26 Maps That Will Change How You See The World (In A Bad Way)

[@they_call_me_lenz_3549]

Toycat when we colonize Mars: This is the weekly series where we talk about earth, mars and everything in between

[@sickyb4726]

I already colonised mars

[@andknuckles101]

@@sickyb4726 *British Empire noises*

[@blueheartorangeheart3768]

Stuff between earth and Mars: am I finally being noticed?

[@KidneyMans]

100th like

[@TilmanEnke]

you forgot about "and stuff", often the stuff is very interesting

[@francedoesron390]

*"Whereas Belgium also takes eight"* *Me: Wait wait wait what did you call Germany-*

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

Belgium seeks revenge.

[@francedoesron390]

@@macaroon_nuggets8008 yup lol

[@BQFireball]

thats what i thought

[@rue04]

Sad German noises

[@camelopardalis84]

"Belgium also takes eight (flags)." Sure, honey. Sure.

[@weirdcritterthing]

Germanyyyyyyyy

[@camelopardalis84]

@@weirdcritterthing 🇧🇪 ❌🖕🤬🤢😡 🇩🇪 ✔️👍🤗😇🥰 Edit: Just when it comes to flags representing Germany.

[@shrekwithawillsmithface465]

@@camelopardalis84 Belgium had it flag first

[@camelopardalis84]

@@shrekwithawillsmithface465 Still wrong to refer to the Belgian flag as the German flag. Also, it's not like I was remotely bothered with Ixbcat2's (not gonna look up the exact name) mistake in any way. I just found it amusing.

[@JanRademan]

That's German Sudan.

[@aronaax]

czech and british humour are very similar, and your humour is exactly my kind.

[@destyon9966]

Ok I czech ur like button

[@nicklink217]

Czechs out

[@silursmq5511]

You think the Austria-Hungary fact is crazy? What about Russia connecting Norway and North Korea today.

[@drewstaser9726]

Fun fact: Egypt is next to Liberia

[@Lord7979]

@@drewstaser9726wut

[@drewstaser9726]

@@Lord7979 It's true, and it is a big life changer

[@somethung8188]

if it wasn't for Genghis khan's death Mongolia would be connecting Poland to Vietnam

[@Ryan-lv9zp]

Or north Korea and Poland

[@cognitivedissident2660]

Mildly interesting fact: You can sail in a straight line from Ireland to New Zealand without hitting any land or other countries. But not to Australia, as Antarctica is in the way.

[@kerfrazl]

How?

[@flrcataa]

@@kerfrazl North Pole

[@kerfrazl]

@@flrcataa ohhhh

[@flrcataa]

@@kerfrazl Glad to help :D

[@matyastaller159]

"Belgium takes eight flags" WAS SOLL DAS

[@endie5970]

Hi for all those trying to use google translate, ‘was soll das’ is used like ‘uhm excuse me wtf’ or ‘why have you done this’. Correct me if im wrong

[@matyastaller159]

@@endie5970 Yes, I meant it basically as German for "what the hell". Further context: The country taking eight flags at 31:54 is actually Germany, whereas Belgium (same colors, but vertical) only takes one, a bit westwards.

[@johnjamesstory8975]

"I would argue that the Western part of of the United States was colonized by the United States not europe you know... they took Spanish land"

[@TheLocalLt]

America is a defacto European power, Europe adjacent. And yes Western America is very much a colony of the east.

[@Morrov]

About the Bermuda thing, there's that trend to show borders of countries with more and more edges. Sweden with 3 edges would just be a triangle, a weird banana with 10 edges, but with 500 edges you would see a lot of details and recognise it as Sweden. Bermuda triangle is just a triangle, so it looks the same no matter how many edges (or lines in that case) you add

[@darrinbrunner6429]

Toycat is yes because he acquiesces to his viewer's demands that he make the "and world and stuff" hand gesture.

[@TomJohnson67]

9:10 Toycat turns into Tom Scott for a second.

[@davidparsons97]

I was looking for this comment and you didn't disappoint.

[@casual_ice_consumer4148]

Wait, this isn't Tom Scott? I'm sorry, I just can't tell British people apart.

[@benjaminmalisheski6494]

6:36 toycat calling Germany Belgium :P

[@LinkStorm13]

I like how he just pretends it to be acidentally

[@MChagall]

Reverze Anschluss

[@wosemo]

So geht das nicht

[@svenbonne]

Das gehört umgedreht! V2 will soon start to London

[@rubenvd3913]

Deutschland ist Belgisches Staatseigentum

[@allusion_813]

13:23 never heard Toycat laugh/wheeze so hard

[@meneither3834]

4:40 the truth about the Louisiana purchase is that Napoleon thought that if he did not sell the territory the American would have just taken it by force and he couldn't deal with a transcontinal war. Alaska sale is the same thing, the Russian knew the British would just take it so they sold to a then ennemy of the British, the USA.

[@equaius893]

*america then becomes allies with Britain and fights against Russia in the Cold War*

[@TheLocalLt]

@@equaius893 not against Russia against Communist Soviet Union.Though Britain had a spat with “white” Russia in the 1800s as did America in the Obama era

[@jonathon5135]

I only discovered your channel last month, but I have been enjoying the content. Listening to you talk about geography-related stuff for hours is good while I work.

[@Moonsick.Morgan]

I don't need 26 maps, I just gotta look at one and I'm like "Mhm, yep. That's a bird's-eye view alright!"

[@camelopardalis84]

But ... Bird's eye doesn't mean "from directly above".

[@nicklink217]

This is the most underrated channel about geography with toycat

[@AngelWedge]

A straight line from Ireland to Australia would go through the Earth's core. Now I'm wondering how many countries would be on it if you drew the line of shortest surface distance; is it the same as the straight line on the map? And what's the smallest number of countries you could get on a great circle segment?

[@jackdaw6095]

Probably 2 Russia and Canada (I’m guessing)

[@broccoliflorette1970]

The geodesic from Dublin to Canberra is 17,239km long and goes thru UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

[@adamender9092]

No, Ireland to New Zealand would though

[@umbragon2814]

It's possible to connect Russia to Pakistan in a straight line without ever touching land, so the number is pretty low

[@cobinasaur]

@@jackdaw6095 Norway, Greenland, Sweden, Finland, or Iceland though.

[@memelephant]

11:00 New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Alaska and Hawaii are the nine left out

[@darinduchev9315]

I only recently found the second toycat channel, but now i almost prefer it to the main one. Also, i like how you said it's narcissistic of foreigners to watch videos about their countries - it totally is, but in a good way. Anyway, stay safe and happy holidays!

[@smoceany9478]

"eastern/central europe" Czechia subs go down my 100%

[@TilmanEnke]

relative to sudan which country would need the most modifiers? and, therefore, which independence movement are we to fear the most?

[@deet0109mapping]

I believe it’s Côte d’Ivoire

[@generaledelogu1892]

Fun fact every US state has a straight line as part of its border besides hawaii because it's an island

[@asston712]

I've actually never thought it that

[@jwaj]

Wrong. Wyoming and Colorado don’t have straight lines

[@shadysam7161]

@@jwaj well Wyoming doesn't exist, but Colorado does, so that's like 1 state that does it, so it's the "I'm quirky and special" state.

[@jwaj]

Hmm perhaps my reply was a joke 🤔🤔🤔

[@zipperooni]

@@jwaj pretty sure their reply was a joke too

[@TomInTheSky2001]

Love these videos dude, so funny and informative at the same time, works really well!

[@ibx2cat]

Glad you like them!

[@matejsikora9616]

Czechia is a small countryand and noone really talks about us, so when someone mentions czechia we are all curious.

[@ibx2cat]

did you subscribe because of that video, by chance?

[@viteksefl]

@@ibx2cat found your channel about a year ago (youtube shows that video down my throat a lot but haven't seen it yet)

[@czech_ring]

@@ibx2cat well i did

[@filiphasek17]

@@ibx2cat I found your channel with a different video (I think 12 ways to divide the world) but the Czech Republic got me to subscribe and watch most of the videos

[@kiewass]

@@ibx2cat i did

[@toprus7412]

I checked this video out of curiosity, to see what’s happening on your second channel, but I decided to stay. I really enjoyed listening to this, it was very pleasant, interesting and entertaining. I have expanded geography in school and this was a nice and out of the box view on the boring stuff I have to learn daily. Also merry christmas, greetings from Poland.

[@Lord7979]

I'll have you know I was laughing it up when you were reading out the Sudan map. Great video as always my guy :)

[@comb-t]

7:06 If you Combine the Vatican City and European Russia, It is bigger than European Russia.

[@janbouchner8234]

Toycat: "Biggest city in Europe is right here" *points at London* Bruh, have you ever heard about cities like Moscow or Istanbul?

[@ibx2cat]

Istanbul doesn't count (mostly asian) and Moscow should count but I choose not to to boost my ego

[@tylermech66]

@@ibx2cat the vast majority of Istanbul is on Europe, the heck you talking about? In fact the section in asia is remarkably tiny.

[@prabathhemachandra]

@@tylermech66 your wrong, Asian Istanbul and European Istanbul are about the same size

[@tylermech66]

@@prabathhemachandra Ah, I was thinking rather historically, when The City was much smaller. As it were, core of the city is still European.

[@ninlog]

Why did you just randomly start talking about my country, Czechia. Please don’t do that. I have suicidal thoughts after the Czech joke please

[@antimatterg]

Then he hearted the comment. I can't tell if he's respecting you or disrespecting you.

[@ylette]

"I'm just gonna milk the internet for free content." At least he's honest.

[@hugo57k91]

25:59 it's a joke on the popular trend from that time, making maps with more and more edges being added in a single post. Here the joke is that it's the same

[@KaleunMaender77]

1:37 the Western Australian border is NOT totally straight. Where the border meets with the Northern Territory and with South Australia, the longitudinal part of the border with the Northern Territory is about 200 yards west of the longitudinal border between WA and SA.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

The 5 to 500 edges is a reference to some popular posts on reddit where someone made maps of countries from 5 to 500 edges, so it became more and more defined

[@mettycandy]

r/MapPornCirclejerk is like exactly my kind of humor

[@chasm1205]

2:23 so why are scotland, england and wales still together?

[@tomgraham3612]

9:56 We agree that the US is part of North America and Hawaii is one of the US states, but --- we certainly do not think this certifies Hawaii as part of North America. It's an island chain in the Pacific Ocean. (If you think you're confused now, wait until Puerto Rico and Guam become states.)

[@adamender9092]

Fun fact: Liechtenstein almost bought Alaska

[@dataexpunged2827]

1:58 wow thanks for the shoutout Toycat!

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

6:36 did you just call Germany Belgium?

[@Rh-sl2kt]

I'm offensive and this was highly german to me

[@ibx2cat]

Belgium is my favorite central European state, I love their chancellor

[@soupdrinker]

@Adolf Hitler crybabies crybabies

[@2712animefreak]

You might be able to cut the way to Australia even shorter by going through Rhein, Main and Danube. You'd have to sail around Turkey a bit, but it might be shorter.

[@udadox]

20:05 as a chilean I confirm

[@PurPurDot]

Lol

[@cristiano7541]

10:47 I am far from American but I see that New Mexico, Pensilvania, Nebraska and the Dakotas are missing

[@alexrieser8655]

I really like this kind of video its almost like a stream

[@lucasoscar]

My main takeaway from this video is that sending a private chat to toycat is a waste of time

[@ibx2cat]

haha, I wanted to turn them off but reddit gives you no such option sadly

[@koifish4276]

i’ve seen so many density maps that i looked the one for my country up and i now know that i live in the least populated area of my country

[@jankopransky2551]

I am czech, a long time subscriber, and this chanell is like a Fun with Flags comming to life, just better!

[@DollarStoreDrum]

10:31 Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Mexico

[@comment9382]

The UK would be a really good addition to Iceland

[@DRAKE-mi9rc]

the second half of this video is good and off the rails. good ol rambling toycat. great content genuinly

[@sethf2258]

14:50 England is good for domination victory, royal navy dockyards plus the venetian arsenal and you can have a crazy navy

[@ohioanempire]

Napoleon tried to colonize Europe but you wouldn't allow it.

[@luxuryvagrant6496]

17:20 "Cultural victory win, I think you'll find" ... My grin spreads from ear to ear.

[@CobaltChono]

13:22 Ever wanted to hear Toycat wheeze?

[@ajlorbacher]

10:53 New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Pennsylvania and Delaware are missing

[@GeoffreyReemer]

So someone actually went through all the trouble of naming countries relative to Sudan and they did NOT rename the Arabic countries to "Middle East Sudan"? 🙂

[@binancehighlights4038]

14:18 Why did we not colonized ourselfs? 15+ century Russia: actually I did

[@albertlyngpetersen8702]

0:51 when you realize that belarus got the Namibia strip😂

[@xprmx1757]

In the contiguous 41 you forgot about New Mexico (only noticed because the 4 corners and Oklahoma is not a part of that) also north and South Dakota

[@walker_andrej]

Never had notification right when the video was released.

[@JunaidAxmed]

Same lol

[@navareeves8976]

yeah it always takes like 25 minutes for me.

[@ElliotM2007]

0:33 alright that's something to be noted for the toycat youtube poop

[@TRRailfan]

10:40 I live in America and it took me a good 10 minutes to find them

[@TRRailfan]

@Adolf Hitler hitler you literally used them in world war 2 stop lying

[@АртурЧугай]

12:41 Lol I know live in Pine County, Minnesota. Never heard of it.

[@aidanhardy8747]

5:25 come out ye black and tans intensifies

[@y33t23]

1:06 I love how there is just a random panhandle 😂

[@easytiger6570]

Germans thought the same when negotiating border with Portugal

[@y33t23]

@@easytiger6570 When did Germany negotiate a border with Portugal and which territory? Only German panhandle I know of is the one in Namibia, which they bought from Britain.

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

Yay another mappporncirclejerk video! I first found the sub through your channel lol

[@ndrgaming7344]

12:37 I am currently in either northern Ukraine or southern Belarus

[@willmatheson]

Going along the 49th parallel isn't the shortest distance because the only parallel that is also the shortest distance between two points on the globe is the Equator. Everything else, you should curve (as seen on a flat Mercator-style map), to the north in the northern hemisphere or to the south in the southern hemisphere.

[@moresnqp]

22:35 WHOA PEOPLE LIVE WHERE PEOPLE LIVE!!!!!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

“A state between Virginia, Maryland, and NY” Pennsylvania: Am I a joke to you?

[@poedameron8057]

Toycat: yes

[@joeyready3]

7:30 If it wasn't for every county in the world you would be able to sail from South Africa to South Africa

[@BiruBane298]

4:22 France sold Louisiana to the United States for three reasons: 1. France was in crippling debt from wars like the Seven Years War, The American Revolution, and the French Revolution. 2. They didn't have enough money anyway to administer the colony. 3. Napoleon sold the territory to the United States to fund his War Efforts. Russia sold Alaska to the United States for similar reasons: 1. They didn't have enough money to administer the colony (Like what happened to colonies like the one in Hawaii that I forgot the name of and Fort Ross in California) 2. They feared that that colony would just get taken over by the United Kingdom, one of their main rivals (This is before the triple entente) Countries nowadays wouldn't sell land to countries because they obviously would want to retain the land that they owned, as the United Kingdom for example wouldn't just sell Northern Ireland. And many times discussions about buying land could be complicated because the countries would take a while to negotiate a price or maybe even not be able to settle on a price at all. The country could even get so fed up with the situation by demanding land by sending an ultimatum to the country they initially wanted to buy the land from, which would just lead to more tension and possibly war between the countries. Hopefully, this clears some confusion as to why the countries sold that land at the time even though it is so valuable now.

[@jandolezal9341]

I'm Czech and the reason why I'm here is basically due to KZbin recommendations. Until now I didn't even know that you have some video about Czechia. PS. Actually we have slightly more than 10 million citizens :D

[@PurPurDot]

So the US state I live in has almost 4 times more people than Check Check Czechia isn’t that interesting…

[@jandolezal9341]

@@PurPurDot I don't know how it relates to my previous comment but yeah, it's really surprising that the most populous US state has more people than some european counties

[@PurPurDot]

@@jandolezal9341 and every state (besides Hawaii because it’s an island) has at least one straight line as part of their border, something Europeans love…

[@gatyandsawagainwowie]

Hi im early and Belarus has a panhandle so thicc and long like a glizzy

[@no1fanofthepals]

why

[@andknuckles101]

But why not?

[@sadmhusn]

why god. why

[@gatyandsawagainwowie]

Hey that rhymed

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

Reference to Namibia

[@epickid32]

This is the channel I never knew I needed

[@Manuel-gk3rv]

6:36 Belgium???

[@dylreesYT]

After you noticed Nebraska (47), I did noticed New Mexico (46) first but needed help finding Pennsylvania (45), Delaware (44), Kansas (43) with North (42) and South Dakota (41) missing too.

[@dylreesYT]

Oh okay I paused the video to look for them but you did find out what they were in the video lol

[@djetoasmr6188]

,,Why can't we just buy more land?" British Guy

[@thatlinuxthug]

Bro what version or Reddit are you using? It looks like you got stuck in HTML.

[@295g295]

21:00 - Marco Polo brought spaghetti from China to Roman/Italy ? 21:11 - Europe was de-forested to build ships to trade and colonize the world?

[@joshuabruce9599]

ibx2Cat: "Why don't we just buy Ireland?" In the distance a faint sound of marching accompanied by 'Come out ye Black and tans' is heard. ibx2Cat, my friend, I fear you have made a grave mistake.

[@henryofwinchesterkingofeng5377]

6:35 isnt that germany and not belgium?

[@petersmythe6462]

Re: islands. Well it would make a few things easier. 1. Every country can trade relatively easily except maybe Switzerland, which is just stuck gawking at the budget for how expensive building a port city into the side of a mountain is, and probably Nepal, which is more worried about how to even get down the several kilometer tall sheer cliff face surrounding them on every side. 2. Most non-island countries get an increase in habitable land. Especially Saharan Africa which probably loses most of it's harsh desert in favor of mild deserts, grasslands, or tropical savannahs. Libya for example probably grows it's carrying capacity immensely. 3. Invasion by land is harder but naval empires rule all. Protecting that length of coastline against amphibious operations would be exceedingly difficult.

[@NoahBall08]

18:19 If you CZECH out

[@bodilsoldeberg5412]

Canada & the U.S just two straight bros hanging out... until you reach the great lakes area.... it's when the girlfriends are out ;)

[@pablonh]

9:46 Where's Denmark?

[@pablonh]

@Zachary Kowalewsky No kiddng.

[@arah8998]

6:36 hhmmmm belgium

[@Roonasaur]

Thank you for talking slower. :) My brain is grateful.

[@Dantheman15353]

What's ibx2cat's main channel?

[@mclovinmcmuffin3892]

That western australia border line isn't perfectly straight it has a small kink at the tri point border and it mildly infuriates me

[@darkmage35]

The border of Western Australia is not actually completely straight. If you zoom right in to the junction between WA, NT, and SA, you'll find a tiny little dogleg with a carpark and a commemorative plaque in the absolute middle of nowhere. One of several little non-obvious oddities about the internal borders of Australia.

[@jordanbenjamin7665]

Unlovable monsters. Lol. I died.

[@haseabolt]

10:50 I stared at this for like 5-10 minuets trying to find the 9 missing states, I found 8 before I had to google a map, the only one I was missing was Nebraska, I live in the U.S. so I'd say thats not too bad Edit: "I feel like Nebraska is not there" the only one I missed, you found 10:57

[@johne7123]

Randomly recommended this video, good job m8

[@joeyready3]

9:50 why

[@twocan8867]

The USA if it was colonised by Europe got me

[@Andre-kb2vj]

Toycat being upset about Guatemala not being considered as part of North America while i'm here crying Denmark out loud

[@JacksSpiralShape]

I used to watch your minecraft videos as a kid and I’m happy I found you again

[@295g295]

18:35 - I will rename Nebraska to South South Dakota, and Minnesota will be East Dakota, Wisconsin is East-East Dakota. ..

[@Bluey]

9:43 maybe cam