Brit Reacts to 11 American States that Are Larger than the UK

[@Wowee2012]

As a Texan, think about this: it takes roughly 12 hours to drive from Houston to Amarillo (coast to northwestern tip). Keep in mind, once you get a little over an hour west of San Antonio (the halfway point) the speed limit is 80mph pretty much the whole way. I live kind of in the middle of the state so it takes me 7 hours in any direction just to get out of Texas, unless I want to go to Mexico. Then it's only 3 😬

[@butter7734]

I definitely thought Pennsylvania would be on it, it takes about 9 hours across and about 6.5 north and south.

[@donnielsen-q2g]

Lived in San Antonio and Alaska. LOVE both states but if Alaska became 2 equally sized states then Texas would become the 3rd largest state

[@GWSK76]

Alaska>Texas

[@StarBitt97]

16 hours from Texline (coming in from Colorado, NM) to Texas City where my daughter lives. Ugh!

[@a7734999]

He has an updated video of this with maps that show the size difference much more effectively.

[@TanyaQueen182]

If you think California looks like a sock, definitely DON'T look at the shape of Florida. 🤣🤣🤣

[@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

Lol Florida is the other sock, the one that’s dirty and crumpled and hasn’t been washed. You found it behind the washer and it’s from 2 years ago.

[@plaguedoctor5657]

@@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesisand Florida is the slightly damp sock. I agree about Cali

[@MrEd-qg8td]

Yeah Florida is a pistol pointing west

[@TanyaQueen182]

@@MrEd-qg8td I think it looks like a penis lol

[@erikboyd7818]

Florida looks like it Rhymes with sock

[@tonyamccuen6852]

As an Oregonian who lives on the coast, we visit the people of Wyoming all the time. That's where my in-laws live. It was funny he said that we should go visit the people of Wyoming.

[@misslora3896]

And to think, there's still 41 more states! Hopefully, this video helps Europeans to understand a little better why the majority of Americans don't have passports. There's so much diverse terrain and culture within the borders of our own country, we could travel the US our entire lives and still not see and experience all there is.

[@trevornekuda3101]

39. Not 41. Guam isn't a state, or Puerto Rico

[@StrokerStevens]

Here in Florida we have an unusual shape, and arguably the longest coastline in the continental US...

[@robynbeach3198]

I love his impression of Rick Steve! 😂😂😂

[@b.slocumb7763]

He is the only person I’ve heard do a Rick Steves, and it was very good! Makes me happy he watches PBS.

[@Seventeen_Syllables]

There are rowhouses as you described (houses smashed right up against one another) in the US, in big cities. I think they call the "brownstones" in NYC, but have never been and could be mistaken. So the density in big cities is probably more what you're used to in the UK, though I'm pretty sure you could get a nice cottage in the countryside somewhere if you really wanted. When I lived in CA I had a condo about four miles from the coast. I moved to ND a few years ago and bought a proper house. The condo would fit in my basement with 200sf left over. I sold the condo for more than I paid for the house, so take that into consideration. The house is closer to the local river, the Red River of the North, than the condo was to the Pacific ocean if that's of any consequence.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

I went to NYC once, yes brownstones... though you'll be thinking "yellow" with the overwhelming stench of urine on those streets.

[@barbarabonnette2705]

Older parts of our country, mostly in the North East have what you refer to as row houses. As you go away from these cities/ suburbs homes are further apart. Sometimes at least on an acre of land.

[@garycamara9955]

Thsts why I don't like cities.

[@phobiaone306]

Texas was it's own country for 10 years before it joined the Union. The Alamo was part of the Texas Revolution when we fought Mexico for Independence. Also, if you ever see the Flag with the Cannon on it that says "Come and Take It" that was first flown by the city of Gonzalez daring Mexico to try to take their Cannon from them. This was also part of the Texas Revolution. We also have our own Power Grid, and a Sh!tload of Oil.

[@PipsKay432]

Yes we'll said

[@lindasmith1370]

26%-30% of Texas energy is from green energy (wind and solar). We’re very proud of our progress!

[@armlegx]

Let's not brag too much about that power grid lol.

[@jamesturner9651]

@@armlegx yes, because a hundred year storm messed with it you all want to act like it fails every day.

[@jamesturner9651]

@@lindasmith1370 Unless its changed Texas is the number one producer of wind energy in the US. We've only expanded those wind farms as well.

[@BeautifulKittenOfLove]

Canada has 10 Provinces and 3 Territories total.....all of them but 3 are BIGGER than the UK.

[@8cladgamer210]

That’s kinda common knowledge lol. Quebec is huge

[@BeautifulKittenOfLove]

Common knowledge IN CANADA lol@@8cladgamer210

[@ScribbleScrabbless]

You definitely need to check out more videos about Oregon.

[@cygbo]

I live in the middle of Texas also. You never realize just how big it is until you need to get out of it.

[@fiatnix]

One thing to bear in mind when thinking about the space we have in the US is that the population isn't uniformly distributed. So while you have enormous states like Montana with very few people, you also have much more urban places, like NYC and the like, where a lot more people are concentrated in a much smaller area. So in those places, you have a lot of house styles and sizes that are probably similar to what you're used to in the UK. Also, to compare relative sizes of other European countries to US states, Texas is a little larger than France, California is a little smaller than Sweden, South Carolina is slightly smaller than Austria, Connecticut is slightly larger than Montenegro, and Rhode Island (the smallest state) is a little less than twice the size of Luxembourg.

[@kristibrown5899]

2.86 lol I have hearing loss, and read lips. (The mask wearing phase was especially frustrating for me!😅) Much love from Texas! ❤✌️😊

[@tonyamccuen6852]

Also, when we was talking about Oregon, he was being Rick Steves who has a travel program on TV.

[@Smidge204]

"Actually Arizona isn't that friendly to aliens" is a DEEP cut. Like holy wow man that wound will never heal lol

[@lisaquigley-moon9583]

Rick Steves is a dorky travel guy Oh don't mess with Texas

[@misty3941]

Look up Meteor Crater national park in Arizona. It's HUGE. I've been to it and the Grand Canyon both. You'll feel small and insignificant compared to them.

[@chancemeyers8502]

Yall might be tiny comparably, but the U.K. is strong for its size, so be proud of that broski. You'll always be our brothers and sisters across the pond in my eyes. 🎉❤

[@bluflaam777LSA]

We have no better friend and ally.

[@carrieshephard739]

Texas looks like a hoody

[@nelitasciretta7101]

Kinda proud that Montana was on the list, lived there for almost 27 years lol Not gonna lie, this video had me almost falling from my chair I was laughing so hard. I loved it so much, thanks for posting!! Just had to add that I do love the United Kingdom and truly wished I could visit it some day...

[@lindasmith1370]

The largest national park is Wrangell St. Elias National Park in Alaska at over 20,000 square miles. Wrangell St. Elias is larger than the smallest 4 US states including Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, and Hawaii combined. The park is larger than Switzerland.

[@trevorwright9344]

Arizona is surrounded by mountains and where I live in the south east of Arizona, it's 90 °F plus but you can look out your door and see snow on the top about a third way on the mountain side. I ride my horse all through and up the mountain and like I said, I'll leave my property at 95°F and be in snow in about an hour

[@catherinelw9365]

I like watching Time Team (UK archeology show) and one time Tony and Phil came to Montana to dig dinosaur fossils. I laughed out loud when Tony said that Montana is "about the size of England". WTF??? Montana's square miles is 147,040. England's is 50,301. Britain (not the UK) is 80,823 square miles. I wonder where he got his "information" from?

[@audreybottomly8321]

Im from Alaska, & everytime I see someone wearing a shirt that says something about how big Texas is, I just think, "Aw, that's cute".

[@PrestonSpeedPublicat]

state = nation or country .. so, 50 states are united under the American flag each state has 3 branches of gov't = legislative, judicial, executive each state = has constitution each state = own Supreme Court each state = own capital & on and on

[@maryslack6169]

He's paying homage to Rick Steve's from Rick Steve's travel show

[@golfr-kg9ss]

You can check this out online. If you superimpose a map of Alaska over the continental US it would span the US from Atlantic to Pacific and north to south from Main to Florida.

[@davidmarquardt9034]

To put it into perspective; Texas is about 1/5th the size of the lower 48 states. Alaska is 1/3rd the size of the lower 48. So if you had a sheet of cookie dough the size of the US, a Texas size cookie cutter will get you 5 cookies. Alaska cookie cutter, 3 Alaska size cookies.

[@joebasketballhighlights]

We have townhouses here in America too. A lot of our land isnt used. Most people live in huge cities so when you see these maps of all this land and one is red and one is blue in most of the red states in the mid west no one lives there and they are crammed in these towns there. major cities in blue states like new york have a higher population than some states.

[@thegang3551]

Think about states as almost countries. There’s a binding document in the Constitution, *however* each state is as different from the other as Poland is from Italy, from laws to culture.

[@albondigas9549]

His impersonation was spot on!😂

[@carlchiles1047]

When we started in the 1600’s (my family arrived in 1646)…we were just English colonists..in a new world…but discontent with the Crown…spelled rebellion…so we were 13 colonies trying to thrive and survive…and it was much later that westward expansion took place…and the settling of other parts of the continent…all tied together by common cause…and other wars…

[@gotham61]

Alaska may be 7 times the size of the UK, but it has fewer people than Leeds.

[@neutrino78x]

3:38 excellent example of why we don't use HSR here. What use would Wyoming have of the huge expense of HSR? They have no population density, and they have airports, and those airplanes can take them anywhere in the world at a much higher speed than HSR! 🙂

[@dresweets7637]

I was born in Wyoming, raised in Colorado and live in Arizona. That hole is called meteor creator which is situated off I-40. Many people don't realize that the 50 states are actually countries, and each one could if it were possible carry itself, however the individuals who colonized along with other world organizations needed it to be collective in a united "state" for power and monetary reasons. In a lot of places you will hear people refer to some places as country. Like Colorado country,

[@catmomjill]

I've seen the crater in Windslow. It's pretty cool.

[@FutureNotBright2025]

"Bro! Bro! What underpants are you wearing?" he said. 😂

[@lookslikeiwin]

Alaska used to give you free land and stuff if you moved there lmao. I would have considered it but it does seem like an inconvenient place to live. It would be hard to adjust to. And my husband would never.

[@annwiswall1054]

You mentioned our state , Colorado which has alot of land where no body lives at also .

[@mordeys]

I have gotten gruff from Europeans because most of us never leave our home country. But for most of us we go to different States all the time...we just dont need a passport and a language guide. Same miles/kilometers traveled just we dont leave our bigger country. Many of us, if we had to stamp a passport everytime we went to another state, would have filled 2 or 3 of them by the time we reach 30. Especially those of us that live on the edge of a state. I used to live in the SE corner of Kansas. We would would go to the grocery store in Oklahoma and the Dr in Missouri. We may cross state lines just visiting neighbors. I live in the middle of Kansas. My son and my daughter both live about 2 and a half hours away..but they still live in Kansas. Thats London to Salisbury and another 30 minutes..

[@josephlathrop1914]

Meteor Crater Natural Landmark can be seen in the movie Star Man if you want to check it out

[@ruth2141]

Look up Meteor Crater, Arizona

[@karenmorgan624]

Idaho here, we didn't get on his list, but we were very close to being the 12th.

[@trishduarte3404]

You've got to remember the the U.S. only started getting populated about 400 years ago. My British ancestor, James Mowry, came to the U.S. in 1623. Love your videos.

[@butter7734]

What's funny is when the US bought Alaska it was only like 6 million dollars to purchase it and everyone in Washington thought the guy was an idiot. They called it Seward's folley because the dudes last name was Seward. Can you imagine buying 7.5 UKs for 6 million? Crazy.

[@ashleyharris8636]

I could be wrong, but I thought I saw somewhere that Alaska is almost as large as all of Europe. However most of it is uninhabited.

[@HistoryNerd808]

Alaska is about 665,000 sq. miles. or a little more than 1.7 million sq. km. Europe is ahout 4 million sq. miles so Alaska is huge but nowhere close to as big as Europe(our entire country is pretty much as big as Europe though.) You are right about it being largely unhabitated though. Alaska only has 738k people, as of the last census or only 1.1 people per sq.mile, far and away the lowest in the country(the next closest is Wyoming at just under 6 per sq.mile.) But even this undersells it, because just under 400k or over half the state's population live in just the Anchorage Metro.

[@MegaMagicdog]

Alaska is a beautiful state but it truly is the last frontier! You really feel isolated once you leave the city of Anchorage. Its capitol is only accessible via boat or plane and Fairbanks is still a tiny town with half empty store fronts and the locals primarily order everything via catalog (like they did in the 1950s!).

[@SilvanaDil]

Rick Steves is a travel show guy.

[@joannemcmillan9201]

Rick Steves has been walking around with that backpack a good 30 or 40 years.😃

[@leeroy8936]

The Unites Stats sock is also larger than Europes boot.

[@donnaoleske6804]

Arizona's hold in the ground caused by a meteor is Meteor Crater. Then there is the other more famous hole, the Grand Canyon.

[@bs7886]

Wyoming is why we need cars and trucks 💯

[@dreamawhatley9609]

Texas actually was its own Country for a bit. And it used to run up into what is now Wyoming.

[@L3WGReacts]

that doesn't suprise me!

[@hardluckhenry]

Area 51 is in new Mexico. You want to hear something freaky the world population can fit in Texas. Michigan looks like a mitten.

[@everwhat013]

it's funny watching laurence's old videos because he sounds like a completely different person. his accent is much more pronounced and, apparently, exaggerated now.

[@debbers]

I'm from Michigan! A witch on a pig, that was too funny!

[@harrymarsee2782]

News flash, that is basically what they are already. Instead of 50 countries, we have 50 states and each state makes it's own laws. What is legal in one state may not be legal in another one. The original idea was to have the power in each state and they would be loosely tied together (think off ropes tying each one together and the name of that rope would be the Federal Government). But since the 50's the Federal Government has seized more and more and more power for itself; but, we are not under tyranny yet. Example, president biden asked Governor DeSantis of Florida to shut down his state for the pandemic and the Governor REFUSED. It turned out to be a wise decision; because, Florida is a semi tropical climate we have a far larger number of 55 and older citizens than any other state. Many citizens wait until they retire then buy homes in Florida and keave the colder northern states and move down here. The corona virus was supposed to be especially devestating to the senior citizens; but, our citizens fared far, fat better than the average citizens in all the other states. The president DID NOT have the authority to force Governor DeSantis to comply.😮

[@rmh258]

He made this one years ago. He remade it much better and with graphics.

[@fangnicecaringwolfdragonva2908]

i been alska i can why ppl are leaving its due to freezing cold winds and temps as well as it has huge nataional parks even cruse ships wont do winter trours in alska but i garentee you if you do go i highly recomend seeing the gkacers

[@lindaaumiller174]

You and I Dude are both of like minds on this! It has blown my mind.

[@ms.penguin6252]

I grew up in Florida. I've heard horror stories of Washington, Oregon, and California. I still wanna visit; however, they have the most homeless people I think...

[@feralon9570]

I laughed so hard, my chest hurts. lol 😂😂🤣🤣

[@DianeCasanova]

Husband drove from Texas to Michigan. It took 32 hours.

[@iamironkanute8750]

Several states apply each year for independence (including Texas, but since the US civil war (1861-1865), The federal government has to approve such a move. It is now illegal to secede from the union.

[@pinkonesie]

You should absolutely visit the Alien Cathouse brothel behind the Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley.

[@bvtnFutureCorpse]

As an Oregonian, I have NO idea what that persona was about. 😂 I was thinking, "ummm... is this a thing they do on their other videos?"

[@melisashirley5367]

The hole in the ground in Arizona is the Grand Canyon.

[@deadrabbits2114]

I live in Alaska and yes it is huge. I will say there are way to many people here.

[@ruffianturnt2550]

The best way to understand America is to imagine that each state is its own country. But without the need of passports to travel them.

[@terrypayne5949]

Texas here!😊

[@marydohrenwend7612]

The size of UK makes its acçomplishments even more amazing! Tiny but mighty!

[@Triggerhippie70]

Thank you for loving our beautiful country; you definitely need to come visit, you probably will not want to go back home except to pack your stuff up and move here

[@Crystl22]

"What underpants are u wearing?"😂😂😂

[@michaelc3106]

As someone that grew up in Alaska but a life in the military rubbing shoulders with a bunch of Texans…I would joke and say “we could cut Alaska in half and make Texas the 3rd largest state 😂

[@pebblehilllane]

Texas is about 2.8 times bigger than United Kingdom. United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 178% larger than United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (42.6 million fewer people live in Texas).

[@armlegx]

We're just a bit smaller than the UK in Minnesota. We need to take west Wisconsin. Or maybe a bit of Canada to give relief to the folks in the Northwest Angle.

[@armlegx]

I'm worried about losing the moats, but if you have thoughts!

[@libbytaylir6492]

My home state of Georgia is actually pretty big! It is actually the largest state east of the Mississippi River!

[@libbytaylir6492]

Largest land area. Michigan is larger only because of the lakes!

[@yousifahmed3809]

In total there are 11 U.S. states that are bigger than Britain, including Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and Michigan.

[@BenandMattGaming]

No way you don’t fuckin say

[@yousifahmed3809]

i did say @@BenandMattGaming

[@jennywayman4461]

Did he leave off UTAH?

[@yousifahmed3809]

@@jennywayman4461 No Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

Great Rick Steves impersonation lol

[@adaismeus1]

You have got to visit Las Vegas 😂

[@neutrino78x]

6:00 one thing to point out L3WG! In the City of Las Vegas, prostitution is NOT legal! (although there are many prostitutes there, I imagine. I don't partake lol.) However, there is a county in the state of Nevada called Parump County, and in that county, there are businesses called brothels, and they are legally endorsed houses of prostitution. They have to be licensed, and everybody gets tested there. 😲 I've been to Las Vegas a couple times to see concerts (I don't drink or gamble), it's actually a very entertaining city. 🙂

[@AprilDecember]

Actually, Pahrump is the city, the county is Nye County.

[@neutrino78x]

@@AprilDecember lmao I realized that later!! I stand corrected lol 🙂 Proves that I don't partake because I don't even really know where it's at. I support it being legal, but I would never do that to someone. 🙂 I'm kind of a hypocrite though because I look at porn. lmao. 🤣

[@garycamara9955]

Its am impression of Rick Steves.

[@robsaxan]

The civil war settled the part about that NO state can leave the union. And any state that would leave the union would not have the might of the US dollar.

[@pegasusgold50]

Texas WAS it's own country at one time What was Texas called when it was its own country? the Republic of Texas It became its own country, called the Republic of Texas, from 1836 until it agreed to join the United States in 1845. Sixteen years later, it seceded along with 10 other states to form the Confederacy.

[@marving8235]

if you ever watched Starman you saw the crater in Az

[@ms.penguin6252]

The bunny ranch. There is a prostitute that was interviewed in Nevada and she makes about 1 million a year.

[@carlchiles1047]

The hole he is referring to is Great Crater

[@carlchiles1047]

But before that westward expansion it still took considerable time back in 1646…to travel from South Carolina to Boston or Rhode Island…so, those 13 colonies were all smashed up against the eastern seaboard…

[@noeltimberlake165]

I'm just as surprised as you because I didn't know UK was small enough for video like this to be made.

[@nychold]

To me, Texas has always resembled a bird.

[@lindariley7037]

I've always thought it looks like an arrowhead. I just don't see the underpants.

[@jtb8]

To really get an idea of how large Texas is, You can comfortably fit every man woman and child on the planet in the state of Texas, And still have land left over. 😇

[@minneyruth]

Michigan here

[@lynntaylor9681]

Wow this is a old video of Lost in the Pond. I prefer the newer updated one with the state pictures.

[@crystalwilcox77]

Greetings from Oregon, one of those large states. 😁

[@patstokes7040]

Utah is only 1,000 miles smaller than square uk, at 84,899 square miles,

[@vincentlavallee2779]

Absolutely hilarious! Texas is 68% larger than California, but Alaska is 2.47 times the size of Texas. Loved this video!

[@SilvanaDil]

4 states would be in the G20 -- California, Texas, New York & Florida

[@madmadammeag5141]

I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but Texas is bigger than Alaska if you're only counting land mass. Alaska is only that big of you consider the fact that a good portion of the state is islands and so technically the water between them is part of the state.

[@snailysnail0]

Good lord, you are delusional. AK's land mass is more than twice TX's land mass. Be proud of your state, but get a real geography lesson.

[@keithbond9423]

Not true. Alaska: 586,000 square miles of land mass excluding water. Texas: 261,232 square miles landmass. You could cut Alaska in half and make Texas the 3rd largest state.

[@TennesseeMelanie]

If you were to cut Alaska in half, Texas would then be the third largest state in the union. Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas. It is bigger than France and Germany combined. Population-wise, however, as of 2022 Texas has over 30 million people. Alaska has just over 733,000.

[@kevinsmith3900]

I live in Rhode Island, the smallest state in America, and yes it's true that we have a bigger population than the biggest state of Alaska. It's absolutely annoying. If you want to be outdoors somewhere private, it's going to be a challenge. I remember trying to have sex with my girlfriend outdoors somewhere private, and someone always showed up interrupting us.

[@PipsKay432]

Texas does NOT resemble a pair of underpants in ANYWAY, SHAPE, or FORM!!!!!!!!!! NO! lol

[@AprilDecember]

He did say "if you're drunk, it'll look like underpants".