Interesting Overseas Territories Around The World
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Fun Fact: French Guiana has a piece of the amazon rainforest (about 1.4% of the amazon rainforest) and because of this piece, it has the largest EU park.
France is the only EU country that has a rainforest
how much of the Amazon rainforest do they have?
@@BORN-to-Run 1.4% Of The Amazon Forest
@@Account_abandoned-q7m The Black Forest technically in Germany has enough rainfall to technically be a rainforest.
@@pixeldubsofficial "technically"
One of my favorite fun facts is that the highest point in the netherlands proper (not even just in the kingdom) is mount scenery on saba, halfway across the world from the european part of the netherlands lol
So that's not the Netherlands proper, then.
@@rosiefay7283 sure it is, there is caribbean netherlands and european netherlands. Just like you can say western russia and eastern russia
I have a few of my own to add:
1. St. Pierre and Miquelon (France)
2. New Caledonia (France)
3. Ceuta, Mellila, and other Spanish territories in North Africa (Spain)
4. Maidera and the Azore Islands (Portugal)
5. Canary Islands (Spain)
6. Hong Kong and Macau (China)
7. New Caledonia (France)
8. Réunion Island and Mayotte Island (France)
9. Chaggos Islands (US/UK)
10. Dhekelia and Akrotiri (UK)
11. Gibralter (UK)
12. Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha (UK)
Don’t forget about New Caledonia (France)
its on his list :)
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Virgin Islands UK and US
Don't forget Clipperton (France)!
A very interesting video. Only one thing: to the best of my knowledge square kilometer is not for measuring distance but for area
French Guyana is where ESA is sending their rockets into the orbit being just above the equator.
French Guiana*
Correction: The official language of Surinam is Dutch, not French!
When does he say that they speak french in Surinam... He said only that it borders surinam...
Oops! So sorry! Thanks for correcting my 'correction'. m.@@cheeta92
@@MattWhitney-u5x you're welcome 👍
Although French Guiana appears tiny next to Brasil (1% as you said), it is also about exactly the size of Austria or Ireland (the island).
I’ll never understand why everyone thinks of French Guiana and Guadeloupe, fully integral departments of France that are indistinguishable from a mainland department except for location, as territories/colonies, and Alaska and Hawaii, fully integral states of the US that are indistinguishable from a mainland state except for location, as states.
If someone could explain that I’d appreciate it.
They are all colonies. It’s the American exceptionalism.
This are not a "fully integral departments but "fully paying colonial tax & population territories". I live in Réunion, we even pay for EU products up to 50% colonial taxes ! A shit system, with a successive population exchange: public workers from mainland France get 35% overpay, ours just get shitjobs in their banlieue. If ever US wants us: I go straight away - shame & sh*t on you, France& Macron - your corrupt system does not work ! Go home, stay away !
It’s because whatever it is something on France it’s always bad.
It is what is called French Bashing and it comports any subject about this country 🇫🇷
@@greatpyramid4348 can you explain how Alaska and Hawaii aren’t colonies that are part of the country (like French Guiana)?
@@canuckguy0313 Hawaii & Alaska don't pay duties on products from US, while French Guaina like the other DOM do; they pay as much as 50% on imports from France: that is colonialism. La France dehors, votre "systeme" coloniale est une faillite ! D'abord la CE, maintant aussi la CE, nous vous ne voulons plus! Cassez vous.
Hi Geography bible!!
Love your videos, keep it up
Love this channel! Really knowledgeable 💙
You are forgetting the islands of St. Pierre & Miqueon that are part of France, but nestled on the Eastern Coast of Canada. The two small fishing islands actually use Euros and French plugs and voltage for their electric although they could take a small, two-person boat to the closest part of Canada.
I think all of France's overseas territories are fully part of France itself
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The stock footage during the Cocos Islands segment was misleading as there are no mountains on the Cocos. Only coconut trees
What about Saint-Peirre and Miquelon?
My fun fact about American Samoa is that it was the only place where Michael Bloomberg won the 2020 US Democratic primary. His campaign spent about $4,000 for every elector on that island.
Most of the US colonies were offered independence. Some stayed, American Samoa, some left, Samoa.
Um.. the country of samoa was part of new zealand
Some Puerto Ricans want their territory to become a US state. Someday, maybe the US territories of Guam, the Marianas and Samoa will form the state of Pacifica!
The Kingdom of Spain 🇪🇦 has one exterior territory: The Balearic Islands and three overseas territories: The Canary Islands 🇮🇨, the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta
and Melilla.
The Republic of Finland 🇫🇮 has one exterior territory: The Autonomous Åland Islands 🇦🇽.
The Republic of Chile 🇨🇱 has one exterior territory:
The Easter Island.
The
United Republic of Tansania 🇹🇿 has one exterior territory:
The semi-autonomus region
of Zanzibar.
Greenland's population may be small, but it has more people than the nearby Canadian territory of Nunavut.
oh wow im very early here! hello, fellow geography nerds! 🙋♂
Distance is not measured in square kilometers, that would be surface. Distance is measured in kilometers or miles, depending on the measurement system used. It would have been wonderful if you researched the pronunciation of some toponyms. Sadly, that was not the case.
*covers an AREA, not a distance ;)
Of course the most isolated place on earth is owned by the Norwegians 😀
Good video but can you please stop saying “distance“ when you are talking about an area
All Spanish regions are autonomous communities, not only Catalonia...
Mate, it's not distance that is measured in km sq, it's area. You said distance several times instead of area.
These are all the territories in the world
France has
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Martin
Saint Barthlemy
Guadeloupe
Martinique
French Southern Antarctic Island
French Guiana
Reunion
Mayotte
New Caledonia
Wallis and Futuna
French Polynesia
Uk has
Bermuda
Turks and Caicos Islands
Cayman Island
British Virgin Island
Anguilla
Montserrat
Falkland Islands
South Georgia and Sandwich Island
Isle of man
Guernsey
Jersey
Akrotiri
Dhekelia
Gibralter
Ascencion Island
Saint Helena
Tristan da Cunha
British Indian Ocean Territory
Niue
Pitcairn Islands
Cook Islands
Us has
Midway Island
Navassa Island
Puerto Rico
Us Virgin Islands
Baker Island
Howland Island
Wake Island
Palmyra Atoll
Kingston Atoll
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway has
Svalvbard
Jan Mayen
Bouvet Island
Denmark has
Greenland
Faroe Island
Finland has
Aland Island
Australia has
Cocos Keeling Island
Christmas Island
Heard Island and Mcdonald Island
Coral Sea Island
Cartier Island
New Zealand has
Tokelau
Chatnam Island
India has
Andaman and Nicobar Island
Spain has
Ceuta
Melilla
Canary Islands
Portugal has
Azores
Madiera
Netherlands has
Aruba
Curacao
Bonaire
Saba
Saint Eustatius
Saint Maarten
@@sovat1230 And Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten
Ofc Au and NZ is western
The capital of American Samoa is pronounced Pan-go Pan-go; fun fact most American Samoans are US Nationals not US Citizens.
American Samoans want to keep their immigration laws and landownership laws separate. That is why they don’t have full U.S birthright citizenship.
That, and they have more laws that violate the U.S constitution.
@graceneilitz7661 Exactly. Thanks for proving my point kid!
@@YukonGhibli
Most people like saying that American Samoans aren’t US citizens, without mentioning that they like it that way.
Also, no need to be degrading.
@graceneilitz7661 oh kid, you have a sad. A majority are US nationals, again as noted in multiple posts by me or others. I am sorry your feckless incompetence has gotten in the way of the adults talking. I weep for the future when you think such normal prose is off colour. I am sure you can find a safe space...
6:00 one more time you say "cover a distance" and I unsubscribe
9:10 alright here we go
Why
@@miriamcollinge9162 because he keeps saying distance whence'st talking about area. "Cover a distance of around 500 km2" no that's entirely wrong, go back to second grade and understand that a distance has only one dimension whereas area has two
I have a few more to add:
1. Dhekalia and Akrotiri (UK)
2. Gibralter (UK)
3. Saint Helena, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha (UK)
4. New Caledonia (France)
5. Hong Kong, Macau, Parcel and Spralty Islands (China)
6. Mayotter and Reunion Islands (France)
7. Chaggos Islands (UK/US)
8. Ceuta, Mellila, and other Spanish enclaves in North Africa
9. Madeira and Azores Islands
10. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
11. Channel Islands, Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands (UK)
12. Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands (UK)
The Channel Islands are a Crown Dependency, so fair enough including them. But Orkney and Shetland are parts of the UK.
What if every inhabited piece of land on Earth was its own country?
There would be 8 billion countries
I never knew that's how many inhabited places there are. I was imagining if every inhabited island and states with in countries were to become their own country.@@zach2382
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No place is west. It is a direction not a destination
I find it amusing that Australia is known as "down under" yet it's all further north than 42 Deg south, that's like calling Bosnia "up over" , Britain is WAYYY further north than Oz is south, (I live at 53 degrees north), yet we don't call the UK, "up over" either! 😂
No more colonies
When the inhabitants of a territory have the same rights and duties as those of the metropolis.
When the inhabitants of this territory have the possibility of choosing independence, if they wish.
When these inhabitants choose to maintain links with their country of attachment, this territory is NOT a colony.
Most of them aren"t colonies.