Examining Interesting Maps Part 5
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2021
- Part 5 in the series where I analyze various maps about the US, Canada, and the world. These are quality maps made my quality map creators.
Previous videos in the Examining Interesting Maps series:
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To play the "How Many Cities Can You Name?" game, click the link below (it's free and there's nothing sketchy on the site)
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Naming close to 3,000 towns and cities in the US is incredibly impressive, especially with how widespread your knowledge is from state to state!
i was thinking the same thing! he was bummed he didnt hit 3000! ive been all over the country and i, not sure i could name 300!
@@JakeKoenig Not sure why you feel the need to start an internet argument 10 months after I made my comment, but the reason I said it's impressive is because he has widespread knowledge on cities from all over the country. If he had been just naming cities and towns in 5-10 states and got 3k, still impressive of course but I think it's doubly impressive when there is so much variety.
@aidanburns6163
War Eagle. I'm not from Alabama, but I live near Auburn now. It's way better than when I lived in Tuscaloosa.
cant get enough of these. wish they were more frequent
Ay it’s all good
Same
Dont wanna run out though!
Same also as well too
Because they’re infrequent, it makes it better when he does make one! 😁
“Howdy, it’s Kyle” is like crack to me 😂
Intetrsting fact about Montréal's Métro : it runs on tires. This allows it to climb steeper inclines and gives it better acceleration and braking. And It's WAAAAY quieter than subways runing on steel wheels.
The Metro in Paris switched to rubber tires about 50 years ago.
@@nancylindsay4255 Montréal's Métro was.modeled on the Paris Métro. It openned in october 1966.
Interesting! I hate the squeak of trams. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I live in Seattle and we are finally getting a light rail system. Most of it is elevated and very quiet. And a good part of it runs parallel to the major Freeways/Highways
@@leaaugusta9924 I wish I could complain about that. I've never seen a tram or even much passenger rail at all.
My uncles house in New Hampshire is well constructed and well insulated. They open the windows at night in the summer and close them as the heat of the day arrives and it stays surprisingly cool. I think most of that is how well insulated the house is and how cool it gets at night even in the summer.
I wish more people would think about the positive long-term effects of investing in quality building materials and good insulation
That's great but I live in Southern Ontario (🇨🇦) with very well insulated houses but we don't open windows at night because of opressive humidity and often little night cooling.@@leaaugusta9924
If I had Kyle as a Geography teacher, it'd be my favorite class.
AGREE
Just until the fist test, when you have to memorize 3000 US cities! LOL!
Your cities identification scores? I better recognize! As always, much applause from a die hard subscriber in Victoria, British Columbia
Ahhh why are maps so bloody interesting!? I'm such a map nerd, love these videos! :-)
Always a good day when Geography King uploads 😊
the fact you got saint john new brunswick on that game is actually crazy man, no one knows of new brunswick canada let alone saint john. love your channel and your work, keep it up man!
Wow Kyle, you do put out some quality content! I can't just play your videos while I putter about the house; your videos are "sit down in front of the screen and learn" time! Thanks!
I never thought of lake Nipigon as part of the great lakes, but I guess it makes sense if it is flowing into lake superior.
That road map of Canada is probably my favorite of these.
It must be the highest of them all. I was recently looking at an old atlas that said Superior is 635 feet higher than the St. Lawrence Seeway. Made sense, I'd just never thought of it.
same.
Lake Michigan?
On your next oddities of geography, heres a random fact I know as a lifelong Coloradoan --
Colorado is not a perfect rectangle. It has 697 sides and therefore it isn't a rectangle, due to random border slants.
Its a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon. :)
Love from Changchun, Jilin in China, where they make much of the VWs there.
We were the first place that produced cars in communist China, and we branded ourselves as the Detroit of china. Wishes granted, we are now losing our auto industry too. Much of the production are now being done in southern parts of China where labor is cheaper.
Interesting, thanks for sharing that
Greetings from Seattle, USA! Dang that sucks to hear, it's always sad when communities lose their main employer. Hopefully a new industry can come in and replace it, but either way, that's tough.
The labor is cheaper and the caves have bats with five hundred coronaviruses. I do not blame the P4 research lab in Wuhan for Covid. Evidence now seems to point to zoonotic crossover. We have a similar P4 biosafety research lab in Galveston near where I live. They mostly research viruses like Ebola and Hantavirus there.
On the roads in Canada the most fascinating thing is there is only one road that attaches the western part to the eastern part. Therefore there is no other way across except for driving in to the US.
Where on that road is it the "only choice?"
@@DugrozReports between Manitoba and Ontario.
@@blueray15 Checks out. Thanks.
@@DugrozReports In particular it is the Nipigon bridge, just north of Lake Superior. That's where the two highways of the TCH (Route 11 and 17) join and cross the river. A new two lane bridge was built and opened in 2016, but it was improperly built and closed almost immediately and took a month or two to repair. S econd bridge pairing it up was built and opened in 2018 so we have 4 lanes across two bridges linking Canada now.
@@Taeolas Good info!
7:32 - you misinterpreted Western Sahara and Yemen, they’re not actually big US trading partners, they are just labeled black on the map because there was no data.
Yeah. To be fair though, that color was way too similar to the blue that was used for the US
now I'm bummed we couldn't get an increase anywhere
Wow that sucks massively that I misssd that. My thinking was that there's little trade at all between Western Sahara or Yemen with either US or China so a slight shift would change their lean. Thanks for the correction
“Canada saying you better recognize” made me snort audibly, thank you very much.
Yeah, that was hilarious!
I really like your maps. The one showing the snowfall totals for the U.S. is really interesting. During the 3 years (77-70) I was in high school in Ashland, KY, we started getting snow the first week of January and it didn't stop until the 2nd or 3rd week of March. For most of that time we had about 2'-3' of snow on the ground counting thawing and more snow accumulations. I learned to ski during this time and went to Show Shoe resort in West Virginia, and they usually had over a 100" base. On the map Ashland on got 6"-12" of snow and Snow Shoe only got 6'-8'. Thanks, keep up the good work and keep the interesting maps coming.
I was the most fascinated about the meanderings of that Arctic Fox! The little guy really gets around.
You need a "go fund me" to send you to Europe!
Wow, you are THE geography king.
I laughed about my area having 100% of all homes having ACs. I live in Georgia, and on the coastal plain, not the mountains. It gets hot and very humid here.
I've been to a few countries in Europe and I was very surprised to see that the hotels didn't have an AC. It was pretty warm because it was in June. I opened the windows.
Also I went to Mexico to visit my family. It was in March of this year and it was already warm there. My family lives in a desert valley so it doesn't get that cool there(people swim there year round). One mistake I made was not having a fan because my grandma's house, where I stayed at for 2 weeks, didn't have an AC either(it's a very poor town/village). When I return soon I will buy a fan!
Ac is the norm in Colorado today. We all climate bitches. If it ain't 65-78F with optional shade and breeze , we need climate control.
So Im in that percent of New England without air conditioning and tbh we don't really need it just turn on some fans and open the windows in summer and it's fine
It's the percentage of NEW homes.
It's the law in some counties in Texas that landlords have to provide cooling from April to October. Never seen anything in a lease about heat though I guess we usually have it.
Fun fact: Roanoke, VA barely missed being on that map of cities that formerly had 100k people. The 2020 Census had their population at 100,011 (11 people!), up from 97k in 2010.
For reference, they had 100,220 in the 1980 Census.
Ha, I was actually going to make the same comment. After years of decline, Roanoke's finally growing again (slowly).
By the way, these videos are immensely entertaining.
Kyle you’re amazing! I love how levelheaded and insightful you are.
Thank you! I really do appreciate your comments.
Hey Kyle, Kyle here. Great job, I love your videos! As a Philadelphia resident, I feel obligated to explain a little about SEPTA. SEPTA is actually a larger system than just the subway. It stands for SouthEastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and includes buses, regional train lines, electric trolleys, and, yes, subways :) Though everyone I know just calls the subway the subway
When I was a kiddo, I used to love looking at the globe... this takes it to a whole new level, lol! Now it's Google Earth and vids like these. Love these vids💜. Thanks Geography King!
I have my father's childhood globe from the 1940s; and my grandfather's atlas from 1945. I also have a National Geographic World map from 1964. It's amazing how much changed from 1945 to 1964 and then until now.
Can’t believe you named 3000 cities in the US. I pride myself as being a geography nerd and could probably only do a 10th of that. I might have to demote myself to geography rookie
Ditto
Yeah, I just tried my best, and stopped at exactly 400 after wasting way too much of my time. The simplest names would elude me after having known the respective city for a long time. I missed 19 capital cities and even one entire state, LOL.
Yet, I am fully aware of the fact that I'll give it another go sometime in the future, to get even to just 500 or so.
Thanks a lot Kyle. Love your insights. I've seen a lot about Utah growing recently but you were the first one to point out the birth rate. Most people just speculating why people are moving there but you always go that bit deeper.
As a resident of Utah I can attest to a high birthrate, but I bet the attrition from California and Nevada is very very close to the same number. There's a crap load of people moving here to escape....well, you know.
Lol I think I am more impressed at your commitment to sit down and type out 2800 US city names in that game than the fact you can name 2800 cities in the US
Great video again!!! I like watching your videos before and after i go to school!! Much love and appreciation from densely populated Bruges, Belgium ;)
@12:39 The map doesn't tell the entire tale of Albany, NY. Yes, The city lost residents but a lot of that was due to The South Mall project that destroyed a good portion of the downtown area to build the South Mall, a cluster of government buildings.
The metro area around Albany, NY has expanded and contains over a million people.
Like how you mentioned the map naming game at the end and showed your scores. Tip for the US one: if you know a town with a fairly generic name, trying entering it again but for a different state, worked for me a lot when I couldn’t think of a city.
"Springfield" 😅
Shelbyville!
Fantastic. These videos always make my day!
Always excited to see one of these. Thank you for your time.
I always enjoy these map episodes Kyle.
Love your channel! So many interesting maps and geography insights.
Nice job Kyle! ....and thanks for the cities quiz link.
I love these videos so much! They’re so informative and show how context is important in interpreting maps!
Good video. That "game" of naming cities seems more like a slog if you can name thousands of cities. I assume it took you over four hours to name all the US cities you did.
I don't know...Kyle is pretty schmart
Yeah, just consider how long it would take to read a list of 3,000 cities.
Then, add time to think of the names.
It'll take a while to get through that game.
Oooooo, I went the school up at the University of Minnesota Duluth (Go Bulldogs!) and Duluth is a really interesting college town now but had a thriving past.
It was (and still is, to a lesser extent) one of the main cities where taconite/iron ore would be taken off of the rail cars coming from the Iron Range in Northern MN (where my dad grew up) and put onto ships to be transported to either Detroit or other factory cities where the iron/steel was used to make cars, bridges and tanks (in WWII).
The population of Duluth (and other cities Up North as we’d say here) grew so much in 30-40 years in the late 1800s that Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde would stop by on tours to give talks in one of the many illustrious theaters built in the downtown area.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Richie Valens, Jiles Perry “the Big Bopper” Richardson, Dion and the Bellmonts, and others performed their antepenultimate (two before their final) performance before their tragic plane crash at the Duluth Armory in late January 1959. Some even say that Bob Dylan was in the audience at the show and was inspired to play guitar after that show (not sure if that rumor is true or not). That armory still stands today and people are fighting to keep it from being torn down.
Alas, Duluth had kind of a slump after the mining industry folded a bit in the 1980s and 1990s. But the city is home to a few universities/colleges and it’s usually a great place to stay to see Lake Superior and is also a jumping off point for a lot of out-of-towners to head up to the North Shore (which my fiancé and I did a month ago with our two dogs) or up to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (or BWCA…still kicking myself for not going up to that patch of wilderness when I lived so close to it).
I highly recommend coming up to visit!
I've never been there, but Duluth is interesting to me. I'm from Buffalo, so I imagine it's got a relatively familiar feel to me. A lot of ships that left your town were headed to mine. Plus, if I went to Duluth, I could fulfill a dream to visit the Northwest Angle and Elm Point, too. Then it'd be on to Point Roberts, WA. (I've already been to Alburgh, VT... fun bit of trivia on what those four places have in common.)
I was going to say, Duluth feels like it's by far the best out of those cities! I live in Upstate NY and am therefore surrounded by cities in malaise.
Love these videos! Trying to get my kids more interested in geography and these are awesome!
I love these videos. Always amazing.
These maps are extremely interesting!
Thank you very much!
Greetings from Canada and thank you.. I have watched a few of your videos now and always gave them an unqualified like. But that doesn’t seem like enough. Most videos, I see about US folks and geography emphasize that many American are not particularly knowledgeable about geography nor do they seem to care too much about it. You definitely tip the scales in the other direction as you seem to have much more than just basic knowledge of world geography, but you also provide lots of interpretations of that geographical information and demographic intersections that cover things I had not even contemplated. This type of information I find both enlightening and troubling at times. As a Canadian living in the most easterly part (Island portion of NL), I have not seen very much of the United States. In terms of states I have actually visited, I can include California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. My global travel has been more limited. I have visited Ireland, The UK (England, Wales and Scotland but not Northern Ireland), The Netherlands, Hong Kong (pre-reunification), China, The Dominican Republic and Mexico. I am often asked what do I think about the United States as a country. My answer has evolved over time and is currently: In the United States you will find the best and worst of everything in a first world country.
Fantastic video as always! Thanks for doing these!
Another great video, Your Majesty! I love the unique maps used to associate regions of the world with things like car ownership or fans of baseball teams, etc. So many people associate maps and geography strictly with international borders, city locations, and highways. Your series of unique mapmaking nicely shows the full range of mapmaking and geo-demographics.
As always, thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks, Kyle! These videos are great. I've been really enjoying them as I'm sure many others have as well. Keep up the good work! 🌎 👑
Thank you!
Howdy, Kyle! Great video. Thanks for putting this together!
one of my favorite series!!!!
Totally enjoyed - your amount of knowledge is very impressive.
Long live the KING!!
That map showing the snow really surprised me. Where I live in Georgia it almost never snows. The most I've seen in my lifetime was like half an inch one year. Most years it's none at all. I'm surprised because I didn't know that most the mainland actually got snow, even in Texas. Why so much in most of Texas but not here? It's the same latitude. I here people complain about the snow all the time. I WISH it would snow here! When traveling through Virginia one year I got to see it snow a few inches for the first time in my life and I had some fun. It was a school trip and everyone got off the bus to play in it.
It’s pretty uncommon here in Texas too. I know it might look like a good portion of the state, but the west isn’t nearly as populated as the north, east, and south, so not that many Texans experience it. I love the snow and wish we got more, but the storm we had earlier this year was bad news for a lot of people.
I think the reason it sometimes snows in TX, but not so much in GA is due to the flow of the jet stream.
Much of the central, western, and Panhandle portions of Texas are at 2000-3000 feet and it can get pretty cold out there, especially in the Panhandle. It's also much farther from the Gulf of Mexico (or at least, the winds don't carry the moisture that direction) so it lacks water's moderating influence compared to Georgia. But yes, Steven Goomba is right, that area's much less populated, so relatively Texans experience that weather.
You're more than welcome to come shovel that white BS out of my driveway and sidewalk here in Michigan! Lol
You should come to the northeast, where we have seen snow as early as October and as late as May!!
These map videos are always some of my favorites. Those map quizzes might be cool to do in a video. There are so many cool ones, and I'm sure you could get some good content capturing your screen as you complete the quiz.
Might be an interesting Livestream event..... 🤔
Very interesting sir. Yes I enjoy learning the things that you show sir. God bless you and your family sir. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊
Kyle you have a very informative channel thanks!
Hey, I just gotta say as far as the light map of Europe goes, Belgium is lighted a lot more because of its massive amount of street lighting. They light up their roads a lot.
I always learn something from you, thanks!
Ayy my favorite series returns!!
Love this series
love these maps great content
Interesting as always! 👏👏👏
I love this series!!!
Another excellent presentation, thank you
Seeing this video was done made my entire day! Let’s gooooo
Very well done!! Impressive research!
I love these videos!! Great job!
That was a great video and I think your name-that-city maps are pretty impressive! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!! Been waiting on another video!!
Awesome job King!
Great videos ...very interesting to put things in perspective
Vancouver’s skytrain is one of the highest per capita ridership train-based public transit systems in North America, and definitely the largest still running and still expanding Automated Train System (no drivers) in North America. The metro Vancouver region is currently adding 2 new lines to the system and plans to add more in the future. Further the province is changing building zoning by densifying ‘hub’ areas around stations (and bus loops) to encourage high rise and mid rise development in these areas so as to create population centres not reliant on automobiles. And New Westminster, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) is presently working on becoming a 15min city with many skytrain and bus connections through its very small footprint in the lower mainland. This is vastly different than the sprawl of the areas surrounding it.
I was impressed with the number of cities you could name. Vey impressed.
Just found your channel. It is very awesome, love geography and maps. Watching this map video I had to giggle at the How Many Canadian Cities Can
You Name map. In the top you have Dog River Saskatchewan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Clearly you've watched Corner Gas. One of my favourite Cdn shows. Oh BTW I am Canadian.
Keep up the awesome stuff, thanks for your hard work.
Thank you very much!
Always interesting, thanks
Really enjoy your channel. Such care and accuracy explaining each topic. One small thing worth mentioning. Oklahoma City does have light rail. I didn’t see this on your public transportation map. Thank you. - Matt
Love the educational stuff
this is a great series!!!
Great video as always
Cool maps! Thanks for sharing
Can’t get enough of this video
You are the KING! Thank you!
Loved it!!
Canada: "Oh, you bettah recognize" Indeed
Love these videos.
These are my favorite type of videos!
OH MY GOSH!! Sorry it took me two days to watch this one Kyle lol, but thank you SO much for mentioning the plant in Wentzville when discussing car manufacturing ! It frustrates me that this is not included sometimes as well, I appreciate you doing your research! You are so thorough , thanks for including it sir. :)
Awesome video!
Super interesting! Great job😃
you are my favourite channel and personality on you tube. Peace and love from Canada.
Thank you!
Yet another BANGER
Another great video! Love seeing the fox migration and car maps. Very interesting! And who knew walmart took over Mexico! Wow!
great video! many thanks!
Great maps! Very interesting!
Hands down. One of the best Channels on the tube. Who needs cable tv anymore?
Love your videos Mr.King from south Florida👋🏾
I could have sworn the Subaru Forester was the best selling car in every Western US state. You see them practically everywhere
Oregon for sure. Last time I was there it seemed every other car was a Forester or Outback.
Love your videos man
Love this stuff! Thank you! 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Hey, love the videos, I was wondering if you could make a most overhated/underrated states list
love your cutout of California with Visalia on it! I live 15 miles from there.