The Real Size Of Countries

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In this video we take a look at how different the size of certain countries really are, compared to how they usually are displayed as on a map.
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@General.Knowledge
@General.Knowledge 5 жыл бұрын
Would you want to see a full video on the different type of Map Projections there are? Comparing each of them, etc.
@vishalramesh8157
@vishalramesh8157 5 жыл бұрын
Si (sorry for my bad english)
@Aprill264
@Aprill264 5 жыл бұрын
That would be cool
@GrainMuncher
@GrainMuncher 5 жыл бұрын
Are you Portuguese? Your pronunciation is very good and you use Portuguese maps
@monchogarcia9543
@monchogarcia9543 5 жыл бұрын
True are you Portuguese?
@diogorodrigues747
@diogorodrigues747 5 жыл бұрын
@@GrainMuncher I think yes, sir!
@boahancock3944
@boahancock3944 5 жыл бұрын
If you put Greenland in equator it will melt
@Neuroqueen128
@Neuroqueen128 5 жыл бұрын
Seth mark Sanchez it already is
@steel9459
@steel9459 5 жыл бұрын
Lol did i just read this while the video is on the greenland part
@thrashsis5412
@thrashsis5412 5 жыл бұрын
Lol. Why I scrolling down my screen & read this?
@kreteshi9788
@kreteshi9788 5 жыл бұрын
that's a good one lol
@Hollywood2021
@Hollywood2021 5 жыл бұрын
It would become green!
@singsongsou1865
@singsongsou1865 5 жыл бұрын
**Greenland has left the chat**
@BeastRealDeal
@BeastRealDeal 5 жыл бұрын
Singsong Sou subscribe to my channel thanks
@MrJonsonville5
@MrJonsonville5 5 жыл бұрын
I'm sure all ten people there will understand.
@damicow
@damicow 5 жыл бұрын
@@BeastRealDeal no idiot
@MrJonsonville5
@MrJonsonville5 5 жыл бұрын
@Noob 70 *put asterisks (*) on each side of the part you want bold*
@MatStuff
@MatStuff 5 жыл бұрын
*Rip This chat*
@awesome6284
@awesome6284 3 жыл бұрын
So a globe 🌎 is the best way to see the maps in its correct area.
@had940
@had940 3 жыл бұрын
Yup
@jeffdunhamvevo953
@jeffdunhamvevo953 3 жыл бұрын
what?
@savomalonumui6878
@savomalonumui6878 3 жыл бұрын
always has been
@atara.sx-
@atara.sx- 3 жыл бұрын
Because the actual Earth is also a sphere, like a globe.
@ibrahimbah1044
@ibrahimbah1044 3 жыл бұрын
@@atara.sx- the earth is not a perfect sphere but a geoid or elliptical sphere.
@UnkindledIncandescent
@UnkindledIncandescent 4 жыл бұрын
*Puts Africa in antartica, and it freezes* *Puts Antartica to Africa, and it melts.* Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
@Cjnw
@Cjnw 3 жыл бұрын
I bless the snows down in Africa!
@gojira4036
@gojira4036 3 жыл бұрын
African-Antarticans
@imcloud305
@imcloud305 3 жыл бұрын
@@gojira4036 they will be easily seen in the snow Im taking about the Africans
@bruhz_089
@bruhz_089 3 жыл бұрын
@@imcloud305 that’s because there dark
@vank91
@vank91 3 жыл бұрын
And now antartica melt even if you didnt move it
@mgk3176
@mgk3176 5 жыл бұрын
The Mercator projection! Brought to you by: GREENLAND!
@eewag1
@eewag1 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah coz greenland looks absolutely gargantuan up there but actually is smaller than the drc
@mgk3176
@mgk3176 5 жыл бұрын
@The Engineer Guy Iceland is called Iceland because it has way more glaciers than Scandinavia, the origin of all Icelanders. Greenland is called Greenland because the viking, who discovered it, landed in the south, where it is not so icy. Also, he wanted to make some advertisement for Greenland.
@jerichoabecia3542
@jerichoabecia3542 5 жыл бұрын
@The Engineer Guy it's a trick made by a man just to escape a crime he did, that is what my teacher said :/
@jerichoabecia3542
@jerichoabecia3542 5 жыл бұрын
@Smalls probably XD
@sazakii222
@sazakii222 5 жыл бұрын
0:55
@fridolinmaier8806
@fridolinmaier8806 5 жыл бұрын
If you want a completely accurate map, just use a globe. powerful words!
@kapybara8079
@kapybara8079 5 жыл бұрын
A globe isn't a map though
@serglian8558
@serglian8558 5 жыл бұрын
@@kapybara8079 he's talking about the little globes
@kapybara8079
@kapybara8079 5 жыл бұрын
@@serglian8558 it's still not a map •~•
@vaukrompir6136
@vaukrompir6136 5 жыл бұрын
@@kapybara8079 he didnt even say that its a map he just said to use it
@miguelpadeiro762
@miguelpadeiro762 5 жыл бұрын
@@vaukrompir6136 He still used the word map, not that it is a big deal...it isn't
@tunkuismaadrina9160
@tunkuismaadrina9160 3 жыл бұрын
Greenland: I'm bigger than Australia. Australia: No you're not. look at the globe. Greenland: [Cries]
@1mol831
@1mol831 3 жыл бұрын
Antarctica isn’t that small, it’s bigger than the us or Canada.
@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123
@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123 3 жыл бұрын
Antarctica is only smaller than Russia
@_kitaes_
@_kitaes_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@1mol831 Australia
@_kitaes_
@_kitaes_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123 Australia
@1mol831
@1mol831 3 жыл бұрын
@@_kitaes_ Australia isn't a continent. It is an island, which is part of the continent of Oceania, just like how Asia includes islands like Java or siri lanka.
@ZyGotham38
@ZyGotham38 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone : Why I'm smaller? Brazil : Is that my business
@auritro3903
@auritro3903 3 жыл бұрын
You are going to brazil
@zack1540
@zack1540 2 жыл бұрын
come to Brazil, pls?
@hashirama1204
@hashirama1204 2 жыл бұрын
Russia: we good🤠
@tcb1012
@tcb1012 2 жыл бұрын
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
@MQHNATYTC8262
@MQHNATYTC8262 5 жыл бұрын
2:57 “...three or four USs” *forgets about Alaska or Hawaii*
@rallis3937
@rallis3937 5 жыл бұрын
@Fmono • 38 years ago Still part of america
@rallis3937
@rallis3937 5 жыл бұрын
@Fmono • 38 years ago maybe they should be included?
@wearehoomans2288
@wearehoomans2288 5 жыл бұрын
*facepalm*
@sbevebren1642
@sbevebren1642 5 жыл бұрын
@Yuki You no, it doesn count in the scale, because its not connected to america
@victoriaque601
@victoriaque601 4 жыл бұрын
Fmono • 39 years ago • edited Guam and them aren’t states. That’s not the same thing, and I don’t believe that’s what op was saying.
@SuBk.
@SuBk. 5 жыл бұрын
*[Puts Antarctica at the Equator]* Dead Noah: *_THE SECOND GREAT FLOOD!!!_*
@ra_alf9467
@ra_alf9467 4 жыл бұрын
Dead noah: my grandson time has come
@IsaacMeade641
@IsaacMeade641 3 жыл бұрын
Ra Alf grandson.... more like great great great great great great great x10000000000 grandson
@toonbat
@toonbat 3 жыл бұрын
One other thing about the Mercator projection, and many others, for that matter, is that it makes it too easy to think of east and west as being on opposite ends of a map, when the reality is that east and west are not points on a map, but directions that go completely around without a fixed start or end. The US is closer to Russia (via Alaska and the Behring Straight) than it is to Cuba, which is not something you can easily appreciate in most flat maps..
@osrikking8785
@osrikking8785 2 жыл бұрын
That's why you need to grow up playing Risk like we did in the 70s - because then you KNOW Kamchatka and Alaska are "connected". 😁
@PLKartofel
@PLKartofel 4 жыл бұрын
5:58 Fun fact: Poland is bigger than UK. Poland has [about] 312.000 square kilometers, but UK has [about] 242.000 square kilometers.
@tealblade2994
@tealblade2994 4 жыл бұрын
Your english is pretty good though
@julsiegamermove4115
@julsiegamermove4115 4 жыл бұрын
The only thing that is bad is that have is supposed to be has. That's pretty interesting though. A fun fact about where I'm from (New Jersey, USA) is that 1) this state has 9 million people, making it 11th most populated despite the fact that it's the fifth smallest state 2) NJ is a peninsula. The only state it's connected to by land is New York 3) NJ is 8,729 mi² (22,610 km²)
@bidilz
@bidilz 4 жыл бұрын
@@julsiegamermove4115 lmao jakarta has more people than nj but jakarta is small
@julsiegamermove4115
@julsiegamermove4115 4 жыл бұрын
Bidilz Gaming is it a major city? If so, that's completely normal. NJ is overpopulated in certain areas and in some cities, people don't even have driveways because of how crowded the houses are. I can't even imagine that
@weskerposting
@weskerposting 4 жыл бұрын
MarkeeGamerMove New York best.
@linksab9568
@linksab9568 5 жыл бұрын
4:21 Romania should be an island, it looks like a small fish in the Ocean, it would fit right in
@gustavo_fernandez227
@gustavo_fernandez227 4 жыл бұрын
A small fish in a big slavic sea
@taylerszente6877
@taylerszente6877 4 жыл бұрын
Transylvania NO romania ! So it doesn't look like a fish .!.
@linksab9568
@linksab9568 4 жыл бұрын
@@taylerszente6877 no, you are right, Romania shouldn't look like a fish, but you misspelled "Moldova" by saying "Transylvania"
@remindyaimkindawet
@remindyaimkindawet 4 жыл бұрын
Looks like Dory
@vladthe3rd414
@vladthe3rd414 4 жыл бұрын
Tayler Szente Tayler Szente why when majority of Transylvania is Romanian not minority? So it looks like fish
@zbstepps765
@zbstepps765 5 жыл бұрын
3:55 Demark doesn’t exist
@Ryan-lm8kd
@Ryan-lm8kd 5 жыл бұрын
Actually isorrowproductions doesnt exist.
@kidzimoszu6520
@kidzimoszu6520 5 жыл бұрын
Its still there, its just hard to see
@grant8164
@grant8164 5 жыл бұрын
Play Coolmathgames
@Dacoool
@Dacoool 5 жыл бұрын
Circle tool
@astrobullivant5908
@astrobullivant5908 5 жыл бұрын
Well, Greenland is part of Denmark, so that adds to its size.
@boxsterman77
@boxsterman77 2 жыл бұрын
Of course it's possible to present a spherical object in 2D without distortion. It's just not possible to present it all at once without distortion.
@cactusjacksentme3211
@cactusjacksentme3211 4 жыл бұрын
1:25 I was literally peeling an orange then
@none4174
@none4174 3 жыл бұрын
@@runator3250 eating Oranges is boomer now?
@EnjoySackLunch
@EnjoySackLunch 2 ай бұрын
So jel
@petarmitkov1056
@petarmitkov1056 5 жыл бұрын
-Put Monaco on the North Pole-
@tinylunaticinahugeworld
@tinylunaticinahugeworld 5 жыл бұрын
Monaco may be quite large, they are the size of two thirds of Indonesia (the flag).
@fbryn0688
@fbryn0688 4 жыл бұрын
Petar Mitkov you mean the Vatican
@flores332
@flores332 4 жыл бұрын
@Lefty Bear Gaming it will be the size of the falklands
@proconqueror
@proconqueror 4 жыл бұрын
I tried it on true size and I forgot where it went
@nocive7381
@nocive7381 4 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@user-hq2mh4ec6r
@user-hq2mh4ec6r 5 жыл бұрын
Wait, are you Portuguese/Brazilian? The names of the countries in the map are in portuguese
@guilhermepinheiro2050
@guilhermepinheiro2050 5 жыл бұрын
Pedro Calais I bet he is Portuguese
@draive1538
@draive1538 5 жыл бұрын
His first flag video was about Portugal too
@rapnoc4158
@rapnoc4158 5 жыл бұрын
Sim, ele é tuga.
@_rafael_fr
@_rafael_fr 5 жыл бұрын
His first three videos of his channel are about Portugal, Spain and Brazil. So I think he's Portuguese.
@user-hq2mh4ec6r
@user-hq2mh4ec6r 5 жыл бұрын
@@rapnoc4158 ah
@icytheshifter4995
@icytheshifter4995 4 жыл бұрын
Greenland in Mercator Pregection : You're Weak! Greenland in Reality : I'm You!
@annayarahman418
@annayarahman418 3 жыл бұрын
i love your videos!! thank you for being so informative.
@shanettequao9043
@shanettequao9043 5 жыл бұрын
I remember my science teacher telling me about this whilst we were all procrastinating and ever since then I wanted to know why. Thanks for this video!
@saurabhkumarsingh9556
@saurabhkumarsingh9556 5 жыл бұрын
Why so much pain!! when you have Google...
@munendersingh5631
@munendersingh5631 5 жыл бұрын
Vgg
@patrickwooler1194
@patrickwooler1194 5 жыл бұрын
My teacher told me it was because the map makers were racist. No joke
@thelink3066
@thelink3066 5 жыл бұрын
Because the "racist" Europeans wanted to give the impression that the northern countries was bigger than the southern countries making them seem more important. Facts.
@cacetao53
@cacetao53 5 жыл бұрын
@@patrickwooler1194 As a Brazilian (fucked by the mercator map) I wouldn't call them racist, they were just insecure about their little penises and needed to compensate it
@ZezimaTruth
@ZezimaTruth 5 жыл бұрын
I've always "kinda" understood this concept but you really helped me visualize it. This was excellent.
@miguelmejia4656
@miguelmejia4656 5 жыл бұрын
this video is so inaccurate on so many levels..
@poge_seraph826
@poge_seraph826 4 жыл бұрын
Mejia u right
@trent800
@trent800 4 жыл бұрын
@@miguelmejia4656 and how is that so
@bojanstare8667
@bojanstare8667 2 жыл бұрын
@@miguelmejia4656 Would you explain your statement?
@BruunoPlays
@BruunoPlays 3 жыл бұрын
It's so good to see a Brazilian guy doing such a good content! Congrats!
@maryocecilyo3372
@maryocecilyo3372 3 жыл бұрын
Ele é português não brasileiro
@BruunoPlays
@BruunoPlays 3 жыл бұрын
Continua sendo muito bom
@molybd3num823
@molybd3num823 2 жыл бұрын
@Antonio Ceccon is this a joke
@great_channel
@great_channel 2 жыл бұрын
@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg bro you dont even know what you're talking about. Usa for example is way more ravist than brazil, like black people and white people are literally the same in brazil they dont talk different they dont act different, not to mention most of brazilian people are brown so racism cant really exist here
@kirby1225
@kirby1225 2 жыл бұрын
little did they know he's portuguese
@beaniebooblog
@beaniebooblog 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve studied geography bc I was obsessed with it as a kid and I always thought the Mercator projection looked ugly lol
@HotaruKara
@HotaruKara 5 жыл бұрын
3:54 Romania represent! Be honest, you chose it because it has the shape of a fish. I don't blame ya, I also like that shape.
@mario_aleex
@mario_aleex 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@pclsh9106
@pclsh9106 3 жыл бұрын
Romania don't have a shape of a fish
@HotaruKara
@HotaruKara 3 жыл бұрын
@@pclsh9106 It actually does
@murissantos
@murissantos 3 жыл бұрын
I like that, it looks like the state of Paraná in Brazil
@declankerekere5999
@declankerekere5999 3 жыл бұрын
In 1914 it wasn't a fish, *how did this happen*
@VanRiperFam
@VanRiperFam 3 жыл бұрын
My kiddo and I had so much fun learning from this. Thank you!
@nitinchindaliya7663
@nitinchindaliya7663 2 жыл бұрын
Really great information 👍 Thanks 😊
@ihavetowait90daystochangem67
@ihavetowait90daystochangem67 5 жыл бұрын
*Damn boi he thicc*
@kumorishumi2536
@kumorishumi2536 5 жыл бұрын
Ye boi
@5TRICT9
@5TRICT9 5 жыл бұрын
good luck with the other 76 days you have to wait to change your name
@interes6037
@interes6037 5 жыл бұрын
EXTRA UEBER THICC
@kumorishumi2536
@kumorishumi2536 5 жыл бұрын
@@5TRICT9 me or him
@doorboat
@doorboat 4 жыл бұрын
@@kumorishumi2536 not u
@mistermaster____
@mistermaster____ 5 жыл бұрын
Are you Portuguese or Brazilian? The maps aren't in english, they are in portuguese
@louisrelf5903
@louisrelf5903 4 жыл бұрын
Oooh, I didn’t notice that.
@regnumreq3617
@regnumreq3617 4 жыл бұрын
He is Portuguese.
@rnvyh5998
@rnvyh5998 4 жыл бұрын
Countries that use portuguese not only brazil and portugal
@Skadoodle04
@Skadoodle04 3 жыл бұрын
Português Portugal
@Skadoodle04
@Skadoodle04 3 жыл бұрын
@@rnvyh5998 he is from Portugal u don't see any portuguese country talking like this👍 he is clearly PORTUGUESE FORM PORTUGAL
@franekkoska6006
@franekkoska6006 4 жыл бұрын
3:08 Antartica: Am I a joke to you?
@miramallo30
@miramallo30 3 жыл бұрын
Buy an old fashionded globe model and use it when looking up countries. Boomers like me had those as a kid. It helps a lot for getting a grasp on relative country sizes.
@bobm4378
@bobm4378 3 жыл бұрын
Goggle maps will show it properly, make sure it is set to 'globe'..
@eddfinn5860
@eddfinn5860 5 жыл бұрын
Thank u for talking about my country #Romania
@rapnoc4158
@rapnoc4158 5 жыл бұрын
a pe cimpoi a pe cimpoi
@ZecaNieto
@ZecaNieto 5 жыл бұрын
yes ily bro
@iustrenght355
@iustrenght355 5 жыл бұрын
sandu ciorba
@TheLegend-ko2yd
@TheLegend-ko2yd 5 жыл бұрын
#Bulgaria
@turboguy5117
@turboguy5117 5 жыл бұрын
Si eu sunt roman
@bruhq6663
@bruhq6663 5 жыл бұрын
4:07 I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky
@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123
@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123 3 жыл бұрын
lol
@MrJamilsonSilva
@MrJamilsonSilva 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice content! Tks!
@AMan-rv7zq
@AMan-rv7zq 3 жыл бұрын
This video Is really interesting, well fine and smart. Thank You for sharing.
@ThatIsInterestingTII
@ThatIsInterestingTII 5 жыл бұрын
Super informative, another great video!
@moyeen8823
@moyeen8823 5 жыл бұрын
Mind blowing ! Keep rocking bro !
@alanapacheco4494
@alanapacheco4494 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thank you
@jamess.9361
@jamess.9361 3 жыл бұрын
a most interesting concept - thank you
@ukilectric
@ukilectric 5 жыл бұрын
*Brings Russia closer to Equator* *Compares it to Mercator Projected USA*
@s4stats698
@s4stats698 2 жыл бұрын
but US lies close to the equator which means us size is somewhat accurate
@GrainMuncher
@GrainMuncher 5 жыл бұрын
Are you Portuguese? You always use Portuguese maps, and your pronunciation is really good
@Dragoncam13
@Dragoncam13 5 жыл бұрын
He is Portuguese because a Brazilian would make the "ç" sound while speaking
@user-hk8qq2yo2n
@user-hk8qq2yo2n 5 жыл бұрын
Fake chinese comment
@josuegabriel8066
@josuegabriel8066 5 жыл бұрын
Dragoncam13 what do you mean by ç sound?
@Dragoncam13
@Dragoncam13 5 жыл бұрын
@@josuegabriel8066 when you hear some Brazilians speak you keeo hearing a S sound(essentially the same thing)
@user-hq2mh4ec6r
@user-hq2mh4ec6r 5 жыл бұрын
@@Dragoncam13 It depends a lot from the region of Brazil you're talking about
@tanhuulusoy
@tanhuulusoy 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Denmark and i remember our classrooms in elementary and primary school had this Mercator map 9-10 years ago. I don't know if we still have them, but wow few years ago when I found out about the true sizes of the areas I became forever pissed off especially since Greenland and Antarctica are ridiculous distorted
@manvendra9168
@manvendra9168 2 жыл бұрын
If we put greenland in africa then Every 60 seconds in greenland; a minute would pass
@biiianciii888
@biiianciii888 5 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that when you use google maps (which uses the mercator projection), the same space that covers up 100 km in Antarctica becomes 500 km in Africa which sums up what you explained in the video. However I never noticed this (or never thought about it) until now
@manghariz2211
@manghariz2211 5 жыл бұрын
When iam a child i think greenland is a continent and when my teacher didnt mention greenland as continent i really confused i say it was as big as africa. Well i was fooled
@a90skid53
@a90skid53 4 жыл бұрын
Muito interessante ! Obrigado pelo vídeo 👍🏻
@hazri8758
@hazri8758 4 жыл бұрын
When I was in school few years ago, I looked at the map in the library. I was like "How on Earth is Greenland slightly bigger than an entire Africa?"
@markmh835
@markmh835 5 жыл бұрын
Always remember the USA includes the state of Alaska (and Hawaii) -- not just the "continental US" which has 48 states. Alaska is so far north that its true size is also distorted like Greenland. But still, that one state represents about 20% of the landmass of the USA.
@rups5330
@rups5330 2 жыл бұрын
Alaska and Hawai are not getting requisite attention should seek freedom
@user-kd3xr5ft9k
@user-kd3xr5ft9k 2 жыл бұрын
@@rups5330 Haha.. Only your opinion
@tcb1012
@tcb1012 2 жыл бұрын
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
@kooshi8933
@kooshi8933 5 жыл бұрын
2:06 But the white color on top of blue Russia color is already there! Why you coloring it white again?
@dimapudar2691
@dimapudar2691 5 жыл бұрын
He isn't actually colouring the flag. Most likely a computer doing it.
@TryHardCentral
@TryHardCentral 5 жыл бұрын
It's an animation
@alisa9626
@alisa9626 5 жыл бұрын
the first coat was a primer coat duh
@erikkson7727
@erikkson7727 5 жыл бұрын
If you are asking that, why are you not asking "How did he colour the entire map with only one pencil?"...
@eddydrouet1888
@eddydrouet1888 5 жыл бұрын
Come on guys, pretty sure it was a joke...
@charlesverga4487
@charlesverga4487 5 жыл бұрын
really cool! i never new this!
@arvinddas6803
@arvinddas6803 2 жыл бұрын
Very informative video kudos to the creator of this content
@jjj123m
@jjj123m 5 жыл бұрын
Gerardus Mercator must have lived in Greenland...
@muhammadjauharfahrisyukri6983
@muhammadjauharfahrisyukri6983 5 жыл бұрын
If you put Indonesia in Europe, it will stretch from London to Teheran, Iran...... Greeting from Indonesia👍👍👌
@crtfbrebu3682
@crtfbrebu3682 5 жыл бұрын
actually then i putted it in London it streched to a place in Kazakhstan called Amangeldy
@wakakabravo7998
@wakakabravo7998 5 жыл бұрын
it can also reach dubai.
@RyanTaylor2000
@RyanTaylor2000 5 жыл бұрын
Indonesia is even not that big ughh
@nighhemperor
@nighhemperor 5 жыл бұрын
@@RyanTaylor2000 it is kontol
@nosuchthingasshould4175
@nosuchthingasshould4175 5 жыл бұрын
I'm curious, do you guys move about the country much, or does everyone mostly stick to their own island? I'm guessing there must be a class dimension to it, the wealthy get about more, but what does that mean for sense of identity among the working class and villagers?
@dynamitesoldier7980
@dynamitesoldier7980 2 жыл бұрын
1:58 I often use the true size of map website and it’s so fun to compare all the maps
@tommyboybr
@tommyboybr 4 жыл бұрын
Loved the video. I love geography, and I also think that the map we use should be replaced for a more realistic and accurate proportions.
@PETTAERRA
@PETTAERRA 5 жыл бұрын
5:35 his voice I was like : O_o
@mullenenterprises
@mullenenterprises 5 жыл бұрын
You sound like you’re shivering or about to cry throughout this whole video lol Don’t get me wrong, great content
@Pixelwz
@Pixelwz 2 жыл бұрын
FUN FACT: you could fit EVERY country on earth and still have room to spare
@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536
@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 7 ай бұрын
Wonderful channel.👍.
@starmax1000
@starmax1000 5 жыл бұрын
5:20 as an ecuadorean this feels comforting, since in the maps we seem tiny, and although we're still a small country it puts things into a better perspective!
@formica.
@formica. 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, if Ecuador was a US state, it would be the 8th largest!
@rdooski
@rdooski 5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff and very interesting. Being someone who lives in Texas I had no idea the UK was only about half the size of the state.
@True-South
@True-South 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: you guys are also bigger than Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe (After Russia of Course). Greetings from California.
@MR.Mehran61
@MR.Mehran61 3 ай бұрын
So helpful ❤
@aliensentinelaextraterrest778
@aliensentinelaextraterrest778 3 жыл бұрын
great video
@JeremyWS
@JeremyWS 5 жыл бұрын
This is actually one of the reasons why I say, "If you feel cramped in your country, move."
@RyanTaylor2000
@RyanTaylor2000 5 жыл бұрын
Is it just me feeling deja vu of watching this video. Feels like I’ve seen this video before yet the date shows that this video is uploaded just yesterday
@oscargarciajr4440
@oscargarciajr4440 Жыл бұрын
Loved this
@alaa1692
@alaa1692 2 жыл бұрын
helpful and yet simple explanation
@EquatorCubing_
@EquatorCubing_ 2 жыл бұрын
"Australia the country" Proceeds to draw Oceania
@exozrian4101
@exozrian4101 2 жыл бұрын
Now I understand why Indonesian domestic flights are more expensive than international flights -_-
@HarryWHill-GA
@HarryWHill-GA 2 жыл бұрын
The shortest route for a ship or aircraft is a great circle route. Great circles plot as straight lines on a globe or a gnomonic projection and as a curve on a Mercator projection. The straight line course on a Mercator projection is known as a Rhumb line. This is an approximation of a great circle and is close enough for short distances and at lower latitudes.
@miimbiits
@miimbiits Жыл бұрын
This was absolutely the best explanation video to me.
@davidkapelnikov8637
@davidkapelnikov8637 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this I literally never understood how tf this worked. I thought when people say the countries are smaller than they really are, they they meant they’re smaller in land than what we think. Makes so much more sense now lol
@SavvySteak
@SavvySteak 5 жыл бұрын
2 maps. 1 for sailing, one for land mass representation. Is it really that hard these days?
@Alkis05
@Alkis05 3 жыл бұрын
The legend goes that Mercator had a small ding dong. So he invented a projection that would make it look bigger when drawing it at the high latitude where he lived. The rest is history.
@mcauliffe99
@mcauliffe99 3 жыл бұрын
I personally like the Kavrayskiy VII projection. It's useful for displaying general information by country and its distortions aren't as prominent as Mercator. I suppose Kavrayskiy isn't as useful in terms of navigation though.
@forteleaerienealeromaniei6396
@forteleaerienealeromaniei6396 4 жыл бұрын
Roses are red Violets are blue Romania is here! Isn't PSD too? Omg Imma cry after dis joke :(
@expiredmilk8740
@expiredmilk8740 3 жыл бұрын
fuck you
@Mario-cr3dx
@Mario-cr3dx 3 жыл бұрын
@@expiredmilk8740 DON'T BE F**KING RUDE!!!!
@16a128
@16a128 3 жыл бұрын
Ewwwwwwww a gacha noob GET OUT OF MY FACE EWWWWWWWW
@yurichan6557
@yurichan6557 5 жыл бұрын
Me: "Thanks Geography Now ..... oh wait"
@ChrisClementi
@ChrisClementi Жыл бұрын
This is fantastic
@hamzaebrahim5121
@hamzaebrahim5121 3 жыл бұрын
( thanks for the video ).👍👍😍😍😍
@dominickalencarferreira
@dominickalencarferreira Жыл бұрын
Brazil is bigger than united states, not counting alaska.
@aigeneratedwauigi2696
@aigeneratedwauigi2696 Жыл бұрын
If you remove 17% of the land sure
@Topplayer-kh7tj
@Topplayer-kh7tj 5 жыл бұрын
Why is Nunavut connected to Greenland at 0:07
@hrvatskidomoljub1502
@hrvatskidomoljub1502 5 жыл бұрын
Alternate universe
@markmh835
@markmh835 5 жыл бұрын
You mean Baffin Island connected to the Canadian mainland, not Greenland. Baffin Island is a part of the Territory of Nunavut, just not connected to the mainland.
@markmh835
@markmh835 5 жыл бұрын
@Benosoar -- Wow, you know, I don't think it would be that hard to invade and conquer Greenland. Is it very well defended by the Danes? Doubtful. And then would Denmark launch a counter-offensive to get it back? Doubtful. So then Canada could have a new Arctic territory. Great idea!
@iskandarazdi9092
@iskandarazdi9092 5 жыл бұрын
@@markmh835 wooshh
@MyUnoriginalUsername
@MyUnoriginalUsername 5 жыл бұрын
@@iskandarazdi9092 😑😑😑😑
@SuperSushil999
@SuperSushil999 2 жыл бұрын
Nice video
@coucoubrandy1079
@coucoubrandy1079 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I'm sending this to my frienda. Thank 😊
@marcelpenuelatraub2343
@marcelpenuelatraub2343 5 жыл бұрын
I've been into the USA several times; and one of my cousins actually lives there now. I actually live in what used to be the European Union.
@john36541
@john36541 Жыл бұрын
7:00 Brazil is so big!
@jkf9167
@jkf9167 2 жыл бұрын
If you superimposed Brazil over Europe with the westernmost point on London, the northernmost point would be in Sweden north of the Arctic Circle, the southernmost point would be near Cairo, Egypt, and the easternmost point would be in Kazakhstan.
@letsseeif
@letsseeif 3 жыл бұрын
You are SPOT ON!
@thetntsheep4075
@thetntsheep4075 5 жыл бұрын
Go small Europe 💪😁
@alienguy-kazmikompany1286
@alienguy-kazmikompany1286 3 жыл бұрын
@@motoristacaduco ahem colonialism ahem
@drscopeify
@drscopeify 3 жыл бұрын
@@alienguy-kazmikompany1286 That is incorrect. The first European Colonialism happened in the early 1600s but by that time Europe was already much more advanced than the rest of the world. Yes, middle east, China, Korea and Japan had advanced agriculture, war tactics, art and culture but technology and industry was far behind Europe perhaps by as much as 300 years behind. Colonialism did lead to the advancement of the world and pulling out of primitive life that none of us here would want to experience. Colonialism was not all bad as people make it out to be, yes it was wrong to use resources of other countries and the slave trade but it also resulted in the world advancing faster than ever before to the modern era of today. If colonialism didn't happen much of the world would still be living in very primitive life without modern life we all cannot live without. I would not want to live my life in a small hut with no modern advancements!! I personally rather not be alive and live like that.
@trilocnguyen3822
@trilocnguyen3822 2 жыл бұрын
@@drscopeify don’t idolize your people too much, Europe only more advance than elsewhere last 500 years, before that it’s nothing, also not all Europe were advance, only some. Most of knowledge came from other civilizations to make up the world today. Yes, today Europe is rich and have a lot of money (but not all), but fun fact the paper money you use today was invented in China, also the US played big role to recover Western Europe after WW2. The reason Europe got ahead of the world 500 years ago is because they are the only reason the Mongol empire didn’t reach.
@drscopeify
@drscopeify 2 жыл бұрын
@@trilocnguyen3822 Almost every aspect of life you enjoy came from the west. Simple as that, I am not western myself I was born in the USSR, keep that in mind. I do not idolize anything or anyone, I just tell the truth. I think people that idolize someone else are not going in the right direction in life, if you want to make the world a better place you need to lead, not follow others. The Mongol empire did not advance society other than a few weapons advancements but that is about it, lack of any structure even basic things like lack of art and literature which probably why they had no issue burning the world's most important collection of books and written material in Baghdad. Erasing from Humanity thousands of years of knowledge and art without any care in the world, they were very barbaric.
@Etorate_
@Etorate_ 5 жыл бұрын
0:04 What's that peninsula next to Florida, I've never seen it on any other map?
@KangarooCheese55
@KangarooCheese55 5 жыл бұрын
that one dude that comment stuff maybe Louisiana but you could barely tell on a world map...
@Thormil576
@Thormil576 4 жыл бұрын
Yep Louisiana
@SirKolass
@SirKolass 4 жыл бұрын
Whoever drew this map did it with a pencil in his arse
@marcuswilson3485
@marcuswilson3485 3 жыл бұрын
It's Jeffrey Epstein's "Fuck peninsula."
@h4xorzist
@h4xorzist 3 жыл бұрын
The only thing I took away from this is that many places are gigantic or at leads larger still than I expected them to be without distortion.
@popyroy9449
@popyroy9449 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing 👏😀
@t3hb0ss
@t3hb0ss 3 жыл бұрын
How come when you were going over us states you forgot Alaska? I was very curious to see its relative size to continental US
@fredklier
@fredklier 5 жыл бұрын
I remember my (comunist) geography teacher in high scool telling me that this distortion was a imperialistic attempt to smear the 3rd world countries (we still use that name when I was in high school!)
@wakakabravo7998
@wakakabravo7998 5 жыл бұрын
but soviet union is communist...
@fredklier
@fredklier 5 жыл бұрын
@@wakakabravo7998 yes, but she was talking about the XVI century imperialism.
@aneesh2115
@aneesh2115 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was told about the same thing I was told it was to make Europe look as big and so very powerful And Eurocentric
@binozia-old-2031
@binozia-old-2031 5 жыл бұрын
Well she was not wrong entirely as they do the same today
@thecrap17yearsago35
@thecrap17yearsago35 5 жыл бұрын
greenland was 3rd world though
@jamlemon
@jamlemon 3 жыл бұрын
Be cool to see all the countries on the equator line so you can really see the difference.
@jmc2567
@jmc2567 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome vid, i,ve been lied to all my life and I,m 50 now,thankyou for posting,Best wishes to you, from, Auckland, New Zealand.
@dogevb370
@dogevb370 5 жыл бұрын
i love how in the beginning he says australia is 7.5m km and laters says its 7.6m km
@harvingaming3203
@harvingaming3203 5 жыл бұрын
*This forever changed how I perceive the world...*
@Elienjtuh
@Elienjtuh 4 жыл бұрын
Wow i never really thought of it like that but it makes sence.
@ScooterWeibels
@ScooterWeibels 3 жыл бұрын
There are equal area projections available also, you either distort size or shape but there will be distortions.
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