I wanted to clarify the Colorado peaks over 14,000' segment. In the video I stated that Colorado has 25 peaks over 14,000ft, and many have commented about the state having 58. It comes down the definition of "peak". The Colorado Geological Survey states 58 over 14,000 but many of those are just a slightly higher portion of a mountain a short distance away and only rises a little more than the adjacent peak. Most geologists outside of Colorado would not count many of those as separate peaks. It's similar to Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes. Wisconsin states they have more lakes than Minnesota because the threshold for what constitutes a lake is lower in Wisconsin. With equal standards, Minnesota has way more lakes. But it doesn't change the overall point that Alaska has the highest peaks (over 15,000ft) while Colorado has the highest number of peaks over 10,000ft.
I'm a Coloradan and we have 53 peaks over 14,000 not 58 and definitely not 25, which in laughable. When you start a video with misinformation about my state I'm not watching the rest of the video. Peace!
People normally say there are 53 or 54 Fourteeners in Colorado, depending on whether or not you count Mt. Cameron (Near Mt. Lincoln.) The number of peaks from 13000-13999 ft is large. I believe there are over 500 peaks from 13500-13999 ft.
Kyle, your channel is a gem. I’ve been glued to it for a couple years now and it is always a joy to watch the new videos. Thanks for doing what you do.
I agree. This channel is a treasure, one of the Top 20 most informative USA RUclips channels. Kyle informs without being mired down in politics, religion or other "tar-babies" that would greatly distract from his message.
the Prayer Tower is gone, a Huge Space Age Space Needle looking thing that Oral Roberts said if his followers didn't send him the $3M he needed to finish it, God was going to call him home, Oral Roberts Turned GOD into an Extortionist
It was largely the overhead of the near empty City of Faith Hospital that likely almost led ORU to bankruptcy and ended with Rev. Oral Roberts secluding himself in the campus “Crown of Thorns” Prayer Tower telling his many followers the Lord would call him home if a certain amount of money were not raised. I believe I have that timeline correct and I apologize if I am confusing two separate episodes in the history of ORU.
Yeah, my dad actually went to school there and worked in that building for many years. It's weird just how much the architecture stands out beyond everything else (including all the art deco architecture in Tulsa). I've been in that building many times, as the black lines on each corner are actually observation rooms with glass. Also, the 60th (top) floor has a crazy exhibition/dining space that has floor to ceiling windows that are almost 20 feet tall. It was weird, basically walking up to each of the windows and peering down... Brrrr scary. Also, something many people don't know about it is that it has metal bars that go from the base of each tower all the way to the top. They obstruct many of the windows. Also, the base of the large tower is a huge room with a cube turned on one corner like shape that housed a fountain. Unfortunately the lobby once had beautiful wood and brass, and it has since been turned to an ugly pastel white and the lighting was also screwed up... I had fond memories of Christmas parties and stuff... Pretty much all the tallest and second-tallest buildings were fully occupied. The last I checked though, the shortest building still wasn't fully complete (this information may be almost 20 years old though, so a lot could change). Yeah, Oral Roberts was a bit of an evangelical Christian crackpot who was part of the infamous "Word of Faith" movement.... I'd actually met many of them many times back then. All of it was funded by generous "donations" by oil tycoons who once called Tulsa home. What broke the whole thing was when the oil left and moved down to Houston. This is why the campus has largely fallen into disrepair, and it also was the reason Oral Roberts made his stand and asked for so much money to "save" his college and campus buildings.
I grew up in Kansas and I learned as a kid that the highest elevation in the state is Mount Sunflower. I was 35 before I learned that it’s not a mountain at all or even a hill, just a high spot as the elevation gradually goes up toward Colorado. Lame.
Similarly, the highest point in Connecticut is on the side of a hill on the border with Massachusetts; if you take one step into MA, you are higher than the entire state of CT.
I could not help but make a comment on the fact you have Too Short's album behind you. I use to listen to him alot when I was young. I enjoy your videos and your view of the country. Please keep the videos coming.
If you're gonna count Kuwait as a city-state, you might as well count neighboring Qatar too. Just a little over 99 percent of Qatar lives in Doha and its suburbs while the rest of the peninsula is just desert. Bahrain is even smaller, and the vast majority of its residents live in the northern part of the country where Manama is (while the rest, like Qatar and Kuwait, is just desert). There is a residential and tourism resort called Durrat Al Bahrain at the island's southern tip but it's so remote that I doubt anyone would move there instead of near Manama. But my favorite city-state has to be Singapore. I mean it's funny how Malaysia thought they were doing a good thing and saving themselves by kicking them out but Singapore ended up owning them big time and became a success story while Malaysia continues to lag behind.
A few notes for future oddities videos: El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles, CA than it is to Texarkana, TX. Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso. Rhode Island is 1214 sq miles per wiki. Texas has 40 counties larger than that, ranging from Starr county at 1223 sq miles to Brewster county at 6193 sq miles. Indiana would fit in the Texas panhandle. South Carolina would fit in the area south of San Antonio. Granted, it's not a straight shot, but the first exit on I-10 coming into TX from Louisiana is 880 - 880 miles from the New Mexico border north of El Paso.
We have a sky scraper in Albuquerque that sticks out a lot. I live less than a mile from it so it makes it easy to point out my part of town from the top of the mountain.
In Houston, the Williams Tower (formerly Transco Tower) sticks out as well since it's not downtown. I'm going to Google Maps to check out Albuquerque after posting this.
As somebody who has virtually grown up with RUclips your channel Kyle is just about the best one I've come across. Keep doing what you do man, much love from MD.
Fantastic episode!! It was wonderful to hear about the Bay of Fundy, as I see it's head - the Minas Basin - from my window outside Wolfville every day. The tide is a character in our landscape - so different, every day, and so dangerous - so it's great to see exposure on how unique and awesome it is. Thanks for all your awesome stories and awesome maps!
I really appreciate you add the meter numbers when talking about elevation, you made it easier for people outside of US, and immigrants. We are working hard to learn everything about our new country.
I’ve been to the Bay of Fundy to observe the tides. There is a bridge there where the change is most dramatic. Incredible. Your videos are always so interesting!
My new favorite channel! Always loved geography ever since I was little. I was reading maps as young as 5 and always helped navigate road trips using my road atlas, long before GPSs became available. So it's definitely fun to learn some cool geography quirks and facts!
These oddity videos are fantastic! I’m really glad you mentioned ORU. My sister attended this college and the first thing I noticed on this campus was how unique all the buildings are. One funny note is one of the dorms. It has this weird honeycomb type architecture on the outside of it. The squirrels on campus would climb the honeycombs and go into students rooms if the students left their windows open. The squirrels would often take things out of their rooms. It was one of the running jokes on campus.
If you want a tall building that looks out of place, look at Hay River in the Northwest Territories. The town is very isolated and has a population of only 3000. despite that, it has a 16 floor building,
Construction of the Ryugyong Hotel began under my grandpa in 1987 when the economy was doing a lot better thanks to Soviet assistance. But when we faced an economic crisis in 1992 because of the end of this assistance and sanctions from other countries, we halted construction. It resumed in 2008, and thanks to help from an Egyptian company we were able to finish all the windows. We hoped to open it in 2012 to commemorate the centenary of my grandpa's birth but obviously, that didn't see the light of day. We still very much care for it as we added a LED display for promoting the nation and the Party in 2018, and we do hope that once more nations see the reality of how great we are and how much we've struggled, that these sanctions against us will end so that we can finish. VICE gave us a bad rep
What I appreciate most about this outstanding channel is that your content has logical integrity. I have seen other channels which offer fairly meaningless "statistics." They are like obscure baseball statistics: "fastest pitch on a Thursday under sodium lights when the humidity is over 24% and the temperature is below 71 to drive in a winning run (if the game had not been called on account of hailstorm). I'm sure your viewers know what I mean -- your information really IS interesting because it actually relates to the real world. Thank you!
One more cool oddity that you could’ve included in the colorado section was that the highest average elevation of any county is San Juan County in Colorado at 11240 feet. However, it doesn’t contain any of Colorado’s 53 14000ft peaks.
Kyle, my wife was not happy when I got up from helping to dye Easter eggs with the grandkids. “The Geography King just dropped a new video” didn’t seem to make much of a difference to her at the moment.
I'm was living Tulsa county, I used see those towers every day. I went to school across the street at VSC. See the praying hands. When I was learning to drive it'd always know where I was looking at those towers. You can see them from many many miles away.
Great post, Kyle. Truly a haven for map geeks. Keep 'em coming. PS I was glad to hear you're based in Chattanooga. I'm in Atlanta, but I love Chattanooga. In fact, one of my pals there is probably a bigger map geek than both of us!
The Billings, MT "skyline" is somewhat tempered by the rims to the north and east, but the tallest building therein (kind of ugly brown building, a mere 20 stories) is the tallest building in the whole state of MT. Also, while living in MT, I heard that the whole state of Wyoming has ONE escalator. It's hearsay, but it could be true. Possibly something for the next oddities vid. Keep it up!
What I can indeed confirm is that the tallest building in Wyoming is...a dorm. It rises above the bustling metropolis of Laramie out of nowhere with a huge 12 floors
The tallest building in Vermont (where I live) is in Burlington. It's an 11-story apartment building called Decker Towers. I'd hardly call it a tower lol
I have always been interested in cartography and what drove the highways and railroads to locate where they did and the resultant development along the way. Love your channel… no politics and a bit of fun. Can’t get better than that. Being a midwesterner, I propose a road-trip along two highways in my life… US-2 and US-41… significant routes before the interstates… backwater paths now.
There is also an extreme tidal change in Mexico at the north end of the Gulf of California. The Mexican towns of San Felipe on the western shore and Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) on the eastern shore experience tide changes of up to 16 ft. Have been to both. You can walk out over a mile at low tide to get to the water's edge at San Felipe.
Columbus Georgia has an out of place skyscraper. The AFLAC Building is several miles from downtown, and since it sits at a higher elevation, it appears even taller than it is, and the all-seeing duck signs at the top watch you even across the river in Alabama.
When Kyle was talking about the high and low points of Colorado, for some reason I thought about a line from the song "The Last Resort" by the Eagles. "Somebody laid the mountains low, while the town got high."
Since you mentioned state flags appearances, my personal favorites are CO, OH, NM & TX... and my own home state of CA. There are a couple more on my list, but I must agree that CO definitely has a slot my Coolest Looking American State Flags list.
The OKC picture reminds me of Pittsburgh in the 1970s. The U.S. Steel Building is 259 feet taller than the Gulf Building. In the 1980s, four buildings went up with heights between those two so U.S. Steel doesn't stand out so much. In retrospect, it's weird that four skyscrapers opened during a decade in which the city's economy was falling apart.
I live in Colorado. I knew our lowest spot was higher than many places, however I had no idea it was higher than the highest points in so many other States. Thanks for another interesting and entertaining video.
I haven’t seen all of your videos but another oddity about the US is that Alaska is the farthest north and farthest west of all of the states, but it’s actually also the farthest east as Attu Island is in the eastern hemisphere, making it farther east than any point in Maine.
I really enjoy this channel. Your videos are very interesting. I hope you have more to come in this series on oddities in US geography. Thank you for your work!
Another addition to the out-of-place skyscrapers is Rinku Gate in Izumisano (Osaka) Japan. It's right by the Kansai Airport, 52 floors, and is one of the top 5 tallest buildings in Japan without any other scyscrapers near it. (And I've been there!)
I have visited Nova Scotia. It was interesting to see the fishing boats on the ground during low tide. Also, it was fascinating to see the tidal bore come up the Truro River. The water level rose about a foot every minute.
A few years ago we camped at Cobscook Bay State Park in Maine. In the evening we sat next a campfire enjoying the view over the bay. Woke up in the morning and the bay was gone!
The moment you said out of place skyscraper, I knew I'd see Tulsa on this list! I can see the CityPlex Towers (as they are now known) from my living room window.
Hi Kyle! Really enjoy your videos. Here is a theme suggestion for a coming video - Longest streets in the US and in the world. In the late 70ties I lived in the San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys) and I was told that "my street" - Sepulveda Blvd - possibly was the longest in the US.
I don't think its been mentioned across your four videos on the subject, but Mississippi has the longest man-made beach in the world. I was kind of confused on it myself since it borders the Gulf of Mexico, but they literally extended it out a few hundred feet to convert a one-lane horse road into a 4-lane highway.
In St. Louis, Missouri, we have as our tallest building this weird metal arch-like thing. It's over 30 feet taller than anything else and really stands out in the skyline. You might even be able to make a National Park out of it!
The Native American gaming casinos in California have produced some high rises wildly out of place from their surroundings. Cabazon's 27-story hotel can be seen from miles on the I-10 corridor. Likewise the Chukchansi resort appears very suddenly in the foothills outside of Yosemite.
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I've been to Mammoth Cave a few times and it really is just so amazing how much of it there is... I remember going through that part of it where the cave narrows so much that you have to crawl on your belly as a kid and it was terrifying but awesome at the same time. There was this tunnel that led into darkness and the tour guide explained that it went to parts of the cave that hadn't been explored yet. Really, really cool
9:06 Never realised Kuwait's profile reminded me so much like Darth Vader. In the future, for weird happenings, I'd look for other route anomalies where you're going east amd then you realise another road joined your route and it's going west. So an example in a hypotjetical world that Rte. 3 east has to temporarily share a road with Rte. 24, going west. Everything's cool though, and people get to where they're going :)
Absolutely LOST IT the first 10 seconds!!! Life Is..... Too Short!!! First rap album I ever bought at the ripe age of 10!!! My geography PIMP, I love you!!!
In one of your previous videos you spoke of a Finns Point (Delaware exclave off the coast of NJ). There is actually a second exclave of Delaware at the most northern point of an area known as Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek, NJ. I am not entirely sure of how that came to be but I do know that Artificial Island is home to the Salem Nuclear power plant.
Kyle, something for the next oddities video.... You can walk on a sliver of Maryland on the west shore of the Potomac River -- where DC, Maryland and Virginia borders come to point at the Jones Point Light House. This is just south of and under the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
Amherst Mass has the 28-story UMass library that towers over a pretty small town (pop 40,000 or so, smaller when it was built in the 70s). Not quite Oral Roberts but Tulsa is much more of a city. Fun fact: bits of bricks would fall of the facing of the tower, forcing them to close the library for a while, then limit entrance, until they figured out how to re-secure the facing.
There are 7.489 gallons of water in a cubic foot. One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A 48 foot semi-truck trailer is a 3,600 cubic foot container. At Lake Itasca, it would take 10 minutes for one semi-trailer of water to flow out of the lake into the Mississippi. At St. Anthony Falls, the equivalent of 3 semi-trailers full of water go over the falls every second. At New Orleans, the equivalent of 166 semi-trailers of water flow past Algiers Point each second.
Philadelphia had a huge skyscraper that had to be dismantled, after a remodeling crew left some solvent out which spontaneously combusted. There was so much damage to the building it was deemed unsafe and was finally removed, piece by piece.
Great channel, Geography King. Please consider the following facts about 6 places I have called home: 1. Sri Lanka is the only modern country to have appeared in Ptolemy's first world map with the exact geographical boundaries 2. Singapore is the only country in the world to adopt a minority language (Malay) as the sole national language 3. Like Kuwait, Qatar could have been considered a city-state until recent decades. Migrant workers used to call it Doha-Qatar as Doha used to be the only significant population center 4. Athens, GA, is the home to "The Tree that Owns Itself." 5. Colorado has 697 sides, although it appears like a trapezoid on maps 6. Lake Jackson, TX, has odd street names: This Way, That Way, Any Way, and His Way
awesome 1st topic, have you ever seen the out of place skyscraper in oxnard california? i was staying near there this winter to avoid minnesota, and we all had a laugh at the "oxnard skyline"
I wanted to clarify the Colorado peaks over 14,000' segment. In the video I stated that Colorado has 25 peaks over 14,000ft, and many have commented about the state having 58. It comes down the definition of "peak". The Colorado Geological Survey states 58 over 14,000 but many of those are just a slightly higher portion of a mountain a short distance away and only rises a little more than the adjacent peak. Most geologists outside of Colorado would not count many of those as separate peaks. It's similar to Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes. Wisconsin states they have more lakes than Minnesota because the threshold for what constitutes a lake is lower in Wisconsin. With equal standards, Minnesota has way more lakes. But it doesn't change the overall point that Alaska has the highest peaks (over 15,000ft) while Colorado has the highest number of peaks over 10,000ft.
I'm a Coloradan and we have 53 peaks over 14,000 not 58 and definitely not 25, which in laughable. When you start a video with misinformation about my state I'm not watching the rest of the video. Peace!
@@stakknation123 you literally just proved his point that people of Colorado say they have more peaks than the rest of the world considers a peak
That’s fair but those that spend years summiting each one might disagree with the assertion that they are not actual peaks.
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People normally say there are 53 or 54 Fourteeners in Colorado, depending on whether or not you count Mt. Cameron (Near Mt. Lincoln.) The number of peaks from 13000-13999 ft is large. I believe there are over 500 peaks from 13500-13999 ft.
Kyle, your channel is a gem. I’ve been glued to it for a couple years now and it is always a joy to watch the new videos. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thank you for the kind words. And also to those that gave a thumbs up to the comment. It means a lot to me to hear or read words like that.
I agree. This channel is a treasure, one of the Top 20 most informative USA RUclips channels. Kyle informs without being mired down in politics, religion or other "tar-babies" that would greatly distract from his message.
Kyle your channel brings me back to the 2000s which I enjoy
I agree 100%.
Long Live The King
"Faith healing hospital that didn't work out" I couldn't stop laughing at that one.
I didn't realize the irony until the editing process and I got a little chuckle out of it myself.
the Prayer Tower is gone, a Huge Space Age Space Needle looking thing that Oral Roberts said if his followers didn't send him the $3M he needed to finish it, God was going to call him home, Oral Roberts Turned GOD into an Extortionist
It was largely the overhead of the near empty City of Faith Hospital that likely almost led ORU to bankruptcy and ended with Rev. Oral Roberts secluding himself in the campus “Crown of Thorns” Prayer Tower telling his many followers the Lord would call him home if a certain amount of money were not raised. I believe I have that timeline correct and I apologize if I am confusing two separate episodes in the history of ORU.
It never does! Hahaha...
Yeah, my dad actually went to school there and worked in that building for many years. It's weird just how much the architecture stands out beyond everything else (including all the art deco architecture in Tulsa). I've been in that building many times, as the black lines on each corner are actually observation rooms with glass. Also, the 60th (top) floor has a crazy exhibition/dining space that has floor to ceiling windows that are almost 20 feet tall. It was weird, basically walking up to each of the windows and peering down... Brrrr scary. Also, something many people don't know about it is that it has metal bars that go from the base of each tower all the way to the top. They obstruct many of the windows. Also, the base of the large tower is a huge room with a cube turned on one corner like shape that housed a fountain. Unfortunately the lobby once had beautiful wood and brass, and it has since been turned to an ugly pastel white and the lighting was also screwed up... I had fond memories of Christmas parties and stuff... Pretty much all the tallest and second-tallest buildings were fully occupied. The last I checked though, the shortest building still wasn't fully complete (this information may be almost 20 years old though, so a lot could change). Yeah, Oral Roberts was a bit of an evangelical Christian crackpot who was part of the infamous "Word of Faith" movement.... I'd actually met many of them many times back then. All of it was funded by generous "donations" by oil tycoons who once called Tulsa home. What broke the whole thing was when the oil left and moved down to Houston. This is why the campus has largely fallen into disrepair, and it also was the reason Oral Roberts made his stand and asked for so much money to "save" his college and campus buildings.
I grew up in Kansas and I learned as a kid that the highest elevation in the state is Mount Sunflower. I was 35 before I learned that it’s not a mountain at all or even a hill, just a high spot as the elevation gradually goes up toward Colorado. Lame.
The highest point in Missouri is called "Tom Sauk Mount," but it's really just a large forested hill rather than an actual mountain.
and it has a higher elevation than the highest points in SC, MA, MD, and PA, which are actual mountains
Similarly, the highest point in Connecticut is on the side of a hill on the border with Massachusetts; if you take one step into MA, you are higher than the entire state of CT.
I will never get over Sarah McLachlan costing Nova Scotia an appearance in the 3rd round of 'Geography March Madness'.
I could not help but make a comment on the fact you have Too Short's album behind you. I use to listen to him alot when I was young. I enjoy your videos and your view of the country. Please keep the videos coming.
Great catch haha
If you're gonna count Kuwait as a city-state, you might as well count neighboring Qatar too. Just a little over 99 percent of Qatar lives in Doha and its suburbs while the rest of the peninsula is just desert. Bahrain is even smaller, and the vast majority of its residents live in the northern part of the country where Manama is (while the rest, like Qatar and Kuwait, is just desert). There is a residential and tourism resort called Durrat Al Bahrain at the island's southern tip but it's so remote that I doubt anyone would move there instead of near Manama.
But my favorite city-state has to be Singapore. I mean it's funny how Malaysia thought they were doing a good thing and saving themselves by kicking them out but Singapore ended up owning them big time and became a success story while Malaysia continues to lag behind.
@@Rookie-yk1vm Hong Kong is not in any real sense independent of the Chinese Communist Empire.
A few notes for future oddities videos:
El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles, CA than it is to Texarkana, TX.
Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso.
Rhode Island is 1214 sq miles per wiki. Texas has 40 counties larger than that, ranging from Starr county at 1223 sq miles to Brewster county at 6193 sq miles.
Indiana would fit in the Texas panhandle.
South Carolina would fit in the area south of San Antonio.
Granted, it's not a straight shot, but the first exit on I-10 coming into TX from Louisiana is 880 - 880 miles from the New Mexico border north of El Paso.
We have a sky scraper in Albuquerque that sticks out a lot. I live less than a mile from it so it makes it easy to point out my part of town from the top of the mountain.
In Houston, the Williams Tower (formerly Transco Tower) sticks out as well since it's not downtown. I'm going to Google Maps to check out Albuquerque after posting this.
@@jlpack62 The one in Albuquerque is at Central and San Mateo Blvd. It was a Bank of the West but they moved out so no name is on it currently.
As somebody who has virtually grown up with RUclips your channel Kyle is just about the best one I've come across. Keep doing what you do man, much love from MD.
Thank you very much!
Fantastic episode!! It was wonderful to hear about the Bay of Fundy, as I see it's head - the Minas Basin - from my window outside Wolfville every day. The tide is a character in our landscape - so different, every day, and so dangerous - so it's great to see exposure on how unique and awesome it is. Thanks for all your awesome stories and awesome maps!
I’m noticing the many album covers to the left of you. Clever. I couldn’t recognize only one so far.
I really appreciate you add the meter numbers when talking about elevation, you made it easier for people outside of US, and immigrants. We are working hard to learn everything about our new country.
I’ve been to the Bay of Fundy to observe the tides. There is a bridge there where the change is most dramatic. Incredible. Your videos are always so interesting!
My new favorite channel! Always loved geography ever since I was little. I was reading maps as young as 5 and always helped navigate road trips using my road atlas, long before GPSs became available. So it's definitely fun to learn some cool geography quirks and facts!
These oddity videos are fantastic! I’m really glad you mentioned ORU. My sister attended this college and the first thing I noticed on this campus was how unique all the buildings are. One funny note is one of the dorms. It has this weird honeycomb type architecture on the outside of it. The squirrels on campus would climb the honeycombs and go into students rooms if the students left their windows open. The squirrels would often take things out of their rooms. It was one of the running jokes on campus.
Bob Jones University in SC has a few buildings with honeycomb exteriors like you described. Must be a conservative Christian thing…
If you want a tall building that looks out of place, look at Hay River in the Northwest Territories. The town is very isolated and has a population of only 3000. despite that, it has a 16 floor building,
Construction of the Ryugyong Hotel began under my grandpa in 1987 when the economy was doing a lot better thanks to Soviet assistance. But when we faced an economic crisis in 1992 because of the end of this assistance and sanctions from other countries, we halted construction. It resumed in 2008, and thanks to help from an Egyptian company we were able to finish all the windows.
We hoped to open it in 2012 to commemorate the centenary of my grandpa's birth but obviously, that didn't see the light of day. We still very much care for it as we added a LED display for promoting the nation and the Party in 2018, and we do hope that once more nations see the reality of how great we are and how much we've struggled, that these sanctions against us will end so that we can finish. VICE gave us a bad rep
What I appreciate most about this outstanding channel is that your content has logical integrity. I have seen other channels which offer fairly meaningless "statistics." They are like obscure baseball statistics: "fastest pitch on a Thursday under sodium lights when the humidity is over 24% and the temperature is below 71 to drive in a winning run (if the game had not been called on account of hailstorm). I'm sure your viewers know what I mean -- your information really IS interesting because it actually relates to the real world. Thank you!
Excellent! This series is great. Thanks for posting
One more cool oddity that you could’ve included in the colorado section was that the highest average elevation of any county is San Juan County in Colorado at 11240 feet. However, it doesn’t contain any of Colorado’s 53 14000ft peaks.
It’s also interesting that it’s average elevation is higher than the highest town in the US
@@NotTheMindProbe9 Highest town in US is Alma, at over 10,500'
You are the best Kyle! I love your oddities videos. Your channel is so great. You feel like a friend through the screen.
Thank you very much!
I live nearby the MT/SD border. Nice hearing someone talk about my boring part of the country!
I listen and watch your station as often as possible. Love it ! Keep it alive
That water flow at the Bay of Fundy fact was incredible.
Kyle, my wife was not happy when I got up from helping to dye Easter eggs with the grandkids. “The Geography King just dropped a new video” didn’t seem to make much of a difference to her at the moment.
2:17 I can't believe a "faith healing hospital" failed.
I'm was living Tulsa county, I used see those towers every day. I went to school across the street at VSC. See the praying hands. When I was learning to drive it'd always know where I was looking at those towers. You can see them from many many miles away.
I love the bit about the dirt road between SD and MT. One of my favorite oddities in the whole series. Thanks Kyle!
I always get excited when I see another video uploaded in this series. Thanks Kyle!
Always a good day when Geography King posts, keep up the good work Kyle
Thank you!
Great post, Kyle. Truly a haven for map geeks. Keep 'em coming. PS I was glad to hear you're based in Chattanooga. I'm in Atlanta, but I love Chattanooga. In fact, one of my pals there is probably a bigger map geek than both of us!
The Billings, MT "skyline" is somewhat tempered by the rims to the north and east, but the tallest building therein (kind of ugly brown building, a mere 20 stories) is the tallest building in the whole state of MT.
Also, while living in MT, I heard that the whole state of Wyoming has ONE escalator. It's hearsay, but it could be true. Possibly something for the next oddities vid.
Keep it up!
What I can indeed confirm is that the tallest building in Wyoming is...a dorm. It rises above the bustling metropolis of Laramie out of nowhere with a huge 12 floors
Actually, there are two escalators in Wyoming, or maybe four depending on how you count them.
The tallest building in Vermont (where I live) is in Burlington. It's an 11-story apartment building called Decker Towers. I'd hardly call it a tower lol
Better Friday night plans than a new geography king video and a cold beer? Good luck.
To be fair, that's a pretty short Friday night 😉
Geography was my favorite subject in school. You Sir, take it to the highest level. I have enjoyed every video of yours that I have watched.
Thank you very much!
I have always been interested in cartography and what drove the highways and railroads to locate where they did and the resultant development along the way. Love your channel… no politics and a bit of fun. Can’t get better than that. Being a midwesterner, I propose a road-trip along two highways in my life… US-2 and US-41… significant routes before the interstates… backwater paths now.
I’ve done 2. Very beautiful.
There is also an extreme tidal change in Mexico at the north end of the Gulf of California. The Mexican towns of San Felipe on the western shore and Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) on the eastern shore experience tide changes of up to 16 ft. Have been to both. You can walk out over a mile at low tide to get to the water's edge at San Felipe.
Just now seeing this episode. Love it all. What a great collection. And the ending has me laughing...who knew Sarah had a secret beau?
Columbus Georgia has an out of place skyscraper. The AFLAC Building is several miles from downtown, and since it sits at a higher elevation, it appears even taller than it is, and the all-seeing duck signs at the top watch you even across the river in Alabama.
When Kyle was talking about the high and low points of Colorado, for some reason I thought about a line from the song "The Last Resort" by the Eagles. "Somebody laid the mountains low, while the town got high."
Great song, by the way. Lyrics are pretty profound.
Since you mentioned state flags appearances, my personal favorites are CO, OH, NM & TX... and my own home state of CA. There are a couple more on my list, but I must agree that CO definitely has a slot my Coolest Looking American State Flags list.
I'm a simple man. I see a Geography King video on my feed, I click.
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The OKC picture reminds me of Pittsburgh in the 1970s. The U.S. Steel Building is 259 feet taller than the Gulf Building. In the 1980s, four buildings went up with heights between those two so U.S. Steel doesn't stand out so much. In retrospect, it's weird that four skyscrapers opened during a decade in which the city's economy was falling apart.
Excellent and interesting Kyle as always! Thank you! Wayne from Chattanooga TN
I live in Colorado. I knew our lowest spot was higher than many places, however I had no idea it was higher than the highest points in so many other States. Thanks for another interesting and entertaining video.
Kyle! I look forward to your videos! Thank you for your knowledge and information 🙏 😊
8:33 I'm in Kuwait as I watch this. This is the first Geography King video that has been recommended to me in a year. Interesting timing.
I haven’t seen all of your videos but another oddity about the US is that Alaska is the farthest north and farthest west of all of the states, but it’s actually also the farthest east as Attu Island is in the eastern hemisphere, making it farther east than any point in Maine.
Ayy, awesome! And the "out of place skyscraper" one really interests me! Its cool to see tall buildings around a lot shorter ones.
I really enjoy this channel. Your videos are very interesting. I hope you have more to come in this series on oddities in US geography. Thank you for your work!
Another addition to the out-of-place skyscrapers is Rinku Gate in Izumisano (Osaka) Japan. It's right by the Kansai Airport, 52 floors, and is one of the top 5 tallest buildings in Japan without any other scyscrapers near it. (And I've been there!)
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These facts never cease to boggle my mind! So interesting
I love these series... well done Kyle!
I have visited Nova Scotia. It was interesting to see the fishing boats on the ground during low tide. Also, it was fascinating to see the tidal bore come up the Truro River. The water level rose about a foot every minute.
A few years ago we camped at Cobscook Bay State Park in Maine. In the evening we sat next a campfire enjoying the view over the bay. Woke up in the morning and the bay was gone!
Great channel and interesting facts. Hold up! Is that a Too Short album cover in the background?? Lol. You just earned yourself a subscriber.
Glad to have discovered your channel
Great surprise to start the weekend. Thanks for the cool videos. Jersey John
The moment you said out of place skyscraper, I knew I'd see Tulsa on this list! I can see the CityPlex Towers (as they are now known) from my living room window.
Nothing warms my heart quite like hearing “howdy, it’s Kyle”
I'm a huge fan of yours and a huge fan of Too $hort (seen him many times in concert). Never thought those two things would intersect!
Love all your content Kyle! I find it educational (of course) and entertaining yet oddly soothing
Hi Kyle! Really enjoy your videos. Here is a theme suggestion for a coming video - Longest streets in the US and in the world. In the late 70ties I lived in the San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys) and I was told that "my street" - Sepulveda Blvd - possibly was the longest in the US.
I don't think its been mentioned across your four videos on the subject, but Mississippi has the longest man-made beach in the world. I was kind of confused on it myself since it borders the Gulf of Mexico, but they literally extended it out a few hundred feet to convert a one-lane horse road into a 4-lane highway.
As a kid in the 60s we used to camp at Bay of Fundy. I was impressed with the bore tide wave coming in.
I love seeing your vids. They always make me want to travel more!
Can't possibly imagine why a faith healing hospital wasn't successful.
They just didn't have enough faith...
They built that bad boy in the midst of the most active tornado area in the world - that was an act of faith in itself.
In St. Louis, Missouri, we have as our tallest building this weird metal arch-like thing. It's over 30 feet taller than anything else and really stands out in the skyline. You might even be able to make a National Park out of it!
It IS a National Park. Smallest national park in the US in area.
@@coulrophobic123 It surely shouldn't be! Worked perfectly as a NM
@@coulrophobic123 I know. That was part of the joke.
I heard that Illinois was gonna erect a large croquet player just across the river...
The Native American gaming casinos in California have produced some high rises wildly out of place from their surroundings. Cabazon's 27-story hotel can be seen from miles on the I-10 corridor. Likewise the Chukchansi resort appears very suddenly in the foothills outside of Yosemite.
I might be a weirdo for getting excited about a geography video uploaded on a Friday night
You aren't.
Great video! Thanks for the interesting facts. Just wanted to clarify that Colorado has 58 peaks over 14,000 ft, depending on how you define a peak!
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Extremely interesting videos! Thank you Sir!
I've been to Mammoth Cave a few times and it really is just so amazing how much of it there is... I remember going through that part of it where the cave narrows so much that you have to crawl on your belly as a kid and it was terrifying but awesome at the same time. There was this tunnel that led into darkness and the tour guide explained that it went to parts of the cave that hadn't been explored yet. Really, really cool
I have driven thru highlands of eastern CO and Kansas...Fascinating place.
Yes! I love this series! Long live the Geography King!
9:06 Never realised Kuwait's profile reminded me so much like Darth Vader. In the future, for weird happenings, I'd look for other route anomalies where you're going east amd then you realise another road joined your route and it's going west. So an example in a hypotjetical world that Rte. 3 east has to temporarily share a road with Rte. 24, going west. Everything's cool though, and people get to where they're going :)
Absolutely LOST IT the first 10 seconds!!! Life Is..... Too Short!!! First rap album I ever bought at the ripe age of 10!!! My geography PIMP, I love you!!!
I love the Too $hort album behind you. Cusswords just let em roll
I live in NB so it was great to see the bay of Fundy getting a shoutout!
In one of your previous videos you spoke of a Finns Point (Delaware exclave off the coast of NJ). There is actually a second exclave of Delaware at the most northern point of an area known as Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek, NJ. I am not entirely sure of how that came to be but I do know that Artificial Island is home to the Salem Nuclear power plant.
As always, your videos are so enlightening and interesting. Thanks again
Reversing falls… Bay of Fundy/St. John River worth mentioning
Kyle, something for the next oddities video.... You can walk on a sliver of Maryland on the west shore of the Potomac River -- where DC, Maryland and Virginia borders come to point at the Jones Point Light House. This is just south of and under the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
Amherst Mass has the 28-story UMass library that towers over a pretty small town (pop 40,000 or so, smaller when it was built in the 70s). Not quite Oral Roberts but Tulsa is much more of a city. Fun fact: bits of bricks would fall of the facing of the tower, forcing them to close the library for a while, then limit entrance, until they figured out how to re-secure the facing.
There are 7.489 gallons of water in a cubic foot. One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. A 48 foot semi-truck trailer is a 3,600 cubic foot container.
At Lake Itasca, it would take 10 minutes for one semi-trailer of water to flow out of the lake into the Mississippi.
At St. Anthony Falls, the equivalent of 3 semi-trailers full of water go over the falls every second.
At New Orleans, the equivalent of 166 semi-trailers of water flow past Algiers Point each second.
I love these videos, man. Thank you.
2:18 wait, you mean the faith healing hospital didnt work out?🤣
One of my favorites series on this channel!
I've always wondered which city had the most outstanding (read standing out) high rise in the US. I'm glad I ran into your channel!
Philadelphia had a huge skyscraper that had to be dismantled, after a remodeling crew left some solvent out which spontaneously combusted. There was so much damage to the building it was deemed unsafe and was finally removed, piece by piece.
That was outstanding. I'm glad I'm subscribed.
Hey Kyle! You should do a video ranking every state’s Governor’s Mansion! Some of them are really impressive (the one in Sacramento particularly!)
Another classic. I love your show.
Great channel, Geography King. Please consider the following facts about 6 places I have called home:
1. Sri Lanka is the only modern country to have appeared in Ptolemy's first world map with the exact geographical boundaries
2. Singapore is the only country in the world to adopt a minority language (Malay) as the sole national language
3. Like Kuwait, Qatar could have been considered a city-state until recent decades. Migrant workers used to call it Doha-Qatar as Doha used to be the only significant population center
4. Athens, GA, is the home to "The Tree that Owns Itself."
5. Colorado has 697 sides, although it appears like a trapezoid on maps
6. Lake Jackson, TX, has odd street names: This Way, That Way, Any Way, and His Way
awesome 1st topic, have you ever seen the out of place skyscraper in oxnard california? i was staying near there this winter to avoid minnesota, and we all had a laugh at the "oxnard skyline"
Not unlike Minneapolis in the 1970s, when the IDS building was 344 feet taller than the next tallest building (Foshay Tower).
I love the SD/Montana dirt road part.
Fascinating geography topics! I loved my Physical Geography class in college.