British Couple Reacts to 11 American States that Are Larger than the UK
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Everyone knows Area 52, cmon man!
🤣🤣 I'm never going to live this down am i aha!
@@TheBeesleys99 hahahaha Most likely not...
@@TheBeesleys99 sure you will ;) Area 51 base is in Nevada by the way.. not far north of Las Vegas.
...Roswell is in New Mexico as he says in the video, and the reference to Arizona is because, Phoenix i think, has the Lights. Apparently there are lights that move in the night sky on a regular basis.
@@TheBeesleys99 As said in this vid size isn't everything, you guys got to do *(every country that England has invaded visualized)* ruclips.net/video/snukwrLhu8Y/видео.html
I worked with a dude who was from the UK. He said when he was still living in the UK, he didn't get to see his folks but once or twice a year because they lived too far away from him.
45-minute drive.
I looked at him and said, "My drive to work is 50 minutes."
200 miles to a European is a long drive.
200 years to an American is a long time.
Only seeing relatives only once or twice a year because the 45-minute drive is "too far" baffles me. You know our country is too big when we speak of interstate trips in terms of time (hours, days, etc.) instead of units of distance ( miles/kilometers). Here in Montana, the distance between cities is referenced in how many hours the trip will take 😂.
My cousins live 4 hours away and we see them once a month.
@JE I drove from SC to AZ I don't know how many miles it was, but it was a 3 day drive.
Nah. That's just a son who doesn't want to make time for his family.
To be fair, I have relatives that is a 5 minute drive that is "too far" to see very often.
Yes, the US is incredibly large. Just for some reference, I live in North Carolina and it takes about 10 hours of driving to get to Florida. Also, for those living in certain parts of Texas, they can drive for 10 hours and STILL be in Texas.
El paso to Texarkana, 20 hours.
@@kkarllwt Apple maps says it’s 11-12 hours, not 20.
@@amyschmelzer6445 I think kkarllwt was taking into account all the construction on I-20. The official flower of Texas is the Traffic Cone.
I used to drive from my house to my parent's without stopping for the night. It was 1200 miles. Dallas to Pocatello ID. Did it MANY times...
@@amyschmelzer6445 Where Apple maps get it wrong is that is total driving time but doesn't include the stops you have to make for gas, food and resting. It also doesn't include the time it takes to drive through Fort Worth and Dallas.
Texas here. Our Scottish friends were shocked to learn my mom would drive 90 miles to spend the day with my sister and then drive home. Mom also drove 60 miles to attend a sewing class for a few hours
I have friends who drive 60 to 70 miles to work.
My daughter and her husband took me to lunch last week. We drove 90 miles to Houston from our home. Then we drive 90 miles back home. 🧓🏻🇺🇸
60miles? that's a mere detour in the US.
Orange, Texas west to El Paso, Texas is 858 miles. Brownsville, Texas north to Texhoma, Texas is 857 miles.
I’m very curious what you think New York consists of??? You said “the whole of New York”…but NY is just a state and it’s not all that big. Perhaps you were thinking of New England, which is a cluster of states north of New York.
4:27 Floridian here. We would hear stories about people coming from across the pond to visit Disney. They would land in New York with a cheaper flight thinking they could just rent a car and drive the short distance to Florida. We've also picked up non Americans trying to walk from Cocoa Beach to Disney, which is about 100 miles away. They were not aware of the distance.
Oh, wow. I remember when the fam and I drove to Lauderhill. We spaced that drive pit to concentrate mostly on avoiding DC traffic. We made good time and the trip down took two days, with stops. I can't imagine anyone from the UK being able to drive more than an hour or two, if what I heard is correct.
To all Californians: Don't let this video deceive you, we don't have that much room in Colorado. Please stop moving here. 🤣😂❤
😂😂😂😂😂😂
We in Idaho are all full too!
Haha! Dont worry we only send the military enthusiest and college kids to Colorado from California
Texas is full, have y'all tried Oregon?
I’m from Connecticut, which is smaller than Wales, but it has more people than Wales.
Area 51 (you were thinking of it when you said aliens - also known as Groom Lake) and Area 52 (what you said aka Tonopah Test Range) are both in Nevada.
I was today years old when I learned that there is such a thing as Area 52. I guess it makes sense that there are multiple "areas" if the one that I knew about is number 51.
@@andrewthomas7109 But the real "Fun Stuff" is done at DARPA Test Sites. These are buildings in Plain Sight and have no markings - Meaning you don't know the name of the Company aka. a building with Sears on it is known to be a Sears store. Not these buildings.
Thank you for clarifying! My Las Vegas native, husband was yelling from the other room after he heard him say area 52 . Now he can calm down. 👍🏻
But what they should look in to is the Phoenix Lights ;) you'll thank me later
Funny thing is that many classified military bases are actually built within mountains or underground and the general public has no clue they exist.
I have lived in three of these states California, Montana, and Colorado. In Montana, when I was a teenager, people living 100 miles away may consider themselves to be neighbors.
Alaskan here! I've lived in Alaska my entire life, and though I've seen other places, I wouldn't want to live any place else. Clean air, clean water, a lot of nice people, abundant wildlife, amazing scenery, and gorgeous summers. I'm in a part of Alaska that you literally can't drive into or out of; you can only get here by plane or boat. In fact, we only have a total of about 40 miles of roads. Despite this, I have traveled to many different villages and towns in Alaska, several of them by a small float plane. THAT is an experience that everyone should get to have. In a jumbo jet, you can't fully appreciate the incredible view you get from a small plane, and our state pilots are some of the best in the world because they learn to fly in all sorts of adverse conditions and harsh weather.
Here's a little funny anecdote. Many years ago I lived in Dallas,Texas and one of my coworkers had 2 of his aunties from the UK visit him. They talked about seeing different places and wanted to have a short afternoon trip to the beach in... Florida!!! I laughed out loud, when he told me this. Obviously his dear little aunties had NO idea of the scale and size of our states.
LOL. I love this. Well if his aunties were very wealthy, I guess they could charter a private jet to fly to Florida from Dallas for the day, but the cost would make Bill Gates raise an eyebrow or two.
Ya in Texas you ask how far something is and you get down the street around the corner. So twenty five miles later we arrived. It's 7 hours from Dallas to San Antonio
Europeans often underestimate the size of the States. I know some people think they can fly into New York, drive down to Miami, and then to California like they're only a few hours apart, lmao
@@allenhill1223 Heck, I live in California, and even people in other, smaller states don't understand how big my state is. I had a friend of a friend who came from Massachusetts, who actually asked us if we could drive down to LA for the afternoon. No! No we can't! We live in the SF Bay Area. That's at least a 6 hour drive, one way! To get down to LA, we'd have to make it a whole weekend to make it worth the drive.
lmao. Europeans thinking we can replace aviation with trains....well you can take a short trip from Dallas to Florida but it would be in a jet aircraft not a car or train 🙂
I was born and raised in Michigan and still live there now. The water surrounding our state is very important to many of us. Fishing, swimming, boating and relaxing on the beaches are all part of our lifestyle.
Michigan here. We actually have land borders on FOUR Great Lakes. He left out Lake Erie. Most people picture the mitten shaped peninsula, but we have two peninsulas. The UP (upper peninsula) juts off of Wisconsin and the water border goes far north and includes Isle Royale, near Thunder Bay Canada. Getting from Isle Royale to Detroit is about 10 hours.
This reminds me of a trip I took to Germany with my parents many years ago. At the time, we lived in Omaha, Nebraska. When explaining to Germans what part of the US Omaha was in, we explained that it was "near Chicago, only 800 km west of it". That was quite startling to them, as 800 km is about the same distance as from the Danish border to the Swiss border, and Germany is a large country by European standards.
Me, when discussing visiting my mom with friends European friends. "Oh, I'm thinking of visiting my mom for a few days." Oh, how far is that? "Oh... only a 6ish hour drive, about 430km." Them 🤯I love it when they say something like, "If I'm driving that far, I'm staying for a month!" or when British friends ask where I'm staying the night because the concept of driving more than 3hrs alone is crazy. Then I tell them about driving just over 1500km to visit in laws in one day and say, "Oh, we'll only say for maybe 10 days."... gosh! Why is breaking European brains so much fun?
I took a similar trip to Germany, long ago. We started at Hamburg, which is not quite at the Danish border, but is about 100km from it. Then we went to West Berlin (which shows you how long ago this trip was), then to Munich, then to Switzerland and Austria, then to Liechenstien and finally to Aachen before leaving German.
Entertaining Factoid: Lake Superior has almost exactly TWICE the surface area as does Switzerland.
I think you mean area, surface area Switzerland might win as it's got lots of mountains, but I don't think anyone will be able to calculate it accurately.
How would surface area be calculated just based off of topographical maps?
@@illumine7304 It's surveyor's statistic - they pretend that the earth is flat and measure area. Same way they came up will all the numbers that were quoted.
@@rgpmtori I'm quoting "area" the exact same way area is being quoted in these clips.
If you want to try to count elevational data for Switzerland, then let's get some statistical data on wave heights on Lake Superior. Let's keep this light folks. 🙂
Wrangle St Elias National Park in Alaska is bigger than Switzerland, with higher Mountains.
I'm in *Arizona* & when he said when he thinks of *Arizona* he thinks of a hole in the ground. I thought it was referring to the *Grand Canyon* which is all anybody knows about *Arizona,* but he was actually referring to *(Meteor Crater)*
A lot of people don’t get Michigan’s size. To drive from the south eastern most to the north western most places would take over 12 hours.
Texas is huge. Take a drive across the state on I-10 and it's almost 1000 miles from El Paso over to Beaumont-Port Arthur.
I live in Michigan!! We have Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior. We love our forests (we have LOTS OF TREES) and our water!
Haha as an Arizonan I can tell you it’s Area 51 and it’s actually in Nevada, our north-west neighbor 👽
Our neighbor to the East, New Mexico, also gets a lot of alien-related tourism thanks to Roswell
Arizona is underrated for alien tourism, especially considering the “Phoenix Lights” in the ‘80s and the Travis Walton incident (which inspired a film called Fire in the Sky) 👀
And yes, while many Brits know Alaska. Texas and California are pretty huge, I like how Lawrence puts into perspective how big a lot of our “smaller” states are as well
He meant the sequel! 🤣
We did have the Phoenix Lights (allegedly)
Huh. Wikipedia is now saying that it's Area 51. I could've sworn it was Area 54. Must be a glitch in the matrix.
Oh I am who I am, I'll do what I want, but I can't breathe, until you're resting next to me...
@@neutrino78x
Wow, that’s super romantic, but I’m seeing someone
The one thing you'll notice in the comments is that when talking about travelling, due to the size of the country we don't measure distances in miles (or kilometers), but in *time*. I.e., how long it takes to get there at usual driving speeds, highway and city driving factored in. I visit some of my family that lives in a city in another state; I haven't a clue as to how far away they are in actual miles, just that it takes "Four and half hours to get there...five if go through Chicago."
Wyoming is less populated because it is home to a Massive National Park, Yellowstone. The park covers portions of Montana as well. It is actually a Super Volcano underneath. Absolutely some of the most beautiful scenery and natural attractions like natural geysers and gigantic super hot pools of gorgeous water.
Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks are quite large, but together are less than the size of Rhode Island.
ye... but the parks only take up barely 10% of the state.
No. Forget about the NP, WY is super sparsely populated EVERYWHERE. It's a super rural state, everywhere.
and 1% of it is in Idaho too. Read up on the zone of death ;)
It’s just the northwest corner
I live in Kentucky and it's a little less than half the size of the UK. It's also got a very similar climate. The main difference being you don't get our extremes. As an Anglophile I love to talk to Brits whenever I can and I knew a guy from the UK (United Kingdom) who swam for UK (University of Kentucky) and he told me the changes in seasons were very similar to his home in England but they never get as hot in the summer or as cold in the winter as we do. Kentucky was settled by a lot of Scots and Irish back in the 1700s as the rolling green hills reminded them of their homes in the British Isles. Our accents are quite different but you can hear a lot of the same words and phrases that were passed down from our British ancestry. Also if you've ever listened to Bluegrass music, you can tell it originated from Irish reels.
So do you think the similiar to the UK weather is why so many Immigrants from the UK ended up in the appalacian area? Of course I may be wrong.. but I thought I read that somewhere. I originally lived in WI.. and it seemed like many folks that immigrated there was because the weather and terrain was similiar to their european environments? Just curious.
@@creinicke1000 IDK if that's why they ended up there, but I imagine it was definitely a reason why so many decided to stay. It makes sense as you see a lot of Scandinavian immigrants in the northern states which have similar climates to where they came from.
And a really lot of Germans
... and the ever present "Murder" songs.
Kentucky is so criminally underrated as a place and has been one of the best pleasant travel surprises of my life. So beautiful!
Just a slight correction about Montana's (my home state) GDP. It's not $45,000 😅it's about $49.26 billion. Maybe Laurence meant $45,000 per person? Montana is the 4th largest U.S. state (behind only Alaska, Texas, and California). To give you some idea of its size, the distance from Northwest Peak, MT to Alzada, MT is 805 miles (1,295 km) or about a 14 hour drive.
I think he was probably joking
I believe that was sarcasm
No, I think he actually meant GDP per person, because if you take 45 grand times the 1.1 million people in Montana, you get around 49 billion.
@@r.h.4567 Wow, that's crazy!
Missoula here.
Born and raised in Montana, living in Michigan. Both are beautiful states.
Did you visit all the light houses in michigan?
@@loganshaw4527 no, not my thing.
Interesting tidbit, living in Oklahoma I used to frequently drive west to San Francisco in 23 hours and east to Lynchburg, Virginia in 22 hours. Both included a two hour break. Westward in Phoenix and eastward on Beale Street in Memphis. Fantastic highway systems and comfortable V8 engine SUV's. Love road tripping in the U.S. If you have time to enjoy the state highways it is wonderful to just get out on the road and follow your nose. Once when I was in one of those moods I peeled off the highway in Arkansas and took 17 hours enjoying the backroads going home. Had I stayed on the interstate highway it would only have taken 4 1/2 hours to get home. Really enjoy your channel and it's fun sharing what America is really like with you!
Just remember we drive on their passenger side of the car/truck.
I was driving on a 2 lane road going east to arkansas in eastern oklahoma. 30 /50 miles from the boarder. 1985/1990 or so. I came to a one lane bridge. The western Ozarks are really something.
New York is a small/medium state. New York City is large, but the state is smallish. It’s not the smallest though…pretty much all the states east of the Mississippi are small compared to the western states.❤️🤗🐝
Unfortunately, NY City is a cesspool, so it loses so many points.
New York is the largest state in the North East, and 27th overall, so hardly "smallish". It's actually bigger than England, but not the UK as a whole.
@@gotham61ya just about dead middle in terms of size
I guess my name gives me away! But let me say I am from upstate New York…not NYC. I can’t imagine living there!
@@rg20322 Why do you say that? It’s a big city, and messy and complicated like any other big city. But it’s not a cesspool.
It's really quite amazing to drive across Wyoming. There are stretches of highway where you don't see any buildings at all for dozens of miles. It's just pure open desert from horizon to horizon.
Wyoming is my favorite state for Harley (motorcycle) road trips! It's oddly beautiful. Saw a huge bear who was crossing a four lane highway once. I think it was a grisly bear.
To many trees and mountains to do that in Alaska.
Texan here. Wyoming is beautiful!
Have been to Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. Did not see one desert.
@@patrickfitzgerald9859 Greater Yellowstone is an absolutely gorgeous area! That's only about a fifth of Wyoming's total area, though. The rest of the state is mostly empty plains and desert. If you drive I-25, I-80, US-20, or US 287 across the state, you'll get plenty of open desert.
In the early 80's some of my parents friends visited from Kent. We lived in Kansas, and our visitors wanted to drive out to California while they were there.... They didn't understand why that wasn't really a good idea!
Texan. It always amazes how huge we are. From Dallas to Houston is a 3.5 hour drive, and to us, that’s not a big deal.
I’m in Cleveland, and would be in Cincinnati in 3.5 hours. I’ve driven from here all the way to the Pacific and it always blows my mind how far things are compared to the East. I can be in Miami in the time it takes me to get to Rapid City or Denver, and once I get there, I still have another drive to Florida to get to the Pacific Ocean. In the time it would take me to drive from London to Moscow, I would still be a few hours short of San Francisco or Los Angeles if driving from Cleveland. And I don’t have to wait to get through the Channel Tunnel.
When I lived in DFW metroplex, I drove 45 minutes @ 70mph ONE WAY to get to work, from a bedroom community SE of Dallas-proper to a business center NE of Dallas-proper. A co-worker had a longer drive in minutes every day but drove half as many miles.
And that's only in ideal driving conditions, no multicar pileups on the interstate or any weather events AT ALL. And don't get me started on road construction OR snags at the mix-master of interstate highways in downtown Dallas.
I chuckle when watching one particular British TV series about UK citizens moving out of the city to the country, that an hour commute into London is a big deal. They are utterly clueless.
Michigan is also one of the most beautiful states with all of the lake shores....
And us Alaskans LOVE THOSE PIES... :D we love our space... I can't even imagine going to New York.
The relatively small size of England makes it that much more impressive that it was able to basically have half the world in it's empire.
@DevilDog53 Forgive me for engaging in a little hyperbole😉 Thanks for providing an accurate percentage to the extent of the empire.
The impersonation that he’s doing of Rick Steves is dead on! That was funny. Look up who Rick Steves is and you’ll see.
Rick Stevesis actually British
A great reaction video. Between my wife and I we've lived in 8 of the 11 states on this list, i.e., Alaska, Texas (where we lived for over 20 years), California, Montana, Wyoming (where two of our four children were born), New Mexico, (where I graduated from high school), Colorado (where I graduated from college and where we currently live) and Michigan, where my wife and I met and were married. We've also lived in the UK, specifically in England, in the Midlands (Alconbury, near Huntington) but traveled extensively throughout England. The video was a little confusing with respect to the least populous state in the US, which is Wyoming. The next least populated state is Vermont, which has almost 75,000 more residents than Wyoming, yet is one tenth of the size in area. To give a perspective of the size of the United States, we drove from San Antonio, Texas to Ft. Benning (just outside Columbus), Georgia to attend our son's graduation from Army Ranger School. On the drive back to Texas, when we got just west of Houston, Texas, there was a sign showing the mileage to El Paso, Texas. I mentioned to my wife that it would be closer for us to turn around and return to Columbus, Georgia, taking us through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, than to drive to El Paso, Texas.
I've driven loads to El Paso a few times from other parts of the country. Every time, once I hit the Texas border I always knew there were so many more hours ahead of me to get there. One time I had to drive a load non-stop from El Paso, Texas to Lansing, Michigan. Worst trip ever. What made it so bad, was that my previous load had been driving from South Dakota to El Paso, and I had not had enough layover time to get rested up. (Halfway from El Paso to Lansing, I called the dispatcher and told her to never do that to me again - two long trips with not enough rest time in between. She didn't.)
I lived in Montana for 4 years. Three of them in a little town named Colstrip. It was as lovely as it sounds. To get to the doctor or a mall, (Colstrip had 4 bars, 3 gas stations, an Ace hardware attached to the only grocery store and a tiny fabric store) it took almost 2 hours going as fast as I could comfortably go, about 85 mph. Two hours…zero traffic, that’s why there wasn’t a speed limit. I had a first grader, a 21 month old and a baby; best kids ever. There were toys that were for the car only because 2 hours….one way
I now live in Billings -- the largest city in MT. But teeny-tiny compared to my "sweet home Chicago."
Michigan here. To put it in perspective, to drive from "one tip to the other" takes around 13hrs.
As a Denver native I love the Pios sweatshirt! Now you just need a Colorado Avalanche Champions hat!
Maine is big enough ...
Where I live it's only 900 feet from Canada and I can walk there in just 5 minutes.
But to just leave the state and enter the rest of the USA it takes me 10 hours by car.
Lived in northern Maine for 20 years. Where in Maine is it 10 hours to NH? Even Dickey to Portsmith, NH is only 6 1/2, Maybe 7 hours if you drive slow. I lived just outside of Caribou (Washburn to be exact) and I could cross the bridge into NH in about 5 1/2 hours.
I live in Rhode Island, which is the smallest American state. When I moved here in 2019 I was told that the entire state was within a ten minute drive from where you are, but if you need to go across the street, that will take about 3 hours.
However, I grew up in Manhattan in the 1960s and spent most of my life there. New York City has a population of 8.5 million, all jammed into a small area. New York State as a whole is big, but not nearly as big as the states out west.
The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than Rhode Island!
I lived in Jersey City, NJ. (Just across from NYC on the east coast)
It took longer to go to the store and back within Jersey City than it did to cross the entire state and enter Pennsylvania to the west.
driving is a better reference to how big these states are. I live in Oregon. It takes me (driving the speed limit) 7 hours to get to the California border (going south) and 7 hours to get to the Canadian border (going north). I have driven in the UK as well as Ireland. In fact many countries in Europe. It is always so fun to realize I can go through 4 different countries in the same time it takes me to get to California.
with driving you also have to factor in speed limits and what not...
Underrated trip - by sheer luck Meteor Crater, easily the most spectacular and obvious such crater on Earth, is located a 2 hour drive from the Grand Canyon. And both are easily accessed from Interstate 40.
I've never lived in Arizona, and while I've been to Flagstaff, the San Francisco mountains, and the Grand Canyon, I've never visited the Barringer Crater. It was always the wrong direction from wherever I was headed. But I'd still like to make it there someday. Maybe after I retire. ;-)
I used to regularly drive to my sister’s house 8 hours away, and only stay the weekend. Leave on Friday night after work (4 hours). Hotel for the night. Early rise Saturday morning, 4 more hours. Sunday night, drive back. Arrive home Monday morning, straight to the office!
Long drives are normal for us. And we don’t bet that much vacation time compared to world standards, so many of us drive straight without breaks so maximize time.
I moved from TX to a smaller state in the South. Even they had no concept of size. They thought that Houston, Dallas, and El Paso were all about a couple of hours apart from each other, like most of the decent sized cities in their state.
They also couldn't understand why I didn't want to go with my husband on his business trip to San Antonio so I could just pop over and visit family in the TX/LA state line. No matter how much I tried to tell them that this trip was the equivalent of driving across the widest part of your state, they didn't get it. I had to get out a paper map and a ruler to show them why. I'm still not sure they truly believed me, but they stopped trying to get me to go.
Are you talking about TN perhaps? 😂
Ya know, I empathize with them. I live in the Philly burbs after having lived in CT my teen and young adult years... my formative driving years. I will hear of a cool thing I'm interested in doing and mention it to my spouse and he'll be like, that's near Pittsburgh... a further drive than just driving back to CT. My brain wants to keep putting Pittsburg near Harrisburg and not Midwest Adjacent. Even when I lived in WI as a kid, it was like the northern half of the state didn't exist. Life existed between Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
Ken from Michigan here - I remember being told our state was larger than the UK a while back.
We're a pretty cool state - home of Motown!
There's another giant hole in the ground in Arizona - the Grand Canyon.
That’s what I thought he was going to say.
Awesome you are wearing a Denver sweatshirt in regard to the theme. I’ve been to the UK many times (which I love), but here in the US, we have such radically different concepts of distance, nature, and wilderness.
Michigan also has a small piece of Lake Erie.
Congrats on 150K subs! I opened this reaction at 3:00 a.m. EST and, YES!!! 150K!!! Love you both and hope to see your live stream Friday 🙂
See you in about 12 hours :D
Size isn't everthing...yay! and Millie sighs....
Wyoming and some other less populated states are NOT "empty". . .They have absolutely beautiful landscapes instead of millions of people jammed together. I hope they will always be less populated and will retain their natural beauty. It would be a shame if they became heavily populated areas. No, those areas are not empty, they are filled with mother nature's wonders, and they should always stay that way.
US population centers are likely going to shift as parts of the country become much less appealing due to rising heat. It has been a while since I looked at that predicted map, but IIRC Wyoming is in that green zone of states that will have tolerable weather. So there's a chance, albeit not a massive one, that will change.
Many parts of Wyoming are completely empty.
I dont think they meant "empty" as in "bland", but more "empty" as in terms of people. Like, there's a ton of beauty and wonder, but the population is very slim.
But I agree, preserve Wyoming, the last true bit of the natural US.
They won't. California's found them
I live in Michigan we have the larger lower and the upper Peninsula so you can literally drive 13 + hours from one end to the other, our GDP is 481.78 billion. I grew up in Wyoming, both beautiful in their own way but Wyoming weather and terrain can be brutal. Not a lot of job opportunities in Wyoming except the coal mines.
814 miles or 1,310km from Texarkana, TX to El Paso TX. That distance would cover most of Europe
I loved that you kept thinking New York. Those east coast states get so confusing. They were the first to be staked out and they're freaking tiny compared to "real" states. ;-) I'm in south Texas - and I complain every time I drive anywhere, especially if it's outside the state. It's 9 hours (with decent traffic) to the north border. It's just stupid big. On the other hand, we have a ranch down here called the King Ranch. It's actually bigger than the state of Rhode Island. A danged RANCH is bigger than one of those silly east coast states. BAH!
Utah may not be bigger that the whole of UK, but it is bigger than England. None of the western states are small. This is something even east coast people don't seem to understand. I had a friend from Connecticut visiting the Grand Canyon and wanted to pop up and visit me in Salt Lake City. Just a 7 hour drive. He was blown away at how big Utah and Arizona are.
I’m from the East Coast. I traveled to Utah for a family wedding a few years ago. After, I took a detour to visit the Grand Canyon. Although, I knew it would be something like a 12 hour drive to get there from the wedding, it was still a smallish detour compared to the drive back home.
I also found that the Grand Canyon is the only time in my life where I can honestly say something was bigger than I excepted. I couldn’t see the Colorado River from the overlook for all of the landscape !
Congrats on the 150k!
I am from South Carolina and raised in Tennessee so I’m primarily from small states but currently living in Colorado. I’ve only seen a small portion of CO but it is beautiful. Cities are nice but the mountains stunning with their snowy tops and giants that when you travel through and across seem surreal.
Now while the UK may be small there is no denying it’s impact on the world and historical influence. UK is a great example of small but mighty.
Two Texas facts: 1) Texas was much larger when it was it's own country. It was reduced to to what it is now when it became a state. and 2) Texas would be THE largest state if Alaska melted! That second one is just a joke. Happy Texas Independence Day!
I live in Oregon and it is beautiful. Although the last two years it has had some major issues. :(
Michigan is deceving, that is why it struck you two as odd. I was born and raised in Michigan, lived in Texas and Maine as well. Michigan has an area of close to 100,000 square miles... BUT, of that 100,000 square miles it is just over 40,000 square miles of water area. We have more fresh water than any other State by a long margin.
Texas was the largest state until Alaska came along. But, as we say in Texas, wait until the ice melts.
I'm a Wyoming native who has migrated to Colorado. My home town was around 1,000 people when I was growing up, my graduating class was, I believe, 42 and was one of the larger classes to have graduated from that school, haha! It is in fact very rural, you have to drive about 40 miles to the nearest town to the one I grew up in. There are almost 3 times the number of cows than people in Wyoming. Also, the states population is declining because its economy is so heavily dependent on fossil fuels.
I live in Ontario, the second largest province in Canada. It is bigger than Texas.
The province of Quebec, the largest province, is twice the size of Texas.
Although Alaska is big, it is not as big as Nunavut, Canada's largest territory.
Texas’ economy is larger than all of Canada.
Canada's really big; it's true. ruclips.net/video/anoRlSFjJjI/видео.html
I live in the woods 15 air miles from Mt. St. Helens. We watched the eruption from a greater distance.. Vancouver, WA is about 35 miles South of the mountain and gave a nice view. Spectacular.
Spent the first 30 years of my life in the beautiful Great Lake State of Michigan! My great grandparents homesteaded there in the mid to late 1800s. It's Area 51, and it's in Nevada.
Oh there is also Roswell NM,hanger 18 in Nevada I believe, could be wrong as well as Dreamland. But thanks 😊
Hanger 18 was at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
Actually, Wyoming is not empty. It is full of more antelope than people.
About Colorado, I've heard it said that if you smooth out all the mountains, the surface area of Colorado is larger than that of Texas. Of course if you include Alaska in that discussion, it's larger both on the map and in surface area.
That's an interesting point, I never considered the surface area of the mountains!
and when Texans hear that, they say it just confirms that in CO, it's just proof that state is piled higher and deeper.
The great lakes are huge. I can't find a source but I've been told if you sank the UK in Lake Superior (like Atlantis) not only would it fit, but the water level would only rise 6".
I’m from Michigan. Even without the water territories, it’s massive. It’s also spread out a lot.
From Eerie, MI to Copper Harbor, MI is about a 630mi drive. A little bit further than the distance from Plymouth to Aberdeen in the UK.
I had a feeling Michigan would make this list
I was born in Oregon and I lived and graduated highschool in Alaska and they both made the list.
Hi from Michigan *waves*, i live towards our southern border, and it takes roughly 11-12 hrs to reach our most northern point (if i remember my trivia correctly)
A Cailfronian and a Texan were arguing over which state was 2nd or third largest. An Alaskan told told both to shut up or they would divide Alaska and make them 3rd and 4th.
My husband and I used to live in Michigan. His parents live in India. They used to send packages for us via friends of theirs visiting parts of the US.
It took a few years for them to grasp that we couldn't just take a few hours out of the day to head to NY or CA to pick up whatever they'd sent us.
No shade cast on anyone. It can be really difficult to get ones head around the size of the US. I suspect many people born and raised here struggle with this.
We live in Texas now and it still blows my mind that the population of this state is greater than that of Australia.
Today is Texas independence day... just fyi
Alaska is big but remember there's humongous icy cold frigid mountains up north and daylight can be 24 hours around clock during daylight season, and dark 24 hours around clock... most population is around Anchorage area.
I live in Belgium which is basically a mix of cities and suburbs. Here, just a 50 km drive is considered quite a distance.
I’m from Alaska. Obviously number 1 😃
Proud Texan❤
It takes 12 hours to drive from one side of Texas to the other.
Happy Independence Day Texas!!!! March 2, 1836
And more than that to drive from the South of California, to the North of California!
@@alanatolstad4824 I've done both - they are LONG drives.
I live in Grand Junction, CO which is on the extreme west side of the state. In good weather, it takes about 6 1/2 hours to drive to Burlington, CO, on the extreme east end of the state... and that's on the Interstate with no stop signs or traffic signals to contend with.
Depending on who you ask, Area 52 is either the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, or the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.
Love your reactions!
I’m from California❤❤
its area 51 and its in Nevada lol
Completely wrong ahah!
And then there's Roswell in New Mexico on the other side of Arizona.
I get the guess about NY. It has NYC in it and its our most populated city in the US and has such a big influence that most people around the word has probably at least heard of it or seen it in a movie. Though NY state itself, once you get above the city does have some nice scenic areas and some good historical sites from the revolution (many of which are along the Hudson River), the origin of the legend about the headless horseman, the Baseball Hall of Fame, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, but other than that it has apple orchards and cow farms and a lot of snow the further north you go (especially in the Buffalo area). It's got a lot in there, but the state isn't that big by landmass compared to some of our other states.
Hello from Florida, we didn’t make the list, however, it would take 12 hours and 37 minutes to drive from key west to Pensacola and you never leave the state of Florida.
Always weird to me that there are so many accents in the UK relative to its size. The US has a few but given how much bigger it is I would expect more comparatively.
True there are over 40 dialects , you can travel a couple of miles down the road a hear a different accent , plus you are no more than 75 miles from the coast .
[spoken like a spoiled brat] Well, We might not be bigger (Kentucky), but we're the only state whose College is UK 😜
The University of Kansas says hi.
@@m64h that's KU, not UK.
Congratulations 👏 150k 🥳🤓
Michigan also lays claim to part of Lake Erie...
Canada has a much larger land mass than the U.S. but it's total population is less than California. Russia has an enormous land mass but it's population is less than half the U.S. The predominant reasons are the inhospitable cold in both countries.
The U.S. has more land than Canada. But if you include water area, Canada is larger.
Proud New Mexican here!
Same here!
3:23 from Louisville, KY! Home of the Kentucky Derby! I tried to send you two shirts for the event last May, but they were lost at the logistics company and never found again. Good news for me, I was refunded the money I spent, but I’m still bummed you all never received your shirts. Trying to send them again this year!
I am from CA. It can take 8 hours to drive from my parents house near San Francisco to my in-laws house in southern CA and that is only only half the state. Living on the east coast now it’s funny it doesn’t take 4-5 hours minimum to reach another state 😂. I have driven across the country multiple times and NEVER been to Texas. It’s now a game to see how long I can make it without even having a flight layover in the state 🤣
I’m from Vermont and it is only 90 minutes from my house to WhitehallNew York, where New York City is over 10 hours away
To me, this was funny. I currently live in Texas, was born in Arizona, lived in California during my elementary years, moved back to Az., then moved to Alaska. However I have been to every state in the union except Hawaii and Maine. Became a truck driver when I turned 50 so traveled coast to coast and everywhere in between. Driving across Texas is a feat in itself or from one end of Calif. to the other.
Flew from Atlanta Georga to El paso TX at one point the pilot announced 1/2 our flight is over the other half will be over TX.
I remember laughing at a couple from Wales that were visiting Tucson, AZ. They said they were "going to jaunt up to the Grand Canyon" that evening. They were mighty offended. Until I explained just how many hours it was going to take and how many mountain ranges they were going to pass through.
I’ve heard stories from Uber drivers in Phoenix that some tourist want to go to the Grand Canyon too until they say how far it is. Also they are shocked at just how big Phoenix is and how long it takes to get across the valley
Glad they showed my state Wyoming! Its big, so beautiful and filled with a small population of really good down to earth people! Well other than all the Karens & Kevins who moved in from Calixfornia and other west coast states.😉
Yes, Area 52 is in Arizona. I was born in Texas but currently live in Arkansas. When Texas asked for help with Santa Ana, the US wanted to divide it into 5 states. Texas then told the US that they would handle Santa Ana themselves. The US then gave in and allowed Texas to stay as a single state. Texas was also an independant country before becoming part of the US. They are one of the few states that can fly their flag equal to the US. They don't of course out of respect to the US.
Well im a native texan and i do fly my texas flag as high as the us glag
They were Texicans! So fun to see that in old cowboy movies.
“They are one of the few states that can fly their flag equal to the US.”
What a load of bull💩 EVERY state can fly its flag equal to the US; no state can fly its flag HIGHER than the US flag …
I wouldn't have thought about Michigan. But yeah, that's a lot of water. And I always forget about the upper peninsula.
I live in Michigan. Have to remember we have two parts, lower and upper peninsulas.
i knew michigan was gonna be on the list. and the state of new york is a little bigger than the lower peninsula of michigan but michigan has another peninsula and water space.