I found a really good "Informative Maps" quiz on Sporcle

Love these kinds of maps, so doing this quiz got me all excited.
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[@valkius4777]

I loved that innocent "Haha! Sorry!" when he realized his country DID invade all those countries.

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

This video points out pretty well the inaccuracies with the map and which countries had actually been invaded/occupied by Britain kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmmZe5Kwj8-dp5Y

[@radishlordrak]

If it exists, it was most likely invaded by the Brits

[@OKANGUVEN99]

@nikola poyukov so ones that britain invaded and tried to invade

[@benismann]

Yeah, Britain invades Kazakhstan everyday

[@MauricioRomanov]

@Butanic Yeah, Brazil was never invaded by Britain

[@kunszabolcs94]

22+1 = 25, Let's go

[@martinthewarrior5016]

@Gasparia ya know, being self employed doesnt just mean giving yourself money but aright

[@WontonTV]

@Gasparia Noooo, self-employed people go 22+1=16 to pay less taxes ;)

[@havardmj]

quick maffs

[@leokir29]

Hey, he's GeoWizard, not MathWizard

[@ohtofriman3945]

Lessgooo

[@markvorobjov6185]

"I don't think we've invaded China" haha, all the opium addicted chinese in 19th century would def not agree with that statement))

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

mark vorobjov He does point to Afghanistan in 1000 AD and call it Babylon, so I’d say it’s definitely not a history channel.

[@nate_storm]

As soon as he said that, I thought, "So the Opium Wars aren't a thing?"

[@AnRuixuan]

My first thought when he said that was Hong Kong being a British colony until 1997

[@knifetoseeya]

mark vorobjov that map was really dum tho

[@stoopid6036]

first thing I thought

[@DuressPls]

Between geoguessr, sporcle and walking in a straight line for no reason this channel felt like it was made for me

[@dt35591]

"USA? No surely you'd have paid maternity leave." lol

[@liesalllies]

*laugh cries in american*

[@weronika01212]

That is just disgusting, my country is really poor compared to the USA and here we have 3 years of paid maternity leave.

[@liesalllies]

@@weronika01212 here in the US we have no paid leave what so ever. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 FML.

[@Mcrawf21]

Lots of companies have paid maternity leave, it's just not government mandated. I would suggest that if that particular benefit is important to you, you should find a company that provides it to work for.

[@Gamepainter]

take an extra look at the map, 3 months is literally third world standards, and in your country it's not even guaranteed.

[@dieseljr7946]

How dare you underestimate the determination of those rubber ducks

[@oakleypullen8996]

Diesel Jr lmao

[@maddiepilz5711]

Lol

[@chelseafcrocks82]

Fun fact: my lecturer had to publicly determine whether a couple of ducks that washed up in the UK actually were Friendly Floatees or not

[@kevinprinz3204]

"We haven't invaded all those have we ?" Imperialist Realization

[@GoldnMikeYT]

lol

[@YouOnlyIiveTwice]

*_INCATED_*

[@niemiec745]

"Route 8) Hong Kong - Taipei" "Guys I think this might be train routes"

[@panner11]

Yeah he didn't read every route that's for sure

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

I can dream ok

[@Zwijger]

If you only scan the map quickly and see a lot in Japan it's not weird to think train routes.

[@harryk8696]

you haven't ridden the transpacific ocean railway? i feel sorry for you

[@sktzn6829]

lol funny thing is the first one is Jeju to Seoul, and Jeju is an island

[@FT029]

"Alcohol? No, because Britain would be black" Brilliant. I love these quizzes by the way!

[@pocpic]

The reason for the "translated from Chinese" is that they use characters that are pronounced similarly, so it's a transliteration. Their meaning doesn't matter in this case.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

Yea it's like saying the literal translation of Germany in english is Germ Any cuz you can devide the sylables with existing words

[@lauraqueentint]

I speak Chinese and I was confused for a sec there, those "translations" don't really make sense. For example, 英國(Used to describe the UK, but was probably first used to describe England) literally translates to "Anglo-Country".

[@verhvouvim1518]

@@lauraqueentint 英 is braveness as well, and ‘-国’ and ‘-land’ are basically the same thing

[@lauraqueentint]

@@verhvouvim1518 that's true. I think they took the meaning of each character too literally though. So normal people wouldn't be able to understand it unless they really gave it some thought.

[@tangterry4078]

@@lauraqueentint I mean, given that the map theme is "translated literally from chinese" I'd give them credit in achieving their purpose.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

*pointing at Afghanistan in 1000 AD* “Starting in sort of... Babylon.” Confirmed this is not a history channel.

[@duckduck7189]

“I don’t think Britain has invaded China”

[@lucaskincanyon7393]

IndigoRage yeah, o noticed that, too! XD I was like, “where the hell does he think Babylon is?”

[@bruh0-037]

“It’s not car theft because Liverpool would be red” - cries in scouse

[@xfingy]

Bro that’s a violation

[@GraySkull289]

Cheeky bastard isn't he. We should be red for bribery too.

[@klm1784]

"Britain hasn't invaded China" Haha what is Hong Kong?

[@squidwardo9861]

*coughs in opium war*

[@kurumi394]

13:47 When you're Korean and you know Jeju is an island "It's gotta be train travel routes" _Dies inside_

[@kallemaki-hokkonen4850]

I actually like the sporcle videos really much.

[@yessirge]

Can you please link quizzes in the description?

[@Josh-hm8yk]

Here, www.sporcle.com/games/chair/30-maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world

[@prim16]

@@Josh-hm8yk the hero we all needed

[@lucascb8446]

@@prim16 it's literally there

[@SuperSMT]

KZbin doesn't like it when you link outside their website in your description

[@tylermclaughlin1588]

Very kind of you to assume the USA requires paid maternity leave lol

[@addiosnia]

Ikr so sad that we are the only country without it

[@TianoAnnunziata]

Addisonia Corp we do have it, if you have an annual salary

[@JimmyWhiffler]

@@lyour-majestyl4321 when CEOs of (and investors in) companies are earning orders of magnitude more than the average worker, not "forcing" them to provide maternity leave decreases the freedom of the workers far more than it increases the freedom of the company. Freedom to exploit others is a strange kind of freedom.

[@JimmyWhiffler]

@@lyour-majestyl4321 I will try to keep my reply brief, as this topic can potentially touch on basically all the contemporary problems of politics and economics (or one could say problems of "philosophy" in general). The reason I talked about freedom is two-fold: Firstly, because I value it greatly when evaluating human issues (an economic system, a political problem etc). This is, to an extent, a reflection of my personal "philosophy". (I am trying not to write a lengthy essay here so I will leave it at that). Second, because market freedom is one of the cornerstones of mainstream economic thought. The prominent arguments against things like paid maternity leave are inextricably linked to these ideas of freedom in the marketplace. Namely, that the ideal economic situation is one where employers/companies have the "freedom" to hire who they think is best for the job and that workers have the "freedom" to apply for whichever job they please. Again, to be far more brief than this topic deserves, I essentially believe this is part of a flawed paradigm with many internal contradictions. Of course that doesn't mean I think mainstream economics is totally useless (that would be far too extreme) but I would encourage you to search for varied perspectives on economics. I am by no means an expert on any particular perspective, but I think I have learned enough to know that the "philosophical ground" on which economics stands is certainly contestable, I will say again, from a number of different perspectives. Just as a place to start, you seem to have a principle concern about government imposing things on businesses. Again (I cannot stress this enough) this is not a simple topic to address, (especially in the confines of a youtube comment section) but I will say, just for example, that the modern nation state and its forms of government developed very much in tandem with our current economic systems and that merely trying to decouple them is not what has lead to anything like the "best economic outcomes". It is far more complicated than that. Even by the standards of mainstream economics (which, I repeat, are contestable in a number of ways) the places which have seen greatest economic growth/success/flourishing in recent times have had very complex relationships between their various institutions of government and business. To end with a pithy statement: there is no such thing as simple economics, either in theory or in practise.

[@JimmyWhiffler]

@@lyour-majestyl4321 apologies if I don't get round to replying in detail, I might when I have the time and inclination (and when I don't have to type at length on mobile). All I will say for now (alluding to the fact that people don't seem to want to reply to you in earnest) is that if you start out by saying "the majority of my generation is retarded and just want 'free' stuff", you shouldn't be surprised when people's responses are similarly unsophisticated. If I expressed my initial reaction to that first comment of yours, you would probably have just lumped me in with that "majority" you were referring to. Just because you (in your opinion) have a view backed by economics (again, I would emphasise, hardly a field with one clearly superior paradigm or way of thinking) does not mean that people don't have deeply principled and/or well-thought-out reasons to vehemently disagree with you.

[@r.v.b.4153]

11:56 I've seen this map before. It also includes many small incursions by e.g. British pirates, privateers or armed explorers on the soil of those countries long before they even existed. It should most definitely be taken with a grain of salt.

[@ingratus8160]

A single one. Yes.

[@nicholas9381]

Quiz made by libtards

[@Junaetzia]

I've seen at least half of these maps, the mapping community raised me well

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

I speak some Chinese, I’m not fluent by any means but I know atleast quite a bit. The reason the Nation translations from mandarin are so weird is mostly a by product of the writing system. Unlike in most systems you can’t represent phonetic symbols in Chinese easily. So they have to use preexisting words to shoe how to pronounce something. Imagine if I’m English we wanted to import the word “Nirvana”, so we combined the words “Nerve” and “Ann” to spell out the word’s pronunciation. The smaller the nations are wackier in the literal translations because they use more characters used to specify it, large nations use less characters. America is one word plus “country”, “mei guo” or 美国, which literally translates to “beautiful nation”. Is Chinese trying to call America a beautiful nation? Not necessarily. Meiguo sounds most similar to America that they can get. Similar with “Ying guo” 英国 for England, which translates to “brave nation”. Smaller nations use more characters because more characters take longer to write and speak, plus they want to reduce homonyms when they can. So Canada, which is “ja na da” 加拿大, which literally translates to “impose large capture”, but they sent saying some weird cryptic message, they’re just trying to say Canada best they can

[@rpk675]

Impose large capture 🤣

[@djordjerasic7482]

Great explanation tho. How is Serbia called in chinese?

[@beaterbeating2879]

I started off with watching your mission across Wales But after watching the rest of your videos they're just pure gold entertainment. It's refreshing to see someone educated and smart playing these types of quizes, you're doing great, keep doing it :D

[@PiousMoltar]

"Australia has been lumbered with... this" Accurate opinion of the Americas

[@Egolithz]

6:49 the reason why it's like this is that is that the pronunciation in Chinese makes is kinda like the country to a degree. For example, England in pinyin is "ying guo" 英国. 英= brave, 国= country (or could mean land in this instance, but country/nation is more accurate). America in pinyin is "mei guo" 美国. 美= beautiful, 国= country. So we would be called "Beautiful country (or land if you want to do it the video's way)."

[@usingforsteamlol7248]

"I dont think we have invaded china"bruh the opium wars would like a word with you

[@PiotrKawczynski]

"I don't think we invaded China" XD

[@Ivyonblond]

“Starts on sort of Babylon” *pointing at Afghanistan’s panhandle* *angry Babylo-assyrian noises*

[@acarrot9868]

We translate country's names to Chinese by sound, not by meaning (most times)

[@_APV_]

Ah, so you basically transliterate the name, but when you pronounce it, if some Chinese person would hear it out of context he would translate it into this gibberish? Just checked Newfoundland and it would be something like "Island of knobs that smell of Orchids"?:D

[@KushWhacker]

“No surely they’d have maternity leave” you’d think that, wouldn’t you Tom?

[@AtaGunZ]

Glad your channel is booming mate, used to watch your geoguessr videos with friends, you've come a long way with the camping videos!

[@alejog2001]

4:00 you didn't watch the map enough, how could there be insect deaths, forest fires, etc on the sea? The only possible option was lighting strikes

[@Londronable]

North Australia was the dead giveaway for me on that one.

[@sci_pain3409]

Londronable same lmao, if it was a map of insect deaths australia would be fucking covered in green

[@sci_pain3409]

Londronable same with forest fires considering current events

[@ethancwills8793]

never watched someone so fkn hillarious doing this sorta topic. walking across wales is a banger keep up this man. Your videos going out and recording Geography are really good. Sarcasm is key part of being british

[@rozkaz661]

11:40 well they didnt give you hongkong for a 100 years as a random ass gift now did they

[@fyivid]

The car theft and Liverpool got me good. Awesome channel, dude. Seems like I have finally found someone who's a massive a geek about geography as myself.

[@Swoost]

Ever heard of the opium wars XD

[@booxwee3804]

The economic center of gravity goes that far north bcs earth is a globe.. It has to be that

[@sixknights2312]

Yeah. And the shortest way between the two economic centers europe and north america is via the north pole.

[@jbtownsend9535]

“It shows the economic center of the world, from 1 AD to the present day. It was a fairly simple process creating it: researchers took each country's geographic center and weighted it's distance from the center of earth according to GDP (taking some liberties in earlier years).” I was a bit perplexed at first but I guess it’s to illustrate the influence of China of late bringing the average eastward.

[@niemiec745]

The reason was actually the Japanese asset bubble, it inflated their GDP so much they were the first economy of the world for a brief period of time After 1990 the Japanese economy crashed, Chinese economy started developing fast, which is why the centre started moving towards China

[@HadzirLP]

@@jbtownsend9535 The distance from the centre of a country to the centre of the globe is pretty much equal for every country. Or do you mean the distance along the surface to the surface coordinates 0,0 ?

[@gabrieldnchf2822]

Booxwee keep believing it’s a globe you sheep

[@yoavsnake]

The rubber ducks one actually makes sense, because the only data is from coasts

[@fiire6462]

So glad your channel has boosted in popularity! Keep doing what you’re doing :)

[@justincarlson2548]

I love your sporcle videos mate

[@juvnal]

this has to be my favorite series

[@GabrielKitignaTessouat]

Subscribed right when I saw the first video by you!!! I love maps and quizzes like this!!!!!!

[@Linus-br9fd]

I bloody love your content

[@bioLarzen]

I'm pretty, pretty, pretty sure Britain has never invaded Hungary, my home country - and on map #16 apparently it was marked as such...

[@justvin7214]

We may have had a go during the Seven Years War, I'm not sure but maybe one of the World Wars counts.

[@Kokurorokuko]

12:18 wow. I naively thought most of the world is covered by street view.

[@TrippyPepper]

Thanks for the upload!

[@victormoniz8367]

Countries Britain has invaded includes the territorial extent of what certain countries at the time that Britain invaded. That’s why all of South America and central is highlighted. Spanish war of succession And many others

[@bapo224]

Britain doesn't have the highest alcohol consumption by a long shot, basically all of Eastern-Europe comes first. They drink vodka for breakfast lol.

[@TheMrVengeance]

Pay closer attention to the map. Britain is the same colour as Eastern-Europe and Russia. They're in the highest category.

[@bapo224]

@@TheMrVengeance UK is ranked 25th by the WHO...

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@bapo224 - So?

[@bapo224]

@@TheMrVengeance so the UK isn't the highest by a long shot...

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@bapo224 - That's not what that says at all.

[@silas__3994]

The "countries britain has not invaded question was stupid, it counts all of the south american countries because they were part of spain and Portugal, which Britain has invaded. Also the wast majority of the African countries are new enough to were uk wasn't invading people anymore.

[@rtthyj]

So it counts regions like Balkans and Baltic States because of WW2 Germany invasion? l o l

[@silas__3994]

@@rtthyj that or when they were at war with the russian empire.

[@dougnapier6441]

you actually did invade river plate

[@vojtabrat6121]

Hope u hit 1 mil someday, u would absolutely deserve it !

[@llux]

Great vid. I found myself coming away and researching lots of different points that came up during the video. probably took me two hours to finish this, haha

[@TOH_Fan]

Maternity leave in the us IS NOT federally mandated, although most states DO mandate employers to give maternity leave.

[@qfox16789]

Great video, loving your walking across wales series +obviously all your geoguesser videos. If you’re running out of quizzes on sporcle you could try Jetpunk? I prefer it and it has a huge range of geography quizzes

[@akiradarveauwillms]

As an avid Jetpunk creator I strongly agree!

[@ChoiceDK]

Loving your content man! Keep it up :)

[@bellwater3363]

“People in Africa don’t get sunburns”

[@cellion5848]

Well he obv meant they don’t get sunburns more than other parts of the world. Dark skin doesn’t sunburn as easily

[@cellion5848]

@I'm Illiterate it’s common knowledge??? Do you know anyone that’s dark skinned?

[@SDA610]

and btw i fine your channel very interesting and i have started to love it

[@davebanerjee9430]

Love these quizzes.

[@karenking4271]

you have a new subscriber , that was fun :)

[@kelmish4200]

So close to 240k subs you need more!

[@fluteoboe101]

I love that you mentioned r/mapporn its like my favorite sub lol

[@poocrafter2]

8:54 "No surely you'd have maternity leave" Me in the US: Well you see about that....

[@NotQuiteFirst]

Wow so many of these I got before seeing the multiple choice, just from so much time looking at infomaps on instagram

[@peachfreude]

Binge watching this channel gives me peace

[@alclark5830]

Great video! Also, when are you uploading the rest of the ''straight line Wales trip'' videos?

[@faulky9540]

Your channel is blowing up mate gg

[@robemeister]

I was so shocked to see Finland having been invaded by Britain. Read up on it and yep, in the Crimean War when Finland was part of Russia we basically were lmao

[@shiina29]

I'd love to see that #9 Okinawa - Tokyo train route!

[@Duncan23]

The rubber duck fiasco is quite an interesting tale

[@XerxesZangeneh]

“Starting in sort of Babylon” *points at Afghanistan* 😂😂

[@pp7x79]

'no we haven't invaded China right' mate are you serious haha. i believe at least 2 times. History is not his second best skill i guess

[@jakecraighead]

they definitely don’t get sunburns in Africa - geowizard

[@jordanmartin4696]

Well dark skinned people dont get sunburns

[@Oli-lk1gp]

@@jordanmartin4696 we do.

[@Oli-lk1gp]

@Lilah Plays we don't get tanned WTF ?!?! We do get sunburns. We are HUMANS.

[@GeertRinkel]

About number 8 (the translations of Chinese names for countries), the answer to your question "how do they arrive at that?!" is that they usually choose a character to represent a country purely based on the phonetic value of that character, not its meaning. But characters being characters, they also have an original meaning and those were translated to English for that map.

[@addiosnia]

250k!!!!! I remember you hit 100k like a couple weeks ago

[@Nysvarth]

Please just upload part 4 of the straight line crossing of wales! I'm fully invested its the only thing i'm waiting for this channel to upload!

[@pomegranatechannel]

Hey man. You should do a cross country in a straight line across Canada in the summer. I know it's very long but it's mostly flat with little obstacles. And very friendly people! I'll personally make sure you'll have a place to stay.

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

To clarify, most companies here in the U.S. offer a maternity leave even though the government doesn't require it. It's not as quality, though

[@oakleypullen8996]

Simplicio year but we get payed in the uk

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

Cushier jobs offer a paid maternity leave, especially if they value you specifically as an employee. It's slightly riskier for companies to higher young women as opposed to young men, because women get pregnant. If your company in the US offers you paid maternity leave, it means they really like you

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@3seven5seven1nine9 - _"If your company in the US offers you paid maternity leave, it means they really like you"_ Meanwhile, in actually developed countries, that is mandated by law and the most obvious thing ever.

[@Londronable]

@@TheMrVengeance Understand that for many issues for many Americans as long as "most have it" and such they don't really care for the single digit % that's in a shitty situation because it's not mandated. "Most are ok anyway so it's not a big issue." Americans are weird like that.

[@TheMrVengeance]

​@@Londronable - No it's even weirder. Because the % of people that are beneath the poverty line, the amount of people that are uninsured and/or to poor to see a doctor,.. that isn't a small % at all. And it's rising. Wealth inequality in the US is at an all time high. The reason why so many people don't care is the myth of "the American Dream". Every poor person thinks that if they work hard enough and behave like good little worker drones then one day they'll "make it". They too will be billionaires running a successful company in the mystical land of opportunity, land of the free, home of the brave. That's why poor people cheer on the Trump tax plan that gave tax cuts and benefits to the ultra-wealthy 1%, while they were worse off. It's why they are against taxing those very same ultra-wealthy people to give them and their peers healthcare... Because they think one day *they'll* be the billionaires, and then they get all the benefits of those tax cuts, and they won't have to pay for other people's healthcare. Think about it. One million dollars is more than most people will ever make in their lifetime. One billion is a *thousand(!)* times that million. Now realise that Jeff Bezos alone has a net-worth of 108 BILLION. The Zuck has a net-worth of 70 BILLION. But let's definitely not tax them so people can go see the doctor and don't die of stupid preventable shit, because that would be... unfair? 🤔

[@pite9]

9:50 Central Europe is only this high because they drink wine and beer regularly. But they drink in moderation. In Sweden, they just get plastered, but don't drink very often.

[@Aelfraed26]

It's surprising that I knew a significant amount of these without even looking at the options.

[@frbo9002]

"I don't think we have invaded China" Lol

[@cecejackson3100]

"No surely youd have [paid] maternity leave" xD xD :'D

[@aquamelon0087]

*Laughs in Australia owning more of Antartica than anyone else*

[@kyle7574]

Very interesting concept

[@r.v.b.4153]

9:38 I was starting to lose hope in you, good job

[@CommentatorofAwesome]

20/30 for me. The ones in the middle were pretty tricky!

[@bao6759]

A)McDonald's B)Starbucks C)Walmart D) _Influenza_

[@sircheesethethird6179]

"It's not forest fires..." _mouse moves toward California_

[@jawk007]

when you said lighting strikes there was a lightning strike right out my window :O

[@SDA610]

hello mate just wondering when the next strait line in will be coming out

[@pelep1509]

I just wanted to comment a request for another Sporcle Video on your last video and I see this in my notifications 🙃

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Very informative. Thank you GeoWizard, very cool

[@jacobiskandermusic]

9:00 I just watched Andrew Yang talk about this issue lol

[@Entutu]

I need the 4th part ! :D

[@bcrunch]

i assume lot of the 'countries the UK hasnt invaded' are drawn from colonial periods as well, might be wrong but im thinking many places in africa and south america were 'colonized' areas owned by other european countries

[@counterstrike1110]

i miss these quizzes

[@betelgeuse7322]

As an argentinian, when 5:32 map appeared I knew in an instant it was bribery, that's one of the few things we are on the top of the world nowadays. Oh, and economic crisis too!

[@clam2190]

came for the journey, stayed for the geogeussr 😎

[@clam2190]

well this is sporcle but it still applies

[@danieltramp7432]

"I'm going too slow aren't I" "Here's a story about a time I watched a KZbin video the other day"

[@panner11]

I like the Researchers/elementary school teachers question. The clue that it wasn't elementary school teachers is that Japan (and scandanavia too) have very few young people due to very low birth rates compared to other countries. So other developed countries with higher birth rates would surely have more teachers per population.

[@nevreiha]

With the transtated from Chinese it is the language using its words to emulate the sound of the name of the country usually disregarding meaning.

[@viktorg72]

Anyone else waiting for part 4 of crossing a country in a straight line?

[@northygames1840]

Very nice video

[@Chocolatepenguin]

My boy out here thought Sweden doesn´t have McDonalds. Good video as always though. : )

[@jpski1312]

When is episode 4?? cant wait!