25 Geography Facts Most People Get Wrong

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[@deloresmull]

When I lived in Alaska, the joke was 'Do you want to know how to make Texas the 3rd largest state? Cut Alaska in half.'

[@dsxa918]

I thought it was funny by the time I realized this, myself

[@kathywiseley4382]

😂

[@jaeboogie2786]

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[@sarahelizabeth8691]

I live in Alaska!

[@dsxa918]

@@sarahelizabeth8691 good morning!

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[@susanlynch1966]

Why would anyone think that Copenhagen was in the same country as Amsterdam? That's utterly bizarre.

[@paulsarnik8506]

B'cuz most Americans (USers)anyway are Woefully geo ignorant! 😮 Go watch some of those random on the street vids! "Name the country North of the U.S.? Uh, Australia!😮"

[@patricianunes3521]

I thought that as well.

[@ThursdayNext67]

And they didn't even point at Copenhagen on the map, they were across the country.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Obviously they could only think of 24, so they threw that one in. Actually, the Budapest-Bucharest one had no real purpose either, so I guess they could only think of 23.

[@joshherron2921]

not to ignorant americans

[@AbdeelMarketing]

Who didn't learn that the pacific was larger than the Atlantic in like 4th grade?

[@ruddog08]

Another great video! Thank you Mike& company! ❤❤❤

[@kylethoren1949]

Anyone who thinks the Atlantic is the biggest ocean has never once looked at a map.

[@AudreyC379]

#19 personally annoys me. People ALWAYS use Holland when speaking about the country no matter what. I mean if you are actually talking about the area of Holland then that's obviously different, but if it's not Holland and some other area, say the Netherlands! Great list as always. 🙂

[@conniebabcock4045]

I so enjoy your posts. ❤ I really like it when you mention a fact that I already know. 😊. Keep them coming.

[@patriciaaturner289]

It’s not “The How-ga.” It’s “The Hay-guh”. Or, in Dutch, “Den Aaahkh”.

[@AnnieVanAuken]

Michael-- The HOW-guh???? It's the HAIG 4:42

[@kathywiseley4382]

I actually looked it up because I thought perhaps I had been mispronouncing it. Mike usually does a much better job than this so I think it's okay if he flubs one once in a while.

[@peterconnolly2724]

That's what I'm calling it from now on! :D

[@leebrewer9145]

Thank you Mike! very informative! Great video.....

[@Uncle_Buzz]

Another fun fact, FINLAND is only one country away from North Korea.

[@libbit75]

Finland. Not Norway.

[@PlaceandFact]

You said I just noticed, although the distance is very far but it is only one country away 😅

[@ballsjacobs6376]

Ignore that guy brother. BOTH Norway and Finland apply here

[@ballsjacobs6376]

​@@libbit75You're wrong. You're not wrong in saying Finland is, you're wrong in that Norway was the wrong answer. Norway has a border with Russia. Try googling before you assume you know a map like the back of your hand!^^

[@samkamps3]

You were right when you said Norway, both countries have a border with Russia.

[@wardarcade7452]

3:19- And the highest elevation of any mountain in the contiguous US (Mt. Whitney) and the lowest depression (Badwater Basin) aren't just found in the same US State of California but also are found in the very same county- Inyo and can be reached after hiking a 135 miles trail!

[@paulettemiller6728]

The Hague! Thank you. One thing I do enjoy about your content is that you pronounce everything perfectly. So when you said The Hague, I knew I'd been saying wrong. 😊

[@sheldalarmour7982]

I really enjoyed this one. Well done, Mike! 👏🏻

[@paulsarnik8506]

OWWWW! DANG! 😢That shirt hurt my EYES!😮 №13 Knew almost all of these but You taught ME Bloefontim. Never even heard of that city

[@jackzietsman9551]

Bloemfontein is roughly in the middle of South Africa

[@donnatheroux841]

👍❤️ interesting video Thank You Mike and List25

[@joshlunt7827]

Interesting video as always, Mike!

[@kenhogg858]

Thank you for the info

[@jamesslick4790]

This is on list where I knew them all! I was a geography nerd my whole life. I might not know much, But I know where I am an know where I'm going. Geography was my best school subject. Ironically I raised an English teacher. (My second WORST subject!) LOL.

[@skydivingisfun]

As a Wisconsinite 39f in the winter is a warm day.

[@jessicacanfield5058]

I was blown away by most of this, thank you for that lol

[@malstria]

Did not know that about Iran and now I'm going to look up pictures of Iran in the snow to clear my brain. Thanks, Mike!

[@TLCFoundation-f4l]

I’m a proudly from Toronto, and have only lived in this great city. Thank you thank you thank you for pronouncing the way we do!

[@vikkitaylor5469]

How does one mispronounce Toronto? I will now worry about those people living free in the world but not knowing how to correctly pronounce Toronto...

[@TLCFoundation-f4l]

@ It’s all good. We simply say it a bit quicker and don’t pronounce the second “T”. 😀

[@dawnpage-q5n]

Well done, you pronounced Toronto correctly 👏

[@paulamcgovern6135]

Ha ha exactly what I came to say!!

[@LtJackboot]

But he butchered The Hague @ 4:47 🤣 The Howga??🤣🤣🤣

[@sparkyprojects]

The full title is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland If you want to include everrything (including (southern) Ireland and the scottish islands, then it's The British Isles

[@BlackSaiyan24]

1:42 I went to Egypt last year, March of 2024. I was SHOCKED at how close the pyramids are to the bustling town of Giza. I almost couldn’t believe it.

[@manueltapia1859]

Mike thanks to make clear the diffence between UK and Great Britain 😊 I remember in the movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 1999 when the main characters gave the answer of Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil and "won", something strange was happening 😮

[@AngieHeck-xq4wx]

I love the 25 list. I look forward to it pretty much everyday. I've learned many interesting things also. Today's list was one of the most interesting in my opinion. Most of the facts I already knew but I had no idea Iran had ski resorts or that the Aleutian islands made Alaska the eastern and western state. While I knew china & Taiwan were not the same country I didn't know why. Or that Norway's coastline could stretch around the world more than twice. I'm 66 years old and i love that there are still things to learn. Hey Mike we gained a continent recently check it out.

[@MasakoNagauchi]

Earth's circumference is roughly 40,000 kms... So how can 58,000 be more than twice that? It's barely 150%, right?

[@ThadCashin-h5d]

Hey Mike, it's been awhile, since I caught one of these so quickly. "Little known and..." I love them. Thanks again, Later Peace ✌️

[@PK-blue]

When you said “Pyramid of CHOPS” it made me laugh. Yes it is sometimes still referred to as Pyramid of Cheops, but it’s pronounced “key-ops” (alternative spelling is Kheops). But it’s mostly called now by his original name: Pyramid of Khufu

[@superfreakmorris4251]

Freaking awesome video. Thank you for clarifying so much . I appreciate it.

[@SaulG88]

Why would I think that Copenhagen & Amsterdam are in the same country? 🤔

[@karnold8172]

What is the Capital of British Columbia Canada? No, it isn't Vancouver which is located on the mainland. It is Victoria, located on Vancouver Island.

[@CybeleCotter]

The U.S.A. and Russia are separated by only a few miles, between Big snd Little Diomede islands. 15:10

[@andeeharry]

thanks for sharing, I didn't know any of this. I always wondered the different between GB and UK, since we use GB in sporting events

[@spartacusmills]

yeah we don't use it properly, like Team GB in the Olympics includes Northern Irish competitors... although what fascinates me most is that in some sports Ireland (northern and southern) is still unified, such as in rugby and that Northern Irish athletes can choose which Ireland to represent.

[@tazimusmaximus]

thank you. i had no idea. i mean i was gonna specify, but i'll leave it at that.

[@jenniferfielding4372]

Thank you Mike!

[@PaiviProject]

Wow. That was fun. I didn't know.

[@ocalaFL954]

Funny about the Nile -- I just watched a doc that said it was the longest river, but I really thought it was the Amazon Thanks for the clarification

[@KnightRanger38]

As Mike said, the river that wins the debate between on which is longer, the Amazon or the Nile depends on how each is measured. I personally would just say that the Amazon is the longest river in South America while the Nile is the longest river in Afro-Eurasia.

[@bakert7000]

I love geography so I knew most of these facts. Iran being cold surprised me. It is great that they ski there. I love to watch all the KZbin geography channels.

[@jocamadad]

You call 39 degrees cold? I'd love to have temps like that in Jan. and Feb. where I'm at. It's 18 degrees right now and that's a little bit above normal for this time of the year.

[@mj2495]

Regular map? It's a Mercator Projection.

[@joeydepalmer4457]

3 minutes and 24 likes already! OUTSTANDING MIKE!!!!!

[@Uncle_Buzz]

Turkey is also in two continents, as is Russia.

[@KnightRanger38]

Depending on the definition used for the term "continent". It could be argued that those two countries along with Egypt are on the continent of Afro-Eurasia.

[@Uncle_Buzz]

@@KnightRanger38 Nope. Look at a map. Africa is far away. Turkey is very much part of Asia (mostly), and Europe. Not even close to Africa. Same with Russia... NOT EVEN CLOSE to Africa, geographically.

[@mirzadelahmet7458]

I knew most of this in primary school..Thanks for reminding me to some happiest times when I was just a kid and my only concern was who is bringing the ball on the pitch where we used to play football 🇧🇦

[@klopez7080]

There is snow on the mountain (Mauna Kea) this week here in Hawaii. But still balmy weather at the shores, as always.

[@wombat613]

Only 1 reason for Ottawa being the capital, it was away from the US border. 2 - It was also on the border of Ontario (Upper Canada) and Quebec (Lower Canada). 3 - It wasn't Kingston, Toronto, Quebec City or Montreal. Giving a special treat to one child, makes three children mad. 4 - Queen Victoria liked a painting of the Rideau Falls in Ottawa (supposedly)

[@joannewilson1162]

I’m terrible at geography so I’m sure I get plenty of these things wrong…In fact, number 25…yeah…the list is already starting off by showing me how bad I really am at geography! 😂😂😅

[@judiharboremco7175]

These are not new Doesn't anybody learn about geography or history anymore?

[@andeeharry]

Probably not...but I took both in school long ago and still didn't know most of these

[@WWTormentor]

There isn’t just snow on the mountains in Iran. It acutely snows (a lot) in Tehran and many other cities. In fact it can sometimes snow so much that they shut down schools.

[@dearthditch]

Golf course next to the Pyramids. One giant sand trap 🪤 ⛳️ 🐪

[@joshlunt7827]

Love you too, Mike ❤

[@bluegold1026]

As a longtime geography buff, I knew the majority of these facts already.

[@HansOvervoorde]

Vancouver in Canada? That very much confused me! I very strongly associated Vancouver with Australia. Turns out both exist LOL. Must have been some Australian tv-series that imprinting this into me long time ago 😊

[@jjones0897]

Love the channel I always learn something new. Question do you practice the pronunciations first or does it come naturally. Cause you seem to have a knack for pronunciations of foreign languages and names. Awesome work.

[@yowiedownunder9074]

ALOT of people think that "Sydney" is the Capital of Australia, the capital is "Canberra" however Sydney is a capital City of the state of "NSW"

[@jimgreen5788]

As I remember from my visit of Giza back in '86, the pyramids are in the suburb of Giza. Do you mind me passing along something I learned while visiting Mexico some time back? The 'tl' at the end of the Mexican pyramid's name is pronounced as a lisp, in case you want to see the heads of Mexicans turn. Death Valley and Mt. Whitney are only 85 mi./138km. apart. The Hague is pronounced 'HAYG', rather than 'HOW-guh' Greenland is about the size of MT and Germany. AK is also, obviously, the northernmost state, and it has a border on 2 oceans--Pacific and Arctic.

[@Big_Boss4269]

4:16 and Ottawa isn’t the first capital, that’s an honour my hometown gets.

[@MuhammadshukurRashidov-u2u]

And Dubai is not the capital city of UAE😅

[@josiecotter4332]

Suggestion Hawaiian islands. Did you know it actually is bigger than it appears.

[@karenharper4318]

So what time zone is Alaska in? Are there multiples?

[@craigwiester9177]

I already knew almost all of this.

[@cuneas]

2:44 fun fact - you can't do math. The circumference of the earth is about 40000km, so if stretched out, Norway's coastline would circle the earth about ONE a half times, *NOT* TWO and a half times as you claim.

[@KnightRanger38]

While Alaska is the largest US state, it's not only not the largest first-level administrative division (which in the US are called states) it's not in the top 5.

[@cherylhale5755]

I was aware of most of these geography facts, but I did not know holland and Netherlands were not synonymous

[@thirdcoastfirebird]

There are multiple contents on this channel. You are correct. I could pass up the joke.

[@lordduzi]

I am content with content or contents. :)

[@thirdcoastfirebird]

@@lordduzi Yes.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

I've been to Crater Lake, but I was only 8 at the time.

[@al_7387]

Talking of the Pacific Ocean, it's so huge that you could fit all the land on Earth inside it with room to spare!

[@competitionglen]

Toronto = Ottawa is same as Sydney = Canberra mistake. Melbourne and Vancouver don't need to be mistaken for their countries BEST city.😅

[@arposkraft3616]

A regular/normal map would be a globe , any projection distorts the mercator projection is most commonly used because its very useful to sailors but for land not neccesarily the best, its just that for most land uses it matters little and it were sailors mapping most of it initially Its kind of basic logics in drawing more than a geography fact, the size of greenland is on mercator projection is perfectly in line with the increasing scale along the y axis, which itself is like that to keep angles consistent

[@ltrtg13]

I found out something interesting a while ago. The United Kingdon of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. is at the same latitude as Alaska.

[@FozzQuaker]

Calling The Netherlands Holland is like calling The United Kingdom or Great Britain England

[@kathywiseley4382]

But a lot of people do

[@Info.Grid3.14]

Kailash mountain still at top❤

[@KnightRanger38]

Johannesburg is the South Africa equivalent of New York City in the US or São Paulo in Brazil. In all three cases, those cities can be considered the economic capital of their respective countries. I suspect that there are some individuals who believe São Paulo to be the capital of Brazil.

[@kentiner63]

Wth...... that video made me feel smarter than I actually am. Some of these facts are, "like duh". Who didn't know that ? But to be honest, yeah there were a handful I didn't know. Always entertaining Mike

[@thomasmcroberts5145]

Whitney and death valley are only 120 miles apart.

[@Paulie-v2t]

One of my favorites is the closest state to Hawai'i is California and the farthest state from California is Hawai'i

[@brianarbenz1329]

What I learned from this video is that I am not most people, because I knew these.

[@gregstilwell7760]

Baja, California is NOT in the USA

[@blue9multimediagroup]

No comma Baja California is a state of Mexico

[@robinsmith5442]

I kinda knew most of these but didn't know the specifics like UK and Great Britain.

[@itt2055]

Antarctica is not the driest continent on earth, it has more fresh water lakes than the majority of other continents. Australia is officially the driest continent on earth and south Australia is the driest state. There is more fresh liquid water in Antarctica than in Australia and if you include the ice and snow, Antarctica has more water than Africa, North America and Australia combined. Antarctica does have the lowest rainfall of any continent but that is just because the vast majority of it rainfall turns into snow.

[@arposkraft3616]

4:30 countries*

[@danmorrison8194]

What was that third city in the Netherlands?

[@multiyapples]

I was born in the UK.

[@deniseoxland151]

The coast line of GB is almost doubled that of the continent of Africa

[@alonsoquijano51]

Another interesting fact. If you travel due south from Detroit, what is the first foreign country you enter? (Canada)

[@davidmontville4885]

10:47 If not Denmark, who controlled Greenland before 1979?

[@michaelbjrklund9304]

It is not "vhops" puramid. It is the Keops.

[@frankhooper7871]

25 geography facts most people know - and what a weird way to pronounce "The Hague"

[@patriciaaturner289]

12:20 Point Udall is named for former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, who pronounced his name “You doll”. Tsk-tsk, Mike. You can do better than this.

[@Albanach-je1nk]

Not being a citizen of the USA I had 3 things I couldn't answer were from there all the rest I knew

[@joshlunt7827]

*miles 12:01

[@Hoist2Crew]

The blue world map between sequences of Geography Facts most people get wrong, is moving in the opposite direction of the Earth's rotation.

[@blue9multimediagroup]

It's not meant to be the world turning. It's a Mercator projection moving to show the countries as a screensaver.

[@bongwelll]

Great Britain include Scotland and Wales? I thought it was Britannia or basically England.

[@seytanuakbar3022]

If this is what an average American doesn't know that explain a lot.

[@janhansen6084]

Look at a map, and see where Copenhagen is, it's not where your arrow show ;-)

[@philswales3814]

Hag-wa? It's prounounce "The Haig".

[@ether_sect]

Fun fact: I'm smoking a blunt.