Countries With Neighbouring Capitals
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▶ Which Countries have neighbouring capitals? In this video we take a look at some of the ones that do; such as Vienna and Bratislava, Tallinn and Helsinki, Vatican City and Rome, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, Maputo and Mbabane, Beirut and Damascus, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, or Ljubljana and Zagreb.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:05 Austria (Vienna) & Slovakia (Bratislava)
02:03 Estonia (Tallinn) & Finland (Helsinki)
04:22 Vatican (City) & Italy (Rome)
05:27 Argentina (Buenos Aires) & Uruguay (Montevideo)
06:28 Congo (Brazzaville) & DRC (Kinshasa)
07:31 Mozambique (Maputo) & Eswatini (Mbabane)
08:55 Lebanon (Beirut) & Syria (Damascus)
10:04 Israel (Tel Aviv) & Palestine (Jerusalem)
11:11 Slovenia (Ljubljana) & Croatia (Zagreb)
12:02 Summary
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*Are there any other countries with neighbouring capitals?*
Also, my mistake! Tel Aviv was apparently never Israel's capital, thanks for point it out & correcting me!
I love your content but you messed up on the facts in 10:04.
I don't want to start a debate on who is right and who is wrong but to just lay out the facts.
Tel Aviv, even though it was a huge city built by jews during the aliya was never proclaimed or surved as Israel's capitol. Ever since the country's indepedence in 1948 Israel gained control of west Jerusalem and used it as its de facto capital, whilst the east was annexed into Jordan.
All foreign embessies were also in Jerusalem during that time up until Israel's incorporation of east Jerusalem in 1980 which the UN declared to be 'nul and void' and told embessies to move to Tel Aviv(except for Guatamala, Kosovo and the US). Still, Jerusalem or at least west Jerusalem has always served as Israel's capital and there was never a period in which Tel Aviv had presumed that role.
I hope this made things clear. This debate can be very confusing.
@@jasporflex1976 You are correct! My mistake, I added it to the pinned comment :) Thanks for the correction.
@@General.KnowledgeIt's fine, although you have unintentionally started a sensative debate. This topic can be very confusing sometimes. Just make sure to fact check information especially with complicated topics such as this. :)
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@@jasporflex1976no need to chew out like that my dude. he's doing his best and I appreciate his effort
Fun fact. Ursula von der Leyen used private jet to travel between Bratislava and Vienna even tho it takes just an hour by train. The flight took 19 minutes. She then talked at climate conference about stoping climate change and she even said that people should not fly short distances
it's fun being a politician
Damn, I did give a shit about saving the planet, but now I don't any more!
@@ejl1000he first step is sustainability in your own home.The second step is organising to protest against the system
@k.umquat8604 the first step is demolishing the current economic system. the most pollutant lower class household isn't hurting the envoirnment a fraction as much as the most "green" fossil fuel corporations
But your fun fact is ambiguos at least.
I'm from Helsinki, Finland so I know that in good weather you can see Tallinn with the naked eye from the top of the tallest buildings
joskus oli aamu tv:llä joku helsingin näky jostai korkeelt ja siin samal näky ihan Viroon asti juu. emmä muista oliks se yle vai mtv kanava
Very cool!
You can also see Ireland from Scotland!
Helsinki is visible from the Tallinn TV tower, right?
Helsinki and Tallinn are also called Talsinki as they do lot cooperation.
The capitals of Seoul, South Korea and Pyongyang, North Korea are actually closer than some others on this list, being about 122km away from each other
Thank you I was thinking how could he forget about this.
There are zero methods of transportion through the heavily guarded and mined border, plus neither sides recognise the other as a legitmate state.
@@lucinae8510 doesn't matter the video is about "countries with neighboring Capitals" whether they both don't recognize each other they're still considered separate sovereign countries internationally infact much better situation than Israel and Palestine
I forgot about this one! I'm always surprised how close Seoul is to the border.
It is around 195-200 km had the same though and went to check. Seoul is very close to the boarder but not the capital of DPRK (North Korea)
A small correction in the Buenos Aires - Montevideo bit. When you say that the Portuguese founded Montevideo just across the river to compete with the Spanish, you are actually talking about the city of Colonia del Sacramento, which the Portuguese founded in 1680 and is preserved to this day (it's a UNESCO site). That city is just 30 kms apart from Buenos Aires on the Uruguayan side of the river. The city of Montevideo was founded by the Spaniards in 1724; by then the Spanish had already taken Colonia del Sacramento.
My mistake! I assumed Montevideo had evolved from the old Portuguese colony. Thanks for the clarification :)
@@General.Knowledge one of the reasons to found Montevideo was to prevent further incursions from the Portuguese into the Rio de la plata, so in essence what you said is correct
@@General.Knowledge Montevideo was named by a Spaniard from Galicia, Galician and Portuguese are technically the same language, hence the confusion.
@@paulocastrogarrido3499That is debatable whether they are the same language or not.
Colonia changed hands more times than my uncle at a poker club
Prague-Brno-Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest, are all connected with direct railway and highway network, and are all within 150km from each other. Austria-Hungarys first railway was built on this line, to connect all of the capitals, but it still operates today.
"Austria-Hungarys first railway was built on this line, to connect all of the capitals, but it still operates today." bunch of nonsense - the first Austrian railway line was Vienna-Breclav (1837), long before Austria-Hungary; it was part of the North Line (to Warsaw); connection to Prague followed before 1850; the line to Buda/Pest via Pozsony/Pressburg/Bratislava was completed much later, in 1860s
This was the core of the empire, after all.
@@rncmvWow, what a massive line it had to have been from Vienna to Lundenburg lmfao.
Brno is not a capital
Prague is too far away to be considered close
and neither Prague or Budapest are within a 150km rage of Bratislava or Vienna
Prague-Brünn-Vienna-Pressburg-Budapest.**
Can only think about Kinshasa and Brazzaville, the 2 Congoes'(is that even plural?) capitals
Oops I forgot Vatican and Roma 🤣
And the USA and conference
@@oreoplays7887conference?
@@oreoplays7887My dude graduated from the McDonald’s drive thru 🤣
The uss or slave states
Guatemala City & San Salvador are only about 230km apart. Manama (Bahrain) & Doha (Qatar) are only about 80 miles apart, but it's a 435km drive that goes through Saudi Arabia to get between them. The capitals of Benin, Togo & Ghana are all coastal and a total of ~380km apart (Lomé, Togo is almost exactly in the middle between Accra, Ghana & Porto-Novo, Benin). Finally, Seoul & Pyongyang are only about 122 miles apart, but as the saying goes "you can't get there from here."
What about San Salvador and Tegucigalpa?
These countries themselves are relatively small compared to most countries listed in the video so you can see how easy for them to be overlooked.
Was about to comment about some of these. Another good one is Tirana (Albania) to Podgorica (Montenegro) which is only 131km apart in a direct line. They share similar language and I’m curious if they relate historically
@@grahamturner2640Not close enough for transportation, about 320 km away from each other but a 7 hour car drive, 8-9 hour bus drive. In contrast, Guatemala City and San Salvador are a 3.5-4 hour car drive, or 4-5 hour bus drive away from each other. All three are about 45-50 minutes away from each other if flying
sorry for being petty, but can you not fluctuate between using the metric system (km) and the imperial system (miles), it is very confusing towards me (even tho i know how to convert miles into km)
Uruguay didn't fight against the Spanish for independence, they fought against Brazil. Brazil, Argentina, and UK decided together that it was a good idea that Uruguay became an independent country instead of being the Brazilian Provincia Cisplatina. Also, the river between Montevideo and Buenos Aires is called Rio da Plata (Silver River) but in practice, it is just the Uruguay river renamed when it becomes wider.
The Rio de la Plata isn't just the Uruguay River, it has many other tributaries. The Uruguay and Parana Rivers are just the biggest ones (mind you, the Parana River is a lot bigger than the Uruguay). And yes, it is considered by many experts as a river on its own, making it the widest in the world.
@@zddxddyddw Amazon River and Rio da Plata are so wide that the Spanish thought they were bays or seas (the Spanish were the first Europeans to sail the Amazon River too). The funny thing is about Rio the Janeiro, that is the opposite, the Portuguese thought it was a river and called it Rio de Janeiro (January's River) but it's actually a bay. The lack of satellites can create a mess 🤣
How Uruguayians dont speak Portugese?
@@ariankajdomcaj2044 Uruguay was mostly colonized by the Spanish. The Portuguese built the Sacramento colony and keep it for some time. For many centuries both Uruguay and some areas in the South of Brazil were disputed with some incursions, battles, etc. When Brazil got independent in 1822, Uruguay was controlled by Portugal, so Brazil kept it for about 2 years when Brazil, Argentina, and UK decided together that it was better to create a new country instead of having a bloody war between Brazil and Argentina (who claimed Uruguay as a province). Both countries made an agreement to not interfere in the country but in just a few years were supporting different sides of Uruguay's civil war
Yep, Uruguay suffered an invasion of the United Kingdom that wanted to establish a plug state between the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata and the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Brazil when the defences in that territory was very weak. They didn't succeed, but the results can be seen today. The Charrua indians were killed and disappeared completely, almost the same fate as the Indians in the US. And because of Portugal siding with that declaration of war and supporting the UK, they finally lost the chance to recover the territory of Olivenza/Olivença back at the iberian peninsula after the Napoleonic Wars.
And for the thousandth time, Spain and Portugal didn't have "colonies" in America. They were part of a global empire with the same rights for the people. Although they were both under Absolutist Monarchies, with the freedom it gave at the time, that is. What France, UK, Netherlands and such did in America, establishing colonies without rights, does not have to apply to everybody else. It's the same mistake I see over and over again in CZcams videos.
As Uruguayan I have to admit that was totally unexpected that you picked our capital for the intro of the video. As a very little and very unknown country is amazing when we’re mentioned by foreigners. Love your videos btw.
I don’t tend to comment videos, I’m like a silent spectator but I can’t bear this feeling and emotion hahaha
Ok now I see why you put Montevideo, you had a little historical error but someone already told you… but now the most important part of all YOU NOY ONLY PUT URUGUAY AND MONTEVIDEO BUT ITS SHOWN MY TOWN AAAAAAAAAAA
Bratislava is the only capital that borders two other countries: Austria and Hungary (although the border with Hungary is 20 from the city centre and although it officially belongs to the city that area is very rural).
what about Andora, Vaduz, Luxemburg? They also border multiple countries and it's closer from the city center to the border
@@marcinkusmierzak991 I think you are getting city-states and micronations mixed up, none of those countries are also cities, and therefore capitals, actually, you listed Vaduz which actually is a capital city, but it is a part of a a microstate, Liechtenstein
@@godnmaste You are mixing it because the capitals of Andora and Luxemburg have the same names as the countries. From the city center of Andora there is 2 km to the Spanish border and 5km to the French border, isn't it the border capital? And if we count 20km in case of Bratislava from city of Luxemburg you can get to France, Belgium and Germany
Andorra, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg are all small, so their capitals are going to be near their borders regardless but the cities themselves aren't actually on the borders of multiple countries. Vaduz is in the west of Lichtenstein so it borders Switzerland but not Austria. Bratislava does feel like it's pushing a bit as the actual city stops before reaching Hungary but the Bratislava Region does extend to Hungary
If you count Bratislava as a city bordering Hungary, you should also count other cities.
5:00 I really appreciate you matching the historical map of the Papal states up with the geographical map in the background. It's a great touch, a satisfying visual which many similar channels have the opportunity to create but miss out on.
Some of these are the product of the size of the country, I think. If small enough, the capitals can be in the middle of the county and still 1 hr away from the neighboring capital, But the local would see them as separate urban areas.
And also, what about Seoul and Pyongyang?
Not so much distance apart - although Google refuses to calculate it - more like different worlds.
Just an interesting thing, about two months ago I have walkded the from Bratislava to Vienna in single day. It was 68 kilometers.
There are still two railway links between Bratislava and Vienna (one via Marchegg, the other via Kittsee), served by regional and intercity services every half hour. However, the railway you mentioned was actually an overland tram travelling within Bratislava and Vienna as a tram. The Austrian part still exists today and is now used for the S-Bahn, however the link to Bratislava is gone. It terminates at the border in Wolfsthal nowadays.
It’s really a shame that GK doesn’t have millions of subscribers. Your content is amazing! Great work :)
Love and respect from Saudi Arabia.
Brussels and Amsterdam are pretty close to eachother as well, they’re only 174km a part. And it’s almost the same distance between Brussels and the capital of the Luxembourg, only 177km between them. But I once again enjoyed the video, thanks for keeping up the great work!
Some Caribbean island nations are very close to each other. If you count sea borders like Tallinn and Helsinki they also should be included
I was thinking about Accra - Lomé and Lome - Porto-Novo, since they look pretty close on the map, but both are about 200 kilometers away from eachother
I like that you have Preussens Gloria in the background.
What a video one of the best on the site
Ohhh this is a nice video idea ❤
There are countries in Carribean that have capitals close to each other. For example Kingstown of Saint Vincent and Grenadinies, and Castries of Saint Lucia, are only about 100 km away from each other.
Well yeah, but they’re island nations and it doesn’t feel as strange, since there isn’t really any other options to put a capital in (ig st Vincent could put it in the grenadines somewhere but that’d just be stupid as a person from there)
This is true yeah, I mostly left out islands because the capital tends to be the island's only city itself, and so in any archipelago where more than one sovereign country exist, they are necessarily very close together.
@@kenos911same logic for Eswatini's capital considering it's as far west as it could be and subsequently as far away from Maputo as possible
The record in the Carribean is going to be for Philipsburg, St Maarten and Marigot, Saint Martin, their suburbs are within 1km of each other and according to google maps it's 8km from the centre of one to another walking the most direct way, less than 2 hours.
What about Port au prince and Santo Domingo?
Great video!
You forgot about Minsk and Vilnus
Minsk isnt that close to Vilnius
Yeah, they’re not that close 2.5 hour drive
@@Donald_Trump_2024 In the video there were capitals that are further away than Minsk and Vilnius
@@BleamerGD well i guess youre right...
2 very forgettable cities 😂
The Helsinki-Tallinn sea route is one of the busiest in Europe (6 million passengers in 2022). The rail tunnel linking the cities would be great, it would create a twin city of 2m people (metro). Would it be called Hellinn? Tallsinki? 😁
Tallsinki sounds much better
@@AdistuffRBX Nope. Not when you can have Hell-Inn!
They already advertise Helsinki and Tallinn together under a name of Talsinki on social media. Helsinkiä ja Tallinnaa mainostetaan jo yhdessä Talsinki - nimen alla sosiaalisessa mediassa.
That's a lot of people! Is it all tourism or do some people live in one but work in the other?
Hmmm, how about Linnsinki? 😁
This helped put into prospective how large rural America is. With most of them I was thinking "that's about as long as a drive from here to city A"
I was biking some weeks ago, from Bratislava to Vienna. 75 km, nice trip, and I could visit two capitals by bike :)
I used to live in Austria, near Graz in the 90s, and as a young British guy when I drove to Vienna it did feel odd seeing the signs in and around Vienna indicating sliproads to Pressburg (Bratislava) and Brunn (Brno), made me realise how far east I was. Vienna is further east than Prague. I know it may seem obvious and nothing special now but in the early 90s just after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain it felt odd to a young English bloke.
Estonia and Finland are literally Finnic brothers😅
who misunderstand eachothers languages
Yeah, Nazi Brotherhood!
@@heh9392not exactly misunderstand… but i know finnish, and to me estonian sounds kind of like… drunk gibberish, you can make out some words but some you cant make out all the way. I knew an estonian guy who said the same thing (just to clarify im not finnish, im american)
Amman is also somewhat close to Damascus, with only a 205Km distance. There is a large Syrian population in Amman too, thanks to immigration and refugees, along with many people sharing family in the city. Amman and Damascus are also both some of the oldest cities in history, with Amman being only around 1000 years younger.
Doha Qatar and Manama Bahrain are also close to eachother
Edit; Benin and Togo too, Togo and Ghana, Montenegro and Albania, north Macedonia and Albania and even the Netherlands and Belgium
Amsterdam and Brussels are a long way away from each other by Dutch and Belgian standards lol. Basically if you drive for 2 hours in any direction from any part of either of those countries, you're already in another country or in the sea.
Tirana, Podgorica and Skopje are pretty close to each other. Also Luxembourg and Bruxelles, Lomé and Accra, Conakry and Freetown, Minsk and Vilnius, all in the range of 200km. There are so many of them!
Prishtina and Skopje are even closer to each other - around 90 km.
6:49
From my understanding there has not yet been a bridge built to United Kinshasa and Brazzaville due to 2 main reasons: The Congo River is incredibly deep, as well as a lack of initiative due to low funding and political instability, most notably in the DRC
Bloemfontein, South Africa and Maseru, Lesotho are also pretty close (150km). Seoul and Pyongyang are 198km apart. Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe (not an official country) and Roseau, Dominica are 32.6km apart.
Jerusalem has been the capital and seat of government of Israel since independence in 1948. The ministry of defense (i.e. the Israeli Pentagon) is located in Tel Aviv, just like the US whose pentagon is in Arlington Virgina and NOT in Washington DC (the US capitol).
It's not a country
Israeli independence? Now that’s a riot.
Since stealing the land of Palestine*
@@AhmadMuath-xn2es Go cry abt it
But didn't they recently set it as their capital? Or was it just the decision of certain countries (US & Brazil) to move their embassies there?
The river between Buenos Aires and Montevideo is De La Plata, so the Uruguay river is located more inside the continent.
Kinchasa and Brazzaville starts the point where the Congo river is safely navigable. The two railroads go out to the coast since downstream, the Congo River is a series of rapids and waterfalls. Both countries have river systems that the two countries want to concentrate transport at.
i live about 40 km north of vienna and at a popular viewpoint in my area you can see the lights of vienna and bratislava at night
It's crazy because I live right on the Czech border for Slovakia and (kinda) Austria, so while both Austria's capital and Slovakia's capital is 1 hour away from my house, our capital is 5 hrs away. I've been to Vienna more times than Prague. 😂.
At least we're a hotspot for great train connections tho. 👍
Skopje and pristina are also close together
Yes and i thougt about Ljubljana and Zagreb
If we count Kosovo as a country. But since he even mentioned northen Cyprus, i guess youre right
Inside of Germany this is the case quite often. Potsdam borders Berlin (a city state). Mainz and Wiesbaden border each other and Bremen and Hamburg (city states as well) border Lower Saxony and Hamburg also borders Schleswig-Holstein.
That's what happens when for most of history countries in the region were 3 square meters
@@TheMisterDarknight Thats has nothing to do with the fragmentation. I wrote that Hamburg, Bremen, and Berlin are city states so they themselves are their own capital. And the capital of Hessen Darmstadt and Hessen Nassau (the two successor states/provinces of modern day Hessen) had Darmstadt and Kassel as capitals. Wiesbaden only became capital because the other two cities were completely destroyed by our "liberators). And Mainz was an important and big city in the newly founded Rhineland-Palatinate so thats the reason
On watching this video, I decided to visit Helsinki and Tallinn in one trip. The ferry is about 3 hours and it is €24 each way.
Very curious! (as usual)
Charlotte Amalie - Road Town (Virgin Islands - British Virgin Islands) 45 kms
Conakry - Freetown (Guinea - Sierra Leone).
Axe : Accra - Lomé - Porto-Novo - Lagos (Ghana - Togo - Benin - Nigeria)
Djibouti - Aden (Djibouti - Yemen)
the shortest distance between capitals of different nations: Vatica-Roma - 0km(?) or 'whatever the thickness of Vatican Wall'
edited: wow 5 likes in 15 minutes???
True true
If you would watch the video first
i thought of one, and although there is not much of any cooperation between them i think they could count as neighboring; its Seoul, South Korea and Pyongyang, North Korea
9:53 it's not "also," railroads in all of Lebanon have sadly been out of operation for a very long time because of the civil war I believe. But you can still visit the steam trains and remains of the railroad in some places
You could also have included Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, and one of the capitals of South Africa, Bloemfontein. They are roughly 150km apart by car (less as the crow flies), with a trip of less than 2 hours. There are road signs within the city limits of Bloemfontein that point to Maseru.
Capital is executive. The others don't count!
Vienna to Bratislava is about 62 km by road, and there's still a rail connection. Takes about an hour by regional train.
Not a good start as far as research goes...
The capitals of the two German States Hesse and Rheinland-Palatinate are also very close (Wiesbaden, Mainz) 😀
Now make one for central capital cities, capital cities that are almost at the geographical center of their territories.
Ljubljana to Zagreb is 1 hour, not 2 hours. 😃 They are similar culturally just like Helsinki and Tallinn. Thanks for the video! 🥰
A correction on the Israel part: [West] Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since 1949, a year after its founding. Government buildings, including the Knesset (parliament) and the Supreme Court have always been situated in the city. East Jerusalem was conquered from Jordan in 1967 and annexed by Israel, but the Palestinians claim it as their capital as well, though their government facilities are situated in Ramallah.
Guatemala City and San Salvador are 285km apart, a 3h drive or less. I used to travel that distance monthly a few years ago.
Beirut/Damascus actually takes 2-3 hours, I know because I've done that trip a couple of times.
The capitals of Liechtenstein (Vaduz) and Switzerland (Zurich) are about 110 km apart by car.
In the case of Israel Jerusalem is the capital since the beginning, there was a government decision to move everything to Jerusalem after building Kiryat HaMemshala
Lol
The capital is Tel Aviv and will always be!
@@mikatu because.. you said so?
If you count Buenos Aires with Montevudeo - there are many capital of city with less distance between each others in Europe.
I was surprised that San Marino wasn't mentioned regarding its distance to Rome and Vatican City.
You can also include the capitals of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro as they are under 350km apart of each other and under 200km in airline
Good vid
Thanks!
If you consider regional capitals, Valletta-Palermo are also quite close
11:33 Painting at 11:33 is of Novi Vinodolski on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, not of Zagreb the capital of Croatia ‼I like this video❣❣
Muito fixe!!
i would also add belgium and luxemburg to this list ! they're also relatively close ! (224 km)
There's also all the Stans: their capital cities are quite close to each other and form a sort of line (I'm guessing this was the Silk Road)...at least relative to the size of the countries.
bangkok not loacated in coastal area
kinshasa & brazaville is a good example of capitals close to each other..just across the river (congo river)
Also Conakry-Freetown and Skopje-Pristina.
Not two countries, but the states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen within Germany have their capitals border eachother
I love your content but you messed up on the facts in 10:04.
I don't want to start a debate on who is right and who is wrong but to just lay out the facts.
Tel Aviv, even though it was a huge city built by jews during the aliya was never proclaimed or surved as Israel's capitol. Ever since the country's indepedence in 1948 Israel gained control of west Jerusalem and used it as its de facto capital, whilst the east was annexed into Jordan.
All foreign embessies were also in Jerusalem during that time up until Israel's incorporation of east Jerusalem in 1980 which the UN declared to be 'nul and void' and told embessies to move to Tel Aviv(except for Guatamala, Kosovo and the US). Still, Jerusalem or at least west Jerusalem has always served as Israel's capital and there was never a period in which Tel Aviv had presumed that role.
I hope this made things clear. This debate can be very confusing.
Lol
@@AhmadMuath-xn2es Can't handle the facts
Another interesting would be Nigeria's former capital, Lagos and Benin's capital Porto Novo/Cotonou. About 3 hours' drive.
Bloemfontein in South Africa and Maseru in Lesotho - they are only 125km away from each other.
Can't Washington D.C. be considered coastal as well? I know it connects to the ocean only via Potomac River, but it seems more like bay than a river.
Bratislava and Vienna still have railway connection, but that line you are talking about in the video was light rail that had connected to tram systems in both cities. there are several preserved tram locomotives and at least one is in theory operational, but AFAIK today only on display in Bratislava. Today the line terminates in Wolfsthal, in theory this line can be restored, but I am not sure whether anybody would choose tramtrain over much faster train.
10:20 all Israeli government buildings have been in Jerusalem since 1949
Facts
You missed some pairs of capital cities (if you can count some cities with more than 200km distance)
Manamah (Bahrain) and Doha (Qatar) are around 150km away from each other
Bujumbura (Burundi) and Kigali (Rwanda) are around 180km away from each other
Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) are also around 180km away from each other.
Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Brussels (Belgium) are also around 180km away from each other
Bern (Switzerland) and Vaduz (Liechtenstein) have a distance of around 160km
Skopje (North Macedonia) and Pristina (Kosovo) have a distance of only around 75km.
Skopje (North Macedonia) and Tirana (Albania) are around 150km away from each other.
There's some more combinations in Europe, like Tirana and Podgorica.
and I am not sure if that counts, but Dublin (Republic of Ireland) and Belfast (Northern Ireland) are arouns 140km away from each other
great video idea though :)
Vilnius and Minsk are very close too :)
It’s crazy how Brazzaville and Kinshasa have no road connection, they need to build that quickly
Probably because relations between them aren’t exactly great
It's hard to build a road in a river.
@@zouchmusicit really isn’t, if some of the poorest countries in the world can do it then I don’t see how DRC and RC couldn’t
@@pepster3864they aren’t the best but the two countries aren’t hostile towards each other or anything. Trade can be greatly increased if there was a road and rail connection between the two
@@bababababababa6124 congo river between them is really thick so it must be expensive
Maseru, Lesotho and Bloemfontein, South Africa are very close.. Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa and it is 150,6 km from Maseru in Lestho.. 2hour slow drive away..
From Sofia, Bulgaria to Skopje, Macedonia, the distance is only 175 km, but it takes 4-5 hours to get from one to the other :) The railway line between the two cities was started to be built 100 years ago and is still not repaired ... They might be the most unfriendly captals in Europe, even though they both speak pretty much the same language?
There are over 230 km what are you talking abiut
In Germany, two state capitals - Wiesbaden and Mainz - are on opposing sides of the river Rhine.
Belfast and Dublin are only about 100k apart.
You could add Douglas from the Isle Of Man in for the craic 😅
What is the music in the background? I rly like it
I am not sure if someone mentioned about it but San Marino and Rome are quite close to each other (4 hours by car)
Surprised you didn’t mention Lome, Porto Novo and Accra
(st kitts and nevis) and (antigua and barbuda) capitalss are pretty close aswell
wut about Singapore-Johor Bahru? ik Johor Bahru is capital of Johore, state of Malaysia but maybe u can add these to video like between territories or territory and country?
copenhagen and malmø, two large cities, even though malmø is not a capital, are also only seperated by the øresund strait, and a bridge connects the two cities in a way, are somewhat worth mentioning in a way
Not countries, but German federal states: Wiesbaden & Mainz, Berlin & Potsdam. Also Budapest was once two cities, Buda & Pest, that merged together
Ja, ja, Bonn ist ja auch nur ein Vorort von Lisabonn?
Berlin is also the result of two cities merged together
Other capitals I come up with are some state capitals in Germany like Berlin/Potsdam and Mainz/Wiesbaden
This example doesn’t fall into this category but in Japan, Nara, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto are the closest former capitals within Japan
theres also Georgia and South Ossetia (if we count it as a country) beign only 117 km apart
Bloemfontein, the judicial capital of South Africa, is about 150 km from Lesotho's capital Maseru.
Since we are apparently defining "close" as under 200km then Banjul (The Gambia) and Dakar (Senegal), Conakry (Guinea) and Freetown (Sierra Leon), Ciudad de la Paz (Equatorial Guinea) and Libreville (Gabon), Kigali (Rwanda) and Gitega (Burundi), Doha (Qatar) and Manama (Bahrain), Tirana (Albania) and Podgorica (Montenegro), Skopje (North Macedonia) Sofia (Bulgaria), Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Brussels (Belgium), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Minsk (Belarus), and finally these ones are kind of really technicalities depending how you want to look at it, Bloemfontein (South Africa) (it is technically 1 of South Africa's 3 capitals) and Maseru (Lesotho), Bern (Switzerland) (Switzerland's de facto but not de jure capital) and Vaduz (Liechtenstein).
Theres still a train between Vienna and Bratislava, popping to Slovakia for lunch or to use the airport is fairly common in high cost Vienna
There s actually 2 train lines
That's interesting. I don't think the prices are very different. I know a lot of people from Bratislava who shop in Kittsee or Hainburg and say it's because of prices.
Imagine going on a different country just for lunch😂
You have included many countries with capitals that are not as close as some others. For example:
Georgia vs. Armenia or Tbilisi vs. Yerevan (about 167 km)
South Korea vs. North Korea or Seoul vs. Pyongyang (less that 200km but can not be reached by any vehicle.... not that easy)
Togo vs. bothe neighbouring countries of Ghana and Benin or distance from Lome to Porto-Novo or Accra are nearly the same...just about 160 km
Eswatini vs. Mozambique or Mbabane vs. Maputo (about 150 km)
Mbabane and Maputo were mentioned
from Yerevan to Tbilisi it takes 5.5-6 hours. Traveled in April. There are many mountains, so the road is very winding and rugged.
As a European, it strikes me that 200 km is considered particularly close.
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are just around 350km apart.
Beirut Rafik AlHariri International Airport has become the de facto airport for Syrians leaving or entering Syria. I lived in Damascus and I could reach the border in mere 30 minutes.
Another one you forgot and other people haven’t mentioned is Bloemfontein, South Africa, and Maseru, Lesotho, which are around 100 miles apart (closer than Montevideo and Buenos Aires), and have a relatively straight highway connection. Granted, it’s because of South Africa having 3 capital cities.
Bloemfontein is not the capital of SA.
@@mikatu it's one of 3, as far as I'm aware.