#Geography #geographyfacts
There are many different aspects to geography with the two main branches being human and physical.
Human geography revolves more around human demographics, whereas physical is more to do with the forces of nature.
Humans and our physical planet are in some ways mesmerising, some of the facts in today's video might well blow your socks off.
From facts relating to human demographics to the physical geographical locations of countries, these geography facts will change the way you think about or planet.
In this video we’ve got 40 completely random geography facts that are so ridiculous they almost don’t seem correct.
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the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia
Laughs in Bengal
Well to be fair Java is not that tiny tho
@@ReekyCheeks you just combined two of the facts in the video…
@@moon_fake it’s pretty tiny. Have you seen it on a map?
tiny? Comparing to other countries’ size Java is still larger but yeah the way 100+ people fits into a place as small as that
#19 4:41 You meant “kilometers” instead of “kilometers squared”. It’s distance, not area.
Think I need to hire a proof listener!
I noticed that too. When he said area, and he should have said distance.✅✅
The distance is also wrong by 1,000 km or so. The distance from Hawaii to Maine is also further than Hawaii to Florida/
@@TransportGeekery But this wasn’t to Hawaii. It was to Kure Atoll which is west of Midway.
@@-_James_- doesn’t matter. Maine is still further east.
Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia’s population lives within 50 km of the coast.
I love the Maine fact
@@sanderappel4499 not surprising at all if you think about it
I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha
Exactly my thoughts
Sure, and they named it in honor of Mia Khalifa…
Agreed. I also think the presentation of it is a bit misleading considering the people climbing start around 6.5 burj Khalifa’s up lol
The comparison is apples and oranges and applies only to height. To actually see Everest fairly up close for the first time is an experience never to be forgotten. So overwhelmingly magnificent it brought a tear to my eye.
@@A808K Magnificent? It is a mountain, nothing more, sure, it is arguably the highest mountain, but I see nothing special about that… If that brought tears to your eyes, what have you done when you saw the whole planet? Or the sun? As Hegel wrote, one can’t find aesthetical pleasure in things that were not made by human beings. You were overwhelmed by some mountain, but I am much more impressed by something that no other living thing has made, such as Burj Khalifa, and other real wonders, things made by human beings.
the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil
The westernmost point of China is also closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point. But yeah, it’s baffling how large Brazil is
Took a couple of seconds to sink in that you meant (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (N Brazil to S Brazil). I had thought you were saying (N Brazil to Canada) is less than (S Brazil to Canada) and trying to figure the distance south from S Brazil over Antarctica and on to N Canada. Now that would be an interesting fact — are there any such surprise distances going the opposite way over one of the poles?
Well I checked that on Google Earth and found that the distance from North to South Brazil is about 2,716 miles, whereas the distance from North Brazil to Canada is 2,760 miles. Which would make you wrong…….if I’m right.
@@LordOfLight you’re probably using the wrong points. From Monte Caburaí (northernmost of Brazil) to Cape Sable Lighthouse in Canada there are 2,654 miles. From the same Monte Caburaí to Barra do Chuí (southernmost point of Brazil) there are 2,732 miles
in fact, the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every single country in the Americas than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil
Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world’s smallest non city-state country! 🙂
Oh ok!
Imagine if Australia makes Nauru a territory
@@nicolebiewald18nauru isn’t apart of australia
I was about to say cuz Vatican City is the worlds smallest country. Good catch!
@@therealusman yeah. that’s why they said imagine
geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they’re actually good at geography
…but in all fairness, he did pronounce Chongqing and Nauru incorrectly.
Kihrihbat
Is it Kiribas?
Or Seychelles
@@Swede1066 then he pronounced baku wrong
If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.
and a few dozen guards lol
And the cold, hunger, North Korean Army, Potential Deportation and the camps, Families Sent to camps, and way more
Same with the US to norway. Technically, you can go from the Canadian border with Greenland to Norway by only traversing Canada, the US, and Russia.
don’t do that…
🔒,🔑->🕳
@@Neo36563 chill, mate. It was a joke.
You can compare Hong Kong to Western Australia & Mongolia combined however Western Australia & Mongolia are mostly barren desert land. A better comparison would be a Hong Kong against the US state of Alabama. Alabama is humid subtropical just like Hong Kong with it being 118 times bigger in land area but the entirety of the Alabama holds less people than Hong Kong.
Alabama – 50,750 square miles
Hong Kong – 428.64 square miles
Alabama – 5,097,641 people
Hong Kong – 7,291,600 people
Alabama – 100 people per square mile
Hong Kong – 17,011 people per square mile
i personally live in hong kong and you get why its so densely populated by looking at skyscarpers
Irrelevant. You must be from Alabama.
fewer people
Yes Hong Kong has a humid subtropical climate, but only a couple degrees fahrenheit below the tropical climate threshold in December and January. Meanwhile Alabama is NOT bordering a tropical climate on its southern coast.
The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance
That is a mind f-
NOLESY
ok ok mum
So to get to the East, one heads West. Interesting, that’s the best fact
Yes, to go from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Canal you go west to eat…
@@richardharris8867 me* makes cars movie inner voice sounds *to go right, go left
I was going to make this same observation. Well done!
The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.
It’s actually a jungle and not a rain-forest
Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how “hard” it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa’s from sea level.
So really, it’s only 3.5 buildings to be as tall as mnt everest, wow
Ah, yes… but we know that many many dozens of people have successfully climbed Everest. How many have climbed Burj Khalifa? On the outside, I mean. Stairs and elevators don’t count.
Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.
And Wisconsin 🙂
That’s what I thought…good catch!! Thanks!!
@@PrenticeAviation Lol I live in Wisconsin! How could I forget?? 🤣
How can we forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? I have heard it is a dangerous lake. I’m more familiar with Lake Michigan.
@@kittyhouse1028 o
i’m from marqutte, mich. which i live my whole life. you learned from an early age to be careful of the great lake. when gordon lightfoot wrote the song, “the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald”, he became an “yooper”. he by passed the “honorary” part. he’s a great canadian folk singer. much respect to him and his songs. he has a lot of great songs.
Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world
He had a lot of help from his dog.
Lol
810 million, 452 thousand, 5… er…5 hundred and … darn! 1…2…3
Not every tree.
@@katherineirving7189 bro go outside and go make friend please
Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don’t believe them.
1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest.
2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don’t hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador.
3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine.
4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands.
5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston.
6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.
Related to No. 2, few people know that going from the Atlantic to Pacific via the Panama Canal, you travel northwest to southeast — you actually go “backwards”, so to speak.
The Canadian border in Lake Erie is south of Chicago city limits.
Regarding number 2, I think you mean westernmost tip of Ecuador. Thanks for the interesting facts.
@@matts9781
Yes, or course, the westernmost tip, my bad.
Reno , NV is west of LA
1:33 Here’s a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn’t quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony.
So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.
I LOVE this channel! Please continue with videos like this.
Here’s a few more: 13 US States have ALL of their territory north of the southernmost point of Canada. 27 US States have at least part of their territory north of the most southernmost point of Canada (one of which is California). Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Atlanta, Georgia is further west than Detroit, Michigan. Alaska has the furthest North, East, and West places in the United States. There are two places in the US where water flows to both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
Seattle, WA is 250 miles north of Toronto.
I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.
I’m a Kiwi (who was born in Canada) and honestly I can’t believe I’d never heard this before! Mind blown
This is nothing – most Americans can’t even name a city in the southern hemisphere. Americans are geography illiterate- even engineers & other professionals. When I told friends about a trip to Costa Rica from Baltimore, that it took less flying time than from Baltimore to San Francisco they were astounded – some didn’t even believe me. I could go on and on. BTW I’m American but love learning about geography.
I once flew from Shanghai (population c.25M 4000/km2) to New Zealand (population c.5M 20/km2). A definite contrast!
@@BenSussmanpro Most Americans could not point out their own state on a blank US map. I’m one of those who can, btw…and point out all of them on a blank map.
I had to look this up: this is true for the distance between the Australian east coast and the North Island (1868 from Port Macquarie to Cape Reinga), but Australia is closer to the South Island (1648km from Cape Howe to Doubtful Sound) than any point of Canada is to Mexico (from what I could tell, about 1820km from Tijuana to the 49th parallel). Tasmania is even closer again, about 1491km from Milford Sound.
4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing “9400 kilometers squared” from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!
Yep, stopped watching after that
Yep I too stopped watching squared!
I had it just playing in the background, at this point I stopped watching. 👎🏽
Vatican City to Rome. About 2 inches
I wondered about the distance between Hawaii and Maine, as wouldn’t Maine be higher North?