British Couple Reacts to 12 USA Geography Facts No One Told You About

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[@seangates1451]

Technically, I believe the Four Corners is in the Navajo Nation - so you can be in FIVE places at once.

[@cookielady7662]

You are correct.

[@wadeintonature2975]

If you are counting the reservations it would be 6 as the Ute mountain reservation is in Colorado bordering Utah and New Mexico.

[@dan_lu]

What is kinda crazy is that New York City isn't anywhere near being one of the densest city in the world (it is only ~55% as dense as Paris for example). The most dense city is Manila (which is ~3.9x denser than NYC), and if you used that density, the world could fit into Oklahoma. (And although Oklahoma does look kinda small sitting there right above Texas, it is still larger than the area of England, Wales, and Northen Ireland combined)

[@jamesleyda365]

I live in Washington State and been to Point Robert's many times. It is in a awesomely beautiful part of the world. Well the whole Puget Sound, strait of Jaun De Fuca, strait of Georgia BC all are🇨🇦🇺🇸👍

[@Smokeater4444]

I was Stationed in Alaska in the Military , We almost got in trouble Snowmobiling & ALMOST went into Russia's Territory , Thank God for the Villagers

[@debbiewashabaugh9891]

Schools are paid for by local taxes which the residents of Port Robert’s pay in the US.

[@cinematicuniversenews1295]

As of February 4, 2024, the population of the United States is 341,079,412.

[@DustinHawke]

No it's not. It's currently 336,018,469 according to census.gov.

[@barryfletcher7136]

@@DustinHawke You are forgetting the millions of illegal aliens let in by the Biden administration.

[@jishani1]

@@DustinHawke pretty sure the census doesn't account for the 12 million that walked across the border in the last 4 years.

[@cdpond]

@@jishani1 - you means the ones you let in, and then bus up to sneak into Canada claiming refugee status? You folks are as bad as the Mexicans you constantly harp about crossing into the southern US. lol

[@DrThemoWorm]

Listen, as a resident of Texas, I definitely welcome folks who'd like to visit, but I imagine it might not be great to have literally everyone in the world here at the same time. Traffic would suuuck, especially if it's already super hot outside.

[@kevinmclaughlin8975]

Would definitely cause problems with the grids!

[@patrickchambers5999]

Millie is on the wrong side in this one.

[@darrinlindsey]

I thought James was on the wrong side.

[@chazf883]

That was interesting. Okay guys I click the like button and man I can't wait for you guys to come over here I know I won't get to see you but I'm really excited about you guys coming anyway

[@marydavis5234]

My area of Vermont has two McDonald’s and they are in different counties, so they have a different food tax rate.

[@RedRuffinsore]

The Comal River, near me in Texas is 1 mile long. I never knew there was one shorter.

[@roger3141]

There is a small part of Illinois that is West of the Mississippi River. It is called Kaskaskia Island. Originally, the Mississippi River flowed West of Kaskaskia which was the first state capital of Illinois. In 1881, a huge flood wiped out the town and the Mississippi River cut a new channel East of Kaskaskia. The kids from Kaskaskia had to travel through Missouri and cross a bridge to attend high school in Chester, Illinois which is my hometown.

[@briankirchhoefer]

It wiped out the British fort Kaskaskia. I loved going there as a kid.

[@americansmark]

The Roe isn't a river. It's a man made canal that connects on both ends to the Missouri River. It got discontinued for that reason.

[@FuzzyMarineVet]

At one time in the 19th century, parts of California was claimed by Russia.

[@Real_LiamOBryan]

Yeah, a river is a stream, but a large one, that empties into another body of water (e.g., the ocean, another river, a lake, etc.).

[@alysonbowler9040]

Assuming you could walk from the northernmost point of California to Wales, Alaska (the closest point, I think, to Little Diomede Island) on roads, at 15 minutes per mile, if you walked 12 hours a day it would take you about 75 days. However, the roads end about 750 miles short of Wales. You would be trekking 750 miles through frozen tundra and over treacherous mountains. Most Alaskan towns are only accessible by plane - no roads in or out.

[@garyi.1360]

Missouri River is actually longer than the Mississippi River.

[@MrPenguinLife]

Sure we would love to see that

[@chazf883]

Lol. That short river looked more like a lake.

[@skyjust828]

Thanks!this is so Millie doesn't have to do 6 hours (maybe 3 or 4 at the most)

[@TheBeesleys99]

Thank you so much ❤ really appreciated ❤

[@62impalaconvert]

The straigt line distance from San Diego to the western tip of Alaska in the Aleutian Isands is 3300 miles so to walk the actual route would be many hundreds of miles more than that.

[@johng482]

9:22 a river is a flowing (key differential) body of water discharging into a static body of water (i.e. lake out ocean). A creek is a flowing body of water discharging into another flowing body of water (so technically, the Missouri River is a creek).

[@laynecox3992]

Millie should absolutely do it

[@kclovelypinky8561]

Also rocky mountain is not the tallest mountain in america its actually a mountain in Alaska called Denali it's 20,310 feet (6,190 metres) tall.

[@Botoburst]

Everest is in Asia.

[@kclovelypinky8561]

@@Botoburst oh I meant rocky mountains sorry wrong one at the time I was trying to remember thx lol

[@skyjust828]

The kids have to travel through Canada for school in Washington state too.

[@ceegesange9904]

8:36 - That's not the actual route of the Mississippi river....

[@wrob08]

They also zoomed in on the southern tip of Alaska before moving to Point Roberts.

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

The Missouri River is about 100 miles longer than the Mississippi.

[@briansearle6868]

Incorrect.... The Missouri River is quite technically just the Mississippi River. The Missouri River does not have an outlet to the sea thus it is not a river and is what is known as a tributary. It is still considered the second longest river in the USA cause the Mississippi includes the Missouri when doing calculations on length.

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

@@briansearle6868 Then someone needs to explain that to Google, Bing, Wikipedia and every online quiz ever.

[@brucew7062]

@@briansearle6868you really should do more research. A river does not have to feed directly into an ocean or sea. A stream of water can still be a river even when flowing into a lake or another river. The Missouri River is a tributary to the Mississippi River and the Missouri River is longer than the Mississippi River before it feeds into the Mississippi River inside the state of Missouri. Combining the Missouri River and Mississippi River is only used in reference as being one flowing body of water in relation to the longest singular rivers in the world. They are two distinctly different rivers that merge only as the Missouri River feeds into the Mississippi River at which point the Missouri stops and the Mississippi begins.

[@cdpond]

@@brucew7062 - wrong. You really need to better educate yourself. According to your own US Geological Survey's definition of a river: "Rivers eventually end up flowing into the oceans." Here's the link so you can bone up on the facts for yourself. www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/rivers-streams-and-creeks

[@MythicalMystic]

Heres a geographic anomoly, if you want to get from the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean via the panama canal in central america, logic tells you that you would go from east to west and thats true....except via the panama canal. Going the the canal from the atlantic side, you actually travel from west to east through the canal to go east to west from the atlantic to the pacific, just look at a magnified map of the Panama canal but still see the oceans on either side of the canal and you will see this answer with your own eyes, its not a trick but legitimate and true.

[@Agemus6139]

The term “River” has never been well defined. I live next to a river, but grew up on a creek that’s a tributary of this river. In some publications that creek is also listed as a river. Some set rules are ignored anyways. One example is the Mississippi River should be referred to as the Ohio River from the point they meet due to a higher volume. History is the reason for the river retaining its name all the way to the Gulf.

[@chazf883]

Hello from Tulsa 👋 hello James and Millie. This ought to be a good video😊

[@seekexplorewander]

Some of these are known by Americans - such as the Four Corners, how big Texas is, etc. but few people know about Point Roberts or that even we have the tallest mountain in the world (when including what's below sea level).

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

I didn't know about the Four corners. I thought it was Four cornered states but it's Four states.

[@kennethswartz8252]

I just realized the narrators voice is the same as the voice for "How its Made." Very similar atleast.

[@cdpond]

The narrator used by that channel (Bright Side) is actually a bot. How It's Made uses live voiceover, and if memory serves, is female.

[@Botoburst]

The Volga river is almost as long but the Mississippi has basically twice the catchment zone and twice the average discharge. Russians are very proud of that river too.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

You two are as pedantic about the hyperbole in this as I am. 🥰

[@tommywilliamson2103]

While California is the most populous state in the United States, there are many areas that are very sparsely populated. I lived in Modoc County for about 3 years. This around 4,000 square miles in size, yet only houses about 9,000 people. One orchid old sayings in the county is that there are more cattle in the county than people. Another interested fact is that there is a small library that straddles the United States and Canadian border. For around 200 years Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, essentially functioned as one town. Citizens drank the same water, worked in the same tool factory, played the same sports (primarily curling), fought in the same world wars, and were born in the same hospital in nearby Newport, Vermont. They also shared the same cultural center, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, an ornate Victorian edifice built deliberately on top of the international border in 1901 by the Canadian wife of a wealthy American merchant. In the last several years, though, the common culture of the two towns has been eroded, largely due to the increased emphasis on securing the U.S. border in the years following 9/11.

[@thx-wp2yp]

P.S. there IS an alaska hiking trail that starts in northern california.........just saying. Lurve u guys

[@justaride1366]

Mt. Everest is the the HIGHEST mountain above sea level, not the tallest. Mt. Denali in Alaska is actually TALLER than Everest, as Everest sits on a 4000 foot base. From what I've heard (since I was a child many years ago...), base to summit, Denali is taller than Everest (not including Mauna Kea, as most of it is below sea level.).

[@steeljawX]

You can always do the technicality of Mauna Kea is taller solely based on the base to peak technicality, but you could also argue that everything shares the same base technically under the ocean at the lowest point. However, there is a difference between highest mountain and tallest mountain and the US has a mountain taller (not higher) than Everest without it having the typical technicality of, "it's base is under water." Mount Denali (formerly called Mount McKinley....also formerly formerly called Mount Denali) from it's base on dry land to it's peak is a longer distance than Everest's base to peak distance. Meaning that Denali is taller even though it doesn't reach higher in elevation. I think it's some 19,000 ft ascent for Everest while Denali it's closer to 21,000 ft ascent. Again, it's that technical difference between higher and taller. Also, being someone who both has been to the Four Corners and lives in one of the Four Corner states, you don't need to try too hard on that one. There's a monumental "compass star" paver in what would arbitrarily be the boarders of the 4 states meeting point. It's a whole attraction thing of you stand over that paver and you're technically in all Four States. Maybe some wise a*s marches up and demands you pay tax to one state and another rushes in demanding it for another all in jest. It's definitely a tourist attraction and it's not like states have boarder patrols for each other, aside from Alaska and Hawaii in the form of Canada and TSA respectively. That's kind of the beauty of the USA. It's what could equate to 50 nations that tolerate each other enough to agree to vote for someone to take the blame for big mistakes outside of their control. If you go to the Four Corners monument it's not like you have to go get a state passport from one state and then get it signed off by the other 3. You do whatever you want (within reason and civility.) I mean you can come here and "attack" American soil "technically" with a firearm and we really don't care. We may throw more of your tea into a harbor for kicks and giggles, but we really don't care as long as it's in a controlled environment and you're being responsible.

[@angelagarutti6118]

Im American and l have a passion for world history but alot of the things on ur reactions videos of the US is new to thats sad to me cuz ik they are not teaching us much about our own country. So i feel lk im going to USA class when i watch u both and tbh im ALL FOR IT

[@thx-wp2yp]

I'm not saying you couldn't do it, technically.......but that whole length from Alaska to Russia is ROUGHED Mountains. Hence why America isn't afraid from an invasion on that front. It's so rough, no army could cross it with wheeled vehicles. Love me some Beesleys. Watch every episode.

[@andrewchristopher7138]

Hi

[@donaldwatson6621]

You can walk it (Cal to Russia) in 6 to 9 mo. less if you step it up. The Roe River runs from Giant Springs to the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana, United States. The Roe River is only 201 feet (61 m) long at its longest constant point and had been named as the World's Shortest River, but they found a shorter river in Europe.

[@skyjust828]

Yellowstone is in 3 states Wyoming, Idaho, & Montana.

[@Berts-pets]

The Mississippi river isn't the longest river in the US. It's the Missouri River.

[@Botoburst]

Yea by what about a mile, lol. It still is a tributary.

[@corawheeler9355]

3M in St Paul MN has it's own zip code

[@tgltyty]

my cousin walked mexico to canada. I beleve it took her about 4 months.

[@shawnb4938]

The Roe River is a spring fed river alongside the Mississippi River but separated from it by a very narrow strip of land and empties into the Mississippi River.

[@ralphvelthuis2359]

Missouri river, not the Mississippi river.

[@jimgreen5788]

Beesleys, woh, something's different here. Don't tell me! Oh yeah! You switched places. 😉😊 Re. Alaska, specifically, the westernmost island in the Aleutian chain--Attu (at-TWO) is 468 miles/753 km. west of 180 degrees (the standard International Date Line). Big and Little Diomede are DIE-oh-mead, not die-oh-ME-dee. He made a mistake on the Mississippi R., in that the Missouri R. beats it by about 20 miles. However, where the Mississippi shines is in volume of water, since it's a mile wide, though the Missouri is much narrower. The coastline of AK, if you count the coastlines of all of the tons of islands, plus all of the coves and inlets, in addition to the actual coastline, it gets to a whopping 33,904 mi (54,563 km). I was at 4 Corners back in 1987. By the way, it's on the Navajo Res./Navajo Nation. In addition to Pt. Roberts, there are 2 other disconnected places in the USA. First is the village of Angle Inlet in the finger of land that's called the Northwest Angle of Minnesota, which is north of the normal border that goes from Lake Superior in MN out to Puget (PEW-jet) Sound at Seattle. The other one is Hyder, AK, which is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, the rest of which being served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or a 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road.

[@kevananne]

I would love millie to do a live stream! Yes please…..

[@user-pe8dt9gc3q]

checked out bear sits next to man yet welcome to canadadada

[@russellfisher2853]

To walk from California. To Alaska. You would have to go through Canada. And then to Russia.. That's after you made it through Oregon and Washington State. 😂

[@dualdodgeownerlift5795]

I want to see Archie on one of your shows☺️🤜

[@Steve-hq4fm]

I've made it a point my entire life to stay the hell out of Texas!!

[@christianoliver3572]

At Four Corners you can be in four states at once. Nobody can ever be in four places at once. You're in one place where four state lines converge.

[@pacmon5285]

It's a bit semantics. Here, "place" is referring to the state, not the physical location. So, his statement isn't exactly wrong.

[@cdpond]

Seems to me that logic would dictate that if you can plant your feet at the intersection of four states, you're occupying all four at the same time.

[@christianoliver3572]

@@cdpond That's correct but you're still just in one place.

[@SeenGod]

as an American i’ve honestly never been to Texas or California, and have no desire to visit either one, rural America is where you’ll meet the real people and have the real experience 👍

[@cookielady7662]

I live in rural Texas and I'm very real. Much of Texas is farm and ranch land.

[@Zhenn9413]

What state has the second longest coastline?……………Michigan 3,288 miles. If you add the coastline of islands it’s over 4,000 miles. Michigan also has the most lighthouses. Facts are fun

[@lianabaddley8217]

Am I remembering it right? That at least 1 of their nicknames is The Land of a Thousand Lakes?

[@Botoburst]

@@lianabaddley8217 No, that's Minnesota with ten thousand lakes. The largest chain of lakes in the world is eagle river in Wisconsin.

[@justaride1366]

Alaska's coastline is still longer. Alaska's coastline is over 6500 miles.

[@lianabaddley8217]

@@Botoburst ahhh! That's right. It's been a while since our friend went there. I was thinking ten thousand but then it didn't sound right for the state. Then started second guessing. Lol

[@ralphwilson6859]

War war 2 some one escape the Russian prison and walk to Alaska

[@DustinHawke]

You should go to good burger places, not the chain ones. Can't believe people come here and they go to McDonald's, Walmart, that gas station in Texas, etc. smh

[@ImpendingJoker]

These are more technicalities than "facts".

[@johnstevens6865]

Bring Archie on!

[@skyjust828]

How can Millie do 6 hours she has the baby to look after 🤬 not fair James!! Dear Millie, Young father's don't appreciate new mother's they think once the baby is born you have nothing to do😢 . Bless their hearts❤ 😂 Take care ❣️🥰 Sky Just

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

LoL for real appreciate there baby enough either. 😅

[@alastairforsyth3820]

Couple talk over commentators

[@KJ7JHN]

I hope for you we have a republican pres when you visit. That way you're not caught up in the southern border issue. Curious to see how that one developes.

[@danmayberry1185]

Or, hope the bipartisan border security bill ($ billions for border ops + automatic border closure provision) gets passed for the current president's signature.

[@torstenheling3830]

If you’re going to Texas and California I think you’ll find that California has a far more European vibe to it. Texas is just a Red Maga State, just like Alabama, that I would never go to, quite frankly due to its politics, which are appalling.

[@wayneperkins7605]

McD's is dog food.

[@briansearle6868]

Mauna Kea is not the tallest mountain in the world, technically all continents reach the bottom of the ocean, so that still means that Mt. Everest is the tallest.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Mount Killamanjaro

[@kathiedavis8470]

Texas is in a state upof turmoil. Careful! Thanks!

[@TheBeesleys99]

Thank you so much! We will always be super careful with Archie 🥰

[@kathiedavis8470]

The problem is, when Cuba did this to us, they emptied their prisons on us! How many prisons could this be. A whole lot!

[@briansearle6868]

No it's not, both of my siblings live in Texas with their families. And it is only crazy in one part of Texas right now and that is in Eagle Pass Texas on the Border.

[@stacysellersfranks8982]

I live in Texas and it’s fine. Show a reasonable amount of caution in sketchy neighborhoods like you would in any larger city anywhere on the globe and you’ll be perfectly safe. Anything you hear about “the border” is just a political talking point.

[@DamageIncUS]

Use a current photo of Millie. She is beautiful. Stop using old photos.

[@jasonwyrick3413]

You’re backwards and it’s making me uncomfortable

[@user-jr8dy3qz3k]

Detroit Michigan is northwest of Canada.