Yes and then you exclude Uk, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway, Many of the former Yugoslavian countries. Atleast they should be a part of Europe. There is always a discussion to have around Turkey and Russia. But generally parts of them are seen to be Europe.
@@HittesMittes I was reading about this the other day. Out of the US, most are European (British, German, Irish), but there are also many African Americans in the southern states due to the history of slavery. There is the Mexican-American belt of the US around the southwest. The people are primarily Mexican in this region but there are also pockets of Spaniards and Navajo speaking native Americans. (Spaniards are not classified as white by American law for some reason).
Yap, but you can not blame the reaction for that. The original videocreaotor should know that though (at minimum). Probably EU population, but to start of the video with such a huge fault just made everything laughable. He has country in the regions he covers that is not a part of EU. So dumb.
Yes, Europe have way more people than North America. @5:25, yeah, that's the reason Norway gets almost 100% of it's electricity from Hydro and Sweden roughly 50%.
Im living in North Rhine Westphalia, which is pretty much in the middle of the blue banana. I think most of it is due to the Rhine. It provides fresh water and enables logistics to whoever lives next to it. We have so much heavy industries along the Rhine and it all flows down to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which has the biggest harbour in europe (no surprise).
With the link for Netherlands to London who make sens. Do you feel conected to London area? An other question do you feel more conected to Berlin or Paris (who are outside) than London or Milan? You could talk about cuturaly, feeling or transport.
There's that, yes. But also resource and also history going back to when the Frankish empire was split up into three. It just caused everyones attention to be concentrated there, all the borders and cross border trade, investments involving various wars and supplying the various militaries, etc, etc... Burgundy... You name it...
About the Scandinavian one, the one I'm most familliar with as someone living in Sweden, I'm kind of OK with leaving Stockholm out of that. There are ofc good connections between Stockholm and Oslo/Gothenburg/Kopenhagen and by extension northern Germany, but as a semi-unified region I don't see Stockholm in there. Gothenburg is crucial since it's the largest port on the Scandinavian peninsula and something like 1/3rd of all trade in Scandinavia goes through there. The area has the Skagerak and Kattegat in common, the north sea access and so on. I'd actually rather include Stockholm in an area stretching around the Finnish and Baltic coasts (and before the war, Russian coast as well). It takes roughly the same time (about 45 minutes) to take an airplane to Gothenburg or Åbo/Turku in Finland from Stockholm. Large parts of Southern Finland speaks (or at least understands) Swedish (in the western most parts it's the majority language) and one out of every 10 people in Stockholm County is either Finnish or a child of a Finnish immigrant (myself included) and the interconnectedness (?) goes back at least a millenia.
20:17 - I'm Bulgarian - the Balkans have not been united since the Ottomans left and even back then, they were mostly isolated pockets of valleys between mountains with only a few trade routes. I think your Appalachia is a good comparison, including all the social stereotypes stemming from under development. The Balkan population ranges anywhere between 50 and 70 mln depending on what parts of Turkey and Romania are included. There is very little infrastructure connecting the countries as well. Some advancements have been made since some countries joined the EU, but definitely nothing compared to the other listed regions. Even this coastal thing with the purple banana is really just a wiki article. Especially since only Bulgaria and Romania are in the EU, but still not fully integrated in Schengen(land border still exists). Bulgaria's own regions still aren't well connected - we still have no complete a highway(your equivalent of interstate) connecting Sofia and Varna north of the Balkan mountain range, while railways are notoriously slow and derelict. Western Balkans are probably even worse, as they are mostly not in the EU so borders and tariffs between them exist. That's why Croatia and Slovenia were counted in the other region - they are now better integrated with Italy then they are with Serbia or Bosnia. And in the same way as Bulgria's regions, during Yugoslavia, their republics weren't all that well connected to each other either. Especially the mountainous parts down south - Southern Serbia(including Kosovo), Montenegro and Macedonia were sort of isolated, hence they are the poorest. Not to mention Albania who is known for it's isolationism. Which brings us to Greece who had to deal with all that nonsense north of them by becoming a nautical nation and hence acts more like an Island than part of the peninsula. They own one of the biggest fleets of merchant ships in the world, so they are better connected to the rest of the world than to it's northern neighbors.
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2:11 It depends on your definition of "Europe". But yes, Europe has about 750 millions. But that includes European parts of countries in multiple continents like Russia, Turkey and Georgia. All countries both in Europe and Asia. 5:05 Actually, it's not just about resources. It's traces its routes back all the way to the Frankish empire being split in three.
Europe have a population of 745,173,774 that’s 9.4% percent of world population while North America have a population of 595,783,465 and that’s 7.5% of the world population
A mediterranean sea is, in oceanography, a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of water with outer oceans and whose water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than by winds or tides. It means that it is calmer, clearer and from the distance it looks light blue. Adriatic is warmer and calmer then the rest of it.
Going on a trip to europe and Going to Vienna/Bratislava/Budapest is great. The train between them are great, cheap and dont take very long at all. All really nice places.
Europe has about 750 mio ppl. US has between 340-350 mio people. North America as continent is not just the US but also Canada , Mexico and 'Central America' (Guatemala, Haiti, Panama, Dominican Republic Cuba ...) which all together have +/- 590 mio ...
9:35 Yes ports are hugely important for trade. And strategically for military power via a strong navy. This has always been Russia's problem. It's ironic that the world's largest country with thousands of miles of coastline lacks a port that has easy access to the ocean and is open all year round. All it's ports are either ice bound in winter and/or in seas where access to the ocean is controlled by tight points controlled by other nations such as the Dardanelles between the Black sea and the Med. The Baltic ports are often ice bound and access to the Baltic is controlled by Denmark and Sweden. It's port of Kalingrad is cut off from the rest of Russia. It's eastern ports are also icebound. Russia's foreign policy has always been dictated by this. e.g. i) Russia annexed Crimea to get the naval port at Sevastapol. which in turn gives access to the Black sea, from there to the Med and from there to the Atlantic. However this still relies on good relations with Turkey hence: ii) Russia giving military support to the regime in Syria where they have a huge naval base which gives them direct access into the Med bypassing the Dardanelles iii) Kalingrad is Russia's main port in the Baltic. It's in the Kalingrad enclave, a small bit of coast cut off from the rest of Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine it's access to this has been restricted increasing tensions. iv) The Baltic States and now Finland and Sweden all joining NATO is seriously bad news for Russia as it's Baltic fleet is now hemmed in and effectively port bound. The flip side of this is that it increases the likelyhood of Russia becoming desperate enough to invade the Baltic states to regain useable ports on the Baltic coast. Of course since NATO countries are obliged to come to the defense of other members if Putin did this it would trigger WWIII. It would be a massive gamble that the other NATO countries would leave the Baltic states to their fate to avoid this, plus the war in Ukraine has seriously weakened the Russian military and shown it isn't in great condition. Unfortunately Putin is a psychopath and one of there traits is risk taking . Another is believing they are cleverer than everyone else. They also don't react well when thwarted from getting what they want. If Trump (another psychopath) wins the next US election and pulls the US out of NATO as he's threatened the chances of Putin taking this risk will increase enormously. You can bet Putin is doing all he can to help Trump win. Putin has strong links with the far right throughout the western world. Why? Well when he was in the KGB he was head of the German section and his favourite strategy was to stir up the far right to cause chaos and division in West Germany. Since Putin came to power he's used this strategy in every western nation. The rise of the far right all round Europe and in the US is directly down to Putin whos provided funds, set up social media sites spewing propagnada supporting the far right and sending in agent provocateurs, etc. For example GCHQ confirmed over 400 social media sites spewing pro Brexit propaganda were set up by Russia, the funds for the leave campaign almost certainly came from Russia, Russia made loads of donations to the Tory party, etc. It's a very old strategy. Stir up rebellion/division/chaos in your enemy country and it weakens them, plus distracts them from what you're doing. Putin supported Trump because he knew he'd cause chaos and weaken the US, he supported Brexit to weaken the US's strongest ally and to weaken the EU and therefore NATO. He supported Le Penne in France for the same reason. And many others such as Orban in Hungary and the far right in Poland, etc. Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine when the chaos from Trump and Brexit had weakened the US and UK, the main military forces in NATO. That's not a coincidence, it was the plan all along. Trump, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Le Penne, etc are all useful idiots for Putin. Agents of chaos even if it's unwittingly. Interestingly Trump, Johnson and Orban, like Putin, are narcissistic psychopaths and the others display a lot of the traits. If Trump wins the election it's not just bad news for the US, , it's potentially a disaster for NATO, Europe andthe world. Not to mention democracy.
To Europeans, the Mediterranean is warm. Compared to the Atlantic, it's similar but maybe slightly colder (less Gulf Stream influence), at least according to the maps I just saw. Those maps also showed it to be rather uniform in temperature but that might just be due to lack of resolution. Warmer in the West and South, colder in the East and North, so basically like Europe in general.
you should swim at the southern tip of Portugal located before the Strait of Gibraltar. And in general, the Atlantic coast of Europe is much colder than the entire coast of the Mediterranean.
When you live in France and you can compare it to the Manche, yes, the Mediterranean sea is warm. It's getting even warmer due to climate change. Last summer the water hit record average temperatures in july, around 28°C I think. But at its warmest it can get over 30. The year round average is about 20°C which is already really warm. The Atlantic around these latitudes is colder than that
Germany is due to its geographical interface position AND its history as at first part of the Frankish Empire then also being the core of the Holy Roman Empire basically the dominant heard of Europe. It is not only part of two mega regions (the biggest one, the Blue Banana and the Northern String) but also in the center of the two others: the Green Banana and The Gulf of Finland. Both were directly and indirectly connected to the HRE. The 'Blue Banana' IS basically 1:1 the left side of the Holy Roman Empire (except UK). The 'String' AND the 'Gulf of Finland' were to a huge amount the Northern part. Directly or indirectly. Keep in mind that not just the Teutonic Order/Prussia stretched from the Baltics over Poland to Germany but also due to that the most important medieval maritime trade empire (the Hanseatic League) connected all this regions. The 'Guld of Finland' represents exactly the end hubs of the Hanseatic League in this direction: those cities in Finland, Russia (Novgorod !), the Baltics over Poland to Germany (Netherlands, Belgium were also part of the HRE at that time). You had three super trade highways at that time: Hanseatic League in the North. On the other side of the HRE also like in the North by more independent cities created Mediterranean Sea Empires (especially Venice) and powerful cities (Milano, Ravenna, Florence etc.). And they were connected via the Land Superhighway in combination with especially the Rhein/Rhine River - which connected both hubs. The 'Green Banana' was also partly part of the HRE or influenced by it: it was surrounded in the North by the Hanseatic League SubEmpire (= also Teutonic Knights/Prussia), in the West the core of the HRE (or even part like Bohemia/Czech or the many German communities/cities all over the place) and with Austria till Northern Italy again part of it. There is a reason why in the former HRE are most cities, most castles, the highest population density in Europe (with different mega regions), most of the industry, all Rainessances (!) happened here (already before under the Frankish Empire the first Karolingian ones) and also today is Germany due to its center interface location and the huge population (the one of Germany and neighbors) the country with most roads, tracks/trains, internet - and fluctuation. Because most have it as destination or have to cross it - which is why there is since the raising globalization since the 21. century also created more pressure on the infrastructure (also Deutsche Bahn) ... apart from that. Germany is also part of the Great Northern Plane, the flatland which stretches from Russia, Ukraine, Poland over to Germany (Northern and partly Central) to the Netherlands/Beligum into France. Thats also the 'bread basket' region of Europe and under this focus: also the most populated one in Europe ...
This is a weird stretch. I can guarantee you that there are plenty of secluded areas for camping in those "bananas". It seems more like they're defining regions with high speed rail connecting them.
yep, over 85% of Russia lives in the European side (about 110 mio of the likely around 140 mio (Russia tunes their ppl number up to about 145 mio similar to what China did. But those numbers existed already in the 90ties - and since then there was a steady demographical decline, for Russia even more now due to the war and also migration out). One has also to keep in mind that about 65% of Russia is almost unavailable perma frost region. Thats also the reason why the Huns and Mongols had similar big empires. On that side was no one but every occupation of anyway sparsely populated central Asian regions gave optically a huge landmass at the North side as 'free' addition. And most of Europe was always interested and more focused on the core parts (similar to the Greeks/Romans before but they had the gravitation center around the Mediterrainian Sea - while after them the center moved to Central Europe (where btw. was a birth center of four cultures already before: Proto-Germanic (Northern Germany), Proto-Celtic (Southern Germany/Austria (Hallstatt), Proto-Italic (Hungary) and Proto -Slavic (Poland and East).... Hitler was one who noticed that it is a bit stupid to focus and fight permanently for relatively small regions in the core of Europe while you had in the East much more huge landmasses 'left' (apart from getting back former German territories this was an additional aspect why he wanted go East: more and massive 'Lebensraum'). Not exactly the same but about the same thing were also the attacks by the Huns, Mongols etc...they lived in huge territories with not much ppl but wanted be part and plunder the more dense 'core' regions of the more urbanized civilizations/empires (where also most wealth was and still is) ....
Not many people live in the Balkans, about 55 million, but that includes the European part of Turkey, without that it's 40 million, meanwhile Turkey has a population over double that at 85 million.
I think it would be weird to exclude Paris in these. 12 million people live in the extended Paris area, that's nearly a fifth of the french population. That's wayyy more than the total of french people living in the golden belt. Germany is the largest population center in Europe so obviously the banana should cover most of it, but a small extension for Paris makes sense imo.
These areas don't make sense because they ignore the mountain ranges. A trip across the Alps is not a matter of tens of minutes. So putting Bavaria and Veneto in the same category is silly. Just like combining Veneto and Pomeranian Voivodeship, which are a day apart if you are traveling by land.
It was probably a bigger obstacle in the past. But even in the bronze age there was a lot of trade across the Alps... Probably the stone age too. And now we have tunnels.
@@Luredreier Of course, now the distances are shorter than in the past, but the clusters were formed on the idea of a huge cultural and product exchange in the area. How many Bavarians shop in northern Italian eshops or simply get in the car and go to dinner in Milan or Venice and vice versa. Similarly, the green area in this just triangle of Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest is really connected, but it also includes Warsaw, which is 6 hours away from this tri-city.
@@Dqtube It's not about people going to dinner there. But the reality is that for southern Germany the closest access to the open sea and therefore the international markets where actually northern Italy. Sure there where rivers going out too, but those might be unavailable for various reasons like conflicts for instance (or lack of water). The Mediterranean sea wasn't going anywhere. This has been true since the stone ages. Also, the Mediterranean sea was the shortest path towards civilizations, like the Greeks, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Roman empire etc that was ahead technologically in the beginning of this period. Kick-starting the trade. Heck, if you want to go back far enough even the Minoans where ahead technologically and where a major naval and trade power. While the Atlantic ocean was still dangerous for early boat technology and only had access to some markeds like the Nordic bronze age culture that turned into the Germanic cultures, that survived the bronze age collapse, but that still was behind technologically from the others mentioned. Also, there's evidence of trade between the Etruscans and other cultures predating them and the Nordics through the Alps going way, way back in time. Like it or not the evidences proves you wrong, despite the Alps there's *always* been significant trade between northern Italy and what's today southern Germany. In part because the path from Italian harbours crossing the Alps and then sailing down towards what's today the Netherlands was too big of a shortcut to ignore for goods going north compared to going all the way around what's today Spain and into the Atlantic ocean. That shortcut has never been irrelevant, and the tunnels just made it way, way better.
Unfortunately, there are hardly any videos here about the European waterway network. But I found at least one that is less than 4 minutes, not very long and at least contains a map... ruclips.net/video/INXgnXLPZic/видео.html
It's really a shame that it was voiced by ia. The Black Sea is located near Greece and Turkey. In the North is the Baltic Sea. From Norway Demarken. To Saint Petersburg.
Mostly these are just lines drawn round large concentrations of population that happen to be near one another. They are not Megalopolis's, they are not coherent interconnected mega-cities. Some are not even that Mega, 7 million really? That's less people than Greater London. It isn't just the water that disconnects the English population hub, it runs up the centre of the country, with the Eastern Counties facing the North Sea relatively thinly populated, its most densely populated coast facing France, which is not in any banana. Oh and the Alps would seem to be in the way of Northern Italy.
He seems very confused. That is not the population of Europe, I think it is EU. Europe has around 750 million and is bigger in population than north america and south america (not combined of course) It is very basic knowledge and to fail at that when you discuss population it kind of is a big misstake. He should correct his video and I am talking about the original video not the comments..
You are rigth for meditearean see, it provide a warmer climat. The hot came from north affrica make south of spain, italy and nearly all greece too hot. the climat and the transport concetion can explain the differeces in devolement for this regions. As for Canada i seen a vido that explain 85% of population live less than 50 Km from USA and more than 50% live under the frontier line with US. Saint Laurant and big lacks are the best climat to live in canada.
If you could stop saying that Croatia blocks Bosnia that would be great. Ottomans took our land during 600 year war, where we didn't want to convert to Islam, and gave it to their vasal state of Bosnia. Modern Croatia and Bosnia have great relations. We are not the guy who stole from them in this story. We even gave them port with infrastructure to Bosnian mainland so they are not landlocked country. Fun fact: During Bosnian wars after fall of Yugoslavia Croatian and Bosnian forces fight on the same side VS Serbia. But then suddenly Croatians start taking down Islamic institutions and we start fighting each other. Genocides happen all over the place. We finally got back on the same side after countless mediation by the Clinton administration. We are on the same side since. Good guy US.
1:57 No idea why he said Europe, that's the population of the EU not Europe
That itself wouldn't make sense as various bananas cross the UK, Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.
Yes and then you exclude Uk, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway, Many of the former Yugoslavian countries. Atleast they should be a part of Europe. There is always a discussion to have around Turkey and Russia. But generally parts of them are seen to be Europe.
@@maxisussex Yes it is absurd beyond belief. And he starts the video about population centres with a huuuuge error on population.
Europe has way more 600 North America and Europe 750 million
Russians are not European ;-)
And most of America's population is European heritage
@@williambranch4283 Most of them are. What else are they.
@@HittesMittes N America? Native, African and E Asian mostly.
@@HittesMittes I was reading about this the other day. Out of the US, most are European (British, German, Irish), but there are also many African Americans in the southern states due to the history of slavery. There is the Mexican-American belt of the US around the southwest. The people are primarily Mexican in this region but there are also pockets of Spaniards and Navajo speaking native Americans. (Spaniards are not classified as white by American law for some reason).
Excuse me. Population in all North America is in 2016 579 million and the population in all of Europe is 746 million in 2018
Yap, but you can not blame the reaction for that. The original videocreaotor should know that though (at minimum). Probably EU population, but to start of the video with such a huge fault just made everything laughable. He has country in the regions he covers that is not a part of EU. So dumb.
Yes, Europe have way more people than North America.
@5:25, yeah, that's the reason Norway gets almost 100% of it's electricity from Hydro and Sweden roughly 50%.
Im living in North Rhine Westphalia, which is pretty much in the middle of the blue banana. I think most of it is due to the Rhine. It provides fresh water and enables logistics to whoever lives next to it. We have so much heavy industries along the Rhine and it all flows down to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which has the biggest harbour in europe (no surprise).
With the link for Netherlands to London who make sens. Do you feel conected to London area?
An other question do you feel more conected to Berlin or Paris (who are outside) than London or Milan? You could talk about cuturaly, feeling or transport.
There's that, yes.
But also resource and also history going back to when the Frankish empire was split up into three.
It just caused everyones attention to be concentrated there, all the borders and cross border trade, investments involving various wars and supplying the various militaries, etc, etc...
Burgundy...
You name it...
About the Scandinavian one, the one I'm most familliar with as someone living in Sweden, I'm kind of OK with leaving Stockholm out of that. There are ofc good connections between Stockholm and Oslo/Gothenburg/Kopenhagen and by extension northern Germany, but as a semi-unified region I don't see Stockholm in there. Gothenburg is crucial since it's the largest port on the Scandinavian peninsula and something like 1/3rd of all trade in Scandinavia goes through there. The area has the Skagerak and Kattegat in common, the north sea access and so on.
I'd actually rather include Stockholm in an area stretching around the Finnish and Baltic coasts (and before the war, Russian coast as well). It takes roughly the same time (about 45 minutes) to take an airplane to Gothenburg or Åbo/Turku in Finland from Stockholm. Large parts of Southern Finland speaks (or at least understands) Swedish (in the western most parts it's the majority language) and one out of every 10 people in Stockholm County is either Finnish or a child of a Finnish immigrant (myself included) and the interconnectedness (?) goes back at least a millenia.
So basically, the former glorious austro-hungarian monarchy is now called as "green pickle".
In Britain, we have town planning regulations to maintain Green Belts around urban areas, so that they don't join up to become a Megalopolis.
20:17 - I'm Bulgarian - the Balkans have not been united since the Ottomans left and even back then, they were mostly isolated pockets of valleys between mountains with only a few trade routes. I think your Appalachia is a good comparison, including all the social stereotypes stemming from under development. The Balkan population ranges anywhere between 50 and 70 mln depending on what parts of Turkey and Romania are included.
There is very little infrastructure connecting the countries as well. Some advancements have been made since some countries joined the EU, but definitely nothing compared to the other listed regions. Even this coastal thing with the purple banana is really just a wiki article. Especially since only Bulgaria and Romania are in the EU, but still not fully integrated in Schengen(land border still exists). Bulgaria's own regions still aren't well connected - we still have no complete a highway(your equivalent of interstate) connecting Sofia and Varna north of the Balkan mountain range, while railways are notoriously slow and derelict. Western Balkans are probably even worse, as they are mostly not in the EU so borders and tariffs between them exist. That's why Croatia and Slovenia were counted in the other region - they are now better integrated with Italy then they are with Serbia or Bosnia. And in the same way as Bulgria's regions, during Yugoslavia, their republics weren't all that well connected to each other either. Especially the mountainous parts down south - Southern Serbia(including Kosovo), Montenegro and Macedonia were sort of isolated, hence they are the poorest. Not to mention Albania who is known for it's isolationism. Which brings us to Greece who had to deal with all that nonsense north of them by becoming a nautical nation and hence acts more like an Island than part of the peninsula. They own one of the biggest fleets of merchant ships in the world, so they are better connected to the rest of the world than to it's northern neighbors.
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2:11
It depends on your definition of "Europe".
But yes, Europe has about 750 millions.
But that includes European parts of countries in multiple continents like Russia, Turkey and Georgia.
All countries both in Europe and Asia.
5:05
Actually, it's not just about resources.
It's traces its routes back all the way to the Frankish empire being split in three.
The sea temperature in the Med is usually much warmer than the Atlantic coast...the Med in general can be described as the 'hot' part of Europe.
North America has a population of appriximately 600 million. Europe has about 745 million.
Europe have a population of 745,173,774 that’s 9.4% percent of world population while North America have a population of 595,783,465 and that’s 7.5% of the world population
A mediterranean sea is, in oceanography, a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of water with outer oceans and whose water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than by winds or tides. It means that it is calmer, clearer and from the distance it looks light blue. Adriatic is warmer and calmer then the rest of it.
Going on a trip to europe and Going to Vienna/Bratislava/Budapest is great. The train between them are great, cheap and dont take very long at all. All really nice places.
Europe has about 750 mio ppl. US has between 340-350 mio people. North America as continent is not just the US but also Canada , Mexico and 'Central America' (Guatemala, Haiti, Panama, Dominican Republic Cuba ...) which all together have +/- 590 mio ...
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9:35 Yes ports are hugely important for trade. And strategically for military power via a strong navy.
This has always been Russia's problem. It's ironic that the world's largest country with thousands of miles of coastline lacks a port that has easy access to the ocean and is open all year round.
All it's ports are either ice bound in winter and/or in seas where access to the ocean is controlled by tight points controlled by other nations such as the Dardanelles between the Black sea and the Med. The Baltic ports are often ice bound and access to the Baltic is controlled by Denmark and Sweden. It's port of Kalingrad is cut off from the rest of Russia. It's eastern ports are also icebound. Russia's foreign policy has always been dictated by this. e.g.
i) Russia annexed Crimea to get the naval port at Sevastapol. which in turn gives access to the Black sea, from there to the Med and from there to the Atlantic. However this still relies on good relations with Turkey hence:
ii) Russia giving military support to the regime in Syria where they have a huge naval base which gives them direct access into the Med bypassing the Dardanelles
iii) Kalingrad is Russia's main port in the Baltic. It's in the Kalingrad enclave, a small bit of coast cut off from the rest of Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine it's access to this has been restricted increasing tensions.
iv) The Baltic States and now Finland and Sweden all joining NATO is seriously bad news for Russia as it's Baltic fleet is now hemmed in and effectively port bound. The flip side of this is that it increases the likelyhood of Russia becoming desperate enough to invade the Baltic states to regain useable ports on the Baltic coast.
Of course since NATO countries are obliged to come to the defense of other members if Putin did this it would trigger WWIII. It would be a massive gamble that the other NATO countries would leave the Baltic states to their fate to avoid this, plus the war in Ukraine has seriously weakened the Russian military and shown it isn't in great condition.
Unfortunately Putin is a psychopath and one of there traits is risk taking . Another is believing they are cleverer than everyone else. They also don't react well when thwarted from getting what they want.
If Trump (another psychopath) wins the next US election and pulls the US out of NATO as he's threatened the chances of Putin taking this risk will increase enormously. You can bet Putin is doing all he can to help Trump win.
Putin has strong links with the far right throughout the western world. Why? Well when he was in the KGB he was head of the German section and his favourite strategy was to stir up the far right to cause chaos and division in West Germany.
Since Putin came to power he's used this strategy in every western nation. The rise of the far right all round Europe and in the US is directly down to Putin whos provided funds, set up social media sites spewing propagnada supporting the far right and sending in agent provocateurs, etc.
For example GCHQ confirmed over 400 social media sites spewing pro Brexit propaganda were set up by Russia, the funds for the leave campaign almost certainly came from Russia, Russia made loads of donations to the Tory party, etc.
It's a very old strategy. Stir up rebellion/division/chaos in your enemy country and it weakens them, plus distracts them from what you're doing. Putin supported Trump because he knew he'd cause chaos and weaken the US, he supported Brexit to weaken the US's strongest ally and to weaken the EU and therefore NATO. He supported Le Penne in France for the same reason. And many others such as Orban in Hungary and the far right in Poland, etc.
Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine when the chaos from Trump and Brexit had weakened the US and UK, the main military forces in NATO. That's not a coincidence, it was the plan all along.
Trump, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Le Penne, etc are all useful idiots for Putin. Agents of chaos even if it's unwittingly. Interestingly Trump, Johnson and Orban, like Putin, are narcissistic psychopaths and the others display a lot of the traits.
If Trump wins the election it's not just bad news for the US, , it's potentially a disaster for NATO, Europe andthe world. Not to mention democracy.
To Europeans, the Mediterranean is warm. Compared to the Atlantic, it's similar but maybe slightly colder (less Gulf Stream influence), at least according to the maps I just saw.
Those maps also showed it to be rather uniform in temperature but that might just be due to lack of resolution. Warmer in the West and South, colder in the East and North, so basically like Europe in general.
you should swim at the southern tip of Portugal located before the Strait of Gibraltar. And in general, the Atlantic coast of Europe is much colder than the entire coast of the Mediterranean.
When you live in France and you can compare it to the Manche, yes, the Mediterranean sea is warm. It's getting even warmer due to climate change. Last summer the water hit record average temperatures in july, around 28°C I think. But at its warmest it can get over 30. The year round average is about 20°C which is already really warm. The Atlantic around these latitudes is colder than that
Germany is due to its geographical interface position AND its history as at first part of the Frankish Empire then also being the core of the Holy Roman Empire basically the dominant heard of Europe. It is not only part of two mega regions (the biggest one, the Blue Banana and the Northern String) but also in the center of the two others: the Green Banana and The Gulf of Finland. Both were directly and indirectly connected to the HRE. The 'Blue Banana' IS basically 1:1 the left side of the Holy Roman Empire (except UK). The 'String' AND the 'Gulf of Finland' were to a huge amount the Northern part. Directly or indirectly. Keep in mind that not just the Teutonic Order/Prussia stretched from the Baltics over Poland to Germany but also due to that the most important medieval maritime trade empire (the Hanseatic League) connected all this regions. The 'Guld of Finland' represents exactly the end hubs of the Hanseatic League in this direction: those cities in Finland, Russia (Novgorod !), the Baltics over Poland to Germany (Netherlands, Belgium were also part of the HRE at that time). You had three super trade highways at that time: Hanseatic League in the North. On the other side of the HRE also like in the North by more independent cities created Mediterranean Sea Empires (especially Venice) and powerful cities (Milano, Ravenna, Florence etc.). And they were connected via the Land Superhighway in combination with especially the Rhein/Rhine River - which connected both hubs. The 'Green Banana' was also partly part of the HRE or influenced by it: it was surrounded in the North by the Hanseatic League SubEmpire (= also Teutonic Knights/Prussia), in the West the core of the HRE (or even part like Bohemia/Czech or the many German communities/cities all over the place) and with Austria till Northern Italy again part of it. There is a reason why in the former HRE are most cities, most castles, the highest population density in Europe (with different mega regions), most of the industry, all Rainessances (!) happened here (already before under the Frankish Empire the first Karolingian ones) and also today is Germany due to its center interface location and the huge population (the one of Germany and neighbors) the country with most roads, tracks/trains, internet - and fluctuation. Because most have it as destination or have to cross it - which is why there is since the raising globalization since the 21. century also created more pressure on the infrastructure (also Deutsche Bahn) ... apart from that. Germany is also part of the Great Northern Plane, the flatland which stretches from Russia, Ukraine, Poland over to Germany (Northern and partly Central) to the Netherlands/Beligum into France. Thats also the 'bread basket' region of Europe and under this focus: also the most populated one in Europe ...
This is a weird stretch. I can guarantee you that there are plenty of secluded areas for camping in those "bananas". It seems more like they're defining regions with high speed rail connecting them.
yep, over 85% of Russia lives in the European side (about 110 mio of the likely around 140 mio (Russia tunes their ppl number up to about 145 mio similar to what China did. But those numbers existed already in the 90ties - and since then there was a steady demographical decline, for Russia even more now due to the war and also migration out). One has also to keep in mind that about 65% of Russia is almost unavailable perma frost region. Thats also the reason why the Huns and Mongols had similar big empires. On that side was no one but every occupation of anyway sparsely populated central Asian regions gave optically a huge landmass at the North side as 'free' addition. And most of Europe was always interested and more focused on the core parts (similar to the Greeks/Romans before but they had the gravitation center around the Mediterrainian Sea - while after them the center moved to Central Europe (where btw. was a birth center of four cultures already before: Proto-Germanic (Northern Germany), Proto-Celtic (Southern Germany/Austria (Hallstatt), Proto-Italic (Hungary) and Proto -Slavic (Poland and East).... Hitler was one who noticed that it is a bit stupid to focus and fight permanently for relatively small regions in the core of Europe while you had in the East much more huge landmasses 'left' (apart from getting back former German territories this was an additional aspect why he wanted go East: more and massive 'Lebensraum'). Not exactly the same but about the same thing were also the attacks by the Huns, Mongols etc...they lived in huge territories with not much ppl but wanted be part and plunder the more dense 'core' regions of the more urbanized civilizations/empires (where also most wealth was and still is) ....
Not many people live in the Balkans, about 55 million, but that includes the European part of Turkey, without that it's 40 million, meanwhile Turkey has a population over double that at 85 million.
Canada has also a GIGANTIC hole in the middle. Does that count?
I think it would be weird to exclude Paris in these. 12 million people live in the extended Paris area, that's nearly a fifth of the french population. That's wayyy more than the total of french people living in the golden belt. Germany is the largest population center in Europe so obviously the banana should cover most of it, but a small extension for Paris makes sense imo.
These areas don't make sense because they ignore the mountain ranges. A trip across the Alps is not a matter of tens of minutes. So putting Bavaria and Veneto in the same category is silly. Just like combining Veneto and Pomeranian Voivodeship, which are a day apart if you are traveling by land.
It was probably a bigger obstacle in the past.
But even in the bronze age there was a lot of trade across the Alps...
Probably the stone age too.
And now we have tunnels.
@@Luredreier Of course, now the distances are shorter than in the past, but the clusters were formed on the idea of a huge cultural and product exchange in the area. How many Bavarians shop in northern Italian eshops or simply get in the car and go to dinner in Milan or Venice and vice versa. Similarly, the green area in this just triangle of Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest is really connected, but it also includes Warsaw, which is 6 hours away from this tri-city.
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It's not about people going to dinner there.
But the reality is that for southern Germany the closest access to the open sea and therefore the international markets where actually northern Italy.
Sure there where rivers going out too, but those might be unavailable for various reasons like conflicts for instance (or lack of water).
The Mediterranean sea wasn't going anywhere.
This has been true since the stone ages.
Also, the Mediterranean sea was the shortest path towards civilizations, like the Greeks, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Roman empire etc that was ahead technologically in the beginning of this period.
Kick-starting the trade.
Heck, if you want to go back far enough even the Minoans where ahead technologically and where a major naval and trade power.
While the Atlantic ocean was still dangerous for early boat technology and only had access to some markeds like the Nordic bronze age culture that turned into the Germanic cultures, that survived the bronze age collapse, but that still was behind technologically from the others mentioned.
Also, there's evidence of trade between the Etruscans and other cultures predating them and the Nordics through the Alps going way, way back in time.
Like it or not the evidences proves you wrong, despite the Alps there's *always* been significant trade between northern Italy and what's today southern Germany.
In part because the path from Italian harbours crossing the Alps and then sailing down towards what's today the Netherlands was too big of a shortcut to ignore for goods going north compared to going all the way around what's today Spain and into the Atlantic ocean.
That shortcut has never been irrelevant, and the tunnels just made it way, way better.
These bananas leave aside large urban areas with millions inhabitants, e.g. Paris and Rome...
How dare he mention Narbonne & Nimes and forget to mention Avignon, Lyon and Grenoble in the yellow belt! ahah
Canada has 40 Million people, more than 10% of the US population.
Close but no cigar, it's 39 million.
@@hellmalmYes. But the USA only has 332 million, unlike Conor's claim of 350 million.
@@alicemilne1444 True.
The population of Canada is 40 million.
A very silly video - planned to confuse north Americans rather than elucidate.
Strange that they did not include Stockholm/Eastern Sweden in the Gulf of Finland?
Unfortunately, there are hardly any videos here about the European waterway network. But I found at least one that is less than 4 minutes, not very long and at least contains a map...
ruclips.net/video/INXgnXLPZic/видео.html
Megalopoleis, Connor - that's the plural.
It's really a shame that it was voiced by ia. The Black Sea is located near Greece and Turkey. In the North is the Baltic Sea. From Norway Demarken. To Saint Petersburg.
Mostly these are just lines drawn round large concentrations of population that happen to be near one another. They are not Megalopolis's, they are not coherent interconnected mega-cities. Some are not even that Mega, 7 million really? That's less people than Greater London. It isn't just the water that disconnects the English population hub, it runs up the centre of the country, with the Eastern Counties facing the North Sea relatively thinly populated, its most densely populated coast facing France, which is not in any banana. Oh and the Alps would seem to be in the way of Northern Italy.
Europe as a continent has over 700m people....EU what this video references to has 448m people....had just over 500m before Brexsh.....t
Why was Graz omitted in the green banana? I mean it's the same size as Ljubljana.
I used to live there, and my day is now ruined!
He seems very confused. That is not the population of Europe, I think it is EU. Europe has around 750 million and is bigger in population than north america and south america (not combined of course) It is very basic knowledge and to fail at that when you discuss population it kind of is a big misstake. He should correct his video and I am talking about the original video not the comments..
You are rigth for meditearean see, it provide a warmer climat. The hot came from north affrica make south of spain, italy and nearly all greece too hot. the climat and the transport concetion can explain the differeces in devolement for this regions. As for Canada i seen a vido that explain 85% of population live less than 50 Km from USA and more than 50% live under the frontier line with US. Saint Laurant and big lacks are the best climat to live in canada.
If you could stop saying that Croatia blocks Bosnia that would be great. Ottomans took our land during 600 year war, where we didn't want to convert to Islam, and gave it to their vasal state of Bosnia. Modern Croatia and Bosnia have great relations. We are not the guy who stole from them in this story. We even gave them port with infrastructure to Bosnian mainland so they are not landlocked country.
Fun fact: During Bosnian wars after fall of Yugoslavia Croatian and Bosnian forces fight on the same side VS Serbia. But then suddenly Croatians start taking down Islamic institutions and we start fighting each other. Genocides happen all over the place. We finally got back on the same side after countless mediation by the Clinton administration. We are on the same side since. Good guy US.
Oh my God, I live inside a banana!!
Please make reaction amir timur wars !
They should sell some flag games in the US because the ignorance of Americans in basic geography is huge 🤣🤣🤣
PS: It was not meant for this channel
My supervisor in 1974 said that if W Germany and E Germany rejoined, there would be WWIII ;-(
It doesn't matter, everyone knows it under the name "Germany" anyway