Can Japanese Locate Foreign Countries? (World Map Quiz & Interview)

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Some of the countries in this video: USA, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia
World Map in Japan is actually different from the one I used. (Japan is in the centre). But I couldn't find a Japanese one with the right license.

[@mina7422]

That's such a weird map. I'm used to Europe being in the middle

[@iceberg789]

it's actually normal, whoever prints the world map, keeps their country in the centre.

[@jubmelahtes]

5uki thats the eurocentric map.

[@Paretozen]

iceberg789 get outta here boii , that is not normal. You order your map according to the time-zones. So you start with the first time-zone to the right and the last to the left. Or west-east as the sun goes. Who places themselves in the middle of a world map? That's stupid ass shit. Gawd damn.

[@xenotypos]

No, most countries put a map that doesn't cut continents. America is either in the right (like in most Japanese maps), or in the left (like in European maps). I'm satisfied with the "eurocentric" maps, since Europeans are the ones who created those maps the way they are today. In Chinese traditionnal cartography for example (I said traditional, not what is used since the 17th century over there), the south and the north are inversed, which is interesting actually, but I'm diverging.

[@Sidhe_Gothic]

In America, we print it with Africa in the center-bottom and Europe in the center-top.

[@azuresea00]

You shoud have mentioned Austria. I bet many would have pointed to Australia 😂

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

It's probably too easy.

[@FarWanderer81]

That Japanese Man Yuta I think you misread the comment. They were talking about two different countries.

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

haha you are right. I know where Austria is by the way.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

😜😂😂 no way. in my country (which australia's neighbour) of course we could tell them apart right away. using your manga, the rose of versailes, everyone knows Marie Antoinette was austrian, australian have kangaroo and mean jokes about us (and us about those wombats, which they called us orangutan in return)

[@azuresea00]

Nurlinda F Sihotang i happen to know that many asian people don't know the difference bc they sound so similar. Curiously enough, they know about the capital city Vienna (and then think it's the country's name). Whenever i say i'm from Austria, they laugh and say "oh! From australia with the kangaroos!" >_>

[@Pre114]

Honestly, can't believe the first guy mistook China for India. One would expect a Japanese person to at least recognize their biggest neighbor.

[@user-db7ju4ls1l]

Pre114 He is stupid. Every Japanese can tell them except him.

[@sync7565]

Pre114 same I was surprised he confused it with CHINA. I thought if they don't know India they should atleast know where china is lol.

[@Augustria64]

Not really.. can't actually tell him stupid or not, maybe he's really bad at geography. He might be confused because of the weird map, he knew it's China but couldn't find India, it's already the most left of the map, death end. The highschool girl in the other hand, may be really good at geography, but she's still in school, and they're still teaching these stuff, as when we get older, we mostly forget those we don't really care about xD

[@Ro500501502]

Its because the map is shaped weird that he mixed them up

[@MTBR077]

Augustria64 yes he is very stupid. How can one possibly ignore the location of one of the world's biggest countries? (It's 4th biggest, the 1st most populated, and of great international importance in the business world) That's fucking unacceptable tbh.

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

World maps in Japan look different from the one I used because we put Japan in the centre. I looked for a blank Japanese map with the right licence but I couldn't find one, so I had to use the US map. It was hard because it has to be blank, coloured, and with borders. But if you are curious, check out this page: matome.naver.jp/odai/2138560507677878301

[@kunstlicheaffe]

その地図はちょっと古いだろうね？南スーダンがないんですけど。 :) I'm not from South Sudan. I'm just jealous I didn't get asked.

[@jeromevuarand3768]

Then you should have used the regular world map with Africa in the middle. I think this is making things artificially difficult.

[@Necroskull388]

"Regular world map" That's only the regular map for certain people. In Japan, maps with Japan in the center are more popular. Here in America, it isn't universal, but I often see world maps with America in the middle.

[@flamerollerx01]

The maps I've seen always have America to the far left side around the middle, such that hawaii and alaska are at the very edge of the map. Of course, I hardly ever look at maps and maybe they've changed them in the last 16 or so years since I looked at a world map. I've only had to look at the map of the US with any frequency, since I've never left the country.

[@TriegaDN]

In the US we don't use that map though, on our maps, we are on the left side with Europe and Africa in the center. I very rarely see a map where we're in the center.

[@CDawgVA]

*First person struggles to say where Canada is.* OH BOY! This is going to be fun.

[@JonnyRobbie]

CDawgVA yes, that one was cringy, but the rest were quite okay imho. Personally I'd struggle with most of asia, most of africa and most of south america. I'd definitely offend some residents.

[@user-ch9my3to6j]

just find the second biggest country....even tho canadian doesnt use most of the land.

[@Leo-xh5sj]

CDawgVA Stfu disrespectful bitch

[@user-ch9my3to6j]

Leo 16 you seems to be like the most disrespectful person here. with your language use and unreasonable accuse of how someone else are being disrespectful. you sound like those 16 year old angry teenager that wants to randomly rage on others, so grow up first, stop your rage and salt, and learn to be reasonable.

[@Leo-xh5sj]

Ariusaen Kaithar could you please explain me how am i here disrespectful just by defending someone else turns that im disrespectful ha? Btw im 21 just because of the number doesnt mean thats my age i wonder what if i had put 456 you'd probably think the same, i can really tell that you are here some no brained thosser that hasnt even entered in puberty. When you grow up read the comment above again and hopefully you will find the reason for accusing that wanker up there

[@PsyArkron]

I'm actually surprised in a positive way, they all knew the locations of the countries pretty well. Even if they didn't know the exact location, they were only off by one or two countries and at least had the right region. I've seen similar quizzes were most of the people knew almost nothing....

[@ymhktravel]

Lol..you mean USA?

[@detectiveben1096]

Jimmy Kimmel hahaah

[@rushda9830]

@@ymhktravel defininately the US, atleast Japanese people even living in Asia pointed out at Canada and Egypt...people living in USA can't even point out their neighbour.

[@renflower1910]

True a lot of Americans are horrible at this stuff.

[@weihan5334]

First word came to mind: Americans

[@sanny8716]

That's a weird map. Why would you cut Eurasia in half?

[@zakr8318]

Sanny Goosave it is centered arrpu'd US i think that's why

[@rohitg1529]

Its centred around the Americas for some reason in contrast to the convention of centring maps around Europe. Well regardless its as accurate as any other map

[@adviel]

I know that Asian maps have the Pacific in the middle. While The rest of the world has the Atlantic in the middle. But this one is weird.

[@NebulaMirage]

Rohit G Except that it's inaccurate because it's flat.

[@sanny8716]

It's just doesn't make sense to me to cut a continent in half. Also I would dissagree that normal maps "centered" around Europe it just happens to be closer to the middle together with Africa. And it makes much more sense to cut in the middle of gigantic Pacific ocean since there's nothing there anyway and it's just a HUGE piece of water

[@iKonakona]

"And now the nations of the world brought to you by Yakko Warner..."

[@thetraitor3852]

Hearts of iron - the best geography teacher

[@theshadowedking]

Yep, all strategy games with actual maps are best teachers of geography.

[@AhidoMikaro]

But in 4 even the map is horrible.

[@theshadowedking]

How's the Victoria II map in your opinion, Ahido?

[@druegnor]

~ but2...I can't find czechslovakia and yugoslavia =P

[@siegfried692]

Ayy, another communist world invader ? I love ruling the world.

[@DiavoloVolpe]

In terms of geography knowledge, out of numerous nationalities I've ever met, Japanese were the only ones who always ALWAYS knew where my country was (I'm from Kazakhstan). Kudos to the Japanese education system!

[@user-nr2ig1pk3g]

DiavoloVolpe Kazakhstan is near those counties that ends with tan right? (Uzbekistan for example)

[@cozmic0]

Random on the Internet yes... and stan actually means land

[@lloydbautista2055]

First dude confused China and India.

[@Kakashi-ig3ej]

It seems you have never met any Indians.

[@sambalsillie4301]

Q is for Qazaq I know where Kazakhstan is but only cuz I’d never heard of it so looked it up

[@DaJayDM]

Your e-mail lessons are very helpful Yuta! Thanks!

[@yoyoheads]

The two girls made some nice educated guesses. Like using their knowledge of the country's climate to estimate the general location. It was pleasant to watch for some reason.

[@robinsinhaxii-a3848]

Compared to a video I saw of Americans, these guys are goddamn geniuses And I think that I might be a legend

[@haruyanto8085]

Lol yeah, definitely much better than Americans

[@foottoast4235]

If Americans learned what the rest of the world is like they would end up rioting over how terrible the system is, can't blame the school system for wanting people to stay propagandised

[@Liberanimus]

I'm actually surprised they knew where Greece was.

[@mariafoteini]

Dimitris Filippas δεν ήξεραν και με την πρώτη αλλά ναι 😂

[@Liberanimus]

Ε, ειμαστε και μια κουτσουλια η αληθεια ειναι.

[@sn4tx]

Dimitris Filippas Greece is a great country and a lot of people at least know it as a tourist destination. Besides there's the awesome Greek mythology

[@mariafoteini]

Dimitris Filippas ναι, ακριβώς.

[@mariafoteini]

Renato Pascoal oh yes! Greece is known for tourism and it is also a historically important place but we are so small haha. :)

[@AdityaSharma-me6je]

I find it so much fun to guess countries on the map, I like geography that way. Seeing the world map gives me a feeling that I am there!

[@andrewtarrant3523]

Love your work, Yuta. I have enjoyed your lessons, I never miss. Thank you so much.

[@madaraushiwa4999]

The Japanese Man Yuta, please next do it with flags, show flags and ask which country

[@feetus6548]

chances are they're only gonna recognize great britain, united states, china and japan...

[@KeybladeMaster64]

diccus maximus they’re smart so they will know

[@oaaisjdujsi]

@@feetus6548 actually most will only know south korea north korea china but others.... is not really... well american flag could be

[@oaaisjdujsi]

@@feetus6548 england?? Hell no... most familiar flag is south korea>china>north korea>america>others... I would say... cause most Japanese media is about south korea china north korea so....

[@theanswer631]

I'm an african and I can tell where are all countries in Africa with maybe 2 errors, so Nigeria is not big deal but for the rest of the world beside the one who took classes in Geography, put a name on African's countries is hard.. Sad to Know that :( (especially when you know that Africa has a lot of strategic resources). it's really show that we must do much effort to promote our countries and make sure that not only wars, starvation, can be display in medias. Hoppefully one day we could overcome all this.

[@theaminswey9733]

Merry Mutima ❤

[@peepingtom9342]

Really easy to memorise North African countries but those tiny from West Africa are a mess. To memorise something you really should know the context, I had a problem with the Balkan States (Montenegro, Bosnia etc) until I've learned the history of the region. And the post-colonial history of countries in Equatorial Africa and West Africa is not really widely known, before the colonial period all states also had different names (except for Mali Empire) and borders.

[@essennagerry]

Merry Mutima I'm in Europe and I only remember learning to place the countries in Europe and in South America, so I'm only half ok with those two continents and North America, because of common sense and because there aren't many counteies there. It's kind of sad! I feel ashamed that I know so little about placing African countries, I think I'll self study and learn them.

[@xenotypos]

Merry Mutima -> Is that picture from Versailles?

[@theanswer631]

+essennagerry yeah North America is easy. For me I struggle with East Europe and west Asia. And I can just encourage you for your study, you'll see that Africa has more histories than Egypt.

[@JK-st5se]

Japanese with Yuta is very helpful, I highly recommend it.

[@biowiener7825]

just "discovered" this channel for myself today and i have to say i love it, i was always fascinated about japan, the culture and the people and with this channel i can hvae i little insight of this, really love your interviews, also subscribed to your email japanese course and the first video i got send was awesome, for the first time i feel like i could be able to learn at least a bit about the language which always seem to be so abstract and complicated to learn by yourself, i wrote anything in a textbook as detailed as possible so i can look at stuff when im not sure about them anymore. I dream of visiting japan and from what i hear/read/watched you really should be able to understand at least basic japanese so thats a motivation for me too. i just have to balance it with school caus there i have to learn german (my native language), English and since 2 years spanish aswell. English was easy for me, i learned it with 0 effort but spanish is impossible no matter how hard i try so i hope i can learn japanese without neglecting spanish the difference is, i want to learn japanese but im not interested in learning spanish at all, the language just isnt for me idk how to desrcibe it (sorry for the long unneccesary text but i just had to express whats in my mind) if anyone reads this i hope you have an awesome day

[@nolisarmiento1719]

I wonder if those smart students could also locate where's San Marino, Liechtenstein or Andorra?

[@xcoolichigo4224]

I think they are as unimportant as Bangladesh, Cambodia or Brunei.

[@sabbirhossain1102]

Xcool Ichigo Bangladesh is actually quite important. one of the most populated countries in the world

[@sabbirhossain1102]

Xcool Ichigo more populated than Japan is actually

[@xcoolichigo4224]

***** Tigers and some other endangered species I suppose. Also, Cambodia has the biggest temple and Brunei has the richest king. I guess I should take back my words.

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

Don't forget Monaco.

[@MyLifeJapanTV]

For the most part, they did well! At least they were mostly in the BALLPARK. I think geography as a school SUBJECT becomes much more fun and interesting after you actually start traveling.

[@bassiroucamara5711]

Yuta never disappoints :)

[@harasen_haras5]

I like how you always manage to turn your video topic towards advertisement Japanese learning course at the end. It's a good transition.

[@superman2437]

i was good in geography.. but Africa country is hard to know

[@dvaneg98]

Super Man it's because those countrys are relativly irrelevant compaired to others. Less news, movies... about them, at least for someone that's living in germany.

[@DuchAmagi]

Yes, knowing African or some Asian and Central American countries is quite hard. E.g. Kyrgyzstan or Laos - I mean, I would know where they are less or more but I won't be sure which one EXACTLY. In Europe Balkans is the hardest part to distinguish different countries imo. But generally, Europe is quite easy (at least for me, that could be Eurocentric statement) and South America too. Asia is a big continent so it depends on the region. The biggest countries of North America are also very easy to recognize.

[@ShlebyC]

There are just so many of them. It is the only region of the world that I struggle to remember as well.

[@warcatbattalion]

you triggered, blacky?

[@minato3889]

What a useless and racist human being you are

[@killerxhunter11]

From France, knew all of them Guess that those hundred's of hours on geopolitical games payed off

[@chiakum]

great work! enjoy this video 😃

[@kerencardona3747]

I was so proud that they knew where Colombia was! good vid! ❤

[@poshko41]

I took an international business class in college and for our first test we had to label every country and capital in the world. It was a pain to study for at the time, but I really appreciate it now! Although I only remember a few of the capitals. :(

[@kimjongun7734]

where is sweden "That's norway" as a norwegian, Im triggered

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

lul

[@thehair3696]

I dant believe that kimjungun lives in norway

[@zuboy4272]

Kim , U sure ? Norwegians have good hairstyle and facial hair

[@Pidalin]

people can't remember which state is Sweden and which Norway, just deal with that :-D

[@beorlingo]

Just point at any nordic country and it's a good chance i used to be Sweden.

[@jagaimo2]

I love your interviews/quizzes. They are interesting sort of "snapshots" of Japanese society. バルセロナからありがとうございます！

[@kevinshadow5103]

First! I just wanted to let you know that love your content keep doing what you do!

[@JaYDeN7861]

Hey Yuta! Ask me questions about South Africa next time ! From a South African fan :D

[@dimensia6942]

Imran Solwa Aweh! Also South African 😁

[@wuhugm]

HIghschool girl is the best~ (No ulterior motives)

[@pedromiranda5448]

Wee woo wee woo

[@puneetkaur13]

It was an exciting video!!!!!!! Really had fun watching it 👌😁 Time to open the atlas and know more about the world . 😊👌 Once again Nice Video! Thanks!

[@natalieespino9489]

I really like your content yuta-san. you already have a subscriber from Panama.Here in Panama we love Japanese culture

[@Mariamomo_]

Find it weird how I can locate a lot of the countries mentioned but I've barely been out of the one I live in

[@REYKIN93]

Shakira is from (Barranquilla Colombia) my city

[@saptron]

Venezuelan here, at least they were close. Good idea for a challenge, next time you could ask for the capital cities of each country. Congrats on the channel and keep on the good work, Muy buen trabajo pana Yuta.

[@Dasspapirfly]

Yay!! Norway was mentioned (if only in passing as a wrong answer) this could make the front pages in our papers: "Some Japanese guy on the internet knows we exist"

[@FORTASIVOINTA]

I think Shakira is not very popular in Japan from what I saw !

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

But I like Shakira a lot. Especially older songs in Spanish.

[@FORTASIVOINTA]

Very well then,if you also like old anime songs in Spanish you should listen with great pleasure the next big singers: Ricardo Silva, Adrian Barba and Mauren Mendo.

[@MxMoondoggie]

Well she's old news really, he asked high schoolers who probably don't know her.

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

Her new song with Maluma is pretty popular though.

[@falaendil8813]

I have no clue about who that is. :/

[@MealforOne]

i feel guilty. gonna buy an atlas

[@RikThunder33]

They were waay better than I expected!

[@TheBombayMasterTony]

Good quiz.

[@Gigely_Strudels]

in the us we sort of start learning depending on our environment at a very early age. We can have puzzles where we put the countries in the right place or something and I feel like I've known a lot of the countries since I was about 4 and learned pretty much the rest of the by 12-13... I can not trust myself to remember all of them off the top of my head though since I was never that interested.

[@Eldiran1]

i'm glad they can find France. They are better than most of the American i've seen in my life (i'm french). Also, as an european , it's strange to see the american continent in the middle of the map .

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

the map was americacentric

[@x-a-]

Ayaaa

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

Japanse people love france. I'm japanese. Nous aimons le francais

[@x-a-]

10,000 subscribers without any videos French people also love Japanese culture, a lot of French people dream is to visit Japan.

[@elichalfant941]

Eldiran1 As an American it feels wierd to see America in the middle

[@yizhou5903]

They are amazing!

[@infoinfo6653]

Very impressed by their geographical knowledge. Even if they didn't know exactly, they were always very close.

[@debconfsetup8673]

japanese know geography surprisingly good

[@pablocerdaluna443]

Same exercise in u.s.a. what is the united states😂😂😂😂😂

[@modestea9667]

Girl: i don't know who Shakira is. Me: *spongebob dank meme thoughts in my head* YOU WHAT.

[@TheCutePyro]

Yuta could win a lot of free drinks by asking people to find South Sudan on that map.

[@Sasukeuchiha131000]

Hey Yuta, question. Despite being subscribed to the channel for a while now, I only subscribed to the email listing about a month or two ago. Will I at some point see a video on color names? If not, could you make one on this topic? I hear points where they say the English equivalent of a word (i.e. blue-ブルー, pink-ピンク), but there are also times I hear things like 緑 or 黄色. What's the reason for this?

[@Ometecuhtli]

The high school student was actually good considering she could identify countries in the opposite hemisphere. Also a bit weird that they could locate Mexico but the guy got China confused with India.

[@Kousaka_Kyousuke]

I think most people around the world know where Mexico is due to it's proximity to the US

[@PongoXBongo]

So many people flipping out because of the non-standard map layout. It could have been upside down and backwards and anyone with half a brain could have easily adapted and started locating things again. It's like spinning a globe and stopping it at a random point, no biggie.

[@mypartyisprivate8693]

A year later... and I'm very happy someone said this hahaha It's also funny how most of the comments turned randomly to bashing the US. WHAAAA

[@saints360row]

The issue isn't the size of the map overall nor where it's centered, yet the main issue I have is that the countries are not proportionate to their actual size as well as the borders theselves being quite off due toward said improper sizes. It really threw me off, and I'm the kind of asshat who knows exactly where Kuwait, Turkey & Jordan or the French Polynesian or Starbuck & McDonald Islands' are.

[@margplsr3120]

wow they are soo good!

[@martinluther123]

Hey! That's pretty good!

[@Omikronik]

Nigeria is on Earth :)

[@danielrodrigues4903]

But where is Earth?

[@PixelmanPXP]

*Vsauce music plays*

[@Rationalific]

As someone who knows about practically every country and can locate pretty much every country in the world with absolute ease (just sometimes confusing Benin and Togo with each other, as well as Niue, Nauru, and Kiribati (pronounced "Kiribas", by the way, and named after "Gilbert")...), I think it's sad that so many people (in all countries) don't care. But I very much appreciate those who do care. People who don't care about maps also don't know what's happening to the environment. Hint...it's mostly getting worse and worse, and forests and coral reefs are disappearing before our eyes...well, before the eyes of people who are interested in seeing, at least. (By the way, did you not know Venezuela, when the schoolgirl got it? I think the other schoolgirl said that "It's not the yellow one", but it was.)

[@MultiSciGeek]

This was interesting and kind if surprising.

[@Dummy257]

Yes! I wanted that! Please do more, and the US States too

[@piotrkira865]

"That's Poland" m so happy to hear my country name :p

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

I've been to Poland too!

[@DuchAmagi]

You've been in Poland? Love to hear that. When? How was it?

[@dirtyyy7668]

O mój Boże, you where here xd

[@Nanasetsunchan]

That Japanese Man Yuta You've been in Poland?!

[@paulinadamps]

Widzę, że jednak jest tu kilku Polaków

[@BankruptGreek]

*YES THEY FOUND GREECE, MY LIFE IS COMPLETE* XD

[@Czesnek]

Complete

[@sn4tx]

Czesnek lol. And FOUND

[@BankruptGreek]

Renato Pascoal I was excited, ok?

[@sn4tx]

Different hey no worries. I'm not making fun of you. We all make mistakes. Actually I was pointing out to the other person, that he/she corrected one word but missed the other one. Peace. Don't feel offended. It's already great we speak more languages other than our native one. Lots of people still can't speak more than one language.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

+Djack ...uh..oh...

[@magzhantursunbayev8534]

great videos! Kazakhstan, check this out next time.

[@Pynoxim1]

Always hunting for those South Africa mentions, sup Yuta

[@vladomontezuma626]

Japan is definitely my first international location for vacation on list that I want to visit when I save enough money. Regards from small and relatively unknown country, Croatia.

[@oohoohayy4538]

Make sure to learn the language before going! Good travels!

[@rushabranawat]

Everyone knows Croatia 🇭🇷 after FIFA WC 👌🏻

[@Waterwolf221]

Yay they know my country (portugal), my life is complete. (well to be honest portugal and japan have some historical connections)

[@sn4tx]

HaruSenshi true that. And important ones.

[@shark7045]

ficas-te feliz com isso?

[@funkyballscat3148]

ficou feliz apenas com isso ??...

[@funkyballscat3148]

diamond; a Eu gosto muito do japao e da cultura desse país,mas porra ficar feliz apenas pq eles sabem um pouco de geografia ??...parece que somos inferiores a eles,que ficamos felizes apenas por saber que eles sabem da nossa existencia...

[@the_number_one]

Goa! Portuguese also built some anime themed platforms. Connection seems to be strong now as well

[@artboy598]

The high school students are currently being drilled on stuff like this so she had kind of a leg up on the people who've been out of that setting for a while. One of our geography tests back in school was to fill in a blank map like that so 6 years ago I would have aced the quiz lol.

[@MTBR077]

I live in Canada. In high school, my teacher made us take a test every two weeks where we took a blank continent map and placed all the country names we could remember in the right places. I scored extremely well, had an almost perfect score for Asia(which included the middle east) and Africa. And most people had high scores. I forgot a lot but I mostly remember countries where my friends are from and countries surrounding them. Then I can remember most European countries because I study European history in college rn.

[@anggapranata9619]

Japanese people really good at geography 😍

[@conformist]

Yes, Sweden was mentioned!

[@TotalSmashTV]

Isn't that Nu-Syria now?

[@penapenis]

torilla tavataan... eiku hetkinen

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

IKEA 😂😂 godamnit, why is so hard to assemble it! it promised to be easy!

[@noahsirak3718]

Thank u for mentioning my country(Ethiopia)XD....I was surprised they knew TT! IK it's weird commenting after all this years, but I had to (;

[@joweilo1447]

They actually did good in general... Even when they didn't know the exact location they were very close in guessing

[@Navak_]

I don't get why countries are so hard for people.

[@hjorturerlend]

I guess it has a lot to do with if you play grand strategy games or not x)

[@thitran1362]

I play Hearts of Iron and I learn alot from it maybe except countries in Africa.

[@neemapaxima6116]

I bet you will struggle to locate Benin on a map.

[@mmdnaderi7183]

0:20 There Is Kind Of Sound In Background That Hurts My Ears

[@idrayas2]

As expected, you know more when you are in this era of school age group, you do forget the older you get. I aced my blind map sectuon of geography when i was an elementary student, now i only remeber the one that is obvious because of the size an strategic locations, and the one that is constantly making news.

[@Iloveyusomuch]

Remember the Yakko geography song? that's a good way to learn it

[@ewoudvanaalst4089]

i wonder if they would know where the netherlands are xD

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

well, as i am from indonesian,duh? almost all my countrymen and i would. hello ex colonizer. no hate tough.

[@ewoudvanaalst4089]

yeaaaah... sorry 'bout that... but we gave it back to you and now it's all yours hehe hehe...he...

[@surya123457]

ewoud gave it ? lol

[@BabyfaceMilan]

somewhere in europe european counries are really hard to point out cus europe is just mixed with small ass countries

[@dirtyyy7668]

That are probably known for many people lol

[@saniwada]

Well I'm half Nigerian so I do know where Nigeria is.

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

I know where Nigeria is! It's a pretty influential country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Big music & film industries too.

[@bumblbee9154]

I prefer the Ugandan movies myself. Drop da bomb man. Commando, commando!

[@thetraitor3852]

I'll have to admit that i mistook you for Chad

[@TheHappybunny671]

Sani Wada Know your roots son . Nigerian and Mexican American here

[@thetraitor3852]

You mean that scene with Uganda Air Force CGI helicopter?

[@jeremybasset9041]

Guy walking behind on the right at 5:14 got on the Rick Owens

[@ReijiAoeGirl666]

They were doing very good, actually!

[@BabyfaceMilan]

so anybody kno where nepal is? btw yuta why did u hide those high school girls faces and our country uses the map where europe is in the middle

[@dropmelon]

Mirano G The girls probably didn't want their face to be shown.

[@essennagerry]

Mirano G I don't know where Nepal is, but I know their flag.

[@mister.punknow6639]

Of course, Nepal is a famous Asian country it borders India from the south,east and west and the Tibetan plateau (China) north. It looks like a horizontal french fry and it shares the Himalayas along with Bhutan and China. They also are famous for their long traditions of fighting and their Gurkhas the national soldiers who made a name for themselves in the British empire's army. Correct me if something's wrong, I didn't check Wikipedia ;-;

[@Mharriscreations]

Nepal borders Northern India and the Tibetan province in China. Actually the south face of Mt Everest is in Nepal and the north face of Everest is in Tibet/China.

[@maryamali510]

and famous forr momos !

[@randomguyonyourscreen]

*Japanese* not know about *INDIA🇮🇳* !!! Oh come on !! 😁😁😂😂🤣🤣

[@unreal684]

ikr

[@erysnorman27phils91]

Awesome 👏 I also love geography! Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@SneekySnixx]

Pretty random but I'm interested in japanese culture and school system and thought of going there as an exchange student on 2nd of High school (I'm on 9th grade on middle school) but I have problems learning the writing, especially kanji and hiragana. I barely know 5 kanjis and hiraganas and a couple of hiraganas. The only word I can write from memory is 'Kira kira'. I'm weirdly fluent in English (my first language is Finnish) and I'm learning russian and swedish at school as well. Everyone says I'm good at languages but it's really hard, honestly. Any tips learning to read so I can start the talking side as well? ;-; I really want to learn reading at first. The pronouncation is so similar to finnish that it's not something I get bothered about.

[@jackmcslay]

Do it with japanese prefectures

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

Good idea!

[@mahmadvesamia7045]

Do it with Central America, North Africa, South Africa, The Stans, Southeast Asia, little exotic (?) countries of Europe and facts about them! (i saw a comment of doing so and it would very interesting) (Something like estimated population, official language , random fact, status in the world , historical fact or a historical architecture (that maybe helped with evolution of humanity or something like that.)

[@YujiUedaFan]

European countries aren't exotic...

[@mahmadvesamia7045]

Ueda Yuuji Fan i meant countries that are unpopular.

[@essennagerry]

Ueda Yuuji Fan Lol, they are even for Europeans. I'm from East Europe and live in West Europe - some people find that exotic, even though I look no different than them, but just the notion of "ohhhh... Bulgaria... do you have snow there?" lol. I don't even know how some people got to the knowledge that Bulgaria is in Europe. The image that they have of it and some others is so African.

[@guadalupe16]

As an Argentinian, I’m happy those two guys know where my country is 😂 Also, I was surprised when I heard “Italia” because we pronounce it the same in Spanish. I wasn’t expecting it

[@GTX311]

They are actually pretty good. Although they could not point the exact location of most countries - which is pretty hard for most people, they did know the general area where the country is located.

[@abdullakc]

great

[@munzilla]

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰, thank you for selecting my country!

[@travelleryu]

Im half Pakistani half Japanese

[@generalakbarr]

sadly I feel Americans would do worst

[@ithadtobeaname7327]

Its rather because its an steriotype about americans that they have no clue about anything wich is not related to the US. No need to be butthurt already.

[@user-pb1mz2el7f]

Trump's doing well isn't he? こんな考え方ダメだろ

[@Sidhe_Gothic]

*Is American and at least I know where the hell China is*

[@Sidhe_Gothic]

Please be being sarcastic...

[@generalakbarr]

Lol I'm American also it's not useful to know the location of every nation so I'd expect most people to be clueless.

[@ozdoits]

Fun and yet the best part is seeing the face of each guessing person :-). Show faces please?

[@mrtosajloterulio6898]

A year late but Nigeria is under Niger, it's the yellow one on the map located on west Africa, borders with Cameroon(Blue one), Niger(Pink one) and Benin(blue one)

[@calum5975]

wait, Japan uses an american centric map? But that cuts Asia in half :o. Euro centric is superior for that reason. The australian / Asian centric one also works. But not american centric.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

no. but the only available un-marked atlas is...errr...that one. Yuuta mentioned it in this video information.

[@windhelmguard5295]

they use that particular map because, for their purposes, having the pacific ocean as a whole is more important.

[@HectorLopez-bi7nt]

Cuba, my beautiful country, Yuta you should come to miami thou

[@thetraitor3852]

So now, there's internet and even allowed KZbin on Cuba?

[@HectorLopez-bi7nt]

they have had internet for a long time there, it is just expensive and a lot of people cant affort to have it and it is really slow too, but i live in florida not cuba.

[@hijack69]

Hector Lopez isnt Miami in Florida??

[@HectorLopez-bi7nt]

yes, why?

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

is cuba still communist

[@Mr.Nichan]

You inspired me to take a geography quiz. I found one similar to this at www.sporcle.com/games/teedslaststand/find-world-countries. It's good because it has random order and makes it very clear what you're clicking on, but it's bad because it mixes up the map with lots of insets. I got 187/197 in 16 min. 44 sec. the first time, a perfect score in 11 min. 50 sec. the second time, and 196/197 in 10 min. 5 sec the third time (I think I misread one). Yes that included Nigeria the first time. Nigeria is a major world country (7th most populous), and I've met many Nigerians in Texas.

[@iamn1cholas511]

Hey Yuta,do we have to pay for classes and if we do how much would it cost?(sorry for asking this bcos I am not familiar with that😅)

[@faz356]

nice the know were is saudi arabia كفوو عليهم عرفو وين السعودية👍👍👍

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

just east of the persian gulf? #RunsForCover....😂

[@MrLuigi98]

Venezuela got noticed! :D But they skipped that country over the others. -_-

[@MiguelSagunto]

MrLuigi98 venezolao aca

[@luismatos8435]

high school student crushing this geography game

[@sleepyearthling]

lmao at 4:52, that's me alright 😂