Every Map Lies To You - But Why?

The world map is deliberately innacurate, and it's something we don't talk about enough
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[@c.g.5580]

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

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@thesalandarian3314]

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

[@DrClocktopus1]

Maps destroyed by facts and logic!

[@901Wolf]

Nothing cares about anytthing

[@901Wolf]

anything*

[@justnother_user]

When he’s educated and plays Minecraft 🥰

[@toastytoast9800]

He is enlightened

[@batwojtek8170]

True, 16th like

[@silursmq5511]

True, 21st like

[@batwojtek8170]

@@silursmq5511 nice

[@mcbella78]

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

[@fidelcastro1537]

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

[@duffal0]

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

[@izaactheberean6860]

@@duffal0 What is AMA?

[@duffal0]

@@izaactheberean6860 alabama midget age

[@zionj104]

@@izaactheberean6860 ask me anything

[@vladprus4019]

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

[@epicgamer-nt9dk]

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

[@Polska_Edits]

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

[@eggrobo]

Czechia invades Kaliningrad

[@Oilerator_]

Sealand isn't on the map which is disgraceful

[@lama99654]

Sealanders rise up

[@BeingTheHunt]

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

[@benjaminpujol711]

Does that mean I have lost my lordship

[@nielsreyngoud2870]

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

[@xevicho9110]

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

[@Nlapin]

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

[@nemanjaradojcic4155]

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

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

@@nemanjaradojcic4155 not really

[@Nlapin]

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

[@ognjenmarinkovic2653]

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

[@kevalan1042]

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

[@gruaim]

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

[@cn7032]

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

[@Elegia-rh2uh]

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

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@equaius893]

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

[@DMCS1917]

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

[@lizardlegend42]

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

[@bocbinsgames6745]

@@lizardlegend42 France is rightfully British Territory!

[@dylreesYT]

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

[@joshuacarre06]

Yes it lies Germany doesent have many germs

[@inactive859]

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

[@pakshalshah8934]

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

[@yoyoman_blue6485]

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

[@milesremmel]

It’s red.

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

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

[@okokok1178]

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

[@7lllll]

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

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

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

[@Laughterhouse5]

Toycat be putting Map Men out of business

[@NeverwascooL]

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

[@jimcollins8899]

Let's talk about the middle East Toycat sighs

[@blazewolf8266]

Guess he just hates controversy

[@comradeedwin1006]

Love your videos! Keep the great work up!

[@ibx2cat]

Thanks so much!

[@pedromendesrbd]

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

[@User-dyn]

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

[@connerb1292]

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

[@damasek219]

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

[@toastytoast9800]

I am the senate!

[@binancehighlights4038]

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

[@damasek219]

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

[@binancehighlights4038]

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

[@nadavsagi8019]

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

[@ii-ux5xf]

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

[@tagiatella1]

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

[@aloosecannon2982]

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

[@Hamboarding]

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

[@James-zh2qy]

Where can you find this map?

[@NautyCat]

On the subreddit in the descriptions.

[@Tris2000]

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

[@briocheoleary5043]

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

[@likeabossk4055]

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

[@danielmcdaniel1250]

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

[@BeingTheHunt]

North Sentinel Island is an interesting case. Officially it is Indian territory but the Indian government leaves all control over the island and the people on it to the indigenous population. So who has "territorial control"? The Sentinelese who actively control the land or India whose stance is basically, "we own it but let the people there get on with things without interfering." I don't think the islanders would agree that they are subordinate to India. They certainly don't pay taxes and even attack outsider who try to come to their island.

[@aryankarki688]

my definition of a country is that as long as theres a government that declares itself a different country then that means its a country, its as easy as that

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

where do i download this map?

[@ericp0012]

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

[@alihaleem8264]

Where's a link to the map?

[@NautyCat]

On the subreddit in the descriptions.

[@ACE234dm]

How many electoral parties do you want, Ukraine? Ukraine: Yes

[@ЖаннаРозвод]

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

[@squidgypollard1561]

This was pretty interesting. I enjoyed it

[@theimpostor4317]

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

[@entynwa]

This guy: I've already started a war in the comment section 1 minute in me: I DECLARE THE FIFTH NINJA WAR!!!!!

[@duckswearcrocs3637]

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

[@thisin.]

Get Vivaldi, or just get tree tabs, will make tabs much more manageable.

[@magscovers8924]

Are we not going to talk about how toycat said King of Denmark when they have a Queen atm? And Gotland belongs to Sweden and speaks Swedish.

[@hughaskew6550]

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

[@jojogaywad]

GIVE MAP LINK

[@yeastrisenspider2967]

A fun fact about the president of Ukraine is that he had a TV series that started in 2015 called "Servant of the People" about becoming the president of Ukraine before he actually became president.

[@CarnivorousMonster]

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

[@Cybernaut551]

This is a really intriguing world tour!

[@jokegajr2748]

Imagine not existing This post is made by Serbia gang.

[@therealbaylee]

Why because Kosovo will soon own all of Serbia

[@therealbaylee]

@Alboss but Serbia was on the winning side. But Kosovo will take over.

[@therealbaylee]

@Alboss theres also a good case that Austria-Hungary caused it with the 10 point ultimatum.

[@ub3227]

I’m from Costa Rica and I just want to mention that the Coco Islands are technically ours even though Colombia claims the same.

[@thecakecore232]

7:20 This is what Neville Chamberlain might have thought lol

[@Nabium]

Danish king! I am grossly offended! Reeeeee! To be fair she does have some masculine features so I kinda get why you thought that.

[@simon8242]

instead of saying "owned" which would imply a formal & justified proclamation you should instead just say "controlled", whilst most countries don't agree that south Ossetia for example has "ownership" of the land that they are occupying, they still control it.

[@SmashingCapital]

Cope

[@adamgray2060]

You don't have to show only one country/flag as in control of any territory, and you could also include a distinction between de facto and de jure sovereignty for a country or territory. That would allow you to show both political, internationally recognized boundaries and practical boundaries showing military and legal control.

[@joshuacarre06]

I hope wales gets independence the Westminster system is terrible

[@RetrX1]

Eat pant

[@StandingTNT]

That's the spirit!

[@joshuacarre06]

@@RetrX1 why?

[@Heres_To_Music]

The Ukrainian elections are a language (see previous election maps- the country basically ends up split in like 2/3 sort of) -cultural thing. The East speaking more Russian and the West speaking typically Ukrainian (though Russian words are sometimes used as slang as well as English words, there's thing where people speak half UA and and half RU and it's it's own dialect I guess called Surzhyk). That bit of red is the really traditionally Ukraine region because had more freedom that other oblasts which used to be under harsher countries (also the USSR imported Russian settlers into Eastern Ukraine after the Holodomor and such so...) so culturally so even just looking at the options, they would chose the person who will be anti-Russia. So voting against Zelensky was more a language/culture nationalistic thing (also maybe a hint of anti-Semitism had something to do with it *sigh*). People just want out with the war but on the other side you have people who want it to end. People from the East run to the West so it's an added reason Western Ukraine wants the war to end. Fun fact, there's a political group called Voice (Holos) that was lead by the leader of the band called Ocean of Elza (Okean Elzy). Yet, the actor who owns a comedy show (95th Apartment) won the elections helped by the show (the Servant of the People) he made with the very name of the party he created in parliament...For the 'conservatives' (lets just use that word), they are ever frustrated by the things he's filmed (the sketches in his show) which just seems so counter to who a president should be. Also they are frustrated by how they don't expect him to do well as he may run a business, but that it's not the same thing as running a country (he is very haughty from some of the more embarrassing clips I've seen my parents watch or talk about, like 'I'm a president, so you should do what I say' kinda think when people try to critique him which grates on people). I don't always really listen to what's up there so from what I can recall from my parents and relatives that's sort of the basics I guess. The green voted for a solution to the 'corruption' issue (corruption is a real problem, but they way some people talk it seems as if they reduced it to a strawman which needed a simply solution and Zelensky embodied it by letting everyone project onto him their own ideas on what needed to be done. I guess people must have really like his show, the Servant of the People because of the overall theme of anti-corruption).

[@talkalexis]

dedication

[@harleyjackson9000]

WE MUST MAKE EVERYONE DRINK TEA TEA EMPIRE (British empire) SHALL RISE!!!

[@hexagonalchaos]

Harley Jackson yes join the “Tea Eaters Agency today!”

[@biponacci]

The English Ampere

[@biponacci]

Wait no

[@smpark12]

Harley Jackson as an American I approve of this

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

As a Dutchman, I say no, and vote for Glorious Revolution 2:Electric Boogaloo

[@FlorianWendelborn]

7:07 "The Reason all of these places (shows Russia and other countries) don't accept it is because it would encourage breakaway states" This aged poorly after their recent attempts at making and gobbling up breakaway states

[@Doge_finngolia]

12:31 those borders make me want to throw up

[@yoyoman_blue6485]

What about my claim on Antarctica

[@menpee]

Afghanistan looks like a ski paradise map.

[@PowersOfDarkness]

its not just the developing or post soviet world in the US you got -Puerto Rico 3.2 million -DC 705K -Guam 165K -US Virgin Islands 100K -N Mariana Islands 56K -American Samoa 55K out of all island territories it adds up to 4.1 million, 98.4% are ethnic minorities and then millions more dont have any say on the matter because of wild gerrymandering and the parties drawing voting borders on all levels making the majority of seats in the senate safe and uncontested ruled by one party and only that that party the number of contested and marginal seats is in double digits the US is not a democracy, dont pretend it is

[@codenamepyro2350]

Link to the map? Or maybe a download?

[@jens9284]

In almost every map Greenland is scaled down, in reality it’s actually huge

[@SmashingCapital]

Its really not that much

[@presenttomato1060]

YOU FORGOT THE LINK

[@_Tamarisk_]

My man be preaching

[@thesalandarian3314]

Europe hanging on to Africa

[@carlcoldingvilstrup733]

there aren’t a king in Denmark just yet. We have a queen.

[@robsmith9989]

I think you’re the first non-canadian I’ve heard correctly pronounce newfoundland

[@Kasnickijakub]

The world is a wierd place...

[@GM4ThePeople]

Putting colours on this map was judged to be a little _too_ political.

[@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262]

Don’t think this map is very accurate. Doesn’t show Kurdistan, West Bank/Judea & Samaria as being controlled by P.A., Sealand, the Native American reservations that exist outside the U.S. system or Republic of Srpska.

[@jaywilliams720]

i think tge methodology used to construct it is very much political. obviously the creator chose a set criteria and somewhere along the line that criteria did not allow for the consideration of alternate froms of governance which leads to many of the issues you highlighted. another example is the erasure of the zapatistas in mexico

[@TheLocalLt]

Jay Williams the Zapatistas were on there, they don’t have a formal government though. As for OP’s comment I don’t believe of those factions actually has control over their land, Syrian Kurdistan is shown, Iraqi Kurdistan isn’t because it lost its independence and submitted to the Iraqi court system a couple of years ago, West Bank is an external Israeli territory which it has allowed the Palestinian Authority to run locally since 1993. Judea and Samaria is Israel’s settler entity in the West Bank, and is set to be annexed to Israel itself, along with portions of the West Bank, in the near future, according to Israel. Sealand has no physical land mass, and Native American reservations are not sovereign entities, as they posses limited sovereignty in certain cases superseding, but only at on behalf of, the American government in those areas. They could theoretically be declared independent by the American government, similar to South Africa ceding independence to bantustans such as Bophatupswana, or the natives could theoretically declare independence on their own if they really wanted to fight for it, but both of those possibilities are remote and were far more likely to occur as a result of the Indian/native Wars.

[@fishykid]

Don't wanna be one of 'those' people, but Niue is pronounced New-Aye, it seems to be a big enough country you say it on the odd occasion, so the more ya know. Great video as always.

[@the8thgemmer467]

As a Cypriot I have to say the A-political map of Cyprus did not accurately describe the status quo. First of all, it lists Akrotiri and Dhekelia separately even though they are he same administration according to the UK. Secondly, Akrotiri and Dhekelia are not, in fact, British Overseas territories but rather disputed areas between the UK and Cyprus. In reality, they are ran as condominia, but some parts of them are not ran at all by the UK. Thirdly, the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” is a de facto Turkish puppet state heavily controlled by Turkey. (But tbh many puppet states are not shown as such). Also, Toycat mentioned “they are mostly Turkish there” but in fact, besides the fact that they are Turkish Cypriots, the majority of the population in those areas was Greek-Cypriot before it was invaded.

[@hissingfaunaa]

You 4got the link

[@DrivingGod21]

WE LOVE maps!!!

[@Vincrand]

So about this link of the map...

[@Monosekist]

How to determine if a country is a country: which country would arrest you if you murdered someone there. If you killing someone would just blend in with all the other violence, nobody controls that land. It’s being fought over.

[@wumbr6467]

8:49 Crimea is not an islan, it is a Peninsula

[@BigHomieGav]

Åland has a very good reason to be Finnish.. this video was cool though same with all the other ones haha

[@theultimatefreak666]

You're telling me there's a anarchist society in Mexico?

[@oirad9633]

Link?

[@takashi.mizuiro]

great video

[@operatorraul]

can someone link the map?

[@dylreesYT]

Can't find the link to the map... you forgot again, goddammit Andrew (pretty sure that's your name but I could also be completely wrong lol)

[@PRTTHMCHN]

Well, about Crimea (hello from fellow russian btw), there was a referendum on the annexation of Crimea to Russia. And so people decided they wanted to be part of the Russia, so that comment about people wanting to be part of Ukraine is kinda wrong... Though personally I can't say whether this mess was or was not worth it. Our economy kinda sucks and that whole situation hadn't helped it so... And also Crimea sucks, not gonna lie, and that whole referendum is highly debatable because due to our extremely pro-governmental news sources people still argue about results. Yeah, living in Russia is very fun lol.

[@axelstad4662]

Danish king? Toycat you have failed

[@gaobo5679]

12:00 cc: Puerto Rico

[@mevoki]

The danish what now?!

[@biponacci]

r/maps without the republic of whangamomona

[@LE-kf4ql]

I make lots of maps of Malta, my own country.

[@pauljackson3491]

I don't know much about Malta except their Falcons suck. :D Are you in Europe (erupoe) or Africa?

[@LE-kf4ql]

@@pauljackson3491 Europe, duuhh! We're also part of the European Union. We're not even Muslims.

[@morthim]

Most topological maps are less political.

[@egorluk6488]

As a Ukrainian I very much look forward to see you trying to figure out the mess which is Ukrainian politics lol

[@STB4G]

*angry serb comments after 30 seconds of watching intensifies*

[@sonja5058]

fyi Niue is pronounced like nu-way. It's self-governing in free association with New Zealand which I still don't know the meaning of haha

[@ailis2635]

how the fxck has ur computer not crashed with so many tabs it literally scares mé how many tabs u have