Why South America's Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think

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[@roboticol6280]

"which continent do u live in?" "South america" "Cool! Brazil?" "nah, France" "what "

[@marysmith9562]

haha, that was my case, I spent two years in French Guiana

[@marysmith9562]

People, please understand that Ana is not a Guy. Guiana is a French couple: Guy (Ghee, "g" like in "gain") and Ana 😉.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

@@marysmith9562 I knew a girl from Guyana (not French Guiana) and she pronounced her country’s name as if Ana was a guy. So I guess Guyana and Guiana have completely different pronunciations.

[@marysmith9562]

@@daerdevvyl4314 that's the case. Even in French it's different, in spite of many French speakers not being aware of this. But in Spanish and Portuguese it's the same word and pronunciation.

[@daikizu]

@@marysmith9562 Nope. In Spanish, the country is called Guyana, and the french region is called Guayana

[@raymondsmith2040]

Brazil: I'm so big I'm closer to you than myself

[@feliipe1821]

😳

[@sophiacristina]

As a Brazilian, that fact in fact surprised me...

[@AmokBR]

Yo country so fat, it’s closer to me than it is to itself.

[@caseyjason-ws3fr]

I love that

[@Regimeshifts]

your mom*

[@UochintomWash]

Rll: South America's geography is weirder than you think Me as a South American: is it?

[@lagostaroyale4694]

For Latin America people is easy but for other people in the world is VERY HARD

[@theconandog]

*vsause theme intensifies*

[@veryunknowncola9819]

@@lagostaroyale4694 idk how but I somehow understood it but not really

[@jamierobotham6533]

It was more like "Brazils geography is weirder than you think" and here's a fact about Panama

[@Sofi-om4ub]

SOY JAJAJJAJAJ

[@xryeau_1760]

I feel like a lot was missing in this video, like how Chile exists both along the coast and within the mountains, or how despite the Panama Canal is a popular sea route it's extremely difficult to get from North to South by land for example

[@KilapnF]

The thing about Chile is basically because the middle latitude and the cold Humboldt current allowed a temperate climate to exist in a long strip of 2000 km, similar to the one that exists from California to Seattle. This meant that there was a relatively large population in that space (1 million inhabitants for the year 1500). As the Spaniards went wherever there were people and gold, they soon went to Chile. They founded their Hispanic kingdom, which administered central Chile and western Argentina. But since the mountain range was too difficult a barrier and as the indigenous people in Chile were rebelling, the west of present-day Argentina came to be administered by Buenos Aires. When Chile became a Republic, it sought to expand to the south (fertile lands and the Strait of Magellan) and to the north (minerals). If you are looking for the geological explanation, it is simply the collision of two plates that raised a huge mountain range and a strip of land was left on its side.

[@KilapnF]

Oh, and the southern tip is made up of a multitude of islands and fjords by the glaciation.

[@derrickbonsell]

I'd love a geological perspective but if I'm not mistaken Panama is geographically North American, which of course takes a human perspective more so than objective physical reasoning.

[@alanr6953]

South America is so big. You can fit Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina AND Brazil and still have some room left over!

[@katehobbs2008]

Hahahahaha great point

[@blaxpy1463]

The space left is exactly the size of paraguay, Guayana, french guyana, uruguay and surinam!

[@jwenpaddy123]

@@blaxpy1463 Guyana*

[@blaxpy1463]

@@jwenpaddy123 yeah, i mixed up guyana and Guayana francesa (thats french guiana in spanish)

[@denischarette7972]

You`re funny.

[@gabrielferreira6427]

The geography of South America is no stranger than South American politics.

[@rafaelalodio5116]

Fair point

[@Faulheit]

viva peron

[@caiogripp2001]

*cries in brazilian*

[@CamisaDeUrso]

Só verdades kk

[@Jcontardo]

I can't argue with this

[@dreamenvoy1530]

Living in New York and having a friend in Buenos Aires, I was very surprised to find that his timezone is an hour ahead of mine until I actually looked at a map.

[@ecb706]

Here in Peru the time zone is the same as in New York, although what surprised me is that some cities in North America change their time depending on whether it is summer or winter. Does that happen in New York?

[@isaacmendes1926]

@@ecb706 in Brazil we have "horário de verão" meaning "summer time", we change our clocks 1 hour because the sun is out for too long when it's summer lol. Also helps decrease energy consumption because we will wake up 1 hour later and go to sleep 1 hour later

[@RandomPlayIist]

@@ecb706 Yes, every state in the US observes DST except Arizona and Hawaii.

[@Jestervead]

i expected it to be a video about the Amazon and Andes and how they affect the continent and livelyhood, but instead it is a video saying that it's slightly more to the east than some Americans might've thought and for some reason this has to be weird

[@alanlight7740]

Yes, the content really didn't do much to match the description.

[@markgonzales1970]

I agree

[@thespeculativemusician]

Exactly my thoughts. Just talking about 1 country; Chile has both the driest hot dessert in the world in the north and territory on the Antarctica in the south, as well as the eastern island, this country has all the types of climates except from jungle, since it’s far longer than europe from north to south.

[@forstaken2254]

Fun fact: South America is in the south

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

No! Really!

[@reccarto4612]

I thought it was purple •~•

[@rhyswynne5914]

really?????

[@rayalkhudari7889]

Is dis true👀

[@samut9069]

No way

[@rafaelalodio5116]

I always bugs my mind when I remember Brazil is only a river away from France.

[@uwu_senpai]

And a rainforest too. Our border is actually pretty hard to cross.

[@storytellerstudiostm9409]

Technically, Canada is only one (BIG) river away from Europe.

[@coquimapping8680]

For me, it doesn’t

[@user-gr6cy8nx3z]

@Storyteller StudiosTM Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is a French collectivity off the coast of Newfoundland, so Canada is only 16 miles from France.

[@mysteriousDSF]

It bugs my mind how Macron makes rules for a chunk of the Amazon

[@melbutterworth7976]

When he says "canada too" it sounds like canada had a sequel

[@kaionunes7162]

If Canada is so good,why don't they made a ""Canada two"" yet ?

[@RyTheYouTubeGuy]

as a Canadian, this is my dream come true

[@drippymissouri]

It already exists, it's called Australia

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Another geographical quirk is that we often think of Australia and New Zealand being rather close, but the closest points between the two countries is longer than between London and Warsaw. And from Aukland to Perth is around the same distance as from London to Afghanistan.

[@def_not_ciaran]

RLL: “South America is entirely east from Detroit.” Also RLL: *marks Chicago*

[@TobyMax]

Yeah noticed that too lol

[@DomiAngel]

The oceans thing was wrong too wasn't it?

[@TobyMax]

@@DomiAngel what oceans thing?

[@hashiramasenju3246]

Im from just north of where he marked. Its more like Gary. The worst place ever.

[@brianisme6498]

He was close. On the wrong side of the state sure, but he was close.

[@vor7jahren251]

South America’s new name: east America

[@dundee6402]

The East coast: Wait that's illegal

[@RoScFan]

south-east america

[@joshs5743]

south east america lol

[@caleb.z]

But then, people notice it's south of west america, and start calling it south america.

[@secondlieutenan]

NO

[@meatrace]

Fun Fact: The Nazca Lines in Peru are on the EXACT opposite side of the globe as Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

[@tomasbarata1060]

That is not a fun fact its begin to look like that the aliens did those lines and the temple in Cambodia 🧐

[@fernieu3537]

Wow THANK YOU for informing us on that. Very cool fact :)

[@teathesilkwing7616]

I mean there’s many lines and the lines and Angkor wat are large not that big a surprise

[@theuselessdrunk]

ALIENS

[@ze4455]

You watch Ancient Aliens.

[@corvetaumbr2410]

Here are some other cool facts about Brazil's geography (coming from a Brazilian) - Brazil's easternmost point is actually closer to africa than to Brazil's westernmost point, mindblowing. - We are the 5th largest country in the world and our area is 8.5 million square kilometers, even bigger than Australia. - We are divided between 26 states + a federal district, where our capital, Brasília, (yes, rio de janeiro isn't our capital, stop saying this ffs) is located. - We are also divided between 5 regions, North, Northeast, Southeast, Center-West, and South. - Our biggest city is São Paulo, maybe you've heard of it. With 12.3 million people, it's pretty similar to New York, it has some very important buildings and avenues. - São Paulo, like New York, is both a state and a city also.

[@Jotonio]

Tô quase certo de que são mais de 20 milhões de habitantes na cidade de São Paulo.

[@corvetaumbr2410]

@@Jotonio A cidade de são paulo em si, sem contar a região metropolitana ou estado, tem 12 milhões de habitantes, apenas as pessoas que vivem no território da cidade

[@hoichingwong4267]

Glad to learn so much interesting facts from you!

[@johnrobert9164]

​@@corvetaumbr2410mas a grande são Paulo, as cidades satélites que ficam coladas, por exemplo guarulhos, se juntarmos todas somam 21 milhões de habitantes, ou seja mais gente do que o Chile!

[@corvetaumbr2410]

@@johnrobert9164 Sim exatamente, a Grande São Paulo é gigante, porém apenas a cidade em si, sem contar a região do ABC, Guarulhos, Oscasco, etc. tem apenas 12 milhões de habitantes, o que ainda assim é muito

[@joaopedroauriemo]

Fun fact: Brazil is the only country that crosses the equator and a tropic

[@dadcelo]

Had not thought of this one before!

[@MichaelKevinIPS]

Indonesia, Equatorial Guinea

[@joaopedroauriemo]

Michael Kevin, neither of these crosses a tropic

[@walangaccount8984]

I think there is many countries that crosses the equator and the tropic.

[@joaopedroauriemo]

@@walangaccount8984 turns out there’s only one

[@rodcover]

The Brazil's closest point from Africa is the island of Fernando de Noronha, so the distance from Africa and Brazil is even shorter.

[@LucasSilva-sc5vk]

That's an island so idk if it should count

[@stephanieyee9784]

I think the implication is Brazil's northern most Continental point is closer to Africa than to the southern end, but technically the island is closer. Thanks Rodolfo.

[@Josh-cm9jw]

Damn. There I was thinking the Island of Fernando was a place made up by the producers of Take Me Out

[@braziliantsar]

@@Josh-cm9jw I'm sorry, what?

[@igorgarciadeoliveira]

True, Verdade

[@zealandia5668]

Fun fact: The world's 6 largest countries (Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia) occupy 40.3% of Earth's total landmass. If we also include Antarctica (9.2%), that's 49.5% of Earth's total landmass, almost half of the world.

[@LRM12o8]

Antarctica isn't one big landmass though, it is infact a giant archipelago of thousands of small islands beneath the ice.

[@zealandia5668]

@@LRM12o8 Plus one big landmass (East Antarctica), but all these landmasses are under permanent ice. On the surface, Antarctica can be considered a solid continuous landmass.

[@hiqwerty7747]

One interesting fact is that areas that have an oceanic climate in the northern hemisphere are between about 50° north to 60° north. In the Southern Hemisphere, oceanic climates are found about 40° south. Same thing with Mediterranean climates being closer to the equator in areas such as Southern Australia and Central Chile, rather than further away as in Italy and California.

[@amywalker7515]

Seems the sun shines more on the north than the south due to the earth's tilt.

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

@@amywalker7515 the sun actually shines the most in the equator. With so much heat and energy, a lot of clouds form right on the equator with a lot of overcast in the tropics. Hurricanes are even born around 8 to 20 degrees N and S of the equator.

[@hereLiesThisTroper]

Fun Fact: For every 60 seconds in Brazil, a minute passes.

[@ramiromunoz1161]

omg just like Africa HOW?!

[@fortune3911]

Lol

[@amooirani240]

TOGETHA WE KAN STOP THIS

[@niktik7338]

Nice one

[@photodunn7828]

Yeah it’s like that everywhere ! WTF

[@modalmixture]

Fun fact: the most widely spoken language in South America, and in fact the entire Southern Hemisphere, is Portuguese.

[@lzh4950]

Asian countries meanwhile wondering why Africa & the Americas speak their colonisers' mother tongues

[@modalmixture]

@@lzh4950 Singapore speaks English, Hong Kong and Macao speak English, Phillipines speaks a languages similar to spanish, Macao and East Timor and Goa still have portuguese speakers, many chinese speak mandarin regardless of their own vernacular language, and China sends Uyghurs to reeducation camps where schools cannot teach their own language, so I don't think Asian countries have a lot of standing on this point.

[@lzh4950]

@@modalmixture On the other hand you won't really hear Japanese spoken in Taiwan or the Koreas, Dutch in Indonesia or French in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos. While English & Portuguese are official languages in HK & Macau respectively, there aren't that many speakers of those languages there I understand (though less so in the former, though Cantonese is still more common). Also didn't think Tagalog sounded similar to Spanish.

[@scintillam_dei]

More fun facts are in the video "Why Portugal is inferior to Spain!" See also the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!"

[@yaagodourado]

@@lzh4950 in south America, it's because they forced the natives to spoke Portuguese / Spanish and hurt /killed who refuses and continued to speak the native language. And at least in Brazil, the various native languages didn't have a written language, so with the domain of the Portuguese language, almost all of the native languages are gone, forever...

[@rayg6497]

I lived in Ecuador for a few years and i remember being surprised to find that even though it's on the Pacific Ocean, it's in the same time zone as Miami.

[@crusherbmx]

Do a video on the weirdness of Canada's geography, it's wacked. For example: St. John's Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than Winnipeg, Winnipeg is only halfway across Canada....Vancouver is on the west coast, but it is pretty far east of the westernmost part of the country...there are a lot more things than that...

[@pasajecolon5168]

In the late 80's my wife coworker told her that in the 50's a relative living in Ireland mailed him a latter asking him to go meet his cousin arriving to Canada East coast from Ireland by boat, my wife's coworker sent a letter back saying: "why don't you go meet him yourself, you are closer to him than me", my wife's coworker was living in Alberta at the time !! 😄

[@iammrbeat]

South America? More like East America.

[@mihailojovicevic5576]

South-East America

[@rubenc4696]

nooooooo

[@pirate1254]

Really?

[@timnicholls19]

When he doesn't even add that south America is more like central American as even Brazil has a large chunk in the northern hemisphere.

[@Ron.S.]

If I was a Brazilian I’d say - “we’re America! You’re simply North West America”!

[@franbalcal]

I am from Lima, Peru which is almost a perfect antipode to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so when i was in Phnom Penh, i placed a slice of bread on the ground, then asked a friend in Lima to do the same to create an Earth sandwich.

[@keigezellig]

Too bad you can't do that here in the Netherlands, the other side is a piece of Pacific Ocean near New Zealand

[@nmda9578]

That's hilarious!

[@jeffreythompson9549]

@Pilau BEAN Flicker No way.

[@clau_rafa]

how smart. did you at least enjoyed it with a cold inca kola 👍

[@franbalcal]

@@clau_rafa Nope, but weirdly enough i did find a bar that had PIsco Sours.

[@shiloheaston9839]

Very cool! I have never stopped to think about any of this stuff! Love your videos!

[@JamDread99]

This is one of the coolest things I have learned in geography, thanks!

[@atmos_360]

This is how all RealLifeLore videos will be: 75% Content 25% Advertisement

[@pulkitmohta8964]

The day is not far away when the percentages would interchange

[@atmos_360]

@@pulkitmohta8964 Exactly

[@0virgilio]

Not to mention the endlessly increasing number of youtube Ads

[@fortune3911]

Yeah no. He has only monetized a single point today. But as this video gets popular yes. True

[@willotter4503]

Virgilio I’ve only got 1

[@tabbyk.a.t.5071]

"where do you live?" "southeastern european america" "tf"

[@anabeatr1x]

kkkkkk

[@Twewf]

@Wuxxy So he's using the USA as the center

[@StanbyMode]

@Wuxxy it would be east…

[@midnights1389]

or just say "French Guiana" like a normal person... not *southeastwestern north eurasia africamerica*

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@HugoFlores-nb9wv]

Thank you so much. This is pretty cool. Greetings from Nayarit, México

[@vicentegambini8907]

Welcome to episode 27 of: ''Why the entire world's Geography sucks''

[@abloodorange5233]

Except france(almost)

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

It sucks so that humans can’t immediately inhabit every single place and kill all species of animals living there

[@uwuowo7718]

Eiru Except the US

[@uwuowo7718]

Episode 52: How the world’s geography got nerfed

[@henriquesilverio6252]

@@abloodorange5233 France and US are the luckiest in world

[@CompTechs]

Fun fact: According to these graphics, Detroit is closer to Chicago than Detroit is to Detroit.

[@johnmidwest5650]

Accurate.

[@daltanionwaves]

This makes me question every other claim in this vido 🤔

[@rokulus7910]

Even Detroit moved out of Detroit.

[@AddersOtter]

I'm from the Detroit area and I was like "huh that's Chicago" lol

[@coltonfockler8637]

Glad I wasn’t the only one like “wtf?”

[@shockhs7371]

The video was so good, could keep rolling a little bit longer.

[@QuaePanemEtCircenses]

i just found this channel. you sound like cecil from night vale. love the video!!

[@chandlerbryant6680]

this was basically just a video on the geography of brazil

[@OliveDoctor]

That's kinda expected since Brazil is half the South American land Area and Half it's population

[@luisangelperez9469]

They are kinda big down here though...

[@gabrielbrandaoscarpati2897]

Half size + half population = full video hahahaha

[@mariecampos6434]

that's bc we thicc

[@ernestchacon4928]

Well, yah.., Brazil is the biggest of them all combined and more ppl speak Portuguese than Spanish in South America.., oops you didn't know. (LOL)

[@Ferdaev]

I want to connect South America and Afrika just like puzzle

[@mysteriousDSF]

That's how they used to be. Tectonic plates

[@unitgamex2972]

Same

[@ajmoore2201]

Don't we all

[@lencox1973]

You copied that from twitter

[@memyselfandtau4712]

Salted Peanut shut up

[@baldrbraa]

Note: If you go through the centre of the Earth like mentioned in this video, the countries’ outlines won’t flip into a mirror image as shown here

[@russellmanweller6694]

I don't get it ether. I'm not sure why no one else is pointing this out.

[@baldrbraa]

@@russellmanweller6694 Well you know, I’m the cleverest person on the internet :)

[@amethyst7084]

Wow! A lot of facts I just was not aware of; especially the question of France's longest border with another country. Excellent stuff! 👏🏾

[@windrated]

As brazilian I realized how much in east we are when our football teams were playing in Mexico. I was watching the game at 11 pm here and the match was in daylight, and I was like wtf?!

[@ericktellez7632]

Have you had tacos before? 🌮

[@rebecacunha5343]

@@ericktellez7632 only coxinha

[@ericktellez7632]

@@rebecacunha5343 Wth is that?

[@rebecacunha5343]

@@ericktellez7632 it's a very famous brazilian food. It is a stuffed dough with chicken and may have cheese inside. Coxinha is much better than taco. Taco is mexican, its not common in Brazil.

[@nesne2167]

@@rebecacunha5343 I live in Brazil, but I'm sorry, there is no way Coxinha is better than taco. Coxinhas are bland crap. Coxinhas and the other salgados in the Lonchenetes are the absolute worst example of Brazilian food. Low quality and bland as fuck. (I am not insulting all Brazilian food. In general there is a lot of good food here but there is not way Coxinhas beat tacos.) Perhaps you have only had shitty ass tacos from taco bell or somewhere like that but, having lived in Mexico, I can say tacos win by far.

[@claudespeed50]

Formosa (Argentina) it’s in the opposite site than Formosa (Taiwan)

[@TorenoMike]

Nice

[@hernanmartinez2000]

I live in Paraguay, close to Formosa Argentina, greetings XD

[@ph0n1xz]

реnе

[@jayshreekarawade7573]

How do you talk? You are claude speed. Never seen you talk in gta 3. btw interesting fact

[@dinamosflams]

We should dig a tunnel and call It "formosa transplanetary tunnel"

[@anti_middle_ages]

So few videos about South America... Please make it more. You have a talent for telling about geopolitics.

[@michaelgask]

wow... this is fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

[@DodongaDongara]

I lived in Brazil until I was 9 and we had this expression when somebody was talking about going directly down, we'd say they'd end up in Japan.

[@Bruno-lo8oc]

Yeah here in Argentina we would say the same but with China instead of Japan

[@pown1396]

they say it everywhere bro, but china not Japan. There is even a game about that.

[@victorleiva4231]

here in Paraguay is Taiwan and it is true!!!

[@lorenzoluppi1159]

Same but with china in Argentina

[@MatheusVenti]

Before internet, I doubt that most brazilians even knew about Phillipines and Indonesia. That's probably the reason.

[@GoldendoodleBaxter]

Think the geography is weird, well I dare you to talk about the politics of South America next.

[@arthurrandom2137]

As a citizen from a country in south america (Brazil), I gave up on our politics a long time ago. Too much corruption.

[@brandenr6073]

Meh. To sum it up: republics, dictatorships, more republics, then more dictatorships, civil wars, widespread corruption, civil unrest, even more dictatorships, more civil unrest, more republics, then more widespread corruption. Basically all of Latin America, if I'm not mistaken

[@salvadorp7310]

@@gomiyaro que onda wachin

[@dinamosflams]

Just a pinch of corruption *throws an entire bucket*

[@alpujugo]

@@brandenr6073 then there's the most deadly goverment ever on south américa that ironically is a demcoracy

[@castejb]

love this videos. thanks for all the information.

[@howardking3601]

Great stuff! Thanks.

[@zendariun101]

I live in Roraima wich is the state where the Nothernmost point of Brasil is, and it's Surprisingly pretty far from everything else in the entire country.

[@emersonjose4956]

Realmente kkkkkk Já eu, posso dizer que moro perto de tudo, pois sou de Porto de Galinhas - PE

[@zendariun101]

@@emersonjose4956 kkk

[@atlante4368]

Roraima, estado pouco conhecido da federação. Gostaria de visitar o Monte Roraima algum dia! Abraços de Salvador 👊🏼👊🏼

[@Clodd1]

Eu moro mais próximo do oriente (Paraíba).

[@celtelf]

@N V M E R I V S cisplatina

[@DiogoSalazar1]

Also, you could have mentioned that despite being named South America, it spans both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Brazil is also the only country to have both the Equator line and Tropic of Capricorn running through it.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

The name South America has nothing to do with what hemisphere it’s in. South Carolina, South Dakota and South Korea are all in the northern hemisphere. These names mean that they’re the southern part of Carolina, Dakota and Korea respectively. Similarly, although “America” is now often used to mean the United States of America, it actually means North America and South America combined. So South America is the southern portion of that, regardless of what hemisphere it’s in.

[@alukuhito]

There's also a state in the USA called South Dakota, but it's in the northern hemisphere.

[@thiago1462]

@@daerdevvyl4314 You are correct mate, but a lot of people don't know this or think like you... You know what I mean?

[@danidejaneiro8378]

@@daerdevvyl4314 - referring to USA in spoken English as “America” has existed since the time of the thirteen colonies. If you’d like to refer to both continents of North America and South America collectively in English you must use the plural, “The Americas”. This is how native speakers make the distinction.

[@andresacostaescobar]

This is unaccurate. Colombia also has a piece in both hemispheres

[@mateuslacerda284]

I welcome my brothers from South America!

[@laurasmelodies]

As someone who lives in the Southernmost state of Brazil this video just reinforced to me the impression that we are way too far away from the rest of the country. That's why is easier, cheaper and faster to go to Uruguay and Argentina than to go to other Brazilian states. It's a pity as our country is absolutely beautiful and I wish I could see it all.

[@MoonOvIce]

It's a border people thing, happens all around the world. People from northern Uruguay (who often speak Portuñol or perfect Portuguese as a second language) feel closer culturally to Brazilians and often have been in different parts of Brazil more often than the rest of Uruguay. A similar thing happens in Northern Mexico and the Southern US.

[@valterzc8187]

I think this video was incomplete, you should have akso talked about the Andes and it's influence on the climate of the region.

[@MsMRkv]

He talked about curiosity stream 1/5 of the video.

[@pulkitmohta8964]

@@MsMRkv you gotta take care of the sponsors too

[@camilo7116]

Totally, he didn't say anything impressive. He only talked about how Southamerica is more to the east than he thought it would be. Or how the US is more to the west, depends on how you see it.

[@secondlieutenan]

Yes

[@sahhdsful]

How it keeps rain in Bolivia from Northern Chile and Peru and it keeps rain in southern Chile from The Argentinean Patagonia

[@supersammich344]

Interesting video, but what did this have to do with weird geography? I think a better title would be: Misconceptions about South American Geography

[@gonzaa5809]

He is a weirdo that sees other things like him

[@mr.randomgamer888]

@@gonzaa5809 why the insults man, did you suggest a video idea and he said its bad or something?

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

He wants the views

[@londoncrow500]

Clickbait

[@wythore]

More like "Misconceptions about South American Geography that only people from the USA have"

[@mpcrauzer]

The fact that its more close for me to fly to Africa than go driving to French Guyana is something amazing

[@apaarmaheshwari8673]

I have always loved Geography. So your videos are a real souce of entertainment for me.

[@kevinguillen7168]

3:50 South America, proceeds to show a video from Guatemala.

[@electronicbamboo6764]

I know and they have s many subs. Sometimes I just click on the vids just to dislike

[@pamelaro10181]

Maybe they can make another video about Central America not being a part of Mexico

[@brianisme6498]

@@pamelaro10181 His marker was on the Yucatan Peninsula which is in Mexico.

[@djtforever1414]

I was about to write a similar comment. I have been to that town in Guatemala.

[@LLCL2012]

@@electronicbamboo6764 Even worse he is partnered with nebula, where supposedly "good" content creators upload, but apparently they have low standars.

[@nestorarcilaosorio2457]

the real name of the video: Why Brasil Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think

[@JairoOrtizT]

Los brasileños siempre de acomplejados comentando como locos todos los vídeos en los que mencionan a Brasil

[@danillopetrova]

@@JairoOrtizT vai espumar?

[@irmaosmatos4026]

@@JairoOrtizT no teas ciúmes, nosotros estamos en toda parte

[@migueldufrancioni7283]

@@JairoOrtizT vai tilitar amorzin?

[@capitaopacoca8454]

@@JairoOrtizT Praticamente não há brasileiros aqui.

[@jwill3708]

I would just like to take this moment to say good job on your pronunciation of Guyana & French Guiana. Thank you!

[@rickyheld9992]

Really cool video and I learned a lot! Detroit's location is pretty inaccurate though.

[@teodorradev3883]

03:00 you keep showing Barcelona when talking about Brazil

[@gtPacheko]

Same thing, they all speak Spanish. /s

[@MsMRkv]

Lol

[@Dumpy332]

No . They speak Catalan and Portuguese.

[@SantiM325]

The nail in the coffin is that at that exact moment he's saying - I quote - “The biggest reason for why this may come as a surprise to you is because most of us in the northern hemisphere have a weird misunderstanding of where exactly south America is located geographically.”

[@afdhalulakbar5382]

@@gtPacheko nope, portuguese unless you're joking

[@alexandertruuvert2037]

RLL: makes video about South America Also RLL: Stock footage of Antigua, Guatemala, in Central America at 3.55

[@bennylofgren3208]

Yeah, and Barcelona instead of Rio de Janeiro... and puts Detroit in Chicago...

[@endtheliesnow5906]

Another interesting point. You can fly 8 hours from New York which is next to the Atlantic Ocean, to Lima, Peru, which is next to the Pacific Ocean, and you will still be in the same time zone!

[@davido3026]

Same meridian!!! Lol

[@smpoinde]

Well damn, that helps my befuddlement of why I’m actually taking a flight out of my hometown Detroit than Texas to get to Colombia. I couldn’t understand why it was a shorter or a close to equivalent flight. I didn’t exactly research very hard but this video was a pleasant source!

[@danielaldebaran7888]

One thing you should have mentioned: There's a province in Argentina called Formosa which is coincidentally the antipode to northern part of Taiwan, which was also known as "Formosa".

[@juaquinfuentesjara7352]

"Brazil northernmost point and southernmost point are very far away" Chile: LMAO

[@agustinvenegas5238]

just went and measured, not counting the Chilean antarctic claim Brazil is longer than Chile, by like a hundred km give or take (4282.9km), including the antarctic (which is kind of ridiculous bc it's not supported by most nations) it jumps to 7526, but by that logic norway would be the longest country as it has a claim in antarctica and is partially within the arctic circle

[@Androbott]

@@agustinvenegas5238 heh y Rapanui ?

[@Androbott]

@Daniel Marranghelli según el video Francia esta en sudamericana 🤷‍🤷‍

[@torikens7797]

Brazil is actually longer than chile

[@ma-nq8ez]

Its actually longer... But Chile is thinner so it looks longer

[@aaronrich]

Interesting and informative video however, you highlighted Trinidad and Tobago an independent nation as part of Venezuela during your illustration about how far apart the northern and southern tips of Brazil are.

[@fedeiq23]

Fun fact: North of Argentina, bordering Paraguay, lies Formosa province. Its name was given by spanish colonizers who found the place so beautiful they called it "Curva Fermosa". Its capital city is called Formosa as well. On the other side of the globe, 20.000 km away, lies its antipodal, Keeling city, located in Taiwan. Taiwan's original name? "Ihla Fermosa", given by Portuguese colonizers who first arrived at the island and which was also later conquered by Spanish colonizers for a couple of years.

[@TheGroovyGuitarDude]

Woah! Not only did I never notice that South America is not directly south of North America, but I also never noticed how much closer to Africa it is than I realized. Love these videos! 🙌🏽

[@righthandstep5]

Geographys great ain't it?

[@Zetsuke4]

Me too

[@reuireuiop0]

Yeah, but closer to Africa than to US ? Mr Topo happily chooses the eastern most point for measuring that distance, but takes the most norther point for the other one, whereas US is to the Northwest, so why not choose the closest point to the States to measure it that distance ? Only 15 k difference now so Z so South America being closer to Africa may not be all true

[@janpavel1441]

@Michelle platonic plates lmao

[@nicolasklausen8010]

Bruh

[@yuribraga67]

Basically, how much the Brazilian geography is underrated.

[@fortune3911]

Lol

[@coffeemakerbottomcracked]

welcome to hell

[@faubourglincoln]

I’m disapointed he didn’t give pornmaps sub from Reddit some credit here because he clearly took that from there.

[@pranshuhungund2968]

It’s not that good tho

[@JMKrech]

Great video!

[@tobiasmazur8895]

It's worth mentioning that besides all the countries of the Americas, the northernmost point if Brazil is also closer to Cape Verde, an island nation off the African coast, than to the southernmost point. The distance to the Azores Islands, which are part of Portugal, is just around 300km longer.

[@gilmouraes]

Fun fact: Brazil is the only country to be crossed by the equator and one of the tropics at the same time (Tropic of Capricorn)

[@UrbanAngel7004]

e o Equador ? o pais kkkkkkkkkkk

[@braziliantsar]

@@UrbanAngel7004 Burrão, ele falou pelo Equador e por um dos trópicos (capricórnio). Equador (o país) só tem o Equador (o paralelo) cruzando ele.

[@rafamoreira0]

@@UrbanAngel7004 o Equador não é cruzado por um trópico, somente pela linha do Equador.

[@muscovymapping8896]

2020 is a weird year. It even moved Detroit.

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

I'm now realising that detroit and chicago are two different cities.

[@jonomoth2581]

Wait what

[@LandgraabIV]

3:00 it's like the millionth time I see KZbinrs use this clip of Barcelona as if it were Rio/Brazil.

[@MarceloRadomski]

Also Chile and Argentina are longer from south to north than Brazil, we have 3 of the longest S-N countries in the world. We have also the Andes, the tallest mountain range outside the Himalayas.

[@rowk19]

I’m a Nova Scotian and it’s weird to think that my province is closer to Brazil than the south point of Brazil, well at least the South Shore of Nova Scotia

[@bcdm999]

Everyone from Yarmouth has started celebrating Carnivale

[@Julia-rm2vw]

It takes over 4 hours to flight from the southern most point of Brazil to the Eastern most point of Brazil in a direct flight.

[@sophiacristina]

I'm brazilian and i'm also surprised...

[@sophiacristina]

@get to the Choppaa Haha, some people from Brazil says they are curious to know how snow looks like, i sometimes say to them "people that live in snow countries don't seem to like it that much", i hope i'm not misleading them... :p

[@sophiacristina]

@get to the Choppaa Ty for the info! Indeed, looking at videos i think "well, maybe seeing snow once would be cool, but have to clean the pathway from the door with a shovel looks like a extra-burden, and snow is not a novelty anymore". Cool, feel welcome here! I hope you enjoy your stay! I also wanted to visit north america, both Canada and USA... But i would prefer to go in the summer... :p Thanks, take care you too! :)

[@dhruvmaslekar]

World wars: most destructive event in human history South Americas: imma pretend I didn't see that

[@justnoah2073]

Brazil did fight in WW2. Sorry for going "well actually" on your *ss.

[@nada-mj2cw]

Brazil fought in WW2

[@zakirhusain6324]

@@justnoah2073 WW1 ~ 400 Deaths , ~ 1000 wounded WW2 ~ 2000 Deaths , ~ 4000 wounded

[@dreadhead5719]

@@justnoah2073 He only knows the European part

[@ramiromunoz1161]

Argentina actually entered WW2 a few months before it ended and won it without doing anything

[@erikharaldsson2416]

Actually, there is no way to DRIVE to Suriname, since both the border crossing with Guyana and French Guyana requires you to take a ferry across the river. Also another fun fact is that Santiago lies between Washington DC and NYC measured by longitude.

[@darylcheshire1618]

Part of Australia that has Brisbane in it is very far east. The town Dirranbandi is a fair way inland but I was surprised to find if I draw an imaginary line south, it would pass through Orbost on Victoria’s east.

[@XelenaX-wg2jr]

3:50 Talks about south america yet shows guatemala 🤩

[@xavierbelanger3766]

i was about to say it, i once got to this exact place

[@SoyPabloCastro]

As soon as I saw that picture of Antigua, I paused the video and scrolled down looking for this comment.

[@rodrigoaraujo8718]

He showed Barcelona at some point in this video about South America🥰🥰🥰 (3:06)

[@cenccenc946]

He sounds like he is from the united states, so we will cut him some slack. I got back to the States after two years in Guatemala. some one at the bar asked me where I was. I said Guatemala. They asked is that in Africa?

[@laurabain9271]

siempre ignoran Guatemala, Nicaragua, Uruguay, chile y ecuador

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Pan-American Highway: I’ll unify the Americas! Darien Gap: Hahaha *no*

[@VGOM2000]

Drug dealers in the area: lol no as well

[@matheusd.rodrigues429]

The massive swamp north of Colombia/North of Panama: hahah *no*

[@tomasseman6388]

lol :D , I can appreciate any good geographical joke:))

[@scintillam_dei]

Miami: Cuba is so poor! Cuba during World War 3 when China and Russia beat the shit out of the US of AIDS though they will also get beat up: Now's my chance to strike Miami and conquer it.

[@r.i.pstudiogaming7087]

Why do i see you everywhere?

[@peeper2070]

‘Mum can we go to France’ ‘No, I cannot afford it as I have to pay off the mortgage and have 4 overdue car bills. We may need to sell a few possessions for next month.’ France at home:

[@hikki3523]

I laughed really hard thank you very much

[@iandann8788]

great stuff ,I knew about the panama canal ,heading east to get to the west

[@captainwilliam3920]

Fun, somewhat unrelated fact: Death Valley, California is further north than Tokyo, Japan

[@turinmormegil7715]

From where?

[@captainwilliam3920]

Go to google maps and look at the co-ordinates of both places. You will be surprised

[@turinmormegil7715]

@@captainwilliam3920 wait, but it's northernmost in relation to where, that's what I asked

[@captainwilliam3920]

What do you mean?

[@turinmormegil7715]

@@captainwilliam3920 you said Death Valley is farther towards the North than Tokyo....but in relation to what point?

[@cristhianramirez6939]

I always forget that guyana, guyana francesa and surinam are countries in southamerica. It's like the kid who doesn't talk in class and no one knows his voice, they are forgotten

[@bhiramdeepnarine7801]

Yooooooooo actually reconize us .Its tri mist ppl just walk pass us idk why everyone so hype to talk about brazil Venezuela and such but. Guyana suriname and frend Guyana are outcasts it like a oddity in the world

[@foca2002]

I visited Guyana in 2019, it's a curious country to say the least.

[@mitsuck7881]

@@bhiramdeepnarine7801 noone is hyped to talk about Venezuela

[@shavonnelynch6508]

right :') when I say that I'm from south America people immediately think that I speak Spanish or Portuguese and I'm like "No :') i speak dutch"

[@henriquesoares2343]

Those 3 countries have a culture that is more closely related to the Caribbean than the rest of South american, so they became basically outcasts here, thats why they are somewhat forgotten

[@thephoenix3155]

In my opinion South America is the most underrated continent, because it has spectacular mountain ranges, fascinating cultures of Spanish, Portuguese and Amerindian and Aztec.

3:00 Random video of Barcelona from Tibidabo's mountain, as a weird implied reference to Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado, popping in here.

[@twicethegalo]

As a Chilean I completely agree :P This wasn't mentioned, but my country (Chile) is so vertical that on one edge we have the driest (hot) desert in the world and at the other we have literally Antarctica

[@pedrolmlkzk]

You are also one of the two countries that do not share a border with Brazil (yet at least)

[@isaac9941]

The driest desert of the world is antartica

[@MrMattpnk]

If I remember correctly Chile is like the hated guy in South America. They have stolen the access to the sea from Bolivia and recently they have burnt some immigrants' belongings.

[@twicethegalo]

@@isaac9941 driest hot desert

[@theuselessdrunk]

@@MrMattpnk i thought this was about weird geography, not weird conspiracy theories

[@joaofabio5927]

Brazil is the only contiguous territory that is crossed by the equator and the tropic of capricorn at the same time.

[@iamisaid2295]

that's a cool fact!

[@joaofabio5927]

@@iamisaid2295 Yes! Large portions of Brazil are above the equator and also below the Tropic of Capricorn. I live in a very cold region of Brazil under the Capricorn tropic, however a friend of mine lives in a very hot place in Roraima which is above the equator. It is interesting to know that we are in the same time zone and speak exactly the same language but we are separated by 4000 km, 4 unique biomes, 5 climates, the Amazon river, pantanal swamplands, including he is also living in another season of the year (here is in srping and there is in fall) . when we look at the sky we don't even see the same stars!

[@iamisaid2295]

​@@joaofabio5927 that is so cool. although really, there's no such thing as "fall" at the equator, not in the sense of changing leaf colours. even at the tropic of capricorn there's no true winter, except the water is a tiny bit chillier. they basically can grow mangos and avos all year long.... endless summer.

[@LLCL2012]

Nice fact. When you find way cooler facts in the comments than in the video...

[@joaofabio5927]

@@iamisaid2295 Yes, there is a true winter south of the Capricorn Tropic. Have you been over there? Just type "fall in Argentina" and you are going to see, ther is no endless summer in this region of the souther cone of South America.

[@leifmanson7599]

The book, "The Floating Brothel" is a record of the first shipment of female convicts from the UK to Australia, on board the "Lady Juliana". Their route took them southwest to the Azores and then Recife, Brazil. From there they crossed the Atlantic (again) to Capetown, South Africa. Rounding the tip of Africa, prevailing winds brought them straight to Australia, without stopping anywhere in Asia, far to the north. It was a journey of 11 months.

[@kikeruiz539]

I like that u said South America while showing a video of Antigua, Guatemala

[@phildf6922]

What's crazier is that Brasil has almost all of the "habitable" land of the continent, a great part of the other countries are the deserts, mountains and the antartic areas

[@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda]

You can live in the mountains just fine though

[@jeanhenriquedemacedoviana7681]

yet we still concentrate people on the litoranean areas and leave everything else to farms because fuck us, that's why

[@yadiragonzalez9882]

What? More than half of Brazil is uninhabitable, but due to deforestation, urbanization in jungle areas and the reduced protection of the environment by the government, this has been changing, unlike its neighbors, who take care of their natural areas and don´t turn them into cities like Brazil has done, also, countries like Uruguay, have most of their territory habitable because their territory are mostly coasts at sea level

[@omargerardolopez3294]

@@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda **sniff sniff** _inca_

[@Oceansta]

Thank you Amazon River Basin!

[@thomasarcturus8947]

I was hoping for more. That's cool Brazil is big, and that French Guiana is part of France. There is plenty more to talk about. South America is fascinating. (And the Panama Canal is in not South America.)

[@Sutchii_]

Yeah It’s central america but, people tend to forget central america is a thing

[@alanr6953]

Its the split between the two

[@turritopsisrockola]

In the anglo definition that's the divider between north and south america

[@maeliandrade9919]

People think Latin America and South America are one and the same...

[@PSkullKidDnazen]

@@Sutchii_ there is no central america geologically everything west of colombia is north america and everything east of panama is south america "central america" is a made up political term to differentiate undeveloped countries in the itshmus from their more developed neighbors north and south basically another way for the rich boys to look down at the small, poor and defenseless during the cold war

[@smallstudiodesign]

When I was in the UK 🇬🇧 - I was asked where I was from ... instead of saying “Canada” (which is so huge & varied, I thought I’d narrow it down), I said “I’m from British Columbia” - the room fell silent- suddenly someone blurted out, “Oi, you look rather pale to be from South America!” - 😜 😂

[@laudemara.b.1736]

Ou seja, te julgaram pela cor da sua pele, isso não se chama racismo?!

[@amandaandrade7777]

@@laudemara.b.1736 né

[@coffee-syrup]

another stigma... people thinking people from south america are all mixed race or black, which only applies to the northern countries of south america such as venezuela... Countries like chile, argentina or uruguay has most of its population of white people...

[@rafaumtgavioli]

I knew that the northernmost part of Brazil was closer to Flórida than to the southernmost part of Brazil. But closer to Canada realy blew my mind

[@dundee6402]

3:00 That's Barcelona, not South America 🤦🏻

[@xstongames4778]

He meant to show Rio de Janeiro I guess

[@electronicbamboo6764]

He probably just though it was the statue but that’s pretty dumb mistake

[@brandonodanellguerracastan8477]

The Yellow Arch at 3:49 is actually in Guatemala, Central America, Lol.

[@grandejosnei21]

Economics Explained made this exact same mistake lol

[@starwarsman333]

and at 3:47 he put Detroit in Michigan City

[@carlosrincon6017]

"Why South America's Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think" South America's Politics: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@emersonjose4956]

lol

[@scintillam_dei]

Bolívar was a traitor and an idiot who served the British and his Jewish masters well.

[@MartinNew14]

South,central asian/african/eastern european leaders: Noobs

[@cinamontoast2555]

@@scintillam_dei bruh just proving his point

[@scintillam_dei]

@@cinamontoast2555 Whose point?

[@evasterenberg]

A video on Brazil's geography would be interesting to see.

[@arthurvaladares8288]

One thing that you didn't mention in this video, and that I find a lot of people are unaware of, is the fact that it snows in some parts of South America. That being said, it's in the very South of South America, and it rarely happens, but the interesting thing is that this year it snowed a lot in South of Brazil, and from the pictures, one would think it was in Canada lol.

[@ixlnxs]

I've seen plenty of snow on mountaintops in Ecuador as a child, straddling the Equator. And I remember hailstones the size of golf balls.

[@leonardogeremia8769]

@@ixlnxs It rarely happens? Go have a winter on Patagonia and tell me when is it that it doesn't snow...

[@ixlnxs]

@@leonardogeremia8769 You are confusing me with Arthur Valadares. 😁

[@alanlight7740]

@@ixlnxs - methinks you have mixed up one meteorological phenomenon (hail or hailstones) with another (gale - a strong wind). But yes, with the Andes there is snow even at the equator, where some of the mountains are snow-capped year round. I have seen it myself from Quito.

[@ixlnxs]

@@alanlight7740 Thanks for correcting me. English is not my native language so help is always welcome.