11 Maps That Divide North America In Two

[@realspecialweek]

Nice casual throw-in there of the "CUM" America Map

[@TheOnlyFrigth]

kum

[@redorangebrowntan5163]

north cummerica

[@REDossett]

I'm from Curaçao and many people Indeed don't realise the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of The Netherlands are part of North America.

[@gormster]

Interesting! Does that make you an EU citizen?

[@REDossett]

@@gormster yes, because of the Dutch nationality.

[@danielgyila3662]

And aren’t they central America?

[@Kevbot6000]

@@danielgyila3662Central America is a subregion that’s part of North America, not its own separate continent. Kinda like how South East Asia is still part of Asia.

[@danielgyila3662]

@@Kevbot6000 I think it depends how you define every region, cause I learned Central America as a separate continent when I was small. Im from Hungary, where are you from?

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

The US Virgin Islands actually drives on the left side of the road, just like the British Virgin Islands! It's the only place under US jurisdiction where this is the case, however all passenger vehicles have left-side steering columns due to imports of US vehicles. The US Virgin Islands was once colonized by Denmark as the Danish West Indies (the United States paid Denmark $25 million in gold coin to purchase the Danish West Indies in a treaty in 1916 and were officially transferred in March 1917), who adopted left-hand driving. The Danish West India-Guinea Company first annexed St. Thomas in 1672, annexed St. John in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France's King Louis XV in 1733. Denmark itself wouldn't switch to right-hand driving until 1793. The British also occupied the Danish West Indies in 1801-1802 and 1807-1815 during the Napoleonic Wars. Also, the first vehicles that showed up during the Danish period probably showed up from the British Virgin Islands. Furthermore, the topography of the islands and road layout contribute to the preference for left-hand driving. The islands' narrow, winding roads often hug the coastline and ascend steep hillsides. Driving on the left allows drivers to have better visibility, particularly when navigating sharp turns or encountering oncoming traffic. While not the entire Caribbean, there was an attempt at a political union of different British colonies called the West Indies Federation that lasted from 1958 to 1962. The Federation was an internally self-governing, federal state made up of ten provinces. The federation was created by the UK in 1958 with the intention to create a political unit that would become independent as a single state. But it fell apart for several reasons. These include the lack of local popular support, competing insular nationalism, weakness of the federal government, prohibitions on federal taxation and freedom of movement, inadequacies in the constitution, feuds between influential leaders, the decision of the three most influential politicians not to contest Federal elections, friction between these leaders and the Federal government, the overwhelming concentration of population and resources in the two largest units, geographic and cultural distance between the units, and lack of a history of common administration. The immediate catalyst was Jamaica, who was dissatisfied at the slow process to reach independence, Jamaica's share of the seats in the federal parliament was smaller than its share of the total population of the Federation, it was believed that the smaller islands would be a drain on Jamaica's wealth (its bauxite), Jamaica was somewhat isolated in distance from the other islands, inter-island rivalry, and many Jamaicans were upset that Kingston had not been chosen as the federal capital. There were also problems with the Federation's proposed capital in Chaguaramas on Trinidad, at that time still in the hands of the United States (having leased it as a naval base from the United Kingdom during World War II). Many of the Caribbean provincial leaders wanted Chaguaramas to be the Federation's capital. Provincial leaders, such as Norman Manley of Jamaica and Eric Williams, pushed for handing over of Chaguaramas to the Federation from the US. However, the US and UK disagreed, and the Federation's PM Grantley Adams stopped the provincial leaders from obtaining Chaguaramas

[@Dumpy332]

14:00 There is a cricket team called West Indies which represents around 15 anglophone carribian countries (and Guyana). All these drive on the left and have won the first two ODI World Cups. West Indies compete as a single team against other teams like India, England, South Africa or Australia.

[@AKPhilly]

Waiting for the South American cope saying they're not a separate continent lol

[@abyssal_phoenix]

Depending on the exact definition it either is or isn't at this current moment of time

[@eduardoxenofonte4004]

continents are kinda arbitrary. this is one way to define them, there are others.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Dominica is pronounced "daa-muh-nee-kuh". The Caribs called the island Wai‘tu kubuli, which means "Tall is her body". Christopher Columbus named the island Dominica, after the Latin term "dies Dominica" for Sunday, the day on which he first saw it in November 1493. Dominica's name is pronounced with emphasis on the third syllable, following the Spanish pronunciation of its name given to it by Columbus. On the map at 5:17, Antigua & Barbuda is white alongside islands like St. Lucia, Dominica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Grenada. The very small islands colored green northwest of Antigua & Barbuda are Anguilla, St Martin/Maarten, and St. Barthelemy. Another green island there up to the northeast of Trinidad & Tobago is Barbados. A middle-income country with a diversified economy built on tourism and offshore banking, Barbados has one of the Caribbean's highest incomes per capita. Historically, the Barbadian economy was dependent on sugarcane cultivation and related activities. However, in recent years the economy has diversified into light industry and tourism. Offshore finance and information services are important foreign exchange earners, boosted by being in the same time zone as eastern US financial centers and by a relatively highly educated workforce. Wish the Puerto Rican flag was shown on the flag map at 6:57 because it would've been great to mention why the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are similar. They were both designed in NYC. There were groups of pro-independence Cuban and Puerto Rican exiles living in NYC in the 1800s. The Cuban flag was designed by Narciso López and Miguel Teurbe Tolón over dinner there in 1849 (both of them died in Cuba in 1851 and 1857 respectively due to fighting with the Spanish). Red represents the bloodshed of the independence fighters (with the triangle representing liberty, equality, and fraternity), the blue stripes represent the three military departments Cuba used to be divided by, and the white represents the purity of the national movement. The star (representing freedom) and the colors red, white, and blue were originally inspired by the US flag, with the star being added to appeal to the US for statehood (of course, this didn't happen). So yeah, the Cuban flag is one of two flags of a current communist nation that has no communist symbolism (the other being Laos). Fidel kept it because the flag was already revolutionary enough (same for the anthem La Bayamesa). The PR flag was presented to the PR Revolutionary Committee in 1892. The red represents the bloodshed, the two white stripes represent victory and peace, blue represents the sky and the sea, and the star represents the island. The Puerto Ricans created another flag similar to the Dominican Republic's flag that was used during El Grito de Lares in 1868, but this one wasn't used again.

[@Nooticus]

you're very knowledgeable supreme leader

[@Jorge-xf9gs]

No, it's not pronounced ""daaa-muh-knee-cuh"". It's /do.mi'ni.ka/

[@Nooticus]

@@Jorge-xf9gs you're wrong

[@Jorge-xf9gs]

@@Nooticus Gracias por dejármelo saber.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

@@Jorge-xf9gs Then delete your replies since you're wrong, gusano! Dominica is not pronounced the same way as Dominican Republic! The people there will tell you that!

[@electricVGC]

I was trying to recount all of the possible NA countries, forgot Anguilla as a non independent but even worse managed to forget Belize.....

[@alexx12545]

what amazes me is how small of a population Belize has compared to every other country around it.

[@RadekLazok]

Czechia and Slovakia have more independence moth, break up of Czechoslovakia, independence from No-no Germany and independence from Austria-Hungary

[@iamtheprogression]

It's interesting how different the islands are while all giving off the same vibe. Spot on ibxcat

[@steverempel8584]

I'm Canadian, and my Basic View is North America can be broadly divided into 2, 3, or 4, or even 5 pieces. First is Division is Northern America, and Middle America. "Northern America" is just Canada and USA, different from the much larger "North America". In the same way, the whole of the Americas Can be divided in two, with Northern America / Latin America being the two halves, or North America/South America being the two halves. America is also divided into 3 with Northern, Middle, and South America. Middle America can be divided into 3 Pieces: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. Mexico and Caribbean are self explanatory, except for the fact the 3 Guyanas in South America are sometimes included with Caribbean Islands... Central America is the 7 Countries south of Mexico on that great American Ismuth. So North America's 5 pieces are: Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

[@appa609]

When people say North America in any non geographic context, they mean US + Canada, which are so similar they may as well be ibe country.

[@Bear-c4x]

America is a country.

[@geografisica]

Northern America Is Minnesota bro, it should be Northern North America 😂😂😂😂

[@danmarsh5949]

Major League Baseball has some interest in placing a pan-Carribean team, perhaps in Dominica or Puerto Rico, which might end up bringing Carribean cultures together in a way that a Carribean unification might happen some decades later.

[@stevemonkey6666]

I am following your advice and have not been to Bermuda 👋😁

[@jhpratt]

11:25 The USVI actually drives on the left

[@lythd]

as a caymanian took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that in other countries the side of the steering while assosciates with the side they drive! also u can thank jamaica and trinidad disagreeing for the lack of a caribbean union. hope to see in future but the lack of interconnectivity makes it harder i suppose

[@DavidSolimano]

The Caribbean should join together - under the UK

[@tdawgmaster1729]

Instructions clear, my next tourist destination will be Bermuda

[@AmeliaGorbechev]

3:35 You ok?-

[@hectorquinones5579]

I'm from Puerto Rico and admittedly growing up I didn't know much about the neighboring Caribbean islands and countries (except of course from DR and Cuba): not the geography, not the people. It is as if I grew up in an empy ocean with only the US mainland on the other side.

[@JF-vw9lv]

Toycat....bad boy. That MCU... Marvel Cinematic Universe reference is going to offend some people

[@brian554xx]

I made a map similar to the thumbnail, with USA and Canada labeled "Americans" and the entire rest of North and South America labeled "Mexicans". I think it captures the concept many people have.

[@jasonwyrick3413]

Slid in the CUM map like we wouldn’t notice 🤣🤣

[@ggcab5]

The US Virgin Islands actually drive on the left side of the road!

[@joeb5080]

TIL!

[@kajunsblerdeye9325]

Somalia was the first thing I noticed

[@blxvkpxndx]

2:24 this map is outdated. populationshave increased by a lot.

[@krazyito]

i feel like he waits until he needs to take a major piss before making this videos with the way he is jumping up and down the whole time.

[@Nooticus]

lol no he's just awesome

[@JennyNobody]

Leaving this video a little bit more intelligent

[@ソープワッフル]

bob

[@jippee1]

C-U-M

[@CreativityShowsSanav]

what the this has nothing to do with Minecraft

[@ソープワッフル]

ok

[@Bejaiakabylie]

Bruh please its pronounced gwa-de-loup not guwa-de-loopey

[@stargazer-elite]

Won’t have to worry about this in a couple hundred years eventually there will only be one America 🇺🇸 USA USA USA WTH IS KILOMETER RAAAH 🦅 MURICA 🗽 But in all seriousness though yes this is quite interesting

[@lidiacosciug6557]

Imagine if the US incorporates a whole bunch of countries and the US starts being more like them. Using Celcius, kilometers, rebuilding their cities and making them more walkable... Affordable healthcare and education etc. The US would be a pretty nice place then and I could imagine moving there.

[@stargazer-elite]

@@lidiacosciug6557 ngl that sounds nice The healthcare and regular measurements and stuff that is

[@bigtomar]

0:07 egypts not in asia

[@michaelcraftyt5578]

part of it

[@ソープワッフル]

some of it is

[@ソープワッフル]

👍

[@SantiagoItzcoatl]

ToyCat's editor is a bad representation of a mexican so you must know that

[@wowthisisareallylongname9236]

sometimes i forget that other places exist outside of the us as this feels like its uploaded way too early but in the uk it is uploaded at like 11am

[@Mizore.7o]

1:33

[@VCOTABFONDD]

Yup 😂😂

[@soliton4]

interesting take. most of the maps are somewhat inaccurate. work on your facts then you will earn my like

[@nickfromm5315]

The United States is a "State of states" like the UK has England, Scotland, and Wales. The United States has 50 flags...

[@alexx12545]

not really, the uk is full of different cultures that evolved separately a majority of the time, the usa has always been way more cohesive.

[@Bear-c4x]

Found the America obsessed Euro who doesn’t know anything.

[@marshalltucker9690]

But the olimpics only have 5 rings, one for each continent. Europe, asia, ociania, africa, America. Refuring to north africa as a separate continent as southern africa is just silly 😂

[@Dragon_Slayer365]

Who else is here under one min?

[@stennostenno1346]

go tell the US americans that they have colonies, it will blow their mind

[@AKPhilly]

>US Americans Opinion disregarded

[@stennostenno1346]

@@AKPhilly Dunno of any other american country with colonies (and thats not an opinion btw)

[@Bear-c4x]

@@stennostenno1346 “US Americans” It’s just “Americans”. Go tell someone from any country that their country has colonies! It will blow their mind!

[@stennostenno1346]

@@Bear-c4x America is a contient, of which North America is a part, of which the USA is a part.

[@Bear-c4x]

@ No. America is a country! It’s between Canada and Mexico! Can’t miss it!

[@Bear-c4x]

The map at 7:56 is wrong. The U.S. Only speaks English.

[@detroitpeoplemover]

"only" English is not the official language of the US. The US has no official language. Many languages are spoken in the US, from Native American languages to languages the immigrant communities brought over

[@Bear-c4x]

@@detroitpeoplemoverThe UK doesn’t have an official language either. We both know the UK speaks English.

[@detroitpeoplemover]

@@Bear-c4x And we both know you're wearing a K K K hoodie :)

[@detroitpeoplemover]

@@Bear-c4x Except English isn't the only language spoken in the UK. Once again, just like the US, the UK has different immigrant groups. Not to mention, the Welsh still speak Welsh, and there are people in Scotland who still speak Scottish Gaelic.

[@detroitpeoplemover]

@@Bear-c4x People like you is why the US should require civics tests to vote....insane people like you shouldn't be voting

[@AbnormallyHotSausageOfficial]

actually no, the blue bit should include usa

[@Bear-c4x]

No. You’re thinking of Canada! Not the US.