PART 2 of the Largest cities in the USA! (Per state) is UP! Let me know if I was in the ball park if you are from any of these cities fellow American Geograpeeps. Otherwise we are now working on the next episodes, including.... Eswatini!!!
I never thought it would be so hard to explain buckeyes to non-Ohioans. Growing up in Columbus, watching Brutus dance around every week on TV I always thought, "yeah. This isn't weird."
aidenthesnork we shall take our rightful land one day. Although we totally won the Toledo War. We got all of the UP, so not a bad prize. But we shall take our land
@@16kauffmanh Let's be honest, as a native Ohioan, when somebody mentions Buckeyes to me, I'm thinking of what the rest of the nation erroneously calls "chocolate-covered peanut butter fudge balls". Much more tasty than some nut that is actually poisonous. And you can share them with your friends without killing them! And the name is a lot less convoluted to say! :)
Lol yeah, USA got lucky just being left to a continent that no one thought could be too big but now is home to 2 crazy huge countries. (USA and Canada)
@@lucasmansfield7955 phoenix- desert anchorage- eternal cold portland- calm east coast sea culture los angeles- endless entertainment and fun new york-bustling metropolis
Am from Billings, I suppose I have seen a few people do wood carvings. And yes, we were your typical wild west town in the 1870s-1890s before we settled down. Our first sheriff was called Liver Eatin' Johnson.
As someone who lives literally 10 minutes from Providence I can say that Providence is probably the doughnut capital of the world, it also is basically the only place you can find coffee milk other than maybe South-eastern Massachusetts. All the people have an accent of a New Yorker crossed with a Bostonian, and they are all Friar fans. Oh yeah everyone is basically Portuguese by the way.
@@TheGlennergy No more Tim Horton's sadly. That one closed a bit ago. I remember it closing sometime when I was in high school so it has to be at least 8 years at this point. It's a Pizza Hut now
I never really heard about Rhode Island being known for doughnuts until recently. Also, SE Massachusetts does have coffee milk and we even briefly had it as one of our 3 drink options in school (the other two being white and chocolate milk). Also I could really go for a doughnut and coffee milk now.
@Emil as in on a video about cities, where someone points out a funny line, that has nothing to do with what Justin was talking about. Why can’t we leave politics out of this? We don’t need people getting more mad at each other.
Sooooo UNtrue. Burlington, Vt. has 2,454 black people living in it. That 5.7 of the population. Not a lot, but not the tiny few that uninformed critics of Burlington, and by extension, critics of Bernie Sanders would have you think.
I live in Norfolk, VA at the moment. And the reason Virginia Beach is the largest city in VA is because they decided to make the whole county a part of the city. It can take between 10-50 minutes from Norfolk to get to different parts of Virginia Beach depending on where you’re going. It’s totally insane.
This is rather cool, and well researched. I like it. You should do a Part 3....for the largest communities not in the 50 states. Pago Pago, American Samoa; Washington, DC; Hagatña, Guam; Saipan, Northern Mariana islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands.
raakone I wouldn't say it's well researched. He makes very large assumptions, the one about Burlington, ( the city I live in), is very wrong. Kinda seems like he just read off a wikipedia page, but it's a filler episode so..
About Albuquerque: Why on Earth didn't you mention this was the place where Bugs Bunny always made that wrong turn in his travels, Paul? That would have been interesting to note.
CAPace09 No, if anything it would be Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. But, Columbus has more than Cleveland and Cincinnati combine. So, yes gars129, we do have a largest city. Lol
9:28 Actually Nashville just recently surpassed Memphis as Tennessee's most populous city in May 2017. Memphis was indeed our largest city for decades, however.
Providence native here to give you some info about the place. Way too much info, perhaps. -PVD has a ton of great restaurants. While there is a big Portuguese presence, Italians are probably the most represented ethnicity, and they make pretty good food. There are also lots of nice Asian joints nowadays. -There's a rich horror tradition; ghost tours are a big thing, Edgar Allen Poe lived here for a time, and Lovecraft is buried in the city. His resting place, Swan Point Cemetery, is really gorgeous in terms of both nature and grand burial statuary. Can't recommend it enough for a stroll or or bike ride in the area. -It's very much a college town. Brown's influence is unavoidable- they own a huge percentage of the prime real estate, and are constantly building and expanding further still. But it's not the only school; there's a well-regarding culinary school, as well as RISD. The latter college contributes hugely to Providence's status as an arts town; it bills itself as "The Creative Capitol." -Providence was actually a big deal in manufacturing back in the day. The city and surrounding bergs (looking at you, Pawtucket!) are littered with enormous mill buildings in varying stages of decay. Those that are well-preserved have been converted into pretty cool spaces, but many others are too dilapidated for anyone to try fixing them, and serve merely to contribute to the grimy urban atmosphere. Keep in mind that Rhode Island is super densely populated, beat out in that category only by New Jersey, and most Rhode Islanders live in the Providence metro area; parts of it are just packed, and it feels like a fully-fledged City not all that much smaller than Boston, though Boston dwarfs Prov by a good four or five times. -The public infrastructure is notoriously bad. Our roads are the worst in the country, as are the bridges I believe; one of the city's celebrated landmarks is an old upright bridge that failed very early on and was never moved from its position. Between that and the weird insular culture here ("I Never Leave Rhode Island" bumper stickers are common), it feels rather backwards and stagnant, despite being forward-looking and inventive in so many ways. -Providence has an array of top-notch theater companies. If you have the opportunity , I particularly recommend a theater called the Gamm. Between such high culture, the great dining, and the convenient location between New York and our cool big bro Boston, there's plenty of appeal for well-off city folk. Taxes being what they are, such people are just about all you'll find in a number of neighborhoods. -There has historically been a huge mafia presence in Providence, and to some extent that's still the case. Faith in local government tends to be low, and compared to neighboring cities this one is notoriously corrupt. One of the most fondly-remembered mayors was a guy with plenty of organized crime connections, who managed to turn the town around for the better in many ways despite his nepotism and cronyism. He was jailed, eventually, and what's really wild is that the man ran for the office again, FROM PRISON, just a few years ago, and was a popular option. Were it not for his death around this time, we Providencers (?) (still not sure what our demonym is) might have been in for an interesting time. -However, oddly, it's really quite a peaceful place; the annual murder rate is consistently several times smaller than those of nearby metro areas, though given how grim the competition is (Worcester, Bridgeport, Hartford, and their ilk all more or less hellscapes in comparison) I'm not sure how amazing that really is. -We have awesome libraries. Check out the Athenaeum, you book lovers out there. -Some huge corporations roost in or near Providence. CVS was founded here, and their stores are inescapable. Perhaps biggest of them all is Hasbro; a lot of people are employed in the world of games and toys and content for children and bronies. Unfortunately Hasbro, along with Brown, the city's prominent hospitals, and a few other parties hold enormous amounts of sway and land, and it's easy to feel like they're the ones who really reap the benefits around here. -Also, Providence has a lovely children's museum. Can't recommend it enough for the under-10 crowd. -This is an extremely Catholic city, maybe the most papist in the nation. Clergy have a lot of influence. -There are also a whole lot of Jews. Many are intellectuals, professors and the like. There are some impressive synagogues in town, in addition to some of America's oldest churches. It's a big (relatively speaking) hub for Unitarian Universalists as well. Phew, okay, chances are no one will read this whole thing, but it was fun to write. TL; DR- Providence is a kinda cool quirky city marred by stagnation, and while I can't necessarily recommend moving here, it's a place well worth a visit in its own right.
Thank you for this lovely text. I was looking for something like this, like a word from a Providence native when I was writing the eponymous song. After reading this, I felt as if know so much more about your city. So... check out the song called Providence by Rain Delay. Very long story short, the song is about a young couple and their romance in a beautiful town in Serbia (yeah, in Europe, neither Siberia nor Syria...) called Novi Sad. Providence here is the nickname for Novi Sad which I made as a portmanteau of the words "promise" and "evidence". However, it is also inspired by your beautiful city which I have never been to, but hopefully will one day.
Thank you!! The "do something" comment bothered me a little. I am a RI guy who has been around the country. The most common mistake people make when they find out where I'm from is that they think I'm from new york. People think rhode island is part of new york I'm sure because they confuse it with long island. The rt 195 bridge before they changed it back in the 2000's was thee single worst bridge in the world at the time. Mayor Cianci marinara is a very good product btw
Fun fact about what you said about Nevada, Actually paradise isn’t its own city, Las Vegas valley has 3 cities, North Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Henderson. When you hear people say paradise or Summerlin or wherever, they’re just parts of Las Vegas, same PD, same mayor, etc
Barb, if you want to do something similar like this, I recommend doing the 48 (so close to 50) ceremonial counties of England. Just an idea. If you want to do all of the UK, Wales has 13, Scotland has 31, and Northern Ireland has 6, totaling 88. Ireland, if you're curious, has 32, making a grant total of 120. Loadsa videos!
To add on to this. Sioux Falls has lots of people of German descent. The city is growing fast and more and more Hispanics are moving in. Not that much crime, and I think it was voted in the Top 10 Best Cities to Raise your Kids in. If you do come, check out the Falls Park!
I also live in Sioux Falls. I was very excited for this video because I feel like not really anyone knows about how great Sioux Falls is. I would really recommend visiting Falls Park.
No, it was originally supposed to be a sports arena for a professional team but then they ran out of money. So bass pro shop came in and it is what it is
Burlington has actually gotten a lot more diverse in the past few years because it became a sanctuary city, and there are now entire communities of Somalians, Arabs, and Bosnians
Budgorj "Somalians" first mistake "Arabs" smaller mistake, but still mistake "Nepalese" not a mistake, maybe the ghurkas will be helpfull We have both somalians and arabs in France, and it sucks.
The nickname for Charlotte is Queen City because it was named after Queen Charlotte (wife of king George 3 aka the king that America hated during the revolution) and the hornets is what Cornwallis, commander of the British military gave to Charlotte because of how much the population was hostile. He then called it a hornets nest.
Skeletal Pirate is right though, I live in the new north end (a neighborhood in Burlington) and there are a considerable amount of Nepalese, Bosnians, and Tanzanians/Somalians
I live in Lincoln, so if I ever felt like doing a day trip, the zoo is a good excuse. My family used to have a yearly family pass to go there all the time.
Yeah if you go to Seattle, you gotta check out Pike Place Market, it's got a lot more than just the men throwing fish at each other, it's a whole building/outdoor area filled with different random shops and local vendors set up on tables everywhere, there's a nice area where you can eat/look out at the Olympic Mountains, and the building has multiple levels with an architecture that is cozy/reminds me of a ship. It's hard to describe, you gotta check it out.
You're not wrong about Oklahoma and OKC lol. Lotta Okies treat tornadoes like a life or death thrill ride, rather than a deadly weather event. OKC is also a major crossroads, with Interstates 35, 40, and 44 running through it. Many people not native to the state or country find their way here, too. Most of them tell me they like the balance OKC strikes of being big, diverse, and vibrant, but not so big it's overwhelming or inescapable. And Pow wows. Just find one open to the public and go. There's food, music, dancing, art, storytelling, and a whole mess of interesting people.
My favorite thing in the world is watching people not from West Virginia explain our capital. I'm pretty sure Bethesda didn't put npcs in Fallout 76 to keep away from all the stereotypes lol
I would love to see a video about Antarctica as the next filler week. Sort of in the format of a regular country episode, but adjusted to fit the needs of this international Continent
Charlottean here! That was the most accurate description of what goes on here I’ve ever heard lol. Many a time have I been playing in the sprinkler during a block party with a stereo on the porch. Seriously!
I recently spent a day and a half there on vacation, and I knew I had to go back at some point to see more of it. It's been named the friendliest city in America on multiple occasions, and it's a great place for anyone who likes Southern food.
I grew up in Fargo! I’m also Scandinavian-American, and yes there are quite a few of us in Fargo. You did pretty well, although I might add that most of us Fargoans are a bit ambivalent toward the Coen brothers’ film. While it put us on the map for many Americans, only the opening scene takes place there, and many assume that we all have the thick Midwestern accent portrayed in the film. Don’t get me wrong, we definitely hang onto our O’s too long sometimes, but mostly we just sound like regular Americans haha
BadgerCheese94 Haha yes the accents are definitely real, just not as pronounced as they are sometimes portrayed. And I know, they're from St. Paul, right? Hope you're enjoying the Midwest :)
BadgerCheese94 Lol I'm actually in St. Louis Park/Golden Valley at the moment; my girlfriend grew up here! I guess my Coen brothers' trivia is a bit lacking...
I'm from Virginia, and I'll talk about Virginia Beach. 1. First of all, I'm not sure why Jamestown is even mentioned since it's like 1.5 hour drive from VB. 2. It's the biggest "pleasure beach" in the world 3. Instead of "bachelor graduates" living there, it's more of a military and shipyard living community, since Norfolk has the biggest shipyard and naval base in US. (Norfolk pronounced: "Nor-fukk" btw.) And not only that, but lots of New Englanders like to visit and live there. 4. As mentioned, lots of recreational and entertainment goes on. Museums, Aquariums, parties, watersports, etc.
It is as they surpassed Memphis in both the population of the city and metro area in 2015. In fact, Nashville has about 40,000 more residents than Memphis just in the city itself and has been growing on average at least 100 people each day while Memphis has been fairly stagnant in its population. Also, Nashville has over 550,000 more people in their metro area compared to Memphis as Memphis has 1.34 million residents in its metro area while Nashville has 1.9 miliion in their metro area.
JuniorfanTheEnlightment yep & as trivial as it might seem, that daily is now 130. Adds up, would imagine we're at 2 mil for statistical area, including suburbs here really soon.
Garrett Statum Knoxville & Chattanooga rule while we're at it. Love me some Tennessee & I need to do a Memphis trip, just hasn't worked out for me to this point. There you have it though, Knoxville is more on par in 2018, statistically with Memphis
Providence (well, basically all RI) was basically run by the Mafia for much of the second half of the 20th century. And depending on who you ask, it was the birthplace of diners and food trucks (in about the 1870s some local restauranteurs started selling food to office and factory workers out of wagons parked outside the factories). And oh yeah, Family Guy.
In French we call buckeye a châtaigne, from the Latin word Castanea It's very tasty, you can eat crude, baked, in cream, in flour like bread, etc... But in my country, Switzerland, in my Canton, Wallis, you can eat a dish made with châtaigne, called Brisolée (Bri-zo-lé)
3:53 no, the Bronx is **not** on an island. It's the only one of New York's five boroughs that isn't either an island (Staten Island, Manhattan) or is on an island (both Brooklyn and Queens are on the westernmost end of Long Island). Also, when you use the proper USPS two-letter abbreviation for a state (e.g. "NJ", "NE", "VT") it doesn't have a period at the end of it unless it's used at the end of a sentence.
12:05 it's pronounced "Nor-FULK" not "Nor-folk". Man, this video has more errors than normal. Who do we blame? Is it Ken? This is all Ken's fault, right?
As a Rhode Islander I can say is there’s a lot of amazing history about this state but a lot of it is also illicit activities over history so we try to hide it.
I'd hate to burst your bubble, but when you look up the places mentioned in that song they're not even in West Virginia, but Western Virginia. As a Virginian it's triggering haha
Bring sunscreen, be prepared for bugs like the flying kind, learn a little Bahasa Indonesian or better, the native language of the area you’ll be visiting, tons of freelancers especially in Bali, school kids riding motorcycles without helmets on (me and my friends literally saw a few doing this) and expect to see a lot of stray cats
I’ll tell yah this much, being 30 minutes from Charleston, they’re amazing. West Virginia is a beautiful state with plenty of forests, waterfalls, and overall lots of naturey stuff to do. Not to mention the unique Appalachian culture
I have multiple qualms with your description of Charleston, WV. You did a fine job of talking about West Virginia (especially southern West Virginia), but a lot of that doesn't really apply to Charleston. Charleston wasn't founded on coal. The city itself has actually been a lot more reliant on the chemical industry. Charleston IS in fact, in a valley, not in the mountains. That valley is so dubiously nicknamed, "chemical valley". "Hill" culture as you've described it, isn't really present in the city, as that's a much bigger thing in the southern part of the state. I would describe Charleston as the dividing line between the north and the south. Just about everything south of Charleston has more of that confederate, hill culture that you've talked about, but anything north of Charleston is really a lot more like Ohio or Western PA...very Rust Belt. Charleston is the urban center where the two cultures are separated. I get that there isn't really anything in that that sets Charleston aside from any other small city, but that's what it is, and I feel like your description was fairly disingenuous.
I live in salt lake! Mostly accurate. There is a noticeable Polynesian population but they're kinda isolated. The way I heard it from an older Tongan guy was that they just brought the island culture here and keep to themselves. Outside of that salt lake is much more white. Also, salt lake City proper is kinda small, only about 130k people but it is the center of the Wasatch Front metropolitan which is like 2.3 million people- a stretch of people 120 miles by 15 miles. Think of a it like a mini LA, for now... You were correct about salt lake being half Mormon, half super liberal. However, once you leave salt lake proper it becomes much more Mormon into the suburbs. The differences in the Mormon micro culture is hilarious to observe as you compare some of the bigger cities. Another thing the mention is the salt lake itself- it does cover a massive area but is only in fact about 6-8 ft deep on average. It's like a big puddle. Deepest part might be 25 ft? When there is a drought it's size varies noticeably. The whole area would a desert except for that fact that the salt lake exists and causes our signature 'Lake Effect' snow storms which keeps the entire East bench of the Wasatch Front looking more like an oasis compared to the rest of the state. I also would like to dispute your claim that Denver is the healthiest City ! Lol. Just like Denver, the area is very active and into the outdoors. It's almost like social pressure to be active and you're shunned if you don't go skiing or bike riding or rock climbing or something... Anyways, love your channel! Keep it up.
I live in Columbus, and you summed up my city accurately. We have the most hilarious love-hate relationship with Michigan, trashing on each other but having a blast visiting the other state.
Also, I've been to Burlington. It's a modest, calm city with tons of parks and bike paths, very much worth checking out. Ben and Jerry's is their biggest claim to fame.
Newark, NJ, and Charlotte, NC: AKA my home(s) away from home. Seriously. Every domestic flight that we take goes through Charlotte and every international one goes through Newark. I know the layouts of those airports just as well as I do our own.
I'm from Memphis and I want to clear some things up. Graceland is the home of Elvis, the BBQ IS the best in the world, and every May we have a huge music festival and BBQ Championship. KC can't hold a candle to Memphis BBQ. Fall off the bone, melt in your mouth goodness.
I grew up in Virginia Beach, and yeah, it doesn't seam big, but it really is. It has a similar spread and population density as Miami. The main reason why it's so big is actually primarily thanks to the military. Norfolk (which you can drive into from VA Beach without even realizing it) has the largest US Naval base and there are a couple other notable bases scattered throughout, so most of the people who live there are military, making it and the rest of the Hampton Roads area pretty dang different from the rest of the state. It's basically a military town that does beach front and historical based tourism on the side.
11:50 pretty much sums up Scotland : we criticise the UK government about their treatment on immigrants when our population is 95% white (not even exaggerating it’s actually 95%)
Seattle does not have a "monorail system" lol the monorail was built back in the 60's for the worlds fair and it only has two stops, it just goes back and forth all day.
