Many Big Cities Are Split In Two By Countries, But Not This One 

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Hello there cgp grey

@JavozREKZ / REKZboss well I didn't watch the person to whom you're referring, but since I'm Dutch I just know

@@KnuxMaster368 I wouldn't call him a genius. It's just common sense imo

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Kind of like most of the prairies.

Yeah, I had the same reaction. Lloydminster is definitely not a town Canadians think of as particularly interesting. Nice folks, sure, but that's true of most of small town Canada. To be fair, I always thought it was simply in Alberta but it's a few thousand km from my place so I've never had the chance to drive through it.

Very good job 👍🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

hahaha thanks for the explanation

@@ibx2cat Anything to teach the ol' Toycat some proper grammar, ya know. 😜

I'm curious as to how Germans decide if a body of water is a female or a male

@@obsessivelyoli It's not just German, it's the same in italian and probably other European languages

not genders, but sexes (masculin, feminin, neutral)

I thought he was gonna bring those cities up

I think he doesn't know too much about Africa tbh.

I think the lack of a permanent road or train connection really diminishes the fact that they are so close by.

They are completely unconnected, even though they're just at the other side of a river... lol

Despite close proximity, their only connection right now is an international ferry service across the river.

I had no idea it was an island

@@mr.beepers2119 It's the second most populous island in continental North America.

I thought it was the entire province. Then again I was driving with someone from MTL, who may have "imposed" the law to be provincial.

Thanks. I like stats like that. I need to go up there sometime

Cool I thought it was only a California thing...guess England drives the other way it would be left on a red light?

Also one interesting fact, Nova Gorica main train station is actually facing old Gorizia because it was built for old Gorizia but stayed on the Slovene side of the border.

Yea, I'm ~4 hours from "border city", and it isn't between two countries... Yet.

@Ambrose Burnside No one would ever say liberty island is part of New Jersey. It is ours.

wow, so New York is a state border? weid :-).

@Ambrose Burnside part of liberty island is New York and part New Jersey so you are right but we have the statue

Yep, he pronounced it like he was a local. His pronunciation of Alberta however... :)

There is a commuter passenger train route between Görlitz and Zittau, Germany which makes on stop in Poland opposite Ostritz, Germany. Before the Schengen agreement passengers who got off the train had to get their passports/ID cards checked by both Polish and German border guards just in order to leave the train in Poland and walk across the pedestrian bridge back to Germany.

There is another commuter passenger train route that starts in Swinoujscie, Poland and the goes along the northeast coastline of Germany.

Hopefully soon the direct Berlin- Stettin railway route is done.

@@fjellyo3261 One has to change trains at Angermünde.

the79thcookie it really is! I noticed this when I first visited Ottawa.

I lived there for 8yrs, they're practically interchangeable. Its really just the signs.

I live on the Ottawa side and work on the Gatineau side. As far as we locals are concerned, it's all just one metropolitan region. The provincial distinction is mostly relevant for stuff related to your residence but people cross the border in either direction to work, shop and visit family and friends all the time. Gatineau is basically just a suburb of Ottawa. There is a linguistic divide but it isn't as glaringly obvious as once might assume based on province. You hear both languages on the streets of both cities all the time. In the National Capital region, people tend to be more francophone to the north of the river (Gatineau) and more anglophone to the south (Ottawa) but there is also a strong trend towards being more anglophone to the west of the city and more francophone to the east, so the east end of Ottawa (south east) is heavily bilingual (and the heartland of urban Franco-Ontarian culture - don't confused with Quebecois unless you are trying to irritate them) and the Gatineau suburb of Aylmer (northwest) is also heavily bilingual (increasingly so as the real estate prices in Gatineau are better). The metropolitan region is heavily bilingual on both sides of the river, with the west end of Ottawa being the only area where you rarely hear French (and Old Gatineau in the east of Gatineau being strongly French speaking). The city's not quite as bilingual as Montreal but it's definitely the second most bilingual of Canada's major cities. You've got the big anglophone Ontarian population, the large francophone Quebecois population, the significant Franco-Ontarian population (who have a definitely cultural gap with Quebecois due to experiencing different histories for the past century) and a growing anglophone Quebecker population... along with lots of fluently bilingual folks, often from mixed heritages (like my kid). The divide really isn't what it used to be.

paranoidrodent When I resd that, it give me hope that one day, all off canada would be a trully billngal nation, but a some one from the region of Montreal, I think it will never happen😭😭😔

But the UK has palm trees 😂

Doug Hicton it’s called the 3rd system of surveying 😉

@@RayEttler So does the west coast of Canada, in British Columbia.

I wouldn't consider anything drawn on a sphere to represent a "perfect" trapezoid. nit-pik... I know.

Just like Ottawa ON and Gatineau QC, different ages and closing times. Kids drive from North Bay ON to Temiscaming QC, for the same reason, but that's 63kms.

Let's not talk about the fact that Coolangatta QLD doesn't observe daylight savings, Tweed Heads NSW does so for 6 months Coolangatta is 1 hour behind.

surfie007 and that the capital territory has some land by the coast

Wow!

german and its rules lol. though I think Polish has more difficult grammar rules

LoL, German is difficult innit? 😂😂😂

But you could say Frankfurt anner Oder ... but that is kinda slang and not proper grammar.

you are like an actual grammar-nazi

@@VerbaleMondo Try Bosnian or Polish or Russian or any other Slavic language and you will know the real meaning of "difficult".

I used the satellite view on gmaps for the first few but put the zoom on my browser really low so the text is barely visible. From Frankfurt and further on in the video I used Google earth to do it which works smoother.

Apple maps

Google Earth Studio

Google Airmax Stanky edition

I went to those cities in 2005. Back then, I had to get my passport stamped.

Also, many people trying to get to Vancouver, Washington by greyhound bus from Seattle have headed in the wrong direction, toward Vancouver, BC, Canada. That's what happens when 2 different cities have the same name.

@Paweł F. FishingVLOG Thanks for the idea! I was actually thinking about it, this truly gives me motivation! :)

In that case, it's not in Vermont. It's in Vermont and Québec.

Derby, Vermont/Standstead, Quebec (I think the actual bordering sub-municipalities are Derby Line and Rock Island)..

I'm Swedish but I have relatives in Basel and last time I was there we went by tram all the way to the German town Weil am Rhein where the awesome Vitra Design museum is situated, so there are 2 different tram lines to Germany. We also took a little stroll through 🇨🇭, 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 and back to 🇨🇭, passing over the Rhine two times 😊

Fun fact 2: Baarle was split this way because in the olden days the various rulers used to give each other pieces of land as presents or gestures of goodwill. The Hertog (Duke) of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and the House of Nassau (present day Netherlands) just went a bit wilder than the average Bischop, Duke, Count, or Prince.

@@pixiepandaplush he changed it i think. It was "All" instead of "Many", i think

Canada and the United States share a golf course as well just south of Vancouver, British Columbia (Peace Portals golf course).

Worth mentioning is that most of Haparanda's residents have Finnish as first language (some of them can barely communicate in Swedish) since A) many of them were born in Finland and later in life moved across the border and B) the traditional linguistic border between Finnish and Swedish lies around 30 km west of the country border, the Torne River. Of course all children have to learn Swedish in school which along with a strongly repressive attitude against Finnish until the 1960's has lead to a decline in the usage of Finnish and especially the local and distinct Torne River Valley dialect ('Meänkieli'), which is more or less extinct in the twin city of Tornio/Haparanda but is still used in the more rural areas upstream, especially on the Swedish side. In Sweden it's even considered a separate language from Finnish.

There aren't many cities that have their airport within the city limits.

Pretty big for Saskatchewan That's like top 5 here

California alone has more people than all of Canada.

@@heronimousbrapson863 - Indeed; and Texas, with under 30 million people, has the same size economy as all of Canada.

"Hoody in West-Lloyd = Bunny-hug in East-Lloyd" Really? That's weird, but a cool way tell what part of town someone's from.

Thank you :)

And Ireland where stupid brexiters will create again a border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (UK)

In the same archipelago: Timor and Borneo

St Martin in the Caribbean, Haiti/Dominican Republic, Terra de Fuego (Argentina, Chile), Cyprus (Cyprus Republic, the unofficial Northern Cyprus Republic, UK territories)

There has been a border since Northern Ireland joined Great Britain in the 1920s. @@helloahla239

Tweed Heads was a town on the English-Scottish border that was disputed.

Nova Gorica is in Slovenia. Italy does not border to Croatia.

Sorry! I’ll correct my comment

Not even a bridge

Its a lot easier for administrative purposes to split it than to share.

I believe there used to be between certain countries but they stopped being used after the EU was formed.

I live in Kansas..

I had the goal of talking about some of Europes former countries, maybe that'd be a good idea