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    Welcome to another 10 solid minutes of Geography & Culture facts. Let’s jump right into it. The world’s shortest international bridge stretches just over 10 feet or 3.2 meters from Spain to Portugal...
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  • @GeographyGeek
    @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +47

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    • @carlosrivas1629
      @carlosrivas1629 Před rokem

      Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and his wife is worse, the whites landed there first and African so called natives came in afterward to take advantage.

    • @carlosrivas1629
      @carlosrivas1629 Před rokem

      South Africa was untouched before Boar white folks made the land grow.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před rokem +4

      Just want you to know I appreciate that you called Taiwan a country.

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před rokem +1

      @@concept5631 😁

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před rokem

      @@GeographyGeek 👍

  • @holidayonion
    @holidayonion Před 2 lety +303

    In Maine: The word “Sebago” in Sebago Lake is taken from the local native word meaning “Big Lake.” This means that Sebago Lake means Big Lake Lake and Little Sebago Lake is Little Big Lake Lake.

  • @ice_man81
    @ice_man81 Před rokem +289

    Australia being wider than the moon is crazy. I can imagine seeing Australia in space.

  • @elirothblatt5602
    @elirothblatt5602 Před 2 lety +370

    Finally someone learns how to thirst trap me with video titles. Excellent video, thank you! I subscribed!!

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +16

      😂 I appreciate it!

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 Před 2 lety

      8:11 love the video but I’d advise against giving Zelenskyy any more publicity. There’s dozens of American journalists who have gone missing after speaking out against Zelenskyy

    • @Maver1ck911
      @Maver1ck911 Před 2 lety

      Thats...not what a thirst trap is...

    • @Maver1ck911
      @Maver1ck911 Před 2 lety

      @@duffal0 ill advise you to take your Russian pay check and gtfo the internet

    • @AshLilburne
      @AshLilburne Před rokem

      @@Maver1ck911/videos So.... What actually is a 'thirst trap' then?

  • @lukaslambs5780
    @lukaslambs5780 Před rokem +49

    I love how you actually do provide 10 minutes of straight facts!

    • @boterhamboy
      @boterhamboy Před 9 měsíci

      should be normal tho, right?

    • @garygreen2146
      @garygreen2146 Před 8 měsíci

      It isn't though , it falsely says New Zealand schools are allowed 1 pound of Uranium , it is illegal for anyone in NZ to own or possess Uranium due to our total ban on all nuclear technology, weapons and materials

  • @vortexcheetos3595
    @vortexcheetos3595 Před 2 lety +75

    This channel is so underrated these facts are so interesting I could watch this all day

  • @georgemcmeechan2284
    @georgemcmeechan2284 Před 2 lety +8

    The thing in Falkirk Scotland was beside the river carron near stenhousemuir . Much love from Falkirk Scotland

  • @chiefmonrovia6691
    @chiefmonrovia6691 Před 2 lety +41

    4:01 I live in wisconsin, this law just recently changed. You can't do that in public anymore, so no bars or restaurants, however you can still be under 21 and enter a bar with a parent, and that same parent can give you alcohol at home just fine. Love these videos! I especially love all the cool maps you find, where do you get them all from?

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +7

      Ah interesting! Thank you! I find them in a few different places. I own quite a few historical atlases, but I also find them browsing through the Library of Congress' online archive, Raremaps.com, and The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection website.

  • @johnnysports4375
    @johnnysports4375 Před 2 lety +19

    I literally was watching the og one as this got posted let's go

  • @jimihughes8846
    @jimihughes8846 Před 2 lety +39

    Always loved Geography since I was in school. Thanks

  • @edwardlees4585
    @edwardlees4585 Před 2 lety +8

    A great source of fun facts. I've used some of them (acquired over the years) in classes at the university with my tourism students and now I have loads more. Thanks.

  • @Curestarlight87
    @Curestarlight87 Před 2 lety +32

    Love geography!!! Easily the most undervalued subject, but my favorite. Keep making videos my guy and I will watch them.

  • @roblangada4516
    @roblangada4516 Před 2 lety +40

    11:35 Not just females, only 100 male Orthodox pilgrims and 10 non Orthodox pilgrims are allowed per day. To actually live there permanently you have to be an over 18 male who is Orthodox. The reason no women are allowed is because its been controlled by monastic orders for centuries (since the Byzantines), the Virgin Mary is supposed to represent the only femininity on the mountain. No females also makes celibacy for the monks and pilgrims less difficult.

    • @CC-re9df
      @CC-re9df Před 2 lety +7

      What if I'm biologically a woman but I identify as a man? Can I cancel the orthodox church if they don't let me pilgrim there cause of my gender?

    • @piuthemagicman
      @piuthemagicman Před 2 lety +5

      @@CC-re9df well, you do you and cancel a millenia of religious traditions

    • @yahzkoroche
      @yahzkoroche Před rokem +1

      @@CC-re9df lmao

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před rokem

      ​@@CC-re9df The head patriarch of the area probably has a stroke because they don't think LGBT+ people are real.
      Real talk you wouldn't be allowed in anyway.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před rokem +1

      ​@@CC-re9df As for cancelling the Orthodox Church, not sure, but if you did it would be funny.

  • @santiagomolinareina4405
    @santiagomolinareina4405 Před rokem +4

    5:23 For what I understand, this lake becomes a lake like once every 10 years due to heavy rains, and sea birds like pelicans know when and how to get there from thousands of miles away to feed and breed. Thanks for the videos, I've learned a lot!

  • @odacruz4986
    @odacruz4986 Před 2 lety +7

    When I was a kid I loved staring at maps, I learned to love geography and how it affected markets and crops

    • @fosterfuchs
      @fosterfuchs Před 2 lety

      Same here. The plastic protector on the desk where I did my homework had a world map as an insert.

    • @us3rG
      @us3rG Před 9 měsíci

      It's vary important for humans to know earth, their body and languages

  • @brylorbs69
    @brylorbs69 Před 2 lety +16

    I love this channel. Thank you so much! "Without geography, you're nowhere!"

  • @fbi8309
    @fbi8309 Před 2 lety +4

    I just found this series and I am enjoying it

  • @Meganawsomness
    @Meganawsomness Před 2 lety +8

    These will come in handy for my Pub Quizzes. Cheers!

  • @tiananmenraidbossjonliaoxi3188

    Theory on Appalachian salt lake: Spanish found salt lake in Utah which spreads vertically along the Utah Rockies. Maybe the map was made after Spanish exploration but right before things like Lewis and Clarke expedition happened.

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +1

      I actually made a whole video on this - czcams.com/video/J-DaWQV3pxw/video.html

  • @ribertonmendez
    @ribertonmendez Před rokem +2

    These are the fastest running 10 mins of any CZcams videos

  • @TobiasELee
    @TobiasELee Před 2 lety +4

    Gotta love that geography, man. Nicely done.

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 Před rokem +2

    Fun. Thank you. I like this pace of this video.

  • @larrygrimaldi1400
    @larrygrimaldi1400 Před 2 lety +2

    Great research, thanks!

  • @GanonsDisciple044
    @GanonsDisciple044 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm so happy I found this channel

  • @patricka.crawley6572
    @patricka.crawley6572 Před rokem

    5:41 comprised of.
    I don't know how these videos are put together.
    May I add that your videos are music to my ears. They are very professional with the facts expertly researched and presented.
    I've been a student of Geography for over 60 years.

  • @Oliver-ng4ft
    @Oliver-ng4ft Před 2 lety +14

    4:22 Isn’t Plymouth, Montserrat technically the smallest given it has a population of 0?

  • @BasketballGuy21
    @BasketballGuy21 Před 2 lety +16

    Who bouta stay up till midnight on a Tuesday to hear geography...

  • @freakpitch6032
    @freakpitch6032 Před 2 lety +1

    totally gonna join the membership as superpower

  • @lisalahr4328
    @lisalahr4328 Před 2 lety +8

    I love this channel. It's fun

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety

      Thanks! I try to mix it up between more in depth videos and then just random fun videos like this one.

    • @saax3816
      @saax3816 Před 2 lety +1

      @@GeographyGeek Can add a 5 second pause before the next topic? Its alot of facts and need a few seconds to digest

  • @xiticals
    @xiticals Před 2 lety +5

    Les go can't wait

  • @eyetrollin710
    @eyetrollin710 Před rokem +3

    That Jedi fact is so funny because I have been listing that as my religion for over 20 years,

  • @radicalcat4942
    @radicalcat4942 Před 2 lety +9

    I'm from Costa Rica, it makes me super happy to be oncluded in your video, what an honor so thank you so much and Pura Vida!
    And talking about geography, I can see my house in the picture you used. :D

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +1

      No problem! I got to visit Costa Rica when I was in high school. It was only the second country I had ever visited outside the US (though I’m not sure Canada really counts lol) and it was big reason I became so interested in geography and culture. This was over a decade again and I have still have a magnet on my refrigerator that says Pura Vida!

    • @radicalcat4942
      @radicalcat4942 Před 2 lety +1

      @@GeographyGeek Seriously?! DUDE THAT'S AMAZING! Thank you so much for taking the time to study this very small but amazing nation, know you're always welcome back here and you're definetly "Pura Vida" Can't wait to see more videos on your channel to support you, brother, from one social science lover to other!

    • @Zabi-S
      @Zabi-S Před rokem

      @@GeographyGeek Why wouldn't Canada count?

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před rokem

      @@Zabi-S next door, and near identical culture. Never felt like I left the US.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher Před rokem

      @@GeographyGeek Try Quebec, you will feel like you're in France.

  • @pietergreveling
    @pietergreveling Před 2 lety +5

    These compilation of facts are really great! 👌🏼
    Yes, those toilets are still common, but nowadays we also have a lot of hanging toilet without the flat bottom! 😁✌🏼

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +2

      I was semi familiar with it but now that you brought it up I’m on a Wikipedia rabbit hole 😂. I may have to steal this topic from you for a post.

    • @pietergreveling
      @pietergreveling Před 2 lety +1

      @@GeographyGeek 🤣👍🏻
      Was hoping you'd like it as a subject. 😁
      And you can't steal it, when it is a gift. 😉
      Already deleted my question, so nobody knows! ✌🏼

  • @creamage.
    @creamage. Před rokem +3

    thanks to my Dutch gf, ik the dutchies loved their bikes. shoutout to her. I also encourage anyone who hasn't yet to visit the Netherlands. such a beautiful place with beautiful people. Also, the toilets definitely threw me off when I first saw them.🤣

    • @dearoll9899
      @dearoll9899 Před rokem +1

      Whats wrong with our toilets 🤣 I don’t understand 😅

    • @creamage.
      @creamage. Před rokem

      @@dearoll9899 in american the hole in the toilet bowl is towards the back bowl but in the netherlands i noticed all the holes were towards the front and that was just something i’d never seen before🤣

  • @darochavitor
    @darochavitor Před 2 lety +2

    Top notch content

  • @kevinsmith4923
    @kevinsmith4923 Před rokem

    So good, thanks.

  • @jordanw5833
    @jordanw5833 Před 2 lety +3

    6:26 laughed out loud, New Zealand is wild

  • @HandyMan657
    @HandyMan657 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Hey! I knew there were more Jedi out there. Awesome!

  • @CreepersNeedHugs
    @CreepersNeedHugs Před 4 dny +1

    3:56 my family is from Wisconsin. This is _such_ a Wisconsin thing.

  • @MrBlueBurd0451
    @MrBlueBurd0451 Před 2 lety +11

    May 4th is also the Dutch Remembrance of the Dead, our equivalent of Memorial Day.

  • @crazyjimheath
    @crazyjimheath Před 5 měsíci

    sweet!! Thabk you !!

  • @unique-luxury5237
    @unique-luxury5237 Před 2 lety +6

    Damn I had no idea about Rio being the Portugese capital. Awesome 🤣

  • @petejenkins5574
    @petejenkins5574 Před 2 lety +6

    There are a lot of small crossing points between adjacent countries in the EU. The tripoint border of Czechia, Poland and Germany has a bridge between Poland and Czechia, which is over a small stream - barely a rivulet, really - called the Lubota, and I am pretty sure it's smaller than 10 ft

  • @SanguiphiliaTV
    @SanguiphiliaTV Před 9 měsíci +3

    I'd love more info on the 1507 maps with Florida. I like these videos but sometimes you gloss over what I think is interesting and add details for other things (like the bike race admittance being capped eventually)

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 9 měsíci

      Made a video on that map - “The map that gave America it's name”
      czcams.com/video/bMRhs_e4DXo/video.html

  • @inkonmyhands
    @inkonmyhands Před 2 lety +4

    hell yeah

  • @purpledistance8633
    @purpledistance8633 Před 2 lety +2

    I have one interesting fact. Loving County in Texas doesn't have ATM at all.

  • @YeeSoest
    @YeeSoest Před 2 lety +1

    Wow! 4:45 is the biggest Diplomacy burn in the very distinguished and extensive history of Diplomacy burns ^^

  • @andrewfleming5397
    @andrewfleming5397 Před rokem

    I'm from Falkirk! Stonehousemuir is now called Stenhousemuir, that's where I grew up haha!

  • @scotcoon1186
    @scotcoon1186 Před rokem

    Just a year ago, we had almost a 100 degree or so swing in 2 days in February in Nebraska.

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 Před 2 lety +1

    At 0:39 ....This is true...I've been there...But it messes up the Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'".... because of "Born and raised in south Detroit"...There is no south Detroit...just Windsor Cananda...

  • @tasaki12
    @tasaki12 Před rokem

    1:19 and costa rica if you consider the variant with the emblem on it

  • @shubhamkashyap6319
    @shubhamkashyap6319 Před 2 lety

    Subscribed

  • @PlebeianTheWise
    @PlebeianTheWise Před 2 lety

    Such great trivia fodder

  • @kevinolesik1500
    @kevinolesik1500 Před 2 lety +1

    solid !

  • @iliketrainsilikeplanes6047

    I could be wrong, but I think Equatorial Guinea‘s territorial waters touch the equator

  • @robertwagner5873
    @robertwagner5873 Před 2 lety +2

    Lots of interesting stuff... do you do videos that elaborate on the things you put in these short videos... I'd subscribe if you did

  • @lopez6617
    @lopez6617 Před 2 lety +2

    These are great facts!

  • @Dawn_Aramoana63
    @Dawn_Aramoana63 Před 8 měsíci

    JEDI??? That's a new one on me 😅 so cool 👍

  • @jonathanturek5846
    @jonathanturek5846 Před rokem

    Dagobah is in New Zealand . A special place that it is is

  • @stevepalmberg5905
    @stevepalmberg5905 Před 2 lety +1

    Mississippi does flow north
    Check out headwaters of lake Itasca MN

  • @benjaminrush4443
    @benjaminrush4443 Před 2 lety

    Thanks.

  • @hamishneilson7140
    @hamishneilson7140 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Just like the Kashoggi road name, Ottawa changed the signs of the street the Russian embassy is on to the Ukrainian flag colours, and if I recall correctly they say “Free Ukraine” as a sub text under the street name, although that may just be another sign I’m mixing up with them.

  • @fuckwit107
    @fuckwit107 Před rokem

    4:29 lmao. Great facts, and I always love a bad pronunciation of my city. Glaascow lol

  • @Whatthesigma758
    @Whatthesigma758 Před rokem +2

    Also did u know that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country?

  • @rochewalkerpetersen4427
    @rochewalkerpetersen4427 Před 2 lety +1

    Hello from Cape Town!

  • @chasingshangrila
    @chasingshangrila Před rokem

    Awesome

  • @JochemBoodt-VlochemVerkent

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @lbno7725
    @lbno7725 Před 2 lety +2

    These make me feel like we’re all just people in a game of civ 6, like, I would definitely encourage nuclear experiments in my Civs high schools

  • @AlexanderWeurding
    @AlexanderWeurding Před 2 lety +4

    Can you do Tartaria next ?

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +3

      I get this question a lot. It won’t be next but it’s on my list. I’ve been casually putting a script together as I learn more. I have a cool illustration of TarTars on an early 17th century map of mine I’ll share soon.

    • @sambowz9077
      @sambowz9077 Před 2 lety +1

      @@GeographyGeek Cool

    • @AlexanderWeurding
      @AlexanderWeurding Před 2 lety

      @@GeographyGeek Epic! Looking forward to that topic. And maps ;)

  • @usmcalgm_ret_usmc_sdsd
    @usmcalgm_ret_usmc_sdsd Před rokem +1

    Ordered Prisoners of Geography
    by Tim Marshall
    Scott Brick

  • @crazywarriorscatfan9061
    @crazywarriorscatfan9061 Před 2 lety +2

    Nice

  • @413xxx86
    @413xxx86 Před rokem

    Wisconsin Represent!!

  • @learnurduwithsara1068
    @learnurduwithsara1068 Před 2 lety

    Most of them I didn't know 😯

  • @goa5373
    @goa5373 Před rokem +2

    in front of the German embassy in Rio de Janeiro, there is a public school called Anne Frank

  • @nilsp9426
    @nilsp9426 Před rokem

    4:52 the best example of "damnation" ever

  • @drudizzle1
    @drudizzle1 Před rokem +2

    The difference between the hottest and coldest temp in California is a whopping 199 degree difference 😅

  • @trentproctor3402
    @trentproctor3402 Před 2 lety

    The London bridge got moved to lake Havasu Arizona

  • @jeroencornelisse
    @jeroencornelisse Před 2 lety

    Love your channel. Your fact about Suriname (only one movie theatre) is correct but the picture that goes with it, isn't. What you show used to be one of many cinemas in Paramaribo and is now office space. TBL Cinemas is located somewhere else.

  • @DugrozReports
    @DugrozReports Před rokem

    the link at end of video is wrong.

  • @shawnstoeckley5019
    @shawnstoeckley5019 Před 2 lety +3

    El Salvador is located in Central America and Not North America (Time 10:25)

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +1

      It's in both. Central America is a region within the continent of North America.

    • @jagphsd
      @jagphsd Před 2 lety +1

      @@GeographyGeek lol no! It's 3 separate divisions: North America (only Canada, USA and Mexico), Central America and South America. I live in Central America and this is a fact we all know since school.
      Also you missed another flag within itself: Costa Rica's with the code of arms (on the two boats there are mini flags).

    • @krishpatel3156
      @krishpatel3156 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jagphsd There are only 2 continents entirely in the Western hemisphere. North America (Canada to Panama) and South America....

    • @jagphsd
      @jagphsd Před 2 lety

      @@krishpatel3156Nope. That's one single continent: America. Which is divided into the three parts I mentioned

    • @jagphsd
      @jagphsd Před 2 lety +1

      Oh! And "América Insular" which would be the islands (Cuba, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Haití, etc...)

  • @marksmit4134
    @marksmit4134 Před rokem

    Joh how long was that add not?

  • @MerlinOlsen
    @MerlinOlsen Před rokem +1

    That's way more kangaroos than I'm comfortable knowing about. I thought anything that weird has to be endangered.

  • @nickg3879
    @nickg3879 Před rokem

    Iran changed the name of the street that the UK embassy is on in Tehran to "Bobby Sands street". Sands was an Irish republican IRA hunger striker who died in 1981 in prison in Northern Ireland. He was also a member of the British parliament.

  • @kuunib7325
    @kuunib7325 Před rokem

    In the Netherlands we have 2 bicycles one for daily business and we call kroegviets, it's just to get to the pub and back home. We don't really care about our kroegvietsen since, well we are most likely drunk when we ride them.

  • @karymecabrera4014
    @karymecabrera4014 Před rokem

    Glad Belize was included

  • @konfettikus
    @konfettikus Před 9 měsíci

    8:47 Cape Argus Cycle Tour

  • @MvsicAdd7ct
    @MvsicAdd7ct Před 9 měsíci +2

    Another fun fact: "sahara" means "desert, so Sahara desert means Desert desert.

  • @joseloro
    @joseloro Před 2 lety

    Great video as usual. One question: isn’t El Salvador in Central America instead of North America? (At 10:23)

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  Před 2 lety +2

      Thank you! It’s both actually. Central American is a region within the continent of North America.

    • @avijaikaran668
      @avijaikaran668 Před 2 lety +4

      central America is not a continent. Canada to Panama is North America.

    • @joseloro
      @joseloro Před 2 lety

      @@avijaikaran668 never mentioned being a continent, merely said that if we are using the concepts of south, north america… shouldn’t central be also used?

    • @avijaikaran668
      @avijaikaran668 Před 2 lety +1

      @@joseloro I think you misunderstood the statement. Because if that was the case, Chile Ecuador, Peru would be on that list too. And what about the South American countries that do not borders the Pacific Ocean?

    • @joseloro
      @joseloro Před 2 lety

      @@avijaikaran668 but the division between south and north is not related to the pacific ocean… its because of the south and north hemisphere.

  • @ryanschatzberg4651
    @ryanschatzberg4651 Před 2 lety

    7:48 this is more true than ever

  • @craigwiester9177
    @craigwiester9177 Před 2 lety

    @ 2:36, one would think a geography geek would not flip a photo of Canada's Gaspe peninsula and the Saint Lawrence estuary.

  • @4MyThoughts
    @4MyThoughts Před 2 lety +5

    Thank you for helping North Americans catch up with much of the world, and to finally learn about geography.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Před 10 měsíci

    Can we talk about the Potomac River is the Riverish River?

  • @RKLS90
    @RKLS90 Před rokem +1

    3:41 could someone give a possible reason why the US is almost a perfect split between north & south when it comes to which states u can or cannot own piranhas? I’m having a hard time believing that split is just purely coincidental

  • @reginafromrio
    @reginafromrio Před 11 měsíci

    Wow Finland's milk consumption surprised me. I thought Mongolia would be first.

  • @DodgeWolf
    @DodgeWolf Před 7 měsíci

    I don't get what is the problem with the toilet in NL? is it about the fact that whatever you shot stays there until you flush? I am quite confused.

  • @timothybaker8234
    @timothybaker8234 Před 2 lety

    How about the easterly end of the Panama Canal is on the Pacific Ocean.

  • @Kadood
    @Kadood Před 10 měsíci +1

    thats crazy you mentioined prisoners of geography im literally reading it rn

  • @mavadelo
    @mavadelo Před 9 měsíci

    4:28 I really expected a "hundred" or a "thousand" following those numbers here... it didn't come.

  • @cesarpupito8208
    @cesarpupito8208 Před 2 lety +1

    Australia from the British Empire that was cool 😀

  • @GregWeidman
    @GregWeidman Před rokem

    I think Ngerulmud, Palau, probably has a smaller population than King Edward Point, South Georgia.