have never been to Canada!
#19 the furthest distance if you remain within the 50states is Alaska (end of the tail) to Florida 8821miles
If you add in territories, than it's Guam to us virgin islands 15283miles
There is no reason to set the arbitrary restriction of staying within the United States though.
@@B3Band it's not arbitrary he stated the longest distance in the United States
My first thought was Hawaii to Maine and not Florida, but yeah, Alaska to Florida is farther
@@Nikki-tx1wd had the same first thought
There's something wrong with your numbers. 15283 miles is more than 60% of earth's circumference, but the largest possible distance on earth is half its circumference.
Hey I love this kind of videos thank you. I thought that the Vatican City was the smallest country not nauru island
The US-Canada border is the longest border in the world. Also, the "diagonal" portion of the California-Nevada border is the longest straight "diagonal" border in the world.
3:05 Well that didn't stay accurate for very long.....
If you're including wind chill at least, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded -108F/-77.8C.
Lake Superior is in both Canada and USA. (Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin)
And the U.P. of Michigan from someone who lives in Superior Wisconsin at the mouth of Lake Superior I was so caught off guard when he said it was only found in Canada and instantly went looking for a comment like this haha
Norway having the world's second longest coastline allways baffles me.
Awesome facts!
But wrong.
I loved it. These facts got my juices flowing. Your mellow Geordie accent was also very pleasant to listen to. It made a change from the fast-spoken and grating American accent that invariably narrates on YT videos.
funny that youre complaining about american accents on an american site
@@popstar3687 You really are talking a load of crap.
9:18 Why did you show a bird caught in the barbed wire....
some interesting information here and well presented, it flowed well from one to another and some great images. 17million people in one city, half of Canada.
Don't worry, was just a kite, not a real bird
Interesting point - when I did A-level geography in the nineties the terms were human geography and natural geography. (England)
Venice on Italy's east coast is almost exactly the same longitude as Rome, near Italy's west coast.
3:19 Nauru is the 3rd smallest country behind Monaco and Vatican city. Makes me wonder what other "facts" here aren't true🤔
he mentioned excluding city states
The other country in all 4 Hemispheres is the USA, which is obviously in the northern and western hemisphere, but also has island territories in other hemispheres, i.e. American Samoa, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, and Guam, which is in the Eastern Hemisphere
The same could be said of the United Kingdom. The main island of Great Britain is located in the Eastern, Western and Northern hemispheres, with territories (such as the Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha) in the Southern Hemisphere. There may be other countries with a similar claim. There are only two points on earth where all four hemispheres meet: where the Equator crosses 0 and 180 degrees longitude. The former is in the Atlantic Ocean, Kiribati is at the latter point.
We own those territories, but they are not part of the United States. It's like actual tooth implants vs. getting a grille.
But the point he's making that Kiribati is the only place where the Equator and either 0° or 180° Longitude (Kiribati) meet. (The Equator and 0° Longitude meet in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa)
You don't need Guam. The Aleutian Islands in Alaska extend into the Eastern hemisphere to appx 179.8° East. Technically Alaska is our farthest Eastern state, leaving Maine way behind in the dust. Alaska is also our most Northern and most Western state also, a triple crown winner.
there are no eastern and western hemispheres. It’s a concept so profoundly erratic that it’s hilarious.
Awesome!
Lake Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay is politically considered three bodies of water, but hydrologically is only one, and is larger than Lake Superior.
i had no idea distances were measures in kilometers squared 😱😱😱
The fact that amazes me the most is that Brazil is so big of a country that:
- its northenmost point is closer to Canada than to its own southernmost point
- similarly, its easternmost point is closer to Africa than to its own westernmost point
I see about 4385 kms between northern-most and southern-most Brazil, and about 4300 to Canada. :)
@@amcken9316 You are using the wrong points.
Yet my numbers agree with the previous post. @@clipsburg412
Lake Superior is not a lake in Canada. Lake Superior spans the boundary between the Unted States and Canada.
Thanks for these nice facts! I should do lots of shorts for more popularity