Interesting. I had not seen this one. Very well done. Like you said, it's difficult to grasp the size of the U.S. when you visit one little corner of it. The only way to really understand it is to drive cross country. The last road trip I took was driving a mini RV from North Dakota to St. Augustine, Florida. It took 2 1/2 days driving 12 hour days on the interstate with minimal stops for sleep, fuel and food. Another interesting perspective would be comparing population per square mile of each state. Great reaction guys. Thanks.
@mikecarew8329 - Children think 100 years is a long time. On your 50th birthday you realize you're halfway there. On your 75th birthday you realize you're 3/4 of a century old.
@@shawnanderson6313 it’s not my statement; it’s an old joke from England repeated by many from Diana Galbadon in “Drums of Autumn,” to Neil Gaiman in an interview and all the way back to an Emily Friedman paper in 1991 …and oft-repeated by Brit TH-camrs especially Brit ex-pats in the US like Laurence Brown on “Lost in the Pond.” Of course 100 years is not a long time even in the scope of US history nevermind compared to all history. It’s a saying that makes a point about how Britain is a small country and they blanch at any decent road trip we would not think twice about; while Americans are famously of the moment or even of the future and in awe of centuries old architecture in the UK.
Glad you're enjoying this video. Free pronunciation guide here: although Maryland is spelled as if it should be MARY-land, we've sort of taken liberties with it, to where it's pronounced MARE-uh-lund. We're good at coming up with unexpected pronunciations for place names over here, in case you don't already know it. In fact, I've been slowly adding to a computer document I started some years ago, after watching a video here of Californians trying to pronounced Wisconsin place names, and thought I could add to it. Just yesterday it reached 2619 entries. You may be joking, but in case you're not, Arkansas is spelled are-CAN-zuss, but it's pronounced ARE-cun-saw, from French pronunciation of the Quapaw word for" land of downriver people".; 50 states in total. Finally, at 6:26 we my home state of Illinois. Even though we're bigger, the Interstate hwys. make getting around much faster, since at the minimum, there are always 4 lanes, and across the country, the minimum speed per state is probably 65 or 70 mph/105 or 113kph. Montana is the size of Germany. If you want to see how big AK really is (here, they don't show the Aleutian chain), check out this map of it placed over what they call the Lower 48: reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2q0jfh/the_state_of_alaska_compared_to_the_lower_48/
I guess I never realized how big of a country Spain really is… California and Texas are really big states and for Spain to fall in between those two big states is pretty amazing.
@@richardstephens5570 I did not imply that at all. Just that the entire continent used to be theirs, while after the invasion of illegal immigrants from Europe (mostly), they only were left (relatively) puny reservations.
Even as an American who has traveled broadly through the U.S., I was "wow'd" with the state and country sizes presented this way. Fascinating! Have a great weekend. Peace
I’m from Michigan, when I drove out West to Washington state, I stayed there a few days and drove back, and I put over 6,100 miles on the rental car…..I made sure to get unlimited mileage when I rented it, lol. When you drive for days and you’re still in the same country it radically changes your perspective on distance. When I got back from my trip to the West coast I was talking to a friend of mine and I said “I was shocked that it only took 15 hours to reach Colorado.” My friend said “Yeah, most people don’t realize how close it is. 15 hours isn’t bad; you can easily get there in less than a day!”
There’s a video by a guy who does a lot of geography type videos who took the United States map and overlaid it on the European map and showed how they correlate by size. It was amazing to see how the US covered pretty much all of Europe. I wish I could remember the guy’s name but you probably have reacted to him before.
To give you some perspective on the size of my home state (Michigan), I live in the South West area (about an hour North of the Indiana border). I can drive South for 9 hours and be in Tennessee, but if I drive North and then West (into our Upper Peninsula), I can drive for 10 hours and still be in Michigan. As crazy as that might sound, people in Texas can drive over 24 hours and still be in Texas.
I’m from San Diego California which is one of the Southern most Counties in California. If I were to drive to the Northern most county it would take 15 hours, North to South. I’m about an 8.5 hour drive from San Francisco for reference. Btw kinda off topic however what’s Michigan like? I haven’t had an opportunity yet to visit any of the northern states but it’s something I’m definitely looking into. Last time I was supposed to go to Minnesota was when I was in high school during internships.
You can only appreciate the size of the US by traveling across it by car or by train or plane. Car is the best. I once had a friend who drove from Florida to Arizona with some friends non-stop to see a football game. They drove for 40 hours without stopping.
I once saw a graphic that showed the distance in Texas from east to west is very close to the distance from the north of Texas to the Canadian border. Just to show how much space Texas takes up in the US. The states are so big that’s probably why most Americans have never traveled outside of their state. It takes weeks of driving and that’s just to get there never mind any time actually spent enjoying your final destination before driving the weeks back home. You’d need a month vacation time unless you flew there and most Americans get a week or two a year vacation time. Some more most less. Minimum wage employees that make up most of the workforce don’t get paid vacations at all and IF they were allowed a vacation it wouldn’t be paid and they likely can’t afford the time off not getting a paycheck plus the expense of a vacation. I work 10 hours a day I get 10 days of paid time off as it’s called or PTO a year but it only pays 8 hours a day so when I go on vacation I lose 2 hours a day of pay. Every job and situation is different though so my situation shouldn’t be taken as a generalization of what others deal with.
As you said, alot of states are not completely populated or built up, but thats what gives us the beautiful mountains, deserts and forests to visit. It seems we made a good descision to choose this for our new country.. ..the ones who lost the most were the native americans.
Central coast of California here! I’m driving my son back to college tomorrow and I will drive 6 hours (without breaks) from San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles. Look at a map and ponder that. Six hours and it’s not even the whole state. It takes 5 or 6 hours to go the width of the state due to the mountains in the east.
If you took Alaska from the Aleutian Islands to the eastern border with Canada, it’s a greater distance that the continental US from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
There were a few problems with some of the comparisons, as even in the opening minute it shows Israel as being larger than Vermont! But it's easy to see that Vermont is larger, and New Hampshire is too, even the graphics show this as so. This pops up intermittently throughout the video, such as in the case of Uruguay and Florida...but still it was interesting!
Yes, Oregon is much closer in land area to the UK than Michigan. A very beautiful state too. IIRC like Scotland with "the volume turned up to 11" 😀. Happy, Peaceful New Year. ☮
When states are economically, geographically and population wise on par with entire countries it begins to make sense why people from the US will say their state first when asked where they are from. Partly it's habit from travelling within the United States too.
The "largest city" is always misleading. City boundaries get set just about anywhere within metropolitan areas. Phoenix is the 10th largest metro in the US.
Back in college, I would drive from Idaho to my home state of Alaska every summer through Canada for summer work. It was almost 3000 Km drive and it took me 3 days if I did not stop driving for sleep. Then in the fall I would have to drive back. I did this only twice. Canada is gorgeous but massive. I hated that drive. Alaska has something like 700,000 people, more than half of the population lives in one city and there are no roads to most areas of the State.
Singapore is about the same size as New York City. It _is_ small. Less than ⅓ the size of Rhode Island. I've only been there once, for a long weekend. It was very pleasant. Raffles Hotel offered colonial British 'treats', like proper Afternoon Tea. A Raffles barman invented the Singapore Sling cocktail. Almost 20 years ago, so it may have changed a lot since then. Happy, Peaceful New Year. ☮
In my state of California, Sacramento to LA is 384 miles. Approximately 5.25 hours in light traffic and that is not eve boarder to border. Border to border, its 700-800 miles depending on which route you drive. 🚙
I haven't seen that one before. It was good! 👍👍 It'd be interesting to see France, Germany, and the EU, too. The area of a few US states are a bit misleading. For example, Michigan (250,487 km²) is more than 40% water; it sits in the Great Lakes. So it's land area is much less than the UK. Massachusetts area is over ¼ water (Cape Cod's Bay, plus Massachusetts Bay), and tiny Rhode Island 's area is about ⅓ water. They should compare by land area. It'd like to see the European countries that fit in Alaska or Texas. Happy, Peaceful New Year, Chaps. ☮ G-Man 😎
In rural states commutes to work can be an hour, but those are only for good jobs. I lived in a rural town of about 30,000 that was about 45 minutes outside one of our state's biggest cities. I hated it lol, but was necessary due to geography obv.
Just picture that California has a population comparable to Canada an entire country, while Wyoming and Alaska have very low populations, Nevada has a pop of over 3 million, and Arizona over 7 million. Not as void of humans as you might think. Texas over 30 million and possibly overtaking the population of California in the near future as so many move from California. As we move from state to state it's no different from you traveling country to country in Europe. There is so much to see here it's not surprising that most don't have visas. I've been to 21 states and probably a lot of America I won't see in my lifetime.
USA takes in a million immigrants a year. Yeah, we have a lot of empty space, but we are welcoming many to fill that space. I had to fly from Seattle to Miami one time. It was a B!tch.
Alaska is so big that it has more than 3 million lakes. That's right, 3 MILLION. Most of them are unnamed because there are too many to keep track of. If you zoom in on the border around where the oceans are on google maps, you'll see so many lakes that you'd never be able to count them without making a mistake.
For size, living in the province of Québec i can relate on doing trips in cars because of the distance to get somewhere. Here we like to tease our French cousins just by saying we can fit France 3 times in our province 😁 GB 6.7 times. SORRY!
Once you get away from the St Lawrence though, Quebec doesn't have a lot of roads. This is not something that is unique to Quebec. The large Canadian provinces all have the majority of their road network in the south. That's why a tiny island like GB has twice as many miles of paved roads as the province of Quebec.
Most of our provinces are larger than states. My province of British Columbia could hold the whole UK plus part of the ocean , as well as Netherlands, Belgium, etc. We are also larger than Texas.
To put this into perspective if you are only talking land area the UK would fit into the state of Western Australia 10 times and Texas would fit into it 4 times. The states of Queensland (1.8M sq.kms) and Western Australia (2.7M sq. kms) are both bigger than the state of Alaska (1.7M sq. kms). Anna Creek cattle station (23,677 sq kms) in South Australia is bigger than Israel and 6 of those US states listed. Western Australia is the 2nd biggest land division in the wotrld behind Yakitia in Russia (3M sq kms). What is amazing about the US states is not so much the land area it is some have economies larger than a lot of countries including Australia which is currently the worlds 13th largest by GDP.
Usually land areas that big have trouble taking care of the varied needs of the vastly separated parts. This was the case with the Northwest Territories (3,439,296 km^2) in Canada prior to it being split in 1999. The larger part (Nunavut) is 2,093,190km^2 and only has a population of just under 42,000 people.
@@rich7447 pretty sure that there are a number of countries that have bigger states, provinces or territories than the US states listed Greenland is another. When I was in Europe I was amazed that we could drive across a whole countriy in a fraction of the time that it takes us to drive from our home on the central coast of NSW to the nearest state border. We drove from Dunkirk in France to Vlissingen in the Nederlands in just on 2 hours and crossed the whole of Belgium it takes us 8hrs just to get to the Queensland border which is our closest. In terms of land divisions Western Australia is 2nd largest , Greenland 4th, Nanavut 5th, Queensland 6th , Alaska 7th, Quebec 10th, NW Territories 12th. Western Australias population is only just over 2 million but it has a lot of mineral wealth and is one of the worlds biggest exporters of both iron ore and LNG they seem to manage pretty well.
@@Davo-i1s I think that population density has a lot to do with having huge land areas governed as one municipality. The problem with the NWT was that the tribes in the eastern arctic lived very differently than the more populated western arctic. In the early 90s I lived in both the current NWT (Yellowknife) and the current Nunavut (Iqaluit). The first is basically Taiga forest (until you get even farther north) and the other is like a moonscape where you are 1,000 miles from the nearest tree. The more populated western part of the territory had a very different viewpoint, and made decisions that did not consider, those in the east. A similar thing happens now in California, but it is the coastal cities with the power. I assumed that Australian territories had the same kind of issues. I can't imagine that the people in the middle of Queensland think that you should need a truck license for vehicles over 4.5t.
@@rich7447 You could substitute the tundra in Canada to the arid lands in cental WA and it would be the same, The problem with Australian states is that the state governments spend their money where the votes are and thats usually in the capital cities. The rest of us get the left overs so the infrastructure suffers as a result. Dosent matter the size they are all the same but then most Australian states are huge and would be at the top of this list anyhow.
Alaska is the biggest state but one of the least populated because restrictive terrain and weather but its also the most beautiful and one of if not the most important state. Size alone as its good chunk of our mass, but also as a buffer from the continental U.S. ans Russia, but mainly its incredibly rich in natural resources. However after seeing the environmental destruction people have left in the lower 48 they also are very careful with their environment
Mindboggling isn't it? I've been to Europe and over to Asia. I still haven't seen all of the country. Meaning Maine and Alaska. But, I really don't have to leave the US to travel.
The original video you guys used is stupid, the area stats shown are way too small to read, there's very few nations shown for comparison, & it just seems too US centralized for be informative & relatable to other nations.
You are not pronouncing Maryland right. U do not say Mary like a female 's name. Google Maryland u can hear how it's pronounced I'am sure the people from Maryland will appreciate that
Factoid - Great Britian has 12,429 km or 7,723 miles of shoreline. The state of Minnesota has more shoreline with its lakes, and rivers (no oceans) than California, Hawaii and Florida combined! (183,326 miles - 295,034.958 kelomiters)... *Minnesota has 11,842 lakes that are at least 10 acres in size, which is why it's known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". If all basins that are larger than 2.5 acres are counted, the total number of lakes in Minnesota would be 21,871. A number of these lakes are too large to see across.
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That’s why so many Americans don’t feel a need to travel outside the USA. There’s so much geography right here and amazing things to see and do.
Plus a large proportion of Americans are (absolutely) clueless about the rest of the world and what it has to offer, e.g., continental Europe.
Exactly… it’s basically a whole continent
Interesting. I had not seen this one. Very well done. Like you said, it's difficult to grasp the size of the U.S. when you visit one little corner of it. The only way to really understand it is to drive cross country. The last road trip I took was driving a mini RV from North Dakota to St. Augustine, Florida. It took 2 1/2 days driving 12 hour days on the interstate with minimal stops for sleep, fuel and food. Another interesting perspective would be comparing population per square mile of each state. Great reaction guys. Thanks.
Americans think 100 years is a long time; Brits think 100 miles is a long way.
@mikecarew8329 - Children think 100 years is a long time. On your 50th birthday you realize you're halfway there. On your 75th birthday you realize you're 3/4 of a century old.
Yeah disagree with this statement. You must be very young.
@@shawnanderson6313 it’s not my statement; it’s an old joke from England repeated by many from Diana Galbadon in “Drums of Autumn,” to Neil Gaiman in an interview and all the way back to an Emily Friedman paper in 1991 …and oft-repeated by Brit TH-camrs especially Brit ex-pats in the US like Laurence Brown on “Lost in the Pond.” Of course 100 years is not a long time even in the scope of US history nevermind compared to all history. It’s a saying that makes a point about how Britain is a small country and they blanch at any decent road trip we would not think twice about; while Americans are famously of the moment or even of the future and in awe of centuries old architecture in the UK.
And idiots think one brit army is a lot
@@mikecarew8329You took the Mickey out of Shawn 😅
Glad you're enjoying this video. Free pronunciation guide here: although Maryland is spelled as if it should be MARY-land, we've sort of taken liberties with it, to where it's pronounced MARE-uh-lund. We're good at coming up with unexpected pronunciations for place names over here, in case you don't already know it. In fact, I've been slowly adding to a computer document I started some years ago, after watching a video here of Californians trying to pronounced Wisconsin place names, and thought I could add to it. Just yesterday it reached 2619 entries.
You may be joking, but in case you're not, Arkansas is spelled are-CAN-zuss, but it's pronounced ARE-cun-saw, from French pronunciation of the Quapaw word for" land of downriver people".; 50 states in total. Finally, at 6:26 we my home state of Illinois.
Even though we're bigger, the Interstate hwys. make getting around much faster, since at the minimum, there are always 4 lanes, and across the country, the minimum speed per state is probably 65 or 70 mph/105 or 113kph.
Montana is the size of Germany.
If you want to see how big AK really is (here, they don't show the Aleutian chain), check out this map of it placed over what they call the Lower 48:
reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2q0jfh/the_state_of_alaska_compared_to_the_lower_48/
I guess I never realized how big of a country Spain really is… California and Texas are really big states and for Spain to fall in between those two big states is pretty amazing.
Just the Navajo reservation alone is about the size of Scotland.
When originally, the Native Americans owned the entire continent.
@jayeginn5963 They were never united, though. There were hundreds of independent tribes.
@@richardstephens5570 I did not imply that at all. Just that the entire continent used to be theirs, while after the invasion of illegal immigrants from Europe (mostly), they only were left (relatively) puny reservations.
@jayeginn5963 cool, your point?
Even as an American who has traveled broadly through the U.S., I was "wow'd" with the state and country sizes presented this way. Fascinating! Have a great weekend. Peace
I’m from Michigan, when I drove out West to Washington state, I stayed there a few days and drove back, and I put over 6,100 miles on the rental car…..I made sure to get unlimited mileage when I rented it, lol. When you drive for days and you’re still in the same country it radically changes your perspective on distance. When I got back from my trip to the West coast I was talking to a friend of mine and I said “I was shocked that it only took 15 hours to reach Colorado.” My friend said “Yeah, most people don’t realize how close it is. 15 hours isn’t bad; you can easily get there in less than a day!”
Wyoming is larger than the UK, has about the same population as Sheffield.
There’s a video by a guy who does a lot of geography type videos who took the United States map and overlaid it on the European map and showed how they correlate by size. It was amazing to see how the US covered pretty much all of Europe. I wish I could remember the guy’s name but you probably have reacted to him before.
Was it geography king?
@ YES!! Thank you it was driving me crazy trying to remember. Now I’ll see if I can find the video that I mentioned above. 👏👏
When i drive from home in northern michigan to my brothers in Seattle, if i drive 800 miles a day, it only takes 3.5 days. Road trip.
50 countries in one.
I suppose we could be called the UCA, United Countries of America. :)
Not different enough.
To give you some perspective on the size of my home state (Michigan), I live in the South West area (about an hour North of the Indiana border). I can drive South for 9 hours and be in Tennessee, but if I drive North and then West (into our Upper Peninsula), I can drive for 10 hours and still be in Michigan. As crazy as that might sound, people in Texas can drive over 24 hours and still be in Texas.
I’m from San Diego California which is one of the Southern most Counties in California. If I were to drive to the Northern most county it would take 15 hours, North to South. I’m about an 8.5 hour drive from San Francisco for reference. Btw kinda off topic however what’s Michigan like? I haven’t had an opportunity yet to visit any of the northern states but it’s something I’m definitely looking into. Last time I was supposed to go to Minnesota was when I was in high school during internships.
Guys, all of Europe fits inside just a part of the United States.
You can only appreciate the size of the US by traveling across it by car or by train or plane. Car is the best.
I once had a friend who drove from Florida to Arizona with some friends non-stop to see a football game. They drove for 40 hours without stopping.
Wow 😯 that’s crazy!!🤪
In the 70s my band was on tour in Europe and the UK. It didnt take long to get from one country to another 🚗
Back in the 1980's we went for a day at the beach from Acton, Massachussetts to Bar Harbor, Maine. That was a 5 hour drive.
I feel like our country was discovered by horse, connected by rail, opened by road, and flourished by flight.
I once saw a graphic that showed the distance in Texas from east to west is very close to the distance from the north of Texas to the Canadian border. Just to show how much space Texas takes up in the US. The states are so big that’s probably why most Americans have never traveled outside of their state. It takes weeks of driving and that’s just to get there never mind any time actually spent enjoying your final destination before driving the weeks back home. You’d need a month vacation time unless you flew there and most Americans get a week or two a year vacation time. Some more most less. Minimum wage employees that make up most of the workforce don’t get paid vacations at all and IF they were allowed a vacation it wouldn’t be paid and they likely can’t afford the time off not getting a paycheck plus the expense of a vacation. I work 10 hours a day I get 10 days of paid time off as it’s called or PTO a year but it only pays 8 hours a day so when I go on vacation I lose 2 hours a day of pay. Every job and situation is different though so my situation shouldn’t be taken as a generalization of what others deal with.
As you said, alot of states are not completely populated or built up, but thats what gives us the beautiful mountains, deserts and forests to visit. It seems we made a good descision to choose this for our new country.. ..the ones who lost the most were the native americans.
Central coast of California here! I’m driving my son back to college tomorrow and I will drive 6 hours (without breaks) from San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles. Look at a map and ponder that. Six hours and it’s not even the whole state. It takes 5 or 6 hours to go the width of the state due to the mountains in the east.
Drove from my home in Alabama to Daytona Fla. for a NASCAR race. I drove 12 hrs to the race and
then 12 back home after a hot summer day, great trip.
A cattle station (ranch) in South Australia is bigger than 48 countries
My thing is population density some states only have a couple mill people
If you took Alaska from the Aleutian Islands to the eastern border with Canada, it’s a greater distance that the continental US from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
There were a few problems with some of the comparisons, as even in the opening minute it shows Israel as being larger than Vermont! But it's easy to see that Vermont is larger, and New Hampshire is too, even the graphics show this as so. This pops up intermittently throughout the video, such as in the case of Uruguay and Florida...but still it was interesting!
I believe Great Britain is about the same size in sq km. as Oregon.
Yes, Oregon is much closer in land area to the UK than Michigan. A very beautiful state too. IIRC like Scotland with "the volume turned up to 11" 😀.
Happy, Peaceful New Year. ☮
When states are economically, geographically and population wise on par with entire countries it begins to make sense why people from the US will say their state first when asked where they are from. Partly it's habit from travelling within the United States too.
Random - Israel is the size of the Kruger National Park (in South Africa) where animals live in their natural habitat.
Wyoming and Colorado are not "barren land". Wyoming has Yellowstone and Colorado has the Rocky Mountains and Denver.
To be honest I'm from Wisconsin and I truly never thought about the size of our state until I started watching videos like this...
I’ve used to explained the states to Europeans as about 8-10 countries with the same tv . Now the internet has sort of blown our national psyche away
US is massive. 😬
That's why we stay in country, or Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽 are fairly close. Cheers, HNY 25! 🥳✌🏽
Arizona may have desert but Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the U.S.
The "largest city" is always misleading. City boundaries get set just about anywhere within metropolitan areas. Phoenix is the 10th largest metro in the US.
@ We’re talking population ! Look it up !
Taking a trip from our home in Deming, New Mexico to Orlando, Florida. Driving and pulling our RV. It will take us a week to get there ( 2900km)
Back in college, I would drive from Idaho to my home state of Alaska every summer through Canada for summer work. It was almost 3000 Km drive and it took me 3 days if I did not stop driving for sleep. Then in the fall I would have to drive back. I did this only twice. Canada is gorgeous but massive. I hated that drive. Alaska has something like 700,000 people, more than half of the population lives in one city and there are no roads to most areas of the State.
A good comparison video.
Wow, I didn't realize how small some of these countries are if states like Rhode Island and Delaware are bigger.😮
Singapore is about the same size as New York City. It _is_ small. Less than ⅓ the size of Rhode Island. I've only been there once, for a long weekend. It was very pleasant. Raffles Hotel offered colonial British 'treats', like proper Afternoon Tea. A Raffles barman invented the Singapore Sling cocktail. Almost 20 years ago, so it may have changed a lot since then.
Happy, Peaceful New Year. ☮
@gbulmer Happy New Year's to you too G. It sounds like an interesting place to visit. It's hard to imagine a country that small.
Come see us. You will need to spend some time Road Trip
In my state of California, Sacramento to LA is 384 miles. Approximately 5.25 hours in light traffic and that is not eve boarder to border. Border to border, its 700-800 miles depending on which route you drive. 🚙
They should do a video like this comparing to Canada. Bigger than the U.S. and only divided into 10 Provinces and 3 Territories. lol
I haven't seen that one before. It was good! 👍👍 It'd be interesting to see France, Germany, and the EU, too. The area of a few US states are a bit misleading. For example, Michigan (250,487 km²) is more than 40% water; it sits in the Great Lakes. So it's land area is much less than the UK. Massachusetts area is over ¼ water (Cape Cod's Bay, plus Massachusetts Bay), and tiny Rhode Island 's area is about ⅓ water. They should compare by land area. It'd like to see the European countries that fit in Alaska or Texas.
Happy, Peaceful New Year, Chaps. ☮
G-Man 😎
Maryland rhymes with Marilyn.
9:10. It is not all about total area size Cousins. From Michigan with love.
In rural states commutes to work can be an hour, but those are only for good jobs. I lived in a rural town of about 30,000 that was about 45 minutes outside one of our state's biggest cities. I hated it lol, but was necessary due to geography obv.
I'm from America! So this didn't surprise me at all
Plenty of space for camping here in Texas
Just picture that California has a population comparable to Canada an entire country, while Wyoming and Alaska have very low populations, Nevada has a pop of over 3 million, and Arizona over 7 million. Not as void of humans as you might think. Texas over 30 million and possibly overtaking the population of California in the near future as so many move from California. As we move from state to state it's no different from you traveling country to country in Europe. There is so much to see here it's not surprising that most don't have visas. I've been to 21 states and probably a lot of America I won't see in my lifetime.
Look for TRUE Size online this application allows you to overlay any Country over another to gauge the comparative sizes.
To put it into perspective, Alaska is 6 times bigger then the UK
USA takes in a million immigrants a year. Yeah, we have a lot of empty space, but we are welcoming many to fill that space. I had to fly from Seattle to Miami one time. It was a B!tch.
Alaska is so big that it has more than 3 million lakes. That's right, 3 MILLION. Most of them are unnamed because there are too many to keep track of. If you zoom in on the border around where the oceans are on google maps, you'll see so many lakes that you'd never be able to count them without making a mistake.
AR-KAN- SAW
For size, living in the province of Québec i can relate on doing trips in cars because of the distance to get somewhere. Here we like to tease our French cousins just by saying we can fit France 3 times in our province 😁
GB 6.7 times. SORRY!
Once you get away from the St Lawrence though, Quebec doesn't have a lot of roads. This is not something that is unique to Quebec. The large Canadian provinces all have the majority of their road network in the south. That's why a tiny island like GB has twice as many miles of paved roads as the province of Quebec.
Most of our provinces are larger than states. My province of British Columbia could hold the whole UK plus part of the ocean , as well as Netherlands, Belgium, etc. We are also larger than Texas.
And fewer people= more room. Same with many states. Europe always astonishes me with how closely populated it is.
You can fit 40 UKs in the US
OMG
You really get an idea how big the US is when you drive through all the states. The only one I have left is Alaska.
Enjoyed this reaction! USA!!! 💕😁
Thank you!! 😁
Can y'all please do more Tom Bet George Xmas light show please?
These are actually based on elevation (even tho the colors make it look like most of the states are desert).
Howdy from St.Louis Missouri
Its crazy to think that Portugal was one of the most powerful countries in the world at one time considering how small it is.
I married a Brit and she lives here in the US. Missouri is larger than England.
There is a TH-cam site that does tell you how many countries can fit in the United States
To put this into perspective if you are only talking land area the UK would fit into the state of Western Australia 10 times and Texas would fit into it 4 times. The states of Queensland (1.8M sq.kms) and Western Australia (2.7M sq. kms) are both bigger than the state of Alaska (1.7M sq. kms). Anna Creek cattle station (23,677 sq kms) in South Australia is bigger than Israel and 6 of those US states listed. Western Australia is the 2nd biggest land division in the wotrld behind Yakitia in Russia (3M sq kms). What is amazing about the US states is not so much the land area it is some have economies larger than a lot of countries including Australia which is currently the worlds 13th largest by GDP.
Usually land areas that big have trouble taking care of the varied needs of the vastly separated parts. This was the case with the Northwest Territories (3,439,296 km^2) in Canada prior to it being split in 1999. The larger part (Nunavut) is 2,093,190km^2 and only has a population of just under 42,000 people.
@@rich7447 pretty sure that there are a number of countries that have bigger states, provinces or territories than the US states listed Greenland is another. When I was in Europe I was amazed that we could drive across a whole countriy in a fraction of the time that it takes us to drive from our home on the central coast of NSW to the nearest state border. We drove from Dunkirk in France to Vlissingen in the Nederlands in just on 2 hours and crossed the whole of Belgium it takes us 8hrs just to get to the Queensland border which is our closest. In terms of land divisions Western Australia is 2nd largest , Greenland 4th, Nanavut 5th, Queensland 6th , Alaska 7th, Quebec 10th, NW Territories 12th. Western Australias population is only just over 2 million but it has a lot of mineral wealth and is one of the worlds biggest exporters of both iron ore and LNG they seem to manage pretty well.
@@Davo-i1s I think that population density has a lot to do with having huge land areas governed as one municipality. The problem with the NWT was that the tribes in the eastern arctic lived very differently than the more populated western arctic. In the early 90s I lived in both the current NWT (Yellowknife) and the current Nunavut (Iqaluit). The first is basically Taiga forest (until you get even farther north) and the other is like a moonscape where you are 1,000 miles from the nearest tree. The more populated western part of the territory had a very different viewpoint, and made decisions that did not consider, those in the east. A similar thing happens now in California, but it is the coastal cities with the power.
I assumed that Australian territories had the same kind of issues. I can't imagine that the people in the middle of Queensland think that you should need a truck license for vehicles over 4.5t.
@@rich7447 You could substitute the tundra in Canada to the arid lands in cental WA and it would be the same, The problem with Australian states is that the state governments spend their money where the votes are and thats usually in the capital cities. The rest of us get the left overs so the infrastructure suffers as a result. Dosent matter the size they are all the same but then most Australian states are huge and would be at the top of this list anyhow.
Alaska is the biggest state but one of the least populated because restrictive terrain and weather but its also the most beautiful and one of if not the most important state. Size alone as its good chunk of our mass, but also as a buffer from the continental U.S. ans Russia, but mainly its incredibly rich in natural resources. However after seeing the environmental destruction people have left in the lower 48 they also are very careful with their environment
You can grasp it when you would think of Europe as 1 country. Europe is even bigger than.
Mindboggling isn't it? I've been to Europe and over to Asia. I still haven't seen all of the country. Meaning Maine and Alaska. But, I really don't have to leave the US to travel.
“Arkansas” is pronounced “Arkansaw”
Just for future reference. :P
No, I don’t know why it’s pronounced that way lol
AMERICA! F*** YEAH!!!
Israel should have been before Vermont and Portugal before Tennesee. Mistakes?
If we get the climate under control and no nukes drop, the population has lots of room to fit more people without over crowding.
don't forget our new territories
Arkansas is pronounced as if were spelled Arkensaw.
Arkansas is pronounced as Ar-can-saw. No relation to Kansas.
Israel has to be a powerhouse because it is so small you can cross it in less than a day.
Fathom this, each US state, big or small, has TWO Senators out of the 100, with EQUAL voting power, no matter the population.
States population/representation in the US government: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
50 states in the USA.
Now hopefully you both can understand why we Americans don't have Passports compared to other 1st World Nations.
It's not Ar-kansas.it's Ar-ken-saw
Arkansas is pronounced "AR-kin-saw", not "ar-KAN-zis."
Ask a NATIVE AMERICAN
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Australian states dwarf American states.. We have farms bigger than texas
Nope, Massachusetts is bigger than Israel
Wait till we add Canada and Greenland!🤣
OMG I Brits are so funny. Again u are missed pronouncing another state Google Arkansas u will hear how it's pronounced. Ar--kansas 🤔🤣🤣🤣
The original video you guys used is stupid, the area stats shown are way too small to read, there's very few nations shown for comparison, & it just seems too US centralized for be informative & relatable to other nations.
You are not pronouncing Maryland right. U do not say Mary like a female 's name. Google Maryland u can hear how it's pronounced I'am sure the people from Maryland will appreciate that
This video really puts things into perspective. I love the United States AND the countries of Great Britain. ♥🤍💙
Factoid - Great Britian has 12,429 km or 7,723 miles of shoreline.
The state of Minnesota has more shoreline with its lakes, and rivers (no oceans) than California, Hawaii and Florida combined! (183,326 miles - 295,034.958 kelomiters)... *Minnesota has 11,842 lakes that are at least 10 acres in size, which is why it's known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". If all basins that are larger than 2.5 acres are counted, the total number of lakes in Minnesota would be 21,871. A number of these lakes are too large to see across.