Examining Interesting Maps Part 5 

Naming close to 3,000 towns and cities in the US is incredibly impressive, especially with how widespread your knowledge is from state to state!

cant get enough of these. wish they were more frequent

“Howdy, it’s Kyle” is like crack to me 😂

Intetrsting fact about Montréal's Métro : it runs on tires. This allows it to climb steeper inclines and gives it better acceleration and braking. And It's WAAAAY quieter than subways runing on steel wheels.

My uncles house in New Hampshire is well constructed and well insulated. They open the windows at night in the summer and close them as the heat of the day arrives and it stays surprisingly cool. I think most of that is how well insulated the house is and how cool it gets at night even in the summer.

the fact you got saint john new brunswick on that game is actually crazy man, no one knows of new brunswick canada let alone saint john. love your channel and your work, keep it up man!

Ahhh why are maps so bloody interesting!? I'm such a map nerd, love these videos! :-)

Wow Kyle, you do put out some quality content! I can't just play your videos while I putter about the house; your videos are "sit down in front of the screen and learn" time! Thanks!

I was the most fascinated about the meanderings of that Arctic Fox! The little guy really gets around.

Your cities identification scores? I better recognize! As always, much applause from a die hard subscriber in Victoria, British Columbia

If I had Kyle as a Geography teacher, it'd be my favorite class.

Always a good day when Geography King uploads 😊

I really like your maps. The one showing the snowfall totals for the U.S. is really interesting. During the 3 years (77-70) I was in high school in Ashland, KY, we started getting snow the first week of January and it didn't stop until the 2nd or 3rd week of March. For most of that time we had about 2'-3' of snow on the ground counting thawing and more snow accumulations. I learned to ski during this time and went to Show Shoe resort in West Virginia, and they usually had over a 100" base. On the map Ashland on got 6"-12" of snow and Snow Shoe only got 6'-8'. Thanks, keep up the good work and keep the interesting maps coming.

When I was a kiddo, I used to love looking at the globe... this takes it to a whole new level, lol! Now it's Google Earth and vids like these. Love these vids💜. Thanks Geography King!

Kyle you’re amazing! I love how levelheaded and insightful you are.

Thanks a lot Kyle. Love your insights. I've seen a lot about Utah growing recently but you were the first one to point out the birth rate. Most people just speculating why people are moving there but you always go that bit deeper.

Great video again!!! I like watching your videos before and after i go to school!! Much love and appreciation from densely populated Bruges, Belgium ;)

By the way, these videos are immensely entertaining.

I never thought of lake Nipigon as part of the great lakes, but I guess it makes sense if it is flowing into lake superior. That road map of Canada is probably my favorite of these.

Nice job Kyle! ....and thanks for the cities quiz link.

On the roads in Canada the most fascinating thing is there is only one road that attaches the western part to the eastern part. Therefore there is no other way across except for driving in to the US.

Oooooo, I went the school up at the University of Minnesota Duluth (Go Bulldogs!) and Duluth is a really interesting college town now but had a thriving past. It was (and still is, to a lesser extent) one of the main cities where taconite/iron ore would be taken off of the rail cars coming from the Iron Range in Northern MN (where my dad grew up) and put onto ships to be transported to either Detroit or other factory cities where the iron/steel was used to make cars, bridges and tanks (in WWII). The population of Duluth (and other cities Up North as we’d say here) grew so much in 30-40 years in the late 1800s that Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde would stop by on tours to give talks in one of the many illustrious theaters built in the downtown area. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Richie Valens, Jiles Perry “the Big Bopper” Richardson, Dion and the Bellmonts, and others performed their antepenultimate (two before their final) performance before their tragic plane crash at the Duluth Armory in late January 1959. Some even say that Bob Dylan was in the audience at the show and was inspired to play guitar after that show (not sure if that rumor is true or not). That armory still stands today and people are fighting to keep it from being torn down. Alas, Duluth had kind of a slump after the mining industry folded a bit in the 1980s and 1990s. But the city is home to a few universities/colleges and it’s usually a great place to stay to see Lake Superior and is also a jumping off point for a lot of out-of-towners to head up to the North Shore (which my fiancé and I did a month ago with our two dogs) or up to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (or BWCA…still kicking myself for not going up to that patch of wilderness when I lived so close to it). I highly recommend coming up to visit!

Very interesting sir. Yes I enjoy learning the things that you show sir. God bless you and your family sir. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊

Greetings from Canada and thank you.. I have watched a few of your videos now and always gave them an unqualified like. But that doesn’t seem like enough. Most videos, I see about US folks and geography emphasize that many American are not particularly knowledgeable about geography nor do they seem to care too much about it. You definitely tip the scales in the other direction as you seem to have much more than just basic knowledge of world geography, but you also provide lots of interpretations of that geographical information and demographic intersections that cover things I had not even contemplated. This type of information I find both enlightening and troubling at times. As a Canadian living in the most easterly part (Island portion of NL), I have not seen very much of the United States. In terms of states I have actually visited, I can include California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. My global travel has been more limited. I have visited Ireland, The UK (England, Wales and Scotland but not Northern Ireland), The Netherlands, Hong Kong (pre-reunification), China, The Dominican Republic and Mexico. I am often asked what do I think about the United States as a country. My answer has evolved over time and is currently: In the United States you will find the best and worst of everything in a first world country.

Love these videos! Trying to get my kids more interested in geography and these are awesome!

Fun fact: Roanoke, VA barely missed being on that map of cities that formerly had 100k people. The 2020 Census had their population at 100,011 (11 people!), up from 97k in 2010. For reference, they had 100,220 in the 1980 Census.

Love from Changchun, Jilin in China, where they make much of the VWs there. We were the first place that produced cars in communist China, and we branded ourselves as the Detroit of china. Wishes granted, we are now losing our auto industry too. Much of the production are now being done in southern parts of China where labor is cheaper.

Canada: "Oh, you bettah recognize" Indeed

I love these videos so much! They’re so informative and show how context is important in interpreting maps!

I always enjoy these map episodes Kyle.

Like how you mentioned the map naming game at the end and showed your scores. Tip for the US one: if you know a town with a fairly generic name, trying entering it again but for a different state, worked for me a lot when I couldn’t think of a city.

“Canada saying you better recognize” made me snort audibly, thank you very much.

@12:39 The map doesn't tell the entire tale of Albany, NY. Yes, The city lost residents but a lot of that was due to The South Mall project that destroyed a good portion of the downtown area to build the South Mall, a cluster of government buildings. The metro area around Albany, NY has expanded and contains over a million people.

Another great video, Your Majesty! I love the unique maps used to associate regions of the world with things like car ownership or fans of baseball teams, etc. So many people associate maps and geography strictly with international borders, city locations, and highways. Your series of unique mapmaking nicely shows the full range of mapmaking and geo-demographics. As always, thanks and keep up the great work!

Fantastic. These videos always make my day!

Lol I think I am more impressed at your commitment to sit down and type out 2800 US city names in that game than the fact you can name 2800 cities in the US

Wow, you are THE geography king.

you are my favourite channel and personality on you tube. Peace and love from Canada.

You are a fair and humble King.

Love this stuff! Thank you! 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Just found your channel. It is very awesome, love geography and maps. Watching this map video I had to giggle at the How Many Canadian Cities Can You Name map. In the top you have Dog River Saskatchewan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Clearly you've watched Corner Gas. One of my favourite Cdn shows. Oh BTW I am Canadian. Keep up the awesome stuff, thanks for your hard work.

I laughed about my area having 100% of all homes having ACs. I live in Georgia, and on the coastal plain, not the mountains. It gets hot and very humid here. I've been to a few countries in Europe and I was very surprised to see that the hotels didn't have an AC. It was pretty warm because it was in June. I opened the windows. Also I went to Mexico to visit my family. It was in March of this year and it was already warm there. My family lives in a desert valley so it doesn't get that cool there(people swim there year round). One mistake I made was not having a fan because my grandma's house, where I stayed at for 2 weeks, didn't have an AC either(it's a very poor town/village). When I return soon I will buy a fan!

Vancouver’s skytrain is one of the highest per capita ridership train-based public transit systems in North America, and definitely the largest still running and still expanding Automated Train System (no drivers) in North America. The metro Vancouver region is currently adding 2 new lines to the system and plans to add more in the future. Further the province is changing building zoning by densifying ‘hub’ areas around stations (and bus loops) to encourage high rise and mid rise development in these areas so as to create population centres not reliant on automobiles. And New Westminster, BC (a suburb of Vancouver) is presently working on becoming a 15min city with many skytrain and bus connections through its very small footprint in the lower mainland. This is vastly different than the sprawl of the areas surrounding it.

Love your videos Mr.King from south Florida👋🏾

These map videos are always some of my favorites. Those map quizzes might be cool to do in a video. There are so many cool ones, and I'm sure you could get some good content capturing your screen as you complete the quiz.

one of my favorite series!!!!

Totally enjoyed - your amount of knowledge is very impressive. Long live the KING!!

Thank you for the cool map collection! At 6:35, sorry to see the map missing San Francisco Muni Metro, San Jose VTA rail, Pittsburgh light rail, and Cleveland Rapid Transit.

Always excited to see one of these. Thank you for your time.

I was impressed with the number of cities you could name. Vey impressed.

Good video. That "game" of naming cities seems more like a slog if you can name thousands of cities. I assume it took you over four hours to name all the US cities you did.

OH MY GOSH!! Sorry it took me two days to watch this one Kyle lol, but thank you SO much for mentioning the plant in Wentzville when discussing car manufacturing ! It frustrates me that this is not included sometimes as well, I appreciate you doing your research! You are so thorough , thanks for including it sir. :)

I left TX in 2008. It's just a (short) matter of time before the water runs out. Didn't help that it was also getting hotter.

Another great video! Love seeing the fox migration and car maps. Very interesting! And who knew walmart took over Mexico! Wow!

I like dark sky graphics as I shoot night photography. Good job!

That map showing the snow really surprised me. Where I live in Georgia it almost never snows. The most I've seen in my lifetime was like half an inch one year. Most years it's none at all. I'm surprised because I didn't know that most the mainland actually got snow, even in Texas. Why so much in most of Texas but not here? It's the same latitude. I here people complain about the snow all the time. I WISH it would snow here! When traveling through Virginia one year I got to see it snow a few inches for the first time in my life and I had some fun. It was a school trip and everyone got off the bus to play in it.

SEPTA in Philadelphia stands for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to reflect that the trains and busses run not just in Philly but out to the surrounding counties.

Hey, I just gotta say as far as the light map of Europe goes, Belgium is lighted a lot more because of its massive amount of street lighting. They light up their roads a lot.

You need a "go fund me" to send you to Europe!

Can’t believe you named 3000 cities in the US. I pride myself as being a geography nerd and could probably only do a 10th of that. I might have to demote myself to geography rookie

Really enjoy your channel. Such care and accuracy explaining each topic. One small thing worth mentioning. Oklahoma City does have light rail. I didn’t see this on your public transportation map. Thank you. - Matt

Can’t get enough of this video

These are my favorite to watch I love maps

I never understood the beef everyone has with China until I saw that map. Amazing

I love these videos. Always amazing.

All oil is sold internationally on the US dollar so it’s probably a more readily available metric even though the volume can change between gallons and liters around the world. One interesting map study would be identifying countries that refused to trade oil on the USD and which countries the US has gone to war with. It allows the US dollar to be less volatile and safer for international trading.

Hands down. One of the best Channels on the tube. Who needs cable tv anymore?

Love your channel! So many interesting maps and geography insights.

Hey, love the videos, I was wondering if you could make a most overhated/underrated states list

Ayy my favorite series returns!!

seeing a big cluster of cities you named where i live made me so happy. but i feel like if i played this game id draw so many blanks lol

I could have sworn the Subaru Forester was the best selling car in every Western US state. You see them practically everywhere

Kyle you have a very informative channel thanks!

My man tried "Dog River". Respect 😁

I always learn something from you, thanks!

Not only are they fascinating, your humor cracks me up! The coyotes will be eating the penguins in Chile in about 50 years 😆 Funny cuz it's true! Thank you!

love these maps great content

Truly is the geography KING.

These are my favorite type of videos!

Stumbled across these videos while just randomly scrolling...and I'm hooked. Great stuff, I could watch these endlessly, lol

Oooooh and the snow map is cool because it snowed way more than usual in metro Tucson in 2018! It flurries at least once/year in the city (2500ft elevation + a winter rainy season), usually in the middle of the night, and higher elevations around the city get a few inches every year. But there was an unusual winter storm pattern in February 2018 that dropped accumulating snow in the southeastern part of the city multiple times. On one of the days, it snowed heavily across the city for a few hours in the morning. The accumulated snow melted pretty quickly once the storm cleared out, but it was still a pretty fun morning. Nothing like the 8ft of November lake effect that occurred when I lived in Buffalo NY (which actually wasn't much fun at all lol)

7:32 - you misinterpreted Western Sahara and Yemen, they’re not actually big US trading partners, they are just labeled black on the map because there was no data.

14:40 don't worry about the australia one lmfao that's pretty much it, for those who don't know, the top 5 cities in australia make up about 63% of the whole population of australia and then after that it's a pretty sudden drop off into mostly small towns with a few medium sized cities in there too, but the top 5 are: Sydney 5,300,000 Melbourne 5,000,000 Brisbane 2,500,000 Perth 2,192,229 Adelaide 1,402,393 And then a drop off into gold coast with only 700,000 and it goes down fast from there. So yep, the top 2 cities in australia make up about 40% of the population lmao.

Interesting as always! 👏👏👏

The day always gets a little bit better when a new Geography King video appears 👍 Many thanks from Baltimore! 😀

I love this series!!!

Excellent Kyle

Upstate New York has had a resurgence on the map wow 🤩

The Philadelphia subway acronym, SEPTA, Stands for “Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority”

Love this series

I just love the map at 8:16 showing the superimposition of the European countries onto Chile!

At about 5:45, you suggest that all European cars will be "fully electric" by 2030. My understanding is that Germany is now saying "electric or hybrid" because of problems with having to rely on all-electric vehicles.

Love the educational stuff

You blew my mind naming all of those cities. Holy shizz!!

Loved it!!

I remember that Southpark joked about Canada only having one highway. It’s not too far from the truth. My late aunt could probably have named thousands of cities in Europe. She was the master genealogist in the family and it seems we have at least one ancestor from almost anywhere in Europe.

Totally underrated channel. 👊🏻

Wow, just found these thanks to my son. Geography all the way!! Loving all the quizzes, bring us more!

The old Lordstown Ohio GM plant is also omitted. It's now Lordstown Motors, an electric truck manufacturing plant.

Speaking of the Canadian cities quiz, I saw a stat once that said most Canadians cannot name a city in Manitoba other than Winnipeg. I also noticed that you did not get Churchill, Manitoba, which I think is the northernmost point on the contiguous North American rail network.