5 Things About Geography You’re Wrong About

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  • @Swamp72
    @Swamp72 Місяць тому +406

    The most shocking part of this video is finding out that people think sand dunes are hills covered in sand

    • @antshrike8238
      @antshrike8238 Місяць тому +33

      Totally! I’ve never heard anyone say anything suggesting confusion about that. I literally thought everyone knew they were shifting piles of sand, regardless of the underlying terrain. That’s like thinking that ice fields and ice sheets (big glaciers) only cover flat areas because their surfaces are largely flat.

    • @jackyoh971
      @jackyoh971 Місяць тому +23

      Like really who believes that?

    • @wrc5557
      @wrc5557 Місяць тому +12

      I'm doubt anyone thinks this! literally the first time I've ever heard this even suggested and surely anyone with the sense to know the Sahara is a desert knows that sand dunes are made of sand.....the clue is in the name!!

    • @ohdearism
      @ohdearism 23 дні тому +5

      @@jackyoh971 People believe that the earth is flat. They exist.

    • @sylnz97
      @sylnz97 21 день тому +1

      are those people in the room with us rn?

  • @BradGryphonn
    @BradGryphonn Місяць тому +382

    5:35 With respect to Norway's coastline, Slartibartfast, when designing it, probably didn't expect it to be one of the longest coastlines in the world. He just had a thing about fjords.

    • @douglaspealing5608
      @douglaspealing5608 Місяць тому +17

      I've always wondered if he ended up doing the southwest coast of New Zealand too, maybe just in his evenings. They're just as fiddly, but a much smaller project.

    • @mlw5665
      @mlw5665 Місяць тому +7

      Please tell me SlartiBartFest is real, and the mascot is beyond my imagination.

    • @mccormyke
      @mccormyke Місяць тому +14

      Slartinbast was especially interested in the tiny creeks which he called...fjiodian slips

    • @BradGryphonn
      @BradGryphonn Місяць тому +5

      @@douglaspealing5608 Perhaps after dinner whilst having a cup of tea.

    • @mrthingy9072
      @mrthingy9072 Місяць тому +17

      Upvote for the Douglas Adams reference.

  • @BrOckSams0n
    @BrOckSams0n Місяць тому +66

    1:00 "only a portion is covered with sand, between 15 and 25%" ... that's like 700,000 square miles. I'd say that picturing this absolutely massive (staggeringly massive) landmark when thinking of the Sahara is perfectly reasonable.

    • @BrOckSams0n
      @BrOckSams0n Місяць тому +8

      additionally a lot that "isn't sand" is rocky sand and then a lot more is sandy rock... so yeah. Sahara = Sand

    • @PathkeeperOfficial
      @PathkeeperOfficial 20 днів тому +3

      Damn he pushed some buttons with this one 😂

  • @bioLarzen
    @bioLarzen Місяць тому +741

    A France-related fun fact: most people with a degree of knowledge about European geography "know" that France and Netherlands are not neighbours (Belgium comes in between). Well, you can win an easy bet against such people by claiming France and Netherlands are in fact land neighbors - we just have to go to a different continent, namely North America, where, there is the island of Saint Martin / Sint Marteen, half of which is an overseas territory of France and the other half belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands - with a nice land border between them. There is your French-Dutch border. The only pair of European countries with a shared land border outside Europe.

    • @dxruling
      @dxruling Місяць тому +22

      That's occupied territories not the actual territories.

    • @beurksman
      @beurksman Місяць тому +36

      ​@@dxruling If they can defend it it's theirs

    • @DarrylWPerry1789
      @DarrylWPerry1789 Місяць тому +52

      The longest French border is shared with Brazil!

    • @DarrylWPerry1789
      @DarrylWPerry1789 Місяць тому +31

      and the longest domestic flight in the world is from Paris to Tahiti!

    • @whyshouldwecare3267
      @whyshouldwecare3267 Місяць тому

      JHTT

  • @BruceBoyde
    @BruceBoyde Місяць тому +94

    The Mercator projection thing that really stunned me is that Madagascar is actually almost 2.5 times larger than Great Britain.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 Місяць тому

      That's bigger than only two states of my homeland.

    • @liamtornqvist
      @liamtornqvist Місяць тому +1

      @@JamesDavy2009assume you’re Australian? 🙈

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 Місяць тому

      @@liamtornqvist Bingo.

    • @JakeSmith-jy1kx
      @JakeSmith-jy1kx Місяць тому +3

      GB is tiny. The whole UK is smaller than 11 US states, including four of the five I’ve lived in. 15 states are larger than Great Britain. There’s 31 US states larger than England.
      London to Edinburgh is under 400 miles, but Houston, Texas to El Paso, Texas is 745 miles, almost twice as far. US interstate 5 in California is over 800 miles long. Even Las Vegas, Nevada to Reno, Nevada is further than London to Edinburgh.

    • @DreamteamCarlo
      @DreamteamCarlo 21 день тому +4

      I always like to look at Brazil and Greenland. They seem similar on the map but Brazil is about 4x Greenland's size..

  • @svargyle
    @svargyle Місяць тому +38

    You can easily see the actual size of countries by using Google maps and zooming way out. It becomes a 3-D sphere. You can also look at a globe.

    • @b_ks
      @b_ks 17 днів тому +4

      Every household needs a globe.

    • @misterramon7447
      @misterramon7447 15 днів тому

      @@b_ks And according to Zero Mostel...A Maid.

    • @chiuwong4057
      @chiuwong4057 9 днів тому +1

      the problem with most physical globe is that the viewing of the southern hemisphere is less favorable, less so the Antartica. So unless a globe can be flipped around freely, the shape and size Antartica is still less well known.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Місяць тому +87

    0:30 - Chapter 1 - The sahara isn't actually very sandy
    2:50 - Chapter 2 - Maps are very, very warped
    5:10 - Chapter 3 - Coastlines are not what you think
    7:20 - Chapter 4 - The longest river might not be the Nile
    9:15 - Chapter 5 - There are many continent splitters

    • @MarkShockley
      @MarkShockley Місяць тому +1

      *Nile

    • @richdiddens4059
      @richdiddens4059 Місяць тому +2

      A few more things need mentioning. 1- The Earth is not a sphere. It's an oblate spheroid being 42km shorter than wide. 2- There is still a fair amount of debate as to where the line between Asia and Europe is and some debate as to where the division between North and South America actually is. A small part of Panama might be considered south of the division. 3- While 7 is the most recognized number of continents I've seen it claimed anywhere between 4 and 9. One that is sometimes added is Oceania.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 Місяць тому

      @@richdiddens4059 There's also Zealandia with the only parts of it above sea level is the country of New Zealand. Some circles have stated that the true mouth of the Nile is the Strait of Gibraltar.

    • @neekfenwick
      @neekfenwick Місяць тому

      you made it further through than I did :)

    • @HeliosBeats
      @HeliosBeats Місяць тому +1

      thanks

  • @KenFullman
    @KenFullman Місяць тому +254

    Everyone knows the Amazon is the longest river in the world, but we're still in denile.

    • @kevinforgione3938
      @kevinforgione3938 Місяць тому +10

      “De-Nile” isn’t just a river 😂

    • @pltc71
      @pltc71 Місяць тому +3

      Google is in denile

    • @b_ks
      @b_ks 17 днів тому

      My sister is the queen of de Nile.

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 17 днів тому

      @@b_ks Was she the one that had to walk backwards? Nethertities.

    • @misterramon7447
      @misterramon7447 15 днів тому

      "groo-aaa-aann" Dad jokes have made a comeback.

  • @LivingWithTheCoopers
    @LivingWithTheCoopers Місяць тому +57

    When I was in the Sahara in Morocco, it was mainly like a gravel car park, but with loads of fossils because it was an ancient sea bed.

    • @brentpoikey1154
      @brentpoikey1154 21 день тому +2

      Same with Qatar. I lived there for a year and a half and my family back home would ask me how the sand was, and a gravel car park was basically how I explained to them what it was. Dust was more of an issue than the rare sandstorms (haboobs) that came over from Saudi where the 'Empty Quarter' is, which is actually an INSANE sand dune desert. I think it's the largest sand dune desert in the world but might be wrong. Either way, you don't want to end up in the Empty Quarter on accident.
      Also, sand would have been much easier on my shoes than the flat rock covered by gravel. That shit tears up shoes like you're walking on razorblades. And literally every single time it rained, it flooded, and flooded quickly.

    • @joegrey9807
      @joegrey9807 20 днів тому

      There are some sandy bits down near the border with Algeria. But the best 'dunescapes' I've seen are in Mauritania - around Chinguetti.

    • @yestfmf
      @yestfmf 18 днів тому

      Imagine drowning in a desert.

  • @travesty-studios
    @travesty-studios Місяць тому +18

    You can tell that some maps really mess up sizes when you learn that the length from top to bottom of Africa is similar to the width Russia.

  • @setra23
    @setra23 Місяць тому +108

    Norway having the second longest coast line would make Slartibartfast proud

  • @glstka5710
    @glstka5710 Місяць тому +34

    7:06 Norway coastline is due to its many fjords. The chjevys don't contribute to it.

    • @cyanophage4351
      @cyanophage4351 Місяць тому +2

      Haha 😂 yeah came to comments to make the same point.

    • @jonrolfson1686
      @jonrolfson1686 Місяць тому +1

      Neither Bjenzes, Volksjwagjens, Volvjos, Dacijas, Sjeats, Sjaabs, nor even Fjiats get a proper look in. Only Fjords.

    • @katfayegarrett3872
      @katfayegarrett3872 Місяць тому

      😂😂😂❤

    • @earthling_parth
      @earthling_parth Місяць тому +2

      Slartibartfast at it again!

    • @misterramon7447
      @misterramon7447 15 днів тому

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! Dad Jokes and Puns!!! It truly IS the End Times!!!!

  • @nunyabiznez666
    @nunyabiznez666 Місяць тому +202

    Fun fact, in some parts of the Sahara the sand depth is 300ft deep 😳
    I can only imagine what's buried under it, you know.....since it was a lush forest area at one point

    • @sudazima
      @sudazima Місяць тому +42

      most sand areas used to be lakes since its the lower lying areas that fill up with sand first.

    • @alecogden12345
      @alecogden12345 Місяць тому +12

      Coal lol

    • @davidwood9966
      @davidwood9966 Місяць тому +12

      They can’t use it for concrete cos it isn’t jagged enough at like the granular level. That’s a shame.

    • @loddude5706
      @loddude5706 Місяць тому +1

      @@davidwood9966 - Like inventing 'dehydrated water' . . . what do you mix it with?

    • @matthewmckinney5387
      @matthewmckinney5387 Місяць тому +4

      Lmao, there about 5 to 10 kilometers of dirt under your feet 😮

  • @squee222
    @squee222 Місяць тому +74

    5:17 Your graphics department seems to forget that the Canadian Archipelago, and North West Passage are part of Canada - and that the "thousands of islands" you mentioned need to be included in their graphics.

    • @ASlickNamedPimpback
      @ASlickNamedPimpback Місяць тому +15

      To be fair... if you've ever had to colour those islands in back in elementary school you'd know its basically impossibly annoying

    • @DoktorApplejuceAbridged
      @DoktorApplejuceAbridged Місяць тому +21

      I'm more concerned about the fact that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and part of Quebec have apparently seceded from Canada in that map.

    • @mennomateo
      @mennomateo Місяць тому +7

      All land south of the st Lawrence seaway and all islands are missed

    • @aaronbannerman4354
      @aaronbannerman4354 Місяць тому +4

      and P.E.I. ... So that would total 4 or the 10 provinces, plus part of another and half of 2 territories missing.

    • @shawnr6117
      @shawnr6117 Місяць тому +5

      Someone didn't do their job properly.

  • @geradkavanagh8240
    @geradkavanagh8240 Місяць тому +7

    I encountered the coastline edge problem numerous times while working for a cadastral surveyor. Just defining the median high tide mark could be an absolute headache in areas where the nearest tidal gauges were a long way away. Add to that both erosion and accretion events along shorelines and before you knew it, nothing would match previous survey plans and areas of land allotments along coastal areas.

    • @Pushing_Pixels
      @Pushing_Pixels Місяць тому

      Why are high tides used to define the coast, instead of low tide marks? Doesn't the shore include the areas flooded by tides?

    • @geradkavanagh8240
      @geradkavanagh8240 Місяць тому

      @@Pushing_Pixels Median high tide mark defines the accepted boundary between what is ocean/sea and what is land. Shoreline fluctuates over time depending on erosion or accretion along the shoreline and thus affects the amount (square metres/square feet) of land described on a land title bordering the sea.

  • @dcvariousvids8082
    @dcvariousvids8082 Місяць тому +72

    I was correct on the Norway answer. After all, Slartibartfast liked all the crinkly bits.

    • @darlenefraser3022
      @darlenefraser3022 Місяць тому +4

      YES! This is the only reason why I knew the answer to that one! 😅

    • @loddude5706
      @loddude5706 Місяць тому +2

      Thinks: Coast road tour of Norway with Ewan & Charlie in a Ford Prefect - would it make it?
      (Skinny tyres, twiddly bits, king pin wear, ice, snow & vacuum-driven windscreen wipers? : )

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing Місяць тому +1

      Or Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent in a Ford Prefect.

    • @earthling_parth
      @earthling_parth Місяць тому +3

      Here I am, the brain size of a planet, and you want to talk about fjords?!

  • @Rhylek
    @Rhylek Місяць тому +7

    fun geography fact: colorado is actually NOT a rectangle! its a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon and has 697 sides. this is because while mapping out the original borders for the state, the surveyors got lost along the way many times creating uneven border lines

  • @h84gabor6
    @h84gabor6 Місяць тому +9

    respect for starting with what's in the thumbnail

  • @JesseJoyce-cj2xg
    @JesseJoyce-cj2xg Місяць тому +18

    A lot of people don’t seem to know that a small island off the coast of Newfoundland is controlled by France, but if that describes you, well, it no longer does. Now you know.

    • @felixbarry1838
      @felixbarry1838 Місяць тому +2

      St-Pierre! I worked with a guy from there a while ago, one of the funkiest french accent I've ever heard, a mix of mainland france with a touch of Newfie english, great people

  • @gwcrispi
    @gwcrispi Місяць тому +89

    We should be glad the majority of the Sahara is not sand dunes. The sand worms would prevent crossing it...

    • @JeffUmstead
      @JeffUmstead Місяць тому +3

      Shai Hulud

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition Місяць тому +5

      Not if you know how to walk arhythmically

    • @bobpourri9647
      @bobpourri9647 Місяць тому +2

      Isn't Thumper a rabbit?

    • @Just-thoughts
      @Just-thoughts 27 днів тому +3

      Africans would have used the worms to fight colonizers which means France would be poor today 😂😂

  • @wocookie2277
    @wocookie2277 Місяць тому +13

    I’ve been in many deserts, from the Arctic, to Egypt, and the empty 1/4. In the UAE. As well the Mediterranean area, and Afghanistan. All deserts are mostly rock. Only the empty 1/4, and a stretch outside Cairo, had the sand dunes we expect of a desert.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 Місяць тому

      Technically sand is a collection of at least trillions of little rocks, mostly quartz.

  • @itsa-itsagames
    @itsa-itsagames Місяць тому +7

    Legend has it that Simon Whistler hasnt been allowed out of that room for the laat decade 😅

    • @NZKiwi87
      @NZKiwi87 25 днів тому +1

      lol! You’d think he’d get a more comfortable chair 😂

  • @chadp363
    @chadp363 Місяць тому +27

    Why did the map of Canada's coast line leave the four eastern provences out? I understand 2 are islands, but still, they, and two provences attached to the rest of the country were not highlighted

    • @bid84
      @bid84 Місяць тому +6

      They belong to India now 🇮🇳

    • @hosermcmoose
      @hosermcmoose Місяць тому +4

      Let's be honest, most Canadians forget about New Brunswick too.

    • @tarazieminek1947
      @tarazieminek1947 Місяць тому +1

      Maybe it's an older map - Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949.

    • @neskire
      @neskire Місяць тому +1

      They also left out all of the islands north of Nunavut. Shoddy work, I'd say.

    • @bradfilippone7064
      @bradfilippone7064 Місяць тому

      Only Prince Edward Island is entirely an island. Many people forget that Newfoundland and Labrador is mostly mainland because they forget the Labrador part of it.

  • @AnthonyKimbrell-y1e
    @AnthonyKimbrell-y1e 18 днів тому +1

    You always make tough topics feel manageable!

  • @bioLarzen
    @bioLarzen Місяць тому +41

    Accurately measurng coastlines is not only tricky because of the coastline paradox - but also because of the constantly changing sea levels.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 Місяць тому +1

      The Coastline Paradox is far less of a problem when using US Survey Feet, instead of metric. That's because, when measuring with the US Survey Foot, values are collected in feet, tenths, hundredths, and thousandths of a foot. Smaller units create more accurate measurements.

    • @EndertheWeek
      @EndertheWeek Місяць тому +10

      @@SkunkApe407 So centimeters, millimeters, nanometers etc. etc. don't exist?

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 Місяць тому

      @@EndertheWeek yes, they do, but US Survey Feet offer smaller measurements than all of those, in a practical application. Nobody said anything about them not existing, only that the US Survey Foot allows for far more precise measurements. If you had any background in Geomatics, you'd know that. Any engineer who has used both systems of measure will tell you that SAE offers finer, more precise measurements.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 Місяць тому

      @@EndertheWeek just for reference, one millimeter is just over three hundredths of a foot. I can split your millimeter with my US Survey Feet, therefore making my US Survey Feet more precise than your millimeter.

    • @paulanergraz
      @paulanergraz Місяць тому

      @@SkunkApe407 and then i go to micrometer. and if you split it up again i go the nano so what do you want to tell us?
      Espacialy as the length of a US Survey Feet is defined as 1200/3937 meters so it's based on meters. and the U.S. survey foot is phased out at least by NOAA and NIST and changed to international feet. but that's something you need to know when you talk about measurements and have a background in geomatics ;-) oceanservice.noaa.gov/geodesy/international-foot.html

  • @Sam_on_YouTube
    @Sam_on_YouTube Місяць тому +7

    And Iceland spans the continental plates of North America and Europe. That's why it is so volcanic. The plates are still drifting apart.

    • @sunset-life
      @sunset-life 29 днів тому

      You can literally walk from europe to america

    • @robneff7084
      @robneff7084 4 дні тому

      @@sunset-life Not literally. Iceland is not part of the continental shelf of either continent. There isn't one good well-accepted definition of a continent, as alluded to in the video. But Iceland is traditionally considered an island not belonging to either continent.

  • @roywhitworth
    @roywhitworth Місяць тому +19

    Pretty sure I was taught that the Amazon river was the longest river in the 1990s

    • @bigbirdmusic8199
      @bigbirdmusic8199 Місяць тому +1

      That would be the Nile. As a matter of fact, the Nile being the longest river in the world is generally the only thing people actually know about it, other than being a river in Africa.

    • @castorchua
      @castorchua Місяць тому +8

      @@bigbirdmusic8199 I remember being taught the Amazon was the longest river in the 90's too... I'm in Australia

    • @EagleOxford
      @EagleOxford Місяць тому +2

      Largest by volume I believe. Probably taught garbage in the 80's

    • @mbc1994
      @mbc1994 Місяць тому +2

      Sure you don't remember wrong, like another comment here, I think it was taught it was the "biggest" (like volume of water flow)

    • @maxwellabbushi1650
      @maxwellabbushi1650 Місяць тому +2

      Amazon = largest water flow for a river, Nile = longest

  • @daegudiva
    @daegudiva Місяць тому +2

    This was fantastic content!!! Well done.

  • @m.dwaynesteckley4832
    @m.dwaynesteckley4832 Місяць тому +9

    France also extends its border into North America, specifically off the coast of Canada's island of Newfoundland. This little French possession, the result of treaty ending the Seven Year War, is Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: an archipelago of eight islands off the southwestern coast of Newfoundland. It was established for fishing rights of the then abundant Grand Banks.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому

      I think the only continent France ISN'T in, is Asia.
      So I guess the French should argue for Eurasia being a continent, so they can claim they are on ALL continents.

    • @robneff7084
      @robneff7084 4 дні тому

      @@Tjalve70 Well, there's also Antarctica...

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 Місяць тому +11

    The Sauara is still growing. It claims a few more acres every year. Fun fact. 🙂👍🏻☮️

    • @FinrodFelagundTheFair
      @FinrodFelagundTheFair Місяць тому +1

      Not so fun fact maybe?

    • @toweypat
      @toweypat Місяць тому

      Yes, and many African countries are planting a line of trees to stop its advance. A battle for the ages!

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 Місяць тому

      I’ve heard the opposite. Increased CO2 levels are making the Sahel more liveable to plants. There’s far more undergrowth south of the Sahara than there used to be. Depends really on the definition of ‘desert’.

  • @tobyray8700
    @tobyray8700 Місяць тому +19

    *as joke…. Simon tells us that the earth is actually flat, with a straight face 😂

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 Місяць тому

      In his personal time Simon actually is a flat earther, anti vaxer and Q anon supporter. The dude is totally out of his gord... bonkers... off his rocker. He's not even from the UK, the accent is fake, he's actually from Gary Indiana.

    • @TommyChmelko
      @TommyChmelko Місяць тому +2

      I like all types of scientific aspects, geology, astrology, all different types, but not biology. That’s a joke. At least they transitioned it to be one.

  • @AIGeographyTeacher
    @AIGeographyTeacher Місяць тому +1

    Your content is so engaging! Thanks for providing such valuable and interesting geography lessons. 🌍❤

  • @Dangic23
    @Dangic23 Місяць тому +30

    I still remember when this guy had 300 UA-cam channels

    • @A0A4ful
      @A0A4ful Місяць тому +7

      By conservative estimates!

    • @antshrike8238
      @antshrike8238 Місяць тому +4

      Does he not anymore?

    • @5Stringslinger
      @5Stringslinger 26 днів тому +1

      ​@@antshrike8238Not after the things he did.

    • @antshrike8238
      @antshrike8238 26 днів тому +1

      @@5Stringslinger I must have missed something? What did he do? Something stupid, offensive, and foolish?

  • @ryanalex106
    @ryanalex106 3 дні тому

    As a pub quiz host, the coastline question is absolutely going in my next quiz. Subbed - good stuff

  • @montecorbit8280
    @montecorbit8280 Місяць тому +4

    At 9:10
    Output of the Amazon....
    I was told that several of the top 10 rivers in world by volume of output or tributaries to the Amazon....so there is a decent chance that some of those next seven are tributaries!

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr Місяць тому +1

      Two of them are, number 6 and 7, Rio Negro and Rio Madeira

  • @jackhuenger7274
    @jackhuenger7274 Місяць тому +1

    This was interesting and informative.
    When he started talking about Continental divisions I was hoping it was going to be about things like the North American Continental divide. It would be interesting to see what things are like that divide for other continents.

  • @Educated2Extinction
    @Educated2Extinction Місяць тому +4

    I was disappointed to find out that I wasn't wrong about these things.

  • @danortmembers3243
    @danortmembers3243 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you very much for addressing the issue of variance in measuring coastlines! This is such a pain in the ass to explain to non-geographically inclined individuals.

  • @tanjredshirt
    @tanjredshirt Місяць тому +73

    As an Alaskan, I utterly LOATHE Mercator projection maps. It's surprising how much it malforms the outline of our state.

    • @toweypat
      @toweypat Місяць тому +3

      I'm starting to dislike it, too.

    • @bobthecomputerguy
      @bobthecomputerguy Місяць тому

      It maintains the shapes of things zoomed in though. Like buildings and road intersections. idvux.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/mercator-vs-well-not-mercator-platte-carre/

    • @castorchua
      @castorchua Місяць тому

      We get fucked even harder. Australia is basically as large as the entire united states in reality

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 Місяць тому +2

      Now imagine being a Land Surveyor.😂

    • @teun911
      @teun911 Місяць тому +4

      Americans trying not to mention their state or NOT view things from their geographical perspective (literally impossible)

  • @appleid3151
    @appleid3151 Місяць тому +7

    Who thought that sand dunes were sand covered hills? Like really did anyone actually think this?

  • @eleanorsky1
    @eleanorsky1 Місяць тому +5

    Well... I can agree that the Sahara is not all sand dunes. But I have ridden camels there and talked with oasis farmers and collected some of the extremely fine sand there- some is red and some white. So that vision is not totally off. It's sort of like imagining America as the land of cowboys and bison

    • @boxsterman77
      @boxsterman77 Місяць тому +2

      But he gave an actual percentage of what part is covered with sand.

  • @edwinwhitaker5679
    @edwinwhitaker5679 Місяць тому +4

    The coastline of Norway wasn't carved by the sea. The reason why the coastline is so large is due to glaciers.

  • @RetNemmoc555
    @RetNemmoc555 Місяць тому +35

    I've never heard Mercator accented on the first syllable, even in the UK.

    • @RCassinello
      @RCassinello Місяць тому +6

      Whistler has picked up all sorts of weird pronunciations over the years. At least he's dropped that god-awful transatlantic accent he was putting on for a while that made him sound like a blend between Tony Blackburn and Loyd Grossman.

    • @ErwinPommel
      @ErwinPommel Місяць тому +7

      Fact boi doesn't know how to say a lot of words. It's a shame that's his only job.

  • @Knot_Sean
    @Knot_Sean Місяць тому +1

    Whats funny is too is that if you look at it from a map view, You can see long fingers where there would be bands of hilly sahara dunes and then vast swathes of flat terrain, Broken up again by a mile or two wide of sandy dunes.

  • @dbblues.9168
    @dbblues.9168 Місяць тому +3

    Simon has definitely cloned himself. The way he pronounced Mur-Kahtoor was a cloning glitch. Bro is hosting 22 channels simultaneously

  • @bob_._.
    @bob_._. Місяць тому +3

    France also has land in North America: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon islands, just off the Newfoundland coast, are a self-governing region of France. And Russia used to extend also onto North America until the sale of Alaska to the USA.

    • @hosermcmoose
      @hosermcmoose Місяць тому

      France also has numerous islands in the Caribbean, which is usually lumped in with North America. This is in addition to the territories in South America (French Guiana), off the coast of African (like Reunion) mentioned in this video. France also has several pacific islands.
      Put quite simply, France has little bits strewn all over the planet, all legacies of the colonial days.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому +1

      @@hosermcmoose France is the country hat stretches across the most time zones. I believe it is 13 time zones. While Russia has "only" 11.

  • @Crioten
    @Crioten Місяць тому +4

    Starfishes love learning

  • @guycore5478
    @guycore5478 Місяць тому

    The most significant aspect of geography is that Simon is the ultimate expression of a sand dune and can be everywhere all at once.

  • @DarrylWPerry1789
    @DarrylWPerry1789 Місяць тому +3

    Can't believe you didn't mention Iceland sitting on the North American & Eurasian plates!

  • @dsclayton4016
    @dsclayton4016 Місяць тому +2

    Any day we can bring fractals into the discussion is a good day.

  • @markduffy5773
    @markduffy5773 Місяць тому +10

    How long is Britain's coastline?
    How long is the ruler?

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel Місяць тому

      He is 1.78m, apparently.

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому

      King Charles is 1.78 m

    • @UntakenNick
      @UntakenNick Місяць тому

      As the delta x (your ruler) approaches zero, the measured length tends to the actual length, not to infinity.

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому

      @@UntakenNick It will never reach the actual length in physical reality, thus without an end it is infinite.

    • @UntakenNick
      @UntakenNick Місяць тому +1

      @@mormacil As the number of rulers increases, their length decreases. You're adding an increasingly larger number of segments of an increasingly shorter length, the convergence of the resulting measure is the actual length of the curve.
      I want to believe you're trolling, it's the base of differential calculus.

  • @forestarcher47
    @forestarcher47 Місяць тому

    I like this channel he actually just gives information instead of long ass stories that he does on his other channels

  • @glfitz001
    @glfitz001 Місяць тому +6

    This guy reminds me of Issac Asimov. When I was young I was astounded at his breadth of knowledge. When I was finally working I read something he wrote in my field, geography, and I was astounded at how shallow it was.

    • @robneff7084
      @robneff7084 4 дні тому

      To be fair, Asimov wasn't known as a geologist or geographer. I just looked him up Wikipedia and it lists a half dozen science fields he wrote articles in, and geography was not one of them.

  • @davidtymon8258
    @davidtymon8258 Місяць тому +1

    I was at school in the 80s and some people did think that the Nile was still the longest river, but most agreed it was the Amazon. Dunno where you got 'early 2000s' from, unless i misheard.

    • @paulsengupta971
      @paulsengupta971 27 днів тому

      Yep, it was the Amazon when I was in school in the early '80s.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary Місяць тому +3

    And we all know James May is the discoverer of the true source of the Nike

  • @ulrikesextro4187
    @ulrikesextro4187 Місяць тому +1

    If you want to read something really confusing please feel free to check out how complicated the border situation is for the small town consisting of the Dutch Baarle-Nassau and the Belgian Baarle-Hertog.
    Some houses are divided by a border into a Belgian and a Dutch territory.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому

      I have heard a guy legally moved his house from Belgium to Netherlands (or vice versa), simply by making a door on a different wall, and blocking up his old door.

    • @robneff7084
      @robneff7084 4 дні тому

      There's a town in northern Maine/Canada that is also like that. As I recall they had an issue with their library, which straddles the border. It was fine until rules were tightened following 9/11.

  • @Craig-wp3pz
    @Craig-wp3pz Місяць тому +8

    Course, fjords become fashionable, and I get an award for Norway..... 🏆
    I just like a good fjord, gives a continent a nice baroque feel....
    .......
    -By Slartibartfast
    Possibly 👀 📖 📕

  • @henryseg
    @henryseg 22 дні тому

    The full size of Antarctica on the full Mercator projection is infinite. It goes down forever. The south pole is not on any finite piece of the Mercator projection.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому

      I believe maps made by the Mercator projection usually ends at 80 degrees north and south, for this reason. There is literally no point in going further than that.

  • @veruspatri
    @veruspatri Місяць тому +9

    Interesting fact about Nova Scotia:
    a province in the Maritimes, of eastern Canada, has an approximate coastline of around 13,000 km (8,000+ miles) long. While the entire US east coast is only 3330 km (2069 miles) long.

  • @michaelpyatt831
    @michaelpyatt831 Місяць тому +1

    At 11.08 , France also has territorial land right in Canada with st Pierre and Miquelon which are considered part of France

  • @bioLarzen
    @bioLarzen Місяць тому +3

    You made the explanation for why Norway has the second largest coastline unnecessarily complicated IMHO - the truth is much more simple: Norway's coastline is so huge becuase it has by far the highest number if islands in the world, at a staggering 320,000. Just for comparison: Sweden, the country with the second most islands, has a "mere" 267,000 (both rounded figures). There's your reason, coastline paradox or not.
    (Third on the list is Finland, proving how tremedously jagged the coastline of Scandinavia is. Fun fact: Indonesia, the country maybe most of us would guess as the country with the most islands, is only #8 on the list, with a puny 17,500 islands... Yep, Norway has almost 20 times as many islands as Indonesia has.)

    • @christopherx7428
      @christopherx7428 Місяць тому +1

      I see that this is claimed on the wikipedia site while also saying that an older figure was some 55.000. This is quite a difference and Norway does not have the shallow waters of both Finland and Sweden. I wonder how they measured this higher number? A Google search för 320.249 Øyer gives no results.

    • @bioLarzen
      @bioLarzen Місяць тому +1

      @@christopherx7428 Good question. For Finland I can imagine that the islands in all those lakes were also included - Finland has an awful lot of lakes too - for they are islands too, after all... But Norway doesn't have nearly as many of those, and would most certainly not account for this huge discrepancy.

    • @christopherx7428
      @christopherx7428 Місяць тому

      @@bioLarzen The same probably goes for Sweden as well, plenty of lakes and many islands in them Like you say, not that many in Norway. The long coastline seems obvious, but I must say I doubt the number of islands.

    • @bioLarzen
      @bioLarzen Місяць тому +1

      @@christopherx7428 Let's count them :D :D :D
      Jokes aside, yeah, that's a figure I kept coming across, and not just on Wiki. I've been making goegraphy quizzes for quite some time, I've been using a lot of sources - but, sure, I don't know where all these sources get their numbers from, I just learned which ones to trust and which ones not. 320 thousand does sound hard to believe indeed... but I kept coming accross similar figures, that's why I believe it. Maybe wrongly.

  • @jbrown7403
    @jbrown7403 Місяць тому +2

    Steve Martin totally caught me by surprise! 😉

  • @Moohasha1
    @Moohasha1 Місяць тому +6

    Ok, look....I know the Brits and Americans get into it all the time over different pronunciations, but I can never forgive you for how you pronounced Mercator.

    • @shamelessstacib7351
      @shamelessstacib7351 Місяць тому +3

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @DanDeebster
      @DanDeebster Місяць тому +2

      As a Brit, he says all kinds of words weird, and mer-KAY-tur is how everyone else says it. For someone whose job is saying words, he often comes out with bizarre versions of them! It's normally a sign of being well read, but you'd think someone would let him know that that's not what the script says.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition Місяць тому +1

      ​@DanDeebster They do...in fact, this commentor just did...and by making the comment, he has helped the almighty algorithm promote this video.
      While I don't dive into the conspiracy that Simon intentionally mispronounced in order to drive engagement, I do believe that he doesn't care that he mispronounced words, since doing so helps him and fixing it is a huge hassle.

    • @DanDeebster
      @DanDeebster Місяць тому

      @@QBCPerdition I was thinking of people who are there at the time of filming - it's not much use us complaining about it after the fact.
      Another option is that he's filming outside the UK, and people don't want to correct him as they assume his pronunciation is standard for Britain.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition Місяць тому

      @@DanDeebster he films alone and lives in Prague with his family.

  • @RCassinello
    @RCassinello Місяць тому +1

    The Amazon / Nile rivalry isn't a new thing. We were taught at school 40 years ago that which was the longest was debatable.

  • @Jay-er1oh
    @Jay-er1oh Місяць тому +12

    Fun fact, you left out 4 of Canadas Provinces in the graphic. Pretty easy thing to figure out but on par with the content

  • @glstka5710
    @glstka5710 Місяць тому +2

    7:19 They are trying to tell me that the Amazon is longer but I just don't want to believe it. I'm in denial.

  • @jamiemcbride7990
    @jamiemcbride7990 Місяць тому +6

    E is not actually the capital of England

    • @kellyphx
      @kellyphx Місяць тому +3

      That's right. It's the Pound Sterling.

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 Місяць тому +1

    Great! I love learning new geography! Yay!🙂👍🏻😁✌🏻

  • @ericbananas6419
    @ericbananas6419 Місяць тому +22

    Who tf thinks sand dunes are just hills covered in sand?

    • @EagleOxford
      @EagleOxford Місяць тому +1

      Oh somebody does I'm sure, they move though so yeah, that is foolish.

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing Місяць тому +2

      Of course they're not. Otherwise how would the sandworms get through them?

    • @CamMcCulls-kx6zk
      @CamMcCulls-kx6zk 19 днів тому

      Define hills. If there are mountains under the sea and there is an archipelago under Antarctica, would the base rock under the sand count as hills if it was undulating? The point was really that hills do not cause the sand dunes, not that there aren't hills under the sand dunes.

  • @YassineMilod
    @YassineMilod Місяць тому +1

    The mountains of The Aheggar in the middle of the Sahara desert recibe a good fall of snow.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe Місяць тому +26

    Europe and Asia are on the same tectonic plate, so are one continent. North and South America are on separate tectonic plates. They are separated by the Caribbean Plate, which hosts much of Central America. One might argue that Central America is the smallest continent. Fun fact: Far eastern Russia, and a goodly part of Japan, are on the North American plate.

    • @sirnirvikingur
      @sirnirvikingur Місяць тому +3

      And half of Iceland sits also on the N American plate.

    • @Pirate_Knight27
      @Pirate_Knight27 Місяць тому +18

      Only if you define continents by tectonic plates, which is problematic. There are a couple tectonic plates that are just ocean and definitely don't count as continents. Also, Africa would be split between the African plate and the Somali plate, but no one would consider those 2 separate continents.

    • @thabzmad7265
      @thabzmad7265 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Pirate_Knight27Gotta draw the line somewhere 😅😅😅

    • @shenhue7041
      @shenhue7041 Місяць тому +2

      Why is europe its own continent anyway?

    • @Pirate_Knight27
      @Pirate_Knight27 Місяць тому +1

      @@shenhue7041 It makes more sense then making all 20 tectonic plates a separate continent.

  • @_PITBOY
    @_PITBOY Місяць тому +1

    Nobody makes fun of flat earthers quite like our boy Simon.

  • @LordSluggo
    @LordSluggo Місяць тому +24

    About map projections: I feel like I must be the only person in the past 100 years to have ever owned an actual globe

    • @HeidiBuss-pd8cw
      @HeidiBuss-pd8cw Місяць тому +1

      I had one. When I was a college Freshman I learned about the different types of maps in a Geography 101 class.

    • @brendant19
      @brendant19 Місяць тому +6

      Or use google earth apparently.
      Also, one thing that's always left out in the discussion of projections is their function. Simon didn't go hard at Mercator for being colonialist or anything, but others have and that's straight BS. It's a map used for navigation. If you use it for that purpose, it will get you where you're going and give you a fairly accurate representation of the shape of the place you're in. It's actually a very impressive map, but it's not intended, as most maps haven't been until recently, to merely be an accurate picture of the world.

    • @shaneeslick
      @shaneeslick Місяць тому +1

      no you're not the only one, so at least 2 people have never owned a Globe

    • @andydavis8437
      @andydavis8437 Місяць тому

      @@shaneeslick Yes, and at school we had globes. I still use digital globes a lot.

    • @TheCatLady65
      @TheCatLady65 Місяць тому

      Used for navigation by *white* people, for colonial purposes.

  • @agneteht
    @agneteht Місяць тому +1

    Since we are talking about geography of Chile it is actually quite interesting (even to us chileans) to think that we are tricontinrntal and trioceanic since the chile includes easter Idland and parts of Antarctica, and borders on the atlantic in the eastern magallanic region, the sea of antarctica, and the pacific.

  • @derrickthewhite1
    @derrickthewhite1 Місяць тому +18

    The most annoying thing about deserts is that english doesn't really have the vocabulary to talk about them. There was an interesting moment when I realized that I lived in a desert, I just hadn't realized it because common depictions of what a desert is are so bad.

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Місяць тому +4

      It kinda means "deserted". Wild thing is that "jungle" borrowed into English from Hindustani dialects. In those dialects "jungle" meant "few inhabitants".
      Also, that last point about continents. Herodotus was skeptical that there were three continents. He thought there was a Eurasiaafrica. Aristotle thought there had to be a balance in the continents and that there had to be something like the Americas and a giant Australia-Antarctica hybrid. Weider is that going as far back as the Odyssey, there was speculation about great lands far past the known world. The shade of Agamemnon prophecies that Odysseus will grow restless and take his family to lands past the Pillars,

    • @toweypat
      @toweypat Місяць тому +9

      To show how true that is, the largest desert in the world is Antarctica.

    • @_theBigGOAT
      @_theBigGOAT Місяць тому +1

      Well that’s more so from not knowing the definition or seeing examples.

    • @shaneeslick
      @shaneeslick Місяць тому

      Deserts are designated by a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation

    • @jamesbazen5606
      @jamesbazen5606 Місяць тому +2

      That’s weird actually cause between the US and Australia the English language covers a lot of desert.

  • @debbiemoore2747
    @debbiemoore2747 25 днів тому

    I remember being disappointed when I found out when I visited. The driver was like this is the Sahara, it was rocky. The sand dunes bit is beautiful when you do see it.

  • @ArchangelXCI
    @ArchangelXCI Місяць тому +6

    I’m surprised the continent debate didn’t include the mostly sunken continent of Zealandia, stretching from modern day Aotearoa New Zealand up through New Caledonia

  • @tdyerwestfield
    @tdyerwestfield Місяць тому +1

    I was right about all of these, but then I'm a fluvial geomorphologist.

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker Місяць тому +1

      You can transform into liquid rock? 🤔 Are you like the T-1000?

    • @tdyerwestfield
      @tdyerwestfield Місяць тому

      @@Mentocthemindtaker Close. That'd be a fluvial metamorphologist you're thinking of.

  • @TomFarrell-p9z
    @TomFarrell-p9z Місяць тому +7

    The advantage of the Mercator projection is that a rumb line is a straight line. No one knowledgeable ever claimed you could compare land areas using it. The only way to do that is to use a globe.

    • @bobthecomputerguy
      @bobthecomputerguy Місяць тому +1

      Also if you zoom in on a square building, whether it's far north in Alaska or on the equator, it will remain square. The plate carree projection will have it turn into a rectangle. Which is why Google Maps originally used Mercator.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 Місяць тому +1

      As a Land Surveyor, I just want to tell you that a globe is not the only way to accurately perform landmass comparisons. We have this little thing called computer modeling now. I can measure any two landmasses, render them in 3D within a virtual environment, and literally transpose one landmass onto another.
      As an added aside, using both computer modeling and Real Time Kinematics(GPS) actually allows land surveyors to map and see the curvature of the Earth. The curvature is roughly 9 feet of curve per linear mile. I've actually "cured" a few flatearthers by showing them the curvature of our planet in real time. The look of shock and realization that overcomes them is hilarious, every time.

    • @glfitz001
      @glfitz001 Місяць тому

      There are such things as equal area projections.

    • @TomFarrell-p9z
      @TomFarrell-p9z Місяць тому +1

      @@glfitz001 Equal Area Projections distort other features which are often more important to the map user, whether or not they were previously aware of it. Back when equal area became a fad, National Geographic developed a great projection that made their wall map useless for distinguishing countries in Europe. Not sure what you would want to use a political equal area projection map for, but it's not what the folks who used the previous wall map needed.

  • @ArtisaneSC2
    @ArtisaneSC2 Місяць тому +1

    Sahara is pretty wet at the moment. Extremely rare rain events

  • @Harris83
    @Harris83 Місяць тому +9

    Shouldn't this be on "Places"? 0.o?

    • @Manny-id3cz
      @Manny-id3cz Місяць тому +3

      He has so many channels he’s starting to get confused

    • @glandersonbooper9342
      @glandersonbooper9342 Місяць тому +6

      Does it even matter at this point? 😂

  • @valdimareiriksson101
    @valdimareiriksson101 Місяць тому +1

    Iceland is also on the European and north American tectonic plates... and you can walk across via bridge

  • @TastyScotch
    @TastyScotch Місяць тому +4

    The globe stuff is nuts. The fact that Mecca is somehow northeast of NYC boggles my mind 😅

    • @quokkaw
      @quokkaw Місяць тому +2

      But it's not. Mecca is at 21°25′21″N 39°49′24″E, while NYC is at 40.7127°N 74.0059°W.
      So Mecca is south of NYC, and by a good margin.

    • @TastyScotch
      @TastyScotch Місяць тому +1

      @@quokkaw but to pray to mecca from NYC, you face northeast 😱🤷‍♂️

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr Місяць тому

      Yes, its because the Earth is a sphere. Same reason why the most direct route from Chicago to Thailand is to go almost straight north from Chicago

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому +1

      @@TastyScotch That doesn't mean Mecca is NE of NYC. It just means shortest the way TO Mecca from NYC is NE.

  • @HeidiBuss-pd8cw
    @HeidiBuss-pd8cw Місяць тому

    Fascinating. I love learning new things

  • @MikkellTheImmortal
    @MikkellTheImmortal Місяць тому +7

    James May already proved that the Nile River starts long before lake Victoria and doesn't meet the tidal ocean until Portugal, making it the longest river with the largest pools on earth

    • @sudazima
      @sudazima Місяць тому +1

      for most of the year the amazon is certainly longer, only part time could the nile be longer since many stream fill up during rain season.

    • @hurricanefury439
      @hurricanefury439 Місяць тому +2

      and Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond were there too.

    • @MikkellTheImmortal
      @MikkellTheImmortal Місяць тому +2

      @@hurricanefury439 true true, it's a team effort afterall.

    • @MikkellTheImmortal
      @MikkellTheImmortal Місяць тому +2

      @@sudazima you need to get out more. I'm making a reference to the BBC series Top Gear and one of their Special episodes.
      Since you are unable to recognize a joke when it's presented to you even in a simple manner I will explain it to you.
      The "source" is a spring in the mountains south of Lake Victoria. The two "Really big pools" are Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean Sea.
      It's not serious and not meant to be taken as such. You don't need to attempt to be correct about everything. It makes you sound like an unpleasant person to be around. It's also okay to be kinda close.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 Місяць тому

      @@MikkellTheImmortal According to their lingo, a total Muppet.

  • @mikekilborn5283
    @mikekilborn5283 16 днів тому

    I wish this list had included Everest - only the tallest mountain when measured from sea level, but not the tallest when measured from the center of the earth.

  • @donnabarnes7879
    @donnabarnes7879 Місяць тому +3

    You left Newfoundland off when you circled Canada. Living in Newfoundland, this drives me crazy. It happens all the time.

  • @traildude7538
    @traildude7538 17 днів тому

    I remember in geography 101 in university that one common way to measure shorelines was to use the mean average tide line.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому

      That may be true. But the issue raised here is the length of the ruler.

  • @steverempel8584
    @steverempel8584 Місяць тому +10

    A coastline isn't infinitely long. It has a true length, that you will never be able to reach by measuring.
    The smaller the measuring stick, the bigger the value, it will keep up going infinitely up to this true length, which requires an infinitely small measuring stick to measure.
    It's one of those cases of infinite growth, where there's a limit that you are growing towards, but will never reach.

    • @zurielsss
      @zurielsss Місяць тому

      And there is the tide and water levels to mess up your coastline too. But yes it's not indefinitely long

    • @shaneeslick
      @shaneeslick Місяць тому +1

      Rather than "Straigh Edge Measuring Device" using a "trundle wheel" would be a more consitently acurate way
      Not "indefinitely long", but "ever changing" would be a good descriptor as to why getting an acurate measurement even at the tiniest level is basically impossible

    • @bigpicturethinking5620
      @bigpicturethinking5620 Місяць тому

      The “plank coast”

    • @EagleOxford
      @EagleOxford Місяць тому

      I get your point, but what we could do is proclaim a measurement Higher than any particular coastline could possibly be.
      An estimated mile long coastline is Never going to be measured and accepted as being a million miles long. Certainly it could be said that there is a "cap" on this type of measuring, at which point it becomes useless and even absurd.
      For any practical use anyway.

  • @samanjj
    @samanjj Місяць тому +5

    Based on the last segment, If I understand it right Kazakhstan is transcontinental, Turkey is transcontinental, but Iran which is more west than Kazakhstan isn’t. Eurasia makes more sense since Europe is more of a political area.

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому +1

      Of all the divides, the Eurasian border is indeed the most arbitrary.

    • @Pushing_Pixels
      @Pushing_Pixels Місяць тому

      @@mormacil Is it the Ural River, mountains, or both?

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому

      @@Pushing_Pixels It's arbitrary

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 Місяць тому

      They're all arbitrary and politically-motivated, I mean part of Turkey is African, but yeah, the Eurasian border is the longest arbitrary border.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 17 днів тому

      @@mormacil If you think the Eurasian border is the most arbitrary, can you then explain to me where the border between North and South Americas is?
      And where the border between Asia and Oceania is?
      The border between Europe and Asia is as follows:
      It follows the watershed of the Ural mountains. Then it follows the Ural river. Then it follows the watershed of the Caucasus. And finally it follows the Bosporus and Dardanelles.
      That isn't very arbitrary.

  • @howitzer13b
    @howitzer13b Місяць тому +5

    what about the newly discovered 8th continent Zealandia?

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому +2

      Continental plate =/= a continent. By that definition Somalia is a continent and so is Central America, Japan would be American. What is a continent is ultimately very arbitrary.

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому

      @@christophersayrs907 Half with the majority of population, it's not a little bit. It's arguably the majority of the country.

    • @christophersayrs907
      @christophersayrs907 Місяць тому

      @@mormacil Just looked it up...Japan isn't on the North American plate at all. A newly identified plate, the Okhotsk plate, is the plate upon which the northern part of Japan is found. So...there.

    • @mormacil
      @mormacil Місяць тому +1

      ​@@christophersayrs907 That's a proposed microplate, not part of scientific consensus yet. It's also not new, the idea has been around for half a century. Till today we still lack the data to confirm it truly exists. Hence it's merely a proposed microplate.

    • @christophersayrs907
      @christophersayrs907 Місяць тому

      @@mormacil According to Wikioedia, yes! Actual papers treat it as a matter of fact.

  • @conradbo1
    @conradbo1 Місяць тому

    I have learned a lot from this video

  • @donbrashsux
    @donbrashsux Місяць тому

    One of the most amazing places I’ve travelled across ..

  • @gosnooky
    @gosnooky Місяць тому +1

    Coastlines being fractal in nature does not imply they are infinite because there is the lower limit to length as it can meaningfully be measured - the Planck Length.

  • @JoeMama410
    @JoeMama410 Місяць тому

    I want to see statistics on the Mercator projection. I’m sure it used to be the most popular, but I don’t know if I’ve seen it anywhere except Google Maps for years.

  • @ropace37
    @ropace37 Місяць тому

    Nice specs! I thought they were legit hearts initially! 😂

  • @jerryodell1168
    @jerryodell1168 Місяць тому +2

    " Good Video ": Ref. Sahara There is sand as stated in this video. But as stated not that much. The USS Canberra CAG-2 went to North Africa in either 1962 or 1963. I was a sailor on her. Liberty took me on a tour that shocked me. I was so patterned to think of miles of sand and few people trudging to get somewhere. This might be true in some areas, however, as a whole the lands within a few miles of the coast, the mountains, and in certain other places are very much like Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, and Southern California with huge numbers of people, houses, stores, businesses, manufacturing buildings, huge areas for camels, farms, roads, and more. Grant it, thing are different, but definitely not the image as seen in most movies. People live and work there.

  • @ngcf4238
    @ngcf4238 Місяць тому +1

    I just finished reading 125 pages for a geography assignment and I see this video on the top leftmost slot of my home page, it must be fate!

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 Місяць тому

    My favorite depiction of the Sahara was from the 1955 documentary "Sahara Hare" starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.

  • @user-en7qh9jv4b
    @user-en7qh9jv4b Місяць тому

    You should do one about Colorado Geography.