I’m pretty sure this isn’t true, in theory they could because they claimed part of Ellis island after a land reclamation project, but they’ve never done it for Liberty island so as of right now it’s in New York.
New York owns all the Hudson up to the jersey shore. In 1867 New York decide to cut the Hudson in the middle but all island would be New York terrortory . Liberty Island is federal. Ellis island is part of NY state . All backfill for Ellis island is Nj trash all the other islands in th😢e harbor are newyork even islands in New Jersey waters
@@tuckern.3534it is true, to the point it was decided by the US Supreme Court after the two states had been warring over the islands in the Hudson basically since the US existed
My father was a fire prevention engineer who worked for the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau. In his work, he drove around the state to meet with fire chiefs in different areas. One of his trips took him to Point Roberts, and that was when I learned about this anomaly. It was interesting to read your comment as it took me down memory lane. Thank you for that.
Alaska has the Northern most, Western most and Eastern most points in the -United- States. Hawai'i has the Southern most point. That makes the rest of the states the 'Middle 48'. edit. now only states
@Gic424_YT now you're getting into semantics. Nothing is actually straight if you zoom in on a small enough level, but that's why engineers create acceptable tolerances to define how straight something is. Straight itself is a word that falls under loose scrutiny as we created it to define something that falls under a certain amount of "perfectness," whereas in reality, nothing is perfect. If you want to look at it your way, yeah, you're right. Nothing is "straight." But the word itself defines things that are level to the human eye, and the word itself is a human creation. You can't say "nothing is straight" because if nothing truly was straight, we wouldn't use that word to describe things that fall under that description. So yeas, the horizon is straight, until you zoom in far enough to see more detail.
Well, he was following the direction of the bridge that actually exist there. But it is true if you flew directly south as the crow flies from Detroit, you would end up in Windsor.
It is how I constantly think S.America is directly south of Central and Northern America...not quite. It is way off on the right. Just like the entire US fits into the Sahel region in Northern Africa or the entire Western Europe fits inside the DRC...maps are wild.
The distance from Brownsville on the southern tip of Texas to Texline in the NW corner of the Texas panhandle is 889 miles in a straight line. NYC to Jacksonville, Florida, is a distance of 835 miles in a straight line.
In fact NW Texas is closer to five other state capitals than it's own in Austin (Denver, CO; Cheyanne, WY; Santa Fe, NM; Oklahoma City, OK, and Topeka, KS)
Nebraska isn't just landlocked; it's actually the only triple-landlocked state in the country. That means that you have to travel through at least three states (or two states and a Canadian province) to reach an ocean.
I remember during covid and the border shut down, it caused many many issues for Americans who went to northern Minnesota but relied on the close grocery and shopping stores for their own cabins/homes. They were essentially locked out and made things quite difficult. I'm from Winnipeg,Canada and we'd hear about this a lot as we're only about 2 hours from the area.
The reason New Jersey owns part of the island was because of long territorial dispute between New York and New Jersey, about river and islands. The Supreme Court ruled that New York has ownership over the islands, but New Jersey owns everything below the water. At the time of this settlement, liberty Island was smaller. But now that it is larger, the Supreme Court ruled that the land came from below the water, and so that it is now in New Jersey. Which the gift shop is placed on since it’s newer. This is a very oversimplified version. Credit to CGP gray for a very interesting explanation to this topic
I was confused about this as well. After some research on my own I didn't find anything on New Jersey owning any part of Liberty Island, only Ellis Island. Both Islands grew in size since their original borders were established, but only on Ellis Island it was ruled (in 1998) that the original natural part of the Island still belongs to New York, and the new artificial part belongs to New Jersey. I also watched the video mentioned by CGP Grey*, and he explained: "The court ruled everything above the water was New York, and everything below the water was New Jersey. But if below became above new New Jersey it would be." On Wikipedia it also continues: "This proved impractical to administer and New Jersey and New York subsequently agreed to share jurisdiction of the entire island. This special situation only applies to Ellis Island and part of Shooters Island." Ok, but what about Liberty Island? Well, he said that the new added land SHOULD be New Jersey, not New York, the same as with Ellis Island. BUT "it hasn't been thought over yet." Continuing: "While it would still leave Lady Liberty on the New York side, you know what WOULD be on the New Jersey side? The Gift Shop." So I guess that's were you got confused, he said it hypothetically, IF it would get ruled the same way by the Supreme Court as Ellis Island was, but it hasn't been done (yet, at least). So currently all of Liberty Island is owned by the New York state. I'll quote him again on his conclusion: "But as it is, within the waters of New Jersey, there's an island of New York that's federal land atop which the national monument of the Statue of Liberty stands." Wikipedia also states: "Part of the State of New York, the island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey." I think this should also be added about the federal ownership and the gift shops: "Liberty Island has been owned by the federal government since 1801 [...]. Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966, encompasses land in both states, control of which is superseded by the United States. [...] Liberty Island itself is an exclave of the State of New York and a part of New York City, allowing the state and city of New York to retain sovereignty of Liberty Island, serve process there and collect sales tax from Liberty Island souvenir shops."
I feel like a lot of americans where surprised when Ohio had a bigger population then Las Vegas, then they remember that Ohio has 3, arguably 4 major cities.
and half the state this shows would like to pass a law that people from LA would ban migration from LA. MGT wanted to remove California from statehood by divorce.
You're not overcrowded your city just has too many cars and not enough of literally any other mode of transit. Build denser, construct transit infrastructure, and get people walking and biking. You could easily fit double the amount of people in LA county than there are now.
As kids living in Michigan it was a tradition to travel to Canada by driving through Detroit when your 16 to go to a bar as the drinking age there is younger than the United States
@@Notmanypeople The video is not saying cumulatively, but individually. It is saying that L.A. County has a larger population than 40 different individual US states with their populations taken alone. I just checked the numbers on Wikipedia, and if your 9.21M number is right for L.A. County, the video is correct (or very close as New Jersey has a population of 9.29 M). If Los Angeles County has a population of 9.21 M, it clearly has a greater population than 39 states with only 11 states having a population greater than 9 million. Or to put it another way, if L.A. County has a pop. of 9.21 million, it clearly has a population greater than 39 states because 39 individual states have populations under 9 million people (whereas L.A. County is 9.21 M).
It makes sense that Hawaii would be the only state without a straight line border. It's the only state that is a series of islands. The border is where land meets water; not another territory.
@jm-xh4yz what I mean is that many states define their border by a line of latitude or longitude, so it makes sense that their border would be a strait line. Hawaii's border is simply the island. It's the difference between the state ending at ''x" degrees north and.......your state ends when the the island ends.
@@ack7956 literally how this is just the truth 😭 anywhere could end up looking like a bunch of straight lines or lil curves and shit it jsut depends on the scale we’re measuring
Fun fact: Somewhere in Nevada, there is a small country (im not kidding) called the Republic of Molossia. A small 11-acre land that has their own president, law, navy, currency, and more.
@ThatElmTree iirc, Republic of Molossia really functions as private property within the US law. Also, the U.S. doesn't confirm ROM as a sovereign state. It's most likely a micronation. I could be wrong, tho, so be sure to look it up.
If you live in Minneapolis in South-Central MN, you live further North than 50% of all Canadians ... Also since the great lakes connect directly to the Atlantic via locks that allow for freighters to traverse Nebraska isnt REALLY triple landlocked
Not really. Because there's no average sea floor depth, and the roots of Mt Everest go far deeper than the sea floor. A curb in Hilo is higher than Manua Kea. That's because they're all volcanic islands.
@@j.dunlop8295 Most people who have tried, have not driven past the first 20 feet. The engine floods and then the passenger compartment. Death will ensue unless prompt decisive action is completed.
@@alimbis Yes, on Molokai, there is a small rough section of dirt road/path that touches the border of Kalawao county (population 50) but it needs 4-wheel drive and is not always driveable with a normal car. No deadly force but if it rains too much you are stuck. There was a mule path to Kalaupapa but I believe it is currently closed.
There's a small area in Washington that is only accessible through Canada. It's called Point Robert's and anyone who wants to get to the area needs to go through Canada as there's water surrounding it on every other side, and there's no boats/ferries that go to and from it.
Population of LA County is about 10 million, i.e. one quarter of California's. There are only ten states that have a population of 10 million or more: CA, TX, FL, NY are between 20 and 40 million; PA, IL, OH, GA, NC MI are between 10 and 13 million. So if LA County gained a few million more people, it would be bigger than all states except those top 4.
We didn't even bring up San Bernardino County, which is the largest county in California. There's a military base in San Bernardino County which is larger than Rhode Island, Ft Irwin & NTC.
Windsor being mentioned is such a surreal feeling, we’re literally so unknown even though our location should provide us with some sort of “clout”/popularity 😭😂
In 2022, it was estimated that the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 344.3 in the United States. This indicates that, on average, CEOs received more than 344 times the annual average salary of production and nonsupervisory workers in the key industry of their firm.Nov 27, 2023
There's a very large supply of people who can do production work. There's a very small supply of people who can be a successful CEO of a large company.
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado all meet at one point, known as the Four Corners. This is not only the only place in the United States to do so, but it’s the only place in the world that does this. 😊
Arkansas is the only US state that has diamonds. Los Angeles County is 3 times bigger than the sate of Rhode Island. San Jose has twice the population of Wyoming.
So you are saying that all of the diamonds in Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming have been found? How do you know this? Arkansas is the only state with an active diamond mine, but I don't know how anyone would know there are no diamonds in any of the other states.
The MN one is not true. The northwest angle is not surrounded by Canada. It is true that if you want to go directly from the rest of MN to the north end of the angle you have to go by boat and if you want to go by car you have to go thru Canada.
@@Buzzverb-gl3zn And yet, as stated, it is in fact the "Southermost Point" in the United States. Territories count as formal land claims for a country.
@meteorhero526 without the electoral college, major cities would choose the president every election. Only their votes would count. It should be self explanatory by the picture tbh...
@@hothsurvivor yes people vote not land most people live in cities. The electoral college only exist because farmers want an unfair advantage in politics and had a good ally in Jefferson.
1) I knew that. It's a given. Hawaii is islands. 2) I knew that, even if to some small degree. The international date line has to divert around Alaska. 3) Did not know that. 4) Did know that. 5) Did not know that. 6) I did know about Detroit and Windsor. 7) I think he got this wrong, as the details are more complicated than he is showing. 8) I definitely knew about Minnesota. 9) I keep trying to tell people about Mauna Kea. 10) I kinda knew this one. I didn't know it was 40 states, but I knew it was a lot of them. I knew it is the most populated county. ------- I did not know 2/10.
"Los Angeles county has a larger population than 40 other states." Hence the reason for the Electoral College making sure that people living in 4753 square miles of land doesn't make the decisions for those in the other 3,793,000 square miles.
Its not Land that Votes, its People!. If the party that relies in the Electoral College, actually had a great Platform. it wouldnt matter that so many people live in a small area, their Ideas would win the Hearts and Minds of The Voters!.
Those 3 million miles of land sure do pay more taxes than the 4000 square miles...I mean WTH my guy? Do "representatives" represent land or people? Sheesh!
And #11: Point Roberts. It’s a piece of Washington but you have to cross over from Washington into British Columbia, west, then cross back over into Point Roberts, USA.
Los Angeles county is the reason LA is the 2nd most populous city in America, if not Chicago would still be the 2nd most populated city in the U.S. I love LA cause it’s urban sprawl more of a thousand suburbs in search of a city!
