Australia Explained!

Australia, the sixth-largest country in the world, is surprisingly only 3% populated. With an area of 7.7 million square kilometers and a population of just over 26 million people, it's a land of vast open spaces and unique ecosystems. But why is the population so sparse? In this video, we explore the geographical, historical, and socio-political reasons behind Australia's low population density.
Join us as we uncover the mystery of Australia's uninhabited stretches of land, its peculiar animals, and the challenges faced by the people who call this massive island-continent home. From the Great Dividing Range and the challenges of the arid interior to an old Australian policy and the impact of colonization, this video has it all!
Discover the surprising facts about Australia's urbanization, its maritime borders, and the potential for future growth with its arable land. And don't forget to share your thoughts on the mystery of Australia's early discovery in the comments section below!
Get ready to dive into the Land Down Under and unravel the secrets of Australia's sparse population.
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[@CountriesExplained]

Let’s be real.. The population density is just because of the heat! ☀️ Right? 👀

[@Drsteveturley69]

It’s hot everywhere

[@MinutesWithMates]

Depends where in Australia. I live in the mountains with a very European type of climate with winter snow and mild summers. Yet, the population here is not densely populated either, and we like it this way. The main problem here is water security. That is the biggest threat to our future.

[@peterhawkins4612]

Water and services

[@Harldin]

There is a place called Perisher Valley, where the elements can kill you, It is not in an area of particularly high pop density. will you die by. A/Heat exhaustion/dehydration B/Freeze to death under several feet of snow C/Burnt to death in a bush fire the answer Is B Perisher Valley is actually a ski resort high in the Australian Alps. It does get cold in Australia and winter sports are quite popular for those living in the SE corner of the Country.

[@petefluffy7420]

No way on earth is it ONLY heat. You seem to very ignorant to be doing a video about a country you know bugger all about.

[@chrisgraham2904]

As a Canadian, I fully understand the population density issues of our Australian Commonwealth cousins. Australian populations and cities hug the coastlines and the middle of the continent, of desert heat, could be considered inhospitable for humans to thrive. Canada, as an even larger country, has a small population of about 39 million people and 90 percent of the population lives within 200 miles of the U.S. border and up the east and west coasts less than 500 miles. Also the major population occupying 5 major cities. The Canadian north is also considered inhospitable for humans to thrive, except for the extreme hardy. The Canadian limitation is the short growing season or inability to grow crops and the extreme arctic cold. The Australian Outback and the Canadian North are both trying very hard to kill you.

[@markleon411]

LOL. Well put.

[@felicitybywater8012]

100% in agreement about the similarities between Canada and Australia.

[@robloxboooooiiii4851]

I live in Australia that’s 100% true

[@basilpunton5702]

Basically the people on the coast are afraid to move inland. Me I do not want to live near such people. I find them obnoxious.

[@chrisgraham2904]

@@basilpunton5702 There you go....another similarity. lol

[@lucas.ss13]

As an australian, the outback of Australia can be calming even though it gets very hot

[@user8785]

As Aussie my self I agree!

[@the_lost_one_0056]

Congratulations guys for winning the world cup!!❤

[@dennis771]

American south west and Saudi is more desert 🏜️ than your outback.

[@lucas.ss13]

@@dennis771 not talking about America mate

[@tiaelago-oretukaumunika7017]

As a Namibian, I can relate to this. I see all too many similarities, and the peace and quiet I feel in our version of the outback is profound

[@nongthip]

As a transplanted American (white bloke "Septic tank Yank") I have driven a good 200,000 kms around the Great antipodean Lucky Country and still have a fascination with the place. No better landmass on Earth to get a reliable sleepable vehicle and go way off the grid, thanks to seemingly endless expanses of uninhabited land connected by a network of decent paved highways and drivable outback tracks. Months at a time with very little human contact can drive you a bit mad, so it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if it IS your thing - wow! Never actually alone when there are dozens of species of fantastic birds and feral mammals (dingoes, camels, donkeys, goats, and of course loads of roos and wallabies) and snakes and lizards and spiders, etc. Leaving the populated east coast and heading into the never never land is an intrepid adventure, so just make sure to have days worth of tinned and dried food reserves and a good 40 litres of drinkable water and a few jerry cans of petrol, not to mention ample spares for the vehicle. Then it's like being a ship on the ocean with no horizon or a land rover on the moon cut off from the world - perfect! Eventually you reach the other side along the Indian Ocean to find Australia's other cluster of humans, namely Perth, Fremantle, Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River, etc. Most overseas visitors never get past the "boomerang coast" between Sydney and Cairns, but there is a lot to love about the western half of the country, and very very few other people to get in your way. But as per this video it's easy to see why almost no one lives in the middle part - hardly any drinkable water, barren soil, only a few good highways, and unless you bring a bunch of food with you you're limited to "roadhouse" stodge - week-old dried-up chook & chips and "Chiko Rolls" or meat pies on a tired heating rack, or you have to murder a goanna or brown snake for your supper. God's country indeed! ;-)

[@markleon411]

Wow! I think there are plenty of Aussies who could learn to appreciate their home a lot more from people like you.

[@proscreens2137]

You could always eat some roadkill or witchedygrubs

[@hi79cruisers90]

camping and offroading in straya is my thing.

[@originalsusser]

Sure your not an Aussie? You sure would make an excellent honorary one, that's fair dinkum mate

[@HKotolos]

What are you talking about months and months with very little human contact? It only takes 3-5 days to drive from Sydney to Perth, east to west coast? and theres smaller cities and townships all along the way and petrol stations so much so that if you fill up at one petrol station you'll reach the next well before your tank is empty? Unless your planning to go into Central Aus and camp for a while you dont need to take jerry cans of petrol or food with you and even if you do camp in the most rural areas at most petrol station or shops would be 3-4hrs drive max? Its not really a never land even if you drive rural, those highways you mentioned all pass through areas, townships, small petrol stations, cities and shops. Anyone can check this out go onto Google maps or maps app and put Sydney NSW to Emerald QLD and zoom in you'll see along the way theres plenty of townships and places along the way, 3hrs drive apart at the most rural areas of the drive. for the NSW part, its town after town. If you drive from Sydney NSW to central QLD which takes 2 days of 12 hour driving sessions, you'll see plenty of cars and people along the way almost all the time, and at most go 3 hours before hitting another town or township. Even in the most rural of areas, theres shops and supermarkets or at least a cornerstore with food like a small supermarket. and even large townships with every large business and store you'd see in cities in the rural area (e.g Emerald QLD) You've either never actually been to Australia or driven, or you have and are lying and drastically overdramatising and exaggerating for a youtube comment lol

[@markleon411]

I think the lack of rain is more due to the altitude of Australia. It's basically a bowl shape - the centre is below sea level. Rain tends to fall mainly on mountainous areas.

[@australiagreg3179]

that is certainly an explanation, however I agree with the presenter that Oz is just too close to the Antarctic which prevents ocean warming and no rain. The Ice caps are melting and the oceans are warming. I think this is already apparent with Oz greening in the most unusual places.

[@basilpunton5702]

Average altitude is about 30 metres greater then Europe. The narrative is basically right.

[@johnyoung1128]

Only the lake Eyre basin is below sea level. The lack of inland rain is due to the continents geographic position in terms of latitude and its large east west land distribution in relation to that latitude. If you look at similar latitudes on other continents deserts are also found.

[@couldntholdacandle6681]

It floods in the desert too. 😂 every year.

[@johnyoung1128]

@@australiagreg3179 Australia is not THAT close to Antarctica!

[@NickxCharlie4life]

The indigenous people actually weren’t hunter gatherers contrary to popular belief. They were smart enough to stay in a space of land but move around a little. Think of it as people who camp for a living

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

@@Uknow1997heheehthey managed land. Did burn offs and knew a lot about native plants and how to help wildlife boost. They would move fish stocks across hot country to different ponds. They were smarter then what they are credited for. They even had Australia mapped and put into different territories.

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

Funniest thing is people try speculate what they were when they are still doing the same stuff in aboriginal communities around Australia. Most are developed but there is still aboriginals living off the land the exact same way their ancestors have been for thousands of years.

[@thegrandlord2914]

Indonesian sailor already discover the land long before any european or asian sailors discover it. But indonesian sailor are not interested to colonize it since there is people already live there, the aborigines. Instead indonesian sailor forming trade relations with the aborigines. Indonesian sailor selling them tools and manufactired food and goods while the aborigines selling indonesian sailor sea food, precious gem and local food

[@originalsusser]

I don't know where you got this fictitious account from. Firstly, Indonesian sailors? Maybe fishermen! Selling them tools & manufactured food & goods? What tools, food & goods made in what factory? Aboriginals selling seafood, precious gems & local food! What local food? Precious gems from where? Seafood? remember they're likely fishermen, not sailors & sold with what currency... barter? If they were explorers, well, they would have settled, like they did in the rest of their archipelago. No! More likely, if sailing Indonesians saw Aboriginals, they would have seen proud men standing tall on the shore waving spears, boomerangs & clubbing sticks, etc & shit themselves & turned right around

[@gravyz2cute4u]

I lost the audio commentary when you started talking about WW2 8:39-9:03. It just plays the background music for me.

[@NoManDetected]

same here

[@GenericUsername1388]

I think it's highly probable the Portuguese landed on Australia first but they definitely didn't stay. The amount of time they had East Timor and its close proximity would make it very possible

[@CountriesExplained]

Yeah I think it’s a strong chance this is the case! 😁🙌

[@Chapps1941]

The Pope gave SA, NT & WA to the Portugese to explore and the 4 Eastern States to the Spanish in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494(?) They were fighting over the world. So he drew lines thru South America and that's why Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of South America speak Spanish. The border between SA and the NT was once a straight line of longitude common to Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. But Queensland "stole" a bit of the NT by pushing the line West. This longitudinal border was extrapolated to divide Irian Jaya, Portugal, and Papua Nui Guini for the Spanish. Thank the Pope for another stuff up

[@originalsusser]

Thank goodness the Portuguese never ended up colonising Australia. Imagine the basket case it would be today

[@GenericUsername1388]

@@originalsusser haha well I'm Portuguese myself I have to agree with you. The English and even French handled their colonies much better than the Spanish or Portuguese. In my ideal world, Argentina and Uruguay would've been English colonies and probably be in a much better state than it is now.

[@user-kk2km1xw7f]

We like it this way. We can breathe the fresh air. I'm Australian. Fighting bee's snakes and spiders is a bit scary. But we still love being here. The country is quiet and soothing, the ocean is beautiful. ❤😊

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

Tf acting like Australia is the only place with bees 😂

[@bharath2508]

Are snakes and spiders common in Australia?

[@rustymotor]

I live right in the middle of Australia, beautiful desert country kinda similar to Nevada which I visited a few years ago and felt like home. Much rather live in the desert with Snakes and Spider swarms than in any crowded city!

[@Vehicle_Index]

Alice Springs?

[@proscreens2137]

Plenty of 2 legged snakes in the cities

[@cyberprince8272]

It’s actually not completely empty. People do live in outback towns.

[@xphilster]

Love watching your videos, keep it up 👍

[@CountriesExplained]

Thanks a lot! Really appreciate that 🙌

[@1wor1d]

0:51 "The last populated frontier of the world". 60,000+ years of human settlement in this country, about 45,000 years before the Americas were discovered. This subject is very controversial in Australia, as this video talks about Australia being "discovered" by Portuguese, Dutch or Englishman. But it was discovered by very resourceful people thousands of years ago and are to this day the oldest living culture in the world.

[@katewardle8032]

This point annoyed me too. And the one about First Nations people hunting everything to extinction. It was the ending of the last ice age causing the climate to dry out that caused those extinctions.

[@originalsusser]

It's true Koorie ppl arrived in Australia 60k yrs before any Europeans sailed by. They settled this land & thrived with their resourcefulness long before the first Englishman died here of starvation. Though climate change contributed to the extinction of megafauna, it wasn't helped by hunting by humans, as was the case throughout the rest of the world at the time

[@mlpbahs]

I'm aussie and it's dumb as well. However world history is Eurocentric so when they say discovered they mean discovered for Europe which they should say instead

[@Quadrant14]

@@originalsusser they also had wars, pillaged , raped , mass women and children were carried off in attacks, they were more than One Nation..... they were human and carried out just as many horrible things to themselves as the peoples of PNG do to this day

[@originalsusser]

@@Quadrant14 everything you stated is true & facts I'm well aware of. These acts you mention occurred universally with every primitive culture the world over including Europe & Asia before any recorded history. It's part of the human condition

[@RK-cj4oc]

What is the next video gonna be about? Which country? Keep up the great work, and many thanks for the video!

[@CountriesExplained]

Somewhere in Europe! Although they consider themselves to be part of another place as well 👀👀 And thanks for watching 🙏😁

[@jonathannetsereab]

Amazing video as always

[@CountriesExplained]

Appreciate that more than you know! 🙏😁

[@gemmel3197]

When I born in Australia there were only 12 million.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

I remember learning at school in the 90s that the population was 17 million.

[@francoislepatriote3790]

Now it's almost 27 million, it probably comes from immigration.

[@samadqazi1967]

Well Explained for History Students

[@rodneyfaulkner7453]

I work FIFO in the remote north of Western Australian in the Pilbara, Yes it Hot - I just returned from a week of 40 degree C and it is only Springtime not Summer yet - I have international friends they are amazed that I will drive 380KM to the closest supermarket - shop then drive back to the mine site all in one day

[@danidejaneiro8378]

I’ve been looking at fifo jobs online but I’m deterred by the drug tests as I smoke marijuana

[@rodneyfaulkner7453]

😂 ahh yes that will not help, we are random D&A tests and also blanket site wide testing

[@doggowhisperer6844]

Lots of errors in this video. For example, even if the total amount of arable land is greater than it’s SEA neighbours, the soil quality in the majority of Australia is very poor., particularly west of the GDR. This is due to lack of any volcanic or geological activity meaning there’s no refreshing of nutrients. Only parts of Victoria have they found evidence of previous volcanic activity. Also the distinct lack of fresh water which is also of unstable supply owing the weather patterns experienced.

[@JaneNewAuthor]

NW Coast of Tasmania had plenty of volcanic activity, and is very fertile. Supplies vegetables to the Melbourne markets. But Tasmania is different geologically (and in other ways).

[@ameyakulkarni6493]

NEXT VIDEO ON SOUTH AFRICA EXPLAINED

[@CountriesExplained]

That’s a cool country for sure! 🙌🇿🇦

[@Chapps1941]

Eveereebodee lieves in Seth Efrica All over the Feltt gresslends roam the eleephent and entolope Thets all from Bllomfonteeiyn

[@paulfri1569]

South Africa is a poor man's Australia?

[@travisbonnette-kim5952]

I would love to see a video on this counties of Scotland and Wales, and Northern Ireland

[@CountriesExplained]

Definitely coming! 👌😁

[@frizzy60]

Aussie Rules is NOTHING like Rugby

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Played with an oval ball on a grass pitch with goal posts in short shorts - it’s more like rugby than anything else

[@frizzy60]

@@danidejaneiro8378 have you ever seen a game. The ball to start with is leather not synthetic. The ground is 60 to 70% larger than a rugby ground. The ball has to be kicked or handballed not thrown. There are 4 goal posts at the end of afl ground not 2. Mid field players in Afl generally run around 15kms per game. The Afl ground is oval in shape not rectangular. Get your facts straight before you mouth off. I could go on for hours with how AFL is sooooooo different from rugby

[@danidejaneiro8378]

@@frizzy60 - sounds more like rugby than golf or surfing derp lol

[@frizzy60]

@@danidejaneiro8378 Now you can't even put a proper English sentence together. You LACK of knowledge of Australia and it's No 1 football code is amazing. Rugby is a backward game, meaning every time a player wants to dispose of the ball to go forward the ball must go backwards. At least an Aussie Rules player can dispose of the ball in any direction. Just for your information today is Grand Final day in Aussie Rules with over 100k spectators at the MCG. Pre-game entertainment will be from KISS. You can keep sending your uneducated comments coming thru as I will never back down on my passion for Aussie Rules

[@astorete1610]

Australian here. This is a nice attempt, but clearly made by someone who doesn’t really understand this country or its history. Besides completely glossing over the 19th century, this video has some factual errors and significant omissions. I wouldn’t consider this video to be a good summary of Australia, and would advise people to look elsewhere.

[@NoManDetected]

8:40 Commentary really said "Aight I'mma head out"

[@basilpunton5702]

The crown did not callup Australian people during the WW1. Basically because the crown does not have that power.

[@JamesKelly-fj8zi]

Some people get this fact wrong namely being anti British and not into history. They focus on King George V declaring war on Germany for Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. But he consulted the prime ministers of these countries by telegraph and got their permission. When the British government declared war in 1914 they didn't consider what the dominions wanted. This doco is not perfect but is a lot better than others on the same subject. A big problem with youtube is the use of stock footage they get video like on subject they're talking about but it's the wrong location such as country, wrong period or look nothing like what they are narrating. This had a lot better images of Oz😂. We down under like to exaggerate how dangerous our wildlife is but if you look at the other continents everywhere have or had dangerous animals. Just aussie ones don't bother me except funnel webs.😢

[@elroyfudbucker6806]

I like how at 1:00, he mentions remarkable animals, customs (shows what looks very much like a silhouette of a lamington, a cube of sponge cake, dipped in melted chocolate & rolled in desiccated coconut. A very typical Aussie treat. You non-Aussies don't know what you're missing. What a lil' ripper of a bewdy!), statistics & people. If he showed a lamington, he's obviously been here.

[@ray.shoesmith]

Some call it the Red Centre, some call it the GAFA (the Great Australian Fck All)

[@daviddeppa122]

your statement that Papua New Guinea split from Australia 50 to 65,000 years ago, didn't sound accurate to me. I researched it, and it actually was 52 to 65 Million Years Ago, that the split between the two occurred.

[@grahamekellermeier8280]

We not surrounded by water we are girthed by sea.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

But our land abounds in nature’s gifts

[@johnyoung1128]

I think that should be “girt by sea”

[@valiaudet3415]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GenreBGoode]

Australians all let us ring Joyce, for she is young and free

[@couldntholdacandle6681]

Oh and its mostly mines or various sorts, gold opals gems coal, nickle iron ore cattle farms ect

[@Hawkathon]

Is there missing audio for WW2?

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

Awesome! 🇦🇺🙌

[@CountriesExplained]

Thank you! ☀️🇦🇺😁

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

@@CountriesExplained 😁❤️

[@JesusAlvarado-oq8bj]

I think the audio cut-out at 8:45

[@CountriesExplained]

Yeah super strange bug! I’ll try fix that 👌

[@kingofthejungle3833]

5 months later that bug still isn't fixed

[@hi79cruisers90]

quokkas are only at Rottnest island, a small island off of perth in western australia

[@BDub2024]

Sydney and Melbourne are too large. There needs to be real attention to opening up more land in smaller towns and cities. This will hopefully stop the cities from being overcrowded while spreading out the population. Easily said than done. While many people work from home and work in the internet/software industries, they may be people that can actually afford to living in the larger cities. Whereas those that work at a workplace really need to live where the work is, in the larger cities. But its still a good goal to increase populations and opportunities in rural areas. Some states like WA and SA the population is largely based in the capital cities, and there is opportunity to avoid overcrowding and environmental issues. Vic and NSW have large regional areas that they can really work with to expand.

[@slavicationYT]

Is It Possible for At Some point in April to do North Macedonia? It would be an amazing birthday gift but its understandable if your not able to.

[@milansikela8383]

Loved the video. Even though never been there, Australia has always fascinated me. I read Bill Bryson's book "In a Sunburned Country" (as it was titled in America and Canada...was titled "Down Under" in Britain). I remember Mr. Bryson writing about the drive he took from Darwin to Alice Springs where the sun seemed to get larger and hotter the further south out of Darwin he traveled. I remember he talked about a place call the Devil's Marbles which, based on his description, seemed almost mythical. Mr. Bryson had stopped at a restaurant between Darwin and Alice Springs and had a steak as big as a baseball catcher's mit. Pico Iyer called Australia a British California. A friend of mine who lives in New York City said, after traveling there, Melbourne and Perth were his favorite cities. I also would love to check out the Bungle Bungles. Excellent content in your video. Thank you. P. S. From 8:38 to 9:01 in the video, the sound seemed to cut out.

[@jjkanal640]

I think the portuguese were the first to discover Australia. If you check Dutch and Portuguese history, it is much more interlined than you think. Everywhere the Portuguese went, the Dutch went a couple of decades later. Even trying to take some of portugals colonies, including brazil and macau. If you follow portugals pattern around the world, and follow the dutch, the dutch were following Portugal but the Australia part of the Portuguese history was not well documented, probably due to the "useless landscape" on the north west Australian border, they might have just thought that it was nothing but a wasteland. There has also been cannons found in australian coasts, dating back hundreds of years and had clear portuguese coat of arms markings.

[@ameyakulkarni6493]

EXCITED FOR SOUTH AFRICA

[@CountriesExplained]

🫡🇿🇦

[@paulfri1569]

South Africa is a poor man's Australia though 😅😅😅

[@wtfa2910]

I love the outback

[@mainstreet3023]

Hey, hey, hey!! They did not “discover” Australia. Please don’t write Australia’s ancient residents from the history books. Same goes for America (north and south). And I’m voting YES!

[@gravyz2cute4u]

It was a discovery to the Europeans. Yes, Aboriginal people inhabited the country for a very long time, but the discovery itself refers to the Europeans discovering a land unknown to them.

[@mainstreet3023]

@@gravyz2cute4u the thing about words is they mean specific things, especially when it comes to the law.

[@2-_]

10 minutes when you could've just said "there are deserts there"

[@thenetsurferboy]

Yes he never said why low population

[@alexwood5425]

Except for south West Tasmania!

[@robertmcnamara5407]

As an Australian I would just like to say you cannot live in the vast majority of this country without water (most of the time there is none), shelter (none again) or without the support of the 1st nations people who do inhabit parts of it. We are white urban people who aeons ago lost the ability to survive the desert, jungle or even the open plains. All of which occur in Australia. We also like it just the way it is.

[@williamgrosbach4237]

Australia isn't an island, it's a continent.

[@Dags470]

It's classed as the world's largest island, and smallest continent.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

It’s an island-continent

[@BananaMaster24.]

No, fool! Australia is considered a country of Oceania. That’s like saying Papua New Guinea and New Zealand belong to Australia.

[@johnyoung1128]

@@BananaMaster24.Whether or not Australia is part of Oceania it is still a continent.

[@BananaMaster24.]

@@johnyoung1128 What sense does that make? Dude learned history in a toilet bowl.

[@MarcoCholo-iz9js]

Fun fact: Australia grew by 3 times over a period of 75 years from a population of 8.6 million to today over 26 million people. At current trends it is estimated it will grow another 3 times during the next 7 decades, putting its population closer to 80 million by Australia's tricentenary anniversary. By the end of the century Australia highest population projections have it anywhere between 72 million to as high as 110 million. Another fun fact. Australia is 234 years old. When America was also around the same era in its colonisation period its population was also in the mid 20 millions. And look at it now. Both former British colonies.

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

Hope not and I stay away from the citys where is english is a 2nd language

[@slshusker]

Topography matters.

[@SheYettie68]

You can drive for days without seeing a town or another person in parts of the country, let alone hours.

[@toni4729]

Did he say 'soil in Australia?" I think he meant dust.

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

It's really not surprising that Australia has low tourism. It's kinda tough to visit a place that, y'know, doesn't exist.

[@petefluffy7420]

I keel over in riotous laughter, very original, yes.

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

@@petefluffy7420 Thank you! I put weeks of thought and planning into that joke. I'm so relieved it landed!

[@petefluffy7420]

@@JAGzilla-ur3lhIt did take to long to boot it to buggery I have to admit. dickhead

[@daverow49]

I am an Aussie living in Oz. You should do stand up comedy mate. You are f**king hilarious and probably a f**king Septic...

[@petefluffy7420]

@@daverow49 uk

[@javercohen4398]

The middle of Australia isn't barron and unhitablitable. Its just the European way of life doesn't know how to live of the land and as a aussie I can say it is beautiful

[@gabreiellawissell7310]

you forgot to say South Australia Adelaide was settled by free settler not convicts

[@Dannnnyyyy]

Poland Explained🇵🇱😁!!!

[@bradscouller7312]

This video seems strangely familiar to a Real Life Lore video. Hmmmmm

[@stephenbachman132]

Technically according to your map i live in the empty. I can tell you it is not empty. An im not a creature of the Void a dreadlord from the Raymond E Fiest series. People who read Fiest will get that empty joke.

[@user-br1be3il7q]

You can make video about New Zealand or Life new Zealand 🇳🇿🇳🇿❤❤❤ neighbours Australia 🇦🇺❤🇭🇲

[@CountriesExplained]

Definitely will 🙌🇳🇿

[@christopherharvie8716]

The far east of Victoria is basically bushland. Why does the graphic on the preview shouting as full???

[@ameyakulkarni6493]

🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA🇿🇦

[@paulfri1569]

South Africa is a poor man's Australia 😅😅😅😅😅

[@matt.2708]

@@paulfri1569South Africa is a cool place, it’s a poor man’s Australian accent tho 😂😂

[@paulfri1569]

@@matt.2708 🙏🤲

[@farmerjoe.]

Australia explained in 3 words: “too fucking hot.” Or “too fucking cold.”

[@Yabois_]

just make a river through the middle of australia, more water 🗿

[@shaundgb7367]

It would evaporate.

[@Yabois_]

@@shaundgb7367 not if you made it big enough. connected it to the ocean. also then it'd be a good thing that it evaporated so it rains in the desert

[@AndoCommando1000]

@@Yabois_no, it really wouldn’t. And by the time you make it “big enough” it would be so comically enormous as to probably bankrupt the entire global economy. There’s just no point.

[@markreardon6663]

​@@Yabois_you have no idea how insanely hot it gets in the interior or that your river would built across some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth over a couple of thousand kilometres. It would also be ridiculously expensive running into the trillions of dollars to build

[@Yabois_]

ok chill man. i wasnt serious. and i do have an idea how hot it gets@@markreardon6663

[@lordofvurgun187]

Next video: Azerbaijan Explained!

[@michealradd264]

Im in sydney and see people every second.😂😂😂

[@AsimaGuruBahasa]

is Portugeese same as Portugal?

[@jacobwright55]

erm yeahs it is dingdong

[@toni4729]

I'd like to hear this told by an Australian.

[@paulfri1569]

Australia should be a grazing paradise... Why isn't it?

[@matt.2708]

Lotta desert, Australia is paradise to me tho

[@tomesplin4130]

It is. Massive cattle ranches all throughout the outback

[@JaneNewAuthor]

It was once at the bottom of the sea. High salt content and infertile as a result.

[@paulfri1569]

@@JaneNewAuthor I see 🤔 could extract all the salt from those salt lakes.. Become a salt 🧂 power house ✌️

[@nikitaw1982]

no fault lines. no wars. yet no nuclear. y?

[@MasterYoshiCamps]

As an Australian you truly don't appreciate the 'space' we have until you visit European countries 😂

[@dahampasala4734]

❤🇱🇰👍

[@Jimbosliceclone]

Southern Canada

[@the_multi_gameryt6899]

You literally forgot a whole heap of history like what happened with indigenous Australians

[@paulfri1569]

Because the land is saved for future Solar panel farms 😂😂😂

[@Mixes_Production]

3%💀ladd

[@bharath2508]

Its the rule of the reptiles over there.

[@couldntholdacandle6681]

😂 those areas aren't empty it's just not many people live their

[@pabloescobar6714]

Why dnt they have solar panels for electricity free for the ppl 😊

[@couldntholdacandle6681]

Indigenous peoples live there durdes and farmers ect.

[@popsceneblur06]

Aussie rules mostly resembling rugby?!!! Maaate

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

nuh, only if your a complete idiot

[@lasknives6817]

bro it’s hot as balls

[@Snakejaguar.]

Where are you from ? beacuse I can tell you have an accent 😅

[@CountriesExplained]

Sweden 👀😅

[@Snakejaguar.]

@@CountriesExplained oh ok 😅 I have a friend from Sweden

[@knuckleguy775]

I'm sure it's some kind of AI, and one that doesn't worry about pronunciation...😊

[@Aero-]

If you love Australia 👇

[@CountriesExplained]

✋

[@coopARLE]

I am an Australian and most of the country in the outback is desert only the coasts have the most people so mostly the green bits are populated

[@LacitsyM]

You don’t say! Haha

[@cxlynVEVO]

I think most people left australia because of the wifi conetion

[@MinutesWithMates]

Australia invented wifi. I have just been to the USA and the wifi in Australia is 100 times better than the US.

[@MinutesWithMates]

@Martin Klnp wrong. The CSIRO in Australia with Hayes www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-wifi-1992663

[@kanderson4417]

Its empty because its hot and dry.

[@BananaMaster24.]

You mean because of its geography? 🤡

[@josephmaganja650]

Why don't we turn it into a garden like China

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

with pollution and farmers crapping on their crops

[@SargentDoom]

nah the reason why we live on the coast is because of those pesky birds who airstrike people for no reason.

[@peterdelgado698]

No one discovered anything, the proper term is, they came across it. People were already living there.

[@K1pTheMapper]

Yeah the First Nations people where there thousands of years before the Dutch or Great Britain (Also I’m Australian)

[@Dags470]

Symantics. I opened my freezer the other day and discovered I still had some ice cream. But I didn't make it and I certainly wasn't the first person to see it. 🙄

[@gravyz2cute4u]

@@Dags470 Exactly! The Europeans came across a land and people unknown to them, therefore it was a discovery to them since the history here is told from a European standpoint. 😮‍💨

[@RetepOdaged]

When the word discovered is used, it implies, this is the first time human eyes have seen this. Another thing to consider is this, let’s say a person from the jungle swam and then walked 300 miles and came across a modern City full of people, would that be considered a discovery in the World’s history books? Hahahaha!

[@gravyz2cute4u]

@@RetepOdaged It would be a discovery to the jungle person. Like when archaeologists discover things in excavations.

[@dennis771]

American south west and Saudi is more desert 🏜️ than your outback. Australia issue is fear

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

another brain dead comment from its own arse

[@Hawkathon]

Please include Crimea as part of Ukraine🇺🇦❤.

[@ankebootsm4825]

Don’t be rude to the aboriginals the poms came and distrusted there peace😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@petefluffy7420]

What level of population density do you count as populated? Australia's colonisers got into deep shit for declaring it unoccupied and here you are repeating the exact same error. Will humanity never learn ?

[@stephenstavrosdimitriou4513]

"Aboriginals" means NOT originals. They have NOT been here for65,000 years. They are Indian sappers, sent by King George III's East India Company, which was on a land grab. When you say "Uluru" you mean "Ayers Rock", right? The fast-paced "Aussie Rules" is a real "football" game and is nothing like rugby but certainly superior.

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

you should have stayed longer at school mate as your level of education could be deemed as kindergarten

[@paulfri1569]

So Australia should be thankful for the Americans?

[@PlumSack79]

Watched this my Australian Aboriginal friend, she insisted I dislike.

[@lunch2102]

Not bad but it's not a commonwealth star on the flag and Aussie rules looks nothing like rugby

[@Zekealot]

Um it's literally called the commonwealth star

[@lunch2102]

@@Zekealot well there you go

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

Funny I live in a town with over 20 thousand people that is supposedly in the red empty part of Australia according to you

[@samaraadrian2667]

thats gay

[@The_ItalianMonkey]

frfr

[@coreystrachan6519]

Stop saying “the English” then use the flag for the Entire United Kingdom. England isn’t the only country in the Uk.

[@perkelix]

Odd accent in that narration.

[@Yarshy.]

Narrator's accent is very off-putting

[@CountriesExplained]

☹️

[@jmkass]

I believe he is Danish. Every accent is beautiful.

[@pr3zzy798]

Why don’t you narrate then ?

[@CountriesExplained]

@@jmkass Swedish actually! 🙈😁

[@MinutesWithMates]

I put it down to accent, but do cringe at mispronunciation of cities. E.g. Brisbane is supposed to be Brisbin, note bane. Aussie is Ozzie (pronounce the s like a z not an s)… and a number of others. And we don’t have that many killer animals… none that you will see often anyway, and nothing like lions, tigers, grizzlies or any of those crazy creatures that chase you. The most dangerous creatures here are very shy and do their best to avoid humans. I am 51 and live in inland rural Australia. I’ve never seen a brown snake (in fact I’ve only ever seen two wild snakes in my entire life… the rest were in zoos), and I rarely see a dangerous spider because they’re mainly around Sydney.

[@BinaryPill]

This is so similar to the RealLifeLore video that it's basically plagiarism.