How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think

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All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In this video, I explore why the world looks very different than how it is portrayed in the Mercator Projection map. I then go on to explore how certain countries are unexpectedly larger or smaller than what they appear to be, and how some places looks wildly different than our perceptions.
PS; Don't totally hate on the Mercator Projection, it's actually a really useful map for navigation and on keeping the correct shape of countries while sacrificing the size that we can all laugh about!
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Комментарии : 38 тыс.

@iminbreadbutfrench8625 5 лет назад

If you put antartica in africa it will melt

@gregumps 5 лет назад

if u put Africa in Antarctica it will freeze

@CarlCarson362 5 лет назад

lol fuck thats a good one

@hilol3656 5 лет назад

MINDBLOWING!!!!!!

@mindover1959 5 лет назад

Antarctica does not exist The Earth is flat!

@michealroth120800 5 лет назад

And if you put Antarctica in a world of global warming deniers you get idiots and a melted Antarctica.

@borisbrito5005 5 лет назад

I didn't know russia actually could fit in my phone's screen

@projectstxven6785 5 лет назад

Nice!

@vlad3729 5 лет назад

BER IS 😂😂😂👍

@studini8026 5 лет назад

ААХПАХЗАПХАПХХАПХПАВ СУКА @@beris7361

@studini8026 5 лет назад

@@beris7361 Так нет , я просто посмеялся. Так то , хули он Россию с маленькой пишет...

@Ninhome 5 лет назад

@@beris7361 Кажется, что-то сломалось. И это ваша национальная гордость.

@bryancadents3559 2 года назад

What’s fascinating to me is to see how close some parts of the world are to one another when you take into account the spherical shape of the earth. On a map, Russia always seems like it’s so far away from the US, but from the perspective of the North Pole, Russia is strikingly close to Greenland and Canada.

@christophb2736 2 года назад

The closest distance between Russia and the US is the Bering strait. It‘s 53 mls. That‘s mainland. In the middle of the strait are the Diomede islands. One is Russian, the other one is US. The distance is less than 5 mls.

@control_the_pet_population 2 года назад

During the Cold War, all the bombers and missiles for both countries were stationed in the north, because that was going to be the route of attack if the Cold War became hot.

@samuelluria4744 2 года назад

Even Sarah Palin knows this, come on.

@samuelluria4744 2 года назад

@@control_the_pet_population - Bombers and missiles aren't stationed. Personnel are stationed.

@control_the_pet_population 2 года назад

@@samuelluria4744 congrats on the semantic wankery... there is one in every comment section.

@lightmagus 2 года назад

I noticed the map was much less accurate than I thought when I first flew from South America to Europe, passing through Africa takes way more time than the map suggests.

@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790 Год назад

The flight plans of intercontinental travel are never straight lines.

@owaisahussain 2 месяца назад

I remember my flight from Dubai to Durban. I ate, read, worked and slept twice. That's when I realized that Africa is humongous.

@henriks.korsvik527 3 года назад

The fact that The Sahara is as big as the Us is mind blowing

@astroida4390 3 года назад

@vornamenachname906 3 года назад

fact

@marioncoutts1541 3 года назад

No it's not

@ZyGotham38 3 года назад

Fun Fact : Sahara Desert has almost the same size as USA but smaller than USA like 500,000 square kilometers.

@xblxssomx4914 3 года назад

@@ZyGotham38 omg wtf

@vanz681 4 года назад

“Alaska isn’t that large” *Takes up 1/3 of the US*

@thegoat5375 4 года назад

Vanz :O braaaah

@youcefrouibaalger 4 года назад

@Timzoo69 4 года назад

Vanz Alaska is bigger then about 100 countries XD

@tonylopezssharts 4 года назад

@@Lamster66 it's a state, just up by Canada

@tonylopezssharts 4 года назад

@@Lamster66 didn't you ask if it was part of the u.s? in that case, yes that was my assumption.

@Chipchase780 2 года назад

I’m pretty chuffed about this. I always believed I lived in a small three bed mid terrace house, and suddenly see that I could be living in a much grander detached 10 bedroom mansion with swimming pool ! 😃

@SSG-Edits 2 года назад

100 sq. KM pool

@RELAXZILLA 2 года назад

In reality, Africa is a huge continent, but they show it as smaller. Thanks for this video that shows this fact that few people realize looking at the map.

@drhkleinert8241 2 года назад

Once i had read that the Moon is just the same size like Africa, so the Moon isnt that large everybody thinks

@yusuf3005 Год назад

Afrika'nın küçük gösterilmesinin en büyük nedeni ırkçılık. Ve buna bağlı olarak üstünlük kompleksidir

@qwerty_qwerty 8 месяцев назад

No? In reality, Africa is a huge continent, but they show every other continent as bigger.

@xd_caden 5 лет назад

You roasted Wyoming hard

@tygonmaster 5 лет назад

Wyoming roasts itself harder.

@braveheartgaming2475 5 лет назад

You know what else is roasting? Arizona. Y'now, Cus it's hot there.

@TropiexAMV 4 года назад

Nah its not real it is just a chunk error

@hr0727 4 года назад

Good

@infogames2724 4 года назад

@@tygonmaster me: laughs in South Asian

@shashn4017 4 года назад

Britain: I used to rule the world

@Timzoo69 4 года назад

The Spanish: I used to rule the whole america....

@danielogipl7051 4 года назад

France: am i a joke to you?

@danielogipl7051 4 года назад

@@Lamster66 lol

@jemr3 4 года назад

The replies sum up england year 8 history

@danielogipl7051 4 года назад

@@jemr3 🐢

@adriennegormley9358 Год назад

I did study geography in college, and have been a geo geek since. And the one thing one of my instructors insisted we learn was how distorted the Mercator projection is. It's purpose originally for navigation route plotting. But one thing I learned is that of all the equal area map projections that I know of, the one that distorts the LEAST is the Goode's broken homolosine. There c are some equal area maps that distort the Shapes of the continents so badly they're neatly unrecognizable.

@hermilapile7315 2 года назад

I've always loved maps. This is very well put together and I loved the size comparisons you make. Truly gives a great glimpse of the different misconceptions about country sizes. Thanks!

@justinmarston4106 Год назад

Maps are the best

@nadhininandhu8905 Год назад

🍫🍫

@newheadstart 11 месяцев назад

Yes maps are a really great thing

@asleepcloud 9 месяцев назад

I love maps too always have

@dhanushbhandary 3 года назад

UK is the best example of "Size doesn't matter"

@leob4403 3 года назад

It's all relative though. UK stretches from the French coast up to above Bergen on the west coast of Norway. That's pretty mind boggling in a way

@westside4372 2 года назад

@@leob4403 bergen

@sparkz1099 2 года назад

@@leob4403 bergeN

@leob4403 2 года назад

@@sparkz1099 what's this some meme that I missed

@ravitamavi1483 2 года назад

@@leob4403 Bergen

@EllRatioBozo 4 года назад

*Africa becomes one country* Russia: Now this is an avengers level threat

@vicant_deadangelsnight2168 4 года назад

No its a rusvenger threat level

@deep4898 4 года назад

@@vicant_deadangelsnight2168 L

@DarkPeter 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@alofii6106 4 года назад

Vicant_dead angel's Nightcore AfroEuroAsia: *Impossible*

@4llerz 4 года назад

666 likes

@tomkelly8827 Год назад

As a Canadian, I can say Mercator projections are my favourite ones! I was shocked to go to Jamaica and Panama when I realized how much bigger they were than I had expected.

@Knightmare2018 Год назад

I never liked how the Mercator projection was used so commonly as a classroom kind of map, it was created for air travel so they could have straight lines on the map. There are other projections that don’t distort as much I think would work better.

@skyworm8006 2 месяца назад

Mercator long predates aircraft. It's more practical for navigation of any sort, which is what maps are actually used and created for. But for teaching geography, globes should be used. In a classroom environment, there's no reason not to.

@hoodclassicsofcalifornia 5 лет назад

When Russia is way smaller than on a map but Russia is still bigger than Pluto

@Clair-Bear 5 лет назад

is it actually? Because if so, that’s crazy!!

@literma_ 5 лет назад

Hahahahs

@Quincius 5 лет назад

It actually isn't, but there is no doubt that Russia is huge. Pluto has an area of 17,646,012 square kilometers, making Pluto larger than Russia

@MrInstantRamen 5 лет назад

@@Quincius Yeah, turns out they found out that Pluto is a little larger than Russia. *Soviet Union reunites to be larger than Pluto again*

@bayraktartb2483 5 лет назад

@@Quincius no,Pluto is 16.650.000 km²

@darth856 3 года назад

Basically the closer to the poles a country is, the more distorted its size becomes.

@jadisclemmer756 3 года назад

Only in Mercator maps

@Kevoin_ 3 года назад

@ That are not a sphere I guess

@Kevoin_ 3 года назад

@ Projections of a place on a plane?

@minecraftboy5145 3 года назад

That is only in the Mercator map and not so don’t even

@salahtouijar4800 3 года назад

4:59 Man is warmest place to hide.

@niwty 2 года назад

The fact the UK, and particularly England, is so small shows you just how much it punched above its weight when building its empire. Respect.

@carlsaganlives6086 2 года назад

Indeed. It all started when they ran out of trees to use as fuel and building material. On a side note, after the New World was 'discovered' the first thing they wrecked for profit was (in their minds) the endless, inexhaustible forest around settlements and the frontier, shipping countless logs back to Europe. Many accounts claim how awestruck the sight of all the trees were from the sea, compared to their depleted, long gone woodlands back home.

@Sam-zu5mr 2 года назад

Totally. Still can.

@h.a7191 2 года назад

Through imperialism and colonialist policies. Rape pillage and torture

@davidioanhedges 2 года назад

The main countries that ruled the seas are all relatively small ... The Netherlands are tiny, but had a trading Empire to rival the rest

@jinglemyberries866 2 года назад

@@carlsaganlives6086 i once heard that britain used canadian and or new england white pines as ship masts. Those trees must've been huge.

@rbbecker73 2 года назад

The one that surprised me that I learned recently - the distance between New Zealand and Australia. I always thought of NZ as an island off the cost of Australia, but the distance between them is about the same as the distance between New York and Los Angeles.

@aryanjadawala4835 2 года назад

No it's not that big. Distance between Australia and new Zealand is around 1600km whereas distance between LA and New York is around 4000km

@rbbecker73 2 года назад

@@aryanjadawala4835 Ok, just googled it, and you're right. Apparently, the result that usually shows up when you google the distance between Australia and New Zealand measures between the centers of the two countries, which is a completely useless piece of information.

@stevep2430 2 года назад

Just to get the heckles up from our Kiwi neighbors, it is to close.😁

@delzeir 2 года назад

@@rbbecker73 stop making fake news dawg

@samuelluria4744 2 года назад

@@stevep2430 - Just to get the heckles up from our thankfully distant penal descended cousins who don't do the English - *too close.

@catlessor5597 5 лет назад

As someone who lives in texas, it takes about 11 hours to get to the other side of texas.

@catlessor5597 5 лет назад

Yea if you had family members on the other side of Russia I can see that being sort of a problem. It'd take a month to get across texas walking wise so Russia is definitely x4 that.

@jasonmcdaniel345 5 лет назад

No it doesn't. I crossed Texas in under an hour. Granted, I was on an airplane.

@catlessor5597 5 лет назад

@@jasonmcdaniel345 yea I meant driving, going anywhere on an airplane will probably take under an or an hour lol, texas can't beat that.

@knockdown10 5 лет назад

bruh it takes 13 hours to go to canada from dubai

@kinghero22 4 года назад

Thats cute start 1/4 way up the coast of western australia drive for 15hrs and you got half the way up big long boring drive

@eskder6388 3 года назад

In my opinion a really intresting geography fact is that Chile reaches all the way from Libya up to Norway.

@Polylep 3 года назад

How so? Chile is a south american country while Norway and Libya are in Europe and North Africa

@eskder6388 3 года назад

William Isom I know but if you put it in europe

@Polylep 3 года назад

@@eskder6388 Oh, I understand now, sorry I just got a bit confused

@eskder6388 3 года назад

William Isom it’s ok!👌

@Quadrocephis 3 года назад

I find it crazy that Chile can stretch from Saturn to the andromeda galaxy

@Z3N1TY0 Год назад

I like how once the colors are on a country, you can see the cities and the names

@Gohka Год назад

Brings in to light just how tightly packed in we are here in the UK. Considering we're an island smaller than Madagascar we have a population more than twice of them. 28 million for Madagascar and 67 million for the UK. Or perhaps even more mind blowing the UK is 41 times smaller than Canada and 32 times smaller than Australia but has a bigger population than the two countries combined. 25 million for Australia and 32 million for Canada, together make 63 million still 4 million fewer than the UK.

@kalibiznes Год назад

Not good for UK

@Gohka Год назад

@@kalibiznes The UK is falling apart at the seams. I'm honestly certain that before the end of the decade there won't be a UK any more.

@patrickfennell1875 Год назад

Canada has over 38 million people. Your point is still valid though. 👍🏻

@JunkBondTrader Год назад

true, but consider this: Canada has so much freshwater on its surface, if you count only dry land, USA and China are actually a fair bit bigger than Canada. 80 percent of our population hugs the USA border. Our interior is very rugged and virtually uninhabitable. Though still a lot smaller, UK has pretty flat, liveable terrain, so at least ya make the most of it :p australia same deal, they almost all live in 3 cities.

@blackhole3407 Год назад

That is not really fair as 95% of australias population live on 5% of its area along the coast. Canada is massive but it is mostly covered in forests, mountains and uninhabitable tundra.

@jokolololo_3921 4 года назад

Alaska is not that big “moves Alaska to Europe” bigger than most Central Europe

@agachaempire1284 4 года назад

Ja now go back to ya reich

@deadchannel_1 4 года назад

69 likes

@BJJ543 4 года назад

British Empire why u nazi

@guicorleonex7947 4 года назад

He was using the map size, not the real size

@jokolololo_3921 4 года назад

Monarchist Commander ik That he was it’s a joke

@r3lgen 7 лет назад

km^2: Russia 17,075,200 Canada 9,984,670 United States of America 9,826,630 China 9,596,960

@MDP1702 7 лет назад

landmass doesn't say everything, large parts of russia is uninhabited, antarctica has a great landmass, but no population, except perhaps people on bases or so, but they are foreign

@MuradBeybalaev 7 лет назад

You are prohibited from listing world countries' populations without mentioning China.

@MDP1702 7 лет назад

yeah, the 1,383,127,117 at this moment is quite large but this might not be all good, because they might have an elderly problem within 30-40 years or so, seeing the largest growth was in the past and is now slowing down a little, other developed nations will face the same problem even sooner, this is a consequence of prosperity and progress

@someguy9204 7 лет назад

Yeah, the video isn't entirely accurate. You would have to readjust the entire landmass you're compairing according to how it stretches away from and to the equator in addition to doing the same for the other to get a better picture of size. But that would've required a lot more effort, of course.

@MDP1702 7 лет назад

yeah, he could have shown some other maps where the curvature is better 'mimiqued'

@CS-zb3ff 2 года назад

Truly fascinating. I enjoyed the comparisons, and was surprised by many, especially Japan when by the East Coast of the US. I think most surprising to me is how many countries fit in Africa.

@thelistener2909 Год назад

Russia bro

@webbberman 9 месяцев назад

I have watch a couple of your videos everyday. Love that you keep your personal opinion out and it is fact base. The graphics, animation and editing, etc are excellent. Love this shit!

@satellitefeed1665 7 лет назад

Brazil was shocking, but the UK and France and the rest of Europe being sooo tiny was just incredible.

@koln8273 7 лет назад

Satellite Feed More than half of Brazil is amazon rainforest ( I would say 60% ) so... That's why nobody lives in the interior down there but near the coast or in the southernmost part of the country.

@rafaelpascoaliczerniej297 7 лет назад

köln actually not,60% of the rainforest is In Brazil,but it covers way less of the Brazilian territory

@hejsbsisbskcbksbsisbsjdnsk7595 7 лет назад

Satellite Feed I know I love living in a cute tiny country

@local_catgirl3344 7 лет назад

I thought Australia being larger than I thought was incredible

@Danspy501st 7 лет назад

And yet, just think about that Europeans petty much made colonies around the world

@oscarofastora7422 7 лет назад

why does this have so many dislikes?

@GAMINGKNOWSTHEBEST 7 лет назад

Isaac Garitee cuz earth is flat

@oscarofastora7422 7 лет назад

no.... it's not....

@andrickmedrano1483 7 лет назад

It must be hard being that fucking stupid

@crunkya3218 7 лет назад

the Americans can accept their size

@NigelUltra 7 лет назад

Hallison Michel is one of those people who say Americans are rude while they always start shit with us.

@silvereloking6149 2 года назад

2D map is really bad for kids, I would ban that map from schools

@Hip-HopHeroin 8 месяцев назад

That was pretty slick how you fit those countries so well as states in the usa. You must be crazy good at puzzles

@16gcoasta 7 лет назад

In Soviet Russia, size distorts you

@VakoBeatz 7 лет назад

family guy!!lol

@CRocker246 7 лет назад

hahaha Yakov Smirnoff, nice.

@keithpryor411 7 лет назад

+VakoBeatz that's only from Family Guy if you're under 25. Much older. sry

@royatoy5769 7 лет назад

Is that why they think all americans are obese?

@MC-CFC 7 лет назад

hahaha

@seansmagee 2 года назад

The comparison putting Japan on the east coast of the US was the most surprising to me.

@AmythefirstA 2 года назад

Yeah, it always looks tiny next to China.

@frankmarano1118 2 года назад

Same! I had no idea it was almost the size of the east coast! Makes the population there make a little more sense now

@daroldcarold3443 2 года назад

I wasn’t surprised

@thetimelapseguy8 2 года назад

@@frankmarano1118 Well actually most of Japan is mountainous and inhabitable, so it's still a relatively compact country.

@jobvandelaar7977 2 года назад

Mine was sweden and madagaskar !

@SarahJacksonLV 2 года назад

Was hoping youd do the work for us and resize it all accurately, in one final image, lol.

@Tworelzza 2 года назад

When you said that the DRC was a colony of Belgium and you compared the two countries, I realized that during the time when Belgian Congo exits, Belgium probably might be bigger at that time too. (Idk i just noticed)

@peterthepanda 4 года назад

Flat-earthers: We have members around the globe. Everyone else: Say that again SLOWLY.

@Helpeufgabwhwjwkdj 4 года назад

I dont get it

@jamesvera_28 4 года назад

Domi igli here I’ll explain it to ya Flat-earthers: we have members all over the *”globe”* They say “all around the *globe*” but for them isn’t the earth flat? Get it now?

@Helpeufgabwhwjwkdj 4 года назад

@@jamesvera_28 thanks now i get it and its actually really funny😂😂

@imabanana633 4 года назад

👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻

@robreneau2959 4 года назад

It's "we have members all AROUND the globe".

@adriankeller7726 4 года назад

Me sees russia in globe: Reality is often disappointing...

@customerservice1323 4 года назад

Im not believing any of this, he sounds like he made all of this up

@rostislavplyusnin5690 4 года назад

Да конечно😂😂😂 Ты просто смотришь слишком много пропаганды... Не надо верить всему, что показано по телевизору. Только если живёшь в Россие. В этом случае строго рекомендую!😬

@customerservice1323 4 года назад

@@rostislavplyusnin5690 Привет

@ragingcomedy1835 4 года назад

Rostislav Plyusnin what

@0slavsan0 4 года назад

@@rostislavplyusnin5690 отличный совет как стать идиотом за 15 минут

@nickthelick Год назад

This stuff blows my mind too... You realise that there are still unexplored places on the Earth, ie parts of the African Congo and South American Amazon (and more!), parts of Siberia/Russia/China/Mongolia, also Antarctica too... Extremely remote places, extremely difficult to get to!

@gupto9857 Год назад

You are a great channel,your language is so smooth to understand and have really a logic that's why I subscribed you to avoid watching crazy infografic show..

@Noob-kn3wj 3 года назад

“As we can hopefully agree upon, the earth is a sphere.” Flat earthers: No

@stefan42069 3 года назад

flat earthers: and i took that personally

@davidhunt7249 3 года назад

Thank you!!! ✌👍😄 Flat earthers live in a flat universe. 👎

@ygotsvlog3762 3 года назад

@@davidhunt7249 no they only think earth is flat

@ashleysloan3217 3 года назад

Earth is the shape of a torus

@lwinsoe3870 3 года назад

the universe is actually flat a least for a few deacades and our older telescope prove it is flat

@jackloughridge7617 3 года назад

I noticed that when i lived in brazil i would fly for hours and barely move on the map and then I moved to europe and i would move a large distance on the map in not much time.

@leob4403 3 года назад

You get the same effect when you use the google map, it takes a lot longer to zoom in the south

@sneak1677 2 года назад

that's just geography my dude

@samyakhp4353 2 года назад

This would be more evident if you compared traveling in Russia, Scandinavian countries, Greenland or Canada to Brazil.

@Chris.P.Bacon. 2 года назад

I feel the same living in Texas and have to drive to a different city. It can take 10-15 hours and you're still on Texas!

@nhardukhanastartes5981 2 года назад

I know the feeling

@arlenealennox3136 Год назад

This is why I have a couple of globes in the house to get an accurate picture in my mind. I discovered just today that Murmansk, Russia is only 2700 miles from Point Barrow, Alaska, straight across the Arctic Sea over the North Pole. Every classroom teaching this stuff should have a sizeable globe.

@bcfriardoyle7697 2 года назад

Love this! Thanks for doing all the hard work.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

@nicksingh8061 7 лет назад

Is it just me being European or is no one surprised by any of this?

@arrow2552 7 лет назад

We all saw this coming

@wissam24 7 лет назад

This is a classic example of an American being scared and amazed when he saw a map for the first time.

@ismaelkafer5201 7 лет назад

LOL kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk I laugh so loud

@nicksingh8061 7 лет назад

wissam24 "omg so there ARE more countries than USA, Mexico, commieland, Canada and the ancient lost realm of Englandia?"

@otakuaroundtheworld1827 7 лет назад

Ahahah I'm not surprised at all...I only thought Russia was bigger. I use maps that have curvatures, not flat maps.

@SnazzyZubloids 7 лет назад

This is what a lot of Europeans don't understand, and why they wonder why we're not more culturally diverse here in the United States. They can drive 6 hours and cross the borders of two different countries. We can drive for 7-8 hours and still be in the same damn state.

@TheSaplingFriendz 7 лет назад

In Canada we can drive for 20 - 25 hours and still be in the same province.

@oliviersavard8676 7 лет назад

+scruffy farmdog The biggest province in Canada is Quebec and you can cross it in 15-16 hours from west to east you idiot, and don't tell me from south to north there aren't any roads doing south to north

@TheSaplingFriendz 7 лет назад

Olivier Savard From the southeast corner of BC to the Northwest corner is 23-27 hours driving.

@SnazzyZubloids 7 лет назад

This is good info fellas, but I was talking about the US, obviously. Canada's Provinces are much different geographically compared to our States. I've edited my original statement to reflect that.

@snapqueen491 7 лет назад

I live in the Netherlands near the border of Belgium. And it takes about 2 / 3 hours too get to the top of the Netherlands. Well, our country is verry small.

@frankduffy7471 2 года назад

Fantastic representation! I knew this all to be true but to see it presented this way is awesome!

@IIISentorIII 2 года назад

It's true that my Switzerland is relatively small from a top down view, but if you ever see our Mountain landscape for yourself you realise how different this country is from others in "size" :)

@leylandroberts4820 2 года назад

Switzerland is so small that did you know we get more volume of snow in Australia than Switzerland? Yes Australia not Austria!

@jeremywj 2 года назад

I started cycling a few years ago and now often do 50-100 mile rides on country roads. My point here is that you don't even realize how big the area is around where you live until you get out and explore it at speeds less than the cars we drive today. It's so small when compared to a world map, but even the smallest of areas is really massive.

@doctormorbius6430 2 года назад

The areas are not that massive. The fact is, humans are just severely limited physically.

@thatmarchingarrow 2 года назад

@@doctormorbius6430 Well, big and small are only relative, and since we are human, it makes perfect sense to judge things by human standards and capabilities. Not that we should do that always, just that it's perfectly valid.

@evilchaperone 2 года назад

Totally agree. The county I live in is 15,000 square miles and only 35,000 people. There are more dairy cows than people.

@user-fj4en7cq8d 2 года назад

Earth big. Human small.

@DJToneRI 2 года назад

I have a gas powered scooter that I've been riding around my around my town and throughout the back roads and it really does give you a whole other perspective. So many beautiful little areas that you wouldn't know existed unless you saw it from the eyes of a scooter or a bicycle

@LoL-sq3xe 3 года назад

On the map Greenland looks about the same size as Africa but actually Africa is 14 times bigger than Greenland

@jimmyfawwaz6374 3 года назад

Yup, that's right

@Humaidan. 3 года назад

Well Greenland is almost as big as Saudi Arabia lol

@imadog6337 3 года назад

But still its kinda mindblowing an island is 16 times smaller then one of worlds 7 continents

@Miner-hz7vi 3 года назад

14*

@anawesomepet 3 года назад

@@imadog6337 how is that mind blowing? Oh, you mean it's so big that only 16 of those islands can cover Africa.

@LITTLE1994 2 года назад

This is why I wish I still have my globe from my childhood. I'm sick of seeing those incorrect maps.

@kindnessfirst9670 Год назад

There is a great episode of the TV drama "West Wing" where a group of cartographers inform members of the US President's top staff what the Earth's countries and continents actually look like and how their sizes compare to each other. The staff members were unaware that all maps are distorted in one way or another (sometimes VERY distorted) and that the placing of the Northern hemisphere at the top of maps was arbitrary.

@laurag7295 11 месяцев назад

I remember that one!

@farouddy 7 лет назад

The fact about how huge is Brazil shocked me!

@MarceloLangame 7 лет назад

Inside Brazil, we have 26 states, with diferent accents of our language, the portuguese. And the most important: not every brazilian live in the amazon forest, located on the north, maybe only 5 million of the total 200 million citizens. Come and visit us!

@shampoo1857 7 лет назад

Marcelo Langame yeah come visit us

@farouddy 7 лет назад

If I get the chance to, I would never say no :)

@alexandrealbertoni7598 7 лет назад

The world's 5th-largest country.

@te1lm 7 лет назад

+Marcelo Langame is it true that everyone is a Neymar fan?

@masterjedisam1578 7 лет назад

I thought everything was bigger in Texas. But now I know everything's bigger in Africa.

@dirkdubinsky9585 7 лет назад

Viki M shut your stupid mouth

@eliskakordulova 7 лет назад

except for food portions

@TheSmashingBonesBR 7 лет назад

AAAAAACID

@handmadezebra7366 7 лет назад

We should conquer the rest of Africa and use it for cultivation. No use letting all that real estate go to waste.

@didousofiane3543 7 лет назад

algeria it the biggest Contry in Africa

@Zaiffallah 5 месяцев назад

BUT WHY WOULD THEY SHOW US FAKE MAP ?

@kittypurry9237 День назад

So they can flatten it out, if you want the real one. Go to Apple Maps or google Earth and size it out all the way so u can see the entirety of Earth. Then it’ll be accurate. Remember. The flat paper maps that were showed in the video are not the accurate one..

@carlenasp Год назад

Ty this is awesome..i knew the map sizes werent right. Thank you for your work

@angelo9604 7 лет назад

So for anyone who doesn't get it since the world is a sphere when you try to put it on something flat you have to compensate so countries that are in the middle of the map get squeezed and the ones on the top of the map get stretched so when you get a continent that's near the equator like Africa it appears small and when you get a country far from it like Russia it appears massive

@drumsbass8417 7 лет назад

Africa isn't a country.

@KennethOdhiambo 7 лет назад

Drums & Bass why do you bother?

@drumsbass8417 7 лет назад

Kenneth Odhiambo haha i hear ya! because idiots who think africa is a country cant be allowed to keep on spouting shit. i hope the original poster isnt an adult cos is he/she is then i am lost for words.

@raheelbelal5848 7 лет назад

Kenneth Odhiambo

@zacharyquinn2144 7 лет назад

Angelo Sandoval e

@baggio645 4 года назад

3:47 is when I questioned all of reality

@nairobinyeusi5811 4 года назад

The reality is that Africa is Massive. Remove Russia off Asia's land mass and it's actually biggest than Asia.

@maddogbasil 3 года назад

imagine if the soviets realized that their empire was smaller than Africa they may have collapsed faster

@Sanavat 3 года назад

@@maddogbasil are you serious? AFRICA NOT MORE THAN RUSSIA.

@4everkobebryant 3 года назад

Tylar shut up fool. Get educated

@Zetsuke4 3 года назад

Same thats when i got really confused

@IShowOliver 9 месяцев назад

its like this because the north and south of earth is smaller with means if you put a country south or north it will be big but if you put in the ecuator it will be small

@Iambriangregory 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE INSIGHTS IT'S FASCINATING

@aidenfaurote 4 года назад

The u.k went from owning 1/3 of the world to living on an island the size of Michigan 🤣

@nursmalik6024 4 года назад

BUT pay attention to a language you are talking in..

@rachelsombo9045 4 года назад

@@nursmalik6024 English is a mix of german and french , it did not belong to english people but to all europeans Latin and Germanic ones a good consensus !

@bx-100senatecommandodroid2 4 года назад

Rachel Sombo when the Normans conquered Britain they changed the language significantly to what it is today without them it’d be entirely different

@Alejo.o. 4 года назад

@@rachelsombo9045 wtf are you talking about english is a germanic language it has nothing to do with german it just has french influence but its not "mix" with german

@enotsnavdier6867 4 года назад

Nurs Malik Pay attention to the alphabet you are using. You're using the Roman alphabet, but do you think that matters for the Romans?

@BangMaster96 7 лет назад

A teacher once asked me "What is farther from USA, the moon or Australia ?" I replied "Australia" She asked me again angrily "Are you dumb, how on Earth is Australia farther than the god damn Moon!!?" I replied "Because i can see the Moon from USA, but i can't see Australia :)" Teacher shocked I rocked

@shuquanthomas405 7 лет назад

I actually LOL nice one dude.

@shuquanthomas405 7 лет назад

+scruffy “scruff” farmdog I like turtles

@princereechaos133 7 лет назад

What?

@jaden-zi7hg 7 лет назад

What kind of teacher would ask such stupid questions

@hotelaivani4801 7 лет назад

i was 10 when i first heard that story. You are a little liar : *

@Joy_PeaceLoveLight 2 года назад

I'm 62 and I learned alot I've never known!..I loved it all thankyou!

@Bastet32 10 месяцев назад

Whats most surprising is that mercators projection is still being used despite being wildly inaccurate

@purplexsium 4 года назад

mapmakers: russia is small also mapmakers: "reality can be what ever i want"

@qui-gonjinn3322 4 года назад

Also Russia: the biggest country in this freaking world.

@pimpelpaars9098 4 года назад

Russia is not small it’s giant

@dijarkio2699 4 года назад

@@pimpelpaars9098 what u mean giant, it huge

@ashchkv 4 года назад

А мне пох вообще, главное, что я тут живу.

@henz819 4 года назад

@@dijarkio2699 russia is the biggest country in the world

@vasilymorozov 5 лет назад

Sweden is the size of Madagascar was really surprising to me

@haliltutoglu5419 5 лет назад

Vasily Morozov my dick is the size of russia im not suprised

@projectstxven6785 5 лет назад

Nice one!

@uwunora 5 лет назад

@@haliltutoglu5419 haha go fuck urself

@simonnorsten5043 5 лет назад

In school we learned that Sweden is roughly the same size as the state of California as well.

@veikkarahkonen7618 5 лет назад

@@simonnorsten5043 No we didn't

@Imonly2andahalf 4 месяца назад

Loved this. Always knew the global map was distorted in terms of land masses. I just never knew how much! Thanks for summarizing this for us!

@Killer66hitman 2 года назад

I think about this alot an always find it difficult to explain so cheers for that

@Godzilla-mq5zv 6 лет назад

0/10 No Toyota Corolla comparisons.

@user-rj3qc2kx1i 6 лет назад

0/10 no banana for scale

@mijnheerlijkebuitenlandseb3172 6 лет назад

Brötchen int brazil

@amandaguerra5004 7 лет назад

In Brazil we use the other type of map that keeps our size big

@KingofKpop 7 лет назад

haha

@kalvincastro9042 7 лет назад

The Gall-Peters map?

@gabrieltarouco8164 7 лет назад

mostly this one, that i don't know the name www.estadosecapitaisdobrasil.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mapa-mundi.png

@gavinkemp7920 6 лет назад

the main advantage of the map shown of the map shown on this video is navigation. you could draw a straight line and it gave you the direction to follow;

@kiswahilikitukuzwe2547 6 лет назад

gavin kemp. With navigation you have to factor in your point of reference also. It's like Einstein's Theory of Relativity; it's only relevant with respect to the point of reference.

@laurag7295 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, I really enjoyed this!

@margaretoni4309 2 года назад

Great find, thanks for sharing

@edward8380 3 года назад

Alternative title: *Europe crying in the distance*

@lordmilchreis1885 3 года назад

Alternative title: Europe colonised everything lol

@kaushalsingh290 3 года назад

@Land Lord 😌those quality will start to get demolished within 150 yrs -1000 yrs. or less if left untouched instead of natural places like himalayas which heals & flourishes on their own.

@dddf27 3 года назад

@Land Lord china has rich cities but also has vast inhabited barrentlands tibet for example

@npc3758 3 года назад

Ruled 80% of world

@jrexx2841 3 года назад

@Land Lord You do realize that Europe is one of the continents with countries who are the least density populated in the world.

@taz-on-the-looseyusef5526 7 лет назад

i always wondered why americans can drive from one state to another in few hours, that explains it

@rager5865 7 лет назад

? It's near the equator so it is barely distorted...

@TheZodiacz 7 лет назад

yes but some states (Rhode Island, Delaware etc) are very small so it's possible to drive across some states reasonably quickly.

@nikolai3620 7 лет назад

Technically you can drive all the way across America in 48 hours, but that would require constant driving.

@stonecold3936 7 лет назад

Taz-on-the-loose Yusef becasue, common sense

@bradtucker5170 7 лет назад

takes me 2 days constant driving to get to my mums place here in australia,, and im not quite at the top and shes not quite at the bottom so maybe 3+ days top to bottom and across is about the same.

@carbonatedmilk626 9 месяцев назад

Teacher: Where did you guys go this summer? The rich kid: 2:15

@thomasklugh4345 2 года назад

The map at the beginning of the video is a Mercator projection. It results in the northern continents looking larger than the middle and the southern. The psychological effects of it make one think, however subconsciously, that the northern land mass, and the peoples who inhabit them, are superior to the middle and southern. That, in turn, has a significant effect on a country's development.

@wilcowen6284 Год назад

It'd not that deep

@tanyag2499 3 года назад

Well, if I've learned anything from this video it's that it's easier to just use a globe.

@jasonswiatkowski9127 2 года назад

Globes are great. Maps are just good to remind you of your globe... and they fold flat.

@Name-ej8mt 2 года назад

@@jasonswiatkowski9127 they are also good for data (comparing countries)

@bobjones2041 2 года назад

3D phone apps rule everything else is losers pffff

@86GT11 2 года назад

Disneyland Mickey Mouse Snow Globes are the best!

@bobjones2041 2 года назад

@Lies Exposed spinning a globe by placing ones hand on Africa is racist and its causes famine and earthquakes there

@Brndnrchrdsn85 6 лет назад

"As we can all hopefully agree on, the earth is a sphere" I wish we could all agree on that

@mateopugliese2774 5 лет назад

Brndnrchrdsn85 It’s a cube

@bobsckinator839 5 лет назад

Its a dildo

@s0r1ns3c 5 лет назад

Psssh, you believe in the earth?

@nikhil199029 5 лет назад

its not really a sphere, its oval in shape

@chad_hominem 5 лет назад

Cause it’s not a sphere it’s an “oblate spheroid” according to some and pear according to NDT 🍐👍

@ADanceCalls 5 месяцев назад

Very informative. Thank you for sharing

@geraldbodnar2718 2 года назад

I never realized how big across the United States was untill I drove from California to Connecticut and back twice ! Alot of fantastic sites to see ! Also how much land has no towns or cities on them ! Alot of land !

@Hello-eq4db 2 года назад

The Mercator Projection wasn't made to be accurate with respect to size. It was made so that the angles between places were correct, so that back in the old days, sailors could actually go places. If you want size accuracy, use a Winkel-Tripel Projection or something

@pablopumarestaminiau7512 2 года назад

Exactly. The maps were used for sailing... I'll never forget some guest on Oprah in the 90s that claimed these maps distorted the size based on white supremacy, to make Europe seem more important and Africa less. No, you idiot. They adjusted the 2D map to be able to sail from one point to another without getting lost at sea, wide of the mark

@johndododoe1411 2 года назад

@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 Also the 3rd world ice colonies Greenland and Antarctica actually look bigger than the master countries in Europe.

@LOCATIONREDACTED 2 года назад

@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 this is still going on, never let fact get in the way of a good grievance.

@sd-ch2cq 2 года назад

@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 The equator is commonly placed at 2/3th instead of 1/2. That part is fishy: moving the equator to its proper place makes africa and south-america look bigger and removes europe from the focal point of the picture. But using straight meridians is a logical choice for maps used for navigation. There is no reason to think that particular idea had anything to do with racism.

@mqpar5.795 2 года назад

@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 Certain people will make everything about race. Due to distortion scale, countries up north are more distorted because at the poles there is no end, it's just infinity. Africa is less distorted because its on the equator. Someone should have told that guest "yeah that's how Mercator's work". It is dated but I'm just tired of people sh*ting on Mercators even though it has uses.

@ntrprise6385 4 года назад

Every 60 seconds in Africa, 1 minute has passed

@grandmawithasthma7742 4 года назад

This is true I know bc I live there

@eliasziad7864 4 года назад

You mean 59 seconds or they are a second delayed??

@alofii6106 4 года назад

Haha

@arunabandaru46 4 года назад

OMG!!!

@lucassantossj 4 года назад

@@eliasziad7864 what? A minute have 60 seconds everywhere, not 59.

@aryansatvati4161 2 года назад

It was very interesting thank you for making this video🤔❤❤

@Bambisgf77 Год назад

Excellent vid, new sub!

@postworldgames 2 года назад

2016: "Hopefully we can all agree the earth is a sphere." 2021: "Well…"

@sorryforbad5706 2 года назад

It not flat either

@toxicGD12 2 года назад

@westrim 2 года назад

@@toxicGD12 The Earth is an Oblate Spheroid, not a sphere. Aside from all the mountains and valleys, it's chunky around the middle.

@toxicGD12 2 года назад

@@westrim ik

@zoroastrianismrona9585 2 года назад

Earth is shaped as pangea

@largelysubatomic 7 лет назад

So did people skip 6th grade geography class on the day map projections were taught?

@someonenew225 7 лет назад

you seem to forget that not all people got to the same fucking school as you

@TomaszWota 7 лет назад

Yeah, but this is primary school stuff, come on...

@frozeneternity93 7 лет назад

I remember having to make a globe of the earth from a paper cut out. We were give a printed map with vertical slices in the map missing that, when cut out and put together, would make the globe with a round shape. The teacher explained that this was the reason the earth could never actually be shown on a flat map without pieces cut out. I think I was in grade 3 and I am from Africa. I understood this concept completely. Your American school systems have a lot to answer for.

@march11stoneytony 7 лет назад

you probably just forgot

@darrkstarg 7 лет назад

As an older American, I also learned this in school. And you are right, our school system was good at some point... but it is now a mess. The number of countries right now with a superior school system is in the double digits, and that is quite sad.

@zachrodan7543 Год назад

2:31 that had to be a fun puzzle to figure out, getting those all to fit like that

@-DILLIGAF 2 года назад

This literally changed my world view. This video is the equivalent of finding out the world is not flat. Whoa!!!

@Glimmify 4 года назад

Do you know: *Russia is bigger than Pluto.*

@nikabrar2205 4 года назад

Yes

@timgooding2448 4 года назад

@That_ Dude Yes. Russia's surface area is 400000km2 larger

@geoffmiller3468 4 года назад

Conspiracy and lies.

@aoifehall1675 4 года назад

Holy hell

@wavyiann9788 4 года назад

Geoff Miller we have pictures of both Russia and Pluto and it is indeed bigger

@MarcusAseth 7 лет назад

so why do we have a map with wrong proportions in the classrooms? That's what I want to know

@MarcusAseth 7 лет назад

ChrisX7 ok, so prove it

@MarcusAseth 7 лет назад

The thing I see proven in the comment section are errors in the comparisons made in the video, not the fact that "is a lie that the Merrcator projection distort the proportion between places", therefore I don't see how your random comment "the video is wrong" is answering in any way to my question of "why do we have maps in classroom using the Merrcator projection?".

@MarcusAseth 7 лет назад

And those much better projection are the one that should be used in school I think, or at least warn students about this fact and how to properly interpret that map

@Nubnut 7 лет назад

Yeah, the other people in the comments section are wrong too, Mercator is great for depicting navigational lines, it was never meant to be used as indicative of scale of the globe so people using it as a general world map, and trying to determine size of country based off of it, are wrong. So no, it's not made wrong, no projection is really, just there are hundreds of different projections because, as said, there's no perfect way to show a sphere on a 2d map and so there are very specialized projections for specific uses. Using Mercator projection to try and depict an accurate world map is inherently wrong because it blows up everything in the northern hemisphere.

@N254NK 7 лет назад

Marcus Aseth same reason we have a white Jesus..a pride thing.for example africa is the 2nd largest .it is expected that one answers that as the correct answer on a test but it doesn't look that way on maps does it.

@morgancrawford3919 Год назад

I tried to like this video twice. Really good

@caram2064 Год назад

❤️ Very informative and interesting - thank you 🙏 ❤

@RedditzGG 4 года назад

India: In Larger than UK UK: I Might be Small, but, When it comes to Imperialism, I'm Ruthless

@prashantaryan5040 3 года назад

Yup ask Canada , Australia and USA they know it

@user-ky6vw5up9m 3 года назад

Easy to be ruthless when you have firearms against spears, arrows, axes

@AmericanIdiot7659 3 года назад

UK army actually kinda sucks because they have a low budget including in WWII

@RedditzGG 3 года назад

@@AmericanIdiot7659 Oh Right, From what I remember, they plan to scrap their Tanks, the Irony is that they proved the Tanks to be effective in battle. . . That's what happens if you build expensive tanks with s**t economy