What is the LARGEST city nobody talks about? (Geography Now)

[@GeographyNow]

The largest cities on Earth are usually the most popular. but sometimes, without realizing it, 13 million people slip right under your radar. What is the LARGEST city nobody talks about? Consider my proposal. ENJOY!

[@mahmoudfadlaala1918]

don't ruin the uae episode

[@TheReal99Gamer]

well in terms of area i would say Hulun Buir

[@dusanpredic5274]

I can’t wait until the Serbia episode let’s just hope there’s not a comment war on that vid lol

[@focus_qwerty7820]

Geography Now what are you gonna do when you are done with all the countries and all the rest are you gonna do a part 2 beacouse very much is gonna change

[@charliesands3203]

can your next filler week episode be on sports that are only played in one country for example gaelic and hurling in Ireland and kabbadi in bangladesh

[@olitor2004]

Talking about Democratic Republic of Kongo: * Belgium is getting sweaty *

[@roan2288]

Shhhh no tears only rubber now.

[@jona7357]

Roan van Tilburg is... is that a threat?

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

congo*

[@ellis2139]

Where's King Leopold at?

[@jakubpociecha8819]

That's pretty much the only thing people from outside the DRC know the DRC for xd

[@frisianmouve]

Amsterdam might be the most talked about city under 1 million

[@clorox1676]

I don't think so. Venice is way, way more popular in tourism and media and has less than half Amsterdam's population.

[@frisianmouve]

@@clorox1676 Very well might be, I was thinking it might be Jerusalem after I posted that comment

[@Xoxoalwaysandforever]

I would say Washington DC 🤷‍♂️

[@clorox1676]

@@Xoxoalwaysandforever Well, let's see if it still exists in a couple of weeks or ends up burned to the ground XD

[@Xoxoalwaysandforever]

Paul V. Clemens isn’t Venice sinking? 😂

[@rohaller]

Onitsha in Nigeria is a city with almost 8 million residents almost no one knows about. I know it is not a megacity but it is stil pretty big.

[@lazer_kiw1]

Onitsha goes under the radar since their official population is only around 250k, most people live outside of the official city limits, however the urban area has almost 8M. De facto that makes them the second largest city in Nigeria. Also Lagos steals the spotlight, and the tiny bits of spotlight that remain are on the capital, Abuja. Onitsha don't have the clout that comes from being a capital that Kinshasa and Dhaka have. Definitely worthy of the title "Biggest city nobody talks about."

[@lazer_kiw1]

@@sarveedahassan3723 And your point? That doesn't make it any smaller.

[@hezekiahgab4490]

Also, its in the list of most polluted cities

[@KIJIKLIPS]

@@lazer_kiw1 no it only makes it bigger in fact

[@senodhjayasinghe3019]

@@sarveedahassan3723 Nobody said it was 'developed'.

[@SauceKingg]

Personally I feel like a lot of those Chinese cities were less well known

[@onirione]

The Lone Ranger I think that it’s just less people outside of China know while a lot more in China know and China’s population is so big that means a lot more people know . While the drc in general is just a country that flies under the radar.

[@carolwan7537]

Like Wuhan before this covid thing

[@antal4s]

@@carolwan7537 Nah, this is not the first time a plague came out of that damned city, look it up.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

100% agree, no one outside the region typically knows of some of China's smaller mega cities

[@deanfirnatine7814]

@@onirione Yes the fact there are SO MANY Chinese skew the data he was using, but outside China almost no one knows those cities

[@anssisarvi4211]

Make video of the smallest cities that everybody talks about.

[@TheeArson]

Vatican City lol

[@ChrisWachtler]

Easy: Vatican or Davos

[@patrickseidel218]

Rammstein😂

[@epicrandomperson1998]

Southern England has a lot of very famous but quite small cities. Oxford, Cambridge, Bath and Canterbury all come to mind

[@mateoito8266]

Anssi Sarvi gibraltar, rejkjavik

[@into_the_void]

Never heard about this ' London ' place .. Sounds exotic

[@onirione]

Vivek it has arid weather

[@Phoenix_The_HeroHater]

London is a constituent country England is London’s City

[@searchingforlostatoms7191]

It's an obscure little town in SE England. They made a play years ago called 'Oliver Twist'. That seems to be it's only claim to fame

[@glencapshaw677]

New York? Must be very new 🤷

[@SCP--rj8hm]

Try London Ontario.

[@harounbraik868]

In Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei,Samoa ,the Philippines ,and other countries speaking an austronesian language, everybody knows Lima ,because that means five in their language

[@carlosmacamus4456]

In philipines too haha

[@danieltnc]

Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei as well

[@TGDCChannel]

Most Austronesian languages uses Lima for five, including Samoa.

[@LustWaffel]

In Finnish Lima means slime. I had a good laugh when I first heard it.

[@fakuri913]

Yo, when I was a child I always think they have another city called 4,3,2,1 too lol

[@amaurygantet555]

As a French I feel like we really know about Kinshasa, the Congolese diaspora is kinda influential in France thanks to musicians (mainly rappers)

[@saki4031]

🖖🏽 + 🕶️ ?

[@manaspradhan8041]

@@saki4031 Spock+sunglasses?

[@mbrrrrr]

@@saki4031 toi-même tu sais

[@willbenson2253]

I have no idea why but stuff like as a French or English sounds so weird but as an American or Russian doesn’t, for some reason the an at the end makes it sound normal

[@manaspradhan8041]

@@willbenson2253 yeh it's technically supposed to be 'as an Englishman/frenchman' that's probably the reason it sounds weird

[@theclariceworld]

Born and raised in Kinshasa, true Kinois...You did quite well in presenting our city and explaining why nobody talked about it. Indeed the country has been in trouble basically since the independence, Kinshasa is one of the very few place in Congo which is kinda developped, have some infrastructures and not even all the city... A really shame cause the potential is massive. Let's hope things will get better with the diaspora .

[@davfb8622]

Maybe it has less of a social media presence but it’s in a lot of books. It’s always present when you read about Africa.

[@sapereaude3356]

Diaspora never benefits, furthermore they can harm the reputation of a nation by their shitty behavior at foreign countries.

[@Johan91NL]

The whole world knows the city i think, he is so wrong. In English the country is also known as Congo-Kinshasa. Same in my mother tongue.

[@yonniiisan]

Drc is basically a very rich country France and European powers would do everything to get a hand over your ressources and that's why there are a lot of trouble there

[@lonelycrona2388]

@@Johan91NL No. Maybe people like you and me who are interested in geography know it, but ask some people on the streets and I bet not even a quarter of them will know Kinshasa

[@JoaquinMartinezKeen]

"No one talks about Kinshasa" *Belgium intensifies*

[@echt114]

Everyone's heard of Belgium. No one's heard of Kinshasa.

[@echt114]

@@schlossburg985 Is it 1960 where you live?

[@echt114]

@@schlossburg985 I got the reference but it didn't seem like much of a joke. I was mostly responding to it in combination with "what's Belgium" above.

[@julescoppens2169]

To be fair, in a Belgian perspective, Dhaka and Kinshasa would definitely be turned around. I would even say more Belgians know about Kinshasa than Lima, Bogota and potentially even Manila. This is though, a very subjective video, for which the answer mostly differs due to how and where people grew up.

[@sieteocho]

How come nobody mentioned "Rumble in the Jungle"?

[@TheGameHub]

i love how he's holding it just looks like a comically small sized microphone and its hilarious

[@kknives36]

Real talk, I said before the video started “It’s either Dhaka or Bogota but I’ll watch the whole thing just to see if I’m right.” Then when you revealed the actual city I thought “Actually yeah, I’m a History and Geography fanatic and even I don’t really think of that place.”

[@armandoaraujo7289]

My first instinct was Addis Ababa but yeah I know even less about Kinshasa and Dhaka than I do about Ethiopia

[@mirzaaljic]

- Mom can we go visit Paris? Mom: But we have Paris at home Paris at home: Kinshasa

[@unbonfrancophone1539]

Mīrzā Le Paris d’Afrique

[@allensnea9335]

MDR....oui, Kinshasa est le Paris de l’afrique.

[@allensnea9335]

MDR....oui, Kinshasa est le Paris de l’afrique.

[@opale165]

Blue Fire Y’a des villes bien plus ressemblantes à paris que kinshasa qui est sous développée

[@Biobele]

Kinshasa is better than Paris to me personally.

[@rossellinirossicalrossc3507]

I would say that those Chinese cities you mentioned aren’t very well know at all - Beijing and Shanghai are definitely the only Chinese cities MANY people know about

[@charlessmith424]

I'm pretty sure people know about Wuhan now

[@somekek6734]

I think he's coming from an international, not a western perspective here. These cities are probably a no brainer for Asian people, whilst they might have never heard of sao paolo.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@somekek6734 Nonsense. People in western, central and southern Asia don't know anything about those random Chinese cities.

[@tomm7511]

In year 8 we had to pick and research a mega city, everyone chose New York, London, Paris, Jakarta. The people in my class made fun of me when I picked Kinshasa as they thought it was too hard for me to do. I was the only one who got an A.

[@IVaV1]

epic

[@ibfthn2538]

Proud of you

[@jakobbjuro90]

Haha good job

[@levileahsunico9461]

Ha Nice job being unique

[@prodcwn]

r/thathappened

[@FairyCRat]

I remember looking up what would be the most isolated "decent-sized" city (ie over 100,000 people), thinking it might be a hidden gem with few tourists. Very disappointed when I saw it was Honolulu. Also, saying Kinshasa is the largest Francophone city and that the DRC is the largest Francophone country is kinda misleading, since only half of all DR-Congolese speak French, and while the percentage in Kinshasa is certainly higher, it's still less used than Lingala, which is the actual main spoken language of the city and surrounding area.

[@aronbouma4755]

I think he means that the DRC is the largest country by population that recognizes French as an official language, next to Lingala. Not the amount of French speakers within the country.

[@SenoZK_53170]

Lol i think you saw HAI's video on it, i was dissapointed too and i'm saying this from a HAI fan.

[@eldiantre7346]

Funfact: Hawaii is over 2,000mi from the US mainland and over 3,000mi from Japan.

[@xuhuiming2694]

Yeah I think Half as Interesting has a video on most isolated large city and it was Honolulu.

[@vexxcon8125]

I'm from Erbil(Hawler), Kurdistan Region Of Iraq, The Population of erbil is around 870K to 900K, But I don't really see a lot of tourists, but they do come around seasonally.

[@spartanboi1029]

Kinshasa is basically that city in cities skylines that is very packed but with only a stadium, dog parks, and a few tennis courts.

[@yousef45]

Barby: The peak of tourism was in 2016 with 360k tourists Me: Wasn’t that also the same year when he did the DRC episode must have been a factor

[@fil2337]

Crazy to think my small city has more tourists than this massive megapolis

[@Thicc01as]

LordCoffee where you from

[@fil2337]

@@Thicc01as Brasov

[@Amghannam]

@@fil2337 I've been to Brasov lol, and I'm not Romanian. But I did live in Romania (in Cluj) 4 years, so I went there during that time.

[@bigsouth010]

LordCoffee ahhh Romania the land of Gypsy’s.

[@samfm5244]

I have watched one video and im already in love with this channel

[@MannBilimoria]

Ngl, when he didn't mention Kinshasa with Lagos and Cairo I immediately got suspicious and thought that it might show up. Wasn't mistaken

[@Max-ns8lc]

Yeah

[@ylliks7844]

Kinshasa is interesting actually when you included Kinshasa-Brazzaville metropolitan area

[@butter3772]

@@jankersting Warum das ?

[@butter3772]

@@jankersting Man bist du heute witzig,hast mich grandios reingelegt du Schelm

[@joermnyc]

Have hey ever built that bridge between the two cities?

[@triehe]

ylliks Kinshasa and Brazzaville aren’t 1 metropolitan area. The border between them means a metropolitan area can’t be formed. The same applies to an urban area, as a unified labour market and ease of travel don’t exist

[@lewatoaofair2522]

Except that there isn’t a single bridge connecting the two cities. So, can it really count if the two cities have difficulty accessing each other?

[@aweslayne]

It’s Manila not “Manilla”. It sounds like Vanilla😄

[@cerebrofromroguelites2967]

So now we have Vanilla Manilla on top of Chocolate Hills and a bunch of Rocky Roads

[@jamesyates4836]

I read it the same each way. How are you supposed to pronounce

[@travel9two557]

So is it pronounced Potato....or potato? Tomato......or tomato? 🤔 Bottom line same thing! 😑

[@ryy1704]

@@travel9two557 i say tomarto

[@marest666]

I think it was intentional . Misspellings are quite rampant in GN. I'd say with its fast talk style, spelling errors is just one way to make them known and recongnizable.

[@yannmondehard4171]

As a French with lots of Africans in my entourage, I'm surprised that Kinshasa ranks n°1. But it may be because we speak the same language so we've got a lot of immigration and also as I said, it's my personal experience.

[@NotASummoner]

Both of these cities seem quite well known imo. Chonqing and Xiamen are way less known.

[@Poutrel]

I'd argue that sometimes the Congos are referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa" and "Congo-Brazzaville", at least in french, though this is quite deprecated now.

[@siononalundula1699]

There are referred to as such. But they’re the official names of the countries tho. And there’s kind of a rivalry between our two nations when we each claim the name as just ours. Us Congolese from the DRC are just patiently waiting for them to realize that we’re much larger and have a much larger population and a better known history than them worldwide, and that they should just give up the name.

[@blanco7726]

Ah mais oui c’est pour ca je me demandais pourquoi les anglophones connaissent pas mais la plupart des francophones oui

[@Amghannam]

Yeah, that's how most Congolese here in Belgium refer to their country, they say Congo-Kinshasa. And if they mean the other one, they say Congo-Brazzaville.

[@mitya908]

Barbs! I would love to see more "thesis-type" videos. Love it, you're diligent with your research but 10 times more compelling than most in higher ed and academia

[@adcparker]

I heard that Kinshasa could overtake Tokyo in the next twenty years or so to claim the title for largest city. Very much on the rise.

[@blanco7726]

ParkerSCenter I think Lagos is predicted to remain larger than Kinshasa. Also Dar es Salaam is projected to be up there I think the three are pretty close together in most predictions.

[@sereysothe.a]

ParkerSCenter not exactly a positive thing though. although maybe in 20 years infrastructure and services in the DRC will be more well suited to support that many people

[@echoplots8058]

Let that sink in. The biggest and one of the most talked-about cities in the world is overtaken by a complete underdog. A vast metropolitan area that most people wouldn't be able to find on a map. I think it's time Africa gets way more worldwide attention, not just for its problems, but for its culture, its people and economic potential.

[@sachinnair3927]

Delhi not on the list.....but it hold 2nd position after Tokyo and can easily claim the top spot if Delhi merge with the Neighbouring Gurugram ..

[@blanco7726]

Sachin Fcb as far as I know most predictions only put African cities at the top positions after like 2050, maybe even later. In the meantime Delhi will probably overtake Tokyo and only be overtaken by African cities later in the 50s, 60s, 70s

[@arnvpanda8042]

I am an Indian but I know about Kinshasa for a long long time may be because I have interest in geography but I didn't know that this city is a mega city, impressive.

[@YogeshSharma-iu3le]

I think nobody knows about heyderabad mega city even after this video

[@gologe3328]

@@YogeshSharma-iu3le I do

[@kaushiksaikadali7460]

@@gologe3328 Golconda those days was famous for the diamonds and the pearls. The Europeans used to be familiar with the name, and there are some places even in America that have that name. However, Hyderabad isn't much known yet. Even to Indians, it was long known as Bengaluru's rival in tech or the intolerant stuff, that itself shows how ignored it was.

[@drramniwashsharma6713]

I now Kinshasa because ramble of jungle

[@rajendragrandhi4818]

Same here with me!

[@davetissue]

I went to high school in Africa so naturally we talk about those big cities in Subsaharan Africa in geo class. Like how Joburg and Lagos are the "economical capitals", Addis and Nairobi are the "political capitals", Maputo being the butt of jokes, and the only thing we know about Kinshasa is it's really populous and that's about it 😂

[@knockhello2604]

Another Chinese for plunder

[@saturnz428]

Why is Maputo the butt of jokes?

[@davetissue]

@@saturnz428 I guess it's because we have quite a lot of Mozambicans in the class that talk trash about their capital, and it's said to be objectively a badly managed city that we only hear bad things about 😂

[@SabzKhumalo]

Maputo is not a joke...it is the number 1 tourist destination for South Africans who are on a budget. It has been that way for yonks

[@robertjarman3703]

How about Lusaka?

[@mrstealyokid9060]

There’s a town in australia called Wollongong, and literally nobody knows of its existence and it’s got 200,000 residents even among Australians (Edit) im Talking about More of an American audience who think That Wollongong is just a Part of Sydney, please stop arguing in the comments

[@matiasfraire437]

Yakuza 863 yes I know it it’s pretty famous now at least in the basketball community as Lamelo Ball played there

[@ellis2139]

I knew of it and in from England

[@Uvevwevwevwe]

Most people here in Sydney know about the city, same with Newcastle

[@tonislavad]

what about varna,bulgaria ? you havent heard of it,but its 450 000 people

[@alexandreman8601]

well it's not a lot,

[@luweng09]

Dhaka being more known through the newest Netflix movie “Extraction” with Chris Hemsworth, directed by Joe Russo

[@adityapawar1616]

Lucas Weng after the movie I’m sure the tourism is gonna decrease further😅

[@hirwaissa6643]

Correction: The movie was directed by Sam Hargrave

[@johnnycsperu1907]

I thought the movie was in india

[@ismeazamredwanahmed693]

@Sun Rise dear your country's 1% rich has money equivalent to 73% poor people..btw i read that on an Indian newspaper.

[@riyadinho6795]

Mr X it was filmed in both India and Bangladesh

[@LoganBerry1017]

He sounds so weirdly pissed of throughout this entire video

[@RubenTheCartographer]

Haha I think he was a little bit stuck in a type he plays in his videos

[@davidbirdful]

Yeah, he sounded like he couldn't be arsed, I wonder if lockdown is getting to him!

[@fireball5655]

no he doesn't

[@dodgecrockett3474]

Logan, does "he" have a name?

[@ShaunCheah]

It is okay for people to not enjoy their work sometimes, as long as they are paid well and produce good results. This video is a high-quality type of video and I believe he deserves the revenue earned from it. So I don't have much issue if he didn't enjoy making it; the important thing is that it got made and that he got paid.

[@Salem_Rabbit]

Your T shirt is Made in Bangladesh - Most probably

[@destroyerbeerus]

Maybe 😂😂

[@soumyadeep5]

Saddam Butt Kno?

[@Arhats_Corner]

Did anyone else check?

[@mattermoss4099]

Gildan

[@m-wan2547]

America, Brazil, Pakistan, Brazil all are giants in textile not just Bangladesh

[@柚原-n1h]

Greetings Barbs! From Bangkok, Thailand, and fellow Thais here. So glad to see you mentioned Bangkok in this video. I kinda admitted that our city is quite dependent on tourism so much. In fact, the current pandemic causes us a loss in revenue in tourism sector and national economic (Yes, we even have a joke here that BKK considered a separated country since economic here is quite noticeably differed if compared to other provinces). Also, I want you to make a vid on 'Primate City' explained on filler week in the future, that would be educative :D Can't wait for the episode on my country, stay safe and keep up your good work :>

[@tashmeem]

We love Bangkok. Have visited so many times and looking forward to visit more once this pandemic situation is over. Love you Bangkok

[@ArghyadeepPal]

Had an awesome experience in Bangkok, loved the beautiful temples there!!

[@zhorik2851]

Last Time I was so early, Babylon still was the largest city in the world

[@svinecomPLEX]

I really like your channel bro, its brings me back to my eternal passion for geography and other nerdy topics I use to like before to start listening to music and start going to festivals... which degradates me a bit I would say now...

[@csongorhorvath9071]

I didn't know Stark Tower was located in Vietnam! 5:26 Top right in the picture.

[@Indienheld]

That's Bitexco Tower in Ho Chi Minh City. I've been there.

[@SirLucian]

Nah, Thailand has Thanos snapped disintegrating tower "Mahanakhon"

[@bababababababa6124]

Csongor Horvath wrong country, well done idiot lol

[@Vysair]

We literally have one in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was TM building/HQ

[@mikeyang1803]

Fix it dude. That city is HCMC, Vietnam not Thailand 🤷🤷

[@davidsmeath4556]

My Geography Now T-shirt arrived in the post just as I started watching! The world moves in mysterious ways...

[@dusanpredic5274]

David Smeath wow this comment has one like but geography now gave you a heart congrats lol

[@mikesands4681]

A logical order, but really there are mega cities in India and China that are likely less known than Kinshasa’s.

[@UzioPL]

Wuhan lol

[@daewakilat1842]

Members of G8/G20 aren't included.

[@pigwartisubscribeback8198]

But why? It’s stupid to have that as a rule. India and China have so many mega cities that most are not well known. Not sure wtf barbs is talking about

[@daewakilat1842]

@@pigwartisubscribeback8198 I guess you're talking to me ? That's because India and China are VERY POPULAR and almost every second, there're news about them. Even though they have a hundred mega cities that aren't well known, the countries they are located in already talked by many people around the world, and will directly or indirectly have an impact to those cities. The same condition applied to the rest of G8/G20 members.

[@kehehe9934]

Yeah you're right because major popular cities take the spot like Shanghai Hong Kong, Beijing, or Mumbai, new delhi... Btw I wanna say new delhi might be one of the worst city in the world

[@skidawg22]

5:16 The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free. What I know about Kinshasa is this: Dikembe Mutombo, a native Congolese best known for being an NBA player, built a hospital there.

[@Tim0feyK]

"...At least he did not change the Constitution to have indefinite terms..." ... ... ... ... "russian sad noises"

[@Cnjgbwjn17]

I felt that too

[@mattthegamerhongkong6948]

*Chinese sad noises*

[@the_odd_cat553]

Is Putin changing the constitution? Don’t you mean Lukashenko from Belarus?

[@entertainmentprime101]

it's homogenous though

[@mattthegamerhongkong6948]

@Alex Mercer Xi Jinping passed a resolution that allowed him to serve unlimited terms, that was a few years ago though

[@ShubhoBose]

I'd say among people in tech, Bangalore is probably more well-known to them than Mumbai.

[@midfielderlounge2592]

Delhi is more popular

[@nuxxism]

I'm a cricket fan living in South Africa, so I know all of them.

[@abhisheknarayansingh6782]

@@nuxxism you must be watching IPL

[@abhisheknarayansingh6782]

@@nuxxism btw we all love abd

[@omarmansuri7099]

I mean Bangalore is the Silicon Valley hub of India, so would make sense tech guys would know it more. Just like I'm sure Finance guys know Bombay more cuz it's the Financial Capital of India

[@feilila1227]

Xiamen was my dream city when I applied for the university back then, and still is with the seaside view and beach right outside of the campus...

[@nayeemxmu]

I graduated from Xiamen University and i'm from Dhaka. I really miss Xiamen. One of the beautiful city in the world.

[@mango4ttwo635]

A colleague who has been living in China told me there are nearly 50 cities with over 10 million inhabitants. How many Chinese cities can you name off the top of your head?

[@NikkyElso]

Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, chengdu, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau I suppose would count, and I'm sure Winnie the pooh and the Chinese Communist party would like to think Taipei but screw them, Taiwan is a country free from Chinese oppression 🇹🇼

[@orb3796]

@@NikkyElso Mao already freed tibet

[@NikkyElso]

@@orb3796 thought Winnie the pooh didn't like you using KZbin 🤔

[@orb3796]

@@NikkyElso Mao still already freed tibet

[@NikkyElso]

@@orb3796 so free their spiritual leader had to flee to India. Fuck off China-bot

[@dermatze9172]

I expected Chonquing in the list. I know China is a member of the g20 Nations but this city is the biggest city by size and one of the biggest by population. And absolutely nobody ever talked about it eventhough this city looks pretty cool just like Shanghai or Peking but with a fancy metro which goes through buildings. Please check it out

[@TheCriminalViolin]

I I've known of it for many years myself. Honestly, when I hear most cities, I known in general where they are approximately within the nations, or at least, which nations they reside within. Chongquing is incredibly tough to miss.

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Oh boy... The CIA talking about political instability in the DRC. That's some irony there

[@StamfordBridge]

I knew you were going to pick Kinshasa! Btw, there’s another gigantic city just across the river, Brazzaville, so in a way it’s an even larger metropolitan area.

[@d.jmamba7237]

Brazzaville is small

[@frankycool1442]

I do love Brazzaville but it's smaller

[@samuelmuzeze5498]

Gigantic ??? Brazzaville is a small ass city...

[@StamfordBridge]

To all three who replied: thank you for the correction. Brazzaville has 1.7 million according to wiki, snd to me that seems like a sizeable population to be just across the river, but I get that that seems small in comparison to Kinshasa. But I’ve never been there, so I don’t know the reality of being there on the streets and seeing how big or small it really is. Maybe some day.

[@andregunts5292]

Thank you for this dude, plus the fact you brought up Jamaica. Respect 🇯🇲 x 🇨🇩

[@Nightey]

Before watching (and also because of the thumbnail) I thought Ashgabat in Turkmenistan. After mentioning only megacities I thought "oh, probably Dhaka or Karachi" and when he mentioned Dhaka in 2nd spot I said to myself "Kinshasa". Fun fact: Kinshasa and Brazzaville (RoC) are not only the two closest capitals in the world but they are also not connected by road because there's no bridge over the Kongo River.

[@Sahd079]

Yeah I thought it was Ashgabat

[@bluefairy7304]

Dhaka , karachi both are very famous in asia region. Unfortunately, not in the western world. Maybe because of less tourism.

[@jacks.4062]

I think Vatican City and rome are the closest capitals

[@RenegadeShepard69]

@@jacks.4062 Vatican City is in Rome and it's a nation-state, like a city state, not a country. But I get what you meant.

[@booboo8706]

I wonder which pair has the closest capital buildings. Vatican City may not have an official capital building but measuring from the wall could work.

[@franciscoovarela]

For the next filler week can you do the Romance countries of Europe? 🇵🇹🇪🇸🇦🇩🇫🇷🇲🇨🇱🇺🇧🇪🇮🇹🇨🇭🇻🇦🇸🇲🇷🇴🇲🇩

[@fryxx8183]

Francisco Varela YES!! He hasn’t done some of those in a while, it’s time to bring all of them to the spotlight

[@Jaromir25]

Or slavic countries.

[@luisalcantara6097]

Do poland, switzerland and belgium count as romance countries?

[@ErsSoj]

@@luisalcantara6097 I think he means Monaco, but that's actually Indonesia

[@luisalcantara6097]

@@ErsSoj ooohh yeah I forgot about that

[@alabama100]

Congo mfs: just vibin King Leopold: Y'all mind if I mess up your entire country Congo mfs: we do mind, don't do that King Leopold: Oh wait, I don't care

[@Amghannam]

Thank you for saying King Leopold and not Belgium like most people say.

[@robroux6074]

Native American mfs: just vibin US: Y'all mind if I mess up your entire country Native American mfs: we do mind, don't do that Tomas Jefferson, Jackson and so on : Oh wait, I don't care

[@Amghannam]

@hmm mm Hmm mm learn history and read my comment.

[@Amghannam]

@hmm mm I am Belgian, yes.

[@Amghannam]

@hmm mm In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of the Belgians. It was a colony of the King, not of Belgium. It's a one fking person who did this. That person happened to be Belgian, but Belgium as a country has nothing to do with ith.

[@moldveien1515]

This kinda depends what you put most weight on, I think Chongqing is a great candidate as it is massive (yes i know not all of what is counted as chongqing is urban but its metropolitan area still has a massive freaking population) yet most people outside asia has never heard of it, or knows anything about it if they do know about it. Like its one of my options for exchange study as a mandaring student, but nobody i knows except me and my class had ever heard of it before.

[@KBProduction]

I have heard Chongqing to be the largest city in the world

[@brianoconnor1721]

I used to think that

[@brianoconnor1721]

YMCA

[@maddoxgreene7419]

Yeah but its like, 300 square miles

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on the foreign community in Chongqing when it was a treaty port in the early 20th century!

[@mrmoomooface1662]

Chongqing is the biggest city in the world, but it kinda gets an unfair advantage because it's city boundaries incorporate a vast area of the surrounding countryside. Because of this, many peope disregard it and measure city population by metropolitan area or urban area instead, which makes Tokyo the biggest city, and Chongqing is bumped way down.

[@MinorCirrus]

Of course, international recognition will vary from country to country. For me, Dhaka is much less-known than Kinshasa. I'm French and here, when you want to refer to one or the other Congo Republic, you'll say "Congo Kinshasa" or "Congo Brazzaville". I think that in Belgium, it's even more the case. But I can only speak for two small European countries :)

[@japa9890]

I thought the largest least talked about city Was Luanda,Angola 🇦🇴 Thanks Barb keep up the good work😁👍

[@craz_e]

Mom: "Stop Watching KZbin!" Me: "It's Geography Now!"

[@jcmcguir]

Ah, Kinshasa! The eternal home of "Rumble in the Jungle."

[@KVNMZ-hs5op]

💯💯💯

[@raiseup1453]

I am originally from Kinshasa and I thought we wouldn't even be listed. I had to make sure it was on the list of Megacities. Thumbs up to you mentioning. I would have to disagree a bit on the popularity, at least, in the french speaking world, it's more often mentioned than Dhaka or Lahore I would say... Great job anyway ! You're welcome anytime to Kinshasa !

[@agoncalves5241]

I suppose we have to get it as an US point of view. And I'm not sure that all cities of G20 are famous all around the world. Is Hyderabad really more famous than Kinshasa?

[@agoncalves5241]

@A A Who care about the offices of private companies?

[@agoncalves5241]

@A A Because it's the capital of its country, because it's one of the biggest city of its continent, because its country is often named Congo-Kinshasa. Because people rarely knows a lot of city by country and India already have few much more famous (Delhi, Bombay, ...).

[@strawberryshortcake5772]

raiseup1453 It’s really meant to be a major cultural and economic hub in the upcoming years especially in francophone Africa. I think people should not sleep on that.

[@anshul6168]

@@agoncalves5241 Yes Hyderabad definitely is more famous Reasons : 1 Google and Facebook have their India office in Hyderabad 2 Amazon's largest headquarter is in Hyderabad 3 Hyderabad is high up in tourism 4 Hyderabadi Biryani is world famous esp. in Arab countries 5 Lot of Indian movies are shot in Hyderabad I think these reasons are enough to prove that Hyderabad is famous in tech world (US) , tourism and also in Arab world

[@imviiku]

Bangalore is actually pretty well known amongst the IT Geeks of the World .

[@KeyurMahadik]

Palo alto of India

[@ledernierutopiste]

And among Apex legends fans !

[@ameybirulkar7503]

IT sector is not that big tho. Even within India, not everyone works in IT. But Mumbai was famous since the British rule.

[@ingridohlert4928]

I've never heard anyone talking about Chonquing although it's litterally the biggest city on earth

[@lifeofabronovich7792]

Yeah, only technically tho. The actual urban agglomeration is much smaller

[@NotASummoner]

Chongqing is definitely less well known than Kinshasa and Dhaka. People who know Karachi would probably know Dhaka.

[@bhuvaneswari5361]

When you're so early that the view count isn't in the thousands

[@yourlowliness2818]

When you're so early that you spelled view wrong Edit: Don't be mad It's just a joke or whatever you guys call it lol

[@YellowSkarmory]

I figured Kinshasa would be it as soon as we got to the 11 cities part, but still a good video. I'll admit, I basically only know the location and name of Kinshasa.

[@YellowSkarmory]

@@athirkell Kinshasa has a population bigger than the entire Republic of the Congo. Not sure why Republic of the Congo is so sparsely populated, but it is.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

"England is my city" :-0

[@seniorscouse3346]

Vietnam is my battleground

[@duckyuu5900]

@@seniorscouse3346 bruh

[@benni_thien]

Sonny Dunn And your grave. muhahaha >:)

[@izimations]

BANGLADESH us my BANGLADESH 🙃

[@harounbraik868]

sorry,earth is closed

[@jacobderusha5074]

Great concept brother

[@emmacat3202]

I feel like when major cities in different parts of the World don't have a well-developed hinterland, they lag behind a bit. The hinterland (area outside of the city) supplies food, workers, and other products. The city supplies jobs, medical services, and entertainment. When you don't have a city with a developed hinterland, it can be hard for a city to prosper. They need each other.

[@KateeAngel]

2:48 - in the former USSR everyone always knew Sochi

[@senodhjayasinghe3019]

I would expect Sochi to be familiar with many people because it was one of the recent sites for the Winter Olympics.

[@grahamturner2640]

Why? Was there important Soviet activity there?

[@Mkungaa]

It was one of the main resorts in Soviet Union. Since most people were not able to go abroad, they did not have much of a choice. Also, a lot of soviet films' episodes, where something happens in "resorty" locations, were shot in some of those cities. So yeah, resort cities of the Black Sea are kinda famous in ex-USSR.

[@duffajfka]

@@grahamturner2640 it was an important and prestigious holiday destination

[@blanco7726]

Graham Turner the Black Sea is the Russian Mediterranean

[@captainnermy5608]

At least in the US, I think if you went up and asked random people they’d be way more likely to tell you they’d heard of Dhaka or Kinshasa over cities like Chengdu, Xi’an, or Hangzhou. China is very important on the world stage but I feel like the sheer number of megacities as well as the reduced interaction with the outside world they have means Chinese cities that aren’t Shanghai or Beijing are not terribly well known internationally.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

Dhaka and Kinshasa are capital cities. China and India have dozens of cities with populations well over a million, and they will be less well known because they're not capitals so they are not often memorised.

[@JackBradleyyy]

Knew we were going to talk about Kinshasa from the title. Honestly what a fascinating place. So much life happening in a place where its tough to even find decent quality videos online about it, tourist information, anything really. It's a tough place to get a visa for, but I'm very seriously trying to visit at some point in the next 5 years, and hopefully once again in a few decades when Kinshasa is projected to become the largest city on Earth, to see how its changed. Great video! Glad to see Kinshasa talked about in a way it deserves.

[@GolDRoger-un6tm]

THANK U SO MUCH for making so great vids

[@DarwinskiYT]

Oh

[@froog8292]

There are so many huge Chinese cities it’s amazing to think of it really

[@hunterfabio]

"The spanish they speak is easy" - Oh boy, prepare for this one.

[@alexanderbohart1550]

Hunter Fabio It is tho

[@GiantPetRat]

It ain't Paraguay. That's all I'll say.

[@robertcrawford6727]

It is easy tho. Literally easier than everyone except Mexicans.

[@zddxddyddw]

@@robertcrawford6727 Ecuadorians speak the most neutral Spanish imo, even better than the Mexicans.

[@saulgil7150]

@@zddxddyddw seriously? The most neutral accent is the spanish of middle or north Spain

[@thebusinessbuddha1278]

The density of information in this video is awesome. Very well made.

[@rithwikkofficial4311]

*Belgium has left the chat*

[@Amghannam]

Not Belgium, but King Leopold. Belgium as a whole had nothing to do with this.

[@rithwikkofficial4311]

Yeah

[@raiseup1453]

@@Amghannam they did take back control of the country after Leopold, and were responsible for the assassination of Lumumba though :)

[@edk487]

Amghannam when Congo became a Belgium colony there were still atrocities happening there.

[@ArchitGamingAG]

I literally got an ad after paul said drum roll 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@corrautenbach3240]

me too!

[@jumainefindley7606]

Us Jamaicans gotta rep our roots😂💯🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@larry7960]

It’s crazy that in only 2 years since this video released, Kinshasa has become the largest city by population in Africa and anyone who hasn’t seen this video still hasn’t heard of it.

[@sweetwheatsy]

Man, when I heard that Dhaka had 5x higher GDP pr capita and 4x higher employment rate I definitely guessed Kinshasa

[@allowmetowander5511]

It is not fair to get rid the G20 country. I mean, most of you people don't even know that Bali is in Indonesia, and i really think bangkok is more popular than Jakarta which is actually far more crowded

[@ShreyasYD]

This was very good and you made your points clearly and had your set of facts to back it up... very informative, and insightful... you should make more filler episodes like these...

[@alirazi9198]

This was a really good episode i seriously didn't even know that city existed and i knew evey other city relatively well

[@Aliggan42]

My vote goes to my former stomping ground, Tianjin, China. It's a stone's throw from Beijing and I think it gets overshadowed by it by a huge degree. The metro population is 14 million and the biggest international news about it was the exploison that happened there several years ago.

[@six9058]

HIM: TALKING ABOUT THE CONGO'S* BELGIUM: HOPING NOT TO TALK ABOUT HISTORY* BELGIUM AGAIN: FREAK THIS CRAP IM OUT!

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

51st Comment! HA! The Last Time I was this early, Qitziwaka was a joke. Also: Thumbnail made it look like North Korea for some reason.

[@utu_k]

Yeah I also thought Pyongyang

[@rithwikkofficial4311]

I thought it was ASTANA or ASHGABAD or PYONYANG or but none of those are that big.

[@jdbanzon8571]

I sensed Kazakhstan's Capital

[@parlino5375]

I thought it's Ashgabat from the thumbnail

[@projectproject4909]

No One Here true

[@bernardoolbrisch8792]

In my opinion, cities like Addis Ababa, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Abuja, Pretoria, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Guatemala City , Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Dhaka, Kinshasa and Taipei are massive but no one knows bout em

[@kapatidtomas]

I like how the fact literally everyone solely use "manila" as a substitute to saying that the city that is within or under the umbrella of the ncr region (which by the way also stands for as the "national capital region", it basically. (if you didn't knew about this fact, and if you didn't watch one of geography now's video about the philippines) then the region basically acts as one unified state although there are some municipalities within inside the state, and there are 16 of them cramped into one whole state, and (yes its totally shocking) with divisions within the so-called Filipino word called barangays which either controls or govern, give services to these districts and they're all scattered around metro manila, (also another term for the "ncr" for short)), because its the capital city, where the malacanang Palace or where the president's residence is currently in. But even though its technically not because metro manila of course has alot more cities surrounding that. Especially the bigger one, QUEZON City. So if you basically calculated all of those numbers, 16 cities and their populations. You would have about 25 million, again in the video. Not me

[@lzh4950]

Sounds like Tokyo I think? Which is legally classified as a metropolitan region comprised of several cities IIRC

[@markdelacruz3036]

Very well said. Quezon City was once the capital city of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976 until it was transferred to Manila by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 940 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. By the way, they have misspelled the capital city of Manila with a double L where in fact it's just one or simply Manila.

[@MarkEdisonAlviz-official]

Actually, when he talks about and shows the population of Manila (more than 25M), he is referring to the Greater Manila Area, and not just the NCR (w/ a pop. of only around 13M). The GMA region is also called NCR+ consisting of NCR and its adjacent provinces.

[@lincibeckford7353]

I was very impressed of Panama City, Panama. The skyline is gorgeous and the architecture is amazing. It felt very cosmopolitan to me.

[@daewakilat1842]

Same !

[@kapatidtomas]

Damn.. Actually in my whole entire life.., NEVER thought that the present city that I am standing within on foot on this soil, has a more higher pop. that I have ever realized or recognised.. Wow, we reached over about the 12 million mark.. We have about 25 million people living in manila.. It's morely suprising and amazing considering that the fact that I was born in this land, knowing that our population isn't that *high* Nice overwhelming fact

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Geography Now! Can you please explain the cantons of Switzerland in a future Filler Week video?

[@yoelkimemukenamukalay4362]

I'm from the D. R. Congo, from the south, Likasi. I've been in Kinshasa twice, kinda didn't feel connected to the place due to the way my home city and province are. Still a lot to do with that mega city.

[@DRKongo-vi8ok]

dr congo is the bestp

[@IWubYooz]

Just by the title, I thought this was going to feature a Chinese ghost city. Though as I watched, I realized it wasn’t that kind of video.

[@manueljosefranco844]

I mfing guessed. Haven’t been so proud of myself since I won a geography contest to the class nerd. Someone buy me a cookie

[@abaddon2148]

here 🥠

[@IVaV1]

you're the geography nerd now

[@Halal_Lettuce]

The most annoying thing about the Congo is their capitals. If war ever breaks out their capitals border each other, in fact Kinshasa and Brazzaville are so close to each other you can form a bigger supercity. The cities are split by the Congo River which is small enough for soldiers to pass through and capture each other’s capital.

[@bacant_man]

4:51 typo here, it's supposed to be manila

[@elijahp9779]

11:20 Damn those dudes are bougie AF

[@GyrisCap]

When taking about G20 countries, let's just choose a map and randomly colour the ones we think might be a member! LOL

[@chevychase]

A video on SURPRISING CITIES would be fun. Curitiba, Brazil, would have to be included. I'd also include Yekaterinburg, Russia and Lexington, Kentucky in that group.

[@ianfefchak6995]

You know you watch too much geography now when you do a pop off when you guess the mystery city before barbie says it

[@tamastasi428]

When I saw the title I already knew it's going to be Kinshasa.

[@sanjanasupti17]

When I know he is right, I live in Dhaka and I have never heard of Kinshasa. like come on now Dhaka has more than 20 million people and it's huge and the capital city of Bangladesh. But they both are quite underrated

[@kazikamalhossain6511]

To be honest there is nothing interesting in Dhaka. I would rather be anywhere else.

[@sanjanasupti17]

@@kazikamalhossain6511 Where would u like to be then other than Dhaka ?

[@affanmahbub1194]

@@kazikamalhossain6511 there are tons of interesting thing in Dhaka there are buildings older than the united states, almost all tourists that come to dhaka loves it

[@HeyItsJubu]

kazi kamal hossain bideshe pura jibon chakri korte

[@affanmahbub1194]

@शिरीष ರಾಮಾಯ according to a survey by "anondobajar" Kolkata's leading newspaper, 90% of all tourists in kolkata are Bangladeshis, and the malls in kolkata are facing HUGE losses and many of them are closing down because tourists from dhaka didn't go to kolkata during the Eids, so I don't think that's the reason..

[@Char444]

I was Hungary for some Turkey but slipped on Greece and fell on my Djbouti with help from my friend Chad I stood up then I realized that there is Chile on the stove and bananas from Bolivia, After the painful situation Iran to the tv and turned on a show about Madagascar.