Why Rio de Janeiro Isn't the Capital of Brazil

The capital of Brazil is Rio de Janeiro, right? Nope, turns out it's actually Brasília, a city built specifically to be the capital of Brazil, but Rio used to be the capital, so what exactly is going on?
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[@modmaker7617]

Fun fact: Brazil in Polish is "Brazylia" pronounced identically to Brasília. So the capital and country have essentially the same name.

[@iaw7406]

Fun fact: Poland is not located in EITHER of the Earth's poles.

[@sohopedeco]

@Daniel Marinho João Pessoa was also called Parahyba up untill the 1940's. The town currentlt known as Goiás Velho was once the capital of the state of Goiás, while Ouro Preto, once known as Vila Rica das Minas Geraes, was the former capital of Minas.

[@drewdrinks3930]

@@iaw7406 :OOOO NO WAY

[@modmaker7617]

@@iaw7406 Poland means Land of the Poles. Poles in this case meaning the native ethic group also "pole" in Polish means "field". So it means Land of the Field.

[@rory6984]

@Daniel Marinho alot of the countys in Ireland have a town or city in them with the same name.

[@jairoliradeamorimjr3262]

Fun fact: Rio de Janeiro was the only capital of an European state that wasn't located in Europe, while the royal fleed from Portugal because of Napoleon

[@marioprisciandaro871]

Does modern Turkey count? People in the European part of Turkey have their capital in Ankara.

[@wonderbread7327]

@@marioprisciandaro871 turkey isn’t a European state tho, it’s middle eastern

[@marioprisciandaro871]

@@wonderbread7327 It depends on your definition of a European state. Turkey has land in Europe. From the beginning of the Ottoman Empire it had a significant portion of its land in Europe. For most of it's history, its capital was Istanbul, which is in Europe. Most of turkey is not in Europe and in the Middle East, but then what makes the Portuguese empire a European state if most of its land was in the Americas? Is it that its leaders were European? that it was culturally European? If you bring culture into it then there's the question of what counts as "European Culture." You could say Turks are a non-european ethnic group, but what about the Turks that have been living in Europe for generations?

[@wonderbread7327]

@@marioprisciandaro871 the Portuguese empire was a European state because Portugal had the power and “the empire” was just its colonies. Turkey is not European culturally or ethnically. It practices a non Western religion and fought Europeans for centuries. Just because there are Turks in Europe that doesn’t make Turks European. Just how South African whites are not African.

[@marioprisciandaro871]

@@wonderbread7327 I don't think you can draw a clean line between European and non-Europeaness when it comes to Turkey. Religion separates it from most of Europe but religion doesn't define what is European. There are Muslim Slavs and Albanians who are definitely European. There is no cleanly defined European culture. European as a geographical descriptor includes European Turkey. Therefore Turks in Europe are European at least in the geographical sense. Whites in Africa aren't African in the racial sense, but are certainly African in some sense since we call them White Africans. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Africans_of_European_ancestry)

[@31ll087]

It physically pains me when I hear someone speak Spanish to a Brazilian.

[@anarghyasumanth8590]

Hola 🤭

[@31ll087]

@@anarghyasumanth8590 Im not a Brazilian. F

[@tuliofaustino783]

I like to think that have quite the dialect, "Portunhol", it's like a very poor spanish mixed with a very poor portuguese. It is impossible to avoid contact with the Hermanos so we have to get our ways, right?

[@filipepinto641]

It pains me as well. If a gringo speaks Spanish to me, I'll reply in English.

[@Carlosr2rp]

We don’t like when people say we speak Spanish, because we don’t. But we don’t mind when we realize that one is speaking Spanish to us because one doesn’t speak Portuguese. We are warm and welcoming people.

[@GuilhermeBayara]

Correction: Brasilia is the 3rd largest city and 4th largest metro area. The 3rd largest metro area is actually Belo Horizonte with over 1 million more inhabitants than Brasilia.

[@GuilhermeBayara]

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Brazil

[@alt1f4]

Sim

[@GuilhermeBayara]

@William Santos according to the latest numbers Brasilia is slightly bigger than Salvador, as far as city proper population goes. City proper: Brasília: 3.055.149 - 3rd Salvador: 2.886.698 - 4th

[@rogeriopenna9014]

As far as I know, Porto Alegre metro has over 4 million people

[@GuilhermeBayara]

​@@rogeriopenna9014 Yes, it does. Here's the list of the top 5 metro areas in Brazil: 1st - São Paulo - 21,734,682 2nd - Rio de Janeiro - 12,763,459 3rd - Belo Horizonte - 5,961,895 4th - Brasília - 4,627,771 5th - Porto Alegre - 4,340,733 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Brazil

[@gablandworld3137]

Só de Ser um gringo Falando que o Rio não é Capital do Brasil já merece um like!!!!!

[@AkiraGacha2.0]

Verdade

[@deiwfernandes7374]

Nss sim akakka

[@Catchorror]

Espero que ele não pense que nós falamos espanhol

[@statrocratico9415]

@@Catchorror italiano

[@iurylaranja9]

Verdade

[@cassianoneto1553]

3:04 The whole 4th republic thing is that the Vargas era is divided in two republics, the democratic Second Republic that got a Constitution and lasted from 1930 to 1936, and the Estado Novo Regime, considered the Third Republic as Vargas imposed a new set of constitutional laws making himself dictator.

[@rafafr9]

A few corrections: The constitution of the second republic was actually promulgated in 1934. 1930 was the Vargas led coup and the country spent the next period technically without a Constitution, leading to the 1932 Sao Paulo constitutional revolt. Also, the second republic actually ended in 1937, when Cargas granted his new Constitution.

[@ahoraya1047]

The Western expansion of Brazil surpassing the limit of the Tordesillas Treaty was a consequence of the Iberian Unión of Spain and Portugal from 1580 to 1640

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Thank you! I always wondered about this!

[@bumblebeeeoptimus]

It's more because the Bandeirantes didn't give a fuck and would just go venture inland after indians for enslaving and precious stones and gold anyway, and neither were the Spanish interested in colonizing the region.

[@MrEliasMarques]

The answer is: yes, Brazil is indeed trying to confuse everyone. We ourselves are very confused.

[@LuisFelipe-jb1bq]

As a Brazilian I can confirm

[@bullymaguire632]

We are the confusion 😎

[@Palguim]

Brazil

[@Miguel-nn4hj]

O motivo foi pra deixar a politica longe do povo, pra ter menos pressão na porta deles. ta em portugues porque eu sei que todo mundo aqui é brasileiro a maioria pelo menos

[@Fernando_Ol.]

@@Miguel-nn4hj so traduzindo pra se algum gringo ler the politicians pushed the population away so as not to put pressure on them

[@KhAnubis]

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[@koesben9363]

:>

[@orth0man]

Hello

[@pegging640]

Do belgium, its politics makes amerika look like a cake walk, its a huge piece of cr*p. Oh, and waffles

[@sohopedeco]

You could do a video like that for most American states who have their capitals located in random small towns. Why is the capital of Illinois not Chicago? Why is the capital of Florida not Miami? Why is the capital of California not LA nor San Francisco? More importantly why did they even name the state New York if New York is not its capital????

[@ericbosken3114]

You could make moving capitals into a series by doing Canberra next

[@luizfellipe3291]

2:13 the H in Bahia is silent. Bah ee ah

[@rafafr9]

Bah yeet ah

[@GUERREIRO4610]

@@rafafr9 bah ree a

[@rafafr9]

@@GUERREIRO4610 Ba hue ah

[@pedrowerthjeong1470]

BA ÍH A!

[@iwejjddjsj9740]

Beíah

[@matheusferreira9431]

Living in Brasilia is sooooooo expensive but the city is beautiful, plenty of green areas...

[@maritimeanimations1034]

Yes it is! I'll never forget the time I had living there, such a awesome place 😃

[@Diego-fg2uc]

Interesting fact: Brasília was built in the shape of an airplane in honor of the creator of the Santos Dumont airplane

[@Umbatata8]

Só Plano piloto é assim, Brasília é normal

[@anam7856]

Isso não é um fato, Brasília foi construída pra ser uma + cruz. Mas como não existe terreno reto, foi preciso curvar um -- eixo pra acompanhar a descida que a água fazia naquele território. Por isso a maioria diz que parece um pássaro ou um avião, mas não era a ideia inicial

[@carlinhosmineboy8360]

e o 14-Bis

[@MelVridos]

@@Umbatata8 Brasília é o plano piloto, o entorno é o distrito federal

[@wingraptorsundaughter]

I was told it was build in the shape of a dragonfly

[@belialord]

Rio in portuguese is actually pronounced like the word "hill" in english, with a U sound at the end. The way most native english speakers pronounce it sounds like river in spanish, "río".

[@torresRoni]

That's true!

[@igoralmeida9136]

in southern Brazil it's pronounced like in spanish

[@pixel7987]

"Rio" is literally river

[@belialord]

@@igoralmeida9136I'm Gaúcho living in Santa Catarina and have never seen anyone pronounce it with the weak R and O sound at the end as in Spanish. Everyone says "RRÍU" (R forte como em "chuRRasco" e som de U no final).

[@Domintore]

Im from brazil but... this sounds weird

[@eduardocury6179]

It’s perfectly fine to pronounce it as “Rio DE Janeiro” (as opposed to Rio “JE?” Janeiro)... but you can always just say Rio and everyone will get it

[@Joao-de9gl]

"Dje" Janeiro would be the pronunciation of people from Rio, I think

[@eduardocury6179]

@@Joao-de9gl “Dji”, just like basically all of southeastern Brazil ...

[@Joao-de9gl]

@@eduardocury6179 even Minas? Oh

[@user-rl9mi5do1q]

DE janeiro is said by portuguese from Portugal people

[@andreluiz6023]

@@eduardocury6179 north of Brazil as well

[@victorgomes103]

1- The star showing the location of Rio de Janeiro is in the wrong place. The actual place should be a bit farther east at the coastline, on a small peninsula. You put it more or less near São Paulo. 2- Bahia's name is actually pronounced "bah-EE-uh", not "BAH-hyuh". The "h" is silent.

[@lukasluna5319]

and rio is pronounced like hio

[@alt1f4]

Yes

[@Joao-de9gl]

@L'Ephebe93 oh my these chinese phonetics were great 😂😂😂😂

[@apoema42]

Brasilia's star is also incorrectly located

[@user-rl9mi5do1q]

Look I am portuguese and ik it's pronounced hiu jee jaanaeru

[@Igor_054]

7:35 Common mistake in many foreign videos about Brasília. It is not the third largest Metro region of Brazil. Belo Horizonte, with nearly 6 million people, is considerably larger. Great video anyway.

[@cassianoneto1553]

Really enjoyed the effort you put in the video, good job from Brazil!

[@Fandresvc]

You made a mistake regarding the naming of the region. "Cerrado" means closed in spanish, and while it can mean closed in portuguese, that's usually fechado. Cerrado in portuguese means dense or thick, and the region is named that way in reference to its vegetation.

[@danillopetrova]

Mas a vegetação do cerrado não é esparsa, como as savanas e não densa como a Amazônia?

[@sohopedeco]

It's cool that you uploaded it just two weeks after I've been to Brasilia by the first time in my life. In a way, I think it feels more like a university campus than an actual city. It is just too car centric.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

the President that built Brazilia (for his own pharaonic larping mind you) believed cars were the future of transportation and therefore made the city for cars

[@v1n1c1u55anto5]

@@pedrolmlkzk He wasnt wrong tho

[@pedrolmlkzk]

@@v1n1c1u55anto5 he was, cars are objectively shit

[@guilhermevianabarbosa803]

Cê ficou só no Plano Piloto ou rodou as outras regiões admnistrativas?

[@v1n1c1u55anto5]

@@pedrolmlkzk then you are wrong. Just mind big cities problems for not having good infrastructure for cars and other transportation. Problems that Brasília will not have as bad as Rio or São Paulo.

[@MarcusFlorida]

The way you said Rio De Janeiro is pronounced varies according to different Brazilian accents. Yes, in Rio it does sound like “je” but in some others states it doesn’t. The correction isn’t necessary because anyone can understand if you say “de”. That said ... the state of Bahia does not sound like you pronounced it. The “h” is silent all over the country. Brazilians would hardly recognized it because you sound like “Barria” to us. 😊

[@brianarbenz7206]

We U.S. residents ought to give up and call it River of January. :)

[@TheoTattaglia]

@@brianarbenz7206 I wouldn't blame ya, we do translate foreign city names to Portuguese: Nova Iorque, Londres

[@Gustavo-jn4kg]

Congratulations bro! It is very gratifying to see people from other countries researching the culture and history of my country. Keep it up!

[@lululipes4382]

5:10 "cerrado" doesn't mean closed in portuguese. That's Spanish... In portuguese cerrado is the name of the biome

[@brinquedonaosemexe]

@@Jonathan-qc3wk não sei de onde voce é mas por aqui ninguém usa cerrado

[@brinquedonaosemexe]

@@Jonathan-qc3wk sou também skskd

[@zakazany1945]

@@leolucas1980 Ninguém mais usa "cerrar" com esse sentido no dia a dia.

[@vascomarinho]

Em Portugal usa-se bastante encerrar. Cerrar existe mas ninguém diz

[@thalesbernardomendes8949]

@@vascomarinho encerrar tem no Brasil também

[@natasantos3288]

Greetings from the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil🇧🇷

[@henriquesoares2343]

Great video, just a small remark, the main reason for the airplane design be the winner when planning to build the city was because the first airplane, the 14 BIS, was designed by a Brazilian, Alberto Santos Dumont, so it was an homage to his accomplishments.

[@pedromendesrbd]

Que eu saiba o Lúcio Costa não pensou no desenho de um avião mas sim de uma cruz... a galera é que depois decidiu que ia ser um avião porque acharam parecido kkkk

[@Juh7802]

Sério? Nunca soube disso rsrsrs

[@arthurbeloni6475]

@@pedromendesrbd Exato. O plano original era pra ser uma cruz (com um dos nomes cotados da capital sendo Santa Cruz), mas ele encurvou um dos eixos pra caber o lago paranoá

[@caxiasinvicto]

Na verdade isso de ser o 14 Bis é mentira. Tem mais a ver com misticismo pagão egípcio e o destino manifesto do Brasil como nação no futuro do que com o 14 Bis.

[@guaroontheracoon]

@@arthurbeloni6475 caraca, tem um bairro no rio chamado Santa Cruz, conhecidencia?

[@joaosantiago5717]

The plans to build Brasília are very old, even in the Imperial era they had plans to move the capital to the center. Actually if you Cross lines between the country Brasília Will be the exact center.

[@arthure8987]

Our republics are not usually referred to by numbers, we mostly use a "theme" for each period (this is vastly more complex than it sounds though) so we usually use the following: Republic of the Sword (1889-1894) Old Republic (1894-1930) Vargas Era (1930-1945) Populist Republic (1945-1964) Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) New Republic (1985- present) But hey! Loved your video!

[@guaroontheracoon]

Qual vai ser o próximo mapa de Brasília? O update vai ser louco kkkkkk

[@enesamederel]

Incoordination of your voice and subtitles killing me everytime.

[@lucasfernandesgrotto6279]

Wow, this video is really good!! Great work

[@maritimeanimations1034]

I lived in Brasília for almost my entire life! Pretty cool seeing a video from a foreign KZbinr talking about it's origins! Honestly, the phrase of "the city being built for a car" is very far from being true, because from simply going to your house from school could take 2 hours because of traffic jams 😂 The city might be a bit uncomfortable, but there are a lot of nice people who live there! I moved to Canada last year and I still miss them all! it is a awesome place, if you get the chance to visit Brasília, you should definitely go there ❤🇧🇷

[@ddurlon]

p sure thats what they meant think how us cities work and how they are car centric

[@dinamosflams]

There is one other reason that isn't talked a Lot in geography classes even in the high School grades for the change of the capital but that was as crucial, If not more, than the other reason at the time: the military. In the middle of the cold war Brazil was a big country that was rapidly growing diplomaticly but was poor and didn't standed for neither side (at the time). Having such vast lands and frontiers to defend, being a basicly a giant target and gate for south America as a whole, Brazil couldn't afford entering in a traditional war and maintain the union at the same time. To secure Its central commands, make It difficult to invade and force any oversea potential agressor to invest in an assymetrical war or invest in a costly large scale invasion, militarly It also made sense to move the capital to a more central location.

[@lucaschen1882]

It's weird seeing people correct Rio de janeiro pronunciation tô Rio je janeiro, because even though it's true, the most prominent mispronunciation is actually in the word Rio that should be pronounced more like the word hue

[@dimitrimolotovvyacheslav4604]

É tipo "hiu de Janeiro" "hiu dji Janeiro" ou "hiu di janero"

[@DaviRenania]

Heew g janeyru

[@LuisFelipe-jb1bq]

As a Brazilian I pronounce it like this Hiu de janeiro

[@giuliano5847]

Finally! A South America video. BTW: thanks for doing a video about my country!

[@locpixel]

ele disse q a gente fala espanhol 😬

[@giuliano5847]

@@locpixel Sério? Que vagabundo!

[@iurylaranja9]

@@locpixel nao disse, ele disse que isso é um erro de algumas pessoas, vai aprender inglês vai

[@iurylaranja9]

@@giuliano5847 para de acreditar nesse mentiroso

[@Yoraiz3rt]

NOSSO, não seu, se for gringo vai te lasca.

[@eduardoaraujo7897]

Finalmente alguém que entende que o meu PAÍS não existe só Rio de Janeiro ❤️

[@camilasantos8475]

mais só tem brasileiros comentando em inglês corrigindo algumas informações erradas sobre o vídeo🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tuliofaustino783]

Fun fact, the country was once called "Ilha de Vera Cruz", if you guys already strugle saying "Rio de Janeiro", try that.

[@edyaoki450]

@@teacoffee42 Imagine saying "vô" and "vó", gringos will be screaming with fear.

[@klayverh.chinaski7648]

Túlio Faustino pagando de gringouw kakakakaka

[@LuisFelipe-jb1bq]

As a Brazilian it’s not that hard

[@j.j.714]

@@LuisFelipe-jb1bq obviously? You’re Brazilian? lmao

[@mixtapemania6769]

That's actually easier to say tbh. Well maybe harder if you don't know how "lha" or "lho" words are supposed to sound

[@llhamots]

thanks for talking about this to other people who didn't know it's gratifying to see my country being mentioned elsewhere

[@GuilhermeSouza-bd7nl]

Brasília, above all else, was a means for the political class to flee from popular pressure. As you mentioned, most of Brazil's population reside far away from Brasília, while Rio is, together with São Paulo, the social and economic epicenter of our country. With the move, it became much harder to counter the corruption and neglect we've had from the federal government for decades.

[@cristiano7541]

Fun fact: Bahia in Portuguese is "Baía", and the translation of it is "Bay" Another fun fact: Rio de janeiro if you translate it you get "January's river"

[@eltonmateusnevesneves]

Não seria uma tradução fiel, portugueses costumavam chamar qualquer corpo de água de rio Uma tradução melhor seria January Bay

[@nebularspace]

Slight correction, Brazil’s colonial borders were a bit different from bits modern borders. You kept it as it’s modern borders even when you were talking about it as a colony. Besides that, great video!

[@jackyex]

Just an observation, but the plan to change the capital of Brazil to the interior is much older than the first republic and even the idea of a independent Brazil. In 1761 the Marquis of Pombal them prime minister of Portugal proposed to move the capital of the Portuguese empire to the Interior of Brazil. And José Bonifácio the patriarch of independence and first prime minister of Brazil also proposed that a new capital should be made in the central plateau and its name would be Petrópolis or Brasilia and that's how Brasilia got its name too.

[@sohopedeco]

And now Petrópolis is just a small town in the countryside pf Rio de Janeiro state that lives off of historic tourism.

[@IgorRamos217]

@@sohopedeco actually Petrópolis have a good economy, it has not only tourism

[@pedrolmlkzk]

just so you know, Marquis of Pombal was the same guy that made Rio the Capital in 1763

[@diajle1710]

Of course this idea existed, debates of this type take place in all countries, Russia, Germany, South Africa, even Argentina, which also considered moving its capital from Buenos Aires to the interior of Patagonia during the period of its military dictatorship. The fact is that the this idea was never taken seriously, José Bonifacio was openly an elitist averse to the people. Pedro II on the other hand always rejected the idea, as he himself was born in Rio, the change of the capital was NEVER mentioned by a speech from the throne. The brasilia's cornerstone was only laid there after the empire fell, and guess what? By the elitists who had taken power after getting revolted over the abolition of slavery. Eitists from the interior who used slave labor and were already angry at the central elite for considering its abolition, it is obvious that these people hated Rio and everything it represented. But even so, the change of the capital was only actually carried out during the military dictatorship, because it would be much easier to command Brazil away from the people in an authoritarian reality, so much that the Argentine dictators curiously had the same idea, they just didn't actually come up with this madness because they knew that Buenos Aires would be completely destroyed and would suffer a lot from it, Rio on the other hand was just dumped out with no ceremony and today we have the results, with a weak state and drug dealers and militia fighting to fill the power vacuum left by the federal government. The military marched to Rio to carry out the coup, not to Brasilia. This heroic narrative of "brasilia as potential capital" of Brazil needs to be told as what it is: always suggested and cherished by slave-owning elitists and averse to contact with the people.

[@sohopedeco]

@@diajle1710 Chill, dude. Brasilia was build befor the military dictatorship took hold.

[@diogomm710]

When you talked geography it was a good hint for the multiple reasons Brasília was created. One other reason was the terrain near Brazil's biggest cities: mountains.

[@perucegodaroca2764]

first time I see a gringo talking about our capital Brasília, but thank you very much for talking about our country ♥️

[@vicentedesouza3241]

Parabéns ótimo vídeo, muito legal é raro ver um vídeo estrangeiro tão bem feito falando sobre o nosso Brasil; muito legal.

[@uniaosovietica3698]

Finalmente achei BR 😁

[@CauaLUL]

na real é difícil achar alguém falando BEM do Brasil kkkkkkkkkkkk

[@camilasantos8475]

só tem brasileiros comentando em inglês, corrigindo informações algumas erradas do vídeo. 🤣🤣🤣 já rir tanto lendo os comentários, os gringos não se importam com a geografia do brasil.

[@joaopedromaroja8811]

I've been living in Brasília since I was born and I can say that it's 100% car centric, some travels take 20 minutes by car and 2 hour by public transit, but it's a beautiful city. Living downtown feels like you're living in the countryside and in a big metropole at the same time, it's awesome!

[@FactsInto]

how about you make a video about why Islamabad is capital of Pakistan and not Karachi, or why New Delhi is called "New" Delhi, would love too see them

[@lapiswolf2780]

There's a Delhi proper.

[@______608]

New Delhi is essentially the administrative district built by the Brits during colonial rule, there's an "old Delhi" right next to it as well, with the monuments and the crowds and the noise and everything. So while not a proper Analogy, New Delhi can be said to be similar to the District of Columbia in "Delhi", the Greater DC metropolitan area. Just, "Old Delhi" wasn't planned, and there's now an even greater metro area around Delhi as the nearby cities of Gurgaon and Noida grow more and more connected with it. Pakistan.....well, it was Karachi in the beginning, but, since it was on the coast(not very strategically desirable for the Pakistan government IIRC) and far away from the centre of population of the nation(whose population was concentrated in Punjab Province). It's been a while, but as per my shoddy memory, the Capital was shifted to the central Punjabi city of Rawalpindi, which had....some military importance as well, I think? Later, in order to build a "true" capital, the city of Islamabad was built adjacent to the already existing city of Rawalpindi

[@sohopedeco]

When I learned of the city of "New Delhi", my first guess was that the old Delhi was located somewhere in England.

[@______608]

@@sohopedeco lmao 😂 makes sense tho, the new world has a lot of New "Insert Cities"....

[@traiver6685]

**New York flashbacks**

[@pedrolmlkzk]

2:32 those brazilian border were only achieved after brazil became a republic, almost a century after the king fled to Brazil

[@torresRoni]

Brazilians who have never been in Brasília? 👇🏼

[@carlosandino821]

Great! Thanks for explanation! I say this, being me, a city dweller.

Great video. Just 2 corrections: In 2:36, the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brasil and Algarves map includes the Brazilian State of Acre. In that time this territory was part of Bolivia, not Portugal Empire. In the same time, the Rio de Janeiro location is wrong. The ⭐ is over SÃO PAULO location

[@edermanutencaoejardim9138]

When we Brazilians hear from foreigners that we speak Spanish, the urge to cry, we speak Portuguese

[@BandidoInocente44]

The star on the map representing Rio de Janeiro was slighly missplaced, it stands on São Paulo state. Good luck, foreigners, trying to pronounce the ÃO in São Paulo.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Good luck trying to say “Facebook” as only two syllables lol gudji naitchy

[@wanderingaround4175]

@@danidejaneiro8378 ace-book

[@shadman8227]

It’s mosty english speakers bcz like for french speakers it’s not that hard and also for other portuguese speaking countries they can say it

[@BandidoInocente44]

@@shadman8227 lets agree to disagree, I m unaware of your background btu, spanish, german, italian, french, english, let alone chinese, japonese... The [ão] present at the end of words like explosion, inflacion, has paralels but has no equals

[@brontewcat]

A lot of this could apply to Canberra in Australia. A planned city built in the middle of some cattle grazing rural land that has become a federal district (called a territory in Australia’s case). It’s location was picked to appease Sydney and Melbourne about where the capital should be. The middle of Australia would be too difficult to maintain a large city because of the aridity so the capital was located between the two largest cities. Canberra is probably a little less car centric (due to the inclusion of bike tracks), but it is still a sprawl that favours a car over walking.

[@domkakuzu]

CORRECTION: Just a note. When u show the map of the past, the borders are different, we had another region Called Cisplatina ( Uruguay today) and we don't had the state of Acre ( Traded with Peru in 1909)

[@fulana_de_tal]

*traded with Bolivia

No, Rio had not grown far too crowded for the capital, simply president Juscelino Kubistcheck used an article of the constitution AS AN EXCUSE to move the capital. 🙄

[@jajatourismus8015]

I love u

[@mt34578]

Rio was the brazilian capital since our indepence in 1822 till 1960. Some historicians say that the change of the capital to the middle of the country (Brasília) was the 2nd coup Brazil and Rio suffered since the coup that founded our Republic in 1889. Why do they say that? Brasília was built to take the Political Power of people's hands. Brasília was and still is an isolated and far area from the largest urban centers of Brazil (mostly in the Southeastern region). After the change of the capital, Rio started it's downfall. There are many docs that explain these events even deeper, but they are mostly in portuguese.

[@ianoliveira6903]

Já tinha planos pra construção de Brasília desde a independência, a própria região foi demarcada por um projeto do Império... Sobre golpes na historia do Brasil: teve o golpe do D. pedro I pra impor a constituição de 1824, teve alguns golpes durante a regência, teve o golpe da maioridade pra por o D. Pedro II no poder, teve o golpe de 1889, teve as 2 revoltas das armadas juntamente com o golpe do floriano peixoto pra se manter no poder, teve o estado de sítio de Artur Bernardes, teve o golpe de 1930 seguido do estado novo em 1937 do getulio vargas que caiu em outro golpe em 1945 e ainda teve o contragolpe do general Lott antes da eleição de JK. A construção de Brasília não foi golpe, muito menos o segundo e a decadência do Rio foi pq a ditadura militar tava mais preocupado em perseguir estudante comunista do que impedir o surgimento do trafico de drogas que começou a criar raizes nos anos 70/80 e tbm pq depois disso carioca não soube votar desde que teve redemocratização...

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

TY ☺️

[@junrock.1418]

The real way to say "Rio de Janeiro" is "Hiw g janeiru"

[@i05vlog]

Sim! Eu não sei de onde ele tirou esse "je"

[@cristianmunoz5859]

@@i05vlog porque em ingles o “je” é o mesmo som que “g”

[@precisa_]

2:28 isn't that location Sao Paulo?

[@sohopedeco]

Lol, it is.

[@motosaulo]

2:59 Rio de janeiro isn't there. You placed near são Paulo.

[@RafaelRafaeltapioca]

Rafael Rafael tapioca está presente no seu conteúdo informativo sobre o Brasil , amigo (-:

[@pedromaya7739]

2:30 Little mistake on the map. Acre wasn't a part of Brasil until 1903

[@gojira4036]

Fun fact: If there was no Sahara desert the Amazon would be much smaller.

[@alt1f4]

Why?

[@imperator0151]

@@alt1f4 winds carry minerals from the Sahara to the Amazon

[@WhenAllTheWarmthLeavesUs]

@William Santos Not exactly. God made everything as it is so jokes on you.

[@tsar7761]

Very funny.

[@arthurlofrano7021]

and europe would be a big wasteland

[@IsidorosEduardos]

You placed the star in São Paulo while talking about Rio. It should be a little further east.

[@rodrigobarenco]

At 2:18 the star is on the wrong Palace... it,s over são paulo/Paraná something like that

[@accurrent]

Oh man the cerrado is so beautiful!

[@sohopedeco]

7:17 Khanubis: "The city was clearly built for the car." Meanwhile a poor pedestrian struggles to cross the road. I kid you not, the city simply doesn't have zebra crossings. Jaywalk is literaly your only option.

[@peroz1000]

True!

[@prado1205]

pff brasília is a disaster of urban planning, even the metro they have there is absolutely awful. what went through their minds that made them think "yeah let's make a metro service that only serves half of the city and ignore the other half?" there are a lot of good videos on the subject that dissect the complete mess that is brasília

[@butterskywalker8785]

Day 1 of asking KhAnubis to make weirdest facts about San Marino

[@KhAnubis]

Maybe someday

[@RURK_]

HistoryTube has been killing it recently (I mean they always do)

[@nunyabiznes33]

I like the futuristic style

[@diegodesouza5382]

As a Brazilian, I approve of this video.

[@alt1f4]

Ninguém liga

[@wuyl660]

Rio de janeiro is the apocalypse of Brazil

[@ricardocarvalho9990]

Su culo 🤣🤣🤣

[@braziliantsar]

Not really

[@AndrywMarques]

I am Brazilian and the first pronunciation of "Rio de Janeiro" is correct too In matter of fact I didn't get the difference between the two hahaha Btw, great video!

[@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936]

Interesting fact: Brasília was built in the 1960s, but there were older projects. One of them is the project of Marshal José Pessoa. In this project, the capital, instead of having the shape of an airplane, would have the shape of a cross and would be called Vera Cruz, in reference to the first name given by the Portuguese to Brazil, the island of Vera Cruz.

[@nothing77791]

Eu sou um dos poucos brasileiros assistindo esse vídeo,isso me deixa feliz :). Tenha um bom dia Estados Unidos... América...etc.

[@joaopadua7134]

Poucos kkkkkkkkkk

[@dr.hanschucrute7080]

Poucos kkkkkkkkkk

[@matheuscardoso8569]

Fun fact: you can pronounce "Rio de Janeiro" as you wish, because there are so many accents in brazilian portuguese that at least one of them will pronounce as you do. I'm from the southern region in Brazil and we do pronounce "Rio DE Janeiro", not "Rio DJE Janeiro", so feel free to do so.

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Aqui na região falam mais Riô de Janero

[@buukute]

Can I do it with my Vietnamese accent?

[@matheuscardoso8569]

@@buukute I think so

[@buzzlightyear1901]

7:35 It's wrong, Belo Horizonte is the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil with just over 6 million and Porto Alegre the fourth largest with 4.6 million inhabitants. Brasilia appears only in fifth position!

[@akcjaxd7863]

Does this city have sidewalks and bike ways like european cities, or you need to travel by car like in american cities?

[@delta7655]

As someone who has been living here my whole life, Brasilia is definitely not built to a human scale. However, it is WAY better than many other cities in South America. The reason for it's dependency is because it is one of the only populous cities here that was actually built recently. I find it is slowly converting to a more walkable city with the implementation of bike lanes and some other efforts made by the government, but it still is sadly a city that you cannot live in without a car. I hope they invest in better public transportation and infrastructure in the future so I can continue to live in this beautiful city I grew up in

[@tiagoprado7001]

It was all a conspiracy against Toni Tornado to make one of his lyrics outdated!

[@chao3948]

0:23 on a side note it's actually pronounced more like "hiu ji janeiru", with the "r" in "janeiro" being a trill consonant

[@prometheus7387]

0:50 Where did the sponsor go? 🤔 Sudden change

[@abi_abdurrahman]

interesting to see how this is a similar case as Indonesia's plan to move the capital city. Hope the Indonesian government take notes from Brazil

[@Dhjaru]

And egypt

[@alecblunden8615]

Canberra, Australia's soulless capiral. Is another object lesson in the pitfalls of urban design by architect and committee.

[@mateusfolletto6142]

I hope they dont. Our government is extremely corrupt ever since the empire ended. And it gets worse by the minute.

[@Tylere0]

Fun fact: The second most spoken language in Brazil is not Spanish, but German.

[@Z.A.G.O]

I've never seen anyone speak German in Brazil in my life, I've even seen Mandarin and some other Asian languages

[@jvcpdl]

@@Z.A.G.O maybe you’ve never gone to Nova Petrópolis-RS or Blumenau-SC

[@Yurinsm]

The Brasília project kinda work, nowadays the country's center of population is just a few kilometers away southeast form the capital.

[@pedrolucasdemoura1885]

Congratulations on the pronunciation, it was almost perfect, just want to point out that the state of Bahia is actualy pronounced as Bah- ee- a

[@Egemony]

Australia and Brazil are Chad huge country bros which built an entirely new city to serve as a capital and majority of their soil is wilderness

[@2pedroandrade]

Australia yes. Brazil... No.

[@pedrowerthjeong1470]

@@2pedroandrade O petróleo brasileiro não lá essas coisas não

[@2pedroandrade]

@@pedrowerthjeong1470 Mas o que petróleo tem a ver? O comentário é sobre aa maior parte do Brasil ser completamente vazia ou desolada.

[@ericlk47]

Just an note on pronounciation, because this seems to be an issue on every english speaking geography channel i've seen: We REALLY don't mind how you pronounce D and R. When you try to do it correctly, it gets worse than just using your standard english pronounciation. In most cases, english pronounciation is actually closer to the portuguese one than you realize, and the only thing that is really funny is how you seem to be incapable of pronouncing the "ão" sound, which is a very nasal, closed sound most foreigners cannot articulate. In the case of Rio de Janeiro: If you REALLY want to pronounce the "de" correctly, then you EITHER say it exactly like in english, which is absolutelly correct btw, OR you say "dji". Do not say "DJE", it's weird when you do. But srsly don't bother, because it's weird that you guys would pronounce "de" correctly but use retroflex R for "Rio" and "Janeiro". Either go full gringo or do it correctly. The middle ground is uncanny. IN GENERAL, if you want a nice pronounciation that no Brazilian would find objectionable, the best you can do is really just to wing it, but remember that H is mute, NH is the same as Ñ in spanish and LH is the same as LL in spanish and GL in italian. Hope it helps, and keep up the good job in the channel ;)

[@chingis604]

This is true in almost every language. It’s really weird hearing a foreigner try and pronounce it the way natives do. Just use your version or get it completely correct

[@freealter]

Hey Khanubis, your intro played a little fast this video. I don’t know if it was on purpose but you might want to check it out

[@paulobruno286]

That weird feeling when you are a carioca (born in Rio) and lived in Rio all your life, dates a girl from Brasília and been there and loved Brasília and the video talks about these two

[@somethinglongandcomplicate8298]

Good morning mr. Anubis, as much as i like your content, i might say you got some thing wrong, such as in the pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro, no one says "je", due to colloquial manneirisms, we turn the E into a I in the use of "de", so instead of Rio "je" Janeiro, it's closer to the italian "di". Another point of interest is mentioning Vasco da Gama in the pursuit of the Indias and the first navegation "under" Africa (going south of Cabo da Boa Esperança). Furthermore, your pronounciation of Bahia, although good, should be noted for the use of the H as a RR sound, when in reality there's no actual sound to the H, indicating the elongation in the I (Bah-e-ah). In another note, it should be pointed out that you mentioned the 2nd and 3rd articles of the constitution, but you've messed up the year of the constitution, by 1960 we were under the 1946 constitution, wrote after the deposal of the dictator Getúlio Vargas, you mentioned the 1891 constitution, which was overruled by 1930 with the coup from Vargas (and a later phony constitution was written in 1937). This is in no way, shape or form a derrogatory analysis of your video, i absolutely adore your videos and expect to see more of you, good evening. From São Paulo, Brasil.

[@f.b.i8703]

I've seen an American movie saying that the capital of Brazil is Rio de Janeiro, it's amazing how bad an American is in geography

[@LuisFelipe-jb1bq]

Yeah, Americans think South America is straight down from North America

[@f.b.i8703]

@@LuisFelipe-jb1bq I thought they were better than this.

[@mt34578]

I don't judge them. Rio is still the cultural capital of Brazi, and the legit Brasília is around 60 years old and was founded to take the political power out of people's hand, that's a fact!

[@MichaelSidneyTimpson]

Do one about Sejeong-si in South, Korea. pretty interesting history

[@joaopedrodantas2147]

the airplane shape it is because outside america in any civilazed nation who create the airplane was Santos Dummont a Brazilan man who had also french ancestry, whe are proud of him, and because of that we have the third biggest aerospace industry in the world, almost every regional flight you take it is in a airplane design and made in Brazil

[@IgorRamos217]

Juscelino Kubitscheck preferiu criar uma cidade nova do que acabar com as favelas do Rio. O dinheiro gasto pra construir Brasília daria pra tirar todas as pessoas pobres das favelas naquela época. Mas ao invés disso ele preferiu gastar dinheiro construindo prédios e palácios no meio do nada

[@spessato]

Isso que dá votar em nacional desenvolvementista. Só gasta dinheiro público para fazer merda

[@youtub-fj8mu]

@@spessato Ah n fode Se não fossem os presidentes desenvolvimentistas o Brasil estaria ainda mais pobre e atrasado. Fizeram merda mas foram um dos melhores pais dessa porra.

[@spessato]

@@youtub-fj8mu kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk onde o estado e enchado burocrático reina o atraso fato.

[@Creeper0550]

Brasil no titulo: ah Brsileiros: quem ousa me invocar?

[@jujubatentei8575]

Kkkkkkk real mano

[@mllnth]

Imagina que bosta seria,políticos e traficantes andando juntos,aí estaríamos ferrados de vez

[@gui-rf3ob]

@@mllnth demorei pra entender kkkkk

[@balaosuspeito6743]

Já virou meme na gringa. Se quiser ser famoso é só mencionar o Brasil 😕😕😕

[@Creeper0550]

@@gui-rf3ob kkkkk os caras usa meu post pra conversar como se fosso discord

[@warlleyalmeida5094]

Até que enfim BRASÍLIA-DF CAPITAL, PORTUGUÊS LINGUAGEM REPTAM COMIGO, BRASÍLIA CAPITAL E O PORTUGUÊS LINGUAGEM OBGD

[@gugaum4716]

ó os bgl q o yt me recomenda, e eu ainda clico nisso kkkkkkkk

[@Lekpaulista9917]

Falar que o Brasil é o RJ Falar que o Brasil é de idioma Espanhol 😣😫

[@alguemporai1499]

Olha eu sou americano acho errado isso, tipo qual e a dificuldade das pessoas entenderem qui Portugal também faz parte do Brasil, tipo e só o 5 maior país do mundo e tem gente qui acha qui fica na America do Sul, logicamente qui o Brasil fica na Europa só aumentou o continente quase o dobro, mas assim eu sou gringo eu sei de geografia amo o Brasil eles falando italiano e tão lindo :)

[@iurylaranja9]

@@alguemporai1499 Brazil don't speak italian, and "qui" is "que" not "qui"

[@iurylaranja9]

Ele não falou isso mano

[@f.b.i8703]

@@alguemporai1499 Eu pensava que tivessem mais conhecimento de geografia.

[@alguemporai1499]

@@f.b.i8703 eu sei minha geografia de outro mundo (literalmente) você sabia qui pela posição do planeta o Brasil fica no norte ? Tipo o Brasil fica no norte mas tem pessoas qui não aceitam tipo *SÓ* 422,5 milhões de pessoas pouquinho.

[@arthurxavier3515]

Your first pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro is not wrong, the "de" does not have a "je" sound everywhere. Although people from Rio de Janeiro talk like this, in many other states it is said "de". The accent from Rio and São Paulo are the most used in tv (and I guess when foreigners are learning brazilian portuguese) and that's why for many it's the "right" way of talking, which is incorrect

[@danidejaneiro8378]

And also, that’s just how it’s said in English. No need to change it.

[@rogerio7546]

Não sabe doq ta falando. A Maioria dos brasileiros falam "dji". Tudo é sotaque do rio pqp, tem partes em q falam "de" mas a maioria da população fala "dji" não é porra nenhuma de sotaque carioca nem paulista

[@arthurxavier3515]

@@rogerio7546 e vc leu o que eu disse? Eu falei que "de" não tá errado (que é o que ele fala no vídeo), não importa se é maioria ou não, pode ser "de" e pode ser "dji" tbm. Falei do sotaque do Rio justamente pra deixar claro que as pessoas do estado que ele está falando sobre vão falar "dji", mas que não é errado falar da outra maneira. E se vc quer dizer que os sotaques de Rio e São Paulo n têm mais influência e aparecem mais na mídia aí é vc que não sabe o que tá falando. É só ir atrás e perceber isso. São os sotaques tratados como "normais" ou "corretos" por muita gente. Um exemplo é só ver que não é incomum pessoas dessas cidades dizerem que "não tem sotaque", o que é ridículo.

[@braziliantsar]

Sou do Rio e acho que apenas as pessoas do município do Rio falam assim. Do outro lado da "poça", a pronúncia é "de" mesmo.

[@Joao-de9gl]

@@rogerio7546 Rapaz se alguém fala aquele "dji" carregado todo mundo aqui sabe que é de fora

[@tomassiqueira5172]

My school in Brasília was built in 1961

[@victorvalar4656]

As a Brasilian, never heard anyone pronouncing Rio "je" Janeiro.