According to one of their largest grocery chains, based on the amount of food sold, the UK population is well over 80 million. Can’t imagine that many people crammed into such a small area.
@@redstateforever population density is a crazy thing. ive lived in louisiana and new jersey. nj is about 1/8 of the size of louisiana but has double the populatiob
The US has some amazing geography and all kinds of terrain. Everything from desserts to rainforests, mountains to swamps, tropical to sub-artic and pretty much everything in-between.
We also have areas that are below sea level in California (in Death Valley near Furnace Creek). I think there is another below sea level spot in Lousiana.
There's also a place in Minnesota that is only accessible by land through Canada--it's called the Northwest Angle, and exists largely because when they were drawing the borders they used the Mississippi River, but didn't actually know yet where it started. Just over 100 people live there, they have a one-room elementary school, and older kids have to commute across borders to go to school. Sometimes in the winter they make an ice road across the Lake of the Woods for easier access.
My dad was in the Air Force so we moved a lot. I've lived in FL, LA, MA, Al, ND, CA, MO, , and Newfoundland, Canada. And when I was in the US Marine Corps, I lived in VA, NC, El Salvador, Vietnam, Hawaii, Okinawa, Japan, and Florida (FL) again. When I retied from the Marine Corps, I traveled around the world many times on business. What an educational experience all of that was. I learned more about the world we live in than any school could teach. It was a hard life, but I'm thankful for all of the experiences.
Norway, Sweden, & Finland have their own version of 4 corners, except theirs is in a lake, so they had to build a bridge to the right spot & mark it with a cairn 🌉
I knew that the Mississippi River was one of the longest rivers in the world; but I was totally unaware of how many things it gives to us. I definitely did not know that we also have the shortest river in the world! The Roe River: 201 ft long! Aidan, Gaynor, and Sophie, this is my first time watching you! And I am delighted! Aidan, you unquestionably are the geography master. Gaynor, I appreciate your input as well. You help to clarify much of what is being shown. Sophie, you have such a wondeful and bubbly personality! You make me smile! Please, do not stop being you!
This is my new favorite reaction channel! Of Course coming from Office Blokes. This is so refreshing I love how frequent you guys post and can't wait to see more. Aidan always impresses me with how much he knows very funny to see him seem nonchalant but actually really into the vid lol. Thanks for the entertainment love your USA Baltimore Maryland Fam!~
I’ve been to the Roe River. A park ranger told the story of how it was recognized and named. The “source” is a big spring that almost looks like a giant bird bath or something. A group of school kids were visiting and asked why it wasn’t considered a river. Other people smarter than me came out and said, yes, it has its own source and flows into the Missouri River, so it is separate (there is a distinct color difference between the two). The kids got to name it.
Love your guy's reactions! Speaking of four corners states, New Mexico, whose capital city is Santa Fe is the oldest, highest elevation and smallest capital city in the United States and Santa Fe's palace of the governors is the oldest government building in the United States. 😊
This is really sweet to see non-US people react to tidbits about my homeland. I'd love to do the same for the UK. Had the marvelous chance to experience real, everyday life near Bedford, specifically Thurleigh. Great channel!
I'm from Alaska and I didn't even know we had he longest coastline lol. I thought the answer to that would be the Ozarks because I just finished watching the Ozarks and I recalled the part where he was talking about it having more coastline than california.
This was interesting, and I'm impressed by your knowledge of United States geography. I live in a Dallas suburb - sorry to hear the beautiful lady in the center wasn't able to visit Dallas but saw other areas of Texas. Houston is incredibly different from north Texas/Dallas area. I believe the UK fits into Texas about three times. The one place I've most wanted to visit is the UK, and yet never made it there although well traveled through the Mediterranean area countries during my Navy days. I've watched many programs about the UK and it has some of the most beautiful and interesting places I've ever seen.
Lost in the Pond did one a couple of years ago, 11 states bigger than the UK. Some of them are MASSIVELY larger, but can have only a fraction of the UK's population. Texas is the 2nd largest state, but Alaska as the largest is 1/3 the size of the lower 48 states. Geography King has some good ones and another new channel that,s very good is Real Life Lore, the last one I saw from them was Why Is the US so OP.
as someone who grew up in nj (not too far from howell) i would agree that vermont is one of the nicest places ive seen. although i prefer colorados mountains. but id suggest that your mothers like for vermonts breakfast may have been related to their syrup. in terms of the states, vermont is the most well-known for its own fresh maple syrup
G isn't wrong about Vermont. It's gorgeous. The air is just cleaner too. As a teen we drove up to Montreal from NY and got lost in Vermont (pre-GPS days) and it was such a happy mistake.
That’s pretty cool to know that you’ve been to Mississippi. I’ve lived here my entire life. I hope to be able to travel one day, England is one of the places on my list to attend the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
You will never witness something as amazing and awestruck as seeing Mount McKinley for the first time. it is massive. I've lived in Colorado and it's a whole new world of big mountain.
Gaynor is right Vermont is beautiful such an underrated state not to much crime if not the lowest in the country. The natural beauty and some of the nicest/friendlys ppl in the entire country imo
I live in Tucson, AZ (second oldest city after St Augustine FL.). The Santa Cruz river (when it has water-our rivers only have water occasionally )flows from Mexico to Phoenix. That means it flows North not South.😊
There are areas in California where the population is extremely low, like in Wyoming. The longest river is not the Mississippi, it's the Missouri. They screwed that answer up on a citizenship test years ago.
The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for Zone Improvement Program. Probably 9 out of 10 of my fellow Americans dont know that. Im sure its similar to your system. Every address has a street address within a ZIP code. At the end of your street address you have a ZIP Code. A 5 digit number. The country is 1st divided into 10 areas. 0 - 9. Your area is the furthest digit to the left. Then that zone gets divided into 10 areas. Then those 10 areas get divided onto 10 smaller areas and so on. With just a 5 digit ZIP code system, the Post Office and carriers like UPS can route your package to within several miles of your street address. From there the local office delivers to your street address. Its a relatively new system having started in the 1960's but it greatly improved the efficiancy of moving packages around the country. Btw being a life long American it is fascinating to hear people from other countries learn about American things. Whats more fascinating is how much people from other countries seem to already know about America. Here we tend to live in our own bubble. Im hardly alone in that ive always been interested in world geography, geo-politics, other cultures etc.. but that is not always the case with Americans. Even as much as i pay attention to the rest of the world, I probably know a fraction about Great Britain compared to what you already know about America. In some ways I think us Americans are just self centered. Lol But in other ways, our country is so incredibly vast with so many regions, races, religions, ethnicities and just sheer size, you could almost spend a life time traveling the US and not see it all. I know ive heard British people talk about your own different regions with their own accents and local traditions. Its the same here but on a much larger scale. The 2 big ones here are east coast vs west coast. Being 2000 miles apart, the people in those areas have different cultures, tastes in foods, social acceptability, fashion styles etc. The general difference is harsh winters and tall buildings in a dense population on the upper east coast vs sunny and warmer winters on more sprawling land on the west coast. But in between all that, each state almost has its own things that make it unique. Florida, for example is on the east coast, and is more sunny and warm than the north east. Tge weather is much more like southern California.. but many who live there come from the upper east coast. Basically people sick of the cold and rain and grey skies in the New York area end up in florida. The great lakes region is also unique. The desert south west. The south. The mid west. The Mississippi river delta region is also a unique area and its people seem dif than the other areas. That area has a lot of French influence. The Southwest has Mexican influance. Areas have Canadian influence.. and it might not be just the obvious northern areas. A lit of Canadians visit or move to the southwest. Places like Arizona see a lot of Canadian license plates. I live in Arizona. It is an amazing country and i dont say that in an arrogant way. I didnt invent any of it. Lol
Vermont does not aloud bill boards and you can only have a single sign for your business on the property it is located on. The whole state is basically back roads and pristine forests with the best skiing on the east coast.
I have a friend who is an artist from Little Diomede, unfortunately they’re not able to get anywhere near Big Diomede because the Russian military is very defensive of the island 😪
ZIP codes were instituted in the early 1960s and are similar to your postal codes. It stood for Zone Improvement Program. It gave a unique 5 digit number to a town or a part of a small or larger city. In the 1990s they added an additional 4 digits, but the use of them is optional. Prior to 1960, the Post Office in a large city like New York would number the post offices, so you would mail a letter to "New York 10" or "New York 5".
I was told by my parents that my uncle couldn’t remember our address. So he wrote on the envelope “ the little White House behind, then named a store” … another time he didn’t have a stamp, so he taped a coin on the envelope , it came to the house with the coin still on. I guess he thought they would put a stamp on and take the money. That wouldn’t work today.
I went to the post office often with my grandmother. The mail boxes were labeled "In town", "out of town", "out of state" so the patrons would start the pre-sort.
Our ZIP codes were first used in 1963. With the size of our country and the number of the growing population, it was needed in order to deliver mail faster and in a less confusing way. The three letters, Z I P, stands for Zone Improvement Planning therefore the five digit was created.
You should watch Lost in the pond United States makes UK look like a little village and watch How I roads are bigger and our bridges are bigger they're all by lost in the pond UK to USA and watch Food Wars Oreo cookies and man versus food is pretty good too
I live in Georgia, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, in a nice little town with southern charm. But... when I win the lottery I plan on having a nice house in Bennington, Vermont, and my 65' Nordhavn yacht will be docked in Naples, Florida. Ahh... the good life. Btw.. Sophie... you are so adorable!
Here's a fun geographical word play for you. If you ever heard of Mimal the nome, this is what they are talking about. With these states going in order from north to south, the collective stacked outline of these states lookes like a nome. Starting from the north, it goes... Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas Louisiana The first letter of each state is where Mimal comes from. Thus, Mimal the nome, or elf as some call it
Fun fact about Texas after it fought and won their independence from Mexico, it was not part of the united states', it was kind of a country by its self. After a couple of years, they discovered that wasn't working out so good for them, and joined the united states'
Texas is absolutely massive. Houston to San Antonio is about a 3 hour drive. Houston to Dallas is4-4.5 hours. And it's like a 10 hour drive from El Paso to Beaumont....and about half of that is 80mph.
I've been to the UK a number of times on business trips. I love the accents, if only I could understand most of them. I always wondered why the US didn't retain the British accents after the Colonial times. But the British accents began to fade not too long after the colonies were established and we evolved our own accents which are difficult for some foreigners in certain areas. For example, In Louisiana (especially the southern part of the state) many speak Cajun which is a combination of English and French with their own dialect. And there is NYC which has such a heavy accent by some that it's difficult to understand. I remember in the 1950's our family was in NYC trying to find Yankee Stadium and my dad stopped to has for directions. The replies with something like, "it's turdy turd and froth street". I find it odd that Brits don't seem to have trouble understanding most standard American English, but Americans find it sometimes difficult to catch the British accents, especially Cockney. But perhaps the greatest obstacle to effective communication between Americans and other English speakers are idiomatic expressions. Every language has them and they often don't make sense to a non-native speaker. I lived in Central America for a few years and at the time I spoke relatively OK Spanish. I was at a party in a conversation with several gentlemen and following the conversation until one of them said, "Ah si, el no pelo en la lengua". My brain stopped. I understood the words but not the meaning. Translated in my brain was "Ah yes, he doesn't have any hair in his tongue (or language)." What the heck? I later found out that was an idiomatic expression for "he's a man that can be trusted". Another saying was "Con la boca cerrada, no entre la mosca" which I learned meant don't gossip about others or what I would say "what goes around comes around". The other thing I learned in Central America that words have different meanings depending on the context, and it an be different in each Latin American country. For example in the country I lived in "pajaro" meant bird, but it also meant homosexual. In the country I lived in, Vaina meant bayonet scabbard, but in other countries it had a vulgar meaning. And Pupa meant coffee bean but it also had a vulgar meaning as well.. But it worked the other way around as well. For example, Spanish vowels are pronounced specifically unlike American English where vowels can have different sounds depending on the word. In Spanish, the vowel "i" has a long "e" sound and the "e" can have a have an "eh" sound. So my Latin friends when speaking English were conscious of this and avoided certain words like "sheet" because they would pronounce it more like "shit" and "shit" would sound more like "sheet". Here in the US, we have countless idiomatic expressions in all parts of our country. For example, in the northern cities, blacks who dislike whites call them "crackers". It's a slur against whites. But I live in Florida and "Cracker" is a compliment. Why? Because Florida used to be known for cattle ranches and the cowboys here used whips to control where they wanted the cattle to go. They didn't use the whips on the cattle but rather used the crack of the whips to move the cattle in a certain direction. They were called "Crackers". Today it means anyone not born in Florida but who has lived here a long time gets the honorary title of a "Florida Cracker". I love the differences in languages. I was surprised that my Spanish was pretty much understood in Italy. But the bottom line is that I was shocked at how many people in Europe speak English, most with a British accent but a lot with perfect American English. There were times checking into hotels the desk clerk seemed to me like an American living in Europe but who was actually German, or some other nationality. I have traveled around the world countless times in my business and I've been amazed at how many people in different countries speak very good English. I wish we took learning foreign languages here in the US more seriously.
My family came to New England from Britain in 1800, and on average every one of The Offspring of an eight children family had a dozen kids for the next seven generations to help out populate Britain. All the immigrants that came to America from all over Europe we're having a dozen children because there was so much land and space and build houses the size of castles
I don't know how many other states have this but Missouri has 2 major cities divided by state lines and 2 separate major rivers. Kansas City is in Kansas and Missouri and is divided NW to SE by the Missouri River. St. Louis is in Illinois and Missouri, and divided North to South by the Mississippi River. We're an odd state.
You are sadly mistaken in your thoughts about St Louis. St Louis is clearly in Missouri. East Saint Louis is in Illinois. The term East is an official part of the name. Hence not exactly the same name. Using your example, you could say Alton, Illinois and West Alton, Missouri. Alton Illinois is a small city of about 28,000. Whereas West Alton Missouri is a village of 500 directly West separated by the Mississippi River.
Maine's coastline is longer then Florida or California exactly for the reason you mentioned. It zigzags in and out with rocky cliffs etc. It also is the only state that borders just one state.
Look at the smaller states in the west with the complicated borders, then look west. Straight lines, etc. As the US expanded west, it was "let's just get this done".
Fun fact: the first European to discover Hawaii, was English explorer James Cook around 1778. The Hawaiian state flag has the British Union Jack as part of its emblem!
It may be the coolest. I am from Texas. But it is definitely the coldest. I spent 2 years in Barrow Alaska. Northern most inhabited place on this side of the planet. II got a T-shirt that read I spent the summer in Alaska and enjoyed both days of iy.
@@thomashuff2897 Wow! 2 years in Barrow! thats. You are a lot tougher than me! my husband would go up there once ever 2 months for a few days for his job. He would sometimes get stuck because the planes would be weather grounded. I'm from North Pole but live in Fairbanks now. Definitely cold but still the best place in the world to live in my opinion.... but i dont think i'd feel the same if i lived in Barrow..haha
@@jessicadelrosario2185 It is not too bad if you stay at the Top of the World Motel and take a cab two blocks to the City offices. T least when I was there, they still had a cab.🙂
Old school geography will tell you the Mississippi River is the longest, but it is now generally accepted that the Missouri River is actually longer. Most prominent authorties like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agree that the Missouri is the longest river in North America. The BRIGHT SIDE isn't too bright.
@@officeblokedaz I have been to all 50 states and about 16 countries. It is worth it. Maake sure to take a good cmera and take lots of photos. I put them on a screen saver program and randomly cycle thru them on a TV behind my bar. Helps to ward off old age and forgetfulness.
Hello from 🇺🇸, Just happened on your channel. Good video. Impressed by how y’all guessed some of the answers ahead of the video answers. Y’all actually, and embarrassingly, know more about US geography than probably 75% of American kids your age!! And, unfortunately, is probably true about a large % of most Americans. We seem to have no interest in geography of the world? Funny videos you may watch for yourself to laugh at us is late night shows that do”on the street”interview questions. Embarrassing!
When I moved to England I was so looked down on for "never traveling outside (my) country". "Omg, we fly everywhere, even from a young age. You Americans..." To which I said, "My state (Illinois) is bigger than your entire country. My city (Chicago) is bigger than most of your cities. And you traveling to other European countries is the equivalent of me traveling to other states based on distance. In fact, I assure you, I've travelled farther in total than you ever have."
Here's one for you to check out. Which state has the SECOND longest coastline? (Obviously, Alaska is number one.) Hint: The beaches border on FRESHWATER.
When Europeans say Americans never travel (though I’ve been all over the world, to include the U.K.) to other countries or out of the United States, I do not think they realize how big the United States is. Driving across the U.S. is like driving across Europe. The longest distance across the Continental U.S. is 2892 miles (4654 KM) from California to Maine. Enormous!
