Every Map Lies To You - But Why?

[@c.g.5580]

“this map doesn’t care about your opinions” ow that hurt

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@thesalandarian3314]

C. G. Facts don’t care about your feelings. lol

[@DrClocktopus1]

Maps destroyed by facts and logic!

[@901Wolf]

Nothing cares about anytthing

[@901Wolf]

anything*

[@justnother_user]

When he’s educated and plays Minecraft 🥰

[@toastytoast9800]

He is enlightened

[@batwojtek8170]

True, 16th like

[@silursmq5511]

True, 21st like

[@batwojtek8170]

@@silursmq5511 nice

[@mcbella78]

💯💯 The whole reason I started watching his videos regularly... I had one of his previous live streams on my TV....I was in the kitchen and I heard him talking and I'm like, "who is this educated Minecraft dude?!?" It's a so refreshing... I absolute love listening to him talk.... Ever since, I have his notifications on all. 😁

[@vladprus4019]

"Germany can't just invade Czechoslovakia" *1938 flashbacks*

[@epicgamer-nt9dk]

@Cairo Andres isnt it so convenient that both of your accounts were made on the same day

[@Polska_Edits]

@Claudette Birely hey your a bot cuz i saw this same comment yesteeday

[@eggrobo]

Czechia invades Kaliningrad

[@Mr.FrostyApple]

10:07 Sorry toycat who in the world would ever consider that as purple instead of red?!

[@yulin84]

ikr toycat colorblind?

[@max_me_is]

colorblind people

[@iguicc]

That looks like purple to me

[@yulin84]

@@iguicc youre colorblind

[@nikitap957]

Yeah purple can mean red in eng sometimes if I remember correctly. Theres a color called purpure, that can be said as purple too. And its more like red than actual purple. Ps. I could be wrong tho Upd. Googled it, most popular name for this color is magenta. In Russia tho we call it "пурпурный" - purpurny, which is basically purpure. Or I am just overthinking it and he's colorblind

[@fidelcastro1537]

“This map doesn’t care about your feelings” ibx- Shapiro

[@duffal0]

9:12 actually, someone had an AMA who lives in Crimea. They said nearly everyone they knew wanted to be a part of Russia, and Crimea was basically unofficially Russian before Russia officially took over. The traditions and language were all Russian, and the people related more with Russia than Ukraine. It was a very interesting AMA if you didn’t see it.

[@izaactheberean6860]

@@duffal0 What is AMA?

[@duffal0]

@@izaactheberean6860 alabama midget age

[@zionj104]

@@izaactheberean6860 ask me anything

[@Oilerator_]

Sealand isn't on the map which is disgraceful

[@lama99654]

Sealanders rise up

[@BeingTheHunt]

I think when it was occupied there would have been a good argument to have it on this map as it's not really any different to any other occupied place shown but I think the platform has now been abandoned.

[@benjaminpujol711]

Does that mean I have lost my lordship

[@nielsreyngoud2870]

I love this! My stance is that ‘de facto’ being a country is the only proper definition of being a country. This amazing map shows all these places properly. Can’t wait to explore some unrecognised territories some more!

[@4u_lightningwolf]

they are like parents, lying for safety

[@1God1Fury]

More often than not lying to maintain control.

[@lelandunruh7896]

I've been to both Kosovo and Transnistria. I consider the former a full-fledged country, and the latter a cute little breakaway republic that really belongs to Moldova. Explaining why would likely take me at least 15 minutes to do it justice, which may explain why we so seldom talk about these things!

[@cuff1626]

I've never seen the toycat country so every map is wrong

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@peleg462]

@@RetrX1 eat underwear

[@Dmcs1917]

RetrX eat undergarment

[@coolingheat5644]

RetrX eat me

[@RetrX1]

Cooling Heat no you play fortnite. To toxic.

[@Callus_]

Genuinely love the long map videos. I always watch when i get into bed after a long day and i find it weirdly relaxing and it gives me a funny 'brain tingle' i call it. So you must continue them to make sure i have my nightly brain tingles!

[@CrotchetRest]

Same here. The only disadvantage is, that I'd like to close my eyes and just listen, but listening to a talk about maps kind of requires looking at a map that is being talked about. 😀

[@exercitus8535]

"Every map lies to you" Shows the map that doesn't

[@gurrrn1102]

And proceeds to lie about it, by omission 😊

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

In other words, every map sits on a throne of lies

[@okokok1178]

Avery the Cuban-American yep

[@MidwestArtMan]

What is a map? (flings wine glass aside) A miserable little pile of secrets! -Dracula, cartographer

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@josephmartinez3109]

I see you everywhere lol

[@ES-mw8dt]

Oml, Stop commenting

[@okokok1178]

Hi toycat! I love your videos. Geography is something I am so interested in and so is languages. Thanks for great content!

[@Elegia-rh2uh]

"Now that we've started a war in the comments section..." Isn't that what makes the video better? Spicy comment wars are where its at 😂

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@equaius893]

ireland is rightfully British and should be reconquered imma just go into the bomb shelter and watch the show

[@Dmcs1917]

Equaius ireland is free and will never be your puppet again, tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lizardlegend42]

@@equaius893 England was Celtic territory before the Romans, Germans and Normans invaded, England is rightfully Irish/Celtic and should be reconquered!

[@bocbinsgames6745]

@@lizardlegend42 France is rightfully British Territory!

[@kevalan1042]

You should do a video on the mysterious "Tartaria", which is present on many old maps, and has a bunch of people thinking it used to be a huge entity to be stamped out of history

[@gruaim]

Also “hy-brasil” off the west coast of Ireland, it appeared on maps for hundreds of years

[@xevicho9110]

Psychologist: *Serbia, Kosovo doesent exist.* Kosovo: *kind of exists*

[@Nlapin]

I mean I have a friend who's from Serbia and apparently the young generation doesn't really care about Kosovo and even say its it own thing and that when the old people are gonna die Kosovo gonna be on it's own

[@nemanjaradojcic4155]

@@Nlapin i am from serbia, kosovo is just part.

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

@@nemanjaradojcic4155 not really

[@Nlapin]

@@nemanjaradojcic4155 I mean Serbia wanna join the EU and EU basically said let go of Kosovo and you can join (Serbia is expected to join the EU for 2025 with 5 other nations and maybe Kosovo)

[@ognjenmarinkovic2653]

I am from Serbia, but im not gonna be an idiot whos gonna be like ItS SerBia!!!!!!! Everyone has their opinion here, u can say its not Serbia and just keep spamming it to everyone who thinks differently. So ye everyone has their opinion

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

I found this a really useful and interesting, would very much like more of these videos. Whatever interests you, interests your viewers...it's why we're here.

[@pauljackson3491]

If the "owning" country needs to acknolege (sp) the break-away country with a treaty then does that mean the US wasn't a country in 1776 but 1783 with the Treaty or Paris.

[@lincolnlog5977]

It depends on your point of view.

[@kacperwoch4368]

@@lincolnlog5977 The same goes for many countries that declared independence after WWI in 1918 but were recognized in 1919. Officially they became countries in 1919 despite the fact that their governments had already most of the territory under control and de facto functioned as countries since 1918.

[@TheLocalLt]

@@kacperwoch4368 yep theres actually a video following all of that that using this Apolotical World Map, it’s “the collapse of Austria Hungary and the Almost Anschluss” on the Wayback history channel

[@dylreesYT]

"If you didn't enjoy the video and you made it this far- that's on you" hahahaha

[@equaius893]

9:07 "nOOOO you can't just take part of Ukraine without permission of the international committee!!" "haha Crimea go brrr"

[@pranavkondapalli9306]

nice

[@joshuacarre06]

Yes it lies Germany doesent have many germs

[@inactive859]

My life is a lie :((((((

[@cn7032]

Maps are like teachers, they both lie to you and see occasionally instructive.

[@connerb1292]

The video on china vs tiawan would be awesome! Love the videos stumbled on them during quarantine and I'm hooked!

[@classicrosyfan1682]

i used to watch this guy's minecraft videos when i was a kid but now i'm just sticking around because i find geography interesting

[@a_person_of_all_time]

Toycat:Every Map Lies To You me:How many other lies have i been told by the counsil

[@pakshalshah8934]

The war in the comment section you talked about; it's purple vs red. Bring it on people. I say it's purple too.

[@yoyoman_blue6485]

How is it purple?! It's clearly blue!!

[@milesremmel]

It’s red.

[@cllego]

i already know this because everything in my life is a lie

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@prussianmapping9149]

@@RetrX1 Connor eats those

[@gedgar]

comrade Lego

[@7lllll]

this is definitely more accurate than any of the politicized maps. they should make a list of countries in existence according to this map. that's something i searched for for quite some time

[@SuraiginOfficial]

Toycat: "Easter Island is unnaturally far from the Chilean mainland" *meanwhile Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Anguilla, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a freaking piece of Antarctica and many other British overseas territories*: am i a joke to you?

[@User-dyn]

Actually the common world map is called a "de jure" ("by law") map which shows what is internationally recognised as the borders (which is complicated cause not everyone agrees on everything) while the "apolitical world map" is an attempt at a de facto map which tells what is actually happening regardless of law which also has its own advantages and disadvantages and is far less common

[@guspeniche]

Anyone has a link to the map?

[@theodorepinnock1517]

I was honestly expecting this to be about map projections and the whole thing about how trying to depict the curved surface of a 3D object on a 2D surface introduces inaccuracy to the shapes and sizes shown for landmasses, but no, it's politics.

[@comradeedwin1006]

Love your videos! Keep the great work up!

[@ibx2cat]

Thanks so much!

[@jjosephs6521]

7:20 what is this 1939 hahahah

[@tengkualiff]

One of the few youtubers who are completely fine with showing their revenues. You definitely earned each cent mah dude

[@SmashingCapital]

Showing revenue from youtube goes against tos

[@Hamboarding]

Oh, thanks for leading me to this website. Great video as always! Hope we can all travel again soon!

[@briocheoleary5043]

This is the best geopolitical map porn I’ve ever seen.. I think I’ve enjoyed it as much as : The Economist’s yearbook.... Please do more.. Btw, wouldn’t it be cool to see maps of the world . Where you can see what the countries would look like if they had every inch of territory they claim(including territorial waters)...

[@jimcollins8899]

Let's talk about the middle East Toycat sighs

[@blazewolf8266]

Guess he just hates controversy

[@kind6106]

Toycat: Says Denmark Has a King Danes: Noo We Have a Queen >:( Stupid Amarican in The Corner: i didnt Know They had a Monarch

[@TrueLimeyhoney]

As an American I love the story of how Denmark changed to a constitutional monarchy. “That was nice. Now I can sleep in the mornings.”

[@Daisythepage]

I’m in Maine so I could sail to the French island and now I want to

[@damasek219]

11:40 I wish there was a Dark Side party, that would be interesting

[@toastytoast9800]

I am the senate!

[@binancehighlights4038]

Also Darth Wader was a candidate at the 2014 presidential elections in Ukraine

[@damasek219]

@@binancehighlights4038 and what was his program? Playing darts?

[@binancehighlights4038]

@@damasek219 build a Death Star.. I gues...

[@deanolovesthemonkey]

Yes make more , go in depth at these places that have contention

[@furrykittens9312]

Me: I know a bit about Israel/Palestine, Serbia/Kosovo, the Crimean Peninsula...I'm really starting to understand the world better through toycat videos! Central African Republic: Pathetic. 20:35

[@sneakyfunknut]

I’m actually surprised they added Donetsk and Luhansk as they are always overlooked

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

9:05 They did have a referendum on Crimea. Some claim it was staged some say it's legit ... but it's basically the same situation with Kosovo

[@thatasianbythestreet1082]

Central African Republic, South Sudan and Afghanistan: I don't feel so good...

[@davidr21]

I love how transparent you are. You're very knowledgeable!

[@Laughterhouse5]

Toycat be putting Map Men out of business

[@James-zh2qy]

Where can you find this map?

[@NautyCat]

On the subreddit in the descriptions.

[@pedromendesrbd]

Just the fact that it doesn't use the horrible mercator projection is great

[@n00n1n]

I like your Minecraft videos but I love your geography videos even more.

[@the8thgemmer467]

Nicaragua recognises Colombia’s sovereignty over San Andreas because of a judgement of the World Court since 2010.

[@JovanLemon]

You managed to not start a war about kosovo, weirdly enough, i think the majority if serbia has just accepted the fact that kosovo is more or less independent now

[@lizardlegend42]

Just wait, any moment now the Serbian army will be alerted to the video. I was literally on r/askreddit yesterday and someone just mentioned that they lived in Kosovo. I swear the entire population of Serbia angrily replied to him.

[@englandcountryhuman8588]

@lizard ledgend I’m now picturing the entirety of Serbia on one giant group chat, and someone just going on it saying “I FOUND A SOMEBODY WHO SAYS THEY’RE FROM KOSOVO LETS GET THEM” and then just giving a link to the post

[@DelijeSerbia]

So you think Serbia should accept that a region that was a center of its state, full of cultural history/legacy is now a separate country ruled by a drug cartel? Should it also let them finish off ethnically cleaning the region from those Serbs that are still living there? Should it also let them destroy medieval churches that they didnt burn in the last few years? And do you think Serbia should let them rewrite history and let them claim it as Albanian?

[@JovanLemon]

@@DelijeSerbia look, i am not saying that i am a fan of that, i am just stating the facts because the country, like you kind of mentioned, has its own goverment, and has made borders with us, so technically they are kind of independent... When i visit my relatives in kosovo, i have to go through a border check just like with any other country, same with leaving... Again, im not saying that im a fan of that, but i am not a fan of the rest of our population just constsntly scouting out people mentioning kosovo and just bombarding then with comments about kosovo being serbia, because it does not help whatsoever, it just makes people hate us more, and side with kosovo's independence more

[@JovanLemon]

@ოფლიან დიკ and sad, because even i am getting sick of it, and lets not talk about foreign people who more or less think were a terroristic nation that kills anyone who dares enter it, because this helps it even less

[@NeverwascooL]

If KZbin ever collapses Andrew has a future as a Geography teacher

[@KiwiKrazyable]

toycat gets more balsy everyday I’m here for it

[@nadiequintero9981]

5:35 I was not aware that such a part of Mexico existed. It may refer to some towns controlled by EZLN (Escuadrón Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) or another group like that, but as far as I'm aware of, that is still Mexican territory where the government has some sort of influence. I'm surprised by the size of it though.

[@likeabossk4055]

thanks for making an accurate map and recognize some country's that aren't there in other maps. Tho i might not agree on all the politics but you still put the country's in that is not recognized by most country's in the world.

[@timo5967]

I LOVE MAPS So yes please more map videos

[@pedromendesrbd]

You should make a video about the fun fact that only four countries are completely south of the capricorn: Uruguay, New Zealand, Eswatini and Lesotho and spot a light on them

[@lordseptomus441]

Love this content, stay awesome.

[@squidgypollard1561]

This was pretty interesting. I enjoyed it

[@prestonbeaulieu4379]

Also, colab with Mr. Beat would probably be cool.

[@theimpostor4317]

“The place with all these scary beheadings and videos of people burning alive happen”. He said, with a smile on his face

[@nadavsagi8019]

The real situation in the west Bank is that Palestinian Territory are a few major arab cities (Territory A) and the rest is israel

[@ii-ux5xf]

It is more complicated. *A territories* - in the complete control of the palastenian atheority (ashaf). *B territories* - in control of both Israel and the PA (palastenian atheority). *C territories* - in the complete control of Israel. *Gaza* - on paper in the PAs control, in actuality in the complete control of *Hamas*

[@birchtainer257]

Where is the apolitical world map?

[@krissmgvlogs]

The first thing I did, when I discovered your channel, was search for my homeland, Grenada in the Caribbean, NOTHING!!!! 😂

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

where do i download this map?

[@obvioustroll.yetyoustillgo1634]

Where can i look at this map?

[@connorcmusician]

id pay to hear you talk about maps like this for hours

[@alfieinnit6859]

Love ur content always watched it keep it up m8 I hope you get a million subs

[@aloosecannon2982]

I love the way at around 1:13 his head is covering australia. It does not exist

[@danielmcdaniel1250]

this reminds me a lot of when spain told france to look after the louisiana purchase for them and then napoleon sold it to Jefferson immediately even tho he didn’t own it he just militarily controlled it.

[@duckswearcrocs3637]

I would love to see you make a video talking about bridges. Perhaps ‘British man explains the top 50 longest bridges in the world’ or something of the sort

[@tobiashinrichs5795]

Please do more map videos and it would be awesome if youd do one about the two chinas

[@haravhagoyonhmasmidmenache9020]

I liked this very much, continue with the good work!

[@will0-03]

VERY FUN TOY C. picking geography for gcse mainly because of you. Wish me luck :p

[@Cybernaut551]

This is a really intriguing world tour!

[@alihaleem8264]

Where's a link to the map?

[@NautyCat]

On the subreddit in the descriptions.

[@tazz1669]

Thanks always interesting, with bonus content at the end :)

[@fassbrause0076]

You didn't put the link in the description.

[@NautyCat]

On the subreddit in the descriptions...

[@Tris2000]

Huge omission - Puntland not included. If they have Somaliland, they should also have Puntland.

[@wm-j1344]

I love this Chanel

[@truffles]

put map in the description!!!

[@tagiatella1]

A Brit saying it's odd how far Christmas island is from Chile.

[@CarnivorousMonster]

How come in some areas of the map, where a piece of land is split off from the 'mainland' it sometimes has the national flag who owns it, or sometimes the states/region flag? Does it mainly depend on if it's a federal country or not? E.g. for Alaska, it doesn't show the US flag but the Alaskan flag. While island countries show the countries flag.

[@wheelwood967]

2:22 "Did you just disrespect the great Queen of our beautiful nation?"

[@AlvinBalvin321]

I really like this

[@ЖаннаРозвод]

".....where we talk about geography and the world and stuff" stick to your routine, man

[@prestonbeaulieu4379]

I watched through the whole video just waiting to hear you talk about Taiwan.

[@Ghostdrums21]

GIVE MAP LINK

[@Fredreegz]

7:25 The idea that 'might makes right' isn't a thing is a nice idea, but at the end of the day it all comes down to subjective international recognition. If Germany invades the Czech Republic and the rest of the world recognises that as being part of Germany, then hey presto, Germany got away with it. Same thing for the PRC annexing Tibet or Israel annexing the Golan Heights or North Vietnam annexing South Vietnam. 'Might' can be used to change a de facto situation, and the biased, subjective nature of de jure international law often then accommodates this. Case and point; when in 1979 the USA de-recognised Taiwan in order to recognise the ascendent PRC when it became geopolitically advantageous to do so. It all depends on the subjective interests of the third-part observer nation, and basically nothing to do with 'justice'.

[@toasterbread]

3 hours later and Toycat didn't fix the description to have a link to the map

[@hughaskew6550]

I assumed from the title that you were going to talk about the intentional errors in every street map.

[@ericp0012]

This is basically a map how most people want to see the world... with the exception of a few people/ groups.

[@yoyoman_blue6485]

What about my claim on Antarctica

[@lucrobinson5610]

You should do a map video on world religions

[@AdoubsYT]

What's the link to this map?

[@orachi3253]

There's a challenge called "how many cities can you name in europe" (search in "geowizard" channel), with a timer of an hour

[@itsjustjoeydontworry]

New title: Territories that may or may not be territories of other places, but we aren’t gonna talk about it so I don’t have foreign governments come after me