A few brain lapses in the video: 1- Pennsylvania has 12.9 MILLION people 2- The population density of Wyoming is 6 people per square mile, not 6,000! 3- The aerial image I showed for Mesa, AZ is actually Tempe, AZ (adjacent suburb) 4- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK at 147,000 square miles is roughly the same size as Montana, but not Bangladesh. Bangladesh is 147,000 square km. 5. The image showed for Falls Church, VA is of Charlottesville. I love how there are so many errors in a video about facts that I have to pin a comment with corrections
I had read that Bangladesh is the size of Wisconsin, so I figured that needed correcting. Mesa, Az. is now the size Phoenix was in the 1970 census. All of Maricopa County had 800,000 in the ‘70 census. Now, what, about 5 million? Of course snow birds make up a fair amount of that.
Loved this video, Kyle. Actually i almost always love your content but I most appreciate geography as it influences population and stats. This compilation was fantastic! Thanks for putting it together!!
Small nitpick. The Salton Sea wasn't created because they were trying to pump water to LA. The irrigation system was solely to send water to the Imperial Valley. Because of the abnormally high rainfall in the upper Colorado River, the river breached levees near the border of AZ and CA and flowed unobstructed into the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea. Glad you mentioned this area though! It's often forgotten. I'd love to see a video on it. Keep up the great work :)
@ I mean it's not a very important mistake. It doesn't change the facts of the video. In terms of relevance to the video it really isn't a big deal. So I'd say it's a nitpick
Hey an interesting idea for a video that you will enjoy! Fast food/supermarket/gas station chains by state/region Like how Kwik Trips dominate Wisconsin
Thank you for the Mesa shout out - the 36th most populous city in the US and the #1 "suburb." However, the picture is of ASU in Tempe, about 5 miles west of Mesa.
Great video! Love this kind of stuff. I’m curious if you have ever thought about doing a street video highlighting the longest, widest, shortest, weirdest, most unusual, etc, in America. Might be interesting. 👍🏽
This is great Kyle! I just figured I'd point out that at 11:13 you list ME, MA, CT, and RI as the options for size comparisons with the big island of Hawaii but the map highlights New Hampshire, not Massachusetts. Also quick question is there going to be another installment of the Fan Submitted interesting maps series and if so by when should I submit that? I've been working on some neat maps for my job as a GIS Tech...
Yeah bit of a brain lapse there. I'll have the next interesting maps video up at the beginning of the new year. If you would like to submit a map, you can send it to my contact link on my channel homepage in the channel description.
The tallest mountain in the lower 48 from base to peak is Rainier. All those "towering" 14ers in Colorado begin at 6,000 ft making them all much less impressive than the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest (and Shasta). Not to mention what they call forests we call scrub brush. Compared to Rainier (13,246 ft from base to summit). Elbert and Pike's Peak are foothills.
Love your content, I’ve been watching for years. Just wanted to add that the Florida state capital is also a high rise at 345 feet tall. Thank you for always making such great videos :)
My favorite local CA stat is the lowest and highest points in the lower 48 States are actually so close together they are visible from one another ( Mt Whitney and Death Valley.) in the same county maybe?
Great info, Kyle! One state capital (or Capitol) fact I have found that maybe no one else has ever cared about is: The only State Capitol building visible from another state is… give it some thought….. … New Jersey’s. It’s in Trenton and can be seen across the river in Pennsylvania.
You killed it, Your Majesty! I am a total trivia nerd (I even know where the word "trivia" was derived!) I love these kind of vids. As someone who has lived most of his life in the city, county, and state of New York (I think New York may be the only city that shares its name with the County and the State in which it is located...), Loving County, Texas has long been a source of fascination to me. I was shocked to learn of its population decline. Hell, more people live on the floor of my building than live in Loving Cty! I, along with the 69,000 people who share the sq. mile I live in here, just cannot imagine what it would be like to have that much space to ourselves!
I lived in Queens for a few years and I can confirm that people who live in Queens or Brooklyn most definitely do not not consider themselves living on Long Island, which is Nassau and Suffolk Counties only. But, as you said, geographically the island of Long Island is comprised of Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Kings counties.
Oh man, a Blue Oyster Cult symbol on the wall. I was a huge fan in the 70's and saw them in concert 3 times. BTW the picture for Mesa is actually Tempe.
12.9 people in PA?? There's 9 in my house alone haha i knew what you meant. Love your videos and I really love "est" type videos! Looking for the next!
Very nice. Thank you. (First, you eliminated your cool intro sound...dang. Second, I see you are a BOC enthusiast, my favorite album of theirs is OYFOOYK, featuring Buck's Boogie...)
@5:33 Native New Yorker here. If you say you live on Long Island most people think Nassau or Suffolk counties, not the physical Island itself. So yeah no one from Queens or Brooklyn says they live on Long Island.
Fun facts: Originally located within a Spanish Province, the city of Santa Fe, NM was founded by the 2nd governor of the province, Don Pedro de Peralta, in 1607. He named it _La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís_ which means "the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi". In 1610, he designated the city as the capital of the province making it the oldest state capital in the United States. The city was later nicknamed _Santa Fe_ which means "Holy Faith".
This is a very interesting video. St. Augustine Florida being settled 73 years after the Americas were discovered for Europe reminds me of reading 'The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus', by Washington Irving. Most Astounding.
One little issue I noticed. When you mentioned that Mesa Arizona is the largest suburb in the USA, you showed a picture of Tempe, Arizona. That's Gammage auditorium and ASU in the pic.
Geography King, you said Wyoming had 6000 per square mile,sounds like an error. I thought Leadville was the highest, I guess not. Flagstaff and Greer Arizona deserve some credit I thought. Here is a challenge for you, what state smallest county is larger than RI? Decades ago I concluded it was Santa Cruz down at the border. Am I correct?
Bombay Beach is unincorporated. The lowest incorporated municipality in the US is nearby Calipatria, negative 180 feet. It's flagpole is 184 feet tall so that the flag flies above sea level. The other incorporated municipalities in Imperial County are also below sea level (El Centro, Brawley, etc) The eastern Salton Sea is also home to the Salton Buttes, the only active volcano in southern California. Red Island is a hundred foot tall hill whose summit elevation is -127 feet.
I’d be curious to know if there are any towns with less than 1 residents. Off the top of my head, Mercury, NV, Antelope Wells, NM, and North Rim, AZ, I believe have no permanent residents, but are considered towns. I believe the town of Taos Ski Valley officially sits at 9,321’. I’m surprised that wasn’t mentioned on your list.
Some more elevation facts: Utah is the only state in the US where every county has a high point over 9000 feet. The same is true of Utah for 8000 feet. The county in Utah with the highest low point and the lowest high point is the same: Rich County with a low point of 5924 feet at the shore of Bear Lake and a high point of 9256 feet at Bridger Peak. Every other county in the state has both a higher and lower elevation than Rich County.
Hi Kyle - check the stats on El Paso. The population of the city itself is only ~670K while the metro is ~870K, while the CSA (which includes the Las Cruces metro) has the ~1.1M population you referenced. Otherwise, interesting video!
Living in Cincinnati, you see the vast difference between it and Columbus. Cincinnati is part of a long Urban/Suburban expanse that goes from N Ky up to Dayton. Columbus is the opposite, you leave the city in any direction and theres nothing for an hour or 2.
I think people really underestimate how big NYC is because of the hudson river divide with Jersey. Yes NJ is a seperate state all that, but certainly most of North Jersey along the Hudson feels very much just another part of NYC in density and culture. But in Jersey we are absolutely nuts with how we call municipalities or cities (look at South Hackensack, or North Bergen being south of Bergen County). So by comparison, Jersey City is about the same population as Pittsburgh, its in Hudson County which has a population the size of Seattle just on the hill next to NYC. And if you copied NYC's model of just combining the counties around the central hub into one city, you'd be looking at a city the size of Chicago. So how ever big NYC is, its hard to fathom that a city the size of Chicago rests next door on its western border as well.
As a resident of the City of Falls Church, I appreciate the mention, however the picture you chose is not of Falls Church. I would know, it’s a tiny place!
A few brain lapses in the video:
1- Pennsylvania has 12.9 MILLION people
2- The population density of Wyoming is 6 people per square mile, not 6,000!
3- The aerial image I showed for Mesa, AZ is actually Tempe, AZ (adjacent suburb)
4- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK at 147,000 square miles is roughly the same size as Montana, but not Bangladesh. Bangladesh is 147,000 square km.
5. The image showed for Falls Church, VA is of Charlottesville.
I love how there are so many errors in a video about facts that I have to pin a comment with corrections
I had read that Bangladesh is the size of Wisconsin, so I figured that needed correcting. Mesa, Az. is now the size Phoenix was in the 1970 census. All of Maricopa County had 800,000 in the ‘70 census. Now, what, about 5 million? Of course snow birds make up a fair amount of that.
Mammoth Lakes, California, is at 7,920 feet, and it's incorporated, so California is also included with Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.
I was going to say, I didn't know that most people I know weren't part of Pennsylvania, except 11 people and an amputee.
One other small correction: Yukon-Koyukuk is a census area, not a borough
As a UVA alum, I thought I recognized the Charlottesville downtown mall! Initially my reaction was “oh neat, Falls Church looks just like Cville.”
Loved the Lon Gisland note...nicely done, Kyle.
I’ve never heard the word Primate used to mean anything other than a monkey or ape. Cool to learn a new word!
Also an official of the Roman Catholic Church.
Classic geography king! I enjoy all your videos but this one felt like a fun throwback - excited for your next one 🙂
Sounds like there's not enough loving going on in Loving County 😂
Loved this video, Kyle. Actually i almost always love your content but I most appreciate geography as it influences population and stats. This compilation was fantastic! Thanks for putting it together!!
Small nitpick. The Salton Sea wasn't created because they were trying to pump water to LA. The irrigation system was solely to send water to the Imperial Valley. Because of the abnormally high rainfall in the upper Colorado River, the river breached levees near the border of AZ and CA and flowed unobstructed into the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea. Glad you mentioned this area though! It's often forgotten. I'd love to see a video on it. Keep up the great work :)
That's not nit picking.
@ I mean it's not a very important mistake. It doesn't change the facts of the video. In terms of relevance to the video it really isn't a big deal. So I'd say it's a nitpick
Of course we want more videos like this
Love this video format great video
Still blows my mind Phoenix has gotten so big. I'm glad Tucson hasn't quite followed so closely in those footsteps.
Not only hasn't it followed, but Mesa will become the second largest city in the state in not too long.
@@wilycoyote1924 does mesa have a lot more room to grow? Looks like nearly 100% built up except the SE corner and it's pretty much land locked.
Certain people want sun and warmth and not everyone cares about living in a desert climate. Not a surprise to me.
Yes but you lost your race track same as California's doing.
Can’t fathom why so many people would want to live in Phoenix
Hey an interesting idea for a video that you will enjoy!
Fast food/supermarket/gas station chains by state/region
Like how Kwik Trips dominate Wisconsin
Thank you for the Mesa shout out - the 36th most populous city in the US and the #1 "suburb." However, the picture is of ASU in Tempe, about 5 miles west of Mesa.
Thanks for the correction
Also the biggest majority republican city!
@@salommy with a mayor and city council who openly supported Harris/Walz
@@jdscottphdNot anymore thankfully! Giles would’ve been dumped just like incumbent Liz Cheney if not for the term limit.
Kyle throwing sign was worth the whole video! Thanks, Man !
Great video! Love this kind of stuff.
I’m curious if you have ever thought about doing a street video highlighting the longest, widest, shortest, weirdest, most unusual, etc, in America. Might be interesting. 👍🏽
And include Woodward Avenue in Detroit. It held the most street drag races in the 1960s and 70s.
This is great Kyle! I just figured I'd point out that at 11:13 you list ME, MA, CT, and RI as the options for size comparisons with the big island of Hawaii but the map highlights New Hampshire, not Massachusetts.
Also quick question is there going to be another installment of the Fan Submitted interesting maps series and if so by when should I submit that? I've been working on some neat maps for my job as a GIS Tech...
Yeah bit of a brain lapse there. I'll have the next interesting maps video up at the beginning of the new year. If you would like to submit a map, you can send it to my contact link on my channel homepage in the channel description.
Lon Gisland, hahaha!
Kyle’s Easter eggs are fantastic!!
I want to visit Lon Gisland!
@@lsh3rdtrying to determine if it’s intentional 😭😭😭
@@ceo5855 it definitely is.
Flashing a MW Mount Whitney sign cracked me up! 😂
Kyle! Colorado musician here! I recently played a gig in Alma CO! Fun fact: their mayor told me their zip code is 80420!😅
The tallest mountain in the lower 48 from base to peak is Rainier. All those "towering" 14ers in Colorado begin at 6,000 ft making them all much less impressive than the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest (and Shasta). Not to mention what they call forests we call scrub brush. Compared to Rainier (13,246 ft from base to summit). Elbert and Pike's Peak are foothills.
Heck yeah prominence
I've seen Rainier from several angles, and it's always hard to believe what you're seeing.
@2:10 Kyle - Florida has a high rise capitol as well. It’s 25 story building.
It's frankly confusing because the old capitol building is adjacent to the high rise, but the old building is basically just a museum now.
Awesome video! Love the idea of your next one like this about weather and climate related items, that’s my jam!
Love your content, I’ve been watching for years. Just wanted to add that the Florida state capital is also a high rise at 345 feet tall. Thank you for always making such great videos :)
Image on 9:36 is downtown Charlottesville, not Falls Church. Cheers!
(Third, a wonderful collection of fascinating geography facts... thank you, ...keep 'em comin')
Great video! I really enjoy how you point out new and interesting ways to look at our country!
Great 14 minutes of today.
Love this kind of trivia. What's Lon Gisland?
Actually it is Lawn Guylind.
Nice. Never heard of that one.
I thought it was Long Guyland
Love these types of videos. And that Lemuria record.
Good stuff Kyle
My favorite local CA stat is the lowest and highest points in the lower 48 States are actually so close together they are visible from one another ( Mt Whitney and Death Valley.) in the same county maybe?
Yes. Barely. (Inyo Co.)
Yoooo. Love these vids!!! Geography GOAT!
Great info, Kyle! One state capital (or Capitol) fact I have found that maybe no one else has ever cared about is: The only State Capitol building visible from another state is… give it some thought…..
… New Jersey’s. It’s in Trenton and can be seen across the river in Pennsylvania.
Boston area residents, is it possible on a clear day to see the Rhode Island State Capitol from the Blue Hills just south of Boston? Just wondering.
@@andyjay729 Was about to post the same. I would think so.
@@tsurdyk You'd probably need binoculars though.
You killed it, Your Majesty! I am a total trivia nerd (I even know where the word "trivia" was derived!) I love these kind of vids. As someone who has lived most of his life in the city, county, and state of New York (I think New York may be the only city that shares its name with the County and the State in which it is located...), Loving County, Texas has long been a source of fascination to me. I was shocked to learn of its population decline. Hell, more people live on the floor of my building than live in Loving Cty! I, along with the 69,000 people who share the sq. mile I live in here, just cannot imagine what it would be like to have that much space to ourselves!
4:53 is a picture of ASU Campus in Tempe- not Mesa AZ. Sorry Kyle.
Kyle, love your videos. The pic of Falls Church, VA is actually from Charlottesville, VA where I live.
I lived in Queens for a few years and I can confirm that people who live in Queens or Brooklyn most definitely do not not consider themselves living on Long Island, which is Nassau and Suffolk Counties only. But, as you said, geographically the island of Long Island is comprised of Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Kings counties.
Oh man, a Blue Oyster Cult symbol on the wall. I was a huge fan in the 70's and saw them in concert 3 times.
BTW the picture for Mesa is actually Tempe.
Love your channel Kyle. Thanks for another fun one.
Great video! I love these factual videos.
12.9 people in PA?? There's 9 in my house alone haha i knew what you meant. Love your videos and I really love "est" type videos! Looking for the next!
Never change Geography King never change
Great vid as always!
Awesome video sir! 🫡
Annapolis MD is on the Chesapeake Bay and experiences Tidal Flooding sometimes. But the Elevation is listed at 39'
I love your videos, so interesting. Love that shirt!
That Mount Whitney energy Kyle! I love it! Keep it up!
I think your math on Wyoming is wrong, it should be only 6 people per square miles. 6000 people per square miles is more dense than New Jersey!
Also 12.9 people in Pennsylvania instead of 12.9 million, that did make me chuckle though haha
Dog piling with ‘Lon Gisland, NY’.
I think Wyoming has 6 miles per square person, or something like that?
Hey he's a geographic nerd, not a demographic nerd lmao
Very nice. Thank you. (First, you eliminated your cool intro sound...dang. Second, I see you are a BOC enthusiast, my favorite album of theirs is OYFOOYK, featuring Buck's Boogie...)
@5:33 Native New Yorker here. If you say you live on Long Island most people think Nassau or Suffolk counties, not the physical Island itself.
So yeah no one from Queens or Brooklyn says they live on Long Island.
Loving County was the setting for a Jack Reacher novel.
11:05 is inaccurate. Wyoming has ~ six people per square mile, not 6,000.
That's what caught my eye too.
Yeah, that was a screw up. Thanks for the correction.
If it has 6,000 people per square mile, it would have around 586 million
There is a marker on the steps of the state capitol building in Denver showing the exact elevation of 5280 feet.
I’ve been to Alma, it’s a great place to visit.
Hi Kyle While Nashville is much smaller then Phoenix, I see a couple of suburbs giving Mesa a run for it's money in the next few years. Thanks
great information
Great video
Fun facts:
Originally located within a Spanish Province, the city of Santa Fe, NM was founded by the 2nd governor of the province, Don Pedro de Peralta, in 1607. He named it _La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís_ which means "the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi". In 1610, he designated the city as the capital of the province making it the oldest state capital in the United States. The city was later nicknamed _Santa Fe_ which means "Holy Faith".
I love the way GK reps mt Whitney at the end lmfao. Much love from another California native
Like that you often included the 2nd, 3rd etc.
Alma's sign appears to have an image of Mt. Shuksan in Washington. (8.44)
Pictures of Mt. Shuksan turn up in a lot of strange places. 😁
Great catch...it sure is.
It looks like your picture of Mesa, AZ is actually a picture of Tempe, AZ - isn't that Gammage Theatre on the ASU campus?
Hey boss man. As a couple people have said, at 9:44 when you mention Falls Church, that's actually the downtown mall of Charlottesville.
LFG I love some interesting facts and trivia
San Juan, PR is the oldest city in the US and predates St Augustine by several decades
PR is not “in” the US. It’s a held territory.
Not a _state_ capital.
This is a very interesting video.
St. Augustine Florida being settled 73 years after the Americas were discovered for Europe reminds me of reading 'The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus', by Washington Irving. Most Astounding.
Mt. Whitney juuust beats us out by 66 feet, so close yet so far
Town of Hempstead NY is also a suburb having more than 500,000 (793,409)
Maybe it’s not considered as it is only a town?
Shoutout from Erie, PA!
More stats videos like this. Dig it.
Kyle you're the best!
One little issue I noticed. When you mentioned that Mesa Arizona is the largest suburb in the USA, you showed a picture of Tempe, Arizona. That's Gammage auditorium and ASU in the pic.
I love your "bowling" shirt!! ♥
I bet that shirt was actually purchased somewhere in a distant land
I would be interested in a video explaining primate cities a bit more in detail with benefits and consequences
Geography King, you said Wyoming had 6000 per square mile,sounds like an error. I thought Leadville was the highest, I guess not. Flagstaff and Greer Arizona deserve some credit I thought. Here is a challenge for you, what state smallest county is larger than RI? Decades ago I concluded it was Santa Cruz down at the border. Am I correct?
I've been to both Buford, WY and Lost Springs, WY haha!
Wagontire, OR might be down to just 1 these days...
Best birthday present ever!
All those Californians leaving for Colorado are taking a step down. Mt. Whitney reigns supreme!
Bombay Beach is unincorporated. The lowest incorporated municipality in the US is nearby Calipatria, negative 180 feet. It's flagpole is 184 feet tall so that the flag flies above sea level. The other incorporated municipalities in Imperial County are also below sea level (El Centro, Brawley, etc)
The eastern Salton Sea is also home to the Salton Buttes, the only active volcano in southern California. Red Island is a hundred foot tall hill whose summit elevation is -127 feet.
Significant portions of Port Arthur, TX are also below sea level. I've seen it on USGS maps. I'm not sure why it isn't counted.
Love the shocking Mt Whitney callout.
@5:13 I want to visit Lon Gisland. Sounds nice.
@9:37 It looks like you used a picture of Charlottesville instead of Falls Church, but otherwise great video!
nothing like lighting up and seeing a new geography king video pop up
So Sta Fe has the shortest/highest capital building?
Top of the building is certainly higher than any other capitol building, by 1000ft.
I’d be curious to know if there are any towns with less than 1 residents. Off the top of my head, Mercury, NV, Antelope Wells, NM, and North Rim, AZ, I believe have no permanent residents, but are considered towns.
I believe the town of Taos Ski Valley officially sits at 9,321’. I’m surprised that wasn’t mentioned on your list.
I used to hang out at Lon Gisland's house when I was a wee lad.
Some more elevation facts: Utah is the only state in the US where every county has a high point over 9000 feet. The same is true of Utah for 8000 feet. The county in Utah with the highest low point and the lowest high point is the same: Rich County with a low point of 5924 feet at the shore of Bear Lake and a high point of 9256 feet at Bridger Peak. Every other county in the state has both a higher and lower elevation than Rich County.
Mount Whitney!! 🗻
“There are about 12.9 people in Pennsylvania” incredible misquote 😂
Bruh
Million?
More people than that (several times) failed to fill out their ballots correctly
You know it's kinda funny: Texas always seems so big, but you know you're in the largest state in the Union when you're anchored down in Anchorage ...
That was mostest fun!
Hi Kyle - check the stats on El Paso. The population of the city itself is only ~670K while the metro is ~870K, while the CSA (which includes the Las Cruces metro) has the ~1.1M population you referenced. Otherwise, interesting video!
Living in Cincinnati, you see the vast difference between it and Columbus. Cincinnati is part of a long Urban/Suburban expanse that goes from N Ky up to Dayton. Columbus is the opposite, you leave the city in any direction and theres nothing for an hour or 2.
Greer, Arizona may not be incorporated but it sits at about 8,500 feet. It feels like it's on a different planet than the Phoenix area.
You should do a geography game show 😁
thanks kye...have you covered this subject // Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho ??
I've talked a little about inland ports in a previous video, including upriver ports along the Columbia River but not huge detail on Idaho.
@@GeographyKing thanks bud..love you.
I think people really underestimate how big NYC is because of the hudson river divide with Jersey.
Yes NJ is a seperate state all that, but certainly most of North Jersey along the Hudson feels very much just another part of NYC in density and culture. But in Jersey we are absolutely nuts with how we call municipalities or cities (look at South Hackensack, or North Bergen being south of Bergen County).
So by comparison, Jersey City is about the same population as Pittsburgh, its in Hudson County which has a population the size of Seattle just on the hill next to NYC. And if you copied NYC's model of just combining the counties around the central hub into one city, you'd be looking at a city the size of Chicago.
So how ever big NYC is, its hard to fathom that a city the size of Chicago rests next door on its western border as well.
As a resident of the City of Falls Church, I appreciate the mention, however the picture you chose is not of Falls Church. I would know, it’s a tiny place!
Nope! It’s the downtown mall in Charlottesville.
Kyle where do you get those shirts?
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