100 Useless Geographical Facts - Special Edition

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The United States once tried to buy Greenland out for $100 million. Canada's border with the United States is the world's longest international border, at 8,890 km. This compares with the 6,846-km boundary between Russia and Kazakhstan and the 5,308-km frontier between Chile and Argentina. The dead sea is so salty that it is 10 times saltier than the pacific ocean, it’s the saltiest sea in the world and it’s even so salty that you are able to float on it.
Venezuela has the highest crime rate with an index of 83.76, followed by Papua new guinea with 80.79 and South Africa with 76.86.
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[@ricardo68]

Portuguese is also an official language in Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe and East Timor. So it’s not official in only 5 countries but rather 8.

[@user-he2kj1no4i]

Isn’t it Papua New Guinea as well

[@ricardo68]

Yeah

[@spencergouveia7449]

​@@user-he2kj1no4ino mot in paupa new guinea as the lyrics speak English and tok pisin and hiri motu

[@aribhussain9518]

@@user-he2kj1no4i yaboii

[@BigandDurable]

The "Tree That Owns Itself" is in Athens, Georgia, USA, not Greece.

[@shinny9335]

Grr not the European copying state again

[@jskelly1979]

the picture is straight up from the Athens, Georgia stock and if you look up that tree, it says it is in Athens, Georgia. FFS, you can see the American flag in the background. HAHAHA this video is full of so many flaws and has no credibility!

[@GamerWithAttitude1]

Georgia should sue Greece for stealing the Athens name !

[@DarkBidhan]

its should have been GigaChad instead of MegaChad

[@kyrgyzstaniscool]

8:00 You don't know how happy this made me.

[@earthbasics10]

No problem mate!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

King George V was never at war with Nazi Germany. He was at war with the German Empire, ruled at the time by his first cousin Kaiser Wilhelm ii. The war with Nazi Germany was the second world war, which began in 1939. George V died in 1936. Also, " Santo Domingo" can also be translated as "Saint Dominic.

[@sergeanthowiefromthemainland]

Also, Ireland was a republic by the time the second world war begun.

[@richardhudson4649]

You should have also mentioned Canada's other land border. It is the 3rd shortest in the world. It is with Denmark. it is 1280meters long, it is on Hans Island in the Arctic.

[@nicherix]

Zambia-Botswana border is even shorter - just 150 metres at all. However it's river border.

[@David-gm8ho]

Together They Can Do Everything For: 1299 metres tall with an iron frame under a steel plate that can hold a small object and can hold up for a few seconds while it moves around in the sun or sun 1-5 meters above. This allows for the size and weight to increase in size as the material can move in and move at $391.23 dollars a square foot and a half of a mile. Thank you for sharing your experience. 😊

[@MyChannelIs450YearsAgo]

Sao tome and principe and East timor left the chat

[@tabletgenesis3439]

And Macau?

[@onyxisgone]

@@tabletgenesis3439 not a country

[@CrazaVindicatorGD]

​@@onyxisgone debated

[@onyxisgone]

@@CrazaVindicatorGD its not UN recognized but i suppose yes its debatable

[@CrazaVindicatorGD]

@@onyxisgone kosovo palestine and more are countries aren't un official but are still countries and still debate

[@akeel_1701]

@11:38 The Swiss and Vatican flags ARE rectangular, the square is a subset of rectangle whose sides are all the same length.

[@northerngryphon6933]

😱😱😱 05:09 This is just wrong. Although George V was at war with Germany during the FIRST World War (1914-1918), he was NEVER at war with Nazi Germany, as he died in 1936, and World War II only started in 1939, at which time George VI was king. As for Ireland, it was partitioned in 1922 into Northern Ireland (6 counties), and the Irish Free State (36 counties) which would become the current country of Ireland. Although it was not declared independent by the British until 1948, Ireland abolished the monarchy in 1936 and adopted its new constitution in 1937. They did not declare war on Germany because they were no longer British subjects.

[@Ajeje_Brazorf-YT]

5:50 as an Italian I can confirm that "dai" means "come on" great video as always btw

[@earthbasics10]

Thanks man, love the support!

[@GerbilloOriginal]

but we say dai no die

[@Ajeje_Brazorf-YT]

@@GerbilloOriginal exactly

[@USA..........69699]

so its like dai dai dai!!!!!!!

[@bob494949]

It’s also like American term “gimme”

[@jsho574]

Technically... the Swiss and Vatican City flags are still rectangular as all squares are rectangles

[@8997u8]

Norway left the chat in coastline

[@stargazer-elite]

@AustralianBall 🇦🇺 it’s still disputed because of the coastline paradox

[@TheXenton]

Norway’s coastline is NOTHING to Canada’s coastline though, Norway is probably in 96th-14th place.😅

[@TheXenton]

@@Aussie-Editswhat

[@chaitanyaprasadsharmabajga8544]

​@@TheXentonNorway 2nd Canada 1st

[@deannamuff3996]

@@chaitanyaprasadsharmabajga8544NOT True

[@MELBUR]

I am Kenyan and I have NEVER heard of a sport called nightrunning. That's complete fiction!

[@lsaidane7851]

12:08 the Netherlands don't serve beer at McDonald's

[@GamerWithAttitude1]

In France they do. It's even mentionned in the movie Pulp Fiction.

[@loriosterhoudt5100]

Awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@earthbasics10]

Thank you!

[@raydunn8262]

Almost 5,000 Irish joined the Allies to fight the Axis Powers in World War 2. Ireland helped the Allies with intelligences, weather forecasts, and opening up shipping routes. Many ships from the USA first stopped in Ireland. Ireland was suppressed by the Brits for centuries, and their Civil War with Britian only ended six years earlier. Officially, they couldn't look like they were on England's side. In reality, their help was crucial to turning the tide. So please give Ireland some credit and slack.

[@americacauto5408]

Hi! The island shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti is also called Santo Domingo or Hispaniola. The natives before colonization called the island Quisqueya that means Mother of all islands in Taino language. Also, 10:26 Taínos gave the world sweet potatoes, peanuts, guava, pineapple and tobacco-even the word 'tobacco' is Taíno in origin!

[@sobrevalorado]

The name of the island is La Española

[@razzmatazz1974]

pineapple is native to Paraguay

[@hridaanmishra2263]

India 🇮🇳 has two gulfs that are found in gujarat

[@lalalaaaaaaaaaa]

Correction for 10:23 Technically, "Saint Sunday" is the literal translation but the name is actually derived from a Spanish saint named "St. Domingo/Dominic de/of Guzman" which is which the Dominican Republic's name is that.

[@olanwomisko6116]

And it's also the oldest capital city in the western hemisphere

[@SquidProQuo80]

@@olanwomisko6116 Mexico City, the capital of Mexico used to be called Tenochtitlan and it was founded 171 years before Santo Domingo (St. Dominic - not St. Sunday)... however within the city limits of Mexico City are other even more ancient capitals: Teotihuacan founded in 1,400 BC and Cuicuilco founded 600 BC.

[@olanwomisko6116]

@@SquidProQuo80 cool I didn't know that. But I think Santo Domingo was the first capital city in the New World declared by Spanish if we're counting post Colombus

[@LobotomyMapping]

11:23 Lake Gigachad

[@OliveDasi]

While set of the 3 artifacts that were discovered in Iraq in 1936 were called the Baghdad Battery, there was never a battery in the items. There have been many expirments and recreations of this item, but the results are inconclusive at best. To quote Professor Elizabeth Stone in 2012, who is an expert on Iraqi archeology, who returned from the first archeological expedition there in 50 years, "[she] does not know a single archaeologist who believed that these were batteries." That includes archeologists of many nations - including Iraq who are experts in their field.

[@christianferraro2881]

Great video but I have to correct you on 2 things: The longest coastline depends a lot on how you are measuring it, but I think that Norway has the longest one. The lowest temperature was -71° in oymyakon in Russia. But as an Italian I have to confirm that "dai" means come on 😂

[@earthbasics10]

Thanks for the support, however The longest coastline is Canada.

[@Den_Norke_torsken]

Nah it’s Norway

[@kyrgyzstaniscool]

@@Den_Norke_torsken What source are you using?

[@WcGang]

@AustralianBall 🇦🇺 yeah that’s what I always see when I see measuring coastline

[@respectthefancy8404]

@@earthbasics10it depends on the coastline paradox and how you measure it. The vast majority of standard measurement increments say canada has the longest coastline, but one could argue that it’s actually norway if you theoretically measure in an infinitely small increment. However, that’s literally impossible with current technology to prove whether that’s true or not so it’s usually accepted as being Canada until some aliens come along to prove us wrong or smthn

[@ianhoad2211]

Australia has 34,000km of coastline.

[@ukraina_mapping]

10:46 There are also Sao Tome 🇸🇹 and Prinicipe 🇸🇹 and Guinea 🇬🇳 Bissau 🇬🇼 speaking Portuguese🇵🇹🇧🇷🇦🇴🇨🇻🇲🇿 And also little bit in Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 🇬🇳 11:39 And also Ohio flag non recrangular

[@staticshockk]

Timor leste also speaks Portuguese. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about

[@NeolithicMan23]

Ohio is not a country

[@sobrevalorado]

Guinea Ecuatorial speaks Spanish, not Portuguese

[@FionaEm]

This is a fascinating assortment of facts, let down by multiple spelling mistakes in the graphics.

[@Me-td5rg]

Also if salt used to be currency in Rome, is that where the word salary comes from?

[@theworldexplained8253]

Yes

[@NunuBot]

Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor speak Portugese. The flag of Malta features a dragon in the emblem as well. The shortest land border is between Morocco and Spain. The flags of Vatican and Switzerland ARE rectangular since all squares are rectangles.

[@the_real_stan_pines3024]

+guinea bissau

[@sobrevalorado]

Wrong. The botder between Spain and Morocco is 159 km long, not the shortest in the world

[@jimon8998]

How could Jamaica be the first western country to build a railroad if they did it 18 years after britain a western country

[@remcoholierook7879]

There’s no beer sold at McDonald’s in the Netherlands.

[@andyhess8433]

George V was dead before WWII started, and even if he was alive, Ireland was an independent Republic by the time WWII started, so he wasn't the King of Ireland.

[@rickfox4068]

The tree that owns itself is in Georgia, USA

[@granttrotter]

Athens, Ga not Athens Greece

[@phife1878]

The Baghdad battery has never been proven to actually be a battery.

[@reneyourlife]

Love it

[@NotStepp]

9:10 Malta is another flag that has a dragon in it. which is being stomped by a horse (inside the cross)

[@eoghanocrualaoich4160]

Ireland gained independence from Britain long before WW2

[@MrJem357]

This is the first time I have ever watched a KZbin video where the comments were more entertaining than the actual video.😂😂😂😂

[@TheFixonLand]

Nice video😊😊😅😅😊

[@earthbasics10]

Thanks Fixon, love your support on all my videos!

[@floppy8568]

7:11 you misspelled Kazakhstan

[@theworldexplained8253]

5:10 WWII started in 1939, and King George V was no longer king. It was actually his son, King George VI.

[@SnuppOfficial]

This might be surprising, but Norway actually has the second longest coastline.

[@brontewcat]

Yes and the Philippines, Japan and Australia have longer coastlines than the USA.

[@tracejones5952]

Depends on how you measure

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

@@tracejones5952 Exactly! Because of the fractal structure of a coastline you can say as smaller the measuring scale (S) is as longer the coastline C gets. In the end the coastline becomes infinite (at least if you see as as an mathematical object).

[@fear_not]

Portuguese is also an official language in Timor-Leste, together with Tetum

[@griffinmaxwell789]

2:29 that tree is not in Greece, it's in Athens, Georgia, USA.

[@MDW1101]

Came here to say this. I drive by it several times a day.

[@walkingcarpet420]

At 8:20, the real shortest land border is between Spain and Morocco in the town of Gomera

[@bohr7610]

7:24 thats not a monkey

[@GodzillaGamerFan-uu1uc]

5:52 as an Italian i would like to make a little clarification. It's not actually written "Die" but it's "Dai". Yes, the pronounciation is the same, it's just written differently

[@SEFR7337]

Fun video. But Santo Domingo means Holy Sunday. The word santo or santa means both saint and holy.

[@cryogenng123]

good video

[@earthbasics10]

Thank you!

[@mikelefc]

The shortest international border is between Spain and Morocco on the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

[@RichardHoogstad]

12:07 There ain't no beer at Mac here in the Netherlands man

[@alperenkenan]

11:38 Technically square is a special kind of rectangle, so only Nepal has a nonrectangular flag

[@susanmires1522]

I love your videos!, but i Malta and Sri Lanka also have dragons on their flag!

[@richardfoster5298]

The Sri Lankan flag has a lion on it, not a dragon.

[@rolandcieniewski-pq3xi]

The channel was turned into a tombolo and the island became a peninsula, connected to the Moroccan coast by an 85 m (278.87 ft) long sandy isthmus, which is the world's shortest single land-border segment.

[@RealMitsz]

I remember watching ur vids when you only had 2 vids

[@alexrichardson1226]

So many errors. You’re right about these facts being useless

[@proman_6969]

7:11 **KAZACHSTAN* 💀💀

[@MyChannelIs450YearsAgo]

It's Maur-ri-SHUS not Maur-ri-dius

[@alecedgeworth2814]

Coldest temperature was in the Yukon at -68.1C as of 4 years ago

[@calus_bath_water]

4:10 is really ironic considering they went to war with the holy land

[@betterdeadthanred23]

1:54 Someone in my class is named Matti

[@tivvy3415]

If ur gonna put “facts” in the title. Make sure that everything is true and that ur saying the country names correctly

[@staticshockk]

There are more lies in this video than truths

[@tivvy3415]

@@staticshockk exactly

[@tasaki12]

6:41 thats the moon during a lunar eclipse tho

[@Epistemica]

At least I know those facts now😄

[@alexdaland]

Quite normal outside of cities in Norway to leave your baby in the stroller outside the supermarket etc if the kid is sleeping. We also put on the kids a thick cover and some clothes and put them outside in the stroller in winter temperatures, they sleep.... like babies :)

[@floppy8568]

11:21 LOL good one

[@leonardowynnwidodo9704]

11:38 you forgot Belgium, although it has a13:15 ratio which is barely a square

[@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts]

he said rectangle

[@jeanmegre]

In Brazil it's Football too

[@GirGir183]

9:42 The thousands separator is a comma, not a full stop.

[@stevenlawrence3284]

Mexico D.F. also has an abbreviation at the end.

[@ferretyluv]

I’m honestly shocked that Spain doesn’t have the most sleep. They love a good siesta and stay up until 2am, presumably to sleep more.

[@madtownbbbear]

Interesting spelling of bombed at (10:55) which you have as "bomebd". Is it "vegetarian" or "vegetarion"? 😉

[@JacobOdendaal-bs4ns]

R. I. P people that didn't get water before the video started

[@its_anna_subscribe]

11:16 spain’s national anthem has no words

[@patriziaimpicciche6450]

in italy there it is a region that have only one city.the name of the region is valle daosta and its only city is well, aosta

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Norway's coastline is 100.915 km long, the second longest after Canada. And it's not even on your top 5.

[@danielelliott5760]

Malta also has a dragon on its flag as well on the Victoria cross

[@Buffest_Bacon]

bro knows im drinking ;-;

[@shontellepayne551]

Fun fact - did u know there is a country called Australia on the planet too??? Would have been nice to have @ least some mention.. Like did u know our coastline here is 34 000 km, MUCH more than the US

[@allisonmccarthy1584]

Yes yes yes was about to say the same thing!! Pathetic isn't it that this video doesn't mention the best country in the world!! Cheers xo

[@shontellepayne551]

@@allisonmccarthy1584 I couldn’t agree more! AND I can still say that after traveling to 38 others! ♥️Australia ♥️

[@earthbasics10]

Shontelle I think Australia is one of the most mentioned countries on my channel. I have even told about the fact it takes like 25 years to visit each coast in Australia.

[@earthbasics10]

Australia is one of the most discussed countries on this channel. Nothing pathetic Allison.

[@yooo8153]

7:26 I've been doing it every day, but i never knew it was a sport!!!!

[@aceplaysgames2381]

i have the 1000th like!!!!!!!!

[@ToTwoSiblings]

If you do facts about India, add- 1. The world's wettest place Cherrapunji is located in India. 2. Chhattisgarh is known as "Rice bowl of India" but in top rice producing states, it's rank is 7 and 7 is lucky number of India.

[@Raphafofo1]

10:45 São Tomé and Príncipe & Timor-Leste also speak Portuguese 🇸🇹🇹🇱🇵🇹🇧🇷🇦🇴🇲🇿

[@kirilvelinov7774]

The french road sign "priority" is not used in the UK Its shape is similar to US warning signs

[@konstantinoschristodoulou8566]

As a cypriot i have to explain that we use the greek national anthem because we consider our selves greeks

[@Methalec1985]

On coast lines... Norway should be at least on third place there due to all the fjords and islands.

[@Agni6446]

Me talking about my history knowledge be like

[@MZ_Fsians]

4:17 Find the mistake

[@DarckFrom_iGuess]

“Hidhuism”

[@rajeshlingamarla3175]

2mistake Nepal is most Hindu country

[@wlbila]

Bratislava does not border Hungary, only Austria

[@denverthekid]

Norway has the longest caosrline

[@SeattleMarinersBoy]

9:43 2nd is actually Norway. :/

[@kyrstagg]

I really thought it was just gonna be 100 different countries favorite sport

[@ThatADHDFlygon]

Pfft, Berlin only gets an average of 6H of sleep? Pathetic. I get 5 minutes, right before my alarm.

[@htodudenyc]

santo Domingo = holy Sunday

[@pietrorace669]

10:40 you make a mistake there are 9 in total, you forgot, Sao Tomé and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, East Timotand Guinea Bissau and what's more they are all part of the community of Portuguese-speaking states founded in 1996

[@joaocabral3143]

Don't forget Macau...though not an independent country per se, it has great autonomy within China and Portuguese as an official language.

[@mtreding]

Timor-Leste has Portuguese as a official language

[@worldmotivatenow]

*Timor-Leste correction

[@GirGir183]

2:57 For the LAST time.......the thousad serparator is a comma.....not a full stop.

[@KirojaFluffy]

Depending on the country, most actually use a dot, and a comma as decimal seperator.

[@goncalosantos5096]

São Tomé e Príncipe, East Timor and Equatorial Guinea also have portuguese as an official language

[@narutogames5447]

10:37 I think you've just insulted the countries of Guiné Bissau 🇬🇼 Guiné Equatorial 🇬🇶 São Tomé e Princepe 🇸🇹 Timor Leste 🇹🇱 Along with Macau in China 🇲🇴🇨🇳 and Goa in India 🇮🇳

[@wydadiyoun]

equatorial guinea is spanish as far as I know

[@narutogames5447]

@@wydadiyoun They have Pprtuguese, Spanish and French as their "oficial languages"

[@joaocabral3143]

Portuguese is not an official language in Goa. It ceased to be in 1961, when the former Portuguese territories of Goa, Daman and Diu were annexed by India. Nowadays about 10,000-15,000 people know and speak it to some degree in said territories. However, Portuguese is still an official language in Macau. Unfortunately, it is a dying language there as only 2-3% of the population speak it.

[@user-tz7xi7oq4f]

If african lake called megachad it must called gigachad

[@huzefa6421]

7:52 .... watching from here 😊

[@nazigermany7434]

Mega chad lake:🗿 *ofc it was in Chad*

[@nicolanobili2113]

In the Italian language, a word which sounds like "die" really means "come one", but you mispelled it in the video: in Italian it is "dai"