Geoguessr: Interesting Photospheres in Obscure Countries #3 [PLAY ALONG]

God this map really isn't easy is it? Join me again for the final play along video before we head back to Wales, and as per usual I urge you to play along using the instructions below, and try to beat my score! I hope you've got a spare hour or two though!
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[@blackbonsai]

Tom about Azerbaijan-Armenia Border "I'm a bit confused how the borders are working there" yes Tom they are too

[@dav_poy]

Tom weighs in on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: "Armenia were attacking Azerbaijan's land"

[@GrimmsHouseofHorror]

I love how he said “I’m not to sure who started it so don’t get mad at me”

[@d0onut]

@@dav_poy sounds like the BBC

[@andytc4840]

Was surprised he didn't know there was another bit of Azerbaijan to look in. I might have found that one... No way I was getting the first round right though!

[@itsjo5085]

Tom is trying to be neutral

[@pieczkatomasz]

Tip for geoguessr enthusiasts regarding last round: a satellite dish was visible pointing nearly straight to the sky. The angle at which antennas are directed indicates latitude of the place, as telecom satellites orbit earth in geostationary orbits roughly along the equator. So this satellite dish pointed near vertically was a clear tell-tale of central Africa. Wouldn't have found the exact spot in a million years, though...

[@EWEasternWind]

This is an amazing tip. Thanks!

[@Heylon1313]

Thank you, I learned something new! So I looked into this and apparently in countries far up north, satellite dishes even point a bit downwards for the same reason. Would love if someone could confirm that for me.

[@crimsonvampyre602]

@@Heylon1313 yup. If you look around in Alaska, the satellite dishes on homes will basically be perpendicular to the ground

[@alfonsocuiti]

Very interesting! I'm in Argentina near Buenos Aires. All the dishes I see are pointing only slightly up, to the northwest

[@darraghchapman]

Very cool tip, I never would have thought of it!

[@biggestgay639]

my favourite part of these is Tom judging people’s fashion choices

[@bioLarzen]

Hahhh... remembering the Full Kit Wanker searches a year or two back ;)

[@marcjohnson3553]

100% and also him making up stories for them

[@TKirahvi2]

I like this channel but I don't like him mocking people seen on street view or doing bad guesses in battle mode.

[@biggestgay639]

@@TKirahvi2 to each their own!

[@jfluffydog2110]

@@TKirahvi2 its called a sense of humour.

[@goblinkoma]

On the second round: you have to keep in mind that shapes (and sizes) of coastline and similar are heavily distorted due to the constraints of projecting the surface of a sphere to a rectagular plane. Especially in such northern (und southern) regions that might impact ones judgement

[@ImMamba]

What you mean the erth iz flaht

[@KleefFerid]

@@ImMamba you're wrong, za earse ij a doughnut wid a hole in za middle

[@renerpho]

@@KleefFerid Mmmm... donuts!

[@thetabbyguy921]

Yeah and especially in greenland I've seen roads that are shown on the map to be in the ocean and islands shown on the map in a completely different spot from where they actually are

[@Lukas-xi6jj]

This guy Mercators.

[@nimo3624]

Nakhchivan is an exclave of Azerbaijan, which can only be visited by taking a plane from Baku as the land border between Armenia and Nakhchivan is locked off and on both sides due to the ongoing tensions heavily guarded. Nakhchivan is an autonomous region of Azerbaijan since 1990, so even prior to the complete collapse of the Ussr. In contrast to Nagorno-Karabakh there is no real ambition to gain independece however. The Macchu Pichu like looking castle is one of the main tourist attractions in the Republic.

[@davidmartins9468]

"Dont swear at him, dont, dont, dont, you'll agravate him" 😂😂😂 oh man, that part got me rolling on the floor. Plz, never change Tom

[@hennnnerz]

So good

[@wolfzmusic9706]

it was so fucking funny oml

[@drmontorsi7498]

I swear this guy has some of the best bits ever

[@duskden2]

I've never laughed at one of his jokes but this one got me out of the blue

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@@duskden2 how

[@revoluzz0r]

Everbody for ages: can't trust the compass on photospheres Tom: let's f*cking rely on the compass!

[@AxxLAfriku]

Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HANDSOME GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear ger

[@DadgeCity]

tbf it paid off on r1 :-)

[@Heylon1313]

I'm so bummed that I disregarded the compass in the first round, it was a crucial hint and full points would have been very possible.

[@griffinsmith6614]

tom has always not trusted the compass but I guess hes had a change in heart

[@Konoronn]

@@AxxLAfriku Hello old friend.

[@LaurenceMosca89]

What a coincidence. I was born in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago and have been watching your channel since it blew up with the first straight line mission. Nice seeing more obscure countries make it into your video!

[@davissae]

Beautiful tropical area. Not far from Big Blood.

[@bioLarzen]

Dude, the first one was insane. All the more because anyone who has ever had to find places in GeoGuessr knows how the first place that seems to be correct in every aspect, almost invariably isn't the right location - and not even near :D

[@alternativeglasto]

I got the first one in no time though - then the rest let me down!

[@olidoucet13]

And I thought I was clever guessing in Zanzibar 🙄

[@hammerth1421]

@@olidoucet13 Same. Zanzibar was quite a good guess if you consider the point scheme for a global map.

[@DECODEDVFX]

I'm kicking myself about the first round. I had a quick check on the coastline of Madagascar, renunion and Mauritius for that little lake. I couldn't find it so I just went for Cape Verde since I figured it might be more touristy. If I'd checked one more island around Madagascar I'd have found it.

[@mothgru]

im so annoyed because i looked at the northern coast of comoros but the lake was so small i didn't even see it

[@dibti0]

That teeny tiny spot called Tokelau is super interesting actually! Tokelau has a population 1,500 people (fourth-smallest population of any sovereign state) and it is also the first 100% solar powered nation in the world! The reason it looks like that is because it’s comprised of three atolls (ring-shaped coral reefs) so it’s very unique in its geography.

[@oliverwilson11]

It's not sovereign, it's a dependent territory of New Zealand. The UN wants New Zealand to change its status to a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand (like similarly tiny Niue) but for some reason that requires a two thirds vote in a referendum and the two referendums that have been held both narrowly failed to reach the two thirds threshold. So the NZ govt said "we will respect the wishes of the people of Tokelau, who voted against self-governance" even though a large majority voted for it.

[@damyr]

@@oliverwilson11 I knew kiwis are aggressive nation. That's just their nature. If they would have a bit more of population and a bit stronger army, they would invade the whole world.

[@HeadRecieverAtHeadOffice]

@@damyr as an aussie I say kiwis are like the most polite people, they are like canadians are to americans

[@damyr]

@@HeadRecieverAtHeadOffice only on the outside... they just want everyone to think like that about them, but inside their minds they are totally the opposite.

[@beckobert]

Not surprised that they use 100% solar power. Climate Change is an existential threat to their country. Unfortunately, I'm afraid their effort alone won't be enough to safe them.

[@qarsoqhoeegh-dam2003]

As a native I was surprisingly happy that Greenland popped up in the 2nd round. BTW the sign you read so perfectly translates along the lines of "Youth Gathering Place" (Inuusuttut naapittarfiat). It essentially meant a hangout for young people and wouldn't have helped with the location.

[@Aoderic]

As a Dane with some, but limited knowledge of Greenland and Greenlandic, I knew it wasn't a place name, but more likely a notice of who's club is was. So thank you for letting us know what exactly it was😊

[@ticksunbs4944]

Thanks for telling

[@Liisberg0]

@@Aoderic Fedt at der er andre danskere som interessserer sig lidt om GeoGuessr 🙌

[@y-yyy]

Curious, do young people actually hang out at those places?

[@qarsoqhoeegh-dam2003]

@@y-yyy well, yeah. Especially in a town with less than 1000 people, where else can you hang out :)

[@proton6731]

Gotta love Tom looking for the archevêché, which is quite literally the archbishop’s building or propriety in french

[@laihug]

😂 I thought it was "Archive" in some language... I know some french but clearly not enough 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@robbiedart7422]

I thought it meant arch-cow

[@alex-hc3sk]

@@robbiedart7422 vache - cow

[@dt35591]

"I'm a bit confused how the borders are working there" you and everyone else on the planet, including armenians and azerbaijanis

[@OLBarbok]

Meanwhile in Russia and Turkey

[@pansexualdickhaver6878]

@@OLBarbok Russia and *ukraine

[@Alex-cw3rz]

16:11 Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020) was when Azerbaijan attacked an area that they claim is their land and obviously Armenia says it's theirs, Azerbaijan taking a chunk of it back. əlinca Qalasi (Alinjia Tower) however was nothing to do with the modern conflict, the weird enclave and that particular part of Armenia stretching down too Iran on the English map is not disputed from my knowledge. This map for England (definitely not what the Google map will look like in Armenia) doesn't show the Nagorno Karabakh area or the Republic of Artsakh in any way not even a doted line etc.

[@whyamiwhat]

I thought Armenia still claimed the exclave as their own, though diplomatically they ignore their claim because Azerbaijan has stronger international backing than them.

[@AjZ530]

@@whyamiwhat they claim it unofficially but I guess they don’t see it as worth enough to go to war over or to start a new major diplomatic dispute

[@ehtuanK]

@@whyamiwhat Afaik Armenia hasn't claimed Nakhchivan since both became part of the USSR.

[@Kolket1389]

Can you show me your map?

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@Kolket1389 the British Google Map? If that not sure how I could but he has both countries present in the video

[@noahxwing38]

Wow that's got to be my craziest/best game against you Tom. 21,899 points. Round 1: Had a very similar thought process as you, and somehow zoomed into Comoros right away. I couldn't believe I was staring at the right Caldera, but lo and behold, 5000 points. Round 2: Was thinking Norway or Svalbard but ended up matching the spelling of the words to Greenland. Scoured the coast with no luck lol. Ended up just tossing a guess in Nuuk, 3,642 points. Round 3: Was very confused where this could be, ended up thinking the flag was vaguely Armenian which I thought lined up with the surroundings (maybe?). Threw a guess in the middle of Armenia, which was closer to the other Azerbaijan lol. 4,555 points. Round 4: Ahh, Toco. Also started looking around Australia, to no avail. Then thought ahh this is probably those Caribbean islands. 10 minutes later, stumble across Toco feeling very satisfied. 5000 points. Round 5: Funnily enough, I've had this round before but couldn't remember for the life of me where it was. Dug deep into the depths of my memory and ended up guessing in Kampala. 3,702 points. Thanks for the game, I can officially say I've defeated the wizard!

[@TheHooobish]

exact same thought process as me for first and third rounds, that flag definitely looked like Armenia to me

[@noahxwing38]

@@TheHooobish Good thing for our mediocre flag knowledge, it ended up getting us more points! Haha

[@getinwizard2877]

“Get in!” count: 1 @3:10 get in for the compass switch. Easy get in Geez… round 4 was crazy Oh yes and we get an Tom African accent

[@___jd]

What's confusing about the new compass? It just tells you exactly which way you're facing 🤔

[@getinwizard2877]

@@___jd I think he’s just not used to it

[@gf-iw1zw]

thank you

[@ryancooper5086]

And the usual Jonah from tonga accent when the pacific Islands are mentioned

[@deltadeltaohmygod]

3:26 another sneaky get in

[@peiceofcheese87]

I was so proud of myself to correctly guess Comoros only to see that Tom gets it bang on... you just can't win

[@GlocknessMonster1738]

Is it just me or does Greenland always look so quaint and homely whenever I get it on Geo? It always makes me want to go there.

[@Pogtama]

It is! I visited a couple of years ago. Highly recommend it. It’s such a unique country

[@ticksunbs4944]

@@Pogtama is Greenland a country?

[@jackw.5000]

@@ticksunbs4944 Yes it is a country.

[@JLTS76]

@@ticksunbs4944 yes but actually no

[@magicrat74]

@@jackw.5000 It's an autonomous region of Denmark

[@loftyD]

The Azerbaijan exclave is called Nakhchivan, it's been part of Azerbaijan for years, but not related to the Artsakh dispute in mainland Azerbaijan

[@eggsboggsserieseggs9373]

🇦🇲

[@legaciestr]

@@eggsboggsserieseggs9373 support to armenia from turkey

[@ICanSnake]

17:14 The beer advertisement is legible... If you're from the Caribbean. The beer is called Carib, I've had it before in Trinidad. It's the most popular beer down there, might be the same for other islands.

[@ticksunbs4944]

Cool

[@FredrikSkievan]

It's definitly not legible mate.

[@_Shadbolt_]

@@FredrikSkievan if you know about Carib you can get that that's what it is, that's what he meant

[@RosyMiranto]

I noticed the sign that 1. Matelot sounds like one of those wacky Jamaican place names. Second, 274 km to Matelot obviously is too massive to be most of those small Pacific islands. But it turns out that it's Trinidad and not Jamaica, oops.

[@FredrikSkievan]

@@_Shadbolt_ Oh yeah word, That makes more sense. He meant it’s recognizable.

[@CratesOfPlates]

17:17 I recognised the beer straight away, Carib, found in the Caribbean. Lovely stuff for hot weather :)

[@Shadowmourne3]

Great video as always, archeveche means archbishop in French fyi. The building would be the local archbishop's seat. Pretty close guess after the reveal of the location!

[@Kamilr2000]

Tom, the compass works ONLY on images made by original Google Earth it doesnt work if the photo or photosphere is taken by anyone else than original Google. And very thanks for doing it I love your content

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The one in Comoros worked

[@ryanspencer6778]

That's not true. Sometimes, even most of the time it's right, but you can't trust that it is.

[@MasterStatusUK]

Ye I think some photographers will put the correct direction metadata in,others don’t.But even if not added, just on probability alone the compass would roughly the right direction 25% of the time!

[@rickard767]

Alot of the time the compass is right

[@Kamilr2000]

@@MasterStatusUK and I think this is the fact that sometimes it is right. Also i think that maybe the start of making a photosphere is the Point Google then recognizes as North but idk.

[@ZeokWTF]

Tom: "It is extremely unlikely that I find this" *Nails it*

[@thetabbyguy921]

Just saying using the shape of the terrain in greenland might not be the best idea because things are often not in the right place on the map, I assume it's because of the mercator projection because a lot of greenland is in the arctic circle you get stuff like roads on the map that look like they're on water or entire towns being in the wrong place so try to stay away from using the shape of the coast or stuff like that because the map may be extremely wrong

[@noahxwing38]

Was wondering what was going on there. Thanks!

[@thetabbyguy921]

@@noahxwing38 you can see it very clearly on Google maps you look at islands on normal map mode then switch to satellite you can see that they're not in the same place a lot of the times

[@dranorter]

In this case though, if you compare the satellite view with the map, the map is actually fine. The small peninsula he was trying to find is actually straight north of the town. What's confusing is that those mountains, which he thought of as a fjord, are surprisingly far inland, so he assumed the little peninsula wasn't the right one.

[@thetabbyguy921]

@@dranorter yeah I went and checked it was fine this time but for next time he should take that into account look for example at the town of Sarfannguit it shows the town being on the mainland and the local cemetery in the middle of the sea when in reality the town is on another island and the roads and cemetery are completely fine

[@JUMALATION1]

When Tom commented on that "matelot" word, saying "I mate a lot" the first time, my mind automatically went in the dirtier direction and I thought "OOOKAAYY Tom, that was information I didn't ask for lol 😅😳", and then when he later on in the video realized what he had said sounded like, I laughed so hard 🤣

[@robbiedart7422]

Seriously it was so unusually cocky and boastful it really caught me off guard and then I creased when he realised how he'd come across haha

[@oscarn-]

Like, two hours ago I was thinking, "I would really like to see a video from Tom" and he delivers! Awesome!

[@gaccc8564]

i subscribed about 3 years ago when you were somewhere below 50k, can’t remember exactly. anyway, i hadn’t really kept up for quite a while, and just rediscovered your channel and geoguessr in general. almost nostalgic. love you, tom. genuinely the funniest creator on this site

[@jessicap.8114]

"British Influence" is a nice way of describing what happened there.

[@ko____trades]

On the third one, that’s the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic which has not been part of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. I went to that exact spot, Alinja Castle back in 2019 and the region is still similar today as it was back then. It’s a decent hike up about 1,500 steps and as you see in the photos, very minimal tourists there. I only went to the place after seeing photos of it in Baku. Incredible place

[@Kris_Toffer]

When watching these videos sometimes you say something and I'm thinking "yeah, yeah, makes sense. Picked up on that too" and I genuinely believe it, but when I do a play along I get like 5k points total. I guess my point is, you're one of those people that are so good at something that you make it seem easy.

[@ianjohansen7430]

same for me, when I try and locate, I have almost no idea where to start and then this guy picks up all the clues like the easiest thing in the world

[@ace-sr7cz]

We need “GET IN” merch

[@jacoL8]

i finally decided to try the play along... and I gotta tell you.. You are truly a wizard man! i couldn't even get close to where you chose and your deduction level is almost magical!! keep it up tom!

[@timwildauer5063]

Hi Tom. First of all, thank you for continuing to deliver all this amazing content! I seriously look forward to watching every video you post! Since you have such a big platform, I'd like to humbly request that you use your voice to help all the other non-pro geogussr players out here. I know you're a pro player, so none of this effects you, but for the past few years, there has been a daily challenge that everyone can play (World, 3 minutes per round). In addition to that, everyone gets to play one game of their choosing. In the past day, they have implemented a 10 minute timer. From the time you get on the site, you have 10 minutes to play as much as you want. Any game mode, any map, etc. But you only have 10 minutes to do so. If you play a round and want to stop to zoom in at the end to see where the location actually was, that time counts against your 10 minutes. If you sit on the home page looking at the maps to play, that counts against your 10 minutes. I first found this game over 8 years ago when I was in university and have loved it ever since. One of the fun things to do was to have it drop you somewhere random, and then the goal was to find an airport so you could "fly home." Since then almost everything about the game has changed. I understand they need to make money, but putting this timer on the website (not just a single game) ruins the experience for every non-pro player, and I humbly request that you use your voice to help speak out against it, to help push them to implement some other system that still allows non-pro players to actually play the game. Thanks again for everything you've been doing for the community, and I can't wait for the new straight line mission coming up! Cheers!

[@natewolfe3585]

I got the Comoros round and when I found it I was so excited because I thought there was no way Tom could get it too. But of course he did.

[@EWEasternWind]

Same. It seems to be hard, but actually is easy because there not so much islands near Africa.

[@shatranj]

Wow nobody's gonna talk about the yawn at 24:15 ? I swear I yawned without seeing any of his facial movements synchronously and wondered if my brain distorted Tom's voice in sync with mine when in reality it was just Tom yawning too.

[@АртемШаламов-и9и]

Imaging sitting and studying your exams all night long and then, when you finally have a lil break, you get a cup of tea, open youtube, and see a new video from our geo lad. cheers mate, love your vids!

[@moonpie21012]

Awesome

[@chriswade9616]

"Tokelau, that's nothing, that's a skeleton of an Island" 1,411 Tokelaunians: Am I a joke to you?

[@rubenvanbaare8016]

I got the first round as well, incredible! Used the same logic as you, also started at the Comoros and stumbled upon this location. Couldn't find anything better so put my marker down and then watched you do the exact same thing. Only one thing left to say: GET IN!!! Very impressed with your 4th round, I did go for some island in the Pacific and got 3 points...

[@ivancarli1800]

18:34 I don't know why but this made me laugh so much ahah

[@NUFCSuraj]

I got a perfect score on that first round too. I put it down to the time I've spent watching your videos because I had an almost identical thought process to you. You're the real MVP

[@dzdaddy]

I can hardly believe I got 23,914! 1. 5000 - Followed same logic as you did 2. 5000 - Took me forever scouring Greenland, placed a very unsure mark and was quite surprised 3. 4316 - Placed the exact same spot as you did in Azerbaijan, actually thought I had it, but enclaves.... 4. 5000 - Also one of the last islands to check 5. 4598 - The people and land looked very similar to a round you had in Kigali, Rwanda. Couldn't find the spot, plopped it down in Kigali and ended up relatively close. Great game, Tom!

[@Cinebon]

I feel like governments could use his geoguessing skills in some form or another

[@gerardacronin334]

MI5?

[@Z3t487]

They already are smart af mate... pretty sure they are good at stuff like this.

[@antza2172]

nah his geoguessing skills are actually not the best, he is just very patient

[@riinnkka9713]

Huge love from Albania Tom ! Please keep doing these videos they really entertain us and ofc help us get through stuff . Stay safe y'all 🗺🏅

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

Love from your distant Paleo-Balkanic cousin, Bulgaria. 🇦🇱❤🇧🇬

[@JeppeBoy97]

Round 1 as soon as it opened I knew it was Comoros. Visited there 15 years ago and it’s on the local tourist trail that all the hotels send you out on. Proper find. Well done

[@renerpho]

About round 3: Going by the sign, you knew the island had to be at least 27 km long (the nearest notable town/village was 27 km away). That may have helped, at least a bit, as it suggests that you're on a rather big island.

[@pepapu7112]

21:42 The fourth round, I did exactly what Tom was about to do... Go to American Samoa... and guess what, I got 5 points. You're absolutely right...

[@elizabethfoster4297]

I just found out this kind of thing existed. I have to say, this is incredible! I could never figure out where some place is in a million years. This is amazing.

[@marshallbassford5430]

Got my masters degree today! Thanks for the entertainment during my studies! Cheers!

[@neeren777]

Congrats!!!

[@7p7m7]

Congrats what’s ur masters in

[@danielundefined3361]

oh flip off Tom! I look for that crater forever and you just zoom right in on it. Incredible!

[@stephenworthington-white8294]

i was yelling Trinidad at the screen for a couple minutes there! Glad to see you finally find it.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

To this day, I still don't fully understand why Tom wears headphones to play GeoGuessr. Is he listening to white noise or something

[@ThePositiev3x]

Just a little bit of information: Armenia has gained nothing from the war against Azerbaijan but lost much territory. That place in the 3rd round was neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan. It was Nahcivan.

[@cemarslanoglu882]

It's an exclave of Azerbaijan

[@aaronhalminen1838]

By the way that armenian corridor between two parts of Azerbaijan does not come from the 2020 war. Neither does it from many other wars fought between 1988 and present. The corridor was there already when both Armenia and Azerbaijan were their own soviet republics in Soviet Union. I did not do enough research to know when and why the corridor was created but it was quite a long time ago. Also their borders are weird at many other parts too, there are very small parts of Armenia surrounded by Azerbaijan and likewise.

[@sclitchmusic]

10:12 I'm laughing at the way he said "bay"

[@NunoTeixeiraChannel]

That round 1 was a fucking great guess. Hats off

[@majsketchup]

I can't believe I spent half an hour scanning every african island, every carribean island, and (out of desperation) every pacific island onl to see Tom finding it in 2 fucking minutes

[@OnCider]

I zoomed straight to the first one - just like you. Can't believe it! Greenland was close - just to the South. The Az one messed up my round. I guessed Greece.. Right latitude. Got Toco eventually after scanning every English Caribbean Island. Last one I also guessed Mozambique. About 17500 for me which I was quite pleased with.

[@killerdragunov3184]

Great video. Just so you know, a lot of names in Trinidad and Tobago are French since the french owned it for about 130 years (and I think were the first to unite the two islands), and people there used to speak Trinidadian créole, that has a french base. Matelot for exemple is a French word for sailor.

[@RusNad]

The borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan you see on the map are the same ones that existed during Soviet times and correspond to Azerbaijan's claim. The recent war was over Nagorno Karabakh, not the Nakhchivan exclave. This is the area where you see bilingual Armenian and Azeri text on the map. Azerbaijan now controls most of that area with Russian peacekeepers controlling a small remaining part. Azerbaijan also won a concession for a corridor to Nakhchivan.

[@javi5208]

I'm not the greatest at geoguessr but I managed to perfect score the Trinidad and Tobago round by scrolling to it immediately! I went in assuming water was to the NE due to the lighthouse sign and decided northern SA would be a good start. I don't always play along because I like to focus on your videos but watching you do it after I took a go really puts your skill and observations into perspective. Cool to compare what someone else observes. Great content as always. Thanks, Tom!

[@Happy_Shopper]

Sorry to be that guy but a caldera is a type of volcano and not just the name of the volcanic crater. Sometimes after a very large volcano erupts the empty magma chamber collapses and the ground falls down which makes the bowl shape. Again sorry. Also excellent video

[@karlsenkoi4923]

You wouldn't even dare upset this man. He would be able to find your exact location just from a selfie in your garden!

[@awetails]

Its so funny to see him notice the same things and make similar deductions when playing along, for example the Toco due to signs being english and the sun being almost right above you which meant we are probably near equator , I went immediately to countries around Venezuela, but I was looking on the mainland. Then I realized that it said lighthouse which I would imagine was probably on a nearby islands and got lucky on my first try. Fucked up the rest though :D

[@chloatron]

I got the first one bang on and I actually had to walk away from my computer because I was overwhelmed.

[@unknown6000]

Small tip for how to identify the last country: The architecture on the northern part of the photosphere looked quite German to me, not to mention the German sounding beer brand on the wall, Mützig (though it's actually French beer, but common in Rwanda, Burundi, Cameroon, both Congoes and Sierra Leone). This along with the fact that Archeveche sounds French, would put you close to the area of German East Africa (Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi) but still in a French speaking place, hence a town in D.R. Congo, next to Rwanda :)

[@Twiggi]

Congrats to 1 million subscribers Tom! Looking forward to the new adventures and missions

[@jonasbetzendahl5757]

/Sees sign "Matelot 274 Km that way"/ /goes to check a bunch of small islands, none of which are more than 5 km across at any point/ Never change, Tom!

[@NickDeleted]

It's obviously 27.4

[@missiongiraffe]

Random fact: Matelot (Matt-low) is a nautical slang word meaning sailor, and is used in the UK by Royal Navy sailors to refer to themselves.

[@johnnyblaaze467]

Its also sailor in french, thats why

[@elroyjennings7833]

The map is Mercator projection. The reason your perception was skewed is because Greenland appear wider than it actually is on a map.

[@DragonBank]

I've been to the DRC and instantly figured it had to be somewhere near Kive. Trinidad I checked the Caribbean first so it wasn't too bad. Comoros I found with a similar idea as Tom, ocean to the north and the men are too dark for the Mediterranean so a few islands checked and Comoros was obvious. Azerbaijan I did almost exactly what Tom did but knew about the region near Turkey and found it from geography. 20,000 points and I went with Faroe because I swear I have seen nearly that exact village in a Faroe village. The bright solid color buildings wasn't as unique as I thought.

[@dinkat3956]

You did all that, but messed up the one where a flag was clearly visible??

[@DragonBank]

@@dinkat3956 Honestly flags are my killer. I've known all 193 countries(and the 2 observers and the 2 others) and their capitals for years, but I've never gotten around to learning flags. I could not tell you the difference between GL and FI flags.

[@6h7tbone2OOl]

The exclave of Azerbaijan is known as Nakhchivan and it is an autonomous republic owned by Azerbaijan that has exchanged hands between many empires over its history. The recent conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan is the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which sits entirely in Azerbaijan but has long been claimed by both nations for various regions.

[@andrewmancini46]

Rare Earth has a fantastic video on it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5-llaSri8uhq8k

[@egonhansson8455]

Mission across Greenland pls

[@alexj.mercer8027]

This has got to be one of my all time favourite channels to watch !

[@carlosalbarran6548]

We need more of these, absolutely love this type of videos

[@Automatedresponsebot5]

Visiting Trinidad many times since my family is from there, I immediately saw the "Carib" beer poster and did my digging

[@Leaferr]

Fucking wow! For the first round I was almost sure that you werent going to get it, and to my amazement you had the exact same train of thought and found the exact part. The human geography mind is crazy.

[@vicw4522]

Hi, Tom! Can I ask you a question, if it's possible to tell the distance/zoom level on the "guess-map", because I often make really bad guesses when I just get the zoom of the map horribly wrong. Normally a map will have a bar that indicates how long a mile/kilometer would be on the mini map.

[@nightbringer99]

I don't know if there is a way to tell, as I've never heard him mention it. Also, I've seen him use the number of houses along a street to guess how far along he is, so I'm not sure if there is a scale like you mention.

[@KarumaQpang]

When it comes to judging distances on the map, it really matters on what altitude you are. Because the map is more stretched on higher altitudes, so the distance on the map might seem a lot larger than in the streetview picture. The Greenland round was a good example of this.

[@tomme6875]

The reason why i watch Tom : 1. He's really good at geograohy and impresses me every video. 2. Cool video consepts 3. Good commentary. 4. He's so boring that when he makes jokes it's the funniest shit ever

[@David-ye1rh]

The Trinidad one was interesting. I've been there a few years ago and when I saw the beer ad, my subconcious immediately said "Trinidad and Tobago".

[@dreamer5959]

"Archevêché" is french, it's where the "archevêque" lives. It's like the highest rank you can be in the Catholic Church without being in the Vatican. I think it's called "an archbishop" and "an archbishopric"

[@leob4403]

Exactly, so it couldn't be Moçambique since it's Portuguese, improving your language skills does help in geo guessing

[@edvardskade6732]

Great to see Greenland on Your videos! I'm from Greenland! And "Naapiffiat" means "Meaning place" 😄🤣

[@siegwardskennedy]

He always uploads just in time for my lunch break. Thanks for making my work days a bit better Tom!

[@rifraf276]

This was the first time I beat you in any Geoguessr map! It really made my day. I got the trinidad and comoros guesses perfect like you, did worse on the azerbaijan guess since I didn't see the flag but made up for it in greenland and africa :D I can't wait for the straight line mission

[@PeterMoore66]

"Matelot" is pronounced "Matt-uh-low". It's an old French word for a sailor, sometimes used in oldey-fashioned English with the same meaning. Presumably the village in Trinidad & Tobago was founded by sailors, or some such explanation for the name.

[@suplexed]

Funny how pronunciation changes over time. On the island we pronounce it "mat-lot". I never knew exactly what it meant, but you're right in that a lot of our towns were named like that in some way or another

[@mileschalker2226]

24:20 Tom really went 😮🎶🎶🎶

[@vesas5214]

21,042 pts! Round 1: Exactly the same thought process, found that lake thingy in Comoros and got 5000pts Round 2: Figuring out it was Greenland was easy, ended up just going to Nuuk Round 3: Again, very similar thought process and I thought the flag was Azerbaijan. And what's funny is that I went into the exact same wrong location as Tom and my reaction after that was also "wait what? what country is that?" :D Round 4: I did exactly what Tom. Started searching the pacific islands, didn't find anything and went to the Caribbean, thought the same about the names and just as I'm about to go back to the pacific and make a guess I see Toco, 5000pts. Round 5: This was just a guess, somewhere in Africa below the equator. Went in to Tanzania. I've learned from this channel how to play geogussr, not perfectly, but just like the GeoWiz himself!

[@j0eyp0ps]

I'd also never heard of that Azerbaijani enclave before and was intrigued by it. If you look closely on the map there's actually a fair few even smaller enclaves dotted throughout both Azerbaijan and Armenia that appear to 'belong' to the other one. I'm debating whether or not to look up a documentary about it but reckon it's going to turn out to be a very depressing and horrible series of massacres...

[@ROL4NDpkmnguide]

So sad the Toco Olympics were cancelled in 2020

[@Nikkulolo]

I watch these videos going to bed... my absolute comfort videos haha lol .. keep posting 🙌🙌 love from ireland 🇮🇪 xo

[@LefeverDream]

it amazes me how you can have 1M subsribers and less that 1k comments on a video! i mean, i guess you must have a large audience for your real life adventures, but I didnt think it was that large! either way you are my favorite youtuber and you and your content is absolutely incredible

[@KleinOfficial]

Great one Tim, amazing first round

[@Bambusleitung38]

I'm 17,from Germany and thanks to your videos I'm saying "get in" 😶

[@116Swimmer]

I got Toco! Had the same idea to look in the pacific, but the 27km sign made me think they were all too small. so randomly zoomed in to trinidad and voila hah

[@DasUberCow]

Loved the analysis and retrospective explanation of your thinking on the East-African one at 4:00.

[@valianes]

that trinidad round key hint that helped me out a lot: that beer advert is for Carib beer, once I saw that I knew almost instantly

[@hunterwyeth]

So happy I got that first one. Saw the African-looking fellows, so that narrowed down the continent. Noticed the volcanic rocks and the Muslim headgear, so I went to go look around the volcanic areas on the east, and started on a whim in Madagascar. Went all around the borders and didn't see the lake, so I searched around until I found it. 5000!

[@arnoldmmbb]

Yeah!! I love this map!!

[@clementdromart9124]

Archeveche means "a place ran by an Archbishop " in french (Arch + Eveché)