The Only Point On Earth Where Four Countries Meet (Almost)
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- There's only quad point border, and it's not even really a quadpoint
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"between switze- um sweden" ahh the common mistake everyone makes 😂
Hah
Warning: country core corruption at switz-z-z-z-sweden.
It's even worse in portuguese. "Suíça" vs "Suécia"
How can you even make that mistake are you American
@@B3ani3boy well they are both European nations who were neutral during the world wars and have something to their name (Swiss Bank, Lindt = IKEA, Swedish Meatballs)
Glad you mentioned our 10 point border in Sicily, it's fascinating how 10 municipalities come together at the top of Mt. Aetna all in one point to make the only 10 point border in the world. Too bad you can't really get to the exact spot cause you know, active volcano... but very close and once you're at the top you can run around it and circle it and move from municipality to municipality in a few minutes.
This video is just one very long sentence
Yeah, the guy should have written beforehand what he was about to talk to on the video. It looks like he's afflicted by logorrhea.
R6JF no he isn't ffs
Tuxedo Dude he is though :/
Lewis Todd same
But he speaks really fast so it's not too bad...
Drink every time he says tripoint
Sorry, I don’t want to kill myself.
Give me 1 dollar every time he says tri point and by the end of the vid, im in a lamborghini
I drank 65 teaspoons of water.
@@Razor7371. but I do
Am I the only one who can understand him when he talks fast?
*Probably because I speak at his speech speed...*
*s a m e*
Those damn native speakers
@@jjsdumbshit2792 *S* *a* *m* *e*
I watch everything at 2x, toycat included
@@rorohaydar7418 me too
3:33
_There's no place besides this that looks like a 4-point border!_
> China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Russia
CN, MN, KZ, RU
@ looks like
even on a world map you can see it's not even close
If you want to walk a mile between Kazakhstan and Mongolia
Turkey, Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan
This is FASCINATING! Thank you for satiating my weird obsession about maps, borders and countries. Glad that I found this channel, new favorite!
category: Gaming
Totaly
Sargeant Quint so recent
Oz Morse lol they should make a geography category
@RdkMar Hoi i'm tem-
ok i'm just an Undertale fanatic, i understand that it is Hearts of iron.
Google maps on steam
C'mon, Botswana! Help us map geeks out. Adjust your border. Give us a 4-point!
Never gonna happen :)
It might actually benefit all 4 of their economies just a bit, haha. Why not?!
@@jdasign yep, tourism is slowly growing in Africa, losing a few hundred metres of land in exchange for a pretty cool tourist attraction shouldn't be a very hard choice.
@@joeri5678 let's find the e-mail address of whoever's in charge of that decision and send them our reasons haha
@@jdasign it helps their economies more to be able to cross without going through zimbabwe or namibia. last year they built a bridge through the gap too, so there's basically no way it'll happen now
“Russia is not gonna invade any of these places”
That aged well
How? Russia is not going to invade Belarus, Lithuania and Poland
Ukraine wasnt one of those nations
@@coc235 we'll see
@@coc235 Well russia is kinda trying to integrate belarus, and if ww3 happens those 2/3 would be the first targets
England is my city
Europe is my country
Earth is my continent
Milky way is my Planet
Lil Ghoost The universe is the solar system
@@lelaviation9869 and the multiverse is my galaxy
Ohio is my congressal district
Texas is my city
North america is my country
Earth is my continent
MILK is my planet
The universe is my galaxy
??????? Is my universe
Cristian Babencu r/woooooosh
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TIL the official name of Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is actually "Little Separated Bit of Italy".
The tripoint border between Belgium, Netherland and Germany once was a 4 point border. Neutraal Moresnet was the 4th country
7:53 that aged well
How? Russia is not going to invade Belarus, Lithuania or Poland
Skip to 3:12 for the answer
Mojo nice powerpuff photo
Mojo thx
Thanks alot
Thank you. You're a true lifesaver.
Mojo ww
The quad poin border between Namibia, Bostwana, Zambia and Zinbauwe existed until very recently. I crossed that quad border in june 2001, and I have a picture of me in a boat just in the middle of the Zambezi river,exactly where the four countries meet at that time . But Zambia and Bostwana decided in 2014 to build a bridge at this place, and , you know, a bridge needs some space to be build , So, the four contries decided to separate the tri borders by about 150 meters, just to make room for the bridge to be buid. The bridge was finally completed this year 2021.
There is actually a 1 star Google review that was left at a place in the almost-quadripoint because it was not a true quadripoint.
was it Azerbaijan Armenia Turkey and Iran? Or where else
Germany and Denmark don't have a tripoint border
'It was 4 for a while'
Holds up 5 fingers
I love how it's like he talks and turns his brain off
I love when he makes these video. He can teach me things I don’t need to know, and that’s what’s fun.
I like how I'm not the only one who's so fascinated about Google Maps, borders, enclaves and quirky geopolitical situations.
Catania: The result of a 5 year old playing with crayons for the first time. His father, the mayor of the city, was so inspired by the "work of art" that decided to immortalize it by drawing the municipalities lines to look like an exact copy.
I don't get it
I don't get it. Can you explain
www.google.co.id/search?q=Catania&oq=Catania&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.671j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
look at the map of the city
oh
NeoGeo There's nothing wrong.
what about antartica? it got 8 borders, because it got divided by many certain countrys
Lukas they have to be touchijg
Lukas The Antarctic Treaty of 1954 made those division unvalid.
Those are merely claims, not colonies, let alone countries.
Lukas its still contested
they do not count
Wow this guy sounds like he just drank 10 cans of redbull
If you slow down the speed to .75 its sounds like he is talking like a normal person
Holden Harper Thank you
Thanks !
If you speed it up to 1.25 it still sounds natural (compared to how he speaks normally, that is)
I put it to 1.5x because I am a fast talker and I can easily understand fast talking
Thanks for curing cancer
Just chill out and sloooow down.. decent vid tho
Joseph Hazle thanks, I know the way i talk gets to people a little
ibxtoycat it sounds like you are desperate to finish so that you can go take a shit that is starting to turtle.
Joseph Hazle one, I was about to comment that
watching at 0.75 is fine
Am I the only one not bothered by his talking speed? I find it fine.
I'm so confused as to why there's so many dislikes... I love your videos dude! Keep it up!!
Seems some people dislike his speaking pace and style; interestingly, he doesn't really talk that way anymore. And also got a ton of views on this, so... 🤷
When there is a "Point" boarder, it starts with at least an "tri-point" border as there just can't be a "di-point" boarder. Once that point is formed, there's a very little chance for a forth border line to start from that exact point, therefore "quadro-point" boarders are way rarer and whenever there is one, it's often due to a crossing of two border lines drawn all at once.
Why are there so many dislikes on this video‽ I know it's a bit rambly, and sort of clickbaity, but it's not made up or anything.
Another "close" second, though definitely not THIS close, is Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Jordan and Egypt are only a couple kilometers from each other with Israel in between, and Saudi Arabia a bit further down the coast.
If you go by territorial waters you get even closer.
another one is Armenia Azerbaijan Iran and turkey
Mongolia/Khazakstan/Russia/China. Don't 4 meet there?
40km away from being a quad-point. Also, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iran are 10km away from being a quad-point.
no
China separates Kazakhstan and Mongolia
Mongolia and Kazakhstan isn't connected. You can see if you zoom in.
Tinnesa no
I enjoy these when I can understand them. You get excited and speak rapidly. Slow down and take a breath
Michael Brennan this is the way Toycat talks. 800,000 people on his main channel.
Yeah, agreed. One of the points I was most frustrated with was 2:56, when he zoomed in, said "and you have this...ah yeah that makes just about sense....you get a lot of these, that's kind of how countries...form." I'm sure he meant to say more, but his brain was going so much faster than his words and he just tripped over himself
I found it too slow and watched on 1.5x speed o.o
Michael Brennan dumb
It's not natural, it's sped up in Premere Pro, set it to .75 and it's close to normal
A lot of new people seem to come here not knowing Toycat. Reminder that Toycat is known for making long and overly-detailed videos, and this is his second channel where he doesn't care as much.
I truly enjoy these geography vids, keep it up my boi.
I truly hated this. The subject matter was fine, but you really need to learn to speak coherently, "boi."
This was nervous, rushed and frequently muddled. Your English teacher did you no favours either.
I had to stop before the end of this, as trying to listen to you was giving me an actual headache, which went away as soon as I hit pause.
I demand you to change your name to "Grammar Nazi" instead of Joes WebPresence.
It wasn't so much the grammar, as the delivery I had a problem with. The English language is rich, smooth and luxurious. It can be poured out in such a way as to drizzle sweetly across a person's very soul, leading us to be enriched, inspired and informed simultaneously. Shakespear, Chaucer, Shelley, Milton, the lyrical works of James Hendrix and Peter Townshend. Their skillful use of words has moved and inspired millions!
But this like. . .doing the . . . er . . .whole SPEAKING thing, when you like. . . just don't . . .er . .have the vocabulary, and you're like, speeding through it because you're nervous, makes it difficult to like . . . listen to, which makes it difficult to . . .er . . . you know . . .understand ! ! ! ! ! Like DUH ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I am lamenting the loss of diction and linguistic skill, not grammar. He needs to read more. Breathe more. Think more, and CARE more about the words he chooses to convey his ideas. It's a common problem. So many kids assume they are like . . . educated, so they know like, ALL the words, and . . .er . . . like ALL about how to use them, but when they . . . um . . . get like tested and stuff, it turns out that they like don't know shit!
It appears that each generation of children fails to grasp the extent to which things have been dumbed down for them, in order to explain them. Combined with each generation of teachers being guilty of using fewer of these complex words and phrases in their lessons, so as not to confuse the little dears, and here we are, almost returned to the point of incoherence and grunting.
"It's . .er . .like . .um . .really bad! No! Dude! Seriously . .er . .like uh give it . .uh . . I don't know fifty years, and they won't like . . .ah . . .ah. . .woah dude I don't know how to say it! Uh, you know, . . . when you get the like . .pictures in YOUR head, to go in to THEIR head! Some big sciency word! I better google it so I can make a youtube video like warning everybody."
I am coherent at parties, and don't cause headaches in those listening. I breathe, and gather my thoughts before I attempt to express them. I care whether I am communicating clearly and effectively.
If this WERE at a party, I would simply tune out the annoying guy with the poor diction and machine gun presentation style, but it isn't just some snippet of background conversation at a party, is it Cheesycurve. It's a youtube video narration, which I assume was a serious attempt at public speaking to better inform people about a geographical issue.
The context is clearly important here, and those two settings do NOT have the same expectations on the speaker. If this was a kid trying to explain something to his classmate in the hallway, I would ignore it and move away from the din. If it was the same kid making a presentation to his geography class, I would mark him down for the reasons I outlined above and openly criticise his English teacher in the staff room. If he was making his presentation before the entire school, I would stop him, tell him to breathe, calm down and speak more clearly. If it were the same kid in his first day at work for a TV news station, I would fire him, and the person in HR who hired such an incoherent, poorly educated kid to present the news. In this situation, where he is subjecting me and many others to this torture on a youtube video, I will give negative feedback and outline why, in the hopes that he makes an effort next time.
I have standards for what I watch on youtube, and this does not meet those standards. What that has to do with how much fun I am at parties is, I am afraid completely lost on me.
Did YOU enjoy listening to him? Why not try playing this audio to ten people over 30, and ask THEM if they agree or disagree with what I have said here.
I stand by my point that we are on a downward spiral towards ignorance and incoherence if we tolerate piss poor communication skills like these, and hope that point has been clear and effective, otherwise why bother? I would leave it to someone who COULD clearly and effectively communicate, while I went off to practice in front of a mirror or something.
Joes WebPresence r/iamverysmart
7:55 “It’s not going to invade any of these places” Well that aged well.
Denmark doesn't have a tri-point next to Germany.
Can this guy be my Geography teacher?
I been to that place in Catania. It's called Mt. Etna
Italian Legion is actually not a mountain but a volcano
Jari Milis The mount etna is friendly called "a muntagna"
Giorgio Ingaliso yes let call it then a volcanism mountain
Jari Milis I know I was on Sicily while it was smoking
Matteo Cecconi 1st of all, a moutain is 600m asl, not 800m. 2nd of all, there is no need calling them an idiot for just calling a volacano, well, volcano.
That "mountain" in Catania it's just the biggest volcano in Europe.
Sam Schiro that has to be vesuvious
You mean the etna? I thought vesuvius next to napels was bigger..
I am italian and the biggest is the etna near catania
Etna Is bigger than Vesuvius, around 1000m higher
"Russia's not going to invade any of these places." No, they would never do that...
Yeah. They are very friendly...
the tripoint of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany used to be a quadpoint with the Moresnet territory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet
This doesnt need to be 10 minutes long. 4 tops
AMEN! Somebody likes the sound of his own voice? Understatement is more effective than bombastic overstatement. It's like the difference between a campfire and an explosion.
He added facts through the whole thing. If it was only 4 minutes long, then you wouldn't be able to fit all of the information in. I'd much rather have a longer video than less interesting facts. If you don't like interesting facts, I doubt you'd be watching this channel in the first place.
He's clearly going as fast as he can!
funch357 What did you expect him zooming in and showing you exactly where it was? A simple google search would better suit your problem.
ten minute videos get more money because like any normal person he likes money
"Russia wont invade Belarus," you say? If they do, Crimea a river.
Belarus is perhaps the most faithful ally of Russia lol, if anyone invades it it will be most certainly Nato and/or "liberal movement" lol
ba dum crash
@mPky1 I thought you were saying that Russia didn't invade it. I didn't know you were being sarcastic
VArsovski10 yeah nice you just missed the joke
@mPky1 I don't know if you're joking, but Russia indeed invaded Crimea and East of Ukraine.
There has been at least one quadripoint in history. Between 1839 and 1920 Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia/Germany and the Condominium of Moresnet shared one point which was deemed as a quadripoint. Even though the Condominium of Moresnet was never truly a country but more a neutral territory between the Netherlands and Prussia/Germany at first and after 1839 between Belgium and Prussia/Germany, it's still counted as one of the only quadripoints to have ever existed between 4 nations.
Ryu the Smasher Interestingly, the current tripoint is still at the location of the original quadripoint, despite the border between Belgium and Germany moving East past the original border of Moresnet after WWI. Also, there are three roads leading to this tripoint, one from each country. From Belgium the Route des Trois Bornes ('Road of Three Borders'), from Germany the Dreiländerweg ('Three-Country-Road') and from the Nethetlands the Viergrenzenweg ('Four-Border-Road'), meaning this once quadripoint is still comemorated in the road to it from the Netherlands.
I'm perplexed how you managed to not only make this simple video 10 minutes long, but also talk so densely all along without straying too far away from the topic and without going too irrelevant, and make it all into an unedited single shot.
This was both frightful and mesmerizing: take it as criticism and a compliment.
haha, watching at 0.75 speed, thats a great tip. honestly this guy is really good, keep up the good work but please talk slower. honestly i'm not hating, i just can do with out the crazy pace. much love x
You made me go and look for other quadripoints. Haven't found any other. Damn.
(For a second I thought Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia and China had one.)
why did this get so many dislikes? If you cant understand him when he talks fast, dont immediately dislike. I mean, i watch a ton of his videos and it sounds normal to me, sooo
I know right
In Kenya, there are 5 counties (first level subdivision for Kenya)-Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Embu, Tharaka Nithi and Meru, that seem to all converge at Mount Kenya, they actually do not technically meet at the same point if you zoom in or look closely.
Take a breath.
personally i like how fast you talk, it keeps me interested
Four corners canada.
Yes! everyone always forgets that Canada has a 4-corner province border too! even if i do live in the U.S, i think Canada should make a cool monument there or something
But it is very cold up there
Bluecrafter 007 it isn't four provinces, it's half territories
Bluecrafter 007
F
It's not a real four corners. It's just really close, like the one in Africa.
He just waffled his way through a 10 minute video to show us a picture of a 4 border point
Good job
"Geography channel"
Subscribed
That's actually an 11-point border. There are 10 provinces meeting at one point, but you can see that the green one surrounds the grey one, and meets the point twice.
7:55 that didn’t age well
Dutch person here! I live very near the NL-BE-DE tripoint
I didn't realize you talked so fucking fast
Actually, the tri-point that you visited between Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands used to be an actual quad-point between 1839 and 1919 where the aforementioned three countries and the microstate Neutral Moresnet used to meet. So if you'd just visited that same place a little over 100 years ago, you'd have been at the only quad-point in the world!
ibx2cat - Can't you talk a little faster ??? LOL
Lol everyone is commenting "slow down bro" but I'm just confused how he kept up that pace for 10 ½ minutes
TAKE A BREATH!
How about tripoint border cities? There must only be a few of those and i imagine that‘d be pretty interesting.
Who else watched all of Defenders all in one night
When you look at a world map without zooming in, it looks obvious that China, Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan would have a quad-point border. But no, Mongolia and Kazakhstan are actually apart by ~40 km. Why!!??
Interesting. :D I like your enthusiasm for something that I never thought would be interesting before haha.
I rarely disagree with the like/dislike ratio but I don't understand that hate on this video. I thought it was interesting and the speed with which he talks is fine for me.
Zachary Dial For real! I bet a lot of people wish they could find this sort of excitement and passion about something in their lives.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment! I think any time a video gets lots of views from an audience that aren't familiar with it people dislike it a lot haha. I understand some of the criticisms too
+ibx2cat
Don't kid yourself. The down votes are because your speech is painful to listen to. I'm interested in the subject, but I stopped watching half-way through because it was so uncomfortable. You also repeat yourself a lot, and you could say all the same stuff at a normal speed in the same time.
There actually used to be a quad point border right until around 1920 I believe.
If you look into the history of the Belgium, Netherlands and Germany 3 country point, you'll find that there used to be a very small country squashed in between Belgium and Germany: Neutral Moresnet.
Could you make a video of countries that border one other country?
I crossed that Zambia-Botswana border on that ferry back in 2015
omg i was literally in Catania 2 days ago on holiday lol and that mountain with the 10 municipality border is Mt. Etna and we went up there too
Alfalfa volcano not mountain
Jari Milis yeah I know but the guy in this video referred to it as a mountain so I didn't wanna sound confusing
Very interesting video! Love your enthusiasm! 😄👍
How much Red Bull did u have before recording this
Hi ibx2cat, Nice to know that you recently visited the Netherlands (at least the border). In your video at 0:46 you can also read the streetnames around the border which are funny. On the Belgian and German sides the street names are 'Routes des Trois Bornes' and 'Dreilanderweg' (meaning 3 countries border road) while the Dutch street is called 'viergrenzenweg' (meaning 4 countries border road). As others will mention, historically (until WWI) there was a 4th country located between Belgium and Germany.
...why are there so many dislikes?
Almost thought this vid was gonna be about China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, there’s a point where 2 of their tri borders are really close (
What the fuck is with all of the dislikes
Wow. I learned something new today. I live in Switzerland and thought that the Bodensee (lake Konstanz) is just divided between Germany and Switzerland. I didn't believe you that there is no border, so I googled it and turns out that the bigger part of the see, the Obersee really has no defined borders.
I went to Netherlands belgium and germany point i am from netherlands
The best example I can think of showing the maths behind this, is sphere packing and how bubbles arrange themselves...
0:19 MY HOME CITY (look at England)
*Busts a tranquilizer dart into the cat's tailend and swallows some Aspirin* Phew...
do geoguesser again toycat
Four color map theorem: *exists*
Ten point border in Italy: I'm about to end this man's whole career
8:10 yeah, my city on the map, greetings from Augustow;)
btw. in place where is 0 on ruler that you used is actually a quadripoint (of 2 countries and 2 voivodeships in Poland), I've been there:p
Cool I found it lol
Hail Augustus!
Greetings from Suvalki! He literally hovers over it.
There used to be two points where 4 countries meet. The Dutch-Belgium-German point was before ww1 a point where 4 countries met, because there was a small country added.
like als je nederlands bent
Stefan lul
The tripoint between The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany once was a quadpoint... Until 1919 the mini-state of Moresnet Neutre bordered on the same point as well
Armenia Azerbajan Turkey and Iran only a 6 mile border
4:28. They should create an Island in the middle. As a Park. People would pay money to go and be where 4 countries connect. But they would have to re-draw the lines to match.
But the Profit!
Holy crap, He talks fast.
On a three-country border, each country can visit the other two. On a four+-coubtry border, each country can still only visit the two next to them. In a four-coubtry border, you still can't visit the country diagonally opposite unless you're infinitely small, or they make an open zone
Kazakhstan russia mongolia china.... it looks Like that
There are around 40km of difference
The Border between The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany had a 4 point border in early history. The fourth country was called Neu-Moresnet. At the monument you showed from streetvieuw you can still see that name written on the point where the borders meet.
Theres a place where its just 10 km away of being quadborder: look at turkey, armenia, azerbadjan and iran
Penguinish And Russia, China, Mongolia and kazakhstan are 40km away from being one.
Penguinish THERE IS A QUADBORDER! China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan!
What's a km
WAKKO WARNER holy shit u r fucking dumb
Jumalan siunausta rude
Just stumbled upon this video, and I am from Catania, Italy! :D
What happened to the like-dislike ratio here? I haven't watched the video yet
There could have also been a 4 country border between turkey, armenia, iran and nakhchivan ( azerbaijan). The distance between the two 3 country border is 10 km
Why so much dislikes
Because People are blind and think it's fake
Hello@@daev13k
What about Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey almost have a quadpoint. Armenia cuts off a part of Azerbaijan making an exclave, and Azerbaijan shares a 5-mile (8-kilometer) long border with Turkey.
Can you make a video about the Middle East ?
That might make the situation there worse :7)
quad point border would also mean you have to get either military acces from one of the other countries to invade the one furthest from you, which isn't very likely to happen