The World's Strangest Borders Pt 6: Wacky US States

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @RealLifeLore
    @RealLifeLore  3 года назад +897

    If you like these weird borders, you can watch the extended edition over on Nebula with a few more along with the first episode of my brand new series Ghost Towns!! Ghost Towns especially is super cool, I'm traveling to ghost towns across the United States and hopefully later the world to document what they're like today and how they became abandoned. The first episode is live on Nebula right now and it's about the communities around the Salton Sea in California. The best way to get access to Nebula is through the bundle deal with CuriosityStream at CuriosityStream.com/reallifelore, which is absurdly only $12 for an entire year right now. Thanks so much y'all for sticking around in 2020 and I'll see you all again throughout 2021 :)

    • @ShadowReaper-pu2hx
      @ShadowReaper-pu2hx 3 года назад +3

      I’m at this comment 2 minutes after you posted it, and I’m the second like.

    • @MedicMain9
      @MedicMain9 3 года назад +3

      YT's algorithm is so stupid

    • @masynbeene5485
      @masynbeene5485 3 года назад +19

      No @RealLifeLore you always get sponsored every video and you talk about the sponsor to stretch your videos and that is to anying stop getting sponsored and no one wants to use it and we have to pay to use your dumb sponsor you used to make good videos then you always got sponsored try to make your videos good again by not getting sponsored ok please just not get sponsored or else just don't get sponsored again

    • @philmappzau2009
      @philmappzau2009 3 года назад +1

      Hi I am a big fan

    • @MrOofio64
      @MrOofio64 3 года назад +6

      @@masynbeene5485 this comment pepelaugh

  • @WoddCar
    @WoddCar 3 года назад +5271

    The US East: borders shaped by rivers and mountains
    The US west: *RECTANGLES*

    • @emuman9
      @emuman9 3 года назад +333

      Given all those errors and issues and quarrels in the east, I don't blame them for just giving up when they expanded west lmao

    • @IloveRumania
      @IloveRumania 3 года назад +282

      Nevada: How about *a diagonal line?*

    • @ShadowReaper-pu2hx
      @ShadowReaper-pu2hx 3 года назад +60

      There are no mountains on the east, only hills.

    • @IloveRumania
      @IloveRumania 3 года назад +34

      @@C4pt41nN3m0 So would Idaho.

    • @IloveRumania
      @IloveRumania 3 года назад +25

      And Montana.

  • @notayoutuber3518
    @notayoutuber3518 3 года назад +1314

    4:40 “To be fair, they didn’t really know what they were doing” This one statement sums up most of human history

    • @daexion
      @daexion 3 года назад +39

      True, people still don't seem to know what they are doing even today.

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 3 года назад +23

      And the present, and the future. Government administrators are the worst of course.

    • @PrivateMcPrivate
      @PrivateMcPrivate 3 года назад +3

      @@jimmym3352 Yup.

    • @muscovymapping8896
      @muscovymapping8896 3 года назад +3

      meanwhile in 2020

    • @oldarthurmorgan6319
      @oldarthurmorgan6319 3 года назад +5

      Ik life is just us trying to figure out what the hell where doing what's the point 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

  • @alexsod5582
    @alexsod5582 3 года назад +2789

    Colorado not being a perfect rectangle hurt me inside

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 года назад +5

      GAGAGAGAGAGA! I will now count to 3 and then I am still the unprettiest RUclipsr of all time. 1...2...3. GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! Btw I have TWO very HOT GIRLfriends who I show off in my v*deos. Thank you for your attention, dear alex

    • @FrizellaTheBee
      @FrizellaTheBee 3 года назад +13

      @@AxxLAfriku Oh hi again
      How is your day going?

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 3 года назад +9

      truly disturbing

    • @z01nk3r5
      @z01nk3r5 3 года назад +5

      AnonymousPerson its a bot

    • @johnspinelli9396
      @johnspinelli9396 3 года назад

      F

  • @wanali4504
    @wanali4504 3 года назад +1276

    if Colorado is a hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon, I don’t wanna know what the eastern states are

  • @Ryan50Ryan
    @Ryan50Ryan 3 года назад +709

    1:56 Honestly being only 1 mile off is pretty damn impressive for the method.

    • @prim16
      @prim16 3 года назад +30

      It likely jutted in and out plenty, sometimes straying too far west, sometimes too far east. I would have found it stranger if it were more off, because then there would have been a clear bias in some direction.

    • @wgrandbois
      @wgrandbois 3 года назад +1

      It is pretty rugged terrain, although it's not really through the mountains.

  • @joeljolland1696
    @joeljolland1696 3 года назад +917

    Who was the loser of the Ohio Michigan war?
    Wisconsin

  • @Natapee
    @Natapee 3 года назад +1120

    POV: you’re in Delaware and this is the most recognition anyone out side the state has given to DE

    • @domkieran8077
      @domkieran8077 3 года назад +47

      shoutout to Delaware for raising President Biden! 🙏

    • @alexk9642
      @alexk9642 3 года назад +20

      From Maryland: We love you Delaware!

    • @meg_6035
      @meg_6035 3 года назад +25

      Deutschland?

    • @TheYoutubeTick
      @TheYoutubeTick 3 года назад +9

      from mayland here !! we love your arrival center !! and delaware bridge

    • @LTay12
      @LTay12 3 года назад

      What’s your insta?

  • @PCGeines
    @PCGeines 3 года назад +146

    All the borders mess starts with someone saying: "Let's ignore all the natural landmarks and people occupations and define this border as a straight line. "

    • @roadtoad7704
      @roadtoad7704 3 года назад +12

      Yes!! And the modern Middle East is born! 💥💣

  • @literallygrassblock7162
    @literallygrassblock7162 3 года назад +42

    I live in Colorado and since it’s such a small state ( at least in media ) I just feel so warm when it’s talked about. Especially for that long

    • @JonJon-du9ne
      @JonJon-du9ne 3 года назад +4

      Made you feel warm and cozy in the inside?

    • @rienn8559
      @rienn8559 3 года назад

      i live in texas and you know how there is popular states? well my family always talks about colorado and utah cause so many family live there... and florida
      what weird states lok

    • @JoacoG11
      @JoacoG11 2 года назад +3

      @@JonJon-du9ne 🤨

  • @Generic-Username
    @Generic-Username 3 года назад +37

    "This video is getting long. Let me spend 20% of the video shilling for my sponsors."

    • @zoro.7
      @zoro.7 3 года назад +2

      Nebula is plain shit in my opinion

  • @violentlogconsumer
    @violentlogconsumer 3 года назад +1656

    People: colorado is a rectangle
    RLL: No its a jsjdudjebsbsndjsjsjgsvs heptigon

    • @samentyilmaz6888
      @samentyilmaz6888 3 года назад +72

      Hexahectanneacontakai heptagon pfff let keep that on a rectangle

    • @VezWay007
      @VezWay007 3 года назад +32

      Hexagon is the bestagon!

    • @violentlogconsumer
      @violentlogconsumer 3 года назад

      @@VezWay007 ye 😂

    • @anderson74
      @anderson74 3 года назад +1

      I was fine with this comment until use spelled "heptagon" wrong.

    • @floridajake58
      @floridajake58 3 года назад +5

      Get it correct. Colorado is an Idontgiveafuckenshitagon 😂

  • @Music-cm5so
    @Music-cm5so 3 года назад +688

    I’m glad I looked at my phone before I got in the shower.
    Edit: I didn’t think clarification was needed but wow the internet is a stupid place. I didn’t watch the video in the shower I watched the video and then had a shower.

  • @corporatetrollz805
    @corporatetrollz805 3 года назад +502

    So the Ohio and Michigan rivalry goes even further back than I thought lol

    • @eggwhite7042
      @eggwhite7042 3 года назад +4

      HAHA

    • @SuperDeuser
      @SuperDeuser 3 года назад +12

      @Turşugül Katranbacı Ohio is easily a better name

    • @BrokeBot
      @BrokeBot 3 года назад +6

      as a person from michigan, i gotta say, Ohio has a cooler flag and a dope license plate, even though y’all have to get a front license plate 😏

    • @corporatetrollz805
      @corporatetrollz805 3 года назад +3

      @@SuperDeuser as an Ohioan I second this

    • @corporatetrollz805
      @corporatetrollz805 3 года назад

      @Turşugül Katranbacı lmao ok it’s not the best name

  • @ErelH
    @ErelH 3 года назад +228

    Ohio and Michigan: *Fight over Toledo Strip*
    Federal Government: "It's all Ohio"
    Ohio: "Always has been"

    • @dr3w399
      @dr3w399 3 года назад +5

      damn sraight

    • @juliomanuel1885
      @juliomanuel1885 3 года назад +3

      As it should be.

    • @randomperson5918
      @randomperson5918 3 года назад +7

      Also Federal Government: Take a random peninsula that really belongs to Wisconsin

    • @australium7374
      @australium7374 3 года назад +2

      @@randomperson5918 when it comes to borders in the US there’s usually always negotiations in statehood and for some reason robbing a peninsula

    • @pavelmachytka5604
      @pavelmachytka5604 3 года назад +1

      omg thats so true

  • @roberttharpe8627
    @roberttharpe8627 3 года назад +17

    Hey, cool video! I’m a land surveyor myself, and it’s fascinating to learn about all the land disputes and errors that eventually decided our borders. If you have time, I recommend you do a segment covering Andrew Ellicott’s survey of the 35th parallel and the dispute over GA’s northern border!

  • @EdisonKong
    @EdisonKong 3 года назад +565

    Asian borders: is drawn by mountain ridges, or a river dividing them
    Europeans: does the same
    North American borders: *I GOT LINES WHAT YOU WANT*

    • @lisa8012
      @lisa8012 3 года назад +4

      What about the Finger Lakes?

    • @decus9544
      @decus9544 3 года назад +48

      North America's not alone though, a lot of African borders are also principally made up of straight lines, and some Middle Eastern ones, though the Middle Eastern ones are actually pretty workable for the most part as they cross uninhabitable desert where no one lives.

    • @toddnolastname4485
      @toddnolastname4485 3 года назад +20

      Shows how little you actually know about US geography. There are still a lot of borders defined by rivers. California and Arizona, Texas and Mexico, parts of Idaho and Montana. Not sure if that's a river or mountain range dividing Idaho from Oregon and Washington.
      Also, Europe and Asia were divided when mountains meant something. And some of those mountains are bigger than what we have.

    • @hellothere1206
      @hellothere1206 3 года назад

      Remember the papuan border

    • @catboy9066
      @catboy9066 3 года назад +1

      Kazakhstan & gibraltar:

  • @bryanwesleyko564
    @bryanwesleyko564 3 года назад +151

    "Hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon"
    -Colorado, USA

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco 3 года назад +784

    Michigan and Ohio: *Fight over Toledo*
    Spain: "Get the fuck out of my country!"

  • @CometMasonTrucker
    @CometMasonTrucker 3 года назад +74

    RLL’s mortal enemy: Delaware’s circle boarder.

    • @marlonthefish9678
      @marlonthefish9678 3 года назад +3

      Yeah i know it's pretty stupid 😅

    • @braxtonthelucario2129
      @braxtonthelucario2129 3 года назад +2

      forget the stright borders its all about circle boarders now

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 года назад +1

      All US borders based on latitude are circular (midpoints based on the North and South Poles)

  • @CharlesGregory
    @CharlesGregory 3 года назад +82

    The "extended cut" on Nebula is 9:44. The extra content is literally shorter than the Nebula ad on the RUclips version.

    • @pearspeedruns
      @pearspeedruns 3 года назад +8

      Well this ad seems misleading now

    • @notjux
      @notjux 3 года назад +6

      To be fair, they probably tried to cut out as little as possible while still getting a decent paycheck. They deserve the revenue.

    • @Dylan-bc2po
      @Dylan-bc2po 3 года назад +7

      Have you considered that on the nebula version they probably removed the nebula ad? Lol

    • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
      @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад +1

      You're saying it's kinda nebulous?

  • @peacefonanih7605
    @peacefonanih7605 3 года назад +221

    "Colorado ain't no rectangle"
    - Real Life Lore 2020

    • @paco3523
      @paco3523 3 года назад +5

      Mercator disliked this

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 3 года назад +10

      Well we still have Wyoming 🙃😉

    • @arandomcommenter6759
      @arandomcommenter6759 3 года назад +15

      @@pulkitmohta8964 wyoming ain't no rectangle

    • @anzacxlag2606
      @anzacxlag2606 3 года назад +11

      @@arandomcommenter6759 Thats no shock considering it doesn't exist

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 года назад +1

      Latitudinal borders are actually circular, with the midpoints based on the North and South Poles

  • @Toucanbird
    @Toucanbird 2 года назад +59

    As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I always wondered why the hell the UP was part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. Never realized it was because there was contention between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip. Tell you what, Michigan made out like bandits in that deal.

    • @Snoil
      @Snoil 2 года назад +1

      We sure did, the UP is fantastic. And Toledo... is the home of the Tigers farm team.

    • @Wisegoatface
      @Wisegoatface Год назад

      Do u guys really eat cheese religiously?

    • @Toucanbird
      @Toucanbird Год назад +3

      @@Wisegoatface That’s a rather odd question. Just because Wisconsin is known for its cheese doesn’t mean people eat it “religiously.” It’s a common food there just due to the fact the state has a large amount of dairy farms.
      Personally, I like cheese quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it’s eaten religiously.

    • @carinaslima
      @carinaslima 11 месяцев назад

      I support UP being part of Delaware

  • @Rerbun
    @Rerbun 3 года назад +113

    RLL: "Everybody knows Michigan has this big upper peninsula..."
    People outside the US: "hmm..."

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 3 года назад +10

      I wonder if Wisconsinites feel the UP should rightly belong to them...

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 года назад +2

      @@riggs20 That be the strangest looking state though.

    • @riggs20
      @riggs20 3 года назад +10

      @@brandonlyon730 LOL! I don't know. I think Maryland would still win the "Weirdest Looking Borders" award! 😀

    • @juliomanuel1885
      @juliomanuel1885 3 года назад +2

      Idk I'm from Ohio and I didn't know about that smaller Michigan enclave.

    • @skyscrapers13
      @skyscrapers13 3 года назад +4

      @@riggs20 wisconsin didnt get statehood until about a decade after this conflict (if you can call it that) but people there still do wish/believe that the UP should be a part of wisconsin. plus a lot of uppers are packers fans so they probably wouldnt mind.

  • @franciscodanconia45
    @franciscodanconia45 3 года назад +19

    Delawarean here... thank you for getting The Wedge history and geography EXACTLY RIGHT !!!

  • @karus_mari
    @karus_mari 3 года назад +38

    Realifelore: *exists.* Dashlane, Brilliant, and Squarespace: *I can milk you.*

    • @HBKnowItAll
      @HBKnowItAll 3 года назад +1

      He cares more about those websites than his videos.

    • @masterpig753
      @masterpig753 3 года назад

      What about skillshare aaaaaa

  • @saalok
    @saalok 3 года назад +94

    "This video is already getting pretty long and youtube doesn't like that"
    1 minute of Nebula ad
    OK

  • @chdreturns
    @chdreturns 3 года назад +15

    4:28 Virginia resident here, we actually have a name for the VA, DE, MD border gore. Its referred to as Delmarva.

  • @philbateman1989
    @philbateman1989 3 года назад +58

    The more I learn about US geography and how the individual states were formed, the more I realize it's basically 50 countries kind of haphazardly glued together XD

    • @AlasixYT
      @AlasixYT Год назад +3

      lol as an American, this is how most of us see it, we're still all Americans but our states have their own holidays, cultures, traditions, history, and laws.

    • @Politography
      @Politography 9 месяцев назад

      But they didn’t feel like gluing Alaska and Hawaii.

  • @jacksonwilkie9447
    @jacksonwilkie9447 3 года назад +17

    The strange peninsula on the bottom right of michigan is called the "lost peninsula". Its like a 25 min drive around

  • @quinnyboyy3011
    @quinnyboyy3011 3 года назад +44

    “This video has been getting pretty long”
    *hasn’t even gotten to 10 minutes yet*

  • @tinypenguinhk
    @tinypenguinhk 3 года назад +127

    New York: *expands into New Jersey waters*
    I can see why New York is the Empire State

    • @USSFFRU
      @USSFFRU 3 года назад

      Building

  • @coasterking4980
    @coasterking4980 3 года назад +33

    Gotta love people talking about the weird borders of my home state of Delaware.

  • @johnspinelli9396
    @johnspinelli9396 3 года назад +138

    Out of all the issues going on imagine going to the Supreme Court over a tiny island 😂

    • @alexanderwalter4595
      @alexanderwalter4595 3 года назад +27

      I've been long aware of the Ellis Island situation. The real reason for the litigation was to decide which state got to collect sales tax revenue from concessions on Ellis Island.

    • @byronh7760
      @byronh7760 3 года назад +8

      The islands NY and NJ are small islands, but big moneymakers, since the statue of liberty is on liberty island and Ellis island makes money too

    • @michaelmorris4515
      @michaelmorris4515 3 года назад +3

      You've never worked in government have you? There are some unimaginatively petty people in politics, and a lot of them are in the governments of NY and NJ.

    • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
      @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад

      Supreme Court: Cool; no heavy thinking and I get to look at a map.

    • @TnseWlms
      @TnseWlms Год назад

      Better than fighting a war over the Falkand Islands.

  • @waynemontpetit8181
    @waynemontpetit8181 3 года назад +11

    I thought "The Toledo Strip" was a gentleman's club...

  • @patrickblanchette4337
    @patrickblanchette4337 3 года назад +17

    4:05 Oh my gosh, it was like a retro version of the South China Sea Dispute!

  • @nunacatt3022
    @nunacatt3022 3 года назад +5

    “Colorado AIN’T no rectangle”😭😭i lost it at the beginning of the video and had to pause. 😂laughed way too hard

  • @hfreddy127
    @hfreddy127 3 года назад +75

    “The Toledo War”
    Combatants: Michigan, Ohio
    Winner: Michigan and Ohio (sorta)
    Loser: Wisconsin

    • @Username-cj8hm
      @Username-cj8hm 3 года назад +10

      The real loser is Ohio, they had to get Toledo

    • @cronaalbarn2146
      @cronaalbarn2146 3 года назад +1

      It could have been worse at least got cody from alternatehistoryhub

    • @baileysagert2813
      @baileysagert2813 3 года назад +6

      Why did they have to ruin Wisconsin with this deal.
      The worst trade deal in the history of trade deals

    • @nono_Hoi4
      @nono_Hoi4 3 года назад

      @@Username-cj8hm Wisconsin: about that

    • @Angelcynn_
      @Angelcynn_ 3 года назад +4

      I'm from Toledo. Trust me, Ohio lost that war. Gettimg Toledo was worse than Wisconsin losing th UP.

  • @CorneliusCody
    @CorneliusCody 3 года назад +8

    7:30 Michigan has 3 disconnected peninsulas. You have to count the “main” one as a peninsula, too, and such, the total is 3.

  • @jar1005
    @jar1005 3 года назад +17

    The u.s is like a whole bunch of mini countries in 1 always arguing.

    • @cheep5645
      @cheep5645 3 года назад +2

      A bunch of mini-countries in a trenchcoat

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 года назад +2

      And the EU is a worse version of the USA

  • @jimllc
    @jimllc 3 года назад +97

    "YT algorithm doesn't really favor that very much."
    *looks at YT recommendations and their 16 to 30 minute videos*

    • @vivek6356
      @vivek6356 3 года назад +1

      Yaa

    • @lukejonesusmc
      @lukejonesusmc 3 года назад +26

      Its just a ploy to get you to sign up for that other shit

    • @jemiller226
      @jemiller226 3 года назад +12

      "RUclips algorithm doesn't really favor that very much, so let's run 2 minutes of ad at the end of 9 minutes of content, thereby making sure we go well over the 10 minute length favored by the algorithm."

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 3 года назад +11

      Yeah, it's a lie. The algorithm does recommend videos less when they are under 10 minutes, but there is no inherent upper limit. There is a limit linked to retention time, since lets say a 3 hour video is unlikely to be watched all the way by most viewers, but this does not have much of an effect on videos under 30 minutes.

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 3 года назад +8

      I got recommended a 7+ hour video. If it's stuff you are interested in, it will usually be recommended to you regardless of length.

  • @JazzyJac
    @JazzyJac 3 года назад +11

    This entire video is just "What were the colonists thinking when figuring out the borders!!?!"

  • @beniu1305
    @beniu1305 3 года назад +5

    Colorado: im a square
    Wyoming: in your dreams (turns colorado into a Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagon)

  • @ncsmith1952
    @ncsmith1952 2 года назад +8

    The rectangular-looking Canadian province of Saskatchewan has a jagged border with Manitoba. When Saskatchewan was surveyed in the 19th century, townships were designed to be 6 miles square, but that meant that every 24 miles going north from the southern border, a jog had to be put in the eastern border, 225 feet, to keep the townships from shrinking.

  • @FaIIenImpact
    @FaIIenImpact 3 года назад +8

    I love how this series has gone on for like 4 years at this point

  • @peterthepanda
    @peterthepanda 3 года назад +201

    LIBERTY ISLAND: New York or New Jersey? CGP Grey discussed this a few years ago.

    • @nainghtutaung3922
      @nainghtutaung3922 3 года назад +2

      Yeah

    • @jamesquaine6264
      @jamesquaine6264 3 года назад +5

      Only reason I clicked this video

    • @ggs339
      @ggs339 3 года назад +3

      Like 8 years ago

    • @influenza3736
      @influenza3736 3 года назад +8

      @@JestyrThe Jersey Shore

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 3 года назад +3

      I love CGP Grey... I'm so happy he's kinda sorta back lol

  • @AMgangwolf
    @AMgangwolf 3 года назад +17

    Geowizard needs to see the part about colorado, reminds me of his straight line missions.

  • @imadeyoureadthis9124
    @imadeyoureadthis9124 3 года назад +153

    exclaves and enclaves: we are a mess
    ellis island: *let me introduce myself*
    edit: no point reading the comments lol

    • @z01nk3r5
      @z01nk3r5 3 года назад +16

      *enclaves and exclaves

    • @imadeyoureadthis9124
      @imadeyoureadthis9124 3 года назад

      @@z01nk3r5 thanks

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 3 года назад +3

      You've not seen the India-Bangladesh border then?

    • @imadeyoureadthis9124
      @imadeyoureadthis9124 3 года назад

      @@dcarbs2979 thats enclaves and exclaves lol

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 3 года назад +1

      @@imadeyoureadthis9124 The terms are commutable

  • @weedfather6391
    @weedfather6391 3 года назад +2

    ngl this is my favorite series of yours

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 3 года назад +8

    Probably my favourite bizarre state boundary situation is the Kentucky Bend, a piece of Kentucky separated from the rest of the state as a result of the Mississipi River and the boundary agreements between Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. The 36.5 Parallel was supposed to be the whole boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky up to the river, but when surveyors reached the river it was a 10th of a degree north of the parallel. The one between Kentucky and Missouri is the river, hence why Kentucky Bend is cut off from the rest of the state

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin Год назад

      The feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons in "Huckleberry Finn" takes place there.

  • @joshchotiner
    @joshchotiner 3 года назад +7

    For the amount of Colorado references you make, you must either live there or be from there! 😂 I am a native Denverite though, so I always love seeing the references!

  • @sovietyuri
    @sovietyuri 3 года назад +80

    "see the thumbnail"
    Ah it's cgp grey

  • @maxandblack
    @maxandblack 3 года назад +70

    Usa: The Most Confusing Geography Country in the World

    • @BahKnee
      @BahKnee 3 года назад +4

      I forget who made it, but there's a good video somewhere on YT that talks about the borders of Bangladesh and India. I think that is far more confusing.

    • @mackycabangon8945
      @mackycabangon8945 3 года назад +2

      @@BahKnee I mean those enclaves (including that third-order-enclave) are fixed

  • @bwcubic1798
    @bwcubic1798 3 года назад +39

    The Narator's criticisms about borders always makes me entertained.

  • @kadash7126
    @kadash7126 3 года назад +5

    "Wacky united states"
    -German empire, 1918.

  • @degenerals6127
    @degenerals6127 3 года назад +32

    The us just looks like a map drawn by a toddler using rectangular stencils.

    • @BigAl2-u7e
      @BigAl2-u7e 3 года назад

      the west half*

    • @mackycabangon8945
      @mackycabangon8945 3 года назад +1

      Yea. That kinda checks out actually! Especially because since the eastern states were made first (in our analogy, the toddler drew them first and probably didnt have stencils on hand/really messed up, which kinda explains the natural-ness of some of their borders in a way that makes you question what I am doing with my life due to my overthinking

  • @mattd2026
    @mattd2026 3 года назад +3

    I used to live right next to that Michigan upper peninsula. So cool that you included it!

  • @maxfi878
    @maxfi878 3 года назад +22

    The people calculating Colorado's borders were doing straight line missions before GeoWizard made them popular.

    • @vialactea5549
      @vialactea5549 3 года назад +3

      Straight Line Mission across the Colorado borders coming soon.

  • @edmjfamily5606
    @edmjfamily5606 2 года назад +1

    “ Colorado ain’t no rectangle” HAHA🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @michaelmccurry7273
    @michaelmccurry7273 3 года назад +2

    Everyone’s favourite RUclips series

  • @zevsteinhardt6221
    @zevsteinhardt6221 3 года назад +3

    Minor nitpick: The NY-NJ dispute did not "go all the way up to the Supreme Court." SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over disputes between states. The case started and ended with SCOTUS.

  • @JordanRunge14
    @JordanRunge14 3 года назад +36

    So as a Wisconsinite, we got screwed out of the UP because of Ohio? Just another reason to hate Ohio

  • @Eleqtr0
    @Eleqtr0 3 года назад +17

    The feeling when historical content is visualized and made interesting is only possible on this channel. :)

    • @thedonpurplemanradiohour2508
      @thedonpurplemanradiohour2508 3 года назад +5

      ...other Channels do the exact same thing (:

    • @Ok-ik4ww
      @Ok-ik4ww 3 года назад +2

      Half as interesting: am I a joke to you?

    • @Ok-ik4ww
      @Ok-ik4ww 3 года назад +2

      Also wendover productions

    • @Eidolon1andOnly
      @Eidolon1andOnly 3 года назад +4

      Yarnhub, Simple History, Over Simplified, Sam O'Nella Acadamy, Half as Interesting, etc.
      There's loads of channels that do historical content, in visualized form in very entertaining ways.

    • @Nicarand
      @Nicarand 3 года назад +2

      Check out Kraut, Extra History or the Crash Course series' on history. There's tons of high quality history content on RUclips.

  • @LauGman
    @LauGman 3 года назад +9

    0:31 “Colorado ain’t no rectangle”
    This made me laugh embarrassingly loud at home

  • @zaydoesmusic
    @zaydoesmusic 3 года назад +2

    "colorado aint no rectangle" just got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 3 года назад +9

    7:00 I think we have situations like Hancock everywhere in Germany. Our state lines are based on geographical features and centuries old land claims, so there's probably not a single straight line anywhere longer than a few hundred meters. Switching states several times on a straight stretch of road isn't that rare here.

  • @jamesrehan9969
    @jamesrehan9969 3 года назад +53

    There are so many enclaves an enclaves with the Mississippi and Missouri River states, due to the changing of the river

    • @jakekillsrah1933
      @jakekillsrah1933 3 года назад +3

      Don’t forget about the Ohio and Delaware river as well

    • @Quintinohthree
      @Quintinohthree 3 года назад

      Technically there is just one: the Kentucky Bend, and that is strictly an exclave as it borders two different states. The river is fully part of the state so having to cross the river to get to another part of the state does not make that part an exclave.

    • @jakekillsrah1933
      @jakekillsrah1933 3 года назад

      @@Quintinohthree nah mate if you look at a map there are plenty of them. I look at maps all the time. For example there is a big piece of Kentucky across the Ohio river that should be on the Indiana side in Evansville and that’s just one.

    • @Quintinohthree
      @Quintinohthree 3 года назад

      @@jakekillsrah1933 Right, across the Ohio River, which is in Kentucky, both banks and everything in between, so you go from Kentucky, cross a river which is still all in Kentucky, and then you gwt to Kentucky. That's not an exclave or an enclave, that's just the border no longer following the current course of a river

    • @rianpilcher5392
      @rianpilcher5392 3 года назад

      Maybe he talks about it in Nebula

  • @akuma7616
    @akuma7616 3 года назад +45

    GeoWizard would've done a perfect straight line mission, only if he was there :D

    • @luis_zuniga
      @luis_zuniga 3 года назад +6

      Would love to see a "Straight line mission across Colorado"

  • @oscarleperelepere7282
    @oscarleperelepere7282 3 года назад +1

    Wow that was so cool and quite funny to me haha
    I love your videos I'm from Mexico I can't understand a 10-15 % of what you're saying but your channel is a lot interesting to me I've learned a lot from you thank you

  • @bradpainter3650
    @bradpainter3650 3 года назад +1

    Love these border videos! Keep them coming!

  • @Randomhandleig
    @Randomhandleig 3 года назад +4

    People: Colorado is a rectangle
    RLL: No it’s a hexahectanneacontakai heptagon

  • @M4nw1thnoname9
    @M4nw1thnoname9 3 года назад +11

    As someone from Ohio, give toledo to Michigan, or as I call it little Detroit

    • @stefanchirica7
      @stefanchirica7 3 года назад

      As someone from Sylvania, I’d much rather live in Michigan

    • @dvferyance
      @dvferyance 3 года назад +1

      Ohio still has got plenty of little Detroits. Lorain, Akron, Youngstown ect.

  • @daniel_horn
    @daniel_horn 3 года назад +4

    I moved from the UK to Toledo as part of a foreign exchange for two semesters between my university here and UT. From my personal experience all I can say is, Ohio, it was not worth fighting over. 😂

  • @AmazingAwesomeAlaska
    @AmazingAwesomeAlaska Год назад +1

    I've been to the Lost Peninsula in Michigan. It's a bunch of private houses/marinas, two restaurants, and a small sign saying "Lost Peninsula." That's it. Since it's not much, it doesn't surprise me that few people know of it

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 3 года назад

    Okay video. Thanks for uploading! Like how long it was!

  • @Regian
    @Regian 3 года назад +5

    2:08
    GeoWizard: Yep that's easy lol

  • @Adko-jg4lm
    @Adko-jg4lm 3 года назад +3

    Happy new year guys!! from Slovakia =D

  • @MonoIyth
    @MonoIyth 3 года назад +44

    Wyoming - *My time has come.*

  • @kalu6
    @kalu6 3 года назад +2

    Another banger!

  • @rgeorgek42
    @rgeorgek42 3 года назад +2

    That wicked smooth transition at 8:54 😎

  • @thejessing9911
    @thejessing9911 3 года назад +4

    There’s also a little circle of land in the southwestern corner of Kentucky that’s completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee called the Kentucky Bend. It’s pretty weird.

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 3 года назад +15

    2:29 well actually, if you take it from ancient Greek, but flip the digits, as with the rest of the shapes, it's a hexakosia kai enenekonta kai hepta-gon, or all in one word, hexakosiakaienenekontakaiheptagon

  • @Housewarmin
    @Housewarmin 3 года назад +5

    “Colorado ain’t no rectangle” new merch 2021

  • @thisaintart
    @thisaintart 2 года назад

    Your videos are super interesting and for some reason they help me sleep when I’m tired… thank you!

  • @sub-zer0189
    @sub-zer0189 3 года назад +2

    Keep this series going, i love it.

  • @AntonWongVideo
    @AntonWongVideo 3 года назад +9

    2:29 Forget CGP Grey! Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagons are the Bestagons!!!

  • @jacobpainter5979
    @jacobpainter5979 3 года назад +3

    “This video is already getting pretty long”... continues to have an ad for the next 2 minutes.

  • @alex-wl4sb
    @alex-wl4sb 3 года назад +52

    10 minutes isn’t too long for the RUclips Algorithm what do you mean

    • @bakedstreetyt
      @bakedstreetyt 3 года назад +25

      just a way to plug his paid shit

    • @saimcheeda93
      @saimcheeda93 3 года назад +5

      That's what I was thinking. In fact, most channels stretch videos out to 10 minutes because it's better according to the algorithm

    • @ricardogarzon5317
      @ricardogarzon5317 3 года назад +3

      I think the algorithm favors 8 minute videos now

    • @hosinaljomaa8722
      @hosinaljomaa8722 3 года назад +2

      I really wanted to see the rest of the video but nebula is for money

    • @masynbeene5485
      @masynbeene5485 3 года назад +2

      He does it to stretch his videos to get lots of extra money and he used to be a good youtuber like 2 to 4 years ago the 1 year ago to now all of his videos were dumb sponsored

  • @samuelevans8384
    @samuelevans8384 3 года назад

    The return of the best series lfg

  • @ununoctium1183
    @ununoctium1183 3 года назад +1

    geography: Colorado is a perfect rectangle...
    real life lore: that ain't no rectangle...

  • @Chrischi3TutorialLPs
    @Chrischi3TutorialLPs 3 года назад +11

    Noone:
    Absolutely noone:
    Not even one atom in this universe or any other:
    Oklahoma: *P A N H A N D L E*

  • @Julianicos
    @Julianicos 3 года назад +6

    As a person that's from Wisconsin, I'm still salty that we don't have the upper peninsula.

  • @pixelanation
    @pixelanation 3 года назад +6

    Everybody: "The United States is a complicated country"
    RealLifeLore: "a complicated geometry"

  • @UntarLaManteca
    @UntarLaManteca 2 года назад +2

    US people: Criticize Africa and Asia for having straight line borders
    Also the US:

  • @negativenancy9482
    @negativenancy9482 3 года назад

    the youtube algorythms don't favor long video's. goes on to talk about nebula for 4 minutes. just got you over the 10 minute mark xD doe normaal man

  • @isaacl.6536
    @isaacl.6536 3 года назад +10

    Can we remind the US of the NC and VA borders in the outer banks where 18 miles south of the VA line there is an outer banks island which belongs to VA and the beaches belong to north carolina there is a similar situation where the town of beaufort NC/SC is cut in half. Not sure why either of these happened but if that could be clarified it would be great.There are probably more and probably an entire show in the outer banks.

  • @Saul-vt1th
    @Saul-vt1th 3 года назад +3

    Our thoughts and prayers for the people who live in Delaware 🙏

  • @michaelwilkie35
    @michaelwilkie35 3 года назад +6

    Learning that Colorado isn’t a rectangle sums up how 2020 was to all of us.

  • @danvan318
    @danvan318 3 года назад +1

    Wyoming: “Oh, you’re doing the video on Colorado? Yeah I figured….”

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 3 года назад

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!