Born in US but must have been Japanese in a previous life. I knew them all, including Ethiopia; but then, I'm 80 and always considered geography important.
Not only random people are citing historical facts to link their knowledge of the locations , they are also linking different Geographical skills while doing so. (Equatorial line for instance)
this seems like pretty average knowledge to me, the abnormal ones are the americans. I wan't to believe they cherry picked the most ignorant ones but its still impressive how they had 0 knowledge
@@Renosenfor me it's the Total war game series that made me love looking at the world map lol. Still struggling named the modern middle europe, balkan, middle asia and south african countries tho. 😂
The people in this video were very kind and very smart thank you 😊 I’m American but I know my geography pretty well but I am a big geography nerd anyway hahaha
I am from Kazakhstan and I was suprised that guy at the end of the video was able to locate my home country. After all, not many people even know Kazakhstan exist, let alone spotting it on a world map. That dude has pretty darn good knowledge of geography.
As a Japanese, the way to memorize the location of Kazakhstan is "There are two countries between Russia and China, the one at East is Mongolia, and the one at the West is Kazakhstan." And I have a image of some space project or fantasy film shooting, in the big prairie in your country. And people look alike with Japanese 😀
I am from Slovakia and I used to live in Japan. Due to my previous experiences in other countries (including in Western Europe), I didn't expect many people to know my country but surprisingly, majority did (and I could tell, that they are not just pretending because it usually led to a further conversation about it). Never asked them to point it on the map though but it's nice to not get a blank stare all the time.
I loved Slovakia when I went on a European tour a few years ago. The countryside is beautiful, Bratislava is gorgeous, prettiest city I visited, and the people were incredibly friendly. My brother and I found a lovely little shop that had amazing free samples of homemade alcohol, great tasting and fun people.. One of few countries I want to go back to. Hopefully in a few years.
Chechoslovakia is well known in Japan. I should also mention that in the popular anime of Monster (2004), Slovakia is a important stage for about 20 episodes. Everyone knows Slovakia here in Japan :)
Back in 80s and early 90s the former Czechoslovakia is very popular in Indonesia because of one thing, TATRA razor blade. It's sharp but very cheap because made from carbon steel. Gillette razor was too expensive. Even though we didn't know where the country is, but we knew there is a country named Czechoslovakia (very tongue twister name :D )
i'm able to point it since recently just because I realized it was previously czechoslovakia. Before that, I could point the two countries that are slovakia and slovenia but couldn't tell which one is which
This video was really interesting to me, because I'm a geography student (I have a degree in Geography), and I got to study Asia from a cultural and social perspective. Getting to know Japanese people's own knowledge and appropriation of the world is really enlightening about their geographies and their perception of foreign territories; it says a lot. Great video :)
Thank you for the English and Japanese subtitles. These will help me with my studies of the Japanese language. Great video quality and I was really surprised this was the first video on this channel.
@@rienn8559 you might want to rethink that comment 🤦 edit: I don't regret what I said here. It would take no time at all to learn the few new countries. Things are almost entirely the same on that scale
@@lucidnode In the early 2000's East Timor declared their independence from Indonesia, Montenegro and Serbia split into two countries, Kosovo declared their independence from Serbia, and in the 2010's South Sudan became independent from Sudan. I don't know how long it's been since the original commenter was in junior high school, but it's very well possible that new countries have formed since.
@@rienn8559 Depends how old you are. Newest country is South Sudan in 2011. (Next in line is Bougainville in 2027 unless something drastic happens first)
When I visited Japan in 2018 and told people I’m from Chile, literally EVERYONE knew where it’s located or its shape, or something about it. I was super impressed that they all knew so much about Chile
@@愚鈍ちゃんぐどんちゃん very famous ? I wonder why Switzerland and not slightly similar countries like Austria, Northern Italy or Savoie in France. I met a lot of Japanese people because I live near Verbier (similar place to Zermatt and not so far away), it's always fun to met someone from the country you are simping for and they simp for your country too 🤗
@@deadby15 Haha Heidi of course, what a wonderful story that a lot of people that come from the Alps can relate. I just thought that Switzerland was shadowed by Austria which kind look the same, have a more developed history and have more European classical cities like Wien. Even if I thinks Switzerland is better due to the mixing of culture for food and mentality because of the the nearby french, Italian and German cultures.
@350planespotting well of course japanese know about the countries surrounding japan, and then they barely know about the american continents. it's the same with people from america; usually americans know about the countries surrounding the us, but barely know about the asian countries. it's flipped. it just depends on where you live, to know about the countries that surround your country.
In Japan, there is a popular variety show called "Let's go to the end of the world", so we learn the name of the country and the atmosphere of the country. Therefore, many people probably know the image of the place in that country, such as "Africa" or "South America." But I don't know the specific location. The person with a high accuracy rate in this video probably chose geography in high school or university and took a class. Many people study geography in high school or college. I only took classes when I was in middle school, so I don't know where the 🇨🇺, 🇪🇹, 🇸🇬 are. nice to know today I'm using a translator, so the sentences may be a little strange. Sometimes the Japanese meaning is translated into English with the opposite meaning. I'm sorry if it looks offensive. I don't mean to.
Wait this is this dude's only youtube video?! Yopi-san, this is high quality content! From the way you do the intro to the way you film, editing and interract with the people, is just incredible classy. I just love how you probably just interviewed people when they were taking an afternoon walk and relaxing. Not stopping people in the middle of busy roads. They look so chilled and fun to participate. Just way more superior than how the american version was done. Honestly, I'm really looking foward to more of your contents. It is really comfy and soothing to watch.
Editing was great, camerawork was exceptional, slight background music was tasteful and the subtitles were essential and helpful. This guy knows how to make videos and somehow perfected it, seemingly, the first time.
We will answer through a translator. He originally ran a channel that introduced foreign clips to the Japanese audience. However, one day all the videos were suddenly deleted and this channel was newly opened. From Japan
@コメ用 アカウント We got taught nothing. I learned geography by myself. I can identify all 197 UN-recognised countries plus Kosovo, Taiwan, and Western Sahara on a world map.
I’m an American who’s well versed in geography and knows all the flags of the world, and I’m not surprised at all that Japanese people are better than the average American
As a swiss person, I was really surprised by the man who found my country by using historical events! I also that that it was great, that all the contestants were using their overall knowledge, in a way to figure out which country they had to point out :)
I totally agree. I'm Japanese in the US and I have several good friends from Kazakhstan. When we first met each other, I thought they were Japanese and they thought I(me) was Kazakh too😂😂 They often cook me Kazakh cuisines and I absolutely love them. I want to visit Kazakhstan someday🇯🇵❤️🇰🇿 (Srry for my broken English btw)
As a Swiss person, I'd say the countries that are difficult to locate for me are those in Oceania (except for Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) and some in Western Africa
As a Filipino, the only countries I'd have a hard time locating are African countries except ones connected to Mediterranean, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar and South Africa. I'd also have a hard time figuring out which is which in former Yugoslavia countries. All those 日本人 did great. 👍
Did we actually get taught about other countries in school? I know about them now due to my hobbies, but I don't remember world geography being a part of the lessons taught in school, dunno about SHS cause I wasn't part of it. Naming what countries are from what continents probably happened at best, but no maps were included iirc.
Incredible video! I’m definitely subscribing to you. I’m proud to know where most countries are, it’s just the small islands which I have no clue about 😅
From Sweden here. We used to learn geography (THE WHOLE WORLD, not just our own country) for several years in basic school. And it feels pretty nice to have at least most of the knowledge still there. A bit shocked to see some of the people on the street in the beginning failing hard. Pretty impressed by the Japanese people also 👍
Very great people, amazing accuracy. My story: I can locate probably every country on the map but here is why. Apart from the fact that I am generally curious and like to learn stuff, when I was a kid (8 years old or so) I spent dozens if not hundreds of hours looking at the earth map, countries map, political map, etc. Why? I was born and lived many years in a communist country and life was very grey, a can of Coke was an extreme luxury, my father salary was 10 USD per month etc. Traveling was banned, it was like a prison. So the world we could see was ONLY on the map (and some movies and books). And I was a curious kid, looking the map, learning all countries, capitals, mountains, rivers etc. I loved it so much that I could spend 4-5 hours looking at a map, dreaming about travelling there, picturing life there, people etc. It was horrible time for my country, but as a kid, I had these simple pleasures and it stayed with me until today :)) Sorry if this is boring, just wanted to share and say thanks to the author and the people who took part in the quiz:)
I saw that episode also and coming from Southeast Asia, I’m okay since I identified all that was asked. African and Middle Eastern countries are the most difficult, for me.
African countries is way easier compared to Oceania and the Caribbean. The only thing I struggle with is West Africa and Central Asia, im from Indonesia btw
I think at least not knowing the exact location is totally fine, but knowing big countries and guessing other countries in vicinity is much easier, and more important!
Honestly, seeing this, I feel like this is an expected amount of knowledge for someone completely random in japan, where they know their closest neighbours, know the major powers, but can get a bit flakey on the things further away from that, although it is impressive how they have a pretty decent knowledge of places like europe despite the distance
Just so you know…I’m INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICAN and GEOGRAPHY is a favorite of mine. I’m absolutely in my comfort zone here. Just ask my family members who I quiz once in awhile 🙋🏻♀️❤️😉. I loved this and I’m impressed and supportive of theses young people from JAPAN 🇯🇵. GREAT 👍🏽 JOB.
Japanese people are diligent and smart. A country of cars and technology. I study geography in compulsory education in Japan. I can answer all. The hardest are the island nations in the Caribbean and Oceania.🌏
Japanese are very good at geography but i would wish for a better performance for Turkiye because it is one of a kind strecthing between Europe and Asia. We Turks should work more to promote our beautiful country to beautiful Japanese people, hi to Japan 🇹🇷🇯🇵
I learned very much in a site called "JetPunk", recommend you guys try to use there to learn geography, is so nice! I learned all 196 countries, but i need to learn about capitals
I don’t really know where is Ethiopia but I know the train on the beginning of this video was Ohimachi line, the guy has a tremendous geographical skill was interviewed along the Tama river, and two ladies were interviewed on Komazawa Olympic park.
They're good, considering it's just random people you encountered. I'm a bit surprised that in Japan you have only 1 year of geography in middle school and high school (if I understand well what that lady was saying). In France it's every year. Yet, I don't think French people would be better than Japanese people in average lol, so it's impressive you guys do so well despite the lack of focus on geography in school.
Geography is a vast subject. I am sure they meant political geography. In india, we learn geography from middle school to class 10th. After that it becomes a specialized subject.
I think the education system in Japan is top level, the guy in white pointing all the countries is a legend, loved your video a lot, instant sub, wish to see more of them, thank you very much, that was entertaining. Peace ✌❤
Just finished watching the US version and was embarrassed for them but this video shows how smart and lovely Japanese people are. No wonder my children keep going there for holidays!
@@RacistChinaWhite it's 2023. Most people in America can learn whatever they want on the internet, on their phone, if they wanted to. Everyone they interviewed on the streets look like they got at least a decent education. They don't know because they'd rather remember the names of everyone in the Kardashian family than where their own country is on the map.
@@ProjectILT It is important to learn the basics well. No matter how much the Internet develops, if there is no foundation, we will just drown in the sea of information. There is already a need for Americans to share an education fit for world leaders.
@@ProjectILT Eh, the video was definitely not a fair sampling of people in America. I think it was either in Disney or Santa Monica area, which is definitely not going to be the most intellectual people, and they only cherry-picked the most shocking answers. Some of them could've struggled because of the stress of being on a national TV show or having learning disabilities.
I'm German. When I was a child, I studied the entire world map because I was just bored, I wasn't supposed to do this in school. I only did this because I thought that it was very interesting. And today, I know every country with every capital city and flag and I still love geography. But the people in the video also did a nice job. Great video!
I find it interesting that the map is Japan centric whereas in Europe, it's Europe-centric. I mean, it makes sense to center on the location of the person you're teaching but it still makes me have to do mental adjustments to find the countries they're talking about. India, for instance, is right of the centre on my internal atlas but here it's left. Very interesting :)
This version of the map is weird though because in the normal one it's obvious that Japan is the most Eastern part of the world while the US is in the most Western part of the world. Also, that Mercrator map was made by a Belgian so that's another obvious reason why Western-Europe is in the center of it.
@@dennisengelen2517 there's nothing weird about this map. You're just used to a eurocentric worldview. Just because Europeans call Japan the Far East doesn't mean that Japan needs to be placed on the far right of the map.
I am from Russia and I am very glad that the Japanese know geography so well. It's really hard to watch Americans call South America Africa or something like that... The Japanese are very diligent and I admire how you, being in such a modern realities, pay tribute to traditions.
"It's really hard to watch Americans call South America Africa or something like that" that was just ONE American but you generalizing all Americans that think its Africa. Most Americans are bad at geography but about 90% of us know where South America is 😂 its obvious because it's just basic general knowledge
As an american I really think that those videos are made up, or they comb through hundreds of people for hours until they find that one that doesn't know. I have literally never met anyone in my life that would confuse south America for south Africa, aside from maybe a small child. Or not even be able to find there own country, like the guy doing the video said, its "entertainment" so its scripted, because it brings more views apparently to perpetuate the myth that Americans are stupid rather than to show the truth, that they're basically the same as everyone else.
@@MechaShadowV2 I don't care about your low-level objection. For example, there are no Japanese people who mistake continents. (Even if it's a 12-year-old Japanese junior high school student.) Ah, do Americans know where most of the countries in the world are? (especially countries in Europe, North and South America, Eurasia). Geography is not a compulsory subject for Japanese, but it is difficult to find a Japanese person who does not know the locations of these countries in the world. In conclusion, shouldn't you make a counterargument that Americans generally know the location of their country, instead of arguing against such trivial knowledge as the location of the continent? It's like an ugly fight between
I'm Japanese, but when I travel, people call me Ni Hao. East Asia has a strong image of China. Japan and South Korea have the same problem. China and Japan are completely different peoples, with different cultures and languages. I want people around the world to understand this.
As an asian resident of a european country i grew up thinking "kinezos" (chinese in greek) meant anyone with "Asian Eyes" as they called it. It started becoming annoying when i learned I wasn't actually Chinese
If I say so myself, I'm kind good at it, the thing gets tough in small regions with many countries like Central America or the Balcans. Those countries near Russia and Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also gets me confused😂😅
@@erickj.933 If I want to differentiate the baltics, I remembered the former poland-lithuania country. So lithuania must be the south most country. Central & south america, africa, central asia and SEA is very hard for me. I remember a few major country and middle east but still hard
これ系の企画見るの好きだから日本でやってくれるのめちゃ嬉しい！！！
出題のセンス高い。
まずは分かりやすい大国。一般常識ながら、混みいっているヨーロッパ。
名前は聞いたことあるけど、場所は分かりにくいトルコやキューバ。
世界史・地理を大学受験レベルでやっていれば答えられるエチオピア・ベラルーシ・東南アジア。
最後のスリナムも南米唯一の英語圏という特徴を持っていて、めちゃくちゃ地理をやっていた人にとっては分かる。
非常に良質な問題。
スリナム、中米あたりな事しかわからなくて、難しすぎないか！って思ったのですが、そんな特徴があったんですね。
面白い！
@@GGconconcony
ガイアナ（オランダ語）
スリナム（英語）
ギアナ（フランス語）
この３つはセットで出てくるので、がっつり地理やる人は、ちゃんと覚えますね。
しかし、それ以上の情報はほぼ覚えないので、難易度高いことには変わりありませんが。
hoi4民はスリナム＝アルミニウムだと思ってる()
ギアナ地方って左から順番にガイアナ(英語)、スリナム(蘭語) 、仏領ギアナ(仏語)じゃなかったっけ
世界地図を覚えるのは簡単だからあとは特徴を覚えとくだけ
この動画は日本語の会話を勉強中の人にすごくいいと思う！
丁寧語の人、タメ口の人、スラング混じりの若者言葉の人、〜スカ口調の人など、教科書では学べないリアルな日本人のケースが沢山ある！
五ヵ月前に日本語を勉強して始めました
この動画は本当に手伝った！
正しくない文法したら言ってください ^_^
@@masterrguy4465
・五(1)ヶ月前に日本語を勉強して(2)始めました。
この動画は本当に手伝った(3)！
正しくない文法をしたら(4)言ってください
・5ヶ月前に日本語を勉強し始めました。
この動画は本当に助かりました！
正しくない文法をしていたら言ってください
(1)五ヶ月→5ヶ月 漢数字は、少しかしこまった表現。今どきの人はアラビア数字を使う
(2)して始める→し始める「〜始める」の前は「て」はいらない
(3)「手伝った」はこの場面ではあまり使わない。「助かりました」が良い！
(4)「〜をしたら」のところを「〜をしていたら」もしくは「〜が有ったら」にすると◎
5ヶ月で漢字もひらがなも覚えてすごい！日本語の勉強がんばって下さいね！😊❤
@@impreza5466 ありがとうございます
今はちょうと恥ずかしいですよ 😄
@@masterrguy4465 5ヵ月でこのレベルはすごいと思う
ちゃんと意味が伝わってるので、ちょっと気になるけど問題ないです
@@masterrguy4465 すごいよ👏
Born in US but must have been Japanese in a previous life. I knew them all, including Ethiopia; but then, I'm 80 and always considered geography important.
It's normal to know most countries. It's crazy that a lot of Americans can't locate anything.
僕はインド人で、日本語の勉強をしています。日本人にインドを見分けてホットしました。ありがとうございましたね
インド映画のRRRは日本でも大人気です！
日本のコミックエッセイでインド人のカレーのお店の飲食店店長の旦那さんと日本人女性の夫婦の漫画があります
流水りんこさん
"Rinnko Nagami-san"
この漫画でボリウッドや「マダムインニューヨーク」"English Vinglish"を知りました
インドは余裕✌️🇮🇳
インドがどれか分からなかったらバカだと思うくらいみんな正解できるよ🙆🏻♀️
インドは有名でしょう。
BRICSの中ではこれから発展する国です。いずれ日本に経済援助してください。
Not only random people are citing historical facts to link their knowledge of the locations , they are also linking different Geographical skills while doing so. (Equatorial line for instance)
It goes to show the importance of historical facts to the geographical locations in the world
this seems like pretty average knowledge to me, the abnormal ones are the americans.
I wan't to believe they cherry picked the most ignorant ones but its still impressive how they had 0 knowledge
Me learning a little bit of ww2 timeline alone already gave me the ability to be better than most of my classmates at locating poland
I am Japanese, so I also understand this video by the Japanese of the performers, not by the English of the subtitles lol.
@@Renosenfor me it's the Total war game series that made me love looking at the world map lol. Still struggling named the modern middle europe, balkan, middle asia and south african countries tho. 😂
日本人の多くはこうで、一般常識って感じで飾ってない感じで良い
日本人はクイズ番組が好きで、国土が大きい国や、人口の多い国は大人になっても忘れにくい
サッカーなどのスポーツ観戦をしている人は国名や国旗をよく覚えていると思う
結構馬鹿っているもんだね
モルドバからこんにちは、私は日本が大好きです。アマチュア無線家として、「Made in Japan」と書かれた日本の技術やエレクトロニクスが大好き 日本語も英語もわからないけど、
Google翻訳で頑張ってくれたのかな？とても嬉しいです
翻訳の精度高い
Hello CQ
ありがとう！
Thank you！
Salut
歴史とか好きだと地理もすんなり入ってくるよね、みてるだけでも十分楽しかった！
I love Japanese from Russia!!!🇷🇺❤🇯🇵
私はロシアの日本人が大好きです!!!🇷🇺❤️🇯🇵
Я люблю японцев из России!!!🇷🇺❤️🇯🇵
せーの、えいって指差すのが仲良しでかわいいな
日本語&英字幕すごい需要ありますありがとうございます
質問？ せーの、 とはどういう意味ですか? 3-2-1(count) と訳して、答えを指してもいいですか?
@634qe ありがとうございます
@@Lodai974 ついでに書くと、日本には色々な掛け声があるので、その土地によって違いますよ。
関東なら「いっせーのーせ」 関西近辺なら「いっせーのーで」、福岡なら全く違って「さんのーがーはい！」
日本には各都道府県に方言があり、方言があるとそれ以外の言葉にも違いがあるので、掛け声やじゃんけんや、絆創膏の呼び方など色々あるので、
日本人の中でも地方の人達はそれが正解だと思っていたら実は方言だったりその地方特有の言い方だったりするので、ある意味面白いとは思いますが、覚えてたのと違うって事もあるので、出来れば標準語、東京で使われている言葉を覚えるのが一番いいかも？ｗ
@@邪馬臺-z2u はい、地域の特性です。 フランスには、ブルトン語、バスク語、プロヴァンス語、コルシカ語、アルザス語など、独自の表現を持つフランス語から派生した言語、またはフランス語のいとこである言語がいくつかあります。
@@Lodai974フランスかどうか忘れたけど(せーの)がおっぱいって意味になる国あったよね
私は60代ですが、中学受験のため国と首都を覚え、国が分裂したり統合したり遷都したりする度に記憶をアップデートするようにしてきたので、ピーク時は100か国近くは覚えていました。最近ではアウトプットに時間がかかりますが😂
대단하신겁니다 🎉👍🏻
60代で中学受験って、とんでもないお金持ちの家だったのでは…
@@AnonymousCats 地方のごく普通の家庭です。
通学圏の高校のランクは、県都の私立高校が上位であり、その上、校区の高校があまり良くない事もあって、同級生の1/3が中学受験をする小学校でした。
小さい頃から兄や従姉妹や近所の上の子達が受験をしていたので、塾に行くのも当たり前の事ととらえていましたが、5,6年生の2年間は、今思い返すと、かなりハードなスケジュールでした(笑)
@@ZUMBAwasshoi そうなんですね！
自分は2008年に神奈川の小学校から中学受験しましたが、受験組は同級生の5%程度しかいませんでした。
岡山の従兄弟のところは滅多にいないようです。
地方によってもこんなに違うなんて面白いですね！
小中学校の頃のアフリカは〇〇領が多かった。あの頃の地図、取っとけば良かった。
The people in this video were very kind and very smart thank you 😊
I’m American but I know my geography pretty well but I am a big geography nerd anyway hahaha
I am from Kazakhstan and I was suprised that guy at the end of the video was able to locate my home country. After all, not many people even know Kazakhstan exist, let alone spotting it on a world map. That dude has pretty darn good knowledge of geography.
It's the largest of the -stans and second largest of the former Soviet Republics. Kinda hard to miss.
As a Japanese, the way to memorize the location of Kazakhstan is "There are two countries between Russia and China, the one at East is Mongolia, and the one at the West is Kazakhstan." And I have a image of some space project or fantasy film shooting, in the big prairie in your country. And people look alike with Japanese 😀
How can you think people around the globe don't know what or where Kazakhstan is, being in the top 10 biggest countries???!!?
I am Japanese. I love Kazakh people. 我々と顔が似ていますね🙂
Kazakhstan is more known than you thought, although i can point it out on the map like the guy, I have to admit i know nothing about it
このひとたち地味に教養高そう、回答に対するアプローチが理論的
アメリカの真下とか、４方を３国に囲まれてるとか
言動と正答率が釣り合ってないから、地頭がいい方々なんだろうね。
すこし事前に世界地図を見れば正答率は格段に上がりそう
Thanks for sharing interesting contents!!! Keep going man!!
As an Iranian, I'm proud of our fellow-Asians🇮🇷❤️🇯🇵
I have been to your country. Your country has such a great culture I respect Iran.
日本人です！イランの文化は魅力的で面白い！
多分日本人って、この国はどこでしょう？って質問されて指差すのはアフリカとヨーロッパ辺りだと難しくなってくるけど、それでも名前を知ってる国は結構多いと思う。どんなにマイナーでもあー聞いたことあるってなるんじゃないかな。
I am from Slovakia and I used to live in Japan. Due to my previous experiences in other countries (including in Western Europe), I didn't expect many people to know my country but surprisingly, majority did (and I could tell, that they are not just pretending because it usually led to a further conversation about it). Never asked them to point it on the map though but it's nice to not get a blank stare all the time.
I loved Slovakia when I went on a European tour a few years ago. The countryside is beautiful, Bratislava is gorgeous, prettiest city I visited, and the people were incredibly friendly. My brother and I found a lovely little shop that had amazing free samples of homemade alcohol, great tasting and fun people.. One of few countries I want to go back to. Hopefully in a few years.
Chechoslovakia is well known in Japan. I should also mention that in the popular anime of Monster (2004), Slovakia is a important stage for about 20 episodes. Everyone knows Slovakia here in Japan :)
Back in 80s and early 90s the former Czechoslovakia is very popular in Indonesia because of one thing, TATRA razor blade. It's sharp but very cheap because made from carbon steel. Gillette razor was too expensive.
Even though we didn't know where the country is, but we knew there is a country named Czechoslovakia (very tongue twister name :D )
i'm able to point it since recently just because I realized it was previously czechoslovakia. Before that, I could point the two countries that are slovakia and slovenia but couldn't tell which one is which
スロバキアは有名ですよ。昔は共産主義でチェコと合体してましたが今は民主的な素晴らしい国です。
国名とか国の位置とか覚えるの好きだったからこのインタビュー受けてみたかったです😆
Really good video. Please do part 2 of this👍
This video was really interesting to me, because I'm a geography student (I have a degree in Geography), and I got to study Asia from a cultural and social perspective. Getting to know Japanese people's own knowledge and appropriation of the world is really enlightening about their geographies and their perception of foreign territories; it says a lot.
Great video :)
よぴさんの実写動画だ！すごい！！
チャンネル登録しました☺︎
実際、私もあのアメリカ人の動画見て、最初のよぴさんのように、こんなにできないの！？って思ってました😂日本人の方が絶対できるわって心の中で思ってました！
それを実験してやってもらい、とても気持ちいい動画でした！
これからも頑張ってください😊
ところで編集うますぎです😭
いつもありがとうございます！！
賛成！
Hey, I see that's your 1st video. I hope you'll make more and your channel grow.
Good luck!
Thank you for the English and Japanese subtitles. These will help me with my studies of the Japanese language. Great video quality and I was really surprised this was the first video on this channel.
They all did great 😂😂😂 I used to be able to pinpoint all countries in junior high school but I kind of forgot about it now 😂
im sure there's also more by now-
I did a quiz a month ago of the world map and got 190. Africa is by far the hardest 😅
@@rienn8559 you might want to rethink that comment 🤦 edit: I don't regret what I said here. It would take no time at all to learn the few new countries. Things are almost entirely the same on that scale
@@lucidnode
In the early 2000's East Timor declared their independence from Indonesia, Montenegro and Serbia split into two countries, Kosovo declared their independence from Serbia, and in the 2010's South Sudan became independent from Sudan.
I don't know how long it's been since the original commenter was in junior high school, but it's very well possible that new countries have formed since.
@@rienn8559 Depends how old you are. Newest country is South Sudan in 2011. (Next in line is Bougainville in 2027 unless something drastic happens first)
When I visited Japan in 2018 and told people I’m from Chile, literally EVERYONE knew where it’s located or its shape, or something about it. I was super impressed that they all knew so much about Chile
チリの地理も知ってたんですね
チリは形が特徴的だし
地震が多い国って共通点もあるから
知ってる人多い気がする
逆にチリは一般人は細いイメージしかない
ほっそいとこw
@@funete5515 ほっそいとこ🤣そうそう、それで覚えてる！形で覚える
I'm so glad!!!
I understand without reading the subtitles
I love this kind of content
The way you say Portugal in Japanese is sooo cute, also I'm so glad that you know where is Switzerland 🇨🇭🇯🇵🤝🏻
スイスは有名でしょう。
永世中立国。高級時計。ヨーデル。フェデラー🎾 アルプス山脈。など🇨🇭
Switzerland is very famous and I have a good impression of it.
@@愚鈍ちゃんぐどんちゃん very famous ? I wonder why Switzerland and not slightly similar countries like Austria, Northern Italy or Savoie in France.
I met a lot of Japanese people because I live near Verbier (similar place to Zermatt and not so far away), it's always fun to met someone from the country you are simping for and they simp for your country too 🤗
@@sylvaingermanier98 Switzerland is known in Japan for its Banks, Cheese, and most importantly, Heidi.
@@deadby15 Haha Heidi of course, what a wonderful story that a lot of people that come from the Alps can relate. I just thought that Switzerland was shadowed by Austria which kind look the same, have a more developed history and have more European classical cities like Wien. Even if I thinks Switzerland is better due to the mixing of culture for food and mentality because of the the nearby french, Italian and German cultures.
10:15 “Everyone seems to know this, it’s common knowledge”
Meanwhile Americans:
the videos you see about americans not being able to name a single country are staged lmao, i didnt think people actually believed them
@@brenesser That's a lie.
I know that the quality of education in America varies greatly.
@@brenesser some of them are staged and some of them they just remove the parts where people get the questions right
@350planespotting well of course japanese know about the countries surrounding japan, and then they barely know about the american continents. it's the same with people from america; usually americans know about the countries surrounding the us, but barely know about the asian countries. it's flipped. it just depends on where you live, to know about the countries that surround your country.
In Japan, there is a popular variety show called "Let's go to the end of the world", so we learn the name of the country and the atmosphere of the country. Therefore, many people probably know the image of the place in that country, such as "Africa" or "South America." But I don't know the specific location.
The person with a high accuracy rate in this video probably chose geography in high school or university and took a class. Many people study geography in high school or college. I only took classes when I was in middle school, so I don't know where the 🇨🇺, 🇪🇹, 🇸🇬 are. nice to know today
I'm using a translator, so the sentences may be a little strange. Sometimes the Japanese meaning is translated into English with the opposite meaning. I'm sorry if it looks offensive. I don't mean to.
Wait this is this dude's only youtube video?!
Yopi-san, this is high quality content! From the way you do the intro to the way you film, editing and interract with the people, is just incredible classy.
I just love how you probably just interviewed people when they were taking an afternoon walk and relaxing. Not stopping people in the middle of busy roads.
They look so chilled and fun to participate. Just way more superior than how the american version was done.
Honestly, I'm really looking foward to more of your contents. It is really comfy and soothing to watch.
wtf
wtf i just noticed too
Editing was great, camerawork was exceptional, slight background music was tasteful and the subtitles were essential and helpful. This guy knows how to make videos and somehow perfected it, seemingly, the first time.
We will answer through a translator.
He originally ran a channel that introduced foreign clips to the Japanese audience. However, one day all the videos were suddenly deleted and this channel was newly opened. From Japan
@@ha10manthank you
Very impressive. This video shows how well educated the Japanese people are.
it doesn't show how well educated Japanese people are, it shows how poorly educated Americans are
Or American just straight up dumb 😂
@コメ用 アカウント We got taught nothing. I learned geography by myself. I can identify all 197 UN-recognised countries plus Kosovo, Taiwan, and Western Sahara on a world map.
@コメ用 アカウント We have, but it is an elective course, you don't have to learn if you don't like geography.
@@zealandia5668 it's 193 u.n. members not 197 lol
I’m an American who’s well versed in geography and knows all the flags of the world, and I’m not surprised at all that Japanese people are better than the average American
日本人です。アフリカ大陸と南米の北部は難しいです。もっと世界に興味を持たなければならないですね。良い動画ありがとう。
கண்டிப்பாக 👍
歴史的にヨーロッパやアジアとの繋がりが強く、アフリカとは繋がりが薄いので仕方ないところはあります。
これからの時代はもっと多くの国に興味を持っていきましょう！
You mean Central America/Southern part of North America?
@@kevintrang6447 Perhaps the Central American/
I think he means he doesn't know the northern countries of South America.
「南米の北部」means northern part of South America. So, Central America may be included.
Yopi-san, please make more content like this. I wanna know more things from a Japanese perspective
As a swiss person, I was really surprised by the man who found my country by using historical events! I also that that it was great, that all the contestants were using their overall knowledge, in a way to figure out which country they had to point out :)
全部中学生までで教わる知識で、日本人のほとんどは同じように答えることができます
スイスの永世中立は、日本で散々マスコミに取り上げられてるしな。
Glad to see our country included. Much love to Japan! 🇰🇿❤️🇯🇵 Many Kazakhs look like Japanese, including me by the way
I am Japanese and I agree with you.
The people of Kazakhstan are the most similar to the Japanese.
Вот поэтому их второе имя "Казахи премиум класса".
I totally agree. I'm Japanese in the US and I have several good friends from Kazakhstan. When we first met each other, I thought they were Japanese and they thought I(me) was Kazakh too😂😂 They often cook me Kazakh cuisines and I absolutely love them. I want to visit Kazakhstan someday🇯🇵❤️🇰🇿 (Srry for my broken English btw)
@@wee.1283 あなたの英語上手ですよ. If you go to Almaty some day, I can meet you
あなたはとても良い方です！😊
they're so humble too, incredible
9:02 I was really surprised (◉0◉)ᵎᵎᵎ
Thanks for noticing my country.!!
Big HEART❤ from Myanmar 🇲🇲
I'm Indian, and as a Map Expert, I can't really watch Americans guessing countries to the end.
As a Swede, same here! 😅
almost as cringey as people calling themselves Map Experts, hard to read to the end. 😀
@@dizzlebizzle8424 Bro, You Roasted Me Good Here.
@@dizzlebizzle8424 🤡
@@dizzlebizzle8424 🤡
Thank you to adding Kazakhstan in this video. as a Kazakh, I really appreciate it😍🫶🫶🫶
As a Swiss person, I'd say the countries that are difficult to locate for me are those in Oceania (except for Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) and some in Western Africa
My weakness are the Caribbean and yes oceania islands
You should just memorize micronesia, melanesia, polynesia...
I'm very happy that he knew where my country Kazakhstan is located ❤😊
as a hoi 4 player i've been waiting for a quiz like this in my city all my life
同じく
hoi4義務教育で来ないかな
agreed hoi4 goes hard with geogtraphy
hoi4 players when they need to point a country in africa: Chad? thats france buddy
Every paradox Gamer is waiting for this
Great vid! entertaining
日本人の場合は歴史やシミュレーションゲームやボードゲームなどが好きな人が多いのでその影響はあるかもしれません
あとアニメね。私はヘタリアでヨーロッパが完璧にわかる。
@@10rosso10同じくヘタリアでヨーロッパとアジアと南アメリカだけ行けます！！アフリカ勉強したい！
多くの日本人は国名と大まかな位置を関連付けることが出来ますが、完璧な位置を特定することは難しいです。
As a Filipino, the only countries I'd have a hard time locating are African countries except ones connected to Mediterranean, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar and South Africa. I'd also have a hard time figuring out which is which in former Yugoslavia countries.
All those 日本人 did great. 👍
if the countries hate each other, they probably border each other in eastern europe/eastern southern europe
Yougoslavia hits hard
@@imie-nazwisko Swagapino moment
Did we actually get taught about other countries in school? I know about them now due to my hobbies, but I don't remember world geography being a part of the lessons taught in school, dunno about SHS cause I wasn't part of it. Naming what countries are from what continents probably happened at best, but no maps were included iirc.
@@madensmith7014 ours did, including naming their capital as well as their national flags
I love that they're having so much fun
チャンネル登録しました〜！
この動画英語字幕付いてて勉強になるし、地理も覚えられるから再生回数に貢献します😌笑
Incredible video! I’m definitely subscribing to you. I’m proud to know where most countries are, it’s just the small islands which I have no clue about 😅
このチャンネルめちゃくちゃ推します 頑張って！
From Sweden here. We used to learn geography (THE WHOLE WORLD, not just our own country) for several years in basic school. And it feels pretty nice to have at least most of the knowledge still there. A bit shocked to see some of the people on the street in the beginning failing hard. Pretty impressed by the Japanese people also 👍
Very great people, amazing accuracy. My story: I can locate probably every country on the map but here is why. Apart from the fact that I am generally curious and like to learn stuff, when I was a kid (8 years old or so) I spent dozens if not hundreds of hours looking at the earth map, countries map, political map, etc. Why? I was born and lived many years in a communist country and life was very grey, a can of Coke was an extreme luxury, my father salary was 10 USD per month etc. Traveling was banned, it was like a prison. So the world we could see was ONLY on the map (and some movies and books). And I was a curious kid, looking the map, learning all countries, capitals, mountains, rivers etc. I loved it so much that I could spend 4-5 hours looking at a map, dreaming about travelling there, picturing life there, people etc. It was horrible time for my country, but as a kid, I had these simple pleasures and it stayed with me until today :)) Sorry if this is boring, just wanted to share and say thanks to the author and the people who took part in the quiz:)
how old are you?
I saw that episode also and coming from Southeast Asia, I’m okay since I identified all that was asked.
African and Middle Eastern countries are the most difficult, for me.
Try oceania 🤭
カリブ海の島国をお試しください😊
African countries is way easier compared to Oceania and the Caribbean. The only thing I struggle with is West Africa and Central Asia, im from Indonesia btw
@@azfarazizi1486
So let us at least be well versed with Southeast Asia 😄😄😄
この人達教養があって海外の人びっくりしてるけど、これと同じ質問を渋谷でして欲しい、違う意味でびっくりすると思う😂😂
トー横で聞いたら面白そう
「バカ世界地図」って昔あったけどあんな感じになりそうｗ
びっくりはしないかな。
アメリカなんかは渋谷ギャルを下回るお馬鹿な子いっぱいいるもん。
それでもほとんどの日本人は一般常識として自分の国ぐらい分かると思うよ。
自分の国がどこにあるか分からないアメリカ人が結構いることの方がびっくり。
面白い視点🤣
I think at least not knowing the exact location is totally fine, but knowing big countries and guessing other countries in vicinity is much easier, and more important!
this is a well made video, i'm surprised it's his only one!
Honestly, seeing this, I feel like this is an expected amount of knowledge for someone completely random in japan, where they know their closest neighbours, know the major powers, but can get a bit flakey on the things further away from that, although it is impressive how they have a pretty decent knowledge of places like europe despite the distance
In general Japanese respect Europe for historical reasons.
@@deadby15 that's right
ヨーロッパは国が何処にあるのか、どんな地名があるかについては覚えやすいですね
歴史的な関わりがとても記憶に残るので…ユーゴスラビアだった国の位置も直ぐに覚えました
@@ゆたんぽ-w4s 僕はヨーロッパな人、ユーゴスラビアの位置が知らない
イタリアとかは長靴の形してて覚えやすいよね
Impressive! Geography is really fun!❤
Just so you know…I’m INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICAN and GEOGRAPHY is a favorite of mine. I’m absolutely in my comfort zone here. Just ask my family members who I quiz once in awhile 🙋🏻♀️❤️😉. I loved this and I’m impressed and supportive of theses young people from JAPAN 🇯🇵. GREAT 👍🏽 JOB.
Hiii!!!, I always wanted to meet an Ind Nat Americans :* I bet they are more wise than the rest of the Americans
I also love geography
If you look like this 🙋🏻♀️ you're not native American
Greetings! I'm Ainu (indigenous people of Hokkaido)
@@CyborgRowlet Hiii!
外国人にびっくりされている事に僕はビックリした。
totally different level, nice!
Japanese people are diligent and smart. A country of cars and technology. I study geography in compulsory education in Japan. I can answer all. The hardest are the island nations in the Caribbean and Oceania.🌏
Antigua and Barbuda is very hard
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis😭
I am Japanese.
I rarely look at a world map, but I often hear about history and culture, so I remember the locations in relation to them.
Nice.
Btw, do you think Japanese people in general know where Indonesia is ?
@@anomalousdelirium
日本人だけど、大半の人は知ってると思うよ〜。
@@猫好き-f6o
I see. Good to know.
@@anomalousdelirium旅行でバリに行く人は結構いると思うので知ってる方は多いイメージです
でも島が多いので全部の島を把握してはいないと思います
インドネシアとフィリピンは 日本に多く来ている人たちだし、日本人でも旅行や仕事で行き来いている人も多いから身近に感じます
I wasn’t expecting seeing Turkey 🇹🇷 it made me happy.
Japanese are very good at geography but i would wish for a better performance for Turkiye because it is one of a kind strecthing between Europe and Asia. We Turks should work more to promote our beautiful country to beautiful Japanese people, hi to Japan 🇹🇷🇯🇵
日本にはトルコの(トルコアイスやケバブ等)の店が多くありますよ。
It was interesting watching, thanks!
I drew the world map back in highschool and memorized every country and their capital, that was 18 yrs ago. As time passed by I forgot most of it.
I learned very much in a site called "JetPunk", recommend you guys try to use there to learn geography, is so nice! I learned all 196 countries, but i need to learn about capitals
すごいわ
Where are you from?
こう言う動画で、勉強してこなかった人たちをわざと集めたんじゃなくて、ちゃんと平均くらいの知識量でインタビューしてるよ何気に初めて見たかも。
これがテレビやとフランスの位置さえ知らない女子高生をピックアップしてる。
Even if someone does not know a country's position, their reaction is still so lovely and humble. You just have to like Japanese people!
Nice video, I hope you won't stop the channel and will keep producing more content. Greetings from Ukraine.
I don’t really know where is Ethiopia but I know the train on the beginning of this video was Ohimachi line, the guy has a tremendous geographical skill was interviewed along the Tama river, and two ladies were interviewed on Komazawa Olympic park.
草
geogesser やってる人ですか？
I would also like to see random people answering math problems. JP (or Asia in general) would crush the US for sure.
Yoo😯 The Japanese people are really good at geography especially the guy in the last is genius 9:02 💯 ,Greetings from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿👋🤝🇯🇵
This video was really well made, I enjoyed watching the whole thing. :)
They're good, considering it's just random people you encountered.
I'm a bit surprised that in Japan you have only 1 year of geography in middle school and high school (if I understand well what that lady was saying). In France it's every year. Yet, I don't think French people would be better than Japanese people in average lol, so it's impressive you guys do so well despite the lack of focus on geography in school.
French are actually really talented in geography
Geography is a vast subject. I am sure they meant political geography. In india, we learn geography from middle school to class 10th. After that it becomes a specialized subject.
Japanese elementary school students study geography for two years. It is the subject of Social Studies.
@@WMVKMBN no they are not, let's not lie
@@lawtraf8008 are you french ?😂
小さい頃からリビングに世界地図が飾ってあって興味持って自然と覚えていった、実家に感謝
5:43 I see his a man of culture as well 😂
Probably Hoi4 Player
中学で習ったね
中学生以上なら皆知ってます
I think the education system in Japan is top level, the guy in white pointing all the countries is a legend, loved your video a lot, instant sub, wish to see more of them, thank you very much, that was entertaining. Peace ✌❤
They really listen and see what the geography teacher taught them
Just finished watching the US version and was embarrassed for them but this video shows how smart and lovely Japanese people are. No wonder my children keep going there for holidays!
I know that the quality of education in America varies greatly.
Without affluent families, Americans lose the opportunity to acquire decent knowledge.
@@RacistChinaWhite it's 2023. Most people in America can learn whatever they want on the internet, on their phone, if they wanted to. Everyone they interviewed on the streets look like they got at least a decent education. They don't know because they'd rather remember the names of everyone in the Kardashian family than where their own country is on the map.
@@ProjectILT It is important to learn the basics well.
No matter how much the Internet develops, if there is no foundation, we will just drown in the sea of information.
There is already a need for Americans to share an education fit for world leaders.
I'm a little sad about the difference between the average IQ of each country in the world and the United States.
@@ProjectILT Eh, the video was definitely not a fair sampling of people in America. I think it was either in Disney or Santa Monica area, which is definitely not going to be the most intellectual people, and they only cherry-picked the most shocking answers. Some of them could've struggled because of the stress of being on a national TV show or having learning disabilities.
I'm German.
When I was a child, I studied the entire world map because I was just bored, I wasn't supposed to do this in school. I only did this because I thought that it was very interesting.
And today, I know every country with every capital city and flag and I still love geography.
But the people in the video also did a nice job.
Great video!
Same. I have a map at home and I just stared it XD
Now I have a interest in world maps and can name all countries too
As Indonesian, we see Japanese just like a kind of Asian's German. You guys present the most educated people in your Continent.
Hey I did the same thing when I was younger😅
I did it after I travelled bck first time, I even trained myself to draw the map when bored
this is truly gem! great vdeo
Playing HOI4 taught me how to locate Ethiopia. But the down side is it didn’t help much locating the rest of modern Africa…
(whisper) *They never got Ethiopia*
I find it interesting that the map is Japan centric whereas in Europe, it's Europe-centric. I mean, it makes sense to center on the location of the person you're teaching but it still makes me have to do mental adjustments to find the countries they're talking about. India, for instance, is right of the centre on my internal atlas but here it's left. Very interesting :)
This version of the map is weird though because in the normal one it's obvious that Japan is the most Eastern part of the world while the US is in the most Western part of the world. Also, that Mercrator map was made by a Belgian so that's another obvious reason why Western-Europe is in the center of it.
The world map of the Southern Hemisphere is written upside down↑↓
@@International_Internet それはお土産用のものです
どこの国でも自分の国が中心の地図があるのでは？
だって自分の国を中心に周りを見なきゃわかりにくい
@@dennisengelen2517 there's nothing weird about this map. You're just used to a eurocentric worldview. Just because Europeans call Japan the Far East doesn't mean that Japan needs to be placed on the far right of the map.
サッカー観てるとヨーロッパにだけは異常に詳しくなった
成る程、サッカーは自分ではしないですが、ゲームのウイイレ等で選手紹介やりますからな
흥미롭네요 한국에서도 지리학을 배우는데 모든 국가를 정확하게는 알고 있지는 않지만 대부분 어느정도에 위치하고 있다는건 알고 있습니다. 영상 앞에 나온것처럼 서양사람들이 유럽을 아시아라고 하다던지 지미쇼 영상을 보니깐 캐나다를 북한이라고 하는 사람도 있더라고요 하하 ㅎㅎ
I hope you continue making vids 😊
I am from Russia and I am very glad that the Japanese know geography so well. It's really hard to watch Americans call South America Africa or something like that... The Japanese are very diligent and I admire how you, being in such a modern realities, pay tribute to traditions.
"It's really hard to watch Americans call South America Africa or something like that" that was just ONE American but you generalizing all Americans that think its Africa. Most Americans are bad at geography but about 90% of us know where South America is 😂 its obvious because it's just basic general knowledge
@@tarek4774 He was obviously overexaggerating.
As an american I really think that those videos are made up, or they comb through hundreds of people for hours until they find that one that doesn't know. I have literally never met anyone in my life that would confuse south America for south Africa, aside from maybe a small child. Or not even be able to find there own country, like the guy doing the video said, its "entertainment" so its scripted, because it brings more views apparently to perpetuate the myth that Americans are stupid rather than to show the truth, that they're basically the same as everyone else.
@@MechaShadowV2 Fix your comment
@@MechaShadowV2 I don't care about your low-level objection. For example, there are no Japanese people who mistake continents. (Even if it's a 12-year-old Japanese junior high school student.) Ah, do Americans know where most of the countries in the world are? (especially countries in Europe, North and South America, Eurasia). Geography is not a compulsory subject for Japanese, but it is difficult to find a Japanese person who does not know the locations of these countries in the world. In conclusion, shouldn't you make a counterargument that Americans generally know the location of their country, instead of arguing against such trivial knowledge as the location of the continent? It's like an ugly fight between
めっちゃくちゃたのしかった！
Make more videos like this one! The production and editing was pretty pro. Keep on going!
I think if you keep doing good content like this, you'll go really far. Thanks for sharing!
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I'm Japanese, but when I travel, people call me Ni Hao. East Asia has a strong image of China. Japan and South Korea have the same problem. China and Japan are completely different peoples, with different cultures and languages. I want people around the world to understand this.
I'm korean. This is fact
As an asian resident of a european country i grew up thinking "kinezos" (chinese in greek) meant anyone with "Asian Eyes" as they called it. It started becoming annoying when i learned I wasn't actually Chinese
This video makes me want to just study African geography so that I can pass arbitrary tests such as these if I ever was randomly asked. Lol.
Woah. Surprised to see this is your first video and you're already doing so well. Please keep doing quiz stuff like this!
When I was in elementary school I always played guess the country flag with my friends. did not expect it to be a very useful memory in the future.
5:44 damn thats really good logic
I don’t really know Eastern Europe and Africa countries either😂 that guy was incredible
If I say so myself, I'm kind good at it, the thing gets tough in small regions with many countries like Central America or the Balcans. Those countries near Russia and Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also gets me confused😂😅
@@erickj.933 If I want to differentiate the baltics, I remembered the former poland-lithuania country. So lithuania must be the south most country.
Central & south america, africa, central asia and SEA is very hard for me. I remember a few major country and middle east but still hard