The Real Size Of Countries
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- In this video we take a look at how different the size of certain countries really are, compared to how they usually are displayed as on a map.
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Would you want to see a full video on the different type of Map Projections there are? Comparing each of them, etc.
Si (sorry for my bad english)
That would be cool
Are you Portuguese? Your pronunciation is very good and you use Portuguese maps
True are you Portuguese?
@@GrainMuncher I think yes, sir!
If you put Greenland in equator it will melt
Seth mark Sanchez it already is
Lol did i just read this while the video is on the greenland part
Lol. Why I scrolling down my screen & read this?
that's a good one lol
It would become green!
**Greenland has left the chat**
Singsong Sou subscribe to my channel thanks
I'm sure all ten people there will understand.
@@BeastRealDeal no idiot
@Noob 70 *put asterisks (*) on each side of the part you want bold*
*Rip This chat*
So a globe 🌎 is the best way to see the maps in its correct area.
Yup
what?
always has been
Because the actual Earth is also a sphere, like a globe.
@@atara.sx- the earth is not a perfect sphere but a geoid or elliptical sphere.
*Puts Africa in antartica, and it freezes*
*Puts Antartica to Africa, and it melts.*
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
I bless the snows down in Africa!
African-Antarticans
@@gojira4036 they will be easily seen in the snow
Im taking about the Africans
@@imcloud305 that’s because there dark
And now antartica melt even if you didnt move it
The Mercator projection! Brought to you by: GREENLAND!
Yeah coz greenland looks absolutely gargantuan up there but actually is smaller than the drc
@The Engineer Guy Iceland is called Iceland because it has way more glaciers than Scandinavia, the origin of all Icelanders.
Greenland is called Greenland because the viking, who discovered it, landed in the south, where it is not so icy. Also, he wanted to make some advertisement for Greenland.
@The Engineer Guy it's a trick made by a man just to escape a crime he did, that is what my teacher said :/
@Smalls probably XD
0:55
If you want a completely accurate map, just use a globe.
powerful words!
A globe isn't a map though
@@kapybara8079 he's talking about the little globes
@@serglian8558 it's still not a map •~•
@@kapybara8079 he didnt even say that its a map he just said to use it
@@vaukrompir6136 He still used the word map, not that it is a big deal...it isn't
Greenland: I'm bigger than Australia.
Australia: No you're not. look at the globe.
Greenland: [Cries]
Antarctica isn’t that small, it’s bigger than the us or Canada.
Antarctica is only smaller than Russia
@@1mol831 Australia
@@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123 Australia
@@_kitaes_ Australia isn't a continent. It is an island, which is part of the continent of Oceania, just like how Asia includes islands like Java or siri lanka.
Everyone : Why I'm smaller?
Brazil : Is that my business
You are going to brazil
come to Brazil, pls?
Russia: we good🤠
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
2:57 “...three or four USs”
*forgets about Alaska or Hawaii*
@Fmono • 38 years ago Still part of america
@Fmono • 38 years ago maybe they should be included?
*facepalm*
@Yuki You no, it doesn count in the scale, because its not connected to america
Fmono • 39 years ago • edited Guam and them aren’t states. That’s not the same thing, and I don’t believe that’s what op was saying.
One other thing about the Mercator projection, and many others, for that matter, is that it makes it too easy to think of east and west as being on opposite ends of a map, when the reality is that east and west are not points on a map, but directions that go completely around without a fixed start or end. The US is closer to Russia (via Alaska and the Behring Straight) than it is to Cuba, which is not something you can easily appreciate in most flat maps..
That's why you need to grow up playing Risk like we did in the 70s - because then you KNOW Kamchatka and Alaska are "connected". 😁
5:58 Fun fact: Poland is bigger than UK. Poland has [about] 312.000 square kilometers, but UK has [about] 242.000 square kilometers.
Your english is pretty good though
The only thing that is bad is that have is supposed to be has. That's pretty interesting though. A fun fact about where I'm from (New Jersey, USA) is that
1) this state has 9 million people, making it 11th most populated despite the fact that it's the fifth smallest state
2) NJ is a peninsula. The only state it's connected to by land is New York
3) NJ is 8,729 mi² (22,610 km²)
@@julsiegamermove4115 lmao jakarta has more people than nj but jakarta is small
Bidilz Gaming is it a major city? If so, that's completely normal. NJ is overpopulated in certain areas and in some cities, people don't even have driveways because of how crowded the houses are. I can't even imagine that
MarkeeGamerMove New York best.
Of course it's possible to present a spherical object in 2D without distortion. It's just not possible to present it all at once without distortion.
I remember my science teacher telling me about this whilst we were all procrastinating and ever since then I wanted to know why. Thanks for this video!
Why so much pain!!
when you have Google...
Vgg
My teacher told me it was because the map makers were racist. No joke
Because the "racist" Europeans wanted to give the impression that the northern countries was bigger than the southern countries making them seem more important. Facts.
@@patrickwooler1194
As a Brazilian (fucked by the mercator map) I wouldn't call them racist, they were just insecure about their little penises and needed to compensate it
4:21 Romania should be an island, it looks like a small fish in the Ocean, it would fit right in
A small fish in a big slavic sea
Transylvania NO romania ! So it doesn't look like a fish .!.
@@taylerszente6877 no, you are right, Romania shouldn't look like a fish, but you misspelled "Moldova" by saying "Transylvania"
Looks like Dory
Tayler Szente Tayler Szente why when majority of Transylvania is Romanian not minority? So it looks like fish
1:25 I was literally peeling an orange then
@@runator3250 eating Oranges is boomer now?
So jel
Greenland in Mercator Pregection : You're Weak!
Greenland in Reality : I'm You!
*[Puts Antarctica at the Equator]*
Dead Noah: *_THE SECOND GREAT FLOOD!!!_*
Dead noah: my grandson time has come
Ra Alf grandson.... more like great great great great great great great x10000000000 grandson
-Put Monaco on the North Pole-
Monaco may be quite large, they are the size of two thirds of Indonesia (the flag).
Petar Mitkov you mean the Vatican
@Lefty Bear Gaming it will be the size of the falklands
I tried it on true size and I forgot where it went
Bruh
It's so good to see a Brazilian guy doing such a good content! Congrats!
Ele é português não brasileiro
Continua sendo muito bom
@Antonio Ceccon is this a joke
@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg bro you dont even know what you're talking about. Usa for example is way more ravist than brazil, like black people and white people are literally the same in brazil they dont talk different they dont act different, not to mention most of brazilian people are brown so racism cant really exist here
little did they know he's portuguese
Buy an old fashionded globe model and use it when looking up countries. Boomers like me had those as a kid. It helps a lot for getting a grasp on relative country sizes.
Goggle maps will show it properly, make sure it is set to 'globe'..
I've always "kinda" understood this concept but you really helped me visualize it. This was excellent.
this video is so inaccurate on so many levels..
Mejia u right
@@miguelmejia4656 and how is that so
@@miguelmejia4656 Would you explain your statement?
Wait, are you Portuguese/Brazilian? The names of the countries in the map are in portuguese
Pedro Calais I bet he is Portuguese
His first flag video was about Portugal too
Sim, ele é tuga.
His first three videos of his channel are about Portugal, Spain and Brazil. So I think he's Portuguese.
@@rapnoc4158 ah
I’ve studied geography bc I was obsessed with it as a kid and I always thought the Mercator projection looked ugly lol
i love your videos!! thank you for being so informative.
3:55 Demark doesn’t exist
Actually isorrowproductions doesnt exist.
Its still there, its just hard to see
Play Coolmathgames
Circle tool
Well, Greenland is part of Denmark, so that adds to its size.
3:54 Romania represent! Be honest, you chose it because it has the shape of a fish. I don't blame ya, I also like that shape.
Yeah
Romania don't have a shape of a fish
@@pclsh9106 It actually does
I like that, it looks like the state of Paraná in Brazil
In 1914 it wasn't a fish, *how did this happen*
My kiddo and I had so much fun learning from this. Thank you!
3:08
Antartica: Am I a joke to you?
Are you Portuguese or Brazilian? The maps aren't in english, they are in portuguese
Oooh, I didn’t notice that.
He is Portuguese.
Countries that use portuguese not only brazil and portugal
Português Portugal
@@rnvyh5998 he is from Portugal u don't see any portuguese country talking like this👍 he is clearly PORTUGUESE FORM PORTUGAL
I live in Denmark and i remember our classrooms in elementary and primary school had this Mercator map 9-10 years ago. I don't know if we still have them, but wow few years ago when I found out about the true sizes of the areas I became forever pissed off especially since Greenland and Antarctica are ridiculous distorted
Really great information 👍 Thanks 😊
Thank u for talking about my country #Romania
a pe cimpoi a pe cimpoi
yes ily bro
sandu ciorba
#Bulgaria
Si eu sunt roman
*Brings Russia closer to Equator*
*Compares it to Mercator Projected USA*
but US lies close to the equator which means us size is somewhat accurate
Very nice content! Tks!
When I was in school few years ago, I looked at the map in the library. I was like "How on Earth is Greenland slightly bigger than an entire Africa?"
Mind blowing ! Keep rocking bro !
4:07 I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky
lol
1:58 I often use the true size of map website and it’s so fun to compare all the maps
This video Is really interesting, well fine and smart. Thank You for sharing.
Super informative, another great video!
*Damn boi he thicc*
Ye boi
good luck with the other 76 days you have to wait to change your name
EXTRA UEBER THICC
@@5TRICT9 me or him
@@kumorishumi2536 not u
If we put greenland in africa then
Every 60 seconds in greenland; a minute would pass
Very interesting! Thank you
Are you Portuguese? You always use Portuguese maps, and your pronunciation is really good
He is Portuguese because a Brazilian would make the "ç" sound while speaking
Fake chinese comment
Dragoncam13 what do you mean by ç sound?
@@josuegabriel8066 when you hear some Brazilians speak you keeo hearing a S sound(essentially the same thing)
@@Dragoncam13 It depends a lot from the region of Brazil you're talking about
5:20 as an ecuadorean this feels comforting, since in the maps we seem tiny, and although we're still a small country it puts things into a better perspective!
Wow, if Ecuador was a US state, it would be the 8th largest!
Loved the video.
I love geography, and I also think that the map we use should be replaced for a more realistic and accurate proportions.
Muito interessante ! Obrigado pelo vídeo 👍🏻
Always remember the USA includes the state of Alaska (and Hawaii) -- not just the "continental US" which has 48 states. Alaska is so far north that its true size is also distorted like Greenland. But still, that one state represents about 20% of the landmass of the USA.
Alaska and Hawai are not getting requisite attention should seek freedom
@@rups5330 Haha.. Only your opinion
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
When iam a child i think greenland is a continent and when my teacher didnt mention greenland as continent i really confused i say it was as big as africa. Well i was fooled
FUN FACT: you could fit EVERY country on earth and still have room to spare
a most interesting concept - thank you
I just noticed that when you use google maps (which uses the mercator projection), the same space that covers up 100 km in Antarctica becomes 500 km in Africa which sums up what you explained in the video. However I never noticed this (or never thought about it) until now
5:35 his voice I was like : O_o
Very informative video kudos to the creator of this content
If you superimposed Brazil over Europe with the westernmost point on London, the northernmost point would be in Sweden north of the Arctic Circle, the southernmost point would be near Cairo, Egypt, and the easternmost point would be in Kazakhstan.
Gerardus Mercator must have lived in Greenland...
2:06 But the white color on top of blue Russia color is already there! Why you coloring it white again?
He isn't actually colouring the flag. Most likely a computer doing it.
It's an animation
the first coat was a primer coat duh
If you are asking that, why are you not asking "How did he colour the entire map with only one pencil?"...
Come on guys, pretty sure it was a joke...
"Australia the country"
Proceeds to draw Oceania
The shortest route for a ship or aircraft is a great circle route. Great circles plot as straight lines on a globe or a gnomonic projection and as a curve on a Mercator projection. The straight line course on a Mercator projection is known as a Rhumb line. This is an approximation of a great circle and is close enough for short distances and at lower latitudes.
If you put Indonesia in Europe, it will stretch from London to Teheran, Iran......
Greeting from Indonesia👍👍👌
actually then i putted it in London it streched to a place in Kazakhstan called Amangeldy
it can also reach dubai.
Indonesia is even not that big ughh
@@RyanTaylor2000 it is kontol
I'm curious, do you guys move about the country much, or does everyone mostly stick to their own island? I'm guessing there must be a class dimension to it, the wealthy get about more, but what does that mean for sense of identity among the working class and villagers?
Great stuff and very interesting.
Being someone who lives in Texas I had no idea the UK was only about half the size of the state.
Fun fact: you guys are also bigger than Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe (After Russia of Course). Greetings from California.
really cool! i never new this!
Now I understand why Indonesian domestic flights are more expensive than international flights -_-
2 maps.
1 for sailing, one for land mass representation.
Is it really that hard these days?
You sound like you’re shivering or about to cry throughout this whole video lol
Don’t get me wrong, great content
Brazil is bigger than united states, not counting alaska.
If you remove 17% of the land sure
7:00 Brazil is so big!
Thank you so much for this I literally never understood how tf this worked. I thought when people say the countries are smaller than they really are, they they meant they’re smaller in land than what we think. Makes so much more sense now lol
This is actually one of the reasons why I say, "If you feel cramped in your country, move."
I personally like the Kavrayskiy VII projection. It's useful for displaying general information by country and its distortions aren't as prominent as Mercator. I suppose Kavrayskiy isn't as useful in terms of navigation though.
So helpful ❤
So basically your saying earth is a smol birb
Is it just me feeling deja vu of watching this video. Feels like I’ve seen this video before yet the date shows that this video is uploaded just yesterday
Wonderful channel.👍.
Very interesting. I'm sending this to my frienda. Thank 😊
Why is Nunavut connected to Greenland at 0:07
Alternate universe
You mean Baffin Island connected to the Canadian mainland, not Greenland. Baffin Island is a part of the Territory of Nunavut, just not connected to the mainland.
@Benosoar -- Wow, you know, I don't think it would be that hard to invade and conquer Greenland. Is it very well defended by the Danes? Doubtful. And then would Denmark launch a counter-offensive to get it back? Doubtful. So then Canada could have a new Arctic territory. Great idea!
@@markmh835 wooshh
@@iskandarazdi9092 😑😑😑😑
0:05 I haven't seen a map like this in 15+ years. Basically every map since the mid-2000's has been scaled correctly, and people know when it isn't.
The legend goes that Mercator had a small ding dong. So he invented a projection that would make it look bigger when drawing it at the high latitude where he lived.
The rest is history.
Loved this
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Romania is here!
Isn't PSD too?
Omg Imma cry after dis joke :(
fuck you
@@expiredmilk8740 DON'T BE F**KING RUDE!!!!
Ewwwwwwww a gacha noob GET OUT OF MY FACE EWWWWWWWW
I've been into the USA several times; and one of my cousins actually lives there now. I actually live in what used to be the European Union.
great video
( thanks for the video ).👍👍😍😍😍
I know Russia looks small but it’s actually so large that its most eastern point is closer to Mexico than it is to Moscow!
Me: "Thanks Geography Now ..... oh wait"
helpful and yet simple explanation
Some maps are very accurate for what they were designed to convey, but not what some people want to from them.
This is why Alaska seems bigger than India
@Fmono • 38 years ago Please go back to school and don't forget to graduate 😐😐😐😐😐
@Flabitition Efal Amen!!!!
@Flabitition Efal Anyone can say Amen even Atheist
@Flabitition Efal I was only agreeing with you on your comment about India
How come when you were going over us states you forgot Alaska? I was very curious to see its relative size to continental US
This was absolutely the best explanation video to me.
Fun fact greenland is much smaller than algeria ( algeria is 2.3m square kilometres while green land is just 2m )
*This forever changed how I perceive the world...*
Hey General Knowledge you forgot to put the link in the description!!
The only thing I took away from this is that many places are gigantic or at leads larger still than I expected them to be without distortion.
I like the Dymaxion map projection designed by Buckminster Fuller. The only advantage of the Mercator map projection is that latitude and longitude of different places can be easily compared, otherwise it distorts both size and direction. It is not obvious from the Mercator projection that the shortest path between Chicago and Moscow would pass over the Arctic Ocean rather than the north Atlantic.
0:04 What's that peninsula next to Florida, I've never seen it on any other map?
that one dude that comment stuff maybe Louisiana but you could barely tell on a world map...
Yep Louisiana
Whoever drew this map did it with a pencil in his arse
It's Jeffrey Epstein's "Fuck peninsula."
Eae mano, eu não sabia que você era de portugal ou do brasil, massa saber que temos pessoas tão boas no ingles que demorei para perceber que você era de origem portuguesa.
Português mas vive na Inglaterra pelo sotaque
Ele n e brasileiro ou português acho
@@pclsh9106 é português ele disse num dos primeiros vídeos
Thank you for the tutorial for mapping on mobile
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
You are SPOT ON!
Greenland is land painted with green