American reacts to 'Fun Facts About Australia'

[@ronchellebattams3744]

The King is represented by the Governor General, NOT the Prime Minister.

[@JohnNICOLSON-i3p]

Yes Ryan there is some aboriginal people watching.. And you bring a smile to our faces all the time😂

[@noelleggett5368]

You were obviously watching a video made by an American - who left Tasmania off the map, couldn’t pronounce Uluṟu or Oceania, and yes, doesn’t know the difference between a metre and a mile. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), containing Canberra and Jervis Bay on the coast, was excised from New South Wales - just like the District of Columbia was excised from Maryland and Virginia (but Virginia took their bit back). The Northern Territory has a population of around 247,000 - less than 1% of the nation’s population. So giving them full state status with as many senators as the other states makes even less sense than making Wyoming a state (which has about one-seventh the population of Puerto Rico). Nevertheless, each of the two mainland territories have two senators each, while the six states have 12 senators each - making Tasmanians (with 2% of the population of Australia, and about the same population as Wyoming) the most electorally powerful voters in the nation.

[@trevorkrause7220]

Yes, definitely not an Australian presenter. Seems a very strange attempt to sound like neutral English with an occasional but usually badly pronounced Australian word or phrase. Also that was definitely not a realistic representation of Uluru, and any Aussie could have told him that at once. Also that graphic attempting to represent the Australian indigenous couple, that is just so wrong in so many ways. No decent Australian media production entity would ever let graphics like that representing Aboriginals in their native environment ever be released for publication. That graphic was just a poor quality generic representation of some non-specific dark-skinned native couple. It is also culturally insulting to present a graphic in public showing giant kangaroos hopping around The Rock (Uluru).

[@PiersDJackson]

To give them the benefit of doubt, not knowing the difference between a metre² and a Kilometre², to put into perspective that is a person in every third ft² versus every 82⅖ acre.

[@trevorkrause7220]

Forgot about them leaving Tassie off the map. Most Aussies would never do that these days, especially since the great hoolaboolo it first caused way back when with the general public and especially the geography Nazis.

[@oldskool1977]

Australia's population density is 3 people per square KILOMETRE not metre!!!

[@Danceofmasks]

You say that like people don't call a kilocalorie a calorie.

[@narratordru7188]

That's what I was thinkiing. SqKm, not miles.

[@james6028]

@@Danceofmasks kcal and cal have historically been used interchangeably but ive never in my life heard of anyone using meter to mean kilometer

[@Danceofmasks]

@@james6028 just because everyone does something, doesn't mean it's in any way correct.

[@oldskool1977]

@@Danceofmasks 😂 So true!!!

[@allieesdogs82]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander here, love your vids 😃

[@jacintadonadio1208]

My 6 children are Aboriginal great video Ryan 👍🇦🇺💜

[@michaelfink64]

Congratulations on 50k subscribers, Ryan. Well deserved. Fun fact, Tasmania exists (not that you would know this from a lot of the maps on this video). You are correct: if there were 3 people per m^2, we would be packed in like sardines. It is 3 people per km^2. That means Australia has the third lowest population density in the world (after Namibia and Mongolia). The territories shouldn't be surprising. It is just like DC is not a state and Washington is not in Maryland or Virginia. In addition to the internal states, there are plenty of external territories, including Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Macquarie and Herd Islands and Australian Antarctic Territory. That first picture of Uluru looks nothing like Uluru.

[@aussiejohn5835]

That is a picture of the Olgas which is also known as Katajuta.

[@kyliemitchellharper6872]

​@@aussiejohn5835i was going to say, thats cause its not!!

[@doubledee9675]

It's actually per square metre as we're on such friendly terms with each other!

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Ryan, King Charles III went to high school in Australia, and has been here many many times, with and without family! He was also once seriously considered as becoming our Governor General, the British Representative in Australia! 😁 I am going to try and watch this and share it 50,000 times, so you can save money to come down soon! 👪🐨😂

[@jaggirl]

Most of don't care for the royal family though..🙄

[@raeday4430]

Charles actually went to Timbertop, which is part of Geelong Grammar in Victoria. The curriculum at Timbertop included instructions in camping, rock climbing, ab sailing, canoeing and a pleather of outdoor activities, including how to survive in the Australian bush. Australia is still a British colony. The boomerang us a weapon the Aborigines used for hunting usually kangaroos. Hope this info helps.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@jaggirl We love them in my family, kindness and hard work are admirable qualities! They are certainly better role models than any of the world's politicians, if we were all selfish and greedy like them where would all the poor, unlucky, disabled and needy refugees end up?

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@raeday4430 Yes, we made an Aussie bushman of him! 😄

[@Stu_in_Oz]

Long live the Republic of Australia.

[@waza987]

Your right, surfing is hard. While there are a lot of people here who can, it is actually very easy to find people who don’t know how to surf. In fact in the outback you can even find people who have never seen the ocean.

[@danparnell1599]

Congratulations mate, keep up the good work 👏 This was a terrible video to try and react to btw dude, well done hanging in 😂.

[@juliequiney4078]

The Tropic of Capricorn runs across Australia about 2/3rds of the way up so the northern 3rd is in the tropics.

[@garytew217]

Outrageous that Tasmania is not on the map!

[@jaydubbelyoo]

I spoke fluent Aboriginal English and the Southern dialect Kuarna before I turned three. I lost most of the language when I came into my family at three years old. My biological family are Ngarrindjeri and I grew up in Peramangk country. I’m about to enrol to learn Kuarna fluently. Creole and pidgin are mostly spoken in the northern parts of Australia.

[@ST-co7yt]

Congratulations on 50K! We're learning more about Australia with you.

[@karenlittle8041]

Australia did inventvthe boomerang about 45 -50K years ago.

[@vtbn53]

Except there was no Australia then LOL, ok I know I am hair splitting.

[@karenlittle8041]

@@vtbn53 a rose by any other name

[@TheZodiacz]

the oldest boomerangs found in Australia are only 10,000 years old. There are paintings dated to 20,000 years showing them however. BUT the oldest boomerang so far discovered is 23,000 years old, made of mammoth tusk and it was not in Australia....it was in Poland.

[@vikkievenden9988]

boomerangs have been found elsewhere

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

😂😂😂😂😂I suppose they were introduced to the rest of the world by them too?? The name may be Aboriginal the actual 'boomerang' isn't.

[@australianjackaroo6660]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 50,000 SUBS🎉🎉🎉

[@firebrand2619]

Do you mean,Convert kilometres to old money. that’s what we say in OZ!

[@pamelabaars6896]

Well done Ryan on 50,000 subscribers.

[@lozinozz7567]

I was clapping, didn’t you hear me ❤ congrats 😊

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

Australia has strong wind currents which flow from west to east and planes take advantage of this. Quickest flight from Perth to Sydney was around 2 and a half hours because of tail winds and the planet's rotation, yet flying east to west can take like 4 and a half hours.

[@gofreely]

It was just over 3 hours. Normally it’s a tad over 4 to fly Perth to Sydney. Sydney to Perth is 5 hours 10 minutes

[@MsAussieSheila]

Crap... 2.5 hours? That is insanely fast for Perth to Sydney.

[@ACDZ123]

But if the earth is spinning, then flying to Perth should take 5 mins 🤣

[@davidjohnpaul333]

Congratulations mate. Well, Canberra is definitely in NSW. It just happens to be a 'Territory' within the state..We are an island because we are not landlocked like the other continents...we don't share a border with any other country & also, we just happen to be special. The Sydney Opera House is also Unesco heritage listed

[@timglennon6814]

The design of the Sydney Opera House comes from when the the designer was eating an Orange.

[@angelahlah]

I remember I was taught at school that Australia made its wealth on the sheep's back.

[@Hot_HeadGaming]

Congratulations on reaching 50k!

[@jgsheehan8810]

Ryan, King Charles did some years of his schooling in Australia.

[@lawlerscorner4420]

the sound of one hand clapping 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@trig1900]

[@DarkMatter1992]

I don't know how to surf, despite living an hour away from the Gold Coast. I'm not alone in this.

[@carokat1111]

I lived in Bondi. I've never surfed and never will!

[@daveg2104]

PocketPassport is based in Tokyo Japan, but the founder/CEO is from Nevada. Maybe that's why they got the metric messed up for population density? The image of Uluru is a bit weird. Certainly not a view I recognize. But I wouldn't blame the video maker for it, as they downloaded it off a vector image site. And then there was the disappearing/reappearing Tasmania.

[@derekhobbs1102]

Poor Tassie, always left out.

[@Ellie-lo1xq]

I'm Aboriginal and love watching your show. You and ya family can come stay with us on the mid North coast NSW

[@what_equals_42]

The ACT basically exists because NSW and Victoria were fighting over who got to have the capital, and everyone else was either watching with amusement or conflicted. This way, no-one won that argument, and all our pollies get shipped off to what is arguably our least climactically comfortable major city. 😂

[@BBB_photography_adventures]

the surfing thing is such a stereotype

[@trig1900]

The Northern Territory people actually voted against becoming a state in 1998 in a referendum. They didn't like their current Chief Minister at the time and it also would have meant that they had only 3 senators in Federal Parliament where every other state has currently 12. The NT getting 12 also was argued against primarily by the larger states [NSW and VIC] because it would have meant that the voters in the NT [current population is about 250, 000] would have 30 times the voting power for Senate seats than what other states do. With the creation of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 1974; that assembly exercises powers similar to those of the parliaments of the states of Australia but it does so through the Devolution of powers from the Federal Government and not by a state constitution as occurs elsewhere.

[@inalaboyy]

Congrats on 50K been here since 4K.. both myself & my newborn daughter are Aboriginal & love the videos. From Brisbane QLD, Australia

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

4:00 when I was a young boy I thought District of Columbia was part of Maryland

[@Austtube]

What are you waiting for? The Hollywood 4 words "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"

[@shmick6079]

The top end is monsoonal, dude

[@bhsaproduction]

Yes we have 6 States in Australia, but we also have 6 external Territories: Ashmore & Cartier Island, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island & McDonald Islands PLUS 3 internal Territories: Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory & Northern Territory. And finally, an Autonomous Territory: Norfolk Island. Most people only know the NT & ACT.

[@DAVEG-t4t]

You can add that the 1 elected MP and 2 Senators of NT also represent the Indian Ocean Territory which is Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling Is.

[@linmonash1244]

Congrats on 50K ! 🎉

[@darneyoung537]

Oh wow, Congratulations Ryan having 50K subscribers Woohoo ❤️❤️🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺

[@kerrybarr5962]

New subscriber from Australia 😀☺️

[@sophietaylor9753]

There's a third territory on the mainland which the original video doesn't mention; Jervis Bay Territory.

[@sue_p6035]

Isn’t Jervis Bay a part of the territory of the ACT?

[@sophietaylor9753]

@@sue_p6035 Nope, but it's governed by the same laws as the ACT

[@bhsaproduction]

Congratulations on the 50,000 subscribers.

[@aaronpatton814]

Hey Ryan, I'm a Birpai man, my country is in the Mid North Coast of NSW

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Bonzer! 50,000 subscibers - good on ya, mate! 🎉🇦🇺🥳🥂. Actually, my 13-yr old Banana Bender, twin grandsons, who are boarders at their school near Melbourne, jointly wrote a project paper about your channel. It's title is, "What do Seppos know about Oz?" They got an A, so they sent me some Tim Tams as a "thank you" for my having introduced your channel to the groms!

[@scottcoolum]

That's gold !! Not too sure if Ryan knows what a seppo is though 😝

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

@@scottcoolum He'll see one when he shaves tomoz. 🤭

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

😂😂 Banana bender... haven't heard that in a while😂😂

[@Ineddiblehulk]

That picture for ‘football’ is a rugby player, not an AFL player

[@patickmcmanus4517]

congrats Ryan bloody riper mate.

[@dutchroll]

You can think of the ACT a little bit like the District of Columbia. Its sole reason for existing is to be the home of the national capital, Canberra, except it's way bigger than DC. The mainland territories have self-government (somewhat like a State government) these days, though they used to be controlled entirely by the Federal Government. Congrats on 50k!

[@SilvanaDil]

Canberra was designed by an American. The monuments, memorials and museums in DC blow Canberra away.

[@rais1953]

A big difference between our Territories and US Territories is that our Territories are represented in federal Parliament with full voting rights. The ACT has four Representatives and the NT has two. Each has two Senators unlike a state which has twelve.

[@PiersDJackson]

They've kind of stuffed up Territories, there's three Internal - Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, and Jervis Bay Territories (a promontory and beaches near Sydney - essentially a Naval base)... then there's the self governing islands, like Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Macquarie and McDonald Islands.... and roughly ⅓ of Antarctica - Capital of which is recognised as Hobart by most civilised countries, Not McMurdo as some would have it.

[@SilvanaDil]

@@PiersDJackson - What are you talking about? Hobart is in Tasmania. Antarctica doesn't belong to anybody. McMurdo, an American station, is the largest on Antarctica, and Amundsen-Scott, another American station, is right on the South Pole.

[@PiersDJackson]

@@SilvanaDil firstly - Geologically Hobart is part of Antarctica (I know pedantic to the nth degree); Secondly the four main departure points for Antarctic navigation are Hobart, Invercargill (NZ) and one each for Chile and Argentina. Therefore the largest administrative base is Hobart, however the United States of America doesn't recognise it, the other signatories do, for administrative purposes.

[@cathymoss6400]

Charlie is technically our head of state, but only technically. The function in reality is performed by the Govenor General. So we are a constitutional monarchy in law but a Republic in practice, however that's more due to convention than the Constitution.

[@fionaellem4379]

Regarding AFL, it’s also known as aerial ping-pong. So not that far off quidditch.

[@rais1953]

Aerial pingpong? Only in the two backward states where football involves crawling around in mud-covered heaps.

[@nevilleapple629]

@@rais1953 The two states where more than half the population lives and NRL is the most popular football.

[@Sticks31]

Hah! I reckon less than 1% of Australians know how to surf.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Yeah I laughed at that one! I know nobody who surfs and I live by the beach.

[@Merrid67play]

Australia doesn't have an official language. Neither does the UK or USA. English is just the main language and the language used in government.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Lol America. "english" 😂😂😂😂

[@aussiepie4865]

Congrats on the subs. Fair dinkum it’s a bloody beaut.

[@charleemcara4639]

You heard nothing but I clapped 😂

[@AstralAu]

Clap clap clap from Australia, Ryan! :)

[@Mate-My-Day]

You should have a look at the history of the legendary Slouch Hat

[@jogould1045]

i'm a local. I don't surf... There you go you found one... not that hard :)

[@elli4210]

Two! And I live in Sydney. 😂

[@cassandramcfadyen1988]

Per KM! 🤣 Many of our place names are Aboriginal words. Thats why they're hard to pronounce. Except for Wagga wagga. 😁

[@Merrid67play]

And Woy Woy

[@doubledee9675]

And some adjoining Sydney North Shore suburbs: Turramurra, Warrawee, Wahroonga and Waitara, all easy to pronounce. Other easy ones include Ku-ring-gai, Berowra, Parramatta and Kirrawee.

[@6226superhurricane]

3 people per square kilometre, but that's a bit misleading as 67% of people live in the capital cities. so the cities are quite densely populated and there are large areas that are uninhabited not just inhospitable places but also state forests and national parks.

[@denisemangan1413]

Yeah Ryan we are waiting for you & your family to visit us. I love the way you said “I’ll see you tomorrow”🇦🇺❤️🇺🇸

[@danjam888]

CONGRATS ON THE SUBS!!!

[@gillianlittle9144]

Congratulations on 50k subscribers 👏 🎉

[@maureenmitchell5695]

Seriously Ryan? '' WHat makes it an island.?... Why isn't North America an island?"" Come on man! I can't believe you said that!!

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

😂😂😂The dish drainer and the coat hanger!!😂😂😂👍🇭🇲 Because there is nowhere else in Australia🙄🙄

[@ericafarrow667]

You have to win the lottery to visit these places

[@carmie9759]

Congrats Ryan on reaching 50k. Have a happy arvo enjoying your milestone ❤🎉🎉🎉

[@mattmay4583]

Well done Ryan🎉🎉

[@cottontails9003]

New subscriber from Australia, really like the way you react to us from the great Land Down Under.

[@davidkendal1361]

The channel you're reacting to is notorious for inaccurate content. We need to supply you with better links. Cheers Ryan, good to hear from you 👍

[@Lozzy_Q]

pls do a video of americans reacting to vegiemite OR have australians go to america and use slang like 'where is the nearest MACCAS' - please do this i will have the biggest laugh of my life!

[@c8Lorraine1]

When I visited California some 35 years ago, everyone wanted me to say the phrase “G’ay mate” just like the original movie Crocodile Dundee.. they thought all Aussies spoke like that.

[@rossultan5471]

Hi Ryan - I’m a subscriber to your channel, I’m Australian living in Melbourne (born NT); AND you’ll be happy to know I’m an Aboriginal person who watches your channel regularly ⚫️🔶🔴

[@xytesk9312]

Islands are defined by not being connected to another land mass

[@Ineddiblehulk]

Most Australians can’t surf

[@lucindasavona2278]

It's an 8 hour flight from Adelaide SA to Darwin NT. My sister was a nurse in Darwin Hospital & escouted patients to Adelaide frequently.

[@lukebursle6139]

Haha 3 people per square meter! We all have a pouch with 2 smaller people on them.

[@nonirosie]

Congrats on 50k! If only this was read by an Aussie and fact checked a little more

[@chrishenderson2062]

Oh man, so many errors in that video. Lets list them all, I'll start. They showed a graphic of a rugby player when talking about AFL.

[@davidwatts5579]

Another great video. Hope to see you & your family down here with us one day mate! 👍

[@annabanana7071]

👏👏👏 Congratulations Ryan 🎉

[@birreboi]

👏 👏 👏 Grats and there's your clapping.

[@gradiuzg8437]

😁 Gratz Mate!!

[@Terrie_is_better_than_U]

I am a proud Australian and I don't live anywhere near the coast. I live in the Kiewa Valley which is the main place for tourists to stay if they're going up to Falls, (Falls or Falls Creek is the main skiing and snowboarding place in Australia.) It is about a 5 hour drive away from the ocean and it gets pretty cold. Usually no snow, but if we do get snow, it is never cold enough to stay on the ground. :')

[@MarkJessop-hq2uo]

As an Aussie I don't surf

[@albertvangestal3696]

Ryan....another intersting fact for you : according to the the 2021 census - 5.5 million Australians speak another language other than English at home. The most common of these include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic and Italian as well as First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Australia is home to 270 different ancestries. Collectively approximately 400 hundred languages other than English are represented by its various immigrant communities. Australia is a truly multilingual and multicultural nation.

[@aussieragdoll4840]

Of course the Northern Territory isn’t a state… it’s a territory. It’s in the name!

[@oldskool1977]

Australia is much wider than the US.

[@roseofsharon2156]

You are so funny Ryan.😂😂😂

[@davidcarter4247]

The name boomerang is Australian but other cultures across the world independently discovered the same laws of aerodynamic that made them when fly and in some cases return. In most of these cultures throwing sticks/boomerangs were replaced by technological advances. The bow and arrow, for example, which is way more accurate and more likely to kill prey of any size.

[@binkyfurny]

If you know you know Never eat soggy Weetbix

[@snoozby]

Congrats mate!

[@jonathonwessling541]

Square kilometre

[@Jessie20032]

🎉 on 50k subs!! Woohoo

[@ronchellebattams3744]

The 14hr flight is mostly unavoidable, but the $3k can easily be reduced.. I fly every year, and have found the cheapest is to go from Melbourne to Honolulu and then domestic flight to the mainland. Breaks up the flight into much easier chunks. 👍

[@rais1953]

And Hawaii can be reached from Australia on the Jetstar low cost carrier if you don't mind the risk of getting stranded by sudden cancellations.

[@ronchellebattams3744]

@@rais1953 I book with a couple nights in Hawaii each way, just to buffer for delays as well as to break up the travel time.. it’s so much easier doing 10 hrs to Hawaii and then 5 hrs to LA.. almost no jet lag.

[@reinhard8053]

14h would be nice. From Europe it's more 25-50h(with stops).

[@rais1953]

@@reinhard8053 Nonstop London to Perth with Qantas is about 18 hours then if you're going to eastern Australia it's another 4 hours or so.

[@reinhard8053]

@@rais1953 I'm not from London, so it's farther or some other not so ideal flights. And if you take the cost into consideration the flight time gets even higher. The prices in my case starting with €1300 can easily double or tripple. As I plan to visit Australia in the next year I will need to study that in depth.

[@MikMech]

Congrats on 50k 👏

[@jordanmcleanofficial]

Congratulations for reaching 50k mate! Love these videos

[@kayworley8130]

Congrats on 50k subs

[@nataliecarrington2550]

I hope you're kidding about "why isn't X an island?" - it's because Australia's land mass is ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER, as befits the definition of an island. The Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia are all continents, they play by different rules

[@nickhand8054]

A little point about boomerangs: many Aboriginal people across the continent produced them in the traditional lifestyle, but only a few made boomerangs that came back. Most boomerangs were designed to break the leg of the animal and just fall to the ground. Only a few Aboriginal communities in the tropical parts of northern Australian produced a returning boomerang.

[@laurabreed3945]

Congratulations on cracking 50k subscribers !!!! I think I started watching you when you had 4K… 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mixedgems]

Congratulations Ryan! 🎉🎉🎉