Countries With Neighbouring Capitals

[@General.Knowledge]

*Are there any other countries with neighbouring capitals?* Also, my mistake! Tel Aviv was apparently never Israel's capital, thanks for point it out & correcting me!

[@jasporflex1976]

I love your content but you messed up on the facts in 10:04. I don't want to start a debate on who is right and who is wrong but to just lay out the facts. Tel Aviv, even though it was a huge city built by jews during the aliya was never proclaimed or surved as Israel's capitol. Ever since the country's indepedence in 1948 Israel gained control of west Jerusalem and used it as its de facto capital, whilst the east was annexed into Jordan. All foreign embessies were also in Jerusalem during that time up until Israel's incorporation of east Jerusalem in 1980 which the UN declared to be 'nul and void' and told embessies to move to Tel Aviv(except for Guatamala, Kosovo and the US). Still, Jerusalem or at least west Jerusalem has always served as Israel's capital and there was never a period in which Tel Aviv had presumed that role. I hope this made things clear. This debate can be very confusing.

[@General.Knowledge]

@@jasporflex1976 You are correct! My mistake, I added it to the pinned comment :) Thanks for the correction.

[@jasporflex1976]

​@@General.KnowledgeIt's fine, although you have unintentionally started a sensative debate. This topic can be very confusing sometimes. Just make sure to fact check information especially with complicated topics such as this. :)

[@fuqupal]

You're promoting "therapists"? UNSUBBED! UNSUB EVERYONE! RED FLAG!!!!!!

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

​@@jasporflex1976no need to chew out like that my dude. he's doing his best and I appreciate his effort

[@jirkavebr-czmapper8059]

Fun fact. Ursula von der Leyen used private jet to travel between Bratislava and Vienna even tho it takes just an hour by train. The flight took 19 minutes. She then talked at climate conference about stoping climate change and she even said that people should not fly short distances

[@timwaagh]

it's fun being a politician

[@ejl1000]

Damn, I did give a shit about saving the planet, but now I don't any more!

[@k.umquat8604]

​​@@ejl1000he first step is sustainability in your own home.The second step is organising to protest against the system

[@yveltheyveltal5166]

​@k.umquat8604 the first step is demolishing the current economic system. the most pollutant lower class household isn't hurting the envoirnment a fraction as much as the most "green" fossil fuel corporations

[@vbo3892]

But your fun fact is ambiguos at least.

[@jusukaverit]

I'm from Helsinki, Finland so I know that in good weather you can see Tallinn with the naked eye from the top of the tallest buildings

[@heh9392]

joskus oli aamu tv:llä joku helsingin näky jostai korkeelt ja siin samal näky ihan Viroon asti juu. emmä muista oliks se yle vai mtv kanava

[@General.Knowledge]

Very cool!

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

You can also see Ireland from Scotland!

[@sorakohukene]

Helsinki is visible from the Tallinn TV tower, right?

[@thulex]

Helsinki and Tallinn are also called Talsinki as they do lot cooperation.

[@PlushChie]

The capitals of Seoul, South Korea and Pyongyang, North Korea are actually closer than some others on this list, being about 122km away from each other

[@paulluka2029]

Thank you I was thinking how could he forget about this.

[@lucinae8512]

There are zero methods of transportion through the heavily guarded and mined border, plus neither sides recognise the other as a legitmate state.

[@paulluka2029]

@@lucinae8512 doesn't matter the video is about "countries with neighboring Capitals" whether they both don't recognize each other they're still considered separate sovereign countries internationally infact much better situation than Israel and Palestine

[@General.Knowledge]

I forgot about this one! I'm always surprised how close Seoul is to the border.

[@nikolasdritsas2588]

It is around 195-200 km had the same though and went to check. Seoul is very close to the boarder but not the capital of DPRK (North Korea)

[@darioburstin2418]

A small correction in the Buenos Aires - Montevideo bit. When you say that the Portuguese founded Montevideo just across the river to compete with the Spanish, you are actually talking about the city of Colonia del Sacramento, which the Portuguese founded in 1680 and is preserved to this day (it's a UNESCO site). That city is just 30 kms apart from Buenos Aires on the Uruguayan side of the river. The city of Montevideo was founded by the Spaniards in 1724; by then the Spanish had already taken Colonia del Sacramento.

[@General.Knowledge]

My mistake! I assumed Montevideo had evolved from the old Portuguese colony. Thanks for the clarification :)

[@darioburstin2418]

@@General.Knowledge one of the reasons to found Montevideo was to prevent further incursions from the Portuguese into the Rio de la plata, so in essence what you said is correct

[@paulocastrogarrido3499]

@@General.Knowledge Montevideo was named by a Spaniard from Galicia, Galician and Portuguese are technically the same language, hence the confusion.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@paulocastrogarrido3499That is debatable whether they are the same language or not.

[@jens_le_benz]

Colonia changed hands more times than my uncle at a poker club

[@pityuuuuu3693]

Prague-Brno-Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest, are all connected with direct railway and highway network, and are all within 150km from each other. Austria-Hungarys first railway was built on this line, to connect all of the capitals, but it still operates today.

[@rncmv]

"Austria-Hungarys first railway was built on this line, to connect all of the capitals, but it still operates today." bunch of nonsense - the first Austrian railway line was Vienna-Breclav (1837), long before Austria-Hungary; it was part of the North Line (to Warsaw); connection to Prague followed before 1850; the line to Buda/Pest via Pozsony/Pressburg/Bratislava was completed much later, in 1860s

[@sync9847]

This was the core of the empire, after all.

[@tylerbozinovski427]

​@@rncmvWow, what a massive line it had to have been from Vienna to Lundenburg lmfao.

[@lazulithedragon]

Brno is not a capital Prague is too far away to be considered close and neither Prague or Budapest are within a 150km rage of Bratislava or Vienna

[@dantedante839]

Prague-Brünn-Vienna-Pressburg-Budapest.**

[@LeonardoNeves]

Uruguay didn't fight against the Spanish for independence, they fought against Brazil. Brazil, Argentina, and UK decided together that it was a good idea that Uruguay became an independent country instead of being the Brazilian Provincia Cisplatina. Also, the river between Montevideo and Buenos Aires is called Rio da Plata (Silver River) but in practice, it is just the Uruguay river renamed when it becomes wider.

[@zddxddyddw]

The Rio de la Plata isn't just the Uruguay River, it has many other tributaries. The Uruguay and Parana Rivers are just the biggest ones (mind you, the Parana River is a lot bigger than the Uruguay). And yes, it is considered by many experts as a river on its own, making it the widest in the world.

[@LeonardoNeves]

@@zddxddyddw Amazon River and Rio da Plata are so wide that the Spanish thought they were bays or seas (the Spanish were the first Europeans to sail the Amazon River too). The funny thing is about Rio the Janeiro, that is the opposite, the Portuguese thought it was a river and called it Rio de Janeiro (January's River) but it's actually a bay. The lack of satellites can create a mess 🤣

[@IewiYT]

How Uruguayians dont speak Portugese?

[@LeonardoNeves]

@@IewiYT Uruguay was mostly colonized by the Spanish. The Portuguese built the Sacramento colony and keep it for some time. For many centuries both Uruguay and some areas in the South of Brazil were disputed with some incursions, battles, etc. When Brazil got independent in 1822, Uruguay was controlled by Portugal, so Brazil kept it for about 2 years when Brazil, Argentina, and UK decided together that it was better to create a new country instead of having a bloody war between Brazil and Argentina (who claimed Uruguay as a province). Both countries made an agreement to not interfere in the country but in just a few years were supporting different sides of Uruguay's civil war

[@AlvaroGonzalez-pj2bg]

Yep, Uruguay suffered an invasion of the United Kingdom that wanted to establish a plug state between the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata and the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Brazil when the defences in that territory was very weak. They didn't succeed, but the results can be seen today. The Charrua indians were killed and disappeared completely, almost the same fate as the Indians in the US. And because of Portugal siding with that declaration of war and supporting the UK, they finally lost the chance to recover the territory of Olivenza/Olivença back at the iberian peninsula after the Napoleonic Wars. And for the thousandth time, Spain and Portugal didn't have "colonies" in America. They were part of a global empire with the same rights for the people. Although they were both under Absolutist Monarchies, with the freedom it gave at the time, that is. What France, UK, Netherlands and such did in America, establishing colonies without rights, does not have to apply to everybody else. It's the same mistake I see over and over again in KZbin videos.

[@ALVIN-mv1he]

Can only think about Kinshasa and Brazzaville, the 2 Congoes'(is that even plural?) capitals

[@ALVIN-mv1he]

Oops I forgot Vatican and Roma 🤣

[@oreoplays7887]

And the USA and conference

[@newanthemhouse1297]

⁠@@oreoplays7887conference?

[@notoriousfly9260]

⁠@@oreoplays7887My dude graduated from the McDonald’s drive thru 🤣

[@oreoplays7887]

The uss or slave states

[@Soyyo83]

As Uruguayan I have to admit that was totally unexpected that you picked our capital for the intro of the video. As a very little and very unknown country is amazing when we’re mentioned by foreigners. Love your videos btw. I don’t tend to comment videos, I’m like a silent spectator but I can’t bear this feeling and emotion hahaha

[@Soyyo83]

Ok now I see why you put Montevideo, you had a little historical error but someone already told you… but now the most important part of all YOU NOY ONLY PUT URUGUAY AND MONTEVIDEO BUT ITS SHOWN MY TOWN AAAAAAAAAAA

[@DarrylWPerry1789]

Guatemala City & San Salvador are only about 230km apart. Manama (Bahrain) & Doha (Qatar) are only about 80 miles apart, but it's a 435km drive that goes through Saudi Arabia to get between them. The capitals of Benin, Togo & Ghana are all coastal and a total of ~380km apart (Lomé, Togo is almost exactly in the middle between Accra, Ghana & Porto-Novo, Benin). Finally, Seoul & Pyongyang are only about 122 miles apart, but as the saying goes "you can't get there from here."

[@grahamturner2640]

What about San Salvador and Tegucigalpa?

[@roulam3001]

These countries themselves are relatively small compared to most countries listed in the video so you can see how easy for them to be overlooked.

[@austincouch8488]

Was about to comment about some of these. Another good one is Tirana (Albania) to Podgorica (Montenegro) which is only 131km apart in a direct line. They share similar language and I’m curious if they relate historically

[@oscarivancordon1021]

​​​@@grahamturner2640Not close enough for transportation, about 320 km away from each other but a 7 hour car drive, 8-9 hour bus drive. In contrast, Guatemala City and San Salvador are a 3.5-4 hour car drive, or 4-5 hour bus drive away from each other. All three are about 45-50 minutes away from each other if flying

[@dynamic_rb]

sorry for being petty, but can you not fluctuate between using the metric system (km) and the imperial system (miles), it is very confusing towards me (even tho i know how to convert miles into km)

[@Kidd-In-Charge]

5:00 I really appreciate you matching the historical map of the Papal states up with the geographical map in the background. It's a great touch, a satisfying visual which many similar channels have the opportunity to create but miss out on.

[@european6380]

There are still two railway links between Bratislava and Vienna (one via Marchegg, the other via Kittsee), served by regional and intercity services every half hour. However, the railway you mentioned was actually an overland tram travelling within Bratislava and Vienna as a tram. The Austrian part still exists today and is now used for the S-Bahn, however the link to Bratislava is gone. It terminates at the border in Wolfsthal nowadays.

[@jasporflex1976]

I love your content but you messed up on the facts in 10:04. I don't want to start a debate on who is right and who is wrong but to just lay out the facts. Tel Aviv, even though it was a huge city built by jews during the aliya was never proclaimed or surved as Israel's capitol. Ever since the country's indepedence in 1948 Israel gained control of west Jerusalem and used it as its de facto capital, whilst the east was annexed into Jordan. All foreign embessies were also in Jerusalem during that time up until Israel's incorporation of east Jerusalem in 1980 which the UN declared to be 'nul and void' and told embessies to move to Tel Aviv(except for Guatamala, Kosovo and the US). Still, Jerusalem or at least west Jerusalem has always served as Israel's capital and there was never a period in which Tel Aviv had presumed that role. I hope this made things clear. This debate can be very confusing.

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

Lol

[@jasporflex1976]

@@AhmadMuath-xn2es Can't handle the facts

[@JesseKuiper]

Bratislava is the only capital that borders two other countries: Austria and Hungary (although the border with Hungary is 20 from the city centre and although it officially belongs to the city that area is very rural).

[@marcinkusmierzak991]

what about Andora, Vaduz, Luxemburg? They also border multiple countries and it's closer from the city center to the border

[@godnmaste]

@@marcinkusmierzak991 I think you are getting city-states and micronations mixed up, none of those countries are also cities, and therefore capitals, actually, you listed Vaduz which actually is a capital city, but it is a part of a a microstate, Liechtenstein

[@marcinkusmierzak991]

​@@godnmaste You are mixing it because the capitals of Andora and Luxemburg have the same names as the countries. From the city center of Andora there is 2 km to the Spanish border and 5km to the French border, isn't it the border capital? And if we count 20km in case of Bratislava from city of Luxemburg you can get to France, Belgium and Germany

[@CharlieGrant-yv1zy]

Andorra, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg are all small, so their capitals are going to be near their borders regardless but the cities themselves aren't actually on the borders of multiple countries. Vaduz is in the west of Lichtenstein so it borders Switzerland but not Austria. Bratislava does feel like it's pushing a bit as the actual city stops before reaching Hungary but the Bratislava Region does extend to Hungary

[@imienazwisko4611]

If you count Bratislava as a city bordering Hungary, you should also count other cities.

[@gilperry6782]

10:20 all Israeli government buildings have been in Jerusalem since 1949

[@jasporflex1976]

Facts

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

Jerusalem holds every official government agency is Israel and the parliament, the only thing that makes Tel Aviv the "capital" is how most embassies are there, although some embassies are in Jerusalem and some are in other cities (Herzylia has a few). Ramallah has not only most of the international mission (and all the embassies) to Palestine it also has all the government offices and the parliament. It would have been more accurate and interesting to consider it as such (as Ramallah is in the middle of all the cities discussed)

[@samclaessens1444]

Brussels and Amsterdam are pretty close to eachother as well, they’re only 174km a part. And it’s almost the same distance between Brussels and the capital of the Luxembourg, only 177km between them. But I once again enjoyed the video, thanks for keeping up the great work!

[@TheTravelingSlovakian]

Just an interesting thing, about two months ago I have walkded the from Bratislava to Vienna in single day. It was 68 kilometers.

[@simonh6371]

I used to live in Austria, near Graz in the 90s, and as a young British guy when I drove to Vienna it did feel odd seeing the signs in and around Vienna indicating sliproads to Pressburg (Bratislava) and Brunn (Brno), made me realise how far east I was. Vienna is further east than Prague. I know it may seem obvious and nothing special now but in the early 90s just after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain it felt odd to a young English bloke.

[@Usagi1017]

As a Portuguese-Congolese (RDC) the reason there is no bridge between Kinshasa and Brazaville is because both countries have a dispute and also no money for it.

[@BleamerGD]

You forgot about Minsk and Vilnus

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

Minsk isnt that close to Vilnius

[@craigmmcgill]

Yeah, they’re not that close 2.5 hour drive

[@BleamerGD]

@@Donald_Trump_2024 In the video there were capitals that are further away than Minsk and Vilnius

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

@@BleamerGD well i guess youre right...

[@kecleonboi]

2 very forgettable cities 😂

[@late_night_videos]

Bloemfontein, South Africa and Maseru, Lesotho are also pretty close (150km). Seoul and Pyongyang are 198km apart. Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe (not an official country) and Roseau, Dominica are 32.6km apart.

[@marcinkusmierzak991]

Some Caribbean island nations are very close to each other. If you count sea borders like Tallinn and Helsinki they also should be included

[@No19Name94]

I was thinking about Accra - Lomé and Lome - Porto-Novo, since they look pretty close on the map, but both are about 200 kilometers away from eachother

[@EitanP1997]

In fact Jerusalem IS Israels capital, and all the government instirutions lay there. Tel Aviv is a big (if not the biggest) City in Israel, yes, but nevera was the capital.

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

Shut up

[@Quasihamster]

Vienna to Bratislava is about 62 km by road, and there's still a rail connection. Takes about an hour by regional train. Not a good start as far as research goes...

[@banto1]

Jerusalem has been the capital and seat of government of Israel since independence in 1948. The ministry of defense (i.e. the Israeli Pentagon) is located in Tel Aviv, just like the US whose pentagon is in Arlington Virgina and NOT in Washington DC (the US capitol).

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

It's not a country

[@TheRavenLord1]

Israeli independence? Now that’s a riot.

[@Aymen7MA]

Since stealing the land of Palestine*

[@jasporflex1976]

@@AhmadMuath-xn2es Go cry abt it

[@General.Knowledge]

But didn't they recently set it as their capital? Or was it just the decision of certain countries (US & Brazil) to move their embassies there?

[@eliskakordulova]

It's crazy because I live right on the Czech border for Slovakia and (kinda) Austria, so while both Austria's capital and Slovakia's capital is 1 hour away from my house, our capital is 5 hrs away. I've been to Vienna more times than Prague. 😂. At least we're a hotspot for great train connections tho. 👍

[@sordman2]

You cannot assume Tel Aviv is Israel's capital. Israel has controlled the entirety of Jerusalem since 1967 and declared it to be its capital city in 1980 and has since moved all of its important governing bodies to the city. This would be like the US changing its capital back to Philadelphia and the rest of the world saying "no, we still recognize D.C. as the capital". You can disagree about whether or not Jerusalem should be Israel's capital/territory, but you can't argue that in its current state (as it has been for over 40 years) that it's not Israel's capital.

[@BS-vx8dg]

Very good; you're the third or fourth person, myself included, who has made this point in the comments. I would only say that the 1980 declaration did not make Jerusalem the capital, it had been so at that point for 30 years; all the 1980 declaration did was to affirm that East Jerusalem was *also* part of that capital.

[@jasporflex1976]

@@BS-vx8dg Facts. That's why most of the embassies are now located in Tel Aviv. Before 1980 they all used to be in (west) Jerusalem until the UN told them to leave.

[@General.Knowledge]

Yeah this was definitely a mistake on my part. Putting aside the local conflict and the claim over the city, I was under the wrong impression that the capital had previously been Tel Aviv and only recently moved to Jerusalem - even if the latter was already under Israeli control. I now understand that wasn't the case. Thanks!

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@General.Knowledge Acknowledgement acknowledged.

[@R0DBS]

@@General.KnowledgeThank you for acknowledging your mistake, cheers!

[@CarKing_6]

Amman is also somewhat close to Damascus, with only a 205Km distance. There is a large Syrian population in Amman too, thanks to immigration and refugees, along with many people sharing family in the city. Amman and Damascus are also both some of the oldest cities in history, with Amman being only around 1000 years younger.

[@amrabdulrab4992]

Doha Qatar and Manama Bahrain are also close to eachother Edit; Benin and Togo too, Togo and Ghana, Montenegro and Albania, north Macedonia and Albania and even the Netherlands and Belgium

[@simonh6371]

Amsterdam and Brussels are a long way away from each other by Dutch and Belgian standards lol. Basically if you drive for 2 hours in any direction from any part of either of those countries, you're already in another country or in the sea.

[@stankunloadeduniversity3726]

6:49 From my understanding there has not yet been a bridge built to United Kinshasa and Brazzaville due to 2 main reasons: The Congo River is incredibly deep, as well as a lack of initiative due to low funding and political instability, most notably in the DRC

[@adamlatosinski5475]

There are countries in Carribean that have capitals close to each other. For example Kingstown of Saint Vincent and Grenadinies, and Castries of Saint Lucia, are only about 100 km away from each other.

[@kenos911]

Well yeah, but they’re island nations and it doesn’t feel as strange, since there isn’t really any other options to put a capital in (ig st Vincent could put it in the grenadines somewhere but that’d just be stupid as a person from there)

[@General.Knowledge]

This is true yeah, I mostly left out islands because the capital tends to be the island's only city itself, and so in any archipelago where more than one sovereign country exist, they are necessarily very close together.

[@AbbasAdejonwo]

@@kenos911same logic for Eswatini's capital considering it's as far west as it could be and subsequently as far away from Maputo as possible

[@simonh6371]

The record in the Carribean is going to be for Philipsburg, St Maarten and Marigot, Saint Martin, their suburbs are within 1km of each other and according to google maps it's 8km from the centre of one to another walking the most direct way, less than 2 hours.

[@Er_Guille]

What about Port au prince and Santo Domingo?

[@eino81]

I was biking some weeks ago, from Bratislava to Vienna. 75 km, nice trip, and I could visit two capitals by bike :)

[@gianfraara321]

Tirana, Podgorica and Skopje are pretty close to each other. Also Luxembourg and Bruxelles, Lomé and Accra, Conakry and Freetown, Minsk and Vilnius, all in the range of 200km. There are so many of them!

[@frankdalton2492]

Prishtina and Skopje are even closer to each other - around 90 km.

[@Long_Live_Asir]

It’s really a shame that GK doesn’t have millions of subscribers. Your content is amazing! Great work :) Love and respect from Saudi Arabia.

[@Doughboi_Snowboi]

This helped put into prospective how large rural America is. With most of them I was thinking "that's about as long as a drive from here to city A"

[@chqnnel2651]

What a video one of the best on the site

[@mikrokupu]

The Helsinki-Tallinn sea route is one of the busiest in Europe (6 million passengers in 2022). The rail tunnel linking the cities would be great, it would create a twin city of 2m people (metro). Would it be called Hellinn? Tallsinki? 😁

[@AdistuffRBX]

Tallsinki sounds much better

[@FriedrichHerschel]

@@AdistuffRBX Nope. Not when you can have Hell-Inn!

[@Antti-ox1ho]

They already advertise Helsinki and Tallinn together under a name of Talsinki on social media. Helsinkiä ja Tallinnaa mainostetaan jo yhdessä Talsinki - nimen alla sosiaalisessa mediassa.

[@General.Knowledge]

That's a lot of people! Is it all tourism or do some people live in one but work in the other?

[@Hession0Drasha]

Hmmm, how about Linnsinki? 😁

[@Nicods]

Technically Rome is the capital of 3 states, non only Status Civitatis Vaticanæ and Repubblica Italiana, but also Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis, the only statal entity without a territory but with its offices in Rome.

[@stevejohnson3357]

Some of these are the product of the size of the country, I think. If small enough, the capitals can be in the middle of the county and still 1 hr away from the neighboring capital, But the local would see them as separate urban areas. And also, what about Seoul and Pyongyang?

[@rogink]

Not so much distance apart - although Google refuses to calculate it - more like different worlds.

[@rncmv]

they could have been on different planets as well :)

[@kartikmtiwari]

Bros editing skills changed from below average to top notch

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Estonia and Finland are literally Finnic brothers😅

[@heh9392]

who misunderstand eachothers languages

[@AVPozdeev]

Yeah, Nazi Brotherhood!

[@timewarpeatscrayons]

@@heh9392not exactly misunderstand… but i know finnish, and to me estonian sounds kind of like… drunk gibberish, you can make out some words but some you cant make out all the way. I knew an estonian guy who said the same thing (just to clarify im not finnish, im american)

[@78339kamil]

The distance between Kinshasa and Brazzaville is 4km the ferry definitely does not take 5min. My 2cents from Kinshasa

[@adrianfriedrich446]

i live about 40 km north of vienna and at a popular viewpoint in my area you can see the lights of vienna and bratislava at night

[@motialvim]

The river between Buenos Aires and Montevideo is De La Plata, so the Uruguay river is located more inside the continent.

[@MoempfLP]

0:03 wrong Switzerland has no official capital. All important institutions were distributed: Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich Federal Office for statistics in Neuchâtel Federal Administrative Court in St. Gallen Parliament in Bern ...

[@gchecosse]

The UK has no "official" capital, it still has one, just like Switzerland does, since that's a descriptive term.

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

You forgot: Aarau was it for a while! Zurich was a drug capital, Basel a Leftie Heaven, Zug a Crypto cap, Biel has Bakom and Lausanne has the other half of ETH, Appenzell the tasty cheese producer with Emmental the hole in the cheese patent holder.

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

@@gchecosse Westminster used to run it, now it has moved closer to Delhi!!

[@MoempfLP]

@@LawpickingLocksmith Aarau was before 1848. EPFL(resp. EPUL) did not exist in 1848.

[@MoempfLP]

@@gchecosse Wikipedia lists London as the capital of the UK, but states that Switzerland has de juro no capital. Our ancestors actively decided, that there should be no capital.

[@o_s-24]

9:53 it's not "also," railroads in all of Lebanon have sadly been out of operation for a very long time because of the civil war I believe. But you can still visit the steam trains and remains of the railroad in some places

[@nikostube5809]

Skopje and pristina are also close together

[@485niklas]

Yes and i thougt about Ljubljana and Zagreb

[@athanasioskosmas3915]

If we count Kosovo as a country. But since he even mentioned northen Cyprus, i guess youre right

[@you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me]

Kosovo is not a country. Its flag emote is not even on my Chinese-made phone keyboard.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

"Capital cities. Every country has one." Switzerland: Excuse me what?

[@BS-vx8dg]

South Africa: Excuse me what?

[@gchecosse]

Rest of World: yes, Switzerland has one, it might call it something else but so what, it's just a descriptive term.

[@faze_fox2092]

the shortest distance between capitals of different nations: Vatica-Roma - 0km(?) or 'whatever the thickness of Vatican Wall' edited: wow 5 likes in 15 minutes???

[@lunalingo4461]

True true

[@angeltzepesh1]

If you would watch the video first

[@n6rt9s]

As a European, it strikes me that 200 km is considered particularly close.

[@erlidemneri9434]

You can also include the capitals of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro as they are under 350km apart of each other and under 200km in airline

[@flyinggeng]

Kinchasa and Brazzaville starts the point where the Congo river is safely navigable. The two railroads go out to the coast since downstream, the Congo River is a series of rapids and waterfalls. Both countries have river systems that the two countries want to concentrate transport at.

[@bababababababa6124]

It’s crazy how Brazzaville and Kinshasa have no road connection, they need to build that quickly

[@pepster3864]

Probably because relations between them aren’t exactly great

[@zouchmusic]

It's hard to build a road in a river.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@zouchmusicit really isn’t, if some of the poorest countries in the world can do it then I don’t see how DRC and RC couldn’t

[@bababababababa6124]

@@pepster3864they aren’t the best but the two countries aren’t hostile towards each other or anything. Trade can be greatly increased if there was a road and rail connection between the two

[@Michalik-ps9gk]

@@bababababababa6124 congo river between them is really thick so it must be expensive

[@miljenkorebernisak5385]

11:33 Painting at 11:33 is of Novi Vinodolski on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, not of Zagreb the capital of Croatia ‼I like this video❣❣

[@Arminius1901]

Inside of Germany this is the case quite often. Potsdam borders Berlin (a city state). Mainz and Wiesbaden border each other and Bremen and Hamburg (city states as well) border Lower Saxony and Hamburg also borders Schleswig-Holstein.

[@TheMisterDarknight]

That's what happens when for most of history countries in the region were 3 square meters

[@Arminius1901]

@@TheMisterDarknight Thats has nothing to do with the fragmentation. I wrote that Hamburg, Bremen, and Berlin are city states so they themselves are their own capital. And the capital of Hessen Darmstadt and Hessen Nassau (the two successor states/provinces of modern day Hessen) had Darmstadt and Kassel as capitals. Wiesbaden only became capital because the other two cities were completely destroyed by our "liberators). And Mainz was an important and big city in the newly founded Rhineland-Palatinate so thats the reason

[@A190xx]

On watching this video, I decided to visit Helsinki and Tallinn in one trip. The ferry is about 3 hours and it is €24 each way.

[@noahnatanson7571]

i thought of one, and although there is not much of any cooperation between them i think they could count as neighboring; its Seoul, South Korea and Pyongyang, North Korea

[@ondrejsacky3652]

What is important, after Budapest was conquered in turkish wars, Bratislava became for some time capital city of rest of Hungarian kingdom (1536-1784)

[@noamoks252]

Jerusalem Has been the capital of Israel since it independence and had all of the ministries. In the start it was only West Jerusalem, but after a bill that passed in 1980 the entirety of Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

[@thefrumview7944]

Yeah, and this guy's saying that Israel *just* moved its capital from Tel Aviv? No they didn't! The Israeli Parliament building was built in Jerusalem in 1966, and the Knesset been holding session there for over 50 years since. The only thing that changed is that many European countries stopped being worried about ticking off the Muslims

[@BS-vx8dg]

Has it? Under the original partition plant (1947) the UN was going to have Jerusalem as the shared capital of both the Jewish and Arab states, but (stupidly) they placed in within one of the Arab sections. So at independence, Tel Aviv ended up being the location of the capital. IIRC, Israel had *planned* to move to Jerusalem eventually, but the logistics of having one's capital as a (shared) enclave in the territory of a hostile neighbor was problematic. That problem was rendered largely moot when, during the War of Independence, Israel captured the western portion of Jerusalem, along with the land corridor to make it contiguous with the rest of the Jewish state. I think then it took a year or two for the government offices to move to Jerusalem, which is why in my comment made around the same time as yours, I told him Jerusalem had been Israel's capital since 1950.

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

​@@thefrumview7944lol

[@maxhatterschannel5140]

Not two countries, but the states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen within Germany have their capitals border eachother

[@willemkilian9563]

You could also have included Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, and one of the capitals of South Africa, Bloemfontein. They are roughly 150km apart by car (less as the crow flies), with a trip of less than 2 hours. There are road signs within the city limits of Bloemfontein that point to Maseru.

[@mikatu]

Capital is executive. The others don't count!

[@phileon2323]

Beirut/Damascus actually takes 2-3 hours, I know because I've done that trip a couple of times.

[@dustgreylynx]

Not countries, but German federal states: Wiesbaden & Mainz, Berlin & Potsdam. Also Budapest was once two cities, Buda & Pest, that merged together

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

Ja, ja, Bonn ist ja auch nur ein Vorort von Lisabonn?

[@cwnbn3226]

Berlin is also the result of two cities merged together

[@nickgotvyak5890]

I think Maputo example is stretching. Eswatini's capital is pretty far from the border, but the country is so small that no matter where the capital would be located, it would be close to Maputo. It's more of a case "Maputo is close to Eswatini's border"

[@C0ffeeF1ower]

FYI, tel aviv was only a temporary capital for a year since we fought for our independence and when the war ended we moved our capital back to Jerusalem where the majority of the government ministries + our parliament are.

[@pelegbb]

הגיע הזמן שתל אביב תחזור להיות הבירה לא?

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@C0ffeeF1ower]

@@pelegbb ממש לא

[@C0ffeeF1ower]

@@AhmadMuath-xn2es תצחק כמה שאתה רוצה אבל זוהי האמת.

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video!

[@eldar.r]

In the case of Israel Jerusalem is the capital since the beginning, there was a government decision to move everything to Jerusalem after building Kiryat HaMemshala

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

Lol

[@mikatu]

The capital is Tel Aviv and will always be!

[@talink6867]

@@mikatu because.. you said so?

[@sebastian_2697]

If you count Buenos Aires with Montevudeo - there are many capital of city with less distance between each others in Europe.

[@mistermakeralquds]

Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel since its independence in 1948. It is the seat of government since 1949 (in 1948-49 Jerusalem was under siege). The only ministry in Tel Aviv is the ministry of Defense

[@mogyi1839]

Skopje-Prishtina

[@cetusz_maximus2]

Fun fact, for many years 1541- 1849 (mainly during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary and a bit after) Bratislava was the Hungarian capital and coronation city. Only after the 1848 Revolution that it changed to Pest- Buda (1873 Budapest). I think the reason behind the growing importance of the city is that it's easy to monitor from Vienna and far from where the Ottoman Empire used to be

[@Suijiro99]

Ohhh this is a nice video idea ❤

[@Kurtlane]

Actually, Vienna, Bratislava (Pressburg) and Budapest are all very close to each other. Pressburg, for a while used to be the capital of Hungary, Budapest being occupied by Turkey. Now it's the capital of Slovakia and is called Bratislava.

[@PianistStefanBoetel]

The capitals of the two German States Hesse and Rheinland-Palatinate are also very close (Wiesbaden, Mainz) 😀

[@שמעוןאייזנברג-צ3כ]

10:05 Jerusalem is the capital of Israel not Tel Aviv every country can choose which city is her capital and we choose Jerusalem

[@AntoniThePiano]

*israel mentioned* comment section:

[@Yuumeda]

"Capital Cities, every country has one..." *Nauru enters the chat*

[@BS-vx8dg]

Correction: Ever country with at least two roads has a capital city.

[@grahamturner2640]

Another one you forgot and other people haven’t mentioned is Bloemfontein, South Africa, and Maseru, Lesotho, which are around 100 miles apart (closer than Montevideo and Buenos Aires), and have a relatively straight highway connection. Granted, it’s because of South Africa having 3 capital cities.

[@mikatu]

Bloemfontein is not the capital of SA.

[@grahamturner2640]

@@mikatu it's one of 3, as far as I'm aware.

[@JF-wp2rz]

You missed some pairs of capital cities (if you can count some cities with more than 200km distance) Manamah (Bahrain) and Doha (Qatar) are around 150km away from each other Bujumbura (Burundi) and Kigali (Rwanda) are around 180km away from each other Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) are also around 180km away from each other. Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Brussels (Belgium) are also around 180km away from each other Bern (Switzerland) and Vaduz (Liechtenstein) have a distance of around 160km Skopje (North Macedonia) and Pristina (Kosovo) have a distance of only around 75km. Skopje (North Macedonia) and Tirana (Albania) are around 150km away from each other. There's some more combinations in Europe, like Tirana and Podgorica. and I am not sure if that counts, but Dublin (Republic of Ireland) and Belfast (Northern Ireland) are arouns 140km away from each other great video idea though :)

[@dolevlitvin8904]

Israeli here. Jerusalem was Israel's capital since it was founded in 1948. The parliament building has also been there since 1949, and most governmental offices are located there (-:

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

Lol

[@djmhyde]

"capital cities, every country has one" nauru: hold my beer

Most governmental things are in Jerusalem for decades, only some more were moved recently maybe, it's the Israeli "pentagon" etc that is in Tel Aviv as well as most embassies. For sure Israel didn't "decide to move its capital to Jerusalem". It's claimed it as the capital since ever and indeed it mostly is (although I think TLV should be)

[@שמעוןאייזנברג-צ3כ]

Why Tel Aviv is nothing compared to Jerusalem it has no history no environment this one of the most expensive cities in the world and everybody in the country make jokes of this city

@@שמעוןאייזנברג-צ3כ That's... a very weird take

[@manolis67]

5:51 Montevideo was founded in 1726 by the Spanish governor of Buenos Aires, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala so as to counteract the Portuguese advance into the area from Brazil. Uruguay was firmly in the Spanish domain. Nonetheless, after the Napoleonic wars and the dethroning of Ferdinand VII Spanish colonies gained independence all across the Americas. At this point, not belonging to a strong european empire and being further divided between themselves, Spanish-speaking american countries were vulnerable to the strong USA and Brazil, who where formed by many colonies uniting. Hence, indipendent Brazil (it had nothing to do with the Portuguese) was able to incorporate the Cisplatine province in the same way that they obtained territories from Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Luckily, the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata (early argentina) demanded Brazil's withdrawal from what they saw as rightful rioplatense territory. Britain mediated and Uruguay was established as a buffer state. Therefore, as long as Europeans still ruled the Americas, Uruguay was 100% Spanish, and today it's a mainly Spanish-speaking country.

[@thebetterengie]

israels capital was always jerusalem, until 1967 it was west jerusalem, all the public offices are in jerusalem since 1949, palestines public offices are in ramallah while claiming east jerusalem as its capital

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

Lol

[@pottertheavenger1363]

Now make one for central capital cities, capital cities that are almost at the geographical center of their territories.

[@RoamingHeathen]

The intro was a very roundabout description for the phrase “adjacent international capitals”

[@BS-vx8dg]

Yeah, but most of them aren't really adjacent, so he had to go around the way that he did.

[@realdragao6367]

“Everyone has one” Switzerland: about that..

[@FarberBob678]

Tel-Aviv has never functioned as Israel's capital. The parliament, the supreme court, as well as the homes of the president and prime minister are all Jerusalem and have been there from the start. The confusion comes from the controversial nature of Israel's sovereignty of Jerusalem. The UN partition plan of 1947 designated Jerusalem as an international zone and split the rest of the land into an Arab and a Jewish state of roughly equal sizes. The plan ultimately failed as it was except by the Jewish leadership, but not the Arab. From the end of the Israeli-Arab war in 1949, Israel only controlled West Jerusalem, which became its de-facto capital. Israel took the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from the Jordanians in 1967. In 1980, the parliament passed a law declaring the now undivided Jerusalem to be Israel's official capitol. This was a de-facto annexation of East Jerusalem. In 1995 US congress passed a law declaring Jerusalem to be Israel's rightful capital and requiring the embassy in Tel-Aviv to be moved. The law also gave the president the ability to waive the movement every six months for national security reasons. The Trump administration would finally move the embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018. As of now, only a handful of countries have their official embassy in Jerusalem.

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

No

[@FarberBob678]

@@AhmadMuath-xn2es What did I say that was wrong? Can you elaborate?

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

@@FarberBob678 no

[@FarberBob678]

@@AhmadMuath-xn2es I want to know where I might've gone wrong, said something contested or false.

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

@@FarberBob678 no

[@AllanLimosin]

0:34 Latvia's capital city it technically not really on it's coast but rather on a river opening to the sea.

[@MyFiddlePlayer]

Just like Washington and London. It is very common to establish port cities at the fall line, where the river ceases to be navigable and you have to unload your ocean-going ships onto land transportation to get the products to their final destination.

[@eranshachar9954]

Just so you know the Israeli capital is Yerushalaim (Jerusalem) period! The claim of the PA to see Yerushalaim as their capital should never be respected. We took Yerushalaim since 1967 and it's ours ever since no matter if the world accept this or not, every country determine her own capital and not the UN. The PA has 2 capitals and the one that is close to ours is Ramallah (Hill of God). As for government you are wrong in your belief it's also in Yerushalaim. And yes we are very close to Amman as well and I am glad you mentioned it. Yerushalaim and Ramallah in ariel line is only 15 kilometers which is super short. Ramallah is to the north of Yerushalaim.

[@j.m.1538]

Luxembourg City - Brussels Brussels - Amsterdam You forgot

[@mvpmaster2127]

This video inspired me to search for more close capitals, and I can confirm Nigeria and Benin have their capitals both on the coast and are not far from one another.

[@RatRBLX]

This is... utterly wrong. You might be thinking of Lagos (note, LARGEST CITY not CAPITAL CITY) but the actual capital of Nigeria is Abuja, located in the centre of the country and has no sea borders. If you were to drive from Abuja to Porto Novo, it would take over 13 hours.

[@slyasleep]

„I can confirm“ 😂

[@rogink]

@@RatRBLX I was thinking of Benin - as it's so thin - and spotted Lagos close, but of course it's no longer capital of Nigeria. but in the other direction, Lome, the capital of Togo is around 190km from Porto Novo, and about the same from Accra in Ghana. My winner!

[@tgwitcomfr94]

Charlotte Amalie - Road Town (Virgin Islands - British Virgin Islands) 45 kms Conakry - Freetown (Guinea - Sierra Leone). Axe : Accra - Lomé - Porto-Novo - Lagos (Ghana - Togo - Benin - Nigeria) Djibouti - Aden (Djibouti - Yemen)

[@sydhenderson6753]

Lagos isn't the capital of Nigeria anymore.

[@elasmotherium12]

A correction on the Israel part: [West] Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since 1949, a year after its founding. Government buildings, including the Knesset (parliament) and the Supreme Court have always been situated in the city. East Jerusalem was conquered from Jordan in 1967 and annexed by Israel, but the Palestinians claim it as their capital as well, though their government facilities are situated in Ramallah.

[@kuroazrem5376]

I like that you have Preussens Gloria in the background.

[@evanneal4936]

The thing that bothers me about the Israel and Palestinian thing is that Palestine claims that they are fighting Israel for a right to a Palestinian homeland contry... but one already exists... its Lebanon! Ethnically Lebanon is mostly Palestinian while Israel is mostly Jewish, and jews lived there far longer than Palestinians until the ottomans kicked them out. What it is, is an ethnic clensing war against the independence of the Jewish state because they are offended that Israel is not Muslim. Its like if i decided there should be a independent German homeland in the middle of the United states since a lot of Germans live there, even though Germany already exists. instead of simply moving to Palestine, the Palestinians are either just being lazy and trying to create a unnecessary independent nation because they don't want to move...or they are intentionally trying to create conflict/ forcefully expanding their already existing borders. Either way its a serious problem for global stability. If Israel was really in the wrong then why do 95% of the world including the United states and great Britain support Israel?

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

No

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

The Mandate of Palestine after World War I included the Trans-Jordan and what is now claimed as the State of Israel

[@jacqueschouette7474]

The capitals of Liechtenstein (Vaduz) and Switzerland (Zurich) are about 110 km apart by car.

[@lunalingo4461]

Yo how y'all doing

[@inkhwon]

i wanna die

[@rpgbb]

This example doesn’t fall into this category but in Japan, Nara, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto are the closest former capitals within Japan