Interesting UNITED KINGDOM Maps That Teach Us About The Country
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00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Regions
01:31 - Brexit Results
03:05 - GDP per Capita
04:17 - National Identity
05:56 - Evolution of Languages
07:17 - Religion
08:48 - Protected Areas
09:32 - Population Density
11:04 - Life Expectancy
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Which country's maps should I make a video on next?
Guinea-Bissau!
Russia
France
I think mexico is big enough to have its own video, so many people and climates, not just deserts :/
Australia!! Please!
I'm from Wales, and the Welsh Language is alive and strong, most of our children now attend Welsh Medium Education and for the first time the highest percentage of speakers is the young.
Good news for Welsh language
In terms of Irish, nobody in my year took in for GCSE.
The thing is that you guys are considered a "country" when clearly the UK is the country and you don't even speak your language and when I say you don't speak your language I mean 80% of people in Wales doesn't speak Welsh so I dunno if it's that strong and alive
@@MartimCorreia10 The main thing is Wales as a country is you can spilt it into the eastern borderlands, southern coast and the 3rd area of the North & Interior. The South coast being the business and population heartland means they come with the administration and easy access of Britain while the east borderlands of areas are too different in culture to just afew miles across the border say Wrexham and Chester so similarly English culture had easy access. NorthWest and Interior is vastly different with it being the more "Welsh" of the Wales population. If you ever see maps of Welsh Language across Wales youll see these areas hit 80% with the only exception in the area being just Bangor but thats a major university city but even here its only the central city that includes the campus is English leaning the estates on the outter stretches drastically change to the broader Northern & Interior area mentioned.
These areas are also lower population then the flater South urbanised areas so if you were to look at a chart of Welsh language as a broad percentage of population it may seem low but realistically its relevant in 1/3-1/5 of the country area with English being 2nd language so yes it is going strong and is very much alive its just using that interpretation isnt the best. Similarly purely at percentages of population is like saying nobody speaks Dutch in the EU because its less than 10% but you similarly areas of the Low countries majority Dutch where shops and people are casual in that language while others arent.
@@paul_5848 but The Netherlands are a distinct country its not like I'm comparing them to the rest of the eu that would be dumb. Nonetheless, in reality Wales could and should be a country outside the uk if they have a distinct culture and entity, but that is just me getting too political.... Either way I love Wales and I'm planning to go there on holiday
The Scottish Highlands aren't inhospitable, they were forcibly depopulated and are still mostly owned by large landowners who keep it empty for tourism and hunting
I feel like the creator of this video only did surface-level research, there are so many mistakes and inaccuracies it just hurts to watch.
Do you think there would be any large population areas in the highlands if they weren't cleared?
@@thefowlyetti2 its impossible to know for sure, but there very well could be large towns or even cities in several places in the northwest now if the clearances hadn't happened. But we'll never know now.
The rest of the UK was forcibly depopulation too,heard of the enclosures?
I live in the Scottish highlands, the vast majority of the land is hills and mountains, I'd call that pretty inhospitable, the only big towns and villages you will see are coastal.
The Scottish Highlands aren't exactly "inhospitable", there's complicated history as to why there's hardly any people living there. People were cleared off their land, and had to emigrate or move to lowland towns and cities for work (especially since the industrial revolution). Also land ownership in Scotland is incredibly backwards, a small minority own so much of the country, and many of them inherited the land from their ancestors who stole the land from the original inhabitants. Which is clearly a system not fit for a modern country. The lack of people living there over recent history has made building infrastructure more difficult, as the demand for trains etc is so low, and ability to buy land/ find housing is so difficult. I'd love to see the population of the Highlands and Islands grow in future, there's no point in it just being the UK's back garden/a playground for Lords and rich land owners to shoot grouse. It's interesting to think how different Scotland could have looked without all this dark history.
Came to say this. No longer need to. Thanks.
One third of Scotland's land area is above 1,000 feet in elevation , and the bulk of the country lies more than 55 degrees north. Not many people want to live above a 1,000 feet , with the way rainfall and wind speeds are increasing due to climate change.
OP is probably the same type of person who thinks the world is overpopulated an needs to stop having as many children, yet when it comes to Scotland we need to destroy our outdoor landscape - which has already been put through so much - just for the sake of population growth.
Make up your mind.
@@quartzking3997 that's an absolutely ridiculous bunch of assumptions to make. Why didn't you instead simply ask and wait for a response? Talk about jumping the gun.
@@Torthrodhel nah, I’ve been around this type of person long enough to know exactly what they’re about. Insufferable bellends.
As a person from northern ireland, alot of people over here would actually claim themselves to be 'northern irish' instead of 'british' or 'irish', But like you said its very hard to find updated statistics or just statistics in general for this. Great video though
I would always call myself Irish but ye I agree most people here say northern Irish
i would call myself irish but ye'right
@@Aidansands2 yeah i just say northern irish just cause of the tensions and stuff, dont want people to get upset.
I am from the Republic can I ask your guys veiws on leaving the UK and becoming a free state for want of a less politically charged word. Or unification of remaining. If you don't wanna discuss online to some random bloke fair enough. Let's keep things civil no matter the case
@@shanecoyle3676 I'm my opinion I want to leave the uk I've grew up in Irish culture even in Northern Ireland and I even speak Irish I don't want anything to do with England anymore and I feel a unified island would work well together for the first few years the economy might drop but after decade we can definitely grow together I see no difference in a republican and a northern Irish
England has “greenbelt” protection around several cities, to stop them sprawling. It isn’t about nature; it’s about keeping towns compact and walkable.
I was surpised your's was the only comment on this. While the land is "protected", much of the protected land in the UK (at least as shown by the map) wouldn't be considered "protected" in the US or other countries (or at least isn't shown in similar maps). Don't get me wrong, I think it's impressive how much farmland and and natural areas the UK has for how dense it is. But apples to apples comparisons would have to show alot more "green" on similar maps for other countries than they currently do. Just look at the the population density map vs the protected area map. The protected areas have population densities similar to much of the US.
@@jakeryan4545 no shit sherlock... the US is 99% empty
That's what their propaganda would tell you. The green belt is *really* about keeping house prices artificially high - or even if that's not the intention, it's certainly the result.
@@alexpotts6520 Green Belts started in the 1950s, and the intention was to stop urban sprawl. House prices have taken off more recently, primarily because of low interest rates feeding into land prices. Opening the greenbelt to development causes land prices to go up at least 10-fold - and all the gain goes to landowners. Paradoxically, increasing the supply of houses by building on former greenbelt land does not result in houses being cheaper, because builders have to buy land at inflated prices first.
@@matthewshaw988 Well they have to buy land at inflated prices everywhere. Because there is a shortage of land. Because of the green belt.
The Religion dip on Protestantism compared to Catholicism is to do with culture I believe. Whilst a few generations ago almost all British families would go to church its very rare now. Whereas with Catholicism their religion is often ingrained in their family so theres more of an identity there, a lot of people who identify as catholic aren't actually practicing the religion but see it as their cultural identity (Probably because they have been a minority in the country for a long time)
That makes sense! Thanks
@@General.Knowledge The Catholic proportion in the UK got a boost in recent years from Polish immigration.
People with British heritage are becoming less religious which is why Protestant Christianity is declining.
I'd say but have no data that British catholics are also declining but Catholic immigrants are maintaining the number temporarily.
No religion will likely become the dominant by the next census.
@@daviesuk89 that's true. I think it depends on how the question was posed/recorded for the data.
People who's families were protestant who aren't religious will say no religion in most cases. Whereas a lot of people from Catholic backgrounds who aren't religious will often still identify as Catholic as it is part of their cultural identity as opposed to just their religious beliefs
To leave the Catholic Church is to leave one family too, and most people refuse to do this.
My family left England after the Cavaliers lost, and currently the only thing I share in common with them is a sur name.
The population density clearly shows why it's called the Central Belt in Scotland, the vast majority of the population lives in that corridor from Glasgow across to Edinburgh and up to Dundee, splitting the country in two.
Including Dundee in The Central Belt is a controversial act - I've seen fights start in pubs over less
the vast majority of people in UK live in the south its still one country majority of Chinese people lives in the east its still one country.
@@richierich1835 U OK hon?
@@mcswordfish fabulous sweetheart thanks for asking.
@@mcswordfish true but if you just do Glasgow to Edinburgh then it cuts out all of Fife plus Perth and Dundee (and bits in between) that's over 600k people. Don't think it's an exact science that's for sure haha
A really interesting effect can be gained by overlaying a map of coal deposits on top of the map of UK pop density.
Came here to say this, especially with regards to the Central Belt in Scotland. Less to do with inhospitable geography and more to do with industrialisation of the lowlands near coal deposits (plus the Clearances contributing to depopulation).
Lay that coal deposits map on life expectancy too that’ll be interesting
@@shamone10 One really intresting thing about cities (i.e. high population density areas) in general is that until about 1860 or sometime around then all cities throught history as far as we can tell had higher death rates than birth rates, it was historicaly only ever migration of rural to urban population that made cities a viable social construct.
Iron too.
I'm from Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway and the reason it is so underpopulated despite the large land area and suitable agricultural land is that we have the UK's largest land owner the Duke of Buccleugh. Luckliy there has been a few community buyouts allowing us to steward the land the way we want to mostly for conservation and helping equalising agricultual land share.
What does the scouter say about his boomer level?
*It's over 9000!*
stewart* the land lol
I'm from D&G too! Hardly ever manage to find anyone from round here
Currently live in Dumfries. That is not the reason why we are underpopulated down here. We are the forgotten region of Scotland purely because we don't vote for the SNP, and the UK government also believes there's nothing between Carlisle and Hamilton. There's little infrastructure for businesses to locate themselves here as the link from port to motorway is the A75, 90 miles of single carriage way with the occasional overtaking lane. We have a very basic university that offers little to no practical courses and this leads to our youth moving away. And I'm being selfish and only thinking of the issues in Dumfries, I can't imagine how those think to the west at Stranraer or the east at Langholm. At least those that live in Annan can travel to Carlisle, and those in Moffat to Glasgow/Edinburgh.
@@MelonGearSolid yes you are right from a modern presepecctive for sure. I was more meaning historically most the land has be owned and rented by lords. Inhibiting colonization and growth as has occurred in other areas.
Wales feels left out so much, being included in videos like this and hearing places like Cardiff mentioned always feel really cool, probably just me tho
Do Portugal next please...they're old friends🇵🇹 🇬🇧
Indeed
Plus GK is from Portugal
So se for a roubar nos é que eles são nossos amigos, nem se dão ao trabalho de pronunciar os nossos nomes o de quere saber sobre a nossa lingua e cultura pesnam que é espanhola quando não é
@@MartimCorreia10 you're wrong
@@masnwrdl0511 oh yeah I'm so wrong, it's well documented how Brittain fucked us over the years 🤡
I'm going to have to watch this a few more times [and be quicker on the pause button!] to be able to take in all the information.
The maps of language over time I found particularly fascinating. Thank you for such detail.
I speak Welsh and when I was in Northern France I could speak Welsh with Bretons.
It wasn't the most flawless conversation they are not the same language but we could understand eachother.
Genuinely interested. How well can you understand one another? Just enough to get by or enough for a short casual chat?
I love Welsh so much! It is my plan to retire: move to Wales, start taking lessons, and read Branches of Mabinogi by a fireplace.
@@shamone10 I could handle a casual chat over a few drinks and some games of pool.
I could order stuff at restaurants and make small talk. It was explained to me that it was like talking to a child who was starting to get a proper grasp of the language. 6 to 8 year old maybe.
@@ieuanhunt552 welsh cornish and breton are all forms of welsh though. We all lived with eachother in Britain for thousands and thousands of years
@@teiloturner2760 indeed. The other two started out as dialects of old Welsh (British), but due to isolation, they started to develope into their own unique languages.
Thanks for doing GB🇬🇧. Portugal next would make sense. We do like them alot 🇬🇧♥🇵🇹
As a Irish-British Catholic, living in England, the reason I would say that Catholicism has remained stable is due to migration, and also in previous years the ability to convert to be catholic. Catholicism was illegal, then became legal and many returned or made public their faith. For the migration side, I'm from Ireland and many Irish migrated with Catholicism. Although most of my family do not attend mass, we all say we are still Catholic, as it can be seen as culture. There are many more migration groups, like Filipinos, Malayali's, Poles and others.
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Totally. I feel like Catholicism is a culture as well as a religion, and to say I'm not Catholic is to deny the environment I was brought up in and how I was made. But also, saying I'm Catholic doesn't actually mean I am religious.
@@orangew3988 yup, exactly!
The reason that map shows just England and Wales is probably because they have a joint census, while Scotland and Northern Ireland each run their own census. So sometimes maps only show results for England and Wales, rather than combining data from different sources.
There are various other cases where "England and Wales" is treated a single entity. Wales was essentially an extension of England (in legal terms) for a few hundred years, so it doesn't have as many of its own institutions as Scotland and Northern Ireland do.
Thats also the reason welsh language declined for a long time. The violent oppression the welsh people were subjected to for speaking welsh is frankly disgusting. Thankfully its alive and growing 🏴
@@Ccccc-mi3tr What violent oppression? The language died out because England dominated all trade, culture and legal institutions across the British Isles and the same goes for Scotland and Ireland. It wasn't allowed in schools or legal proceedings just like how Anglo-Saxon wasn't in England. That's literally how existence works. The language isn't alive if people only speak it for the sake of keeping it alive. Latin is still a dead language no matter how many people speak it.
Yes, it comes from the fact there are in reality five legal entities withing the UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and then a 5th, called England and Wales as of 1967. It relates to a Principality of Wales (Gwynedd) which was annexed by Henry VIII of the House of Tudor in 1536-42.
@@---675 no, The Welsh were not allowed to hold any job of importance if they couldn't speak English. Also, Welsh children were often beat at the end of every day if they were caught speaking Welsh in class. Look over the "The Treachery of the Blue Books" to see exactly how bad it was for the Welsh.
@@---675 Welsh isn't a dead language though. There are still thousands of people who speak it as their primary language. They don't just speak it for the sake of keeping it alive. You could say that about Cornish, but not Welsh.
Hi from the Scottish Highlands...
Contrary to many posts here I can confirm that the environmental here in many places is an inhospitable climate. Especially in winter and at higher altitudes where if you took a photo would look like somewhere in Norway or Canada. However the summers can be beautiful particularly at lower altitudes. The reason there's little population is a combination of this and clearances that took place hundreds of years ago but to be fair... It still isn't an easy place to build a modern community in.
One correction though: Gaelic here is pronounced "gallick". "Gaylick" is what it's called in Ireland.
this is awesome and really well done video. Thank you putting this together! First video I have seen and just subscribed.
This is a fantastic video. Clearly you've done your research! Just a cpuple of things, though, and it's about the language. Firstly, "Scots Gaelic" is more accurately known as "Scottish Gaelic" or simply "Gaelic". In relation to the Scottish language, "Gaelic" is pronouned "Gah-lick" (as opposed to "Gay-lick" as in Ireland). Scotland also has a third language, known as "Scots", which is similar to English, but also very distinct. I don't have any figures on how well spoken it is, but Scotland does have 3 languages.
Thank you! I was looking for a comment exactly like yours so I knew whether or not to write my own.
The pronunciation of Gàidhlig really bugged me :,)
As a Scots speaker, it always feels a bit sad when people either don't include/realise it exists or totally denounce it's validity as a language. Many of us native speakers also don't even realise that it's a language (like my parents for example) because we weren't taught it in schools. Schools sometimes even punish you for speaking it because it's "slang" (hate when they say it's just slang). We just have to learn it on our own, pretty much. I was taught a wee bit, but nowhere near the amount I should've been. Because of this, I think any data on it could be inaccurate. I've heard that the number of native Scots speakers is probably a lot higher than recorded due to schools not teaching it and the whole debate around it being a language. Hope that one day people will realise it is a very real and very valid language, even if it did come from old English. I'd absolutely love if they taught it more in schools besides occasionally around Burns Night.
On top of that, Brythonic is pronounced as if the “y” were the “i”in “lid”, not as if it was the “y” in “fry”.
Yeah, there's also a northern Irish dialect of Scots called ulster-scots
Very interesting, map can say a lot. I really enjoy analyzing maps
Great video! As a soccer/football fan, I'd have liked a graph that shows the support of different football clubs across the UK. Particularly in London, which has many teams with different loyalties and fans.
Problem is this data is too easily skewed by external factors, for example in Plymouth we have a lot of people move here from places like Liverpool through the navy (and lots of people retire down here also) so these stats are not proportional to an areas population.
Nice addition of the quote in the opening, subtle and to the point
Thanks for that. Interesting to see a non UK resident looking through data with a clear, external view.
I live in the far north of the Scottish Highlands. Population density is 9 per square kilometre. Nearest McDonalds is 105 miles away, no motorways, no major events, no good quality shopping...just lots of big moody skies, sea cliffs, empty moors, empty beaches, wind and peace and quiet. It's paradise to me, don't think i'll ever move away.
Haha sheep shaggers
Kind regards someone fae rural south lanarkshire
The "nearest McDonalds is 105 miles away" really sells it! If I wasn't so deeply rooted here in the Scottish Borders, that fact alone would have me moving to the highlands! 🤣
8:59 I live a few minutes away from one of the main protected areas in the UK, the Peak District.
Great work (and lots of it compiling this info).
This was super interesting.
Thanks for posting.
You left out the best UK census 2011 fact on religion (visible in their 2011 ons dashboard): there are about as many Jedi Knights as there are Hindu's in the UK - falling just shy of the legal definition of major religion (100k followers). It's also one of the fastest growing religions. I'm hoping to see them hit major religion status when the results come out later in the year.
Im hoping all religions die out by 2050.
This idea of 100k is certainly persistent but there is no universal definition of religion in English law.
For my own material interests I voted against Brexit, but I accepted leaving and continue to look pensively towards discovering what role Britain will play in the world going forward. I’m just glad we don’t spend all day talking about it anymore, it was an exhausting time.
Same Boat. I don't see the logic in complaining about how terrible something is, instead of trying to work out the best way to make something a success.
@@craigstephens93 "I don't see the logic in complaining about how terrible something is, instead of trying to work out the best way to make something a success."
Good logic! Will make that known... let's bring that forward and put it in practice!
Scottish independence, here we come!
@@leonmcnair4615 This isn't Quora, you don't have to quote me before reply to me.
I get the impression that you're deluded in thinking that you're using my own logic against me; If Scotland voted for independence then so be it...
@@craigstephens93 How can you possibly make something which is clearly a complete failure a success?
@PanglossDr Exactly this. I can tolerate Brexit, but I can’t entertain the idea that we can be better off with it
I'm from Aberdeen, and we're quite often the exception to the rule when it comes to most of these categories. A fascinating history has influenced our language, religion, culture etc. that breaks the mould in more ways than one. For good or for ill, the isolated location of the city affords us a unique contradiction to many of these statistics, which would probably require a video of its own to distinguish.
Absolutely love your channel btw, keep 'em coming!
Really enjoyed this. Still learning about my country as an adult.
Love this series ! Can you do it about France ?
Oui!
@@General.Knowledge Yay! I can't wait ☺️
This was indeed interesting. The last one about life expectancy was the most interesting. Scotland having the lowest of the four constituent nations. Could that be related to the fact they deep fry everything? 🙈
Could you do one on Italy?
Probably because of our drug problems tbh
@@garbageguy4245 you guys sure do love ur heroin
@@garbageguy4245 Scot’s will be Scot’s. Hello from the most populated constituent country in the UK 🏴
I think the deep frying is just a stereotype but I can't be sure because I've never lived anywhere outside of Scotland
@@FizzyJuiceCool it’s not a stereotype, they deep fry pizza
Great video.
This is incredible !
the evolution of language in the uk totally missed out Scots as a language.
Some people regard Scots as a dialect of English, maybe that’s why it wasn’t included
@@ryder_hd the uk government recognises Scots as a language now
@@charliemillar3903 Yeah but they didn’t make this video
Do one for Portugal next!
Very interesting video.
really good video portuga : )
I'd just like to point out maps of Wales political leanings can be misleading. For example the electoral maps make it look like Wales votes conservative but this is due to population density in certain areas. Wales has actually always voted for the liberal or labour parties since records began, literally -no literally literally- everytime, so mot as conservative as it looks
Agreed, the hexagonal map of constituencies is better for showing electoral data as it divides population better. Of course that wouldn't be necessary with a 20th century voting system like STV...
It would be interesting to know if it is a correlation but in areas where there is the lowest life expectancy especially in Scotland and North East England were predominately ship building areas. I wonder the chemical and materials used in older ships during the 60s-80s affected people because a lot of the shipbuilders in my family who worked during those times had lung problems or develops cancers in later life.
I think theres probably a fair few reasons, e.g. in more sparsely populated areas hospitals and GPs are likely to be further away, and the devolved Scottish government has failed on healthcare, crime, drugs, ect compared to the rest of the UK.
I would say it’s also to do with the decline in shipbuilding and the loss of jobs this lead to causing an economic downturn in the areas which has been hard to reverse
and former miners in South Wales.
Would love a part two!
Can you do The Netherlands next please? Love your videos
From what i have read the subsequent 'regret' factor is largely composed of those who didn't vote but retrospectively saying that if they had have voted they would have voted to remain.
Yeah my mum didn't vote because she thought the overwhelming majority would vote remain, so she thought there was no point in voting remain. She now regrets that.
@@wolfzmusic9706 that's so sad that UK left the eu. The eu isn't perfect at all and have a lot of problem but still... Good luck on your own that's even more sad that in my country french it have awakened our old stereotype about English being traitors....
@Charles Beaugendre It is sad. Half of us didn't want it. That's why it's so important to use your vote, regardless of what you "think" the public will vote for.
@@TheGreatCalsby yes indeed.
Do Ireland next
Hey, could you possibly do a flag competition?
Fab. Thanks
I'm from England and I was definitely expecting more people here to identify as British than as English.
Yes, especially as identifying as English is unfortunately typically associated with far-right groups, so many tolerant English people are hesitant to use it as their primary identity. I was definitely expecting it to be mainly British as well, particularly farther south.
Im white, protestant, english and proud
@@hannahk1306 british by birth english by the grace of God 😊😊😊
Yeah same. Idk about other people, but I have some Irish in me (like 25-30% I think) so I'd consider myself British. Also England is literally in Britain, so surely 100% English people are British anyway
There are some idiots that think British people are just English people, someone at my school didn’t know that the Scottish are British.
South Africa next would be cool
Good idea!
The highland clearances is the glaring omission here when explaining why the highlands are empty. That’s the region I come from and even thought it was a couple a generations ago it’s effects are still noticeable.
I subbed because you didn't forget about the cornish 🤜🤛
Can you please do something simlilar for the Rupublic of Ireland? Great video by the way
Yes I can!
8:46 I can only speak for Northern Ireland but a lot of Catholics in northern Ireland who support unification (or at least to not be affiliated with the UK) keep their faith quite strongly as to differentiate them from "the English". This is the same for the border regions in Ireland you will see high levels of catholism here too. My sister for example practices pretty strongly and lives up at the border region.
The level of protestantism has decreased because generally Wales England and Scotland are either Protestant or Anglican, hence the large drops in these numbers as their religious identity isn't as important to differentiate themselves. I might be wrong I live quite a bit from the border and am not 100% clued in but this is a decent assumption I think.
The further south you go in ireland the less religion there is..
@@tacotuesday2489 No not quite I'd say area like Dublin (In the mid east) is less religious than somewhere like kerry (south west) I'd say most of Munster (The south) is religious actually.
@@shanecoyle3676 Well i live in munster and were not..
@@tacotuesday2489 Im up near Dublin myself, I assumed you were a foreigner apologies, I did a quick google and it does look like you are right so fair play I can happily admit when I am wrong. I had wrongly assumed that more rural= more religious.
@@shanecoyle3676 Well your a decent lad.. have a good day..
Where did you get your sources from? I'm doing an assignment at uni and the data im using is different to yours, the life expectancy one you're using I think is incorrect
Really interesting video, thank you. A couple of observations on the style though: what's the point of the background marching music? To me, it seems pointless and vaguely annoying. Also, like many youtubers, you talk too fast and never leave any pauses. However, I'm definitely looking forward to more of your great work.
The reason northern Ireland is still super religious it's mostly because it's the way we keep our identity idk how it's always been against protestants and Catholics
There is an interesting fact about how is the japanese name for the Britain is a little "different" due to the portuguese teachings
What is it?
The one about identities, there will be more up to date data with the 2021 census just being done last year, it may just be that that data hasnt been made publicly available yet
My city of Plymouth is in between Devon and Cornwall. I would argue we are not defined by either county.
1:11 we dont usually refer to places like the north west and south west, we usually just say cumbria and cornwall respectively
As I cornishman in politics I thank you
I’m from Devon I would not call the south west Cornwall as that is only a one part of the south west
@@smilesmite6682 it's the only one that matters. Lol 😆 (only joking)
Please don’t listen to this comment it isn’t true. No one would say Bristol is in Cornwall or Manchester is in Cumbria
@@veggiesupreme3556 no we don't say bristol is in Cornwall as that's ridiculous.....people just say Bristol or Cornwall
I’ve never met a single person who said I regret voting to leave the EU
6:40 british brythonic was effectively an early version of the Welsh language
Same language and hardly changed for thousands of years. The majority of the changes are recent, in the last 30 years or so.
The life expectancy seems to co-inside with the areas that have/had the most factories and mines, London is mainly office workers, the north east is filled with a lot of manual labour type jobs which pay less and are more dangerous
As a Brit these maps seem fairly accurate. We had a census last year, so hopefully some updated maps and graphs will come out over the next few years.
Also, the languages over time one was fascinating and clearly shows the various invasions and political decisions at certain points in history. It would be interesting to see if minority languages make a resurgence over the next few decades (I know that Welsh and Irish both have strong movements at the moment).
As far as I know back during the invasions the English made it illegal to practice Pictish and Scots Gael which is why its so rare these days. Pictish itself is lost if I recall right with little to nothing surviving and Scots Gael is still available but its classed as a dead language because almost no-one can speak it.
There was a revival a few years ago to bring Gael back with a lot of signs in the major cities including it next to the English version and some schools adopting it but as it stands, its still only learned in the north and in the Hebridean isles etc.
@@IXxJordan Pictish died out after the Gaelic-speaking Scots took over the country. And it was an English-speaking Scottish king that suppressed Gaelic.
But the English did suppress the Welsh language in Wales. (And before that in England).
Welsh was banned and the oppression the welsh people suffered during that time is shocking
@@IXxJordan Gaelic isn’t classed as dead, it’s classed as threatened. There’s still around 50,000 speakers, mostly in the Western Isles. The number of children being taught the language has been growing since the 1980’s.
The English had nothing to do with the extinction of Pictish. The Picts were absorbed by the Gaels and assimilated into that culture.
The interesting thing on life expectancy is that Scotland, despite having the same levels of wealth as the UK average, and higher state spending, is lower than not just poorer Wales and Northern Ireland, but all of the English regions, even those poorer than it. Also the gap is widening rather than closing.
I'd be interested in learning more about why this is. I wonder if there have been any studies looking deeper into the reasons. It's shocking that between Scottish men and English women there's about a 15 year difference! I knew the rough stats, but the way it was displayed here really highlights how bad things are.
@@hannahk1306 drugs.
There popular across all of the U.K. but Scotland has a serious issue with opioids.
Look up the Glasgow effect. Glasgow has a lower life expectancy than expected even with deprivation taken into account
Come to Glasgow and you’ll see why
Echoing other responses here, and having lived and worked in Glasgow, but also in different parts of England too, I can attest to the comparatively self-destructive nature of the Glaswegian lifestyle. fatty mono-diets, heavy drinking, drug abuse and social deprivation are a thing you see going on around you. Not to Rab. C. Nesbitt levels or anything, but it's a city with a lot of issues.
Also, it could have just been my social circle, but I found the folks there didn't get out much either. They were very comfortable in their urban jungle despite living on the edge of some of the world's most stunning scenery. Compare that to my birth county of Derbyshire where the scenic hills and valleys are overflowing with city folk from Manchester and Sheffield and Leeds etc. out hiking every weekend.
I also wonder if the remoteness factor for the rest of Scotland is shaving down life expectancy. Ambulance services in the towns and cities can reach patients in minutes, but paramedics called out to low population areas can take upwards of an hour to reach an emergency. If that's a time critical case like a heart-attack victim then they probably won't survive. A similar problem exists for other social services which again are designed to function in urban areas, and struggle to provide standards of care that are as high in sparsely populated regions.
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In the gdp map you can clearly see the north south divide and one of many ways in how it affects us as a nation. Power and wealth have always been predominantly in the south going back to the formation of the country as the powerful rulers such as Offa of Mercia (modern day midlands) and egbert of wessex (modern day hampshire) and later Alfred the great of Mercia.
7:50 "there are two colours, yellow and green, Hinduism and Islam" The map legend, however, indicates yellow as Buddhism.
I had expected Hinduism too, because if UK owned India for a while and many there are Hindus.
But I then think of Myanmar, Burma, that had been British too and the major religion in Myanmar is Buddhism.
Very interesting video, thank you 🖐🏼👴🏼
There’s a lot of native British people who convert to Buddhism. There isn’t that much immigration from Myanmar, especially when compared with the level of immigration from India/Bangladesh/Pakistan
I think majority of the Buddhists in Britain are the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. The British heavily influenced the former colony of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and a lot of those migrated to the UK for generations and the 1st Buddhist temples in the UK were founded by the Sinhalese Sri Lankan immigrants.
And there is a large community of Sri Lankans in the UK, not as much as compared to other South Asians but its fairly big. Most of those are Tamil descended but there are a big Sinhalese community, so I think most of the Buddhists are Sinhalese.
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Yea, Sri Lanka, i forgot those. They are Buddhists too. 🖐🏼👴🏼
Significant number of British Indians are Sikh and Muslim.
The evolution of the English language isn't quite what you mentioned in your video, you forgot that in 1066 we were invaded by the Normans and our Language changed as a result of that. we started using new words and our old ones evolved into the new ones we use currently
All langauges change drastically over time. The maps weren't trying to show that.
There was also a time of bilinguish of French-Norman and English in England since the Norman invasion untill the end of the One hundred years war ("Honni soit qui mal y pense, Dieu et mon droit"...).
Honestly you probably could have just saw the differences between accents/dialects of the Uk, but checking where each place calls a bread roll.
You could also add a jokey one about the culture of the UK by checking a map of all the pubs in the UK.
I also think if you check like average income and maybe compare that to the price of living in each region, would help shed light on how divided the UK and England is
You could do a combined video for the Scandinavian countries.
POV: you were watching your county the whole time
Interestingly enough Manx, Cornish and the different Scottish languages - are `coming back'. There is more and more interest in people learning their 'heart languages' - there is even a primary school on the Isle of Man where students only learn in Manx!
Which is kind of cool but also kind of worrying.
I hated mandatory lessons on French - a useful language, I can only imagine how annoying it must be to be forced to learn something like Welsh, let alone Manx or Cornish which are basically useless.
@@KFP_Prophet theres a bit of a difference though as we are learning our languages that we were often banned and punished for speaking. This is just us embracing our celtic identities and heritage.
@@taggymcshaggy6383 From a non nationalistic point of view it's useless though. Few people speak those languages, those that do are in a small area, all of them and the other people in those areas speak perfect English as well, they have very little media or influence (Like say, Latin does).
Learning them for cultural reasons, to protect heritage or even just for the sake of showing off and so on is cool, and I fully commend doing it, but having it be compulsory education seems pretty nasty.
@@KFP_Prophet Wales was banned from teaching Welsh for a century, with English being forced to be taught in schools and with many Welsh families unable to speak Welsh it resulted in families literally unable to communicate with their own children. The Saes will never be forgiven. We learn Welsh with pride, there are still many people in Wales who do not, and will not, speak English and the number of Welsh speakers is rapidly rising.
@@coreywilliams1454 Learning the language is fine, but having it be a mandatory subject in schools is no good imo. Better to learn useful things like Maths, English, Geography, History, PE, the Sciences and maybe more useful languages like Spanish, French and so on.
very interesting
I say I am from Eastern Ireland. Weather is great and we have super beaches too.
Why did you leave out the Scots Language? It is a germanic language that is not related to Scottish Gaelic, 30% of the Scottish population speak it and it makes absolutely no sense to ignore it.
For the past 5 years of learning what my home city of Glasgow is famous for, it's drugs, low life expectancy, poverty, and crime. lovely.
@@Alaois Hey it's not me doing that, i couldn't even vote until recently.
@@Alaois Stop voting tory. They are the ones who decides where the money goes.
@@danielleonard2724 yeah I'll never vote tory, they proposed once that Northern england and Scotland would be the place to dump southern england's garbage, bit of a dick move, no?
I would be very interested to see the GDP map modified, especially in the case of oil, to see the regional GDP if oil revenue was recognised on where it landed in the UK and not shared per head of population in the UK. The Orkney's and Shetland's GDP would increase dramatically and Scotland's significantly whilst England's and Northern Ireland would decrease significantly. (don't read anything into my question/observation as to Independence arguments.)
GK in 1 year: interesting ZAMBIA maps that teach us about the country
Catholicism has remained the same due to immigration. I went to a Catholic school in Scotland. A significant amount of pupils were foreign (mostly Polish).
The language part is incorrect, Welsh is the oldest spoken language in Europe, older than Irish Gaelic.
Euskera is older, preindoeuropean.
Yep, some theories/Evidence put the Welsh (British) language around 4000 years old.
The regions of England shown are those used for statistical purposes mostly, they don't have their own government, except London, English voters have not had any enthusiasm for regional government, local democracy is at a lower level of counties or local councils.
Do Argentina next!
Is it just me or at 1:20 does one of the counties in Anglia look like Bulgaria?🤔🤔🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬
Anglia isn’t a county :|
@@Loci666 they didn't say it was lol. But you are right, it should be East Anglia or East of England.
That's Suffolk!
Some updated stuff on national identity. In Cornwall a high proportion of cornish people identity is cornish. Thabk you for mentioning the cornish language. It is much appreciated.
According to the 2011 census, about 14% of Cornwall's residents selected Cornish as one of their national identities. While not anywhere near a majority, it is higher than I was expecting.
@@Psyk60 A big part of the relatively low number (14%) is because the government refuses to put Cornish as a tickbox answer, even after pressure from Cornwall Council and various petitions and Cornish heritage groups. Instead people have to actively choose to select Other and write it in. Most Cornish people use the label Cornish to some extent, and in many cases more so than ‘English’.
@@mawganrogerson4233 Ah, that explains it. I imagine it would be significantly higher if it was a pre-defined option.
Land protection has been around for over a thousand years since around 1066 where the forest laws were introduced making it illegal to use the kings land to gain any kind of resource
Great video, but remember to show relief maps and major roads.
I state I am British as that’s what it says on my passport. I’m born here from immigrants, and to identify as English to me is more of a heritage thing rather than citizenship.
I actually disagree on this now. An increasing amount of minorities consider themselves English/ Scottish/ Welsh now because clearly these identities can be civic in nature, where as back in the 90's they were seen as exclusively racial identities
Fun fact: British is the only country in the whole world which doesn't have an independence day...because they are busy giving independence to countries they invaded 😅
Denmark too, they’re the only two.
It's mainly because Britain is a union of countries that, since creation, has never been conquered.
(yes I know the British Isles have been invaded alot, but not since its been called the United Kingdom)
Portugal does not have one too
@@tugadmundo I think they meant national days, Denmark and the U.K. don’t have any National days. Portugal has Portugal Day on June 10th.
And the invasions on England is convenient forgotten..🙄
first 3 seconds of the video had me thinking about life. That quote killed me
That middle strip is called the central belt
The thing about the Catholics, I can only speak from my own American perspective, but there are three (technically four) situations a person can find themselves in. The first is the more traditional Roman Catholic. There's more emphasis on traditions, traditional roles, traditional families, values that have existed since the creation of Christianity and earlier. So if you're of a more conservative mindset, this is the side of the church that appeals to you. The second situation is the more modern American Catholic. There's more emphasis on keeping up with the times. Drums and guitars playing with the songs instead of pipe organs for example. Historical values are still very much important values to have, however, there's less stigmatism involved if you fall out of those traditions, like having premarital relations, for example. It's discouraged, but if it happens, so be it, say a couple Hail Mary's and endeavor to do better. They place heavy emphasis on updating practices while still being mindful of tradition to fall more in line with the general feel and attitude of modern society making the religion continue to be appealing, especially to younger people, rather than looking outdated and more suitable to the elderly. Then there's the third situation. The Holiday Catholic (often referred to as a "Fair Weather Catholic"). This is a person whom only goes to church and practices the religion on important days. Going to church on Christmas and Easter, and observing Lent, but not attending a weekly service, and not really following the rules like obeying the ten commandments to the letter, and whatnot. Outside of the important days, religion is more of an afterthought if its a thought at all. People may have traditional values, they may have progressive values, but they still only visit on the holidays. Not to be left out completely, there is another group of non practicing people that still consider themselves to be of the Catholic faith, or at least others still consider them to be Catholics, and the church allows them to say this while gently encouraging them to maybe just come in at Christmas and be festive with everyone and try to at least turn them into a Holiday Catholic.
Now considering that these three (four) situations pretty much cover every possible religious tendency for a faith, the interesting thing about it is that all the groups consider themselves to be a part of the same exact church, and all feel the Pope is the leader of the church. You might be traditional, you might be progressive, you might be only when you need to be, you might used to have been, but aren't really currently part of it, the church doesn't really care. The Vatican, for it's part, openly accepts and embraces all the groups as people who just like to experience the religion a little differently and is willing to accommodate, everyone is still Catholic and the church would love to have you all the same. So at the end of the day, when it comes to statistics, the level remains pretty solid, but when you dig down into the details, you'll see the church is actually pretty fractured, and some groups within don't really care too much for other groups, but because the Vatican encourages all Catholics to just be Christian no matter your personal level of participation, even if, like in my case if asked what's my religion, I was raised to be Catholic, but I haven't stepped into a church in decades, so I don't participate, I'm still counted as a Catholic in the eyes of the church, and would be welcomed back as if I had never stopped participating.
Its a wee bit different here in the UK specifically scotland. Being Catholic isnt just a religion it is also about identity. This is due to a few reasons one of which is the persecution of catholics which caused catholics to be more anti prostestant and protestants more anti catholic. Hhis caused both tae distinguish each other by religion and over time being catholic or protestant became an identity
Pls do a video like this of Spain
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I speak Gàidhlig fluently and can understand Gaeilge, which I'm learning. I don't understand Cymraeg, though I have learned some. As others have said, yes, mainly Highland but also Lowland forced clearances of people led to large population decline in Scotland. I'm Catholic and I'd say it too is on the decline, though Polish immigrants did boost church numbers. In terms of Brexit, most Scots were against it, and most remain like myself opposed to it, still seeing ourselves depending on the individual as Scottish, British, European.
I am from the North West of England but I generally consider Myself British more than English.
I’m from wales and consider myself British more then Welsh 🤝
@@dt3692 oh cool
I’m from Yorkshire and there is a massive divide between the north and south it goes back to the danelaw in the north we use a lot of words that evolved from old Norse,southerners look down on all of the uk and just use us and see us like different people’s and then wonder why they’re are separatist movement’s
I’ve lived up north and down south. There is for sure a south and north divide but southerners don’t look down on the rest of the UK
@@AliAliHough they really do. not sure why but southerners have a chip on their shoulder
I'm from the East Midlands and I may as well not even exist to Southerners lol
Drives me insane, considering we kick started the English language (Mercian) and started both industrial revolutions
But nah
You may notice that GDP has gone up, but the cost of living has gone up 4 times as fast, and since 2017, life expectancy has been reducing. Our government says the UK is "full" when referring to taking refugees, yet look at all the blue on the population density map.
You need a lot more than empty space for a population. You needs jobs, infrastructure and hundreds of other things. We might have lots of empty space but we are still bursting at the seams with people
Re No 9 - In Britain the wealthy elderly migrate to the warmer south where it only snows on ground above 600 ft
When you ban people from practicing their religion it makes them more defiant and not only keeps their faith strong but also their sense of identity. A large proportion of Catholics in the UK are also of Irish descent and were treated horribly when they moved to the UK, which again only made their identity stronger in addition to Britain's occupation of Ireland.
Don’t forget that a large number of Catholics in the UK, as it has been since World War II, are POLISH. And of anything that Poles will not stand for, it’s other countries picking on their religion. So, out of all the things that English folk should watch out for when they decide to pick on a Catholic, make sure they watch for if that Catholic is Polish. I happen to be Polish, with Scots-Irish and Hungarian as well. All of these are Catholic. I have no problems with Protestants. Different religions, same ancestral roots. But if they want to turn and start picking on me just because I’m different, all I can say is “Get ready to dig in. I’m not budging on my religious background. I’ll treat you as equals, so I expect you to do the same to me.”
Britain has been occupying Ireland since 800 years ago.
Jesus, it's 2022, you lot seriously need to catch yourselves on.