The World's Largest Country Subdivisions

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @ayayay001
    @ayayay001 11 месяцев назад +341

    Funny how they're mostly middle-of-nowhere places that are too empty to divide into smaller pieces.

    • @martenkats6915
      @martenkats6915 11 месяцев назад +65

      Surely that is what you'd expect? If they aren't empty "middle-of-nowhere" places, you'd subdivide them further.

    • @sefyaa
      @sefyaa 11 месяцев назад +1

      as a queenslander, we are considering diving our state north and south@@martenkats6915
      edit: let me elaborate, there is a want around north queensland to divide themselves from the south because places like brisbane and gold coast is taking all the money

    • @robertthomson1587
      @robertthomson1587 11 месяцев назад +16

      Indeed. Pretty obvious really.

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +6

      It's funny how things that are obvious to most of us are a whole new discovery for others...like including a subject and verb to make a complete sentence.

    • @markaven5249
      @markaven5249 10 месяцев назад

      Hey, you want some cheap rent dontcha

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 11 месяцев назад +233

    Yakatutsk 💀
    btw the thing with Sakha is that even though it has the coldest winters anywhere on Earth outside Antarctica, it also has warm to hot summers with temperatures hovering around 30 degrees Celsius regularly in July and August and that's a big game changer compared to places like Nunavut and Greenland where the temperature virtually never rises above 10C.

    • @businessmanbrute2211
      @businessmanbrute2211 11 месяцев назад +23

      Because sakha is quite far away from any large water body. This allows the change in temprature to be much more drastic. Whereas the temprature in nunavut remains sort of constant throughout the year.

    • @aidenlee5988
      @aidenlee5988 11 месяцев назад +1

      30c isn’t hot at all

    • @greasher926
      @greasher926 11 месяцев назад +29

      @@aidenlee5988for a place that is 62 degrees north that is. Yakutsk’s record high is 38.4C (101.4F) find me another place that far north that can get that hot?

    • @timdella92
      @timdella92 11 месяцев назад

      @@aidenlee598830c is hot. I live in the Philippines and when the temp hovers around 30, either I spend my time at the mall or turn on the ac at home.

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@aidenlee5988it's literally in the Arctic/subarctic region, for it to reach 30 degrees in the summer is definitely hot, Scandinavia Greenland and northern Canada Iceland all aren't usually that hot

  • @haleysettembre
    @haleysettembre 11 месяцев назад +389

    Sakha follows 3 time zones. That's right, 3 time zones in a single subdivision

    • @Account_abandoned-q7m
      @Account_abandoned-q7m 11 месяцев назад +9

      Literally Russia

    • @theconnaisseur
      @theconnaisseur 11 месяцев назад +21

      Same with Nunavut

    • @andycockrum1212
      @andycockrum1212 11 месяцев назад +2

      that's only 1 more than my state

    • @greasher926
      @greasher926 11 месяцев назад +15

      The further north you go the shorter the distance between each zone. They all converge at the North Pole. When standing on the poles you can exist at all time zones at the same time.

    • @ewankelly8006
      @ewankelly8006 11 месяцев назад +1

      same with new south wales

  • @joaopedrodantas2147
    @joaopedrodantas2147 11 месяцев назад +80

    Amazonas state population is acutally 4 million people, 2 million live in Manaus

  • @klausuberhauser4303
    @klausuberhauser4303 11 месяцев назад +118

    Bro really said "yakatutsk" ☠️

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 10 месяцев назад +9

      Some people can't even pronounce "America."

    • @Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ
      @Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ 10 месяцев назад +10

      In Russia, we pronounce this name as Yakutsk (Якутск), not Yakatutsk

    • @geornaidv
      @geornaidv 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ он так и написалБ только прочитал неправильно

  • @robthetraveler1099
    @robthetraveler1099 11 месяцев назад +101

    6:58 Fun fact: there is an island called Victoria Island (Kitlineq) that is split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. It's the 8th-largest island in the world, larger than Great Britain, and has a population of 2168. Think about that.

    • @TheRepublicOfSavadia
      @TheRepublicOfSavadia 11 месяцев назад +15

      Canadians would be proud of that population amount.

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@TheRepublicOfSavadia Why would anyone be proud of a population?

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 10 месяцев назад +3

      We don't care

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 10 месяцев назад +4

      You forget to mention :
      PERMANENTLY cold
      Unproductive land
      Leads to nowhere as it sits in 80°N

    • @joepiazza3756
      @joepiazza3756 10 месяцев назад +4

      And before Nunavut was formed, the Northwest Territories was the largest subdivision in the world. That was in 1999 so well into modern times so it isn't like we are going back to a larger NWT or French Louisiana or anything.

  • @adannycamacho5619
    @adannycamacho5619 11 месяцев назад +97

    I have some ideas:
    1. Smallest subdivisions
    2. Most populated subdivisions
    3. Most densely populated subdivisions

    • @robertmichel8456
      @robertmichel8456 11 месяцев назад +7

      smallest subdivision is the vatican

    • @tiagoprado7001
      @tiagoprado7001 11 месяцев назад +30

      @@robertmichel8456 nah, it's the pope's bedroom

    • @unknownboy0
      @unknownboy0 11 месяцев назад +10

      India will casually dominate all the most populated and most densely populated subdivisions in the world.

    • @siddheshk6943
      @siddheshk6943 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@unknownboy0Uttar Pradesh is a state from India which if it would have been a country would have only be behind China, India, US and Indonesia in population..it's crazy

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 11 месяцев назад

      @@unknownboy0 india has more habitable landmass than china while having almost equal population.

  • @jaffa3717
    @jaffa3717 11 месяцев назад +61

    I'd love to go to some of these 'middle of nowhere' sort of places someday. It's crazy how most of these places are seen as isolated and forgettable by most people, but to the people who live there, it's home, and always has been

    • @deeptoot1453
      @deeptoot1453 11 месяцев назад +1

      You should visit Yakutsk in December. I heard it's beautiful.

    • @C0lon0
      @C0lon0 11 месяцев назад

      The state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil has some of this, we have municipalities with 3km² and also municipalities with 3 people per km², some of them are only two or three municipalities apart of each other.

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 11 месяцев назад

      make sure you dont get lost.

    • @PicklesRTasty
      @PicklesRTasty 11 месяцев назад

      As someone who used to live in one? No you dont, there is NOTHING and there's a reason companies have to pay obscene sums to get people to move there

    • @hydrohelic
      @hydrohelic 10 месяцев назад

      Definitely come to my home town, Perth in WA. Especially during December, nice and warm. Or come in April, little cooler then

  • @centredoorplugsthornton4112
    @centredoorplugsthornton4112 10 месяцев назад +16

    Nunavut is a territory, not a province of Canada.
    There's something of an independence movement in Greenland. One of its 2 members of the Danish Parliament was disciplined for speaking in the native Greenland language, not Danish.
    Most of Western Australia apart from the Perth area is one single parliamentary constituency, the largest legislative district in the world.

    • @kf9346
      @kf9346 10 месяцев назад +7

      Another correction: He called Québec a "state" at the end of that segment, we don't have states, we have 10 provinces and 3 territories. Québec is a province.

  • @Elmo_000
    @Elmo_000 11 месяцев назад +24

    ⚠️Correction: Amazonas State in Brazil have 4 mi. Manaus, the capital of Amazonas have 2.1 mi

  • @frizzy60
    @frizzy60 11 месяцев назад +52

    This video should keep everyone from Texas very quiet. The people from Texas always try and project an image that everything in Texas is bigger and better

    • @theuserjoan
      @theuserjoan 11 месяцев назад +6

      BC Canada isn’t thought of as a very big province and yet twice the size of texas

    • @guyplayingjtoh
      @guyplayingjtoh 11 месяцев назад

      as a texan its only the bullshitters although texas has 3 good things

    • @IonianGarden
      @IonianGarden 11 месяцев назад +11

      New South Wales is Australia's 5th largest subdivision, and even that state is bigger than Texas.

    • @lilpanadero
      @lilpanadero 11 месяцев назад +8

      Texas is ranked a mere 26th lmao

    • @guyplayingjtoh
      @guyplayingjtoh 11 месяцев назад

      @@theuserjoan province?

  • @brunocavalcante2328
    @brunocavalcante2328 11 месяцев назад +46

    Great video!!
    Correction: the population of Amazonas state is about 4 million. 2.1 milion is Manaus Population (the capital)
    Great Job!!

  • @silentsoup8857
    @silentsoup8857 11 месяцев назад +15

    1. Sakha, Russia
    2. Western Australia, Australia
    3. Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
    4. Greenland, Denmark
    5. Nunavut, Canada
    6. Queensland, Australia
    7. Alaska, USA
    8. Xinjiang, China
    9. Amazonas, Brazil
    10. Quebec, Canada
    11. Northern Territory, Australia

    • @jackass130nm
      @jackass130nm 11 месяцев назад

      i thought nunavut would be the largest

    • @NanobanaKinako
      @NanobanaKinako 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@jackass130nm If you count water area then might be.

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@NanobanaKinako "water area" is counted only when bodies of water like lakes and rivers are present, not the surrounding coastal waters and even with water area counted, Nunavut is still smaller

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@jackass130nm you thought wrong

    • @jackass130nm
      @jackass130nm 10 месяцев назад

      @@grandetristesse3370 wdym i thought wrong

  • @kybeozactus407
    @kybeozactus407 10 месяцев назад +4

    The administrative centre of Sakha is YAKUTSK. It came from the alternative name of the Republic - “Yakutia”, - with a typically Russian ending -sk for cities (like Krasnoyarsk, Smolensk, Lugansk, etc).

  • @BenjaminGroff-qi6lc
    @BenjaminGroff-qi6lc 10 месяцев назад +4

    Sakha Republic is also home to the 2 coldest settlements on earth. Yakutsk, and Oymyakon.

  • @scipioafricanus5871
    @scipioafricanus5871 10 месяцев назад +1

    Australian Antarctic Territory (5,896,500 km2): Am I a joke to you?

    • @annoyed707
      @annoyed707 23 дня назад

      The legal status of Antarctic claims and lack of inhabitants suggest not.

  • @fmyoung
    @fmyoung 2 месяца назад

    9:45 I found a local anthem for Sakha here on RUclips years ago. It's quite stately!

  • @deltachimaera
    @deltachimaera 11 месяцев назад +8

    Thanks to Risk I know how to pronounce Yakutsk properly

  • @unsrinivasan256
    @unsrinivasan256 10 месяцев назад +3

    Now we need a most populous subdivisions video

  • @simon_patterson
    @simon_patterson 10 месяцев назад +2

    You missed Tibet at 2.5 mil square km, which would put it at no 3 on your list just behind Western Australia.

  • @jamesinorlando3454
    @jamesinorlando3454 10 месяцев назад +6

    Nunavut is not a province. It's a territory.

  • @juliansmith4295
    @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +7

    First you referred to Québec as a state (It's a province). Then you called Nunavut a province three times (It's a territory). As for the pronunciation of Iqaluit, I have no idea where you were headed with that.

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@greatpyramid4348 With your complete lack of punctuation, and a phrase like "you're acting like," it's clear you're probably only about 12 years old, so I'll explain this to you.
      He called Québec a state once, and so I corrected him, that's all. With Nunavut, he referred to it as a province _three_ times, so I let him know.
      Have a nice day.

    • @Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ
      @Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@juliansmith4295A person may just speak English poorly because it's not his native language, isn't it?

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Обычныйчеловек-ч3ъ The tag "isn't it" at the end of your question would be an indication that English is likely not your first language. Therefore, I have no problem with you. Quite the opposite, in fact.
      However, that person spoke like a child, and his attitude was childish.
      Have a great day.

  • @anakinlapierre-tate4127
    @anakinlapierre-tate4127 10 месяцев назад +2

    Prior to 1999 Canada's Northwest Territory included all of Nunavut and measured 3.4 million km²

  • @roshan11140
    @roshan11140 11 месяцев назад +24

    By population, India's Uttar Pradesh is largest subdivision with unbelievable population of 250 millions.. 😮😮

  • @mikeetee
    @mikeetee 11 месяцев назад +9

    Fun video. Though Nunavut is a Canadian territory, not a province

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад +9

      and Québec is a province, not a state. It's amazing that he could screw both of those up.

  • @allieniner675
    @allieniner675 11 месяцев назад +7

    I’m delighted you pronounced Brisbane correctly ✌🏻

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад

      At least he got one thing right.

    • @bigwilly528
      @bigwilly528 10 месяцев назад

      Couldn’t pronounced Quebec right though 😅

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад

      @@bigwilly528 That's not all he got wrong about Québec.

    • @DonutMaster56
      @DonutMaster56 5 месяцев назад

      I know it would be wrong in French, but is his pronunciation of Quebec not correct in English either?

  • @AOOA926
    @AOOA926 11 месяцев назад +8

    Greenland has its own subdivisions

    • @WistfuII
      @WistfuII 11 месяцев назад +10

      Greenland is also its own subdivision within the Kingdom of Denmark

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 11 месяцев назад

      @@WistfuII so australia and canada is its own division of london.

    • @thenoobprincev2529
      @thenoobprincev2529 10 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 In a monty python tone:
      Yes they are.

  • @larryroyovitz7829
    @larryroyovitz7829 10 месяцев назад +2

    In 1999 Nunavut separated from Northwest Territories in Canada. Prior to that, Northwest Territories, was 3,439,296 square KMs. Making it THE largest by a long shot, than even number 1 in this video. Alas, today, that is not the case.

    • @Snusnu2977
      @Snusnu2977 6 месяцев назад +1

      By that case the largest subdivision will go to kazakstan SSR before 1991

  • @HannesLindbeck
    @HannesLindbeck 11 месяцев назад +15

    Love your videos, but please say "square kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared"

  • @kenfromstreetfighter3432
    @kenfromstreetfighter3432 11 месяцев назад

    Love these videos ❤

  • @IsabelJones69
    @IsabelJones69 11 месяцев назад +3

    Here's a video idea if you haven't done it already: regions/states/countries/territories/provinces of the world that have similar shapes/outlines.

  • @appa609
    @appa609 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think Quebec is the only region on this list that would be considered part of the "core" of its country.

  • @brentgill7180
    @brentgill7180 11 месяцев назад +10

    Nunavut is a territory not a province! Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories, all of which are in the far north. Basically it means their territorial affairs are handled by the Federal government instead of the Provincial government like the southern provinces. Interestingly, until 1999 Nunavut was a part of the Northwest Territories, which would have been Ranked #1

    • @theuserjoan
      @theuserjoan 11 месяцев назад +1

      crazy how big nwt used to be. and before that it encompassed all of western canada too

    • @W.LL1999
      @W.LL1999 10 месяцев назад

      @@theuserjoan Except British Columbia, which was a separate colony.

  • @grandmasteryoda6717
    @grandmasteryoda6717 11 месяцев назад +5

    I really hope to visit one of these places before I die. Except Amazonas, I've already been there.

  • @MohamedRynx8
    @MohamedRynx8 11 месяцев назад +1

    Watching you're videos keeps me calm

  • @Drsteveturley69
    @Drsteveturley69 11 месяцев назад +2

    Although the northern territory is sparsely populated it is fucking crazy place up there

  • @fmyoung
    @fmyoung 2 месяца назад

    9:45 Sakha is almost as large as India (which in turn is the 7th-largest country in the world)

  • @fmyoung
    @fmyoung 2 месяца назад

    6:32 Nunavut is about three-fourths the size of Argentina

  • @jonathanthomsen3111
    @jonathanthomsen3111 11 месяцев назад +1

    9:26 / 9:28 Sakha, Yakutsk, Russia 🇷🇺, Area 3,083,523 km2, Population 996,243, Rank within sovereign state 1st, Population density 0.32/km2 😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉😃😊😎😄😄🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻🤘🏻🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

    • @welran
      @welran 10 месяцев назад

      It's over 1 million now. From June 2023

    • @chrisdingley9277
      @chrisdingley9277 8 месяцев назад +1

      I enjoy the amount of beer emojis used in your post. You did make me desperate for a pint though

    • @jonathanthomsen3111
      @jonathanthomsen3111 7 месяцев назад

      @@welranOkay

    • @jonathanthomsen3111
      @jonathanthomsen3111 7 месяцев назад

      @@chrisdingley9277Okay my friend 🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻

  • @jifj9517
    @jifj9517 10 месяцев назад

    3:11 It's wrong. This is the population of Manaus (capital city of the state of Amazonas). The population of Amazonas is around 4 million people

  • @fmyoung
    @fmyoung 2 месяца назад

    6:15 That's where the 2032 Summer Olympics are going to be (July 23rd-August 8th)

  • @markastoforoff7838
    @markastoforoff7838 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nunavut is a territory not a province. It used to be part of the North West Territories which was a much larger land size.

  • @stevenroshni1228
    @stevenroshni1228 11 месяцев назад +1

    Basically the places are so remote there's no desire for subdivision

    • @CortexNewsService
      @CortexNewsService 11 месяцев назад

      Not can they support large populations. Desert and tundra make it hard to grow crops

  • @stivvits1067
    @stivvits1067 10 месяцев назад +1

    It is so much more to say about Sakha.. Coldest populated place on Earth (Oymiakon), Yakut people and why it is Republic and not oblast or anything, and correct capital name

  • @TACOINSURANCE
    @TACOINSURANCE 11 месяцев назад +3

    Your Canada work was a bit sloppy. Quebec is a province, not a state (Canada doesn’t have states), and Nunavut is a territory, not a province. The territory v province distinction is similar to Australian states versus territories but you managed to know that one. Nunavut even has its own particulars compared to Yukon and NWT in that it is entirely administered by First Nations.

    • @TACOINSURANCE
      @TACOINSURANCE 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@greatpyramid4348 he also repeatedly called Nunavut a province, which it distinctly isn’t. He acknowledged the state/territory distinction in Australia, made special note of it in fact, but not province/territory in Canada. As I said, just a bit sloppy.

  • @benvanzon3234
    @benvanzon3234 10 месяцев назад +1

    Saying that an area covers a distance sounds a bit weird to me tbh, nevertheless, a very interesting video!

  • @noble6882
    @noble6882 10 месяцев назад

    Good video

  • @rosiefay7283
    @rosiefay7283 10 месяцев назад

    5:00 Aw, pun opportunity missed!

  • @lolplzlolplz1
    @lolplzlolplz1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Smallest subdivisions next? xD

  • @docjanos
    @docjanos 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nunavut is not a Province. It is a Territory. In that respect Nunavut has a similar relationship to the Federal Governemnt as Northern Australia has to its. You also referred to Quebec as a "state". It is a Province.
    Greenland is not a subdivsion. It is a Dependency. Alaska, Quebec, Nunavat, Amazonas etc. are all consitutent parts of a sovereign state. Greenland is mostly independent of Denmark but its foreign relations are hnadled by Copenhage,

  • @Lucius_Shiro
    @Lucius_Shiro 11 месяцев назад +3

    So Australia's Northern Territory is bigger than mi amado Perú? Jesus Christ I thought we were big

    • @phllphe
      @phllphe 10 месяцев назад

      You are nothing compared to Brazil XD

    • @Lucius_Shiro
      @Lucius_Shiro 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@phllphe At least we got most of the Andes 😭

    • @phllphe
      @phllphe 10 месяцев назад

      @@Lucius_Shiro Nobody cares about the Andes 😂😂😂

    • @Lucius_Shiro
      @Lucius_Shiro 10 месяцев назад

      @@phllphe You know the Andes mountain are the reason the Amazonas Rainforest exists, right?

    • @phllphe
      @phllphe 10 месяцев назад

      @@Lucius_Shiro Remeture nim subemis, gratuti per falla me dex e

  • @BasilPunton
    @BasilPunton 10 месяцев назад +2

    Another one who expresses areas as km squared. When it should be square km. 5 km squared is 25 square km. Hugh difference.

    • @eduardopupucon
      @eduardopupucon 10 месяцев назад

      5km² is 25km, not 25 square km, you are just being pedantic

  • @italianball6653
    @italianball6653 6 месяцев назад +1

    7:51 💥☢️

  • @quarrellousquaker
    @quarrellousquaker 10 месяцев назад

    Some of these figures are slightly misleading - for instance, the figures here are for total (i.e. land + water), not land area. Since no one lives on open water, the population density for Alaska (over 20 % of which is water in its total area) is slightly higher, when water area is subtracted.

  • @fmyoung
    @fmyoung 2 месяца назад

    8:54 I hear Western Australia contemplated seceding from the rest of the country in the '30s

  • @prayagraj976
    @prayagraj976 11 месяцев назад

    I hope they make such video of subdivisions based on population.

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 8 месяцев назад

    I've lived almost everywhere in Oz, but I've never been to WA and have always wanted to go there.

  • @kenaikuskokwim9694
    @kenaikuskokwim9694 11 месяцев назад +1

    "Subdivision" sounds so "top-down", while federations are more "bottom-up". There must be a better term, such as constituent unit.

  • @AmyRuby
    @AmyRuby 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nunavut is a territory, not a province. I mean dude you even explained the difference at the beginning of the video. Also fun fact, until 1999 it was the largest subdivision in the world, until Canada divided it for, reasons?

  • @Guvvive
    @Guvvive 11 месяцев назад +1

    After Tokyo, Kiruna in Sweden, is the largest township. It borders both Norway and Finland, with a population of only 23000!

    • @ShiftySqvirrel
      @ShiftySqvirrel 10 месяцев назад

      What do you mean by township? When I try searching for largest townships I just get cities, of which the Tokyo metropolitan area is the largest, though if we go by city proper we have Chongqing in China as the largest.

  • @darwinqpenaflorida3797
    @darwinqpenaflorida3797 10 месяцев назад

    The largest province in the Philippines in terms of land area was Palawan, while the largest province in Indonesia was Kalimantan Utara

  • @Blu3.mov1901
    @Blu3.mov1901 4 месяца назад

    Fun fact Alaska may be larger than Western Europe but it is smaller than the country of Libya

  • @crazyjimheath
    @crazyjimheath 11 месяцев назад

    awesome vid

  • @samueljones1262
    @samueljones1262 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nice video. I enjoyed it a lot. Just one thing; you say on several occasions "it covers a distance of XX kilometres squared". This is not a distance, this is an area. Distance is one-dimensional (a straight line), whereas area is 2-dimensional.

  • @Peizxcv
    @Peizxcv 11 месяцев назад +2

    You should use land size and not total size as North America state/provinces have a very inflated water territory. Alaska wouldn’t even be in top 10 if use real size

    • @Peizxcv
      @Peizxcv 11 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 Enjoy living on water then

    • @Peizxcv
      @Peizxcv 11 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 You don't get it do you? The US and Canada inflate the numbers so there is no apple to apple comparison because other large country don't cheat on water as far as I know.
      In fact, there are multiple official sizes for the US depending on how much water is included. There are also multiple size for China in western sources but none of them includes any water.
      You'd say this is pointless but it moves Canada and the US ahread of China in size ranking whereas they would fall behind China if no water was included

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@greatpyramid4348the difference is that mountains and deserts are actually part of the land area and can be inhabited, not WATER BODIES ,
      Real size of Canada is 8.9 million km2, contiguous usa is 7.65 million km2, Brazil is 7.5 million sq km

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад

      @@grandetristesse3370 1. The area that is covered by water is still part of the country.
      2. All countries are measured the same.
      3. You're bananas.

    • @GalacticR.E.M
      @GalacticR.E.M 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@juliansmith4295
      Nice try😂.
      But the usa love/loved to inflate it's size to appar as BIG and scary and whatever. But the usa measure itself a but differently then the world. It not only includes it's inland water bodies like it's big lakes AND a few tens of km from its coast + it's water territories so yeah the true size of contiguous usa is about 7.5 mkm2

  • @ColRadley
    @ColRadley 6 месяцев назад

    Well, now we need the reverse… 10 smallest subdivisions in the world!

  • @Jintythebestengine
    @Jintythebestengine Месяц назад

    10. Québec 🇨🇦
    9. State of Amazonas 🇧🇷
    8. Xinjiang 🇨🇳
    7. Alaska 🇺🇸
    6. Queensland 🇦🇺
    5. Nunavut 🇨🇦
    4. Greenland 🇬🇱
    3. Krasnoyarsk Krai 🇷🇺
    2. Western Australia 🇦🇺
    1. Sakha Republic 🇷🇺

  • @ok-cn6yr
    @ok-cn6yr 10 месяцев назад

    me and the boys spreading ourselves out by 1km squared with this one 🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @freddypedraza2066
    @freddypedraza2066 4 месяца назад

    This video is useful to give Texans an exorcism

  • @StewNWT
    @StewNWT 10 месяцев назад

    Prior to the split of the Northwest Territories the NWT would have been the largest in the world with 3.3 million sq km

  • @ghostdjgaming
    @ghostdjgaming 10 месяцев назад

    Fun fact: Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world

  • @MarkIsAwesome
    @MarkIsAwesome 5 месяцев назад

    8:35 KRASNOYARSK IS WHERE I WAS BORN!

  • @PolecanePC
    @PolecanePC 11 месяцев назад

    Are Australian teritories so big because they basically are only able to accomodate people on the coasts/near the coast?

    • @crazymusicchick
      @crazymusicchick 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yea basically today it was 42"c and yesterday 44c in western Australia and thats in Perth by the Sea it be tad hotter inland and up north

    • @floycewhite6991
      @floycewhite6991 8 месяцев назад

      @@crazymusicchick The reason I have no interest in visiting Australia is that your climate is too similar to where I've lived most of my life in the US. That and the 11-hour flight in both directions.

    • @chrisdingley9277
      @chrisdingley9277 8 месяцев назад

      @@floycewhite6991the beaches here are like nothing you would ever see in the US as far as they are no where near as busy and a lot more tropical rather than temperate so it’s still worth the visit. Other than that bloody flight. Bit rough.

  • @rubennavasardyan3501
    @rubennavasardyan3501 10 месяцев назад +1

    The sheer number of mistakes for an educational video is baffling.

  • @robertthomson1587
    @robertthomson1587 11 месяцев назад

    There are three territories on the Australian mainland: Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Northern Territory.

    • @shakeelali20
      @shakeelali20 11 месяцев назад

      Jervis Bay is effectively just the maritime portion of the ACT. There's no real point seeing it as a different territory as it is run by the Federal Government but mostly relies on NSW to function as a town.

    • @robertthomson1587
      @robertthomson1587 11 месяцев назад

      You can 'see' it any way you like. The ACT makes no use of it as a maritime facility. The fact remains that JBT is legally a separately constituted Commonwealth territory.

  • @ayan14496
    @ayan14496 11 месяцев назад +5

    DUDE SAKHA IS AS BIG AS INDIA 💀💀💀💀💀

    • @pixeldubsofficial
      @pixeldubsofficial 11 месяцев назад +1

      Also there is only 2 roads that go into it, and one of them is a winter ice road.
      To get in you used to have to go on a dirt road which turned into mud in summer and you could be stuck for days, but it is mostly complete now when construction started in 2010.
      Also i should mention that there is more roads into Sakha than 2, but only 2 lead to the rest of Russia, but from Sakha you can drive on ice roads to Anadyr or the North Coast.

    • @greasher926
      @greasher926 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@pixeldubsofficialthey also built a railroad. However the capital and largest city Yakutsk (361,154 people) live on the other side of the Lena river and there is no bridge to cross it since the flood plain is over 6 mi (10 km) wide and it’s difficult to build such a massive structure on permafrost and there are massive ice flows every spring that could destroy the bridge too. However in winter you can drive across the river, as well as drive up and down it like a road.

    • @yannicklokur
      @yannicklokur 10 месяцев назад

      actually a bit smaller, but their popluation is like andheri lol@@greasher926

  • @welran
    @welran 10 месяцев назад +2

    I live in Yakutsk ololo 🤟

  • @gamerplayer3021
    @gamerplayer3021 11 месяцев назад +4

    The Australian Antarctic Territory is 5,896,500 km2 (2,276,700 sq mi), technically making it the largest territorial claim in the entire planet, although perhaps not the largest country subdivision.
    The population estimate is less than 1000 people 🤯

    • @ъуъ-ш2с
      @ъуъ-ш2с 11 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 but russia actually have control, population etc there, whereas Antarctica is just ice desert with international scientific stations

    • @nickhiscock8948
      @nickhiscock8948 10 месяцев назад

      All of those claims in Antarctica pre date the Antarctic Treaty and when the Treaty expires in 2050? It will revert back to that state unless a new Treaty is signed.

  • @Lithian5032
    @Lithian5032 11 месяцев назад +3

    pre-watching imma say if this says "i thought texas was the biggest in the world" im fucking crying
    edit: thank. god.

    • @waylondesnoyers4606
      @waylondesnoyers4606 11 месяцев назад

      I don't think anyone outside of the US would ever think Texas is big. My province in Canada, Ontario, is nearly 40% bigger. Texas is 695,000 (roughly) KM^2. Ontario is 1,076,000 (also roughly) KM^2. Keep in mind, most Canadian provinces are bigger than, if not comparable in size to Texas 😂💁🏼‍♂️

  • @XaviRonaldo0
    @XaviRonaldo0 11 месяцев назад +2

    Who taught you it's "kilometres squared"? It's "square kilometres"!

    • @robertthomson1587
      @robertthomson1587 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, he always gets it wrong. It's very annoying.

    • @linus98765
      @linus98765 11 месяцев назад

      AI reads km² as it is: kilometer squared

    • @XaviRonaldo0
      @XaviRonaldo0 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@linus98765 isn't this a real voice not ai?

    • @XaviRonaldo0
      @XaviRonaldo0 11 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 when did I say there was a difference? Do you know how english works?

    • @robertthomson1587
      @robertthomson1587 11 месяцев назад

      An ad hominem response that ignores the facts. Clearly I've won the argument.

  • @Alkalus
    @Alkalus 10 месяцев назад

    6:37 Territory*

  • @miatx6818
    @miatx6818 5 месяцев назад

    Most populated subdivisions in the world.
    Btw i don’t count England and the other countries in UK as Subdivisions. Use the county’s instead. Netherlands is also devided in 12 provinces. And Belgium too,

  • @davidbenzie7115
    @davidbenzie7115 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was born in qld mate

  • @SantaFe19484
    @SantaFe19484 5 месяцев назад

    Yakutsk is also the world's coldest city.

  • @Arc_productionss
    @Arc_productionss 10 месяцев назад

    As somone from amazpnas nice to see my state in this list
    3:06 also that is outdated as f the population is around 5m now

  • @drummingbomb
    @drummingbomb 10 месяцев назад

    nunavut is a federal territory within canada, like the Australian territories, not a province like Quebec.

  • @Pououn6222
    @Pououn6222 4 месяца назад

    You can say that one person can own 1 km2 in western Australia 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @lznogg
    @lznogg 11 месяцев назад +14

    Just a little details: Nunavut is a territory, not a province. Thanks for the great video!

    • @grandmasteryoda6717
      @grandmasteryoda6717 11 месяцев назад +3

      Any Canadians care to enlighten me on what's the difference?

    • @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co
      @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@grandmasteryoda6717The Constitution gives provinces certain powers that territories don't have. The provinces largely determine (to give two examples among many) how natural resources will be harvested or how health care will be administered; in territories those rights still belong to the federal government, and there's no guarantee that the feds will handle things in a way that benefits locals.

    • @CameronBoyes
      @CameronBoyes 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@grandmasteryoda6717 the legislative authority of provincial governments is given by the constitution, and the legislative authority of territorial governments is given by the federal government. Each province also has a provincial crown and Lt. Governor as representative of the king, while the territories are under the federal crown, and have a territorial commissioner who represents the federal government.

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 10 месяцев назад

      And another detail, he called Québec a state.

    • @michaelashley2855
      @michaelashley2855 2 месяца назад

      Another detail - other commenters say the same thing

  • @eamonahern7495
    @eamonahern7495 11 месяцев назад +1

    For perspective, Ireland is approximately 82,000 km²
    Edit: what is Siberia then and how big is it?

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 11 месяцев назад +2

      Siberia is a geographically region within russia, it have the most gas and oil resources/reserve in the entire world, produced the most diamonds, rich in minerals, beautiful landscapes, at least 2 million square km of Farmland, it got the world's BIGGEST continuous forest (boreal) and it covers 10-13 million square km.
      Siberia is about 13 million sq km. Bigger the Canada, usa, Australia, china, Brazil, aka world biggest countries

  • @Zytharros
    @Zytharros 10 месяцев назад +1

    What about the country pairs with the most or least exclaves/enclaves?

  • @nosemeolvidaraestacuenta7184
    @nosemeolvidaraestacuenta7184 11 месяцев назад

    Great video
    It would be amazing anothre with smaller subdivission such as municipalities-towns only counting size

  • @chillindave1357
    @chillindave1357 11 месяцев назад

    With great shame, I haven't heard of many of these names. Yeah, i need to watch more GB!

  • @exodoalcunhaabridordemares
    @exodoalcunhaabridordemares 11 месяцев назад +1

    Vocês é que nunca viram o tamanho do alentejo

    • @exodoalcunhaabridordemares
      @exodoalcunhaabridordemares 11 месяцев назад

      @@greatpyramid4348 dayum there is a lot to unpack here. 1. You are an egyptian pyramid. 2. You understood my message in portuguese meant for my countrymen and countrywomen 3. Idk if your response was sarcastic or not but my comment was clearly a joke. In Portugal Alentejo is regarded as a big and vast open place. Plus it's not even an administrative division outside the NUTS II EU divisions. Our administrative divisions are the 18 districts plus 2 autonomous regions so idk how you could even think I was serious. Tenha uma boa noite.

  • @alt_para
    @alt_para 10 месяцев назад +1

    Bro just say square kilometres

  • @esbendit
    @esbendit 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fun fact, an alternate name for Greenland is Nunarput, which Nunavut in grenlandic instead of inuktitut.

  • @christopherwebb3517
    @christopherwebb3517 10 месяцев назад

    Alaska is both the westernmost and easternmost US state.

  • @dosilvio652
    @dosilvio652 10 месяцев назад

    Amazonas has around 4 million people

  • @rekhapatel1096
    @rekhapatel1096 4 месяца назад

    Sakha Republic is awesome

  • @Randomizer903
    @Randomizer903 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nunavut only came to be in 1999. Before then, it was part of the Northwest Territories next door.

  • @giovannirafael5351
    @giovannirafael5351 11 месяцев назад +2

    Sorry, but your population of Amazonas is wrong. It's almost 4 million.