Why British Cities Make No Sense | Map Men | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

What's the difference between a town, village, and city? Make it make sense!

[@Sebastian-pq3qk]

As with most things in life, it depends on your perspective!

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

Normally, I would define it based on size: a village is small, a town is medium-sized, and a city is large. In my country's case, a city is a place that is "incorporated", usually because of its size. However, as Jay and Mark said, in Britain's case, a city is a settlement that pleases the Sovereign, not one that is large, which is, admittedly, strange.

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

as with City Status, Town status is by royal decree but for an important thing, a Market (many towns in the UK have markets which were allowed by royal appointment and this is normally shown in some names like Market Bosworth) Villages though only need an anglican church to be a village (a parish). A village I grew up in barely had over 600 people living there and stretches along about 2 miles on a road but because it has a church still it is a village

[@andrewsims4123]

All this crap is of no relevance to anyone least of all to a small minded racist American like this dumbbell.

[@cool_guy87]

The first joke is this: “City” can be interpreted as “Sit-ty”, the verb “sit” but with a “y” on the end So, you sit(ty) on a chair(y)

[@TheMeanmarine13]

"mare" is an adult female horse. Young female is a filly. Adult males are stallions. Young males are colts and neutered males are geldings. Not that you asked but there you go.

[@LuminantLion]

city sit-y chair-y

[@didyoueatmyprofile]

Hate-y

[@xoneqraft]

@@didyoueatmyprofile child-y

[@mikkosimonen]

"How would you define a sitty?" "It's what you do on a chairy." That's the joke at the beginning.

[@danishih]

Think this moron might need an annotated diagram

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

0:45 - it’s a pun, in the vein of “Q: Where do generals keep their armies? A: Up their sleevies.”

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

That's a good pun! Thanks for sharing this!

[@ougadougou9]

@@Hand-in-Shot_ProductionsI confess I didn't get it at first (and I'm a Brit). Then I realised he was saying CHAIR-IES, not CHERRIES.

[@highpath4776]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Where do Pirates Keep their Buccaneers ?

[@crose7412]

@@highpath4776 I don't know. Where do pirates keep their buccaneers?

[@hyzenthlay7151]

​​@@crose7412under their buccanhat

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I watched Jay's video a few days ago, and I found it quite entertaining! Now, I've seen what Mr. Terry, complete with a knight's armor, thinks of this. Also, if nobody else told you already, the first lines ("It's what you do on a chairy") is a pun on "city" sounding like "sit-y". The joke is that if "sit" is what you do on a chair, then "city" (or "sity") is "what you do on a chairy". Thanks for posting this!

[@philward6582]

Should ewe really need to explain this??????

[@lambertbrother1628]

It’s like the old joke of Where does the general keep his armies? In his sleevies!

[@lizziedavidson1987]

London itself is technically, TECHNICALLY a county…

[@jaccilowe3842]

Jay literally told you the definition of a city in the US at the beginning 🤣

[@yesterdaysrose5446]

Well, the City of London is basically an area with some weird special mercantilist exceptions. Granted by the few clauses of the Magna Carta that still remain in effect. It's very confusing.

[@Shinichi-kudo-]

Living here ain’t confusing

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I agree that it is confusing! I've watched CGP Grey's videos on the City of London, and indeed, it's government is very mercantile in nature. In fact, the main legal basis for the City's government is "time immemorial", meaning that it is so old that that age gives the government of the City of London its power! Thanks for sharing this!

[@ellierofe]

And, if I recall correctly, the monarch still has to ask permission to enter. The bollards surrounding it have a crest and are tipped with white and red to delineate the area that the Crown cannot enter without permission. (Although that's from memory and Google could find me wrong!)

[@chadUCSD]

​@@ellierofeyeah thats true. The monarch has to seek permission ti enter the 'city of London'. And it also has its own mayor too, although London as a whole has its own Mayor. The mayor of London is one of the oldest positions in the UK. Whereas mayor of London is only around 26/7yrs old.

[@tomlxyz]

Don't companies also get votes in local elections in the city of London?

[@andrewkirch5920]

A Cathedral has a chair, a church does not. Seriously. This is the difference.

[@steviebudden3397]

Not just any old chair surely? Even if we don't count pews, then I couldn't convert my local church to a cathedral by taking in some old chair, could I?

[@infpail7232]

@@steviebudden3397I think it has to be the specific chair dedicated to a sitting bishop or archbishop? Not catholic but I took a Catholicism class that mentioned something like this

[@sleepyburr]

Sort of. A cathedral contains a specific throne intended for use by the bishop, but this is because it serves as the figurative seat of power within the diocese from which the bishop operates and official decisions affecting the rest of the diocese are issued. It's the "capital" of its respective diocese, if you will.

[@andrewkirch5920]

@@steviebudden3397 the chair is generally pretty old.

[@nontrashfire2]

The pope's throne has an upside down cross to recognize the first pope.

[@Jan_Koopman]

"How do you define a city [sit-ee]?" -> "It's what you do in a chair-ee!" 'cause You sit in a chair. Add the ee sound to both: city - chairee Similarly: Q: Where do generals keep their armies? A: In their sleevies! (Arm/sleeve + ies)

[@twylanaythias]

"How would you define a sit-ee?" "It's what you do on a chair-ee." Generally speaking... ~ Delineation between a "Village" and a "Town" or "City" is Incorporation - as with businesses, this establishes the region and its operational authority as a legal entity. Such status is granted by the State, and each State has its own specific requirement to become or remain incorporated. ~ Delineation between a "Town" and a "City" is more vague, though it generally seems to concern utilities - Cities own and operate their own water and sewage systems, build and maintain their own roads, etc. Towns, by comparison, contract such services provided by other entities (typically the County or a nearby City). In more vernacular terminology, "Cities grow up; Towns grow out." Urbanization (and/or the sense thereof) is a key delineation for whether a place 'feels' like a City or a Town. Amarillo Texas has a population just over 200,000 - Founded in 1887 and Incorporated in 1913, it is unquestionably a City though it self-identifies as "The Biggest Town in America". Excepting the 374-foot (31-story) FirstBank Tower and 220-foot (16-story) Amarillo National Bank Tower, no building stands taller than the old 188-foot Santa Fe Building. Despite a sizeable Civic Center and a revitalizing core, even the downtown area retains its 'small town' atmosphere.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Throughout most of Europe until maybe 1800 ish a City was just a place that had gained the gratitude of the local ruler (king, Prince, Duke...) and gotten a letter granting it city rights. Thus sometimes the confusing cases where a place that today has just 2,500 inhabitants still having the same status legally as metropoles... Which included the liberty of its citizens from the duties the normal rurral populace had to respect, up to and including ending indentured servitude if you made it into a city for "year and a day"... Also all cities had market rights, but not all places with market rights were cities. So basically... before nation states came around cities were towns with a nice certificate and a few special rights.

[@HunterZeGreat]

Goals: Become king somehow. Name a barren patch of field a city. Profit.

[@Satvik-h6l]

I thought you planned to name a random patch of land 'City Profit' first time I read it.

[@roseedge5626]

@Mr Terry, It's called the M25. The motorway around Greater London. I'm an American expat in London. It's really difficult to get used to these things at first. I lived in Fernley, NV which became a city in 2001, but no idea why it was suddenly a city.

[@qwertyTRiG]

The Black Sigil Ogdura.

[@pethaudiddorol]

Expat or immigrant?

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

That Gaiman and Pratchett used it as the calling card of Satan in Good Omens should be enough to remember it :D

[@roseedge5626]

​@@pethaudiddorol both really

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I was born in Perth Australia but grew up in Perth Scotland for a while. This caused me big problems when i was applying for my abode staytus for Hong Kong. I was born 3 days before the law changed so although i was born in Auz i was always Scottish, if i had been born 3 days later i would have been a Auzy. So when trying to get my Hong Kong card they were extreamly confused because how could someone be born in Perth in one country but live in Perth in another country, oh the joy of being held for 8 hours, my father had to tell them exactly what i told them 'there are 2 Perths' but for some reason having a man say exactly the same made more sence.

[@RockSolitude]

"having a man say exactly the same made more sense" is a really weird, jilted and incorrect way to interpret that ordeal. Perhaps try: "having someone else independently verify and back up my story helped convince them".

[@therocpd]

Please react to Map Men's video about why British place names are hard to pronounce because it talks alot about the history of the country so I think you'd find it really interesting

[@zehraguzel7623]

Bro when i was a kid I thought a city with 3 or more buildings that had people in it I couldn’t have been so wrong

[@wezen89]

Pokémon logic, if you get what I mean

[@samclarke3573]

The map men triggered my tea response with that add!! The striped lines in the top right are so nostalgic!

[@Senio6667]

This video was way too british for Mr terry to understand hahahaha

[@olliegoria]

2:03 something tells me you've never seen the aftermath of a soccer game in the UK

[@Longshanks1690]

The most recent place to be granted a city is Southend-On-Sea, with a population of 180,000, as a posthumous way to honour its former MP, Sir David Amess, who was murdered while doing constituency work and had been campaigning to get city status for Southend for his entire career.

[@wombat4191]

OOOOHHH he's reacting to Map Men! One of the best series in KZbin to be sure.

[@aneasteregg8171]

He did once or twice before, I honestly thought they might have asked him to not do more reactions since it's been so long

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I agree! It's both hilarious and informative!

[@JeffPalasek-cw2hv]

I always figured the word Mayor was derived from "major". ...and I figured that was where the last name Meyer came from, as well. Although I never looked it up.

[@danshields9980]

You are quite right, it comes from latin via French. Latin for Greater is Major, so the French called their local government chiefs Meire's and we English took the French pronunciation but the more Latin spelling Mayor (we obviously couldn't spell it Major because, well, that would cause major headaches when the Major wanted to announce major Majoral updates 😉)

[@vHindenburg]

Meyer/Maiyer/Meier is a job of someone makes diary products like yogurt.

[@JeffPalasek-cw2hv]

@@danshields9980 Oh wow! Thanks for explaining all of that to me. I'm interested in all of this stuff, but I'm a total amateur, and so it would've taken me HOURS to figure all that out.

[@LisaBeta-42]

Meierei is a word from northern Germany - else it is called Molkerei - the job of the medieval Meier was a steward or bailiff. Staying with puns: a city is larger than any other settlement - Universe-city but Global Village with a town in between and a Metropolis on top (or Urban Sprawl if the settlements have grown into each other). History vs. Geography - Rights granted to a settlement (fortification = town) in the pastr - number of inhabitants is all that counts today: with fixed bounderies, the cancerous settlements grow suburbs and sattelite towns all around them - but those commuters belong to the city/town they work in, although they are not accounted for there

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

The origin of the surname 'Meyer' is actually a bit complicated, but ultimately you are right. During Frankish rule in modern-day Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany, the Roman way of administrating was beginning to take hold. Throughout history, this sort of increase in bureaucracy has often led to traditional ways of specifying people being found insufficient, especially in cultures, like the Germanic ones (the Franks were a Germanic tribe), where you are most often referred to as the son or daughter of your father, and your first name is often the name of an older relative, which in practice meant that two neighboring villages often had several men and women with essentially the exact same names. This all meant that for people who were important to note down by the administration, new surnames were needed. These were mainly occupational or denoted where you lived. 'Meyer' is a bit of both. See, along with the Roman style of administration came the Latin language. In Latin, they referred to a large household as 'maior domus', (lit. larger house). The two types of households that are typically larger than usual are manors, aka. seats of people with regional privileges, or independent farmhouses. The people who ran these places both received the surname 'Maior'. So, in essence, you could either be an independent peasant or an administrator of a manor. Later on, collective farming started to become a practice in Central Europe in order to increase productivity and competitiveness. This meant that individual farms stopped producing all they needed for themselves and instead focused on producing one or a few products more efficiently, which they could only safely do because they had made an agreement with neighboring farms about which products they produced. Anyway, this specialisation inevitably led to dairy farms becoming the biggest ones because cows are big and the process of turning milk into other products requires a lot of space. Hence, the dairy farm often became the 'maior domus', or as it was known by then, the Meierei, and the farmer who led the dairy was the Meier. When Jews entered Central Europe and also needed to get proper surnames to be approved by the administration, the ones who got to choose themselves and didn't have a very important lineage to represent (Levi and Cohen come to mind) went with names that fit with both German and Hebrew and Jewish culture. So, for example, the Latin 'Cantor' (singer) was obvious for a family of hazzans (the original Hebrew name for the (typically) man who leads the congregation in sung prayer) since it was also a title of a leading singer in a church, and Meyer or Meir was often chosen because it sounds like the German surname but also sounds similar to מֵאִיר (me'ir), which means "illuminating". You can see similar phenomena all over the world with diaspora populations. Here in Denmark, one of the more common Turkish first names is Deniz (means "sea) because it also sounds like the more usual Danish names of Dennis (m.) and Denice (f.), which have a completely different origin.

[@azcomicgeek]

When I was younger, i thought we moved from town to city when we passed 5000 population.

[@danadnauseam]

City status in the US depends on the state. I grew up in Connecticut, which designates several larger municipalities as cities znd has a few towns with city taxing districts, I now live in Oregon, which calls every incorporated municipality a city. The smallest city in Oregon has a population of 3.

[@TheExpatpom]

That opening joke isn’t British as such, it’s just a daft joke that primary school kids might find funny. City sounds like sitty, and therefore you would sitty on a chairy. But I think sometimes we laugh at these jokes as adults not because the joke is funny but that it’s funny to use a lame joke in that situation.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

It might not make sense to an American. It makes perfect sense to us Brits.

[@danshields9980]

I love the way Mr Terry thinks you can just give the king a brown envelope and become a city 😂

[@helenwood8482]

Americans are very confused about monarchy.

[@A_reasonable_individual42]

Probably because not that many people care about the monarch

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Might well have been the case in the past before our monarchy became constitutional rather than absolute, in those days favour could well have been a valid reason for a town to be elevated to city status, especially after the monarchy became the head of the English church. These days the government decides such things and the king just makes the official ceremony etc.

[@Varksterable]

​@@helenwood8482"Amicans are very confused." FTFY.

[@shaksper]

The London thing is the kind of confusion you can get when a settlement has existed for around 2000 years.

[@archerbyrne8103]

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Medieval English history and warfare I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@trevorgoddard2278]

Here in the often confusing UK we have fairly well accepted definitions of Hamlet, Village and Town but, Cities are too new to have been properly defined (we have only had them for about 800 years after all).

[@Howardfh]

...often confusing....that's an understatement about GB...no, England ..no, UK...British Isl........

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Hamlet ... wasting a perfectly good 90 minutes to listen to long dead danish Nobs whine about court intrigue...

[@ffotograffydd]

😂

[@ZoahLord]

St Davids is a beautiful city, even if it's small. The Cathedral used to be a significant place of pilgrimage in the middle ages with 3 trips to St Davids being the equivalent of 1 trip to Rome (don't quote me on the exact exchange rate there). It's still worth seeing nowadays. As for my home city of Swansea, my late step-father told me an urban myth that Swansea used to be a city in the middle ages but lost it's city status on account of siding with King Charles during the War of the Three Kingdoms (aka English Civil War). There's no evidence of this, however it's a good story. If it were true, Swansea would have gone from town to city to town back to city again in the 60s...

[@NavyVet9702]

In the U.S.A., it depends on state law.

[@albertlugosi]

10:40 This guy's got very serious issues with the Royals. Even if they're none of his business.

[@skunkfac3]

It's much like the joke, where did George Washington keep his armies? In his sleevies.

[@The-Plaguefellow]

3:17 A Cathedral contains a Cathedra, which is usually a raised throne but could be any sort of seating item really, and is the literal seat of power from which a bishop overseas his bishopric. So, technically, a tiny and unremarkable shed in the middle of a barren field could be a cathedral if a bishop put a sitting pillow in it and then considered it to be his seat of power.

[@The-Plaguefellow]

Fun thing too: "Cathedra", as a term, is derived from Greek _Kathedra_ which just means "chair/seat", and lacks any sort of religious connotations

[@quintuscrinis]

0:41 it's a play on the word sit, and it's audio similarities to the "cit" of city. The map and head bit is just slapstick ala Mr Bean.

[@Thelaretus]

Here in Brazil a *city* ('cidade') is the *seat district* ('distrito-sede') of an autonomous *municipality* ('município'), whereas a *town* ('vila') is the center of a non-autonomous *district* ('distrito').

[@martinbynion1589]

Perth in Australia is named after the one in Scotland. 🙂

[@quintuscrinis]

The original Perth is in central Scotland and Lisbun is in Northern Ireland. Also the Magna Carta isn't really relevant anymore and the UK has no written constitution to put this stuff in.

[@thalastianjorus]

The bit about "How do you define a city? It's what you do on a cherry!" is a _(purposely)_ bad British pun. You... "Sitty" on a "Chair-y." The British are... interesting people. There are a great deal of these in Shakespeare plays that, sadly, aren't picked up on by Americans. Too much German in American genetics to get the outright silly. (😉) That said - may I make a recommendation for a topic for a video? Kurzgesagt - The Egg Edit: If you want some fun one day: Visit Britain, go to London, and venture into the East End - then discover, fairly quickly, that they have a "rhyming slang." Wherein the slang terms for things do not have any direct relationship to what it refers to... the words relate to _other_ words that rhyme with the original word. Once you get used to the Cockney buggers - puns like in the opening is child's play. Which is, incidentally, where jokes like in the intro are from. British children's games of making up silly puns and rhymes.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

That's how I understood the pun! Fortunately, this American is English enough to not only understand Jay's pun, but also many of the Shakespearean puns. The puns in _Hamlet_ (such as "I am too much i' the sun.", which is funny in context) can be quite hilarious! Also, I've heard of that rhyming slang, and it can be quite interesting unto itself! I, for example, can be called "septic" because I'm a Yank. Thanks for the comment!

[@thalastianjorus]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions I was being a bit cheeky, about the Americans not catching on to the puns. Mostly so that I could take a small shot at both Americans and Germans with the same thought. 🤫

[@Shoomer1988]

A cathedral has a Bishop, a church does not.

[@Jan_Koopman]

In The Netherlands, places used to get a city status if the government so decided (usually, it was bought). This was eventually abolished, causing some "cities" like 's Gravenhage to not have a city status. Louis Napoleon, however, officially made it a city during his reign, even though this practice had been abolished. Nowadays, The Netherlands officially don't have city status at all: the constitution never mentions cities, only munincipalities. What is(n't) a city is a social-historical construct here. The closest thing to a definition of a city should be "the governing center of a munincipality"

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Well you HAD to go and complicate things with your "not yet quite King" Kings, the Stadholders :D

[@1990Judson]

I love how basically no one notices the joke about cities in Germany. The British definition is quite sensible compared to our mess.

[@nari5025]

It's as if 'city' is a medieval concept that granted certain rights previously witheld by a monarch to a settlement, that nowadays, since we're devoid of monarchs, all (incorporated) settlements come with anyways. The 'status' (stadt, anyone?) doesn't really do anything, so why is it still a thing communities are seeking? Edit: Oh, yes, the Brits still have one of those, so it does make just that bit more sense. (it still doesn't make a difference, since Karl can't give away any special powers, can he?)

[@jordanferrazza8700]

5:07 Australia did a similar thing with local governments (but some were merged into other shires like the *City* of Castlemaine was merged into the *Shire* of Mount Alexander, and some just became of no decree like Sunshine Coast *Regional* Council or MidCoast Council, or neiche ones like *Rural City* of Swan Hill). The 'cities' are also usually independent of the local government especially after states amalgemate them (but sometimes split away (before reamalgimation) from their namesake shire due to economic differences). Fun fact- there was once a borough in Victoria that was so big that the borough had to be made law. (It ended up merging and losing the status along with Castlemaine in the 1990s as part of post-recession reform)

[@YoloMenace001]

At the start: Mark says "how would you define a city" and jay says "it is what you do on a chair-ee" making a joke of Mark saying "sit-ee".

[@wombat4191]

The wordplay at the start was weird, took a couple of retries to understand it as a non-native English speaker. When I got it I lol'd though.

[@jamespyle777]

Fremont Hills, Missouri. Calls itself a city despite having less than 1000 inhabitants. It does not have it's own police, fire department, city hall, school district, utilities, zip code or any type of amenities except for its golf course with clubhouse, three churches, a gas station/c-store and a brewery.

[@suzettewilliams1758]

Constitution are great in theory bit they are also cumbersome and take a lot to change or amend. The USA had to amend the Constitution to get rid of slavery. In the UK it only took an Act of Parliament.

[@NataliePine]

My four year old watched this with me. When he saw you in your crown he pointed excitedly and said "look mummy, it's the queen!"

[@anonUK]

Part of the joke with the Year 3000 "Queen" robot is that every town around Reading has become a city but Reading still hasn't.

[@Xenotric]

I never! Our flash mobs are the best most organized queues in the world I'll have you know!

[@charlielouise2428]

It's a pun: City - sit-ee Somewhere you put a chair in Somewhere you sit

[@DylanSargesson]

The only tangible difference when a new City gains the status is that the local government will change its name. For example after Doncaster gained City status in the 2022 Bidding Round, the local council was renamed from "Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council" to "City of Doncaster Council". Doncaster is actually an interesting example of the different definitions of Mayor too. Doncaster has three different Mayors: an appointed Civic Mayor which is the historic officer who does ceremonial stuff (currently Cllr Duncan Anderson), an elected Executive Mayor who leads the City's administration (currently Ros Jones), and the elected Combined Authority Mayor of South Yorkshire (currently Oliver Coppard - as mentioned in the video).

[@ELG8732off]

In France, it is a town with over 2000 inhabitants

[@cp368productions2]

Town is an unincorporated large area, Hamlet is a small unincorporated community, Village is incorporated under 15k in population, City is incorporated over 15k in population. Very easy to understand. In my county we have 16 Towns, Bennington, Attica, Middlebury, Covington, Perry, Warsaw, Orangeville, Sheldon, Java, Wethersfield, Gainesville, Castile, Genesee Falls, Pike, Eagle and Arcade. Those towns contain multiple hamlets and 7 villages, Attica in Attica, Wyoming in Middlebury, Perry in Perry, Warsaw in Warsaw, Arcade in Arcade, Castile in Castile, and Gainesville and Silver Springs in Gainesville. Pike used to be a village but unincorporated the same year as Pluto was demoted to Dwarf Planet and is now a Hamlet in the Town of Pike.

[@robtyman4281]

Americans don't understand Europe per se - because it's just too complicated and 'multi layered' for them to get their heads around. And that also spplies to just Britain aswell. Its a well known fact that Americans find British humour very difficult to understand. Because it can be funny on many levels, or conversely - it can be very crude. And Im not even going to attempt to explain "double entendres'. Thats a whole new level of British humour!

[@blizzfreak]

Double entendres are... not an exclusively British thing. Do you think all Americans can barely form a coherent sentence or something? So condescending.

[@rohan1970b]

First joke (you didn't catch) -- How would you define a sit-y? It's what you do on a chair-y. :_)

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

In my state, the biggest city is prevented from growing so there are suburbs of that city that are basically cities (but not by nane) much larger than any other official city in the state.

[@helenwood8482]

The Welsh version of David is pronounced Da-vith not da-vid. Mayor is a single syllable word whether you like it or not. We can't help it that Americans can only handle basic phonetics (but weirdly can't sound the he in herbs).

[@triplej755]

I was literally having goat cheese when Jay said ‘It had something to do with cheese’!

[@andresxcore1]

that armor 10/10

[@Merennulli]

An incorporated city in the US is a state-level designation, with each state having its own rules for incorporation as a municipality. You can also have an unincorporated or disincorporated city, which doesn't have legal municipal authority but may be registered as a "populated place" with the US Geological Survey or a "place name" with the US Postal Service and those names can include the word "city" even if it's not incorporated as a municipality. That said, there really is no broad rule on whether to call a municipality a "city", "village", "town", "hamlet", or just "municipality" and the municipalities themselves are usually the ones that decide. I live a few miles from a disincorporated city. Due to a natural disaster, that city opted to be annexed by its neighbor, but it still shows as a "city" on maps 30 years later, still has its own "city" post office, and has all of 6 homes. There are a few villages, towns and hamlets with populations of 1, but the smallest city I could find was Warm River, Idaho, with 3. It was incorporated in the 1940s to allow them to issue liquor licenses.

[@ArcherV]

Map men? Yay 🎉

[@stevedoherty1150]

In Maine there are three levels of local government. Plantations which have town meetings, but can't pass local ordinances. Towns which have Town meetings but can pass local ordinances, and cities which generally elect a city council and have a manager., Plantations are generally the smallest, usually under a 100 people. Towns range in size from 50 to 22,00. Cities range from 1200 up to 69,000. What can I say Maine is a small state.

[@moluther2826]

4:31 Inhabitant of Harrow here. Can confirm, dull suburban borough.

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

German does initially not have different words for town and city, but like in nearly all European kingdoms a settlement became in medieval times a "Stadt" (= city) by receiving the Stadtrechte (town charter) by the king or (in some cases) the duke. An "Imperial City" (Reichsstadt) as some kind of higher status was a city only subordinate to king and emperor, not to the local governors/bailiffs and aristocrats. That's also where the saying "Stadtluft macht frei" = "City air sets you free" came from - if some serf accomplished to move into such a city and to be accepted as citizen or at least permanent inhabitant of the city, his or her serfdom ended. At least in Bavaria there was however also the category of "Markt" - a settlement which not received a town charter (which included the right to build city walls), but only the right to hold regular markets (every week or x times per week) - some smaller towns in Bavaria are still called "Markt" and not "Stadt". Nowadays it goes mainly by population size (min. 5,000 to become a town, but there is no clear rule to gain or loose that status). The smallest "Stadt" in Germany ins currently Arnis with a population of 278, which became a "Stadt" in 1934 because the older classification of "Flecken" (lit. spot or patch) was abolished in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The smallest town by a medieval town charter (given in 1326) is Neumark in Thuringia, while e.g. Haßloch (pop. 20,000) is only a municipality, not a "Stadt". Current administration in Germany differentiates (mostly) "Kleinstadt" ("small town", ~5,000 to 20,000), "Mittelstadt" ("middle town" or "middle city", 20,000 to 50,000 to 100,000) and "Großstadt" ("big city", above 100,000).

[@synaesthesia2010]

You sit-e on a chair-e, how can you not get that?

[@PiousMoltar]

The US has smaller cities than the UK. Like with 7 people or something. Some US states like Weast Dakidaho where practically nobody lives, the county seat of each county has city status. And those "towns" are often just a few buildings around a crossroads where about 7 people live.

[@OspreyChick]

Sitty is what you do on a chairy , bad dad joke

[@BigAlCapwn]

As a Brit who lives in a relatively small city I always thought it was having a University and a Cathedral as mine has both.

[@ffotograffydd]

Perth is in Scotland, there’s been a settlement there since prehistoric times! (Perth in Australia is named after Perth in Scotland).

[@anthonyholroyd5359]

So I live in one of those 'new' 21st century cities (although its been referred to as 'The Fair City' since the 19th century). Perth, Scotland. Funnily enough, thrre are only 8 cities in Scotland: Glasgow Edinburgh Aberdeen Dundee Inverness Perth Stirling Dunfermline. Though its worth noting that Dunblane, Brechin and Elgin all claim to be cities based on their having cathedrals (they're not though).

[@benjames9158]

I’m sorry but how didn’t you get the opening joke

[@MrTerry]

I have failed you.

[@timhh86]

Well Germany is similar strange. Arnis is a city with a population of 254, while Seevetal just south of Hamburg isn't considered a city with a population of 42.880

[@TACTICALwaffle2]

My city in SC broke away from the surrounding town over differences in policy and the application for incorporation had a bulleted list with village, town, city, etc and we picked city just to spite our old town. So no there’s no requirement you just get to pick

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Which is not the same in every of the 50 states though.

[@moonliteX]

i spat my tea out when you said british flashmobs would be lame 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheJthom9]

A cathedral is not defined as a big church. 'Cathedra' means 'seat', so a cathedral church is the central church of a diocese, an ecclesiastical district, under the jurisdiction of a bishop whose seat is in the cathedral church. The relative physical size of the actual cathedral church does not matter

[@rikardottosson1272]

There is another Jay Foreman video that describes what London is (it’s not about M25, nor is it about postcodes)

[@JOJ0606]

The best content to watch while drinking milk in The middle of the night and petting my cat.

[@sokonek1]

In Wisconsin, you become a city if you change forms of government, and take on more responsibilities.

[@ed_ward_1430]

Did anyone notice that the boys added 'Salisbury' to the picture of Lord Salisbury in the same colour and typeface as the Sainsbury's logo?

[@danielgardecki1046]

For anyone who wants to argue - All my figures are from the *Office for National Statistics* the government agency, and only official source for UK statistics. The *15 biggest cities in the UK by population:* 1 - *Birmingham - 1,140,525* 2 - *Leeds - 798,786* 3 - *Glasgow - 635,640* 4 - *Sheffield - 589,214* 5 - *Manchester - 555,741* 6 - *Bradford - 542,128* 7 - *Edinburgh - 527,620* 8 - *Liverpool - 500,474* 9 - *Bristol - 465,866* 10 - *Coventry - 379,387* 11 - *Cardiff - 369,202* 12 - *Leicester - 354,036* 13 - *Wakefield - 351,592* 14 - *Belfast - 342,560* 15 - *Nottingham - 337,098*

[@nathansteele4358]

I’m from Warrington which briefly appeared and I know in the year 2000 my town was buying historic things from other places to seem more historic And built a lot of statues begging the queen to remember Alice in wonderland was written here

[@martinclark7935]

Except it wasn't. Charles Dodgson lived in nearby Daresbury until the age of 10, but the Alice books were written in Oxford (under the pen-name Lewis Carroll) when he was in his 30s/40s.

[@vaudevillian7]

Lisburn is in Northern Ireland, Perth (the original) is in Scotland

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

08:20 They literally said in this video what a city is in the US...

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

Mr. Terry, While the Perth in Australia has become better known (and much larger, roughly 2.2 Million metro), it is named after a Perth in Scotland (pop. 47,000). By the way, while in most of the states, you have municipalities of various sorts which are generally within counties, although they may be either in several counties (Atlanta) or merged with the county government (Nashville). However, in Virginia, there are a relatively few cities, in part because the laws make the cities entirely separate from the counties which they are associated with. So Charlottesville is surrounded by and is the county seat of Albemarle County, but the city itself is not a part of Albemarle County. Since counties do not like to be carved up, there is generally resistance to the formation/incorporation of new cities.

[@ffotograffydd]

And annoyingly Google maps always assumes you want Perth in Australia, even if you’re in Scotland when you search ‘Perth’.

[@priestpeace219]

I, myself hail from the City of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand with 9 million people. In 20024, I was an exchange student at the "city of Evansville" in Wisconsin. The city had about 4,000 people then while the nearby village of Oregon had about 10,000 people. 😂

[@Cellq7]

USA city definition 1. a center of population larger or more important than a town or village. 2. in the U.S., an incorporated municipality whose boundaries and powers of self-government are defined by a charter from the state in which it is located.

[@qwertyTRiG]

It's something to do with cheese ... because Cathedral is a popular brand of cheddar.

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

0:36 What define a « sit » -y ? It’s what you do on a chair -y ? It’s a universal Anglo Saxon joke. You can be American and understand it.

[@brotherbruno1783]

A “cathedra” is a chair, the literal “seat” of a diocese. That’s the seat that signifies the primary teaching office of the Church in a certain region, I.e., the bishop.

[@jordanferrazza8700]

Perth is a city in Scotland, just like there is a Launceston, TAS in England.

[@dracogaming13]

From what i know the "City of London" part of London is the old borders of Roman Londinium.

[@yj9032]

Finally Map Men!!!

[@mrcroob8563]

You sitty in a chiary

[@dougbowers4415]

The rules of municipalities in the US varies by the state.

[@oufc90]

Reading’s football team are even nicknamed the royals and yet they’re still slumming it with their town status

[@simonshepherd4615]

Because it's in the Royal County of Berkshire

[@oufc90]

@@simonshepherd4615 yeah because of Windsor, definitely not because of Reading 😂

[@highpath4776]

Winnersh and Pangbourne are suburbs of Reading

[@xergiok2322]

I'm sure you would've understood the joke in the beginning if you had played it again. How do you define a "sitty"? It's what you do on a "chairy".