18 Geography Facts That People Get WRONG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Facts:
0:36 the capital city of Turkey is ankara
0:50 capital of Canada is Ottawa
1:00 Ottawa was chosen because they wanted further inland
4. 1:25 high in elevation does not mean hotter
5. 1:46 lowest elevation place in North America had the highest temperatures on the planet
6. 3:18 Tallest mountain is Mauna Kea
7. 3:36 furthest from earths centre is Chimborazo
8. 4:18 capital of Brazil misconception
9. 5:50 New Zealand exists
10. 6:15 New Zealand is actually far
11. 7:50 Canada is not fully snowy
12. 7:56 most of Canada has no people
13. 10:32 Africa is not poor
14. 12:39 Australia is not an island
15. 14:08 actual largest island is Greenland
16. 15:30 Russia is split between two continents
17. 15:48 Hawaii belongs to no continent
18. 17:50 Switzerland doesn’t have a capital
Condensed
1. Capital cities
2. Temperatures
3. New Zealand exists
4. Canada is not fully snowy
5. Africa is not poor
6. Australia is not an island
7. Facts you learn about continents will probably be false
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Toycat is a lier he don’t use our money to buy kebab instead he is using it Improve thumbnail
And he got a suit
I never doubted that toycat was a lier, most people are. I mean, how else do you think he sleeps? Sitting in a chair?
@@THE_bchat a true gamer doesn’t sleep
What does the ibx2 mean?
@@zitools The 2 is there because this is his second channel. His main channel is called "ibxtoycat" :D
6:50 Weird one but actually the closest country to Sydney isn't New Zealand but actually France through New Caledonia, because of course it's always France
If you include the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand is closer
@@lasyx9786 either close enough that it depends how you measure which tbh is kinda nutty
@@mb9822 Yes, it's very close. The difference is about 45 km, but I don't know how accurate the site was where I measured it.
Actually Papua New Guinea is the closest country to Australia, followed by Timor Leste.
@@lasyx9786 Measuring it myself on google maps, I managed to get it down to a difference of about 2 miles by measuring from what I believe are the closest points. It certainly is very close. Thank you friend.
FUN FACT: Flagstaff, a city in Arizona, gets more inches of snow than any city in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, or British Columbia.
I always find it so weird that places so far down south and so sunny and warm get snow regularly. A continental climate and the wacky big seasons seem quite unusual to an island boy such as myself
Fun fact: El Alto, Bolivia, 13,600 feet in elevation, they get 0 inches of snow on average per year.
Man that’s wild. I didn’t know that. Cause here in Manitoba we get like feet of snow.
flagstaff is the highest elevation city in the Usa with over 50,000 people
@@Nonamechannel420 Santa Fe, NM is at 7,200 feet with 88k residents
FUN FACT: The island of Java just north of Australia has about six times as many people as the continent of Australia.
It has mor than RUSSIA
Australia isn’t a continent
@@ChapatiMan it is, look at the tectonic plates and that
@@Versuffe tectonic plates are a bad way to define continents, if we used tectonic plates defined continents, the Carribbean would be a continent
Australia and Oceania is basically the same, just add New Zealand and some tiny islands
Fun fact: the Australian Capital territory also technically includes the Jervis Bay Territory, which was created so the capitol would have its own seaport
@@PussTheLegend that doesn't represent the capital or Jervis it represents Queensland new south Wales Victoria south Australia Western Australia Tasmania and Papua New Guinea as the flag was never updated and the 7 point star is now a commonwealth star (even though i would love to have a 15 point star)
This is actually incorrect, and is a very common "Geography Fact That People Get WRONG". The ACT and Jarvis Bay Territory are separate entities and were never unified.
“If I was Melbourne i think I’d feel like I got the short end of the stick”
And with that Toycat unified 5 million people in agreement that Melbourne did indeed get the short end of the stick.
The English island name is New Guinea, but kudos to Toycat for calling it by just its native name Papua at 16:19! And not only were Australia and PNG part of the same empire, but Papua New Guinea was once a part of Australia itself! Started as a Queensland dependency in 1883, then became a British protectorate in 1884, British colony in 1888, and finally an Australia external territory in 1902 and stayed that way until 1975. When the formerly German northern half fell in 1919, it became its own territory called the Territory of New Guinea and they ended up combining the territories of Papua and New Guinea as one territory in 1949. Hence the name of the nation.
The reason Australia has a big seven-pointed star below the Union Jack called the Commonwealth Star is originally because of Papua, and to represent any other future territories.
Rio de Janeiro first became a colonial capital of Brazil in 1763, and was the capital of independent Brazil from 1822 until 1960, where it became a Federal District just like Brasília is today. By putting Brasília in a central location, the goal was to unite the Brazilian people and promote economic development in the more central states. Rio's former Federal District became Guanabara state in 1960, and it finally merged with the city/State of Rio de Janeiro surrounding it in 1975. Ankara on the other hand became the capital because that was the center of Atatürk's resistance against the Ottomans and the invading Greeks.
Another fact that depends on how you measure it is the world's longest/largest river. The Nile is the longest at 4,258 miles but by volume, it's the Amazon at over 200,000 cubic meters per second. Some Brazilian scientists have also claimed the Amazon is longer by length, but many dispute this because there's a debate of exactly where is the source of the Amazon.
Thank you Kim Jong-Un
Can i move to north korea pls ?
@@Ravtaku Dont ask for such a glorious country thinking you can do as well
I feel like even if Australia was split into four countries I'd still see it as an island because of how small and isolated it is compared to the other big chunks on the map.
13:00
I might be wrong but, if the continent of Oceania also includes islands like New Guinea and New Zealand, wouldn’t Australia count as an island since it isn’t the entire continent?
Same way Africa isn't an island despite it not being the entire continent.
South Africa actually has THREE capitals: Cape Town (the legislative one where the parliament meets), Bloemfontein (the judicial one where the Supreme Court is) and Pretoria (the administrative one where the executive government meets and all the embassies are)
And none of them are the biggest city, Johannesburg
FUN FACT: Counties in the US also have an administrative center called a County Seat. There are 3,243 counties (or equivalents) in the United States.
I guess that's sort of similar to how English counties have county towns which is usually where the county council is based.
And some counties are entirely one city (San Francisco, New York boroughs, Denver, New Orleans, many cities in Virginia, Carson city, Juneau, and Baltimore) which can either be a separate entity, or incorporated with the county, or it can function as basically a county like in Virginia.
In 2008 Quebec City celebrated its 400th anniversary of founding (1608-2008) and from Christmas when it became apparent that it would be a very snowy winter, there was an anniversary snow-o-meter all over the media. The dream was to reach 400 cm for 400 years. The focus of the population was so intense that the city broke its all time record and the bar eventually passed the 500 cm mark that year.
Glad I was there to witness it. Amazing city, especially in the winter.
I was there this year in the record setting cold, beautiful city
How did the focus of the population make more snow appear?
Talking about map projections: The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is probably my favorite projection.
for a "second channel, don't care" video I must say you are dressed rather fine my good sir
Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil until the beginning of the 60's. Then it was changed to Brasília. 😀👍
I thought for sure at the end you were going to talk about Zealandia, the sunken continent. Maybe an idea for a future video
“If you imagine the states as countries it feels more like a continent” yeah if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bike right?
If she had 2 wheels and a chain I think she would be a bike :)
Another misconception: Many believe NYC is the capital of New York...it's not, it's Albany (some people also believe NYC is the nation's capital...which is partly true as it was the nation's first capital in 1785). The location of what's now Albany started as Fort Nassau in 1614 by the Dutch, and then the village of Beverwijck in 1652. King Charles II renamed it Albany after his brother James, the Duke of York and Albany. A charter for the City of Albany was granted on July 22, 1686. This charter still governs the city, making this the oldest charter still used in the US. Though when NY got its independence, Albany didn't become the capital until 1797, and Kingston (also Upstate) was the first capital where the first NY State Senate was established.
Funny for you to mention Brasília since Albany's capitol grounds were inspired by Brasília's Monumental Axis, calling it Empire State Plaza. It's Albany's skyline and it's just...why? They stick out like a sore thumb. They really saw what Brasília did with their government buildings and were like "Wow, this is the greatest capital ever designed, let's copy it!"...and ended up displacing thousands
Fun fact: there is actually a New York in England but it is so small you could fit the entire population inside a small NYC apartment block!
surprised you did not mention how many people think NYC is the capital of the USA (fun fact: its not even the capital of new york state)
USA is weird when it comes to capitals change my mind
@@mateusio33 yeah, idk why they need to choose random ass cities to be state capitals
@@HunterPlays-Games USA be like : [big city] is the biggest city in the state, why just not make this random tiny village the capital of the state
FUN FACT: Nobody has ever said being “closer to the Sun” makes a location warmer.
Watching from Windsor! Cool too see my city in a video
*mentions 18 misconception on the title, doesnt even count it
what a madlad
The Mercator map was made so that they could draw a straight line between 2 points and follow it and get to your destination. It wasnt the fastest way but it worked.
Second channel...don't care (about the first). I know it's there to explore, but for right now I'm satisfied with his second channel lineup.
Kudos, Toycat. I'll keep watching (and hitting LIKE).
(one day I'll watch a vid from channel 1.)
DC, Ottawa, and Canberra were decided on because they were in the middle or the major population centers at that time. They also bridged cultural gaps (North Vs South in America or French Vs English speakers in Canada).
Ankara and Brasilia are the Capitol because they are geographically centrally located in their country
I've been to Ecuador, Quito is set at a very high altitude so it's actually often very cold, contrary to popular belief
You're right about it not always being cold in canada. Last year it was hotter in my town than death valley
Actually the tallest mountain in the world from base to summit that is completely above sea level is Denali in alaska, which is a much more imposing and vertical rise over its far lower surrounding landscapes than any mountain in the Himalayas including Everest
in the australian continet also has new zeeland and all of the tiny ilands there like new caaladonia (sorry for bad english)
I think my favorite thing that he does is not know a topic and ask for detailed write ups in the comment section. One of the funniest bits he does. It gets me every time.
Fun fact: if a mountaintop is closer to the sun during daytime, it's also further from the sun in the night
no shit
i'm closer to your mom at night
woah yeah that’s cool
Fresh suit
with rolled-up collar
fun fact: the top of toycat's head is not actually flat, that's just the edge of the camera area
°F = Fake
°C = Cool
F = Freedom units C = Corny units XD
Great video
Thanks!
Dude Andrew, if you're gonna wear that jacket you must grow a mullet! Sideburns wouldn't hurt wither ;)
Fun fact: Scientists believe that New Zealand may be part of its own 8th continent. Most of the land mass of the continent has just “sunk” into the ocean.
0:26 I knew this one
0:45 I knew this one
1:36 I knew this one
3:16 I think I knew this one
4:24 Knew this
5:00 knew this
6:20 knew this, but not the distance
7:58 didnt know this
9:34 didnt know
10:20 knew this
10:44 didnt know
12:43 disagree?
15:55 disagree
17:51 didnt know this
Yea these were super low quality normie facts
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I can confirm that New Zealand does indeed not really exist.
Hey Toycat, i posted on Reddit about wrong geography facts and talked about the distance between New Zealand and Australia the other day. Curious if you saw my post haha.
Climbed Chimborazo last year
Speaking on behalf of Canada here that's not days of snow cover that's amount of precipitation sometimes that snow stick around for a while
As a person from Springfield, Illinois, who has watched you for years, I absolutely started choking on my food and laughing when you randomly mentioned my city for the first time and used that voice 😂😂😂
Upping the quality with the banger thumbnails
To add to Switzerland’s capital fact, South Africa has three capitals
Netherlands too
@@prdproductions netherlands has 2, not 3
Ottawa was not chosen because it is more inland, it was instead a compromise between the French and the English as it stands in pretty much equal distance between Toronto and Quebec City; this is further demonstrated by the fact that Ottawa itself is split between the province of Ontario and Quebec, Kansas City style. In fact, Ottawa is not even more inland, as it literally stands on the St. Lawrence River, which was a deliberate move, as having a capital of a (then) remote colony be hard to reach via waterways would be a bad idea. All four of Eastern Canada's major cities, and the center of Canada before the westward expansion, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City, are on the St. Lawrence, it was an important trade route and where boats docked as the actual East coast of Canada has shallow beaches and tough weathers, hence why today places like Newfoundland and Labrador is nearly empty and the shorelines are only hosts to small fishing villages. the central artery of Eastern Canada has always been the St. Lawrence
Do you think that in future when water levels will rise some countries will try to acquire land from other countries by paying them money? You know just how it was in the past when US bought Alaska or even further back when they bought Louisiana. Another example is how Brazil bought Acre from Bolivia.
Nice
if I go all the way down river from Moscow I end up in the rainforest part of Iran. seems like a scenic trip
7:20 Ukraine had an argument with Poland where a Ukrainian missile hit Poland but they said it was Russian or something like that, not too big of a deal, I don't get why the flights are stopped.
Except Toronto is over 80 miles from America and Ottawa is under 60. Vancouver is 32, Montreal 46, Winnipeg 68, Regina 101, Calgary 168, Halifax 330, Edmonton 348. Ottawa is not far from America. They made it the capital because it was in between Upper and Lower Canada and could keep them united.
Somethings wrong, the thumbnail is high quality...
I'm testing something new :)
(2:15) You can't say that 57 °C is almost three times of 20 °C because that's not how it works. 0 °C isn't the zero point. You have to convert it to kelvin, so that's 330 and 293, and now we can see that the record is almost 13 % higher than what the temperature was when you looked at it. 57 °C is almost 13 % hotter than 20 °C, because that's just how temperatures work. The same is true for 135 °F to 68 °F, which is also almost 13 % hotter. You must measure from the actual zero point.
I measured France (New Caledonia) has a city (Goauro) that is closer to Sidney (1958 km) than any city of New Zealand. New Zealand has the Three Kings Islands (no city there), and only that's why NZ is closer to Sidney than France.
Bro idgaf what your main channel is about, I'm watching every one of these geography rants until one of us dies
Ukraine are doing just jolly fine, no need to worry (besides all the very good reasons to worry)! Probably just some weird error.
in the case of washington DC "being in the middle of the United States", it's because Washington was made in the late 1700s, before the western states were a thing. it was meant to be in the middle of the north and south states at the time
Ottawa IS in the center... of Upper Canada and Lower Canada (later renamed Ontario and Quebec, respectively). Upper and Lower, of course, relative to their position while travelling from the Atlantic "up" the St Lawrence river.
7:16 I think that the leader of a country called “Rush Hour” (his name’s Pootan or something like that) is trying to take over a small field in the middle of nothing. I don’t know why
The tuxedo is quite exquisite
I was watching this video thinking; “wow he sounds like toy cat” it wasn’t till the end of the video I realized, it is 😭
6:11 actually that’s the Tasman Sea :)
Fun fact:st Helen’s is taller than Mt Everett St Helen’s has grown from hot ashes from the volcano.
When folks talk about Canada not always being a snow covered wasteland (!) I never see the example of the southern Okanagan Valley semi-arid ecozone, (see the wiki article "Okanagan Desert"), which has sand dunes and cacti. Not what people think when they think of Canadian landscapes.
Usually your videos are super great but these facts/misconceptions were all such well-known things, it deffo wasnt like one of your usual videos ;(
Fair enough. Will have lots of those too :)
@@ibx2cat Thank you legend :) long long time subscriber here!
If it’s nighttime in Ecuador, Chimborazo is probably the furthest point on the planet from the Sun.
never been this fast on a video
(13:55) Misconception: Australia (continent) and Australia (country) are the same. They are not.
The statement "Australia is a country and a continent" is misleading, and only true in the sense of the usage of the word. Australia (country) isn't the same as Australia (continent) in the same way that Ireland (country) isn't the same as Ireland (island) ... but the future might change this.
The airspace is restricted because someone called 💩tin!
If this doesn’t hit 10 million views nothing will
“State capital of Canada”
You meant to say “provincial capital” there. We don’t have states, but we DO have provinces and territories.
Ottowa is the state capitol of Canada, Because Canada is a State. As in, how the dictionary defines the word.
Technically, the United Nations is NOT a group of nations, but States. EXCEPT someone already trademarked the name United States. So now people are left misunderstanding the words.
And Technically, the United States is NOT a group of States, but Provinces - but that word is lame, and plus we want to keep Texas from getting any funny ideas.
A nation is a cultural and language grouping. There are Four distinct Nations in the State of Switzerland (French Swiss, German Swiss, Italian Swiss, and the other one.)
Australia is not a continent. It’s a country within a continent
Andrew you got the wrong name for the island of New Guinea. Papua is the Indonesian teritory that occupies the other half, sharing with Papua New Guinea.
Continents are tectonic plates meaning that the 7 continent model is massively flawed.
Toycat recording a video before his court appearance.
Also, why do you say clom-eaters? Makes me wonder if you say clob-ights (kB), or clow-ats (kW), or clog-rams (kg), or maybe even clodge-ule (kJ)
Why am I watching this? I am a *massive* geography nerd, I'm not gonna learn anything from this video. But it is made by a CAT! And even more he is *WEARING A SUIT!* MUCH PROFESSIONAL!
7:07 i think it is due to some sort of feud going on with Russia, i hope it eill get sorted out soon
Fun fact: Papua New Guinea (or the island of Guinea as a whole) is made part of Australia due to tectonic plate boundaries. 😊
Fun fact: I live in Canada, and it can be too hot in the summer to go outside.
Damn toycat drippy asf today bruh 🥶🥶🥶
The rate he reels off information is insane
If Australia is a continent than what continent in New Zealand on?
The first fact also applies to the US (w/ new york)
2:02 man really called Celsius "real degrees"
The fact you rate cities with the least amount of snow and not no snow suggest that Canada is all snowy.
Australia (the contient) also includes Papa New Guniea, so the argument that it is a continent and therefore cannot be a island, doesn't hold up in comparison to any other continent. So it is an island, just not the biggest.
I use sous vide to cook my steaks.
57c is literally medium.
This is overcooked for my tastes. I much prefer medium rare.
hope you sear the outsides some other way tho
Yeah dude, you gotta sear afterwards.
For being a person all about metric, and making fun of imperial, you only read inches for snow. It's weird how you would use metric for most stuff, but revert to imperial for specific cases.
Bro, I theorized 1:26 like four years ago
a suit 😂 love it
this is very cool beans
Girls: "oh now it's a war we're all gonna die"
Boys: "why there're no flights to Kiev anyone knows?"
Denali, the tallest point Western Hampshire is actually like the Mount Everest of the USA 🇺🇸. Surprisingly the highest point in the America's are actually not in the Andes mountain range it's in Alaska. Also quite surprisingly the USA 🇺🇸 has the smallest & biggest volcano on the planet & the USA 🇺🇸 has the most volcanos with 169 of them, ( mainly in Alaska) & the USA 🇺🇸 has the most tornadoes by a long shot. Like WTF is my country breaking so many records!? Like it's just1 country.
As a norwegian i must point out that if you take the distance from lindesnes, the southern point in norway, to Nordkapp, the northern point in norway, its a 2700km drive if you drive thru norway, shortest route is thru sweden and finland(2300km) but thats okay, because we cross our borders at will with no hassle, just dont take to much cigarettes and alcohol back to norway😂 Point was, you can drive south in europe and end up past rome and do about the same distance.. Puts the whole map/globe/projection stuff into Perspective 😅
not exactly the same thing but in canada, the easternmost city st johns is actually closer to croatia than it is to vancouver
I hope I don't these WRONG
According to Wikipedia, Hawaii is Oceanian
The reason why lower elevations are hotter is that the center of the earth is also a source of heat. Because we are several orders of magnitude closer to the center of the earth than the sun, altitude has virtually no effect how much heat we receive from the sun compared to the relatively massive effect it has on how much heat we receive from the center of the earth. Also since the lower elevations have more air above them, there is an increased greenhouse effect.
Has anyone ever told you, you look like a young Otto Whitt from the film Zulu?