Only 30% of Monaco is millionaire+ class and many of them only live there part time because they own companies and businesses and travel a lot. The median gross salary in Monaco is 2500eu p/m (1800eu in France). A healthy lifestyle is probably the main reason of their long lives. It's also on the side of a mountain, so lots of inclines and slopes to walk. Plus that their a coasttown on the Mediterranean l, so lots of healthy seafood in their diets.
@@jurgenolivieira1878 Well, if 30% of the population live longer because they are filthy rich, then on average, the whole population lives longer for the same reason. Statistics are like that. And I think, the statistic doesn't care either if people like to travel a lot for them to count.
Greenland is not that big. Time to do a video on how to map the world with different projections The Mercator projection distorts land masses closer to the poles. Also minimises the size of Africa
@@KristianGreen-Andersen jaeh but thats like saying "the biggest microstate" its still not that big. yes its 4 times as big as france, but on the maps it seems like its as big as africa and it doesnt come close being 15 times smaller
@@akyhne 83% of it is an ice sheet. USA only wants it for the mineral riches it can rip out of it as cheap as possible and leave it ruined like it does in Appalachia
Bicycles are not cheap, they are just practical. The Netherlands (mostly completely flat) has an excellent network of bicycle paths. And in the cities, getting around by bike is more relaxed and faster than by car. It's also pretty healthy.
Totally agree , Plus bicycles are ingrained already in dutch culture. I mean I lived there for few months and while riding bicycle thereI never had issues with cars stoping for me and not making a fuss about it. And there actually easier to get to some places by bicycle than car in my opinion ;d
Regarding the temperature. Death Valley is one of the hottest places in the world, and it is uninhabited. Sicily is an island with millions of inhabitants.
Death Valley is inhabited, but yes itself not comparable to Sicily. The whole South West region on the other hand has tens of millions and has temperatures around 48.8 C every summer.
Lol, LEGO is the pride of Denmark. You made all Danish people cry. 😂 People in Monaco partly get so old, because many rich people move there for tax evasion. The more money you have, the longer you live on average. No hard work, best medical care, quality food, not stressing place to live.
@@remivieilledent MAGA is this close 🤏 to being a terrorist org in EU and i hope the people in america take control over their country before we have to do it if their president cant stop making threats to his ally about war every day then it is a torror org. that supports a war on americas ally´s
Moscow isn't a country Ryan, it's a city! The capital used to be St Petersburg (Leningrad) it's loss would truly make the kremlin cry, the castles are revered and extraordinary! 😉
😂 Ryan It's a common misconception that because the Thames is brown and murky, it must be dirty and polluted. But this isn't the case! The river Thames is actually an estuary and is brown because of the huge amounts of sediment and mud that are naturally transported with the daily tides. It is actually one of the cleanest rivers in the world that flows through a major city, though you wouldn't think that by just looking at it.
you mean the river that British waterworks like Thames Water are pumping unprocessed sewerage into? I sure hope it's not brown because of them but only because of the sediment, but wouldn't call it one of the cleanest rivers.
@@tovarishchfeixiao You're confusing clear with clean. Yes silty water might not be pleasant to drink.... but it won't kill you. Would I drink out of the Thames in a pinch? Err, probably not.... but if you visit any "on-Thames" villages and towns up river, you tend to find some of the clearest/cleanest looking channels of water.
Last year in March they warned the contestants of the Boat Race for E.coli in the Thames waters and this came from sewage dumps and spillages. So I don’t think you can say it is clean, the Thames certainly is polluted. And to state it is the cleanest river flowing through a major city is also very very bold and probably untrue. A parliamentary commission of the House of Commons did a survey of UK rivers in 2022 and concluded that the UK rivers are the worst and most polluted of Europe. Only in one river of the 42 in the UK it was reasonably healthy to swim, but even there swimmers got sick. If you do a bold statement, you have to proof it.
Yep, France is bigger than Norway. It doesn´t look like that, because of the map projection, which makes countries appear bigger, the farther they are away from the equator.
Don't forget that most of France's overseas territories (including French Guyana) are included as those are directly governed (at national level) from Paris with the inhabitants also being represented in the French parliament by election. The Air France flights from Paris to French Guyana, Reunion and the Seychelles are considered internal flights.
@@TullaRask I literally can not find anything that backs your statement up when searching for it. All I find is that 75% of LEGO is owned by KIRKBI A/S (an investment management company entirely owned by the Kirk family) and 25%of LEGO is owned by the LEGO Foundation (a Danish foundation consisting of 90 people from 23 different countries). Literally nowhere does it say that a Norwegian wealth fund owns 52% of LEGO. I can't find any such information at all.
I am Swiss. I speak French, German, English (all 3 native level), Italian, Swedish, Danish, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese (in decreasing order of proficiency). Lots of bilinguals in Europe, and even more in Africa or Asia.
Louis Vuitton owns Bulgari, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Guerlain, Kenzo, Marc Jacobs, Tiffany & Co. but also Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Krug, Dom Pérignon, Maison Ruinart, Le Bon Marché, Séphora and Hennessy. It's not just "a brand" it's huge!
I don't think I've bought anything from any of those high-priced outlets. I have noticed some of them in our best shopping centres where they have security guards on every door, and that's not the norm here.
@@Divig It's because owners changed. First the area was name "Nouvelle-Angoulême" by the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano who named it for the French king. But they didn't build anything. Later, Dutch built the first village and named it Nieuw-Amsterdam then renamed it after to Nieuw-Oranje (name of the new leader family). Then after a war between England and Dutch, they exchanged some territories. So no reason for England to keep the dutch name, and so it became New-York (even if two decades later, Willem III van Oranje will invade and conquer uk, they will not rename it, so it will keep the english name until today).
@@alicemilne1444 Technically u are correct, as the union was only formally created under the rule of his sister-in-law Anne after his death. However, he was king of the same area, so its a simpler way to put it and more understandable for all those with little to no historical knowledge.
German is the second most spoken langauge in the EU, not in Europe. Two EU countries speak German: Germany (80-something million people) and Austria (9 million people), but German is also spoken in parts of Italy, in Luxembourg, Denmark, France, parts of Poland, and probably a few more. The list does not include Switzerland, where two thirds of the population is German mothertongue, since the country is not in the EU. But the statistics include the langauges spoken as second language, and for instance, German is the third most studied langauge in Italian schools, after English and French, and the second most commonly studied in Polish schools. And don't forget that in Europe it's pretty common to be able to speak several langauges. I am Italian mothertongue, fluent is English, needing to dust up French and Spanish, and currently studying German. The Mediterranean diet is actually an American invention. Forget about "organic", it actually means eating less meat, much more fruits and vegetables (making them preferably local and seasonal), more complex carbs (bread, but not American bread, rice, pasta, polenta etc.) than proteins, and using extravirgin olive oil as the main cooking fat. Anyhow, the main element in the long life of people from Monaco is the fact that they are FILTHY RICH!
Also German is quite common as a 3rd language you learn at school. I'm from the last generation that was taught Russian instead, but the pupils class below me were already learning German instead. Can't say that it's taught to a level where you can speak it, as 3rd language only starts in grade 5, with native and English being taught from the grade 1 and until the end of the school.
@@PavelSikun Well, I started English in the 6th grade, French in the first year of high school, Spanish at 17, and German last year (that is at 52)! It doesn't so much matter at what age you study a langauge, it matters how well you study it.
Geographically, Russia is split by the 'Ural-Mountains' Which divides the European and Asian parts. Most of the Russian population lives on the western part of these mountains.
About 110million people of the 144million people or 80% live in the Europaen part....Europaen Russia covers the vast majority of eastern Europe, and spans roughly 40% of Europe's total landmass, with over 15% of it's population making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe....
@@007Ivory007 You can consider anything, many people, for example, believe that the earth is flat, it does not become flat from this, just as with the fact that Moscow is located on the European continent, it will not cease to be on this continent from the fact that you think so.Look at where and to where the great European plain stretches, it stretches from the north of France to the Ural Mountains, and this whole plain is not divided by anything except rivers.
I know, right? He goes on comparing sizes of various territories based on how they look on Mercator projections, completely oblivious to, well, reality 😂
I get annoyed by YT videos doing that. So many (especially ones by US channels) use the EU symbol (It's officially not a recognised flag, as it is not a country) to represent Europe, when only 27 of Europe's 50 countries (as recognised by the UN) as members and it's not a nation or country but an organisation, so nothing to do with geography.
Yes, that threw me off track, too. But then, upon closer inspection, it is, indeed, a matter of definition and what kind of definition you follow. All of Europe lying West of Greenwich/London could be counted Western Hemisphere (most of the British Isles, Iceland, Portugal).
Exactly! For this confused: the 0° meridian goes through Greenwich near London, in eastern England. So, most of UK, western France, most of Spain, and the entirety of Portugal, Ireland, and but to forget Iceland are actually in the western hemisphere. And for actuality reasons: Greenland is as well. Additionally several overseas territories are located on the southern hemisphere, but they only politically belong to Europe.
@@noinfo5630 The hemispheres are geographical terms, not political ones, so the French, Netherlands and British Caribbean and Atlantic territories and Greenland are not part of Europe.
@@MaxyCrazy Yes, but that means that your logic is back to front. France is not entirely in Europe. As others have said, the Greenwich meridian shows that Europe is not entirely in the eastern hemisphere, but that's not because of France's overseas départements.
Ryan is a typical American. "There are more bicycles than people, so bikes must be dirt cheap". So it's nothing to do with infrastructure or people caring about the environment, etc?! Did the same with electric cars. Must be a lot of electric cars because gas costs a lot. Not because people care about the environment!
Bikes are affordable and encouraged by the governement, reduced taxes / access to bus lanes / reduced toll charges for EV owners have smth to do with it ? But environment is important too
15:30: The current most valuable european company is Novo Nordisk, a danish pharmaceutical company which makes Ozempic and other anti obesity medicines for 'muricans. It overtook LVMH during the pandemic. LVMH is actually a collection of luxury fashion and drink brands (Louis Vuitton, Moet, Henessy, Dior, TAG Heuer, Givenchy, etc)
True, Bernault Arnaud of LVMH is the richest man in Europe though. Novo Nordisk is F'ed with Trump and tariffs. ASML is probably gonna be the richest company soon, because Trump won't tariff ASML probably. His tech bro's won't like it. If we in Europe want Trump to reverse his tariff idea, keep ASML chip technology in Europe or offer the tech to China. That will get his attention for sure.
indeed Novo Nordisk, however its not anti obesity medicines its mostly insuline and diabetes type 1 and 2 related medicine. Ozempic just happend to help with weightloss. As a type 1 Diabetic myself ive had about 9 diffrent types of insuline 8 of them where from Novo Nordisk.
What is the Mediterranean diet? The Mediterranean way of eating is inspired by the traditional cuisines of Greece, Spain, Italy and France, among others. "It's focused on eating mostly five groups of foods: fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, healthy fats from olive oil, nuts and seeds, and fish," says Dr. Crupain. The approach supplies tons of antioxidants, and includes a range of aromatic herbs and spices. You can enjoy moderate amounts of dairy and eggs as well as poultry, and red meat can be incorporated in smaller amounts (from sources like beef and goat). And red wine is fine to drink in moderation.
Lamb too! And let's not forget, at least in the European part of the region, beauties such as pancetta and prosciutto, other salt cured and dried meat, different types of sausages. Very important custom is to eat almost everything from the animal. Dishes such as tripes (tripice 🙂), various from liver etc. In the islands in the (Med) region I live, cows were probably the rarest form of meat (due to the size of the islands and available resources on them, even today sheeps, goats, pigs and poultry are animals kept, cows not so much, if at all).
@@velapjacaTrue. I believe Cyprus has a few more cows now, but when I lived there in the 60s, I never saw any. Milk in those days was mainly imported from Greece.
@@jenniferharrison8915 true, but if your wages are high enough that after taxes you still have decent money to live on, I guess there's not much to complain about. I went to Norway last year and the tour guide said that there's basically no low wage sector in Norway at all.
Bikes are not used because they are cheap. They are used because of short distances and environmental reasons. And in many of The cities there are bikes you can rent - all over The town
The Norwegian government has implemented a series of incentive measures to promote electric driving. This includes tax benefits, subsidies, and exemptions from toll and congestion charges. Additionally, electric vehicles are exempt from certain restrictions, such as driving in environmental zones. These incentive measures make electric cars, including Teslas, more attractive and affordable for Norwegian consumers.
When it comes to Europe as a continent moscow belongs to it. At 3:42 you are wondering about people in the EU who are able to speak german. But remember the EU is not Europe. So obvisually russians are not included to this statistics.
@@Dari_fox A pretty well known example of a high ranking Russian speaking German fluently is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. As a matter of fact, his English is near non-existent.
It's not that surprising the existence of 200 different european languages: in Italy only there are 34 indigenous languages, and that is not including local related dialects.
"Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern and Eastern hemisphere". Off to a bad start. Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Gibraltar and some other British territories are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere, and most of Spain, the UK (England is the only one that isn't entirely), and partly France. It lies west of the Prime Meridian. He "corrects" himself later, but still...
The size distortion comes from the Mercator projection, which is commonly used for maps. It stretches landmasses further from the equator, making northern countries like Norway or Greenland appear much larger than they are. France is closer to the equator, so its size is represented more accurately. In reality, France is larger than Poland or Norway, but maps can make this less obvious due to the distortion.
True, Bernault Arnaud of LVMH is the richest man in Europe though. Novo Nordisk is F'ed with Trump and tariffs. ASML is probably gonna be the richest company soon, because Trump won't tariff ASML probably. His tech bro's won't like it. If we in Europe want Trump to reverse his tariff idea, keep ASML chip technology in Europe or offer the tech to China. That will get his attention for sure.
@@Joey-ct8bm Novo has quite a lot of production in the US, it will be interesting to see, what happens... So far, Trump said, that companies that manufacture in the US won't be hit by tariffs... But the man is notoriously unstable, so who knows?
@ Economic warfare over Greenland Trump said. Novo Nordisk is a Danish company and their richest one. They are number one on Trump his hit list. Over Canada Trump said that the US don't need their imports at all.
@@Joey-ct8bm Shouldn't the US president do what he's told from the background? Especially Trump, I mean who funded his return to glory? There's no way he isn't a puppet of the real wealthy guys, right?
Norway is so high up when it comes to electric cars because we produce everything we need, we also have high petrol prices and the government introduced massive incentives to buy electric cars, they also have priorities in some lanes on highways. When they managed to get on top with the infrastructure as well. It was all set. There is a lot that needs to work for electric cars to take over, and when the government can get legislation to work and really work for it, it's no wonder people take that route. Nature is like a temple to Norwegians, we protect it as much as we can.
But Norway does have a dual face regarding global warming by selling so much fossil fuel… for global warming it doesn’t matter if your Norwegian oil is burnt in Norway or Spain… Norway uses that revenue to fund their electric transition. And thanks to their geology the can produce a lot of clean electricity thanks to waterturbines, which are a far more reliable/continuous source than wind and sun... That’s why Norway has such a leap. Other European nations don’t have the wealth to go so fast, and they don’t have the capacity to produce enough electricity (certainly not clean electricity) to keep up with demand if their carpark would get electric that fast. They are forced to go slower just by reality not by a lack of willingness…
10:12 I mean, in italy alone there are like 60 dialects, and if they don't count as languages then neapolitan, sicilian, sardinian, ligurian, venetian, roman, tuscanian and pugliese are all actual languages of their own with different lexycon and syntaxes. Hell, South Tyrol alone speaks a version of German. No wonder we have to speak with our hands to communicate
Russia is considered a part of Europe (a part of Russia...), but Russia does not belong to the EU. The same is true for Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, Azherbeijan and others. But when people write or talk about the EU, they often say "Europe". I think this creates some confusion aboud which country belongs where.
As for german being the second most spoken language (first or second language), you can't forget that Germany has roughly 80 million people on its own, plus Austria and parts of Switzerland speaking german too. As for second languages, South Bohemia, Northern Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and a lot of Croats speak German due to working in Austria, as well as a lot of the Benelux people.
Being Danish, our first foreign language in school is English. The second is German. Both are mandatory from 3rd and 5th grade respectively. Other languages can be learned as electives in higher grades.
Fun fact: The Japanese Garden of Hasselt is a park in the Belgian city of Hasselt. Designed in the traditional 17th-century style, it was donated to the Belgian city by the city of Itami. It is the largest Japanese garden in Europe.
Mediterranen diet is basically veggies (I include beans, lentils, nuts etc. here), fruits, good fats (mainly olive oil) and fish. Plus some whole grains.
@@valijeAn example of a country where ham is consumed is Spain, but at the same time it is the fourth country where the most fish is consumed worldwide.
The reason France is the third biggest, is beause they usually include al its overseas departments. Which in every legal aspect are equal to France. And are also part of the EU.
@@gerardflynn7382 That's not correct. The European Union (EU) has nine 'outermost regions' (ORs): Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin (France), the Canary Islands (Spain) and the Azores and Madeira (Portugal). The ORs are an integral part of the EU and must apply its laws and obligations. The EU is a global political and economical union, not a geographical term that depends whether or not something is situated on a continental plate.
for monaco and life-expectancy: it's because it's filled with very rich people who have access to the best health-care. there's only the 7 wonder of the Ancient World. None of that modern nonsense.
On that part of the border you are correct. But that line also goes "straight" through Istanbul, following the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The real question is where the east-west line connecting those two goes.
@@apveening We were told it's in the Volga and Kama river valley, but that was like 20 years ago. There's no practical use in that information anyway. It's not a political border.
The Urals are the Northern border, but the Southern border is unclear, some include all of the Caucasus, some only include Georgia, some say that only Georgia and Armenia are within Europe, etc. It's quite a murky area regarding the defined border.
Native German speakers live in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy and Romania. I don't know if in Lorraine and Alsace (eastern part of France) there are still native German speaking towns and cities, but that used to be te case too. German as a second language was far more common than English until the 1970s. The United Kingdom and Ireland joining the European Economic Community (now EU) in the 1970s gave a massive boost to learning of English as a second language and use of English as an official language of the EU. However even in the 1990s in the business world in Europe you could still encounter many people active in international commercial jobs, who hardly were able to speak English. In the 1970s and 1980s learning German was still often recommended and a lot of technical books were in German.
Fun Fact: German is the 3rd most spoken language in the US with 16 of the contiguous 48 states speaking it and French is 4th with 12 states.Spanish is 2nd with 43 states
Perućica is not a Europe's only Rain forest. It's Europe's only primeval forest, as a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. There are many Temperate rain forests in Europe (in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, UK, France, Norway, Bosnia, Serbia, Turkey and Georgia) but Perućica is the only untouched forest in Europe Temperate rain forest are not the same as the Amazonian rain forest that is tropical
In Norway, neither gas nor fuel would be expensive, it is one of the largest producers in Europe. The forced greening policy took them away too. In addition, fuel is expensive throughout Europe for two reasons. Consider the European Union in this. Artificially increased prices (carbon dioxide tax, etc.) and cheap Russian energy carriers released for political reasons. The average European pays about 1.8-2 dollars for 1 liter of gasoline (6.5-8 dollars/gallon, while the Russians pay somewhere around 0.5 dollars/liter, around 2 dollars/gallon. (source = Cargopedia, European fuel prices)By the way, Belarus, which buys from the Russians and doesn't have to pay the insane EU fees for fuel, sells it at about $0.8/liter, or barely $3/gallon.
Norway, Sweden and Iceland have a huge share of renewable energies for electricity generation, so electricity is very cheap there and that is one of the reasons for many electric vehicles
22:34 Countries like Iceland or Norway produce _A LOT_ of their energy from renewables like Wind. Iceland has been independent in energy production for ages now. I visited Iceland like 10 years ago and they produce most of their energy from the heat below (it's a vulcanic island). Iceland heats their sidewalks in the main city, because its getting so cold there in the winter. If you visit grocery stores etc. in Iceland the "frozen departments" have open ... displays? (what's the word) because they do not need to care, since the energy was not created from fossil fuels. In other words: it makes sense to drive electric cars in these countries, since your carbon foot print is very low by driving them. PS: You can see the Aurora Borealis in Iceland. Was a great watch when I was there (even if it was cold).
The thing is with that sort of map, which is called Mercator Projection and is probably the most common type, it distorts everything in such a way that the sizes become progressively bigger as you move away from the equator. So Canada looks way larger than the US when in fact it’s only a couple of percent bigger. Greenland looks heaps bigger than Australia when it’s less than half the size. And because the distortion amount of distortion increases more as you get close to the Arctic and Antarctic places like Norway and Sweden can look bigger than somewhere like France only a couple of thousand km to the south.
All map projections distort, the Peter’s Projection is the best as far as showing the size of countries accurately, but it distorts the shape of countries to achieve that. The only way to get a truly accurate representation is to use a globe. Ask me how I know… I spent way too many hours learning about map projections when I trained as a military cartographer. 😂
I like you. You're inquisitive, curious, humble, likeable and funny. You admit what you don't know, you find out instead. You just gained a new subscriber in Europe.
As I Bulgarian, I can tell you. Here we have thousands of natural and historical sites that are breathtaking, especially if you like caves and waterfalls and ancient ruins. The problem we face is that we can't get an non-corrupt government for like EVER xD
I went to visit Sofia in 2023, really enjoyed my time there! The Alexander-Newski cathedral that you see in the video and the Rila monastery are what I remember the most, as well as the view to the view towards the mountains from Vitosha Boulevard. Definitely an underrated tourist destination imho. Also had some great tour guides and learned a lot about Bulgaria that I didn't know before.
Europe is not entirely within the eastern hemisphere. The Prime Meridian is the divider of the hemispheres. Ireland, most of the UK, part of France, part of Spain, all of Portugal, they are all in the western hemisphere.
@@gerardflynn7382Eh yes there are…where the did you go to school, the US? The prime meridian divides the eastern and western hemispheres east west, the equator north south. It’s not dividing into quarters. It’s just moving the line from horizontal to vertical! This is basic stuff kids in Europe learn in junior school!
@@tomwalsh2244 For historical and political reasons the border between Eastern and Western Hemispheres runs between Iceland and Greenland. And yes, I learned that in Dutch primary school about 50 years ago.
Did anyone notice that the spreadsheet showing the sizes of the continents had the 2018 population of Australia as 42,000,000? It was actually 25,000,000.
America has a lot of museums because this includes small museums, like some inventors house will be set up as a museum that sort of thing. It doesnt mean only things like natural history museums.
I believe one of the reaosns Norway has so many electric cars is because they have invested heavily in building infrastructure for EVs, LOTS and LOTS of charging points, pretty much all their electricity comes from hydropower so it's very renewable etc etc
Sorry my friend. You have interesting videos, but your incessant hitting the pause button every 1 or 2 seconds at times, then repeating is so irritating. You say a few words, pause, say a few words pause, say a few words, pause. Just gather your thoughts, then speak, then let the video play. Half the time you are asking questions that are explained a few seconds later. Not interested in your style anymore. It has become so annoying.
During the cold war, English wasn't often used as a second language in Central and Eastern Europe, in stead Russian and German was. So if you're in Poland or Czechia, you'll find plenty of older people who can't speak English but are fairly conversational in German.
Thinking LEGO is American is already quite funny. Thinking this after you were already totally baffled by this newly learned fact (at least) once before is lol.
I bet he excluded the whole Eastern Europe because there is no way that half of Europe knows how to "SPEAK" english when here in Italy in the city where I live it's almost impossible for me to find someone who "UNDERSTANDS JUST A BIT" of english and is older than 40 years.
@@ZZMJo Our country was under communist rule between 1945-1989. I also have worked at a local subsidiary of a russian software company for 6 years in the '00-s, so I had to visit Moscow once. My father in law was a sergeant in the hungarian army during the '70-s, and next to their barracks were the Red Army garrisoned. So he had a lot of stories, how inhumane and barbaric the russian/soviet soldiers were. Sadly our "leader" is Putin's biggest puppet in the whole EU. (He just vetoed the next sanctions against Russia yesterday)
In 2023, Volkswagen generated a revenue of $350 billion, compared to Tesla's $97 billion. This highlights that market value doesn’t always reflect a company's actual revenue or scale.
When it comes to EVs in Norway, the state has taken measures to get people to buy them. When EVs came to Norway, they drove for free through toll rings, they parked for free. There was no tax on importation or sales. Laws have been passed which state that all housing associations must have charging stations in the car parks. You get green loans in banks that are cheaper. Now that there are so many people driving EVs, they have started charging tolls again, but it is 1/3 of normal cars. Operating a new EV versus a petrol car is much cheaper, which means you save money if you first have to replace the car you owned. It is financially sound to buy an EV. The environment comes as the number 2 reason, it's just a bonus for most people
LVMH is a conglomerate of brands, Louis Vuitton is just one of them. It's (largely) owned and run by Bernard Arnault, who depending on the day is either the richest or second richest person on the planet. And Lego is Danish - it's a contraction of the words for "play" and "good".
That is only part of the boundary. Another part runs "straight" through Istanbul following the Bosporus and Dardanelles. The interesting question is the east-west-line connecting those two parts.
For club football (Soccer, lol) it's hard to beat The record crowd at Hampden Park was set a week later in the Scottish Cup final, when 146,433 people watched Celtic beat Aberdeen 2-1. (The previous week there was a match attended by 149,415 for a Scotland versus England match on April 17, 1937 Scotland won 3-1).
Bikes aren't cheap in Netherlands, a lot of people have a bike for parking at the station, because they get stolen there more often so you want an old bike thats unatractive to thieves for parking at a station r going out , and a really good new one for leasure rides.
29:00 The reason the states has more museums than germany is clear. US is 30 times the size or more. And you count any small booth with some moldy stones and a 200 year piece of wood a museum. In the nationalparks any ranger station with something to show counts as a museum.
WHAT DOES LVMH STAND FOR? LVMH stands for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. It is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate that was formed in 1987 through the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton, champagne and spirits company Moët et Chandon, and cognac manufacturer Hennessy.
Europe is not entirely in the eastern hemisfere, half of spain half of the uk, parts of france, iceland, Greenland, ireland and Portugal, are in the western
5:16 The two terrestrial divisions between Europe and Asia are usually taken in the Ural mountains in the East border and the Carpathian mountains in the south border. That means most of Russians live in Europe and the only part of Turkey that is located in Europe is half of it's capital.
@@AysKuzedirne should be the most famous of These cities or? If I am correct in edirne the first peace Deal between the hre and the ottomans was Signed
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I think that the reason why Monaco has the longest lives is because they are all millionaires
Well yes, but it's really because they've never worked a single day in their lives! Nothing kills you faster than physically demanding jobs!
Only 30% of Monaco is millionaire+ class and many of them only live there part time because they own companies and businesses and travel a lot. The median gross salary in Monaco is 2500eu p/m (1800eu in France). A healthy lifestyle is probably the main reason of their long lives. It's also on the side of a mountain, so lots of inclines and slopes to walk. Plus that their a coasttown on the Mediterranean l, so lots of healthy seafood in their diets.
And pay no taxes! 😌
You have to have 500.000 euro's on your bank account to live in Monaco fulltime, so they are not all millionaires.
@@jurgenolivieira1878 Well, if 30% of the population live longer because they are filthy rich, then on average, the whole population lives longer for the same reason. Statistics are like that. And I think, the statistic doesn't care either if people like to travel a lot for them to count.
If you had asked me what the largest country in Europe was, I too would not have thought of Moscow either, because Moscow is not a country
It is the Geography Bible, like the other one a bit shaky on reality.
I was just about to type this almost exactly word for word but with the addition of 2:05 for the timestamp.
LEGO is the largest tire producer in the world. Every year Lego produces about 306 million tires. They are all tiny but they are tires
Thanks for the laugh, you really made my day! I never would have thought about that one…
As an American, you think in terms of prices. Europeans do not necessarily do that. We also think in terms of environment.
Greenland is not that big. Time to do a video on how to map the world with different projections The Mercator projection distorts land masses closer to the poles. Also minimises the size of Africa
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maybe not big but still worlds biggest isle
@@KristianGreen-Andersen jaeh but thats like saying "the biggest microstate" its still not that big. yes its 4 times as big as france, but on the maps it seems like its as big as africa and it doesnt come close being 15 times smaller
Greenland is 22,02% the size of the US. I'd call that pretty big. USA could grow in size by almost 25%, by invading the island.
@@akyhne 83% of it is an ice sheet. USA only wants it for the mineral riches it can rip out of it as cheap as possible and leave it ruined like it does in Appalachia
You pronounced Lichtenstein much better than it was in the video.
It is spelled Liechtenstein!
@@svenolofandersson2572 It's spelled Liechtenstein, I am to blame. But it's pronounced more like Lichtenstein.
@@holycow666 Not in the areas nearby, there they say Li-echten-stein, with that E stressed.
But he did pronunce Moscow as moss cow.. And Monaco some kind of insane way
And does not know how to use comprise or that they are state rooms, not stater.
Bicycles are not cheap, they are just practical. The Netherlands (mostly completely flat) has an excellent network of bicycle paths. And in the cities, getting around by bike is more relaxed and faster than by car. It's also pretty healthy.
They are cheap compared to cars
Totally agree , Plus bicycles are ingrained already in dutch culture. I mean I lived there for few months and while riding bicycle thereI never had issues with cars stoping for me and not making a fuss about it. And there actually easier to get to some places by bicycle than car in my opinion ;d
Don't know about the rest of the Netherlands but there's nothing relaxing about being a pedestrian in Amsterdam, the bike riders are maniacs!
@MrBillclintinmy Bike was more exoensive than my car. A new e Bike Cargo Bike can easy cost between 5 and 10 thousand euros
Regarding the temperature. Death Valley is one of the hottest places in the world, and it is uninhabited. Sicily is an island with millions of inhabitants.
Death Valley is inhabited, but yes itself not comparable to Sicily. The whole South West region on the other hand has tens of millions and has temperatures around 48.8 C every summer.
@@lostdesertrat3311 millions since hoover dam and A/C... technological very impressive though, making inhospitable places comfortably livable
Mai usato un phon in vita mia. Metto la testa fuori dalla finestra e i capelli sono asciutti. Cotti, se c'è vento
I would also add that some of the parts of US are closer to equator than it European ...
Death Valley is also very dry. Theres much more humidity around the Mediterranean, which makes the heat hit a lot harder.
Lol, LEGO is the pride of Denmark. You made all Danish people cry. 😂
People in Monaco partly get so old, because many rich people move there for tax evasion. The more money you have, the longer you live on average. No hard work, best medical care, quality food, not stressing place to live.
Billund is definitely worth the visit 😊
So Trump will buy the brand really soon.
@@remivieilledent Like Greenland its not for sale.
@@remivieilledent MAGA is this close 🤏 to being a terrorist org in EU
and i hope the people in america take control over their country before we have to do it
if their president cant stop making threats to his ally about war every day
then it is a torror org. that supports a war on americas ally´s
Moscow isn't a country Ryan, it's a city! The capital used to be St Petersburg (Leningrad) it's loss would truly make the kremlin cry, the castles are revered and extraordinary! 😉
😂 Ryan It's a common misconception that because the Thames is brown and murky, it must be dirty and polluted. But this isn't the case!
The river Thames is actually an estuary and is brown because of the huge amounts of sediment and mud that are naturally transported with the daily tides.
It is actually one of the cleanest rivers in the world that flows through a major city, though you wouldn't think that by just looking at it.
It now is, it used to be one of the most polluted rivers flowing through a major city.
I wouldn't call it "clean" if it has so much mud and other natural dirt in it. Because even if it's not the fault of humans it still not really clean.
you mean the river that British waterworks like Thames Water are pumping unprocessed sewerage into?
I sure hope it's not brown because of them but only because of the sediment, but wouldn't call it one of the cleanest rivers.
@@tovarishchfeixiao You're confusing clear with clean. Yes silty water might not be pleasant to drink.... but it won't kill you. Would I drink out of the Thames in a pinch? Err, probably not.... but if you visit any "on-Thames" villages and towns up river, you tend to find some of the clearest/cleanest looking channels of water.
Last year in March they warned the contestants of the Boat Race for E.coli in the Thames waters and this came from sewage dumps and spillages. So I don’t think you can say it is clean, the Thames certainly is polluted. And to state it is the cleanest river flowing through a major city is also very very bold and probably untrue. A parliamentary commission of the House of Commons did a survey of UK rivers in 2022 and concluded that the UK rivers are the worst and most polluted of Europe. Only in one river of the 42 in the UK it was reasonably healthy to swim, but even there swimmers got sick. If you do a bold statement, you have to proof it.
As someone from Bosnia, i didn't know Perucica was considered a rain forest, and the only one in Europe on top of that... Every day we learn...
Ofc,avarage bosnian.😂Knows ,,burek is only with meat" but can't knew he has rainforest in his country.😂
I was deployed to Bosnia in the early 2000's. I was blown away by the fauna and animal life there. So I wasn't that surprised.
@@heinedenmark ah I read blown away and first tought was oh no land mines,then you said nature.Good for you.😅
Ryan, you are absolutely right when you don't think of Moscow as a European country. Moscow is a city not a country.
Yep, France is bigger than Norway. It doesn´t look like that, because of the map projection, which makes countries appear bigger, the farther they are away from the equator.
Don't forget that most of France's overseas territories (including French Guyana) are included as those are directly governed (at national level) from Paris with the inhabitants also being represented in the French parliament by election. The Air France flights from Paris to French Guyana, Reunion and the Seychelles are considered internal flights.
@@apveening Exactly
I think Ryan generally never knew about the map projection and should do a video on it to understand it better.
@@apveening Seychelles? I kinda doubt that, Seychelles are a 100% independent country.
@@tomscorpion6288 Thanks for pointing out that mistake to me.
LEGO is 100% Danish
Neh, that's wrong. I'm Norwegian, our Soveraign wealth fund owns 52% or it Buh lol
@@TullaRaskyeah that does not make it norwegian, but call it 100% danish is just not accurate when the stuff is produced in china😅
It's also 100% expensive.
You could apply that logic to SO many companies now @@anarkitty0
@@TullaRask I literally can not find anything that backs your statement up when searching for it. All I find is that 75% of LEGO is owned by KIRKBI A/S (an investment management company entirely owned by the Kirk family) and 25%of LEGO is owned by the LEGO Foundation (a Danish foundation consisting of 90 people from 23 different countries). Literally nowhere does it say that a Norwegian wealth fund owns 52% of LEGO. I can't find any such information at all.
I am Swiss. I speak French, German, English (all 3 native level), Italian, Swedish, Danish, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese (in decreasing order of proficiency). Lots of bilinguals in Europe, and even more in Africa or Asia.
Ja też po litrze wódki!
Louis Vuitton owns Bulgari, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Guerlain, Kenzo, Marc Jacobs, Tiffany & Co. but also Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Krug, Dom Pérignon, Maison Ruinart, Le Bon Marché, Séphora and Hennessy. It's not just "a brand" it's huge!
Technically it's not Luis Vuitton, but LVMH, the parent company. LVMH means Luis Vuitton Moët Hennesy which were their initial brands.
And many more.
@@mick-berry5331 Louis
@@mick-berry5331 I know I live in France
I don't think I've bought anything from any of those high-priced outlets. I have noticed some of them in our best shopping centres where they have security guards on every door, and that's not the norm here.
I thought Lego was _famously_ Danish.
Were talking about Americans here...
well famously for people with education outside of the us box xD
@@CoL_Drake That's not a question of education I would hope, my dad randomly told me this fact when I was 5 years old.
Well I am French, but I ignore that until tonight. Thanks for the information.
But I guess Trump will buy LEGO Brand soon too.
Wait, until he finds out about H.C. Andersen!
Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam!
Why they changed it I can't say,
People just liked it better that way.
@@Divig It's because owners changed.
First the area was name "Nouvelle-Angoulême" by the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano who named it for the French king. But they didn't build anything.
Later, Dutch built the first village and named it Nieuw-Amsterdam then renamed it after to Nieuw-Oranje (name of the new leader family).
Then after a war between England and Dutch, they exchanged some territories. So no reason for England to keep the dutch name, and so it became New-York (even if two decades later, Willem III van Oranje will invade and conquer uk, they will not rename it, so it will keep the english name until today).
@@azx43William of Orange didn't conquer the UK. The UK did not exist at that time.
@@azx43 and here I thought it was because They might be gigants. 😉
@@alicemilne1444 Technically u are correct, as the union was only formally created under the rule of his sister-in-law Anne after his death. However, he was king of the same area, so its a simpler way to put it and more understandable for all those with little to no historical knowledge.
German is the second most spoken langauge in the EU, not in Europe. Two EU countries speak German: Germany (80-something million people) and Austria (9 million people), but German is also spoken in parts of Italy, in Luxembourg, Denmark, France, parts of Poland, and probably a few more. The list does not include Switzerland, where two thirds of the population is German mothertongue, since the country is not in the EU. But the statistics include the langauges spoken as second language, and for instance, German is the third most studied langauge in Italian schools, after English and French, and the second most commonly studied in Polish schools. And don't forget that in Europe it's pretty common to be able to speak several langauges. I am Italian mothertongue, fluent is English, needing to dust up French and Spanish, and currently studying German.
The Mediterranean diet is actually an American invention. Forget about "organic", it actually means eating less meat, much more fruits and vegetables (making them preferably local and seasonal), more complex carbs (bread, but not American bread, rice, pasta, polenta etc.) than proteins, and using extravirgin olive oil as the main cooking fat. Anyhow, the main element in the long life of people from Monaco is the fact that they are FILTHY RICH!
I learned French and German at high school in Tasmania, possibly due to our large expat European migration! Most Aussie kids now learn Chinese! 😏
Foreigners living in Monaco may well be “filthy rich”, but 70% of the population is not.
Also German is quite common as a 3rd language you learn at school.
I'm from the last generation that was taught Russian instead, but the pupils class below me were already learning German instead. Can't say that it's taught to a level where you can speak it, as 3rd language only starts in grade 5, with native and English being taught from the grade 1 and until the end of the school.
@@PavelSikun Well, I started English in the 6th grade, French in the first year of high school, Spanish at 17, and German last year (that is at 52)! It doesn't so much matter at what age you study a langauge, it matters how well you study it.
Geographically, Russia is split by the 'Ural-Mountains' Which divides the European and Asian parts. Most of the Russian population lives on the western part of these mountains.
Exactly. But politicaly it is far east.
About 110million people of the 144million people or 80% live in the Europaen part....Europaen Russia covers the vast majority of eastern Europe, and spans roughly 40% of Europe's total landmass, with over 15% of it's population making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe....
@@007Ivory007 near east you mean: far east is china/japan, middle east is iraq jordan, near east is turkey russia
@@007Ivory007 You can consider anything, many people, for example, believe that the earth is flat, it does not become flat from this, just as with the fact that Moscow is located on the European continent, it will not cease to be on this continent from the fact that you think so.Look at where and to where the great European plain stretches, it stretches from the north of France to the Ural Mountains, and this whole plain is not divided by anything except rivers.
@@007Ivory007politics don't define continents 😂
Don't forget that the Mercator Projection magnifies the land masses further away from the Equator.
I don't think he ever knew
@@YourBeingParanoid He's American, of course he never knew.
I know, right? He goes on comparing sizes of various territories based on how they look on Mercator projections, completely oblivious to, well, reality 😂
Time for a video learning the difference between the EU and Europe 😂😂
Just what I thought! The video mixes data from the European Union with data from the continent, it is confusing for people who are not Europeans.
Yeah, I have to say, Im not impressed by the quality of the video.
I get annoyed by YT videos doing that. So many (especially ones by US channels) use the EU symbol (It's officially not a recognised flag, as it is not a country) to represent Europe, when only 27 of Europe's 50 countries (as recognised by the UN) as members and it's not a nation or country but an organisation, so nothing to do with geography.
That fact about languages is true. I'm Dutch, but i also speak fluent English, German and French
yes, but can you show emotion in any of them?
@YourBeingParanoid 3 out of 4, currently working on the 4th
@ what, number of emotions? (bemused, indifferent, passe and meh)
@YourBeingParanoid anger, happiness, sadness
@@dannyvanthof5190 photos or it didn't happen
First sentence of the original video " Europe is completely in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres" INCORRECT
Yes, that threw me off track, too. But then, upon closer inspection, it is, indeed, a matter of definition and what kind of definition you follow. All of Europe lying West of Greenwich/London could be counted Western Hemisphere (most of the British Isles, Iceland, Portugal).
Exactly!
For this confused: the 0° meridian goes through Greenwich near London, in eastern England. So, most of UK, western France, most of Spain, and the entirety of Portugal, Ireland, and but to forget Iceland are actually in the western hemisphere. And for actuality reasons: Greenland is as well.
Additionally several overseas territories are located on the southern hemisphere, but they only politically belong to Europe.
@@noinfo5630 The hemispheres are geographical terms, not political ones, so the French, Netherlands and British Caribbean and Atlantic territories and Greenland are not part of Europe.
Exactly, France has a few region that are either in South America or close to Africa/Oceania
@@MaxyCrazy Yes, but that means that your logic is back to front. France is not entirely in Europe. As others have said, the Greenwich meridian shows that Europe is not entirely in the eastern hemisphere, but that's not because of France's overseas départements.
Ryan is a typical American. "There are more bicycles than people, so bikes must be dirt cheap". So it's nothing to do with infrastructure or people caring about the environment, etc?! Did the same with electric cars. Must be a lot of electric cars because gas costs a lot. Not because people care about the environment!
Dutch turn into psychopaths when they ride a bicycle. I guess the reason could be "natural selection".
Bikes are affordable and encouraged by the governement, reduced taxes / access to bus lanes / reduced toll charges for EV owners have smth to do with it ? But environment is important too
Bro is trying and learning, give him a break.
to be fair he has a point there, eletricity is way cheaper in norway then petrol
Stop being a mug. Ryan is very respectful in his videos.
15:30: The current most valuable european company is Novo Nordisk, a danish pharmaceutical company which makes Ozempic and other anti obesity medicines for 'muricans.
It overtook LVMH during the pandemic.
LVMH is actually a collection of luxury fashion and drink brands (Louis Vuitton, Moet, Henessy, Dior, TAG Heuer, Givenchy, etc)
True, Bernault Arnaud of LVMH is the richest man in Europe though. Novo Nordisk is F'ed with Trump and tariffs. ASML is probably gonna be the richest company soon, because Trump won't tariff ASML probably. His tech bro's won't like it. If we in Europe want Trump to reverse his tariff idea, keep ASML chip technology in Europe or offer the tech to China. That will get his attention for sure.
indeed Novo Nordisk, however its not anti obesity medicines its mostly insuline and diabetes type 1 and 2 related medicine. Ozempic just happend to help with weightloss.
As a type 1 Diabetic myself ive had about 9 diffrent types of insuline 8 of them where from Novo Nordisk.
@grav-x1430 my dad has type 2 diabetes. And he has something from Novo Nordisk prescribed
Novo Nordisk is €375.04 Billions and LVMH €367.74 billions.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
The Mediterranean way of eating is inspired by the traditional cuisines of Greece, Spain, Italy and France, among others. "It's focused on eating mostly five groups of foods: fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, healthy fats from olive oil, nuts and seeds, and fish," says Dr. Crupain.
The approach supplies tons of antioxidants, and includes a range of aromatic herbs and spices. You can enjoy moderate amounts of dairy and eggs as well as poultry, and red meat can be incorporated in smaller amounts (from sources like beef and goat). And red wine is fine to drink in moderation.
Lamb too! And let's not forget, at least in the European part of the region, beauties such as pancetta and prosciutto, other salt cured and dried meat, different types of sausages.
Very important custom is to eat almost everything from the animal. Dishes such as tripes (tripice 🙂), various from liver etc.
In the islands in the (Med) region I live, cows were probably the rarest form of meat (due to the size of the islands and available resources on them, even today sheeps, goats, pigs and poultry are animals kept, cows not so much, if at all).
Mediterranean diet is having long lunches and a snooze, much less stressful!
In the UK it's quite common to see chefs,cookbooks, tv shows about Mediterranean food.
My doctor always recommends Mediterranean food and I always think "has she ever been to Cyprus? There are a lot of overweight people there!"
@@velapjacaTrue. I believe Cyprus has a few more cows now, but when I lived there in the 60s, I never saw any. Milk in those days was mainly imported from Greece.
And if you're surprised that LEGO is Danish.
Playmobil is German 🙃
More guns in USA , more bicycles in Netherlands, more kangaroos than people in Australia 🦘🦘🦘
More Arabs than Jews in Israel
and more sheep than people in Scotland, if I remember correctly :D
But the kangaroos neither shoot nor ride bicycles 🤔
And more mice than people in the world.
About Norway: It is one of the richest countries in Europe. Funnily, this is due to its vast resources in fossil fuels.
And the very high personal taxes! 👍
@@jenniferharrison8915 Taxes don't create wealth, just redistribute it.
@WymarSane Yes, but it is rare that the population is content to pay the higher taxes to have better services and overall quality of life!
@@jenniferharrison8915 true, but if your wages are high enough that after taxes you still have decent money to live on, I guess there's not much to complain about. I went to Norway last year and the tour guide said that there's basically no low wage sector in Norway at all.
@@Phelie315 Brilliant, that's how it should be, we should bring up everyone so there's no real poverty or hungry children! 👍
There's few false information/ fact in this video ...
Bikes are not used because they are cheap. They are used because of short distances and environmental reasons. And in many of The cities there are bikes you can rent - all over The town
And don't forget about the traffic and parking spots; biking through a city is much easier than using a car.
The Norwegian government has implemented a series of incentive measures to promote electric driving. This includes tax benefits, subsidies, and exemptions from toll and congestion charges. Additionally, electric vehicles are exempt from certain restrictions, such as driving in environmental zones.
These incentive measures make electric cars, including Teslas, more attractive and affordable for Norwegian consumers.
Hope they remove the incentives from Teslas
When it comes to Europe as a continent moscow belongs to it. At 3:42 you are wondering about people in the EU who are able to speak german. But remember the EU is not Europe. So obvisually russians are not included to this statistics.
Only one fifth of Russia is on the European Continental plate.
The other four fifths are on the Asian continental plate.
Not all of Russia is on the European Continental plate only one fifth.
The other four fifths are on the Asian continental plate.
But themajotity of its population, about 70%iirc is.
You will be surprised how many russians can speak german! There was a common thing to study german in some schools instead english as 2nd language!
@@Dari_fox A pretty well known example of a high ranking Russian speaking German fluently is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. As a matter of fact, his English is near non-existent.
It's not that surprising the existence of 200 different european languages: in Italy only there are 34 indigenous languages, and that is not including local related dialects.
There are ten in the UK… so that takes us to 44 just with the UK and Italy. I’m surprised it’s only 200.
75 in France from a Google search... 😲🤣
"Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern and Eastern hemisphere".
Off to a bad start. Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Gibraltar and some other British territories are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere, and most of Spain, the UK (England is the only one that isn't entirely), and partly France. It lies west of the Prime Meridian.
He "corrects" himself later, but still...
There is no East West Hemispheres.
Only North South.
Hemisphere is half of a planet with an opposite season.
Aye, it wasn't an inspiring start!
For historical and political reasons the border between Eastern and Western Hemispheres runs between Iceland and Greenland.
@@apveening You've not heard of the Prime Meridian?
@@wessexdruid7598 That one is for time keeping only (and I prefer the older meridian of Paris for that).
Line between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains.
You can google it.
The size distortion comes from the Mercator projection, which is commonly used for maps. It stretches landmasses further from the equator, making northern countries like Norway or Greenland appear much larger than they are. France is closer to the equator, so its size is represented more accurately. In reality, France is larger than Poland or Norway, but maps can make this less obvious due to the distortion.
The Ural Mountainridge devides Europe from Asia
And the Caucasus.
Continent can't be diveded by a mountain. Only by a sea or an ocean
@@withoutwords8136 nope
@@withoutwords8136so you subscribe to the afro-Eurasia continent scheme instead of the traditional separations?
@@withoutwords8136 If you see it this way, you are talking about Eurasia, but in Europe we say that Asia begins East of the Ural Mountains.
The most valuable company in Europe now, is Novo Nordisk after the release of Ozempic.
True, Bernault Arnaud of LVMH is the richest man in Europe though. Novo Nordisk is F'ed with Trump and tariffs. ASML is probably gonna be the richest company soon, because Trump won't tariff ASML probably. His tech bro's won't like it. If we in Europe want Trump to reverse his tariff idea, keep ASML chip technology in Europe or offer the tech to China. That will get his attention for sure.
@@Joey-ct8bm Novo has quite a lot of production in the US, it will be interesting to see, what happens... So far, Trump said, that companies that manufacture in the US won't be hit by tariffs...
But the man is notoriously unstable, so who knows?
@ Economic warfare over Greenland Trump said. Novo Nordisk is a Danish company and their richest one. They are number one on Trump his hit list.
Over Canada Trump said that the US don't need their imports at all.
@@Joey-ct8bm Shouldn't the US president do what he's told from the background? Especially Trump, I mean who funded his return to glory? There's no way he isn't a puppet of the real wealthy guys, right?
Novo Nordisk is €375.04 Billions and LVMH €367.74 billions.
we have Lego, Novo Nordisk, and A.P. Møller Mæsk (container shipping)
Don't forget B&O, Pandora
fun fact from me: did you know that Scotland has its own parliament with devolved powers lol
It is 5 years old numbers i believe, now its Novo Nordisk thats the most valuable company in Europe.
Norway is so high up when it comes to electric cars because we produce everything we need, we also have high petrol prices and the government introduced massive incentives to buy electric cars, they also have priorities in some lanes on highways. When they managed to get on top with the infrastructure as well. It was all set. There is a lot that needs to work for electric cars to take over, and when the government can get legislation to work and really work for it, it's no wonder people take that route. Nature is like a temple to Norwegians, we protect it as much as we can.
And if I still remember my Geography lessons correctly, Norway has a lot of hydroelectric power plants, so electricity there is cheap.
But Norway does have a dual face regarding global warming by selling so much fossil fuel… for global warming it doesn’t matter if your Norwegian oil is burnt in Norway or Spain… Norway uses that revenue to fund their electric transition. And thanks to their geology the can produce a lot of clean electricity thanks to waterturbines, which are a far more reliable/continuous source than wind and sun... That’s why Norway has such a leap. Other European nations don’t have the wealth to go so fast, and they don’t have the capacity to produce enough electricity (certainly not clean electricity) to keep up with demand if their carpark would get electric that fast. They are forced to go slower just by reality not by a lack of willingness…
Apple being the most valuable company is insane????? Who buys that shit??? Apple devices are so insanely bad and obsolete.
10:12 I mean, in italy alone there are like 60 dialects, and if they don't count as languages then neapolitan, sicilian, sardinian, ligurian, venetian, roman, tuscanian and pugliese are all actual languages of their own with different lexycon and syntaxes. Hell, South Tyrol alone speaks a version of German. No wonder we have to speak with our hands to communicate
And 75 official dialects for France... 😲
Russia is considered a part of Europe (a part of Russia...), but Russia does not belong to the EU. The same is true for Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, Azherbeijan and others. But when people write or talk about the EU, they often say "Europe". I think this creates some confusion aboud which country belongs where.
Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are NOT European countries!
No countries “belong” to the EU, but 27 European countries are members of the EU.
Turkey only has 3% landmass in Europe.
@ More than half of Turkey’s territory is in Europe, including its capital(which makes it an European country).
@@magnusnilsson9792 But over 15% of the population.
As for german being the second most spoken language (first or second language), you can't forget that Germany has roughly 80 million people on its own, plus Austria and parts of Switzerland speaking german too. As for second languages, South Bohemia, Northern Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and a lot of Croats speak German due to working in Austria, as well as a lot of the Benelux people.
Being Danish, our first foreign language in school is English. The second is German. Both are mandatory from 3rd and 5th grade respectively. Other languages can be learned as electives in higher grades.
Plus in the Netherlands, German is also one of the languages everyone is taught in school.
Fun fact: The Japanese Garden of Hasselt is a park in the Belgian city of Hasselt. Designed in the traditional 17th-century style, it was donated to the Belgian city by the city of Itami. It is the largest Japanese garden in Europe.
Mediterranen diet is basically veggies (I include beans, lentils, nuts etc. here), fruits, good fats (mainly olive oil) and fish. Plus some whole grains.
You forgot the good old red wine…moderately of course ! 😉
Suddenly Jamón is a veggie or fish.
@ If you wish. I consider it meat.
Meat too.
@@valijeAn example of a country where ham is consumed is Spain, but at the same time it is the fourth country where the most fish is consumed worldwide.
"Australia and Europe are actually pretty close."
How can you say that while looking at a map that clearly shows it's the continent farthest away?
The reason France is the third biggest, is beause they usually include al its overseas departments. Which in every legal aspect are equal to France. And are also part of the EU.
Actually they are only attached to the EU.
Unless they are on the European Continental plate they are not in the EU.
@@gerardflynn7382 That's not correct. The European Union (EU) has nine 'outermost regions' (ORs): Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin (France), the Canary Islands (Spain) and the Azores and Madeira (Portugal). The ORs are an integral part of the EU and must apply its laws and obligations.
The EU is a global political and economical union, not a geographical term that depends whether or not something is situated on a continental plate.
France is the third biggest without its overseas territories. With these territories France is bigger than Ukraine, so second.
31:10 What are you talking about? LEGO is a Danish company!
Norway has 4th highest GDP per capita, people simply can afford EV.
And ample electricity from hydroelectric dams.
and they export a shitload of oil, so environmentally they have something to make up for there XD
for monaco and life-expectancy: it's because it's filled with very rich people who have access to the best health-care.
there's only the 7 wonder of the Ancient World. None of that modern nonsense.
"line" between Europe and Asia = Ural mountains
Yes, I've heard this many times! 👍
On that part of the border you are correct. But that line also goes "straight" through Istanbul, following the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The real question is where the east-west line connecting those two goes.
@@apveening We were told it's in the Volga and Kama river valley, but that was like 20 years ago. There's no practical use in that information anyway. It's not a political border.
The Urals are the Northern border, but the Southern border is unclear, some include all of the Caucasus, some only include Georgia, some say that only Georgia and Armenia are within Europe, etc. It's quite a murky area regarding the defined border.
Native German speakers live in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy and Romania. I don't know if in Lorraine and Alsace (eastern part of France) there are still native German speaking towns and cities, but that used to be te case too. German as a second language was far more common than English until the 1970s.
The United Kingdom and Ireland joining the European Economic Community (now EU) in the 1970s gave a massive boost to learning of English as a second language and use of English as an official language of the EU. However even in the 1990s in the business world in Europe you could still encounter many people active in international commercial jobs, who hardly were able to speak English. In the 1970s and 1980s learning German was still often recommended and a lot of technical books were in German.
Fun Fact: German is the 3rd most spoken language in the US with 16 of the contiguous 48 states speaking it and French is 4th with 12 states.Spanish is 2nd with 43 states
And the second in Brazil
Perućica is not a Europe's only Rain forest.
It's Europe's only primeval forest, as a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance.
There are many Temperate rain forests in Europe (in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, UK, France, Norway, Bosnia, Serbia, Turkey and Georgia) but Perućica is the only untouched forest in Europe
Temperate rain forest are not the same as the Amazonian rain forest that is tropical
In Norway, neither gas nor fuel would be expensive, it is one of the largest producers in Europe. The forced greening policy took them away too. In addition, fuel is expensive throughout Europe for two reasons. Consider the European Union in this. Artificially increased prices (carbon dioxide tax, etc.) and cheap Russian energy carriers released for political reasons. The average European pays about 1.8-2 dollars for 1 liter of gasoline (6.5-8 dollars/gallon, while the Russians pay somewhere around 0.5 dollars/liter, around 2 dollars/gallon. (source = Cargopedia, European fuel prices)By the way, Belarus, which buys from the Russians and doesn't have to pay the insane EU fees for fuel, sells it at about $0.8/liter, or barely $3/gallon.
Norway, Sweden and Iceland have a huge share of renewable energies for electricity generation, so electricity is very cheap there and that is one of the reasons for many electric vehicles
22:34 Countries like Iceland or Norway produce _A LOT_ of their energy from renewables like Wind. Iceland has been independent in energy production for ages now. I visited Iceland like 10 years ago and they produce most of their energy from the heat below (it's a vulcanic island). Iceland heats their sidewalks in the main city, because its getting so cold there in the winter. If you visit grocery stores etc. in Iceland the "frozen departments" have open ... displays? (what's the word) because they do not need to care, since the energy was not created from fossil fuels. In other words: it makes sense to drive electric cars in these countries, since your carbon foot print is very low by driving them.
PS: You can see the Aurora Borealis in Iceland. Was a great watch when I was there (even if it was cold).
On the pronounciation of Liechtenstein: You're both wrong.
The thing is with that sort of map, which is called Mercator Projection and is probably the most common type, it distorts everything in such a way that the sizes become progressively bigger as you move away from the equator. So Canada looks way larger than the US when in fact it’s only a couple of percent bigger. Greenland looks heaps bigger than Australia when it’s less than half the size. And because the distortion amount of distortion increases more as you get close to the Arctic and Antarctic places like Norway and Sweden can look bigger than somewhere like France only a couple of thousand km to the south.
All map projections distort, the Peter’s Projection is the best as far as showing the size of countries accurately, but it distorts the shape of countries to achieve that. The only way to get a truly accurate representation is to use a globe.
Ask me how I know… I spent way too many hours learning about map projections when I trained as a military cartographer. 😂
I like you. You're inquisitive, curious, humble, likeable and funny. You admit what you don't know, you find out instead. You just gained a new subscriber in Europe.
As I Bulgarian, I can tell you. Here we have thousands of natural and historical sites that are breathtaking, especially if you like caves and waterfalls and ancient ruins. The problem we face is that we can't get an non-corrupt government for like EVER xD
@@pog519 sounds ike Italy...
Yeah, we understand what it's like North of the Danube too 😒
I went to visit Sofia in 2023, really enjoyed my time there! The Alexander-Newski cathedral that you see in the video and the Rila monastery are what I remember the most, as well as the view to the view towards the mountains from Vitosha Boulevard. Definitely an underrated tourist destination imho. Also had some great tour guides and learned a lot about Bulgaria that I didn't know before.
Europe is not entirely within the eastern hemisphere. The Prime Meridian is the divider of the hemispheres. Ireland, most of the UK, part of France, part of Spain, all of Portugal, they are all in the western hemisphere.
There are no East West Hemispheres.
Only North South.
A Hemisphere is half of the planet.
Not quarter or less.
@@gerardflynn7382Eh yes there are…where the did you go to school, the US? The prime meridian divides the eastern and western hemispheres east west, the equator north south. It’s not dividing into quarters. It’s just moving the line from horizontal to vertical! This is basic stuff kids in Europe learn in junior school!
@@tomwalsh2244 For historical and political reasons the border between Eastern and Western Hemispheres runs between Iceland and Greenland. And yes, I learned that in Dutch primary school about 50 years ago.
@@apveening And yet the use of the prime meridian, at 0°, and for UTC, are all internationally agreed, much longer than 50 years ago.
@@wessexdruid7598 That one is for time keeping only.
Don't judge size of countries by maps with Mercator projection.
As a European I do not count Russia as European, that might be because it spent so long behind the iron curtain.
This is about geography, not politics. I think of the Canary islands as part of Europe but geographically they are in Africa.
but it is in Europe tho
You are right, we dont see russia as europe
Then you do not know anything about geography
@@domiiinik99 we talk about culture and values. Russia represents anything but European
Did anyone notice that the spreadsheet showing the sizes of the continents had the 2018 population of Australia as 42,000,000? It was actually 25,000,000.
America has a lot of museums because this includes small museums, like some inventors house will be set up as a museum that sort of thing. It doesnt mean only things like natural history museums.
I have a US friend who visits these obscure museums. Never ceases to amaze me how many there are.
I believe one of the reaosns Norway has so many electric cars is because they have invested heavily in building infrastructure for EVs, LOTS and LOTS of charging points, pretty much all their electricity comes from hydropower so it's very renewable etc etc
And their electricity is very cheap because of their hydropower
The Thames nowadays is very clean but it still looks brown because of the amount of silt and the strong currents that lift it off the riverbed.
Sorry my friend. You have interesting videos, but your incessant hitting the pause button every 1 or 2 seconds at times, then repeating is so irritating. You say a few words, pause, say a few words pause, say a few words, pause. Just gather your thoughts, then speak, then let the video play. Half the time you are asking questions that are explained a few seconds later. Not interested in your style anymore. It has become so annoying.
I'm 66 years and played with Legos when I was little. My kids got lots of Legos when they were little, mostly because I love Legos. LOL.
"Because my name is Sam AND you're watching the Geography Bible"
That is the full reason
During the cold war, English wasn't often used as a second language in Central and Eastern Europe, in stead Russian and German was. So if you're in Poland or Czechia, you'll find plenty of older people who can't speak English but are fairly conversational in German.
Same for a lot of Russians.
Thinking LEGO is American is already quite funny. Thinking this after you were already totally baffled by this newly learned fact (at least) once before is lol.
He was not including Russians when he was discussing languages.
I am fine with that for some reason
I bet he excluded the whole Eastern Europe because there is no way that half of Europe knows how to "SPEAK" english when here in Italy in the city where I live it's almost impossible for me to find someone who "UNDERSTANDS JUST A BIT" of english and is older than 40 years.
The statisctics were given for the EU, not the whole Europe
22:29 electricity is nearly free in Norway, since they have an abundance of hydropower. The same in Iceland, but with geothermal power.
How is Moscow not a European city? Have opened a history book?
Moscow is an european city by geographic terms, but mentally/culturally they are in a different league.
@@lnemeth4334 That's what they say on TV?
@@lnemeth4334 Do you know some Russians? I don't think so...
@@ZZMJo I want to agree with you but unfortunately I speak Russian. Even by standards of former eastern block they are something different
@@ZZMJo Our country was under communist rule between 1945-1989.
I also have worked at a local subsidiary of a russian software company for 6 years in the '00-s, so I had to visit Moscow once.
My father in law was a sergeant in the hungarian army during the '70-s, and next to their barracks were the Red Army garrisoned.
So he had a lot of stories, how inhumane and barbaric the russian/soviet soldiers were.
Sadly our "leader" is Putin's biggest puppet in the whole EU. (He just vetoed the next sanctions against Russia yesterday)
In 2023, Volkswagen generated a revenue of $350 billion, compared to Tesla's $97 billion. This highlights that market value doesn’t always reflect a company's actual revenue or scale.
Norway and island has cheep green energy from dams and thermal heat from islands volcanic activity. Make plug-in cars cheaper to run.
When it comes to EVs in Norway, the state has taken measures to get people to buy them.
When EVs came to Norway, they drove for free through toll rings, they parked for free.
There was no tax on importation or sales. Laws have been passed which state that all housing associations must have charging stations in the car parks.
You get green loans in banks that are cheaper. Now that there are so many people driving EVs, they have started charging tolls again, but it is 1/3 of normal cars.
Operating a new EV versus a petrol car is much cheaper, which means you save money if you first have to replace the car you owned. It is financially sound to buy an EV.
The environment comes as the number 2 reason, it's just a bonus for most people
Наздраве/Cheers from Bulgaria !!! We also invented the Cyrillic Alphabet, brought Christianity to the most of Central and Eastern Europe and yogurt ;]
LVMH is a conglomerate of brands, Louis Vuitton is just one of them. It's (largely) owned and run by Bernard Arnault, who depending on the day is either the richest or second richest person on the planet. And Lego is Danish - it's a contraction of the words for "play" and "good".
Russian’s are Slavic like Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Yugoslavians and Bulgarians
Slavic people are European
Not exactly true :) Its much more complicated than that.
@ Slavic people are definitely European 😄
The boundary between the European and Asian continents is the Ural mountai chain.
That is only part of the boundary. Another part runs "straight" through Istanbul following the Bosporus and Dardanelles. The interesting question is the east-west-line connecting those two parts.
Here's a real fun fact about Europe: In Spain we have one bar for every 175 people. 🤣🇪🇸
Norway - Oil and electricity - wind and mining.
For club football (Soccer, lol) it's hard to beat The record crowd at Hampden Park was set a week later in the Scottish Cup final, when 146,433 people watched Celtic beat Aberdeen 2-1. (The previous week there was a match attended by 149,415 for a Scotland versus England match on April 17, 1937 Scotland won 3-1).
Bikes aren't cheap in Netherlands, a lot of people have a bike for parking at the station, because they get stolen there more often so you want an old bike thats unatractive to thieves for parking at a station r going out , and a really good new one for leasure rides.
So,a stolen bike is cheap.no? 😂
29:00 The reason the states has more museums than germany is clear. US is 30 times the size or more.
And you count any small booth with some moldy stones and a 200 year piece of wood a museum.
In the nationalparks any ranger station with something to show counts as a museum.
And regarding the temp ,nobody lived in death valley.
WHAT DOES LVMH STAND FOR? LVMH stands for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. It is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate that was formed in 1987 through the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton, champagne and spirits company Moët et Chandon, and cognac manufacturer Hennessy.
Europe is not entirely in the eastern hemisfere, half of spain half of the uk, parts of france, iceland, Greenland, ireland and Portugal, are in the western
Morten Harket from the 80's band A-ha is the reason Nrowy has so many electric cars, look it up, it's an interesting story.
5:16 The two terrestrial divisions between Europe and Asia are usually taken in the Ural mountains in the East border and the Carpathian mountains in the south border. That means most of Russians live in Europe and the only part of Turkey that is located in Europe is half of it's capital.
Caucasus mountains are at the edge of south-east Europe, around Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia.
Carpathians are located in central Europe.
Istanbul is not Turkey´s capital, Ankara is. About 3% of the whole of Turkey belongs to Europe with several decent sized cities, not only Istanbul.
@@AysKuzedirne should be the most famous of These cities or?
If I am correct in edirne the first peace Deal between the hre and the ottomans was Signed
@@soewenue Yes and Edirne is also usually the first city you drive through if you drive to Turikey through Bularia.
@ Yes, sorry, I always mix Carpathians with Caucasus. Carpathians Romania, Caucasus Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
That about Western and Eastern hemisphere is completely because of where Greenwich is located.