Are There Any 3-Landlocked Countries?

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  • @standupmaths
    @standupmaths  Рік тому +318

    Can't visit Liechtenstein yourself? Your devices can! 83% off via www.privateinternetaccess.com/standupmaths
    Please do let me know if you've done any denture production research!

    • @jonsnowisalive
      @jonsnowisalive Рік тому +16

      If you divide into smaller administrative zones you’ll get a lot deeper landlocked zones

    • @marsultor02
      @marsultor02 Рік тому +16

      Does Nebraska count as triply landlocked if you count river access to the ocean (as you did with Moldova), than the Mississippi river and great lakes both allow for freight into the ocean.

    • @marcosscriven
      @marcosscriven Рік тому +2

      Or, as you say, Licktenstein 😂

    • @ArmedWithMonkeys
      @ArmedWithMonkeys Рік тому +6

      The Midwest has ocean access through Lake Michigan & the St. Lawrence river. Your graph was wrong

    • @birdofprey_bird
      @birdofprey_bird Рік тому +2

      I think I noticed a tiny little error in your graph/network of great britain.
      It shows Cheshire as landlocked, instead of on the coast. I think the connection between Merseyside and whatever county lies to the west of it should not be there.
      If Cheshire would be landlocked, like it shows on the graph, it would make for a few more double landlocked counties.
      I am not from GB, but on a map it looks like Cheshire does have a short coastline. Or am I getting something wrong?
      Otherwise cool way to visualise the whole thing!

  • @PortleyPortions
    @PortleyPortions Рік тому +3917

    As a person born in Nebraska, I can confirm you filmed the entire state

    • @beauthestdane
      @beauthestdane Рік тому +83

      Having driven through it more than once, and as a child was stuck for two weeks waiting on parts for a VW van in the 60s, yes, I will confirm that. To be fair though, I understand there are some really great parts to visit, like the Niobrara river.

    • @UncleKennysPlace
      @UncleKennysPlace Рік тому +36

      Kansas is envious.

    • @BenRHarsh
      @BenRHarsh Рік тому +33

      And to quote Matt: "That's incredible."

    • @alkostach
      @alkostach Рік тому +48

      As a person not born in Nebraska, I can't confirm anything about it.

    • @DasGanon
      @DasGanon Рік тому +7

      Pretty much my experience as a Wyomingite driving through Nebraska.
      Coolest part is Ashfall though.

  • @fradinetienne712
    @fradinetienne712 Рік тому +846

    So I checked the European NUTS-2 statistical regions, and the most landlocked appears to be Prague, that is 5-landlocked (!!), being completely surrounded by the Central Bohemian Region that is itself isolated from all other countries by at least one other region. After that, you still have to cross at least 3 regions in other countries to get to the sea (for exemple through Germany, you have Saxony, then Brandenburg and finally Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios Рік тому +45

      That is interesting, it puts the different ways european nations divide themselves on some equal playing field.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Рік тому +10

      Ah, now there's somewhere that'd be fun to go on a whim!

    • @alesecq2172
      @alesecq2172 Рік тому +13

      I was just about to write that Prague seems to be at least triple landlocked if not more! Didn’t check, just live there.

    • @Karolomen
      @Karolomen Рік тому +38

      @@alesecq2172 what's funny about that is that, paradoxically, Czech people say "ahoj", even though they don't have a sea

    • @jantulak5285
      @jantulak5285 Рік тому +56

      @@Karolomen Also, Czechoslovakia (now split into Czechia and Slovakia) have a 100 % win rate of sea battles. If you count Baikal as a sea. And capturing two ships and then sinking the single remaining warship on Baikal as a battle. And don't ask what a bunch of Czechoslovak guys were doing some 6000 miles away from their home in the middle of Siberia.

  • @imatop10
    @imatop10 Рік тому +734

    Matt, Regarding the United States. For those states that border a Great Lake, you might say they are not technically landlocked. The Great lakes have seaports on them where there are ocean going ships. The Great lakes are also considered international water. Now if you are thinking of the ocean only, then they are landlocked.

    • @AlumniQuad
      @AlumniQuad Рік тому +30

      This comment should be pinned at the top.

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook Рік тому +28

      Lake Michigan is politically in the US, but ideologically part of Lake Huron.

    • @crunk1
      @crunk1 Рік тому +4

      What's up with Ohio? Shouldn't it be a 3-landlocked state?
      edit: Shouldn't it be a 2-landlocked state?

    • @x--.
      @x--. Рік тому +1

      They don't need canals to reach the ocean?

    • @ericoch7811
      @ericoch7811 Рік тому +2

      @@crunk1 i guess it borders ontario which is not landlocked? so even though canada and mexico don't have any super landlocked stuff they do have an impact. same for minnesota montana north dakota michigan...

  • @peccantis
    @peccantis Рік тому +69

    Using the "no boats" rule, i.e. you cannot cross large lakes, I found 7 African 6-landlocked primary subdivisions: Bujumbura, Kayanza, Muranvya, and Mwaro in Burundi (a 1-landlocked country), and Busia, Siaya, and Vihiga in Kenya (a 0-landlocked country). Burundi has 8 5-landlocked primary subdivisions, Kenya has 7, Rwanda (1-LL) has 4, Uganda (1-LL) has 1, South Sudan (1-LL) has 1, Chad (1-LL) has 4, and the westernmost African country with a 5-landlocked primary subdivision is Niger (1-LL).

  • @radagastwiz
    @radagastwiz Рік тому +1032

    Tiniest nitpick: the net at 5:30 treats Greenland as fully insular, but as of a few months ago it does have a land border with Canada on a small, remote, uninhabited island. I'm guessing the data Matt used predates that change.

    • @GOAT_GOATERSON
      @GOAT_GOATERSON Рік тому +12

      Was about to say that

    • @OscarCunningham
      @OscarCunningham Рік тому +95

      They also miss the France/Netherlands border on Saint Martin, but include Guantanamo Bay as its own node. I don't really understand why.

    • @SorteKanin
      @SorteKanin Рік тому +110

      Since Greenland is actually just part of Denmark, you can even say that Denmark has a land border with Canada, which is just bizarre

    • @momom6197
      @momom6197 Рік тому +3

      @@SorteKanin It is? :eyes:

    • @thomasreese2816
      @thomasreese2816 Рік тому +14

      The whole video needs to be pulled! Unacceptable 😂

  • @candiman4243
    @candiman4243 Рік тому +931

    Fun Fact: Nebraska has a ceremonial title called "Nebraska Admiral" it bestows upon people.
    "And I [the Governor of Nebraska] do strictly charge and require all officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish under your command to be obedient to your orders as Admiral-and you are to observe and follow, from time to time, such directions you shall receive, according to the rules and discipline of the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska." is what is said when it is bestowed.

    • @lunasophia9002
      @lunasophia9002 Рік тому +47

      I was believing this until the part about tadpoles and goldfish. 1 April was a few days ago

    • @sashavaleria4287
      @sashavaleria4287 Рік тому +141

      @@lunasophia9002 It's legit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral

    • @TorstenLif
      @TorstenLif Рік тому +28

      Is this a jab at "Kentucky Colonel"?

    • @paulclapham5791
      @paulclapham5791 Рік тому +38

      And Matt may be interested to know that the late Queen Elizabeth II is (was?) a Nebraska Admiral.

    • @gramathy999
      @gramathy999 Рік тому +17

      @@TorstenLif feels even more tongue in cheek since nebraska doesn't have a navy

  • @ChadrickNurn
    @ChadrickNurn Рік тому +372

    Matt:
    "I think, from memory, they were able to do that slightly more efficiently than my code."
    Meanwhile, in the 5-letter word video:
    "Yeah, so, we coded this on a ham sandwich plugged into a car battery. Anywho, it gave us an answer 8,388,608 times faster than Matt's code."

    • @tylerpetrov8094
      @tylerpetrov8094 Рік тому +8

      😂

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 5 місяців тому +3

      his memory is running on his code

    • @robingrimm3443
      @robingrimm3443 5 місяців тому +1

      The last video I saw on it had the timing down to half a millisecond I think? It was like five billion times faster than his original code lol

  • @inventor121
    @inventor121 Рік тому +287

    If you're counting sebdivisions of Countries there are probably a large number of them that are triply or even quadruply landlocked. Xinjiang, Astana, and Omsk come to mind as well as the various provinces around Moscow. As well a provinces in interior Africa and in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

    • @jeannemoreaux7582
      @jeannemoreaux7582 Рік тому +3

      Liechtenstein is not a subdivision of Switzerland. If that's what you're trying to say :)

    • @mementomori5580
      @mementomori5580 Рік тому +54

      @@jeannemoreaux7582 I think the point was that Nebraska is a subdivision of the USA.

    • @iagobkstar
      @iagobkstar Рік тому +9

      @@mementomori5580 The world is fractal, in the way you can always subdivide more and more. Hell, where I come from, even individual plots of land have legal administrative names (not just addresses). However, I would say US States, which have an elected government and the power to pass bills, are reasonably high-level entities to draw the line.

    • @falinestixiaolong9691
      @falinestixiaolong9691 Рік тому +5

      @@mementomori5580 American states have more substance than UK counties because they are reasonably big and have their own governing bodies, I think it's ok to include them, same with Russian oblasts or Brazilian states. I'm French but wouldn't include our regions as relevant for example. German Landers ? Heh, maybe ?

    • @mgmayank18
      @mgmayank18 Рік тому +1

      India has New Delhi and Chandigarh!

  • @rehbeinator
    @rehbeinator Рік тому +408

    As a resident of Omaha (the largest city in Nebraska), allow me to share our city's very literal and self-aware motto: "We don't coast."

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Рік тому +11

      I don't know much about Omaha but every time I find out something about it I'm like, oh, that is SO Omaha. Y'all seem to have nailed your branding.

    • @cybersoul3371
      @cybersoul3371 Рік тому +11

      But come see the zoo tho

    • @Falc0nFight3r
      @Falc0nFight3r Рік тому

      Also, Turn the Page by Bob Seger references us

    • @Einyen
      @Einyen Рік тому +3

      I live in Denmark, the furthest you can be from the ocean in mainland Denmark (not Greenland) is 32 miles (52 km).

    • @renanalves3955
      @renanalves3955 Рік тому +1

      That sounds like GoT stuff

  • @WIImotionmasher
    @WIImotionmasher Рік тому +152

    3:04 "I can't just up and go to arbitrary locations on a whim"
    I was 1000% convinced that was a segway into the VPN sponsorship. Then he talked about the shortest municipal border in the UK.
    I was bamboozled.
    *edit* he continues to toy with me for the video

  • @Richard_AKL
    @Richard_AKL Рік тому +165

    Lesotho is an interesting country as it's completely surrounded by South Africa and I was reminded of it when you were talking about landlocked countries with no ocean access. So a delegation from South Africa met a delegation from Lesotho, and one by one were introduced to each other, but one particular individual caused a lot of confusion - Lesotho's Minister for Oceans and Fisheries. The South African delegation went into a huddle and there was a lot of discussion, an occasional pause and finger pointing, back to more discussion, before finally one of the South African ministers got up the courage to ask how it is that Lesotho has a Minister for Oceans and Fisheries when they don't have access to the ocean. The Lesotho delegation went into their own huddle, and occasionally someone would point at someone and then they'd get back into the huddle and talk some more, and eventually a spokesman for the Lesotho delegation responded with a question of his own, "How come, South Africa has a Minister of Law and Order?"

    • @the5thwall343
      @the5thwall343 9 місяців тому +17

      What legends, I would’ve thought about that in the shower after the meeting

    • @MarloTheBlueberry
      @MarloTheBlueberry 8 місяців тому +1

      Legends... Or Leg Ends?

  • @janpietercornet9364
    @janpietercornet9364 Рік тому +133

    Weird map fact. Here's a 3-landlocked (part of a) country! At 51.43882079644939, 4.932110205114705. It's the left side of a house on the molenstraat in Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. That part of the house is in Belgium, and that part of the house is 3-landlocked, in a way. To get out of the house, you go through the front door which is in (2-landlocked) Netherlands. Isn't the Netherlands bordering on the sea? No, not that part. To get out of that little bitty piece of the Netherlands you have to go through a (1-landlocked) piece of Belgium called Baarle-Hertog. And because Baarle-Hertog is an "enclave" of Belgium within the Netherlands, you cannot go to the sea from there unless you cross the border to (0-landlocked) mainland Netherlands first.
    And yes, this is a huge mess. Interesting times in that region during conflicting covid lockdown regimes over the last years...

    • @RubenMoor
      @RubenMoor Рік тому +5

      that totally counts

    • @MarcusCactus
      @MarcusCactus 10 місяців тому +5

      Check out an even more convoluted enclave-in-enclave-in-enclave situation in the Indian-Bangladesh region!

    • @AwesomeSheep48
      @AwesomeSheep48 7 місяців тому +1

      @@MarcusCactusI'm pretty sure that it's much better now than it used to be, maybe only double landlocked?

  • @rahulahmedhazarika4379
    @rahulahmedhazarika4379 Рік тому +748

    New Delhi, the national capital region is a distinct administrative area is also triply landlocked. Both its bordering states are doubly landlocked. Do check it out!

    • @davidnoll9581
      @davidnoll9581 Рік тому +56

      Seems like Argentina has some triply landlocked regions as well. Certainly a place like kazakhstan must have plenty as well. I guess the more interesting question to ask (and possibly what he meant) would be triply border-locked. A word I just made up that’s like land-locked but where the outer border is all treated as if it’s ocean

    • @Essence1123
      @Essence1123 Рік тому +11

      I mean if you just look at larger countries you can EASILY find triply or even quadruplely (quadruply?) land locked regions. Central lower Canada and the US certainly have some.

    • @jonsnowisalive
      @jonsnowisalive Рік тому +2

      Look at district map of India you’ll see so many

    • @simsim4910
      @simsim4910 Рік тому +14

      @@Essence1123 I mean, true but not the US or Canada. Canada is at most single landlocked and US was in the video so I dont have to explain there being no more then one 3-landlocked

    • @knutthompson7879
      @knutthompson7879 Рік тому +30

      @@Essence1123 We need to define what sub-national political entities we include. As you say, depending what level you consider, there have to be quite a few that would be very landlocked indeed. There are several counties in the US that are 17-times landlocked, for instance.

  • @davidlees2963
    @davidlees2963 Рік тому +144

    Your visit to Liechtenstein looks pretty much like my visit and everyone else's. The only country I have been to where the tourist information centre has information on opening a bank account and the map of the whole country I picked up there had buildings on it.

  • @sergiov.697
    @sergiov.697 Рік тому +51

    There's two triple-landlocked regions in Spain! The provinces of Salamanca and Ávila are both separated from the sea by 3 other provinces (although, taking into account the provinces of Portugal, Salamanca falls off the triple-landlocked club!)

    • @marco.trevisan
      @marco.trevisan Рік тому +2

      Wow, I'm from Madrid, and just realised that we are only two provinces from the beach: Cuenca and then Valencia. And yet, the sea looks so far away when you are suffering the scorching heat of August afternoons...

  • @ElvesofZion
    @ElvesofZion Рік тому +38

    Would be great to see some Map/Math Men collaboration!

    • @Programentalist
      @Programentalist Рік тому +1

      Yes! As soon as the video started I said to my SO "hey this feels more like a map men thing", a collab would be interesting to see.

    • @marpocky
      @marpocky Рік тому +1

      Funny how he called it Jay's video and then Mark did almost all the talking

  • @NateVolker
    @NateVolker Рік тому +796

    Knowing how much shipping happens through the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, I’m not sure if it makes sense to consider a lot of those states as “land locked”

    • @Skip6235
      @Skip6235 Рік тому +159

      I don’t think the Mississippi should count as rivers would basically make almost nowhere land-locked. However the Great Lakes should definitely count as ocean-access, especially if we count the Mediterranean and Black Seas as ocean-access.

    • @argledotorg
      @argledotorg Рік тому +190

      There is a distinct difference between a river and a navigable river.
      But this raises an interesting question: "which port is furthest from the ocean?"

    • @wagglebutt
      @wagglebutt Рік тому +57

      Great lakes should definitely count as ocean access. Not sure why the salinity of the water would be a dividing factor.

    • @MrZcar350
      @MrZcar350 Рік тому +37

      Don't forget the Missouri which is navigable to Sioux City which would give Nebraska ocean access.

    • @Taladar2003
      @Taladar2003 Рік тому +9

      @@argledotorg Hamburg is probably quite high on that list as far as ports for ocean vessels go.

  • @MaxHaydenChiz
    @MaxHaydenChiz Рік тому +414

    Many of those 2 "land-locked" US states have major river ports that connect all the way to the gulf of Mexico and the intracoastal waterway (and hence the entire east coast up to NYC). This is the same situation you mentioned with the Danube and Maldova except that the MS river basin is massive and navigable insanely far into the country.
    Specifically, the eastern border of Nebraska is the Missouri river. Hence the weird curve. The largest city in the state (Omaha) is located on that river. You can get on a boat in Omaha and go to NYC without hitting open ocean.

    • @kenzieb2806
      @kenzieb2806 Рік тому +54

      Also the great lakes are a significant connection to the atlantic for multiple states

    • @gothicsoldier
      @gothicsoldier Рік тому +60

      yeah the landlocked designation for Michigan always irks me considering oceangoing ships go in and out of the great lakes aplenty. Any time it comes up the opposition say 'a waterway isn't the same as actually touching the ocean' but considering the whole Moldova thing was specifically used as example here of why Moldova /isn't/ landlocked it's a bit frustrating to sit here in northern Michigan being called a poor landlocked state as I've stood on a vessel near my home that had just crossed the atlantic.

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann Рік тому +17

      The Danube is also navigable insanely far into the continent, and unlike the Mississippi, the Danube flows through many countries which made treaties guaranteeing free passage for all ships a must - which is why it's now counted as ocean access.

    • @SebastianLopez-nh1rr
      @SebastianLopez-nh1rr Рік тому

      That’s crazy

    • @Jt.512
      @Jt.512 Рік тому +27

      ​@@Leyrann the Mississippi is entirely with the borders of the USA, which has free passage between the states as part of the constitution (if I'm not mistaken) so while it may not be honorary international waters, it is certainly ocean access

  • @richardralph
    @richardralph Рік тому +32

    When watching your video I was curious why you showed Spain connected to Morocco and I guessed that there must be an enclave involved. Entirely separately, I was wondering what the shortest international land border is. So I googled it. Imagine my delight when the answer was revealed to be Penon de Velez de la Gomera which is Spain's enclave. The border is only 85 metres long and has only existed since 1930 when an earthquake shifted the sands and joined what was previously an island to the Moroccan coast. Love it!

    • @paulfloyd9258
      @paulfloyd9258 Рік тому +1

      That would be a Spanish exclaves (and enclaves of Morocco).

    • @iagobkstar
      @iagobkstar Рік тому +7

      Spain has two other land borders with Morocco, in the autonomous cities of Celta and Melilla (each with a border of 8 and 12 km respectively). Those overseas territories are as Spanish as the Balearic or Canary islands.

    • @richardralph
      @richardralph Рік тому +1

      @@iagobkstar Didn’t know that. Thanks.

    • @azzteke
      @azzteke Рік тому

      @@iagobkstar Celta does not exist!

    • @AlessandroJochem
      @AlessandroJochem 9 місяців тому +2

      Ceuta, to be precise...

  • @johnburke8337
    @johnburke8337 Рік тому +169

    I hope I’m not late, but there’s at least one more triple landlocked sovereignty in the US: the Hopi reservation. It’s an enclave on the Navajo nation, which has territory in many states. To get to the pan from Hopi I think you need to go through the Navajo nation, then through Arizona, finally a short walk across northern Mexico gets you into the pacific

    • @doc0core
      @doc0core Рік тому

      A cage for the aftermath of a White European genocide.

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +29

      If you want to count reservations, that would make quite a list of triple-landlocked regions. 3 of them are even in Nebraska (though they don't achieve quadruple-landlocked status, because they aren't surrounded by Nebraska, so they do have borders with double-landlocked states). I counted at least 22, at a glance.

    • @monhi64
      @monhi64 Рік тому +5

      @@SgtSupamanif we’re counting reservations mind as well go down to counties, at which point there probably something like 22nd landlocked. I bet the center isn’t even in Nebraska it’d probably be way more east where the counties are way smaller because more people live there

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +2

      @@monhi64 , right? I said the same thing in a different comment.
      "I mean, if we can break the US down into counties, I picked a random county in Nebraska and counted it out as 23-landlocked."

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 11 місяців тому +1

      The time zones there are also a nightmare.

  • @distantsalutations9120
    @distantsalutations9120 Рік тому +214

    Jay Foreman wasn’t the one explaining in that Map Men video. That was Mark Cooper-Jones

    • @bmetallaoui
      @bmetallaoui Рік тому +26

      it is Jay Foreman's video tho

    • @abydosianchulac2
      @abydosianchulac2 Рік тому +45

      But Jay does explain it nicely: "Absolute state of this!"

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Рік тому +1

      @@bmetallaoui but he isnt explaining it

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks Рік тому +42

      Mark Cooper-Jones is explaining it within the confines of Jay Foreman’s script within Jay Foreman’s video… A double landlock of explanatory responsibility.

    • @AB-Prince
      @AB-Prince Рік тому +1

      it's on jay's channel so it counts

  • @_Madfly
    @_Madfly Рік тому +219

    Ivoclar Vivadent's website says "Our production facilities are located in Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the US and the Philippines." So it seems unlikely that enough of their manufacturing would be located in Liechtenstein to make it the world's largest exporter.

    • @Skip6235
      @Skip6235 Рік тому +21

      That was my first thought. Like the majority of the profits from the export I guess would go through the country as the company is headquartered there, but I doubt most of the actual products themselves are manufactured in the country

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Рік тому +1

      Some country is the biggest exporter though. What makes Lichtenstein seem so unlikely? Wouldn't the headquarters of the largest global manufacturer, based in a country with almost no population, be a prime candidate?

    • @dpatts
      @dpatts Рік тому +5

      It's gotta be largest exports per capita.

    • @theoriginalpauly
      @theoriginalpauly Рік тому +2

      If each production facility produces the same number of teeth, Lichtenstein would b the largest exporter, as very little of its production would be for domestic market.

    • @edwinlandy
      @edwinlandy Рік тому +2

      It could be that Liechtenstein's production facility is the only one that actually exports false teeth. Austria and Sweden could be net importers.

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 Рік тому +9

    I love it when you bring in guests to help cover issues. For the import/export section, you should have brought in Art Vandalay

  • @sanshukan
    @sanshukan Рік тому +13

    "Fun fact " - one of the biggest problems landlocked countries have (especially in less sophisticated times) is the removal of their own sewerage. It was always traditional to pump this into the sea, but if you have no coastline then you cannot, and if you are surrounded by mountains, then you often receive the sewerage from the uphill country "above" you. I was told this in Hungary by an engineer explaining why the country was so good at water treatment, but I imagine that many water engineers in landlocked countries have developed the same expertise!

    • @eljanrimsa5843
      @eljanrimsa5843 8 місяців тому +2

      It's less of a problem if you are the most upstream of the land-locked countries ;) Greetings from Switzerland

  • @ethanderagon7907
    @ethanderagon7907 Рік тому +552

    You could always do US Counties to really get high up on the landlocked-ness of a region

    • @ashenwolf98
      @ashenwolf98 Рік тому +60

      Yeah, pretty much. My state, Maryland, is definitely not landlocked but my county is 2-landlocked even with the Chesapeake Bay. Garret County, MD is 6-landlocked

    • @shdhd07
      @shdhd07 Рік тому +39

      @@ashenwolf98 Look at counties in Texas. There are some that are up to 7 counties away from either the Gulf or another state.

    • @mikecrapse5285
      @mikecrapse5285 Рік тому +52

      Why not start with counties in Nebraska? Lol

    • @wmcduff
      @wmcduff Рік тому +19

      The Mississippi is to Nebraska as the Danube is to Moldova, I feel.

    • @Anson_AKB
      @Anson_AKB Рік тому +14

      going down to states, most of german states are 1 or 2 landlocked and one is 3 landlocked.
      looking at states (or departements, etc, whatever the countries call smaller regions; and then even counties, or sections of towns, etc) instead of countries (as the title of the video said) feels like cheating by moving the goalposts ...
      ps: this is in contrast to "universal" problems like the coloring of maps, and how many different colors are needed to do that, no matter how far you break down all those areas.

  • @PeperazziTube
    @PeperazziTube Рік тому +134

    You may want to use the graphing skills on the Russian Oblasts. Some of those are pretty deep in-land with lots of other Oblasts/countries around them.

    • @EngMorvan
      @EngMorvan Рік тому +13

      I agree.
      E.g., Mordovia is 4-landlocked.

    • @coc235
      @coc235 Рік тому +7

      @@EngMorvan Mordovia is 3-landlocked (Mordovia -> Nizhny Novgorod -> Kirov -> Arkhangelsk which has sea access), but for example city of Moscow is 4-landlocked if you count subdivisions of Ukraine.

    • @nevermindthegermans6242
      @nevermindthegermans6242 Рік тому +4

      He could just try crossing bridges in Kalinigrad. But in the current russian political climate being a foreign national vlogger who talks about how this part of Russia once belonged to a different country is more brave than prudent.

    • @UdarRusskihPudgei
      @UdarRusskihPudgei Рік тому +4

      @@nevermindthegermans6242 your comment is as relevant as me mentioning Hitler under this video.

  • @yuki3485
    @yuki3485 Рік тому +15

    As someone that lives in NZ i know having ocean access doesn't always help when you're really far away from everyone.

    • @your-mom-irl
      @your-mom-irl Рік тому +1

      In a way you are less remote than some landlocked countries, Mongolia is like NZ but in a sea of land

    • @philmaggiacomo
      @philmaggiacomo Рік тому +2

      According to the map they used to created the country graph, New Zealand is so far away it's not even on the planet (one of the many maps that forgot to add NZ).

  • @jonoth1236
    @jonoth1236 Рік тому +21

    As far as I can tell from a map, the german "Bundesstaat" Saarland is also 3-landlocked. You have to go through Rheinland-Pfalz, Hessen/Nordrhein-Westfalen (both connect to a 0-landlocked state) and Niedersachsen to access the Atlantic.

    • @doomdoot6731
      @doomdoot6731 Рік тому +3

      I am not sure how french provinces (or county equivalents) are counted for this, but if "Grand Est" and "Hauts de France" are indeed county equivalents, Saarland should be double land-locked only. On a European level at least. On a purely German level, you are correct.
      Also TIL how far north Bavaria stretches. Didn't realise it genuinely went up to almost the halfway point of Germany.

    • @jonoth1236
      @jonoth1236 Рік тому +1

      @@doomdoot6731 Youre probably right, I only looked at the german level and didnt think about neighbor countries

    • @canis_lupus2220
      @canis_lupus2220 Рік тому +1

      @@doomdoot6731 I think even through France it's 3 (from Saarland towards the coast, sorry to all French, I think those are the German names...):
      - Lothringen
      - Champangne-Ardenne
      - Picardie
      But I also don't know if those are the equivalents of German Bundesländer
      Elsass in France also seems triple landlocked (same route as above or and alternative to the Mediterranean.

    • @herzkine
      @herzkine Рік тому

      Don't get that, slot of provinces are locked easily several times then..Bavaria, baden Württemberg ..?

    • @jonoth1236
      @jonoth1236 Рік тому

      @@herzkine Both are 2-landlocked, both go through Hessen and Niedersachsen

  • @variousthings6470
    @variousthings6470 Рік тому +9

    12:35 - I appreciate the unintentional mild comic timing of saying "you're not going to miss detail like that" at the same moment that a couple of missed details fly past in the background.

  • @peterholzer4481
    @peterholzer4481 Рік тому +123

    Since you split the US into states and were right right between Switzerland and Austria, you should have split those into their cantons and länder respectively. All of them are at least 1-landlocked (it depends on whether you split their neighbour countries, too). Then - unless I made a gross error - you will find that Obwalden and Nidwalden in Switzerland and Vienna in Austria are also 3-landlocked.

    • @joachimschoder
      @joachimschoder Рік тому +17

      It is basically down to how much you are willing to split up regions. If you go by county levels in the US you will have a shitload of 3-landlocked "regions". And yeah, without mentioning the rules what counts as a region in this context and what makes it count as landlocked this label is pretty useless.

    • @pentestical8265
      @pentestical8265 Рік тому +4

      I came here to say Obwalden should be considered. Especially as states and cantons are quite comparable.

    • @alexwyman8380
      @alexwyman8380 Рік тому

      I mean, I think it's mostly a size thing. You can fit 16.5 Switzerlands into my state. It's smaller than 42 of our states

    • @spandexalii
      @spandexalii Рік тому

      According to Google Obwalden is 189 sq mi. The smallest US state is Rhode Island which is about 1000 sq mi. So.... Very much not the same scale

    • @byjynydjshsnny2430
      @byjynydjshsnny2430 Рік тому +1

      ​@@joachimschoder but the equivalent in the us is states not counys

  • @jadesprite
    @jadesprite Рік тому

    Thank you for the intimate details of your trip to Nebraska, I appreciate these kinds of details! And those beautiful 7 seconds of nebraskan turkeys.

  • @alexwilding8451
    @alexwilding8451 Рік тому +5

    Prior to 2015, Dahala Khagrabari was an Indian enclave, entirely surrounded by a Bangladeshi enclave called Upanchowki Bhajni, which was itself entirely surrounded by the Indian enclave known as Balapara Khagrabari, which was itself entirely surrounded by the Bangladeshi region of Rangpur Division, making it a 3-landlocked enclave.

  • @Wyattporter
    @Wyattporter Рік тому +259

    I foresee a correction regarding the US graph, lol. I agree that we probably should not consider US states bordering rivers with ocean access or the Great Lakes to be landlocked if you’re considering Moldova not to be.

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. Рік тому +18

      It would depend on the degree of navagability and the ownership of said water. Traveling most rivers and coastal waters in the US you are not in shared waters, and so you pass through borders just the same as a land border.

    • @spruce020
      @spruce020 Рік тому +24

      Pennsylvania is shown as landlocked, but the Delaware Bay allows ocean shipping from the port of Philadelphia. But it doesn't have beaches or scenic rocy coast for vacations.holidays though except on Lake Erie with access through the Great Lakes seaway. And that access through a little triangle carved out between New York and Ohio is no accident.

    • @knutthompson7879
      @knutthompson7879 Рік тому +7

      This does become a gray area. What characteristic do we require from a lake or river to consider it ocean access? There are at least a few ways to look at it.

    • @transcendentape
      @transcendentape Рік тому +15

      @@TheDuckofDoom. Houston, TX is a massive sea port that is not actually located on the ocean. If you're going to be splitting hairs over border crossing, then the largest sea port in Texas and one of the largest in the world is not a sea port.

    • @SWebster10
      @SWebster10 Рік тому +5

      I think you need to apply the Geowizard metric that it has to be tidal

  • @Xelopheris
    @Xelopheris Рік тому +57

    Error at 5:32. Canada officially borders Greenland now. Also, French Guiana is drawn on as its own dot with its own borders even though it is part of France, but Kaliningrad is not, with a Poland/Russia link being directly attached to mainland Russia.

    • @knightrider585
      @knightrider585 Рік тому +2

      Doesn't the UK border Greece in Crete then?

    • @knightrider585
      @knightrider585 Рік тому +1

      Not to mention the legal technicalities of embassies. haha

    • @brunoparga
      @brunoparga Рік тому +2

      @@knightrider585 Crete is one island that belongs to Greece. It is not the same island as Cyprus, which is where the British sovereign base areas are located. Cyprus is an independent nation, whose inhabitants speak Greek (and Turkish, but that's a complicated story).

    • @brunoparga
      @brunoparga Рік тому +8

      @@knightrider585 embassies are not, contrary to popular belief, territory of the sending country. The German embassy in the UK is as much British territory as Matt's house in Sussex. British law, implementing international law, does give the embassy some privileges that Matt's house doesn't, but that has no bearing on the matter of landlockedness.

    • @markridgaway3060
      @markridgaway3060 Рік тому

      Isn't Greenland part of the US now? Conan O'Brien sealed the deal for us...

  • @mchagawa1615
    @mchagawa1615 Рік тому

    Graph theory really is wonderful :) thank you for sharing

  • @xaiano794
    @xaiano794 Рік тому

    I'm so happy you referenced Jay Foreman as that is a hilarious but informative video

  • @tennies
    @tennies Рік тому +148

    One of the keys that's missing in the US version is access to major waterways. I saw Wisconsin was in the doubly landlocked category, but it has access to the Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior all of which can get you to the Atlantic Ocean with decent sized shipping boats (used to be more before semi/lorry transport). You'd also notice that Nebraska has a LOT of trains go through Nebraska. Big advantage of being pretty flat and centrally located.

    • @sopgenorth
      @sopgenorth Рік тому +8

      Milwaukee even gets shipping freight in its port from Europe for things like raw steel, salt, and other items

    • @LeonardLuen
      @LeonardLuen Рік тому +4

      Wisconsin also builds some corvette style ships for the US Navy

    • @xiii-Dex
      @xiii-Dex Рік тому +16

      Yes, but if we include major river access, then Lichtenstein is only single landlocked, as Austria has the Danube.
      This entire video is definitely based on not counting river or canal access.

    • @MrZcar350
      @MrZcar350 Рік тому +14

      @@xiii-Dex he counted the Danube for Moldova.

    • @maxb4085
      @maxb4085 Рік тому +5

      Does going from Wisconsin to the ocean by river go through any other states boarders if so I think this would count as being landlocked like with how Greater London has the Thames running through it but you have to go through other counties boarders to get to the ocean so is classed as landlocked

  • @knutthompson7879
    @knutthompson7879 Рік тому +210

    If you consider counties in the US, there are a few 17-landlocked counties in Kansas and one in Nebraska. Granted there are A LOT of counties in the US. (And technically counties in Louisiana are called parishes and in Alaska are called boroughs, and 41 cities in the country are organized separate from any county (most in Virginia), and then Washington DC which is it's own thing, but we are considering all these county-equivalents).

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. Рік тому +7

      Alaska Bouroughs are a bit different from counties geographically and politically.

    • @Pcat0
      @Pcat0 Рік тому +9

      I’m kinda surprised that 17-landlocked is the maximum for US countries. As yeah there are *a lot* of them.

    • @knutthompson7879
      @knutthompson7879 Рік тому +5

      ​@@TheDuckofDoom. Yeah, I understand, but for the purposes here, it is close enough. And doesn't change the results.

    • @kemasuk
      @kemasuk Рік тому +5

      Alaska's boroughs are boroughs because not all the land is divided. There is a huge non-contiguous chunk that gets bundled together into "The Unorganized Borough".
      I think there is some land like ANWR that isn't considered even part of The Unorganized Borough.
      Edit: I misspelled "The".

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. Рік тому +3

      @@Pcat0 There are no US counties, counties are a division done by individual states.

  • @kaptnkarl01
    @kaptnkarl01 Рік тому

    I'm actually from Nebraska. Born and raised and lived there till I was 43. Thanks for the shout-out. And I love, love, love your channel! Keep up the good work.

  • @LyricsVideo4U
    @LyricsVideo4U Рік тому

    Nice one! 🔥🔥🔥

  • @vale.antoni
    @vale.antoni Рік тому +12

    The City of London: A city in a city in a country in a country.

  • @pjelbro3492
    @pjelbro3492 Рік тому

    I love your zany travel logs based on maths. What a way to link two subjects!

  • @mattclough1737
    @mattclough1737 Рік тому

    This video was such chaos and had me creasing all the way through. A classic

  • @BaronBytes
    @BaronBytes Рік тому +54

    There's the new Land border between Denmark and Canada missing from your graph. Doesn't change the results though but Canada and Denmark left the club of countries with one land neighbour last year.

    • @gliesegliese1411
      @gliesegliese1411 Рік тому +30

      france and brazils border is also missing, whats funny is thats acually the longest internacional border of france.

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 Рік тому +7

      The map seems to consider greenland as a distinct country for some reason, (kuril Island to)

    • @BaronBytes
      @BaronBytes Рік тому +11

      @@munjee2 yeah I figured it's political entities rather than independent countries but then Groenland and Canada should be connected.

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 Рік тому +4

      @@BaronBytes even then the kuril islands are entirely part of Russia (or japan) they are under no lens a separate entity

    • @dfp_01
      @dfp_01 Рік тому +2

      @@gliesegliese1411 For the same reasons other people have mentioned here, the overseas departments and collectivities of France are often considered separate entities from metropolitan France, and that definitely seems to be the case here. Besides French Guiana, there were two edges between country nodes in the Caribbean and one of those would have to be Saint-Martin and Sint Maarten, and the Indian Ocean islands had to have included Mayotte and Réunion.

  • @was4021
    @was4021 Рік тому +81

    Based on the Moldova accessing the Danube example counting as ocean access then the Mississippi River takes a lot of those land locked areas in the states to ocean access.

    • @michaelimbesi2314
      @michaelimbesi2314 Рік тому +20

      You’re assuming that the Mississippi along Iowa is the same as the Dneiper where Moldova meets Ukraine. But it’s not. That section of the Dneiper is navigable by oceangoing ships and is an international waterway that is open to ships of all nations. That’s not the case for the Mississippi. It’s an internal waterway of the USA, and is not navigable for seagoing ships above Baton Rouge, LA.

    • @tobyk.4911
      @tobyk.4911 Рік тому +2

      ​@@michaelimbesi2314 you surely mean the Danube, not the Dneiper. Moldova is at some distance to the Dneiper.

    • @jemandanderes7075
      @jemandanderes7075 Рік тому +2

      I think when when he was talking about ocean access that was not the criteria for being landlocked.

    • @thundersheild926
      @thundersheild926 Рік тому +3

      I'm not sure if actually does count as ocean access. It gives most of the same benefits of ocean access but I think it probably doesn't count as proper ocean access.

    • @maxb4085
      @maxb4085 Рік тому +5

      I think the reason is going down the Mississippi you are technically leaving the state and entering into another while with Moldova, as another comment said, you just go through international waters so you never go through another countries waters.

  • @doogleQ
    @doogleQ Рік тому +2

    I’ve always had a vague fascination with landlocked and doubly landlocked countries, but never considered applying the same idea to English counties. I knew I was far from the sea, and live in Buckinghamshire and work for a company based in Bedfordshire, so those are cool little facts for me!

  • @R2k2
    @R2k2 Рік тому

    Great video as always… Maybe in the next one, the accordeon can play your theme?

  • @RMDragon3
    @RMDragon3 Рік тому +34

    It depends what you define as "region", but in Spain we have "comarca", which is similar to a county. If you accept them as regions, there are many which are triple land locked, and even quite a lot more. I haven't properly checked all of them, but I'm sure some of them are at least quadruple land locked, and possibly quintuple or more.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff Рік тому +1

      We can go with ISO 3166-2

    • @carlosperezdelema
      @carlosperezdelema Рік тому +2

      Ávila is triple landlocked if you count Spanish provincias and Portuguese distritos.

  • @magnusbruce4051
    @magnusbruce4051 Рік тому +191

    I think Saarland might be triple landlocked. At least within Germany. I've not looked at what Departments of France/Belgium you'd need to go through.
    EDIT: IT's about 6 departments of France you'd have to go through, or two districts of Luxembourg then two regions of Belgium. Also looking at France, there are definitely more triple landlocked departments and I think Saône-et-Loire is quadruple landlocked.

    • @octagonal8905
      @octagonal8905 Рік тому +18

      In France, Territoire de Belfort and Doubs seem to be 5-Landlocked !

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff Рік тому +17

      No, but you see, USA is special
      Also if we go by ISO 3166-2 as the official divisions, look at Slovenia, it has such small regions. You might find something interesting there.

    • @magnusbruce4051
      @magnusbruce4051 Рік тому +10

      @@octagonal8905 Yeah, it looks that way to me, too. I was avoiding ones too near borders out to the East as I don't really know how to count them when you cross into other countries, as departments aren't the same thing as German states, so it's comparing apples and oranges. Or rather profiteroles and lebkuchen. And actually it might not be appropriate to use department. Maybe regions would be more analogous. But then I'd argue that the 18 French regions are comparable to the 9 English regions rather than counties. And so if we're considering English counties then we can allow French department. But then instead of German states, it would be maybe Regierungsbezirk but I really don't know.
      I think if we can find multiple other examples of other triple, quadruple and even quintuple landlocked regions then there are probably quite a lot of them out there, not just in Nebraska.

    • @magnusbruce4051
      @magnusbruce4051 Рік тому +4

      @@Liggliluff Oh that's cool, I had no idea there was a standard for this. And yeah, 200 municipalities is quite a few.
      Uganda looks like a decent one as well, with 134 districts but also the country is landlocked so you have to go through all those district and through quite a few Kenyan counties to get to the ocean.

    • @marcgro4111
      @marcgro4111 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, I had that same hunch about Saarland too. But the thing is, I'm not sure continuing with départements in France is the right way to go. Germany is a federal country and Saarland is one of its states, whereas France is a unitary country, so there is no such thing as a state in France. However I think France's regions are closer in concept to a state than départements which are more like counties. And if you check with regions than Saarland borders Grand-Est which borders Hauts-de-France which unfortunately is 0-landlocked.

  • @watrblu3043
    @watrblu3043 Рік тому +3

    Great video. I decided to go looking, and found a bunch more 3-landlocked first level subdivisions. Just in the western hemisphere, you have Pastaza in Ecuador, and Presidente Hayes, Asuncion, Cordillera, Guaira, Paraguari, and Central, all within Paraguay. The eastern hemisphere likely has even more,(I'm suspecting some subdivisions to be at least 4-landlocked, though I haven't went through to check yet).

    • @watrblu3043
      @watrblu3043 Рік тому +1

      Okay, update, a couple of districts of Uganda are, I think, 10-landlocked.

  • @Pixel_Player
    @Pixel_Player Рік тому

    I was literally just thinking that I was glad that a map finally included Rutland since I live here and then you mentioned it lol.

  • @mathisfun13
    @mathisfun13 Рік тому +50

    I was confused by your comment about the US map, where you said you did not take into consideration Canada and Mexico, because it wouldn't change anything. But clearly you did take them into consideration, otherwise much of the northern tier would be doubly landlocked. Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana all only border one coastal area, a Canadian province.

    • @rmdodsonbills
      @rmdodsonbills Рік тому +4

      Yes! I stared at that map for a while trying to find a path from South Dakota to the ocean that went through only two states. If the Great Lakes don't count for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. then it has to be Manitoba that keeps North Dakota from being doubly landlocked or higher. Indeed, without Manitoba, North and South Dakota are both Triply Landlocked.

    • @arthurbrowne9379
      @arthurbrowne9379 Рік тому +21

      I believe he meant that treating Canada and Mexico as a single node rather than several makes no difference. Every state bordering Canada or Mexico touches a 0-landlocked state within the other country

    • @ryanlavalley8656
      @ryanlavalley8656 Рік тому

      Shouldn't Ohio be 2-landlocked, like Wisconsin? Neither have a land border with Canada. I guess Wisconsin (according to google) doesn't extend to the international border in Lake Superior like it does for Ohio in Lake Erie.

    • @DaveLeCompte
      @DaveLeCompte Рік тому

      Some people who support "Nebraska is the only triply landlocked state" seem to be considering Canadian provinces to be states, which is fine, but best to make that clear if that's how you're making your definitions.

    • @alquinn8576
      @alquinn8576 Рік тому +1

      @@ryanlavalley8656 ohio does have a (non-land) border with Canada, and that's good enough

  • @elephamoose
    @elephamoose Рік тому +7

    Very happy to see Obsidian's graph mode being used to such great potential. Well done!

    • @tefkah
      @tefkah Рік тому

      how do you know its made using Obsidian? given how the nodes are very specifically placed at the centers of counties/countries I feel like it's a custom solution

  • @roippi3985
    @roippi3985 Рік тому +1

    If you’re looking for a good gag gift, “Liechtenstein Maritime Law” is a classic. It is one page long and concludes “Please use the remaining pages of this work as a notebook.”

  • @albevanhanoy
    @albevanhanoy Рік тому

    I had to like because of the Map Men reference

  • @Incred_Canemian
    @Incred_Canemian Рік тому +8

    Stand-up Maps

  • @jonkf7548
    @jonkf7548 Рік тому +26

    You've surely heard of the Travelling Salesperson Problem - what about the Travelling Merperson Problem? What would be the optimal route for a hypothetical sea-dwelling person to pass through every British county one by one and then return to the sea?

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks Рік тому +2

      Am I missing that it’s clear these problems are equivalent?

    • @cs8712
      @cs8712 Рік тому +5

      probably the same but you do it while sitting in a mobile tank of water

    • @fahrenheit2101
      @fahrenheit2101 Рік тому +6

      ​@@oldvlognewtricks Of course they aren't. Do you mean to say merpeople are the same as humans? The nerve of some people...

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks Рік тому +1

      @@fahrenheit2101 My apologies to the Itinerant Sirens and Merpersons Union and its representatives

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios Рік тому

      Can the merperson hop from one river to another or do they have to swim out to sea again and go up another river?

  • @rayquinn1974
    @rayquinn1974 Рік тому +2

    Are we not even going to talk about the rampaging Nebraskan "Parker Peacocks" (Sandhill Cranes) @15:55? Alas, Alex, they aren't turkeys either, given the lack of obnoxious gobbling noises.
    Kudos to commenter Brett Terry for the identification from such a snippet at a distance. I'm just glad they aren't emus as I've heard the tales of terror they wreak…

  • @lpsp442
    @lpsp442 Рік тому +4

    This reminded me of a lovely map project I did a few years ago, where I colour-coded all the British Counties and all the US States by which borders they feature. In the latter case I used yellow for the Pacific ocean, red for Mexico and orange for both (which is to say, California had its own unique colour). As states move inland I used muted colours, and thereby discovered for myself that Nebraska is indeed triple Landlocked. Pure grey for Nebraska, the home-state of the Cartman family from South Park.
    I would share these map projects with everyone, but unfortunately the laptop in which they were stored was stolen in a burglary.

  • @JonathonFerrari
    @JonathonFerrari Рік тому +8

    This reminds me of the enclave of Dahala Khagrabari (which I feel like I learnt about from a Jay Foreman video). It was, until 2015, an Indian enclave inside a Bangladeshi enclave which itself was in an Indian enclave in Bangladesh.

  • @ScheissPunk
    @ScheissPunk Рік тому +5

    Never thought I see the mountains I grew up around in a standup maths video. (I grew up in switzerland, just over the border). Hope you had a good time in the rhine valley.
    And taking a bus over the border is standard here, I commuted to lichtenstein every day for my job for the better part of 5 years by bus.

  • @pace1195
    @pace1195 Рік тому +11

    I have seen others comment about the navigability of the Great Lakes and Mississippi.
    In that spirit, Lewiston, ID is the most eastern port of the Pacific Ocean reachable by some ocean-going vessels traversing the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
    Edit: Therefore, counting navigability of the Columbia River, Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Ohio River, and Arkansas River; there are only 9 single landlocked states left. They are all in the west: AZ, CO, MT, NV, NM, ND, SD, UT, and WY.

    • @garrick3727
      @garrick3727 Рік тому

      Many countries have navigable rivers that connect ot an ocean, so if this method was used almost nowhere would be landlocked. Taking the spirit of the exercise into account, the idea is how many other regions of the same type do you have to pass through to get to a region boundary that meets a sea. The City of London, for example, requires you to pass through two counties to get to the sea, even though you can literally get into a boat on the Thames and be out to see in 10 minutes. The river itself still passes through two counties.
      Obviously this works less well for the US because it is unfair that you cannot pass through Canada or Mexico.

  • @vulturesmusic1617
    @vulturesmusic1617 Рік тому +1

    The dedication of this guy to venture to an inaccessible bit of rural Northamptonshire, the Liechtenstein border and Nebraska for a quick bit amazes me

  • @jackcooper3193
    @jackcooper3193 Рік тому +85

    Hi Matt, I was thinking you could apply this to the Indigenous land map of Australia. It would be especially relevant as Indigenous people have very significant rules when entering other lands for travel. As far as I can tell some lands are 6-landlocked, maybe more. That's potentially a lot of welcome to country ceremonies on your way to the beach!

    • @nicholasvinen
      @nicholasvinen Рік тому +8

      I never thought about it before, but no state in Australia is landlocked at all, and only one territory is (the ACT). That checks out as it's the pen we keep our federal politicians in to stop them from causing too much mayhem...

    • @rhiannonmanderson5886
      @rhiannonmanderson5886 Рік тому +3

      @@nicholasvinen one of them still managed to get lost at sea though....

    • @alextopfer1068
      @alextopfer1068 Рік тому +5

      @@nicholasvinen The Jervis Bay Territory counts as part of the ACT for some purposes, so depending how you define it the ACT does have a coastal section

    • @alandouglas2789
      @alandouglas2789 Рік тому

      Ridiculous map of nonsensical areas

    • @alextopfer1068
      @alextopfer1068 Рік тому +1

      @@alandouglas2789 the map of Indigenous Australia's traditional lands?

  • @sucherwild4915
    @sucherwild4915 Рік тому +44

    I would be interested to see what happens if you look at continental europe if you go down to county/state level. I imagine there will be a few more at least triply-landlocked ones.

    • @yveshotting3371
      @yveshotting3371 Рік тому +1

      How land locked is berlin?

    • @looxluthor802
      @looxluthor802 Рік тому +8

      Quite a few, simply by virtue of the size of the subdivisions. Baden-Württemberg might the largest three-locked in Western Europe (Bavaria is merely two-locked, because Tyrol's eastern exclave borders Veneto). Russian oblasts also are large and landlocked (e.g. Moscow is four-locked in this sense)

    • @petertaylor4980
      @petertaylor4980 Рік тому +1

      By my reckoning, if you look at the Iberian peninsula at province level then Ávila is triply landlocked.

    • @slice6298
      @slice6298 Рік тому +3

      Silesian, Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian Voivodships in Poland are triple-landlocked if you consider them

    • @RedHair651
      @RedHair651 Рік тому

      Agreed. French départements are quite many and there is bound to be some who are more n-locked than 3.

  • @dwakim1
    @dwakim1 Рік тому

    You finally did it. A video topic Veritasium hasn’t touched on JUST before you hahahaha

  • @rjginsburg
    @rjginsburg Рік тому

    The Liechtentime joke and montage are why I subscribe. THAT SAID, I take offense at all the states on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi being called “land locked.”

  • @toslt
    @toslt Рік тому +7

    I know Almaty province in Kazakhstan is Thrice-Landlocked. It is highly possible that it is 4 times landlocked, and maybe (someone will have to work this out) 5x landlocked, which would definitely take the record

  • @polyacov_yury
    @polyacov_yury Рік тому +11

    Such a shame that you couldn't visit Uzbekistan. Plov, shashlyk and shurpa are experiences every human should have in their life

  • @abceyz9241
    @abceyz9241 Рік тому +3

    14:34 It depends on how you count it, but if you take for example Poland, then there are 3 voivodeships/provinces which have access to sea, 5 which are landlocked, 5 which are double landlocked and 3 which are triple landlocked. Then, if you move to the Czech Republic, which is already fully landlocked, some of the parts of this country will be 4-landlocked and maybe even 5-landlocked. And then there's Prague, which is 6-landocked. And the you can keep going through Austria and to Lichtenstein.

  • @alvi9372
    @alvi9372 Рік тому

    Matt really excelled himself with that "LichtensTime" joke!

  • @MateusAntonioBittencourt
    @MateusAntonioBittencourt Рік тому +36

    "Nebraska is a landlocked state in the center of the United States of America. Because of its general lack of importance-and its distance from trendy population centers-it lags a few years behind the coasts in fashion, music, and distribution of collectible card games.
    You might feel like you’ve time traveled when visiting Nebraska, but careful scientific experiments using synchronized timepieces have proven no time dilation is in effect. (See Luddow, Sing, and Coffman, “Nebraska really is just like that” in Journal of Relativistic Studies, Volume 57, June 2072.)"
    The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson

    • @ardinhelme687
      @ardinhelme687 Рік тому

      I was just thinking about how much funnier this video makes that excerpt.

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 Рік тому

      "Nebraska" means "flat water" in Siouan (ni=water, braska=flat). In one of the languages that it may have come from, the "r" is pronounced by sticking the tongue out, and written "th".

  • @LelouchVee
    @LelouchVee Рік тому +3

    Moscow, being technically separate region from Moscow Oblast surrounding it (it's legally a 'City of federal importance') is quadruple-landlocked. However, it does have canal access to four different seas and one Caspian 'Sea', hence the often-joked about moniker 'Port of the Five Seas'

  • @HallucigeniaIV
    @HallucigeniaIV Рік тому +1

    hello!
    is there an available software to generate those self-arranging graphs?
    I'm doing some experiments in tilings and have been looking for that kind of "graph springiness" for a while.

  • @bobkatfan2013
    @bobkatfan2013 Рік тому

    Loved Lichtenstein, there was a fun pink concrete mini golf course.

  • @ncubesays
    @ncubesays Рік тому +31

    Guateng is a distinct administrative area that is also triply landlocked in South Africa. There are a number of Nigerian states which are quadruply landlocked.

    • @danaclass
      @danaclass Рік тому

      Lesotho was always interesting to me as a kid. It's pretty rare to see a country set inside another country. I'd see it on maps and globes and have so many questions about it.

  • @TomLeg
    @TomLeg Рік тому +17

    Here in Canada is a dramatic situation. Since we divide the country east to west in vertical stripes ( West coasters call it west to east), you would think you'll get some high numbers. But the Arctic Ocean and Hudson's Bay complicate things. Manitoba is in the middle of the country, yet it has a huge chunk of Hudson's Bay shore. Only Saskatchewan and Alberta are a "1", and that's all we have.

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii Рік тому

      Also Canadian provinces are typically really big, right?

    • @Towona2
      @Towona2 Рік тому +4

      @@Septimus_ii no, they are quite small actually. Some actually take less than a day to drive across.

    • @gurrrn1102
      @gurrrn1102 Рік тому +1

      And pei takes a day to walk across apparently

    • @TomLeg
      @TomLeg Рік тому

      @@gurrrn1102 PEI is 40 miles across and 140 miles long, so a little more than a day for the short dimension

    • @TomLeg
      @TomLeg Рік тому +1

      I worked on building the road for the James Bay Project in northern Quebec, in the early 70's. The land they flooded for the hydro project is either bigger than England or bigger than the UK, I forget which. So the same amount of land is surplus to be converted into electro-dollar, for Quebec, and "Everything they have" for the British.

  • @lelandunruh7896
    @lelandunruh7896 Рік тому +2

    I spent the first two months of the pandemic in Switzerland visiting my wife, and then went back for another six weeks in the summer. We drove to Liechtenstein several times because it was the only other country we were allowed to visit and it just felt so weird being confined to a space 1/17th the size of my home, Texas!

    • @franksorenson8173
      @franksorenson8173 Рік тому +1

      Ah, yes. Texas. The third-largest state. Behind Alaska and the other half of Alaska.

    • @lelandunruh7896
      @lelandunruh7896 Рік тому

      @@franksorenson8173 Haha, I've never been to Alaska but really want to some day. But I've had friends from there tell me it doesn't feel as big as you'd think because you can't actually traverse it and there are so few people there. Like, I've had cause to cross the entirety of Texas several times, both N-S and E-W. There's essentially never a reason to do that in Alaska (and I don't think it is even possible)!

    • @wordmunger
      @wordmunger 5 місяців тому

      You can drive N-S across Alaska. I've seen a couple different youtubes of folks doing it on bikes.@@lelandunruh7896

  • @Jonathan-ih7qp
    @Jonathan-ih7qp Рік тому +1

    I used to do work on a dental supplies catalog that would list the country of origin for every product they carried. Liechtenstein was a very, very common sight in that catalog along with Ivoclar Vivadent.

  • @derradfahrer5029
    @derradfahrer5029 Рік тому +42

    But, as you said at around 11:05, the entrie Danube is considered a international waterway. So technically, as Liechtenstein borders Austria it should only be a 1-landlocked country.

    • @StormTheSquid
      @StormTheSquid Рік тому +23

      It's Parker 2-landlocked lol

    • @jomialsipi
      @jomialsipi Рік тому +6

      Similarly, should the St-Lawrence (and by extension, the great lakes) count as an international waterway?

    • @Jay8Kay
      @Jay8Kay Рік тому +5

      "International waterway" != "the sea". Moldova's agreement was for practicality and they remain landlocked.

    • @Harkmagic
      @Harkmagic Рік тому +2

      ​@@jomialsipithe Great Lakes also have access to the Mississippi River, they count.
      The rivers of the United States ensure that almost all states have ocean access.

    • @Minihood31770
      @Minihood31770 Рік тому +3

      @@StormTheSquid this is the best comment

  • @phueal
    @phueal Рік тому +3

    CGP Grey did two excellent videos about the City of London.

  • @simonpodliska1072
    @simonpodliska1072 Рік тому +22

    Hi Matt, Nebraskan here! Just wanted to share some extra facts about our absolutely astounding, totally not boring state!
    -Our football team is called the cornhuskers, but our most profitable crop is soybeans.
    -Because of our triple land-locked status, many of our residents are military families. Some days you can look up and see military jets flying in the sky!
    -Our largest city, Omaha, has (in my opinion) the best zoo in the country, complete with an indoor jungle, desert, and ocean. Google the desert dome and you’ll see what I mean.
    -Nebraska isn’t just grassland. There’s also sand dunes, and even badlands in the northwestern corner of the state.
    -Connor Oberst from Bright Eyes is from Nebraska, and even wrote a song called “land locked blues”. He also made an album with Pheobe Bridgers.
    -Anyone who visits Nebraska knows that there’s essentially two VERY different parts of the state - big city, and middle of nowhere. Because of this, Nebraska is democrat leaning in the east and republican leaning in the west. This has lead Nebraska to be one of two states to split their votes during elections, in a “congressional district method”.
    Hopefully this will get you to like this weird state just a little more! If any of you fellow Nebraskans have anything else to share about the state, please reply with more facts!

    • @simonpodliska1072
      @simonpodliska1072 Рік тому +2

      Almost forgot to add, we’re the state where the battle of the Joshes took place. The battle took place there because according to the organizer, the city of Lincoln is the geographic center of the country!

    • @Pedro_MVS_Lima
      @Pedro_MVS_Lima 7 місяців тому

      Navy jets?

  • @philip1382
    @philip1382 Рік тому

    When I saw this video my first thought was, this does seem on brand but it also seems like something I'd watch a Map Men video about...

  • @greggregoryst7126
    @greggregoryst7126 Рік тому +3

    1:47 I personally would argue that it is of a very adequate size. Bigger than average, even

  • @calinacho7704
    @calinacho7704 Рік тому +3

    2:56 Someone should make a video about the City of London
    Someone (CGPGrey), did in fact make a video about the City of London

    • @adityabehara8656
      @adityabehara8656 Рік тому

      I remembered that too, but it was a decade or so ago so it’s reasonable he wouldn’t know about it.

  • @juliusmouse2665
    @juliusmouse2665 Рік тому +1

    If you ever go back to Nebraska, I'd suggest taking a look at carhenge. It's the ridiculously American tribute to Stonehenge but made entirely out of partially buried cars. It's in the northwest corner of the state

  • @Vitally_Trivial
    @Vitally_Trivial Рік тому

    Graphs got me wanting to play World of Goo again.

  • @mapron1
    @mapron1 Рік тому +5

    Fun fact about Counties. And graphs. In Russian, graph (mathematical) sounds exactly like Count (both are just 'graph'). So I was giggling half the video about puns you can made in russian version with it.

  • @JK-wc5oq
    @JK-wc5oq Рік тому +11

    Since the City of London is on the banks of the river Thames, which has direct access to the North Sea and was once the busiest port in the world, it can hardly count as “landlocked”.

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju Рік тому +1

      The river itself must pass through other counties to get to the ocean

    • @NotMurkan
      @NotMurkan Рік тому

      @@KaitouKaiju But it's an estuary, not a river. The Thames is essentially a tidal inlet all the way up to Teddington Locks

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju Рік тому

      @@NotMurkan Even by calling it an estuary, which is just the mouth of a river, it's not the ocean proper

    • @NotMurkan
      @NotMurkan Рік тому

      @@KaitouKaiju By that logic the North Sea isn't the "ocean proper" either

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju Рік тому

      @@NotMurkan The North sea isn't a river

  • @boyscoutmatt
    @boyscoutmatt Рік тому +1

    In seven seconds your photographer managed to capture the most interesting thing in Nebraska.

  • @noisyjones
    @noisyjones Рік тому +2

    2:53
    City of London and Greater London aren't landlocked. The Thames is tidal as far as Teddington, thus it is coast right through.

  • @JohnHollowell
    @JohnHollowell Рік тому +46

    You didn't consider the Mississippi river for water travel which drastically reduces the number of landlocked and doubly landlocked states

    • @NateVolker
      @NateVolker Рік тому +12

      And the Great Lakes

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja Рік тому +4

      To be fair, he didn’t consider the _tidal_ part of the Thames as an ocean connection for Greater London either.

    • @muhilan8540
      @muhilan8540 Рік тому

      @@ragnkja Yeah but he did count 450m of Danube as ocean connection for Moldova, look at 5:30

    • @MrKioder
      @MrKioder Рік тому +3

      @@muhilan8540 It is unrestricted ocean acess in terms of access to international trade, but Moldova is still landlocked. Otherwise none of the countries along the danube would be landlocked as it is an international waterway, and this would make austria not landlocked, thus liechtenstein only 1-landlocked. However all of those countries are still considered (rightly so) as landlocked

    • @TorstenLif
      @TorstenLif Рік тому +2

      Ah, but the issue is at what point does the water change from "international" to "domestic"? If I bring a barge full of contraband through the Gulf of Mexico and into the mouth of the Mississippi River, where do US Customs start seeing me as a smuggler? New Orleans?

  • @TheBilgepumper
    @TheBilgepumper Рік тому +4

    You could go two subdivisions further in the USA. Others have mentioned US state counties. Lots of states further subdivide their counties into townships. So, if you put townsships, towns, villages, boroughs, cities, etc.9all local municipalities) all on the same footing as each other, you would get a lot more nodes and density than the graph of US states.

  • @HeroBear64
    @HeroBear64 Рік тому +2

    I noticed on world map network you missed the landborder between Canada and Greenland!

  • @jnbsp3512
    @jnbsp3512 Рік тому

    really thankful that in Dutch a network graph is a 'graaf' and a line plot/bar chart graph is a 'grafiek'

  • @gnome53
    @gnome53 Рік тому +3

    Although triply-landlocked (by your choice to ignore navigability of the Mississippi River), Nebraska has a lighthouse (in Gretna). And Norfolk NE is the boyhood home town of TV host Johnny Carson. If you travel to Nebraska, I recommend you visit Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park.

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams Рік тому

      The Great Lakes, too. Toronto and Montréal have international ports via the St. Lawrence River. If Moldova isn’t landlocked because of the Danube, much of the eastern US isn’t landlocked either.

  • @pizzaivlife
    @pizzaivlife Рік тому +7

    I argue the Great Lakes count to some extent- they are basically seas by size

    • @Hadar1991
      @Hadar1991 Рік тому +2

      Almost, because what is important it is having access to ocean. Yes, you can go from Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean via Saint Lawrence River, but it requires Canada's permission and in case of USA-Canada War, then Canada can easily block the access through the Saint Lawrence River. There is canal joining Mississippi and Lake Michigan, which gives the Great Lakes states access to Atlantic Ocean via Gulf of Mexico, but I am not sure how effective this waterway is maintained by USA and how many of globaly exported products you have that are in tge Great Lakes region.

    • @beepbop6697
      @beepbop6697 Рік тому

      ​@@Hadar1991 if there was ever a US/Canada war, Canada would not be able to keep the St. Lawrence access blocked for long. 😂

    • @Hadar1991
      @Hadar1991 Рік тому +2

      @@beepbop6697 It is hard to tell with whom Canada will be allied in 2300s and in what shape US will be, so never say never. ;)
      Besides if worst case scenario of global warming will end happening then Canada will be the most habitable place on Earth with US citizens trying to illegally enter Canada xD

    • @juliasophical
      @juliasophical Рік тому +1

      @@beepbop6697 Last time the US invaded Canada (1812), it didn't go so well for the US...

  • @philipwhiuk
    @philipwhiuk Рік тому

    CGP Grey has a great City of London vid :)

  • @runcows
    @runcows Рік тому

    If we want to include technicalities like rivers, one of the borders of nebraska is along the missouri river, a tributary to the missippi river, which everntually connects to the ocean