Why Most Humans Live Inside This Small Circle

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[@KaneSoulbreaker]

4:26 800 billion? Might be a small mistake there.

[@s0659651]

Yes I was looking for this comment!

[@tehgreatist]

they're multiplying!!!

[@ADeadlierSnake]

Sadly, every single video of his has numerous errors like this, and those are just the ones I manage to catch over the course of a single view. I shudder to think of how much other misinformation this guy is peddling that goes unnoticed.

[@thefirminator]

@@ADeadlierSnake honest mistakes man chill

[@DanielFenandes]

Small? It is just a factor of 1000x

[@seanthe100]

The reason is the Himalayan mountain range and the insane amount of snow melt these mountains produce winch creates literally every single major river valley in this area. Also the Himalayas and Tibet are home to 3rd largest store of fresh water on the planet after the artic and antarctic.

[@An-Islander]

Came here to say this! Not to mention the amount of minerals and nutrients that are unleashed into those rivers yearly.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Java though.. I think for maritime Southeast Asia, like Java for example, it's coz these islands are volcanic and getting constantly fertilized.

[@raifikarj6698]

@@nunyabiznes33 another reason 90% of the island despite volcanic is relatively flat compared to mountain range and valley that usually present

[@Donthaveacowbra]

Makes sense albeit never really thought about it 🤔 I think we also need to factor proximity to coastline. Amazon and Andes produce a crazy flow rate albeit with lower nutrient sourcing. That being said there is also a time factor as if left to expand uninterrupted it also may have been a massive population source. The volcanic Islands is an interesting angle

[@gytoser801]

1- Tibet countains Himalayas 2- Their combination of both are home to 3rd largest store of fresh water

[@KingOfTheJuice666]

4:20 I sure hope he meant 800 million, instead of 800 billion!

[@nathanstenson8127]

Lmao was looking for this post. This fact really had me questioning reality for a min

[@OfficialCryptivity]

same i was like 800 billion? 😮

[@JLdoesArt]

And its on 420 too 😭

[@mayankraj9249]

I was looking for the comment and I thought I was imagining it.

[@BP-ie7xf]

Me too lol, got scared there for a second 😂

[@WarLorde]

"Times Square is nowhere near the true center of the world" the most blindingly obvious statement ever made but Americans shocked to learn it, amazing 🤣🤣🤣

[@mrconfusion87]

We have malls in Manila that have more daily foot traffic than Time Square! 🤣🤣🤣

[@KingOreo2017]

4:24 "Which, when all combined, add up to 800 billion people" damn, they must have been really busy during covid 😂

[@daisuke910]

I was shocked too. Gajibillion people there! Lol 😂 Should be million as There is only 8 billion people and counting at the moment. Not gonna lie. There is a lot covidtime babies. People getting busyyyyy

[@yavuzkrat3858]

Only 800 billion Muslims. Now consider other religions. That area must be host to more than 2 trillion people 🤣🤣

[@calholli]

Reminds me of my son playing Roblox..

[@iamtheonewhotalksbutyoucan5781]

Hol up the their only 7.75 billion people on earth Yes I know it was a mistake

[@ACX16]

@@iamtheonewhotalksbutyoucan5781 na really?

[@udishomer5852]

For anyone wondering: A circle of 3,300 km radius has an area of ~34.2 million square km. Which is roughly 6.7% of the Earth's total surface area.

[@salvadorsoliva8746]

Thank you for the info😊

[@brandond5963]

Pretty crazy when you add in that over half of it is water and uninhabited

[@Fylnnn]

@@set65 yeah you counted ocean as part of it

[@robloxgamerweb6718]

how are u so big brain

[@aashitAgrawal]

or 22% of earth land (excluding oceans) is that circle

[@ZipSnipe]

It’s so weird that Mongolia only has two people per square mile, it’s hard to imagine that it’s people were so ferocious back in the days of Ghenis Khan

[@connorlearmonth665]

Square km

[@sammybeutlin2763]

Mongolia was way greener 1000 years ago ... but the climate changed

[@tabletgenesis3439]

People live alone.

[@charlie172011]

About 5 people per square mile.

[@generalsmedleybutler340]

When they conquered other groups, they added them into their army, so it wasn’t just Mongols.

[@Murf_Workshop]

The Yellow River, The Yangtze, The Sarda, and The Ghaghara all flow from the Himalayas and flow through much of the arable land mentioned. Those mountains giving billions of people water for their food and livelihood. Geography is a powerful thing to learn. it shaped our history and our way of life in ways we never could've imagined.

[@trinhduycuong1991]

Sông Mekong Hay Sông Hồng cũng bắt nguồn từ đó 😢😮

[@chefscorner7063]

One of the reasons China built the Huge "Three Gorges Damn" system is to control that water flow. Sadly, with the rampant corruption that occurred during it's build, there have been some really serious problems with the system during times of exceptional rainfall. I won't get into the history of the areas destroyed by it's building as that's its own Documentary. ;)

[@amadexi]

This area is also extremely efficient, so much fertile and green land, and a lot of water to connect many cities through boats.

[@LostLk2hi]

Yes and the mighty Mekong that provided life for millions who now cannot move, barely eat and wonder what in the hell happened. Only one group of world hegemonists can answer that question. The despots known as the PRC. That is all I am willing to say.

[@medved5450]

@@LostLk2hi how tf are you verified with 2 subscribers?

[@jr2904]

@@LostLk2hi the CCP is the world's greatest threat, funded by western greed

[@MrSpiritmonger]

@@jr2904 Ironic because it's the West invading and bombing and conquering nations. Westerns are projecting their guilt on China.

[@MrSpiritmonger]

@@LostLk2hi Ironic because all the Mekong nations signed RCEP, the world's largest free trade treaty with PRC (China). So I guess it's purely Western projecting their own guilt of colonization and imperialism upon China. The nations in that region is signing massive economic free trade deals (RCEP) with China.

[@anturanggatantra2137]

As a Javanese, I simply forgot that this island could've been a country on it's own. But trust me, having almost 150m human in such a small space is really not a good idea.

[@IMTAOMODASH]

don't worry it will not sink.

[@NurmaBP]

Java probably would be the first Gigacity

[@rafaelserapio5972]

@@IMTAOMODASH for you. HAHAHAH we dont even know what can possibly happen. but it might sink like indonesia's capital because they destroy nature, now nature is having revenge :D Destroying Nature just to have Higher Economy and GDP Lmao. that is KARMA

[@ngonguyetnhi]

Haha i think so too

[@yogadarmawan3051]

Thats why we move our capital city

[@OffTheGrid1982]

I didn't realize how much I find geography and facts so interesting. All your videos are great!

[@MM-qp4pd]

Meanwhile Western world is destroying their environment with all the pharmaceutical, air and water waste making it hard for their populations to grow and be healthy so what do they do? Try to take over Asia or build factories in asia to make fast fashion, pay them 70 cents an hour so the western world can get cheap clothing and goods that screw up the environment for all. Are you still wearing polyester that when you wash it releases microplastics to the water and fish to eat??

[@user-vk7cp1op9p]

Yet it also includes the most actively populated area of sea life and corals. Indonesia is the best area to see sea creatures, which used to surround other highly populated areas, but has been lost to over-fishing and pollution. We must protect the sea life in this area while it still survives, to keep it as it currently survives. A miracle to make us all proud. Indonesia, kudos!

[@MM-qp4pd]

Meanwhile Western world is destroying their environment with all the pharmaceutical, air and water waste making it hard for their populations to grow and be healthy so what do they do? Try to take over Asia or build factories in asia to make fast fashion, pay them 70 cents an hour so the western world can get cheap clothing and goods that screw up the environment for all. Are you still wearing polyester that when you wash it releases microplastics to the water and fish to eat??

[@Mockermay]

This is so true. I live inside that circle.

[@Isnapthesky]

GG

[@justinhosein6069]

@@Isnapthesky lol

[@platinum-or3y]

ok

[@tukezdi]

5 billion

[@Royalmerc]

Dose it feel crowded in there?

[@MaxTakeANap]

As a person that live in that circle, I can confidently say that traffic jam kinda sucks

[@snowfox780]

Long live the train supremacy!

[@johndanes2294]

@@snowfox780 I see you Adam Something. Don't you hide under your alt account

[@techngames49]

@@snowfox780 If you live in India, trains are no exception.

[@Ebombe67]

@@techngames49 yeah everyone is in a rush but no one is on time

[@adib3011]

Isn't it funny how Americans think their roads and cities are crowded😂

[@lavishlyenigmatic]

As a person who live on the north western edge of the circle I can confirm that it's not that crowded as the rest of the circle

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

I watched every split-second of this presentation , my attention was riveted upon it . Thank you .

[@lordofdarkness4204]

Just for people saying the circle isn't small, relative to the whole planet, it is pretty damn small.

[@Yora21]

I'd like to see it on a globe and looking at it sideways. How big of a slice would you cut off the Earth if you separate it from the rest?

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

I think it's pretty small. If you know what the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is, this statistic has it.

[@trla6505]

@@thebookwasbetter3650 becuse most of the world is water right?

[@thenewlbj]

Yeah, and it includes water too

[@PeteS_1994]

It's not an accurate interpretation though.

[@starvindo]

The biggest factor is probably the Himalayas as the range extends through the centre of the circle. The Mountains are water towers and the river, and deltas on either side provide the impetus for growing rice. Monsoon is also a factor tracing back to the mountains. They are truly the third pole

[@m.c.martin]

That’s probably why China’s name is Center in Mandarin. Named for being the Center of the World

[@highcouncil1302]

@@m.c.martin actually it's named after the Qin dynasty

[@majorian9406]

@@highcouncil1302 Zhongguo (the indigenous name for China) literally means Middle Kingdom in Mandarin

[@highcouncil1302]

@@majorian9406 the word China comes from Qin the Qin dynasty named China after themselves because they were the first Chinese dynasty

[@richeybaumann1755]

@@highcouncil1302 except the Xia were the first dynasty. Qin came 4th, after Xia, Shang, and Zhou.

[@lukasblazek4890]

Did he just say 800 billion muslims?

[@Med-knowledge]

I’m from Burma & I never knew about that. Thank u for ur information.

[@nathsiddhartha1]

The weather might also be a factor. No part of South Asia and South-east Asia faces freezing cold like Europe, Russia and parts of central asia. The weather in south and east Asia is more milder, no harsh cold, summers are less scorching and plenty of rainfall that attracted humanity thousands of years ago.

[@RichardWolfgang]

And their neighborhood more feel like "family" than just neighbor

[@wanderer572]

Summers in Bangladesh is literal hell especially in the capital. Even existing in peace is not possible.

[@ankurparajuli386]

Summers are getting hotter though

[@LunaYuee]

thats because its in equator, the equator doesn’t have seasons only dry and wet weather

[@user-ml1mr1ls2y]

@@LunaYuee nah.

[@KiwiEmpire4640]

4:25 800 billion. Sounds a little off.

[@misterycreeper6151]

Wow that’s alot of people

[@judithcabanero]

Just a little

[@nerfigian]

There are more Muslims than people in the world

[@KhazmoJitsu]

Very informative also best advertisement I’ve seen in my 32 years.

[@lifeboy1978]

One major point you have missed. Even in Indian subcontinent (pre-British colonial period), undivided Bengal has highest and densest population within that circle. The reasons are: 1. Highest yield of rice production (Ganges delta), 2. Highest Jute production, 3. Wealthiest proto-industrial economy- including high end clothes (maslin) and spices. Bengal was epicenter of economy of Mughal Empire so that it could run the entire area. GDP of Bengal was greater than GDP of Europe and North America together. This economic boom between 15th to 17th century resulted a population surge in Bengal. However after British Invasion in 1757, the economy of Bengal was destroyed by rapid de-industrialization. At the peak of the Mughal Empire, it made up about 24% of the entire world's GDP About 40% this wealth came from the Subah (province) Bengal alone.

[@covfefe1787]

India wasn’t highly industrialized at all. Otherwise it could have went toe to toe with Britain but it couldn’t because it had superior technology and weapons to use. and Britain was already seeding the seeds of industrialization. India did have some Proto Industrialization but not enough to kickstart an industrial revolution.

[@MM-qp4pd]

Meanwhile Western world is destroying their environment with all the pharmaceutical, air and water waste making it hard for their populations to grow and be healthy so what do they do? Try to take over Asia or build factories in asia to make fast fashion, pay them 70 cents an hour so the western world can get cheap clothing and goods that screw up the environment for all. Are you still wearing polyester that when you wash it releases microplastics to the water and fish to eat??

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

problem was nationalism , indians were not nationalist and british were luky to have developed taht concept before indians@@covfefe1787

[@kennywong4239]

One very crucial point that the video missed out is the closely knit family ties in that region. All the Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Filipino etc are practicising the same thing. With close kinship, the families tends to look after each other, thus reduce accidents, save lives. This guaranteed the survival of the individuals, with more people living to adulthood. When they are an adult, the kinship will also force them to reproduce so as to have the manpower to feed the elders. This is very different from the culture of the other continents where some of the family members or entire families will have to leave the main group due to food shortage or other reasons.

[@sheenosan]

I wish this could've been said in the video. Would've been a good insight to the culture within the circle

[@ravagewolf1336]

We also don't send our Elders into homes, We love and take care of them until their last day on this world

[@TaterTotsNFanta]

Family is everything. Just gotta put that ego aside, a little give and take, and some tolerance and you can have the most comfortable life. I used to want to make it on my own years and build my own castle being born in Canada and the culture but I realized I should be proud that my family wants to be there for support. Embrace it. Definite culture difference. Now I'm back at home with my wife and kids and my parents and her parents close by, I can have any car, vacation, time off and freedom I want. Plenty of income in one household to live comfortably. The math works out very well lol.

[@DennisHidayat]

facts

[@griefer3454]

@@ravagewolf1336 Sadly some asians do :(

[@Aman-qr6wi]

Himalayas simply has so much geographical advantage to india. It blocks the monsoon winds and create rainfall every year which leads to crop production.

[@p_HoE_niX]

Also protects from invasions, even if the enemy manages to come across they will be trapped between land artillery and himalayas.

[@axel3895]

@@p_HoE_niX well that's a lie

[@p_HoE_niX]

@@axel3895 How exactly is that a lie? You do realise that himalayas have it's extension across india, Nepal, bhutan and China border, right?

[@blackdesertsage9836]

@@p_HoE_niX yeap so pretty much the invasion threats back in the old days would be from east west or coast (cough cough Britain)

[@Razgriz032]

@@p_HoE_niX because Persia

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@keboonplumeria5266]

Love this! Greetings from Malaysia. We are - alongside neighborhood nationals in South East Asia - considered harmony and tight-knit with one another

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

Fun Fact: there’s more people on the planet living on land than there are people living in water

[@Frostenheim]

No way

[@lilyb_is_cool]

NARRRR-- I can't believe it!!

[@drewsamagaio4606]

Thanks Snapple

[@ShawayFH]

now this, is mind opening, just yesterday I learned that every 60 seconds in Africa that a minute passes, which is equally as crazy

[@CashFlowKweezy]

🤔🤯🤯🤯

[@yagood0310]

as a Taiwanese, Taiwan is really small, 6 hours from North to South, We are really crowded everywhere, the good thing is convenient stories and small hospitals are everywhere, never been lonely, if you are hungry, 2 mins walk for food, if you want to go for dentist, 2 mins walk as looking for food

[@sheetalgupta866]

Hope China Don't do unnecessary aggression against it's neighbours

[@defectivepikachu4582]

and for anything more just take a train

[@scheimong]

@@sheetalgupta866 China REALLY wants to have TSMC so my confidence is not high

[@juhakorkiakoski6328]

I used to live more than 500km away from the closest hospital within my country. In Europe.

[@lubey8865]

@@juhakorkiakoski6328 Russia?

[@3316xtendedmedia]

Fantastic explanation!

[@xXxIsmirWurstxXx]

I am a huge AoE2 fan and play it myself :D watching a lot of age torunaments on youtube as well! I was so confused when the spirit of the law farm video suddenly blended in but it was still your voice talking about it and not SotL 11

[@frithfly1]

I thought it was a video from Rise of Nations

[@rurutherussian]

4:30 - “800 BILLION humans” 😭 That’d be an impressive feat of engineering to house 100+ Earthfuls of humans in that small amount of land, lol.

[@cablefeed3738]

I was trying to find a post like this to see if I should post it myself.

[@gabdoesgaming5904]

its 800 million can you read?

[@TehJuiceBoks]

Yeah the text box shows million, but he absolutely said billion

[@Kronic1Chillz]

@@TehJuiceBoks text box showed billion

[@marijng1208]

@@Kronic1Chillz million has 6 zeros billion has 9

[@fauzirahman3285]

It's not just rice as a food source, but the fact that they're grown in pretty fertile areas. The various rivers flowing through China and India, in addition to Bangladesh and the Mekong flowing through the various South-East Asian nations provide fertile valleys and water for growing food. On top of that, many of the Indonesian islands included in the circle have volcanic activity that also provides fertile soil for growing food. This is also helped with most tropical or sub-tropical sunlight exposure throughout the region to provide energy to the crops.

[@harukrentz435]

Nope rice is the reason. Rice is the only food staple which can sustain big population.

[@alflo4625]

Lol, take the rice out from us, youll see!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtjustiniani1354]

Buy a $5 worth of rice plus a $10 chicken bucket meal & you can feed an average white man for 2-4 days tops. Unlike other western food that will cost $15 per meal, the Asian (rice) meal with same price will feed an average man for days.

[@Natasha-tu5qs]

Exactly. To say it's just the rice is really missing the point, which is *why* are they are to grow so much of it? Climate and hydrology are fundamental.

[@upikabu1678]

@@harukrentz435 not only rice. People live in south east asia are so divers. They have their own staple foods other than rice, e.g. noodle (some may made of wheat, mung bean, tapioca, porang, rice or etc) , cassava, sagoo, corn, taro, etc.

[@big-kinoko]

I m in this circle as well, Malaysia. Easy to get food everyway, love my home.

[@ocwebdesigndev54]

Ngl, at the end of the vid, that was one of the smoothest product placement transitions I've ever seen

[@Luboman411]

In 1400, that circle over Asia probably contained 70% of the world's population and roughly 70% of the world's economy, which is way more than today. This is the reason why European explorers and monarchs were so eager to get to that Asian circle in the 1400s and the 1500s--they wanted to plug themselves in to 70% of the world's economy and the vast riches it generated. Even in 0 AD, I would be confident in saying that that Asian circle probably contained 50% of the world's population, as India was the most populous region in the world in 0 AD and China was the second most populous region. The Roman-dominated Mediterranean was the third most populous region.

[@nickrodriguez3850]

All you just wrote makes absolute sense

[@crepesoftime]

It's believed the population of the world around 1 A.D. was somewhere around 200-300 million. The Roman Empire encompassed a large portion of this.

[@FearlessLeader]

Actually China has always been the most populous region of the world for all of recorded history

[@dxelson]

Even now Europeans don’t want to lose their colonial era influence in that are

[@soberman1520]

@@dxelson like using English as second language

[@Skwertydogs]

The Indonesian Ocean region is also one of the most diverse and productive marine habitats in the world. It's entirely possible that more than half of all ocean life is also in that circle.

[@cameosix7077]

Indonesian ocean? When was this new ocean named?

[@BloxyPlayz]

@@cameosix7077 he just means the ocean around indonesia

[@neelamtrivedi1173]

@@BloxyPlayz are you fascinated by india occean ,so you are claiming indian occean

[@BloxyPlayz]

@@neelamtrivedi1173 no the original commenter

[@Enseeyar]

@@neelamtrivedi1173 its between indian ocean and pacific ocean

[@IwasTaken420]

Really interesting, but I wonder how long this will continue to be the case considering there parts of the world outside the circle who’s population is growing significantly faster than that of inside it, namely Africa and certain parts of the Middle East

[@MM-qp4pd]

Meanwhile Western world is destroying their environment with all the pharmaceutical, air and water waste making it hard for their populations to grow and be healthy so what do they do? Try to take over Asia or build factories in asia to make fast fashion, pay them 70 cents an hour so the western world can get cheap clothing and goods that screw up the environment for all. Are you still wearing polyester that when you wash it releases microplastics to the water and fish to eat??

[@TheCipheric]

You also forgot to mention that these civilizations are pretty old … humans have been settling here successfully since prehistoric times … the area didn’t experience a lot of natural disasters and ocean, rivers and mountains provided a lot of cover from invasions

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

most disatsor happened in india during british time and 100 millions died of starvation as they looted the people

[@paulnd7220]

This was really fascinating to watch, of course this idea was already present in my mind, but it gets driven home so much more when placed in this context, this has also made me realize how easy it is to look at a country's land area in square km/ms and immediately start to judge how many people should or should not be able to actually live there without taking into consideration what that area has to offer "resource wise" Pretty excellent video.

[@dilkush_21]

Don't read my profile...............

[@johnl.7754]

At least until the modern day where food is much more easier to transport.

[@paulnd7220]

@@johnl.7754 Very true.

[@user-ew5vj1sl1u]

@@dilkush_21 okay.

[@Lochness19]

I've tried to calculate that before. But you really do need to take into account climate as well. I'm pretty sure that the drier parts of the US midwest (ex western Nebraska) would have quite a bit lower yields in terms of calories per acre than say, southern Indiana or the Mississippi Delta. And the Mississippi Delta probably has quite a bit higher calorie yields per acre than say, the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. Some of those glaciated soils (like in WI) are quite fertile, but I think the longer growing season of the sub-tropics outweigh those benefits. Also non-arable land can sometimes support a fair bit of people - pastures and orchards for instance are usually not included in arable land area. Anyways, the US Midwest can definitely support a lot more people than it currently has. This includes states like Iowa and South Dakota, but also more densely populated states like Indiana and Ohio. The Canadian Prairies are also major food exporters, especially Saskatchewan.

[@genji_onion]

RealLifeLore: "- when all combined, are home to over 800 '*BILLION*' Muslims!" Me: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... Hold on a minute... I think we just skipped a whole chapter here

[@braydencornall5159]

#4.28 litterally had to replay it I thought I'd teleported into the future

[@diveshrana7359]

Other people noticed too

[@AllenPatrickish]

Aliens

[@BartAnderson_writer]

That's a lot!

[@NotTrollX]

he include ant so

[@deanbowie3774]

Himalaya, Ganges, Mekhong, Irrawady, Malacca Strait, ASEAN Sea, Yangtze, SEA forest, Archipelago of Volcano, its all rich resource of nature to bring more human build their civilazation and become most presticious area than other world

[@potepitikonevorrasing6596]

Wow didn't know thanks for the info -a fellow person in the circle

[@FebiMaster]

Java island alone has 45 active volcanoes that erupts every few years or so, making the lands around it very fertile, water are abundant and everywhere, its easy to grow crops. Even in the big city where i live in, Jakarta, there are three fruiting trees in my front yard, we just harvested rambutan fruits a few days ago, and Jackfruits usually later, it’s far from the fertility of the rural areas but we still can harvest fruits, and the trees here grows taller than my house

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

more people live on the island of Java than live in Russia

[@clark_johannes]

Mmm... Rambutans and jackfruits. Never eaten those since the beginning of the pandemic. Kinda miss fruits like those (even mangosteens and durians) 😭

[@Wasserkaktus]

Yet Jakartans' have no united municipal water infrastructure, so their solution is to just drill for groundwater, causing the city to sink and that resource to deplete.

[@chai1513]

How does lava erupting not cause damage farmlands? I am curios to know how it makes it even more fertile?

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@chai1513 It does cause damage to farmlands, but it can cause more bumper crops in the long term.

[@hahanimation1729]

I live in the circle and my country known as Malaysia... Why we live in Malaysia? One of the reason is you will never expect that this small country in top 17 MegaDiverse because have a lot of Fauna and Flora species... There is... 12,500 ⬆️ Flora 361 ⬆️ Mamalia, 677 (Peninsular) and 117 (Borneo) 794 Birds, 547 ⬆️ Reptile (Malaysia have 20% of the worlds animal species). For me, in the circle... Not only Human Population, but Flora and Fauna too... Since there is India, China, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia is Top 17 Mega Biodiverse

[@EM-mj7tv]

Malayan Tigris

[@ThatOneKnight96]

Rice gang

[@kamitauhangtau7725]

orang utan ...from borneo Malaysia

[@SVT-ny8ee]

Diaorang mention Malaysia sekali je...

[@braunarsch]

As an expat living in Malaysia lemme tell you why living in Malaysia is awesome .Nasi lemak, nasi goreng and other foods .Malaysians are super chill .no natural disasters like earthquake and volcanoes and no drought since it rains all the time .food baby food!

[@Uprising771]

that small circle has the best food in the world!

[@Save_the_Earth]

He said there is 800 billion Muslins in that circle which means according to him there are more muslins in that circle then people on earth💀💀💀💀💀

[@goldogwolly]

I live inside this circle, can confirm it's crowded as fuck

[@ihavehighcholestorol]

What country?

[@davidhimmelfahrt3732]

What's with the countryside?

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

what are the shops like at christmas, I dread to think. I'm in Ireland and I can't face the shops right now.

[@tack3545]

there aren’t really that many christian’s in that area, still millions but i doubt it’s that big of a thing.

[@zan1971]

@@SusanaXpeace2u Nah the first thing you need to understand is that more than half the world's population lives in this area. No one really gives a shit about Christmas. It's just a nice day for kids to have a free holiday and for companies to put out santa hats and give discounts.

[@EvarDion]

Rice has another advantage over wheat in that you can grow it in the side of mountains which are everywhere. wheat and barley can only really be grown on plains as the ground needs to have good drainage and it needs to be regularly ploughed. This means that while you could theoretically grow grains on mountain terraces, it's just not economically viable to do so. This is why the mountains of the Mediterranean were usually planted with olive trees and the mountains of northern Europe were often planted with fruit trees (if used at all). Other staple crops that can be grown on terraces (corn/maize and potatoes) did not make it to Europe until the 15th and 16th centuries so the population in Europe did not really explode until the advent of mechanized farming, land clearing and the introduction of additional staple crops from the new world. And of course the near constant warfare also helped to keep the European population low.

[@clairet5636]

and the Black Plague

[@unknownuser_99]

Also, Europe has colder climates, in which a lot of diseases thrive.

[@harukrentz435]

Heres the biggest advantage of rice. You can RINSE/WASH it. Have dirt, fleas, stones in your rice? NO PROBLEMO just wash it down with water repeatedly. You CANT do that with wheat flour, hence why rice civilization tend to have bigger population..

[@wombat4583]

@@unknownuser_99 Cold climates actually help control many diseases as temperature is often a factor for many to thrive. Or if it's passed along through bugs then they are dormant for periods of time. You should actually watch out for diseases where the temperature is more of a constant.

[@aashaikh8532]

Rice cultivation requires immense amount of water .

[@wotsup9oo]

Its funny but i, and i think that many geography lovers, wondered that from when we were kids. I would even say that east asia has been slowing down and Africa speeding up since decades, from which i think that circle could have been smaller in the recent past.

[@arkadewanto5752]

I'm very thankful you included Indonesia to this video. 💕

[@Mikasks]

“Most of you would put your circle i NY Times Square.” I think only Americans would do that chief.

[@10040c]

Not even man, I may be American but it's common knowledge that both China and India have populations at least 4 times the size of the US

[@sciencewizard2861]

Yuhh

[@josjoererg]

as a new yorker, who would do that

[@b.h.kapadia437]

Yeah because still they think Indian is a language LoL and We all ( Indian) Wear turban I forgot mentioning language They consider speaking Hello in other language than English as a milestone while me who seriously can speak fluent English along with Gujarati and Hindi still gets taunt from parents that I am inferior to our neighbour who speaks Marathi too

[@marilena7848]

Um, no. Even New Yorkers, who do tend in some ways to think of NY City as the center of the universe, would not do that. ;)

[@eyefetisheyezlesbians9074]

4:27 wow. Hundreds of times more than the whole population of earth. This is amazing.

[@karlmonet]

800 BILLION muslims! WOW! We are in deep shit...

[@justnoah2073]

They day they leave that circle, they take over the world. They are unstoppable.

[@avatarmikephantom153]

Dr Evil took over for that statement...

[@zv102zv4]

Beat me too it

[@navyamahakali8350]

He meant 800 million

[@ryanorlando1122]

Wow, Canada is roughly one third the size of that circle and our population is 38 million, a tiny fraction of the population of that circle.

[@Weavileiscool]

This circle will have to get bigger because of the huge growth in Africa‘s population this century.

[@jimland4359]

I completely agree with the rice vs wheat thing, but I don't think I would use the word "choose." The far east is a much better climate to farm rice that pretty well anywhere else.

[@sumit5175]

Hey where from you bro?

[@loleder]

I agree

[@stephenisheta8457]

I bet china pulled some ugly psyops in early history to prevent the rest of the globe from adopting valuable practices, just like what they are doing with covid right now.

[@Marnige]

@@stephenisheta8457 stop being toxic, no one cares.

[@achyuththouta6957]

@@stephenisheta8457 shut up

[@madkhaliqfarhan]

As a Malaysian, I feel grateful to be living in this circle and I feel even luckier because I live in Borneo, the island of adventurers! 😇

[@frankyong2607]

The land is great but the corrupt ruling politicians in power aren't and will bring down the people.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Malaysia boleh! 🐱👍🏿

[@slametriyanto8022]

Bagaimana dengan indonesia

[@frankyong2607]

@@fidelcatsro6948 Malaysia boleh - corruption

[@jhonnyhantarto7274]

@@frankyong2607 True.. but corruption happened in many countries including mine country as well

[@charlie172011]

3,300km (5,280 miles) radius means 34,212,000 km². Considering 3,918,500,000 people in this area (50% of Earth's total population), that's about 114.5 people per km², or 229 people every 2 km² (or 293 people per square mile).

[@ditsygirl5409]

It’s not! You forgot there’s a lot of water surrounding the land! 😓

[@winter_silhouette]

Another point about rice cultivation is that it's very labour intensive. So the more people you have, the more rice you can grow. Which, in turn, feeds more people. It's a self fulfilling cycle really.

[@igniculusquartz1827]

Absolutely in tears at the introduction lmfao who in their right mind would think of New York as the center of the world? New York isn't even in the top 10 most populous cities, and the US being only the third most populous country. Drawing a circle around New York to encapsulate 50% of the population would probably end up taking more than half the world, literally only Americans would have thought to center this around New York

[@MichaelGGarry]

You forget how insular many Americans are.....

[@lathyo]

Exactly. I'm surprised how no one else commented that

[@pierzing.glint1sh76]

Have you ever even been to NYC You get there and you feel that you are literally at the world's cross roads So many cultures, so many languages and the world's biggest businesses the biggest universities and tonnes of very smart very important very powerful people from all around the world coming every year to business and learn and conferences and shopping etc etc And not to mention yearly international tourists (Which is all the more impressive, considering the hoops you have to jump through to be allowed onto US soil) Theres nowhere like New York. Ofcourse I understand where you're coming from, but the vitriol in your tone "only Americans" lol really?

[@zeinab9222]

as an american, my first gut reaction guess wouldve been tokyo tbh

[@pierzing.glint1sh76]

@@zeinab9222 why ?

[@Crosshill]

that small circle has some seriously interesting geography and its kinda sad how difficult it is to find videos about it that arent arbitrarily cut up into nation lines or which arent almost exclusively about various numbers, so i often learn more about it from the angle of food and agriculture cause that topic cares more about physical geography than geography in general

[@crobeastness]

You'd rather a world without national borders?

[@jarvisalbaasith5977]

Hey come one don't make it sound like a bad thing, if they did care about their physical geography and culture then theres nothing wrong with it. That is the whole point of SEA, isn't it?

[@username_19388]

Ur pfp lol

[@bigsmall246]

I think a problem is the relatively lower English literacy and education level in that region (especially the area between India, china and Indonesia) which limits the amount of content creators native to and familiar with the region

[@kaylamcnamara7284]

@@bigsmall246 English is widely spoken in India, especially by young people. But I see your point with the other countries

[@andrewyoung-n8ary]

I saw a podcast where they were discussing an event that occurred several thousand years ago where there was a megaflood that wiped out most of the Western Hemisphere.

[@bonemarrow3439]

That's impossible

[@Monstacheeks]

I’m looking to move there! Hope it won’t be too crowded

[@mdavid2822]

Civilizations don't "choose" their mother grains, nature does most of that for us. A government can't just say "okay, we're going with rice now--plant it in the wheat fields". Wheat, rice, barely, etc. grow best in different regions. Because China and India are largely tropical river basins rice is naturally abundant there. In the semi-arid plains of Northern China, wheat grows best.

[@canaldoxerxes]

800 billion muslims on 4:31 I mean, considering that his circle extends to the multiverse, it's a fair assessment.

[@sojourner99]

Anyone that has played civ games already knew this. Bonus food tiles allow your pops to grow faster :)

[@victorisaacbabia.c.2611]

Fun fact: The world population of Jupiter is the same world population as Saturn.

[@doh-nc8ku]

The sun has the same amount of people as the moon That’s right every time you look at the sun you’re looking at, oh shit

[@Jonas.856]

I'm not completely sure, but it almost containes the highest and lowest points on earth too. Mount everest at 8846 and Marianas Trench at -10984

[@danielmartinezf]

@@set65 smort

[@leftfootfirstpolitics]

Everest is well within the circle, but the Marianas Trench is more than a thousand kilometers outside the smaller version of the circle. I think it's within the larger version of the circle, though.

[@erinholloman2914]

@@set65 I want some of wut ur smoking🤣

[@dieselcat]

@@set65 mf higher than the moon that is on earth

[@intriguingfacts5434]

Java is like Nile Delta or Indus river of the ancient era. The soil is so magically fertile, because of many volcanoes, tropical climate and high rainfall, that as a relatively small island, it can feed nearly 150 million people.

[@iamgreat1234]

@seeni gzty Nowadays Indian influence had been limited. Most SE Asian are Chinese fan now

[@dannyputra1908]

i live here in Java. East java. it's very refreshing living here. surrounded by many mountains and jungle.

[@wijaya4565]

Yeah, too bad though Java didn't develop any ancient civilization. Austronesian farmers only arrived on the island around 2000 BCE after being pushed by the Chinese southward expansion. Then, it took them 1500 years to develop a rice variety that suited the tropical weather and made them able to sustain large settlements.

[@iamgreat1234]

@Andhnamazi and liberandu 👉 sons of Aurangzeb Hindu only can survive in Bali. Most major cities has Chinese majority like Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Min

[@iamgreat1234]

@Andhnamazi and liberandu 👉 sons of Aurangzeb East Asian is a higher culture different from Hindu

[@Lovemattersteeny]

Slid that Hello fresh commercial in so slick😂😂😂

[@unyil706]

I am a Javanese, living in a house of 45m2 with 6 family members, it's really at home, with a faithful wife and 4 nice kids ❤

[@ghosthin3012]

9:47 Hang on there. No one CHOOSE to grow wheat instead of rice. That decision is climate driven as rice required much warmer temperature and more water than wheat which large part of Europe and North America lack. South America lacks open lands because it is full of impassable jungle which until recently, it is not farmable. Africa lacks water and so is Australia. Southeast Asians are the only ones who have access to rice because it has perfect lands to farm rice. It is MUCH harder to ship rice or pretty much anything 300 years ago so even Northern China doesn't eat rice all that much (Only the noble, rich or the royal family could afford it) as they mostly eat wheat flour noodle and bread, just like European and North American.

[@justnoah2073]

@@set65 90% of the world would be dead if that were true.

[@michalchik]

Yes that point rankled me also especially considering that Rice gets grown in the Mediterranean and may have originally been an African food

[@michalchik]

Additionally flooded field rice is extremely labor-intensive. It's only really viable when land is at a premium cuz you got so many people. My guess is that in at least some parts of China they preferred growing other food and Grains back in the days of the population density was lower

[@randomguy4397]

@@set65 how come is it made by recycled water bottles? Care to explain?

[@TheImmortalSorrow]

@@set65 fake news, big cap. Fun fact, actually most wheat is made from recycled water bottles

[@techngames49]

Fun fact: If the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was a country, it would have been the sixth most populous country in the world. It's India's most populous state.

[@tung-hsinliu861]

Damn. It reminds me that if California is a country, it will be the 6th largest country in economy size. Both are evenly mind-blowing for me.

[@TheMacbandit]

Hardly sounds fun.

[@Fylnnn]

@@tung-hsinliu861 California is really blown my mind, it has larger economy than whole India with 1.4B ppl even though they only have 39M

[@ahmedfamily2769]

Cool

[@jonasdavies1806]

I have been to Utter Pradesh once.

[@markusr353]

”The United States simply did not exist yet” - but North America did. There were people there too.

[@Quanny69]

I love how they had to compare it to New York for Americans to understand 😂

[@suryamukherji4943]

I live in West Bengal (India) and in case u dont know West Bengal is much more densely populated than java. But what u said is God damn right, the climate. Our older generation do say that West Bengal has the best climate and fertile land for agriculture anywhere in this world. And it is damn true

[@rumanavlog12]

West bengal as in Bangladesh?

[@alishamazzz7699]

@@rumanavlog12 noo India

[@suryamukherji4943]

@@rumanavlog12 Bangladesh was east Bengal u fool

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

java have 50 volcano

[@rups6936]

@@rumanavlog12 Bangladesh and West Bengal made old Bengal. Now Bangladesh is a seperate country...and the rest of Bengal remained in India as west Bengal.

[@corona_virus3216]

I live in this circle too! I didnt know that many people live in this circle.

[@wongteckxien7554]

Same

[@thephoenix3155]

This small circle also includes a large chunk of southern Siberia, too, which is of course is one of the most sparsely populated regions of the world!

[@Leyrann]

I'm pretty sure the circle is older than that. I remember this circle from I THINK early secondary school, maybe even primary school, which will have been around 2010, and it was in a Dutch atlas that was out for several years at that point. I don't have it here though (my parents might have it still), so I can't say for sure when it was published. EDIT: Have sent my dad a message to check, but good chance he won't be able to find it as they've been reorganizing the entire house. If he can find it, I'll edit this message with the release date of the atlas and it's exact name. EDIT2: It appears my parents no longer have the atlas. However, I see at least one person in the reply section here has corroborated that this fact was also known to them before the first date mentioned in the video (2005 in their case).

[@primaryslauson]

Okay

[@zedoisxis]

then im gonna send this message so you remember

[@daanschroeder3047]

Yeah, I've seen this map in my Geography classes back in 2005. And that map was atleast 20 years old... It has been true for the longest time that the "epicenter" of the world population is in S-E Asia.

[@sinoroman]

I like how a redditor is credited. Reddit is garbage

[@sciencewizard2861]

@@sinoroman reddit was literally never mentioned on this comment are u on crack

[@DanielBjorndahl]

4:20 I think you meant 800 million not billion lol

[@brightax7502]

Yeah

[@GoingToAFuneral]

Imagine 😂 800 billion terrorists

[@MajorMrNuts]

@@GoingToAFuneral not all Muslims are terrorists dude

[@GoingToAFuneral]

@@MajorMrNuts yeah obviously, if all Muslims were terrorists then we'd all be dead

[@andrewchatterton8594]

@@MajorMrNuts we would need to bring of them freedom from the sky 💣

[@seayellow5834]

Me: trying to come up with an efficient computer algorithm to find such a circle

[@kato_dsrdr]

As a person inside this circle, I can confirm that it's crowded here.

[@Strawman333]

What's really interesting is, that you can fit the worlds population (7.5 billion in Duval county Florida. That is literally a speck on the world map.

[@F0RLORN]

It's like 7.7B actually.

[@ftruers2544]

It’s actually 7.9B

[@magivkmeister6166]

Still wouldn't prevent Jags stadium from being empty lol

[@theworldexplained8253]

Fake

[@robthetraveler1099]

Well... at what population density? Theoretically you could fit almost any number of people into almost any space, it's just a question of how dense.

[@connie0613]

4:36 typo, not 800 billion Muslims :p

[@utopia4056]

Best advice I ever got was from a Filipino boss when I got my 1st job. "You no bring pen, you no want to work".

[@mr_cookies352]

6:20 ur question finally starts here

[@Kampfkartoffel174]

the craziest thing to me, that I still can't quite wrap my head around is that each and everyone of these people has a life as complex as your own. It's basically impossible for me to imagine this

[@yashkatare3303]

Nah, we just have npc roaming around here, "Need something?" "I bet you could slay one of those mean old dragons" "My favorite drinking buddy. Let's get some mead."

[@wandering_trading]

u got that main character syndrome

[@utisti4976]

This is what I like to call "Ant syndrome". People always look at an ant hill and just think "Oh, it's just a bunch of ants." without a second thought. Because they are just so common, ants are always grouped together. There's not very much of anything special about them according to the average person. But if you observe a single ant's life, just a single one, you could see that they are a lot more complex than what people normally think of them. Same case applies here.

[@SoulDelSol]

Of course millions of other people have full rich lives

[@wandering_trading]

@@SoulDelSol billions, that’s like 1000 times millions

[@lesussie2237]

I live on the island of Java. There's so many people that each city feels like whole countries and yet most of the island is too mountainous for human settlement so you get highly populated urban areas surounded by highly productive farmland in flat valleys surounded by pristine mountians. No wonder hiking and camping are so popular Even yet, there seems to be no limit to growth with housing continuously expanding while agriculture moves to other islands. The government predicts that in 2045, the metropolitan area of Jabodetabek and Bandung will merge into a mega metropolitan covering almost the whole of West Java and become home to 70 million people, becoming the largest city on Earth

[@alextorres2311]

I’m not reading all that

[@calebp6114]

Cool, thanks for the info

[@naseh446]

Im more worried about how to get a job and house prices will be very expensive

[@econdude3811]

The incredible amount of physical and human capital, so concentrated in one area, is quite promising.

[@jillstingray4819]

Mucho texto garbage ala ucho

[@lassamaria]

"While the United States just simply didn't exist yet". Yup, there was a vast ocean inhabiting where the United States is today which made it impossible to raise crops and grow the population. Great explanation.

[@yulijaprotopopova1633]

Small circle, bro got me tripping.

[@myksingh]

I live inside the circle. Climate is never too cold or too hot. We get sun shine almost all year. Land is absolutely fertile here. It feels crowded only when we stuck in traffic jams or use public transport. Otherwise you won't feel it. Some plus points of crowded places are- you won't feel lonely lol. I'm not sure about other areas but where I live in New Delhi we have everything within walking distance (1km) like many hospitals, fire station, schools, college, big parks, shopping centre, movie halls, police station, bus stop, metro train, adventure parks, hotels, restaurant, pet shops etc. So we barely need to go beyond 1 km.

[@lifeboy1978]

Northern India is not that densely populated as compared with Eastern India. Exclude Delhi because it was Mughal capital. At the peak of the Mughal Empire, it made up about 24% of the entire world's GDP About 40% this wealth came from the Subah of Bengal alone. Rapid economic growth resulted rapid population growth.

[@killapeopola3125]

4:15 damn 800 billion⁉️ Theres 100x more muslims in those four countries than there are people on earth

[@psmsedwinfran501]

@@TS65970 = 800 Billion 😲😲

[@mazuruki]

Fun fact there were more land area before cuz the ocean level was low and that land area connect most of the island until the ocean rose

[@alexandermcdaniel1479]

8:39 OMG I LOVED THAT GAME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!!! was it age of empires or rise of nations though?

[@marknc9616]

Even within that circle, I estimate that 45% is water. Another 15% is the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. So that means that approximately 60% of this circle is unpopulated or sparsely populated.

[@dororo2597]

Actually Kalimantan island has mere only have 23 milion people, sparseply populated, and morefurther that island bigger that Balkan in the europe.

[@dororo2597]

Hey sea water in that circle is more that 45% Don't forget about mercatory projection map

[@multilangcoder8723]

@@dororo2597 Balkan only has 30 million people, not surpsised

[@swish3814]

For another bit of perspective as to the difference in population density; Louisiana, the state compared with Java on size, has a population of around 4.62 million. That means Java has around 31x more people, 2,600 people per square mile of land mass. Incredible

[@harukrentz435]

Thats why we are moving our capital out of Java.

[@mfra959]

That's why don't make many kids Use condom if want sex

[@hilmyzulfikar9243]

@@mfra959 its more like good infrastructure, opportunities, and education are mostly present in Java, so people from the other island just mostly just towards java,

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

and 50 activ montan

[@farhsa4714]

@@hilmyzulfikar9243 because indonesian government only care about java

[@Mikebumpful]

Those Asian rice field pyramids have always looked so beautiful to me!

[@SundayTalksYT]

Everyone inside this circle be playing a real life Last to Leave challenge from a MrBeast video

[@tung-hsinliu861]

Though Taiwan is not one of the most populous areas in the circle, we still have a population density well in the top 5 in the whole world. And with mountains consist of 70% of the island, the plains area are quite dense.

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

In many ways, I feel like Taiwan is a mini Japan

[@tung-hsinliu861]

@@kakalimukherjee3297 I mean we literally been colonized by Japan for 50 years lol, and some remains of Japan still exists in our buildings, language and culture, despite we share the same ethnicity and language as China.

[@TheZachary86]

Although you can grow rice and other crops on hills. I think your density is only possible in the modern era, where globalization means you can import food from all over the world. I mean Singapore is also one of the most dense cities in the world and they have little to no arable land.

[@alexjv1370]

Taiwan? *-1,000 social credits*

[@dreel37]

@@tung-hsinliu861 Do you feel threaten by China's invasion plans? Just a question