I learned that from a neighbor, many years ago, who told me she is from Spain. I said “oh you speak Spanish”. She said no she speaks Castilian, the official language. She then said there are 3 other languages that are spoken in different areas and none of them are Spanish. I remember Catalan and Basque but can’t remember the third.
@@douggaijinthe third is Galician. It's very similar to Portuguese. Lol. I remember an Argentinian man telling me that he doesn't speak Spanish, but he speaks Castilian.
Every projection is an attempt to represent the globe on a flat surface. There are three attributes to any map, size, shape, direction. No map can accurately portray more than 2. 1 always has to be sacrificed. Mercator sacrifices size, because it derives from nautical maps, for which shape, and ESPECIALLY direction, are paramount
The Statue of Liberty one was tricky. But technically the island itself is NY, the waters around the island is NJ. Prepositions are important here, the SOL is ‘within’ NJ, but is ‘in’NY. Lol I don’t get it either.
The question of in what state is the Statue of Liberty located is surprisingly complex. Its island has been owned by the federal government since 1801. Geographically, the island sits in the New Jersey side of New York Harbor. Politically is where it gets confusing. If Wikipedia is correct, New York has control of some administrative functions, such as collecting sales tax at the Statue gift shop and "serving process" for litigation. This means that Liberty Island is an exclave of the state of New York, according to a 1908 Supreme Court case. In the 1980s, New Jersey sued to change this. Wikipedia says the case was not heard by the Supreme Court, leaving the 1908 decision in place. Because of this confusion, when it was a question on a citizenship test the acceptable answers were "New York Harbor," "Liberty Island," "New Jersey," "New York," "New York City," and "on the Hudson." It seems to me that the "longest river in the U.S." should be defined as the entire length of the Missouri River plus the portion of the Mississippi River downstream of their confluence at St. Louis. Liberia was "sort of" a colony of the United States in the early 1800s. It has been independent since 1847. According to how the term "Middle East" was defined decades ago, Afghanistan and Pakistan might have been considered part of it. "Near East" was used for Turkiye, Lebanon, Israel, and the other Asian Arab countries that comprised the Ottoman Empire. I don't know about Iran/Persia. The "Far East" was what we now call East Asia.
10:40 the problem here and with Greenland earlier is the map projection. There’s no way to make a flat map of the globe without some distortion in shape, area, the direction, or distances. The projector most commonly used is the Mercator projector which preserves the shape of landmasses at the price of area as you go north or south
He's wrong about English not being the "most widely spoken language". It is. There are more native speakers of Mandarin, true, but the vast majority of them reside in China. That's not the definition of "most widely spoken".
I hate it when people say "actually mandarin is the most commonly spoken language" yeah in china. Go to any country in the world and you will find people who speak english. Try the same with mandarin and you'd be out of luck
1.there is a river paradoxon so thats why the 2 rivers can both be the largest in the world and 2. mandarin is only the most nativ spoken language , but more people know english than mandarin
The Missouri River is the longest only if you count the third of it's shown length AFTER it merges into the Mississippi River. It's like saying the small street I live on is the longest in the country because I can eventually merge onto I-10 and drive from Florida to California.
The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island, which is in the state of New York, even though it's surrounded on all sides by New Jersey waters. When the borders were fixed in 1834, Liberty Island was one of a number of exclaves that resulted. Ellis Island, where most immigrants from Europe arrived, was another. New Jersey successfully sued New York in the late nineties, arguing that only the parts of Ellis Island that were above water in 1834 were in New York, and everything created artificially since is in New Jersey. So now Ellis Island is split between both states. And it ended up being such a nightmare from an administrative perspective that New Jersey hasn't tried the same thing with Liberty Island. So currently the entirety of Liberty Island is in New York, up to the water's edge.
The Nile river is a full 100+ miles longer than the Amazon, idk where he's getting his facts. In terms of volume of water though, the Amazon is by FAR the largest river. Like...it's not even close. And English IS the most widely spoken language. There's a difference between "native language" and being able to speak a language. There's hundreds of millions of people who speak English despite it not being their native tongue.
Spain is not a language. Spanish is a language. Neither the question about the most speakers of Chinese or the second most (Spanish) are technically geography questions since not all speakers of ANY language are contained exclusively in a geographic area.
The statue of liberty is within New Jersey yes but the land actually does belong to New York. I always get confused thinking about it because I think one state owns the land below water, and the other owns the land above the water. I can never remember which though lol
Do you need a full passport or just the passport card? We only need the passport card where I am - but it's a small border crossing. Can't use it for any other country though. Before 9/11 we didn't need anything but a US driver's license - same with Mexico and Jamaica and I don't know how many other countries. There is the "fact" (I don't know how accurate it is) that gets repeated that only some small percentage of American's have a passport, but before 9/11 travel was much less restrictive.
In china 5 continents : asia america africa europe oceania(australia)or 6 with artartida also coutries as : vietnam indonesia south korea france italy spain portugal turkey greece rumania and others coutries
DISCOVERED HOW WRONG ABOUT GEOGRAPHY I WAS WHEN I PLAYED TRIVIAL PURSUIT, BOUGHT ATLAS IF DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEM TO STUDY. COUNTRY NAMES AND BORDERS CHANGE. GOTTA KEEP UP.
I always thought the US had the longest coastline - allowing for measuring all the ins and outs of every bay and inlet of the lower 48 along with Alaska and Hawaii
It does.... To the comments below... yes there are several ways to measure coastlines but none as accurate as the satellite and aircraft measurements that they do now.. And they are not empirically hard to measure because, as I stated above. And, it doesn't matter what you call any unit of measurement.. it doesn't change the size of the thing being measured.
Statue of Liberty one is bullshit. Shouldn't the geography guy know what exclaves are? I guess Lesotho is really South Africa then. 🙄 Greenland being smaller depends on what kind of a map you're looking at... There's no such thing as an accurate 2d map, it's distorted because of the shape of the Earth and there's literally hundreds of different types of 2d maps to try and make the most accurate version as possible. LMFAO Spain is a language?
All you need to know about New Jersey is that there are two football teams and a Statue of Liberty that are inside Jersey borders and all are New York icons.
They wanted. Italy tried to conquer Ethiopia in 1896 but failed. They tried to do it 40 years later when Mussolini was in power, this time successfully.
The reason most people don't know the true size of Greenland is due to the Mercator projection used to create flat maps as early as the 16th century. The cylindrical projection kept the features needed for navigation though it loses size accuracy the further an area is from the equator. And I'm sorry but "Alaska is just too big" is NOT a fact.
1 more fact is that France longest border is not with spain or germany or any other country in europe but its longest border is with Brazil thanks to French Guyana and France being colonial queen of not letting go
The Mercator Projection gives some Canadians a big head. It's only *thismuch* bigger than the USA or China. (Most of that coastline is pretty useless/cold. Ditto for Norway and Russia. Much better to have less, but be Brazil, the USA or Australia.)
@@Maggy-uj7kd - "Significantly" is a bit of a stretch. Unfortunately for Canada (unlike the *contiguous* not "continental") US, much of it is unfit for habitation & agriculture. Any climate change won't help either; it won't bring topsoil to the Canadian Shield.
@@SilvanaDil significantly aint a stretch when Alaska is like 17% of the area or something. Continuous contiguous continental who cares. Who cares about the size of the country Canada has 5 ppl anyways Also no it's not useless cold coastline that's just the north pole part. Don't be an annoying American bro. The sides of Quebec and Vancouver have plenty of coast, plus islands plus Hudson Bay. Also it isn't winter all year. American patriotism is weird brainwashing tbh as a Canadian I don't even thinking about my nationality ever
"Spain is the second most spoken language"? This video is rife with errors. Even the ellipticality of the Earth was misrepresented, the Earth is slightly flattened horizontally by 47 miles, not vertically.
good vid, though he many times referred to maps not representing the true scales of countries, he failed to actually explain why, which has to do with the curvature of the earth and converting it to a 2D map, there are maps online which depicts the true sizes of countries, which disregards their location on earth.
He's wrong about the polar bears and penguins. I've seen old documentaries where they DO run into one another. But I do suppose it could be a rare event of migrations or something. Possibly even groups of escaped animals.
They may have escaped a zoo or something. They natively live at opposite poles of the earth. They don't "migrate" through all of Canada, US, Mexico, the rest of south and central America to "run into" each other.
This guy already got two "facts" wrong. Florida is the most southern state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. The same way Texas is the largest state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the contiguous US. There's a difference. Don't leave out wording to make your facts.
@@cosmicthespider7974 um...hello that's the point. He said facts people get wrong. But most other videos state CONTIGUOUS before said fact of which state is the largest or most southern. Hence, why i said... don't leave out words to make your facts. Duh.
@@johnmcnulty2705 are all y'all slow? I know he didn't say that. The point is other videos differentiate Texas being the largest state in the CONTIGUOUS United States. He said facts people get wrong! They aren't wrong because the majority use the term "contiguous" to describe the largest and most southern states in the US. What about that are you people missing.
@@kikibigbangfan3540 So no person or video has EVER not said "contiguous" before saying Texas is the largest stat? None ever? Not a single human has erroneously said Texas was the largest state?
Some of his "facts" are wrong such as including the Mississippi River as part of the Missouri River. I also suspect Spanish is not the 2nd most spoken language.
This video makes a mistake on their continents map. They show Greenland colored as part of the European continent even though it's part of North America. It's a European territory on the North American continent.
he's wrong about the language. He didnt specify primary language. English is the most widely spoken language on the planet. It's not the most widely spoken primary language.
Would you believe Spain is a country and not a language? That was a geography fact nobody gets wrong but this guy.
lol exactly
Yeah this announcer guy got More shit wrong then I could keep up with!
I learned that from a neighbor, many years ago, who told me she is from Spain. I said “oh you speak Spanish”. She said no she speaks Castilian, the official language. She then said there are 3 other languages that are spoken in different areas and none of them are Spanish. I remember Catalan and Basque but can’t remember the third.
Came to say this
@@douggaijinthe third is Galician. It's very similar to Portuguese.
Lol. I remember an Argentinian man telling me that he doesn't speak Spanish, but he speaks Castilian.
It's a good thing Daz learned more about geography after school, considering his teachers completely ignored Africa as a continent 🤣🤣
I caught that too lol
It's not "shocking" that Greenland appears bigger than it really is, it's simply a consequence of trying to project a 3D sphere onto a 2D map.
Thanks guys for reacting to my video. Oh and Dave I'll make sure to lower the volume of the sound effects😇 Much love for you guys, loved the reaction!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
Those distortions on maps are due to the Mercator projection. It's an attempt to represent a 3d object (the Earth) on a 2d surface.
Every projection is an attempt to represent the globe on a flat surface. There are three attributes to any map, size, shape, direction. No map can accurately portray more than 2. 1 always has to be sacrificed. Mercator sacrifices size, because it derives from nautical maps, for which shape, and ESPECIALLY direction, are paramount
The Statue of Liberty one was tricky.
But technically the island itself is NY, the waters around the island is NJ.
Prepositions are important here, the SOL is ‘within’ NJ, but is ‘in’NY.
Lol I don’t get it either.
The question of in what state is the Statue of Liberty located is surprisingly complex. Its island has been owned by the federal government since 1801. Geographically, the island sits in the New Jersey side of New York Harbor. Politically is where it gets confusing. If Wikipedia is correct, New York has control of some administrative functions, such as collecting sales tax at the Statue gift shop and "serving process" for litigation. This means that Liberty Island is an exclave of the state of New York, according to a 1908 Supreme Court case. In the 1980s, New Jersey sued to change this. Wikipedia says the case was not heard by the Supreme Court, leaving the 1908 decision in place. Because of this confusion, when it was a question on a citizenship test the acceptable answers were "New York Harbor," "Liberty Island," "New Jersey," "New York," "New York City," and "on the Hudson."
It seems to me that the "longest river in the U.S." should be defined as the entire length of the Missouri River plus the portion of the Mississippi River downstream of their confluence at St. Louis.
Liberia was "sort of" a colony of the United States in the early 1800s. It has been independent since 1847.
According to how the term "Middle East" was defined decades ago, Afghanistan and Pakistan might have been considered part of it. "Near East" was used for Turkiye, Lebanon, Israel, and the other Asian Arab countries that comprised the Ottoman Empire. I don't know about Iran/Persia. The "Far East" was what we now call East Asia.
7:33 - Ethiopia was not the only independent country in Africa. There was also Liberia.
10:40 the problem here and with Greenland earlier is the map projection. There’s no way to make a flat map of the globe without some distortion in shape, area, the direction, or distances. The projector most commonly used is the Mercator projector which preserves the shape of landmasses at the price of area as you go north or south
He's wrong about English not being the "most widely spoken language". It is. There are more native speakers of Mandarin, true, but the vast majority of them reside in China. That's not the definition of "most widely spoken".
Yes and completely ignores the billion or so people speaking English as a second language. You don't have to be a native speaker to speak a language.
good point
Yeah the “bup bup bup bup” effect got me too. Lol
If you count all fluent speakers, English is the most spoken language in the World.
Yes, he was only factoring in "native speakers" not everyone who can speak the language fluently.
I hate it when people say "actually mandarin is the most commonly spoken language" yeah in china. Go to any country in the world and you will find people who speak english. Try the same with mandarin and you'd be out of luck
1.there is a river paradoxon so thats why the 2 rivers can both be the largest in the world and 2. mandarin is only the most nativ spoken language , but more people know english than mandarin
Spain is not a language 😂
The Missouri River is the longest only if you count the third of it's shown length AFTER it merges into the Mississippi River. It's like saying the small street I live on is the longest in the country because I can eventually merge onto I-10 and drive from Florida to California.
The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island, which is in the state of New York, even though it's surrounded on all sides by New Jersey waters.
When the borders were fixed in 1834, Liberty Island was one of a number of exclaves that resulted. Ellis Island, where most immigrants from Europe arrived, was another. New Jersey successfully sued New York in the late nineties, arguing that only the parts of Ellis Island that were above water in 1834 were in New York, and everything created artificially since is in New Jersey. So now Ellis Island is split between both states. And it ended up being such a nightmare from an administrative perspective that New Jersey hasn't tried the same thing with Liberty Island.
So currently the entirety of Liberty Island is in New York, up to the water's edge.
The Nile river is a full 100+ miles longer than the Amazon, idk where he's getting his facts. In terms of volume of water though, the Amazon is by FAR the largest river. Like...it's not even close.
And English IS the most widely spoken language. There's a difference between "native language" and being able to speak a language. There's hundreds of millions of people who speak English despite it not being their native tongue.
Spain is not a language. Spanish is a language. Neither the question about the most speakers of Chinese or the second most (Spanish) are technically geography questions since not all speakers of ANY language are contained exclusively in a geographic area.
32 is wrong. it is English. he says that English doesn't have the most speakers, but then talks only about native speakers.
The statue of liberty is within New Jersey yes but the land actually does belong to New York. I always get confused thinking about it because I think one state owns the land below water, and the other owns the land above the water. I can never remember which though lol
Yeah, I live in New York. Us and New Jersey got into a fight over it some years ago.
I had no idea that the language in Spain is Spain
You most DEFINITELY need a Passport to cross the Windsor-Detroit border, either by Ambassador Bridge or by Tunnel. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Do you need a full passport or just the passport card? We only need the passport card where I am - but it's a small border crossing. Can't use it for any other country though. Before 9/11 we didn't need anything but a US driver's license - same with Mexico and Jamaica and I don't know how many other countries. There is the "fact" (I don't know how accurate it is) that gets repeated that only some small percentage of American's have a passport, but before 9/11 travel was much less restrictive.
Where the hell HASNT Daz lived? I swear I keep learning about places he’s lived
As I’m not a tree, I am able to move around freely 😂👍🏻
My native language is Spain! Thank you for the representation.
"Spain" is the 2nd most spoken language? I'm shocked Daz didn't say anything.
You can't just cross into Canada with a regular DL, it has to be an Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDL)
The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island IS in New York, it's the water around it that is apart of New Jersey
In china 5 continents : asia america africa europe oceania(australia)or 6 with artartida also coutries as : vietnam indonesia south korea france italy spain portugal turkey greece rumania and others coutries
Im bilingual in English and Spain.
I learned my Spain in southern Spanish.
😂👍Good one
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DISCOVERED HOW WRONG ABOUT GEOGRAPHY I WAS WHEN I PLAYED TRIVIAL PURSUIT, BOUGHT ATLAS IF DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEM TO STUDY. COUNTRY NAMES AND BORDERS CHANGE. GOTTA KEEP UP.
I always thought the US had the longest coastline - allowing for measuring all the ins and outs of every bay and inlet of the lower 48 along with Alaska and Hawaii
There are numerous ways to measure coastline, but I think the U.S. is usually not #1
Coastlines are impossible to empirically measure. It completely depends on the unit of measurement.
It does.... To the comments below... yes there are several ways to measure coastlines but none as accurate as the satellite and aircraft measurements that they do now.. And they are not empirically hard to measure because, as I stated above. And, it doesn't matter what you call any unit of measurement.. it doesn't change the size of the thing being measured.
look at canada on a map and think about what u just said lol
Nobody thinks Texas is bigger than Alaska
Statue of Liberty one is bullshit. Shouldn't the geography guy know what exclaves are? I guess Lesotho is really South Africa then. 🙄
Greenland being smaller depends on what kind of a map you're looking at... There's no such thing as an accurate 2d map, it's distorted because of the shape of the Earth and there's literally hundreds of different types of 2d maps to try and make the most accurate version as possible.
LMFAO Spain is a language?
All you need to know about New Jersey is that there are two football teams and a Statue of Liberty that are inside Jersey borders and all are New York icons.
7:33 It wasn't exactly that Ethiopa was able to protect itself, it was that nobody wanted Ethiopia.
They wanted. Italy tried to conquer Ethiopia in 1896 but failed. They tried to do it 40 years later when Mussolini was in power, this time successfully.
The reason most people don't know the true size of Greenland is due to the Mercator projection used to create flat maps as early as the 16th century. The cylindrical projection kept the features needed for navigation though it loses size accuracy the further an area is from the equator.
And I'm sorry but "Alaska is just too big" is NOT a fact.
Damn Daz. That’s impressive
Someone tell the college dunce narrating that Spain is not a language,
i hope you don't mind me watching your videos Daz
what kinda fact is "Alaska is too big"....????
1 more fact is that France longest border is not with spain or germany or any other country in europe but its longest border is with Brazil thanks to French Guyana and France being colonial queen of not letting go
*It’s with Brazil because of French Guiana
You guys forgot to finish your trivia question about world capitals that begin with “O”
We didn’t. You missed it.
@@officeblokedaz I got Ouaga Dougou!
The Mercator Projection gives some Canadians a big head. It's only *thismuch* bigger than the USA or China. (Most of that coastline is pretty useless/cold. Ditto for Norway and Russia. Much better to have less, but be Brazil, the USA or Australia.)
I can guarantee you Canadians don't give a shit lol no one's competing
And it is significantly bigger than continental US because of Alaska so. Yea
@@Maggy-uj7kd - "Significantly" is a bit of a stretch. Unfortunately for Canada (unlike the *contiguous* not "continental") US, much of it is unfit for habitation & agriculture. Any climate change won't help either; it won't bring topsoil to the Canadian Shield.
@@SilvanaDil significantly aint a stretch when Alaska is like 17% of the area or something. Continuous contiguous continental who cares. Who cares about the size of the country Canada has 5 ppl anyways
Also no it's not useless cold coastline that's just the north pole part. Don't be an annoying American bro. The sides of Quebec and Vancouver have plenty of coast, plus islands plus Hudson Bay. Also it isn't winter all year. American patriotism is weird brainwashing tbh as a Canadian I don't even thinking about my nationality ever
Oslo, Ottowa, and Ouaga Dougou
"Spain is the second most spoken language"? This video is rife with errors. Even the ellipticality of the Earth was misrepresented, the Earth is slightly flattened horizontally by 47 miles, not vertically.
If you guys like geography, yall should watch RealLifelore how geography make the US overpowered
I'm also a geography nerd. Travel will do that to you.
Forgot to add that loads of foreigners think Sydney is the capital of Australia
I take that back, he did mention it, though he did completely both the pronunciation of Canberra
Botch
Lower the audio of the intro its way too loud
If you offer me pheasant, I'd rather have grouse.
And Oranjestad, capital of Aruba, is another “O”.
Autonomous country of the Netherlands
2:00 So did Mike know that or not?
He knew the trivia about Holland, but not the one at your timestamp
Shoutout to Liberia.
good vid, though he many times referred to maps not representing the true scales of countries, he failed to actually explain why, which has to do with the curvature of the earth and converting it to a 2D map, there are maps online which depicts the true sizes of countries, which disregards their location on earth.
He's wrong about the polar bears and penguins. I've seen old documentaries where they DO run into one another. But I do suppose it could be a rare event of migrations or something. Possibly even groups of escaped animals.
They may have escaped a zoo or something. They natively live at opposite poles of the earth. They don't "migrate" through all of Canada, US, Mexico, the rest of south and central America to "run into" each other.
This guy already got two "facts" wrong. Florida is the most southern state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. The same way Texas is the largest state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the contiguous US. There's a difference. Don't leave out wording to make your facts.
unless you're talking about the US Empire in its entirety which one would presume he is since he didn't say CONTIGUOUS
@@cosmicthespider7974 um...hello that's the point. He said facts people get wrong. But most other videos state CONTIGUOUS before said fact of which state is the largest or most southern. Hence, why i said... don't leave out words to make your facts. Duh.
He didn't say contiguous.
@@johnmcnulty2705 are all y'all slow? I know he didn't say that. The point is other videos differentiate Texas being the largest state in the CONTIGUOUS United States. He said facts people get wrong! They aren't wrong because the majority use the term "contiguous" to describe the largest and most southern states in the US. What about that are you people missing.
@@kikibigbangfan3540 So no person or video has EVER not said "contiguous" before saying Texas is the largest stat? None ever? Not a single human has erroneously said Texas was the largest state?
Some of his "facts" are wrong such as including the Mississippi River as part of the Missouri River. I also suspect Spanish is not the 2nd most spoken language.
do more geography
Can someone please explain how Spain is a language I’m really confused now. Lol
Not feeling real confident in this guy's info...
Spain is the 2nd most spoken language? surely he meant Spanish
capital of joarden is oman 😂
Not Amman?
@@officeblokedaz sorry ,, its amman
This video makes a mistake on their continents map. They show Greenland colored as part of the European continent even though it's part of North America. It's a European territory on the North American continent.
9:35
I saw Polar bears in Canada and Alaska. He's wrong
he's wrong about the language. He didnt specify primary language. English is the most widely spoken language on the planet. It's not the most widely spoken primary language.
don't make me learn things