Europe's Geography is Weirder Than You Think 

You must've meant same LONGITUDE between East Coast of NA and West Coast of SA...

Fun fact :- Egypt is smaller than Russia Canada and China combined.

The Vatican has the highest percentage of popes per people in the world.

Ukraine is simultaneously north, west, south and east of Moldova.

Warsaw and Alaska used to be in the same country

fun fact: because of Croatia's weird shape,the geographic center of Croatia is located in Bosnia also Croatia is simultaneously north,west,south and east of Bosnia

The entire coast of Antactica is technically North Antarctica

Finland is only one country apart from north korea.

Europe is a peninsula, that is made of more little peninsulas

Hi, you seem to have forgotten The Netherlands, wherein the Overseas Territories border the Virgin Islands of US possession, hence Germany is only one country away.

Largest Portuguese-speaking city: São Paulo Largest Portuguese-speaking national capital: Luanda

Fun fact; Vatican city has 2.4 popes per square kilometre.

Bosnia: I want to swim. Croatia: *n o*

4:33 it's almost like Germany once had more territory

2 fun facts about Norway: Norway is a single country away from North Korea Norway also has the second biggest coastline. First is Canada

Also interesting: You can travel by train from London to Beijing by only changing trains twice. London --> Paris (Eurostar, hourly service) Paris --> Moscow (1 train a week, 2 additional trains a week from Berlin) Moscow --> Beijing (2 trains a week, one via Manchuria one via Mongolia)

The capital of Liechtenstein is Vaduz not Liechtenstein ;)

Another fun fact would be that France and the Netherlands border each other on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

Funfact: Switzerland actually does not have a capital. Bern is only the seat of government.

You truly are a man of honor for including my home city Freiburg im Breisgau

Capitals of Austria and Slovakia are so closely situated, that you can see both of them simultaneously while flying on a plane over them.

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Me: * reads the tile * * thinks about my country * Me: Yeah checks out

Due to the fact that the lines of longitude are closer together the higher your latitude: Part of Norway is further east than Istanbul.

The Canada/Denmark border dispute is one of my favourite quirky conflicts. I was sad to hear that it’s probably going to be resolved soon because I’ve always had a low-key desire to go to Canada one day, hire a boat and claim the island for myself in the same way the two nations often do (sending a small expedition every 6-24 months to check on the island and replace the other nations flag on the flagpole at the centre of the island, claim a bottle of Canadian or Danish spirits left by the last group, and leave your own bottle behind for the next time the “enemy” come and take the island)

Fun fact( most people know about it): Brazil borders a French speaking country. Namely France, in French Guyana

The Nederlands have oversea territorys which boarder to Venezuela

As a German, I have to point out, that your German pronunciation is incredibily good. You really sound like a native. Also I found the video very interresting scince I also love geography.

Here's a couple I have not seen: - The Netherlands and France share a land border, on the island of Saint Martin. - Also, the Netherlands has a maritime border with Venezuela and the Dominican republic (Aruba) and the US (between Saba and the US Virgin Islands), making Germany be only one country away from the US. - The Dutch province of Flevoland is man made and lies in the former Zuiderzee, now IJsselmeer. - Even though Russia is a huge country it has no access to a four season port that does not require passing through territorial waters of other states (Pass through Denmark and Sweden from Kaliningrad. Pass through Turkey and Greece and either also Egypt, or Spanish, Moroccan and even British waters from the black sea ports). Monaco is the only acknowlegded european microstate that is not landlocked (unless you also count Malta as a microstate, which is an archipelago). - Liechtenstein is the only european landlocked country locked between landlocked countries. - As you touched on the placement of Berlin as the capital of Germany may seem a bit odd as it is not central in Germany at all (after 1945/1990). This is even more pronounced with Vienna in Austria and Bratislava in Slovakia. In all of these cases the choice for the capital is based more on historical or legal reasons (there is already a system in place, heads of state are there, parliaments and diplomats go there etc.) more than location.

Greenland Is Simultaneously East,West,North And South With Iceland

I never thought that my Home City (Freiburg) would ever get any attention whatsoever, since it is really isolated from the Rest of Germany, if you look at a topographical map, you will not only see that it is in the extreme South West of Germany, but also has the Black Forest (Immensly forested Mountain Range) to the east, practically sealing it off from the rest of the Country except for a small corridor along the Rhine...but apparently that distance from our capital makes international geography folks interested in us...

ok, me as someone who met the Duke, or Count (idk), of Liechtenstein feel offendend that you said Lichtenstein ist the capital of Lichtenstein, it's VADUZ! but still, great video xd

There's only one country between Norway and North Korea.

Wow this city at the westernmost point of "insert country here" is closer to "insert a foreign city" than it is to "insert city on the opposite side of the country".

I mean-my country is just one country away from Kim Jong Un. And I live in EU.

5:17 it's actually a private port, my dad who's from moldova, used to transport bulls there, he was not allowed to go there himself, he was with some brokers that did the paperwork, the port is used often for corruption purposes and trafficking

Fun fact: Kinshasa was the actual capital of France for a short time, during WW2 the Free French settled their governement there before Operation Torch when they then moved to Algiers.

If maritime borders do not count, Germany is 10 countries away from the U.S.: Germany --> France (French Guiana) --> Brazil --> Columbia --> Panama --> Costa Rica --> Nicaragua --> Honduras --> Guatemala --> Mexico --> United States

That was excellent! I enjoyed that immensely! Thank-you for posting that.

7:11 Well, the last few times Germany tried to spread its language, it didnt go all to well

"Europe's Geography", proceed to make a video centred on the USA

France technically borders the Netherlands, because of Saint Martin and Sint Maarten, an island that is shared by France and the Netherlands

It is because we tend to assume that one part of a geographical entity (a country, a region or a continent) is always closer to another part of this entity than to a place from another entity. Real geography does not work like how we tend to simply things in our heads... For exemple, Marseille and Lille are two cities within The country of France. Yet, the fact is that Marseille is actually not only lot closer to other cities of other countries like Barcelona, Milan, Madrid or Oma than it is to Lille, but it is also closer to another continent (Africa) than it is to the city of Lille. When you are in the southern coast of France you are closer to north Africa than you are to the north of your own country... Also, it might surprise some that Even the city of Paris, that many people tend to think as a « northern city » is closer to algiers than it is to stockholm

4:34 "[Freisburg im Breisgau's location] really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capital." Considering how it was more or less dead centre in the former German Empire, (and by extension all the territories historically held by Prussia and in the surrounding HRE) it has more to do with border changes than anything else.

0:06 Um, actually, the word you're looking for there is "longitude". Latitude is the east-west lines.

"...which really shows how kind of weirdly located Berlin is for a capitol..." well... Germany used to have more territory in the east and Prussia was the biggest power when germany was founded and Berlin was their capitol so these are 2 reasons why Berlin is the capitol.

You got me on the New Delhi being the largest English speaking city, i only knew that it was in India. HOWEVER i knew that Kinshasa was the largest French speaking city

4:30 I know I‘m insanely late but thanks for including my hometown in this this was very cool to see (great pronunciation as well)!

Slovakia: I want podkarpatsky rus back! Ukraine: *n o*

Finland is one country away from North Korea

Germany is also one country away from Canada. It borders Denmark which owns Greenland which shares a maritime border with Canada.

As a Canadian I always found it amusing that the distance between Warsaw Poland and St. John's Newfoundland is only 8km longer than the distance between St. John's and Victoria British Columbia

Even Little Liechtenstein made an appearance

When you say it like thay, the uk borders spain and cyprus

It's funny that youtube suggested me this video. I actually live near Freiburg and have thought about how many capitals are closer to me then Berlin before. Actually I even talked with my sister earlier who came back from China recently how wierd it is for her chinese friend who can drive for 8 hours and still be in the same province and we could be in Paris in maybe 5 hours or even faster if you take the high speed train.

What's this kaliningrad you're talking about all I know is the amazing former Prussian capital *Königsberg*

France is 1 country away from bordering Colombia

I'm so proud of myself for remembering Malta.

4:35 kinda like how Hong Kong is closer to Taipei, Hanoi, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Manila and Bandar Seri Begawan than to China's capital Beijing

If you want a weirdly located capital look at Maputo in Mozambique, it's in the south end of the country

Germany borders the USA directly if you count military bases.

Another fun fact: The most democratic country (according to Democracy Index) of the world, Norway, is only one country away from the least democratic one, North Korea. Only Russia separates both.

Do more of these vids they’re so cool, Also I’m from Azerbaijan and I suggest you do a video about it, it’s a pretty weird country

you could perceive the border dispute on Hans Island between Denmark and Canada as a land border between the two as the survey line actually divides the island into pieces and the dispute is about adjusting that border to go around the island on one of the other sides. though this is just the perspective of a Canadian who thinks it would be cool to have a land border with Denmark.

Now that Denmark split an island with Canada The Kingdom if Denmark properly borders Canada

China has a fairly long border with Kazakhstan, whose western end intersects the Ural Mountains, making it a partly European country.

We definetly need more of these.

Berlin is only the largest german speaking city by a technicality. The Ruhr district contain several merged cities, woth a larger combined population.

RU-vid automatically creates Dutch subtitles =D

For the language facts, you should've overlaid a map of the language borders (by mutual intelligibility) to see how weirdly the shapes of "countries" change. Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg simply cease to exist, Norway and Sweden merge, Germany gains territory all over the place all the way into Italy and several territories suddenly gain independence.

Good news: Canada and Denmark now share a land border on Hans Island.

I nerded out on this video too. MOAR!!!

4:36 Well, Berlin was positioned much more centrally, before all that losing of the territory in the east!

Fun fact: Indonesia can span across the entire Atlantic ocean

Are you just the editor in Toycat's 2nd channel or also the main channel?

Driving from Malmö to Boden (a town far up north in Sweden) is almost as far, as driving from Malmö to Venice in Italy

I have been to Delhi and can say about half of them can and do speak English very well.

I'm Maltese! Thanks for including us.

I thought you'd say about the islands, peninsulas but it's was very fun to solve those quizzes

You absolutely nailed the pronunciation of Freiburg I'm Breisgau! Liked it bc I come from there :)

“Europe has weird geography” *colonizes most of the earth*

Germany is the only country that, if it lost it's capital, would actually see an increase in GDP per capita

Update the one for germany bordering the USA, go up to denmark, who has control of greenland who has a border with Canada who borders the USA. It's not a maritime border its a split island between Greenland and Canada

Now that was amazing!

"Yep, it´s actually Berlin." Me: Cries in Kiatschou / Qingdao

I hate premiere function. "Oh, new vid! ...oh, gotta wait 2 minutes to watch it..."

I suspect you are fully aware and have probably done a video on it, but just in case, the Haan's Island dispute between Denmark and Canada has been resolved. Canada now has its 2nd International land border after the United States, now also with Denmak. I looking forward to walking from Canada to Denmark soon 😅

4:48 Liechtenstein has capital, its called Vaduz.

Starts video with 10sec image of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s border - brace yourselves in the comments!!!

Why do these videos make me feel like a historian

Dude, I am fascinated by your pronounciation. Especially of the german names. So on point 👍🏼👌🏻👌🏻

The southernmost point of Scotland is south of the northernmost point of Poland. The easternmost point of Norway is on a longtitudal line that falls between Istanbul and Ankara

If you forgive me I am just going to spend this entire video needing out about weird geography facts.. Me: why are you apologising, that's why we're here. We all love geography.

I actually thought of Saint Pierre et Miquelon at first when you said Germany is 2 countries away from the US

Germany also borders France who has a maritime border with the UK who has a maritime border with the USA with Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands

There is a town in Norway called Kirkenes which is located further east than Istanbul, Turkey.

:( i want Königsberg back

Nice vid

7:00 Metropolitan region Rhein-Ruhr is about 11 million people in close distance to another. The reason why this is not one big city is mainly historical.

3:41 Now they actually have land borders 🤔