I have more random facts: The Pacific Ocean is bigger than all land on earth combined. You can fit 34 million Vatican Citys in Russia. Monaco with 40,000 people has a similar GDP to Somalia with about 17 million. The sun never sets UK and France because of overseas territories. India has a higher population than all of Africa. And yet, France and UK each have a higher GDP than Africa. In Czechia, beer is cheaper than water.
Are you an imbecile? That is just a representation of a tornado-looking phenomenon. He doesn't need to show specifics when he is talking about random things like tornadoes.
@@greatpyramid4348 No it's not, it's not even close. If this was true people would almost be in space at the top of Mount Everest having run out of oxygen completely hundreds of kilometers further down. Just think for a second.
@@greatpyramid4348 Do you know what "around the same height" means? I understand how the numbers are similar in different units but "around the same height" means around the same height and they are not that.
Do you know that what you call "kilometers squared" is actually "square kilometers"? That's what km^2 means. Square kilometres, like square metres, are measures of area. "Metres squared" describes a formula perhaps, but not what the units mean.
Yes 100 square meters is 10x10 meters = 100 m2 100 metes squared is 100x100 meters = 10000 m2 People have mention this in a lot of videos. Don't know if he doesn't read comments or if he can't change. I only know it hurts my ears every time he says it.
@@shesh_o I replayed the video - he distinctly said the border of the US/Canada is 8,890 kilometers, and then said that "this figure is the same height as Mount Everest." He did not mention meters. Replay the video.
1. Antigua and Barbuda 2. Bahamas 3. Barbados 4. Belize 5. Canada 6. Costa Rica 7. Cuba 8. Dominica 9. Dominican Republic 10. El Salvador 11. Grenada 12. Guatemala 13. Haiti 14. Honduras 15. Jamaica 16. Mexico 17. Nicaragua 18. Panama 19. Saint Kitts and Nevis 20. Saint Lucia 21. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22. Trinidad and Tobago 23. United States of America
@@brianarbenz1329 the name of this video is called “100 incredibly interesting geography facts”…….. so why are the creators of this video just picking and choosing what ’they’ want to report… it would have taken 2-3 seconds to include New Zealand & Thailand 🤦🏻🤷🏻♂️
I thought I would search through the comments knowing someone would have made a correction to his lack of knowledge regarding countries with the word ‘Land’ in them. In todays era where anyone can find some information about any topic within seconds on the internet but now that AI and apps like chat GPT exist there is no reason why those people who created this video wouldn’t have double or triple checked their content of information before uploading the video…. This is just one of many errors in this video…. The comments section will always keep people in check
Regarding the fact 42: Germany calls itself Deutschland, the official name is Bundesrepublik Deutschland. So there should be at least 12 countries with land in their name.
15:10 The map seems to only separate regions on country borders. Which means that Big Diomede, an island in the Bering Strait that is part of Russia, and also technically in the western hemisphere, is the western-most part of Asia, and also part of Eastern Europe.
How is Indonesia bigger than Australia? We're an island nation! Also, we are the continent with the fewest number of nations - 1! You must learn to respect Australia.
@@brookehoward-smith3648 We are a Nation comprised of Islands, the same way the Indons are. Thats what we consider ourselves and that should be the end of the discussion. And, given we are Australia, we don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks.
Australia is a bit of a debate. Depends if you are counting those that are part of Oceana (like Fiji, Palau, Somoa, etc), which I think you have to do. With all of those there are 14 in Australia. North America has way more than that. A lot of people think North America is just Canada, US and Mexico, but all of Central America is technically in North America, as well as all of the Caribbean island nations.
@@michellelee2409 There's the cultural tally and there's the geographical tally. I don't think Caribbean Islands would be considered within North America geographically. And I've heard _Australasia_ used to describe the continent plus New Guinea, New Zealand, Samoa and other Pacific nations. But Australia itself I have not heard described as having all those within its continent. As you noted, the line can be drawn in various ways.
For Everyone up in arms about the Canada border and Everest thing, I think the mistake lies in the fact that Everest FROM SEA LEVEL is 8.848 km high. Canadas border with the U.S. is 8,891 km long I see where the issue could’ve come from but yes that is a big difference
this video is super engaging, and I really appreciate the effort put into it! but honestly, I feel like some of the facts were a bit exaggerated. for instance, claiming that every continent has its own unique weather patterns is kind of a stretch-there's actually a lot of overlap. idk, just my two cents!
Technically the UK doesn't have the longest name for countries becuase the UK isn't a country its a group of countries of Scotland,England,Wales and Northern Ireland
2:50 Brazil is the world's largest Romance-language country and Argentina is the world's largest Spanish-speaking country. Mexico is the world's most populous Spanish-speaking country .
@@greatpyramid4348 So wouldn't that make it one of the top four at least? And not Seoul, also Shanghai has more, so that would also make the "only capital cities" claim wrong as well.
He was going by the metropolitan area population, which is more commonly used to determine a large city's population when China is included. China has weird definitions for what a city is, so their cities are much larger than others around the world. According to these measures, Mumbai is the 5th largest city, followed by Mexico City.
#50 ... Australia is also a continent with a single nation unless you count the nearby islands which are counted as part of the Australian continent for grouping purposes. but as islands, they, by definition, cannot be on a continent.
@@fmyoung let it go! My comment wasn’t out of place! Nigeria is obviously a big country with beautiful sceneries n of course slums. No need to highlight bad sceneries when you’re highlighting good stuff about other countries in the video n that is just my opinion.
@@lionelyoung3437 "Highlighted reply" here too again "Let it go! My comment wasn’t out of place! Nigeria is obviously a big country with beautiful sceneries n of course slums. No need to highlight bad sceneries when you’re highlighting good stuff about other countries in the video n that is just my opinion."
@@greatpyramid4348 Yeah, let's make a comparison between two objects using different units and say that the two are practically equal in dimension. Makes sense shill!
@@josephbennett4236 Yeah, it's like arguing with the village idiot. Practically everyone here calls out the "fact" is wrong and he's the ONLY ONE saying otherwise.
People usually refer to places like Florida as tropical but Florida is actually not within the tropics. Situated barely north of the Tropic of Cancer it is barely within the northern temperate zone and that's why it does get snow every so often (although mind you it doesn't stay for very long).
In no.60 you said all Island countries have no measurable land borders, but this is far from true! Many island countries' consist of part of an island, and have land border[s] with the other countries on that island ie Haiti and the DR on Hispaniola, Republic of Ireland and the UK on Ireland, etc
3:25 Algeria is also the Arabic world's largest country as well as the largest one on the Mediterranean. It is also the 10th-largest country in the world.
You used kilometres for distances but then switched to inches? Are you using the metric system or not? I'm from South Africa and we went 100% metric in 1961 (when Mzansi left the Commonwealth - we rejoined later). So inches mean nothing to me.
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The Canada-US border comparison to Everest is numerically true when units are disregarded.
I have more random facts:
The Pacific Ocean is bigger than all land on earth combined.
You can fit 34 million Vatican Citys in Russia.
Monaco with 40,000 people has a similar GDP to Somalia with about 17 million.
The sun never sets UK and France because of overseas territories.
India has a higher population than all of Africa.
And yet, France and UK each have a higher GDP than Africa.
In Czechia, beer is cheaper than water.
*cities 👍
Equatorial Guinea is not on the equator
@@ViktorCZ42 no because vatican city is the name. it’s not a general word like city so it’s vatican citys
Indian used to but not anymore
Awesome
Everest is NOT 8,000+ kms high. It is 8,000+ metres high. Oops.
He said the figure itself not the distance
The numbers are similar, he ddnt say it with distances itself
US Canada border 8891km , Everest height 8848m
@michaellennon873, that certainly would increase the degree of difficulty re. a summit.😂
He did not say in what units only the "figure".
2:35 newest capital city is Gitega, Burundi. Became capital in 2020
changed from bujumbura right?
@@alimbis yes
@@Sanandaj_geo they are both the capitals actually
Well...
What Abt Beldisgap, TDT 2022
@@TDToffical1 to my knowledge that is not a thing
Your videos always enlighten me, keep up the good work geography bible
#77. USA borders 3 oceans as well
uk is in atlantic, pacific, indian, and southern
@@greatpyramid4348 it does
@@greatpyramid4348 southern by south georgia islands. not antarctica
Australia borders 3 oceans as well, the Pacific, Indian & Southern.
@@greatpyramid4348 I beg your pardon?
Brother you cannot call yourself the Geography Bible if you think Mount Everest height is the same length as the US-Canada border
He missed units
🇺🇲🇨🇦 Border is 8890 "km"
Height of Mt everest is 8848 "m"😊
@@Sanandaj_geo even then it should be obvious Mount Everest is not as tall as a continent
@@greatpyramid4348the usa canada border spans the length of a continent
that's just a small mistake
dont respond to the troll guys
This video was exactly what I needed! Thanks for breaking it down so well! 🥰📝
20:22 That's not the US (looks more like the African savanna) and that's not even a tornado, looks more like a dust devil.
Are you an imbecile? That is just a representation of a tornado-looking phenomenon. He doesn't need to show specifics when he is talking about random things like tornadoes.
That's what I thought too
Australia also borders 3 Oceans
Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans. 😮
@@Greg-r5h same with chile
Tugela falls in South Africa has recently been named the highest waterfall in the world.
Overall excellent information keep it up 👍
Mostly good, but some glaring errors, particularly Nos. 50 and 90.
keep up the good work geography bible, nice to see your video!
Videos like this take a long time to make.
Thank you
Then why aren't they correctly researched?
watched till the very end. Love from Nepal❤
I'd like to watch the video of all the errors made in this video.
@@robert_costello the picture of the tornado was not a tornado but a dust devil.
@@williamk5998 And that landscape looks like an African savanna rather than America
Square kilometres, not kilometres squared. 16 million kilometres squared is trillions of square kilometres.
Wait Everest is as tall as the US/Canada border? Huh?
@@greatpyramid4348 No it isn't.
The US Canada border is about 5.5×10^3 miles long, and Mount Everest is about 5.5 miles high. So *basically* the same 😂
@@greatpyramid4348 No it's not, it's not even close. If this was true people would almost be in space at the top of Mount Everest having run out of oxygen completely hundreds of kilometers further down. Just think for a second.
@@greatpyramid4348 You said the length of the US Canada border is around the same as the height of Mount Everest correct?
@@greatpyramid4348 Do you know what "around the same height" means? I understand how the numbers are similar in different units but "around the same height" means around the same height and they are not that.
Love these :)
Wow facts 35 and 36 are amazing!
I've watched a lot of programs that call themselves Geography, but this one really is. Thank you so much. It was well worth watching.
can't believe how much research you put behind this video. Thumbs up!
Awesome 🎉
I don't know if I can take a channel seriously when they think that Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake.
@@greatpyramid4348, Lake Huron-Michigan.
@@TheSpiritombsableye are you high?
@@jakeedits312, it depends.
Also, it depends on if we are asking about the largest lake by volume as Baikal would win in that department asking with via depth.
@@greatpyramid4348 thank you
Nice content!👍🏻
This is cool content and super for education. Thanks for the content !🌍🌎🌏
Love your videos' keep up the good work
Lesotho is the only country having all of its territory 1 000 metres above sea level. Its lowest point is about 1 400 metres.
Do you know that what you call "kilometers squared" is actually "square kilometers"? That's what km^2 means. Square kilometres, like square metres, are measures of area. "Metres squared" describes a formula perhaps, but not what the units mean.
Yes 100 square meters is 10x10 meters = 100 m2
100 metes squared is 100x100 meters = 10000 m2
People have mention this in a lot of videos. Don't know if he doesn't read comments or if he can't change. I only know it hurts my ears every time he says it.
Bro, mt Everest height is in meter and border of Canada and USA is in km
He did that so yall comment about it that gives him engagement so he gets more views
@@greatpyramid4348 that means a 10 month boy and a 10 year boy are same as number is same
@@Youwillrelateshort yes
10:24 as an indonesian actually I've been to kawah ijen before and i climbed for 4 HOURS
Love your Facts 💖💖
Many of them are true at face value, but don’t use them at a geography bee without more research.
@@graceneilitz7661 Thanks for the heads-up! I'll make sure to double-check the information before using it in a geography bee.
Very interesting
101:
Australia has the Lowest High point (Mount Kosciusko) and Highest Low point (Lake Eyre) making it the Flatest Continent.
wait that actually is pretty crazy
Wait, every continent has land below sea level? I thought that was pretty rare
Who researched this? There are many serious errors! Mt Everest cannot be 8,000 kilometers high - that is 4,970 miles!
Imagine Everest having an Eclipse instead of a shadow xD
8000 m of course not km
@@jojo.s_bekaar_adventures 8,000 Millimeters ≈
26.24 Feet wrong again.
@@LaurenceDay-d2p he didn't say millimeters, he said meters. "m" stands for meters, ignorant.
@@shesh_o I replayed the video - he distinctly said the border of the US/Canada is 8,890 kilometers, and then said that "this figure is the same height as Mount Everest." He did not mention meters. Replay the video.
I love you for having used the old Persian flag on the map of Iran instead of the new one.
Was that in the section about the world in 1900?
Mostly interesting facts!
Thank you very much for putting in the massive amount of work compiling this list.
1000 km2 is one thousand square kilometers; one thousand kilometers squared is 1,000,000 km2.
What’s up with #50? Africa has the most UN countries with 54, South America has the least with 12. What about North America? Am I missing something?
1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. Bahamas
3. Barbados
4. Belize
5. Canada
6. Costa Rica
7. Cuba
8. Dominica
9. Dominican Republic
10. El Salvador
11. Grenada
12. Guatemala
13. Haiti
14. Honduras
15. Jamaica
16. Mexico
17. Nicaragua
18. Panama
19. Saint Kitts and Nevis
20. Saint Lucia
21. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
22. Trinidad and Tobago
23. United States of America
12:21 #42 What about New Zealand and Thailand, it also part of the name.
They just listed a few examples, not all of them.
@@brianarbenz1329 the name of this video is called “100 incredibly interesting geography facts”…….. so why are the creators of this video just picking and choosing what ’they’ want to report… it would have taken 2-3 seconds to include New Zealand & Thailand 🤦🏻🤷🏻♂️
I thought I would search through the comments knowing someone would have made a correction to his lack of knowledge regarding countries with the word ‘Land’ in them.
In todays era where anyone can find some information about any topic within seconds on the internet but now that AI and apps like chat GPT exist there is no reason why those people who created this video wouldn’t have double or triple checked their content of information before uploading the video…. This is just one of many errors in this video…. The comments section will always keep people in check
it helped my knowlage soooooo much!!!
I really like the 35th location it's so majestic and so dangerous 10:26
The fact that Sweden has the most islands baffled me
All those islands must be really small
Regarding the fact 42: Germany calls itself Deutschland, the official name is Bundesrepublik Deutschland. So there should be at least 12 countries with land in their name.
You know why nobody knows, or cares, what the largest “sea” is? I bet everyone watching this video knows the answer.
Great video!
great video
Country # of Lakes
Canada 879,800
Russia 201,200
Finland 188,000
United States 102,500
China 23,800
25:57
Are people surprised that Cook Islands rank amongst the most obese countries in the world?
I recently became aware that 9 of the top 10 countries for obesity are in the Pacific Islands
too many cooks spoil the waistline
Well, it does have COOK in its name. Guess the population took that to heart.
22:29 The USA also borders the same three oceans, via its east, west, Hawaiian, and Alaskan coasts.
Bro there's so much misinformation 😭
@@greatpyramid4348 wdym
April fools?
That's why they call it the Geography _Bible._
@@brianarbenz7206 Wait what
Go cry about it then 😂😂
8:29 Maldives is also most Muslim (100%) create , and smallest one
15:10 The map seems to only separate regions on country borders. Which means that Big Diomede, an island in the Bering Strait that is part of Russia, and also technically in the western hemisphere, is the western-most part of Asia, and also part of Eastern Europe.
6:10 Australia is also the largest country entirely within the Southern Hemisphere (in other words south of the Equator).
22:29 - The United States ALSO borders three different oceans - and not just Canada and Russia!
US /canada border 5,525 miles. Everest 5.5 miles high so yea you missed on that one
#42 Bro u forget new zealand and many more
For countries with...LAND at last New Zealand is also the one...
5:36 Of those 44 landlocked countries 2 are doubly-landlocked, namely Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein.
How is Indonesia bigger than Australia? We're an island nation! Also, we are the continent with the fewest number of nations - 1! You must learn to respect Australia.
It's not considered an island as it's considered a continent
@@brookehoward-smith3648 We are a Nation comprised of Islands, the same way the Indons are. Thats what we consider ourselves and that should be the end of the discussion. And, given we are Australia, we don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks.
23:37 That's a cool fun fact about Malta
Ok , what about Switzerland ?
Suranim?
Suriname.
Nice info
50. South America has the least countries of any continent, at 12? Australia has entered the chat. So has North America.
Yes, French Guyana, (Cayenne) east of Suriname,is controlled by France.
Any corrections to this?
Australia is a bit of a debate. Depends if you are counting those that are part of Oceana (like Fiji, Palau, Somoa, etc), which I think you have to do. With all of those there are 14 in Australia. North America has way more than that. A lot of people think North America is just Canada, US and Mexico, but all of Central America is technically in North America, as well as all of the Caribbean island nations.
@@michellelee2409 There's the cultural tally and there's the geographical tally. I don't think Caribbean Islands would be considered within North America geographically. And I've heard _Australasia_ used to describe the continent plus New Guinea, New Zealand, Samoa and other Pacific nations. But Australia itself I have not heard described as having all those within its continent. As you noted, the line can be drawn in various ways.
North America has all of the carribian islands
@@brianarbenz1329 If those islands weren't in North America, where would they be, 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺?
90. You're telling us Mt. Everest is 8,890 km tall?
For Everyone up in arms about the Canada border and Everest thing, I think the mistake lies in the fact that Everest FROM SEA LEVEL is 8.848 km high.
Canadas border with the U.S. is 8,891 km long
I see where the issue could’ve come from but yes that is a big difference
56. African country with highest GDP is Seychelles at $21875, not Mauritius and higher than the average at 52 overall despite being small
this video is super engaging, and I really appreciate the effort put into it! but honestly, I feel like some of the facts were a bit exaggerated. for instance, claiming that every continent has its own unique weather patterns is kind of a stretch-there's actually a lot of overlap. idk, just my two cents!
Technically the UK doesn't have the longest name for countries becuase the UK isn't a country its a group of countries of Scotland,England,Wales and Northern Ireland
12:21 erm technically there are 18 countries with the word land in their name because Stan means land🤓
Erm technically Everest is 8,000m not 8,000km🤓
I thought the same thing
I wish there was a numbering system for animals, trees, etc like 8.1 billion human BEINGS accounted for. Thank you.
Bro showed 100 facts in thirty minutes 13 seconds
2:50 Brazil is the world's largest Romance-language country and Argentina is the world's largest Spanish-speaking country. Mexico is the world's most populous Spanish-speaking country .
Geography facts: the average life of a human is 73.3 years...... hmmmmm
OH. Oh...
I'm confused, doesn't Bejing have like 21 Million people?
@@greatpyramid4348 So wouldn't that make it one of the top four at least? And not Seoul, also Shanghai has more, so that would also make the "only capital cities" claim wrong as well.
@@greatpyramid4348 Whew thanks for the clarification!
He was going by the metropolitan area population, which is more commonly used to determine a large city's population when China is included. China has weird definitions for what a city is, so their cities are much larger than others around the world. According to these measures, Mumbai is the 5th largest city, followed by Mexico City.
@@ferrell_piano Yes i see, thanks!
#50 ... Australia is also a continent with a single nation unless you count the nearby islands which are counted as part of the Australian continent for grouping purposes. but as islands, they, by definition, cannot be on a continent.
Nigeria has so many beautiful places you could have used
So do many other parts of this world
@@fmyoung the subject is Nigeria not the rest of the world 🤣
@@lionelyoung3437 "Highlighted reply" here too Yours maybe but the subject of this whole doc is geography facts from around the world
@@fmyoung let it go! My comment wasn’t out of place! Nigeria is obviously a big country with beautiful sceneries n of course slums. No need to highlight bad sceneries when you’re highlighting good stuff about other countries in the video n that is just my opinion.
@@lionelyoung3437 "Highlighted reply" here too again "Let it go! My comment wasn’t out of place! Nigeria is obviously a big country with beautiful sceneries n of course slums. No need to highlight bad sceneries when you’re highlighting good stuff about other countries in the video n that is just my opinion."
I think you mean square kilometres not kilometres squared.
Yeah, same guy who argues that the length of the US-Canada border is around the same height of Mt Everest is a correct "fact"
@@greatpyramid4348 Yeah, let's make a comparison between two objects using different units and say that the two are practically equal in dimension. Makes sense shill!
@@puffdanny2k Don't bother arguing with @greatpyramid4348 - he seems to have his own agenda, and cannot string a sentence together correctly anyway.
@@josephbennett4236 Yeah, it's like arguing with the village idiot. Practically everyone here calls out the "fact" is wrong and he's the ONLY ONE saying otherwise.
@@greatpyramid4348 I rest my case.
People usually refer to places like Florida as tropical but Florida is actually not within the tropics. Situated barely north of the Tropic of Cancer it is barely within the northern temperate zone and that's why it does get snow every so often (although mind you it doesn't stay for very long).
The Chinese concrete reference was confusing. "6.5 Gigatons, that 6.5 Billion Tons". So...they used 6.5 Billion Tons then....right?
In no.60 you said all Island countries have no measurable land borders, but this is far from true! Many island countries' consist of part of an island, and have land border[s] with the other countries on that island ie Haiti and the DR on Hispaniola, Republic of Ireland and the UK on Ireland, etc
Borneo is the island with the most countries on it (Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, and Indonesia).
3:25 Algeria is also the Arabic world's largest country as well as the largest one on the Mediterranean. It is also the 10th-largest country in the world.
You used kilometres for distances but then switched to inches? Are you using the metric system or not? I'm from South Africa and we went 100% metric in 1961 (when Mzansi left the Commonwealth - we rejoined later). So inches mean nothing to me.
In 1950 most men died from the world wars. it wasn't anything to do with their health. Also a lot more babies died back then.
1950 is crazy💀learn history kid
@@Fire711_SpeedMcQueenHelper Who the F**K are you calling kid, I was there.
I have a random fact:
Norway, Finland, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the USA, are all 1 country away from North Korea
You forgot Canada
From the US though you'd have to cross the Bering Strait.
I thought the most powerful passport in terms of amount of countries you can travel to was Spain, with 180, and not the UAE
No, it's Singapore.
I'm 8 minutes into this video, when do the "Extraordinary Facts" begin?
I would have thought the Straits of Gibraltar would be far more busy than the Dover Strait. All those ships coming through from the East. Wow!
Cool facts. Imo it would be better if you didn't number them all verbally though
good conent bro
#29 - where is Guatemala in North America if including Nicaragua & Honduras
Does Ireland not have the word land???
8:35 most interesting fact of all
17:21 what about Botswana and Zambia? their border is just 150~ meters
As an indonesian, i appreciate the many indonesian geograpjy facts here
Never knew there is so many Islands in Sweden wow
They must be all very small
Oceania is not classed as a continent
@@greatpyramid4348 You're an idiot. Oceania is not a continent - it is a geographical region. In any language.
ERROR! A km2 is read as "square km", not "km squared". Totally different things. Look it up. 5 km squared is 25 square km.
My dude, Timor Leste has a border with Indonesia and it's in the photo you used for PNG/Indonesia