40 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts 

the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia

Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world

Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world's smallest non city-state country! :-)

I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.

I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha

The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.

If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.

3:20 it’s the 3rd smallest behind the Vatican and Monaco.

the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil

Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.

#19 4:41 You meant "kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared". It's distance, not area.

1:33 Here's a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn't quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony. So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.

Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia's population lives within 50 km of the coast.

4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing "9400 kilometers squared" from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!

The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance

Nauru isn’t the smallest country. 3:25

geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they're actually good at geography

Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how "hard" it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa's from sea level.

Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don't believe them. 1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest. 2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don't hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador. 3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine. 4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands. 5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston. 6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.

Cool video! Should note though that the footage of “Jamaica” used at 5:43 is actually of Jamaica, Queens, NY - not the island nation of the same name.

The most southern point in Canada is actually south of Detroit, Barcelona, & Rome.

0:01 hello timed commenters

You can compare Hong Kong to Western Australia & Mongolia combined however Western Australia & Mongolia are mostly barren desert land. A better comparison would be a Hong Kong against the US state of Alabama. Alabama is humid subtropical just like Hong Kong with it being 118 times bigger in land area but the entirety of the Alabama holds less people than Hong Kong. Alabama - 50,750 square miles Hong Kong - 428.64 square miles Alabama - 5,097,641 people Hong Kong - 7,291,600 people Alabama - 100 people per square mile Hong Kong - 17,011 people per square mile

The greatest distance in the US being 9400 km^2 is indeed mindboggling.

Props to the people who counted every tree on Earth 👏

Lake Superior is SHARED between Canada and the USA!

3:18 - Nauru is not the world's smallest country. The world's smallest country is Vatican City, which is approximately 1/40 the size of Nauru.

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Lake Superior is shared between Canada and the U.S.

Here's a few more: 13 US States have ALL of their territory north of the southernmost point of Canada. 27 US States have at least part of their territory north of the most southernmost point of Canada (one of which is California). Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California. Atlanta, Georgia is further west than Detroit, Michigan. Alaska has the furthest North, East, and West places in the United States. There are two places in the US where water flows to both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Great video!! Another interesting fact: the northernmost point in Brazil is closest to Canada than Brazil's southernmost point.

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6:13 similarly, England has only the 6th largest population of English speakers (behind the US, India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines)

Babe, Lake Superior is mostly in the US. Please never disrespect my people like that again 😩

Ok I gotta say it because I promised myself I would every time I came across a video that mentioned the world's longest river, because the fun fact a learned blew my mind, it is WILD: the longest river is not the Nile, it absolutely the Amazon, and lemme tell ya why; when they finally found the source of the Nile, while measuring, they, and I kid you not, took into account the length of the coast of Lake Victoria, all the way down into ANOTHER river that flowed into the lake, arguing it was a tributary of the Nile. They did all this finagling, just to get the Nile even close to beating the Amazon's length (which was measured straight up as you can get for a river, mind you) and it STILL only ended up being 250 km longer in the end. The took into account the freakin LAKE and an ENTIRELY unrelated river JUST to get to 250 km MORE than the Amazon. So, any time someone says the Nile is the longest river, I have to set the record straight because it makes me irrationally angry the way these random British guys measured a river over a century ago.

8:53 it also means the point in the ocean that is furthest away from land

3:22 Nauru is actually the third smallest country. Monaco and Vatican City are smaller

Shout out to the person that counted all those trees.

4:52 9,400 kilometres squared? Distance would be linear not area.

Mistakes: 1. How can you have a distance of kilometers squared? 2. Lake Superior is in both Canada and the U.S. 3. Nauru is not the world's smallest country; if you think Vatican City and Monaco don't count, Monaco is a U.N. member.

I was just blown with the fact that Barcelona Istanbul and New York City fell on the same lattitude and just went to google maps instantly after hearing it... 😳😳

Some interesting stuff here, but any statistic that separates Europe from Asia is meaningless. I've never heard a valid argument for Europe being a separate continent.

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FYI.. Lake Superior borders Canada and the United States

Besides saying only Canada when giving the location of Lake Superior, your joke also wasn't really on target. Its name - lac supérieur is from the French for upper lake not that it is bigger than any other lake.

Lake Superior does not belong exclusively to Canada. The US actually owns more of the Lake than Canada. The Canadian, US border runs through Lake Superior

3:19 Nauru is the 3rd smallest country behind Monaco and Vatican city. Makes me wonder what other "facts" here aren't true🤔

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Nauru isn’t actually the smallest country. It’s the smallest island nation and smallest non-city-state country at 21km^2 (8.1mi^2), but Monaco is smaller at 2.02km^2 (0.78mi^2), and Vatican City/The Holy See is the smallest at 0.49km^2 (0.19mi^2).

Another amazing random fact: I have stopped to rewind this video a minute or two to listen to a couple of things I just heard more than any other RU-vid video, maybe even any video, in my life.

The fact that Lake Superior is in Canada will surprise a lot of Americans!!

I stumbled across your video today and loved it! I know you posted it ages ago, but I’m just giving it a thumbs up and comment today 😊

“Lake Superior is of course in Canada” Sure we’ll go with that, Duluth MN and the entire Arrowhead do not exist 😂

A couple of facts I'm questioning are : worlds population is currently over 8billion but 7.8 lives in the Northern hemisphere? I'm pretty sure there is more the 200mil people living in the southern hemisphere. As for the world's smallest country, Vatican City is considered the smallest not Nauru.

It's amazing how New York is at a similar latitude to Rome, Barcelona and Istanbul when you consider the temperatures of each of them, and yes I did check the map because it didn't sound right.

Fact: Lake Superior alone has enough water to cover all of North AND South America with water, 1 foot deep. ...Look it up.

nauru isnt the worlds smallest country

Him: Nauru, the world’s smallest country. Vatican city: Am i a joke to you?

It's a mistake to compare the height of Mt Everest to the tallness of buildings. While the top of Mount Everest is 8850 metres, it is only some 3500 metres higher than its surrounding plateau, so it's really only 4 times the height of the Burj Khalifa.

Measuring distance in Square Kilometres? That's a new one on me......

Nauru is actually the 3rd smallest country Following the Vatican City in 1st and Monaco in 2nd

Lake Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay is politically considered three bodies of water, but hydrologically is only one, and is larger than Lake Superior.

2:27 And of the 800 million people living in the Southern Hemisphere, about a third is Indonesian...

3:18 *the vatican coughs* 3:59 *monaco and singapore laugh in dissapointment* 4:43 *guam just dissapears*

1:33 Seeing Saint Pierre & Miquelon makes me want to bring up the fact that these small islands off of Newfoundland is the last vestige of what was once the vast territory of New France (it's also the only place in North America where the guillotine was used). After losing the Seven Years' War, France ceded its North American possessions to Britain, but were allowed to keep St. Pierre & Miquelon. The collectivity's unofficial flag is actually pretty cool, it has the Basque, Breton, and Norman flags respectively for the groups that settled there as well as a big ship in the middle. 4:44 The greatest distance between any two points in the US is inaccurate when you consider the country's territories. Greatest distance between any two points within the US including all territories is actually 9,514 miles/15,311 km from Point Udall, Guam to Point Udall, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (yes, same name).

If that 1 Omani homeowner decides to build a swimming pool in his backyard then the entire country becomes deforested 😆

Norway has 239,057 islands. What you are using is an old statistic counting only coastal islands

7:00 all 4 hemispheres? Do we have 2 spheres? 😂

Canada's most easterly point (Cape Spear, Newfoundland) is closer to Rome than its most westerly point (Boundary Peak 187, Yukon)

Fun fact: Africa is so insanely massive, it can fit the entirely of the United states, Australia, China and Earth inside with room to spare.

#19 the furthest distance if you remain within the 50states is Alaska (end of the tail) to Florida 8821miles If you add in territories, than it's Guam to us virgin islands 15283miles

I know a lot of Americans who would argue Lake Superior is in the USA also.

i had no idea distances were measures in kilometers squared 😱😱😱

Very interesting stuff. Much of it I didn't know.

Fun fact: the US has more people in its prison/jail/detention system that has all countries in Africa combined and also lost more people to Covid than Africa did

Speaking of #8, Perth is also the world's primary source of bogans.

7:43 did he really just say it belongs to Canada? It belongs to Canada _and_ the U.S.A

I like the fact that the most Easterly, Westerly, and Northerly places in the United States are all in Alaska.

At 0:52 this doesn't make any sense the way he phrases it, but the fact is still unbelievable, he's referring to the total length of wall ever built, including sections that overlap or were rebuilt multiple times

Lake superior... which, of course, is found in Canada.

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“Lake Superior is in Canada” Me, an American: *O u r* lake

Lake Superior is in both Canada and USA. (Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin)

Haha...Jokes on YOU...I dont wear socks!!

9:18 Why did you show a bird caught in the barbed wire.... some interesting information here and well presented, it flowed well from one to another and some great images. 17million people in one city, half of Canada.

"Nauru is the worlds smallest country" Vatican City and Monaco: I am I a joke to you

The other country in all 4 Hemispheres is the USA, which is obviously in the northern and western hemisphere, but also has island territories in other hemispheres, i.e. American Samoa, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, and Guam, which is in the Eastern Hemisphere

8:12 now that is a surprise. I thought for sure USA would have that one locked up. I guess there not much to do on Nauru?

In geography pop-quizzes, 'France' is often the right answer :)

Lake Superior is not a lake in Canada. Lake Superior spans the boundary between the Unted States and Canada.

Wow, the human geography facts really show the incredible and unjustifiable income, food, water, and personal security/insecurity between northern and southern hemispheres.

For fact #40 it's important to remember that GDP doesn't measure how much people are worth. It is better (crudely) summarized as how much people earn per year.

3:05 Well that didn't stay accurate for very long..... If you're including wind chill at least, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded -108F/-77.8C.

Lake Superior is co-located in Canada and the United States with far more of it located in the United States.

Excuse you, but Superior is shared between the US and Canada. Also, the Caspian IS a sea, as it contains an ocean basin. Its northern half meets the definition of a lake (which must be continental), but its southern half has a basaltic floor that was cut off from the Tethys Ocean when Africa and Arabia collided with Eurasia.

This like a lesson from the 90's 😂

I live close to the pole of inaccessibility for the Americas. Where I live, I'm closer to Hudson Bay than either proper ocean or the gulf of Mexico. The worst part is that crab is one of my favorite foods and living so far away from the ocean makes it very expensive.

“Nauru, the worlds smallest country - “ Me : Bro… what about the Vatican… 😂