Why 94% of China Lives East of This Line

[@johnnysdesk]

Coastal areas have always thrived due to rivers n seas and also because food was easier to obtain. The sea provided that. Trade flourished. It's how civilizations thrived and still do.

[@brettfafata3017]

Yep, think of all the early cradles of civilization: Fertile Crescent (Tigris-Euphrates rivers), Indus river valley, and Yellow River Valley.

[@bhav_2470]

Lit channel 😁

[@syedusamamanzoor1838]

Plot twist: Global warming floods all of these lands.

[@Bri-no9yq]

Do you live in India or are you just a fan?

[@hessen5498]

yeah true i cant think of a great civilation that didnt start on the coast and is still great

[@flashstar1234]

Would love to see a video about Russia's demographic divide, Canada's demographic divide, Australia's demographic divide and the US' demographic divide

[@PhilHug1]

He has one on canada

[@sinarouhi3966]

Australia: 99% on the coasts

[@chompythebeast]

What would the US' demographic divide entail? They're much more evenly distributed than a place like China. You've got the old Continental Divide, but that doesn't mean much for demography these days. You've also got the Mason Dixon Line, but I wonder what that even means anymore for population distribution. You could divide politics readily, but people?

[@mistermiles3271]

@@chompythebeast States like Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Nevada are still much lower in population density than the Atlantic Coast because of their deserts and mountainous terrain. It's not as sharp a contrast as China's line, but one could make a decent video about it.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

@Alfaritsi Akhtar you can do it with any country even as small as Ecuador or Cuba

[@CaptainObvious0000]

me looking at thumbnail: "well the west is just desert and mountains." still clicked on 18 minute explanation how it is just desert and mountains 🧠

[@nabeelimam]

it was a damn interesting explanation tho LMAO

[@desertodavid]

@@nabeelimam no it wasn't interesting. The narrator made it gruelingly redundant, very hard to listen to, while he concentrated more on enunciation of his words rather than providing information and then moving on.

[@kasiak8992]

@@desertodavid then don’t watch?

[@zodiacfml]

@@desertodavid thanks. skipping this

[@johnfran3218]

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[@Itoyokofan]

The answer for the question "why big countries have so much uninhabited terrain" is in the question itself. Big coutries are big because they occupy big masses of unpopulated land, with literally no locals to oppose them.

[@gurubhaktmohit]

That's a really interesting thought. Apart from India, all countries follow this seemingly universal rule. USA, Canada, Australia, Russia, China are all so empty.

[@kartikpoojari7066]

@@gurubhaktmohit yes Indian population is fairly distributed except the highly populated gangetic plains and kerela other places do have an comfortable population density

[@yuvrajshinde6082]

@@kartikpoojari7066 And they still stamp us.

[@kartikpoojari7066]

@@yuvrajshinde6082 what do you mean tho?

[@yuvrajshinde6082]

@@kartikpoojari7066 I mean they still stamp us as overpopulated. We do have large population. But our motherland can feed them.

[@bookbeats3454]

this is the equivalent of “why most Russians don’t live in Siberia”

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

We already did "why Canadians don't live in the Tundra" next is going to be "why people from fertile area don't live in middle of desert"

[@sovietpotatoes5185]

Because of the cold and geography of the region and it coast a lot to build city’s and it’s full mountains coast a lot to move supplies and logistics with building mitrals from the mountains so that’s why and west Russia is flat and good and there are some city’s like Vladivostok and suchi and other more and you can’t farm anything so people will die from hunger

[@afdalridwan3813]

Next people would ask me,why indonesian doesn't live in the ocean,cuz it's ZEE is way bigger than it's land

[@theofficialbarackh.obamayo5806]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes "why africans dont live in the sahara desert"

[@Elidan1012]

Simple questions can have complicated answers

[@Rs9z.]

This is like that Canada video he made, how most Canadians live near the US/Canada border

[@shamarmays3577]

That’s because the other land is inhospitable can’t do anything with it

[@soulscanner66]

@@shamarmays3577 Northern Canada atcually has tons of resources. Water, minerals, massive boreal forests. It's cold though and there is no soil, so no farming. It's not nearly as hostile as the Chinese desert, though.

[@robbrown4621]

@@soulscanner66 For more channels with programming about communist China: ADV Podcasts China Observer China Uncensored laowhy86 Digging To China China In Focus China Unscripted Patrick Boyle

[@michael3032]

The links Rob Brown are presenting are of channels with an anti-China bias. People should also try check out channels that are pro-China for a more nuanced views (can be more official channels like CGTN and the likes, as well as many foreigners currently living in China)

[@tritium1998]

@@soulscanner66 Western China has plenty of population, agriculture (both crops and livestock), industry, and other infrastructure regardless of your satellite photos making other countries look greener and brighter.

[@chrisconformed]

New Title: "Human beings need Water." The End

[@regularhuman95]

Exactly.

[@samet6059]

Could the greedy person be after more land?

[@samet6059]

For example, the powerful Chinese government, with its pressure on different ethnic groups such as East Turkestan, Inner Mongolia, Tibet regions(look at google maps for location), forced them to migrate from their homeland or the possibility of causing the death of many of them? it's called genocide in the dictionary

[@jameslim3850]

The MAIN reason why the USA western media falsely accuses CHINA of mistreating Uyghur Muslims is because they want to prevent the 1.6 Billion Chinese worldwide and 2.0 Billion Muslims from working together. Both these groups have been discriminated by USA and the WEST for decades and are more likely to work together. Chinese & Muslim nations working together will lead to US losing its dominance of the world. Plus this will gain Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe and African support too including the rest of the world such as Latin America.

[@joemango9782]

@@jameslim3850 booooooo

[@aasemahsan]

0:30 Heihe-Tengchong line/ Hu line 3:17 Geography of China Gobi Desert Taklamakan Desert (Tarin Basin) 8:18 Why control the largely uninhabited West? Tibet Third largest glacier of the world Starting source of many many many important rivers North Western Desert Natural armour of the deserts 10:29 Historical weak spots of China He Xi corridor 14:17 Demographics of China

[@austinli8891]

coolest man

[@ryanramjattan8714]

Ever realized that the 3 largest countries in the world have wierd population congregations? 1. Most of Russians live in the west 2. Most Canadians live in the South 3. Most Chinese lives in the east

[@DevSarman]

4. Most Algerians live in the north Sorry, that one is 10th

[@ukashk1071]

India has evenly distributed population:/

[@thetrickster9885]

Most india live in north

[@Hadi73142]

6th Australians live on the coasts

[@theBG2016]

imperialism

[@butterlord6358]

Kinda understandable for population to gather and remain only mostly near rivers and the sea shore, historically ly and naturally, they are the most advantageous for human habitat

[@christopherpadilla5244]

@Rainbow Galaxy POC YT Lol.

[@KingTFD]

Kinda

[@MrShanester117]

No shit Sherlock

[@3three8]

Thinks to post a comment parroting the narrators obvious main point, yet not something more complex about the varying reasons for the other 57% of chinas landmass not being populated… classic KZbin

[@butterlord6358]

Lol, didn't think anyone would like my comment

[@davidwebb913]

"Ordering takeout is too expensive, so you should order Hello Fresh instead, which is double the price with half the portions."

[@jonathanstupidcheesespaghetti]

Facts. 😂

[@justinokraski3796]

And you have to cook it yourself

[@arnoldguy2269]

and takes double the time to arrive

[@aleksisasinomas]

but hey! it's healthier.

[@honkeytonklin2198]

🤣

[@seayellow5834]

This line is even named 黑河-腾冲 line, with the two cities as endpoints of the line. I learnt this in geography lesson in China.

[@kaidanbycucu]

this comment brought me back to highschool

[@pipipipipipipipip]

@@kaidanbycucu you are what you eat

[@headhnal]

@@pipipipipipipipip what

[@yuchengfeng6366]

me too. i learn it in junior high school geography class.

[@Wvk5zc]

@@pipipipipipipipip the F is that supposed to mean

[@scarpfish]

Imagine if 6% of your country was still 86 million people. If it was its own country, it would still rank 17th in world population. China does things on an entirely different scale.

[@12vtbfx37]

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff Who told you? FaLunGong News?

[@hx5525]

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff Amazing,none of what you said made sense!

[@IronMan-fi3xz]

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff You seems to forgot the fact that without a massive population China probably wouldn't be the second largest economy today.

[@KingLos95]

@@IronMan-fi3xz That Chinese economy about to take that #1 spot really soon… Less than 10yrs IMO

[@joziv]

@@IronMan-fi3xz china builds their economy the same way the soviet union fought their wars, by throwing their citizens at it

[@Matthew-dr1un]

This is the kind of thing I wish they taught in school. It makes so much sense why Europe and China had almost no contact throughout history

[@saikiranrao194]

Mongol Empire had 😂 streching from China to east Europe and everything in between

[@jamesroche9636]

Silk Road

[@syrathegreat]

Huge contact with Europe throughout history, especially along the Silk Routes - we've even found evidence of export goods from as far back as the 2nd Century CE; silk goods manufactured in China but with Western motifs for an expressly Western market. Source: Zuchowska, M., 'From China to Palmyra: the Value of Silk', Światowit, 11:52 (2013), pp. 133-54.

[@mugiwara-no-luffy]

they had contact, just not wars or invasions.

[@rainbaiyu]

No contact? Ask England about when they sold China opium

[@xer0895]

You should make a video about how densely populated India's provinces and cities are, it's crazy how just 1 province is bigger than a lot of major countries all put together

[@pikachuthunderbolt3919]

leave it They would just show slums of Mumbai and delhi ( non willing migrants living in these mega cities ) and that's it 😂😂 Why not announce Dharavi a world heritage site now as it's more popular than taj mahal Mumbai stretches from virar to Colaba and Worli to kalyan but these western dudes get their attention to just near by Bandra .

[@madhavsomaiya1357]

@@pikachuthunderbolt3919 Yep. That's all western media shows. Most western media doesn't show the Himalayas, the developing cities, nothing of that sort, just the slums.

[@berserkwarrior235]

@Influential one According to IMF India will be the 3rd largest economy by 2030 , we started way late than other countries , so of course we will take time . For instance china opened up in the late 70s and India opened up in early 90s . Add to that we are a democratic country so reforms take time , which china did not had to encounter as their government could do whatever they wanted .

[@vennsim71]

@@berserkwarrior235 oh, the inefficiency and red tape of the poor adaptation of democracy. Can always try to improve though

[@pikachuthunderbolt3919]

@@madhavsomaiya1357 how could u expect from those who exploited the other world last centuary Even they seems to be cooperative but they know how left snakes in others yard.

[@Cecil_Augus]

Fun fact: Yet the west side of China is IMMENSELY important to the other 94%. If was not for this colossal wall, China's mainland would be completely exposed to military incursions coming from western powers. Plus, the Tibet supplies over 3 billion people with water, being this the biggest liability India has against China. It's possibly the most important geopolitical region on Earth.

[@ouyangon5711]

Without this wall, China might have hit Europe two thousand years ago

[@KB-pl2gj]

Fun fact: You are repeating facts that are in the video.

[@Cecil_Augus]

@@KB-pl2gj Actually I wrote this whilst in the middle of the vid.

[@GlaceonStudios]

If Tibet succeeded to secede at all, that would mean that they would be one of the absolute most important nations in the world. A country of only 40 million that nourishes 3 billion... basically it would be a situation that I'm unsure anyone would want if it were independent.

[@bernardle356]

@@GlaceonStudios Not even the US is enthusiastic for free Tibet movement since it basically means all out war. They will never secede.

[@ryankohnenkamp8946]

Why 94% of RealLifeLore viewers stop watching when the baked in sponsor spot starts playing

[@voongnz]

I use that time to read a few comments. Anything below you, now is unread for me as the video just finished and I'm on to the next video.

[@KingCheckOut]

Only 94%?

[@brijekavervix7340]

@@voongnz ironically the video stopped playing right as I read your comment

[@jimboramba]

Right? Everybody is doing that now. I hate that I pay for premium and I still basically have to deal with commercials.

[@nataliekennedy4646]

It’s how he can bye food fuckface and he’s making people live better lives

[@AnthonyWarrickArt]

Is it just me or did his voice start getting increasingly more frantic as the video went on? Lol he was calm and composed at the beginning by the end it sounded like he was sliding off his chair he was so excited

[@ElderBishopPastorReverendOssie]

Panik

[@listen1st267]

I completely agree. Maybe his main user base is preteens?

[@koriw1701]

@@listen1st267 🤣🤣🤣

[@kenny4957]

he always does that

[@hia5235]

He likes China I guess.

[@gaberobison680]

This whole video can be summarized with the question: Would you rather live in a fertile floodplain, near tropical jungle, isolated mountains, or a literal desert?

[@ekerilaz723]

The hood

[@arthurgord]

Desert

[@salihovicalija88]

Well, 86 milion people beg to differ. That is a whole Austria more than Germany.

[@johndalton8839]

@Markus Patients One question with 4 options

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

UNDER DA SEA!

[@kendrickwang]

If you live close to the hu line you have to deal with sandstorms. I lived in Shanxi a few years ago, went to work with my windows open on a hot summers day, came back and i could smell sand and once i closed the windows and the dust settled, there was a layer of orange sand all over my house

[@ranran6419]

不会吧，山西哪有这种地方？

[@kendrickwang]

@@ranran6419 会，风在沙尘暴中带着来自蒙古的沙子

[@adileerkin]

@@ranran6419 山西在黄土高原上啊，黄土高原的部分黄土就是西风把中亚沙土刮过来，经过水流作用形成的。

[@felixfeng5836]

@@ranran6419别说陕西了，北京每年春夏的时候也这样

[@mcfcDJ51]

it’s honestly crazy how most big countries tend to have a huge amount of land that is uninhabited. makes you think how much more people can spread out throughout the world.

[@Jyashintaan]

America continents are truly gifted in this aspect, especially North America

[@haechiwr]

@@Jyashintaan 90% of Canada is either inhabitable or just barren wasteland, most Canadians live in cities that already cross the initial border between Canada and NA

[@rondameravella2885]

@@comment6864 If you mean "menace" as in they would start dying left and right because desert, well yeah, that's kind of the point of the video...

[@justinthurman3689]

North America 🌎 Is Canadian Also . Smh how do you'll learn ? No not being rude , all on this side Is North America. We Are The United States Of America , Of North America 🌎 . . .

[@randombaguette]

I mean most of it is inhabitable bro

[@ruben3305]

Meanwhile in America: ‘let’s make a city in the desert and call it; Las Vegas’

[@HardRockMaster7577]

There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas.

[@seemaairy4789]

@@HardRockMaster7577 wtf. Are you serious?

[@HardRockMaster7577]

@@seemaairy4789 Have you ever watched the movie The Godfather?

[@seemaairy4789]

@@HardRockMaster7577 not really. But i would love to.

[@georgehav650]

@@HardRockMaster7577 The mafia built Las Vegas because it was easier for tax evasion purposes. Read a book

[@sarahmoores2724]

“Weather can change up to 35 degrees in one day.” Or as we call it in Canada, spring.

[@mopes9251]

Very true

[@mengqiong4134]

Come to Australia we can go from hailing to straight up 40 degrees Celsius

[@skytectheemeraldcar6150]

@@mengqiong4134 man’s spitting straight facts

[@Nino-ic7ib]

As we call it in Manitoba, any day of the year🤣

[@kazakhdude]

My city has a 60 degree temperature change in a couple days of the year

[@jameshw9751]

This is is fascinating to me, having never learned about Chinas geography. Our own little example here in California is the Sierra Nevada range, where one side is deep forests and snow, and the other is desert.

[@alanvictor5799]

This guy seemed way more excited narrating this episode than usual lol

[@bocbinsgames6745]

He's gotten more and more fake enthusiasm over the years.

[@cpsrob3912]

Why does his voice sound like a higher pitch than usual

[@tonysoprano4883]

@@cpsrob3912 I noticed that too, it's almost like it's sped up.

[@crystalexia-]

@@bocbinsgames6745 that's not a bad thing tho

[@aespa690]

The way he talks is SO ANNOYING. Like EVERY SINGLE fact he SAYS is the most MIND BLOWING fact you will EVER hear.

[@karloliver4949]

As someone who has been West of that line, what comes to mind is mountain wastes and deserts. That's pretty much the take aways.

[@itisicountolaf.yournewguar6111]

😅

[@francis5944]

you can easily run some pipes to access water from the tibet mountains.

[@donydony1231]

@@francis5944 True! You can also easily connect a wire to the sun for electricity too

[@matpk]

@@francis5944 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late

[@mskull24gaming79]

China banned youtube

[@TheMrfoufoutos]

The difference from USA is that US West has access to sea (Pacific Ocean) while Chinese West has NOT! That's why Chinese West remained empty.

[@marioluisbonoan6175]

Yes both coast of the United States have access to ocean.

[@kema4545]

Also the rains.....

[@enchantxd]

Well you have a point, but the actual reason it remained empty was because of the Himalayan mountains, they block rain

[@troy5094]

It mainly had to do with immigration. Generally more people arrived from across the Atlantic than the Pacific which why the only relatively densely populated states in the west are the Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific coastal states.

[@charles_0017]

It’s very simple. As a Chinese I will tell you that most people prefer to live in the Eastern side for the same reason many Russians prefer to live in European Western Russia rather than Siberia. The climate in the West of China is simply too cold, the terrain is frozen and there are many mountains, making it hard for farming, the land is of little value, I would only ever consider going there for exploring and adventuring.

[@pyhead9916]

Geography ALWAYS dictates where mankind lives.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Unless some Georgian builds camps in Siberia.

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

@@PROVOCATEURSK stalin?

[@Weolson]

Wow, the fact that the Himalayas block clouds from crossing is just so mind blowing to me. I hope I get to see them some day.

[@PresidentFlip]

That’s just a regular rain shadow effect, same thing with the cascadian mountain range in North America that casts a rain shadow on eastern Washington/oregon

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Thats the reason India is much more warmer and wetter than places at the same latitude, like Iran, Egypt or Mexico

[@Weolson]

@@kakalimukherjee3297 that’s very interesting!

[@braxtonshrianandan2438]

Yeah ..It's a 4 to 5 mile high wall.. !

[@paco3523]

Most mountain ranges do that, even if they are not very tall

[@millennialwatchman6703]

This sort of thing isn't very unusual. There are plenty of countries whose populations are very unevenly distributed. Russia's population is concentrated mostly in the West, Australia's population is concentrated mostly in the South East, Canada's in the South East, Scandinavia's in the South, Egypt's population is concentrated almost entirely along the Nile ext. ext. Edit: The original post said "South West" for Canada this was a typo I corrected it.

[@SpinDip42069]

Canada’s population isn’t in the south west lol

[@ravenwraith1017]

@@SpinDip42069 exactly. Ontario and Quebec have what, more that 200% of the population of BC and Alberta combined?

[@bbictorr]

Majority of Canada’s population’s in the eastern Maritime provinces lol not southwest. Because the east is closer to Europe

[@Crashed131963]

But none are overpopulated with 1.4 billion people. China has more cars than the US + Canada has people.

[@millennialwatchman6703]

@@SpinDip42069 Fuck! I meant the South East!

[@walterappling6230]

Very interesting and informative. I knew the Tibetan Plateau was the headwaters for many of Asia’s major rivers but did not know the plateau is so large.

[@ZlatanB86]

More on this subject in a book called " Prisoners of Geography"

[@gaithonyokabikenya8633]

thanks Zlatan B, am gonna read that book

[@bonny-lass]

Thanks!

[@alfarosiarsita]

It's amazing that you can make "because it's just desert and mountain" to 18 minutes 33 second video.

[@SSs-ch4ey]

I stopped listening in the first ten seconds after he insulted "Westerners" for no apparent reason

[@REALDEALFLEXSEAL]

@@SSs-ch4ey sensitive asf lol

[@-_--_---]

@@SSs-ch4ey Awww did your weeny bitty feelings get hurt little girl? ❄️

[@master007v]

It's obvious that you didn't watch the video then since the explanation of the population takes less than half of the length of the video

[@stuartbrown8309]

It's amazing people can hear but not listen - it's critical stuff for how China developed, how it is governed, and how it will act in the future

[@Impossiblah]

the Heihe-Tengchong line roughly coincides with the 15 inch isohyet. That's roughly equivalent to the Eastern borders of the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. The US's population density drops off significantly there, too.

[@YSLRD]

It rebounds on the coast, though.

[@Impossiblah]

@@YSLRD The rain, too!

[@戚文玮]

👍

[@戚文玮]

中国人吗

[@LeechUFC]

I mean its like how in Canada 90% live within a 100 mile drive to the US border despite it being the worlds second largest country in the world. And 99.99% of the population lives in the south

[@olefella7561]

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZbin by RealLifeLore is truly a gift. 👍

[@kevzortd8073]

he gets sponsored

[@insectbite1714]

He is literaly paid by China to make this video🤦

[@dann6067]

@@insectbite1714 ok idiota

[@xs493]

the United States, doesn’t it also have a westward movement? Fabrication of history, the history of the Han people in the west also has thousands of years, okay Political lies packed into popular science

[@adiaus]

@@insectbite1714 paid by china?? he is literally saying anti china things

[@pj9615]

Australia’s one will be an even more dramatic difference

[@petersmulders8058]

I live in Australia and it wouldn't be

[@1coolfunnybunny]

@@petersmulders8058 i’d say atleast 95% of the australian population live along the coastal areas

[@aamateen75]

@@1coolfunnybunny More specifically, the East Coast

[@amyh6759]

@@petersmulders8058 I mean so do I and I kinda agree with the commenter

[@vaultmiku1535]

Canada is worse

[@MH-tn3pp]

Chinese deserts are progressively planted with forests and vegetation. Very good job with impressive results, like in Israel, Spain, Scotland to name few, or the African green belt….

[@bobbyantrobus1805]

10 social credit points have been deposited to your account

[@hai_tankard1545]

In the western media, we must not say that China is good, otherwise we will be said to be bought by the Communist Party. Completely irrational, low IQ

[@bobbyantrobus1805]

@@hai_tankard1545 like supproting ch*na

[@danielwu7962]

and 50 cents deposit in yours too😄

[@sea0pal]

@@bobbyantrobus1805 call it whatever you like, we got Ant credit that gives points for every ecommerce purchase we make and every 'green' commute we take. I get physical goodies when I accumulate enough credit and Ant will plant trees in the desert. At the end of the day, I do something nice for my country and get rewarded...its mutual. You can be snarky and sulk all you like, even when you have the whole world of information within your reach you still decide to be an uninformed A-hole, its your choice:D

[@smitty7326]

I moved to Shanghai a few years ago, and I was so shocked by the population distribution. I knew it was a large country with a massive population. I didn't know they basically ALL live in a relatively small part of the east of the nation. When you look at a satellite view of it, it all looks like one massive, nation-sized city

[@nytelin274]

Stayed in Shanghai for 4years. Considering Tokyo has an even more population, Shanghai is not so impressive tho..

[@phil-amor9857]

@@nytelin274 Are sure that Tokyo has mre people than Shanghai？ I suggest you open you browser to make sure it

[@ablybb931]

@@phil-amor9857 He means Tokyo Metropolis area.

[@user-dk9go2pk7o]

东京没有香港拥挤，香港人口密度让人绝望

[@銀色鋼盔]

@@phil-amor9857 Tokyo has 37m people,while shanghai has 25m

[@saptaccrvima3563]

Can't wait for the next video, "Why literally 100% of Vatican City is habitable"

[@ashaydwivedi420]

lmaoo😭😭😭

[@macforme]

Also the Vatican is the country with the lowest birthrate in the ENTIRE world!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@bernardokrolo2275]

Jesi ti neki zajebant...hahahaha..SaptacCrvima..da tek znaju sto ti nik znaci..

[@johndesade126]

Come on, guy or girl! Having taken geography classes and reading on my own, I was already familiar with this information, but for the average person out there, this is very good information for them. It also explains China's attempt at land-grabbing in the mountains separating India and China...they are practicing President Xi's version of "Lebensraum (living space")" today.

[@johndesade126]

@@macforme That is about to change, as they now allow 3 babies!

[@dbldekr]

6:20 ahh -40 degrees, the magic number where you don’t have to specify Celsius and or Fahrenheit cause we all agree that’s way too cold

[@kedarpatil7095]

Well actually -40 in celsius and -40 in farenheit are same anyways.

[@laprankster3264]

Also the freezing/melting point of Mercury metal.

[@Marnige]

@@kedarpatil7095 p sure the OP knew it? But i agree their comment didn't specify that it was the same value.

[@capisenior]

7:23 - As someone who used to play base building games, i can't avoid to think how this would be a perfect location for a base with a huge wall blocking entry in front of it.

[@monkemonke9048]

What game

[@Changchar37]

Lol, guess what? There are military bases there throughout the history. The most famous ones are Yumen Guan 玉门关and Yang Guan 阳关.

[@amoghthorave3385]

Do you play age of empires?

[@canadian__ninja]

It's interesting seeing how a lot of the really, really big countries use up so little of their territorial space. Russia, Canada, China all have the vast majority of their populations in a small portion of their countries.

[@blokin5039]

Not China

[@kulandaivelsembagounder7114]

Same in india most of the people in india live in states of Punjab, Haryana ,Dheli, UP , Bihar ,West bengal and Assam.

[@canadian__ninja]

@@blokin5039 China is literally in this video about it

[@sea0pal]

@@kulandaivelsembagounder7114 is there a video on India, would be interested to see

[@citytianyu]

One thing worth mentioning is that climate change could benefit Russia and Canada a lot since the vast land of these 2 countries are unpopluated almost only because it's too cold.

[@michaela.abbott222]

I’ve seen CGTV segments re: Expanding the greenery into the desert areas. With enough greens, rains may develop.

[@mfx4958]

rain does not develop by greenery,greenery develops by rain

[@MeneTekelUpharsin]

Greenery from GMO is going to make the land worst in the long run.

[@mira-rara]

@@mfx4958 they are a cycle. Greenery will develop with rain, and rain will cease without greenery. That's how desert grew.

[@brsn2991]

man this guy is the absolute pro at stretching a paragraph answer into a 10-minute video. Idk why i'm still subscribed.

[@mohit4387]

Bruhhh

[@gurrrn1102]

If you take that paragraph answer, pad it with unnecessary words (entire, only, incredible, mere, throughout), stretch out the pronunciation of certain words to multiple seconds, and spend the last two minutes plugging your sponsor, you’ll be well on your way.

[@theamazingworldoutthere]

his videos are awesome but man, i can never watch an entire video, he talks too much and too fast. no pause and for 18 minutes his voice begins to feel annoying even when i think he is very talented. is like if the 18 minutes are not enough.

[@bananawitchcraft]

I usually prefer in-depth content, I'm more likely to get bothered when videos are too short. It didn't strike me as unnecessary information. I think it's more of a personal preference than objectively bad content. I'm sure there are other channels which cover similar stuff in a more concise way.

[@Crashed131963]

@@gurrrn1102 LOL

[@icelandanimations2701]

Why 64% of RealLifeLore fans are in the east of this line Edit: oml this got 250 likes thanks so much!

[@ydid687]

equator?

[@littlepoodle7443]

Minecraft

[@susmitamitra7429]

@@littlepoodle7443 minecraft?

[@Xendetta_]

@@susmitamitra7429 minecraft

[@ddc171]

@@susmitamitra7429 minecraft

[@ian3632]

I've been watching this channel for a couple of years now, it's crazy that over that time the quality of these videos has never dipped but 100% have gone up. Keep up the great work!

[@ian3632]

Deserves more credit to how long this type of super high quality work is needed.

[@roe0813]

So I guess China map is what you usually see in a JRPG. With numbers of distinct and dramatic climates, where the fertile east is your starting location that you level up. As the story progress, you slowly move to the harsh west and eventually face the final boss at the peak of Mt. Everest.

[@bonchitogovindodas3333]

Everest is in Nepal, but okay.

[@omni5640]

@@bonchitogovindodas3333 It's actually split, the border runs at the peak of Everest.

[@victorguost]

whoever can reach Mt. Everest peak alive is soooo ready for whatever bosses

[@TheLastLineLive]

@@bonchitogovindodas3333 it’s in China too, but Nepal is considered the ideal place to ascend it from.

[@patmurphy899]

@@victorguost 3. Ey

[@olifhgfyyhff]

Reasons: the side with the 6% is basically all desert and the 94% is costal areas

[@olifhgfyyhff]

@hannes folz lmao I sae

[@olifhgfyyhff]

Saw*

[@PrusRus]

Also east turkestan and tibet incidents

[@normalcraftingtable7906]

Someone copied your comment

[@woolyhighlander7280]

A bit more to it than that !

[@musty4273]

*RLL:* "Roughly every decade, the sands of the Gobi desert conquer 1 Taiwan worth of agricultural land from China"

[@sentiecide686]

Taiwan's Redemption

[@mybutthasteeth1347]

based

[@lookoutforchris]

Accelerate.

[@nosleep4672]

He is American its probably the measurement he can relate most to

[@sini0071]

It's slowing due to forestation efforts. (turning deserts in forests to block sand)

[@CaptainDrago]

Eastern China has better land for farming, more water, and a milder climate. This makes it easier for people to live there. Western China is mostly mountains and desert. It is difficult to grow food there and the weather is very extreme. People have been living in Eastern China for thousands of years. This has led to the development of major cities, infrastructure, and economic activity in the region. There are more job opportunities in Eastern China.

[@DreBars]

Not just Mongolia, china used to have the land that the Russians took, Vladivostok above N Korea

[@beztby]

I love how he used an AI voice for "Brahmaputra" alone lol.

[@moussaalmoussa6989]

Which minute😅

[@TheRmbomo]

It's at about 9:10 But it sounds like his voice. I could be wrong, and it's definitely out of place in tone, though, so he likely needed many takes to say it if he did.

[@lil_jong-un6668]

@@TheRmbomo He probably used AI with his own voice.

[@TheRmbomo]

@@lil_jong-un6668 That sounds like a lot more effort compiling the phonemes just for AI to say it than just practice.

[@gurrrn1102]

Should have used one for route, Han, and all the words he inserts irritating aspirated consonants into

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Mengzi (孟軻) once wrote: "The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least"

[@rimacalid6557]

Or maybe he wrote something else but it was twisted 🥨

[@supermaster2012]

@@rimacalid6557 it's not hearsay, the original texts have survived...

[@thor2437]

True, a nation based on a homogenous race/ethnicity is always better! An open nation is an exposed nation, a nation or people that values it's heritage and ancestry will survive, those that don't won't, I'm talking to you White people!

[@IanHsieh]

Original text: 民為貴，社稷次之，君為輕。

[@vincentcleaver1925]

And then his head mysteriously fell off...

[@wanyuhuang8802]

Another point that actually the northeast does not get enough rain, for example, Beijing, where I originally come from, is actually considered as a semi-arid area. The southern, though, is more humid and receives more rain.

[@johns123]

The Chinese change the time zone to a single one across China to promote national unity. That was my understanding

[@KHANSTER1029]

Yeah, it has nothing to do with some "Han people" thing he said in the video...Because how does having a different timezone in the west affect Han Chinese when they don't even live there???

[@zasonsoong]

ya it was at that point I knew it was going to be bullshit propaganda coming out of his mouth

[@tritium1998]

@@KHANSTER1029 They do live there though, among other Chinese people you're too dumb to know about.

[@FalloutUgglan]

@@KHANSTER1029 That's kind of the point thou, isn't it? The timezone only affects people who AREN'T Han Chinese. The Tibetans aren't Chinese and don't want to the either, but since the Tibetan region holds a lot of strategic value China wants to control it. Taking an area by war might work in the short-term, but there will be in-fighting, rebels, terrorists etc who will fight for their independence. However if you, instead of going to war, resettle a lot of your patriotic/nationalistic people into an area you will gradually get more and more support as times goes on since you're resettling more and more people. Sooner or later there will be enough Han Chinese resettled for the Chinese government to use that as an excuse to annex that region and call it Chinese.

[@KHANSTER1029]

@@FalloutUgglan Yeah that makes sense. However, I did some digging and it seems that people out in Xinjiang or other western provinces don't even follow the Beijing timezone. So schools and restaurants are open at different times from like 11am - 7pm. Instead of 9am to 5pm. Since a lot of Chinese have migrated west, they will also have to get used to the timezone issue. In Xinjiang its nearly 50/50 split between Han and Uyghur, so it's becoming more of a headache for the Han there as well - yet the government isn't changing timezones. So whatever the issue may be, I definitely don't think it has anything to with Han supremacy or what not Edit: since the timezone was decreed like 70 years ago, it would've made sense because there were almost no Han Chinese out west. However that isn't the case anymore and if the government did really do it for the Han people, then they would have implemented timezones better to make life easier for the Han in the west. But they haven't and they have no plan to.

[@charles5895]

Simply because the Western part is too cold, too snowy, infertile, full of mountains, the landscape is just horrible to live in, the same reason hardly anyone lives in Siberia, or Antarctica. But It’s certainly good to go exploring in.

[@celine7511]

Actually, more than half of tibetans do not live in Tibet but in the warm provinces of the east.

[@aragti6060]

I thought it's cos the western China is desert.

[@wdnmd3395]

@@aragti6060 Half desert, half glacier

[@v1shalyt]

If that west part was a country, it would still be among top 20 most populous countries.

[@小飞-m2h]

关西方什么事？

[@Lightningflamingice]

@@小飞-m2h nothing. He's saying that even though the land west of the Hu Line has only 4% of China's population, China has such a large population that 4% of it is still larger than the population of most countries.

[@dv9239]

And it would be much richer that place would be thriving with tourism

[@freddiemercury2075]

@@小飞-m2h are you a wumao ???

[@freddiemercury2075]

If the west is a country most likely the Uyghers would not be oppressed like they are today

[@EdwardJr2000]

Reminds me of India which is almost impossible to invade due to the Hindu Kush mountains in the northwest, the Himalayas in the north, and minor hills in the northeast. It was finally invaded in the 13th century via mountain passes in the Hindu Kush mountain range and by Europeans in the 18th century via the oceans. Thus the Indian Subcontinent evolved into a completely different place from the rest of the world. The European civilizations such as the great Roman Empire traded with India via the sea making India extremely rich. Other civilizations traded through mountain passes.

[@FredLimestone]

Britain invaded easily

[@EdwardJr2000]

@@FredLimestone Actually _English East India Company_ army was actually much weaker compared to the Bengal Army of India-a mere 3 : 50 ratio. But one of the Bengali Commander turned out to be a traitor. This way the Bengal Army was defeated.

[@FredLimestone]

@@EdwardJr2000 yeah easy to invade because of Indian corruption

[@EdwardJr2000]

@Robert Clive the founder of India Who said large scale trade? And by the way, I think you meant large scale production.

[@SvenElven]

@@FredLimestone Britain didn't as much 'invade' as 'divide and conquer'.

[@7thWonder06]

Every time he said "inhospitable" I took a shot... im shwasted now

[@susanray4059]

Let's be real about that water issue. Controlling the watershed from the Himalayan Mountains controls the entire source of water from Tibet all the way across the many nations of Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Bhutan, Pakistan to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

[@ecoran2713]

You forget rain

[@darkmemes7531]

China is life lol

[@austins.2495]

Let me name off countries until I sound smart…

[@teamgitusome]

@@austins.2495 or u could just be you and sound well....like u.

[@PokeTwilight]

Which is why they claimed Tibet. Not because of the Tibetans living there, but because of the land. Same as Taiwan, so that they can have greater control over the sea.

[@hananokuni2580]

Most of China's people live east of what is known as the 15-inch isohyet, which is a line separating areas receiving 15 inches or more of annual precipitation from areas receiving less than 15 inches of yearly precipitation. The 15-inch mark is the minimum amount of yearly precipitation needed for agriculture. The most heavily populated regions of China receive _at least_ 25 inches of rain yearly.

[@gerardbult432]

I don't think the Chinese will know it as 15-inch, there is only one country left in the world that still lives with these measurements.

[@rocketassistedgoat1079]

@HuckleB680 Lol. Trump Truther tries to claim that he and his kind, basically America's Orcs: are the voice of reason (the ONLY voice as well-which is incredibly telling). Hilarious. Oh, and everyone else is a fascist btw (and a communist). Bless them, self-awareness, history, reading, science, academia and morality aren't their strengths.

[@metalswifty23]

@@gerardbult432 US, UK, Liberia, Myanmar. All have varying degrees of commitment to going metric at some point (Liberia and Myanmar may even be going through the process now), but presently are imperial nations. The UK commited to going metric in the 60's I believe, but just sorta stopped halfway through not long after. - We still drive in miles and yards, and use miles per gallon, but buy fuel by the litre. - We measure our height and weight in imperial (feet and inches, stones and pounds), but sell things by the metre and grams or kilograms. - Pubs sell beer by the pint, and milk in some places is still sold by the ounce (ounces are frequently used for feeding babies milk), but then pretty much every other drink is sold by the litre or millilitre. - Football is another weird amalgamation of imperial and metric, where we have the 6-yard box, the penalty spot is at 12 yards, and the 18-yard box, but use both yards and metres interchangeably elsewhere on the pitch (mostly yards, though). Most people in the UK grew up using the imperial system (which is a British creation, btw). It's only really been from the latter portion of the millennial generation and into the zoomers where you'll probably find more starting to use metric, as I believe it is more likely to be taught in schools over imperial (I'm a latter millennial but grew up with imperial). Some people in older generations would have used both, but then fell out of favour of learning metric when the country stopped the metrication process.

[@gurinderbrar6322]

1:03 from this info, we can already tell that out of the 1425 million people living in China, 1339.5 million live on the east while only 85.5 million live in the west, 85.5 million seems like a lot at first, but when you compare it to 1425 million, it’s nothing

[@williamxu2402]

In today’s China, “Han” is really just “generic Chinese”. If you’re not a minority ethnic like Uyghur or Tibetan (need government certified), then you are considered “Han”. If an European or African become a Chinese citizen, his/her state issued ID will say he/she is a Han, regardless whether he/she is white or black. Minority ethnics are granted bonus under some circumstances. For example, they automatically receive bonus score in the GaoKao (college entrance exam). My college roommate was actually a Han, but somehow trick the government that he was adopted by a remote relative, who’s a Khui (another Muslim nationality like Uyghur), so the government certified him as a Khui as well. He felt bad taking advantage of the policy, so he practiced Halal diet for the whole freshman year 😂😂😂

[@isaacsheu2282]

True but ignorant people think that western racial dynamic applies to everywhere in the world 🙄

[@YSLRD]

Westerners don't become Chinese citizens and black people certainly don't. And I seriously doubt anybody claims to be Uigher for govt benefits.

[@mazzy_vc]

@@YSLRD Well either the commentator above just posts weirdly specific lies for the fun of it, or people do indeed take advantage.

[@ds7098]

@@YSLRD China is one of the most difficult countries to immigrate to - I don't even know if "one of" is necessary here - but this doesn't mean nobody from the west wants to. But I really doubt the claim that all immigrants will be certified as Han. Plus China is not Han + Tibetan + Uyghur; there are 53 other not-so-famous minority ethnic groups as well, all could receive some extra benefit more or less.

[@williamxu2402]

@@ds7098 I heard it from Yuan Tengfei that neutralized foreigners are considered Han. But I researched a little bit more just now. Turns out the procedure is pretty complicated: 1) if their nationality also exists in China the they will continue with that nationality, like Russian and Korean and Mongolian. 2) they can pick one if they live in a minority nationality area and receive support from the local authorities. 3) Or they’ll just be Han or NA. Above could still be inaccurate. Like you said, only very few people has become Chinese citizen. I only heard of a few soccer athletes from Africa.

[@aarushparvataneni3249]

Let me guess without watching the video - Himalayas, Gobi, Deserts and the fact that the East is full of filthy franks favourite fields.

[@insectbite1714]

The reason: because real life lore is a China owned propaganda channel

[@supengwu576]

Who else clicked on this because they wanted to know how answering a 30-second question takes 18 minutes

[@NottoScales]

I spent most of the 18min reading comments hh

[@yaqiza]

@@NottoScales same

[@johndesade126]

personally, I think he did a good job...

[@RamaswamyIyerGanesh]

Thank you for wonderful details

[@nicolasmogensen8727]

Funny to hear about Tengchong (very small city) since I live and work there as one of only 5 foreigners if you don't count the Burmese. Western Yunnan Province is all high hills and low mountains so it's limited how many people can live here. Amazing province though. Tropical rainforest in the south to snowcapped mountains and glaciers in the Himalayas to the north. 3 of Asia's great rivers originate here as well. We even have tigers, bears and elephants, though not many are left.

[@anderweende]

Haha if you don't count the Burmese. Once I asked a colleague from Ruili, "I heard that there are many laowai s in Ruili, it's one of the most international city in China." His answer is, nope, we don't have laowais there, only Burmese. It's like Burmese are not that foreign to Yunnan people, and they are not culturally seen as foreigner.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

*Geography now viewers:* OH OH I KNOW I KNOW! It's cause the arid rocky north west acts like a shield to the rest of China, and it's fun to call it the Chinese Shield. No one's gonna touch MY plants!

[@spaceknightz_4874]

Lol I am a barby fan

[@TheRibottoStudios]

@@spaceknightz_4874 god i can't believe there's a whole channel dedicated to teaching everyone about the nations of the world and I LOVE IT I learn so many things.....I can't wait till he gets to the USA USA U S AAA. Ohhhhhhh ISA GONNA BE FUN lol

[@urangames457]

I see you are a geograpeep as well.

[@leonv7716]

barby always got us covered

[@SevenHunnid]

I do reaction videos while high asf on my KZbin channel .. should i quit KZbin?

[@dinowarship5762]

As someone who lived in Massachusetts for their whole childhood……. That population density on that much land is mind blowing

[@dukedematteo1995]

Is it? I thought East Mass had alot of ppl but the West & center didn't.

[@dinowarship5762]

@@dukedematteo1995 I lived in center Mass between Worcester and Boston (more closer to Worcester tho) all of center mass in Intensive sprawling of suburbs pertly much everywhere you look. Once you get past Worcester the density dose drop off a bit but you still have the Springfield, the third largest city in Mass out there, as well as the major university town of Amherst leading to the population density of mass to be 839.4 people per square mile.

[@CaleyCowpoke]

mm mm mm mmmm mom i do

[@YasirUddin07]

I've lived In New York For my whole childhood lmao

[@BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111]

Well, I learned so much today thanks to this wonderful video presentation ❤

[@noemiej.marquis732]

"Temperatures in the desert can vary from -40C to 40C" Oh, were we talking about Montreal?

[@pl7868]

lol yep

[@sebastienloyer9471]

Not talking about the humidity Additional to the temperature

[@isaacreynolds1203]

So what would happen in a “what if” scenario where humanity removes one of the Himalayan mountains? Would this allow for monsoon rains to move through that corridor and transform the desert land beyond it?

[@stefang5639]

The Himalaya is a plateau, even Mount Everest Base Camp is already 5000 meters high. I don't believe that this would change much.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

"What if"scenarios are only worthwhile to consider if they realistic otherwise they are prove nothing and are a waste of time. The mountains in the Himalayas are not going anywhere.

[@jaimecortez3057]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 With a enough tenacity, hard work, nuclear warheads in the megaton range and love for your fellow man (no homo), there's nothing that we cannot accomplish! Including nuking a massive breezeway through the Himalayas for solutions to all those thirsty people who dwell there!

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@jaimecortez3057 🙄

[@samarthshinde1830]

@@jaimecortez3057 think about countries south to the mountains .. it will affect their ecosystems and farmlands

[@zackjones08]

He NAILED that pronunciation at 9:13

[@bobbysmith8095]

yup i was damn i could never say those name

[@JasimUddin-jb3zs]

Very much informative. Thank you from Bangladesh.🇧🇩❤️

[@vignesh0208]

I think the next video in this series should be, "Why Indians can live everywhere in the subcontinent"

[@donderstorm1845]

it's also a much smaller country though. only jammu and kashmir is not very hospitable for human habitation.

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

indian govt needs to let the terror land of kashmir go and let them do their thing

[@yeetyeet7070]

@@ambatuBUHSURK the *terrorized land

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

@@yeetyeet7070 yes, the land is beautiful and is being terrorized by it's inhabitants

[@aamateen75]

@@ambatuBUHSURK imo Kashmir should be independent

[@Sumabus]

Should have mentioned the Tocharians when you mentioned the Tarim Basin. That’s the furthest east Indo-Aryan speaking peoples got. Pretty interesting stuff.

[@litteriseruditus3138]

Source? Tinsukia is farther east than Loulan as far as I know. Also, Tocharians weren't Indo-Aryan speakers or even Indo-Iranian speakers, for that matter. Tocharian is its own separate branch of Indo-European just like Greek or Armenian.

[@michaelciccone2194]

Dumb intrusive infomercials

[@edwardgeorge8673]

The Tocharian language family is different from the Indo-Iranian language family. Although many Indian Iranians lived in the south of Xinjiang, they were not from the same source as the Tocharian in northern Xinjiang.

[@unifieddynasty]

Modern China didn't invade and occupy Tibet; they reoccupied Tibet that had already been invaded and occupied centuries before, after the turmoil of the two revolutions and world war. All countries in the world recognized Tibet as Chinese territory in the 20th century.

[@Bleeding_Titanium]

wow how much you could learn from a video on KZbin, I remember back in the early 2000 when I used to read articles from Wikipedia, now this feels the same to me yet many people seems to ignore this huge source of information. Thank you Reallifelore.

[@dfgdsgfvgdfg]

In fact, the line named “胡焕庸线”（黑河-腾冲线） is a very important knowledge point in Chinese classrooms. Almost all Chinese people know this knowledge well.

[@fathomgaming25]

Let’s go a RLL upload and Polymatter in the same day!

[@FairyCRat]

and for once, it's RLL who's talking about China.

[@FlyingArtz.]

Right i saw that too 😎

[@pickledata7926]

Do you live in the 94% line?

[@hildenburg5]

I literally just came from Poly's video

[@ray1995mon]

Who’s polymatter?

[@SuperHorseSense]

Real life lore: *says degrees in celsius* Americans: alright then, keep your secrets

[@memeg8076]

Yeah, he’s gotta convert those to Toyota Corollas.

[@PogF1sh]

That’s about 27 ak47s or 78 cheeseburgers

[@memeg8076]

@@PogF1sh thanks man

[@johanfalk2875]

I’m willing to bend the knee to the metric system, but the Celsius scale is just silly. 100 degree heat sounds way better than 38 degree heat.

[@Sabotaz80xx]

How in any way does Fahrenheit make more sense than Celsius? With Celsius you have boiling point at 100 degrees, freezing point at 0 degrees, and optimal human body temperature at 37 degrees. Americans only use the Fahrenheit measure simply to be different from the British, when in reality it makes very little logical sense. There’s a reason the rest of the world uses Celsius measurements

[@monaoconnell5650]

Excellent! Very informative.

[@Aeiroq]

Man I’ve been watching this channel for years and it’s just so stimulating! Love you real life lore you the goat 🐐

[@mikeyangyang8816]

I lived in Inner Mongolia, a province in China on the chicken’s back (west of the line), for 15 years. Tbh, I didn’t feel too different comparing to Beijing, where I lived for 5 years.

[@jaimecortez3057]

Get out of here! No you didn't!

[@celine7511]

@@jaimecortez3057 You don’t seem to have any other ability besides commanding others with the keyboard.

[@manfunny917]

@@celine7511 Yeah he is a very coward and typical keyboard warrior

[@dfgdsgfvgdfg]

cuz u r a modern man and living in modern China

[@edwardgeorge8673]

Yes, there are also many sands in Beijing.

[@eddiejc1]

That being said, I saw an aerial photograph of the border between China and either Mongolia or Kazakhstan. (Think it was the latter, but I'm not sure.) It was easy to tell the border because the Mongolain/Kazakhstani side was brown and empty and the Chinese side was green with cultivation. Even though---as this video makes clear---this part of China wasn't the part where most of the food gets grown, at least SOME of it was arable, and China needs to grow food on ALL their arable land to feed their enormous population. For the record, although there are three other countries, (Russia, Canada, and China) which are bigger in land area, the United States has the most arable land in the world.

[@LancesArmorStriking]

In terms of arable land, yes the US has the most, though their intensive farming practices are eroding so much topsoil that if nothing changes they will sink to 2nd place, with Russia being first. Of course, the USSR had more, thanks to Soviet Ukraine, but in all post Soviet countries, the amount of arable land has fallen significantly post-collapse. Hopefully we will all have more arable land, not less. Both Russia US and China

[@vendome6846]

The Chinese side will turn brown again soon enough as limited water resources are depleted in unsustainable irrigation practices. Same thing in western US.

[@relaxkid9497]

What is arable land?

[@LancesArmorStriking]

@@relaxkid9497 Land that can be used for farming (growing food).

[@neutralname404]

very interesting video, you did some great research job, I, as a Chinese, have learnt a few things I didn't know before. Even I have doubt on several points you mention: like Mao's decision to secure fresh water for China when he sends army to Tibet. I highly doubt he has such vision and knowledges, I think it was probably more for ideological reason

[@sleepyjoe4529]

a lot of misinformation in his videos cuz he uses mostly biased sources

[@chankaan888]

你不配给毛泽东提鞋，能开国的人哪个不是牛人？

[@jeffrey2326]

@@chankaan888好像跟劉邦差不多，就是靠流氓手段打敗國軍，國軍打的損失慘重在被紅軍來一擊，阿共不贏才怪了 那你說文革很牛嗎？

[@chankaan888]

@@jeffrey2326 国民党就是被中国人民唾弃的政党

[@LuLuBudian]

I drove from Shanghai to the furtherest western part of China to do Vlog at Pamir plateau, and vlog entire Xinjiang this year few months ago. The desert there are massive, hot, beside sands at far southwest the lands were somewhat Rocky at far west as altitude rise"pamir plateau". Many of the ancient dirt/clay/soil that made up the old ancient city town or wall, were knock down to farm land. They don't have enough good soil to farm land at far west. hence not much ancient wall remains unless the ancient building/wall were made of rocks which left untouched.

[@siva42152]

video link??

[@LuLuBudian]

@@siva42152 It's not appropriate to paste the link to another one's channel, consider rude in the youtube community but if you search "Pamir plateau" or "Pamir plateau and Panlong ancient road" "Milan ancient city ruins" in my channel you should see some of the far western region scenic videos. Thx

[@ChaDJGamerGuyDidEverythingGood]

Call Xinjang East Turkesten

[@DccAnh]

@@ChaDJGamerGuyDidEverythingGood no it’s Xinjiang, it’s within the Chinese’s border so they decide what to call it.

[@ChaDJGamerGuyDidEverythingGood]

Ok@@DccAnh

[@MrDMC11889]

Elon Musk wants to terraform Mars. Instead , maybe we should look into making inhospitable terrain livable. I honestly think it's possible.

[@fyemusicplug6486]

I was looking for a comment like this

[@004kim]

A lot of countries have this problem, a country that really struggles with this though is Japan, most Japanese live near or in Tokyo.

[@JK-gu3tl]

Phillipines?

[@spider6660]

Also Osaka

[@hugar3499]

I wouldn't say most. The greater metropolitan area of Tokyo is around 36 million, and Japan's population is around 125 million, so more than 1/5th but less than 2/5th

[@dxfifa]

@@hugar3499 There are many cities very near Tokyo metro but not a part of it, increasing the point further

[@hugar3499]

@@dxfifa I looked it up and the Kanto plain (The biggest plain in Japan which has Tokyo and every other city near it) has around 43 million people. Like I said, more than 1/5th but less than 2/5th.

[@oybekerjan9468]

Most of them are right, however I would like to point out that the Taklamakan desert is populated by uyghurs, which is mostly an agricultural ethnic group but not nomads. The desert was a great place for agriculture as long as there is a river, such as Tarim River for Taklamakan and Shule, Dang (Sarigalgin), Ejin and Shiyang River for Hexi. Also, the old uyghurs (Huihu or Huihe) and central asians might be nomads but are in alliance with Chinese as they all have the same enemy, the Xiongnu and Turkic khanate from the Gobi desert.

[@revolzyy]

I love how RLL refers to all countries as "she", like motherland

[@Cybernaut551]

For the Motherland!

[@skyfeelan]

that's the standard for countries tho

[@fiaviy.5298]

^isn't that a universal thing?

[@timcollum5015]

we dont talk like that in the USA at all. Might occasionally hear Uncle Sam, but thats even rare anymore.

[@fiaviy.5298]

@@timcollum5015 so you guys use "he", or just "it"?

[@wijibored]

Good video! I was hesitant to watch an 18min-long video explaining what seemed to be a pretty basic question but boy was I in for a treat. Clear, comprehensive and visually engaging. Just subscribed to your channel! :)

[@sdfgvfbg]

Can always count on this channel to make unnecessarily lenghty videos to answer obvious, simple questions

[@thisaintart]

Man I wish they had videos like these when I was in school, thanks for making previously boring information interesting again!

[@agnivabanerjee3983]

👍

[@chong467]

Interesting video but I think the narration seemed too “excited” recently. I’d prefer the same style of narration as few years back such as the “ocean is way deeper than you think” video, which I frequently rewatch because the narration exhibits a sense of mystery and gets me hooked throughout the video.

[@wrongfuture]

And also more hyperbolic. You know, how he describes thing as VAST and COLOSSAL and *IMMENSE*. Very serious business.

[@AdityaV44]

9:12 that brahmaputra pronunciation ahahahaha(no offense rll, we love you)

[@neontv2843]

listening carefully i think he just used an ai voice lol, not his own

[@AdityaV44]

@@neontv2843 hmm that might b true, it looked really off

[@kedarpatil7095]

That really did trigger the rage monster in me.

[@anwitmondal6417]

This topic did not deserve a 18 minute explanation.

[@bokyarao873]

True that! 5 mins would have been enough.

[@Randgalf]

And China didn't deserve its western half, so we're even.

[@TheManInTheRing]

This was so interesting, I love geography and history and how they intertwine. The saying "Hard times make hard people" rings true when you think of the nomad warriors who came from north east china and conquered everything they laid theyre eyes upon ALSO I cant tell you how much I appreciate that you put your in video advertisement at the end of the video, It allows you to immerse yourself in the video and not feel bombarded half way thru with somthing your not interested in, also thats a good sponsor to show, rather than AG1 like most today.

[@quintonm9915]

Eastern side is closer to the costal areas. Therefore, it leads to factors such as rapid urbanization, population growth, and facilitation of trade.