I watched this whole series with my girlfriend who STRONGLY thought it wouldn't be any fun but she gave me a chance and she ended up pausing again and again to read more and look up extra facts! Excellent job!
That’s cute lol I love sharing things like that with someone special to me. Like when they’re hesitant about it but then end up getting totally into it! It’s one of life’s best feelings. 😊
@@RouteNRide there are plenty of Canadians who like the us, but I'm pretty sure the UK is more popular - there is quite a long history of Canadian conservatives appealing to a royalist/British loving voter base especially in opposition to Quebecois
Cartography fan here. I'd like to see more maps that focus on the physical geographic featues. This is a very informative RU-vid site. Thanks for all your research, Kyle.
Kyle, I have been addicted to your channel ever since I found it a month ago. I really enjoy your interesting facts and first hand experience. I always learn something new. I'd love to see some more Geographic Profiles as well because I've really enjoyed those too. Thanks!
I'm glad you found the channel and like the videos! I've got a state profile video coming up really soon. I try to do one per month and on states that I don't discuss much in other videos.
I visited the Black Hills as a teen while on a family reunion vacation and I’ll always remember how drastically the hills stuck out from the flat landscape of South Dakota. Likewise, when we were looking out while staying on the Hills, you could see for miles in all directions. Definitely have to visit there again soon!
I travel all over the west. Northern Nevada is my playground. And I drive to Phoenix every year trying to take a different route each time. Until C0vid, my friend and I used to drive 150 or so miles to each lunch twice a month. We have been to Shasta Lake, Lake Tahoe, Virginia City, Yosemite, Bodega Bay, as well as others. We are getting old now and want to see as much as we can. I am 66 and he is 75. And I love New Mexico as well (I like buying green chili's in Hatch). Your channel helps me visit those places that I cant make it to and I like that. Keep up the great work.
As a Northern Californian, who visits Redding regularly, we have one name for it, and it's not "Shasta Lake." It's "Lake Shasta." Somehow, it just sounds better.
@@295g295 Indeed. The amount of information in that one image is staggering. I'd love to see that map with the various legends included. Kudos to that mapmaker for one of the more spectacular maps out there.
This is the BEST channel I've discovered in the past year or so. I get so excited every time I see you've uploaded a new video. Can't wait to see you hit 100k subs soon!
That relief map was awesome, as a Wisconsinite, it was really neat to see the “Driftless Area” along the Mississippi, a region where glacial drift did not occur. Really cool area to explore given how flat or rolling hilly the rest of the state is.
> 11:58 < I had thought Mississippi Delta means the land of the river that extends into the Gulf of Mexico. This shows the flat-lands of western TN, and MS, etc known as 'Delta'.
@@295g295 Your gut is correct, but there are two very different regions (Mississippi River Delta and Mississippi Delta) with very similar names, so any confusion is totally understandable. What you initially refer to is the correctly named Mississippi River Delta; not to be confused with the very much misnamed Mississippi Delta you also referenced, which is not actually part of the delta of the Mississippi River, but an alluvial floodplain located in NW Mississippi, roughly 300 miles north of the actual Delta. Specifically, the Mississippi River Delta is where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico, and refers to a roughly three million acre area of mostly coastal wetlands at the mouth of the river. Apparently, this confusion is quite common. Wikipedia has put multiple annotations on every relevant page that make it very clear that they are not the same thing, and not to be confused with one another.
Many early Latter-Day Saint(Mormon) immigrants came from Scandinavia in addition to England during the mid-19th century, so seeing Utah having the highest percentage of people of Danish descent makes sense.
Mate, I love the United States and if I couldn't live here in Australia, I would be in the U.S. Your maps and knowledge are fascinating, and I can't wait until the pandemic is over so I can visit the U.S. another 20 times!
Small correction on the UK Monarchy map, even though most areas of Wales view the Royal Family negatively according to that map, Wales narrowly voted in favour of Brexit, unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland.
@@tipi5586 Two thirds of Scots voted to remain in the EU, that's very different. Every single part of Scotland voted to remain. It was an emphatic rejection of Brexit.
The reason that South Texas has such a long life expectancy is that there are lots of retirement communities there. You can't have died young if you are already old.
@@GeographyKing I didn't know that the Sutter Buttes existed until I saw a video on the blancolirio channel a couple weeks ago where he circled around it in a small plane at low altitude. Gorgeous place.
I really enjoyed several of your map series. Very informative and without an agenda of your own to keep the info unbiased. I just wanted to mention that the US government along with various charitable organizations settled refugees here in Fort Wayne, IN some years ago from what was formerly Burma, now Myanmar. We have around 10,000 here dating back to their civil war in the 90's, I believe, as well as more Burmese in Indy and other cities in Indiana. California also has a relatively large group. I thought I might get a small adjustment on your language/nationality data maps, and a pin for Fort Wayne.
I grew up in a town with a fairly large Filipino population and had many friends who spoke Tagalog. When I was working in Monterey, CA we'd print off earthquake and flooding information in Tagalog as well.
Wow - so I’m watching this on June 7, I never use my vacation days and they expire every year on June 30 (they don’t roll over), and here’s this guy giving me exactly the advice I need right now. Thanks!
Here in Bulgaria we have an author who wrote To Chicago and back again, about his trip there for the 1893 exposition. It seems Illinois is still attractive for Bulgarians.
Fun fact: all voter registrations, information and signage in Houston by law MUST be printed in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and mandarin. Our 4 most spoken languages.
I‘m from Luxembourg, so I‘m very glad you mentionned our country haha. Indeed, the majority of Luxembourgish migrants settled down in Iowa, Illinois or Wisconsin. The reason for that are the German an Belgium communities that were already there a bit earlier. Not only did the Luxembourger speak the same language (German and French), but they had also the same religion (catholic). All these elements made integration much more easier.
Howdy Kyle!....love your video series. Your enthusiasm for maps is evident. I'm right there with you. As a teenager, and prob before then even, I think I was the only kid who listed my dream job as working for Rand McNally.
Hello from Canada! Love your videos. These map videos are a great starter for those of us that want to understand our world more intimately. I have a Indigenous people’s of North American land claims and spoken language map as my desktop. I am proudly from the Mexico of the North and I love you right back. People in my region are intimidated by migrant workers, but I have laboured wither literally. Mexican men and women are dedicated to family and suffer enormous distances and our horrible winters to keep there elders and loved ones healthy and educated!
This is the kind of content I like from you!! I've been following your channel since you had 5K! Thank you for your quality videos. Greetings from Argentina.
Your mapa sir are so interesting. As a positive note I on Y wish your letters could be a little bigger as they are hard to read , but I thank you for your thorough explanation this channel is addictive. You are doing a fine job. Thanks
This is by far my favourite new channel. I have learned so much. Hell I have just spent an hour researching all about the Cicada which be fore now I had never even heard of. Thank you so much
Proud to be of Polish heritage, and living in Illinois!! The *only* state where Polish is the second-most spoken language! There are some pockets in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, but even in my town of Buffalo Grove (NW suburbs of Chicago) just going to the local grocery store is a polyglot! Polish, some Russian, a bit of Spanish, some Indian (Asian), Mandarin...it's guaranteed that I will never hear *just* English in any store.
That is similar to the way I grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, Can. In the older parts of town, particularly central and east end, you could hear almost every language spoken in the world.
@@295g295 i think what kind of mining is done where, like "this area more coal is mine, this area is iron, or nickel, or uranium, or oil", or do it by state, of what do they get out of the ground so maybe stones like granite and marble are thrown in too
In practice, 1st offense simple possession in SC is a $24 ticket. Officer discretion though, so own up to it when you get stopped to avoid the handcuffs.
As a native of Idaho in of the capital Boise, I absolutely love to see your observation that Spain has a big prevalence in our state, however if you would like to be more specific it’s actually Basque people. The city of Boise has a very rich and storied influence of Basque culture that many people are not aware of and even has its own special street in our city. It is widely embraced among people of Idaho for its delicious food, vibrant and welcoming people, and rich history. I just thought I would mention this because as a minority group of Europe they don’t get the recognition they deserve sometimes and in Idaho yes it is Spanish people but more specifically Basque who come from Spain that influence so heavily. Impressive how well many of them speak three languages.
That is interesting! I expect most of the states with a plurality of Spanish Hispanics are from the southwest, where Spain actually had settlers and colonies. Kyle didn't take the time to mention, but, yeah, Spain held the southwest and had colonizers.
Vietnamese doesn’t surprise me for Texas. Growing up I went to a Catholic Church that was English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Huge culture here. We’d walk out of English service and they had Vietnamese food for sell before the Vietnamese language service. It was always so normal to me lol
(11:00) However, Monopoly has been localised, so for example the British version has London streets, and that version is also popular in Australia. The French version has streets from Paris, and so on.
Oh, it’s localized everywhere. Even in the US, it seems like every town and university has its own version. Wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t 500+ versions in the States alone. Yet just about everyone sticks with the classic.
Kyle, hot off your recent State tournament, perhaps it would be more fitting to adopt "This is Geography King . . . you out." as your closing comment. Go Gophers!
I love maps. And I love watching your videos. Would have loved to have you as my Geography teacher when I was in school. And yeah - that topographical map at the end is one of my favorites. I could just stare at it for a long time. Fascinating.
As far as the US state/European heritage map goes, there's an explanation for Denmark and Utah. Mormon missionaries were particularly successful in Denmark (as opposed to other Scandinavian countries), resulting in a high percentage of converts and pioneer immigrants to Utah. And I'm descended from some of them!
6:34 Germany is colored wrong. We have a minimum of 24 paid vacation days over here so we should be the darkest shade of blue. But still great video as always!
I have been a Geography nerd my whole life and I really enjoy this channel. Thanks for the great videos. I am always looking for new things to learn about this great subject
You're from the Central Valley and live in Chattanooga, I'm from Modesto and live in Macon County, TN. Love these videos, by the way. I found your channel a few days ago and have watched quite a few of your videos. I'm especially enjoying this map series.
Kyle, I absolutely love this series (I love your videos in general, but especially anything to do with maps). Fascinating how Tagalog is the most common language spoken in California, but the highest Asian ethnicity is Chinese rather than Filipino. How would you account for that? My guess is that many many of the Chinese in California have been there for well over a hundred years, and though they identify as Chinese ethnically, they don't speak any of the Chinese languages. Or it could just be that there are three major Chinese languages and only one Filipino. Or a combination of those things. What do you think? I also particularly love the Friday Night in San Francisco album cover you have up in this video. One of my favorites as well. ♥️ And finally, congratulations on such an excellent channel!
Yeah maybe some of those of Chinese descent don't speak the languages. Also I think Filipino migrants might be a slightly newer demographic than the Chinese migrants. Hi from Oakland, CA!
Yeah I definitely think it's because of the fact that there isn't a whole lot of immigration from China anymore and most people of Chinese descent are 3rd generation or more. China is still poor but better off than 50 years ago and fewer people are leaving. When I worked for Monterey County Emergency Management we'd print off flood and earthquake info in English, Spanish, and Tagalog. What's kind of ironic is that English is widely spoken in the Philippines.
Just a short note Kyle on the Brexit map correlation - Wales voted to leave the EU. You are right about Scotland. None of our regions voted in favour of leaving the EU. Wales and most importantly, England voted to leave the EU. Scotland voted nearly two thirds in favour of staying in the EU and Northern Ireland voted to stay too. But as we say in Scotland, FTQ (look up at your own leisure).
Greetings from Round Rock, Texas~! Can't help but notice the album cover of DiMeola, McLaughlin and DeLucia...Great taste in music Kyle. Love the channel~!
On the Marijuana map, I was literally LOSING MY MIND cuz I couldn’t figure out why Delaware was grey!!! Being from Delaware, it’s always the first place I look on the map like this, but it’s understandable how someone would just forget to color it! So that makes sense!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I love those topographical relief (I think is what it's called, you may have said it), raised maps like at the end. I have sat here with Google Maps, zooming in and out, and not realize I'd been playing with it for over 5 hours. Guess that makes me a map nerd too. I'm cool with that.
A little bit of Mormon history: The church converted literally thousands from England and Denmark throughout the 19th century, and almost all of them from that time period immigrated to Utah gather with the rest of the "saints." That's why you see Utah so well represented from those European countries.
