Get in! And sorry everyone, I had to make this quiz immediately for Premium members only for a bit...Tom's popularity caused a big Google Maps bill last time :) Thanks to everyone who became Premium and supported the site, and there's still a lot you can do without becoming a paid member! And Tom...per the directions you can mouseover those purple markers at the end to see the 25 largest cities you missed :)
I'm pretty sure you could switch to opensource maps, right? It's not that hard to make your own satellite map or use one that isn't that high res since you don't need to zoom in far anyways.
@@Speeskees I despise ads. And this is my full time job, so I will try to make money on it. But also I can't pay thousands to Google every month every time Tom takes a quiz on my site.
TBH I totally disagree with Tom's strategy. As a veteran exam taker, you do the simplest ones first because you want to bank your wins, not be overly strategic. In other words, I'd do what you are saying!
15:48, i was waiting forever for him to fill the gap under London and he finally did it unintentionally with 'Leigh', a small town near Royal Tunbridge Wells
You have to do this with the United States, but use the same strategy as last time. Type in the names of European cities and you'll fill in the whole map.
@@davidb708 The US has a bunch more though. They have at least 20 places called Berlin. Same goes for Paris and to a lesser extent Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna and even Moscow. Not to mention you'll get about 5% of the US covered by just entering Springfield.
I'm from Hastings - all we have is a bunch of Norman / Saxon references! Even the hospital is called Conquest Hospital. At lest your town is know for something that happened within the last 900 years
I like to think of Geowizard and Tom as two different people. Tom does the adventures and Geowizard does the online geography guessing content. Love both of em the same
while it does feels like that to me as an occasional viewer (of both types of content equally), i really like to remember myself that that guy running straight towards a bush while there is a path next to it is also capable of mapping the whole country he is traveling through with remarkable precision. really adds to the chaotic character
I think these videos would be nicer without the time limit. It's way more interesting to see how much you actually know, than to see how fast can you think of *some* of the things you know. Love them either way.
I'm impressed that he almost got Scrabster - I lived in Thurso area for a few months and that's the only reason I know of it. But yeah, how he could he miss Berwick - especially after mentioning Scottish football teams?
In the best way possible, this is incredible bedtime content. Just 20 minutes of a cheeky Brit naming little British towns, put me right to sleep and had the best sleep
I had to reply to this comment, I’ve now tried watching this video 3 times before I go to sleep and fell asleep mid way through the first two times, finally finished it tonight
He gets tunnel vision. I was screaming at him to look at the top 100 list to try and think of big places. Scattergunning can be better than systematic in this kind of quiz I think
That 'we might go to Eastbourne' reference warmed the cockles of my heart, Tom. Also appreciate how we both go 'Forfar' immediately after wrongly guessing 'East Fife'
As a Pembrokeshire man, yes, St Davids would've chipped the rest of the north west coast of the county off nicely. Also, quite ashamed at how giddy I got when he went straight for 'Pembroke' my hometown. Almost let out a wry cheer.
I think the top 100 city you missed was Armagh in Northern Ireland, looks like one of the pink dots at the end is over it and it has a population of over 200k. Great video.
I love that your video makes them have to do this: "NOTICE - As with the Europe coverage quiz I have to make this quiz for Premium members only (the map won’t display if you aren’t) due to a Geowizard video. The Google Maps usage was costs quite a bit when he makes a video and this quiz would get well over 10K plays per day - check back in the near future and it should be available to all again."
It's pronounced "bid-ee-foured" bideford haha! And it's in north Devon not "back down in cornwall" haha! Very entertaining though dude. Your knowledge of the uk towns and cities is astounding! Keep up the good work!
@@PiousMoltartheres quite a few towns in wales everywhere tbh whenever i drive to visit family. U wouldn’t think many people live in the middle but quite a few do. When he was doing it i was shouting at my screen these random names 😂
There was a notable gap in north Sussex for a while and I was looking forward to see you come up with something to fill it but when doing the north Midlands I think you got a village down there at the same time and covered it... Very unsatisfying but a great video none the less. Reckon I could've done better in Scotland but your knowledge of Wales was awesome, maybe Llanberis could've filled a bit of the northern gap you had? Will have to give this a go myself!
Very well done, but I was slightly shocked you missed Glasgow. In fairness though, you seemed to be focusing on smaller cities first, plus you didn't spend a lot of time in Scotland.
@@ShirotheWiseWolf you know, every time I learn about new locations in this country and the UK in general, and how oddly they're pronounced I get more and more annoyed. WHO DECIDED THAT BURGH SHOULD BE SAID "BOROUGH" I want to cryy
@@Blackholebirb It's because of standardisation of regional dialects and accents into one written language. From celts, romans, anglos, saxons, jutes, danes, norwegians, normans and modern influence, all these people groups in different areas of influence have caused different affects. Then imagine forcing one writing system of the remnants of that, an absolute mess, ahaha~ Modern English is such a mongrel language already, but place names will always be weird, since normal words may have different pronunciations, a name will be insisted on one proper pronunciation.
Only ever watched the adventure videos, but after your most recent video talking about the two halves of your channel, i decided to give the geography a go. Very enjoyable.
I've never been to England, but I'd wager I'd be able to fill in a fair bit of this map just by naming towns in Massachusetts. I didn't realize how many names we stole from the motherland until this video.
Yep, Im from the UK and really enjoy playing the US map on geoguessr, when im looking for a small town and searching a state im constantly seeing towns ive been to in the UK. Not to mention loads of repeats. I think ive seen atleast 10 different Manchesters all over the US.
Actually UK town names is a pretty decent strategy in the US because not only do most of them exist in at least one state but quite a few of them exist in like a lot of US states. I think everyone has a Norfolk, Suffolk Essex, Plymouth Portsmouth, Portland, Manchester, Bristol, York, Lancaster, Lincoln (probably named after the president and not the town but it is one anyway), Birmingham, Glasgow, Newport, Aberdeen, Carlisle
I'm English (from Plymouth, Pilgrim Fathers, Mayflower etc) and I've been to Massachusetts several times. Driving from Boston to Castine in Maine virtually every town seemed to be named after an English (or British) town. I enjoyed the Samuel Adams beer in Boston!
Now this is the content I subscribe for. Great video mate Hoped you’d do a bit better in the North East tbh. Hexham was the one you were thinking of but couldn’t quite remember. Absolutely butchered the pronunciation of Alnwick too
I think Taunton would've filled up a lot of the gap north of Exeter. I stayed a couple of weeks at a cottage outside of Exeter in the summer of 1999, back when my parents could afford to do such things, and I remember Taunton was the most common placename on all of the road signs outside of Exeter even if I'm not sure if we ever went to Taunton itself.
When it comes to guessing Irish town names (applies both to NI and ROI), there are a handful of suffixes and prefixes that you can generally cram together and get lucky with. Bally/Balli (Town) Temple (Church) Kill/Kil (Church/Wood) Drum/Drom (Ridge) Carrick (Rock) Magh/May/Moy (Plain) Agha/Aghy/Aghey/Augha (Field) Cloon/Clon (Meadow) Loch/Lough (Lake) Carrig/Carrick/Craig (Rock) Letter (Hillside) Lis (Ring Fort) Port (Fort/Landing Place) Cloch/Cloich/Clough/Clogh (Stone) Knock (Hill) More (Big) Ros/Rush (Wood/Headland) Tully/Tullagh (Mound) Clare (Level Land) There are plenty more, but those are (I think) a bunch of the more common ones.
That is absolutely and mindbogglingly impressive. I could NEVER do that for my home country and I like to say I'm far above average in geography. Really, really impressive, m8.
@@guevara550 I think he did get Birmingham, the cities are counted if they are in the proximity of another cities circle, so at 12:46 when he gets Walsall he didn't need to get Birmingham because it was in Walsall's circle.
Also, if you look at where Harrogate is, just above Leeds, there is no circle covering it, and it has a population of 90,000 which is in the top 100 in the UK
A good tip for doing the USA one, just start typing out UK names for awhile. Chances are most of them will come up 1 or more times in the US especially on the East Coast and especially in the north east
I love your channel!! I am a geo nerd myself and have been watching in atlasses since forever, even before I could read I could name many capital cities with their countries. Now I have a nice collection of old atlasses which is really cool. I would like to sell my house and buy a campervan and try to cover as many countries as possible in circles too. Doesn't need in one trip, but in parts, I would already happy with that.
Glad you didn’t forget about us in Thetford but I spent the whole video trying to tell you to say southwold or lowestoft to fill in Suffolk. Haven’t yet tried doing this one on intermediate, I was surprised how hard I found wales and the north on easy
not from the uk, but i would guess the coast is far more populated than some inlands, so the neighbouring towns might make up for what's lost in terms of area
Genuinely really fun content. I have never ever seen anyone really go in for geography the way you do, and it makes me interested in it as well. Cheers GeoWizard.
I live 5 mins away from Chipping Sodbury and when he said it I was so confused. It often gets merged into Yate as it’s so close together. If I’m heading into chipping sodbury I’ll just say I’m heading into Yate lol
A93 From Aberdeen directly West. Aberdeen > Banchory > Aboyne > Ballater. Possibly could give you a decent line across the North East of Scotland. Hope you see this, hope it helps 👍
Peterhead in Scotland was a mad shout. Lowestoft might have filled that gap a bit but I'm not 100% sure of it's exact location. Happy to see Aberdeen as an Aberdonian :)
Peterhead was the focus of a somewhat popular TV show back in the day called Trawlermen, It's one of the first places that comes to mind when I think of Scotland
hey Tom I enjoyed your Video a lot. I originally come from bewdley but live near frankfurt since my childhood. so not too far from your hometown. I really enjoy youre outdoor Content. would love to see more of that even though i can imagine that outdoorcontent takes a lot more work such as editing and actually doing the content of the vid (straight line/ real life geoguessr/ etc) . lots of love from Bad Homburg vor der Höhe❤️❤️❤️
from what I can gather, 3 good ones I can think of are Bradford, Rotherham and like you already said in the video Mansfield. Perhaps Whitby? Great vid!
Nearly got hexham (guessing thats where you ment with hexton) just before corbridge, could have also done hydonbridge or haltwistle for the newcastle-carlisle train/a69 route. Also not sure how you missed berwick after alnwick But honestly no idea how you can do stuff like this, very impressed!
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And sorry everyone, I had to make this quiz immediately for Premium members only for a bit...Tom's popularity caused a big Google Maps bill last time :) Thanks to everyone who became Premium and supported the site, and there's still a lot you can do without becoming a paid member!
And Tom...per the directions you can mouseover those purple markers at the end to see the 25 largest cities you missed :)
great quiz, mate
you just try to cash in.. just admit you see a moneymaker here.
Just put on ads mate.. no need to make it "premium" just because its getting traction
I'm pretty sure you could switch to opensource maps, right? It's not that hard to make your own satellite map or use one that isn't that high res since you don't need to zoom in far anyways.
@@Caspar_ not nearly the available addons to make quizzes like this unfortunately.
@@Speeskees I despise ads. And this is my full time job, so I will try to make money on it. But also I can't pay thousands to Google every month every time Tom takes a quiz on my site.
I'm literally watching a man say names of places in my country as a form of entertainment. 10/10.
Well, at least it's your country...I literally just watched a man saying names of UK places for 25 minutes and I'm Italian 😂
Saying them very badly in many cases (Bideford, Alnwick etc)
(for anyone who doesn't know, the places in the comment above are pronounced "Biddyford" and "Annick"
@@stephenoxf I'm not convinced.
it's pretty boring compared to everything else on this channel
Me: "London. Birmingham. Bristol. Manchester. Liverpool... right that's helped."
Tom: "St Ives. Yes. Good start."
TBH I totally disagree with Tom's strategy. As a veteran exam taker, you do the simplest ones first because you want to bank your wins, not be overly strategic. In other words, I'd do what you are saying!
Bristol mentioned 🗣️🔥
I live so close to st ives lol (the cornwall one not the cambridge one)
@@nachovyofficial I was screaming Helston at the screen when he couldn't get the tip of the lizard lol
this is 100% the most british thing I have ever watched in my life
Close but i've just come from James May making a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich.
@@17Blower fairs
Watching this from Chipping Sodbury 😂
You poor sod...bury 😅
You’ve clearly never seen two blokes argue about football in a weatherspoons on a chewsday afternewn.
Couldn't stop laughing at 17:44 "Peterhead" in Lois Griffin voice
Geowizard getting so gassed at filling the holes doesn't get old
Im so sad he missed the huge full by Leigh at 15:46
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@@Xeamesh Leigh lancashire?
Wrong website
Uh.
5:18 "We might go to Eastbourne"
Loved this little reference you added😂Daniel Wakeford's changed the British culture.
15:48, i was waiting forever for him to fill the gap under London and he finally did it unintentionally with 'Leigh', a small town near Royal Tunbridge Wells
Reigate/Redhill would have done nicely
As someone that lives on the border of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, I found your blast through the midlands exhilarating.
Me too!
and me. Big Up Burton Upon Trent!
@@eNTiTyDark 'Tis only my namesake
Wolverhampton could have made an appearance 😂 I suppose Bridgnorth, Walsall, and Shrewsbury did the job though 🤷🏼♂️
Big up burton on trent
With every passing video you remind me more and more of Mike Skinner and I can't unsee/unhear it
As a proud Scotsman, some of those pronunciations were brutal 😂great video mate!
your pronunciation of every word in the English language is brutal.
He did the same for english towns he was saying them the way he remembers the spelling, ie like an american would say it.
my ears are still ringing from things like lei-CES-ter
@@marclink0 That was a deliberate mispronunciation, unlike "bydeford" for Bideford (which really sounds like "biddyfud").
You're not alone, he even got Ely and Bideford wrong
I live in the part of the US called "New England" and I knew a lot of our town names came from English towns, but I had no idea just how many!
@Better Call Sol It was Braintree that really did me in!
One of the states most Americans even forget exists!
@@PeteRumleyNew england isnt a state 😅 its an area with multiple states
@@somebodyoncetoldme4640 ah bugger! It's new Hampshire that people forget 😅 my bad
@@PeteRumley always the small states 🫡
You have to do this with the United States, but use the same strategy as last time. Type in the names of European cities and you'll fill in the whole map.
Nobody cares about the us
100%. Perhaps even more so with Canada. London, Ontario even named the small river flowing through the city the Thames lmao
Probably just use common names as well. Seen plenty of Brandons, Jackson, Davids, Phillips,etc.
@@davidb708 The US has a bunch more though. They have at least 20 places called Berlin. Same goes for Paris and to a lesser extent Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna and even Moscow.
Not to mention you'll get about 5% of the US covered by just entering Springfield.
Name the town "Springfield" and you have half the map already
Glad Buxton helped you out! We can add that to the list of accomplishments right alongside being “the place where the water comes from.” 😆
Watching this only to see if there was a Buxton mention haha
Buxton is truly a great place to visit as someone not local
Another snuff for Leek 😢 tuttut
I'm from Hastings - all we have is a bunch of Norman / Saxon references! Even the hospital is called Conquest Hospital. At lest your town is know for something that happened within the last 900 years
I like to think of Geowizard and Tom as two different people. Tom does the adventures and Geowizard does the online geography guessing content. Love both of em the same
while it does feels like that to me as an occasional viewer (of both types of content equally), i really like to remember myself that that guy running straight towards a bush while there is a path next to it is also capable of mapping the whole country he is traveling through with remarkable precision. really adds to the chaotic character
I think these videos would be nicer without the time limit. It's way more interesting to see how much you actually know, than to see how fast can you think of *some* of the things you know. Love them either way.
Never before have i screamed "Berwick upon Tweed!" or "Scrabster!" quite so loudly.
I'm impressed that he almost got Scrabster - I lived in Thurso area for a few months and that's the only reason I know of it. But yeah, how he could he miss Berwick - especially after mentioning Scottish football teams?
After hearing him pronounce Alnwick, I knew his knowledge of the Northeast was gonna be awful :')
Was also screaming "Berwick" a lot!
I'm not sure Scrabster would've been on there. Would've been better to go for Thurso, which is right next to it.
Doubt Scrabster has over 1k anyway, so probably wouldn't have come up. He needed thurso.
In the best way possible, this is incredible bedtime content. Just 20 minutes of a cheeky Brit naming little British towns, put me right to sleep and had the best sleep
I had to reply to this comment, I’ve now tried watching this video 3 times before I go to sleep and fell asleep mid way through the first two times, finally finished it tonight
10:50 Barrow revealing 4 different circles and Tom not noticing makes me smile for some particular reason
5 even
He gets tunnel vision. I was screaming at him to look at the top 100 list to try and think of big places.
Scattergunning can be better than systematic in this kind of quiz I think
That 'we might go to Eastbourne' reference warmed the cockles of my heart, Tom. Also appreciate how we both go 'Forfar' immediately after wrongly guessing 'East Fife'
Fife 5, Forfaer 4
Well you covered 3690/4020=91.8% of all UK towns with your circles. I consider that well done, mate!
Can we say platinum?
Gotta love Tom being obsessed with landmass covered while the task asks him to cover town :D
99 of the 100 largest cities. I wonder which one he left out. =)
In Wales it's New Quay with a space. Also I think St David's is right on the bit you missed in Pembrokeshire.
As a Pembrokeshire man, yes, St Davids would've chipped the rest of the north west coast of the county off nicely. Also, quite ashamed at how giddy I got when he went straight for 'Pembroke' my hometown. Almost let out a wry cheer.
Didn't realise there was another Newquay/New Quay, I was about to comment saying he probably meant Newport lol
@@garethheath8747 I just couldn't believe someone else actually know where Milford Haven was immediately after!
Gotta say, wasn't expecting the town I grew up in to feature on a thumbnail today 😂
Same here 😂😂
Nor me! Also, Hey Ryan 😂
I'm surprised my tiny hometown even got in 😂
Sodding Chipbury
Haven't been this surprised since nuns on the run...
Tom struggling with „Pwllheli“ was hilarious to me. That has to be one of the hardest to pronounce town names
You have no idea how much I was shouting WHITBY at you 😂😂
Same, a perfect fit for that gap 🤣
Same with St Davids
Dorchester (dorset); Penrith; Abersoch i thought he would've got too
Same here I must have said it 10 times 😆
Not sure it would've covered much more than Scarborough but can't lie was doing the same 😂
I think the top 100 city you missed was Armagh in Northern Ireland, looks like one of the pink dots at the end is over it and it has a population of over 200k. Great video.
No somehow he missed belfast
I love that your video makes them have to do this:
"NOTICE - As with the Europe coverage quiz I have to make this quiz for Premium members only (the map won’t display if you aren’t) due to a Geowizard video. The Google Maps usage was costs quite a bit when he makes a video and this quiz would get well over 10K plays per day - check back in the near future and it should be available to all again."
Honestly, didn't expect you to get my town, I was waiting to be surprised, but that gap at East Anglia held firm!
The pink markers at the end are the biggest ones you missed, you could look them up after to see what big ones you missed
It's pronounced "bid-ee-foured" bideford haha! And it's in north Devon not "back down in cornwall" haha! Very entertaining though dude. Your knowledge of the uk towns and cities is astounding! Keep up the good work!
“I know quite a bit of wales” I should hope so
To be fair, he mainly knows the parts where nobody lives!
@@PiousMoltar "Nobody"... you can't forget about the farmers and farmer's mums
@@PiousMoltartheres quite a few towns in wales everywhere tbh whenever i drive to visit family. U wouldn’t think many people live in the middle but quite a few do. When he was doing it i was shouting at my screen these random names 😂
@@PiousMoltarthe markers aren’t that accurate in wales bc people r scattered so it only shows the main towns
He got Brecon which is where I live, it’s a small town!!
There was a notable gap in north Sussex for a while and I was looking forward to see you come up with something to fill it but when doing the north Midlands I think you got a village down there at the same time and covered it... Very unsatisfying but a great video none the less. Reckon I could've done better in Scotland but your knowledge of Wales was awesome, maybe Llanberis could've filled a bit of the northern gap you had? Will have to give this a go myself!
Very well done, but I was slightly shocked you missed Glasgow. In fairness though, you seemed to be focusing on smaller cities first, plus you didn't spend a lot of time in Scotland.
Mainly cos there isn't a football team called Glasgow!
And Belfast.
Gotta be entertained by a guy who misses Glasgow and Belfast but gets Louth and Bodmin.
@@pliubumas Belfast was covered by Bangor.
Was Glasgow that 1/100 missing? I was shouting Glasgow at the screen!
It was great meeting you at the bochum pitch last week, hope you had a great time. that was one unexpected surprise :D cheers!
Lowestoft would have definitely been a good one. You mentioned it several times and would have filled your gap on the east.
was thinking that the whole time
That’s the one I was after 😢
Nice beach at Lowestoft, the harrier jump jet couldn’t resist a dip 😂
I like to think that Justin Hawkins has watched this video and was screaming Lowestoft at the screen.
The most Easterly point of the UK no less!
"Football teams, East Fife, Forfar" loved that!!
First time I've ever hear Bideford pronounced that way but I'm using that from now on 😆
Remember to confidently assert that it's in Cornwall as well
I had been saying it for the whole time since he missed that gap! With the correct pronunciation 😅
As someone from a town near Forfar in Scotland, the way he pronounces some of these Scottish places gives me whiplash. Amazing video though ❤
Good job!
Just a few notes
Ely - pronounced Eel-ee
Lowestoft is below Great Yarmouth
Robin Hood's Bay - you needed the apostrophe
And Alnwick is pronounced A-Nik :')
@@ShirotheWiseWolf you know, every time I learn about new locations in this country and the UK in general, and how oddly they're pronounced I get more and more annoyed. WHO DECIDED THAT BURGH SHOULD BE SAID "BOROUGH" I want to cryy
@@Blackholebirb It's because of standardisation of regional dialects and accents into one written language. From celts, romans, anglos, saxons, jutes, danes, norwegians, normans and modern influence, all these people groups in different areas of influence have caused different affects. Then imagine forcing one writing system of the remnants of that, an absolute mess, ahaha~
Modern English is such a mongrel language already, but place names will always be weird, since normal words may have different pronunciations, a name will be insisted on one proper pronunciation.
Only ever watched the adventure videos, but after your most recent video talking about the two halves of your channel, i decided to give the geography a go. Very enjoyable.
I grew up in Louth, "great gap" is the nicest thing anyone's said about it I think 😂
I've never been to England, but I'd wager I'd be able to fill in a fair bit of this map just by naming towns in Massachusetts. I didn't realize how many names we stole from the motherland until this video.
Yep, Im from the UK and really enjoy playing the US map on geoguessr, when im looking for a small town and searching a state im constantly seeing towns ive been to in the UK. Not to mention loads of repeats. I think ive seen atleast 10 different Manchesters all over the US.
I was gonna comment like this is just a video a guy naming Massachusetts/ New England towns 😂
Actually UK town names is a pretty decent strategy in the US because not only do most of them exist in at least one state but quite a few of them exist in like a lot of US states. I think everyone has a Norfolk, Suffolk Essex, Plymouth Portsmouth, Portland, Manchester, Bristol, York, Lancaster, Lincoln (probably named after the president and not the town but it is one anyway), Birmingham, Glasgow, Newport, Aberdeen, Carlisle
I'm English (from Plymouth, Pilgrim Fathers, Mayflower etc) and I've been to Massachusetts several times. Driving from Boston to Castine in Maine virtually every town seemed to be named after an English (or British) town. I enjoyed the Samuel Adams beer in Boston!
@@dcs326well it’s called “new” England for a reason
I am from Louth and I can confirm that its a nice gap
The Louth Gap?
You mean hole, surely?
Same
Especially outside of bargain buys on a Friday afternoon , I've seen some good fights go down there
The strat would be to work from inland to the coast since you would be getting more map per circle.
Hi all, have a nice Tuesday! - Even if that's next week.
Tuesday in NZ hope yours is good as well
You too
21:24 I love how Preston filled in a different gap you weren't looking at and you didn't realize lmao
13:29 new reaction gif right there. 😂
Now this is the content I subscribe for. Great video mate
Hoped you’d do a bit better in the North East tbh. Hexham was the one you were thinking of but couldn’t quite remember.
Absolutely butchered the pronunciation of Alnwick too
I just watched a guy type British town names for 20 minutes and I love it
i'm french and so bad at geography, this is my type of content.
I saw the circles pop up and still think 25% of them sound made up
Keep up the quality content, Geoguessr, Adventures, whatever it is, I'm here for it!🤘 Also, was that a "So What?!" reference at 5:25 😂
I think Taunton would've filled up a lot of the gap north of Exeter. I stayed a couple of weeks at a cottage outside of Exeter in the summer of 1999, back when my parents could afford to do such things, and I remember Taunton was the most common placename on all of the road signs outside of Exeter even if I'm not sure if we ever went to Taunton itself.
I kept hoping he would finally put Taunton in it would’ve perfectly filled that gap 🤣
Thank you YT for recommending me this. Minehead! Blast from the past, went there 11 years ago on a geography trip for coursework with school… was fun
When it comes to guessing Irish town names (applies both to NI and ROI), there are a handful of suffixes and prefixes that you can generally cram together and get lucky with.
Bally/Balli (Town)
Temple (Church)
Kill/Kil (Church/Wood)
Drum/Drom (Ridge)
Carrick (Rock)
Magh/May/Moy (Plain)
Agha/Aghy/Aghey/Augha (Field)
Cloon/Clon (Meadow)
Loch/Lough (Lake)
Carrig/Carrick/Craig (Rock)
Letter (Hillside)
Lis (Ring Fort)
Port (Fort/Landing Place)
Cloch/Cloich/Clough/Clogh (Stone)
Knock (Hill)
More (Big)
Ros/Rush (Wood/Headland)
Tully/Tullagh (Mound)
Clare (Level Land)
There are plenty more, but those are (I think) a bunch of the more common ones.
We are pretty simple in Wales. Go for Llan (Church) and you'll pretty much knock off 99% of the landmass.
I’m from good old Milton Keynes! Was good to see you type that! Slap bang in the middle!
Chipping Sodbury had me dead. How can a place sound so nice and dull at the same time?
i live literally five minutes away from it 😭😭
That is absolutely and mindbogglingly impressive. I could NEVER do that for my home country and I like to say I'm far above average in geography. Really, really impressive, m8.
I think the one top 100 you missed is Harrogate. I used to live there and I was so sad that you didn't get it.
I don’t think he did Newcastle? He covered off my area with the small village of Leigh while putting in Leighton buzzard
I think he actually, somehow missed Birmingham.
@@guevara550 I think he did get Birmingham, the cities are counted if they are in the proximity of another cities circle, so at 12:46 when he gets Walsall he didn't need to get Birmingham because it was in Walsall's circle.
Also, if you look at where Harrogate is, just above Leeds, there is no circle covering it, and it has a population of 90,000 which is in the top 100 in the UK
@@charesberg1173 9:48
I think the pink markers at the end showed the places you missed and they were spread impressively thin.
Can’t believe you forgot your favourite city of Coventry 😂
Love how your mind went straight to football teams too!
A good tip for doing the USA one, just start typing out UK names for awhile. Chances are most of them will come up 1 or more times in the US especially on the East Coast and especially in the north east
That was very entertaining to watch mate.
Whitby would've filled that gap below Middlesborough nicely, along that north east coast
"What's that place by great Yarmouth... Doesn't matter ... " Ye the pretty much sums up Lowestoft
Bro I made this with Germany today, gonna upload it soon.
So crazy that you are doing the same thing with the UK👌
TOM! We love you, man! Never quit producing content, please. I've been a fan since 2021
my home town on the thumbnail !
fondly known as Sodding Chipbury. with 8 pubs in its high street, you can have a pub crawl in about 400 metres
I love your channel!! I am a geo nerd myself and have been watching in atlasses since forever, even before I could read I could name many capital cities with their countries. Now I have a nice collection of old atlasses which is really cool.
I would like to sell my house and buy a campervan and try to cover as many countries as possible in circles too. Doesn't need in one trip, but in parts, I would already happy with that.
"Newquay in Wales has not come up. That's naughty." That's because it's New Quay :)
Glad you didn’t forget about us in Thetford but I spent the whole video trying to tell you to say southwold or lowestoft to fill in Suffolk. Haven’t yet tried doing this one on intermediate, I was surprised how hard I found wales and the north on easy
I was about to complain until you finally hit Scotland 😂 the pronunciation all through the video had me laughing 🤣
Nice job man you killed it. I'd love to see you tackle the USA version. See if you can beat my score ;)
Doing the coast first might be a good strategy to remember what's next but he's also just covering a lot of the sea..
Yeah when he said he was going with the coast I thought that would be a mistake
not from the uk, but i would guess the coast is far more populated than some inlands, so the neighbouring towns might make up for what's lost in terms of area
@@bee_irl I’d say for the U.K. probably the opposite! A lot of the coastal places he mentioned are pretty small
this was so fun to watch i would love to see this again!!! i hoped it didnt stop!!
Belfast seems like a pretty glaring miss, no?
Bangor covers a lot of it anyway
Pretty sure he covered it with a circle which is what matters.
Glasgow too
Genuinely really fun content. I have never ever seen anyone really go in for geography the way you do, and it makes me interested in it as well. Cheers GeoWizard.
It’s nice to see you enjoy yourself so much. Some names though like Cockermouth!
Edit: worthful mention chipping sodbury
I live 5 mins away from Chipping Sodbury and when he said it I was so confused. It often gets merged into Yate as it’s so close together. If I’m heading into chipping sodbury I’ll just say I’m heading into Yate lol
@@lewisriches825 You would willingly miss an opportunity to say "Chipping Sodbury"????!
@@lewisriches825 I’m in Chipping Sodbury and I just say I’m from Yate. It’s easier 😂
@@leovigild_ well being local to the area means the novelty has worn off😂
Only people who say they are from sodbury are upper-middle class 😄
Always great content, can you please do more quess the year.
A93 From Aberdeen directly West. Aberdeen > Banchory > Aboyne > Ballater. Possibly could give you a decent line across the North East of Scotland. Hope you see this, hope it helps 👍
So good watching you do the Midlands. I'm from Stourbridge and was good to see you say Bewdley as I go there a lot. :)
Peterhead in Scotland was a mad shout. Lowestoft might have filled that gap a bit but I'm not 100% sure of it's exact location. Happy to see Aberdeen as an Aberdonian :)
Lowestoft is quite close to Yarmouth, not sure it would have completely filled the gap. Diss and Stowmarket might have helped a bit too.
Peterhead was the focus of a somewhat popular TV show back in the day called Trawlermen, It's one of the first places that comes to mind when I think of Scotland
Because of London's sheer size it looks stupid how barren it is in its blob
“Lockerbie (sorry)”
13:25 That Buxton you put in that was also in Norfolk, actually has the best chippy in the world.
That "sorry" after mentioning Lockerbie was a subtle touch of class. Wasn't much but showed what a genuinely nice bloke Tom seems to be.
16:07 for Northhampton
The best part of this is me imagining that we're all cheering at different points throughout the video when he mentions our town or city
hey Tom I enjoyed your Video a lot. I originally come from bewdley but live near frankfurt since my childhood. so not too far from your hometown. I really enjoy youre outdoor Content. would love to see more of that even though i can imagine that outdoorcontent takes a lot more work such as editing and actually doing the content of the vid (straight line/ real life geoguessr/ etc) .
lots of love from Bad Homburg vor der Höhe❤️❤️❤️
As someone from Scotland, those pronunciations were shocking. Especially Stranraer and Irvine 😂
some of the english ones wernt much better
@@K4L1997 Where as, surprisingly, he did pretty well with Llanelli.
from what I can gather, 3 good ones I can think of are Bradford, Rotherham and like you already said in the video Mansfield.
Perhaps Whitby?
Great vid!
You were so close to filling out North Wales. If only you put added another L and you'd have got Pwllheli
I knew I was just gonna watch him go “Widdicombe, Hufflepuff, Princeton-upon-Tyne” for 20 minutes and clicked anyway
"Cardiff is pointless" classic :D
Just to mention about Newquay, the Welsh one has a space in it so it’s “New Quay”. Great video as always Tom.
Watching him struggle to spell Pwllheli had me literally screaming at my TV 😂
You did great though, 248/250 is crazy good! 👍
The funny is - he got the pronunciation right (at least for this southern Englishman) - so it's odd that he didn't type the double 'll'.
@@zay-ju8fb This - as in me. Born in London, raised on south coast. But I've lived all around UK, including North Wales
Nearly got hexham (guessing thats where you ment with hexton) just before corbridge, could have also done hydonbridge or haltwistle for the newcastle-carlisle train/a69 route.
Also not sure how you missed berwick after alnwick
But honestly no idea how you can do stuff like this, very impressed!
yes here's me lying in bed in Haltwhistle thinking "yes he's typing it!" for him to then just stop and delete the text 😔😂
Big up my aunty who lives in chipping sodbury
Big up your aunt!
Well done, that was really impressive coverage. I was hoping you'd mentiom norfolk and hunstanton
glad you mentioned peterborough at the end, as insignificant as it can be
Hey Tom great Videos! Can you maybe Show us your pc and desk setup
We might go to Eastbourne 😂😂😂
Cromer on Norlfolk coast? Great vid Tom, insane knowledge