GeoWizard attempts to name all 197 country outlines (harder than it looks)
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- You've seen me attempt to pinpoint every country on a map, name every US state and identify every world flag. But have you seen me attempt to identify every single country in the world based on it's outline?
I've spent a lot of time looking at atlases and world maps in my time and I'm not afraid to say that I was expecting this one to go better than it did. Something strange happens when you remove a country's neighbours..
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Folklands are not consider a country.
btw Guadeloupe is not a country, its a territory of france -🤓
Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Don't use this site. It contains russian propaganda
Hello, 5:39 - at this part map of Ukraine is wrong, it has to have Crimea in it's boundaries.
Why didn't we see Sealand on there? The smallest but also the most interesting country in the world.
"That's Kyrgyzstan, but can I spell it?"
Spells it wrong but the website gives it to him anyway.
"It's actually not that hard to spell, believe it or not, once you've done it a couple of times."
I'm glad someone else saw this 😂
Comical 🤣🤣
Pure Tom 🙂
At 1:52 he also spells the Philippines wrongly, typing "Phillipines" (double L) but the game still gives it to him anyway.
Right after that he goes on to say "these are gonna be quite hard to spell" 🤣
PSA: it's at 6:00
"Ah, Eswatini my nemesis" is the single greatest sentence ever
Just thinking of Vito in Sopranos saying something similar lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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It's a superb opening line for a book. Comes close to "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
Lol
It almost physically hurt me hearing Tom say "I'm not gonna try Guinea Bissau anymore", trying to figure things out looking at Syria with Guinea Bissau in the cell next to it.
And him continuously spelling it wrong lol
The absolute worst, right behind him asking if Bhutan was Macedonia while Macedonia was in the same line.
Hindsight is 2020 except for the comment section of these kinds of videos, apparently
GGs GW!! Was fun to see where we made the same mistakes and different ones :)
awesome you got mentioned 😊
Please collaborate
Yo I was in here
the goat
😱
To me, a person who's terrible with country shapes, this feels like an ink blot test.
Like, "what do you see here?"
"swordfish?"
"no, sorry, that's Cyprus."
"okay, now what about this one?"
"it's a dragon!"
"oops, wrong again, that's Mozambique."
"here, what's this?"
"the skyrim logo."
"oooooh, wrong again, it's Israel."
@x yeah, but tom missed kosovo with the state shape literally present on the flag with nothing else
Idk I used to gloss over atlas for hours when I was young and now a lot of these shapes are like printed at the back of my head.
^ that is so weird, so did I. Is this a thing some weird kids do?
Tom: I can't even spell Mozambique
Also Tom: Spells Mozambique perfectly
Then misspells Guinea-Bissau like ten times.
Also claimed that Kyrgyzstan wasn’t that hard to spell but spells it “Kyrgystan”
I was saying... wheres the z i memorized the z
After scoring 38/196 = 19%, I can take solace that I got Dominican Republic while you did not. I'll take my small victories where I can.
So happy you got St Kitts & Nevis 😃🇰🇳 we’re such a small Caribbean nation but very popular with tourists (all Caribbean islands are to be honest 😂)
Your country also has a name that sounds like it could be a band name! But obviously nothing compares to the greatest rock & roll band of the 50s:
✨ Saint Vincent and The Grenadines ✨
Its very familiar to people in Britain as it is in the Commonwealth.
I've been to Nevis many times. My favorite Caribbean island to travel to by far!
@@williamsemmer3544 you’ve made my day with this comment! I’m so glad you enjoyed your time there, one of my grandads was from Nevis (the rest of us are from St.Kitts). He passed a few years ago but I have so many lovely memories of playing in his yard on the island.
St Kitts and Nevis is relatively known in the commonwealth because we see you guys at the commonwealth games
I love how the personalized ads on the right are all lamps and lamp shades, presumably from Tom googeling street lights on the london guess in the previous pin point video hahaha
Lol, nice observation!
beautiful!
"That's Argentina. Don't see the Falklands there..." *colonial mic drop* 🤣
LOL I'm from argentina but that made me laugh
hahahaha i think that mightve gone over a lot of peoples heads
Bruh when he said that I did a witch laugh
Not as colonial as it could have been because the falklands were uninhabited until the UK claimed it.
"Don't see the Falklands there" Well duh, this is made by american devs. Would be like asking guys inside Plato's cave if the outside world is real
the european cities over 100k quiz is also quite fun. Maybe you should play it
He played that a few years ago! Not JetPunk, however.
ua-cam.com/video/gOtfoMLDHpc/v-deo.html
He already did it a while back. On Europe and on Asia iirc
No he should go straight for the all 100k cities in the world quiz or the all 10k cities in the USA quiz.
Chile's got a straight line mission written all over it, surely?
striaght line.... up and down! >:)
I don't think it's possible. Andes to the east with huge mountains. Deserts in the north for 100 km. The terrain in Chile is wicked. And it's wider than you think.
64 km at its narrowest, but it has mountains
Yes, time for Patagonia
@@Gary_Harlow actually only 15km south of Puelo, but very high mountains - not possible. However, from Lago Puelo to Puelo would be over 70km but possibly entirely in a valley.
Hey Tom,
Have ya heard of Tradle?
It's a game where you have to figure out a country by it's export stats.
You have 6 guesses and each guess you get 3 helping hints, the distance you are off the country, the direction NESW, and a percentage of accuracy.
Should try it out sometime
Tom saying it's not that hard to spell immediately after misspelling Kyrgyzstan at 6:05 >>>>
I used to play these games until I had all of them memorized... it became second nature very quickly... but unless you keep up with it, they're easy to forget.
Same here, kind of sad how they fade away. Now they're just distant memories, like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail :|
@@Pirosbor like tears in rain
@@Pirosbor What a reference!
@@Pirosbor Incredible Bob Mortimer reference
@@Pirosbor This really caught me off guard seeing this quote here haha. Legendary
21:35 Tom - "I'm not gonna do Guinea Bissau anymore, I'm not doing it to myself"
*Proceeds to scroll past Guinea Bissau*
The fact Tom is being more and more involved in the GeoGuessr world makes me very happy
Tom was literally an OG geoguessr youtuber
He has been for years
he basically made the geoguessr world
@@filiphodak6792 I know i've been watching him for god knows how long. Just sayign how hes back playing it more and is pore involved with the people in the community again
@@TheMarineF0x Yea, me too, this is just one of the videos that you know it's gonna be a banger even years into the future
You seem too worried with keeping the video short :( Most of us wouldnt mind watching you get all 196, even if it takes an hour or two
Hm, not too sure about that.
I also wanted to see him get all of them. I feel like him having a list of all country names at hand would have made it possible to finish in a reasonable time. Without such a list, it would have dragged out too much.
@@toms169 i think he wouldve gotten atleast 190, given enough time
i think its because of the algorhitm, what ive heard 10-25 min videos do the best
Absolutely, I love long, long-form videos
"its actually not that hard to spell" as he spells Kyrgyzstan wrong and the game just gives it to him 😂 6:05
Tom! I think you and Welsh Gregg would be great for that TV show 'Race around the world' you guys would boss it! Would love to see you on it one year. Great vid as always mate
Anyone else just spend 20 minutes with a look of dumb amazement on their face as Tom ploughs through a mass of indistiguishable shapes? 😅
“that’s distinctive” like huh?🥴
When you've looked at world maps for the better part of your life, shapes become recognizable. Like a florist would know flowers or leaves by shape
@@TrolledBy absolutely, I used to look at maps to draw every day and they're just stuck in my head. A lot of the times I was screaming at the scream when he couldn't guess it but I just have a good memory for stuff I will never use again like the names of Romanian footballers
@hades the rat can you name any that played in the English top flight? Genuinely interested. 😂
Maybe petrescu? He played in England so I think it might be right.
Awesome to see you shouting out Zigzag. You two are easily my favorite geoguesser UA-camrs, cool to see you two watch each other.
I can’t be the only one who was bothered by the caps lock🤣
@Shambaga Well caps is used in many engineering applications because of its clarity and unambiguousness. Perhaps Tom was worried about visually impaired viewers
Tried my best to save you, Tom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I guess the lesson of the video is: Tom doesn't know the Baltics 😂. Jokes aside, seeing you guess Pakistan and Armenia for our country was...a struggle. Even more that you guessed the Republic of Korea first but not us despite the distinct DMZ that we both share. For future reference, Kosovo is one of only two places that has their outline on their flag, the other is Cyprus. Though I'm sure Serbia was having a field day at you skipping over them. I think the country that stands out the most is The Gambia because of the fact you can see it surrounds a river and thus it's shaped like an intestine. France controlled what's now Senegal but the UK insisted on keeping their settlements around the Gambia River, so they agreed in principle in 1889.
I think this is the only circumstance where the Map Men Squarest Country song is remotely useful lmao
I shall forever remember desperately shouting "chicken with a huge badonkadonk," attempting to recall Camaroon's actual name
I've had a song sitting at the back of my mind the whole time I've been watching this and I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. Then I saw your comment and I suddenly realised it was the mapmen squarest country song!
Tom not immediately identifying Chad shows how little familiarity he has with geography memes.
Insane that it's enjoyable to watch someone literally name countries. I'm surprised you didn't at least try more island nations like Tuvalu, Marshall Islands and all the other Pacific ones in the little dotty maps.
You are very hard on yourself! There were like 15 countries I'd never even heard of before. Well done. I've been binging your videos all weekend and it's been fun!
This was really great. Definitely a few I was surprised you didn't get. Maybe you would have if you spent more time on it. Still did better than me! Such a cool video idea.
I enjoy doing the Seterra world map quiz (I usually play "Place the Labels" and play a custom quiz that includes 236 countries and territories). I think that website has a quiz similar to this one too, but it also has flag quizzes, bodies of water quizes, and many other ones. The site is run by Geoguessr!
Wait, what? Seterra is run by Geoguessr?? I had no idea! I used to play Seterra at school literally 10+ years ago, they taught us countries that way lol.
@@thespankmyfrank Seterra was bought up by GeoGuessr I think
JetPunk has a larger variety of quizzes, but Seterra has more specific ones and better for learning.
Hey Tom - I rarely leave comments but... You are just completely so much so a comfort youtuber of mine and I really appreciate you, your videoes and your character. Please try to stay in the public eye for as long as you can and stay creative!!
Love the content Tom! Keep it up - been watching for years and still entertained by these vids haha
*skims over Argentina's image* "I'm not seeing the Falkland Islands anywhere" LMAO. You smooth criminal! :)
I managed to say “he’s-back-it’s-Stan” at the same time as Tom 😂 that joke has lived rent free in my head for 20 odd years!
You were literally right next to Guinea-Bissau when you said you weren't going to guess it anymore, LOL Good job overall! There were a few I knew that you didn't and vice-versa, so it's possible my score might have been similar, although I'm guessing slightly lower.
Could we please have a link to the game in the description? I'd like to see how well I can do myself before watching the video 😄
Edit: wow, that was much harder than I thought, I'm decent at naming countries but not by their outline I guess
“Don’t see the falklands there” had me dying 🤣
5:34 A lot of Ukrainians are gonna be pissed at that one 💀
Tru, the quiz’s author is a dumba$s
good.
There were 7 countries I’d never even heard of that you guessed, 11 total that I noticed as you scrolled though after giving up. Suffice it to say geography is not my strong suit and all and this came across as absolutely masterful!
I think it's hard wired in Tom's brain to always write and pronounce it as Guinea-Bassau for some reason
Omg the part where you went “hmm I don’t see the falklands” lmfao shots fired 😂
5:55 nice 😂
”That looks like Antarctica, I’m going mad”🤣
I got 135. The most obvious one I missed was Vatican City. The castle-shaped border should have been a giveaway.
Loved this, I was just rewatching one of your Sporcle videos the other day! Would defo like to see you look at some cool maps like JackSucksAtGeography does, be interesting to hear your thoughts
Loved it when you was stuck on Latvia as it’s my home country, I just wanted to shout it through the screen!!!
love your videos so much tom. you have the right tone, really down to earth (haha) guy, it always puts me in a calm mood. an impressive score!
Where did you find this map? Ukraine without Crimea? are you serious??
Yeah horrible map, barely any country recognises Crimea to be Russian
а у вас типо он есть?)))
@@NangDoofer you might call it occupation or whatever you want but Crimea is in fact under Russia control since 2014. Trying to redraw maps in the internet is straight up coping and waste of human energy
@@mw2k6 doesn’t mean anything, this war is ongoing since 2014. Any maps shouldn’t be redrawn until the war is over.
@@NangDoofer there was no war over Crimea. There was civil war in Ukraine against pro-Russian regions (which of course were supported by Russia but there was no direct conflict untill now). Crimea is undoubtedly under Russia control since then and Ukraine never really tried to recap it because there was more tension in Donbass region. The only universe in which Ukraine tried to return the Crimea is the Internet
“Looking at maps, which is something Jack Sucks At Life does” 😭😭😭
This was a fun challenge, I got 151 while brutally brute forcing my wai through most of the islands. And I probably took double the time of Tom. I feel like a fool for missing Ireland and the Netherlands though.😅
Ah, I was wondering if that was possible! The Netherlands have _such_ a distinctive shape, but I live there, so that I would recognise it instantly doesn't mean that everyone does.
@@607 Now that I've seen the shape once, I won't make the same mistake again lol.
Love the Jetpunk/Sporcle vids Tom, well done lad.
Zi8gzag is such a good player/person, y’all should collaborate
Loved trying alongside you! Thanks for the content
Ukraine without Crimea??? Wtf? Who did that quiz?!
The really strange thing is that Crimea was ever part of Ukraine, given that it was Russian speaking with a mainly Russian population. Crimea was part of Russian SSR until Khrushchev decided to give it to Ukraine at a time when the USSR was never expected to break up and form separate countries based on random boundaries decided upon by Stalin and Khrushchev.
@@dacorum8053still voted to be part of Ukraine at USSR dissolution though
@@christophernicolson5086, True but at the time of the dissolution of the USSR all the former soviet states, bar the Baltic States, agreed to join the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The CIS encouraged cooperation in economic, political and military affairs and had certain powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security, including cross-border crime prevention. Those were the terms on which Crimea voted to remain part of Ukraine at that time.
However, since the formation of the CIS, Ukraine moved away from cooperating with the other states, applied to join NATO, left the CIS and had the violent anti Russian revolution in 2014 that, among other things, removed Russian as an official language, so the circumstances in which Crimea voted to stay in Ukraine after the dissolution of the USSR had changed radically and permanently by 2014. I have no doubt that the people of Crimea would now prefer to be part of Russia because of all these changes since they voted to be part of Ukraine in 1990.
Joining CIS wasn't binding and Ukraine never joined. It's pretty defunct now for everyone.
It applied to join NATO after being invaded.
The only thing that made 2014 violent or a revolution was Yanukovich ordering the firing on civilians and then fleeing. So they were demonstrating, big deal there are demonstrations and marches and protests all the time.
My country doesn't have official languages but ofcourse Russia wanted everyone to know and be taught Russian otherwise their propaganda is ineffective. I don't see it as a big deal, still not a reason to start an invasion.
Yes ofcourse Crimea would want to be Russian now because they've got no economy now the cruise ships have stopped. They need the handouts.
And everyone who thought differently has fled to Ukraine anyway.
I knew you'd be stumped by Cabo Verde! Ten beautiful islands south of the Canaries. An easy flight from Lisbon and well worth a visit. Each island has a distinct character.
I love how he basically recognises all the penis shaped ones in like 0.2 seconds
What states besides Benis do you consider penis shaped?
Cameroon?
at 6:12 he says Kyrgyzstan isn't that hard to spell. Tom then spells it wrong and the game autocorrected it for him. Well played Tom, well played.
5:54. Shape of Ukraine is wrong
This was just me screaming "NOOOOO!" The entire way through
24:22 grandma's reaction to Ghana's height after 1 month of not seeing it
Managed to get 104 completely cold on the timed challenge. Definitely tough without any sense of scale. Excited to watch the video now
this guy gets fricken' Nauru, but can't recognize North Korea!
Hi Tom, I was thinking maybe you could try doing this but with flags? Thought it could make for some good content! I checked and sporcle has a country flag quiz!
Tom not knowing Lithuania hurts my heart so much :(
are you done painting my appartment mate?
@@johnnyespalahento2431 LMAOOO
Man irgi gaila, jis nežinojo ne vienos baltijos šalies
Sameee. 😢
@@johnnyespalahento2431 Well, he's from a country with work culture, so yeah, he's definitely done lmao. Warms my heart seeing brits struggling to find anyone to do the most basic physical jobs after Brexit
Any other Trinis shouted out in enthusiasm when he finally got Trinidad and Tobago? I remember the round he played in Toco, Trinidad ini GeoGuesser
Hawaii and Alaska being left out of the US country outline like 👁👄👁. Barby from Geography Now once said that the Comoros looks like a bunch of dinosaur heads, and I can't unsee it. It's a perfect way to remember the country (more like ComoROAR). And the name of the island split between the DR and Haiti is Hispaniola! Find it funny you said how Haiti shared it with DR and then when the DR finally comes up at 13:12, you said "No chance" 😂. A way I like to describe Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean is that Cuba is a giant vacuum that's cleaning up a floor filled with crumbs and dust aka the smaller Caribbean islands.
And no, Guadeloupe is not a country. It is an overseas department/region of France! It means it has powers identical to departments in Mainland France! It is also considered an outermost region of the EU, so just like the rest of France, it uses the euro, and any EU citizen can live and work there indefinitely. Though it is NOT part of the Schengen Area due to its overseas status.
That stab at Argentina was proper banter
Ukraine without Crimea wtf
I think the scale has a lot to do with distinctness. One thing this quiz also does is remove scale, but our brains recognize the wrinkly coastline to mean large country, so a country thats bigger is more wrinkly and distinctive than a small country with smooth borders
To give you an idea how long it takes to do all without Googling: I did all 196 yesterday and it took me about 3 hours and 15 minutes, without googling anything besides how I had to spell 'Comoros'. I kept typing in 'Comores' lol... It was tough, but I wanted to do it as a challenge. The good things is, you can keep typing in until it's correct, of course.
What helped me a lot was the funny song 'Nations of the world' by 'The Animaniacs', since I know the lyrics :D
"maybe on this side it's an island" might be my favourite quote yet
The falklands joke 😂
He just wants to watch the world burn
I originally subscribed to improve my geography. Videos like this remind me how incredible you are and how much I have to learn. I have improved greatly over my 4/5years as a subscriber. I can now atleast remember 5 South American countries 😂
bruh why is Ukraine without Crimea
We love you bro and we need you to be the best you! Love to see this journey for you! It's transcendent
It was frustrating to watch him not know the Baltic countries. They are all so distinct for me
the problem with my map knowledge is im used to seeing nations from playing strategy computer games and they always kinda simplify the borders, making them smoother so u get used to seeing them differently from real maps
Great content! Surprised you didn't get Chad immediately, it's the only(?) country outline that looks like a face.
Kinda hurts me to see Estonia and Latvia being on the list of "I don't have the slightest idea..."
Who tf drew Ukraine without Crimea
That was great fun, Tom! Thanks for continuing to try new things.
15:10 i assume the reason why the small countries look so "big" here is because they have been massively scaled up in order to fit nicely into that box area, which would be why algeria was scaled down to fit, so they all kinda look the same size just because they've been zoomed in or out very far. which clearly makes this challenge much harder because when scanning the geoguessr map, you are used to seeing these countries be vastly different in size relative to each other
Yeah, duhh
I was shouting Latvia and was worried you'd miss it, glad you got it in the end
UKRAINE without Crimea, WTF
It’s been annexed for over a decade now…
Love the zigzag shout out! Easily my two favorite GeoGuessr youtubers
Ukraine's map is wrong. It misses Crimea.
Disputed territory isn’t included for neutrality
@@mite3959 This is not a dispute where you pick sides. According to International law Crimea is Ukrainian.
@@desplendidoluce After the annexation it’s definitely less valid.
@@mite3959 an illegal invasion does not change international law my friend
@@desplendidoluce While yes, I agree, until Ukraine takes full control over the peninsula, it is currently occupied by and incorporated into Russia. Plus, Russians would probably complain if it was still there, so it’s grayed out. Again, I do agree with you though.
I love this return to nostalgic geography quizzes - the naming as many European cities as possible video was your first I watched! You’re a legend of the geo community, keep it up :)
Why is Crimea Russian?
its not Russian either
On Seterra they have “top 10 import/export of (insert country)” I highly recommend those because how unique they are. Really makes one thonk
Interesting that the creator of this quiz decided not to give Cremia to anyone. But ofc Cremia is Ukraine btw
The only quiz I'm insane at GeoWizard does. You should do more JetPunk quizzes.
wtf Ukraine is without Crimea? 😮
Russia is also shown without Crimea
Yes please do the interesting maps Tom!!! I love your vids
Took me a while to do but I eventually got all 196. Can't grumble at 144 though, that's very respectable. The last three I got were Belgium, Lebanon and Cambodia, very easy for the shapes to just blur together. Trying to fit the borders together helped, like I got Sudan early, so then for South Sudan just tried to find one with a funny jut up on the right.
Dude you say you're not good at it, but you're naming so many countries I didn't even know existed.
Ukraine is pictured without Crimea? That's messed up, some sort of Russian site?
bruh its jetpunk 🤦
i mean, crimea isnt really a part of ukraine, is it? hasnt been for like 8 years now. maps are supposed to reflect reality
I think creators just wanted to avoid mutual shitthrowing and just removed it. Russia doesn't have it either on their map.
@@wickedsamurai3323 Крим це Україна
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Got a solid "Get In", and that's really what I'm here for
Jetpunk doesn't seem to recognize Crimea as a part of Ukraine. Interesting.
are they Russian? Don't think many countries apart from them recognise that
9:57 "i feel like i know that but i gotta move on" he could feel the serbs loading up the AKs lmao