Can We Find A Whole "New" United Kingdom?

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  7 лет назад +406

    Off Topic Question: What's the funniest way to waste $100?

  • @Soliloquy084
    @Soliloquy084 7 лет назад +738

    The North Island of New Zealand was once called New Ulster Province (the south being New Munster) - That's close to being a New Northern Ireland.

    • @bp9696
      @bp9696 7 лет назад +7

      Soliloquy wow! You are also here
      Hey!

    • @mybumbrash
      @mybumbrash 7 лет назад +6

      Yay Soliloquy, go new zeland. You make good videos too you both deserve 2million subs each.

    • @mybumbrash
      @mybumbrash 7 лет назад +2

      Yea they made videos together thats how i found this channel from soliloquy.

    • @TheCyanideSon
      @TheCyanideSon 7 лет назад +6

      I grew up in New Plymouth which also happens to be in the North Island of New Zealand

    • @Soliloquy084
      @Soliloquy084 7 лет назад +7

      Yeah, I took a young Patrick under my wing when I had ten times his sub count and now the student has overtaken the teacher. I'm actually pleased with myself for backing a winner here. Also, we skipped half a day of VidCon Europe and just chatted together in a cafe.

  • @blacksheep1228
    @blacksheep1228 7 лет назад +39

    I live in Bristol, Ct and when I was in High school my school went on a class trip to Bristol England

  • @ruairidhgrass3479
    @ruairidhgrass3479 7 лет назад +122

    You forgot to mention New Caledonia which is another New Scotland. James cook named it that because the mountains there reminded him of Scotland even though it's a tropical island in the Pacific and it's now French..

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 2 года назад +2

      That's weird. I'm from BC, Canada, and a large portion of what is now BC used to be called New Caledonia.

    • @ZBisson
      @ZBisson Год назад

      @@alukuhitoPanama too

  • @freyugh
    @freyugh 7 лет назад +89

    2:30 I swear John Smith is like the most generic English name lol. Well, at least, it used to be. There aren't many people named John now.

    • @jtlovestoys4617
      @jtlovestoys4617 5 лет назад +1

      Part of my name has John in it, it's probably also a nickname of me. Because my name is JOHNathan

    • @emeraldcrusade5016
      @emeraldcrusade5016 5 лет назад +1

      John is still a common name for newborn boys. But of course it is being overshadowed by the name michael.

    • @helloiamenergyman
      @helloiamenergyman 5 лет назад

      In Brazil it's João da Silva

    • @jaydengreenberg9618
      @jaydengreenberg9618 5 лет назад

      It's John Cena doo doo doo doooo

    • @Mayonezboi
      @Mayonezboi 5 лет назад

      Too bad credit card companies use his card on their advertising. I feel bad for him.

  • @datvince2890
    @datvince2890 7 лет назад +27

    Massachusetts has tons of English names. Obviously our capital, Boston, is one of them. But almost every popular city in Massachusetts is named after a place in England. For example: Worcester, Leominster, Lancaster, Leicester, Cambridge, Plymouth, Salisbury, Hull, and etc.

    • @adammessina6182
      @adammessina6182 5 лет назад +3

      DatVince Massachusetts resident here 👍🏻

    • @Tarteh
      @Tarteh 5 лет назад +2

      I'm curious as to how these are pronounced?

    • @notsure6187
      @notsure6187 5 лет назад +3

      CT has
      New London
      Norwich
      Coventry
      Colchester
      Canterbury
      Durham
      and a few others that I wasn't sure of having British counterparts.

    • @JonFrumTheFirst
      @JonFrumTheFirst 5 лет назад +3

      @@Tarteh Worcester - wuss-ter (as in puss), Leominster - lemon-ster, Lancaster - lan-cast-er (stress on first syllable, cast as in cast a fishing rod), Leicester - lester, Salisbury - sals-bury (or berry). Also Dorchester (stress on first syllable), Dedham, Avon, Bedford - and New Bedford, etc full list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Massachusetts

    • @michaelhaywood8262
      @michaelhaywood8262 2 месяца назад

      Boston was originally a market town in Lincolnshire. It still exists and has not changed its name. Its famed for its very tall church tower known as the Boston Stump on St Botolph's church and the name is a contraction of Botolph's Town,

  • @FilAnd01
    @FilAnd01 7 лет назад +94

    Boston is named after the town in England known by the same name.

    • @jamesdonovan5111
      @jamesdonovan5111 7 лет назад +14

      Brock the Rock Brockson I'm from Boston! Bam! Double Points!

    • @dgh3h3oliverihe26
      @dgh3h3oliverihe26 7 лет назад

      Lincolnshire I think

    • @alexbrassington2266
      @alexbrassington2266 7 лет назад

      my mum lived there when she was younger.

    • @spoxx1802
      @spoxx1802 7 лет назад +1

      I live an hour away from Boston in the southern part of MA. My grandpa lives in Boston so do I get x1.5 points?

  • @HammerRocks
    @HammerRocks 7 лет назад +8

    As you've already covered in this video, in Australia one of our states is called "New South Wales" or NSW [named after Wales]. But what wasn't mentioned is that a large region within NSW, [some 400-500 kilometers North-North-West of Sydney] is called "New England". One of Australia's top universities is located in this region and is named New England University [funny that], plus a major national 878kms long highway from Newcastle in NSW into the Queensland state is called New England Hwy.

  • @kitcowper3599
    @kitcowper3599 7 лет назад +128

    It's silly to look for a "New Northern Ireland" because Northern Ireland only came into existence in 1921. You can find several places named after Ulster (6 counties of which form Northern Ireland) in the New World: Ulster County in New York, for example.

    • @bmc7434
      @bmc7434 7 лет назад

      Northern Ireland name is way older then that as it refers to the Northern O'Neil's so the name is being used currently as a Slur

    • @Nahue91Carp
      @Nahue91Carp 7 лет назад +2

      I love the fact that he pronounce Wales "Wews".

    • @joshadams8761
      @joshadams8761 7 лет назад +2

      Dropping terminal L sounds is characteristic of the Cockney and, to a lesser extent, Estuary and Australian accents.

    • @kylekelly1167
      @kylekelly1167 7 лет назад +5

      South of Ulster County in New York there is also a Little Britain .

    • @evertonpenguin2408
      @evertonpenguin2408 6 лет назад +1

      Ulster consists of both Donegal and Monaghan, which are not in Northern Ireland therefore the Place in New York wouldent work.

  • @matteohetzy7599
    @matteohetzy7599 7 лет назад +22

    @Name Explain
    About the "new scotland" you mentioned the Nova Scotia ("new scotland" in latin) but you could also mention New Caledonia (being Caledonia the name given by the Romans to the land north of their province of Britannia, in other terms today's Scotland)
    So you mentioned "new scotland" in latin but could also mention new "scotland" in latin.

  • @TN-wv6ok
    @TN-wv6ok 6 лет назад +45

    New Brunswick In Canada was originally going to be named New Ireland, but it was vetoed by the king at the time

    • @tinyupes
      @tinyupes 5 лет назад +1

      There are still lots of places in the UK called Brunswick

    • @lightningfletch5598
      @lightningfletch5598 4 года назад +1

      Now there’s an island in the Pacific Ocean called New Ireland. It belongs to the nation of Papua New Guinea.

  • @joemac1100
    @joemac1100 7 лет назад +194

    I live in Massachusetts and pretty much every town here is named after somewhere in England. This leads to tourists having hilarious pronunciations of Leominster, Gloucester and Worcester.

    • @Anyideas14
      @Anyideas14 7 лет назад

      joemac1100 How do they pronounce them?

    • @georgeconnett7812
      @georgeconnett7812 7 лет назад +25

      Lemster, gloster and wooster

    • @mybumbrash
      @mybumbrash 7 лет назад +4

      Gloucester is glou-sta, like glo from glock (a gun) and sta.
      Worcester is Wouster like woustershire souce (if you have that in america)

    • @Anyideas14
      @Anyideas14 7 лет назад +9

      Andrew C No, I know how to pronounce them I from the Uk. I am asking how the tourists, wherever they come from, pronounce them.

    • @mybumbrash
      @mybumbrash 7 лет назад

      Oh i thaught you where american saying the british say it differently. How do you pronounce the other one, im from new zealand/australia and havn't head of the other one?

  • @TehBurntGrilledCheez
    @TehBurntGrilledCheez 7 лет назад +106

    London, Ontario Canada

    • @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath
      @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath 7 лет назад +5

      TehBurntGrilledCheez named after longdong silver

    • @mkp1214
      @mkp1214 7 лет назад +12

      TehBurntGrilledCheez Edmonton Alberta Canada, named after a sector of London England called Edmonton 👌

    • @Ub3rtim2
      @Ub3rtim2 7 лет назад +17

      But it's not called New London.

    • @animallover372
      @animallover372 7 лет назад

      TehBurntGrilledCheez I live there

    • @jamesrempel8522
      @jamesrempel8522 7 лет назад +9

      TehBurntGrilledCheez Complete with its own River Thames. And just down the road is Stratford, with the Avon River running through.

  • @ToLWaM
    @ToLWaM 7 лет назад +42

    William Penn tried to change Pennsylvania to New Wales because he didn't want people to think he was naming land after himself (Penn didn't name it, but some dude in the British government named it after Penn's father who served in the Royal Navy). So yeah, Pennsylvania's the closest thing to a complete "New Wales"

    • @SSGranor
      @SSGranor 7 лет назад +1

      There's a borough near Philadelphia called North Wales (among a whole bunch of places with Welsh names).

    • @Ibelikemj
      @Ibelikemj 6 лет назад

      There’s a bunch of welsh sounding names in PA like Bryn Mawr and Berwyn.

  • @kylehazachode
    @kylehazachode 7 лет назад +17

    In my State, Delaware has three counties; New Castle, Sussex, and Kent. The State capitol, Dover is in Kent county, which I believe Dover is also in Kent, England. We also have a Camden, Milford, and Seaford (located in Sussex county and is also in Sussex, England). Lewes is a beautiful beach city located in Sussex county, there's also a Lewes in Sussex, England.

    • @mikesaunders4775
      @mikesaunders4775 7 лет назад +2

      You are right George,although in England we only ever refer to 'Kent' or 'Sussex',we never add county. There is also a Denver in Norfolk.

  • @naseemveevers3619
    @naseemveevers3619 7 лет назад +68

    Fun fact, there is two new brightons in Britain, one in the Wirral and one in wales

    • @ben.x
      @ben.x 6 лет назад +1

      Gooooooooooooooodd,, afternoon madam!
      Funny I understand where your username comes from, and I've been to New Brighton, Wirral many times.

    • @crazywarlock9131
      @crazywarlock9131 6 лет назад +1

      I live in the English one.lol

    • @ben.x
      @ben.x 6 лет назад

      I love New Brighton.

    • @elzilchoco
      @elzilchoco 6 лет назад

      I live just 1.5 miles from the Welsh one.lol
      I think that's as close as we'll get to anyone living there though as it's population is 3000

    • @Adam_G
      @Adam_G 6 лет назад

      fun fact, there is a Bangor on the east coast of Northern Ireland and a Bangor on the west coast of Wales. So technically you could take a 5 hour ferry from Bangor to Bangor.

  • @jackcooper4998
    @jackcooper4998 7 лет назад +132

    Wouldn't New Caledonia in the Pacific also count as "New Scotland"? Seen as Caledonia is a bother word for Scotland

    • @rcaerbannog
      @rcaerbannog 7 лет назад +4

      Also, British Columbia used to be a fur trading district named New Caledonia
      So yeah...Canada used to have a New Scotland

    • @darthguilder1923
      @darthguilder1923 7 лет назад +14

      I think there was a failed Scottish colony called New Caledonia in Panama

    • @DDBurnett1
      @DDBurnett1 7 лет назад +26

      But Canada DOES have a New Scotland... Nova Scotia.

    • @fwqkaw
      @fwqkaw 7 лет назад +2

      +Jack Cooper "a bother word" -- typo gold. Unobtainium, if you'd got an "L" in there.

    • @rkkasibhotla
      @rkkasibhotla 7 лет назад

      Fwq Kaw NIWYJS

  • @Luca-vb3xo
    @Luca-vb3xo 7 лет назад +49

    There is an East London, here, in South Africa.

    • @TheCallofdeath123
      @TheCallofdeath123 7 лет назад

      Ahmed Farah same. Big up ilford

    • @JPEG785
      @JPEG785 7 лет назад

      Ahmed Farah No you're from the desert... Please return...

    • @WayneKitching
      @WayneKitching 6 месяцев назад

      There is also a Newcastle in South Africa. It also used to be famous for having coal.
      There is a township in Port Elizabeth named New Brighton, and suburbs in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg named Kensington.

  • @simplyixia3683
    @simplyixia3683 7 лет назад +4

    More Canadian name trivia for you! In addition to Nova Scotia, there is a London in the Canadian province of Ontario, the city of Calgary is named for the town in Scotland where its founder was from, the province Alberta was named for Queen Victoria's daughter, and the province's famous Lake Louise was named after Princess Alberta's middle name. There's a town called Prince Albert named after Victoria's husband. And the city of Victoria, BC was named for the queen herself.

    • @simplyixia3683
      @simplyixia3683 7 лет назад +2

      A lot of communities are named after places in the UK as well. There's a New Brighton, Hamptons, Kensington in my city.

  • @KendrickMan
    @KendrickMan 6 лет назад +5

    Thanks for the Nova Scotia shoutout, I feel like I'm from a worldly place hearing about it in my youtube subs lol

  • @andreadomo-ibea7078
    @andreadomo-ibea7078 5 лет назад +12

    If it’s a thing, I grew up on a Street in NJ called Wales 😂

  • @shpilbass5743
    @shpilbass5743 7 лет назад +247

    I was hoping you wil talk about New Caledonia, the French teritorry in australaisia. caledonia is another latin name for Scotland after all.

    • @sion8
      @sion8 7 лет назад +1

      *+*

    • @Mrsquiggley
      @Mrsquiggley 7 лет назад

      New Caledonia is a Pacific Island with no geographical connection to australia, but connected to New Zealand

    • @caesumcrimson6381
      @caesumcrimson6381 7 лет назад +10

      Stephen Jay he never said New Caledonia was geographically connected to Australia? He said it was in Australasian region which is geographically correct. How is it connected to NZ? It is further geographically from NZ than Aus... and anyway NZ is part of the Australasian region anyway so you lose regardless.

    • @Mrsquiggley
      @Mrsquiggley 7 лет назад +3

      Australasia region is Australia and SE asia, NZ is part of the Oceania region.
      NC and NZ are part of the same continental crust

    • @caesumcrimson6381
      @caesumcrimson6381 7 лет назад +19

      Sorry bud, It's a bit confusing but these are geographic regions not really related to 'continental plates' geographics. The Australasian region literally translates to and just means "south of Asia" and was originally coined to include the Australian continent, most of the Melanesian islands (including NC) and New Zealand itself. Because of the complications in naming geographic regions... New Zealand is both part of the geo regions of Australasia AND Polynesia. Yes new research has suggested that New Zealand is part of its own tectonic section but that has really little to do with the naming of geographic regions. The coining of geographic regions have to do with political, biological, cultural and topographic features and not just geographical. Hence why Melanesia is its own Geo region but the sum of all are included in the Australasian region as it is latin for "south of Asia". It's not named because its a part of Australia geographically just the names are similar. (Australia is Latin for southern lands.) Even if you don't believe me this is straight from the horses mouth.
      "Regions of Oceania. New Zealand is considered as part both of Australasia and of Polynesia. Varying amounts of Melanesia (traditionally all of it) also count as part of Australasia." - Wiki
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia
      And before you whinge that 'this is from Wiki blah,' this is generally accepted geographic norm terminology.... the whole process is complicated as there are multiple regions that overlap and continental theories are also confusing and inaccurate in naming regions. Yes I know this as I am a Geo teacher...

  • @asifhouda7101
    @asifhouda7101 7 лет назад +31

    I'm not sure if it was intended but at the end, when he says "All that's missing is a North, East and West Wales", he says it in the order of North, East West and the picture shows the letters for each of the directions and the order and the directions said spell out NEW.

  • @williamcfox
    @williamcfox 7 лет назад +42

    Clever idea for a video. This guy's going places :)

  • @konplayz
    @konplayz 7 лет назад +30

    New Orkney
    New Shetland

  • @jgc4818
    @jgc4818 7 лет назад +2

    When the english settlers incorporated towns in the 1600's in New England, typically the town founders named the new towns after the place in England from which they came. So in places like Pennsylvania and New England, Especially Massachusetts and connecticut, most towns take the names of their distance relatives across the pond

  • @aidandesjardins7660
    @aidandesjardins7660 7 лет назад +51

    Hi from New London! Definitely a lot smaller...

    • @counterfit5
      @counterfit5 7 лет назад +2

      Aidan Desjardins you've got more submarines, though

    • @zetty8130
      @zetty8130 7 лет назад +1

      At from new Britain here

    • @botch3z
      @botch3z 7 лет назад +1

      I try to stay away from all the"News" in Connecticut. New London, New Haven, New Britain.

    • @shorpy3407
      @shorpy3407 6 лет назад +1

      Alex Botchis It'd be smart to steer clear of the "bury's" too. And Bridgeport. Specifically.

    • @PapaFo
      @PapaFo 6 лет назад +1

      +Alex Botchis don't forget new Hartford

  • @-SUM1-
    @-SUM1- 7 лет назад +16

    Why all the dislikes? Americans scared of their country's heritage?

    • @ericp0012
      @ericp0012 7 лет назад

      SUM1 it's not that their scared, they just don't know about the countries early history.

    • @CadetGriffin
      @CadetGriffin 7 лет назад

      Frankfurt = Hot dog
      Hamburg = Burger
      Berlin = Jelly donut

    • @tagaway6173
      @tagaway6173 7 лет назад +1

      Up here in NE we are not.

    • @anthonyf3680
      @anthonyf3680 6 лет назад

      What people from New England (USA) don't know about there British (English) Heritage

  • @nathanmelo7805
    @nathanmelo7805 7 лет назад +22

    here im brazil we have a VERY small city called "nova iorque" or in english "new york", it was called because the city was planned to be great as the american one but, you know, brazil is brazil hahahaha

    • @queencvnt694
      @queencvnt694 6 лет назад

      Nathan Melo from the UK! I see Brazil as a great country, but the government keep fvcking over the people.

    • @midshipman8654
      @midshipman8654 6 лет назад +4

      Nathan Melo If it was named after the American “New York”, shouldn’t it be called “nova nova iorque”?

    • @marcysoucy9522
      @marcysoucy9522 6 лет назад

      New new york.

  • @ΜΟΜΜΑ
    @ΜΟΜΜΑ 7 лет назад +76

    England is my city?

  • @lowqualityvideos8091
    @lowqualityvideos8091 2 года назад +1

    there is something so weird about living right next to a small town in a small us state that's now apparently the capital of a "new united kingdom"

  • @TehFrasssaa
    @TehFrasssaa 7 лет назад +10

    There is a Cardiff in NSW, it's part of Lake Macquarie, next to Newcastle. Also, just as they are in the UK, the NSW Newcastle and Gateshead are right next to each other.

  • @duckdictator6531
    @duckdictator6531 7 лет назад +38

    Northern Ireland is not a nation, just a region.

    • @ulsterunited8503
      @ulsterunited8503 6 лет назад +2

      province, im from there best place in the world

    • @benbarrow2138
      @benbarrow2138 6 лет назад +4

      You're technically correct but to all practical intents and purposes it is a constient country

    • @billyshire5482
      @billyshire5482 6 лет назад +7

      Northern Ireland is a constituent country of the UK, Ulster is a province of Ireland

    • @rayzr1120
      @rayzr1120 5 лет назад

      GorumGamer Northern Ireland is in fact a Nation State.

    • @rayzr1120
      @rayzr1120 5 лет назад

      Mal McKee you are aware nation state and country can be used in place of each other. Me calling Northern Ireland a nation state is like me calling it a country

  • @Jtechnoking33
    @Jtechnoking33 7 лет назад +3

    OMG! This is the first time my exact town was mentioned in a video, this is unsettling!!!!

  • @GgGg-te2dn
    @GgGg-te2dn 5 лет назад +2

    Fun fact: People in Poland refer to Great Britain as England (Anglia). So if a Pole says Im moving to England, he could be referring to any region of the UK.

  • @JuliusCaribou
    @JuliusCaribou 7 лет назад +2

    Not very well known but I come from a town a few miles south of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north east England called Washington. George Washington's ancestors lived in this town in the 1100s following migration from France, so Washington DC gets its name from here. I now live in York and you already mentioned it's namesake in the video. Did you know that New York was in the hands of the Dutch before Britain took control and was originally called New Amsterdam?

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 7 лет назад +9

    New Wales: the fist British colony on mars

  • @Airbourne92
    @Airbourne92 7 лет назад +37

    CGP Grey background music!

    • @imilliterate4812
      @imilliterate4812 7 лет назад +1

      Yes!

    • @1998tkhri
      @1998tkhri 7 лет назад +5

      Look up Kevin MacLeod. He does most of Grey's (and other YTers') music, since it's royalty free. The exception being Grey's vlog music, which I don't remember.

    • @mcseedat
      @mcseedat 6 лет назад

      @@1998tkhri it's distasteful now that you mention this
      I thought its English folk music..

  • @CyberGrapeOfficial
    @CyberGrapeOfficial 5 лет назад +2

    I'm from Bangor, Maine, which takes its name from the city in Wales. However, it's original name was going to be Sunbury 😅 and it's actually a funny story as to how the name got mixed up. I also have family in New Gloucester. Anyways, great video!

  • @AbieUK
    @AbieUK 4 года назад +2

    And while it's not perfect, Nova Scotia sits just north of New England

  • @msblimmyfoo6826
    @msblimmyfoo6826 7 лет назад +6

    Bangor is a town in northern Ireland.. Possibly where settlers that founded the city of Bangor in maine, USA drew inspiration for its name ? It's also a place in Wales.

  • @kevinmartinez1477
    @kevinmartinez1477 7 лет назад +19

    I live in New England, in the state of Connecticut. I have been many times in New britain and in New London here in Connecticut, but I don't live in those cities. But I have many friends there, does that counts?

    • @themayor6762
      @themayor6762 7 лет назад +2

      Kevin Martinelli I live in New Britain

    • @mxngaka
      @mxngaka 6 лет назад +1

      I also live in New England.

    • @k9thexv630
      @k9thexv630 6 лет назад +1

      I'm from New England myself.

    • @owen9057
      @owen9057 6 лет назад

      Kevin Martinelli Bristol

  • @inkyscrolls5193
    @inkyscrolls5193 7 лет назад +73

    Where are the Isles of Skilly? Anywhere near the Isles of Scilly?

  • @trevormartins6858
    @trevormartins6858 7 лет назад +1

    I live in Massachusetts and I can tell you there's hundreds of towns with similar or same names. let alone New England as a whole.

  • @jimbeanz219
    @jimbeanz219 6 лет назад +5

    I live pretty much right in a "New England" in Canada I love it watford in Warwick township and one of the closest cities is London on the Thames river

    • @bruhz_089
      @bruhz_089 3 года назад

      I live in New England

  • @king_egghead9117
    @king_egghead9117 7 лет назад +13

    London, Ontario, Canada has a population of about 400,000

    • @bitpumpkinn2923
      @bitpumpkinn2923 6 лет назад +1

      @@Revolver1981 us has 350 mil
      not 500

    • @riograndelocos9639
      @riograndelocos9639 6 лет назад

      ​@@Revolver1981 ummm... canada has a population of 36,600,000. US has 325,700,000. usa is nowhere near 500 million.

  • @JackDrewitt
    @JackDrewitt 7 лет назад +6

    you missed some islands:
    Outer scottish isles(eg orkney, shetland, pentland, hebrides, arran, etc):south orkney and south shetland are in antarctica, pentland in Queensland, new hebrides/vanuatu, arran in syria, and saint kilda in Queensland.

  • @metropod
    @metropod 5 лет назад +5

    The Thames in Connecticut is pronounced as it’s spelt, to rhyme with “James”

  • @adamgreenhaus4691
    @adamgreenhaus4691 7 лет назад +2

    The river Thames in New London is actually (and infuriatingly) pronounced "thaymz" not "temz" by the locals.

  • @TijmensAviation
    @TijmensAviation 6 лет назад +5

    There’s a Wales at the cost of the Bering Strait in Alaska and probably the closest town to Diomede...

  • @jdg2209
    @jdg2209 7 лет назад +22

    Make a video of the map of U.K. But only include towns and cities that have other towns and cities named after them .....pweasss

    • @spoxx1802
      @spoxx1802 7 лет назад +1

      Massachusetts would account for at least 30% of those; us Patriot supporters are dirty plagiarists.

    • @owen9057
      @owen9057 7 лет назад +1

      pretty much all of new england lol

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 7 лет назад +2

      Half of Australia will end up on that map. The colonists who settled this wide brown land were hugely unimaginative.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway 7 лет назад +1

      Not quite true, Australia used to have far more names with Irish and German origins. WWI saw many of the German ones renamed, and the Irish ones were largely renamed before that. The rest of Australian place names are either transcribed Indigenous names, or Anglicised Indigenous names.

  • @jaden-zi7hg
    @jaden-zi7hg 7 лет назад +24

    London, Canada

  • @sudocreme5080
    @sudocreme5080 7 лет назад +25

    There's a Derry in New Hampshire, with a neighbouring town of Londonderry

    • @imagiraffe8686
      @imagiraffe8686 7 лет назад

      Isaac McAuley I just commented that!

    • @CJ-bg6vz
      @CJ-bg6vz 7 лет назад +4

      Isaac McAuley I'm Northern Irish and never knew that! I'm from Londonderry/Derry but call it Londonderry! 🇬🇧

    • @ahmadmohamadv6120
      @ahmadmohamadv6120 7 лет назад

      Can I hex

    • @padraig5335
      @padraig5335 6 лет назад +1

      It's Derry only. No such place as Londonderry.

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 6 лет назад

      Bit racist, my Gran's Irish.

  • @KevinLi67863
    @KevinLi67863 7 лет назад +28

    CGP Grey music :)

  • @Jack_today
    @Jack_today 6 месяцев назад +1

    Vanuatu used to be referred to as New Hebrides! There is also a protectorate of the micro state Molossia called New Antrim

  • @jttg
    @jttg 7 лет назад +8

    I live in New Brighton (a suburb) in Christchurch (named after Christ Church in Oxford and Oxford is also a town near Christchurch)!

  • @seanlinehan8478
    @seanlinehan8478 7 лет назад +5

    Did you know that in Irish Northern Ireland is called Stolen Land?

  • @EvilParagon2
    @EvilParagon2 7 лет назад +7

    "and a New South Wales in South Australia."
    That statement is wrong my good sir.

    • @mystii8134
      @mystii8134 4 года назад +1

      Evil Paragon 2 I know it’s very wrong. South Australia is it’s own state. And NSW is a state too. So I don’t get how a state can be inside a state. Not to mention SA is bigger than NSW. And Australia is just called Australia. I don’t know any Australians who call Australia “South Australia” unless their in SA and referring to SA and not Australia.

    • @rachelselby5469
      @rachelselby5469 4 года назад +2

      @@mystii8134 He meant southern Australia.

  • @EnglishOrthodox
    @EnglishOrthodox 7 месяцев назад +1

    Part of England I’m in is pretty chill with poles, maybe cos there’s just so many here lol

  • @turmuthoer
    @turmuthoer 7 лет назад +1

    Actually, there used to be a place called 'West Wales' outside of Wales. It's now called Cornwall. Also, the region of Brittany in France was once known as 'Lesser Britain' which is why the island is called 'Great(er) Britain'.

  • @viklo925
    @viklo925 7 лет назад +5

    YOU FORGOT NEW HEBRIDES

    • @andrewmccloud8581
      @andrewmccloud8581 6 лет назад +2

      And New Shetland and Orkney in Antarctica near the Falklands.

  • @rossmortimer98
    @rossmortimer98 7 лет назад +29

    Did you really just say the Isles of 'Skilly'?

    • @NameExplain
      @NameExplain  7 лет назад +2

      Ross Mortimer Probably lol

    • @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath
      @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath 7 лет назад +2

      Name Explain for a channel w your name thats an ironically sad oversight. at least try

    • @NameExplain
      @NameExplain  7 лет назад +5

      I am a really crappy voice, trust me I do try but my mouth just doesn't work half the time. It sucks I know but I always research pronunciation. But my speech issues annoyingly get in the way.

    • @carlisthedrummer
      @carlisthedrummer 7 лет назад +2

      Well you british could try for once to not be so silly all the time then. Rather Skilly than silly..!

    • @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath
      @PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath 7 лет назад +4

      Name Explain 💘

  • @falkkiwiben
    @falkkiwiben 7 лет назад +22

    New Plymouth in New Zealand

    • @blueraven3315
      @blueraven3315 7 лет назад +1

      Benjamin Macdonald the Libertarian There is also a Plymouth on monserrat

    • @SassyandalwaysClassy
      @SassyandalwaysClassy 7 лет назад +4

      Regular Plymouth, MA

    • @worldsupermedia7509
      @worldsupermedia7509 7 лет назад

      Blue Raven yeah, that city basically doesn't exist anymore

    • @dgh3h3oliverihe26
      @dgh3h3oliverihe26 7 лет назад +1

      Plymouth ma

    • @spoxx1802
      @spoxx1802 7 лет назад

      There's a Plymouth in MA, like 99% of other English cities.

  • @frmcf
    @frmcf 7 лет назад

    Dude, if the content's interesting enough nobody is judging your pronunciation! Thanks for the videos!

  • @jozefmasny8349
    @jozefmasny8349 5 лет назад +1

    You should have put all of those lands together to see how complete New Great Britain looks like.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 2 года назад

      Exactly. Poor planning on his part. He could've had a WAY better video.

  • @maniam5460
    @maniam5460 7 лет назад +20

    Everyone lives in south Wales so it's good enough

    • @rhysellis2284
      @rhysellis2284 7 лет назад +1

      Tekkogs Steve Well I'm from north Wales...

    • @maniam5460
      @maniam5460 7 лет назад +1

      Rhys Ellis my family is from Wrexham. I just meant the majority of the population live in the south

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 7 лет назад

      Except New South Wales isn't saying "new (south Wales)", but "(new, south) Wales".

    • @SamTheMan12
      @SamTheMan12 2 года назад +1

      @@warrenlemay8134 And Welsh Patagonia.

  • @awormnamedscoobis3419
    @awormnamedscoobis3419 5 лет назад +3

    New U.K. Is basically the US.

  • @meroastisruined3039
    @meroastisruined3039 6 лет назад +5

    Woah, I got a glitch and this entire video was an ad.

    • @MattTheCommenter
      @MattTheCommenter 6 лет назад

      Nathan Beck I've had that happen with other videos before

  • @8543960
    @8543960 7 лет назад +2

    I'm from Berkshire county in Massachusetts (part of New England). I believe there is a Berkshire county in England proper. We do seem to get a fair amount of tourists from Great Britain here as well.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 6 лет назад +1

    4:00 I am thinking of the Mitchel and Webb skit about... "Do you know what this reminds me of? South Wales."

  • @jacksonzambarano2860
    @jacksonzambarano2860 7 лет назад +23

    So much Connecticut

    • @alima4280
      @alima4280 7 лет назад +5

      I'm from Connecticut!

    • @108nighthawk
      @108nighthawk 7 лет назад +3

      Alima Same! Greetings from Enfield

    • @SusLord718
      @SusLord718 7 лет назад +5

      Jackson Zambarano Come down to connecticut! We have good schools because there is absolutely nothing else to do here!

    • @kevinmartinez1477
      @kevinmartinez1477 7 лет назад +3

      SusLord That's the sad reality... by the way, I live in Connecticut.

    • @KatieB968
      @KatieB968 7 лет назад +1

      SusLord there are two casinos in New London County and we just got the okay to build a huge new development, including a giant mall and indoor water park. There's stuff to do, lmao

  • @gamingcousinsvideos6207
    @gamingcousinsvideos6207 6 лет назад +17

    New South Wales is New Wales the South is just referring it to being really far south

    • @Ggdivhjkjl
      @Ggdivhjkjl 5 лет назад +1

      There's also a region there called New England.

    • @lemonwangs
      @lemonwangs 5 лет назад

      Ggdivhjkjl Your profile uploads have a “white mans land” hmmmm. It’s not really your land if you have to come to theirs is it? Eh, no.

    • @TheBaegislash
      @TheBaegislash 5 лет назад +1

      @@lemonwangs Mind yo business son

  • @ChavvyCommunist
    @ChavvyCommunist 7 лет назад +6

    I know there's a "Rotherham" in New Zealand.

    • @ruairidhgrass3479
      @ruairidhgrass3479 7 лет назад +4

      also a Canterbury

    • @kadeo767
      @kadeo767 7 лет назад +3

      Wait there's another Rotherham?! I knew there's another Sheffield, but never knew there's a second Rotherham!
      Greetings from Rotherham! (The one in UK)

  • @thecyberneticphoenix7040
    @thecyberneticphoenix7040 7 лет назад

    Thanks for bring up Nova Scotia ( from someone who lives there). i REALLY Appreciate it.

  • @scottlewis1639
    @scottlewis1639 7 лет назад +1

    I live in London in the Canadian province of Ontario. We also have a Thames river. Some other interesting facts about London Ontario is that it was at one point called new Amsterdam and at another point was being considered for capital of Canada before losing to Ottawa

    • @hughmungus1767
      @hughmungus1767 Год назад +1

      I lived in London, Ontario for many years. People might be amused to know that the city also has a Picadilly (Street), a Blackfriars Bridge, and a district called Hyde Park. A nearby city is Stratford (in Perth County). Southern Ontario also has a Boston, a Paris, a Moscow, a Delhi and many other familiar names.

  • @kincretefloor5689
    @kincretefloor5689 7 лет назад +5

    There is a city in Alaska that exact name goes exactly like this: "Wales"
    So why do we need south Wales

    • @Limpshot_McGee
      @Limpshot_McGee 6 лет назад +1

      Are you sure that's not just a reference to the whaling industry? :P

    • @seanbrummfield448
      @seanbrummfield448 3 года назад

      There's an island named Prince of Wales island south of the panhandle.

  • @Snqwy
    @Snqwy 6 лет назад +6

    *I live in New Connecticut!*

  • @houtbyj
    @houtbyj 5 лет назад +4

    There also a small town (village?) In southern Ontario called Scotland

  • @DeclanRK
    @DeclanRK 7 лет назад +1

    Very weird to see New Britain and New London in here being from Connecticut with connections to both these places!

  • @kittyprydekissme
    @kittyprydekissme 5 лет назад +1

    We really need to do something about New Brunswick getting in the way and preventing Novia Scotia from actually bordering New England on the North. It would've been perfect to have New Scotland and New England connected. Then all we'd have to do is to change New York (or at least part of it) to New Wales, and we'd have a complete New Britain in roughly the right positions.

    • @alukuhito
      @alukuhito 2 года назад

      New Brunswick is just a thick border.

  • @AmiratheAlligator
    @AmiratheAlligator 6 лет назад +3

    Technically, the south in new south wales is named because it is in the southern hemisphere, and not referring to southern wales. So there is a new wales.
    Also, go maroons.

  • @kaid6486
    @kaid6486 7 лет назад +13

    here in Connecticut :)

    • @alima4280
      @alima4280 7 лет назад +4

      I live in Connecticut too! I live in Bridgeport!

    • @Sophie.S..
      @Sophie.S.. 7 лет назад

      I think there is a Norwich in Connecticut, which in England is the capital city of Norfolk. But you pronounce it Nor-witch and we pronounce it Nor-ridge.

    • @kaid6486
      @kaid6486 7 лет назад +4

      there is a norwich, I know a few people there

    • @GeoffBosco
      @GeoffBosco 7 лет назад +1

      My ancestor John Hyde is an original proprietor of Norwich, CT. And, after all this time, a lot of my family is still here in New Haven and Fairfield county.

    • @Sophie.S..
      @Sophie.S.. 7 лет назад +3

      Regards to everyone from Norwich CT from someone from Norwich England. For anyone visiting England, Norwich is a fantastic city full of history, including a 11th century castle, built by William the Conqueror..

  • @themayor6762
    @themayor6762 7 лет назад +7

    ayye I live in New Britain

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 7 лет назад +1

    Of course, here in North America, most of the towns named after places in Britain usually are pronounced the way they are spelled and not according to tradition. There is a tiny town called Leicester near me that is pronounced Lie-sester and not Lester.

  • @TonboIV
    @TonboIV Год назад

    It's good that you're doing this now. We need to get the New United Kingdom ready as a backup for when the United Kingdom breaks up.

  • @DanMan9820
    @DanMan9820 7 лет назад +5

    0:16 There's a New Brighton, Minnesota, as well.

  • @Grifflens
    @Grifflens 7 лет назад +5

    finally someone knows of Gloucester

    • @hyzercreek
      @hyzercreek 6 лет назад

      Massachusetts has a Glosta Lesta Lemsta Woosta all spelled with extra silent letters. It's even got a Fenshaw spelled Featherstonehaugh.

    • @hglundahl
      @hglundahl 6 лет назад

      @Lord Verus I think I found it:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leominster

    • @hglundahl
      @hglundahl 6 лет назад

      @Lord Verus The others are English cities, this one is an English town.

  • @bauxsedai1495
    @bauxsedai1495 7 лет назад +4

    You missed New Caledonia. Not that is somehow better than Nova Scotia but still...

  • @suralos
    @suralos 6 лет назад +1

    The city of New London, Wisconsin changes its name to New Dublin every March 17.

  • @PerthTowne
    @PerthTowne 4 года назад

    I'm from New Jersey, and several of our county names are borrowed from place names in England: Sussex, Essex, Middlesex, Somerset, Gloucester, Monmouth, Cumberland, Salem, Camden. You can find hundreds of towns and counties in the US that have English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish names. Many European settlers in North America named places after where they came from. So a lot of the eastern US has those British and Irish names. Same way you'll find a lot of Spanish place names in the Southwest of the US, because the first European settlement there was Spanish. It bears saying that in North America you will also find a lot of Native American place names.

  • @maxmusic3120
    @maxmusic3120 7 лет назад +11

    Why are switzerland anc szwazilands names so similar?

    • @lastnamewhat20
      @lastnamewhat20 6 лет назад +4

      It's eSwantini now, HORRAY FOR NO MORE CONFUSION!

    • @jtlovestoys4617
      @jtlovestoys4617 5 лет назад +1

      eSwatini*

    • @Ggdivhjkjl
      @Ggdivhjkjl 5 лет назад +6

      Why would Switzerland change its name to eSwatini?

  • @lth9282
    @lth9282 7 лет назад +4

    He always similes regardless of his emotions.

  • @Josh-wt5xp
    @Josh-wt5xp 7 лет назад +3

    There is a Brighton in Melbourne

  • @814912
    @814912 7 лет назад

    When we were learning about America at school, once guy in my class wrote in an essay, "the civil rights movement received international support, spreading all the way from Alabama to Birmingham, England".

  • @cerealwaterry
    @cerealwaterry 5 лет назад

    I’m Welsh, and I’m offended. It appears that people that aren’t British forget us all the blinking time! I love your content! And please keep it up because I love seeing content from us brits! We’re blinking amazing! Keeping all the names and maps, bloody love The UK.

  • @alexiswelsh5821
    @alexiswelsh5821 6 лет назад +2

    I live near a town called North Wales.

  • @fusion67
    @fusion67 7 лет назад +55

    I live in New Jersey! ^.^

    • @1998tkhri
      @1998tkhri 7 лет назад

      Same!

    • @markdavies4556
      @markdavies4556 7 лет назад

      Eliran Sobel
      Yeah, but you call it Noo Joysey.

    • @eliransobel5257
      @eliransobel5257 7 лет назад +1

      Mark Davies eh, more like [nu dʒɹ̩zi]

    • @That_NJ_guy
      @That_NJ_guy 7 лет назад +5

      Mark Davies only North Jersey calls it like that. Fucking New Yorkers man. Go to central and south jersey and you won't here it at all (maybe a little but it's the New Yorkers)

    • @finnley-b
      @finnley-b 6 лет назад

      i live in jersy

  • @patavinity1262
    @patavinity1262 6 лет назад +3

    However you pronounce 'Edinburgh' it's impossible for it to rhyme with 'Pittsburgh'.

    • @kidcreole9421
      @kidcreole9421 6 лет назад

      Patavinity it’s not hard to pronounce Pittsburgh in British English.

  • @JamesTheFoxeArt
    @JamesTheFoxeArt 5 лет назад +2

    There’s a town in the USA called Wales, I laughed when I saw it.

  • @harpnel9371
    @harpnel9371 7 лет назад

    I grew up in New London and I can say it was a quiet town, with quiet calm beaches and it was very great living there