What Are The Most Inland Capital Cities?
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Counting landlocked countries is a bit easy. Would be interesting to see how many countries with coastline still chose to put their capital towards the centre.
I think Bogota is the most extraordinarily inland capital in the world. It may be closer to the coast than others in km but it is over 16 hours from the nearest port, even though Colombia is the only country in South America with ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific. At over 2600 meters above sea level, Bogotà has no river access to the coast, unlike Asuncion or most of the others on your list - the nearest navigable river is 6 hours away! Also road access is very poor because of the mountains, affected by landslides for about 100 days a year. While Brasilia is not Brasil's largest city, nor Quito Ecuador's, Bogotà is over double the size of Colombia's second city and houses over 20% of the country's population. I believe it is the inland capital which has been most detrimental to any country's economy.
Mexico City?
@@cuentadell7469 Mexico City is only about 200 miles from Veracruz, 4-5 hour drive with much better road conditions. You can expect a 16 hour drive through mountainous terrain and jungle to reach Cartagena. Meanwhile on the Colombian pacific coast is extremely desolate and inaccessible as well.
Ulaanbatar
@@dr.woozie7500 An unusual feature of Colombia is that, despite having as long a Pacific coast as California, there are only two public roads to that coast. The Panama Canal company has always opposed the construction of new roads. One of them, the Tumaco road, is frequently closed - as a show of power, delinquents often park in the centre of the road while they have a beer or twelve and other road users just have to wait. There is a third pristine private road but it is not marked on any maps and blurred out on Google Maps, being for illicit use only.
@@MylifesuckslolThe entire country being landlocked is cheating lol
'Furtherest' isn't a word ;)
@@greatpyramid4348 farther - further
Farther and further are both comparative forms of far. Farthest and furthest are the superlative forms. When you are talking about distance, you can use any of these forms.
It isn't. Furthest is and furthermost.@@greatpyramid4348
Even though Ottawa is landlocked and strategic, in 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada's capital and another reason to that is because of geographic centrality within the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor which that corridor is very suitable for farming and where most Canadians live.
"landlocked" is subjective - you can sail down the ottawa river to the st lawrence , around mtl, past quebec and out into the atlantic. it's pretty inland, sure, but i don't know about "landlocked"
I thought it had to do with the fact that Ottawa lies on the border of Ontario and Quebec or pretty much french speaking Canada and english speaking Canada. I think I read somewhere that Ottawa's population is the closest you'll get to even native english speakers and native french speakers
@@lanzsibelius you may be right but realistically the choice was mostly made strategically due to the relative distance between Ottawa and the American border, where there had been some notable tension within the past few decades
Missed one of the biggest country in Asia and it's inland capital... India capital Delhi.
Brasilia is also the capital furthest from any other capital for countries not on islands
Brasília é longe do mar e das fronteiras.
The thing is, Brasília is perfectly planned so as not to be attacked by any neighboring country or other places, it is just lower than any hill in Brazil just in case a missile tries to hit the capital
Pretoria, South Africa is some 700 Kilometers inland as well as one of our other capital cities, Bloemfontein is also some 800 km from the nearest coast.
Edit. Now that I've checked both Pretoria and Bloemfontein is about 450km from the sea if measured in a straight line, but is a lot farther by road.
We have to use the nearest coast in a straight line
But the practicalities of travel are interesting too, you can't get from A to B as the crow flies
The geographical insights in this video are quite intriguing. It's always fascinating to explore different aspects of our world.
Bujumbura in Burundi must be in a similar position to Kigali.
That said it is a port being on the shores t of Lake Tanganyika.
So I would suggest that Bujumbura is the most inland "coastal" capital city!
As the lake is an inland sea being some 673km long and 45km wide.
Gaborone, Windhoek, Kinshasa(most populated inland capital), Teheran.
Country capitals that don't directly border the ocean but are very close are like Washington D.C, Beijing, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Seoul, Dhaka, Ankara, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hanoi, Caracas, Cairo, Kuala Lumper, Guatemala City, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, San José, Belmopan Managua, Santiago, etc.
amsterdam does border it
Ummm not really. It's close but not directly on the coast. It can still access the ocean via the numerous canals in the city.
Between the big 3 of North America the CDMX is still noteworthy for not having a river to give access to the ocean crossing. Mexico city is isolated, sorrounded by mountains in a valley, unlike the other 2.
For the last time, it’s OCEANIA NOT OCEANA. Oh-see/she-an-ia.
@@StefanVeenstraYou can listen to a correct pronunciation on the Oceania wikipedia page.
The I is not silent.@@StefanVeenstra
As much as it makes me cringe as well, the fact he butchered the pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro (by saying Ja-ne-rio instead) immediately afterwards nearly made me punch my monitor.
Yeah that is somethign you sshould definitely know, especially if you wanna brand yourself as a geography channel.@@sdpnz
@@sdpnz he took the /i/ sound he didn't pronounce in Oceania and added to Rio de Janeiro
Indonesia has a coastal capital city called Jakarta.
They are finding a replacement now.
Dehli of India is also an Inland Capital
I just thought on Delhi not as
Also Bengaluru is also an inlan
@@MudaliarKanishkar Capital city.
Yes Delhi is perhaps the most inland capital city among countries who have coastline.
@thecomment9489 Islamabad 🇵🇰 is approximately 1130 kms away from the ocean which is probably the most inland capital of a coastal country
Although dehli 🇮🇳 is also pretty far away at 850 kilometers,can't think of more inland capitals for coastal contries
Just a few bits of useless trivia regarding Australia's capital. Due to the endless Sydney/Melbourne rivalry, there was a fair amount of negotiation required to hammer out the agreement that led to the 6 colonies agreeing to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The agreement for the capital was that it was to be in territory within New South Wales, situated approximately between the two major cities and at least 100 miles from Sydney and until the capital was declared, Melbourne would be the temporary capital. Several towns (including Albury, Orange and Wagga Wagga) all vied to be chosen but eventually it was decided that a new city would be built which became Canberra. It was declared the new capital in 1913
Even Ottawa has better communication with the sea comparing to Mexico City, which has no navigable rivers near of the city.
Which is the furthest in Asia for a non-landlocked country? My thoughts would be New Delhi, Islamabad, or Tehran
The video should really have been called Which Capital Cities Are Furthest From The Sea? Because obviously everything in a landlocked country is inland by definition. So this video, being titled 'Inland', ought to have restricted itself to countries with coastlines.
yeah that would've been more interesting@@phuttyyt
@@phuttyyt True.
Islamabad at 1130 kms from the ocean Delhi 850
@@saad-wo3kb Nope, Islamabad is about 1100 kms and Delhi about 1020 kms not 850 as you have mentioned. These are roughly equal distances.
For me, one of the most strangest things abut big cities or capitals in lets say Africa is that they are not in the wettest region of the country, like Tunisia in Tunis, the city Tabarka in NW has nearly double its annual precipitation, same as Algiers in Algerias where the city Jijel has anout 40% more precipitation, Same for Morocco, also Nigeria, Chad, South Africa, Namibia, Mosambique, Angola, also in Asia, China, Iran, Sirya, and so on.
well, South Africa has 3 capitals and one of them (Cape Town) it's in the wet part of the country, i don´t know if it's the wettest part but it's wet
I don’t think cities with waterway access to the ocean in any form should count. Like cities on major rivers that dump into the ocean. They still technically have ocean access.
Brilliant, thanks for the video!
If you compare the land area and distance from the sea, nothing beats Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. The country has a big Black sea coast, and yet the capita is far away from the sea as possible, almost at Serbian border.
Greetings from Brasília.
As a pakistani who lives in uae i can proudly say before i came here i had never seen water
Dude, great majority of capitals are inland cities. It's hard to watch if the sentence from the very first second is false. Its not the first time you make mistakes ..
Oh… I came to watch about Canberra and it was over before it even began.
I knew it so Bolivia has 2 capitals.
Ottawa is further from the ocean, but it's on a navigable river/lake system and thus has access to the ocean. Whereas Mexico City does not have any such access, and it's actually quite a chore to get there (the Aztecs did that on purpose and the Spanish kept it because it really was brilliant).
The Caspian Sea is what's left of the Tethys Ocean. So if you count it as a coast, do the -Stan capitals still retain their titles?
Got anything on the transcontinental countries? There are four of them: Russia, Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia. Geologically, Russia spans three continents (used to be geographical as well, until we bought Alaska). Also, for the purposes of this exploration, I'm defining a continent as a very large landmass and its associated shelves. Making Australia and PNG a single continent.
then europe and asia should be counted as one continent as it has the same landmass and shelf.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Personally I agree (which would reduce the number of trans-continental countries to two), but we do also have to consider politics. And there are subtle differences between the two, most notably where the Tethys closed.
Vilnius has a good distance for a not land locked country in Europe (Lithuania.)
Video idea: capital cities which do not have any waterbody(sea/lake/river) by it...
I dont think that are any besides saharian or gulf countries. A river is just too necessary for the develop, transport and source of water for a big city as usually capitals are.
"Furtherest" is not a word. Also, the capital of Kazakhstan was renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan years ago.
It got changed to Nur-Sultan in 2019 and back to Astana in 2022
How is Astana not further away compared to Bishkek and Tashkent?
I don't really understand his point of measurement.
Astana is closer to Arctic ocean
@@adamsiroky161Thanks, I realize it's that big cove from Russia that's helping out!
@@adamsiroky161thats not fair.
brazil mentioned
What about South Africa’s three capitals (Johannesburg, Cape Town and Bloemfontein)?
New Delhi,India is also an inland capital despite having a very big coastline, it was chosen as capital due to statregic reasons.
10:23 Moscow is much closer to a sea - not more than 636 km from Duma building to Белый мост (White Bridge) in St.Petersburg, just adjacent to Finnish Gulf of Baltic sea. Still the most landlocked capital in Europe, however.
I got a video idea, facts about capital city in the same country. Is that a good idea?
1:55 "Leaders wanted the capital to be more defensible against coastal attacks." I don't know what _leaders_ you're talking about. Queen Victoria chose Bytown, as it was known then, because it was between Toronto and Montréal. The crown was much more worried about attacks by the US (justifiably so) than from the coast.
Furtherest -> furthest
You didn't mention Islamabad and Delhi. Both are inland capitals. Also, you forgot to mention Riyadh, Tehran, Baghdad, Dhaka, Bern and Kabul.
Would be more interesting to see inland capitals of countries with coastline. Landlocked countries are kind of a copout
Brasilia. It's so far from the sea and the borders
@@italomatheus8615 I know! That was one of the good ones. The central Asian countries as well as Paraguay and Bolivia were boring choices because they’re so obvious
I once visited Kemorovo the capital of Siberia and was told it was the furthest point from sea, I know Siberia is part of Russia but still an interesting fact. Zero wind all the time I was there, wind is caused by proximity to the sea, although it was extremely cold in January it didn't feel it due to no wind chill factor. Once winter arrives they drive on the rivers. Would love to go back in the summer.
Kemerovo isn't the "capital of Siberia". Novosibirsk is. Also, Siberia isn't clearly defined, but Novosibirsk is a center of Siberian Federal District encompassing much of Siberia. Kemerovo is the center of one of the regions in Siberia - namely, Kemerovo oblast with some 2.5 mln people in the region, Kemerovo itself being 0.5 mln. Novosibirsk on the other hand has well above 1.6 mln people.
Kemerovo is not the farthest point, it is a bit south in China, Xinjiang
It would appear what my local interpreter told me was a load of bollox@@bhookkaintezam
about Europe i may say thats wrong. Kiyv sits on a river thats connected to the sea and has shipping harbors at the Dnepr.
the country with sea access and the furthest most capital city without any connection to the sea is Bulgaria with its capital Sofia being 400km from the sea.. no rivers connecting it to the sea.
Most rivers are connected to the sea. Chicago has international shipping facilities. No one would say Chicago is not inland. Therefore no one would say Kiev is not inland.
@@gurrrn1102 we talkin about capital cities fam. it makes a huge difference if a capital city has a river/sea you can do business with.. London isnt directly on the ocean but the Thames connects it to the ocean so it also has harbour & docks..
Sofia/Bulgaria doesnt have any of that + is the highest altitude capital in Europe together with Madrid & Andorra
@@mike15. so my point is negated just because my example inland port city isn’t a capital?!
Caspian is a lake
Yes, a lake called the Caspian Sea.
Pretty sure furtherest isn’t a word 🤣
You forgot India. New Delhi, the capital is almost 1000 km away from coast.
Brother you should talk about delhi
nah, talk about beijing.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Beijing though inland is not as much inland as Delhi. Delhi is more than 1000 kms away from the nearest coastline.
No he shouldnt
@@gurrrn1102 why?
@@thecomment9489 why should he talk about Delhi?
Furthest. Not furtherest lol
I always pronounced Kigali (the capital of Rwanda) as Kigel-ee
The correct pronunciation is ki-GAH-lee
@@mysteriousDSF Not like it really matters. I’ll consider pronouncing it like that though
Seeing how he can't pronounce Rio de Janeiro or Oceania correctly, you shouldn't really worry. Yours is probably more correct than his anyway.
@@SquishyOfCinder Remember that he is British. British people talk differently. I kinda like the pronunciation “Kih-gah-lee” better anyway.
@@ItsKyltii sure they pronounce things differently, but his pronunciations are still wrong even in the british dialect
We’re Riyadh
I find capitals of landlocked countries must not count, since they don't have a coast anyway!
What about Antarctica?
Chad is Chad 😂😂
is İstanbul was a capital must be first in ranking
Istanbul is right on the coast
It's on the coast you silly person.
Istanbul is not a capital city and it is on the coast
Ankara is the capital...
What about Delhi?
Calm and instructive video style! No crash-boom-bang backdrop music, 80s-pop video-style cuts nor blatant voice as seen and heard much too much throughout CZcams! I just love it... that's the way educational videos should be!
I wonder that you did not mention Kabul, Afghanistan (my first association when it comes to inland Asian capitals... excuse me, but I'm somewhat biased...)... but it's obviously much closer to the coast than the Central Asian capitals! Sadly, Afghanistan hardly ever did benefit from this relative proximity...
i already know its ulaanbatar
Moscow isn't 800km from water the Gulf of Finland is about 642 km from Moscow near Saint Petersburg? What do you mean by coast ? Are we talking about Oceans or just any salt or brackish water such as Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Bohai Sea, Cheasapeake Bay or Delaware Bay ?
@@greatpyramid4348wrong Moscow Red Square is 670 km to the water northwest of Kotlin Island
@@greatpyramid4348 go measure it yourself I’ll wait.
@@greatpyramid4348 I measure from the Red Square then from Kremlin directly straight in a line to Kotlin Island west of Fort Rif. So how did you get your results ?
I think landlocked countries capitals are obviously most inland but if we look at those countries who have coastlines I guess Delhi will easily make it to the top five because it is more than 1000 kms away from the nearest coast.
I think you mean New Delhi.
@@DickTate New Delhi is contained with Delhi. So they are basically the same for all practical purposes.
@@thecomment9489 Delhi boasts a history that spans several millennia, with evidence of ancient civilisations and empires, some peaceful and some not so peace-friendly. New Delhi has a relatively shorter history. It was planned and constructed during the British colonial era.
Delhi exhibits iconic architectural styles reflecting Mughal and Persian influences. Whereas, New Delhi features predominantly British colonial architecture. This is what we call Lutyens’ Delhi.
New Delhi specifically refers to the central administrative area that houses important government institutions like the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House, Supreme Court and iconic landmarks like the India Gate.
Delhi is made up of a mix of old and new neighbourhoods. There is Old Delhi with its iconic landmarks like the Jama Masjid and Red Fort, bustling markets, old narrow lanes and centuries-old residential areas. New Delhi is characterised by well-planned, wide boulevards, and open spaces. The difference is stark.
@@DickTate Well their distances from the nearest shoreline won't depend on their histories but geographies and as I already mentioned New Delhi is contained within Delhi.
Oceania*
there's an i there...
it is n'djamena not ndjanema
I think Brasilia is the furthest capital from the border of your country, considering coastline and land borders
Amazon Basin coiñuld be like Mississippi Basin
The word you were looking for is furthest, not furtherest 😅
Madrid would have been a honourable mention, because it it is in the exact center of the Iberian peninsula. That makes it one of the most central capitals away from sea and in general.
Oceania not Oceana
9:56 Warsaw in German, Disgusting 🤮
It's Crazy how Belarus or Hungary are landlocked countries, but Kyiv got the 2th place in Europe. It just shows how big Ukraine is.
Lots of countries in Europe has an inland capital. Some of them because the whole country is inland. The last is also true for a couple of countries in Afrika.
I see Adelaide really is the Edmonton of Australia... Just as large as Perth and also on a coast but apparently not worth mentioning... Wah-wah...
Adelaide is much more like the Vancouver of Australia. On the west coast and isolated from the main population centres in the east.
You are wrong .Most capitals are actually inland, usually in the centre of the country.
That’s not true though.
Beijing
New Delhi
Moscow
Berlin
Kinshasa
Cairo
None of them have ocean access.
@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71You named 6 cities. How is that "most?"
@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71 Kinshasa and Cairo are on rivers that empty into the ocean and would hardly be considered "in land"
Paris, London, Madrid, etc@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71
The English used here is a disgrace. It shouldn't be 'most inland' but 'furthest inland'. Furthest is pronounced the way it is spelt, not 'furtherest'. Cities are objects, not people and take 'which' and not 'who'. e.g. 'Astana......who is even further away.' It's Rio de 'Janeiro' not 'Janerio'. ' To the new city of Brazilia, to which it is the current capital' makes no sense at all. Why the second 'to'?
At least there was only one instance of 'kilometers squared' this week. THUMBS DOWN!