Countries That Don't Belong In The Region They're In

[@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71]

Fun Fact: Singapore with a population of less than 6 million has a higher GDP than Pakistan and Ethiopia combined, who have a population of more than 360 million.

[@edotensei7917]

Of course, It's easier to deal with 6 millions people in a tiny surface area than +100 millons in a big country.

[@handlesnipe]

Also signapore has a higher GDP then malaysia, the very country it was kicked out of.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

singapore is where elites in indonesia and china launder their money. basicaly just like ireland.

[@mmmmmmmmmmm7786]

Iq

[@svonegov8199]

Not fun fact, rather bad reality

[@vgalea]

Thanks for the quick shot of Balluta Bay in Malta, at around 11:40. When I lived there, I heard the saying that "The Brits drive on the left, the Italians drive on the right, and the Maltese drive in the shade."

[@mariomario761]

1:26 well if it is so rich, why is it called Singapoor?

[@jnl7196]

SingaPORE cause it’s might makes you sweat

[@beorlingo]

I reckon they have no good singers at all.

[@DinulMindula]

I think it means something like city of the Lions

[@roshan11140]

Liberia's capital is named after former USA president James Monroe ie Monrovia

[@RyanMariners]

Seeing an upload on my birthday just warms my heart.

[@TheAmazingA]

Happy birthday 🎉

[@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71]

Happy Birthday

[@GlobalGeoPulse]

I enjoy watching your videos. They are full of interesting facts about world geography.🎉🎉🎉

[@riazedn4728]

Suriname as the only Dutch speaking country in South America. Also many different cultures and languages . 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷✌️

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

it has the largest muslim population in south america, brought by the dutch from java in modern day indonesia.

[@riazedn4728]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 also a lot of muslims from India. We have mosques, jewish temples and hindu temples

[@hkrohn]

I'm going there next week!

[@riazedn4728]

@@hkrohn you are welcome in switi sranan🇸🇷❤️

[@cycklist]

Just a tip mate, it's never correct to say "comprises of". That's equivalent to saying "consists of of". Just says "consists of" instead.

[@sarahlouise7163]

or... comprises

[@AIGeographyTeacher]

Your videos are a great mix of fun and education. Thanks for the awesome geography content! 🌟🗺

[@andyt8216]

Some mistakes, especially that only former Uk colonies drive on the left. At one time half of Europe drove the same as the UK. Indonesia was a former Dutch colony and drives on the left, Macau formerly Portuguese drives on the left. Thailand and Japan were never UK colonies and drive on the left. Sweden and Iceland were the latest to change from this in the 60s.

[@schaxor3807]

Sweden is an odd one, they changed from LHD to RHD over night (or I even think it was during daytime), but on the other hand most Swedes already had their steering wheel on the left like in RHD countries, and since Norway, Finland and Denmark always was RHD it was probably inevitable. Iceland I don't know about, they could probably have stayed LHD since its an island, but I guess they probably wanted to fit in with the rest of the Nordics, and with such low population it was probably not that hard.

[@brontewcat]

Timor Leste also drives on the left - helpful since you need to drive through Indonesia to get to exclave of Oecusse from the rest of Timor zleste.

[@ulrichbrossmann1225]

Japan also has LHD until today. In Europe, Austria (!) had LHD until Hitler annexed it .. (1938)

[@gchecosse]

The US doesn't use imperial measures, but pre imperial English ones. Is Canada really more metric than the UK? Other than road signs.

[@Iamtheliquor]

Canada is more metric. For example. We in the UK still have speed limits and distances in MPH and Miles. Canada uses KMH & KMs

[@davidbull1914]

I guess the measurements in the US are Imperial in the same sense that the majority language is called English, both are broadly similar to the British version but with a few differences as the two countries diverged after 1776.

[@NicholasJH96]

@@Iamtheliquorshort answer yes as unfortunately Uk still does use a mix. Unfortunately we don’t drive on same side as most of Europe

[@nirfz]

Pre imperial makes no real sense, as this would mean before the british had an empire. Imperial in this case means "from the british empire" and at the time their now called customary units became customary to the US, The territory was part of the british empire, and those measurements were those of the british empire at the time. (which included posessions in Noth america, middle america, south america, the carribean, africa and asia. It wasn't at it's biggest expansion, but already an empire.) Hence them being called imperial measurements by people from anywhere else. That the british changed a few things after the US stopped being part of their empire doesn't disqualify the US measurement for the name imperial. We could also call it the colonial system, as the only ones still predominantly using it, are former colonies of the british and have kept using that even when they gained their freedom. Any other former british colony has changed to metric after ganing it's freedom. ...a further seperation from the empire... (And that's why i always shake my head when US people call their customary units "freedom units" as this name would make more sense for the metric system. Many countries that got their freedom choose to use that system instead of the ones of their colonial masters.)

[@OwenCradock]

The country of Belize is an anomaly for me. It's a country in Central America where every other country around it has Spanish as the official language and is more aligned with Latin American culture, whereas Belize has English as the official language (Belizean Creole as the vernacular language) and is much more culturally aligned with countries in the Caribbean region

[@flaviomulatojerkin]

Singapore and Jordan are some of countries I think about when we're talking about this topic, they're so different from their neighbours

[@AbdulKareemAbdulRahman]

why jordan?

[@Max_Flashheart]

11:50 There is Metric and then there is US Imperial system and the UK Imperial system. The differences between the imperial system and the U.S. system is in volume measurements. Not only are the number of ounces in pints, quarts, and gallons all larger in the imperial system, the size of one fluid ounce is also different. So you have to convert between them reducing precision.

[@johnnyrosso596]

Quick tip from an Estonian resident: Hungarian is NOT a Finno-Ugric language like Finnish and Estonian, but IS a Uralic language. Think of Uralic languages as the tree, with Hungarian on one branch and the Finno-Ugric Languages (Finnish, Estonian, Sami, Karelian, Etc.) on the other. Finno-Ugric languages are actually quite similar and share many words. They can be partially cross-understood (Estonians and Finns for example), similar to Spanish + Portuguese. Hungarian is related (Uralic family, same tree), but is much farther apart (different branch), so comparing Finnish and Hungarian is more akin to comparing English and Swedish: both in the Germanic family but on different branches, so little to no cross-understanding but a similar structure in grammar and phonetics.

[@colinafobe2152]

actually and officially, all three languages, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are members of big Uralic language family. yes Estonian is an Uralic language too. However, Hungarian belongs to other subdivision (Ugric) together with some Siberian languages and it is very different in terms of vocabulary than Finnish/Estonian/ Karelian which are Finnic subdivision

[@Daron-d2g]

1:21 though Singapore is economically stands out to its neighbours,its cultures are largely similar

[@mysteriousDSF]

8:04 Hungarian speakers make up the majority of two counties in central Romania: 82% in Harghita and 63% in Covasna. They shall be coloured as green.

[@Iamtheliquor]

Do you do a voice over for a radio advert for the “1000 mile challenge”?

[@jakeguenther488]

We in Belize also use the imperial system.

[@Brucemcleod2345]

Israel is like an Oasis compared to its neighbours. Botswana is the same. New Caledonia is much more modern than other tropical Pacific Island nations. Belize in Central America. Armenia and Eithopia being Christian countries. New Zealand stands out as a mountainous country especially when approaching by ship from Australia

[@debbieanne7962]

It puzzled me that when I traveled to the UK their roads were signposted in miles and not kilometres yet they switched to metric 50 years ago. A bit slow off the mark transitioning

[@mehrcat1]

In the UK I know a sign warning of an arch. The distance to the arch is given in miles, the height of the arch in meters.

[@Likasense]

It's actually pretty simple, when something is about roads or track that is fairly long it's in miles, but when it's shorter or it's about the width or many other things then it's the metric system.

[@andyt8216]

The switch was supposed to be made in 1973 but unfortunately never happened. But signs are often metric distances. A reason you see things like “2/3 mile” signs = 1 km or “220 yards” = 200 metres. It an embarrassing situation IMO.

[@OscarOSullivan]

The Republic of Ireland was able to make a full switch

[@ourjeffie]

@@Likasense Pretty simple? Wouldn't it be more simple to use just one system, like most of the rest of the world?

[@meestanaef1109]

It’s true that the UK has mixed measures, but only really for road distances, human height and pints of beer. Few people under 60 know what ‘stones’ are.

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

The US doesn't use the Imperial system, but a PRE-Imperial system. "Imperial" is a 19th-century redefinition of the traditional units. There are 128 fl oz in a US gallon, 160 in the Imperial. Liberia uses the US one. (No idea what Burma uses.) A number of countries in the Caribbean and Latin America still sell fuel in US gallons.

[@BradTheThird]

10:50 I was paused here trying to guess the country he was going to say. I was sort of drawn toward Armenia being surrounded by red.

[@T4N7]

There's a valley on the border of France n Spain (I believe it's near the Atlantic coast) where the place was so hard to get to back in the day that no one ever bothered to invade n they didn't interact with the outside world much. They have their own language (as well as learning either French or Spanish depending on which side of the border they're on) n this language has an origin that scholars have yet to uncover but it defs isn't proto-indoeuropean

[@Based.moroccan]

4:01 that’s cause Egypt was conolzied most of Israel gdp is from USA

[@readesiun988]

In Ireland weight is metric as in I am 72 Kilos, distance is metric as in Kilometres as is speed. The only imperial measurement used is Pints as in Beer in Pubs

[@OwenCradock]

Height is still more widely known in feet and inches at the moment, but I can imagine that will start to change soon too

[@EmperorWinger]

Anomalies, anomalies everywhere.

[@wilsonflood4393]

Side of road, blame Napoleon! Lhs is natural side, because knights on horses were right handed. True.

[@SoqueREM]

Belize, english speaking country in a spanish speaking area...

[@jensschroder8214]

12:20 The US does not use the Imperial system but the customs system. 1 UK gallon does not correspond to 1 US gallon. 1 barrel UK is not 1 barrel US. 1 pint UK is not 1 pint US. 1 inch English pipe threads is 33mm instead of 25.4mm.

[@mysteriousDSF]

I'm so happy for you mentioning my country Hungary and our unique linguistic affiliation. Although we are certainly not Finno-"URGIC" 💀 even the term Finno-Ugric is deemed archaic by some, Uralic is the more widely accepted name of our family.

[@columbannon9134]

In Ireland to old body weight stone system is fading out to the kg .

[@hazptmedia]

You forgot australia!

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Countries that use the UK standard but have the priority diamond:Uganda,Cyprus,Mauritius

[@yodorob]

Lebanon at least used to stand out in the Arab world for its really large Christian population (percentage-wise on a country-by-country basis), before the civil war broke out in 1975. Its Christian population (just like other Christian populations in the Arab world) is hemorrhaging like crazy these days. South Africa used to stand out among African economies for the relatively high per capita GDP in an otherwise quite poor continent as well as easily the highest percentage of whites (and today is still Africa's most industrialized country, although it's falling apart quite a bit). Another linguistic anomaly in Europe (one - unlike Hungarian - not mentioned in the video) is Basque in north-central Spain and SW France. If Hungarian isn't Indo-European, Basque really isn't Indo-European!

[@aircraft2]

More countries in Europe used to drive on the left, however as cars became more common and especially after Napoleon and Hitler pretty much all of the mainland started to drive on the right.

[@JamesAlexanderJack]

I really wouldn’t label Japan as “non-religious”. It’s mainly indigenous Shintoism mixed with Buddhism side by side.

[@fid.firdhaus]

The first one is based on economy. But in term of culture and history, its funny how you said it should be in europe which is the "best continent". When for a matter of fact is that Singapore wouldnt be significant anywhere if not because of it's strategic location.

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

The Philippines is the only Maritime Southeast Asia country are driving on the right thanks to American soldiers who help to liberate the country after the Battle of Manila so at first the right hand drive are only for military but it was not on civilians until 1946 which is opposite of Indonesia where it was remained left hand drive until today

[@jondyason336]

I think that press freedom index thing has been discredited by this point in time.

[@columbannon9134]

Well in Europe when the countries border each other , it is normal that everyone would drive on the same side. For Ireland we have to blame the English for driving on the other side to the rest since ruling Ireland (still part still today) for many years.

[@ralfhtg1056]

"kilometers squared"? Why making it so complicated? Why not just say "squarekilometers"?

[@chonpincher]

“Comprises of”, “Finno-Urgic”, . . .

[@BarrytheSuperScot]

11:00 Taiwan is 35th.

[@sgrant9814]

FEWER than 6 million Singaporeans.....not "less". Canada is also mixed use metric/imperial

[@bhgtree]

Fun fact: 'Why does Ireland drive on the left?' .....To get as far away from the British as they can😅🤣😂 (this is meant humorously of course)

[@alexmale2274]

Map at 8.20, you should erase the blue color for the Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian population who used to live in the South Western part of Azerbaijan. Indeed, the Armenian population there is 0 now since September 2023. Now it's the Turkic speaking Azerbaijanis who are gradually living in that part of their country. Please clarify that as soon as possible.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

As for use of metric, Canada should also be classified as "mixed".

[@ToadTendo]

I am Canadian, in all official business we use metric, not mixed. We often use stuff like feet as measurements in casual conversation, but by all means Canada is fully metric, not mixed, when it comes to anything important beyond just casual conversation.

[@nickjung7394]

Europe can't help being where it is, it would be quite unfair to force them to drive on the correct side of the road.

[@willhovell9019]

You don't show Malta or Cyprus on your map. They drive on the left. Czechoslovia and Austria used to drive on the left before before the occupation by Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Sweden only changed in 1969 to drive on the right. China only changed in 1945/6.Driving on the right comes from Napoleon in countries occupied in mainland Europe. The only exceptions are the USA and Canada, and mainland European ex territories and colonies throughout the world.

[@Jay-wz4sb]

Belize--An English-speaking country in Central America.

[@alanevans9604]

Strange how Europe and US drive on the wrong side of the road!

[@Based.moroccan]

2:39 Nigeria Kosovo Bosnia Ivory Coast r Muslim too

[@colinafobe2152]

Belize the only central american country where english is the official language

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Since when are the Seychelles in Africa? I could've sworn they were a maritime archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. Also, I thought Venezuela had given up on their (ridiculously hyperinflated) currency a few months ago and were using the US dollar now. So I had been given to understand.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

@@greatpyramid4348 So Iceland is part of North America, Puerto Rico is part of South America, and Sulawesi, Fiji, and New Zealand are part of Australia? No? No. It doesn't work like that. Iceland and Cyprus have always been considered part of Europe, Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean (though you could say it's part of Latin America, which includes South America but also Mexico, Honduras, etc.), Sulawesi is most closely associated with Asia, and Fiji and New Zealand are in the South Pacific.

[@toni4729]

I still can't get over the fact that you still use "stones" for weight. I'm not sure if the American Lb is the same as the old English one and I just wish the whole world go kg. It would be so much easier.😂😂

[@billmago7991]

using imperial measurments is like using roman numerals......outdated.

[@gw7120]

In South America , languages include spanish Portuguese english and dutch !

[@robertthomson1587]

French too, in French Guiana!

[@0nly_0nyxx]

the philippines is the only christian majority country in southeast asia

[@Mcfreddo]

The other countries are very religious then.

[@mysteriousDSF]

I don't really understand when girls want a 6 feet guy. Like, I'm 186 cm but I only gut two feet

[@johnawalker9261]

Km2 is not pronounced kilometres squared, it is pronounced square kilometres, easier to say and understand.

[@mysteriousDSF]

4.5 million km2 is NOT A DISTANCE. IT'S AN AREA. I MAKE THE SAME COMMENT TWICE AT EVERY VIDEO OF YOURS AND YOU NEVER LEARN. PRIMARY SCHOOL SHIT

[@543sw]

Turkey

[@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71]

No

[@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71]

No

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

Yes

[@Based.moroccan]

7:56 the map is fake

[@tarielkaroldan4106]

How so?

[@neuralwarp]

"Finno-Urgic" ? Read that again.

[@shroommcfanta2020]

Very interesting but the speaker is intolerable… ehsia really 😢

[@alimbis]

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[@ThemeParkLuke]

You got the religion one wrong. Uk is mostly Muslim

[@zaynosman5162]

Huh?

[@ThemeParkLuke]

@@zaynosman5162 most people who reside in the UK follow Islam these days

[@zaynosman5162]

@@ThemeParkLuke No your statement was pretty much self explanatory but I am calling cap on that

[@ThemeParkLuke]

@@zaynosman5162 come to Bradford, you'll understand

[@ChickenSando]

@@ThemeParkLuke Most people amongst who actively practicing a religion? Maybe. In certain regions? Maybe. But to say that there are less atheist and people who call themselves Christian in the whole country? I doubt that.

[@michaelmccurry7273]

Israel

[@zachv]

Is a nation that exist because it’s their land learn history

[@davidbull1914]

You could include Cyprus as being the only EU country that isn't in Europe!

[@vermelhojabuticaba]

singapore barely is a nation. pointing its economic numbers is like comparing a city to the countryside or to the national average of somewhere else

[@jontalbot1]

This video is a random pile of crap

[@jontalbot1]

@@greatpyramid4348 Oh yes it is

[@jontalbot1]

@@greatpyramid4348 or maybe it’s just a random pile of crap

[@jontalbot1]

@@greatpyramid4348 l have a Bachelor, Masters and PhD. I have written a couple of books, currently writing another so in all likelihood l can spot made up crap for the impressionable. There are various types of crap: this is of the how-about-that-I-just-made-up kind.

[@jontalbot1]

@@greatpyramid4348 They can go alongside your crappy video

[@jontalbot1]

@@greatpyramid4348 It’s a spurious concept to say a country does ‘not belong’ among its neighbours and then alight upon something you have arbitrarily chosen to demonstrate it. It’s crap because you can choose anything so that any country is anomalous according to you. Fact is all nations are different from one another in some way. So what

[@bigbootros4362]

Israel also stands out in the middle east for being a democracy and having fair treatment towards women and minorities.