If you like these weird borders, you can watch the extended edition over on Nebula with a few more along with the first episode of my brand new series Ghost Towns!! Ghost Towns especially is super cool, I'm traveling to ghost towns across the United States and hopefully later the world to document what they're like today and how they became abandoned. The first episode is live on Nebula right now and it's about the communities around the Salton Sea in California. The best way to get access to Nebula is through the bundle deal with CuriosityStream at CuriosityStream.com/reallifelore, which is absurdly only $12 for an entire year right now. Thanks so much y'all for sticking around in 2020 and I'll see you all again throughout 2021 :)
No @RealLifeLore you always get sponsored every video and you talk about the sponsor to stretch your videos and that is to anying stop getting sponsored and no one wants to use it and we have to pay to use your dumb sponsor you used to make good videos then you always got sponsored try to make your videos good again by not getting sponsored ok please just not get sponsored or else just don't get sponsored again
It likely jutted in and out plenty, sometimes straying too far west, sometimes too far east. I would have found it stranger if it were more off, because then there would have been a clear bias in some direction.
GAGAGAGAGAGA! I will now count to 3 and then I am still the unprettiest UA-camr of all time. 1...2...3. GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! Btw I have TWO very HOT GIRLfriends who I show off in my v*deos. Thank you for your attention, dear alex
All the borders mess starts with someone saying: "Let's ignore all the natural landmarks and people occupations and define this border as a straight line. "
I’m glad I looked at my phone before I got in the shower. Edit: I didn’t think clarification was needed but wow the internet is a stupid place. I didn’t watch the video in the shower I watched the video and then had a shower.
i live in texas and you know how there is popular states? well my family always talks about colorado and utah cause so many family live there... and florida what weird states lok
North America's not alone though, a lot of African borders are also principally made up of straight lines, and some Middle Eastern ones, though the Middle Eastern ones are actually pretty workable for the most part as they cross uninhabitable desert where no one lives.
Shows how little you actually know about US geography. There are still a lot of borders defined by rivers. California and Arizona, Texas and Mexico, parts of Idaho and Montana. Not sure if that's a river or mountain range dividing Idaho from Oregon and Washington. Also, Europe and Asia were divided when mountains meant something. And some of those mountains are bigger than what we have.
@@riggs20 wisconsin didnt get statehood until about a decade after this conflict (if you can call it that) but people there still do wish/believe that the UP should be a part of wisconsin. plus a lot of uppers are packers fans so they probably wouldnt mind.
As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I always wondered why the hell the UP was part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. Never realized it was because there was contention between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip. Tell you what, Michigan made out like bandits in that deal.
@@Wisegoatface That’s a rather odd question. Just because Wisconsin is known for its cheese doesn’t mean people eat it “religiously.” It’s a common food there just due to the fact the state has a large amount of dairy farms. Personally, I like cheese quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it’s eaten religiously.
The more I learn about US geography and how the individual states were formed, the more I realize it's basically 50 countries kind of haphazardly glued together XD
lol as an American, this is how most of us see it, we're still all Americans but our states have their own holidays, cultures, traditions, history, and laws.
Hey, cool video! I’m a land surveyor myself, and it’s fascinating to learn about all the land disputes and errors that eventually decided our borders. If you have time, I recommend you do a segment covering Andrew Ellicott’s survey of the 35th parallel and the dispute over GA’s northern border!
I've been long aware of the Ellis Island situation. The real reason for the litigation was to decide which state got to collect sales tax revenue from concessions on Ellis Island.
You've never worked in government have you? There are some unimaginatively petty people in politics, and a lot of them are in the governments of NY and NJ.
"UA-cam algorithm doesn't really favor that very much, so let's run 2 minutes of ad at the end of 9 minutes of content, thereby making sure we go well over the 10 minute length favored by the algorithm."
Yeah, it's a lie. The algorithm does recommend videos less when they are under 10 minutes, but there is no inherent upper limit. There is a limit linked to retention time, since lets say a 3 hour video is unlikely to be watched all the way by most viewers, but this does not have much of an effect on videos under 30 minutes.
The rectangular-looking Canadian province of Saskatchewan has a jagged border with Manitoba. When Saskatchewan was surveyed in the 19th century, townships were designed to be 6 miles square, but that meant that every 24 miles going north from the southern border, a jog had to be put in the eastern border, 225 feet, to keep the townships from shrinking.
Technically there is just one: the Kentucky Bend, and that is strictly an exclave as it borders two different states. The river is fully part of the state so having to cross the river to get to another part of the state does not make that part an exclave.
@@Quintinohthree nah mate if you look at a map there are plenty of them. I look at maps all the time. For example there is a big piece of Kentucky across the Ohio river that should be on the Indiana side in Evansville and that’s just one.
@@jakekillsrah1933 Right, across the Ohio River, which is in Kentucky, both banks and everything in between, so you go from Kentucky, cross a river which is still all in Kentucky, and then you gwt to Kentucky. That's not an exclave or an enclave, that's just the border no longer following the current course of a river
For the amount of Colorado references you make, you must either live there or be from there! 😂 I am a native Denverite though, so I always love seeing the references!
7:00 I think we have situations like Hancock everywhere in Germany. Our state lines are based on geographical features and centuries old land claims, so there's probably not a single straight line anywhere longer than a few hundred meters. Switching states several times on a straight stretch of road isn't that rare here.
Minor nitpick: The NY-NJ dispute did not "go all the way up to the Supreme Court." SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over disputes between states. The case started and ended with SCOTUS.
Probably my favourite bizarre state boundary situation is the Kentucky Bend, a piece of Kentucky separated from the rest of the state as a result of the Mississipi River and the boundary agreements between Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. The 36.5 Parallel was supposed to be the whole boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky up to the river, but when surveyors reached the river it was a 10th of a degree north of the parallel. The one between Kentucky and Missouri is the river, hence why Kentucky Bend is cut off from the rest of the state
2:29 well actually, if you take it from ancient Greek, but flip the digits, as with the rest of the shapes, it's a hexakosia kai enenekonta kai hepta-gon, or all in one word, hexakosiakaienenekontakaiheptagon
Yea. That kinda checks out actually! Especially because since the eastern states were made first (in our analogy, the toddler drew them first and probably didnt have stencils on hand/really messed up, which kinda explains the natural-ness of some of their borders in a way that makes you question what I am doing with my life due to my overthinking
Yarnhub, Simple History, Over Simplified, Sam O'Nella Acadamy, Half as Interesting, etc. There's loads of channels that do historical content, in visualized form in very entertaining ways.
I moved from the UK to Toledo as part of a foreign exchange for two semesters between my university here and UT. From my personal experience all I can say is, Ohio, it was not worth fighting over. 😂
Can we remind the US of the NC and VA borders in the outer banks where 18 miles south of the VA line there is an outer banks island which belongs to VA and the beaches belong to north carolina there is a similar situation where the town of beaufort NC/SC is cut in half. Not sure why either of these happened but if that could be clarified it would be great.There are probably more and probably an entire show in the outer banks.
He does it to stretch his videos to get lots of extra money and he used to be a good youtuber like 2 to 4 years ago the 1 year ago to now all of his videos were dumb sponsored
There’s also a little circle of land in the southwestern corner of Kentucky that’s completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee called the Kentucky Bend. It’s pretty weird.
Wow that was so cool and quite funny to me haha I love your videos I'm from Mexico I can't understand a 10-15 % of what you're saying but your channel is a lot interesting to me I've learned a lot from you thank you
I forget who made it, but there's a good video somewhere on YT that talks about the borders of Bangladesh and India. I think that is far more confusing.
I watched the Nebula version and the extended part is actually quite short so the whole video is actually shorter than this because there is no sponsored part there so yea
Video getting long??? Wtf it's at 9minutes with an ad at the beginning and a 2 minute one at the end. Really pushing nebula pretty hard these days I see. Sad man.
Sucks when these creators gain so much ego because they made it good in one platform they want to get "famous" in others as well! Wish they would just make these videos for fun and the fans and the mony is just a bonus for doing a fun hobby instead of a job...
I've been to the Lost Peninsula in Michigan. It's a bunch of private houses/marinas, two restaurants, and a small sign saying "Lost Peninsula." That's it. Since it's not much, it doesn't surprise me that few people know of it
Actually it does, it's 1500 meters (a little shorter than a statute mile). Also legally miles were used to define and measure all these borders as they are in the US.
3:18 CGP Grey explained this in his video. Back then New York was richer and more powerful than New Jersey, and wanted all of the Hudson river and complete monopoly of the river crossing ferry services over New Jersey. New Jersey protested. The Supreme Court dealt a compromise and designated the islands for New York so that the border goes in the middle and New Jersey got to keep their own ferry services.
Worth mentioning would be Point Roberts, a tiny Peninsula near Vancouver, BC that drops must below the Canadians/US border and is an isolated portion of Washington.
You should definitely mention that in Michigan, you have to go south to get to Canada from Detroit. Also I'm surprised that you didn't include the northwest angle in Minnesota!
If you like these weird borders, you can watch the extended edition over on Nebula with a few more along with the first episode of my brand new series Ghost Towns!! Ghost Towns especially is super cool, I'm traveling to ghost towns across the United States and hopefully later the world to document what they're like today and how they became abandoned. The first episode is live on Nebula right now and it's about the communities around the Salton Sea in California. The best way to get access to Nebula is through the bundle deal with CuriosityStream at CuriosityStream.com/reallifelore, which is absurdly only $12 for an entire year right now. Thanks so much y'all for sticking around in 2020 and I'll see you all again throughout 2021 :)
I’m at this comment 2 minutes after you posted it, and I’m the second like.
YT's algorithm is so stupid
No @RealLifeLore you always get sponsored every video and you talk about the sponsor to stretch your videos and that is to anying stop getting sponsored and no one wants to use it and we have to pay to use your dumb sponsor you used to make good videos then you always got sponsored try to make your videos good again by not getting sponsored ok please just not get sponsored or else just don't get sponsored again
Hi I am a big fan
@@masynbeene5485 this comment pepelaugh
The US East: borders shaped by rivers and mountains
The US west: *RECTANGLES*
Given all those errors and issues and quarrels in the east, I don't blame them for just giving up when they expanded west lmao
Nevada: How about *a diagonal line?*
There are no mountains on the east, only hills.
@@C4pt41nN3m0 So would Idaho.
And Montana.
4:40 “To be fair, they didn’t really know what they were doing” This one statement sums up most of human history
True, people still don't seem to know what they are doing even today.
And the present, and the future. Government administrators are the worst of course.
@@jimmym3352 Yup.
meanwhile in 2020
Ik life is just us trying to figure out what the hell where doing what's the point 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
if Colorado is a hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon, I don’t wanna know what the eastern states are
Hexaxcroeryterhdrtgds5yttheo-cetganfrt
Hexajexnomaxcodarodakoxlopaxskorxmatagon
i live in colorado until 9 days in future
Fartigon
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1:56 Honestly being only 1 mile off is pretty damn impressive for the method.
It likely jutted in and out plenty, sometimes straying too far west, sometimes too far east. I would have found it stranger if it were more off, because then there would have been a clear bias in some direction.
...Fair point, actually. 1 mile isn't really that much in one of the largest countries in the world in terms of land area.
It is pretty rugged terrain, although it's not really through the mountains.
POV: you’re in Delaware and this is the most recognition anyone out side the state has given to DE
shoutout to Delaware for raising President Biden! 🙏
From Maryland: We love you Delaware!
Deutschland?
from mayland here !! we love your arrival center !! and delaware bridge
What’s your insta?
Colorado not being a perfect rectangle hurt me inside
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@@AxxLAfriku Oh hi again
How is your day going?
truly disturbing
AnonymousPerson its a bot
F
Every state: *Has a unique and distinctive shape to it*
Wyoming: *RECTANGLE*
Every SEA country: Has unique shapes to them.
Malaysia and Indonesia:
*Crescent*
@@Saviarai-Dravolika indonesia and papua:
Well, that DOES make it unique in its own way.
Florida
Gun
Or semi chub
Pakistan: Dog
Who was the loser of the Ohio Michigan war?
Wisconsin
😆 good one Joel!
Exactly
hold up
Thanks, Ohio
Not funny didn’t laugh
All the borders mess starts with someone saying: "Let's ignore all the natural landmarks and people occupations and define this border as a straight line. "
Yes!! And the modern Middle East is born! 💥💣
"This video is getting long. Let me spend 20% of the video shilling for my sponsors."
Nebula is plain shit in my opinion
People: colorado is a rectangle
RLL: No its a jsjdudjebsbsndjsjsjgsvs heptigon
Hexahectanneacontakai heptagon pfff let keep that on a rectangle
Hexagon is the bestagon!
@@VezWay007 ye 😂
I was fine with this comment until use spelled "heptagon" wrong.
Get it correct. Colorado is an Idontgiveafuckenshitagon 😂
So the Ohio and Michigan rivalry goes even further back than I thought lol
HAHA
@Turşugül Katranbacı Ohio is easily a better name
as a person from michigan, i gotta say, Ohio has a cooler flag and a dope license plate, even though y’all have to get a front license plate 😏
@@SuperDeuser as an Ohioan I second this
@Turşugül Katranbacı lmao ok it’s not the best name
I’m glad I looked at my phone before I got in the shower.
Edit: I didn’t think clarification was needed but wow the internet is a stupid place. I didn’t watch the video in the shower I watched the video and then had a shower.
Get out of my head
Same
TMI
How do you know my actions lol
@Ali Morrar same! Toilet gang
I live in Colorado and since it’s such a small state ( at least in media ) I just feel so warm when it’s talked about. Especially for that long
Made you feel warm and cozy in the inside?
i live in texas and you know how there is popular states? well my family always talks about colorado and utah cause so many family live there... and florida
what weird states lok
@@JonJon-du9ne 🤨
Ohio and Michigan: *Fight over Toledo Strip*
Federal Government: "It's all Ohio"
Ohio: "Always has been"
damn sraight
As it should be.
Also Federal Government: Take a random peninsula that really belongs to Wisconsin
@@randomperson5918 when it comes to borders in the US there’s usually always negotiations in statehood and for some reason robbing a peninsula
omg thats so true
Michigan and Ohio: *Fight over Toledo*
Spain: "Get the fuck out of my country!"
1st reply, but no one probably cares.
@@hi-sg5fh nobody cares
The US should invade Spain just in case
I live in Toledo Ohio lol
So who loses? Wisconsin.
Asian borders: is drawn by mountain ridges, or a river dividing them
Europeans: does the same
North American borders: *I GOT LINES WHAT YOU WANT*
What about the Finger Lakes?
North America's not alone though, a lot of African borders are also principally made up of straight lines, and some Middle Eastern ones, though the Middle Eastern ones are actually pretty workable for the most part as they cross uninhabitable desert where no one lives.
Shows how little you actually know about US geography. There are still a lot of borders defined by rivers. California and Arizona, Texas and Mexico, parts of Idaho and Montana. Not sure if that's a river or mountain range dividing Idaho from Oregon and Washington.
Also, Europe and Asia were divided when mountains meant something. And some of those mountains are bigger than what we have.
Remember the papuan border
Kazakhstan & gibraltar:
"Hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon"
-Colorado, USA
Oh boy
What
@@bentleymoody9400 ok once more Hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon 😆
@@bryanwesleyko564 why
@@bentleymoody9400 because yes 😅
The "extended cut" on Nebula is 9:44. The extra content is literally shorter than the Nebula ad on the UA-cam version.
Well this ad seems misleading now
To be fair, they probably tried to cut out as little as possible while still getting a decent paycheck. They deserve the revenue.
Have you considered that on the nebula version they probably removed the nebula ad? Lol
You're saying it's kinda nebulous?
RLL: "Everybody knows Michigan has this big upper peninsula..."
People outside the US: "hmm..."
I wonder if Wisconsinites feel the UP should rightly belong to them...
@@riggs20 That be the strangest looking state though.
@@brandonlyon730 LOL! I don't know. I think Maryland would still win the "Weirdest Looking Borders" award! 😀
Idk I'm from Ohio and I didn't know about that smaller Michigan enclave.
@@riggs20 wisconsin didnt get statehood until about a decade after this conflict (if you can call it that) but people there still do wish/believe that the UP should be a part of wisconsin. plus a lot of uppers are packers fans so they probably wouldnt mind.
"Colorado ain't no rectangle"
- Real Life Lore 2020
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Well we still have Wyoming 🙃😉
@@pulkitmohta8964 wyoming ain't no rectangle
@@arandomcommenter6759 Thats no shock considering it doesn't exist
Latitudinal borders are actually circular, with the midpoints based on the North and South Poles
Realifelore: *exists.* Dashlane, Brilliant, and Squarespace: *I can milk you.*
He cares more about those websites than his videos.
What about skillshare aaaaaa
Delawarean here... thank you for getting The Wedge history and geography EXACTLY RIGHT !!!
As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I always wondered why the hell the UP was part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. Never realized it was because there was contention between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip. Tell you what, Michigan made out like bandits in that deal.
We sure did, the UP is fantastic. And Toledo... is the home of the Tigers farm team.
Do u guys really eat cheese religiously?
@@Wisegoatface That’s a rather odd question. Just because Wisconsin is known for its cheese doesn’t mean people eat it “religiously.” It’s a common food there just due to the fact the state has a large amount of dairy farms.
Personally, I like cheese quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it’s eaten religiously.
I support UP being part of Delaware
"This video is already getting pretty long and youtube doesn't like that"
1 minute of Nebula ad
OK
Yeah because that is stretching videos
On my channel you won't see sponsors :)
@@ThisIsThePlanet please don’t advertise channels like that :(
@@esolangsemerald6394 why not? :(
It's actually a 2 minute ad
New York: *expands into New Jersey waters*
I can see why New York is the Empire State
Building
RLL’s mortal enemy: Delaware’s circle boarder.
Yeah i know it's pretty stupid 😅
forget the stright borders its all about circle boarders now
All US borders based on latitude are circular (midpoints based on the North and South Poles)
The more I learn about US geography and how the individual states were formed, the more I realize it's basically 50 countries kind of haphazardly glued together XD
lol as an American, this is how most of us see it, we're still all Americans but our states have their own holidays, cultures, traditions, history, and laws.
But they didn’t feel like gluing Alaska and Hawaii.
Hey, cool video! I’m a land surveyor myself, and it’s fascinating to learn about all the land disputes and errors that eventually decided our borders. If you have time, I recommend you do a segment covering Andrew Ellicott’s survey of the 35th parallel and the dispute over GA’s northern border!
4:28 Virginia resident here, we actually have a name for the VA, DE, MD border gore. Its referred to as Delmarva.
Out of all the issues going on imagine going to the Supreme Court over a tiny island 😂
I've been long aware of the Ellis Island situation. The real reason for the litigation was to decide which state got to collect sales tax revenue from concessions on Ellis Island.
The islands NY and NJ are small islands, but big moneymakers, since the statue of liberty is on liberty island and Ellis island makes money too
You've never worked in government have you? There are some unimaginatively petty people in politics, and a lot of them are in the governments of NY and NJ.
Supreme Court: Cool; no heavy thinking and I get to look at a map.
Better than fighting a war over the Falkand Islands.
I thought "The Toledo Strip" was a gentleman's club...
“This video has been getting pretty long”
*hasn’t even gotten to 10 minutes yet*
The strange peninsula on the bottom right of michigan is called the "lost peninsula". Its like a 25 min drive around
LIBERTY ISLAND: New York or New Jersey? CGP Grey discussed this a few years ago.
Yeah
Only reason I clicked this video
Like 8 years ago
@@JestyrThe Jersey Shore
I love CGP Grey... I'm so happy he's kinda sorta back lol
Gotta love people talking about the weird borders of my home state of Delaware.
4:05 Oh my gosh, it was like a retro version of the South China Sea Dispute!
Colorado: im a square
Wyoming: in your dreams (turns colorado into a Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagon)
“Colorado AIN’T no rectangle”😭😭i lost it at the beginning of the video and had to pause. 😂laughed way too hard
Same energy with "What the HELL is goin on with Maryland"
Why? It's the most overused rap lyric.
"YT algorithm doesn't really favor that very much."
*looks at YT recommendations and their 16 to 30 minute videos*
Yaa
Its just a ploy to get you to sign up for that other shit
"UA-cam algorithm doesn't really favor that very much, so let's run 2 minutes of ad at the end of 9 minutes of content, thereby making sure we go well over the 10 minute length favored by the algorithm."
Yeah, it's a lie. The algorithm does recommend videos less when they are under 10 minutes, but there is no inherent upper limit. There is a limit linked to retention time, since lets say a 3 hour video is unlikely to be watched all the way by most viewers, but this does not have much of an effect on videos under 30 minutes.
I got recommended a 7+ hour video. If it's stuff you are interested in, it will usually be recommended to you regardless of length.
7:30 Michigan has 3 disconnected peninsulas. You have to count the “main” one as a peninsula, too, and such, the total is 3.
The u.s is like a whole bunch of mini countries in 1 always arguing.
A bunch of mini-countries in a trenchcoat
And the EU is a worse version of the USA
The Narator's criticisms about borders always makes me entertained.
You may be easily amused.
The rectangular-looking Canadian province of Saskatchewan has a jagged border with Manitoba. When Saskatchewan was surveyed in the 19th century, townships were designed to be 6 miles square, but that meant that every 24 miles going north from the southern border, a jog had to be put in the eastern border, 225 feet, to keep the townships from shrinking.
This entire video is just "What were the colonists thinking when figuring out the borders!!?!"
“The Toledo War”
Combatants: Michigan, Ohio
Winner: Michigan and Ohio (sorta)
Loser: Wisconsin
The real loser is Ohio, they had to get Toledo
It could have been worse at least got cody from alternatehistoryhub
Why did they have to ruin Wisconsin with this deal.
The worst trade deal in the history of trade deals
@@Username-cj8hm Wisconsin: about that
I'm from Toledo. Trust me, Ohio lost that war. Gettimg Toledo was worse than Wisconsin losing th UP.
Geowizard needs to see the part about colorado, reminds me of his straight line missions.
0:31 “Colorado ain’t no rectangle”
This made me laugh embarrassingly loud at home
Sameeee
"Wacky united states"
-German empire, 1918.
There are so many enclaves an enclaves with the Mississippi and Missouri River states, due to the changing of the river
Don’t forget about the Ohio and Delaware river as well
Technically there is just one: the Kentucky Bend, and that is strictly an exclave as it borders two different states. The river is fully part of the state so having to cross the river to get to another part of the state does not make that part an exclave.
@@Quintinohthree nah mate if you look at a map there are plenty of them. I look at maps all the time. For example there is a big piece of Kentucky across the Ohio river that should be on the Indiana side in Evansville and that’s just one.
@@jakekillsrah1933 Right, across the Ohio River, which is in Kentucky, both banks and everything in between, so you go from Kentucky, cross a river which is still all in Kentucky, and then you gwt to Kentucky. That's not an exclave or an enclave, that's just the border no longer following the current course of a river
Maybe he talks about it in Nebula
For the amount of Colorado references you make, you must either live there or be from there! 😂 I am a native Denverite though, so I always love seeing the references!
"see the thumbnail"
Ah it's cgp grey
U mean Florida man?
AMERICAN_BURGERS ye
As someone from Ohio, give toledo to Michigan, or as I call it little Detroit
As someone from Sylvania, I’d much rather live in Michigan
Ohio still has got plenty of little Detroits. Lorain, Akron, Youngstown ect.
For anyone wondering, Michigan wanted Toledo to increase its population enough for statehood
exclaves and enclaves: we are a mess
ellis island: *let me introduce myself*
edit: no point reading the comments lol
*enclaves and exclaves
@@z01nk3r5 thanks
You've not seen the India-Bangladesh border then?
@@dcarbs2979 thats enclaves and exclaves lol
@@imadeyoureadthis9124 The terms are commutable
I love how this series has gone on for like 4 years at this point
7:00 I think we have situations like Hancock everywhere in Germany. Our state lines are based on geographical features and centuries old land claims, so there's probably not a single straight line anywhere longer than a few hundred meters. Switching states several times on a straight stretch of road isn't that rare here.
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Minor nitpick: The NY-NJ dispute did not "go all the way up to the Supreme Court." SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over disputes between states. The case started and ended with SCOTUS.
Probably my favourite bizarre state boundary situation is the Kentucky Bend, a piece of Kentucky separated from the rest of the state as a result of the Mississipi River and the boundary agreements between Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. The 36.5 Parallel was supposed to be the whole boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky up to the river, but when surveyors reached the river it was a 10th of a degree north of the parallel. The one between Kentucky and Missouri is the river, hence why Kentucky Bend is cut off from the rest of the state
The feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons in "Huckleberry Finn" takes place there.
2:29 well actually, if you take it from ancient Greek, but flip the digits, as with the rest of the shapes, it's a hexakosia kai enenekonta kai hepta-gon, or all in one word, hexakosiakaienenekontakaiheptagon
say that word 5 times fast
I was just going to say that.
The us just looks like a map drawn by a toddler using rectangular stencils.
the west half*
Yea. That kinda checks out actually! Especially because since the eastern states were made first (in our analogy, the toddler drew them first and probably didnt have stencils on hand/really messed up, which kinda explains the natural-ness of some of their borders in a way that makes you question what I am doing with my life due to my overthinking
The people calculating Colorado's borders were doing straight line missions before GeoWizard made them popular.
Straight Line Mission across the Colorado borders coming soon.
"colorado aint no rectangle" just got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂
GeoWizard would've done a perfect straight line mission, only if he was there :D
Would love to see a "Straight line mission across Colorado"
The feeling when historical content is visualized and made interesting is only possible on this channel. :)
...other Channels do the exact same thing (:
Half as interesting: am I a joke to you?
Also wendover productions
Yarnhub, Simple History, Over Simplified, Sam O'Nella Acadamy, Half as Interesting, etc.
There's loads of channels that do historical content, in visualized form in very entertaining ways.
Check out Kraut, Extra History or the Crash Course series' on history. There's tons of high quality history content on UA-cam.
As a person that's from Wisconsin, I'm still salty that we don't have the upper peninsula.
I moved from the UK to Toledo as part of a foreign exchange for two semesters between my university here and UT. From my personal experience all I can say is, Ohio, it was not worth fighting over. 😂
I'm guessing you were the only English speaker there.
So as a Wisconsinite, we got screwed out of the UP because of Ohio? Just another reason to hate Ohio
Thanks for the copper and trees!
So you're a TRANSFORMER?
Hey fellow Wisconsinite, I'm in this beautiful state too!
Us Michiganders love our piece of land.
Was there a reason NOT to hate Ohio????
“This video is already getting pretty long”... continues to have an ad for the next 2 minutes.
I used to live right next to that Michigan upper peninsula. So cool that you included it!
Can we remind the US of the NC and VA borders in the outer banks where 18 miles south of the VA line there is an outer banks island which belongs to VA and the beaches belong to north carolina there is a similar situation where the town of beaufort NC/SC is cut in half. Not sure why either of these happened but if that could be clarified it would be great.There are probably more and probably an entire show in the outer banks.
People: Colorado is a rectangle
RLL: No it’s a hexahectanneacontakai heptagon
ngl this is my favorite series of yours
10 minutes isn’t too long for the UA-cam Algorithm what do you mean
just a way to plug his paid shit
That's what I was thinking. In fact, most channels stretch videos out to 10 minutes because it's better according to the algorithm
I think the algorithm favors 8 minute videos now
I really wanted to see the rest of the video but nebula is for money
He does it to stretch his videos to get lots of extra money and he used to be a good youtuber like 2 to 4 years ago the 1 year ago to now all of his videos were dumb sponsored
Learning that Colorado isn’t a rectangle sums up how 2020 was to all of us.
There’s also a little circle of land in the southwestern corner of Kentucky that’s completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee called the Kentucky Bend. It’s pretty weird.
dang 1 mile off that’s really impressive
Wow that was so cool and quite funny to me haha
I love your videos I'm from Mexico I can't understand a 10-15 % of what you're saying but your channel is a lot interesting to me I've learned a lot from you thank you
Usa: The Most Confusing Geography Country in the World
I forget who made it, but there's a good video somewhere on YT that talks about the borders of Bangladesh and India. I think that is far more confusing.
@@BahKnee I mean those enclaves (including that third-order-enclave) are fixed
I watched the Nebula version and the extended part is actually quite short so the whole video is actually shorter than this because there is no sponsored part there so yea
Noone:
Absolutely noone:
Not even one atom in this universe or any other:
Oklahoma: *P A N H A N D L E*
Florida: am I nothing to you?
Texas: I'm wearing a top hat.
“ Colorado ain’t no rectangle” HAHA🤣🤣🤣🤣
geography: Colorado is a perfect rectangle...
real life lore: that ain't no rectangle...
2:08
GeoWizard: Yep that's easy lol
Video getting long??? Wtf it's at 9minutes with an ad at the beginning and a 2 minute one at the end. Really pushing nebula pretty hard these days I see. Sad man.
Sucks when these creators gain so much ego because they made it good in one platform they want to get "famous" in others as well! Wish they would just make these videos for fun and the fans and the mony is just a bonus for doing a fun hobby instead of a job...
I can see he is trying to milk the last few dollars out of the December add
Yes he definitely is
I’m surprised he didn’t bring up the Kentucky Bend in Fulton County.
Me too. its probably in the "extended cut".
I've been to the Lost Peninsula in Michigan. It's a bunch of private houses/marinas, two restaurants, and a small sign saying "Lost Peninsula." That's it. Since it's not much, it doesn't surprise me that few people know of it
2:29 Forget CGP Grey! Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagons are the Bestagons!!!
Lmao
What about penrose
Everybody: "The United States is a complicated country"
RealLifeLore: "a complicated geometry"
“Colorado ain’t no rectangle” new merch 2021
Did you do Mississippi state yet in another video? That will be interesting!
That wicked smooth transition at 8:54 😎
Metric doesn't contain some miles pseudounit. I'd recommend to stick with SI.
Actually it does, it's 1500 meters (a little shorter than a statute mile). Also legally miles were used to define and measure all these borders as they are in the US.
This is America we're talking about.
3:18 CGP Grey explained this in his video. Back then New York was richer and more powerful than New Jersey, and wanted all of the Hudson river and complete monopoly of the river crossing ferry services over New Jersey. New Jersey protested. The Supreme Court dealt a compromise and designated the islands for New York so that the border goes in the middle and New Jersey got to keep their own ferry services.
Worth mentioning would be Point Roberts, a tiny Peninsula near Vancouver, BC that drops must below the Canadians/US border and is an isolated portion of Washington.
5:30 becuase of delawere's stupid border to the north
lmao thats exactly where i live
The first one hurt me deep down inside because I live in Colorado.
You should definitely mention that in Michigan, you have to go south to get to Canada from Detroit. Also I'm surprised that you didn't include the northwest angle in Minnesota!