@@marysmith9562 I knew a girl from Guyana (not French Guiana) and she pronounced her country’s name as if Ana was a guy. So I guess Guyana and Guiana have completely different pronunciations.
@@daerdevvyl4314 that's the case. Even in French it's different, in spite of many French speakers not being aware of this. But in Spanish and Portuguese it's the same word and pronunciation.
I think the implication is Brazil's northern most Continental point is closer to Africa than to the southern end, but technically the island is closer. Thanks Rodolfo.
I feel like a lot was missing in this video, like how Chile exists both along the coast and within the mountains, or how despite the Panama Canal is a popular sea route it's extremely difficult to get from North to South by land for example
The thing about Chile is basically because the middle latitude and the cold Humboldt current allowed a temperate climate to exist in a long strip of 2000 km, similar to the one that exists from California to Seattle. This meant that there was a relatively large population in that space (1 million inhabitants for the year 1500). As the Spaniards went wherever there were people and gold, they soon went to Chile. They founded their Hispanic kingdom, which administered central Chile and western Argentina. But since the mountain range was too difficult a barrier and as the indigenous people in Chile were rebelling, the west of present-day Argentina came to be administered by Buenos Aires. When Chile became a Republic, it sought to expand to the south (fertile lands and the Strait of Magellan) and to the north (minerals). If you are looking for the geological explanation, it is simply the collision of two plates that raised a huge mountain range and a strip of land was left on its side.
I'd love a geological perspective but if I'm not mistaken Panama is geographically North American, which of course takes a human perspective more so than objective physical reasoning.
/2xryeau, Chile is a very narrow country on the Pacific side, so the coast is never far away. However, in the south (Patagonia in both there and Chile), it's very mountainous. Beside, we have that here in the US also. It's possible on a winter day in CA to swim in the ocean in the morning, then drive up into the mountains to ski in the aft. and evening. Now, on to Panama. Between the Panama Canal and S. America (the line being the Panama/Colombia border), there's something called the Darien Gap in southern Panama, which is a segment of impenetrable jungle.
i expected it to be a video about the Amazon and Andes and how they affect the continent and livelyhood, but instead it is a video saying that it's slightly more to the east than some Americans might've thought and for some reason this has to be weird
Exactly my thoughts. Just talking about 1 country; Chile has both the driest hot dessert in the world in the north and territory on the Antarctica in the south, as well as the eastern island, this country has all the types of climates except from jungle, since it’s far longer than europe from north to south.
I am from Lima, Peru which is almost a perfect antipode to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so when i was in Phnom Penh, i placed a slice of bread on the ground, then asked a friend in Lima to do the same to create an Earth sandwich.
@@lzh4950 Singapore speaks English, Hong Kong and Macao speak English, Phillipines speaks a languages similar to spanish, Macao and East Timor and Goa still have portuguese speakers, many chinese speak mandarin regardless of their own vernacular language, and China sends Uyghurs to reeducation camps where schools cannot teach their own language, so I don't think Asian countries have a lot of standing on this point.
@@modalmixture On the other hand you won't really hear Japanese spoken in Taiwan or the Koreas, Dutch in Indonesia or French in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos. While English & Portuguese are official languages in HK & Macau respectively, there aren't that many speakers of those languages there I understand (though less so in the former, though Cantonese is still more common). Also didn't think Tagalog sounded similar to Spanish.
@@lzh4950 in south America, it's because they forced the natives to spoke Portuguese / Spanish and hurt /killed who refuses and continued to speak the native language. And at least in Brazil, the various native languages didn't have a written language, so with the domain of the Portuguese language, almost all of the native languages are gone, forever...
Living in New York and having a friend in Buenos Aires, I was very surprised to find that his timezone is an hour ahead of mine until I actually looked at a map.
Here in Peru the time zone is the same as in New York, although what surprised me is that some cities in North America change their time depending on whether it is summer or winter. Does that happen in New York?
@@ecb706 in Brazil we have "horário de verão" meaning "summer time", we change our clocks 1 hour because the sun is out for too long when it's summer lol. Also helps decrease energy consumption because we will wake up 1 hour later and go to sleep 1 hour later
Another geographical quirk is that we often think of Australia and New Zealand being rather close, but the closest points between the two countries is longer than between London and Warsaw. And from Aukland to Perth is around the same distance as from London to Afghanistan.
As brazilian I realized how much in east we are when our football teams were playing in Mexico. I was watching the game at 11 pm here and the match was in daylight, and I was like wtf?!
@@ericktellez7632 it's a very famous brazilian food. It is a stuffed dough with chicken and may have cheese inside. Coxinha is much better than taco. Taco is mexican, its not common in Brazil.
@@rebecacunha5343 I live in Brazil, but I'm sorry, there is no way Coxinha is better than taco. Coxinhas are bland crap. Coxinhas and the other salgados in the Lonchenetes are the absolute worst example of Brazilian food. Low quality and bland as fuck. (I am not insulting all Brazilian food. In general there is a lot of good food here but there is not way Coxinhas beat tacos.) Perhaps you have only had shitty ass tacos from taco bell or somewhere like that but, having lived in Mexico, I can say tacos win by far.
Here are some other cool facts about Brazil's geography (coming from a Brazilian) - Brazil's easternmost point is actually closer to africa than to Brazil's westernmost point, mindblowing. - We are the 5th largest country in the world and our area is 8.5 million square kilometers, even bigger than Australia. - We are divided between 26 states + a federal district, where our capital, Brasília, (yes, rio de janeiro isn't our capital, stop saying this ffs) is located. - We are also divided between 5 regions, North, Northeast, Southeast, Center-West, and South. - Our biggest city is São Paulo, maybe you've heard of it. With 12.3 million people, it's pretty similar to New York, it has some very important buildings and avenues. - São Paulo, like New York, is both a state and a city also.
@@Jotonio A cidade de são paulo em si, sem contar a região metropolitana ou estado, tem 12 milhões de habitantes, apenas as pessoas que vivem no território da cidade
@@corvetaumbr2410mas a grande são Paulo, as cidades satélites que ficam coladas, por exemplo guarulhos, se juntarmos todas somam 21 milhões de habitantes, ou seja mais gente do que o Chile!
@@johnrobert1994 Sim exatamente, a Grande São Paulo é gigante, porém apenas a cidade em si, sem contar a região do ABC, Guarulhos, Oscasco, etc. tem apenas 12 milhões de habitantes, o que ainda assim é muito
I live in Roraima wich is the state where the Nothernmost point of Brasil is, and it's Surprisingly pretty far from everything else in the entire country.
Totally, he didn't say anything impressive. He only talked about how Southamerica is more to the east than he thought it would be. Or how the US is more to the west, depends on how you see it.
The image at 3:03 is of Barcelona, Spain, not South America. Apparently the company that sells stock videos to UA-camrs has this clip labeled as "Brazil", because the channel Economics Explained made the same mistake. And neither one realized the big error.
Also, you could have mentioned that despite being named South America, it spans both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Brazil is also the only country to have both the Equator line and Tropic of Capricorn running through it.
The name South America has nothing to do with what hemisphere it’s in. South Carolina, South Dakota and South Korea are all in the northern hemisphere. These names mean that they’re the southern part of Carolina, Dakota and Korea respectively. Similarly, although “America” is now often used to mean the United States of America, it actually means North America and South America combined. So South America is the southern portion of that, regardless of what hemisphere it’s in.
@@daerdevvyl4314 - referring to USA in spoken English as “America” has existed since the time of the thirteen colonies. If you’d like to refer to both continents of North America and South America collectively in English you must use the plural, “The Americas”. This is how native speakers make the distinction.
One thing you should have mentioned: There's a province in Argentina called Formosa which is coincidentally the antipode to northern part of Taiwan, which was also known as "Formosa".
The nail in the coffin is that at that exact moment he's saying - I quote - “The biggest reason for why this may come as a surprise to you is because most of us in the northern hemisphere have a weird misunderstanding of where exactly south America is located geographically.”
One interesting fact is that areas that have an oceanic climate in the northern hemisphere are between about 50° north to 60° north. In the Southern Hemisphere, oceanic climates are found about 40° south. Same thing with Mediterranean climates being closer to the equator in areas such as Southern Australia and Central Chile, rather than further away as in Italy and California.
@@amywalker7515 the sun actually shines the most in the equator. With so much heat and energy, a lot of clouds form right on the equator with a lot of overcast in the tropics. Hurricanes are even born around 8 to 20 degrees N and S of the equator.
Meh. To sum it up: republics, dictatorships, more republics, then more dictatorships, civil wars, widespread corruption, civil unrest, even more dictatorships, more civil unrest, more republics, then more widespread corruption. Basically all of Latin America, if I'm not mistaken
I lived in Ecuador for a few years and i remember being surprised to find that even though it's on the Pacific Ocean, it's in the same time zone as Miami.
just went and measured, not counting the Chilean antarctic claim Brazil is longer than Chile, by like a hundred km give or take (4282.9km), including the antarctic (which is kind of ridiculous bc it's not supported by most nations) it jumps to 7526, but by that logic norway would be the longest country as it has a claim in antarctica and is partially within the arctic circle
Woah! Not only did I never notice that South America is not directly south of North America, but I also never noticed how much closer to Africa it is than I realized. Love these videos! 🙌🏽
Yeah, but closer to Africa than to US ? Mr Topo happily chooses the eastern most point for measuring that distance, but takes the most norther point for the other one, whereas US is to the Northwest, so why not choose the closest point to the States to measure it that distance ? Only 15 k difference now so Z so South America being closer to Africa may not be all true
@@dresdi Poisé ksksk acho que a ideia é referenciar a america do sul toda e nao so o brazil. vai ver ele viu esse footage com uma estatua de braços abertos e: hmm, brazilllllllll
Do a video on the weirdness of Canada's geography, it's wacked. For example: St. John's Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than Winnipeg, Winnipeg is only halfway across Canada....Vancouver is on the west coast, but it is pretty far east of the westernmost part of the country...there are a lot more things than that...
In the late 80's my wife coworker told her that in the 50's a relative living in Ireland mailed him a latter asking him to go meet his cousin arriving to Canada East coast from Ireland by boat, my wife's coworker sent a letter back saying: "why don't you go meet him yourself, you are closer to him than me", my wife's coworker was living in Alberta at the time !! 😄
I always forget that guyana, guyana francesa and surinam are countries in southamerica. It's like the kid who doesn't talk in class and no one knows his voice, they are forgotten
Yooooooooo actually reconize us .Its tri mist ppl just walk pass us idk why everyone so hype to talk about brazil Venezuela and such but. Guyana suriname and frend Guyana are outcasts it like a oddity in the world
Those 3 countries have a culture that is more closely related to the Caribbean than the rest of South american, so they became basically outcasts here, thats why they are somewhat forgotten
What's crazier is that Brasil has almost all of the "habitable" land of the continent, a great part of the other countries are the deserts, mountains and the antartic areas
What? More than half of Brazil is uninhabitable, but due to deforestation, urbanization in jungle areas and the reduced protection of the environment by the government, this has been changing, unlike its neighbors, who take care of their natural areas and don´t turn them into cities like Brazil has done, also, countries like Uruguay, have most of their territory habitable because their territory are mostly coasts at sea level
Fun fact: The world's 6 largest countries (Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia) occupy 40.3% of Earth's total landmass. If we also include Antarctica (9.2%), that's 49.5% of Earth's total landmass, almost half of the world.
@@LRM12o8 Plus one big landmass (East Antarctica), but all these landmasses are under permanent ice. On the surface, Antarctica can be considered a solid continuous landmass.
@@iamisaid2295 Yes! Large portions of Brazil are above the equator and also below the Tropic of Capricorn. I live in a very cold region of Brazil under the Capricorn tropic, however a friend of mine lives in a very hot place in Roraima which is above the equator. It is interesting to know that we are in the same time zone and speak exactly the same language but we are separated by 4000 km, 4 unique biomes, 5 climates, the Amazon river, pantanal swamplands, including he is also living in another season of the year (here is in srping and there is in fall) . when we look at the sky we don't even see the same stars!
@@joaofabio5927 that is so cool. although really, there's no such thing as "fall" at the equator, not in the sense of changing leaf colours. even at the tropic of capricorn there's no true winter, except the water is a tiny bit chillier. they basically can grow mangos and avos all year long.... endless summer.
@@iamisaid2295 Yes, there is a true winter south of the Capricorn Tropic. Have you been over there? Just type "fall in Argentina" and you are going to see, ther is no endless summer in this region of the souther cone of South America.
I’m a Nova Scotian and it’s weird to think that my province is closer to Brazil than the south point of Brazil, well at least the South Shore of Nova Scotia
@get to the Choppaa Haha, some people from Brazil says they are curious to know how snow looks like, i sometimes say to them "people that live in snow countries don't seem to like it that much", i hope i'm not misleading them... :p
@get to the Choppaa Ty for the info! Indeed, looking at videos i think "well, maybe seeing snow once would be cool, but have to clean the pathway from the door with a shovel looks like a extra-burden, and snow is not a novelty anymore". Cool, feel welcome here! I hope you enjoy your stay! I also wanted to visit north america, both Canada and USA... But i would prefer to go in the summer... :p Thanks, take care you too! :)
Fun fact about my country: Argentina is home to the southern most city in the world: Ushuaia, with more than 70k people and it has an Airport so you can easily acces to it, tho it isn't the southern most inhabitaded place, that place is for Chile, with a tiny little house in Cabo de Hornos (Hoorn Cape) home to a Chilenian soldier and his family
Fun fact: Half of Canada is closer to the north pole than Ushuaia is to the south pole. And since last year Puerto Williams in Chile is the southernmost city in the world.
@@cristiangarcia1260 Yeah, that uneven land distribution respect from the ecuator is what makes maps look so weird and distorts northern countries sizes
It’s pronounced “suri-nam” not “suri-name” and yes I know it sounds a bit strange. Here’s a fun fact the Surinamese people speak Dutch because the country used to be a colony of the Netherlands.
@@joepkortekaas8813 Yes, Joep. But you are thinking about the Dutch pronunciation of the word "Suriname", which actually makes a lot of sense. Ayrton is talking about the funny pronunciation used in the video starting at 1:02 which you could write it as "surineem" in Dutch.
In my opinion South America is the most underrated continent, because it has spectacular mountain ranges, fascinating cultures of Spanish, Portuguese and Amerindian and Aztec.
I was hoping for more. That's cool Brazil is big, and that French Guiana is part of France. There is plenty more to talk about. South America is fascinating. (And the Panama Canal is in not South America.)
@@Sutchii_ there is no central america geologically everything west of colombia is north america and everything east of panama is south america "central america" is a made up political term to differentiate undeveloped countries in the itshmus from their more developed neighbors north and south basically another way for the rich boys to look down at the small, poor and defenseless during the cold war
As a Chilean I completely agree :P This wasn't mentioned, but my country (Chile) is so vertical that on one edge we have the driest (hot) desert in the world and at the other we have literally Antarctica
If I remember correctly Chile is like the hated guy in South America. They have stolen the access to the sea from Bolivia and recently they have burnt some immigrants' belongings.
As someone who lives in the Southernmost state of Brazil this video just reinforced to me the impression that we are way too far away from the rest of the country. That's why is easier, cheaper and faster to go to Uruguay and Argentina than to go to other Brazilian states. It's a pity as our country is absolutely beautiful and I wish I could see it all.
It's a border people thing, happens all around the world. People from northern Uruguay (who often speak Portuñol or perfect Portuguese as a second language) feel closer culturally to Brazilians and often have been in different parts of Brazil more often than the rest of Uruguay. A similar thing happens in Northern Mexico and the Southern US.
conclusion: ''The south america geography is very weird because it's not the USA (or mainland France)". Those guys have such strange ideas about the world.
Fun fact: North of Argentina, bordering Paraguay, lies Formosa province. Its name was given by spanish colonizers who found the place so beautiful they called it "Curva Fermosa". Its capital city is called Formosa as well. On the other side of the globe, 20.000 km away, lies its antipodal, Keeling city, located in Taiwan. Taiwan's original name? "Ihla Fermosa", given by Portuguese colonizers who first arrived at the island and which was also later conquered by Spanish colonizers for a couple of years.
He sounds like he is from the united states, so we will cut him some slack. I got back to the States after two years in Guatemala. some one at the bar asked me where I was. I said Guatemala. They asked is that in Africa?
Even weirder is that the U.S calls itself "America", neglecting the fact that Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean countries, Central and South America are all part of AMERICA.
Of the Americas ,no mames hablo español y hasta yo se la diferencia, en Español América es el continente, en inglés Américas son los continentes porque en ingles hay 2 continentes que son Norte y Sur, es cuestión de lenguaje ya que el lenguaje dicta como vez el mundo
@@jeremymyers924 en inglés es de Norte América , te caería bien un poco entender otra cultura ,busca en Google maps de continentes en inglés, hay 7 continentes en la cultura en inglés ,en ruso hay 6 y en Español hay 5, cosa de que ven el mundo de diferente manera
@@Poporoporancio Mire amigo, soy de New York, he vivido en 5 paises y tengo muchisimo mundo recorrido para que me venga usted a hablar de cultura. Lo que dije desde un principio es que me parece injusto que a los estadounidenses se les llame Americanos y al resto del continente Latinoamericanos, cuando America es todo el continente es America.....claro....esto viendolo desde el punto de vista HISPANO, porque aca en USA desde primaria se te ensena a que hay 2 continentes, Norte America y Sur America, algo con lo que yo nunca he estado de acuerdo, porque entonces que es Centro America? Un itsmo, como me dijo una profesora en el bachillerato.
@@jeremymyers924 y miré amigo yo he vivido en 10 países y respeto la cultura de cada país y lengua que hablo, por eso le digo que son formas de ver el mundo y que en Ruso son 6 continentes y en inglés 7, lo entiendo del latino promedio que comenta en UA-cam que apenas y conoce solo USA y su propio país. Pues eres muy ignorante la verdad, parece que fueras alguien que no fue a la escuela que cree que la única forma de ver el mundo es en Espanol, donde hay 5 continentes, no pareces alguien culto para nada. Bien sabrás que América Central como lo llamamos en Espanol, en Inglés es parte de Norteamérica igual que América insular, claro, de seguro te gusta el regeton y no te cabe en la cabeza que hay diferentes formas de ver el mundo, y no entiendes por más que te explique los 7 continentes , o los 6 en Ruso, crees que la verdad absoluta es en Español donde hay 5. Eres como los religiosos que creen que la verdad absoluta está en su religión y deciden pelear porque no creen que el Islam o los Ortodoxos tengan razón y no los respetan y pelean que el único con la razón es tu religión , los latinos son muy fanáticos lamentablemente.
Something along the lines of how and why South America has both the world largest rainforest and driest desert might have been more befitting of the title
Pretty cool fact... Here’s one for you about the U.K. If you travel to Towns/Cities like, Luton, Bradford, Rotherham, Birmingham, parts of London etc. Believe it or not, you actually end up in a foreign land!
Honestly I think most of these things are relatively well known so I don't think it was that surprising. The only thing that really caught me off guard was Canada being closer to the north of Brazil than the south of Brazil is
Plot Twist: This is not the real projection. The Azimuthal Equidistant map is more Accurate (as far as ACTUALIZED straight line commercial flight paths) than this Mercator Projection.
If you're worried about gross inaccuracies, there are bigger issues with the video. They literally picked the wrong picture for one of the wonders of the world lmao
@@laurinnn The difference between the distance from Brazil to Miami and the distance from Brazil to Sierra Leone isn't that big on a global scale, yet here it is. And, tell that to someone who lives in Detroit.
Local: "I need to visit my mate in Suriname tomorrow" Tourist: "Sure, it seems that you can just drive across the border" Local: "Uhm, no. We can't drive directly to Suriname" Tourist: "Then how can you go" Local: "We often go via France" Tourist : "wtf"
And not sure why he'd mention it at all. He already showed the continent is to the East of Jacksonville. Of course, he may be defining South America to include other Latin American countries north of the Isthmus of Panama. I've seen some people even call Mexico "South America." I guess it makes sense in the same arbitrary way we separate "Europe" and "Asia."
American's are also lead to believe "Mexican" food, decor, culture is all of South America. My Chilean host family knew zero about Mexico, Chile/Peru don't do hot spicy food, etc. They definitely orient to Brazil as a cultural super force.
@joão jose silva costa curta Consider Suriname, a country which does not have either Spanish or Portuguese as an official language, and does not border a Spanish-speaking country.
@@ensaladadepapaya8511 Not to mention multiple types of potatoes to include purple corkscrew ones, little orange types, and some that are bitter. Also fish. And history.
It's kinda crazy how Brazil doesn't have much relations with its neighbours countries besides when it comes to Football. Culturally we don't share almost anything
What? Chileans like the people of Brazil a lot but we have very few in common culturally speaking. southern chile is culturally similar to argentina and northern chile is similar to Peru. Central Chile has it's own isolated culture
Miami: Cuba is so poor! Cuba during World War 3 when China and Russia beat the shit out of the US of AIDS though they will also get beat up: Now's my chance to strike Miami and conquer it.
When you realised, Suriname was part of Dutch colonial empire (together with Indonesia). And there are many Javanese people migrated there (by force mostly. But some don't) And by looking the map, Antipedal (i forget what that means but what i meant is the opposite point of where you stand) in Suriname hits quite a chunk of Java So, say for example, if you are Javanese and dig your place in you backyard across the earth. You still have high possibility to meet other Javanese and understand what they were talking about, even though you are faraway from your home
Actually, there is no way to DRIVE to Suriname, since both the border crossing with Guyana and French Guyana requires you to take a ferry across the river. Also another fun fact is that Santiago lies between Washington DC and NYC measured by longitude.
"which continent do u live in?"
"South america"
"Cool! Brazil?"
"nah, France"
"what "
haha, that was my case, I spent two years in French Guiana
People, please understand that Ana is not a Guy. Guiana is a French couple: Guy (Ghee, "g" like in "gain") and Ana 😉.
@@marysmith9562 I knew a girl from Guyana (not French Guiana) and she pronounced her country’s name as if Ana was a guy. So I guess Guyana and Guiana have completely different pronunciations.
@@daerdevvyl4314 that's the case. Even in French it's different, in spite of many French speakers not being aware of this. But in Spanish and Portuguese it's the same word and pronunciation.
@@marysmith9562 Nope. In Spanish, the country is called Guyana, and the french region is called Guayana
South America is so big. You can fit Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina AND Brazil and still have some room left over!
Hahahahaha great point
The space left is exactly the size of paraguay, Guayana, french guyana, uruguay and surinam!
@@blaxpy Guyana*
@@jwenpaddy123 yeah, i mixed up guyana and Guayana francesa (thats french guiana in spanish)
You`re funny.
Brazil: I'm so big I'm closer to you than myself
As a Brazilian, that fact in fact surprised me...
Yo country so fat, it’s closer to me than it is to itself.
I love that
your mom*
The most western point of China is closer to Germany, than to its most eastern point
Rll: South America's geography is weirder than you think
Me as a South American: is it?
For Latin America people is easy but for other people in the world is VERY HARD
*vsause theme intensifies*
@@lagostaroyale4694 idk how but I somehow understood it but not really
It was more like "Brazils geography is weirder than you think" and here's a fact about Panama
SOY JAJAJJAJAJ
I always bugs my mind when I remember Brazil is only a river away from France.
And a rainforest too. Our border is actually pretty hard to cross.
Technically, Canada is only one (BIG) river away from Europe.
For me, it doesn’t
@Storyteller StudiosTM Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is a French collectivity off the coast of Newfoundland, so Canada is only 16 miles from France.
It bugs my mind how Macron makes rules for a chunk of the Amazon
RLL: “South America is entirely east from
Detroit.”
Also RLL: *marks Chicago*
Yeah noticed that too lol
The oceans thing was wrong too wasn't it?
@@DomiAngel what oceans thing?
Im from just north of where he marked. Its more like Gary. The worst place ever.
He was close. On the wrong side of the state sure, but he was close.
The Brazil's closest point from Africa is the island of Fernando de Noronha, so the distance from Africa and Brazil is even shorter.
That's an island so idk if it should count
I think the implication is Brazil's northern most Continental point is closer to Africa than to the southern end, but technically the island is closer.
Thanks Rodolfo.
Damn. There I was thinking the Island of Fernando was a place made up by the producers of Take Me Out
@@Josh-cm9jw I'm sorry, what?
True, Verdade
I feel like a lot was missing in this video, like how Chile exists both along the coast and within the mountains, or how despite the Panama Canal is a popular sea route it's extremely difficult to get from North to South by land for example
The thing about Chile is basically because the middle latitude and the cold Humboldt current allowed a temperate climate to exist in a long strip of 2000 km, similar to the one that exists from California to Seattle. This meant that there was a relatively large population in that space (1 million inhabitants for the year 1500). As the Spaniards went wherever there were people and gold, they soon went to Chile. They founded their Hispanic kingdom, which administered central Chile and western Argentina. But since the mountain range was too difficult a barrier and as the indigenous people in Chile were rebelling, the west of present-day Argentina came to be administered by Buenos Aires. When Chile became a Republic, it sought to expand to the south (fertile lands and the Strait of Magellan) and to the north (minerals).
If you are looking for the geological explanation, it is simply the collision of two plates that raised a huge mountain range and a strip of land was left on its side.
Oh, and the southern tip is made up of a multitude of islands and fjords by the glaciation.
I'd love a geological perspective but if I'm not mistaken Panama is geographically North American, which of course takes a human perspective more so than objective physical reasoning.
/2xryeau, Chile is a very narrow country on the Pacific side, so the coast is never far away. However, in the south (Patagonia in both there and Chile), it's very mountainous. Beside, we have that here in the US also. It's possible on a winter day in CA to swim in the ocean in the morning, then drive up into the mountains to ski in the aft. and evening.
Now, on to Panama. Between the Panama Canal and S. America (the line being the Panama/Colombia border), there's something called the Darien Gap in southern Panama, which is a segment of impenetrable jungle.
The geography of South America is no stranger than South American politics.
Fair point
viva peron
*cries in brazilian*
Só verdades kk
I can't argue with this
Fun fact: Brazil is the only country that crosses the equator and a tropic
Had not thought of this one before!
Indonesia, Equatorial Guinea
Michael Kevin, neither of these crosses a tropic
I think there is many countries that crosses the equator and the tropic.
@@walangaccount8984 turns out there’s only one
South America’s new name: east America
The East coast: Wait that's illegal
south-east america
south east america lol
But then, people notice it's south of west america, and start calling it south america.
NO
i expected it to be a video about the Amazon and Andes and how they affect the continent and livelyhood, but instead it is a video saying that it's slightly more to the east than some Americans might've thought and for some reason this has to be weird
Yes, the content really didn't do much to match the description.
I agree
Exactly my thoughts. Just talking about 1 country; Chile has both the driest hot dessert in the world in the north and territory on the Antarctica in the south, as well as the eastern island, this country has all the types of climates except from jungle, since it’s far longer than europe from north to south.
I am from Lima, Peru which is almost a perfect antipode to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so when i was in Phnom Penh, i placed a slice of bread on the ground, then asked a friend in Lima to do the same to create an Earth sandwich.
Too bad you can't do that here in the Netherlands, the other side is a piece of Pacific Ocean near New Zealand
That's hilarious!
@Pilau BEAN Flicker No way.
how smart. did you at least enjoyed it with a cold inca kola 👍
@@MichiySqueaks Nope, but weirdly enough i did find a bar that had PIsco Sours.
Fun fact: the most widely spoken language in South America, and in fact the entire Southern Hemisphere, is Portuguese.
Asian countries meanwhile wondering why Africa & the Americas speak their colonisers' mother tongues
@@lzh4950 Singapore speaks English, Hong Kong and Macao speak English, Phillipines speaks a languages similar to spanish, Macao and East Timor and Goa still have portuguese speakers, many chinese speak mandarin regardless of their own vernacular language, and China sends Uyghurs to reeducation camps where schools cannot teach their own language, so I don't think Asian countries have a lot of standing on this point.
@@modalmixture On the other hand you won't really hear Japanese spoken in Taiwan or the Koreas, Dutch in Indonesia or French in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos. While English & Portuguese are official languages in HK & Macau respectively, there aren't that many speakers of those languages there I understand (though less so in the former, though Cantonese is still more common). Also didn't think Tagalog sounded similar to Spanish.
More fun facts are in the video "Why Portugal is inferior to Spain!"
See also the video "Why England is inferior to Spain!"
@@lzh4950 in south America, it's because they forced the natives to spoke Portuguese / Spanish and hurt /killed who refuses and continued to speak the native language. And at least in Brazil, the various native languages didn't have a written language, so with the domain of the Portuguese language, almost all of the native languages are gone, forever...
This is how all RealLifeLore videos will be:
75% Content
25% Advertisement
The day is not far away when the percentages would interchange
@@pulkitmohta8964 Exactly
Not to mention the endlessly increasing number of youtube Ads
Yeah no. He has only monetized a single point today. But as this video gets popular yes. True
Virgilio I’ve only got 1
Living in New York and having a friend in Buenos Aires, I was very surprised to find that his timezone is an hour ahead of mine until I actually looked at a map.
Here in Peru the time zone is the same as in New York, although what surprised me is that some cities in North America change their time depending on whether it is summer or winter. Does that happen in New York?
@@ecb706 in Brazil we have "horário de verão" meaning "summer time", we change our clocks 1 hour because the sun is out for too long when it's summer lol. Also helps decrease energy consumption because we will wake up 1 hour later and go to sleep 1 hour later
@@ecb706 Yes, every state in the US observes DST except Arizona and Hawaii.
Fun fact: South America is in the south
No! Really!
I thought it was purple •~•
really?????
Is dis true👀
No way
Fun Fact: For every 60 seconds in Brazil, a minute passes.
omg just like Africa HOW?!
Lol
TOGETHA WE KAN STOP THIS
Nice one
Yeah it’s like that everywhere ! WTF
Fun fact: According to these graphics, Detroit is closer to Chicago than Detroit is to Detroit.
Accurate.
This makes me question every other claim in this vido 🤔
Even Detroit moved out of Detroit.
I'm from the Detroit area and I was like "huh that's Chicago" lol
Glad I wasn’t the only one like “wtf?”
Another geographical quirk is that we often think of Australia and New Zealand being rather close, but the closest points between the two countries is longer than between London and Warsaw. And from Aukland to Perth is around the same distance as from London to Afghanistan.
this was basically just a video on the geography of brazil
That's kinda expected since Brazil is half the South American land Area and Half it's population
They are kinda big down here though...
Half size + half population = full video hahahaha
that's bc we thicc
Well, yah.., Brazil is the biggest of them all combined and more ppl speak Portuguese than Spanish in South America.., oops you didn't know. (LOL)
Formosa (Argentina) it’s in the opposite site than Formosa (Taiwan)
Nice
I live in Paraguay, close to Formosa Argentina, greetings XD
реnе
How do you talk? You are claude speed. Never seen you talk in gta 3.
btw interesting fact
We should dig a tunnel and call It "formosa transplanetary tunnel"
South America? More like East America.
South-East America
nooooooo
Really?
When he doesn't even add that south America is more like central American as even Brazil has a large chunk in the northern hemisphere.
If I was a Brazilian I’d say - “we’re America! You’re simply North West America”!
Fun Fact: The Nazca Lines in Peru are on the EXACT opposite side of the globe as Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
That is not a fun fact its begin to look like that the aliens did those lines and the temple in Cambodia 🧐
Wow THANK YOU for informing us on that. Very cool fact :)
I mean there’s many lines and the lines and Angkor wat are large not that big a surprise
ALIENS
You watch Ancient Aliens.
As brazilian I realized how much in east we are when our football teams were playing in Mexico. I was watching the game at 11 pm here and the match was in daylight, and I was like wtf?!
Have you had tacos before? 🌮
@@ericktellez7632 only coxinha
@@rebecacunha5343
Wth is that?
@@ericktellez7632 it's a very famous brazilian food. It is a stuffed dough with chicken and may have cheese inside.
Coxinha is much better than taco.
Taco is mexican, its not common in Brazil.
@@rebecacunha5343 I live in Brazil, but I'm sorry, there is no way Coxinha is better than taco. Coxinhas are bland crap. Coxinhas and the other salgados in the Lonchenetes are the absolute worst example of Brazilian food. Low quality and bland as fuck. (I am not insulting all Brazilian food. In general there is a lot of good food here but there is not way Coxinhas beat tacos.) Perhaps you have only had shitty ass tacos from taco bell or somewhere like that but, having lived in Mexico, I can say tacos win by far.
"where do you live?"
"southeastern european america"
"tf"
kkkkkk
@Wuxxy So he's using the USA as the center
@Wuxxy it would be east…
or just say "French Guiana" like a normal person... not *southeastwestern north eurasia africamerica*
I want to connect South America and Afrika just like puzzle
That's how they used to be. Tectonic plates
Same
Don't we all
You copied that from twitter
Salted Peanut shut up
Here are some other cool facts about Brazil's geography (coming from a Brazilian)
- Brazil's easternmost point is actually closer to africa than to Brazil's westernmost point, mindblowing.
- We are the 5th largest country in the world and our area is 8.5 million square kilometers, even bigger than Australia.
- We are divided between 26 states + a federal district, where our capital, Brasília, (yes, rio de janeiro isn't our capital, stop saying this ffs) is located.
- We are also divided between 5 regions, North, Northeast, Southeast, Center-West, and South.
- Our biggest city is São Paulo, maybe you've heard of it. With 12.3 million people, it's pretty similar to New York, it has some very important buildings and avenues.
- São Paulo, like New York, is both a state and a city also.
Tô quase certo de que são mais de 20 milhões de habitantes na cidade de São Paulo.
@@Jotonio A cidade de são paulo em si, sem contar a região metropolitana ou estado, tem 12 milhões de habitantes, apenas as pessoas que vivem no território da cidade
Glad to learn so much interesting facts from you!
@@corvetaumbr2410mas a grande são Paulo, as cidades satélites que ficam coladas, por exemplo guarulhos, se juntarmos todas somam 21 milhões de habitantes, ou seja mais gente do que o Chile!
@@johnrobert1994 Sim exatamente, a Grande São Paulo é gigante, porém apenas a cidade em si, sem contar a região do ABC, Guarulhos, Oscasco, etc. tem apenas 12 milhões de habitantes, o que ainda assim é muito
I live in Roraima wich is the state where the Nothernmost point of Brasil is, and it's Surprisingly pretty far from everything else in the entire country.
Realmente kkkkkk
Já eu, posso dizer que moro perto de tudo, pois sou de Porto de Galinhas - PE
@@emersonjose4956 kkk
Roraima, estado pouco conhecido da federação. Gostaria de visitar o Monte Roraima algum dia! Abraços de Salvador 👊🏼👊🏼
Eu moro mais próximo do oriente (Paraíba).
@N V M E R I V S cisplatina
I lived in Brazil until I was 9 and we had this expression when somebody was talking about going directly down, we'd say they'd end up in Japan.
Yeah here in Argentina we would say the same but with China instead of Japan
they say it everywhere bro, but china not Japan. There is even a game about that.
here in Paraguay is Taiwan and it is true!!!
Same but with china in Argentina
Before internet, I doubt that most brazilians even knew about Phillipines and Indonesia. That's probably the reason.
I think this video was incomplete, you should have akso talked about the Andes and it's influence on the climate of the region.
He talked about curiosity stream 1/5 of the video.
@@MsMRkv you gotta take care of the sponsors too
Totally, he didn't say anything impressive. He only talked about how Southamerica is more to the east than he thought it would be. Or how the US is more to the west, depends on how you see it.
Yes
How it keeps rain in Bolivia from Northern Chile and Peru and it keeps rain in southern Chile from The Argentinean Patagonia
The image at 3:03 is of Barcelona, Spain, not South America. Apparently the company that sells stock videos to UA-camrs has this clip labeled as "Brazil", because the channel Economics Explained made the same mistake. And neither one realized the big error.
Also, you could have mentioned that despite being named South America, it spans both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Brazil is also the only country to have both the Equator line and Tropic of Capricorn running through it.
The name South America has nothing to do with what hemisphere it’s in. South Carolina, South Dakota and South Korea are all in the northern hemisphere. These names mean that they’re the southern part of Carolina, Dakota and Korea respectively. Similarly, although “America” is now often used to mean the United States of America, it actually means North America and South America combined. So South America is the southern portion of that, regardless of what hemisphere it’s in.
There's also a state in the USA called South Dakota, but it's in the northern hemisphere.
@@daerdevvyl4314 You are correct mate, but a lot of people don't know this or think like you... You know what I mean?
@@daerdevvyl4314 - referring to USA in spoken English as “America” has existed since the time of the thirteen colonies. If you’d like to refer to both continents of North America and South America collectively in English you must use the plural, “The Americas”. This is how native speakers make the distinction.
This is unaccurate. Colombia also has a piece in both hemispheres
Welcome to episode 27 of: ''Why the entire world's Geography sucks''
Except france(almost)
It sucks so that humans can’t immediately inhabit every single place and kill all species of animals living there
Eiru Except the US
Episode 52: How the world’s geography got nerfed
@@abloodorange5233 France and US are the luckiest in world
One thing you should have mentioned:
There's a province in Argentina called Formosa which is coincidentally the antipode to northern part of Taiwan, which was also known as "Formosa".
When he says "canada too" it sounds like canada had a sequel
If Canada is so good,why don't they made a ""Canada two"" yet ?
as a Canadian, this is my dream come true
It already exists, it's called Australia
the real name of the video: Why Brasil Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think
Los brasileños siempre de acomplejados comentando como locos todos los vídeos en los que mencionan a Brasil
@@JairoOrtizT vai espumar?
@@JairoOrtizT no teas ciúmes, nosotros estamos en toda parte
@@JairoOrtizT vai tilitar amorzin?
@@JairoOrtizT Praticamente não há brasileiros aqui.
RLL: makes video about South America
Also RLL: Stock footage of Antigua, Guatemala, in Central America at 3.55
Yeah, and Barcelona instead of Rio de Janeiro... and puts Detroit in Chicago...
03:00 you keep showing Barcelona when talking about Brazil
Same thing, they all speak Spanish. /s
Lol
No . They speak Catalan and Portuguese.
The nail in the coffin is that at that exact moment he's saying - I quote - “The biggest reason for why this may come as a surprise to you is because most of us in the northern hemisphere have a weird misunderstanding of where exactly south America is located geographically.”
@@gtPacheko nope, portuguese unless you're joking
One interesting fact is that areas that have an oceanic climate in the northern hemisphere are between about 50° north to 60° north. In the Southern Hemisphere, oceanic climates are found about 40° south. Same thing with Mediterranean climates being closer to the equator in areas such as Southern Australia and Central Chile, rather than further away as in Italy and California.
Seems the sun shines more on the north than the south due to the earth's tilt.
@@amywalker7515 the sun actually shines the most in the equator. With so much heat and energy, a lot of clouds form right on the equator with a lot of overcast in the tropics. Hurricanes are even born around 8 to 20 degrees N and S of the equator.
Think the geography is weird, well I dare you to talk about the politics of South America next.
As a citizen from a country in south america (Brazil), I gave up on our politics a long time ago. Too much corruption.
Meh. To sum it up: republics, dictatorships, more republics, then more dictatorships, civil wars, widespread corruption, civil unrest, even more dictatorships, more civil unrest, more republics, then more widespread corruption. Basically all of Latin America, if I'm not mistaken
@@gomiyaro que onda wachin
Just a pinch of corruption
*throws an entire bucket*
@@brandenr6073 then there's the most deadly goverment ever on south américa that ironically is a demcoracy
Interesting video, but what did this have to do with weird geography? I think a better title would be:
Misconceptions about South American Geography
He is a weirdo that sees other things like him
@@gonzaa5809 why the insults man, did you suggest a video idea and he said its bad or something?
He wants the views
Clickbait
More like "Misconceptions about South American Geography that only people from the USA have"
Basically, how much the Brazilian geography is underrated.
Lol
welcome to hell
I’m disapointed he didn’t give pornmaps sub from Reddit some credit here because he clearly took that from there.
It’s not that good tho
I lived in Ecuador for a few years and i remember being surprised to find that even though it's on the Pacific Ocean, it's in the same time zone as Miami.
"Brazil northernmost point and southernmost point are very far away"
Chile: LMAO
just went and measured, not counting the Chilean antarctic claim Brazil is longer than Chile, by like a hundred km give or take (4282.9km), including the antarctic (which is kind of ridiculous bc it's not supported by most nations) it jumps to 7526, but by that logic norway would be the longest country as it has a claim in antarctica and is partially within the arctic circle
@@agustinvenegas5238 heh y Rapanui ?
@Daniel Marranghelli según el video Francia esta en sudamericana 🤷🤷
Brazil is actually longer than chile
Its actually longer... But Chile is thinner so it looks longer
Woah! Not only did I never notice that South America is not directly south of North America, but I also never noticed how much closer to Africa it is than I realized. Love these videos! 🙌🏽
Geographys great ain't it?
Me too
Yeah, but closer to Africa than to US ? Mr Topo happily chooses the eastern most point for measuring that distance, but takes the most norther point for the other one, whereas US is to the Northwest, so why not choose the closest point to the States to measure it that distance ?
Only 15 k difference now so Z so South America being closer to Africa may not be all true
@Michelle platonic plates lmao
Bruh
3:03 Stop showing pictures of Barcelona when representing Rio de Janeiro
Wait, that city is Barcelona?
HOLY
When did he even mention Rio de Janeiro ?
@@dresdi Poisé ksksk acho que a ideia é referenciar a america do sul toda e nao so o brazil. vai ver ele viu esse footage com uma estatua de braços abertos e: hmm, brazilllllllll
@@dresdi why show barcelon when talking about south america?
Do a video on the weirdness of Canada's geography, it's wacked. For example: St. John's Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than Winnipeg, Winnipeg is only halfway across Canada....Vancouver is on the west coast, but it is pretty far east of the westernmost part of the country...there are a lot more things than that...
In the late 80's my wife coworker told her that in the 50's a relative living in Ireland mailed him a latter asking him to go meet his cousin arriving to Canada East coast from Ireland by boat, my wife's coworker sent a letter back saying: "why don't you go meet him yourself, you are closer to him than me", my wife's coworker was living in Alberta at the time !! 😄
I always forget that guyana, guyana francesa and surinam are countries in southamerica. It's like the kid who doesn't talk in class and no one knows his voice, they are forgotten
Yooooooooo actually reconize us .Its tri mist ppl just walk pass us idk why everyone so hype to talk about brazil Venezuela and such but. Guyana suriname and frend Guyana are outcasts it like a oddity in the world
I visited Guyana in 2019, it's a curious country to say the least.
@@teeho299 noone is hyped to talk about Venezuela
right :') when I say that I'm from south America people immediately think that I speak Spanish or Portuguese and I'm like "No :') i speak dutch"
Those 3 countries have a culture that is more closely related to the Caribbean than the rest of South american, so they became basically outcasts here, thats why they are somewhat forgotten
World wars: most destructive event in human history
South Americas: imma pretend I didn't see that
Brazil did fight in WW2. Sorry for going "well actually" on your *ss.
Brazil fought in WW2
@@justnoah2073
WW1 ~ 400 Deaths , ~ 1000 wounded
WW2 ~ 2000 Deaths , ~ 4000 wounded
@@justnoah2073 He only knows the European part
Argentina actually entered WW2 a few months before it ended and won it without doing anything
What's crazier is that Brasil has almost all of the "habitable" land of the continent, a great part of the other countries are the deserts, mountains and the antartic areas
You can live in the mountains just fine though
yet we still concentrate people on the litoranean areas and leave everything else to farms because fuck us, that's why
What? More than half of Brazil is uninhabitable, but due to deforestation, urbanization in jungle areas and the reduced protection of the environment by the government, this has been changing, unlike its neighbors, who take care of their natural areas and don´t turn them into cities like Brazil has done, also, countries like Uruguay, have most of their territory habitable because their territory are mostly coasts at sea level
@@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda **sniff sniff** _inca_
Thank you Amazon River Basin!
Fun fact:
The world's 6 largest countries (Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia) occupy 40.3% of Earth's total landmass.
If we also include Antarctica (9.2%), that's 49.5% of Earth's total landmass, almost half of the world.
Antarctica isn't one big landmass though, it is infact a giant archipelago of thousands of small islands beneath the ice.
@@LRM12o8 Plus one big landmass (East Antarctica), but all these landmasses are under permanent ice. On the surface, Antarctica can be considered a solid continuous landmass.
Brazil is the only contiguous territory that is crossed by the equator and the tropic of capricorn at the same time.
that's a cool fact!
@@iamisaid2295 Yes! Large portions of Brazil are above the equator and also below the Tropic of Capricorn. I live in a very cold region of Brazil under the Capricorn tropic, however a friend of mine lives in a very hot place in Roraima which is above the equator. It is interesting to know that we are in the same time zone and speak exactly the same language but we are separated by 4000 km, 4 unique biomes, 5 climates, the Amazon river, pantanal swamplands, including he is also living in another season of the year (here is in srping and there is in fall)
. when we look at the sky we don't even see the same stars!
@@joaofabio5927 that is so cool. although really, there's no such thing as "fall" at the equator, not in the sense of changing leaf colours. even at the tropic of capricorn there's no true winter, except the water is a tiny bit chillier. they basically can grow mangos and avos all year long.... endless summer.
Nice fact.
When you find way cooler facts in the comments than in the video...
@@iamisaid2295 Yes, there is a true winter south of the Capricorn Tropic. Have you been over there? Just type "fall in Argentina" and you are going to see, ther is no endless summer in this region of the souther cone of South America.
2020 is a weird year. It even moved Detroit.
I'm now realising that detroit and chicago are two different cities.
Wait what
I’m a Nova Scotian and it’s weird to think that my province is closer to Brazil than the south point of Brazil, well at least the South Shore of Nova Scotia
Everyone from Yarmouth has started celebrating Carnivale
It takes over 4 hours to flight from the southern most point of Brazil to the Eastern most point of Brazil in a direct flight.
I'm brazilian and i'm also surprised...
@get to the Choppaa Haha, some people from Brazil says they are curious to know how snow looks like, i sometimes say to them "people that live in snow countries don't seem to like it that much", i hope i'm not misleading them... :p
@get to the Choppaa Ty for the info!
Indeed, looking at videos i think "well, maybe seeing snow once would be cool, but have to clean the pathway from the door with a shovel looks like a extra-burden, and snow is not a novelty anymore".
Cool, feel welcome here! I hope you enjoy your stay! I also wanted to visit north america, both Canada and USA... But i would prefer to go in the summer... :p
Thanks, take care you too! :)
So few videos about South America... Please make it more. You have a talent for telling about geopolitics.
Fun fact: Brazil is the only country to be crossed by the equator and one of the tropics at the same time
(Tropic of Capricorn)
e o Equador ? o pais kkkkkkkkkkk
@@UrbanAngel7004 Burrão, ele falou pelo Equador e por um dos trópicos (capricórnio). Equador (o país) só tem o Equador (o paralelo) cruzando ele.
@@UrbanAngel7004 o Equador não é cruzado por um trópico, somente pela linha do Equador.
Fun fact about my country:
Argentina is home to the southern most city in the world: Ushuaia, with more than 70k people and it has an Airport so you can easily acces to it, tho it isn't the southern most inhabitaded place, that place is for Chile, with a tiny little house in Cabo de Hornos (Hoorn Cape) home to a Chilenian soldier and his family
his* family
("it" se usa para objetos)
Now looking up Ushuaia....
Cabo de Hornos was named by the Dutch as Kaap Hoorn, in English it is Cape Horn, not Furnace Cape. It was named after the Dutch city Hoorn.
Fun fact: Half of Canada is closer to the north pole than Ushuaia is to the south pole.
And since last year Puerto Williams in Chile is the southernmost city in the world.
@@cristiangarcia1260 Yeah, that uneven land distribution respect from the ecuator is what makes maps look so weird and distorts northern countries sizes
It’s pronounced “suri-nam” not “suri-name” and yes I know it sounds a bit strange. Here’s a fun fact the Surinamese people speak Dutch because the country used to be a colony of the Netherlands.
And that's precisely why it's pronounced "Suriname"!
What about his pronunciation of "GAYana"
@@joepkortekaas8813 Yes, Joep. But you are thinking about the Dutch pronunciation of the word "Suriname", which actually makes a lot of sense. Ayrton is talking about the funny pronunciation used in the video starting at 1:02 which you could write it as "surineem" in Dutch.
They should speak afrikaans then. But since it's in America, call it amerikaans haha.
@@MaxHohenstaufen May I know, what Afrikaans, which is an existing language, got to do with Suriname?
In my opinion South America is the most underrated continent, because it has spectacular mountain ranges, fascinating cultures of Spanish, Portuguese and Amerindian and Aztec.
I love how the dot pointing out Detroit isn’t even remotely close to the actual location of Detroit
It is close, it's on the other side of the state.
Detroit is in Michigan, on a lake. The dot is on a lake, and that lake is... Lake Michigan! Close enough.
I don’t really care that much I just thought it was funny how they picked the wrong lake
Detroit...Gary... Potato PotAdo
Only people who live in Detroit would even bother to notice since it wasn’t even a main point of the video. I take it you live there.🤔
Fun, somewhat unrelated fact: Death Valley, California is further north than Tokyo, Japan
From where?
Go to google maps and look at the co-ordinates of both places. You will be surprised
@@captainwilliam3920 wait, but it's northernmost in relation to where, that's what I asked
What do you mean?
@@captainwilliam3920 you said Death Valley is farther towards the North than Tokyo....but in relation to what point?
I was hoping for more. That's cool Brazil is big, and that French Guiana is part of France. There is plenty more to talk about. South America is fascinating. (And the Panama Canal is in not South America.)
Yeah It’s central america but, people tend to forget central america is a thing
Its the split between the two
In the anglo definition that's the divider between north and south america
People think Latin America and South America are one and the same...
@@Sutchii_ there is no central america geologically everything west of colombia is north america and everything east of panama is south america "central america" is a made up political term to differentiate undeveloped countries in the itshmus from their more developed neighbors north and south basically another way for the rich boys to look down at the small, poor and defenseless during the cold war
Note: If you go through the centre of the Earth like mentioned in this video, the countries’ outlines won’t flip into a mirror image as shown here
I don't get it ether. I'm not sure why no one else is pointing this out.
@@russellmanweller6694 Well you know, I’m the cleverest person on the internet :)
3:50 South America, proceeds to show a video from Guatemala.
I know and they have s many subs. Sometimes I just click on the vids just to dislike
Maybe they can make another video about Central America not being a part of Mexico
@@Lilpuki10181 His marker was on the Yucatan Peninsula which is in Mexico.
I was about to write a similar comment. I have been to that town in Guatemala.
@@electronicbamboo6764 Even worse he is partnered with nebula, where supposedly "good" content creators upload, but apparently they have low standars.
Watching this on zoom call while my art teacher rants about us not submitting work.
Get your work in!
lmfao
Lol that’s savage
Hehe im in spanish class
As a Chilean I completely agree :P
This wasn't mentioned, but my country (Chile) is so vertical that on one edge we have the driest (hot) desert in the world and at the other we have literally Antarctica
You are also one of the two countries that do not share a border with Brazil (yet at least)
The driest desert of the world is antartica
If I remember correctly Chile is like the hated guy in South America. They have stolen the access to the sea from Bolivia and recently they have burnt some immigrants' belongings.
@@isaac9941 driest hot desert
@@MrMattpnk i thought this was about weird geography, not weird conspiracy theories
As someone who lives in the Southernmost state of Brazil this video just reinforced to me the impression that we are way too far away from the rest of the country. That's why is easier, cheaper and faster to go to Uruguay and Argentina than to go to other Brazilian states. It's a pity as our country is absolutely beautiful and I wish I could see it all.
It's a border people thing, happens all around the world. People from northern Uruguay (who often speak Portuñol or perfect Portuguese as a second language) feel closer culturally to Brazilians and often have been in different parts of Brazil more often than the rest of Uruguay. A similar thing happens in Northern Mexico and the Southern US.
It's weird because it fits with Africa so well like a puzzle piece
obv. They were united when pangea existed :v
Thinking of that eu4 mod by any chance....?
@@chubi7692 right like how is that weird?
Ever hear of continental drift?
Continental drift
conclusion: ''The south america geography is very weird because it's not the USA (or mainland France)".
Those guys have such strange ideas about the world.
He doesn’t even know what he’s talking about either
A very American thing to do, my friend
It's almost like you didn't watch the video or just wanted to cry about the US.
Delcio what
Hahaha you are such a kid every time he dont speak perfekt about south america you cry hahaha little kid
3:00 That's Barcelona, not South America 🤦🏻
He meant to show Rio de Janeiro I guess
He probably just though it was the statue but that’s pretty dumb mistake
The Yellow Arch at 3:49 is actually in Guatemala, Central America, Lol.
Economics Explained made this exact same mistake lol
and at 3:47 he put Detroit in Michigan City
Fun fact: North of Argentina, bordering Paraguay, lies Formosa province. Its name was given by spanish colonizers who found the place so beautiful they called it "Curva Fermosa". Its capital city is called Formosa as well. On the other side of the globe, 20.000 km away, lies its antipodal, Keeling city, located in Taiwan. Taiwan's original name? "Ihla Fermosa", given by Portuguese colonizers who first arrived at the island and which was also later conquered by Spanish colonizers for a couple of years.
"east of Detroit"
marks Chicago.
He already used Jacksonville as a reference, I didn't get the point of that. Maybe DC for northeastern folks would have been useful, or toronto
Detroit, Chicago. No one lives there anyways to care. Unless you live there..... 🤔 💭
3:50
Talks about south america yet shows guatemala 🤩
i was about to say it, i once got to this exact place
As soon as I saw that picture of Antigua, I paused the video and scrolled down looking for this comment.
He showed Barcelona at some point in this video about South America🥰🥰🥰
(3:06)
He sounds like he is from the united states, so we will cut him some slack.
I got back to the States after two years in Guatemala. some one at the bar asked me where I was. I said Guatemala. They asked is that in Africa?
siempre ignoran Guatemala, Nicaragua, Uruguay, chile y ecuador
3:00 it's like the millionth time I see UA-camrs use this clip of Barcelona as if it were Rio/Brazil.
Even weirder is that the U.S calls itself "America", neglecting the fact that Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean countries, Central and South America are all part of AMERICA.
Of the Americas ,no mames hablo español y hasta yo se la diferencia, en Español América es el continente, en inglés Américas son los continentes porque en ingles hay 2 continentes que son Norte y Sur, es cuestión de lenguaje ya que el lenguaje dicta como vez el mundo
@@Poporoporancio aja, hay dos continentes ...y donde dejamos a Centroamerica?
@@jeremymyers924 en inglés es de Norte América , te caería bien un poco entender otra cultura ,busca en Google maps de continentes en inglés, hay 7 continentes en la cultura en inglés ,en ruso hay 6 y en Español hay 5, cosa de que ven el mundo de diferente manera
@@Poporoporancio Mire amigo, soy de New York, he vivido en 5 paises y tengo muchisimo mundo recorrido para que me venga usted a hablar de cultura. Lo que dije desde un principio es que me parece injusto que a los estadounidenses se les llame Americanos y al resto del continente Latinoamericanos, cuando America es todo el continente es America.....claro....esto viendolo desde el punto de vista HISPANO, porque aca en USA desde primaria se te ensena a que hay 2 continentes, Norte America y Sur America, algo con lo que yo nunca he estado de acuerdo, porque entonces que es Centro America? Un itsmo, como me dijo una profesora en el bachillerato.
@@jeremymyers924 y miré amigo yo he vivido en 10 países y respeto la cultura de cada país y lengua que hablo, por eso le digo que son formas de ver el mundo y que en Ruso son 6 continentes y en inglés 7, lo entiendo del latino promedio que comenta en UA-cam que apenas y conoce solo USA y su propio país.
Pues eres muy ignorante la verdad, parece que fueras alguien que no fue a la escuela que cree que la única forma de ver el mundo es en Espanol, donde hay 5 continentes, no pareces alguien culto para nada.
Bien sabrás que América Central como lo llamamos en Espanol, en Inglés es parte de Norteamérica igual que América insular, claro, de seguro te gusta el regeton y no te cabe en la cabeza que hay diferentes formas de ver el mundo, y no entiendes por más que te explique los 7 continentes , o los 6 en Ruso, crees que la verdad absoluta es en Español donde hay 5.
Eres como los religiosos que creen que la verdad absoluta está en su religión y deciden pelear porque no creen que el Islam o los Ortodoxos tengan razón y no los respetan y pelean que el único con la razón es tu religión , los latinos son muy fanáticos lamentablemente.
3:50 This isn't South America. It's Antigua, Guatemala which is located in Central America
Thank you! :)
It sure as hell is :) I fact checked, that is definitely Antigua, Guatemala. Good eye.
perfect "geographic eye"! thumbs up;)
I noticed that too. 👍🏼
You should play GeoGuesser
Was hoping for some weirdness. But I dont live in North America and had a globe as a kid so seems like pretty standard stuff?
Something along the lines of how and why South America has both the world largest rainforest and driest desert might have been more befitting of the title
Yeo, title should've been Why South America's Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think (for americans)
@@maximipe That would apply for any place out of US! lol
To be fair, a lot of people not in north america would be surprised by France's largest land border, so they've got at least something here, right?
Pretty cool fact... Here’s one for you about the U.K. If you travel to Towns/Cities like, Luton, Bradford, Rotherham, Birmingham, parts of London etc. Believe it or not, you actually end up in a foreign land!
"Why South America's Geography is Way Weirder Than You Think"
South America's Politics: "Am I a joke to you?"
lol
Bolívar was a traitor and an idiot who served the British and his Jewish masters well.
South,central asian/african/eastern european leaders: Noobs
@@scintillam_dei bruh just proving his point
@@cinamontoast2555 Whose point?
3:50 “...South America...”
* shows Guatemala *
Haha i was like what?.? Why are they showing Antigua??
Exactly! Read the description of your stock footage before you slap it into your videos!
I came here to say this, but I knew in my heart it had already been said.
Well, a "minor mistake" considering at 3:06 shows Barcelona, Spain.
@@clorox1676 not minor, they're both pretty far from each other
Honestly I think most of these things are relatively well known so I don't think it was that surprising. The only thing that really caught me off guard was Canada being closer to the north of Brazil than the south of Brazil is
I didn't know French Guiana is a part of France, just thought it was a former colony that kept that name. And I'm well travelled.
@@macroxela France stopped letting go after that whole America (US) fiasco.
Plot Twist: This is not the real projection. The Azimuthal Equidistant map is more Accurate (as far as ACTUALIZED straight line commercial flight paths) than this Mercator Projection.
"The whole continent is significantly east of Detroit"
*Points to Chicago*
That's Michigan City, not Chicago. Chicago is slightly more West.
@@johnmidwest5650 still ain't Detroit
Also the Galapagos are west of Chicago. Their westernmost point is almost the same longitude as Cedar Rapids.
If you're worried about gross inaccuracies, there are bigger issues with the video. They literally picked the wrong picture for one of the wonders of the world lmao
@@blue9multimediagroup ^
That's not where Detroit is.
And that really does not matter at all
Lau l In a video about geography, it kind of does.
@@14s0cc3r14 not really on a global scale tho
@@laurinnn The difference between the distance from Brazil to Miami and the distance from Brazil to Sierra Leone isn't that big on a global scale, yet here it is.
And, tell that to someone who lives in Detroit.
Yea wtf the dot is somewhere near Chicago
Local: "I need to visit my mate in Suriname tomorrow"
Tourist: "Sure, it seems that you can just drive across the border"
Local: "Uhm, no. We can't drive directly to Suriname"
Tourist: "Then how can you go"
Local: "We often go via France"
Tourist : "wtf"
Não é simples, ali tem florestas, bichos, montanhas, rios e muita humidade.
Underrated comment
This is one of the coolest things I have learned in geography, thanks!
*me, watching a weird geography video*
“The title doesn’t lie, that is a very weird place to put Detroit on a map.”
Proof RealLifeLore is a Canuck
Lol its on the wrong side of Michigan
It’s in Chicago
And not sure why he'd mention it at all. He already showed the continent is to the East of Jacksonville. Of course, he may be defining South America to include other Latin American countries north of the Isthmus of Panama. I've seen some people even call Mexico "South America." I guess it makes sense in the same arbitrary way we separate "Europe" and "Asia."
Turned it off when he put the dot for Detroit almost in Chicago, smh
cant have shit in detroit, NOT EVEN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION ON A MAP
@@xx-jl2uu lmao
At least it's not the wrong state
people are not perfect
If I had noticed that mistake, I still would have finished watching the video...but okay
Never knew Detroit was on Lake Michigan. The more you know...
I was so confused lol
It’s underwater from climate change
lol
@@fortune3911 wow
It's kind of Erie isn't it?
American's are also lead to believe "Mexican" food, decor, culture is all of South America. My Chilean host family knew zero about Mexico, Chile/Peru don't do hot spicy food, etc. They definitely orient to Brazil as a cultural super force.
@joão jose silva costa curta Consider Suriname, a country which does not have either Spanish or Portuguese as an official language, and does not border a Spanish-speaking country.
Perú does spicy food, though
@@ensaladadepapaya8511 Not to mention multiple types of potatoes to include purple corkscrew ones, little orange types, and some that are bitter. Also fish. And history.
It's kinda crazy how Brazil doesn't have much relations with its neighbours countries besides when it comes to Football. Culturally we don't share almost anything
What? Chileans like the people of Brazil a lot but we have very few in common culturally speaking. southern chile is culturally similar to argentina and northern chile is similar to Peru. Central Chile has it's own isolated culture
So when they say "you're going to Brazil", the real fear is in how long the flight will take...
Seriously Jellal? you're here too?
It's pronounced SuriNAM not SuriNAME.
did you know about accents
but written and said suriname so do whatever you want
Thank you
Docw for the English pronunciation
The E is not silent, it’s pronounced just the way he said in the video guys
Pan-American Highway: I’ll unify the Americas!
Darien Gap: Hahaha *no*
Drug dealers in the area: lol no as well
The massive swamp north of Colombia/North of Panama: hahah *no*
lol :D , I can appreciate any good geographical joke:))
Miami: Cuba is so poor!
Cuba during World War 3 when China and Russia beat the shit out of the US of AIDS though they will also get beat up: Now's my chance to strike Miami and conquer it.
Why do i see you everywhere?
Very cool! I have never stopped to think about any of this stuff! Love your videos!
I'm watching this during my lunch break in virtual school.
Same
Interesting because it’s my lunch break right now
I’m watching this in the 10 mins I have between classes for virtual school
I'm watching it while my online school😂
I’m watching this during class because I don’t care
When you realised, Suriname was part of Dutch colonial empire (together with Indonesia). And there are many Javanese people migrated there (by force mostly. But some don't)
And by looking the map, Antipedal (i forget what that means but what i meant is the opposite point of where you stand) in Suriname hits quite a chunk of Java
So, say for example, if you are Javanese and dig your place in you backyard across the earth. You still have high possibility to meet other Javanese and understand what they were talking about, even though you are faraway from your home
✌ from 🇸🇷
Dfathurr *antipodal
Cool
That's actually cool to know
Greetings from Suriname
RLR: the northern most point of Brazil is closer to any country in the Americas than it is to the southern most point of Brazil
Uruguai: 🐧
Uruguay*
????
It was funny until I saw the emoji.
Still true though. Uruguay's northernmost point is definitely closer to it than Brazil's southernmost point. That's both further north and west
Actually it is
Actually, there is no way to DRIVE to Suriname, since both the border crossing with Guyana and French Guyana requires you to take a ferry across the river.
Also another fun fact is that Santiago lies between Washington DC and NYC measured by longitude.
3:00 Did you know that Christ the redeemer is actually inside an amusement park in Barcelona???
It was funny The mistake. Every brazilian looking and thinking "wrong Christ". Kkkkkkkkk
LOL :D very good eye. Namely it is "Parc d'Atraccions Tibidabo" in Barcelona, Spain
definitely this is not very accurate chanel (Wendover is better:)
@@tomasseman6388 Barcelona, Spain?
@@mitsuck7881 yes
@@leonardoaraujo8364 Yeah lmao