How is the Capital City of a Country decided?

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  • The criteria for selecting a Capital City. Also, please IGNORE the glitches in the video between 00:26 and 00:40. My editing software kinda sucks and that part didn't render properly.
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  • @christiandevey3898
    @christiandevey3898 7 років тому +19

    An other reason Ottawa is the capital of Canada is that it is on the border of French-Canada and English-Canada

  • @CogitoEdu
    @CogitoEdu 7 років тому +22

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    • @TheRandomQubeofficial
      @TheRandomQubeofficial  7 років тому +3

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    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu 7 років тому

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    • @RealMdrid3
      @RealMdrid3 Рік тому

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  • @chrishawkins3875
    @chrishawkins3875 7 років тому +23

    You just got yourself a new subscriber! 😀

  • @mateohaas6685
    @mateohaas6685 7 років тому +3

    This is extremely good quality. You're special. Thank you for being so good.

  • @ryandebruin9221
    @ryandebruin9221 7 років тому +2

    Should've given the netherlands a spot aswel. The capital is Amsterdam but the government, royal family and most embassies are in The Hague. Aswel as the international court of justice is in The Hague.

  • @FreddyImran32
    @FreddyImran32 2 роки тому +2

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  • @spiralpython1989
    @spiralpython1989 7 років тому +1

    Hey, interesting demographics. And rapt that you reported on Australia BEFORE USA!!! Liked and subbed! Will use your vids with my students.

  • @jasonhaven7170
    @jasonhaven7170 7 років тому +6

    The counties of the UK don't look like that, where did you get that map? 0:24
    Anyway, the video is pretty good overall.

  • @parmentier7457
    @parmentier7457 7 років тому +4

    great video!
    Also interesting why The Hague not the capitol is of the Netherlands. Amsterdam has no Parliament, no seat of Government, no embassies, no supreme court. These are all located in The Hague. Even the royal family and the priminister lives in The Hague.

  • @lavo-ld4wm
    @lavo-ld4wm 4 місяці тому

    You forgot Switzerland: they don't have a capital either, despite Bern being the “facto capital” (as you find the Federal institutions and the embassies), just like in Nauru, where Yaren is also the “facto capital” (for the same reasons).

  • @ambarwalia
    @ambarwalia 4 роки тому +1

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  • @nicolasrenaud6875
    @nicolasrenaud6875 7 років тому +3

    Fine video, keep it up!
    But actually, about Canada, I would like to respecfully correct some assumptions about the selection of its Capital City. The criteria of "defensibility" is only half of the truth. Indeed the political elites wanted to better protect its capital in case of an American invasion, so the region of Ottawa was selected.
    But look at map and you can come with 2 major interrogations : 1-Ottawa has been built on the southern shore of the Ottawa river, wouldn't it be wiser for protective purpose to build it on the northern shore?, and 2- Quebec City is even farther from the American main border, is built on the northen shore of the wider Saint-Lawrence river, suffers from a harsher winter climate, which is always a major add-on for defensibility, and historically has always been a major political centre of Canada so the basis for it were already set up, wouldn't it be objectively a better location to settle a Capital?
    So the other half of the truth comes to a phenomenon you didn't expose : a mix of economical and ethnic favoritism.
    As a matter of fact, in that era, the political and economical elites of Canada were overwhelmingly British/English Canadians who generally had, it is fair to say, attitudes ranging from unsympathetic to very scornful toward another major ethnic group of Canada : the French Canadians (but anyway even many French Canadian elites had that same attitude toward their people, so we can't blame them that much in a sense). So, in the minds of those elites, letting the Capital City of the federal government within the borders of the only main French Canadian "state", the province of Quebec, was a non-sense.
    Some says that the site of Ottawa has been mindly selected to reject favoritism from both main people of Canada, French Canadians and English Canadians, putting it at the crossroads of the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. Well...... more or less I think. It may have delighted some foolish Quebec French Canadian nationalists, but there is a major economical problem with it and almost no one realises it. At the contrary of in almost every country in the world, Ottawa, the Capital City of Canada, doesn't belong to a federal district of its own, it is fully part of the province of Ontario. So, all taxes related to people working, staying and consuming in Ottawa enriches the city but also the provincial government of Ontario. Even worse, all people within the metropolitan area, which in time naturally included the area just north of it on the other side of the river in Quebec, even though living outside of the Capital city, would have to pay some taxes by working in Ottawa, and so enrich the province of Ontario. Also as expected, Ottawa and its southern suburbs became mostly "English Canadian" while the northern suburbs located in Quebec, but still fully integrated to the Ottawa metropolitan area, overwhelmingly "French Canadian". By the way, Ontario naturally became the most dominant province of Canada economically speaking, even though it wasn't at the time of the selection of Ottawa as the Capital.
    I'm pretty sure those dirty little tricks were planned all along, even 150 years earlier... I mean, finding every possible way to steal some money and hard-work from the French Canadian people is literally among the greatest aspect of the Canadian History.

  • @aarohalme1020
    @aarohalme1020 7 років тому +2

    London has a place inside of it named the city of london which isint a part of london

  • @garvbhadani7454
    @garvbhadani7454 7 років тому +3

    After a while I will proudly say that I was the early subscriber of this famous channel 😁

  • @crisp-waffle
    @crisp-waffle 7 років тому +3

    Keep up the great work, love the accent!

  • @Learner_shivani_jeet
    @Learner_shivani_jeet 2 роки тому +1

    Thanku man! For your work 😊

  • @ArjanHier
    @ArjanHier 7 років тому +1

    Another interesting example is the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the largest city and the official capital while the government is located in The Hague, which is the third largest city.

  • @msbuinov926
    @msbuinov926 7 років тому +6

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      @TheRandomQubeofficial  7 років тому +1

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      @msbuinov926 7 років тому

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  • @OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer
    @OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer 2 роки тому

    Things you need for a capital city:
    1. A city

  • @kylewaddington1983
    @kylewaddington1983 Рік тому +1

    Most times the Capital city is the biggest city of the croutry and most famous city to apart from Canberra Australia and New Zealand Wellington

  • @albafree2178
    @albafree2178 7 років тому +2

    Well you could argue that the UK has 4 capitals (London city, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast). But then again, I from Scotland.

  • @OnkelJajusBahn
    @OnkelJajusBahn 7 років тому +4

    Always paused for the maps. Did you made them on your own? great video, love your channel.

    • @TheRandomQubeofficial
      @TheRandomQubeofficial  7 років тому

      Thanks for the comment.I used Google Earth and drew polygons on them for some maps.

    • @OnkelJajusBahn
      @OnkelJajusBahn 7 років тому

      Wow, cool, amazing work.

  • @effigyfaraj7689
    @effigyfaraj7689 7 років тому

    No mention of the country who's capital switches between summer and winter

  • @byronsigrano6849
    @byronsigrano6849 7 років тому

    Great photo of cnr. York & Market @ 02:00

  • @matthewbarabas3052
    @matthewbarabas3052 7 років тому +2

    actually, Ottawa was chosen as a compromise between Toronto and Montreal, similar to the Australian examples, except that Toronto was English and Montreal is french.

    • @matthewbarabas3052
      @matthewbarabas3052 7 років тому

      ottawa existed before, as a town, before it was refounded as ottawa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytown

  • @ukexpat6893
    @ukexpat6893 7 років тому +1

    Great video, except the criteria for a capital city is really so simple, in the vast majority of cases, it is the city where the country's government is situated.

  • @openlyracist8055
    @openlyracist8055 7 років тому

    Hong Kong and Makau are part of China, yet Hong Kong declared independence and was invaded twice since 1999.

  • @irgendwer3610
    @irgendwer3610 3 роки тому +1

    3:35 3 years later I am here to tell you that in Portuguese, you do not pronounce the J like H, just pronounce it as a regular J instead

    • @TheRandomQubeofficial
      @TheRandomQubeofficial  3 роки тому

      yes, my bad I got to know that later. I pronounced it the spanish way I guess.

  • @BaggyMcPiper
    @BaggyMcPiper 7 років тому

    Subscribed! I look forward to seeing where this channel goes from here!

  • @FreddyImran32
    @FreddyImran32 2 роки тому +1

    Saudi Arabia's capital city is Riyadh but Jeddah is the bigger city

  • @indeed6598
    @indeed6598 7 років тому

    Good video, just to say London isn't the capital because it is so powerful and important, but it became so powerful and important after becoming capital, largely due to its locaction which offers it both access to, and protection from Europe.

  • @moshpitjo1146
    @moshpitjo1146 7 років тому

    Love your vids dude, really informative but still casual

  • @PokerGrind02
    @PokerGrind02 7 років тому +1

    You deserve at least 100k subs

  • @Razulminecraft
    @Razulminecraft 6 років тому +1

    You pronounced Canberra wrong. It's pronounced 'Can-bra'. Also, Melbourne is pronounced 'Mel-bon'. Or at least that's how Australians pronounce it. South Sudan was also absent from the maps, though I could forgive you since you didn't make them. Otherwise, great video!

  • @altheagray103
    @altheagray103 7 років тому

    How about the Vatican in Rome? Separate "Country" inside a Capital?

  • @swiddhi
    @swiddhi 7 років тому

    Your EXTREMELY underrated.

  • @aimewww
    @aimewww 3 роки тому

    Simplified and well explained

  • @davidvgool4851
    @davidvgool4851 7 років тому +3

    The Netherlands doesn’t have their capital at the sea Its only under sea level and the Netherlands doesn’t have 2 capitals

    • @hoodiedoot
      @hoodiedoot 6 років тому +1

      Yeah thats true i know it because i live in the netherlands

  • @dominicthedefiant3210
    @dominicthedefiant3210 7 років тому

    Love your work man. Just subbed

  • @nitishkumargaurav5230
    @nitishkumargaurav5230 4 роки тому

    Thanks 🤗🤗🤗

  • @Mr._Lechkar
    @Mr._Lechkar 7 років тому

    Hi, why did you delete your European Colonization video?

  • @republicoftajikistan4532
    @republicoftajikistan4532 3 роки тому

    Step 1. Make sure its in the east of your country

  • @hoodiedoot
    @hoodiedoot 6 років тому +1

    The netherlands has only one capital by the way

  • @simgenx5167
    @simgenx5167 7 років тому

    to use something under CC-BY-SA license, you need to provide a link to the original file, if at all possible. Moreover your video, or at least the sections that use the material, would be CC-BY-SA as well.

  • @ramizureikat3793
    @ramizureikat3793 7 років тому

    Great video but the voice must have better accent respectively

  • @alonyahav2740
    @alonyahav2740 7 років тому

    Israel also moved her capital from tel Aviv to Jerusalem after the six days war

  • @nashoba1836
    @nashoba1836 7 років тому

    love this video however you didn't put Taiwan as red on the map of countries with 2 capitals. Taiwan's official capital is Nanjing (now part of china), but their temporary capital is Taipei.

  • @lullybe
    @lullybe 5 років тому

    Capital is Capital Letter

  • @lzheyi
    @lzheyi 4 роки тому

    Wrong fact in the last bit.....Hong kong is not a country. It's like saying Kerala is a country....

  • @RendererEP
    @RendererEP 7 років тому

    0:24 u seemed to have included the whole county of essex into london, you either got a map of the london commuter area or the map is just wrong

  • @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687
    @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 7 років тому

    3:05 i dont understand what he said here

  • @welp4576
    @welp4576 7 років тому

    Ankara is the capital of turkey
    but the largest city is istanbul

  • @thestargazer6335
    @thestargazer6335 5 років тому

    Hey there I am your new subscriber, u sound like a more of Indian accent

  • @jauzihalwa
    @jauzihalwa 7 років тому

    Delhi's distance from Pakistan is not the reason why its the capital...

    • @FixedFace
      @FixedFace 7 років тому

      it is the capital, becaus it has the most loos.
      seriously, poo in the loo

  • @timeover979
    @timeover979 6 років тому

    0:36 but that pic is of india gate which is in india

    • @TheRandomQubeofficial
      @TheRandomQubeofficial  6 років тому +1

      It looks similar to India gate, but it is in Paris.

    • @timeover979
      @timeover979 6 років тому

      @@TheRandomQubeofficial ok thnx for telling . Btw what is the name of that?

  • @sgkantak1853
    @sgkantak1853 Рік тому

    He sarv kewal Akleche taare ahet.
    Tuzi chuk nahi pan he rikamtekde hitihaskaar malala yeil te sangtat
    Tyanni sangate aapan aikawe.
    Jevha 1 ka peksha jast karne stories miltat mhanje sarv aklechech tare ahet he spast hote

  • @aadityakiran07
    @aadityakiran07 4 роки тому

    UAE's capital is the largest emirate

  • @evelynn9060
    @evelynn9060 3 роки тому

    Rain

  • @daniels7861
    @daniels7861 7 років тому

    Subbed but Please improve your pronunciation

  • @hasanal-timimi11
    @hasanal-timimi11 7 років тому

    I need another video... plzzzz i love them plzzzzz

  • @marygracelauz357
    @marygracelauz357 7 років тому

    Philippines? metro manila is the biggest

  • @mertturanci5614
    @mertturanci5614 7 років тому

    İstanbul is capital of the world.

    • @enqrbit
      @enqrbit 7 років тому

      Delirium why manilla

    • @enqrbit
      @enqrbit 7 років тому

      Mert TURANCI *Constantinople

    • @mertturanci5614
      @mertturanci5614 7 років тому

      Suomalainen solitas
      Istanbul was Constantinople
      Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
      Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
      Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
      Every gal in Constantinople
      Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
      So if you've a date in Constantinople
      She'll be waiting in Istanbul
      Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
      Why they changed it I can't say
      People just liked it better that way
      So, Take me back to Constantinople
      No, you can't go back to Constantinople
      Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
      Why did Constantinople get the works?
      That's nobody's business but the Turks

  • @Ahmad-iv3dr
    @Ahmad-iv3dr 6 років тому

    Are you indian based in dubai