They missed the Northwest Angle in Minnesota, which is another place you need to pass through Canada to reach by land. It's also the only place in the contiguous United States that's north or the 49th Parallel.
Another trivia related to coast line, the state with the second longest coastline after Alaska is actually Michigan, which many people forget to consider since it's not actually on the coast.
You don’t have to hop to go from one state to the other at four corners. They have a little monument there where they mark out the borders of the four states and you can literally stand in all four states at one time. I did it when I was about 13 years old.
@@timothyhollywood2130 That’s a shame. I would expect that far more people could earn money there if they didn’t restrict access and and they were allowed to sell things around the site. But I imagine it’s probably just another case of a local government trying to get money out of a situation at the expense of its people.
@@pjschmid2251 They also sell crafts at the site, giving artists an outlet to sell their authentic Native products. It's Navajo land and their people determine its use and who can access it. As it should be....
Fun fact about the Mississippi River: a while back (like 100 years ago or so) there was a massive earthquake so large it caused the river to flow in the opposite direction for short period of time.
Correction to your "fun fact" that was over 200 Years ago in Feb. Of 1812 that the Mississippi ran backwards for a short period of time due to one of the New Madrid earthquakes. More recently in 2012 due to Hurricane Ida, for a few hours a similar event occurred along the Mississippi, though I am not sure which portion of the Mississippi that applied to.
My favorite "fun" fact about the USA is that Arkansas is surrounded by six other states, this in itself sounds like a "so what?" statement until you add that you can cross into all of these states by going due South from Arkansas. I learned this in a similar type of video on Geography King's channel which you often feature here.
ZIP (in zip code) is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan. However, the USPS intentionally chose the acronym to indicate that mail travels more quickly when senders mark the postal code on their packages and envelopes. It makes sense that the term ZIP code would be related to being zippy, which means “lively” or “peppy.
Kabir, since you saw how close Alaska is to Russia, a fact most foreigners might not know is that the US actually bought Alaska from Russia about a hundred years ago, so it WAS part of Russia at one point.
We've owned Alaska since October 1867. So it's been for over 150 years. (Sheesh. Did they not teach dates in your history classes? Even if you were sketchy on the year you should have known Alaska was a US possession before 1900.)
@@gemoftheocean Eh, there's a limit to how picky I think we should be with dates, when there are so many more interesting facets of history to explore (like causes and effects, for instance). "About a hundred years ago" is correct to one significant digit. Let it slide.
If the world's population was all in Texas, it would only be as crowded as Manhattan, not all squished together like you suggest. In fact, the entire world's population could fit on the Isle Of Wight if you only gave them one square foot each.
As far as everyone fitting in Texas. This is at NY population density. It wouldn't even need all of that (27000 people/sq mile) if you went manilla Density (119000 people/sq mile). Further, you grow all the potatoes needed to feed everyone with the central states (OK, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, N Dakota, Missippi, Arkasas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Missippi, Indiana, and Wisconsin) if you grow potatoes there and then the rest of the US, Canada and Mexico would be needed for cattle grazing to supply a potatoes/milk diet of 2000 calories/person/day and the rest of the world would be empty....
I moved to Texas from Ohio over eight years ago. I've made many extensive road trips out of Texas and back. I was always floored by a road sign on I-10 when you first enter Texas from Louisiana that says "800 miles to El Paso". EIGHT HUNDRED MILES. One state.
And a very diverse landscape if you travel that distance too. I've lived in Texas all my 50 years except for 7 years in my 20s and have been all over this state. My parents were born and raised in Illinois, so lots of family there. We spent many summers driving from Houston to the Effingham area. It's about the same distance from Houston to Effingham as it is from the East border to the West border of Texas! 😳
My dumb piece of trivia about the States is this: the fewest number of states seperating Mexico and Canada is three, and there are two examples. Most people can easily guess California, Oregon, and Washington. But Arizona, Utah, and Idaho will get you from border to border as well.
And then there's the old "What's the smallest number of US states you can travel through, on your way from the Atlantic to the Pacific?" Answer in ROT13: Gur nafjre vf bs pbhefr mreb, orpnhfr lbh pna gnxr gur jubyr gevc guebhtu Pnanqn, be Avpnenthn, be Cnanzn, be Zrkvpb, be ...
The Four Corners Monument is owned by the Navajo Nation. They sell souvenirs to tourists in each state. You can theoretically sit down and touch Utah with your left hand and Colorado with your left. And then you can have one foot in Arizona and one foot in New Mexico. I went there in 2019 on a road trip from LA. My dad and my brothers were following the Dodgers on a road trip to Phoenix and then to Denver. We also saw Zion National Park on the way.
UK post codes rarely have more than a couple of dozen properties and are regularly down to a single building or site. Longer streets can have lots of different postcodes. Some large commercial complexes, large hospitals, shipping centres, larger office blocks, can also have more than one post code.
Aloha... Mauna Kea is pronounced: mow- (like now) mow-na KAY-uh (not kee-uh @8:47) 😉 Also, I've been to the Four Corners @10:47... you can put your hand down on the ground marker (over the state lines' interesection/or each foot over 2 state lines at once and be in all four states all at the same time 😁 Don't forget to visit the local vendor stalls when you visit... wonderful people!
The video is wrong about one thing though. The Missouri River is actually the longest river in the US and has a larger watershed than the Mississippi River.
@@johnbernstein7887 You need to re-read it then. According to Google the Mississippi River is 2340mi long, while the Missouri is 1 mile longer at 2341mi. However if you want something even more accurate I'd check with the United States National Park Service (who knows a hell of a lot more accurate than Google) and they say the Missouri River is 100 miles longer with the Mississippi River being 2350 miles long while the Missouri River is 2450 miles in length.
Point Roberts residents are very patriotic towards the U.S. and love Canadian visitors, but don’t wish to be annexed to Canada. The community has had an awful time as Canada closed it’s borders during most of Covid thus driving through to get to the rest of the U.S. became impossible. Point Roberts has limited shopping, and Canada would not let them cross the border to shop either, and it was difficult to go by boat to the Washington state mainland due to weather and limited ferry service. The place almost became a ghost town. Only recently have the borders been opened partially to let residents go back and forth, but it is still difficult to cross more than one border at this point in time, though rumor has it that will be changing soon.
I ❤️these type of videos. I’m such a geography nerd. I love maps and all things geography. Really interesting video. I knew a lot of the facts but there were some I didn’t. Happy to always be learning something. Thanks, Kabir!
In Chattanooga, TN, one can hike through a very nice area called "Lookout Mtn." At one point on the hike it will show you all the States that are visible and which direction they are. On a clear day, it's breathtaking. I've been there many times. Chattanooga is only 3 hours drive from NASH.
Mate, every human being on earth could fit into a ball smaller than NYC. Human beings are not massive creatures, and they don't have massive numbers. Our houses and possessions on the other hand, take up an INSANE amount of space.
I live in Colorado and would love to visit the Four Corners someday. However, it's a good days drive from where I live (Metro Denver, the capital of Colorado).
4 corners is a very hot and dry area. There is or was not much around it with the exception of some native Americans selling tourist trinkets. Maybe it has improved since I was there.
There is also something called zip+four...you use your five digit zipcode plus an additional four numbers which are specific to each address in the country. That allows automated mail sorting to sort mail and packages more precisely for mail carrier routes. The plus 4 digits are optional and most people do not use it although businesses and government agencies often do when they do mailings.
River qualification from what I recall from my geography studies in university, it has to carry a certain minimum amount if water for a certain period of time. This applied to dry gulches and wadis, which even though they only have running water for a short period of time, still carry enough water from the source. The Mississipi drainage basin covers a good half, maybe more, of the 48 contiguous states. Its bounded by the Rockies on the west and Appalachians on the east. Two of its more prominent tributaries are also navigable: 1. Ohio River to Pittsburhg PA 2. Missouri to Great Falks MT where the Missouri leaves the mountains for the plains. I knew the last intellectually, as I grew upin Montana near the Missouri headwaters, but I never thought much about it until one year I drove from the west coast to Winnipeg Manitoba, and as I crossed North Dakota on I-94 passing through that state's capital city, I saw a sign beside the freeway that said, "Port of Bismarck next exit."
In America, one five-digit zipcode corresponds to one post office. Small cities (up to about 20k people) generally only have one zipcode (and thus one main post office; small branch offices, e.g., a post office at a tourist-oriented location like Niagara Falls, where you can buy postcards and mail them, doesn't count here, unless it also has charge of routes to deliver mail to the surrounding addresses). Large cities, of course, have more than one. Now, the extended zipcode (zip+4) is made up of the five-digit zipcode corresponding to the post office, plus four additional digits that are generally a "route number". One route is the list of addresses (potentially) visited by one mail carrier each mail-delivery day, and a single post office (and thus a single five-digit zipcode) can have up to ten thousand distinct routes, though in practice I don't think most of them have anywhere near that many. The system will break down, and digits will need to be added somewhere (or else we could start using letters as some of the digits), if the population grows to the point where the number of delivery routes gets into the hundreds of billions, possibly even if it gets into the tens of billions, because the distribution of routes over post offices is nowhere near even.
If you’d like to know more about that island you need to through Canada to get to, Oversimplified has a video that touches on it. It’s the War of the Pig video if you’d like to check it out. It’s pretty crazy.
Can't remember the actusl qualifying volume, but i do remember from my geography courses that to qualify as a river, the water course has to carry a specific volume of water annually. This qualifies some desert arroyos and wadis in desert areas to qualify as rivers, because even though they may be dry a good part of the year, when they do getcseasonal rains and/ or flash floods, they can and do carry enough water to qualify as rivers.
The Smallest River - It is fed by a freshwater spring, which then leads into the Missouri River. The Roe is just the space the water travels in between the spring and the larger river. Check out Giant Springs State Park in Great Falls, Montana. It is actually a really gorgeous place, and has a fish hatchery on site. We take our little guy there to feed the fish and go on hikes.
Bright Side's has some boo-boos . They zoomed in on Alaska when talking about Point Roberts, and depicted the Mississippi as coming out in Florida instead of Louisiana.
Point Roberts is part of the US simply because when the border was being negotiated, they chose the 49th parallel westward to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Point Roberts dips just south of that line. There are a few other places like that along the border due to lakes that cross the border in multiple locations, but most are tiny and don't (as far as I know) have anyone living there. The only other really big ones are the Northwest Angle in Minnesota (where the border was defined at "the northwesternmost point of Lake of the Woods" then due south to the 49th) and the Alburgh Tongue in Vermont (between two forks of Lake Champlain, both of which stretch north of the 45th; however, this one is accessible by road via bridges across the lake, so it isn't really cut off like the other two). Canada has a couple as well - Akwesasne, Quebec is just west of the confluence of the St. Regis and St. Lawrence rivers and just east of the point where the St. Lawrence crosses the 45th (and the border shifts to the 45th), and Campobello Island (part of New Brunswick) is only connected by a bridge to Maine, not to any other part of Canada.
Yes, people go to the Four-Corners & jump back & forth, but they also just lie down on the ground, spread-eagle, & have their hands & feet each in a different state at the same time.
A river may be defined as a naturally occurring watercourse that mostly has fresh water, and that eventually deposits its load into oceans, seas or even other rivers. A river can have its source from melting ice or glaciers or even from springs that arise from underground flows
I know about Point Robert's. I always thought it was cool. If you order a package it is massive expensive. All the border crossings to drive it to you. They really could use a Veterinarian , a doctor, & eye doctor there.
There is a second small slice of America which is cut off from the otherwise contiguous United States - the Northwest Angle of Minnesota is also an exclave (I believe that's the correct word). The exclave of Washington State has an interesting piece of history. During Prohibition, it was not legal to purchase, make, or sell liquor - but it was legal to possess it and drink it. A bar existed at the time which straddled the American/Canadian border. The liquor could be sold and served on the Canadian side of the building, at which point, patrons could walk across the room and drink in America.
Well, you also have to go through Canada to get to Alaska from the lower 48, too. The weird thing is that it's part of Washington State, so you have to go into Canada to get to that part of Washington State from other parts of Washington State.
The Marshall Fields building in Chicago not only has its own zip code, but also its own post office, as well as its own police & fire departments as well. It's like it's a little city inside the city.
When you think about it having one building having its own post code makes sense. Think of the largest shopping mall in the UK whatever it is. It’s probably got more locations than the local high street shops.
You need to watch some of "Lost in the Pond's latest videos. He is trying to pronounce the names found in the various states. So far he has done Alabama and Alaska.
I wouldn't say its that expensive in "most areas" in California, but certainly in the greater Bay Area and LA metro areas. Honestly if you're not picky about neighborhoods, you can find a decent 3 BR house for under $700k in the LA area. Don't get me wrong, that's still absolutely ludicrous, but it's better than $1M being the starting point.
In fact, if everyone on earth stood shoulder to shoulder then front to back. They could all fit in one medium sized county in Texas. They would all have to be very friendly, but it is mathematically possible. 8:56 As the video says 'Technically' this isn't correct. No one measures elevation this way. The structure of Everest can (probably does) go several thousands of feet below sea level also. 11:06 There is a plaque on the ground at 4 Corners. No need to jump around. Stand in the center of the plaque & you are in all 4 at the same time.
@@evarocastor7230 The structure of Everest goes far below ground. It is a part of two plate structures that is crashing together. That is why they really don't measure below sea level.
The US not only has an ocean on both the East & West coasts, but there's also the Gulf of Mexico along the Southeast border, & the Great Lakes region almost due north of that, which is kind of a failed ocean.
At one point in history, not sure if 10's of thousands or millions of years ago, there was a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska. It caused the migration of early humans from East to West. A bit of trivia for you, lol.
A lot of the geography oddities in the US, at least on the East Coast are due to the royal charters granted the colonies. See the Delaware border for example.
Land Prices in California - like anywhere else are all about location. There are plenty of places in California where land and houses are not outrageously expensive. But of course, they are not prime beachfront property, or a short public transit ride to a high paying job.
There's debate here in the US about what counts as "visiting" a state. Most Americans can tell you how many states they've been in. Some people think you only get to count states you stayed overnight in and others say all you have to do is cross over the border for it to count, so they'll plan routes to get briefly into another state to pad their numbers. Oh, and there's debate as to whether or not you're allowed to count states where you only had a lay over for a flight and didn't leave the airport. Americans are weird sometimes. You can buy US maps that have peel off decals for each state and put a pic of you visiting that state in its place.
You can stand in all 4 corners states at once without moving. Whatever cardinal direction you face. As long as you are staddluning one of the state border lines, and your feet are placed so the state lines go under the arches of your feet, you can do it without flinching.
They never tell you about the 4 Corners Plague from back in the 90's it was claimed to be as bad as the black plague but then everyone forgot it a year after they found the cause .
Fun fact. On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million, which would have been difficult for Russia to defend in any future war from being conquered by Russia's archrival, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Arkansas only has 6 bordering states, but there are spots you can travel SOUTH from Arksbsas to every one of them. For some of them it's the irregular non straight line borders, but for Missouri it's hilarious. That little southeast nubbin of Missouri's western border is not a straight north south line. Check out a map and you'll see what I mean. Learned this from a good friend who lived in Arkansas
Not counting the islands there is only 55 miles between Russia and Alaska at its narrowest point of The Bearing Straight.Not sure why they talked about the Mississippi River because the Missouri River is several hundred miles longer.
Regular USA drivers enter BC CANADA and travel TWO + plus long days to enter Alaska USA and then some return in the fall. B.C. is more than TWICE the size of TEXAS. California, Oregon and Washington together is smaller than BC. Texas has 6X more firearm homicides every year than all of CANADA. Many States have the same HIGH death rate. CANADA has universal health services to all, and live longer, and better quality of life.
I can't believe that Michigan wasn't represented at all! 1) We're the only *inland* peninsula. 2) The Great Lakes holds more than 20% of the entire earth's fresh water. 3) Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area 4) Lake Michigan’s shore is home to the largest freshwater sand dunes in the world. 5) The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater system in the world. There's more tidbits, but you can see for yourself. Just type Great Lakes facts in a search engine.
Cincinnati is in the Southwest of Ohio, meaning the OKI area (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana). I used to date a woman in Kentucky, where I would drive through all three states to pick her up...and it was only a 25-30 minute drive. 😉
The Washington border from Minnesota to the straight of Georgia is the 49th parallel. Due to this and a cartography screw up, two parts of the US are effectively in Canada.
You wouldn't be crowded with everyone in Texas. They are saying the density would be that of New York City...like you were covering the state of Texas with copies of NYC...be cool.
A fun thing about four corners is that it is in the middle of the Navajo Nation. So you are kind of in two countries at once also.
In America, a zip code can encompass an entire town or towns. Little fact, each US super carrier has their own zip code also
It can be a tall building in New York
Just a slight correction to your comment. EVERY US Navy ship has it's own zip code.
@@garymorris216 it would be an addition, not a correction because what I said wasn't wrong ;)
@@ramsoncole4605 True, I stand corrected. What you said definitely is 100% true.
They missed the Northwest Angle in Minnesota, which is another place you need to pass through Canada to reach by land. It's also the only place in the contiguous United States that's north or the 49th Parallel.
No you can drive over the lake when its frozen
Another trivia related to coast line, the state with the second longest coastline after Alaska is actually Michigan, which many people forget to consider since it's not actually on the coast.
You don’t have to hop to go from one state to the other at four corners. They have a little monument there where they mark out the borders of the four states and you can literally stand in all four states at one time. I did it when I was about 13 years old.
I was back in 77. When I was 10
I did that too
The Navajo now charge to see the site. Hey, it's their land.....
@@timothyhollywood2130 That’s a shame. I would expect that far more people could earn money there if they didn’t restrict access and and they were allowed to sell things around the site. But I imagine it’s probably just another case of a local government trying to get money out of a situation at the expense of its people.
@@pjschmid2251 They also sell crafts at the site, giving artists an outlet to sell their authentic Native products. It's Navajo land and their people determine its use and who can access it. As it should be....
I live in Houston, Texas, and believe me, it is huge! It can take 1 hour to get from Houston to Houston
Fun fact about the Mississippi River: a while back (like 100 years ago or so) there was a massive earthquake so large it caused the river to flow in the opposite direction for short period of time.
Correction to your "fun fact" that was over 200 Years ago in Feb. Of 1812 that the Mississippi ran backwards for a short period of time due to one of the New Madrid earthquakes. More recently in 2012 due to Hurricane Ida, for a few hours a similar event occurred along the Mississippi, though I am not sure which portion of the Mississippi that applied to.
@@gemoftheocean I live in New Madrid county right where the fault line runs
My favorite "fun" fact about the USA is that Arkansas is surrounded by six other states, this in itself sounds like a "so what?" statement until you add that you can cross into all of these states by going due South from Arkansas. I learned this in a similar type of video on Geography King's channel which you often feature here.
I had to check a map on this one!
Truth! (Arkansan here.)
ZIP (in zip code) is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan. However, the USPS intentionally chose the acronym to indicate that mail travels more quickly when senders mark the postal code on their packages and envelopes. It makes sense that the term ZIP code would be related to being zippy, which means “lively” or “peppy.
I remember when they implemented the Zip codes when I was a young boy...the mail didn't move any faster.
@@winstonsmith8441 It took time to implement the process.
@@winstonsmith8441 Remember, it was zone improvement PLAN. Plan being the key word.
11:00 There’s even a monument on the quadripoint. It’s called the “Four Corners Monument”
Kabir, since you saw how close Alaska is to Russia, a fact most foreigners might not know is that the US actually bought Alaska from Russia about a hundred years ago, so it WAS part of Russia at one point.
Yep, "Seward's Folly"
We've owned Alaska since October 1867. So it's been for over 150 years. (Sheesh. Did they not teach dates in your history classes? Even if you were sketchy on the year you should have known Alaska was a US possession before 1900.)
@@gemoftheocean Eh, there's a limit to how picky I think we should be with dates, when there are so many more interesting facets of history to explore (like causes and effects, for instance). "About a hundred years ago" is correct to one significant digit. Let it slide.
They sold Alaska because it was hard to manage and the british could’ve invaded
If the world's population was all in Texas, it would only be as crowded as Manhattan, not all squished together like you suggest. In fact, the entire world's population could fit on the Isle Of Wight if you only gave them one square foot each.
As far as everyone fitting in Texas. This is at NY population density. It wouldn't even need all of that (27000 people/sq mile) if you went manilla Density (119000 people/sq mile). Further, you grow all the potatoes needed to feed everyone with the central states (OK, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, N Dakota, Missippi, Arkasas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Missippi, Indiana, and Wisconsin) if you grow potatoes there and then the rest of the US, Canada and Mexico would be needed for cattle grazing to supply a potatoes/milk diet of 2000 calories/person/day and the rest of the world would be empty....
I moved to Texas from Ohio over eight years ago. I've made many extensive road trips out of Texas and back. I was always floored by a road sign on I-10 when you first enter Texas from Louisiana that says "800 miles to El Paso". EIGHT HUNDRED MILES. One state.
And Alaska is over two times the size of Texas.
And a very diverse landscape if you travel that distance too. I've lived in Texas all my 50 years except for 7 years in my 20s and have been all over this state. My parents were born and raised in Illinois, so lots of family there. We spent many summers driving from Houston to the Effingham area. It's about the same distance from Houston to Effingham as it is from the East border to the West border of Texas! 😳
The length of California is very long as well. You can drive 800 miles and still be in California. Overall Texas is definitely bigger.
Jacksonville to Key West is 800 miles as well. Florida is skinny, but really freaking long.
My dumb piece of trivia about the States is this: the fewest number of states seperating Mexico and Canada is three, and there are two examples. Most people can easily guess California, Oregon, and Washington. But Arizona, Utah, and Idaho will get you from border to border as well.
And then there's the old "What's the smallest number of US states you can travel through, on your way from the Atlantic to the Pacific?"
Answer in ROT13: Gur nafjre vf bs pbhefr mreb, orpnhfr lbh pna gnxr gur jubyr gevc guebhtu Pnanqn, be Avpnenthn, be Cnanzn, be Zrkvpb, be ...
The Four Corners Monument is owned by the Navajo Nation. They sell souvenirs to tourists in each state. You can theoretically sit down and touch Utah with your left hand and Colorado with your left. And then you can have one foot in Arizona and one foot in New Mexico. I went there in 2019 on a road trip from LA. My dad and my brothers were following the Dodgers on a road trip to Phoenix and then to Denver. We also saw Zion National Park on the way.
I meant Colorado with your right.
UK post codes rarely have more than a couple of dozen properties and are regularly down to a single building or site. Longer streets can have lots of different postcodes. Some large commercial complexes, large hospitals, shipping centres, larger office blocks, can also have more than one post code.
Aloha... Mauna Kea is pronounced: mow- (like now) mow-na KAY-uh (not kee-uh @8:47) 😉 Also, I've been to the Four Corners @10:47... you can put your hand down on the ground marker (over the state lines' interesection/or each foot over 2 state lines at once and be in all four states all at the same time 😁 Don't forget to visit the local vendor stalls when you visit... wonderful people!
The video is wrong about one thing though. The Missouri River is actually the longest river in the US and has a larger watershed than the Mississippi River.
No, it's 25 miles shorter. Sorry.
@@johnbernstein7887 Brother Adams is correct. The Missouri River is longer.
@@andreabertetti3961 Not according to Google.
@@johnbernstein7887 You need to re-read it then. According to Google the Mississippi River is 2340mi long, while the Missouri is 1 mile longer at 2341mi. However if you want something even more accurate I'd check with the United States National Park Service (who knows a hell of a lot more accurate than Google) and they say the Missouri River is 100 miles longer with the Mississippi River being 2350 miles long while the Missouri River is 2450 miles in length.
I've been one of those silly people hopping from state to state. Lol
Guilty too! I remember doing that when I was 11 or 12. It was fun!
Right?!😂
This was cool. Some of these I didn't know, fun. Thank you Kabir. Love you ❤️
Point Roberts residents are very patriotic towards the U.S. and love Canadian visitors, but don’t wish to be annexed to Canada. The community has had an awful time as Canada closed it’s borders during most of Covid thus driving through to get to the rest of the U.S. became impossible. Point Roberts has limited shopping, and Canada would not let them cross the border to shop either, and it was difficult to go by boat to the Washington state mainland due to weather and limited ferry service. The place almost became a ghost town. Only recently have the borders been opened partially to let residents go back and forth, but it is still difficult to cross more than one border at this point in time, though rumor has it that will be changing soon.
I ❤️these type of videos. I’m such a geography nerd. I love maps and all things geography. Really interesting video. I knew a lot of the facts but there were some I didn’t. Happy to always be learning something. Thanks, Kabir!
In Chattanooga, TN, one can hike through a very nice area called "Lookout Mtn." At one point on the hike it will show you all the States that are visible and which direction they are. On a clear day, it's breathtaking. I've been there many times. Chattanooga is only 3 hours drive from NASH.
I drove through Texas last month, it took me two days. It was mostly empty space. Just hundreds of miles of nothing.
Mate, every human being on earth could fit into a ball smaller than NYC. Human beings are not massive creatures, and they don't have massive numbers. Our houses and possessions on the other hand, take up an INSANE amount of space.
Sorry are you saying all human beings could fit into a ball ? Or a ball the slightly smaller than NYC?
I live in Colorado and would love to visit the Four Corners someday. However, it's a good days drive from where I live (Metro Denver, the capital of Colorado).
I've been to the four corners and it's the only time I've been in Utah. 😁
4 corners is a very hot and dry area. There is or was not much around it with the exception of some native Americans selling tourist trinkets. Maybe it has improved since I was there.
There is also something called zip+four...you use your five digit zipcode plus an additional four numbers which are specific to each address in the country. That allows automated mail sorting to sort mail and packages more precisely for mail carrier routes. The plus 4 digits are optional and most people do not use it although businesses and government agencies often do when they do mailings.
What qualify as an river is that water that flow in an channel from one point to another ,
River qualification from what I recall from my geography studies in university, it has to carry a certain minimum amount if water for a certain period of time. This applied to dry gulches and wadis, which even though they only have running water for a short period of time, still carry enough water from the source.
The Mississipi drainage basin covers a good half, maybe more, of the 48 contiguous states. Its bounded by the Rockies on the west and Appalachians on the east. Two of its more prominent tributaries are also navigable:
1. Ohio River to Pittsburhg PA
2. Missouri to Great Falks MT where the Missouri leaves the mountains for the plains.
I knew the last intellectually, as I grew upin Montana near the Missouri headwaters, but I never thought much about it until one year I drove from the west coast to Winnipeg Manitoba, and as I crossed North Dakota on I-94 passing through that state's capital city, I saw a sign beside the freeway that said, "Port of Bismarck next exit."
In America, one five-digit zipcode corresponds to one post office. Small cities (up to about 20k people) generally only have one zipcode (and thus one main post office; small branch offices, e.g., a post office at a tourist-oriented location like Niagara Falls, where you can buy postcards and mail them, doesn't count here, unless it also has charge of routes to deliver mail to the surrounding addresses). Large cities, of course, have more than one.
Now, the extended zipcode (zip+4) is made up of the five-digit zipcode corresponding to the post office, plus four additional digits that are generally a "route number". One route is the list of addresses (potentially) visited by one mail carrier each mail-delivery day, and a single post office (and thus a single five-digit zipcode) can have up to ten thousand distinct routes, though in practice I don't think most of them have anywhere near that many.
The system will break down, and digits will need to be added somewhere (or else we could start using letters as some of the digits), if the population grows to the point where the number of delivery routes gets into the hundreds of billions, possibly even if it gets into the tens of billions, because the distribution of routes over post offices is nowhere near even.
Educational...and so much fun!!
If you’d like to know more about that island you need to through Canada to get to, Oversimplified has a video that touches on it. It’s the War of the Pig video if you’d like to check it out. It’s pretty crazy.
Can't remember the actusl qualifying volume, but i do remember from my geography courses that to qualify as a river, the water course has to carry a specific volume of water annually. This qualifies some desert arroyos and wadis in desert areas to qualify as rivers, because even though they may be dry a good part of the year, when they do getcseasonal rains and/ or flash floods, they can and do carry enough water to qualify as rivers.
The Smallest River - It is fed by a freshwater spring, which then leads into the Missouri River. The Roe is just the space the water travels in between the spring and the larger river.
Check out Giant Springs State Park in Great Falls, Montana.
It is actually a really gorgeous place, and has a fish hatchery on site. We take our little guy there to feed the fish and go on hikes.
I've been to 4 Corners! And I did exactly what you said, Kabir 🤣
"ZIP code" term was introduced by USPS and ZIP is an acronym for "Zone Improvement Plan"
Bright Side's has some boo-boos . They zoomed in on Alaska when talking about Point Roberts, and depicted the Mississippi as coming out in Florida instead of Louisiana.
Also, the Mississippi River is not the longest river in the US, that is the Missouri River.
Point Roberts is part of the US simply because when the border was being negotiated, they chose the 49th parallel westward to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Point Roberts dips just south of that line. There are a few other places like that along the border due to lakes that cross the border in multiple locations, but most are tiny and don't (as far as I know) have anyone living there. The only other really big ones are the Northwest Angle in Minnesota (where the border was defined at "the northwesternmost point of Lake of the Woods" then due south to the 49th) and the Alburgh Tongue in Vermont (between two forks of Lake Champlain, both of which stretch north of the 45th; however, this one is accessible by road via bridges across the lake, so it isn't really cut off like the other two). Canada has a couple as well - Akwesasne, Quebec is just west of the confluence of the St. Regis and St. Lawrence rivers and just east of the point where the St. Lawrence crosses the 45th (and the border shifts to the 45th), and Campobello Island (part of New Brunswick) is only connected by a bridge to Maine, not to any other part of Canada.
Yes, people go to the Four-Corners & jump back & forth, but they also just lie down on the ground, spread-eagle, & have their hands & feet each in a different state at the same time.
A river may be defined as a naturally occurring watercourse that mostly has fresh water, and that eventually deposits its load into oceans, seas or even other rivers. A river can have its source from melting ice or glaciers or even from springs that arise from underground flows
The Mississippi river isnt the longest river in the us the Missouri river is
The Mississippi River is 2,340 miles long. The Missouri River is 2,540 miles long.
Texas has so much to offer! Palo Dura canyon in Texas is second in size to the Grand Canyon! So much to see here.
I know about Point Robert's. I always thought it was cool. If you order a package it is massive expensive. All the border crossings to drive it to you. They really could use a Veterinarian , a doctor, & eye doctor there.
There is a second small slice of America which is cut off from the otherwise contiguous United States - the Northwest Angle of Minnesota is also an exclave (I believe that's the correct word).
The exclave of Washington State has an interesting piece of history. During Prohibition, it was not legal to purchase, make, or sell liquor - but it was legal to possess it and drink it. A bar existed at the time which straddled the American/Canadian border. The liquor could be sold and served on the Canadian side of the building, at which point, patrons could walk across the room and drink in America.
Well, you also have to go through Canada to get to Alaska from the lower 48, too. The weird thing is that it's part of Washington State, so you have to go into Canada to get to that part of Washington State from other parts of Washington State.
There are people on the Diomedes who have relatives on the other island. Even during the cold war, people did visit their kin back and forth..
Zip codes can be different by city. West side Tucson where I lived was 85745. Now near east side Tucson where I live its 85750
That was fun! I only knew 3 or 4 of them. Its still amazes me l8ving here in the U.S. there are so many facts one doesnt know.
The Marshall Fields building in Chicago not only has its own zip code, but also its own post office, as well as its own police & fire departments as well. It's like it's a little city inside the city.
Four Corners makes for a fun game of hop scoth...
To learn about ZIP codes, watch the video The History Guy did on the subject. It came out just a few weeks ago, I think.
I used to work a lot just outside of Detroit and it tripped me out that Windsor, Canada was south of Detroit.
When you think about it having one building having its own post code makes sense. Think of the largest shopping mall in the UK whatever it is. It’s probably got more locations than the local high street shops.
Living in Arizona, and being 66 Years Young . That Exactly what I did at 4 Corners
You need to watch some of "Lost in the Pond's latest videos. He is trying to pronounce the names found in the various states. So far he has done Alabama and Alaska.
Haines, Alaska is similar in that you have to drive through Canada to get there.
Thank you, Kabir, for your reaction to 12 geography facts about America that no one tells you about. This reaction was really amazing.
I wouldn't say its that expensive in "most areas" in California, but certainly in the greater Bay Area and LA metro areas. Honestly if you're not picky about neighborhoods, you can find a decent 3 BR house for under $700k in the LA area. Don't get me wrong, that's still absolutely ludicrous, but it's better than $1M being the starting point.
Los Angeles is at least 25 % less than the Bay Area
Texas is HUGE but how much of it is actually livable?
Some would say none of it 😅
I've definitely done the 4 corners jumping from state to state thing. It's still the only time I've been in Colorado.
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If you took Alaska and put it to scale, it would actually touch both the East and West coasts at the same time. It’s about 3 times the size of Texas.
From St. David's, Haverford West to Great Yarmouth is 344 miles, according to Google Maps.
Interstate 10 runs east-west across Texas for 880 miles.
In fact, if everyone on earth stood shoulder to shoulder then front to back. They could all fit in one medium sized county in Texas. They would all have to be very friendly, but it is mathematically possible. 8:56 As the video says 'Technically' this isn't correct. No one measures elevation this way. The structure of Everest can (probably does) go several thousands of feet below sea level also. 11:06 There is a plaque on the ground at 4 Corners. No need to jump around. Stand in the center of the plaque & you are in all 4 at the same time.
The base of Everest is on land while the base of Mauna Kea sits on the ocean floor and is the foundation for the island of Hawaii.
@@evarocastor7230 The structure of Everest goes far below ground. It is a part of two plate structures that is crashing together. That is why they really don't measure below sea level.
Each tower of the original WTC had it s own zip code.sears tower in chicago has its own zip code.
The US not only has an ocean on both the East & West coasts, but there's also the Gulf of Mexico along the Southeast border, & the Great Lakes region almost due north of that, which is kind of a failed ocean.
At one point in history, not sure if 10's of thousands or millions of years ago, there was a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska. It caused the migration of early humans from East to West. A bit of trivia for you, lol.
Three oceans! We have the Arctic Ocean too 😄
A lot of the geography oddities in the US, at least on the East Coast are due to the royal charters granted the colonies. See the Delaware border for example.
Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans (Alaska). The Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands) & the very large Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. has over 30,000 gun deaths per year. CANADA has 2.5% of the USA crime rate (700 per year for all manner of homicide)
People who live on the Diomedes are mostly native Yupik eskimos. They often travel back and forth and no one says a thing.
Land Prices in California - like anywhere else are all about location.
There are plenty of places in California where land and houses are not outrageously expensive.
But of course, they are not prime beachfront property, or a short public transit ride to a high paying job.
There's debate here in the US about what counts as "visiting" a state. Most Americans can tell you how many states they've been in. Some people think you only get to count states you stayed overnight in and others say all you have to do is cross over the border for it to count, so they'll plan routes to get briefly into another state to pad their numbers. Oh, and there's debate as to whether or not you're allowed to count states where you only had a lay over for a flight and didn't leave the airport. Americans are weird sometimes. You can buy US maps that have peel off decals for each state and put a pic of you visiting that state in its place.
Texas has a horse ranch that's larger than my home state of Rhode Island. That's a decent indicator of the scope of Texas's size
I've done four corners. You can put a foot in each state and a hand in the other two, and you'll literally be in all four at the same time.
They do exactly that at Four Corners!
You can stand in all 4 corners states at once without moving. Whatever cardinal direction you face. As long as you are staddluning one of the state border lines, and your feet are placed so the state lines go under the arches of your feet, you can do it without flinching.
River -a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
Kabir: "I had no clue Alaska and Russia were so close together." Fun fact: Alaska used to be part of Russia before selling state to America.
They never tell you about the 4 Corners Plague from back in the 90's it was claimed to be as bad as the black plague but then everyone forgot it a year after they found the cause .
Fun fact. On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million, which would have been difficult for Russia to defend in any future war from being conquered by Russia's archrival, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Arkansas only has 6 bordering states, but there are spots you can travel SOUTH from Arksbsas to every one of them. For some of them it's the irregular non straight line borders, but for Missouri it's hilarious. That little southeast nubbin of Missouri's western border is not a straight north south line. Check out a map and you'll see what I mean.
Learned this from a good friend who lived in Arkansas
Not counting the islands there is only 55 miles between Russia and Alaska at its narrowest point of The Bearing Straight.Not sure why they talked about the Mississippi River because the Missouri River is several hundred miles longer.
The Mississippi River is the longest river in North America. At 2315 miles long the Missouri is short of the Mississippi length of 2,340 miles.
Regular USA drivers enter BC CANADA and travel TWO + plus long days to enter Alaska USA and then some return in the fall. B.C. is more than TWICE the size of TEXAS. California, Oregon and Washington together is smaller than BC. Texas has 6X more firearm homicides every year than all of CANADA. Many States have the same HIGH death rate. CANADA has universal health services to all, and live longer, and better quality of life.
200 ZIP Codes in New York? Wow! I thought LA had a gazillion ZIP Codes but I guess I was wrong.
You should react to some Geography videos from Atlas Pro. He makes really high quality videos.
My town has 1 zip code while the largest city close to us has like 20 or more.
I have been to Four Corners. So I have stood in 4 states at the same time. Or had just one foot in 4 states at the same time.
I can't believe that Michigan wasn't represented at all!
1) We're the only *inland* peninsula.
2) The Great Lakes holds more than 20% of the entire earth's fresh water.
3) Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area
4) Lake Michigan’s shore is home to the largest freshwater sand dunes in the world.
5) The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater system in the world.
There's more tidbits, but you can see for yourself. Just type Great Lakes facts in a search engine.
Cincinnati is in the Southwest of Ohio, meaning the OKI area (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana). I used to date a woman in Kentucky, where I would drive through all three states to pick her up...and it was only a 25-30 minute drive. 😉
The Washington border from Minnesota to the straight of Georgia is the 49th parallel. Due to this and a cartography screw up, two parts of the US are effectively in Canada.
Alaska has about 130 volcanoes!
There have actually been instances of people getting arrested at 4 Corners trying to have sex in 4 states at one time.
You wouldn't be crowded with everyone in Texas. They are saying the density would be that of New York City...like you were covering the state of Texas with copies of NYC...be cool.
GREAT YOU HAVE RETURN U.S.A DO HAVE MONEMENT EVEN OLD BUILDINGS OF NATIVE AMERICAN.
Have you been watching nascar it’s had a pretty good start to the 2022 season