9 Maps That Raise More Questions Than They Answer

[@veryblocky]

I like how Crimea’s just missing from the first map, that’s one way of avoiding dealing with that.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Well, in the first map you clearly see the border of Ukraine, and Crimea is a part of it.

[@fchatfchat5865]

Crimea is crimea

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@fchatfchat5865 Crimea is part of Ukraine

[@fchatfchat5865]

@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 ok

[@LancesArmorStriking]

@Christian Luong Larsson Okay how about we just remove all the countries with border disputes haha

[@brp361]

Chad standing out among African countries in the map. Absolute Chad move. 🇹🇩

[@dorian8475]

🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴 romania flag banana eaters

[@teresadaly7210]

Finally an accurate chad flag

[@hendrikdependrik1891]

@@dorian8475 Okay gypsy

[@pereboom9631]

@@dorian8475 you are roma?? ☸☸

[@dorian8475]

Okay black men

[@descalzitao6779]

The Seven New Wonders of the World were determined by a popular vote, and Christ the Redeemer won because of massive Brazilian mobilization in said vote

[@matheus_ps]

BRAZIL CARALHO 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@tomtomtom6970]

Def. more of a wonder of the world than the damn london eye.

[@diollinebranderson6553]

@@tomtomtom6970 aye😂😂

[@budisoemantri2303]

The Giza Pyramids are more worthy for the title imo

[@lakelimbo]

@@budisoemantri2303 Giza is already a Wonder of the Ancient World. Christ the Redeemer is one of the Modern World.

[@weldin]

The US has both rule of land and blood. If you were born in the US, you’re a citizen. If either of your parents were born in the US, but you weren’t, you’re a citizen.

[@itsjustjoel28]

If your uncle’s friend’s 23rd cousin’s horse’s left ear was born in the US, you’re a citizen

[@spelcheak]

I'm fairly sure Canada as well.

[@sodinc]

Same thing for majority of countries in the world

[@JeroenJA]

but rule of land is pretty american (continent) thing. It needed a lot in influx, and simplyfied greatly to let anyone born there become a citizen. but also gives some problems! there are europeans, born in usa, that get in trouble for having the usa nationality without ever having known to have it, untill some 10 years ago some usa laws makes them having to pay taxes while they never lives, grew up , studies or worked there ... and it seems to be really complicated to let yourself stop from being an usa citizen on paper..

[@sodinc]

@@JeroenJA I'm surprised that other countries allow to pay taxes from their territory to US It is obviously against the common rule of taxation that works everywhere except the US

[@poankiyu7664]

Damn the Welsh really are expanding. First Toycat livestreams now Alaska.

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

The island of Kiritimati (pronounce kirismas, as in Christmas) has London, Paris, and Poland.

[@vioooarora]

@@marshalljarnagin9370 dont forget Banana

[@AngelEmfrbl]

13:45 when the contients split, monkeys were divided between old and new world monkeys. Half ended up on on contient and half on the other. Thats it. Primates existed before Africa and South America basically completely divided. They were at least close enough to each other a small group got across. Primates did also used to be more widespread but due to various climate changes things happen and some primates perished even before we got there.

[@Mutavr]

I facepalmed at that moment. The Americas were definitely not empty, they just had no humans 25000 years ago

[@Naeromusic]

"when the contients split" bruh what?

[@ifeeltiredsleepy]

This seems like an intuitive answer but it's incorrect. Monkeys only diverged around 50 million years ago, the divergence is due to cross-Atlantic migration, possibly accross islands that no longer exist since sea levels were much lower at that time.

[@user-pakshibhithi10]

Wrong. South America and Africa split about 138M years ago. First Primates (not monkeys, primates) appeared about 65M years ago. They looked more like Tree shrews than Monkeys 65M years ago.

[@principalmcvicker6530]

Congrats on the house big guy

[@julianshepherd2038]

Best one he has ever broken in to.

[@SaxandRelax]

Big guy? Lmfao

[@lexplains]

This comment thread and Snowpiercer 😂

[@Ron.S.]

How did he enter? (The country not the flat). I think they still don’t allow entry for Brits

[@samj6068]

big guy

[@tonylarussa4046]

I am a dual citizen of Italy and USA. I was born in the USA. My parents emigrated in the 60s. I did not have to wait more than a month or so before I got my Italian citizenship and passport. But then again, I lived in NYC not Argentina or Brazil.

[@benjaminpujol711]

Yeah i can get a Italian citizenship which would Be my third since i already am a french and norwegian citizen. Since i am already a EU citizen its probably easy for me to get it

[@diegotroccoli2098]

I was born in Venezuela, my dad has Italian citizenship. I applied for citizenship and I had my Italian passport in less than two months.

[@sol_in.victus]

In my region of argentina, reconstruction has a waiting list of around 2 years. But if your parents are italian the process is way easier.

[@marcodiepold8620]

Does someone know whether they could do that in a third country? For example an Argentinian in the US?

[@sol_in.victus]

@@marcodiepold8620 as long as you can get your hands on the paperwork you should be able to do it wherever youre living

[@Zero_Gravitas]

17:11 the point isn't to get passengers from London to the US, it's to ship goods. Missing from the map is a spur that goes down to china, and another that potentially goes from Sakhalin to Japan and then South Korea.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Chad in a sea of red: I'm just built different

[@LucyWest370]

Columbia in a bigger sea of blue:

[@rebeccacummings6697]

Wait, so Chad's are robots cause they're built??

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

When the majority of the world is red: *perfectly socialist, as all things should be*

[@kazakhdude]

Best Korea sucks get democratic leader and u will get better in everything

[@PUNishment777]

@@kazakhdude North Korea is a democracy technically

[@blackscreen1920]

@@PUNishment777 I can’t tell if you’re joking or stupid. If you’re not joking, it’s obvious that the DPRK isn’t a democracy because a Democracy allows someone to choose what they want and those elections in the DPRK only give you one option thus not allowing you to vote for who you want. Democracy (according to Wikipedia): Democracy is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so. You don’t get to decide who is your leader when you only have one option that you are forced to pick.

[@PUNishment777]

@@blackscreen1920 you may choose not to vote, therefore it is by definition a democracy

[@blackscreen1920]

@@PUNishment777 But they will try to force you to vote by physically dragging you into the area or putting you in a camp if you refuse to do so WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT. And this doesn't even include the fact that you only have 1 option to vote for so YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE the person that you want to run the Olympics. By your logic, if someone pulls a gun at you and tells you to hand over your wallet and you do so that isn't theft because you "voluntarily" decided to hand over the money.

[@galaxypedestalfan]

5:00 I’m pretty sure that Montenegrins with Alaska isn’t just a percentage thing. Alaska just has the most Montenegrin Americans.

[@baulderos1950]

It could be both, since Alaska has a relatively small population compared to other US states

[@minihwas]

According to my 2 minutes of very accurate google research, during the goldrush many of them moved to America and heard rumours that a lot of money could be made in Alaska so they moved there

[@nonec384]

is more of no one else wanted to go there i would think i would be more russian than montenigrian

[@takix2007]

This map does not mean that montenegran origin is the most common origin for people in Alaska not coming from Alaska, but that the state with the highest percentage of people from Montenegro is Alaska. Just look at how North Dakota appears for Germany, Norway and Iceland.

[@benny_lee]

“You know that pope guy? He used to just own a country” Toycat acting like Vatican city doesn’t exist anymore.

[@Jack-496]

I’ve lived in the St. Louis metro my whole life and I never knew that there was such a huge Bosnian population downtown. I’m confused how some well-educated British guy who has been to Missouri like once knows this and I don’t, but either way I’m happy to learn! Thank you Toycat!

[@jonathanbennett3691]

I think the more interesting conclusion from the second map (European ancestry) is not that they are mostly eastern states (because Illinois Wisconsin Alaska North Dakota Missouri and Iowa) but is that they are all northern states except for New Mexico. I think this is because southern states have higher black and Latino populations so there is less room for the European population percentage to overtake your Iowa’s Vermont’s and so on.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I know enough about US history that the west has lots of native and mexican people.

[@Bretkane]

17:31 Nome is shown bc It's where the bridge would be over the Bering strait

[@JordanPeace]

“They did go west to Vietnam!” I’ve never laughed harder at a single moment in one of your videos lmfao

[@agme8045]

As an argentine i can confirm the waiting times to get an appointment at the Italian consulate are just incredibly long. There are just way too many people trying to get an appointment and just a few can get it at a time. I believe there’s even people suing the Italian consulates and stuff like that. Last year my dad’s cousin got through the process so my family and I were doing some research to do the same with my dad (the rest of us already have the Spanish citizenship because of my mom) so my dad’s the only one without European citizenship at the moment. And yep, getting an appointment is basically impossible, you need to be really lucky tbh. There’s some people who directly travel to Italy to do it, we thought about it but tbh it’s not worth it for our particular situation, so we’ll just keep trying in Buenos Aires!

[@EnteiIsDoge]

Apparently the Gold Rush is to blame for why so many montenegrins live in Anchorage, Alaska today

[@QuixEnd]

North Dakota, Maine and Minnesota make complete sense. I've lived in all 3 and it's 100% reflected in their culture. ND has tons of Norsk heritage spots and everyone claims to have it in their bloodline. In Maine just go to the beach and you'll know exactly who's French

[@davidcox2459]

17:38 toycat has officially recognized my town and I can die happy now

[@ephraimboateng5239]

I actualy think Christ the redemmer is a wonder.

[@LUNE.44]

21:28 this is why toycat is the best youtuber

[@jaspboynl8094]

Another thing missing from the first map is that you can buy citizenships of some countries legally, like Malta.

[@robertrobertson4181]

Nome is listed because it'd be where the rail goes out into the Bering Strait from. Nome isn't important from a population standpoint, but from a strategic standpoint, it's especially the Gibraltar of the Bering Strait. From there (more or less, other positions would be better, it's the high arctic, there aren't many people there, you make do with where they live) you can essentially control the whole Bering Strait with ease. Although, they would likely not build the rail through Nome, or even particularly near it, Nome is by far the largest place near where they would actually build it.

[@pliubumas]

"What happened to you Poland?" The partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did.

[@erikastockunaite5192]

@@andremolle9959 WHY?

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Cat: "Why are there no monkeys here? Why are they here and here but not between them?" BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING WASTELAND lol! That's the Sahara desert, NOTHING lives there, nothing grows apart from cacti There's just nothing there at all.

[@WasThisMail]

13:49 Toycat never heard of continental drift

[@Xerxes2005]

"Why is there that giant gap?" Well, Mr I-Like-Maps, there is that thing called the Sahara Desert...

[@lucasharvey8990]

I'm afraid to correct you in fear of getting whooshed. Oh well. That's not what he meant. He means to ask how they possibly got around the Sahara and ended up living there.

[@umbragon2814]

@@lucasharvey8990 and I'm not sure if I'm being whooshed, but there wasn't always a desert there. They migrated before it dried

[@lucasharvey8990]

@@umbragon2814 Probably. I don't think there's any other way. Unless some crazy monkeys hijacked a flock of birds or something.

[@e.458]

@@lucasharvey8990Maybe they rode camels? 😁

[@lucasharvey8990]

@@e.458 Camels with wings? I've always thought it suspicious that they have lumps on there backs... what could they be hiding from us? Water? As if! There must be extra limbs in there.

[@th60of]

11:18 Frankfurt was, in fact, not part of Hesse-Darmstadt but a Free City within the German Confederation until it was annexed by Prussia in 1866.

[@apacheattackhelicopter8410]

1. Texas is bigger than California 2. Alaska is actually the biggest state in the union by a large margin

[@rogercruz1547]

13:25 That giant gap is something called the Sahara Desert, ever heard of it? It wasn't always a desert though... Also check pangea

[@Giga-cat-c6b]

12:06 All this map does is make me an Aussie even more alone and aware that Australia is in the middle of nowhere.

[@tgb3271]

And new Zealand

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

New York definitely checks out for Russia Tons of Russian-Americans in the NYC Metro. I should know, my dad was one of them. Most Russian-Americans are in southern Brooklyn like Brighton Beach

[@kacperdadela8538]

Primates evolved while Africa and South America were still close to each other

[@YesingtonYes]

The evolution theory is false

[@thebonepossy]

samae think with alpacas thier just small camels.

[@iankellymorris]

@@YesingtonYes bruh

[@HiimIny]

I love the phrase "the us is running out of destiny to manifest"

[@weegomo]

I was born in Singapore, and have british and irish citizenship! Jus Sanguinis!

[@THE_PLAYER_ZER0]

Warning: On first sight some maps will cause chaos in the brain if seen without context.

[@michaelscott1307]

I'm from St. Louis and, yes. There were a lot of Bosnians that came in the 90s during/after the Balkan wars. Subsequently, others from the region have settled there and have quite the mixed community that I have seen confound people familiar with the conflicts.

[@danlyle531]

"That's one way to have a united Ireland" Toycat, now you may want to be careful about starting your car in the morning 😂

[@PauxloE]

11:17 "Frankfurt is part of Hesse-Darmstadt" - actually it is not, it's its own independent city-state (in 1850). It was annexed by Prussia in 1863 (as part of its province Hesse-Nassau). That province was only merged with (parts of) Hesse-Darmstadt after World War II, when Prussia was dissolved.

[@arwelp]

The reason Utah has the highest proportion of people from the UK is because the Mormons have been sending missionaries to Britain since 1837, and the early ones were pretty successful - lots of their converts subsequently migrated to Utah.

[@turbone6028]

16:18 how'd u get that map?

[@shaq6976]

Thinking the same thing

[@Plutonium2000]

19:54 would be a great nature sightseeing tour

[@nominevacans7602]

11:04 - "What happened to you, Poland?" ...yeah, about that

[@kinggenderman1874]

big oof

[@sophiakrause3944]

*laughs nervously in German*

[@Nopunsforyou]

Its’s not a toycat video without a “geography and the world and stuff”

[@gamermapper]

US territories aren't shown for the same reason crown dependencies aren't shown, they have a special status

[@Frosty2]

I’m so glad I found his second channel. This is actually a gem.

[@SuperCookieGaming_]

i think the rail would be used for cheap cargo transport not for passengers.

[@buster3266]

“California is the biggest state in the union” Alaska: Am I a joke to you?

[@joshjones6072]

Haha! Actually California has the highest population if any state in the U.S.

[@favoritemustard3542]

He did say _Union_ 。。。 Alaska & Hawaii = dis-united [as in 48 contiguous]

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@joshjones6072 thats sad

[@buster3266]

@@joshjones6072 Ok but I was talking about size in the comment I made

[@LucyWest370]

@@favoritemustard3542 what about Texas?

[@papajunior694]

*hovers over the UK with Ireland* “Yeah This Is Fine”

[@dazza2350]

Grrrr -Irish me

[@Cole_1]

Woah Christ the Redeemer is pretty cool for when it was built where and you know it's Jesus for Christ sake

[@Marceloloeite]

Yeah, he is just butthurt because Britain has no wonders

[@weldin]

Given it’s position way up on the mountain overlooking the city it’s really cool. Honestly I’d say better than the colosseum.

[@deldarel]

The split of new and old world monkeys was after the new and the old world split. Genetically they're very distinct. New worlds are generally smaller, lighter and can have prehensile tails. Monkeys really went in two different directions from then on. You see this split often with other animals as well. New world and old world tarantulas are very different, with the former being extremely docile but having the ability to shed urticating hairs, and the second being more skittish and more likely to bite defensively.

[@vibratoryuniverse308]

it’s a 125 foot statue at the top of a mountain of the most famous person in history ...

[@jahanitahani]

I love how flevoland is missing from the 1800 map

[@GayAnnabeth]

eagerly awaiting the day toycat makes a video solely about Wales, Alaska

[@odysseuscarter3395]

"California is the biggest state in the union" Alaska crying in the corner of the map

[@dr.winner2516]

He meant in terms of population

[@favoritemustard3542]

This guy: self editing on the fly! GG Love me historical surveys, especially.

[@shieldgenerator7]

14:14 dude you completely forgot about continental drift. south america and africa used to be right next to each other

[@crobertplopper1444]

Yeah but that was before primates were a thing.

[@rexblade504]

The farther you go west, it's still mostly of European decent, more so in most of the West. I don't know why you think it's not

[@natethegreat5968]

9:12 if the US does take japan then we need to rename ourselves to the Holy Britannian Empire

[@Bokmoh]

It would be for the best

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

Lol, John Green doing a history video on that like: The not holy, not Britannian, not imperial, Holy Britannian Empire.

[@srinathj2222]

13:18 Probably because they died out before they could establish a habitat in the Sahara Desert

[@MrAlex-ej8ov]

I'm pretty sure that the Trans-Siberian railway is fully electrified at this point, and that the rails are up to standard (material, not speed)

[@bluflavouredpudding]

I have a Portuguese citizenship because my grandparents are Portuguese, and I do have family in Rhode Island xD

[@mgjdl]

I have dual citizenship I am American but my mom is from Spain so I got Spanish citizenship

[@michaelmurray4443]

It's 4am, why am I awake!!!!

[@brianweber4154]

You are a fan of andrew andrews

[@brianweber4154]

Maybe you Edward Edwards or roger rogers

[@maciejn5920]

Plot twist: Wales, Alaska is the place all the Montenegrins migrated to.

[@parallaxnick637]

The reason so many New Mexicans have Spanish ancestry is because New Mexico has been settled by hispanic people for 500 years, and many families there can trace their ancestry all the way back to Spain.

[@TheLocalLt]

The Reddit user’s map could have showed it better, Germany did exist in 1851, as a resurrected confederation under weak Habsburg leadership. There was a lot of autonomy but still nominal control by Franz Joseph over Germany minus Prussia until the war in 1866 that gave it all to Prussia.

[@RobertoBC]

All people born in Spain have the right to Spanish citizenship but if both parents are from a country where Spanish people cannot get the citizenship by birth then the parents should aply for the citizenship and they will get it immediately, olso the child could do it as an aduld and it will get the citizenship too.

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

if i wanted to go from new york to london i'd much rather be on a train for 2.5 days than on a plane for 7 hours

[@Drackormort]

Nationality in Mexico is more or less like this: If you are born within the borders of the country you are Mexican, and if you are born outside the borders, but at least one of your parents is Mexican, then you are also Mexican

[@irishkelly2062]

I was on board with this video until you proposed integrating Ireland into the UK. I live in NY now as well, I'll find you.

[@ibx2cat]

We can call the combined country "republic of Ireland (& Great Britain) " as a compromise perhaps

[@irishkelly2062]

@@ibx2cat How about this good, square, inclusive, and just idea: "The Irish Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Isle Man, Wales, Northumbria, and Subjugated Bottom England" But for real, very fun videos. If you ever find your way out into Nassau or Suffolk County know you have an allied fella in me.

[@conlon4332]

12:15 The Great China Of Walnut Wall.

[@stonemansteveiii3135]

There are tons of Bosnians in Kentucky!! So many! And most are freaking rich as shit!!

[@EvieOConnorxoxo]

"Where's Poland" *zooms in on England* Checks out

[@julianshepherd2038]

Future seems to be a united Ireland and a divided Britain

[@lincolnlog5977]

Wild but likely true. My buddy lives in Wales and a bunch of people he knows think that if Scotland leaves they should leave too.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Scot.and quitting is highly likely, Ireland wi.. probably require many years of killing to settle it and Wales seems unlikely

[@lincolnlog5977]

@@julianshepherd2038 Yeah I agree about Wales at least for now we’ll see what happens long term in like 20-30 years though.

[@Hollywood2021]

The Sahara Desert used to be blue and green and full of life...it dried up about 9,000 years ago. That's why they have primates in North Africa (I think)

[@4dilemma]

1:30 in Pakistan. You born there or not, have parents holding citizenship or not. Just pay 200 to 250 USD and you will get the National ID card which is actually nationality. Officials are super duper corrupt. I have a Afghan security guard, he get his Pakistan national ID in just 85 USD.

[@AquaDogYT]

13:50 humans did not settle a barren north and south america, It was filled with all sorts of natural wildlife. The primates were there when the continents broke apart, and they kept being there. Also, there are primates in the North of Africa because the Sahara up until very recently in the history of the earth was green, they used to occupy the entirety of Africa until the Sahara pushed them out.

[@jwanbesande2734]

"If America never gave the Philippines independence, they would've expanded West to Vietnam." Ahh yes, my favorite Western movie: Apocalypse Now

[@carlcarlson1225]

Toycat: "California is the biggest state in the union" Alaska: "Are I a joke to you?"

[@DashQC]

He meant biggest state in the union by population, not by area.

[@carlcarlson1225]

@@DashQC That makes sense, might been that I choose to see it as in area..

[@Faris-FFSS]

@@DashQC could also mean GDP

[@maxjahns9063]

Why is there a giant gap between Morocco and southern West Africa?… Could be the fact that there is a giant sand pit called Sahara where primates aren‘t very comfortable to live, but who am I to tell? Also, I think a lot of primates were brought to the new world by european explorers. That could be the reason for the primate population in South America.

[@chrisiak5720]

Yea thought the same about the Sahara. But monkeys existed in South America long before modern humans even evolved or went into the continent

[@hugo57k91]

14:27 it is about the projection. It does not use the standard map projection

[@FrosstKatt]

5:07 I’m from Florida and I thought we had a large number of Bosnians because I’ve met quite a few people who are Bosnian or descended from Bosnia

[@milan99cz]

Great entertainment as allways, thanks

[@olliewatmough1107]

Map cool. Video good.

[@Liggliluff]

(18:55) That doesn't seem like a good site. Why is it using such archaic unit of length? Is it Russian miles? I think they need to update to the 18th century and use metric.

[@catalinabrowne9023]

i was born in argentina but i cut off the waiting time because i made my italian passport when i was living in greece, since greece doesn’t have that many greek-italians wanting to convert to italian citizenship. due to corona i went to visit family and eventually had to renew my passport in argentina (was supposed to return in january stayed till april) because my flight kept getting postponed and getting an appointment to renew my passport in that consulate was such a bureaucratic pain in the butt

[@MrMigueldelaO]

The map at 7:32 - Please, how do I get a copy of it?

[@Cappy-Bara]

There was actually a point in the 1800s when there were more mormons in England than in America. They of course immigrated to Illinois, then Utah

[@amarazaheer251]

Toycats editing got so much better! ❤️from California

[@wiltonater]

Thanks to Mexico, Central Time has the largest population in North America

[@rosemulet]

Mountain time zone here! (Kinda) Phoenix, Arizona (we don’t use daylight savings)

[@momoseokangjoon3594]

Me who have foreign ancestors and lives in kerala a South Indian state. Here all of us regardless of our ancestry is considered a member of kerala I don't know about other states.

[@yarielrobles9003]

Imagine being born to parents from a rule of land country while they're visiting a rule of blood country

[@GusThePrankster]

13:30 bad map, it forgot Sasquatch/Bigfoot and the Yeti.

[@zzmej1987]

Trans Siberian is steel track and had been fully electrified since 2002.

[@11324atafrbrgrdbted]

13:26 Gibraltar: Am I A Joke To You?

[@theholymage7188]

Toycat hasn't learned about tectonic plates yet