10 Solid Minutes of Geography & Culture Facts 

Corrections - I misspoke when mentioning the time zones. I meant to say contiguous not continental. I also meant to say 70 billion rupees not million when talking about the cost of the Taj Mahal. I also said millimeters instead of milliliters. Apparently, I can't talk.

This is not a "useless" video. Every week I fight the urge to waste my time on RU-vid videos that are actually useless--this one, on the other hand, increases my appreciation for our world and gets me interested in a valuable subject.

As a total geography nerd, I’m so happy I found this channel today :D

my gf is Dutch and I recently got to visit her and her family for the first time in the Netherlands. I can understand how it made the top 5 happiest countries. I didn't meet a single unpleasant person there. Truly such kind and amazing people. I can't wait to move there.

Very good video man, new sub. A fact about my country, Brazil, that you have to include if you do a part 2 is that Brazil northernmost point is closer to every country in the Americas, including Canada and Uruguay, than Brazil southernmost point

Japan not only has the oldest company, it also has one of the oldest chains, Mitsukoshi, a department store chain founded in 1673. And fun fact, they have a North America location at Epcot in Disney World where you can get lots of Japanese snacks and candies

As someone who wants to teach geography, I’m glad I found this channel to learn more facts

There’s nothing more satisfying to me than listening to these fact-filled videos 😊

As someone not very good with geography and wanting to learn more this was very informative thank you

I had a funny geography teacher in middle school. His classes were always as happy as this video. His style was so closed to yours. Glad I have a chance to remember him.

Loved this video, your channel and narration. Most of all I love geographical facts. You have a new subscriber with notifications. Thanks for posting. Glad I found your channel.

Haha this is awesome. Hi fives all around to you and your students. My favs: Sierra Leone and Egypt being closest to Circle/Square in shape Pheasant Island switches between French and Spanish every 6 months! Reno is farther west than LA! So great, looking forward to episode 2!

This is a perfect RU-vid video. This is exact why I love RU-vid. I saw this on my timeline and new I’d love it. Saved to all my favourite playlists. I’ll be watching this many more times.

best teacher ever!! As a Geography major, and , one who worked in the field, I really enjoyed this!

This is mind-boggling and deserves a other watch. I love the pace. Thank you!!

This was the most riveting video I’ve seen in a long while. Well done to you and your students 🙀👏

Best and quickest 10 mins I have spent on YT for a while !! Great work.

What a great idea to present so many arcane & obtuse geographical-historical facts - please continue the series in the same format & length for at least 365 segments / volumes-one for each day of the year !!!

I would love more

Fascinating--thanks to you and your students!

I absolutely loved that lesson on geography. My enjoyment of learning is ever present

Absolutely fascinating - thanks for posting.

Keep videos like this coming, they are great!

Amazing video my friend! The quality of the videos overall makes one think the channel would have atleast half a million subs. We'll get there one day though and much more! Best of luck!

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you students!

Netherlands: The highest point of the main part of our country is only 322 m! Denmark: Well ours is only 171 m! Tuvalu, with a highest point of only five meters: *Amateurs*

Love your videos and grateful you're sharing your knowledge... 🙏

Very good list! I did wonder about the rupee to dollar conversion. There's always a place for these kinds of eclectic facts lists.

Super amazing video, so informative and interesting. 🙌🏼

Great info!! Keep these coming! Thx.

Iceland not only sits on a plate boundary, it is also right above a mantle plume. I believe it's the only mantle plume to break through were the tectonic plates meet making Iceland the most volatile place on the planet. Or at least it's a contender.

Outstanding video. Well done!

Quick, informative, interesting, nailed it!

Absolutely fascinating!!! Loved this video!

I could honestly sit here for hours listening, should do this with students every year

This was really interesting and cool. Great job

Each fact can be a separate video unto itself. Mind blown.

Thank you and your students for putting this together. I’m from Bosnia, if you do part #2 - Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia) was the first city in Europe with a full-time electric tram

Great work to you and your class!

Excellent! Very fun and interesting! Thank you!

This was a really great and diverse video, with some very recent material (Iceland)! 👌🏼👍🏻 Thanks! ✌🏼

I'm a semester away from being a Geographer and just found this channel? awesome content!

I love your accent. It makes the narration even more engaging to listen to.

Love these

Great video with random yet interesting facts!

Very enjoyable video, loved it, I did hear one mistake which may have been picked up in the comments below. At 8.27 the rainfall figure is quoted in millilitres (ml) which is a volume measure, should have used millimetres (mm) which is a distance measure and used to measure rainfall.

Excellent. Thanks. You get an A+ in geography!

Great video. More of these please.

Wherever you are in Switzerland, there is a lake less than 16 km away from you 🙂

Thank you for creating this vid

Thanks to your students. Great vid

Keep doing videos like this 👍🏻

🤯🤯🤯🤯 blown away by all these “jeopardy” like facts

Fun video. Geography has always been my favorite subject. My parents said I had an Atlas in my playpen. :)

Very interesting! I bet your students love you and your class. Very cool of you to credit the guy who inspired the idea for this video and your students for their participation. I’m going to listen to this again and watch the part 2 video, but two facts straight do out to me as particularly memorable: 1) that eating items bitten by a rat in a place in India is considered to be a good think (major YUCK!), and 2) that the name Idaho was inspired by a girl named Ida (Ida Ho! I would not be flattered if I was Ida, lol!). Here’s a question that could be included in a future video in this series, if you know the answer or can find it easily. Why are Kansas and Arkansas pronounced so differently? Why don’t we call the latter Ar-KAN-suss? Thanks for these videos, they’re great!

Terrific! Huge hattip to the students who gathered the facts!

Informative and enjoyable.

This is a great video!

I like the shout out to Austin. Awesome video friend

Great video, thanks! (:

Very informative video 👍

This video is great! Geography is fascinating!

Liked and Subbed, Great Channel!

3:37 I can remember visiting my very ancient relatives in deepest darkest Dorset when I was still in short shorts and loving the open door experience. These at first glance apparently quite risky ways of living, upon reflection turn out to be just about the best way to go about your daily routine. Typical that the exception to the rule involved a tourist ~ someone not used to it. Can't believe that no-one has remarked on the delicious irony that the theft occurred in a place which still has doors i.e. a car too!

I love that you did this. I'm a new sub. I don't want to google it, but3.8 kilometers in 15 days over the ice between Alaska and Russia 🤯

Love geography and these fun facts. Will have to check out Molossia for retirement.

The amount of times I rewatch this vid >>

That Micro-nation and the guy in the pic made me laugh! Great video.

I love this!!!!

Speaking of Colorado, it has approx. 6 times the mountainous area compared to Switzerland. FF- Montana comprises 9,000 sq. miles more than Germany

Such a good video!!

Wow! Those facts came too fast for my brain to absorb. Repeat viewing required by me. Thank you for providing an hour of facts.

Keep up the work ♥️♥️👍

My fave subject at school; u, my friend, have a new sub 🤗

2:22 you can walk between these two plates as well! I've done it and it's a super cool experience. as far as i know it's the only place in the world where you can stand between two continental plates

Great video! Super interesting

Maybe my favorite RU-vid video ever,good job.

Enjoyed that thank you

I dont know much about geography or pretty much anything about the world so I thank you for this video. note: good, eidetic, or photographic memory recommended

Awesome exactly what we needed right now

I love Geography....keep it up

I learned a lot. Remembering everything will be the real challenge!

Interesting stuff👍

A great companion to the LA/Reno fact is: Savanna GA, a port on the Atlantic Ocean, is entirely further west than Canton OH, which is in a state that doesn’t border a state on the Atlantic coast.

That were 10 minutes? It felt like maybe 3.. I need a longer version!

Awesome video!

I really enjoyed this video and learned a lot but in the future please give any measurements in ft, miles etc. also.

Very good &informative

Great video. Thanx!!!!

YASSSSS! give US more please

Interesting - thank you!

Nice video! I love the mix of statistics from various parts of the world instead of Euro-Centric stats

great job!! ☺

Maybe the best video ever. Knowing that this was research by 8th graders!!

Nice, Perfect to help me fall 💤 asleep 😴

This is great

Great video! Thanks !!

Ten SOLID minutes of geography content I could not resist if I tried

This is soo much fun!!!! Who knows this stuff;?.. Going to lie here under the covers drinking coffee absorbing these absolutely fascinating facts, thank you !!!!

Great video :)