Google Earth has saved me many, many miles on my car. Instead of having to drive to places to see what they actually look like, I can actually see them from my computer or my smartphone.
I always say this but Google Earth, or your other favorite internet based satellite map browser, is one of the most important and amazing tools available to us
As a geologist, I inherited this (albeit shameful) stigma against geography in college where we considered it a “boring, lesser science,” but your videos have really changed my views on how awesome geography is and its importance in tying together a bunch of different fields 🤙 Really, really enjoy your content man, keep up the great work!
Yea man I’m usually super ADHD when watching this kinda stuff, this guys a really good presenter. Like you said, not a dull or wasted moment in these videos
I like the chill nature of them. No dramatized 10 minute long stories with stock footage and music. Just all kinds of maps. Nothing less, nothing more.
6:30 Here in Germany the minimum legal age to purchase strong alcohol like Whiskey is 18, but you can buy as much beer as you want when you are 16 without your parents. You are allowed to drink alcohol with 14 when your parents allow it.
Alright, I’m not gonna lie, allowing 14 year olds to drink pushes back towards the more outrageous side of the spectrum in my opinion. And this is coming from someone who started drinking at 14. 14 year olds are absolute idiots. And not even in a funny way, they’re just like seriously mentally deficient lmao
And that shows just how stupid certain aspects of the culture are. Giving a 14 year old kid a beer whose brain is still rather undeveloped. Pretty dumb, Germany. Don't worry, there is plenty of "stupid" to go around for other countries as well.
Those first two maps really highlight the rain shadow effect in the northwest. It's amazing the difference in plants when crossing over the Cascade mountains and how quickly it changes.
The maps also shows the major effect of the Rain shadow between the Sierras and the Rocky Mountains. The two (2) driest States in the Union are first Nevada and next is Utah. They are also among the two (2) States which the Fed.’s own the vast majority of the land, Between 80 and 90% of the land! That’s a map I’d like to see, how much of a States land (By area on a map if possible) is owned, or for all intents and purposes is controlled by the Federal Government. It would also be interesting what or how much they pay to the counties or States, (If any) as compared to the property taxes brought in by Counties/States as a percentage by the Privately owned land?
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763 You will get lots of hits searching for those keywords and get alot more information but basically one side of the mountains get more rain than the other.
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763, You know how your body or a building between the sun and the area on the other-side you cast a shadow? A rain shadow is the equivalent, but with regards to the direction of a rain storm. The rain shadow effect is when a mountain or equivalent lays between two region’s, and blocks the rain in a storm or clouds from traveling across causing the rain as it rises over the mountains to drop its water on the side of the mountain range that it is crossing over leaving the leeward side with less moisture to deposit, as rain or snow, causing that side to become dryer often forming a dry region (i.e. becoming more desert like. In the UNITED STATES the Western region along the American Pacific Cost brings in moisture creating a much more moist region as opposed to the Eastern side of the Cascades or the Sierra Range. The Eastern side is much drier than the western side as the clouds are forced to drop there water on the Western side as they climb up over the mountain ranges. There are areas such as AZ., N.M., Eastern Colorado we’re storm’s can go around the mountain ranges coming out of the lower Pacific or the Mexican Gulf and travel up on the Eastern side of the mountain Ranges. Those Regions suffer less from the Rain Shadow effect than the Eastern sides of Washington or Oregon, or the whole states of Nevada or Utah. Hope this makes some sense.
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763 it's when a mountain range lies in the path of the prevailing direction of the weather. Mountain ranges tend to force the air to release its moisture on the "upwind" side. The air just downwind from the mountains thus has less moisture, this more arid area is called a rain shadow.
The flight map from the birds in your yard would probably show who of your neighbors has the best feeders. Kyle was wondering why it made a trip to Khartoum. Well: this species of eagle likes to visit rubbish dumps and I guess Khartoum must have a large one. I have been to dumps in India and Oman where you could see 100s of these eagles - the things some people do on holiday, haha!
@@Outwhere Khartoum has meeting of the two Niles. Blue/White Nile river join to become the Nile. Eagle just wanted make sure, because it’s good fishing spot. 😁🍺🍺🍺
While I find the ethics questionable, you could probably do a similar thing. The issue is the weight of the battery. Could do limited runs, assuming you ever find the bird again
Great video as always, my comments are mostly on the surname map at around 8:40 Polish, Czech, and Slovenian are different for sure but not that much different but it's fun that their most common surname pretty much translates as "New Guy". The most common Croatian and Slovak surnames are actually of Hungarian origin and this word has meant Slav and/or Slovak across time. Iceland does have proper surnames as well, but they are much less common than the patronymic names, but they like in the other Nordic countries (minus Finland), these are mostly frozen patronyms aswell, I think Thorarensen (< Þórarinsson) is way up there. Notice, how Danish Jensen (it's been superseeded by Nielsen since this map was made), Norwegian Hansen, and Faroese Joensen look differently? Well, they're all local variations of "son of John", in fact, the Faroese top three is Joensen, Hansen, and Johannesen, all of which translate to "son of John". :)
Love your videos. Growing up in Utah, I was always ignorant about how Outdoors our state is, but I love the last map you had in there. The name of Utah comes from a local Piute tride word for "Tops of the mountains." You can see why we have 5 national parks as shown by a previous map.
Viewer in Shanghai here (born in Scotland; lived in the States): Just wanted to let you know Kyle that I started watching your channel last month. Love your videos and your down-to-earth personality. I've re-watched your March Madness videos several times. LOL. Keep up the great work!
The best steak I ever had was at the Atlantic City Mercantile in Atlantic city, Wyoming! Cooked over Aspen logs. I'm originally from Lander Wyoming and it's cool to see you mention it!
@@Josh1888USU yes. I know. Atlantic city though....I think the population is about 100 maybe? Beautiful little former mining town on top of the south pass of the wind river mountains. I got stuck in a massive snowstorm in Laramie once. Other than that, I've only passed through, usually on the way to Denver.
I had the pleasure of spending some time in Lander when I did a NOLS semester course. As a New Englander it first introduced me to a amazingly beautiful part of our country.
Politely disagree. There is a small town in between Lander and Riverton that had two steak places. Either one was a good choice. You had to go into the kitchen to pay your bill. I think it's called Hudson, but can't check it now.
There’s a an incorporated community in Iowa called Key West of all things! It is a tiny community a few miles south of Dubuque. Thanks Kyle, I love the interesting map series. I look forward to the next one!
12:12 My car broke down 10 miles of Las Vegas NM; they had to get a part from Santa Fe so I spent the night at the Super 8. Also the town was the filming location of the original "Red Dawn"
Another great video about maps and the data. Your videos are consistently interesting, insightful, and well-paced, which is very important because you have lots of data to cover.
The tree cover map really shows how much of our forests have been lost and converted into farmland etc.. lack of tree cover around the Mississippi River delta is not because it’s floodplain it’s because it’s been logged and converted into farmland. There used to be huge trees and vast forests growing in that floodplain. And while the map is pretty accurate it’s still missing a bit.
Lake Superior is the Largest Lake by area but Baikal in Russia has more water than all the Great lakes put together. The Caspian sea is very shallow, and Eyre in Australia is dry 90% of the time.
Good video, I can tell you're really passionnate about geography. Also it's amazing that you went to so many national parks! Keep up the good work, cheers from France 🇨🇵
Love that you have American Beauty on vinyl! A fantastic album! And love this show in general with all the interesting maps, including ones you've created.
I love your Tsunami Warning sign. I installed quite a few of these when I worked on the Pacific coast of Washington state. I’ll have to order one for my shop- I’ve got signs from multiple places where I’ve worked over the years. Including Barrow, Alaska.
I worked in emergency management for several years and developed the tsunami response plan for the county I was living in. Hopefully we'll never need to use it.
@@GeographyKing I totally agree with you about that! After attending enough seminars and classes, I became the irritating dad/uncle/cousin who made emergency bug out bags and kits for my family at Christmas time. Those kits seemed more useful than a gift card or a new piece of junk for the gift recipients. I actually enjoyed making low cost kits and starter bags for family members.
12:18 My old home town of Dallas, Georgia is there! I now live in Dallas, TX, so it's always a fun experience here telling people I'm from the other Dallas.
Too funny - I haven't been to many National Parks, but am proud to say I've been to Isle Royale -- the least visited park in the Lower 48! Definitely worth a trip, GK!
Black bear range is a lot wider than that in Missouri now. I believe they’ve been seen in every county in the state, but north of the Missouri it’s more random. Breeding range is pretty much restricted to the Ozarks. But we’ve got our first bear season this year. Populations jumped up a lot faster than the conservation department was expecting. I’ve had to stop filling the bird feeder year round.
12:18 There is a Hollywood, Alabama that is older than the one in California. It and other Hollywood cities were able to prevent Hollywood, California from trademarking the name and forcing the other same-named cities to pay it royalties.
@@WilliamWonka, The Original name of the Hollywood development was “HollywoodLand” as can be seen on some of the older pictures of the Sign when they were first trying to develop the area. They lost the ‘Land’ part as the sign deteriorated; when it was restored they dropped off the ‘land’ as people had drop using the full development name. They never had a proper claim to the name even from the beginning!
There is actually no municipality of Hollywood CA unless they've incorporated since I've lived there. It was just a neighborhood in LA, like Venice , for example. West Hollywood is an incorporated city, though.
It was only two votes - what a waste; Still the way i learned was that it was taken to the Supreme Court, which decided that the ruling was unconstitutional, as the Indian tribes were considered as basically permanent residents, even if they even if they didn’t hold citizenship! The president (First Democratic President) told the Supreme Court, (Basically) “yea, whose going to stop me??? You and Who’s Army”. Still they did fail to move the Navajo; the land was to rough to get all of the people (mainly men) and Oklahoma is just to close to the Navajo territory. Though the people in the region did at least prevent the Navajo from eliminating the Hopi, even if they did lost the majority of their land.
These are so interesting. Especially the tree cover. I’ve lived in bucks county my entire life (just north of Philly) and couldn’t imagine living someone with little to no trees. Thanks!
It's funny you like doing these videos Kyle. I most thoroughly enjoy watching them! And whenever, once a year, I drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, ALWAYS look out for black bear cubs. Saw a mama scooting two across the highway going south before hitting Asheville. Going 15mph at the time. Curvy highway coming from Mt. Mitchell. Go CUBS Go!!!
I never knew that you could learn so much by examining maps. I’m a traditionalist (Boomer), and I’ve always been fond of physical relief and topographic maps.I love how much they have proliferated to cover just about any subject you could think of. I’m glad that I decided to watch your channel. I subscribed.
Hey Kyle, I was waiting for the day I would see American Beauty show up as the featured album in the back. I own a first pressing in mint, absolute 10/10. Love to see it dude, keep up the good work!
Two of my favorite subjects; cartography and meteorology! In the early 90's, I had huge map indicating all the known fault zones of southern California. Ironically (a few months later), we would have that big quake in Northridge. Just discovered this series and channel today. New subcriber from southern California.
5:55 Yep, that's pretty accurate. We do have people playing hockey. But it's a minor sport that's barely covered on TV etc... It's mainly something kids play in the winter whenever the snow conditions aren't good but the ice is still solid etc...
1:35 I lived on the east-facing side of the Blue Ridge mountains in W. NC for a while, and I’ve never experienced such heavy rain before or since. We once received 13 in. of rain in 24 hrs. Madness.
Yes you have fewer hours of daylight during the winter months, but you have more hours of daylight during the summer months. In the end it all evens out to an average of 12 hours of sunlight per day. Everywhere. In the whole world. Cloud cover and angle of incidence are the deciding factors, not latitude. I have to laugh at quizzes that ask "How many time zones are there?" They are looking for "24" as the correct answer. You have shown there are at least 25. I suspect there are well over 30 world wide. Canada wins again with the large lakes. Besides the Great Lakes, Great Bear, Winnipeg, Reindeer, Great Slave and Athabasca are all in Canada. Keep these coming. I love these types of maps too.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co - correct, cloud cover produces the number of sunlight hours by reducing the number of daylight hours. So your inequality could be rewritten as daylight hours >= sunlight hours The equality there can only happen with zero cloud cover. And I should add that things like volcanic ash and smoke and wildfire ash and smoke also should be lumped into what I termed cloud cover.
@@KB-ke3fi Ya and we (Canada) would only charge the same price per gallon as gas in sept 2022 ! OR we could Bottle the water and sell it like perrier water all over the world.
@@Compucles The "Golden Horseshoe" (Toronto to Niagara Falls) has about a quarter of the total national population on its own, so I think the line would have to be moved up a bit to get Montreal and Ottawa.
50% of Canadians live north of that line. You’d need _some_ populous centres in that region to equal the 50% south of the line. I’d say the map’s fidelity is good.
Love these videos! In regards to Canada's legal drinking age, it's 19 in most of the country, with exception of Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec. It used to be 18 in Saskatchewan, but they raised it to 19 around 1977, which was the year my dad turned 18. He said to circumvent this, he'd just tell bar staff he was from Alberta and they'd serve him... and he'd do this while wearing his high school's football jacket, so thankfully no one clued in.
Hokey not popular in Norway because you need a historical trend of flat areas to have played on before th sport moved indoors. Finland is filled with flat frozen lakes, while in Norway most water is either running rivers or ocean, which don't provide ice to play on as much.
Thank you once again for making life a little more interesting and, for reasons I don't know, somehow more reassuring. You make it a-ok to stop worrying about _whatever_ for a few minutes and go on a relaxing and educational trip down some rabbit hole of fun facts that you mash all together and, once the ride's over, I feel somehow that the world's just a fine place to be in, after all. Just fine, and a little more interesting than I knew.
2:40 I love this map of the watersheds (I've seen this many times). To put it into perspective, there is a place somewhere in northern Minnesota where if a drop of rain falls, it will find it's way into the Mississippi River, work it's way all the way south and end up in the Gulf of Mexico. The next drop could land just a hair to the east and drain into Lake Superior, work it's way through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence and into the North Atlantic. The next drop falls a little north and west and works it's way into the Red River, flows North through Canada and all the way to Hudson's Bay. Those are 3, very long and very different trips to the sea from basically the same place!
5:29 Baseball players from NorCal: used to be more. Willie Stargell and Tommy Harper both attended the same high school as I did, but not all at the same time. (Encinal High in Alameda, abutting the Naval Air Station.)
The hockey player born in Orlando, Quinn Hughes of the Canucks, actually grew up in Toronto. Goes to show that birthplace isn’t representative of where someone is actually “from”
First time seeing your content as it randomly appeared on my recommended list. Extremely interesting and your explanations were spot-on. Great job and I wish you continued success in your channel.
I've always put it this way: You can vote on who's going to rule your country at 18, but you can't take a drink. Oh no, the consequences of alcohol are too grave.
@@jbrou123 I remember the same arguments being made during the Vietnam war, as 18 year olds were being drafted. A lot of states actually lowered their age from 21 to 18 back in the 1970s. Then during the 1980s Reagan presidency Congress passed one of those extortion bills demanding states do X or else lose their highway money, this one requiring 21. So all the states went back up to 21 by like 1990.
0:38 That map is about *energy* from sunlight, and that is reduced as you get further from the equator due to the angle of the sun in the sky and how much atmosphere it has to travel through. The northern areas have fewer hours of daylight in the winter months, but far more hours of daylight in the summer months - so I think that balances. Cloud cover is also a major factor, obviously (which is why the Seattle area suddenly drops so low while the western part of Washington is quite high again).
Google Earth has consumed hours of my life. Nice to find kindred spirits who love to look at globes and maps.
Same! I do this to plan trips
Google Earth has saved me many, many miles on my car. Instead of having to drive to places to see what they actually look like, I can actually see them from my computer or my smartphone.
I always say this but Google Earth, or your other favorite internet based satellite map browser, is one of the most important and amazing tools available to us
I thought I was alone. I spend hours looking at random places and then googling them to see what they really look like. The world infinetely diverse
Somos poucos espalhados pelo mundo 😢
As a geologist, I inherited this (albeit shameful) stigma against geography in college where we considered it a “boring, lesser science,” but your videos have really changed my views on how awesome geography is and its importance in tying together a bunch of different fields 🤙 Really, really enjoy your content man, keep up the great work!
Is geography even a science? It's not like they perform experiments. It's more like history + drafting + statistics.
These videos are just about perfect. Good length, good pace, not a dull or wasted moment.
he is such a natural
Yea man I’m usually super ADHD when watching this kinda stuff, this guys a really good presenter. Like you said, not a dull or wasted moment in these videos
Caver?
I like the chill nature of them. No dramatized 10 minute long stories with stock footage and music. Just all kinds of maps. Nothing less, nothing more.
Just like me in the sheets
6:30 Here in Germany the minimum legal age to purchase strong alcohol like Whiskey is 18, but you can buy as much beer as you want when you are 16 without your parents. You are allowed to drink alcohol with 14 when your parents allow it.
Same in Belgium, they should clarify this in that map
Alright, I’m not gonna lie, allowing 14 year olds to drink pushes back towards the more outrageous side of the spectrum in my opinion. And this is coming from someone who started drinking at 14. 14 year olds are absolute idiots. And not even in a funny way, they’re just like seriously mentally deficient lmao
Einfach nur deutsch haha
And that shows just how stupid certain aspects of the culture are. Giving a 14 year old kid a beer whose brain is still rather undeveloped. Pretty dumb, Germany. Don't worry, there is plenty of "stupid" to go around for other countries as well.
In the US at 18 you can go to war and kill or be killed but you can't drink a beer.
Those first two maps really highlight the rain shadow effect in the northwest. It's amazing the difference in plants when crossing over the Cascade mountains and how quickly it changes.
The maps also shows the major effect of the Rain shadow between the Sierras and the Rocky Mountains.
The two (2) driest States in the Union are first Nevada and next is Utah.
They are also among the two (2) States which the Fed.’s own the vast majority of the land, Between 80 and 90% of the land!
That’s a map I’d like to see, how much of a States land (By area on a map if possible) is owned, or for all intents and purposes is controlled by the Federal Government.
It would also be interesting what or how much they pay to the counties or States, (If any) as compared to the property taxes brought in by Counties/States as a percentage by the Privately owned land?
What’s this “rain shadow”? I’ve never heard of that before
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763 You will get lots of hits searching for those keywords and get alot more information but basically one side of the mountains get more rain than the other.
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763,
You know how your body or a building between the sun and the area on the other-side you cast a shadow?
A rain shadow is the equivalent, but with regards to the direction of a rain storm.
The rain shadow effect is when a mountain or equivalent lays between two region’s, and blocks the rain in a storm or clouds from traveling across causing the rain as it rises over the mountains to drop its water on the side of the mountain range that it is crossing over leaving the leeward side with less moisture to deposit, as rain or snow, causing that side to become dryer often forming a dry region (i.e. becoming more desert like.
In the UNITED STATES the Western region along the American Pacific Cost brings in moisture creating a much more moist region as opposed to the Eastern side of the Cascades or the Sierra Range.
The Eastern side is much drier than the western side as the clouds are forced to drop there water on the Western side as they climb up over the mountain ranges.
There are areas such as AZ., N.M., Eastern Colorado we’re storm’s can go around the mountain ranges coming out of the lower Pacific or the Mexican Gulf and travel up on the Eastern side of the mountain Ranges. Those Regions suffer less from the Rain Shadow effect than the Eastern sides of Washington or Oregon, or the whole states of Nevada or Utah.
Hope this makes some sense.
@@douglasbubbletrousers4763 it's when a mountain range lies in the path of the prevailing direction of the weather. Mountain ranges tend to force the air to release its moisture on the "upwind" side. The air just downwind from the mountains thus has less moisture, this more arid area is called a rain shadow.
That eagle's journey is my favorite map here. What a legend. Makes me wish I could see the flight maps of the birds I see in my yard.
The flight map from the birds in your yard would probably show who of your neighbors has the best feeders.
Kyle was wondering why it made a trip to Khartoum. Well: this species of eagle likes to visit rubbish dumps and I guess Khartoum must have a large one. I have been to dumps in India and Oman where you could see 100s of these eagles - the things some people do on holiday, haha!
@@Outwhere Khartoum has meeting of the two Niles. Blue/White Nile river join to become the Nile. Eagle just wanted make sure, because it’s good fishing spot. 😁🍺🍺🍺
While I find the ethics questionable, you could probably do a similar thing. The issue is the weight of the battery. Could do limited runs, assuming you ever find the bird again
ebird has animated maps of most species in the western hemisphere. Look at the weekly maps to see migrations.
Great video as always, my comments are mostly on the surname map at around 8:40
Polish, Czech, and Slovenian are different for sure but not that much different but it's fun that their most common surname pretty much translates as "New Guy". The most common Croatian and Slovak surnames are actually of Hungarian origin and this word has meant Slav and/or Slovak across time.
Iceland does have proper surnames as well, but they are much less common than the patronymic names, but they like in the other Nordic countries (minus Finland), these are mostly frozen patronyms aswell, I think Thorarensen (< Þórarinsson) is way up there. Notice, how Danish Jensen (it's been superseeded by Nielsen since this map was made), Norwegian Hansen, and Faroese Joensen look differently? Well, they're all local variations of "son of John", in fact, the Faroese top three is Joensen, Hansen, and Johannesen, all of which translate to "son of John". :)
Always a good day when Geography King uploads
facts
nice droeloe pfp
@@endemic_ The choices we face
@@endemic_ thanks man i miss em :(
Love your videos. Growing up in Utah, I was always ignorant about how Outdoors our state is, but I love the last map you had in there. The name of Utah comes from a local Piute tride word for "Tops of the mountains." You can see why we have 5 national parks as shown by a previous map.
Honey wake up, Geography king dropped another banger
Viewer in Shanghai here (born in Scotland; lived in the States): Just wanted to let you know Kyle that I started watching your channel last month. Love your videos and your down-to-earth personality. I've re-watched your March Madness videos several times. LOL. Keep up the great work!
The best steak I ever had was at the Atlantic City Mercantile in Atlantic city, Wyoming! Cooked over Aspen logs. I'm originally from Lander Wyoming and it's cool to see you mention it!
He mentioned Laramie in this video as well.
@@Josh1888USU yes. I know. Atlantic city though....I think the population is about 100 maybe? Beautiful little former mining town on top of the south pass of the wind river mountains. I got stuck in a massive snowstorm in Laramie once. Other than that, I've only passed through, usually on the way to Denver.
I had the pleasure of spending some time in Lander when I did a NOLS semester course. As a New Englander it first introduced me to a amazingly beautiful part of our country.
Politely disagree. There is a small town in between Lander and Riverton that had two steak places. Either one was a good choice. You had to go into the kitchen to pay your bill. I think it's called Hudson, but can't check it now.
wyoming does not exist
There’s a an incorporated community in Iowa called Key West of all things! It is a tiny community a few miles south of Dubuque. Thanks Kyle, I love the interesting map series. I look forward to the next one!
12:12 My car broke down 10 miles of Las Vegas NM; they had to get a part from Santa Fe so I spent the night at the Super 8. Also the town was the filming location of the original "Red Dawn"
Another great video about maps and the data. Your videos are consistently interesting, insightful, and well-paced, which is very important because you have lots of data to cover.
Thanks for sharing, I always liked how a map could reveal so much of the world's activity and nuances
The eagle map was mind blowing!
Agreed. I had no idea they regularly travelled that far.
Loved the video Kyle. Also I have to appreciate your American Beauty Album you got there.
One of the better series on YT. Thank you sir
The tree cover map really shows how much of our forests have been lost and converted into farmland etc.. lack of tree cover around the Mississippi River delta is not because it’s floodplain it’s because it’s been logged and converted into farmland. There used to be huge trees and vast forests growing in that floodplain. And while the map is pretty accurate it’s still missing a bit.
Car culture in America is the reason for its drink laws.
2:45 The Great Basin also includes the states of Idaho and Wyoming, as well as Baja California in Mexico
Thank you
Baja is what I'm confused about, it's so close to both the Pacific and the Colorado River
@@1224chrisng I think hes confusing it with the Basin and Range ecoregion.
nope.
Lake Superior is the Largest Lake by area but Baikal in Russia has more water than all the Great lakes put together. The Caspian sea is very shallow, and Eyre in Australia is dry 90% of the time.
This is such a great series, entertaining and educational in equal measure. Please keep 'em coming!
Good video, I can tell you're really passionnate about geography. Also it's amazing that you went to so many national parks! Keep up the good work, cheers from France 🇨🇵
Love that you have American Beauty on vinyl! A fantastic album! And love this show in general with all the interesting maps, including ones you've created.
I will never forget flying over Utah. Talk about stark landscapes, though the Salt Lake Valley is quite beautiful.
I need to book it! :)
I love your Tsunami Warning sign. I installed quite a few of these when I worked on the Pacific coast of Washington state. I’ll have to order one for my shop- I’ve got signs from multiple places where I’ve worked over the years. Including Barrow, Alaska.
I worked in emergency management for several years and developed the tsunami response plan for the county I was living in. Hopefully we'll never need to use it.
@@GeographyKing I totally agree with you about that! After attending enough seminars and classes, I became the irritating dad/uncle/cousin who made emergency bug out bags and kits for my family at Christmas time. Those kits seemed more useful than a gift card or a new piece of junk for the gift recipients. I actually enjoyed making low cost kits and starter bags for family members.
That round blue and white sign is, with a hurricane symbol, used throughout Florida.
12:18 My old home town of Dallas, Georgia is there! I now live in Dallas, TX, so it's always a fun experience here telling people I'm from the other Dallas.
I love this series.
That Canadian population map was VERY interesting!
It‘s unfortunately inaccurate
More Americans live above that line too btw
Canadian population in Ontario is not Canadian but people from India and China
the line should have been higher north to include the Montréal area too.
I love Utah’s geographic diversity, mountains, desert, wilderness, etc.
Don’t forget the vast amount covered by the pigmy forest/woodlands.
Too funny - I haven't been to many National Parks, but am proud to say I've been to Isle Royale -- the least visited park in the Lower 48! Definitely worth a trip, GK!
They have an interesting history of wolves and moose.
Black bear range is a lot wider than that in Missouri now. I believe they’ve been seen in every county in the state, but north of the Missouri it’s more random. Breeding range is pretty much restricted to the Ozarks. But we’ve got our first bear season this year. Populations jumped up a lot faster than the conservation department was expecting. I’ve had to stop filling the bird feeder year round.
12:18 There is a Hollywood, Alabama that is older than the one in California. It and other Hollywood cities were able to prevent Hollywood, California from trademarking the name and forcing the other same-named cities to pay it royalties.
Hollywood, CA trying to trademark the name Hollywood to force other cities to pay royalties is the most California thing ever.
@@WilliamWonka,
The Original name of the Hollywood development was “HollywoodLand” as can be seen on some of the older pictures of the Sign when they were first trying to develop the area. They lost the ‘Land’ part as the sign deteriorated; when it was restored they dropped off the ‘land’ as people had drop using the full development name.
They never had a proper claim to the name even from the beginning!
There is actually no municipality of Hollywood CA unless they've incorporated since I've lived there. It was just a neighborhood in LA, like Venice , for example. West Hollywood is an incorporated city, though.
Thank you for your acknowledgment of what was done to Natives.
It was only two votes - what a waste; Still the way i learned was that it was taken to the Supreme Court, which decided that the ruling was unconstitutional, as the Indian tribes were considered as basically permanent residents, even if they even if they didn’t hold citizenship!
The president (First Democratic President) told the Supreme Court, (Basically) “yea, whose going to stop me???
You and Who’s Army”.
Still they did fail to move the Navajo; the land was to rough to get all of the people (mainly men) and Oklahoma is just to close to the Navajo territory.
Though the people in the region did at least prevent the Navajo from eliminating the Hopi, even if they did lost the majority of their land.
Democrats are never on the right side of history.
They deserve the acknowledgment!
Been waiting for a while, these sure be interesting!
Kyle your content is killer like always. LOVE the Utah Map, and I am not biased at all being from Utah.
These are so interesting. Especially the tree cover. I’ve lived in bucks county my entire life (just north of Philly) and couldn’t imagine living someone with little to no trees. Thanks!
Bucks county represent!
@@JoeDiVitaMusic ✊🏼
Hope your doing good man. Crazy how I get reasonably excited to watch this series so many interesting maps.
Rising Fawn, GA here, just across the line from Chattanooga. I always enjoy your content. Thank you!
I love maps and Geography, this is very interesting.
9:00 Lake Michigan and Huron are the same altitude and are connected making them the largest(by area) freshwater lake on earth.
It's always a happy day when Kyle uploaded another video! Though seeing the vote map about the Indian Removal Act changed my mood a little bit.
Glad i came across your channel, i love maps.
OOH YESS. I love this series and i was waiting for another one because nobody does it like you do
The guy gets right to the point. I even have to pause a lot. So appreciate that he doesn't drone on like a lot of other youtubers.
That top MLB player is actually from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Brandon Nimmo!
2:58, I’ve stood at the point where the river splits in two and goes to the Arctic or Maligne Lake in Jasper. It’s very beautiful and fascinating.
10:22 hydrologically speaking they are one big lake, with a larger surface area than superior.
It's funny you like doing these videos Kyle. I most thoroughly enjoy watching them! And whenever, once a year, I drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, ALWAYS look out for black bear cubs. Saw a mama scooting two across the highway going south before hitting Asheville. Going 15mph at the time. Curvy highway coming from Mt. Mitchell. Go CUBS Go!!!
Always with a great album in the background.
I never knew that you could learn so much by examining maps. I’m a traditionalist (Boomer), and I’ve always been fond of physical relief and topographic maps.I love how much they have proliferated to cover just about any subject you could think of. I’m glad that I decided to watch your channel. I subscribed.
Geography King, you're one of my favorite UA-cam channels! Keep up the great work, and I'll keep watching :)
Thank you! I'll try to keep it up.
Salt Lake City is very neat and planned as well.
The map of the eagle’s travel path was really cool.
Super killer Video, Sir. I thoroughly enjoyed.
Hey Kyle, I was waiting for the day I would see American Beauty show up as the featured album in the back. I own a first pressing in mint, absolute 10/10. Love to see it dude, keep up the good work!
Thanks! The one I have is nowhere near mint but I do have an excellent condition first pressing of the first album.
Two of my favorite subjects; cartography and meteorology! In the early 90's, I had huge map indicating all the known fault zones of southern California. Ironically (a few months later), we would have that big quake in Northridge. Just discovered this series and channel today. New subcriber from southern California.
8:50 Lake Baikal down there in the lower right holding more water than all 5 Great Lakes combined.
This channel showed up on my feed. Now I can't leave it. Very interesting stuff. Thank you
I love this series!
This channel would be very helpful when Trivial Pursuit was a popular game.
same!
I just discovered it -- which means there must be three more I haven't even seen yet. Envy me.
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Yep, that's pretty accurate.
We do have people playing hockey.
But it's a minor sport that's barely covered on TV etc...
It's mainly something kids play in the winter whenever the snow conditions aren't good but the ice is still solid etc...
Love this channel keep up the good work... my students love it too very educational yet entertaining at the same time 👏
Thank you!
1:35 I lived on the east-facing side of the Blue Ridge mountains in W. NC for a while, and I’ve never experienced such heavy rain before or since. We once received 13 in. of rain in 24 hrs. Madness.
Yay, Examining Interesting Maps is back! Love it.
Hey friend! It looks like you’ve got good taste in channels 😉
@@CityGeek Oh, hey! Thanks, and seems you do too lol
Same!
Excellent work, thank you very much Mr. King.
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I need to quit looking at political pages and more pages like yours. It's better for my blood pressure. Thanks for posting.
Subscribed.
Such a fun and engaging way to learn about our physical world and the cultures that inhabit it !
Yes you have fewer hours of daylight during the winter months, but you have more hours of daylight during the summer months. In the end it all evens out to an average of 12 hours of sunlight per day. Everywhere. In the whole world. Cloud cover and angle of incidence are the deciding factors, not latitude.
I have to laugh at quizzes that ask "How many time zones are there?" They are looking for "24" as the correct answer. You have shown there are at least 25. I suspect there are well over 30 world wide.
Canada wins again with the large lakes. Besides the Great Lakes, Great Bear, Winnipeg, Reindeer, Great Slave and Athabasca are all in Canada.
Keep these coming. I love these types of maps too.
Daylight =/= sunlight.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world put together.
@@michaeldowson6988 too bad they can't build a water pipeline to California, Nevada, Arizona.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co - correct, cloud cover produces the number of sunlight hours by reducing the number of daylight hours. So your inequality could be rewritten as
daylight hours >= sunlight hours
The equality there can only happen with zero cloud cover. And I should add that things like volcanic ash and smoke and wildfire ash and smoke also should be lumped into what I termed cloud cover.
@@KB-ke3fi Ya and we (Canada) would only charge the same price per gallon as gas in sept 2022 ! OR we could Bottle the water and sell it like perrier water all over the world.
Utah is indeed an amazing state. So much geographic diversity. It's heaven for someone that loves the outdoors.
Love this series!
I love your channel! Data placed onto an overlay representing certain data subjects.
In that Canada one, the line is going to have to come up a bit to include Ottawa and Montreal. Seems like the creator exaggerated things a bit.
Either that, or the Toronto area is just that populous.
@@Compucles The "Golden Horseshoe" (Toronto to Niagara Falls) has about a quarter of the total national population on its own, so I think the line would have to be moved up a bit to get Montreal and Ottawa.
Exactly my thoughts as well.
50% of Canadians live north of that line. You’d need _some_ populous centres in that region to equal the 50% south of the line. I’d say the map’s fidelity is good.
Love your videos! I've always been interested in geography and maps, even as a little kid!! Thanks for the great information.
I’m so early, all of these maps are still part of Pangea
Love these videos! In regards to Canada's legal drinking age, it's 19 in most of the country, with exception of Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec. It used to be 18 in Saskatchewan, but they raised it to 19 around 1977, which was the year my dad turned 18. He said to circumvent this, he'd just tell bar staff he was from Alberta and they'd serve him... and he'd do this while wearing his high school's football jacket, so thankfully no one clued in.
In 2024 , you cannot even buy a beer in a convenience store or supermarket in Ontario . The most 3 rd world province of Canada
2:57 What rains in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
8:02 Or the Atlantic Ocean, no sea serpents.
1:23 "Subreddit map porn": LOL.
Great video. Am so happy that you so often make a point of including Canada in your geography discussions.
He likes geography, his name is Kyle. Instant sub :0
My thoughts exactly
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Nailed it
just found the secret Kyle meet up
Same.
Hokey not popular in Norway because you need a historical trend of flat areas to have played on before th sport moved indoors. Finland is filled with flat frozen lakes, while in Norway most water is either running rivers or ocean, which don't provide ice to play on as much.
I am a simple man, if I see Geography King upload a new video, I watch it.
Thanks for making this more relevant for Canadians
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Love these videos!
Thank you once again for making life a little more interesting and, for reasons I don't know, somehow more reassuring. You make it a-ok to stop worrying about _whatever_ for a few minutes and go on a relaxing and educational trip down some rabbit hole of fun facts that you mash all together and, once the ride's over, I feel somehow that the world's just a fine place to be in, after all. Just fine, and a little more interesting than I knew.
More interesting than "Fun with flags by Sheldon Cooper " :)
2:40 I love this map of the watersheds (I've seen this many times). To put it into perspective, there is a place somewhere in northern Minnesota where if a drop of rain falls, it will find it's way into the Mississippi River, work it's way all the way south and end up in the Gulf of Mexico. The next drop could land just a hair to the east and drain into Lake Superior, work it's way through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence and into the North Atlantic. The next drop falls a little north and west and works it's way into the Red River, flows North through Canada and all the way to Hudson's Bay. Those are 3, very long and very different trips to the sea from basically the same place!
Good to see the OG Las Vegas on that map in New Mexico… not the copycat city in Nevada
5:29 Baseball players from NorCal: used to be more. Willie Stargell and Tommy Harper both attended the same high school as I did, but not all at the same time. (Encinal High in Alameda, abutting the Naval Air Station.)
This is a pause for 5 minutes kinda show....well done
The hockey player born in Orlando, Quinn Hughes of the Canucks, actually grew up in Toronto. Goes to show that birthplace isn’t representative of where someone is actually “from”
FACT: Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. SPECULATION: Canada has more mosquitoes than the rest of the world combined too 😄
Only in June, July, and August... and ony below that 50% population line.
Also fact canada has the furthest north rainforest in the world
Thanks Kyle, excellent work. I truly enjoy your videos.
5:10 - The only top 100 baseball player I can think of from a place like Cheyenne Wyoming is Brandon Nimmo of the New York Mets.
he's also the only active player from Wyoming afaik, regardless of talent level. There's only been a handful of Wyoming natives in MLB history
Thank you. I enjoyed the video very much. I love looking at various types of maps, especially ones of the parts of the world I know least about.
"Daylight Saving Time" - Respect for not making it plural!!
The phrase "daylight saving's time" isn't plural. It contains a possessive.
Hey Thats the Bank I use!! National DAylight Savings Time and Loan!!!
I live in the Smokies as well and really enjoy your videos. Keep them coming!
Let's all just appreciate the fact that there exists a Reddit named "Map Porn."
I loved that he said it, but it will probably be used against him in the future
What are you doing, Steppe-bro?
@Jermare I meant someone could take him saying porn and use it for another context
I love porn... maps and such. D'Oh'
First time seeing your content as it randomly appeared on my recommended list. Extremely interesting and your explanations were spot-on. Great job and I wish you continued success in your channel.
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You can go overseas and lose an arm in a war at 18 but you can’t drink. No no, too dangerous.
I've always put it this way: You can vote on who's going to rule your country at 18, but you can't take a drink. Oh no, the consequences of alcohol are too grave.
@@johanrunfeldt7174 Let's start a movement to lower the drinking age to 18, but raise the voting age to 21.
Drinking age in the US military is 18, as long as you are on a military installation.
@@jbrou123 I remember the same arguments being made during the Vietnam war, as 18 year olds were being drafted. A lot of states actually lowered their age from 21 to 18 back in the 1970s. Then during the 1980s Reagan presidency Congress passed one of those extortion bills demanding states do X or else lose their highway money, this one requiring 21. So all the states went back up to 21 by like 1990.
Well, the argument did work to get the voting age lowered from 21 to 18 via the 26th Amendment.
0:38 That map is about *energy* from sunlight, and that is reduced as you get further from the equator due to the angle of the sun in the sky and how much atmosphere it has to travel through. The northern areas have fewer hours of daylight in the winter months, but far more hours of daylight in the summer months - so I think that balances. Cloud cover is also a major factor, obviously (which is why the Seattle area suddenly drops so low while the western part of Washington is quite high again).
Fun fact more Americans live north of the southern most point of Canada than Canadians do
In Southwestern Ontario, we used to take day trips to a national park south of California's northern border.