That's where they need to stay rather than jumping over the fence to here 👎

Louisville is on the Ohio River, not the Mississippi.

It's quite obvious that Latin America is the most average region in the world because it isn't particularly poor or rich and it's racially super diverse. Only inequality and homicide rate stand out when we talk about the region. Unfortunately, it could be less average

Surprise Surprise Any student of the Civil War would know the answer to this question. Southern Indiana is also very southern in outlook and Cincinnati is more like a southern city than other in the Midwest.

My guess was Missouri. The overall winner of any state not in the South that is the most similar will always be West Virginia.

Missouri used to be the most moderate state politically, voting for the winning presidential candidate more often than any other state, IIRC. WTF happened?

I live near Kansas City, but i would say i am more southern than Midwestern, because my ancestors came from TN, KY, VA, and NC. There are many of us that still have a touch of a southern accent even though we do live in the northern part of Missouri.

Pakistan and Northern India literally eat the same food. How are they not grouped together? This makes no sense.

Good job on this one!

Very interesting. I would like a longer video that explains each region in more detail. And a typical food from each region.

what soet of clustering did you use? Also I'm familiar with your work due to your website, but I fear that the A.I voice & short length might lead people to falsely assume that this is a spam account! You guys should use real voices, and go a little deeper into the video for more traction imo

I feel like you would do a good job at making a map of the cultures of the US (New England, Cascadia, Deep South...) Do you think you can do that someday?

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Ireland is a great option for those looking for a peaceful and beautiful getaway.

Please note: some of the other countries in the West Indies, like Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, would be in contention for this list, but they are too small in population and land area to have enough reliable data.

Communist???? No thanks.

Interesting idea.

I’m soooo surprised

4/5 not bad

Knew it wasn't Denmark, Nigeria, Netherland, Greenland, and Liechtenstein.

Wow!

Turkmenistan would make more sense politically

great work

It seems like a lot of people confuse "most similar" out of all the countries in the world with "extremely similar". North Korea is the most unique country in the world according to Objective Lists's data, so no countries are really similar to it. South Korea is just more similar than the rest of the world.

Apartheid legacy?

Why the spooky music? Unnecessary

thank you for all of your videos!!! this is all so interesting!

Milk 🥛

If any country is like North Korea its Turkmenistan.

idiots

genetically maybe. politically they cant be more differnt. absolute ignorance

How is South Korea like north Korea

sorry but there is no reason for Lyon or Spurs to be here, the spots shouldve gone to the other 2 dutch clubs

I dont't understand why some maps place Czechia in the same region as Russia and Kazachstan but not as Germany and Austria. Czechia was for 800 years part of the Holy Roman Empire - together with Austria and countries on the territory of today's Germany. It was 400 years in one state with Austria. And just 40 years a communist country, not even part of the Soviet Union. For more than 1000 years, the religion in Czechia has been Western Chistianity (Roman catolicism and later also Protestantism), contrary to Russia, which is Orthodox. This difference played a enormous role in the past and has influence the society in culture in a huge way. It is even still visible on maps, because Western Christian countries adopted latin alphabet, whereas Russia and many other orthodox countries has adopted cyrilic. The use of Latin language as the lingua franca of Western Christian countries enablen incredible intense sharing of ideas among them. The formation of pre-protestant Hussit movement in the Czech lands based on ideas from England is one example of that. The division of East and West Europe used to be where the division of Eastern and Western Christianity was, far more to the East then now. Today, Czech people live a very similar lifestyle as people in West Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. Pork and beer are extremely popular in those three. Czechia is a democracy with stable diversified economy. The GDP per capita is higher than of Portugal. All these three countries are secular with small influence of religion onto politics. People in Europe migh argue that the incomes in Czechia are still lower than in West Europe, but when evaluated from the perspective of the whole world, there is very little difference. The 40 years of communism is the only thing that separates Czechia and West Europe, but East Germany also was a communist vasal of Moscow and noone ever puts Germany into the post-soviet region. Apart from that, the countries are very similar in many ways. We even celebrate Christmass in the very same way as Austrians, on 24th of December with carp and potato salad and presents brought by baby Jesus. TLDR: Czechia was a part of Western Europe before Russia was even a country and the only thing we have in common is the injustice and misery of communism, in a very short period of otherverse long and rich European history.

Russia is a large country with diverse ethnic and religious composition. I would place it as a transitional country between European and Central Asian regions. It has large similarities with post-soviet countries in Central Asia, not only history and script, but also current problems like very high corruption and strong autocratic govermnents. It is also rich on natural resources and has at least partially similar geography. The other Central Asian countries are predominantly muslim, but there are many predominantly muslim regions in Russia too. The governments and law systems are secular. They have connected and compatible infrastruciture and their population is partially mixed by soviet and post-Soviet migration (many Russians in Central Asia and many Central Asians in Russia). They are also together in the Eurasian Economic Union. There are also ethnic, religious and geographical similarities of Russia (especially Siberia) and Mongolia. Russia is not landlocked, but its mainland is very far from any sea. And its access to worlds oceans is surprisingly limited because majority of its coastal water freezes in winter. One of the reasons why Russia is so diffucult to categorize is because it is a colonial empire that has never gave up its colonies. (It would be difficult to fit France and French Africa into a single reagion. Britain shares lots of cultural similarities with Australia, NZ, Canada and USA and they can be easily considered one region, but not together with India and Pakistan). Russia has clear European traits, but also clear traits of the territories it colonised and which it controls now or controled in the past. The categorization is also complicated by the specificy of the Soviet heritage - which connects culturaly and economicaly and politically very distinct countries like Estonia in Europe and Turkmenistan in Asia. And by the communist heritage in general, wich include even broader mix of countries like Latino-American Cuba and East-Asian North Korea....

0:49 Interesting, here in Norway I'd say we feel like we have more in common with the Netherlands and Switzerland then Germany I'd say. Part of the reason for that is that the center of German standardization efforts where quite dome distance from us, and Germany abandoned a lot of its north german heritage in order to achieve unity.

Missouri's position linking the Great Lakes to the South was very interesting to me, given that it's more similar to Iowa or Kansas than Illinois or Michigan, in my experience

The least similar countries are Romania and Chad. Except for flags.

If you've ever seen Persian women, you'd say let me go there, but unfortunately they are in Arab controlled Iran, and they only date Persian men. So, that makes it tough.

Except it’s not a country. It’s a US military base in p@l€st!ne. Lebanon was, is, and will always be the bridge between east and west.

Is Israeli a country or west colony and apartheid regime built with blood and genocide in Palestine? Israel is unlike any country in the world .free free Palestine ftom the river to the sea.

Palestine is similar to Germany before 1945.

As an Alaskan you should the states plus the Canadian provences we're the same people seperated only by a border I'm willing to guess we got more connections to BC and the Yukon

Israel is similar to South Africa before 1994

1. Israel, since its literally an apartheid state with European settlers 2. Cyprus, literally in the European union 3. Turkey, part of Istanbul is in Europe and culture is influenced by Europe a bit 4. Levantine Arab countries especially Lebanon and Syria, they are also influenced by Europe a bit.

White skinned Jews brought to the Palestine in early 1900s from all of the Europe. Israel isn't a country, it's an encroachment of western powers into the middle east.

In the present day here in the US, it is transgenders.

Why is this disputable at all? Obviously, Cyprus is the Middle Eastern country most like Europe. It's even in the European Union.

stolen land

Huh I wasnt expecting Lebanon