Interesting Maps Of EUROPE That Teach Us About The Continent

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[@General.Knowledge]

What are some of the other statistics that divide Europe's countries?

[@nikolasmaillis6862]

Power grids

[@ihmeheepo]

Just wondering why is Finland Legend in nuclear power?

[@Insert-thing-here-Fan]

As a portuguese, i can confirm Olive oil is best answer

[@Coolsnille]

Median age, standard of living, access to fiber internet, life expectancy, alcohol consumption and arms exports.

[@MegaBoss1980]

Median is Better metric than average for any stats

[@DexM47]

As a Swiss, I can only appreciate your true neutrality regarding olive oil.

[@Nabium]

@@bambadoo7378 Yeah, and it completely ignores things like canola oil consumption. Okay so we don't use much olive oil here in Norway, but rapeseed oil aka canola oil? It's called the "olive oil of the north" for a reason. We can actually grow it here, the taste is more suited for our local food, and it is relatively rich in omega 3 which is seen as very healthy here while in southern europe they focus more on the monosaturated fat found in olive oil being healthy. Also the witty remarks of this American presenter that clearly olive oil is better than butter. Maybe in many regards, but who's talking? Americans have a huge consumption of soy oil which is way less tasty than olive oil, butter or canola, soybean production is devastating rainforests, soybean oil a huge omega 6 content(which isn't healthy in large doses as it blocks omega 3) and it is more easily converted into unhealthy transfats when used in cooking which is linked to a host of different diseases from heart diseases, obesity, cancers, diabetes and even mental health conditions. In the end us Europeans have to come together and admit that whether we're using butter, canola or olive oil at least we're not heavy on consuming flavourless soybean oil like those North Americans(or even worse, palm oil).

[@hugocunha30]

@@Nabium he is not american, he is portuguese. And if we are talking about beeing healthy just search for longevity data and u will see that the people from the south of europe are the ones that live longer.

[@Nabium]

@@hugocunha30 Oh, good on him for being so good in English that I thought he was a native speaker! But, I just did what you asked me to do. I searched up the life expectancy by country. And, in Europe the top 20(out of 44) are as following: Switzerland Spain Italy Norway France Sweden Iceland Malta Ireland Netherlands Germany Austria Finland Portugal Belgium United Kingdom Denmark Slovenia Greece Czech Republic So, pretty evenly spread there. Out of the top ten, 4 are Southern European, pretty good. But 5 are Northern European, and 1 Central European. All of these countries are doing pretty good compared to the rest of the world - except Japan obviously - but I don't think you can say Northern countries are doing much worse than Southern. Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway all beat Portugal, Greece, Malta. Denmark is not so high, but all they do is eat pork sausages and drink beer so. I say the Southern European countries are doing pretty good when it comes to long age, but, so are arguably the Nordic countries. And when it comes to the Southern European countries, all of them have much bigger gaps between males and females. Meaning that all the Nordic countries except Denmark have males that outlive all the Southern European countries. Your name is Hugo, dude. If you wanna take credit for your diet making you live long, it aint your achievement. It's the women. Start eating what they eat, I guess. And probably it isn't even the diet, probably it's because Southern Europe has a lot of house wives who hasn't worked a single day in their lives.

[@exmachin560]

The longevity is not only related with the fact that olive oil is healthier or not than butter. There are other factors that come in play such as access to health care and health care quality. As a Portuguese that lives in Norway and works in the Norwegian healthcare system I confirm that Norway has a better standard of health care. But olive oil is way better than butter

[@Nabium]

@@exmachin560 I completely agree with most of that. Saturated fat like butter is less healthy than monounsaturated fats like olive oil, and butter produce more greenhouse gasses as well. I don't think anyone here has said anything otherwise, so I don't really know why this was such a big point for you to make. But, what I will say, is I find it kinda absurd this assumption that Northern European butter use has this enourmous influence on health. This premise has two major flaws. First of, the butter is not the most used cooking fat in Norway, and I doubt it is in the rest of Northern Europe. There's a reason I mentioned canola, and that's because it's more used as a cooking oil than butter. In fact, a lot of what Norwegians call "butter" is margarine either made from canola(like bremykt, soft flora, vita hjertego, melange etc) or a mix of butter and canola-based margarine(like brelett). So your whole premise that Norwegians eat a lot of butter. We eat less than France and Greece, which are Southern European countries. Secondly, I find it kinda absurd you think the cooking fat has this enourmous amount of influence on health. More important than what it's being cooked in, is what's being cooked. Southern European food has more vegetables, more salad, less red meat, less cured meats. These things are way more important than what cooking fat is being used. We don't use that much more butter than you, it's just we use canola oil and canola based products instead. Which is my whole argument earlier; why is this a map of butter vs olive oil as if canola oil didn't exist? Seems like that point went WAY over your head.

[@liborkundrat185]

Nuclear power: I think more useful map would be one showing the share of country's energy being created by nuclear plant, rather than the amount.

[@MayorMcThicc]

Its irrelevant because any amount is more than nothing

[@putendoener]

@@MayorMcThicc It's absolutely not irrelevant. Small countries like let's say belgium could have 2-3 nuclear powerplants and have their need covered while a country like germany would need like 20.

[@udishomer5852]

Agreed

[@neuralwarp]

I think a more useful map would be deaths from nuclear accidents over the last 80 years. Ukraine - 59 Rest of world - 0

[@_vancurtis]

@@neuralwarp At least, USA - 3 (1961), Japan - 2 (1999).

[@dreamedsause2311]

(correction) At 7:45 you said that Vasconia has the same population as Brittany. But Brittany is actually shown to be part of one larger Celtic Union. Love your videos btw.

[@Aschraffff]

Was about to comment that. Brittany has only 3 million or so, much less than Portugal or Denmark.

[@General.Knowledge]

I didn't notice! Thanks for the correction, and thanks for watching :)

[@plumebrise408]

@@Aschraffff Brittany (Region) has 3.37 Million ,but if we also count the Department that should be in the region Brittany (aka Loire-Atlantique) ,it would be 4.83 Million . In France ,a majority of the people want this Department to be a part of the Brittany region (Administratively) .

[@Aschraffff]

@@plumebrise408 You mean in Brittany. Because most people in France, like here in Alsace, don't care one bit about such regional matters!

[@mandarinesalon1937]

@@plumebrise408 Ok, mais ce n'était pas ce dont il est question ici. Sur la carte, [1] la Loire-Atlantique ne fait pas partie de la Bretagne (je dis bien sur la carte, je ne parle de ce qui se passe dans le cœur des bretons) [2] la Bretagne fait partie de l'Union celtique (Bretagne+Cornouailles+Pays de Galles+île de Man+Irlande+Écosse). L'union celtique a une population similaire à celle de la Vasconie, pas l'ensemble Bretagne+Loire-Atlantique

[@warriorofthenite5924]

I absolutely loved that reference at 9:39. For those who don't know, Eder is a Portuguese football player, and he is like a national hero because he scored against the French in 2016, making Portgual win the Euro 2016, it was like the most glorious moment for him and everyone in Portugal knows him. Still gives me chills when I rewatch that goal... Love you general knowledge!

[@axo6604]

Portugal didn't deserve to win anyway

[@warriorofthenite5924]

@@axo6604 ayoooo you're probabily right (I'm not a huge football fan) but I feel like you insulted me and 10 million other people, I feel personally attacked lmaooo

[@axo6604]

@@warriorofthenite5924 I didn't mean to attack anyone, just saying that Portugal didn't deserved to win that, especially when there were other nations that played much better than them on the tournament.

[@warriorofthenite5924]

@@axo6604 yeah you're absolutely right lmao, I was just joking around ahha

[@betaorionis2164]

@@axo6604 Well, they scored one goal and France did not. Only thing which really matters.

[@marcfleischmann269]

The average income in Germany is actually just at 2000 Euro per month and not over 3200 Euro. We have the largest low income sector in Europe of people, which only get minimum wage. People offen mistaken Germany for being such a rich country has also so high salarys but that is not true. However minimum wage in Germany is still higher than in many eastern european countries thats why a Lot of people from these countries work here.

[@peterzimmerman1114]

There is also the way countries report these numbers, income before taxes, then there might be hidden parts to the income that companies pays out, like employer taxes that are supposed to add to retirement benefits and other things while other countries takes that out of the salaries before taxes. taxes, fees, benefits. What the employer pays for their labor force might differ greatly from what's being reported in these statistics. Over all though I think most europeans can make a decent livign as long as they are fiscally responsible and can work a budget ad for those who can't the government has already take a big chunk of your money so they can take care of you when you screw up... least to some degree. If you're constantly drunk and stoned then life is bound to get bad and short no matter what... Swedish income might be somewhat missrepresented depending on how you view it aswell. Some countries have already subtracted the taxes going towards retierment and social wellfare from those numbers, and the people just have to pay their salary taxes. It's complicated... really really complicated...

[@jones2884]

i think youre talking about median, rather than average

[@JackoBanon1]

3200€ is the number before taxes and social insurance contributions that will directly be taken by the government from you and can be up to 60% high. And 3200€ is still above average because the few millionaires in Germany increase this number. For comparison: After I finished my apprenticeship and started to work as Electrician I earned 1800€ per month in my 20s. During this time I bought a condo and with the credit and other costs like electricity I had to pay 1000€ for it at the beginning of the month. So there was 800€ left for food, gas and other things for the rest of the month. I furthermore started to study electrical engineering during this time and it was really difficult because I was broke all the time. Nowadays I work as an engineer and my monthly income after taxes is 2500€. So yeah, the 'average' wages in Germany are a fantasy number and have nothing to do with reality. But at least you don't have to worry if you have an accident or get sick because the social insurances will help you a lot. But if you want to become rich then you should not consider working in Germany.

[@strafniki1080]

@@JackoBanon1 how expensive is food there?

[@JackoBanon1]

@@strafniki1080 I spend 300-400€ per month here right now. It was cheaper a few years ago but it won't ever get as cheap as that again.

[@finix341]

croatia shares a nuclear powerplant with slovenia thats near the croatian-slovenian border (slovenian side)they share 50% of everything that comes from the powerplant so yes its a dispute if croatia has the powerplant as its build in slovenia but still croatia did build a lot of it

[@iztokcvetko3669]

they don't share everything that comes out croats are still French about radioactive waste

[@General.Knowledge]

That's so interesting! I had never heard of a shared plant

[@finix341]

@@General.Knowledge also another fun fact about that is that bc we dont know what to do with waste from the powerplant we pay other countries to get our waste from the powerplant as we dont have space to store it as it would be risky bc it can endanger a lot of our fresh water.its important to keep our nature safe as we have a lot of riches in nature here in croatia.

[@brucewillixaspirinix9652]

@@General.Knowledge It is the Krško nuclear power plant built as a joint venture by Slovenia and Croatia, 50-50. It uses a U.S.-built Westinghouse pressurized water reactor

[@iztokcvetko3669]

the power plant was built in the 80's, and is a remnant when we were in the common state of yugoslavia@@General.Knowledge

[@Rubikonas]

You mentioned that Spain built a nuclear plant next to Portuguese border. Now imagine this: out of dozens of places for its nuclear plant Belarus has decided to build a nuclear plant 40 km away from Lithuania's capital city with population of 600K. A nuclear incident would turn the capital of a neighboring country into an evacuation zone. Moreover, the Belarusian nuclear power plant was built in violation of safety standards, and much information about its maintenance and construction was and still is hidden. Besides, International inspection was forbidden to access the area. The workers who built the plant were unhappy about the delay in their salaries and threatened to reveal the facts about how it was built... this alone can be a cause for concern

[@sunnybreezer]

The gas consumption map should be updated because since 2014 (date of the map), some countries drastically changed their natural gas provider, especially Lithuania, which now has an LNG terminal and imports gas from other sources and has a bargaining tool for prices of gas from Russia. Gas price dropped almost 3 times in Lithuania from 2014 to 2020 and only went up a lot because of the latest price surge worldwide, but still, even now it's around 30% less than it was when buying only from Russia until 2014

[@cynic7049]

And it would be more useful to see how much of the energy comes from natural gas. Almost all gas we use come from Russia, but heating and Energy come to 98% from other than gas so It think we may be able to handle losing all of those 2% better than Germany could handle to lose the 50% of their natural gas that comes from Russia seeing that they get over 20% of their energy from natural gas. The conclusion that Germany could more easily handle to lose over 10% of their Energy than Sweden can losing 2% is very odd.

[@JuniperJennifer666]

I agree with you Finland does not use natural gas almost at all and France uses only 10% of natural gas from russia, mostly it comes from algery and uk and norway

[@nektheo6225]

Snow over the ancient structures in Athens is just a must watch man, ridiculously amazing views.

[@susanlangley4294]

Your videos are always a pleasure and a learning experience. Please do make a Part 2 of this one. Thank-you for your research and efforts.

[@ulfhansen6924]

Corrections. Sweden now has 6 nuclear reactors; Forsmark (3), Oskarshamn (1) and Ringhals (2). Sweden is not connected to the Russian gas pipelines, 99,9% of industry and homes is electricity powered. Sweden and Norway are large hydropower countries.

[@nikolavasilev4672]

Welcome to Bulgaria ! We are last at minimum wages, average wages, healtcare, vaccination rate, economics, sports, road systems and all other important statistics. We are only first in mortality rate and ageing :)

[@namename3130]

You sure about ageing?

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

Bulgaria is heaven when you compare it to Ukraine.

[@squirrel287]

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel and ukraine is heaven compared to Most countries in africa

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

@@squirrel287 imagine comparing Europe with Africa XD

[@squirrel287]

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel eastern Europe is pretty close to some place in Africa I believe. I don't have the time to check that but I will do it tomorrow.

[@ttvrs1059]

I believe in France, specially in southern France, people tend to consume much more olive oil than butter so I'd say France would actually be split in half on that map

[@dreamer9127]

Je pense que c'est vrai!

[@zari024]

En Dordogne c’est plus la graisse de canard qu’on utilise

[@unknowndane4754]

On minimum wage in Denmark, the reason it isn't clearly stated is that the wages aren't set by the government, but instead by the agreement between workplaces and unions.

[@udishomer5852]

Used to be the same in Germany until they finally instated a minimum wage a couple of years ago.

[@jimmyryan5880]

Its worth noting that some of the countries that arent in the EU are in the EEA wich is basically the EU Lite. And Switzerland has a collection of treaties that add up to something like EEA membership. So its not like they are seperate from the EU in the same way as Turkey or Russia.

[@RoScFan]

Turkey is not completely separate from the EU either. They re in a customs union with the EU.

[@vaffanculosemo]

Turkish and Russian are asian...

[@RoScFan]

@@vaffanculosemo Enough with the bullshit technicalities. The more encompassing a map, the better. I expect all my european maps to show data for Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, Maybe even Greenland. Maybe more.

[@vaffanculosemo]

@Freddie Bloggs maybe one milion years ago… not in 2022 I wouldn’t say They are European

[@vaffanculosemo]

@Freddie Bloggs I don’t even know what are u talking about… Empire of what… I’m a chef who like to pay guitar . Take it easy Kaiser

[@vitalymaliarov696]

Minimum wages don't really mean anything unless you look at the price of goods in the various countries, countries with higher minimum wages also happen to be more expensive to live in, so the minimum wage statistic is kinda meaningless. It doesn't matter if eastern Europe has a low minimum wage if the price of goods is also low

[@gyderian9435]

But if a guy from the country with higher wages comes buying stuff from the cheap countries, hes like extra rich. So it does matter a bit.

[@TheD270]

@@gyderian9435 Also and the opposite: imagine a random guy from Bulgaria who is visiting western Europe just for a trip. For him most of the stuff is pretty expensive.

[@herrakaarme]

Many globally produced items show limited price variation between countries. Such as PC components. So, if you earn 600 euros a month in Country A and want to buy an upper mainstream CPU, it might set you back 500 euros. That's pretty steep, considering your income. In Country B you might be making 2700 euros a month, and the same CPU could cost 530 euros. Not necessarily as bad, even though your daily food and housing would be more expensive. However, quite often a small country with a lower average income might even have higher electronics prices due to missing huge stores selling them by the thousands and thus surviving with lower profit margins.

[@diliosspartanetz7588]

Moldova has an average wages of 350euro and the food prices are not so different from a country like Italy. Prices are not proportional to the wages at all. I'm mindblown every time i come back to Moldova and go to a supermarket.

[@gyderian9435]

@@diliosspartanetz7588 how does one afford everything with 350€ if the prices are almost the same? Sounds kinda rough

[@A2n7tA]

4:24 According to the Swedish statistical bureau, the average salary in Sweden is 36100 sek or ruffly 3400 euro, matching closer to the other Nordics.

[@UnfriendlyGhostK]

6:24 correction: The UK is no longer a part of the EU and thus is only a member of NATO

[@HeidiSholl]

Everytime I remember this I get increasingly more upset 😢

[@tauceti8060]

@@HeidiSholl look at the Bright side at least you're still standing.

[@HeidiSholl]

@@tauceti8060 Don't know about that 😂

[@thetorch8112]

The most obvious mistakes shouldn't even be explained.

[@mrfrisky2997]

@@HeidiSholl Its ok, my joy cancels your sadness out. 👍

[@LEL-is8xq]

In Malta, we also use olive oil to cook, żejt iż-żebbuġa. 2 major towns on the island of Malta are named after olives, Ħaż-Żebbuġ (from 'Raħal iż-Żebbuġ'; 'The Town of Olives') and Iż-Żejtun (from the archaic Maltese word for 'olive tree' 'żejtuna'). Moreover, 1 village on the island of Gozo is named Iż-Żebbuġ, literally 'The Olives', and the neighboring village is called 'L-Għasri', from the verb 'għasar', 'to squeeze'; referring to the old local tradition of making olive oil.

[@userkare6295]

The map of nuclear power is outdated. In Germany, there are only 3 power plants left. And they are supposed to be switched off this year.

[@Holland1994D]

Which is very stupid

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks for the additional information! Was there any justification as to why they are closing them down?

[@mrhaci7747]

Thats very stupid lmao coal is way more dangerous than nuclear energy.

[@Cowboy-in-a-Pink-Stetson]

@@General.Knowledge I believe it has less to do with the dangers in production (although that is a problem) but more to do with what becomes of the waste. BTW I love your videos.

[@ory_enterprise]

@@General.Knowledge the ractors are shout down because of in germany we have a big anti nuclear movement, because of the cold war, the Tschernobyl case and because of we haven't got a spot to care about the nuclear peaces that we produced, and germany plans to get the Engergy with other things that don't just give people cancer because they life next to a "endlager" (that means place were the peaces can be the milions of years to get less dangarus)

[@SageArdor]

Have you considered using subtitles to transcribe your videos into your native Portuguese language? I ask because I am trying to learn Portuguese myself, and I would love to learn more from the European dialect of Portuguese.

[@namename3130]

Have you concidered everyone who does not speak portugese?

[@imjennasidel6703]

Estuda Caralho!

[@moulicos8334]

Facil meu puto👌

[@dellaboca9737]

@@moulicos8334 lol Puto means something very different in Spanish jajajaja

[@DannieRay23]

@@namename3130 read the comment again.

[@xaviertricot776]

10:02 I agree olive oil is the right choice and France should be cut in 2, as every southerners from Marseille to Bordeaux never use butter except for snails 😅🥰 And lots of people use Foie Gras as well as a substitute of oil.

[@TheDanzau]

the goose fat is use in cooking for some specific meal in the north.is it really use in the south ? funny thing also the use of salt in the butter is more popular in costal area. and that is why britany never succeed to become independent as they die of heart attack at a young age.

[@ywoisug8845]

nah butter is good

[@nachtelfirokese88]

I dont want to be inpolite or so but arent you guys using alot of butter for your Croissant and overall in bakery a lot of butter?

[@TheDanzau]

@@nachtelfirokese88 yep, paul bocuse used to say that butter made the fame of the french cuisine. we have a lot of traditional recipe using butter but it's not always the case. pot-au-feu is historicaly a more modest meal and use the fat of the meat in example.

[@mermeoth7178]

What map really shows is where you can effectively grow olives. Rest have to stick with butter... Except Luxembourg. They are rich, they can buy all the olive oil.

[@testtech2083]

Após imenso tempo só agora descobri que este canal era português! Adoro o conteúdo, parabéns !

[@bezedoinga]

foi a piada do do Éder? 🤣🤣🤣

[@MrPbhuh]

at 2:54 it shows temperatures that are already being smashed. The highest temperature records in the Netherlands were actually in 2019 with 40.7 degrees. I'm sure many more countries are similar.

[@jeffreykregel3821]

Also Belgium recently shattered their highest recorded temperature, on the same day The Netherlands did. The new Belgian record high temperature is 41.8 °C

[@lukasrentz3238]

Its actually even more Mindblowing, on 24th July 2019, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany set new All-Time-Records, which got smashed again a Day later, together with UK´s Record from 2003.

[@mukamuka229]

I love how Switzerland manages to stay as a neutral gray blob in the middle of Europe even in the style of government listed as (Other) lol

[@themobiusfunction]

It's a federation.

[@AV-we6wo]

There are other federations in Europe, e. g. Germany. I guess Swiss is grey/other because it has a collective government, the Bundesrat (Federal Council) with seven members, which also acts as head of state with a kind of rotating system. That's really unique in Europe.

[@robins.1919]

Funny, that Nordrhein-Westfalen / North Rhine-Westphalia (one of the german states) would stay the same in the map with the equally populated states (7:13), aswell as the german-czech and german-austrian border

[@luvhart]

This is very interesting and puts a lot of things into context

[@Cykler770]

Germany has only 3 nuclear plants left, not 8 anymore like in 2020.

[@Leenapanther]

A not so fun fact. The oldest still in use nuclear power plant is located in Switzerland

[@Pidalin]

1:22 - Czech Republic will start construction of new reactors soon, I hope 4:51 - Czechia may not have the highest average wage, but difference between average and median salary is lower than in western europe, so ordinary person is not that poor and people in west are not that rich as we tend to believe I guess 10:00 - most of people cook on sunflower oil, mostly only old people still buy butter

[@Clistes]

agree, average salary in Poland or Czechia is essentially worth more in those countries then lets say average salary in Spain.

[@slouberiee]

10:00 on plant oil more precisely, rapeseed/"canola" oil is very popular in Czechia too. It's also more healthy to use for frying than sunflower oil, higher smoke point, low in saturated fat...

[@Pidalin]

@@slouberiee rapeseed too, but sunflower oil is the most available in shops

[@lewycraft]

Also it must be remembered, that most butter consumption is not for frying like oil. Butter is mostly used for sandwitches and for baking, that's why it's consumption is so much higher than olive oil, that is 90% used for frying

[@Pidalin]

@@lewycraft But what I said "mostly old people still buy butter" is valid, they are used to it, younger people mostly use soft cheese or spread butter (or how you call it in English), which is not real butter. My main problem with classic butter is that it's very hard when you take it from fridge and it's really uncomfortable to put it on bread.

[@thefabulousgecco422]

Can you also do interesting maps about Africa?

[@BreadAccountant]

i'd love to see this but man those maps are going to be intricate and very complex

[@General.Knowledge]

Yes!

[@thefabulousgecco422]

@@General.Knowledge thanks

[@crunchmcm8780]

9:45 For anyone wondering about that shirt and why it says "Eder" is because General Knowledge is from Portugal and Eder is the one who scored the winning goal in the 2016 euro final for Portugal which won them the euro against France in the final.

[@J3scribe]

I always enjoy your geography videos. They're very compelling.

[@rafatymoniewicz7735]

Great video, waiting for more ^^ The map at 8:12 minute is wrong as Poland is a parliamentary republic and not a semi-presidential one.

[@Knutwolf]

Love your channel. And lovely to have a Portuguese POV

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks!

[@philippthill6501]

As a Luxembourgian I'm really surprised that Olive Oil here surpasses butter. Our traditional food is similar to German, French or Belgian cooking. But I guess it is because of the many Portuguese and Italian immigrants who joined us some decades ago. Also good for me as I really like Italian and Portuguese native food 😋

[@MellonVegan]

7:20 Me, as a Westphalian: look! We're the only ones left untouched! ^^ Also, that's not the Bretagne being the same size as Vasconia, it's the Celtic Union of it, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and parts of Scotland.

[@Markus_Abrach]

5:35 It is true that Switzerland is no NATO member but there is a treaty called 'Partnership for Peace'. So for example when i were in the military there was a possibility to do extra military service or mercenary in the Kosovo for the NATO.

[@froglifes6829]

What would you do in kosovo?

[@Markus_Abrach]

@@froglifes6829 Keep watch or something in the office

[@jonasmahringer5688]

As an austrian here are some maybe interesting facts missing in the Video: Austrias mimimum wage per month is at 10.45€ Brutto per hour. Austria uses nuclear energy from other countrys but doesnt have an active nuclear Power plant because after building one the citizens made huge protests against activating it in in 1969 (Zwentendorf Atomkraftwerk) Austria is not in the Nato not only because they say: we want to stay neutral but they are not allowed to join any military organisations, thats because of an contract made after the 2nd world war in which Austria has to stay neutral in any circumstances. At last i have to say indeed skiing is our national sport but football is much bigger than skiing here.

[@staffan-]

Nice choice of maps, this was a fun topic!

[@maxxbenavente]

Really interesting video! More of these maps please

[@xaviertricot776]

3:39 minimum 'gross' wages, it is not net-salary. French minimum net-wage is around 1100€ and some of the candidates for Presidential election claim we should upgrade it to 1500 or 1800€.

[@Pidalin]

In Czech Republic, netto minimal salary for 2022 is 572 eur, which looks like very low, but you can have such salary literally for nothing, so it's actually too much in some cases. :-) I have around 1100 eur netto as CNC operator/programer and I think it's not really fair to have 572 for just going to work without any responsibility. Most of that people have minimal wage because they want, they don't want to do some more qualified work, when you have 2 people with minimal salary in apartment, you still can live relatively normaly.

[@BuurmanDirk69]

2:37 this map has already changed a lot since 2018.

[@abacus6034]

Not seen GK in quite a while, good to know the vids are still great!

[@YouthWorking]

Enjoyed it. Ready for the second one

[@danielnascimento3799]

Adoro as referencias que fazes como a da central nuclear espanhola quase no nosso território ou que o azeite ganha á manteiga ahahah és grande ! adoro os teus videos mesmo !

[@le_beks]

soy de barcelona pero tambien me gustan mucho estas referencias hahhahah viva la peninsula iberica :D

[@demonlordd9079]

The Russia natural gas one is pretty strange. Sure it shows 100% for countries, but those countries barely use any natural gas. Whereas Germany is wholy dependant on Russian gas as about every 4th home's electricity comes from Russian gas

[@minimoogi6894]

Pls make more!!! Thank you for your hard work. Keep it up

[@TajiriOli]

Very interesting. I would like to see a 2. Part!

[@Drogenkurier88]

Living right at the border of germany, austria and czech is very intersting.. Austria and Germany have more difference than you would think but czech is like another world. Especially with the corona rules it was a complete mess. If somebody told me 2 years ago i cant go past the border to austria i wouldnt have believed it. Also funny that Prague, Munich and Vienna are all about the same distance away.

[@enfendr_907]

I live in czech and oh god, the corona rules are mess

[@tomas.mp4]

But please don't judge it just by corona rules. In reality we are very similar people, I mean by temperament, attitudes, how we live, customs etc. People from Bayern and Prague are almost the same.

[@JackoBanon1]

I'm from Silesia and returned to Germany in 1990 as ethnic German immigrant. I spent some time living in Prague and during this time I found out that I have more in common with Czech mentality than with German mentality. Traveling is really an eye opening experience.

[@tldr7730]

@@tomas.mp4: And the region along Thüringen, Franken, Cesko, Bayern, Austria is knedlo country.

[@joermnyc]

Adopted from Bulgaria, learned that while Bulgaria has lots of agricultural output, olive trees can’t grow there, so olive oil just never was a thing for them until they could import it cheaply from other parts of Europe.

[@cheezus4772]

Hi from Bulgaria. Wish you all the best :)

[@RAD91]

Um, we have olive trees in Bulgaria....

[@aiardelean]

@@RAD91 I didn't knew that Bulgaria has olive trees, thank you for this information. Bulgaria is quite a surprising country, would love to travel there and see the beautiful Bulgarian caves you have. And also to eat the unique Bulgarian yogurt. Love from Romania!

[@RAD91]

@@aiardelean Welcome, neighbor :)

[@roberttorres8477]

Thank you for the content

[@guayames]

Thanks for great information!

[@javiervagabond9524]

I like your videos, but in this one I find strange that you mention Spain having a nuclear power station near the Portuguese border. I guess you mean Almaraz which is over 100kn away from the border. Chooz station in France is in a salient protruding into Belgium only about 5km from the border heading north, west and east.

[@UtamagUta]

laughs in Lithuaninan. The infamous Belorussian power plant is 50km from our capital!!

[@d4rk_k1w1]

laughs in luxembourgish. we have a french powerplant 10km away from our border and 23km away from our capital

[@IntyMichael]

Nothing beats the french power plant Cattenom. Sitting directly at the Rhine with Germany on the other side.

[@rubinhoheredia]

The TRUE border!!! 😂 Asoronos seus vídeos e esse não é exceção 👍👍

[@mattia6387]

Great video! Other videos like this wuold be cool!

[@Duececoupe]

Bring on the Part 2 my friend! 🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻

[@Bytewth]

The EU imports of gas analysis isn't really fair at ~6:10. While I can't speak for other countries, at least in Sweden, while 100% of our gas powered electricity consumption may come from Russia, it is also a miniscule amount. 2020 statistics : out of the 172725 GWh net generated only max 13 GWh was from gas.

[@andydolphin3796]

Was curious about this, thanks for saving me having to go looking

[@MrXANA2003]

It's a map from 2014, so it's also fairly outdated

[@KingOfParrots]

Thanks, that part triggered me

[@mikaelbrunberg6172]

From what I have found all natural gas in Sweden is imported from Denmark.

[@ross1056]

Correction: Bulgaria has only one nuclear power plant - Kozlodui. The one at Belene has never been really started

[@fidel1803]

does Kozlodui still working? I have heared it was stoped by demand of EU. As well as lithuanian one Ignalinskaya

[@ross1056]

@@fidel1803 It has never stopped working

[@RoScFan]

@@ross1056 Did they at least do some kind of upgrade on it? Or is it juat a matter of time before kozlodui does chernobyl???

[@ross1056]

@@RoScFan Its on europen standarts now so no worries

[@bartosznaswiecie1179]

1. Poland has one reactor left out of 3 that we had that simply isn't used to make energy but for medical purposes. We produce around 1/5th of technet-99 in the world.

[@MrBelomorski]

Love the video, make a second one!

[@pangalanucraft8633]

Olive oil is clearly superior, this might be a little bias because I am from 🇪🇸Spain🇪🇸 but still olive oil is great.

[@kaem6985]

Well, I'm from Poland and I can say, that we I'm cooking I try to use buter for frying chicken (imho it gives better taste) and olive oil for salads and stuff like that. For other frying we mostly use canola oil. Also quality of olive oil in Poland is not so good. I have to ask my friend to bring me some bottles of olive oil from Spain when he's around. And olive oli is sooo expensive in here.

[@dario9107]

Manteca es mejor jajaja saludos desde🇩🇪

[@1zv_xy]

I am from Portugal. 🇵🇹 We also have some similarities with Spain.

[@1zv_xy]

I like olive oil too.

[@tadas047]

The only right choice is animal fat

[@anelaostojic2530]

“conclusion: eastern europe needs to figure out a way of raising their wages” yeah that’s what we’ve been asking for because the living expenses (in all aspects) are going up while the wages are either staying the same or going down (for the majority at least - there are a looot of really rich people here too, i think eastern and southeastern europe have the biggest discrepancy between the rich and the poor)

[@olciaxxxdd]

In Poland governs say "We raised minimum wage, look how good we are!". In reality wages are higher but, living expenses, goods, oil ect are going up so much. Everything is getting more expensive faster then our minimum wages.

[@tomast9034]

low wages = cheaper products = only way to stay in the game. if the wages go up or level with the "more" western countries they will buy it from the local companies. these days is hardly any added value to the product .....or very small. taiwan, south korea , china etc outrun europe by far. we have to keep jobs here in eu just to not forget how its done.

[@WyomingTraveler]

A fun and informative video

[@kristofferjohansen3775]

"Correction if you notice mistakes": 7:43. Britany is part of the area called the "Celtic Union", and is thus not have a higher population density than Vasconia. Britany is also super scarcely populated, and have old ties to Celtic culture. Nordrhein Westfallen, New Saxony + Lowland is the areas with highest density.

[@georgiancrossroads]

Hey why don't you do some more Portugal videos. I'm sure I am not the only one who wouldn't mind a few .

[@General.Knowledge]

They're on my list!

[@DragonzZone]

Correction - In Ireland we play Football (proper). In rest of Europe they play Soccer (hybrid football, diving, posing sport). Also 2nd most popular sport in Ireland is Hurling, which is football now with added sticks and blood

[@lukko6714]

On the map showing which countries are in NATO, the EU, or both, Montenegro was left out of NATO. So, yeah. Love your videos btw, anything to do with maps and language/divisions are high on my binge list.

[@goosefigueroa1947]

Great vid!

[@jamiearnott9669]

Excellent video and this is what it has taught me: UK has 0% direct exposure to Russian gas after Brexit and is building new nuclear ,as well as the world's largest offshore wind up to 2030 onwards to deal with the climate change 21st century issue.

[@bandolero5068]

Don’t think it had any before Brexit either although we are still being hit by rising prices due to the Ukraine conflict. Perhaps more than some others since we sold our utilities off so no Govt control like in France for example.

[@thefabulousgecco422]

Interesting maps about africa that teach us about the continent

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

As an African, it’s annoying AF the amount of attention Europe gets while no one gives a sheet about africa.

[@squirrel287]

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channelmaybe because there is more European viewers moreover Europe is trying is best to unite and many many Intellectual, KZbinr.... Are doing those kind of video that help us for that.

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

@@squirrel287 still… it’s just sad for the African and Asian people who can’t relate.

[@squirrel287]

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel yes sorry but we are working on united a whole continent here.

[@jhvankesteren1979]

More please! 👍🏻

[@sixpotshot]

Brilliant! More please!

[@lucasmit7786]

7:57 brittany doesn't have the same population as vasconia. Brittany is part of the celtic union which include Ireland and parts of Scotland

[@fusssel7178]

about the olive oil / butter while cooking, in my case it depends on the meal i wish to make. But it is mostly some sort of plant based oil (so not always olive).

[@janism7]

Germany has turned off 5 of 8 reactors this year and continues to turn the last 3 off.

[@Luredreier]

3:15 So the thing about the nordic countries and "minimum wage" is that we don't have *one*. Rather it's illegal to pay less then a certain percentage of the deal struck with the trade unions in a specific sector. So if you work in say a resturant you'll have a different "minimum wage" then if you're a construction worker or work at selling satelites to a foreign country or whatnot... And the "minimum wage" will fluctuate from year to year depending on what the trade unions and the employers agree on, so in bad years your "minimum wage" might actually go *down* while in good years it'll go up. And it might go down for one type of jobs *while* going up in another one at the same time. So given the above it's a bit... hard... to compare with nations that sets this stuff at a national level...

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

Good explanation- except your wage will never be reduced. Rather prices will raise while your wage stays the same - I guess this is what you call “a bad year”.

[@Luredreier]

@@peacefulminimalist2028 The wage in terms of purchasing power goes down, so... *Shrugs* Also, a union *can* negotiate a real reduction in wages, it rarely happens, and it often involves things like negotiating more vacations or more pensions or something in stead. Possibly offered by the government in a three way negotiation.

[@x_pogboy9642]

Olive oil is the best (live in Greece)

[@ThorSpaceViking]

This is another outstanding video. I'd love a second part! Also butter is best ha 🇮🇪

[@SKProds]

"Conclusion Eastern Europe needs to figure out a way of increasing its wages" you kidding we didn't know that here

[@jhutt8002]

Nordic countries don't have minimum wages by state law, because labor unions negotiate minimum wages (among other things) based on profession by binding agreements with employers. Those contracts by law bind all employers and employees. Also, I think average wage in Finland is pretty misleading there as it's really around 3250 euros, and I think Sweden is pretty close, but just below that 3200 step in color...

[@dajjukunrama5695]

But soon there will be EU rules

[@jhutt8002]

@@dajjukunrama5695 I don't think it matters as I don't believe they'll going to push above Nordic wages anyway...

[@RellikReyalp]

The average wage in sweden is 2600 Euro but the median wage is about 3200 Euro.

[@jhutt8002]

@@RellikReyalp I'm pretty sure you have that backwards. Median should be the lower, as the rich peoples income pushes the average higher. That is almost exactly same as in Finland (median around 2500 and average in 3250), which was my point.

[@RellikReyalp]

@@jhutt8002 yeah I where wrong. Got a bad source for the average. The original source for the numbers where the same. Just google that took that source as the average for the country at large. Probably the reason the map is wrong. It was just 2600 € contained to public sector for women. The average is about 3450 € according to our statistical departement. And the median is about 3100 € according to the same source.

[@zhigis1]

Map about gas supply is wrong. Baltics and Poland are not dependent on Russian gas, while has LNG terminals since 2009 and majority of the gas supply importing this way, using russian gas less then 50%. Most dependent from Gazprom countries currently are Moldova and probably Germany.

[@wladjarosz345]

No terrorussia - no problems!

[@valeriocorona3218]

Speaking about temperature, the highest one was recorded in Sicily, Italy in summer 2021 with 51°C

[@ZoveRen]

GK being proud of Portugal for 11 minutes:

[@Luredreier]

9:21 I think you're missunderstanding this map. A parliamentarian system is one where the executive branch is elected by the parliament. A presidental republic is one where there's a *direct* election for a president who has executive powers. It's not really about how *much* power the president has, it's if executive power is given to someone elected directly by the people or if whoever has the executive power is elected by a parliament who in *turn* has been elected by the people. It's about how direct/indirect the selection process is. A parliamentarian system while being more indirect is actually often more democratic since the negotiation process of picking the executive positions within a parliament allows proportional representation to work on the selection process. Essentially even if you don't support one of the major political parties you can still have a influence on the way the country is run day to day by the executive branch of the goverment, meaning that votes for parties other then the two biggest ones are not wasted with regards to the executive branch of goverment, while they are in a presidental system. In your semi-presidental system in Portugal your president has the power to choose who ends up being prime minister and he has power over the armed forces. So even through the parliament has the ability to overturn the goverment with a motion of no confidence (one of the things that ensures that Portugal is *not* a pure presidental republic) and that the rest of the cabinet members are picked by the prime minister and not the president (and has to be acceptable to the parliament since they have the ability to overturn them with the motion of no confidence) the president still have more power in Portugal then in a real parliamentarian republic like Finland or Iceland where yes, there *is* a president, but the the prime minister and the cabinet is 100% under the power of the parliament and the president has little or no real power. Maybe only veto right to laws or some such...

[@astoradesproductions530]

Switzerlands just trying to be different

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Very interesting video, congrats.

[@anabarbosa5453]

Part 2, pretty please

[@julianavalente7268]

the Eder shirt plsss 💀

[@Gaming4Justice]

Estonia actually plans to build a nuclear reactors, at least that's the plan of the biggest parties. There has to be an alternative to the shell oil. Also if I'm not mistaken, then by 2025 there is a plan to exit Russia's gas market. Also, the most popular sport here is quite debatable. The biggest sport here is probably still football. They even set up public screens for the World Cup last time in several cities. We're just really good at skiing and that's why it's probably "popular" on that map. And on the part of butter vs olive oil, cmn man, of course it's butter > olive oil xd

[@Georgije2]

How can Estonians be good at skiing, isn't it a flat country?

[@Gaming4Justice]

@@Georgije2 You don't need mountains for skiing. Cross-Country is the popular variant here.

[@Gaming4Justice]

@@Georgije2 Also, southern Estonia is quite a bit higher and has lots of hills. Even the "capital" of skiing is there.

[@lordbelou7279]

2:24 *Me, a luxembourgish:* *Sweat profuciously*

[@CarlosSousa-wn1sn]

So much about Portugal ❤️ Subscribed

[@josueveguilla9069]

Interesting Maps of Asia that teach us about the Continent.

[@MalaysiaIsProChannel]

Its Europe bro ☠️

[@notpokorp948]

@@MalaysiaIsProChannel 😂😂😂

[@BreadAccountant]

yeah i really like the European peninsula maps in this video

[@Parnpuu1]

With the Russian gas map it would be more realistic if you also took into account how big of a part gas plays in total energy consumption. For example, even though 100% of Estonia’s gas comes from Russia, it only makes up less than five percent of total energy consumption in the country, playing a marginal role.

[@njm3211]

Very informative.

[@Globert]

9:59 Exactly! We almost never use butter to fry something in Russia, usually we use Sunflower oil

[@imaginethisisagoodname4368]

“the minority which is right because olive oil is the best” mediterranean propaganda shall spread to the world

[@MellonVegan]

As a German, I haven't seen anyone cook with butter, well, ever. Oil is for frying. But butter is used as a spread on bread together with cold cuts, cheese or what have you. One of the most common kinds of breakfast, probably. And I guess for baking, maybe?

[@tadas047]

Yeah, we cook with oil or animal fat and butter is for bread in Czechia too

[@nachtelfirokese88]

The older generation still using Butter for cooking and also the more higher class restaurants! But beside that i also assume baking is included into cooking!

[@Rorimac67]

We use butter occasionally espacially for panfish. A nice "Schollenfilet" roasted in butter tastes wonderful. For fish butter is quite feasible because fish you may only roast at lowe temperatures that work well with butter.

[@iain8837]

Typical Swiss monthly income for a skilled worker in a family of 4, €6500, apartment €2000, food €1200, health ins, €800, tax €900, doc bills on top of health ins €200 then all the other typical things. If both parents work and have a skilled job with experience, then total income can be €16000 a month easily which really helps! Buying a house is 33% deposit so around €200’000 Once bought, the rent can be under 600 a month which can make it worthwhile in the long run. Switzerland can be super rewarding for skilled workers, but can be a struggle for the very lowest incomes.

[@Arxareon]

Butter vs olive oil is flawed as a comparison because butter both are used for many different things. Butter is used a lot in sandwiches and many cakes and baked products for instance and is generally cheaper while olive oil is used in salad, roasting something or putting it on bread but it's not used the same way in different kitchens/cuisines.

[@Uellp]

Exactly. Plus, butter and olive oil are not the only options. For example in my country (Germany) the butter consumption is so high mostly because we spread it on bread. However, for cooking, rapeseed oil is the most common.