40 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts

[@TheGeographyBible]

Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world's smallest non city-state country! :-)

[@landonbarneyteamseas7756]

Oh ok!

[@nicolebiewald18]

Imagine if Australia makes Nauru a territory

[@therealusman]

@@nicolebiewald18nauru isn’t apart of australia

[@jonahmazzone]

I was about to say cuz Vatican City is the worlds smallest country. Good catch!

[@saturnsfr]

@@therealusman yeah. that's why they said imagine

[@telhudson863]

I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.

[@WhangaFish]

I'm a Kiwi (who was born in Canada) and honestly I can't believe I'd never heard this before! Mind blown

[@BenSussmanpro]

This is nothing - most Americans can’t even name a city in the southern hemisphere. Americans are geography illiterate- even engineers & other professionals. When I told friends about a trip to Costa Rica from Baltimore, that it took less flying time than from Baltimore to San Francisco they were astounded - some didn’t even believe me. I could go on and on. BTW I’m American but love learning about geography.

[@adamrodaway1074]

I once flew from Shanghai (population c.25M 4000/km2) to New Zealand (population c.5M 20/km2). A definite contrast!

[@michaeldover]

@@BenSussmanpro Most Americans could not point out their own state on a blank US map. I'm one of those who can, btw...and point out all of them on a blank map.

[@overnightpartsfromjapan01]

I had to look this up: this is true for the distance between the Australian east coast and the North Island (1868 from Port Macquarie to Cape Reinga), but Australia is closer to the South Island (1648km from Cape Howe to Doubtful Sound) than any point of Canada is to Mexico (from what I could tell, about 1820km from Tijuana to the 49th parallel). Tasmania is even closer again, about 1491km from Milford Sound.

[@josuaerick9670]

the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia

[@WonkyWater-YT]

Laughs in Bengal

[@moon_fake]

Well to be fair Java is not that tiny tho

[@WonkyWater-YT]

@@ReekyCheeks you just combined two of the facts in the video...

[@Peanut_eata]

@@moon_fake it’s pretty tiny. Have you seen it on a map?

[@makotopark7741]

tiny? Comparing to other countries' size Java is still larger but yeah the way 100+ people fits into a place as small as that

[@linkevan9613]

Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

He had a lot of help from his dog.

[@cynicalsayonara7169]

Lol

[@binkwillans5138]

810 million, 452 thousand, 5... er...5 hundred and ... darn! 1...2...3

[@katherineirving7189]

Not every tree.

[@linkevan9613]

@@katherineirving7189 bro go outside and go make friend please

[@Jochen-iq8vx]

If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.

[@pungetello]

and a few dozen guards lol

[@Neo36563]

And the cold, hunger, North Korean Army, Potential Deportation and the camps, Families Sent to camps, and way more

[@isirlaughsalot2675]

Same with the US to norway. Technically, you can go from the Canadian border with Greenland to Norway by only traversing Canada, the US, and Russia.

[@notthatntg]

don't do that... 🔒,🔑->🕳

[@Jochen-iq8vx]

@@Neo36563 chill, mate. It was a joke.

[@Danflave]

Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.

[@PrenticeAviation]

And Wisconsin :)

[@usmale49]

That's what I thought...good catch!! Thanks!!

[@Danflave]

@@PrenticeAviation Lol I live in Wisconsin! How could I forget?? 🤣

[@kittyhouse1028]

How can we forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? I have heard it is a dangerous lake. I'm more familiar with Lake Michigan.

[@draco4540]

@@kittyhouse1028 o i'm from marqutte, mich. which i live my whole life. you learned from an early age to be careful of the great lake. when gordon lightfoot wrote the song, "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald", he became an "yooper". he by passed the "honorary" part. he's a great canadian folk singer. much respect to him and his songs. he has a lot of great songs.

[@princeofchetarria5375]

I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha

[@ojl5055]

Exactly my thoughts

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Sure, and they named it in honor of Mia Khalifa...

[@EpsteinNoSeppuku]

Agreed. I also think the presentation of it is a bit misleading considering the people climbing start around 6.5 burj Khalifa's up lol

[@A808K]

The comparison is apples and oranges and applies only to height. To actually see Everest fairly up close for the first time is an experience never to be forgotten. So overwhelmingly magnificent it brought a tear to my eye.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@A808K Magnificent? It is a mountain, nothing more, sure, it is arguably the highest mountain, but I see nothing special about that... If that brought tears to your eyes, what have you done when you saw the whole planet? Or the sun? As Hegel wrote, one can't find aesthetical pleasure in things that were not made by human beings. You were overwhelmed by some mountain, but I am much more impressed by something that no other living thing has made, such as Burj Khalifa, and other real wonders, things made by human beings.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

1:33 Here's a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn't quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony. So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.

[@johnwatters6922]

In 1667 the Dutch swapped Manhattan for a small island in Indonesia.

[@pedromenchik1961]

the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil

[@sanderappel4499]

The westernmost point of China is also closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point. But yeah, it's baffling how large Brazil is

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Took a couple of seconds to sink in that you meant (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (N Brazil to S Brazil). I had thought you were saying (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (S Brazil to Canada) and trying to figure the distance south from S Brazil over Antarctica and on to N Canada. Now that would be an interesting fact -- are there any such surprise distances going the opposite way over one of the poles?

[@LordOfLight]

Well I checked that on Google Earth and found that the distance from North to South Brazil is about 2,716 miles, whereas the distance from North Brazil to Canada is 2,760 miles. Which would make you wrong.......if I'm right.

[@pedromenchik1961]

@@LordOfLight you're probably using the wrong points. From Monte Caburaí (northernmost of Brazil) to Cape Sable Lighthouse in Canada there are 2,654 miles. From the same Monte Caburaí to Barra do Chuí (southernmost point of Brazil) there are 2,732 miles

[@pedromenchik1961]

in fact, the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every single country in the Americas than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil

[@EpsteinNoSeppuku]

Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how "hard" it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa's from sea level.

[@bmfsnc8466]

So really, it's only 3.5 buildings to be as tall as mnt everest, wow

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Ah, yes... but we know that many many dozens of people have successfully climbed Everest. How many have climbed Burj Khalifa? On the outside, I mean. Stairs and elevators don't count.

[@geografisica]

The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.

[@MrAdriancooke]

It's actually a jungle and not a rain-forest

[@giovanni2585]

@@MrAdriancooke Amazon is a rainforest. The term "jungle" was used more often than "rainforest" in print media before the 1970s, but "rainforest" is now more common.

[@pmbrig]

Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don't believe them. 1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest. 2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don't hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador. 3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine. 4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands. 5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston. 6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Related to No. 2, few people know that going from the Atlantic to Pacific via the Panama Canal, you travel northwest to southeast -- you actually go "backwards", so to speak.

[@89128]

The Canadian border in Lake Erie is south of Chicago city limits.

[@matts9781]

Regarding number 2, I think you mean westernmost tip of Ecuador. Thanks for the interesting facts.

[@pmbrig]

@@matts9781 Yes, or course, the westernmost tip, my bad.

[@lostcause1206]

Reno , NV is west of LA

[@suserman7775]

#19 4:41 You meant "kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared". It's distance, not area.

[@TheGeographyBible]

Think I need to hire a proof listener!

[@stevenlubick2689]

I noticed that too. When he said area, and he should have said distance.✅✅

[@TransportGeekery]

The distance is also wrong by 1,000 km or so. The distance from Hawaii to Maine is also further than Hawaii to Florida/

[@-_James_-]

@@TransportGeekery But this wasn't to Hawaii. It was to Kure Atoll which is west of Midway.

[@TransportGeekery]

@@-_James_- doesn’t matter. Maine is still further east.

[@gregcavaluzzo7804]

Cool video! Should note though that the footage of “Jamaica” used at 5:43 is actually of Jamaica, Queens, NY - not the island nation of the same name.

[@joeylawn36111]

The way things are going in NYC, they may just catch up to the country of Jamaica.... 😮😳

[@soaringvulture]

I was wondering about that. I didn't think that's how Kingston looked.

[@ryantaylor687]

It's actually Brooklyn, you can clearly see the Atlantic Armory Shelter. Very strange, makes the entire video of dubious quality.

[@rmcguirephoto]

The traffic driving on the right side of the road was the giveaway. In Jamaica, they drive on the left like the UK.

[@pamelaleigh4225]

​@@joeylawn36111 lol

[@TexasTimeLord]

The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance

[@nolesy34]

That is a mind f- NOLESY ok ok mum

[@mikejones-go8vz]

So to get to the East, one heads West. Interesting, that’s the best fact

[@richardharris8867]

Yes, to go from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Canal you go west to eat...

[@nolesy34]

@@richardharris8867 me* makes cars movie inner voice sounds *to go right, go left

[@ontheroad5317]

I was going to make this same observation. Well done!

[@rogulus]

4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing "9400 kilometers squared" from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!

[@dr.borsuk1538]

Yep, stopped watching after that

[@effkay3691]

Yep I too stopped watching squared!

[@lruss2004]

I had it just playing in the background, at this point I stopped watching. 👎🏽

[@billboggs6641]

Vatican City to Rome. About 2 inches

[@aj.meso26]

I wondered about the distance between Hawaii and Maine, as wouldn’t Maine be higher North?

[@duckmeister5385]

Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia's population lives within 50 km of the coast.

[@sanderappel4499]

I love the Maine fact

[@johnr797]

​@@sanderappel4499 not surprising at all if you think about it

[@Lifeinbelize]

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you

[@mysteriousDSF]

geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they're actually good at geography

[@Swede1066]

...but in all fairness, he did pronounce Chongqing and Nauru incorrectly.

[@TurmoilTheThird]

Kihrihbat

[@Tuberex]

Is it Kiribas?

[@johnr797]

Or Seychelles

[@inside1283]

@@Swede1066 then he pronounced baku wrong

[@foolmetwice374]

The greatest distance in the US being 9400 km^2 is indeed mindboggling.

[@yyyuiu5773]

Yeah wtf lol

[@X1GenKaneShiroX]

You can compare Hong Kong to Western Australia & Mongolia combined however Western Australia & Mongolia are mostly barren desert land. A better comparison would be a Hong Kong against the US state of Alabama. Alabama is humid subtropical just like Hong Kong with it being 118 times bigger in land area but the entirety of the Alabama holds less people than Hong Kong. Alabama - 50,750 square miles Hong Kong - 428.64 square miles Alabama - 5,097,641 people Hong Kong - 7,291,600 people Alabama - 100 people per square mile Hong Kong - 17,011 people per square mile

[@JellyCider]

i personally live in hong kong and you get why its so densely populated by looking at skyscarpers

[@alukuhito]

Irrelevant. You must be from Alabama.

[@bryanconley8202]

fewer people

[@razorhawk9808]

Yes Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate, but only a couple degrees fahrenheit below the tropical climate threshold in December and January. Meanwhile Alabama is NOT bordering a tropical climate on its southern coast.

[@carlosnorris352]

And maybe more teeth in the mouth per capita in Hong Kong

[@highbrass7563]

I LOVE this channel! Please continue with videos like this.

[@TheMapGod275]

3:20 it’s the 3rd smallest behind the Vatican and Monaco.

[@AIGeographyTeacher]

Your content never disappoints! Thanks for making learning fun! 😄📘

[@TechedCanvas]

The most southern point in Canada is actually south of Detroit, Barcelona, & Rome.

[@brianbrandt25]

Most Canadians live south of Minneapolis mn

[@johnr797]

​@@TechedCanvas where the hell did you get 45 million? It's barely 38

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

And if you go due south from Detroit the first country you pass through is Canada!

[@TechedCanvas]

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 point pelee is south of Erie, PA!

[@elwoodblues9613]

I was about to write that,@@jamesdignanmusic2765. Canada is north of the USA, but driving there from Detroit MI USA to Windsor ON Canada means driving *south.*

[@walopes]

Great video!! Another interesting fact: the northernmost point in Brazil is closest to Canada than Brazil's southernmost point.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

An illiterate and thus a confusing answer, try "closer to Canada than to Brazil's southernmost point."

[@hisownfool1]

Lake Superior is shared between Canada and the U.S.

[@jimnelson9775]

I stumbled across your video today and loved it! I know you posted it ages ago, but I’m just giving it a thumbs up and comment today 😊

[@FerdinandCesarano]

3:18 - Nauru is not the world's smallest country. The world's smallest country is Vatican City, which is approximately 1/40 the size of Nauru.

[@doge4thewin]

you are A nerd read the correction in the comments 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@FerdinandCesarano]

@@doge4thewin - Ah, I clearly did not read all the other comments before leaving mine. Thank you for the (as we say in Esperanto) atentigo.

[@ExploretheEarth01]

Nice Video Bro !!!

[@michaelsokol4547]

Nauru isn’t the smallest country. 3:25

[@AwetheAwesomeness]

he meant the smallest non city state country

[@Phatpat1004]

@@michaelsokol4547 yeah i know its vatican city

[@brittonhowell2096]

Props to the people who counted every tree on Earth 👏

[@katherineirving7189]

Not every tree.

[@stewartlancaster6155]

what is props ?

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[@RonGardener4142]

Obvious organised scambots.

[@Nilana2401]

3:22 Nauru is actually the third smallest country. Monaco and Vatican City are smaller

[@aliquida7132]

In other parts of the video he has said "this excludes city states and autonomous regions", I assume that he intended to include that disclaimer when calling Nauru the smallest country.

[@nerdlord314]

Mistakes: 1. How can you have a distance of kilometers squared? 2. Lake Superior is in both Canada and the U.S. 3. Nauru is not the world's smallest country; if you think Vatican City and Monaco don't count, Monaco is a U.N. member.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

3. He said excluding city states. Vatican definitely is I'm not sure about Monaco

[@kafel1454]

I love this kind of videos!! Its so much you can learn!!

[@ubergeek1968]

Lake Superior is SHARED between Canada and the USA!

[@AdamHolland-Adz]

Fun fact: Africa is so insanely massive, it can fit the entirely of the United states, Australia, China and Earth inside with room to spare.

[@amcken9316]

"and Earth" ??

[@AdamHolland-Adz]

@@amcken9316 Yes.

[@amcken9316]

Africa is part of Earth. How can the whole planet fit inside Africa? Africa covers just 11.7% of the Earth's surface.

[@amcken9316]

Do you mean Europe, not Earth?

[@AdamHolland-Adz]

@@amcken9316 No, obviously Africa is even bigger than the Earth, and possibly the moon too. Uh huh.

[@litewavegames3967]

why are so many of these facts about how underdeveloped Africa is

[@swampbutt69]

@@litewavegames3967 because they been around the longest haven't done shit

[@ThunderClipz]

0:01 hello timed commenters

[@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2]

hey

[@respectthefancy8404]

Nauru isn’t actually the smallest country. It’s the smallest island nation and smallest non-city-state country at 21km^2 (8.1mi^2), but Monaco is smaller at 2.02km^2 (0.78mi^2), and Vatican City/The Holy See is the smallest at 0.49km^2 (0.19mi^2).

[@WifeWantsAWizard]

Some corrections: 4) "Wealth" and "Development" are per capita assessments. You'd have to divide the GDP of both by their respective population and you'd find they are "2/3rds of California's". California would be #5 on the world's list ($93K GDP-PPP) and "the Nordic countries" would be #22 ($59K GDP-PPP). However, the "wealthy and developed" country they were talking about was Norway--#8 on the current list just above the United States at #9. 11) Kuwait is a city-state. How can they not be if more than half their people live in one city. The history of Kuwait mirrors that of Genoa is many ways. Abu Dhabi at 32% is your winner. 17) 1/4 of people are under the age of 14, not 15. That's **exactly** two billion people. 19) "Any two points in the United States" includes the territories. That's 15,311 km from Point Udall in Guam to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The number you cite is within the boundaries of the enumerated states. 28) There are only two hemispheres. "Hemi-" means "half". If you insisted on using four "quadraspheres", then every single nation on the planet is the confluence of four quadraspheres. Also, did you see that line on that map? You can make anything happen when your lines are drawn by drunken sailors. 34) You literally put the definition on the screen and then misread it. If your qualifier is "Furthest away from the coast", that may be the middle of an ocean. Antipodes are poles of inaccessibility. Also, you can clearly shift that entire circle eastward until the perimeter meets the Bohai Sea allowing you to draw a circle with a slightly longer radius. And extra: 14) There are seven total countries with a higher nominal GDP than the entire continent of Africa.

[@stevedietrich8936]

Here's a few more: 13 US States have ALL of their territory north of the southernmost point of Canada. 27 US States have at least part of their territory north of the most southernmost point of Canada (one of which is California). Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Atlanta, Georgia is further west than Detroit, Michigan. Alaska has the furthest North, East, and West places in the United States. There are two places in the US where water flows to both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

[@Greatdome99]

Seattle, WA is 250 miles north of Toronto.

[@davemeise2192]

Very interesting stuff. Much of it I didn't know.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

1:33 Seeing Saint Pierre & Miquelon makes me want to bring up the fact that these small islands off of Newfoundland is the last vestige of what was once the vast territory of New France (it's also the only place in North America where the guillotine was used). After losing the Seven Years' War, France ceded its North American possessions to Britain, but were allowed to keep St. Pierre & Miquelon. The collectivity's unofficial flag is actually pretty cool, it has the Basque, Breton, and Norman flags respectively for the groups that settled there as well as a big ship in the middle. 4:44 The greatest distance between any two points in the US is inaccurate when you consider the country's territories. Greatest distance between any two points within the US including all territories is actually 9,514 miles/15,311 km from Point Udall, Guam to Point Udall, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (yes, same name).

[@waddsbadds]

St Pierre & Miquelon is also the only place in North America where the euro is used as currency

[@brianarbenz1329]

I took a French language class taught by a woman born in Saint Pierre & Miquelon (well, one of those islands). She spent her childhood there and in France, specifically the province of Centre, south of Paris. She was from the old and new worlds.

[@SpeedyHastee]

This vid was so well made that it made me subscribe. Good video :)

[@princejha5185]

I was just blown with the fact that Barcelona Istanbul and New York City fell on the same lattitude and just went to google maps instantly after hearing it... 😳😳

[@GRice999]

Madrid too, which I knew. Another mind blowing fact is that London is more north than Newfoundland, but south of Berlin.

[@nathanlawson313]

Fact: Lake Superior alone has enough water to cover all of North AND South America with water, 1 foot deep. ...Look it up.

[@dantaylor9665]

6:13 similarly, England has only the 6th largest population of English speakers (behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines)

[@DrPangloss]

You assume that everyone in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines can speak English. They can't. Mind you, neither can the entire population of the U.S. or the U.K. (note, U.K. not England, there is a difference you know).

[@brucetucker4847]

Only the first has more native speakers, though - it's a second language for almost all speakers in the latter four.

[@durtschiGuinguant]

World geography is full of fascinating quirks, like the fact that Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters every year due to tectonic activity. Nature is always evolving, often in ways as random and ridiculous as the trivia in this list

[@AbCat4]

It's a mistake to compare the height of Mt Everest to the tallness of buildings. While the top of Mount Everest is 8850 metres, it is only some 3500 metres higher than its surrounding plateau, so it's really only 4 times the height of the Burj Khalifa.

[@johnlounsbury6191]

great vid

[@misfits9294]

Ok I gotta say it because I promised myself I would every time I came across a video that mentioned the world's longest river, because the fun fact a learned blew my mind, it is WILD: the longest river is not the Nile, it absolutely the Amazon, and lemme tell ya why; when they finally found the source of the Nile, while measuring, they, and I kid you not, took into account the length of the coast of Lake Victoria, all the way down into ANOTHER river that flowed into the lake, arguing it was a tributary of the Nile. They did all this finagling, just to get the Nile even close to beating the Amazon's length (which was measured straight up as you can get for a river, mind you) and it STILL only ended up being 250 km longer in the end. The took into account the freakin LAKE and an ENTIRELY unrelated river JUST to get to 250 km MORE than the Amazon. So, any time someone says the Nile is the longest river, I have to set the record straight because it makes me irrationally angry the way these random British guys measured a river over a century ago.

[@jameshepburn4631]

Sorry misfit. In physical geography, which is the kind of geography that measures lengths of rivers, Lake Victoria is just a wide spot in the stream which began at the source of the tributary river. In political geography it's three entities, the two rivers & one lake, but river lengths & flows fall under physical geography. As a side note, in the U.S. "Civil War", the North and South had different names for the same battle like Bull Run or Manassas. One's physical geography, one's political geography.

[@misfits9294]

@@jameshepburn4631 Yeah, but do you know how ridiculous that is? It doesn't make any sense, and it's real unfair to apply this tactic to the Nile, but NOT the Amazon (though people have certainly tried and have!). And then you have to ask, which side of Lake Victoria do you measure. And naturally, they chose the tributary that just so happened to be the longest to add to the measurement. Seems like bs to me.

[@braves96]

Another amazing random fact: I have stopped to rewind this video a minute or two to listen to a couple of things I just heard more than any other KZbin video, maybe even any video, in my life.

[@Lord_Skeptic]

8:53 it also means the point in the ocean that is furthest away from land

[@tillitsdone]

Shout out to the person that counted all those trees.

[@koxtheknight7087]

I live in luxembourg and still am as poor as dirt

[@DrPangloss]

I live in the U.K. and am filthy rich.

[@koxtheknight7087]

@@DrPangloss is that so

[@SantaFe19484]

Awesome!

[@Rancid-Jane]

4:52 9,400 kilometres squared? Distance would be linear not area.

[@jasonjackson1100]

FYI.. Lake Superior borders Canada and the United States

[@RubberRivet]

It's amazing how New York is at a similar latitude to Rome, Barcelona and Istanbul when you consider the temperatures of each of them, and yes I did check the map because it didn't sound right.

[@sb-tb1oh]

Lake Superior does not belong exclusively to Canada. The US actually owns more of the Lake than Canada. The Canadian, US border runs through Lake Superior

[@moonliteX]

i had no idea distances were measures in kilometers squared 😱😱😱

[@msbbb170]

Nice video. Where in the UK do you hail from? Your accent sounds a bit Geordie to my American ears- just a guess.

[@kabochaVA]

2:27 And of the 800 million people living in the Southern Hemisphere, about a third is Indonesian...

[@AmericanActionReport]

I'm glad you provided an illustration when you said, "Nauru...is only SIX TIMES LARGER...than Central Park." From the illustration, I could see that you really meant that Nauru is SIX TIMES AS LARGE. "Six times larger" means, "seven times as large." (That is, "as large as Central Park" plus "six times as large as Central Park," which equals "seven times as large.") Until you provided the illustration, I didn't know which one you meant. P.S. Greenland's largest national park is not "around one million kilometers squared;" that would make it around one trillion square kilometers. Actually, it's around one million square kilometers (actually 972,000 square kilometers). Am I listening to an AI program butchering the English language?

[@chrisk5651]

Besides saying only Canada when giving the location of Lake Superior, your joke also wasn't really on target. Its name - lac supérieur is from the French for upper lake not that it is bigger than any other lake.

[@WWMWTTTWMWW]

Geography Bible: "Nauru is the smallest country" The Vatican: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@williambrindley5470]

3:19 Nauru is the 3rd smallest country behind Monaco and Vatican city. Makes me wonder what other "facts" here aren't true🤔

[@oneblankspace4919]

he mentioned excluding city states

[@kijekuyo9494]

Some interesting stuff here, but any statistic that separates Europe from Asia is meaningless. I've never heard a valid argument for Europe being a separate continent.

[@animalsnearth]

“Lake Superior is of course in Canada” Sure we’ll go with that, Duluth MN and the entire Arrowhead do not exist 😂

[@oneblankspace4919]

and the site of the coldest measured US temperature

[@oneblankspace4919]

Lake Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay is politically considered three bodies of water, but hydrologically is only one, and is larger than Lake Superior.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

9:18 Why did you show a bird caught in the barbed wire.... some interesting information here and well presented, it flowed well from one to another and some great images. 17million people in one city, half of Canada.

[@robertpittman118]

Don't worry, was just a kite, not a real bird

[@honeybeechanger]

Hey I love this kind of videos thank you. I thought that the Vatican City was the smallest country not nauru island

[@romanACR7]

Nauru is actually the 3rd smallest country Following the Vatican City in 1st and Monaco in 2nd

[@martinkoskuska]

Maybe there is a difference between a state and a country. Vatican is a state in a country Italy so the Monaco. And Nauru is a country by it self... But maybe I am wrong.

[@ThisSheetB4RealYo]

Love this

[@krissyhuisheere6666]

Lake Superior is in both Canada and USA. (Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin)

[@DevE84]

And the U.P. of Michigan from someone who lives in Superior Wisconsin at the mouth of Lake Superior I was so caught off guard when he said it was only found in Canada and instantly went looking for a comment like this haha

[@theboatcheat1204]

I like the fact that the most Easterly, Westerly, and Northerly places in the United States are all in Alaska.

[@ralphtorres6948]

#19 the furthest distance if you remain within the 50states is Alaska (end of the tail) to Florida 8821miles If you add in territories, than it's Guam to us virgin islands 15283miles

[@B3Band]

There is no reason to set the arbitrary restriction of staying within the United States though.

[@ralphtorres6948]

@@B3Band it's not arbitrary he stated the longest distance in the United States

[@Nikki-tx1wd]

My first thought was Hawaii to Maine and not Florida, but yeah, Alaska to Florida is farther

[@ralphtorres6948]

@@Nikki-tx1wd had the same first thought

[@taflo1981]

There's something wrong with your numbers. 15283 miles is more than 60% of earth's circumference, but the largest possible distance on earth is half its circumference.

[@asdfghjklyfyfyv]

"Some of the facts in today's video might well blow your socks off" Me who dosen't wear socks: *_I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you_*

[@R0cke]

Norway has 239,057 islands. What you are using is an old statistic counting only coastal islands

[@scronx]

Not ridiculous at all. Thank you!

[@Yutaro-Yoshii]

4:44 #19 should be just kilometers, not kilometer square. The latter of which is used for measuring land area as opposed to distance.

[@StoobidTony]

Him: Nauru, the world’s smallest country. Vatican city: Am i a joke to you?

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Listen to what he actually said before trying that tired "Am I a joke to you?" response.

[@Blockenheimer]

The other country in all 4 Hemispheres is the USA, which is obviously in the northern and western hemisphere, but also has island territories in other hemispheres, i.e. American Samoa, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, and Guam, which is in the Eastern Hemisphere

[@Gynra]

The same could be said of the United Kingdom. The main island of Great Britain is located in the Eastern, Western and Northern hemispheres, with territories (such as the Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha) in the Southern Hemisphere. There may be other countries with a similar claim. There are only two points on earth where all four hemispheres meet: where the Equator crosses 0 and 180 degrees longitude. The former is in the Atlantic Ocean, Kiribati is at the latter point.

[@B3Band]

We own those territories, but they are not part of the United States. It's like actual tooth implants vs. getting a grille.

[@joeylawn36111]

But the point he's making that Kiribati is the only place where the Equator and either 0° or 180° Longitude (Kiribati) meet. (The Equator and 0° Longitude meet in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa)

[@jameshepburn4631]

You don't need Guam. The Aleutian Islands in Alaska extend into the Eastern hemisphere to appx 179.8° East. Technically Alaska is our farthest Eastern state, leaving Maine way behind in the dust. Alaska is also our most Northern and most Western state also, a triple crown winner.

[@FenceThis]

there are no eastern and western hemispheres. It’s a concept so profoundly erratic that it’s hilarious.

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

Measuring distance in Square Kilometres? That's a new one on me......

[@AtarahDerek]

Excuse you, but Superior is shared between the US and Canada. Also, the Caspian IS a sea, as it contains an ocean basin. Its northern half meets the definition of a lake (which must be continental), but its southern half has a basaltic floor that was cut off from the Tethys Ocean when Africa and Arabia collided with Eurasia.

[@nolesy34]

Mmmm balsatic vinegar spicy

[@alukuhito]

Lake Superior is found in Canada.

[@AtarahDerek]

@@alukuhito Not entirely.

[@alukuhito]

@@AtarahDerek That's true, but doesn't negate his statement.

[@DrPangloss]

No rivers flow out of the Caspian Sea, which make it a pond.

[@crazyjimheath]

good stuff

[@OgBunnius]

nauru isnt the worlds smallest country

[@TheDabbinLaddin]

Yeah Nauru is the 3rd smallest, only behind Monaco and Vatican

[@UselessGOAT555]

Not counting city states

[@adrian_hook]

Babe, Lake Superior is mostly in the US. Please never disrespect my people like that again 😩

[@TheMapGod275]

7:43 did he really just say it belongs to Canada? It belongs to Canada _and_ the U.S.A

[@alukuhito]

That doesn't mean it doesn't belong to Canada. He was still right.

[@EmmanuellaUdofia]

Salty. Nobody cares

[@sarahhaney987]

@@alukuhito he’s not wrong but as a Michigander I’m upset

[@FenrizNNN]

Common michigander L

[@drew-shourd]

Good videos, crazy facts. #19 has got me scratching my head, for how can any city in Florida be farther from Hawaii than any city in Maine?? Which as a state is MUCH farther east and north than Florida.

[@tehGazzy]

3:05 Well that didn't stay accurate for very long..... If you're including wind chill at least, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded -108F/-77.8C.

[@tehGazzy]

@@stewartlancaster6155 If wind chill is "never used" then why is it recorded and reported on? Water freezes at 32F but it can still snow when it's 38F outside. Windchill is important.

[@aowbsx]

I know a lot of Americans who would argue Lake Superior is in the USA also.

[@mb-3faze]

In geography pop-quizzes, 'France' is often the right answer :)

[@gchecosse]

Most time zones, etc

[@Badartist888]

I know the stat was used to talk about how tall Mt Everest is. But its insane to me we have built a building 1/10th the height of the tallest mountain in the world.

[@Andrew.K.W]

I live close to the pole of inaccessibility for the Americas. Where I live, I'm closer to Hudson Bay than either proper ocean or the gulf of Mexico. The worst part is that crab is one of my favorite foods and living so far away from the ocean makes it very expensive.

[@nolesy34]

Just eat shrimp instead

[@Andrew.K.W]

@@nolesy34 I do, but it just isn't the same as crab. Nothing beats some snow crab with warm butter and old bay ngl.

[@alukuhito]

Is it really that cheaper if you live near the ocean?

[@nolesy34]

@@Andrew.K.W mmmmmm icey cold shellfish with a beer preferably a pils?

[@nolesy34]

@@alukuhito it can be cheaper if the ocean isnt a desirable ocean for example it is next to a sewarage outflow There are many factors that determine land value The ocean views can make up for a lot of negative however, the oceans wind, cold, salt present in the air can make it challenging in materials Hope that answers your question

[@tishela1134]

Noticed you had Japan as one of the top 10 most 'peaceful' countries. Would have been nice if you had the highest kill counts from each country. Japan would probably rank number 1.

[@heatherjones6647]

Wow, the human geography facts really show the incredible and unjustifiable income, food, water, and personal security/insecurity between northern and southern hemispheres.

[@LockedinEden]

so sad what mainly northern hemisphere peoples did to the rest of the world by colonizing them. robbers and thieves

[@davehoward22]

Norway having the world's second longest coastline allways baffles me.