British Person Explains The 50 Biggest European Cities

[@tonyhawk94]

Facts about Marseille : - It's the oldest (large) city of France and was founded by the Greeks - We call it "la cité Phocéenne" (the Phocean city) because the Greeks that settled came from Phocea. - The city is older than Rome - During the Roman empire it was a huge center of latin culture and many scholars went to Marseille to study latin - There used to have a beautiful construction kind of the "rival" of the eiffel tower called "le pont transbordeur" which was destroyed during WW2 - This is the heart of the French mafia, called the French connection which was the biggest heroin exporters in the world, the French connection is also known as the "milieu Marseillais" and is mostly composed of French natives of Marseille and Corsicans that lived there. :)

[@Sluchey]

And the otaco’s he went to is really good I live on that road

[@tobiaschaparro2372]

1:56:27 Toycat: the two big Spanish cities are very similar cause they re both big and they are both Spanish

[@babel_UV]

he did me dirty there

[@immermitderruhe]

Too much fish bowl water:D

[@georgen51]

How to trigger a Catalan

[@gonfftheprince]

And some how everything he said was wrong

[@luciagil9008]

@@gonfftheprince Both are Spanish and both are cities. I mean, the arguments are correct but the statement is so wrong lol

[@craftibob]

Next video should be top 50 cities ibx has some traumatic abondonment story about. I would definitely watch.

[@JmMateo933]

Yes please

[@tskjesusfreak]

Title should be "Places where my ex-girlfriends were at"

[@cowboymooman8776]

l e e d s

[@tskjesusfreak]

@Siuz yep! LOL.

[@fjellyo3261]

Apparently GERMANY

[@thunderballz74]

Title should be the best places i love unlike America where i picked out everything wrong with each state!!Way to go dude!

[@jbeers1234]

“Girlfriends”, yeah you aren’t a regular around here are you?

[@justinian-the-great]

Fun fact: In Warsaw almost all of those beautiful medieval buildings, renaissance palaces and basically anything predating 1944-is actually A COPY! You see in WW2 Warsaw was so much bombed that some 80% of the entire city was completely destroyed! Like bombed literally to the ground! And that includes almost every single old pre-19th century building! All of those beautiful renaissance and medieval buildings are actually insanely precise copies made in 1970's and 80's by the Russian and Polish architects! The same story is with Volgograd, that is Stalingrad. And that's why it's so, sooo rare to find like any real historical buildings in cities like Stalingrad or Warsaw. Because they were completely destroyed! Isn't that insane?

[@nickbell4984]

Dresden had 94% of its centre destroyed due to ww2. German cities don't have too much pre ww2 buildings due to bombing.

[@z.kramer6027]

Rotterdam in the netherlands was also completely turned to ashes only the Laurenskerk (st. Lawrence church) remained standing. I am actually named after the church! but Rotterdam rebuilt to a beautiful modern port city.

[@tomasvolek6357]

Soviet pigs bombed it to the ground and then helped to build it again 30 years later? Thats so nice of them.

[@lazer_kiw1]

39:06 "It's segregated, like it should be" Toycat out of context

[@EvanAviator]

Abraham Lincoln is mad

[@somerandompolarbear487]

"Who's heard of Donetsk?" that didnt age well

[@dylanmurphy9389]

the war has been going on for 8 years, he's just ill-informed

[@stephengnb]

​@@dylanmurphy9389He talked about the separatist movement that has been going on in the region. He said his notable knowledge of the city was limited to that.

[@peglps]

As someone who is from Frankfurt and lives in Glasgow, I was not very pleased with what he had to say ...

[@Nicarand]

1:11:20 "Munich is the cultural heart of Germany"? As a German, I'm gonna throw up. Bavaria and the rest of Germany are very different. We don't wear lederhosen and listen to terrible brass music. Saying "Munich is the cultural capital of Germany" is a bit like saying that Texas is the cultural heart of the US. Yeah, that's where all the stereotypes come from, but it's hardly even close to being representative of the whole country. Also, talking as a Berliner, we like the fact that Berlin *isn't* as gentrified and full of bankers as a lot of other German cities. That's one of the big plusses of living here. The East is far from the "bad part of town" nowadays as well; Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain are some of the most sought out districts around; Probably even more so than most Western districts or cities in the West. It still holds true for the far Eastern reaches like Marzahn, though. Also, never eat at Alexanderplatz. Or Mustafa's Gemüse Kebab. Tourist traps.

[@d.g.b.nugget8446]

N / A I very much disagree with the statement that Munich is not like Bavaria. It very much is perfectly representative it in terms of culture. We Bavarians even often call it „the Prussian part“ of Bavaria because we think it is much more like the rest of Germany than the rest of Bavaria, probably because Munich has just a very small portion of the culture and conservatism you have in the rest of Bavaria and a lot of North Germans come there to study. That’s why we like the Austrians strongly over you guys, because they have much more in common with us than you Prussians, as we call you, do.

[@Nicarand]

@@d.g.b.nugget8446 I don't quite get what you mean. You disagree with the statement that Munich is not like Bavaria? I said it is, though. Or was that just a typo? I'm going to assume you meant that Munich isn't as Bavarian as all the other parts of Bavaria, like you've indicated in the rest of the comment, which is true! But it's obviously still way more Bavarian than any other big city in Germany. Since we were talking about and comparing big European cities and not some little village in the Alps that's obviously gonna be "more Bavarian" than the big city, I don't get the issue you have with the comment. When most people hear "Munich" the first things they think of (and what's also actually going on there) are drunk scumbags in lederhosen, listening to terrible Volksmusik and Schlager while pissing themselves on Oktoberfest, rich yuppies, far removed from reality and/or those nice people from the CSU, just as far removed from reality as the yuppies (I know that Munich itself is SPD-led, but the HQ is still there). All of these things are *very* Bavarian from an outsider's perspective.

[@d.g.b.nugget8446]

N / A alright, so I re-read your Original comment, and I seem to have miss-interpreted the phrase „Bavaria and the rest of Germany are very different“. And I agree with your comment, these stereotypes are often very misleading, as we only wear traditional clothes on festivals and important holidays (all of which the people that believe those stereotypes mostly only know the Oktoberfest anyway). And like you stated, sadly, Munich is SPD led, and pretty high German overall. Only in comparison, of course, to every other city in Bavaria.

[@ihategoogle7327]

Lol shut up bitch

[@kgn3779]

Kurze Frage: Wo soll dann der "Kulturhotspot" sein wenn nicht in bayern/münchen? Nirgendwo in Deutschland wird Kultur so gelebt wie in Bayern, vllt. noch im hohen norden, aber auch nicht wirklich. Typisch Berliner Ego

[@d.g.b.nugget8446]

1:13:41 it isn’t only Munich that is different than the rest of Germany, it’s Bavaria as a whole. Munich is just our capital

[@desanipt]

Porto and Lisbon have a surprisingly big rivalry between one another. Portugal is really just populated in the coast north of Lisbon and it actually keeps going into Spain (Galicia). Southern of Lisbon, only the Algarve is decently populated. Surprisingly the Atlantic islands also have a decent density (and Funchal makes it to one of the top biggest cities in Portugal, which may not be very impress considering Portugal is not very big anyway but I still find it interesting how a not so big island in the middle of the Atlantic, managed to grow that much).

[@SleepyJoeFlorida]

Obama, Japan best European city

[@majesthijmenii1976]

@SpangeBab that's definitely very random and funny

[@TobuscusGameing]

Clayj27 Usually Eastern Europe is quite poor but Obama is 10/10

[@SleepyJoeFlorida]

SpangeBab no Japan is in Australia and Obama is the president of Vietnam, a South American nation

[@mr-vet]

trump thinks N. Korea, China, & Russia our his BFFs

[@SleepyJoeFlorida]

Michael R ok this whole reply section was a joke but I guess you missed that

[@Nicarand]

1:09:23 Rathaus directly translates to city hall. Your ex was just bad at explaining.

[@sauronsmundwinkel]

City hall isnt the direct translation, it only makes most sense, council house/hall is the literal translation

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

Surprisingly Katowice is a rather famous city in some circles, especially in the esport circles. It hosts one of the biggest esports tournaments in the world, Intel extreme masters and it happens in a very characteristic spodek arena. And it's named "spodek" which means a saucer because it sort of looks like a flying saucer ufo. And another fun fact, during the Stalin's reign the city was renamed to "Stalinogród" which is basically a direct translation of Stalingrad into polish but the name was changed after Stalin's death.

[@gbkgames2087]

And then next to that you have the radio orchestra

[@greyjay9492]

1:07:00 It was Trotsky, Tito, Hitler, Stalin, and Freud. Marx died before Hitler was even born.

[@MarkAntony_1]

This guy doesnt know Jackshit about history

[@cowboymooman8776]

@@MarkAntony_1 i mean, you cant expect him to know about the date of birth and death of each and every single major political figure.

[@dijikstra8]

@@cowboymooman8776 Yeah but knowing the century of major political figures at least should be general knowledge. Karl Marx lived entirely in the 19th century, the others did not. (Marx also to my knowledge never lived in Vienna)

[@pekarekondrej6906]

I am from Czechia and i hate to be called eastern european, because we were so much influenced by german culture in history ( especially mediaval and renesance), that even communists couldn't make much about it. So we are so central european as it can get. We are literally mix of Slavic and Germanic culture ( we have a lot of german words in your language for example but your facial expressions are very Slavic for example).

[@pekarekondrej6906]

Another Example is that half of the country hates Russia and other half loves, nothing between. ( Russia occupied us from 1968 to 1989).

[@keziahchettleburgh4061]

this channel is a real safe space for me... i struggle with a lot of serious mental health issues which make me susceptible to finding seemingly insignificant things online quite distressing, but i always know i can come to this channel and watch a video without coming across anything that i’m vulnerable to. no choice but to stan 🥺

[@fjkfkfkf]

become a furry

[@SilvanaDil]

Um, do you ever go into museums, etc. or only McDonalds and train stations?

[@ibx2cat]

I fly in, eat McDonalds and fly out What more is there to see friend

[@SilvanaDil]

@@ibx2cat - You can eat McDonalds anywhere! Each great painting or sculpture can be experienced in one place only.

[@danielferguson821]

@@SilvanaDil But every McDonalds is different so we must know what the best McDonald’s is

[@paulhartson1]

@@ibx2cat DUDE! Wine stores and booze stores and candy stores and bakeries and ? LOL supermarkets are awesome too

[@aaronmiller2020]

me: I really should get some productive work done Toycat: I'm gonna make this person procrastinate

[@davidg6803]

When toycat mentions he's been to your city: gets excited but also worried he mightve stolen my girlfriend

[@theUnicornOfPower]

Thanks, man! I enjoyed your company during my nightshift and left a sub! Cheers!

[@frozenpea1848]

1:08:40 Fun Fact: In Austria Viennese Sausages are actually called Frankfurter

[@MrLukas2012]

If I remember correctly it's because a butcher from Frankfurt infented it in Vienna. It's called Frankfurter in most of Austria. But for some reason in Vorarlberg they call it Wienerle.

[@gotham61]

"Things I know about Marseille that I know include....nothing." Not even how to pronounce it!

[@snowcold5932]

Ikr that hurt me

[@ala0284]

I’m british and that even made me wince. Marsel😭

[@tonydai782]

@Dimosthenis Karamparpas French spelling of the name, French pronunciation

[@jodybeaver9193]

And nobody says anything about this is where the French National Anthem comes from?

[@rogink]

@@tonydai782 I think we used to spell Marseilles in British English without the last 's' and Lyon with an extra 's'. I guess we were confused that the 's' in Paris isn't pronounced!

[@agnesjonsson2956]

"Copenhagen is the largest city in the nordics" **Me, living in Stockholm..**

[@are3287]

Cool but Copenhagen is still bigger

[@agnesjonsson2956]

@@are3287 what no

[@brianoconnor1721]

Ilskekksks

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

@@are3287 Stockholm is largest

[@dijikstra8]

Depends on how you count I suppose. One could argue that Malmö is part of the Copenhagen metro area as much as Södertälje is part of the Stockholm metro area, it takes about as long (40 minutes by train in both cases) and commuting from Malmö to Copenhagen is very common just as commuting from Södertälje to Stockholm is very common. The difference of course is administrative borders. Södertälje is in Stockholm County, Malmö is in a whole different nation from Copenhagen.

[@iami30]

Note: This is the first time, that something has triggered me so much, that I wrote a comment about it. Living in the Rhine-Main rural area, I feel greatly offended by your unreasonable hate on Frankfurt. I've been to most of the 100.000s in Germany by now, and I can safely say that Frankfurt is definitely not as bad as you experienced it to be. The main shopping street (Zeil) is one of the nicest in germany, indeed. But the actual go-to-place would be the old town south of it. They have just recently rebuilt parts of the historic old town, after most parts of the historic city center were destroyed in WWII. It's not that big, but it's quite some quality old town compared to most big city centres in modern germany (e.g. the s***hole Cologne). The area right in front of the main train station is being taken over by hipsters and immigrants, which is actually quite interesting: On the one hand it's that drug-infested gang-area with the red light district and everything, but on the on the other hand it's that extremely multicultural epicentre of restaurants and shops from all over the world, which is quite fascinating to me. It's also an extremely historically relevant city, as it has been the de-facto-capital of the holy roman epire for centuries. You can visit both the chapel within the dome where the holy roman emperor has been elected, and then crowned, and also the opulent Römer-building where the big feasts happened after the ceremony. Also, there's the big opera building, the area around the main river, the new ECB tower, the Berger Street, the highest (and arguably most worthwile) observation deck in the EU and lots and lots of museums. Frankfurt also has the longest free-standing in-door-escalator in all of europe (Very wow!). It is by fact the greenest big city in germany with beautiful big parks and green areas all over the place. There are many nice small city centres outside of the core town with their respective own old towns and sights. It's very central within the area, there are beautiful towns all around it, and the Taunus mountain range, that you can see from pretty much everywhere within the area, is actually worth a visit, too. Cologne has also been completely bombed out in WWII. The difference is, that it has been rebuilt as a planned, carriage-friendly city back then. That's why it consists of impractically narrow streets, which are hard to get through and are filled up with ugly 50s- and 60s-style buildings throughout the entire core city ring. The dome is really the highlight of the whole place. Most of the Ruhr area is generally pretty ugly, in fact. Berlin is pretty boring. if you don't leave the city centre. The nice things are quite far apart from each other, as Berlin is polycentric and spreat-out. Look for the Tempelhofer Feld, Charlottenburg Castle, Spandau, the Berlin Dome, Köpenick, Treptow Memorial, etc. Sorry for that getting so long lol.

[@arthurwu6030]

Can you explain it in basketball terms

[@jacobarmour6325]

@@arthurwu6030 lol what

[@WardancerHB]

Ye, sorry but Frankfurt is ugly, it stinks and it's full of yuppies.

[@TheGadgetPanda]

I've long believed adding the "free-standing" qualifier to a claim is evidence of a city trying too hard. Just ask the good citizens of Toronto about the CN Tower. Ever visit Australia and you'll find that everything there is the biggest or the oldest or the tallest ... "in the Southern-Hemisphere" -- Trying too hard.

[@mr_inwisibel4493]

danke man

[@25easytiger37]

50:30 Belarus is the original name unlike Belarussia, the thing is it's not white Russia, it's white Rus', that dates back to the old Kievan Rus, long before Russia existed, and this common misconception actually can trigger many Belarusians

[@joangog]

In greek we literally call it White Russia. Didn't know that!

[@olegshevchenko5869]

​@@joangogthat's because the word "Russia" is just a rebranding of the word "Rus'" to make it sound more western-like, so it does eventually mean the same. The difference is that the rebranding of Rus' into Russia never reached the Belarusian language, so Belorussia is a strictly Russian term for the land that refers to itself as Belarus in their own native language.

[@t.sebastiao9824]

I find it interesting that every foreigner in Lisbon associates it with old buildings, and I get it, the architecture is beautiful. However, not many people know Lisbon also has a lot of modern architecture mostly near the Lisbon-Oriente train station. The white and ship-like buildings are very appealing.

[@TheMrPushy]

21:01 "Porto is the second city in Lisbon" ahh ye

[@calleha01]

Different parts of France do have different languages! While French is spoken throughout the whole country, local dialects exist and you can sometimes see street signs in both French and the local dialect.

[@Ypog_UA]

27:50 i want to say about kharkiv (pronounced harkiv) kharkiv and the surrounding area was not taken over by separatists. that is donetsk and luhansk. also many people in kharkiv are descendants of russian immigrants from the 40s and 50s, but still recognise themselves as ukrainian just speaking russian. the government has put up ukrainian writing and signs everywhere so don't be confused if you're a tourist and see this while people will speak to you in russian.

[@TheLocalLt]

They did try, a Kharkov People’s republic was proclaimed in the city center with the same style of alt-Russian flag as Luhansk and Donetsk except with a green stripe, however the ukainian government forces shut it down and maintained control of the area

[@Ypog_UA]

@@TheLocalLt that was basically just a gang and was never recognised even by russia. most people in kharkiv want to remain in ukraine, simply because it would be a waste of time, money, and resources to join russia or become independent. we are just lucky it wasn't a full scale insurgency, just the ukrainian government taking precaution. i don't know what ukraine would do without its 2nd biggest city producing a lot of civilian and military equipment...

[@TheLocalLt]

Український Уpод it was definitely a legitimate attempt, had the Donetsk and Luhansk coups failed they would have appeared similarly as simply violent gangs. Their rule over the Donbas has been mafia-style, while the soldiers are often hardened criminals and the locals they have forced into being cannon fodder. Also Russia doesn’t recognize either Donbas Republic, their whole plan was to recognize all of eastern Ukraine from Kharkiv to Crimea, with possibly an exclave in Odessa, as “Novorossiya” but the plan stalled after 1) not all the coups were successful (there were several other failed ones besides kharkiv including Odessa in the west), 2) the military campaign that followed had to be aided by Russian army proper as the Donbas proxies started losing and 3) the Donetsk republic infamously shot down a Dutch civilian airliner making Russia cancel the advance to Kharkov and Mariupol so that it could keep its hands clean in Ukraine. Russia had never intended to recognize any of the breakaway republics until they all requested to join Russia as one unit. So even though the Russian plan changed to maintaining the status quo, they still don’t recognize the Donbas republics, likely to 1) continue to keep their hands clean about the airliner and 2) because the war is still ongoing, however even the war ending is not a guarantee of recognition; if one looks at other Russian puppet states around its periphery, we see that S Ossetia and Abkhazia were recognized by Russia but only after multiple ceasefire deals a decade ago, while Transnistria/Prindnestrovie is still not recognized by Russia despite having been in a ceasefire for 25+ years.

[@Ypog_UA]

@@TheLocalLt compared to what military forces are in donetsk and lukhansk, if kharkov managed to separate succesfully there would have been 100x what ukrainian army put in those places now. kharkiv is too important to the country to lose. and trust me, living in kharkov especially after now people have seen what it is like to be in donetsk, crimea, lukhansk, no one wants that future.

[@GerHanssen]

Ahhh, the bike lane in Copenhagen was so separated from the main traffic that you missed it because of your speed.

[@thomasdixon4373]

The Romanian parliament building was built by totalitarian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to be his personal palace, after the fall of communism in Romania they converted it into the parliament building, it's the heaviest building in the world

[@ampusus9777]

Well frick, I wanted to say the exact same thing.

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

His government and parliament were also there tho, right?

[@thomasdixon4373]

@@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos I'm afraid I don't actually know

[@jimsangreal7663]

47:44 Valencia is famous for its oranges, but the Valencia orange is not from Valencia; it was just named for it.

[@almightysosa3007]

BaldNbankrupt would go absolutely nuts over that Soviet coin you found. What a beautiful little Soviet relic found in a Soviet subway in a Soviet city

[@javierjimenez3784]

1:39:50 Zaragoza, which is my city, is the only inland Spanish city (except Madrid) that is moderately large. It is really true what you say.

[@justinian-the-great]

Hey bro, just to clarify some thing, to not confuse yourself. We Serbs use BOTH Cyrillic and Latin alphabets/writing systems. Serbian is the only Indo-European language that uses two writing systems and one of the only ones in the world.

[@Hession0Drasha]

Sounds annoying and difficult.

[@2timesvegas501]

I only found this other channel recently but its really interesting! Newcastle and Sunderland have a really big rivalry btw.

[@SteveStar3000]

Took me A week to watch the whole thing 20 minutes here 15 minutes there, but I Loved it 👍 Great Video !!!

[@Philistine47]

At a guess, the reason Volgograd doesn't have a distinctive, characteristic look to it is because Stalingrad (as it was called at the time) was the scene of some of the hardest and most prolonged fighting of WW2, as a result of which it had to be almost completely rebuilt after the war - and if there was one thing the USSR did NOT care about, it was preserving the distinctive cultural identities of individual locales.

[@greasher926]

Philistine47 but they do have the worlds tallest female statue

[@jerrythefish1622]

"porto is the second biggest city in lisbon" - ibx2cat 2020

[@socktine6747]

Very impressive to do without a script on the spot. I thought i knew geography, but this is humbling

[@MarkAntony_1]

Wym?

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

I was pretty unimpressed.

[@niallhiggins2342]

This really wasn’t great tbh

[@ENGLISHMURPHY]

I’m from Birkenhead, nice to hear it mentioned. Especially on a list of Europe’s biggest cities.

[@loganpeters7543]

I just watched like 100 toycat videos, and this is my favorite.

[@swazzercool9060]

How the hell is Lichtenstein not in the list

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

Smol

[@Dhalp661]

Its a country not a city, the city their is Vaduz

[@jerecito6892]

Is too big for European standards

[@jazzman5115]

It's tiny, it barely qualifies as a city.

[@Wonderhorse9006]

jazzman r/wooosh

[@kohZeei]

Copenhagen biggest city in the Nordics? Laughs loudly in Swedish!

[@Lucas-kh6le]

I come from Frankfurt. And I would say that 99% of the Frankfurter's would agree on what you said. A few areas are beatiful. But what does that even mean when the first impression that tourists get is the Bahnhofsviertel (the hooker streets). Lately Frankfurt is trying to clean the area up a bit, but money laundry and drug use seam to be hard to fight against. For real, like 70% of the stores there are obviously (they don't even hide it) for cleaning the drug money. And all that in the shadows of the big banks. Kind of ironic.

[@VistaMaps]

Alternate title: Explaining every capital city in europe

[@depressdsoup4771]

I am Serbian and I’m just gonna say that I loved the way you talked about Beograd it is a beautiful city and so many people around the world over look it although it’s beautiful

[@kaiforster7496]

you should do more satellite image, more interresting to see than normal map

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

38:19 You can litterly see people on the bikelane, where you said there is no bikelane to start with lol. There is space between mainroad and bikelane mate ! On one side parked bikes are filling the gab between bikelane and cars, on other side there is a tree and a place to park bikes between bikelane and cars. :)

[@Secretlyalittleworm]

There’s a difference between someone being xenophobic towards migrant workers, and disliking tourists who are too cheap to pay for a hotel, and push rent prices up. As well what we should be talking about more is landlords not renting out properties to city residents, and instead putting them on Airbnb. No tenant could compete with the income coming from tourists. Airbnb isn’t so much the democratisation of short term renting, but rather it’s a way for landlords with multiple properties to run a pseudo-hotel- which drastically lowers the number of homes available for residents to rent. If you want to visit somewhere please stay in a legitimate hotel/hostel! That way at least some of your money goes to keeping someone in a job, rather than just making a landlord richer

[@FOLIPE]

Stalingrad, it was Stalingrad. Pretty much the most famous battle in WW2 if not history.

[@lavellen9102]

Does anyone else like these vids way more than his main? I just think geography is neat! Love u toy/2 Cat

[@LadyNeravin]

I think I have never seen anything from the main channel, don't even know what it's about :'D

[@luciagil9008]

Las Fallas. That's the famous thing you were looking for that happens in Valencia

[@mofflarn8997]

the biggest city in the nordic countries is according to toycat is Copanhagen ranked 38 on the list. However. Why is there a little bit o' Stockholm ranked 30??? hmmm Im just going to say this because i can. If kök was spelled kok then that would have been alright you know but i does not. This: Ö is a different letter than O and there is a difference visualy and pronunciation wise. It even has its own spot in the swedish alphabet.

[@senadneslan1563]

lol 20%viking 80%migrant what great country hahaha

[@mofflarn8997]

@@senadneslan1563 that is wrong exept that it is a great country

[@Rocky712_]

The letter Ö Ä Ü and ß (in german) are also letters that are not in english but are pronounced very differently. Its a struggle for many people. We should not be too judging about them.

[@mofflarn8997]

@@Rocky712_ you are probably right but i still dont like toycat and his judging of entire countries and joking about peoples cultures

[@mathiasteier6228]

Yep, vou've seen nothing if you were only some half days in Vienna. The whole city is a museum you have to have time for. About the Rathaus. It's a bit confusing because the things you need a Rathaus for vary from city to city. I live in a small municipality 60km north-west of Vienna and here you go to the Rathaus for most administrative concerns and it houses the municipality council too. So here it's like you've explained it, you go there first if you need anything. But in Vienna there are Magistratsabteilungen (or short Magistrat) for administrative things and the Rathaus houses the city/state council of Vienna. There are also many events in the Rathaus like GameCity, the smaller Austrian version of Gamescom, or Catalysts Coding Contest, the biggest on-site coding contest in the world.

[@wolfanize4334]

50 biggest Asian cities now?????

[@dogethekiller4483]

Calm down my dude

[@oakxygen2649]

Fun fact: In Kyiv, unlike most other big cities, the better and more expensive airport is not the one CLOSEST to the city, but rather the one that takes you 20+ minutes to get to from the city center. Weird

[@rodolphov.santoro8829]

Russians don't say either the american or your pronunciation of moscow. The cyrilic "B" has a v sound, and the "C" has an S sound, so it's more like moskvah(not sure if that's the best way to write the pronunciation, neither english nor russian are my first language).

[@uninstaller2860]

Istanbul is on the European side of Turkey, might have grown to both sides, but originally on the west side.

[@desanipt]

Sure, but he was talking about the metropolitan area.

[@uninstaller2860]

@@desanipt He was surprised Istanbul is considered to be an European city. I'm not sure if it's Asian too, as you mentioned the metropolitan area, it stretches to the opposite side of the Bosphorus...

[@dreamystone]

He found the one out of maybe 3 mcdonald's in Athens lol. To be fair, it's right across the Parliament and, to be even more fair, it's only there on purpose so the tourists can find it cause they're the only ones trying. Literally just keep walking in any direction instead, and you'll find better food.

[@thekoalakingdomshow6319]

Volograd: 2:05 Belgrade: 4:30 Zurich: 7:30 Prague: 11:30 Doneskt: 14:00 New Castle: 17:30 Porto: 21:56 Sheffeid: 23:54

[@yenthlydevolder7076]

please keep going

[@sglenny001]

Newcastle all one word

[@noghd2560]

Glasgow has alot going for it and if Newcastle-Sunderland is one metro area then there is a good shout for Glasgow-Edinburgh being one very soon.

[@sglenny001]

Yes and so should Leeds

[@pommedapie8450]

You can select display public transport on Google maps and then you see the lines displayed over the town !

[@Grzegorz_Grabowski]

Oh boi. No, Katowice wasn't changing hands often. It is a relatively new city that arose due to coal mining and was a part of Poland after it regained its independence in 1918 and due to the Silesian Uprising in 1919 -1921. (quick reminder, Poland - Lithuania lost independence in 1795 and Katowice got its city rights in 1865). Katowice isn't a place where Auschwitz, the German death camp, is located. It is about 30 kilometers east, in the city of Oświęcim. Yes, I know, 7 months ago, but I just had to.

[@milosummers5064]

You’ve said it before on this channel that land area isn’t a good measurement of how big a city is, with that in mind Birmingham this bigger than manchester because it’s population is about 4 times larger than manchester (City proper)

[@jacobarmour6325]

Yh I thought Birmingham was the second biggest city in the uk

[@greyjay9492]

It’s not measured by land area, it’s measured by population in metropolitan area

[@archivedchannel8381]

Fun fact: this is ironic since I'm irish, but Dublin is bigger than 50,49 and 48 in metro population

[@fjellyo3261]

He rants about Germany a lot it seems 😂😂😂😂. And some things he says are even wrong^^.

[@ragnarostbrok1254]

Most big German cities ugly shitholes and I would not recommend anyone to visit.

[@fjellyo3261]

@@ragnarostbrok1254 Well the things he said also apply in the same way to UK, French, Polish, etc. cities. Basically all European cities. Either because of WW2 bombings, the after war architecture or poverty and mismanagement.

[@ragnarostbrok1254]

@@fjellyo3261 true

[@MarkAntony_1]

@@ragnarostbrok1254 i bet u blame it on immigrants

[@rockinresurrection6542]

@@ragnarostbrok1254 That's why you should in general visit small cities in Germany. Heidelberg, Görlitz, .... But Munich, Stuttgart, Dresden and Hamburg are damn beautiful no matter what you say

[@blankface_]

This guy just loves airports. I can only guess next video is 50 best airports

[@nielsreyngoud2870]

Just watched the entire thing! Love it!

[@Luredreier]

If you look at 38:24 there *is* a bike lane there, it's just on the opposite side of the street from where you where looking.

[@HarrisonJamess]

Katowice is not pronounced in a English way, in polish the ‘W’ is pronounced as a ‘V’ and they emphasise on the E so it pronounced as Kato-Veece-Ah

[@rozewiczd]

English is literally the only European language where you prenounce w like that, really weird that he hasn't found out that after all the travelling.

[@mies1mies]

can you do one over the 50 largest cities of continent australia ( are countries such as: Australia, New Zealand. Fiji, Tuvalu and so on, and not independent areas such as: French Polynesia, American Samoa and so on)

[@blanco7726]

Surely you’d get villages at the lower end of the list

[@ala0284]

Think he probably needs to do south America, Asia, Africa first before getting into the continent with less people than the Guangzhou metro

[@davidg6803]

@@blanco7726 it would probably be a lot of small cities in Australia and NZ.

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

Don't you call it Oceania?

[@mies1mies]

@@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos no you call it australia

[@Bidepic]

I do geography for GCSE and this helps me with country geography Keep up the work 😀

[@artemsscorevideos2313]

1:46:12 This arch actually symbolized friendship between Ukraine and Russia, and it was renamed after the Russian invasion to the Arch of the Ukrainian Freedom, and the monument with two workers next to it was demolished. 51:42 Minsk does have some official Street View in the city center

[@jd-wg6cj]

I love ur videos dude. I'm hooked on geography and geopolitics. Funny thing, recently discovered u had another channel and that this was ur second one lol.

[@Aexception]

Katowice , nearly my hometown, Piekary Śląskie is my hometown but fun fact , I’ve been exactly where you showed on the map in Katowice, its right next to one of the biggest shopping galleries in Katowice (SuperSam) ❤️🇵🇱

[@samuel_andreyev]

Love your stuff.. keep going!

[@Knightway1]

Btw all ik about volgograd used to be stalingrad which had the biggest battle in ww2 there u go

[@Zwijger]

Buckets (with alcohol) are not just a Prague thing, you find them in the Netherlands too.

[@dijikstra8]

In Stockholm, with the metro station, you're going in the wrong direction, that direction will take you to the Odenplan station but that's on the green line, you started out at the Tekniska Högskolan station on the red line, the other end of which is on Valhallavägen by Tekniska Högskolan, coincidentally the name of the station, also known as KTH or Royal institute of technology.

[@AAR0NWE1R]

ToyCat v GeoGuessr when?

[@SpringsteenRecordings]

1:23:09 trams are allowed to hit cars in Lisbon😂

[@sglenny001]

Poggers

[@SpringsteenRecordings]

truly poggers

[@effexon]

generic western person: work 10-12 hours that prettty boring job, can afford iPhone. Then travel to eastern block or exotic countries (priority: cheap food!), euphoria when can order 2 liters of drink in restaurant. Quite sad, but this is life. Then people in this country dream of "west" how cool it is.

[@deepalib3096]

Thanks for explaining the biggest 50cities in Europe

[@DarwinskiYT]

No it’s the 50biggest cities in Europe

[@Cybernaut551]

Google maps is the best virtual tour of the world without going anywhere.

[@cannon8361]

Anglo never talk again about Italy

[@untilthenextfullmoon]

Thanks for this video. I never would have understood that cities can be large without it.

[@squidopedia_]

Istanbul is literally on the European peninsula, it’s part of turkey because of the ottoman conquest of Byzantium in 1453

[@coltonsupergame]

Toycat: (Forgets what Volgograd used to be called) Me: The city used to be called Stalingrad, plus it’s likely that more people have heard it called Stalingrad because of the WW2 battle.

[@thomas_pâté1]

Nobody : This dude trying to brag about his talent of knowing the past :

[@morkusmorkus6040]

@@thomas_pâté1 and in the MOST annoying and vapid comment style that is absolutely plaguing KZbin right now.

[@cmdlp4178]

1:36:55 There is a church, Toycat: Look at this lovely castle. Apparently churches are castles.

[@cmdlp4178]

And again: 1:58:00 The Kölner Dom is also a castle.

[@DarwinskiYT]

44:05 I live in Birkenhead and can confirm that they both hate each other

[@Josherkai]

I live in the UK and I dont remember mcdonalds closing down. great video regardless, love the ibx2cat Geography videos its basically the only reason I watch ibx2cat (can't be asked for minecraft videos)

[@DublinMarc]

Dublin is bigger than several cities in this list. The centre is 500 thousand but the metro is over 2 million people

[@xaverlustig3581]

Hamburgers in the form we know and love them today were invented in America, but they are derived from a North German dish called "Hamburger Rundstück" which is a slice of minced meat served in a bun with sauce and pickles. There is also "Hamburger Schnitzel" which is minced meat served on a plate with potatoes and vegetables, which is probably related.

[@geroutathat]

Dublin isn't on the list because of how they count the population. Dublin Was sprawling so fast that they decided to chop it up, it was split into 1 city, and 3 counties. "Old Dublin" area has about 1.1 - 1.2 million in it, The city has about 500k, the city is only about 4km squared. So there is Co Fingal to the north, co dun laoghaire-rathdown, and Co South Dublin. Dublin has sprawled beyond its old dublin limits and the greater area or what most people call "dublin" is actually 1.8 million people. I looked into it before because when they did these new divisions they actually just drew lines halfway down city roads and stuff in an attempt to make the "city" as managable as possible. And because they are both repaved by different councils now you can actually start to see lines appear in roads, where workers repave up to and wont go on any further.

[@Hession0Drasha]

There's hsr connecting paris to marseille, through lyon. That would be like london to aberdeen. Pretty much have a network that conects everywhere over a million together, apart from nice but that will be built in the next 10 years at the latest.

[@k-baye6292]

Istanbul is actually slightly smaller than London size wise.

[@Wonderhorse9006]

London is 1,572 square kilometers, İstanbul is 5,343 square kilometers, get your facts right idiot

[@NotThatteriinoMathguy2]

As a finn i love how English speaking people say finnish words like they dont say Helsinki but they say Hell Sinki

[@mikelitorous5570]

Wouldn’t have expected Sunderland and Newcastle to be on here since i didn’t think that it was that big of an area compared to the rest of Europe