Why Most Humans Live Inside This Small Circle

[@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

[@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

[@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 😂

[@Mockermay]

This is so true. I live inside that circle.

[@Isnapthesky]

GG

[@Justin60693]

@@Isnapthesky lol

[@platinum-or3y]

ok

[@tukezdi]

5 billion

[@Royalmerc]

Dose it feel crowded in there?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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. ;)

[@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

[@gaayy]

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

[@user-ml1mr1ls2y]

@@gaayy nah.

[@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

[@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

[@Ebombe67]

@shishir geel 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😂

[@nighttime4272]

@@johndanes2294 Oh I see you are a man of culture as well...

[@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.

[@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?

[@ex8800]

Yeah, and it includes water too

[@PeteS_1994]

It's not an accurate interpretation though.

[@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 :(

[@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.

[@lukasblazek4890]

Did he just say 800 billion muslims?

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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??

[@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.

[@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?

[@IvarDaigon]

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 .

[@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??

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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. ;)

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@keboonplumeria5266]

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

[@KiwiEmpire4640]

4:25 800 billion. Sounds a little off.

[@n4ffy]

Wow that’s alot of people

[@judithcabanero]

Just a little

[@nerfigian]

There are more Muslims than people in the world

[@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

[@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

[@KhazmoJitsu]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Med-knowledge]

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

[@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

[@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 💣

[@aryanimagine]

I agree, one of the big reasons could be Himalayas but I guess it influenced two things - 1. Less population above the mountains ( as it has Tibet and then lot above Siberia...just preventing rainfall till or around Gobi desert ) 2. Causing rivers flow in the plains of India.

[@StarKillerSK]

@you hev squirrel lol

[@sweetpotato5535]

@you hev squirrel pls stop being racist

[@aryanimagine]

@@sweetpotato5535 don't respond to such people bro...it just disturb the peace. Relax.

[@ashaypallav4158]

It's because Tibet is a cold place and not good for Human existence.

[@aryanimagine]

@@ashaypallav4158 yes majorly because of having mountains and etc. And where the freshwater is there it's too cold and above majorly it's the shadow of clouds by Himalayas that had created Gobi desert etc

[@ocwebdesigndev54]

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

[@SupposedlyAlive]

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

[@psmsedwinfran501]

@@TS65970 = 800 Billion 😲😲

[@joshuashiimnida8782]

I think some of the reasons are the caring culture of any Asian country, even if you're 18 years old and above you can still live with your family and I was belong to that family❤️

[@Runnow642]

As an Asian think the culture of living with your family after Highschool = loser is just stupid, we did not make like easier at all, other people just made life all harder But if you’re not Asian and still want to live with your family, it’s okay no one would judge if you don’t tell them

[@Daniel_0778]

@@Runnow642 I am asian and no one think like that.. I think you just have depression🤗🤗

[@BlueV205]

@@Daniel_0778 i think you misread their comment. They meant that the Western ideals that "if you've come to age but still live wtih your parents, you're a loser" is a foolish idea.

[@llbuitre]

​@@Runnow642i talked to some south american, central american and european friends, it is also okay in their culture to live with their parents after High School. As long as your are helping with the bills and expenses in house, that is fine.

[@KumarNikhils]

As some PPL mentioned rice eating or arable land is not cause of high population but result of other main factor. The Himalayas. The Himalayas and it's result Tibet plateau, stores lot of fresh water which it releases in 5 massive river valley. I.e indus river valley, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mekong, Yangtze and yellow river valley. Plus 2 smaller but still big river valley irrawady and Chao phraya. These big river valley enable rice cultivation and fertile sediment from Himalayan river increases arable land in india and china. Infact geologically, entire country of Bangladesh is built on sediment deposit of Ganges delta. I.e. it was below sea before himalayas came into being. On top of that, Himalayas is cause of very strong Monsoon system in India , south east Asia and South China. Which repelinshes snow in Himalayan glaciers . And monsoon cause healthy rainfall in plateau of southern and central India which do not receive water from Himalayan rivers but monsoon still allows them to have big river valleys and arable land. Only exception to Himalayas theory is island of Java. It is fertile (hence populus )due to insane number of volcanoes in island. But these volcano also exist due to same factor which created Himalayas and Tibet I.e. Indian plate continued collision into Eurasian plate.

[@hellryderplayz1854]

A small correction: A large portion of Bangladesh's land came into existence because of ganges delta, but the ganges delta only consists of 30-40% of the country, not all of it. The north, North east and South East of Bangladesh consist of hill tracks that make up about 20% of the total land in Bangladesh. So there is a large variation in the topology of Bangladesh.

[@klewank2615]

I see that not only forests are being turned into settlements but many mountain slopes are also being turned into settlements. It's a big lie. In the dry season there isn't a single drop of water and during the rainy season there are floods everywhere. This is proof that the forest crisis on the island of Java is very high.Indonesia is overpopulated, but they rarely migrate to work abroad, only a few of them move house abroad.

[@Sly88Frye]

I remember seeing that map that you showed back like way back in like 2013 or whatever year this was first mentioned. It's interesting to see that by adjusting it a little you can shrink the circle and basically fit even more people

[@MrNixe07]

I remember (I think it was on reddit as well) that someone researched and found out that the entirety of human race can fit in Canada alone and still have thousands of free livable space. Very fascinating!

[@Sly88Frye]

@@MrNixe07 yeah I can totally see that. The thing about that though is the reason why Canada is so sparsely populated despite its massive size is that the majority of it is not a good place to live because of how cold and frigid it is. That's why most Canadians live in the same general areas

[@anicesuprise1459]

@@MrNixe07 wow how interesting x

[@xapaga1]

@@Sly88Frye And "the same general areas" mean the borderland facing the USA.

[@bowser3017]

in a few decades, this circle will become larger, as the population of Africa grows at a tremendous rate

[@gdesatyavrata]

I hope we can protect and love the environment we're living in, a lot of people from my country takes things for granted. One day when the soil isn't as fertile, rivers aren't as clean, all will be too late.

[@__dRC]

Conscious planet 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@lindmohamad3726]

Yes..soo true..

[@972pa.]

So true

[@a-sane-person]

What country?

[@gdesatyavrata]

@@a-sane-person Indonesia

[@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

[@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! 😓

[@hpsauce1078]

This analysis could have gone deeper, for a start there was little mention of the climates of South & East Asia, the soil types, how rice cultivation works, the societies that developed to encourage the cultivation of higher intensity crops, the countervailing climates that existed in western eurasia at the time that prevented the adoption of rice themselves, climate change in early Mesopotamia that stunted the potential adoption of rice production, the fact that rice originated in South East Asia, the proximity of east asian populations to significant mountain ranges especially the himalayas allowing for better soil quality and regular flooding. The himalayas after all emit the most large river systems out of any mountain range, the Indus, Bhramaputra, Ganges, Mekong, Pearl, Red, Yangtse and Yellow rivers all emanate from here, and many of the island systems in this area benefit from being highly mountainous thereby reducing the potential for conflict and thereby unexpected death and also giving small valleys lots of quick running rivers and volcanic soil and natural defences - perfect for fostering large valley towns. There is also no mention of the relatively low adoption of meat as a resource which takes up land inefficiently or the higher quality of fishing grounds around the rough asian coastline.

[@girishbhatt4234]

I don't think the soil around the Himalayan river systems is volcanic. It's not and hasn't been a region of volcanism despite its great tectonic activity.

[@hyrumhanson3390]

@@girishbhatt4234 I was thinking on that point, possible answers, the Duncan lava flood that occurred 65 million years ago in now north India. As for the China side you have the enormous amount of glacial erosion at the mountain tops feeding the rivers.

[@JamesBond-xx1lv]

Buddy, we don't have time for all of that here.

[@jaleelz7435]

Dont care didnt ask

[@trollinape2697]

@@JamesBond-xx1lv this guy spent half the video explaining that asia has a huge population when we all wanted to know why, and the reasons he gave was basic asf

[@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

[@big-kinoko]

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

[@harrydecker8731]

Interesting information. If you update this video, you might want to mention that most of these countries reside in temperate to tropical climate zones. Also, because there are vast oceans nearby, people must also be eating an enormous amount of fish and sea food. Otherwise, there are more factors involved than described in this video to explain the enormity of the human population in that area.

[@AndySaenz]

Japan is the world’s largest consumer of seafood! They should be included in this circle. It needs to have a bigger radius to include Japan.

[@abcsandoval]

Also many ports for commerce and exposure to foreign technologies.

[@primeirrational]

@@AndySaenzthe point of this circle is to be as small as possible.

[@jubileegabrielmateo7437]

​@@AndySaenz They are, at least in the original one (by Redditor valeriepieris).

[@mialene9240]

Also muslim and asian wouldn’t teach sex education and contraceptive to their young.

[@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.

[@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 ?

[@3316xtendedmedia]

Fantastic explanation!

[@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

[@Caron_]

I did *not* expect footage of my favorite Age of Empires 2 Math guy SOTL to show up in a pretty much unrelated video about population density at all! Amazing! And Civilization 6 Icons too! 2 of my favorite games of all time!

[@jimbogan367]

This circle I called it rice growing culture circle (rgcc). Rice growing regions support morr than 60% of global population. This is because rice can be grown up to two or even three times in a year in some regions such as India, most South East Asia countries, Malaysia, Philippine and Indonesia and ect. due to the favour of the climate. 🙂

[@robinlillian9471]

Long growing seasons increase food production and support a larger population.

[@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

[@Icy-ll5ie]

Another year, comes with a dozen new RealLifeLore videos. This being the first. Thanks for uploading!

[@midni9htshinobi]

Both the highest point in the world (Mount Everest) and the deepest point in the world (Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trenches) are within this circle as well. Trippy

[@pesverse290]

1) India is a riverine country. It has snow-fed permanent rivers coming down from Himalayas in Northern part & rain-fed rivers in southern part. Population density is thus very high. 2) Plus the orographic feature of Himalayas traps the southwest monsoon winds & brings rain on which the agriculture is dependent almost totally. 3) The Black soil region of peninsular plateau was a volcanic region in past & thus it favours cotton cultivation & textile industries developed in that region. 4) The riverine alluvial soil of Indo-Gangetic plain produces huge amount of rice (staple food) & the Ganga & it's tributaries & distributaries helps in navigation & fishing. Thus U.P is the most populated state. 5) The dry soil of Punjab-Haryana produces wheat ( 2nd most important staple food ) with help of irrigation. 6) Northeastern hilly areas of Sikkim, Darjeeling & Assam produces tea 🍵 while south indian hilly areas produces coffee ☕. 7) East Central India is rich in iron ore, copper ore, etc bcoz of Chota Nagpur plateau ( mineral store house of India ). Iron-steel industries developed in Durgapur, Jamshedpur, etc No wonder why literally every empire in ancient & mediaeval period invaded India & the British drained a lot of wealth from this country from 18th-20th century

[@susear5939]

Such a well written comment with less likes and no comments.

[@pesverse290]

@@susear5939 but you did 🥺☺️

[@oliviarachelmathews3274]

India 🇮🇳

[@the_last.satrap6064]

@@pesverse290 bro did you just write CBSE 10th standard exam answer ??

[@hsram1985]

India is the mother of all the civilization on the planet.

[@will-i-am-not]

Lack of sex education, lack of contraception, religious beliefs, that's the main 3

[@JamesPhieffer]

The key factor that was ignored by the video, but demonstrated in some of the actual visuals, is the age of the advanced civilizations in China and India. Both of these cultures were amongst the first to advance beyond hunter/gatherer, to farming, etc. Along with the Middle East, these are the oldest advanced civilizations in the world. But whereas the Middle East, even in the past when it had more rain, still had comparatively limited growing capacity. And compared to North America, which has an equivalent amount of growing capacity, the civilizations there progressed at a slower pace.

[@100schlingensief6]

Americas has no surviving ancient culture like China did. Only the dead incas and aztec and they don't thrive to see the future because of disease and colonization.

[@xenotypos]

You know, if you look into the historical demographics of the world you'll realize it doesn't mean much, population can change VERY FAST. During history China sometimes happened to lose almost half its population, but in the end things were always back to normal since food was (with diseases) the main demographic "regulator" before the industrial revolution. Europe had a lot of deadly episodes like that too, but while it takes time to recover, it always recovered, as long as they could produce enough food for the new population. In more than 3000 years of history, everything changed a lot of times, the most populated places weren't static. Even today, everything is changing at a unprecedented pace: historically Africa was never very populated, but because of the insane demographic growth in the 20th and in the 21th centuries, it's projected that in 2100 one child out of two will be African. All of this, in one century and a half. From last, to first. Also in Europe, you had one region that was as good for agriculture as the arable lands in India and (parts of) China: France, which had one of densest population in the world (but was small) until the industrial revolution. So imho the video is right, food is really the main reason by far, that's a fact. But to your defense, advanced agriculture was also a form of technology. But even that don't have much to do with the situation 4000 years ago, it's been too long. Before the modern world, food meant population: always, and very fast.

[@harukrentz435]

@@100schlingensief6 also sacrificing 20.000 humans per year didnt help either lol

[@harukrentz435]

@@xenotypos and its much much harder to keep wheat intact meanwhile rice could last up to 1 year. This is how Indonesian sailors sailed to africa, egypt, and greece along with their family.

[@NightPhoenix.Y]

@@100schlingensief6 they kinda also screw themselves over sometimes, doing human sacrifices first and nothing to actually save water is bad for the population.

[@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

[@aryanimagine]

I feel really good, seeing the curious, educational and analysing people in comments, writing reasons as per their perspective all having the main center of agriculture, fertile land and rivers...

[@ChineduOpara]

It's nice when anonymous Internet users keep things informational and *positive* , right?

[@just_exo02]

That's the reason why Japam tries to conquer the entirety of South-East and East Asia to make an Empire

[@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.

[@flaviusclaudius7510]

I think you'd have to be extremely US-centric to pick NYC as the centre of that circle.

[@edwardspencer9397]

Haha exactly. Thank god for population control and diseases else the population would have easily crossed 10 billion by now.

[@gwapoasalways7202]

@@edwardspencer9397 and also the wars

[@kilato9649]

And these three comments help fuel my dissapointment of my own generation.

[@WHYOSHO]

Media epicenter

[@presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl]

KZbin is American, the Creator of this video is American and I'm guessing the editors are American.

[@redrevolver11]

Also monsoon in India played a big part, every year like clockwork India gets good amount of rain which is pretty useful when you are farmer in pre industrialised era

[@Mylee_.33]

Actually this is summary.... Well people live there bc of how our climate is only shine(summer) and rain.. (not tryna be rude) but unlike the others who had a lot of climate like, snow, spring,ataumn and more... And Which consist people sickness..... (Again I'm not trying to be rude..😭)

[@SuperAerie]

Im constantly blowned away how densely populated these countries are, especially compared to my own backyard whos entire population fits inside one of their cities. Sometimes a suburb to a city

[@vansingh1]

Just don't imagine...it feels hell when you walk out of your house and encounter millions of weird people at your door step... I'm planning to move to a lesser populated country

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

I live in the most populous state in Brazil (1 in 5 Brazilians live in the state of São Paulo), going to the countryside to visit my mother's family it's just empty land and sugarcane farms for hours on end, with no houses for kilometers at a time, even with 44 million people there is a lot of space (even with 250 thousand km2 of a country 8.5 million km2), the rest of the country is even more empty

[@kenzarezyarifin1076]

I live in a quite dense country (Indonesia), but my own house is placed in a peaceful and silent area. But if you walk a couple hundred meter you'll found market with thousand of people selling and buying stuff, a very dense slum that have a very confusing road like a labyrinth and very narrow road (60 cm). lots of traffic jam and pollution, garbage being thrown everywhere and poverty. Things like this always making me upset everytime I run at the morning.

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

@@kenzarezyarifin1076 I am very lucky, I live in a city with about 660 thousand inhabitants (it is the fourth most populous in the interior of São Paulo), there are no favelas (like in Rio or São Paulo City) and by car everything is 20 or 30 minutes away , it's a great city, well above the average for Brazil

[@harukrentz435]

@@giovannirodriguesdasilva646 it depends on which part of Indonesia you lived in. That guy above probably lived in Java, and most probably in big city. Java itself is the most populated island in the world, its population alone beat the whole russian population. But if you live in other islands, youll find plenty of space with less people. Even some cities in sumatera and kalimantan they only have less than 5000 people.

[@Scott89878]

Europeans didn't choose to grow wheat over rice, they didn't have the massive river valleys to grow rice. Rice was also harvested twice a year. Northeastern China grows wheat though, which is often made into noodles.

[@billshi6005]

They mainly grow rice. Northern and North West of China grow wheat. It is mainly because growing rice needs lots of water, which southern and northeast of China is abundance of. They don't have that much of water in the North and Northwest.

[@huangec]

In SE Asia they can even manage a third season of rice within the year, while in Italy they can only have one due to the climate, which when combined with the very limited growing area in the upper Po valley means that production is inevitably far less in comparison.

[@divyaverma1442]

@@rishabhrai7552 east India mainly bihar bengal grows everything

[@divyaverma1442]

@@rishabhrai7552 who told you Punjab just grows rice and wheat But bihar is largest producer of multiple crops like rice wheat maize sugarcane tea jute vegetables fruits onion tomato potato etc

[@divyaverma1442]

@@rishabhrai7552 bihar has in fact three growing season and has huge amount of water then Punjab

[@peacefulweeb1507]

The center country Myanmar(Burma) is also the least populated proportion to it's land area in the most populated center of the world. Like an eye of a storm.

[@luvsuneja]

Yup. They have a surprisingly low birth rate too.

[@ChineduOpara]

@@luvsuneja Why is that?

[@tykyaw1]

And yet it still has 55 million people. That is more than any country in the Americas except Brazil, US, and Mexico.

[@Perririri]

It's even the only country that doesn't use Metric!

[@DahFearless]

"Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, which when all combined are home to nearly 800 Billion Muslims." O.O Jeez, we're spreading like wildfire! So much for the studies that predict a population decrease beyond 12-15 billion.... :P 4:21

[@alex_playz61]

"Small circle" Thats like India, Most of China, Both Koreas, Indonesia, Timor leste, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, and even more....Philippines Thats very big... Still kind of... surprising

[@lordofdarkness4204]

Small relative to the rest of the planet

[@amitsingh-yk3ps]

a planet inside a planet

[@nhatminhtranngoc8940]

@⭐ XENENEX 🌟 africa would grew bigger, due to the birth rates

[@az0989ejdje]

Well but if the small circle was placed somewhere else like the north pole the population would be highest 100k people

[@amitsingh-yk3ps]

@⭐ XENENEX 🌟 yes all due to himalayas aur bharat is naturally rich

[@adithyaramachandran7427]

I can say from experience. A plate of briyani can fill me up really well and I don't need to eat for several hours afterwards. A sandwich with 2 slices of bread on either end can only fill me up for 3-4 hours, and then I'm foraging the pantry for snacks. However, South america has a rice based cuisine and major river systems. Why couldn't their population grow as significantly ? When I visited Brazil, rice was the primary food item, similar to what I saw in southern India.

[@ASLUHLUHC3]

Biriyani OP

[@vidyakangane210]

Because India and China have much more older civilization than brazil

[@Dronk1717]

Genetic predisposition for diabetes

[@hayatrivki905]

@@ASLUHLUHC3 so true this is why hyderabad should be the capital and epicenter of the world for our excellent biriyani

[@mlg1279]

@@hayatrivki905 I've tasted better biryanis outside Hyderabad

[@indigothecat]

It would also be interesting to see how things like pandemics, war, and genocide may have impacted population growth as well. I'm not a history buff so I don't personally know, but I'm still curious.

[@Hhhh22222-w]

Even before the pandemics it was already still half, genocide was far fewer than in the west, and most wars were tribal or civil wars. They don't really impact cause usually after wars there's a boom in population

[@reignadams6692]

in some cases war bolsters the population

[@charlie8344]

@@reignadams6692 well it's because the government would encourage getting pregnant to counteract population loss, and sometimes it works very well

[@e-bikeforane-girl9555]

Yeah but pretty disturbing for it to grow in the circle not outside it right

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

Well, IIRC there were two periods in world history where the human population was reduced to the point that CO2 levels dropped significantly. Or, in other words, there've been two times the human population got such a dent put in it that it was actually good for the environment! The first time was the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire (1206-1405). Throughout the empire's two centuries of conquesting, approx. 50mil people died as a result of warfare, massacres, famine, disease, etc., caused by the Mongols' warmongering across Eurasia. The Mongols might've gone on to conquer all Europe had internal political strife not caused the Mongols to start retreating when they got to Poland... The next time such a thing would occur was with the European colonization of the Americas (1492-1800). In the span of three centuries, disease completely ravaged the indigenous Americans, drastically depleting their population at an alarming rate, making the relative few survivors easy pickings for colonists. The last bit of native land would be declared mere territories by the 19th century, with approx. 50mil natives dead by this point, with more wars and ethnic cleansings to come, though nothing quite on the sheer scale of the pandemics of previous centuries...

[@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 ❤

[@squidward2553]

I can say the most martial arts diverse came from that circle, from muaythai to silat, from sport to combat.

[@pewrify0164]

Right those two Martial arts you mention is just next to each other (country)

[@windyboy1848]

But Japan is father of martial arts form such as sumo judo kendo karate aikido ninjitsu jiujitsu and many more … !!! 😅

[@squidward2553]

@@windyboy1848 yes, japan and chinese martial arts are more popular globally based on media representation, that because the spread cultural ideas from WW2 and picked up 1960 to 1980 . But I talk about the most diverse of martial arts not the most popular . Silat itself more than 1000 form, from bare hand to weapon, from standfight to groundfight, kalaripayattu, krabi krabong, muay boran, kali, arnis, and many more. And that martial arts exist for thousand years too.

[@laevender4949]

And Taekwondo (Korea, unified)

[@manoharalisa5829]

China martial art is the most famous in the world.

[@canaldoxerxes]

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

[@mralgorithmscubing]

Yeah, makes sense.

[@mralgorithmscubing]

I love living in the multiverse!

[@samnifiratrip8918]

I live in Java. From my observation, there used to be many families in Java with many children and in this current generation, most young families don't really want to have a lot of children, if I ask why, most of them answer because their needs are higher, considering the school fees for their children and other needs. So, maybe the population is large due to the low cost of living and low living demands in the past

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Yea, I think as countries and people's lives modernize, the birth rates will continue to fall. Which is good, because there are absolutely going to be resource and environmental issues if pop growth continues the way it has been.

[@samnifiratrip8918]

@@extragoogleaccount6061 Totally agree friend.

[@harukrentz435]

@@samnifiratrip8918 1. Different lifestyle, back then most of our people worked as farmer. You need big family to take care your farm, 2. Low standard of education. I grew up in the 90's most parents at that time didnt see education as "important", as long as youre able to read and count was what they said, 3. Urbanisation, city is where you can find the money today. And the competition is stiff, 4. More and more women involve in the education and labour force. If you notice, countries with low birth rates are countries with high percentage of working women.

[@andipejalan3382]

Sepertinya anda benar. filosofi dulu banyak anak banyak rezeki, jadi populasi Jawa sekarang padat karena pemikiran generasi 50-60 tahun lalu. Apalagi tinggal di Jawa biaya hidup murah, tanah subur (bisa berkebun) dsb membuat orang orang dulu tidak berfikir dua kali untuk punya anak banyak meskipun kehidupan ekonomi biasa / sederhana.

[@kepangkecil22]

@@andipejalan3382 sbenernya mau ngurangin populasi cuma 1 pendidikan dan pekerjaan untuk perempuan di nomor satuin kalau bisa sampe S2 dan banyak loker untuk prmpuan djamin anak nya ga banyak dan ekonomi pasti naik sih

[@PhilipAdair]

4:27 “800 billion Muslims” Wow, not only are there more Muslims inside the circle than outside, there are 100 times as many Muslims in that circle as people alive in the whole world!

[@phamhuu1519]

😂😂😂😂

[@maykell8861]

1.Himalayan mountains create many rivers that make the land fertile.(East Asia, South Asia, Parts of Southeast Asia) 2.Many volcanoes are always erupting making the land very fertile(Indonesia, Philippines)

[@commonhooman2885]

and monsoon

[@WhyAlwaysMeOfficial]

There is someone who copy your comment and he becomes the top comment, his comment is only one day away from you.

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@WhyAlwaysMeOfficial yeah

[@m.ityagitadiankusumarani4097]

Njir indo

[@MyPhobo]

I read an article once, where the first European people to visit Korea (long before it was split in half) were astonished at how much the Koreans ate during their meals, and this was due to their diet being primarily rice. They'd basically have a big ass bowl of rice with their meals.

[@pmhernane3903]

It was probably the oldest record of mukbang

[@darrenzou2483]

As the great philosopher once said "GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING"

[@Blart3]

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

[@dezheathen]

The fact that you used Age of the Empires farming gameplay makes this vid more legendary.