@Hinnawi i think he calls it shojun just for fun. but i've noticed his lack of exposure when it comes to non-European countries (keep in mind that i include US & Canada as European). i'm not blaming him. there is just too much information to memorize. but i get surprised at some things that he doesn't know that i consider common knowledge for history/geography buffs.
I feel like Drew is slowly getting his brain hurt, like saying São Paulo is in Rio de Janeiro, saying Russian isn't an UN language after reading it in the list
Yeah, the ports one is interesting, basically it's because the UK has a lot of harbours distributed around, while the ones at the base of the big navigable rivers are like a travel bottleneck for a huge area of north-west Europe.
13:15 It's not just that Drew, it's that the UK has tons of ports all over it, 120 ports to be exact. So the port of London is really just bringing in stuff for London itself, not the whole island.
"temperature will drop in half"... 40°C vs 10°C... -.- 40°C = 104°F = 313.15 Kelvin for it to be halfed you'd be at 156,575 Kelvin = -116,575°C = -177,835°F
@@tomriddle8933 They still are distinct cities and decently far apart. And you likely wouldnt have said the same thing if he had, for example, called New York Philadelphia
@@tomriddle8933 what you said it's basically saying New York and Washington are basically the same city because they are in the same corner of the map
14:27 So basically, 'MI' in MI New York is 'Mumbai Indians'.. it's a cricket franchise of IPL (Indian Premier League).. Fun fact : MI is the most successful franchise team in cricket history.. with 6 trophies (5 men's team & 1 women's team)
I was looking for a cricket comment! Being Indian, I immediately recognized the names. Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight riders, Chennai Super Kings. Also, nice to know this fun fact!
7:45 the reason Canada and Russia don't show up as much in this list is because it's a list of "urban parks", meaning parks that can be traversed by the public (trails and such). We might have a lot of land but no one in their right mind is going to do a 2 day drive to get to a remote park with no service stations, hospitals or civilization of any kind on the way. I was really surprised to see gatineau be in 2nd place too tbh, seeing as it's literally right across the river from Ottawa. I've always taken its size for granted I guess.
Apparently most of the Norwegian population is not in their right mind 😅 From my perspective, what the heck is the point of going for hikes if you're just gonna sit at a petrol station either way. No thanks it's renting a remote cabin here or straight up 2 weeks+ hikes here Our entire centre of our country is a National Park but it's a lot of mountains. To remove my previous hyperbole, we do have self-served and non-manned cottages for people to visit (and some serviced) but that's more for tourists.
Also the case for Brazil.. there are parks/reservations in the Amazon area bigger than European countries. The Xingu park for example is the size of Belgium.
With the no speed limits thing, parts of Australia also had no speed limits (mostly along the 4 major highways in Northern Territory). It got changed to 130 km/h (81 mph) in 2007
The general speed limit in Russia is 90 km/h outside of towns. There are also highways with 110 km/h and 130 km/h limits but they are like few hundreds kilometers long all combined. But you can drive up to 20 km/h above speed limit and you won't get a ticket.
3:03 fun fact: while they are given the option to live in a fancy place in Berlin most german chancellors over time choose to continue living in whatever small houses or flats they were living in before they got elected.
12:22 here in The Netherlands the speed limit of 130 is only at night, in the day it's 100, they did that for environmental purposes. The way they enfore it is pretty interesting: they subtract 5km/h from whatever number they pulled on the reader for accuracy reasons. Because of this, driving instructors (and exam instructors) will actually tell you to go 5 over the speed limit if possible always, and you will fail your exam if you're driving 50 in a 50 zone.
Will point out for the ICC map at 14:39 that the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland play as one united team, and Wales doesnt have its own team, instead being represented by team England. So both NI and Wales should be red. Meanwhile the West Indies play as one united team internationally, so the colours are correct, none of those nations alone are in the ICC. Also shout out to the Netherlands as the only non formerly British territory/protectorate to make the cut, even as just an associate memeber, most countries that arent have little interest in cricket, to the point that you see results that look so out of place anywhere else in the sporting world. Like Jersey beating Germany, Denmark and Italy mutiple times each just since 2019.
The thing about speed limits in Germany is that more and more they're putting up smart signs that display a speed limit that varies with road conditions... So you might be flooring your Porsche on a Tuesday at 4 AM but by 8, if fog has set in and morning traffic is packing up, you might get dialed back to 80km/h on the same stretch of road.
Huh, really? I'm from Germany and haven't really noticed that. Though I haven't really been driving much as of late and maybe Berlin's just behind with infrastructure as always.
@@NicarandNumbers I have seen are that about 15% of the Autobahn has variable speed limits. But I’m not sure if that only includes automated speed limit signs or also things like fixed ones that apply only when it rains (or even construction areas). But you’ll likely find most of them around large cities where rushhour traffic routinely overwhelms capacity (and where variable speed limits can keep things moving for longer).
From Texas here, the 85MPH is just shy outside of Austin and San Antonio respectively; however, it’s basically a general rule that everybody goes 5 OVER the limit. As long as you don’t break 15 over, the cops generally won’t mess with you…hell, they’ll even try to outrun you in their vehicles lol
@@riyanirfan it should also be noted that we don’t measure distance in miles but rather hours as our state is so damn huge. Idk where the notion came that we’d be actually going slower than the speed limit haha
Wait so at night you can drive faster? Shouldn't the opposite make more sense? I mean, driving at night is more difficult than during the day due to the lowered visibility
Some of the speed limits might be limited by the low quality of the roads. Also in TX you can usually get away with 5-10 mph faster than the speed limit.
30% of New Zealand is National Parks. The area of Australia is 27.8 times larger than New Zealand but only has 3 times more coastline and is lower. New Zealand has 775 lakes at least 0.5 kilometres long which cover about 1.3% of the land area. New Zealand has one of the highest sheep to human ratios in the world with 5.1 sheep to every person. (falling from 22 per person in 1982 although the population had increased by two thirds). A New Zealander built a motorbike in his farm/factory that on it's first major race (Daytona circa 1990), not only equalled the pace of factory Ducati race bikes... It pulled a wheelie beside them on one of the fastest stretches of track and pulled away. (Search Britten V1000)
Moscow has 17 million people in its contiguous urban area, so it would make the list for a European city -plus it would be the second on there as Istanbul is also featured. Jakarta at 30 million should also feature on there -the list mixes up city proper boundaries aswell as contiguous urban areas. Btw the largest contiguous urban area and worlds biggest city was announced in 2015 by the World Bank, that usurped Tokyo. If you look at Google Earth, Shenzhen and Guangzhou have now merged into one solid morass, counting 42 million people.
9:16 Buenos Aires city only has a population of about 3 million people within its limits, but around 15 million live in the outskirts and suburban areas surrounding it.
About islands: Sweden have 270 000 islands, Finland have 188 000 islands and Norway have 55 000 islands. 2/3 of all islands in the world are in Scandinavia. (And that's why we like sailing and boating over here)
10:16 Why in the world would Libya speak Italian? It’s like saying everyone in India speaks English because the British occupied them. Libya is an Arabic country, and so it speaks Arabic.
@@mohdadeeb1829 They actually mostly speak Arabic, but French is used a little. There are French influences in the dialects though, and people sometimes will use French loan-words.
14:57 Actually you'd likely see no Sun on the surface of Venus, but rather just a giant blur in the sky that's really bright, due to how thick the atmosphere is, and also depending on where you are, not even a blurred view of the sun would be possible, because of the constant sulfuric acid rain pouring down the sky.
@@chrisko6439 If you're going by location, more than half of istanbul is in europe. if you're going by culture, turkey is a european nation so istanbul is european.
3:55 I'm half Mauritian and I was surprised to see it here so I kept rewinding to see when he says it, missed it there xD Not mocking ya, just was funny to me
Come on Drew, São Paulo is a city in another state of Brazil, it's not in Rio de Janeiro, even you who see a lot of geography contentment every day only think about Rio de Janeiro and Amazonia when it's about Brazil, we are more than just that
7:36 Isn't there a National Park in Greenland with 375,000 sq mi encompassing, like, a third of the whole island? That's 240,000,000 Acres!!! Oh, it's not in a city...
8:00 In fact, Tokyo is not that large. The number might be from the population of "首都圏(Shuto-ken)", litterally means "The capital region", but north parts and western parts of Shuto-ken are completely apart from the center of Tokyo. The actual number of the metropoliatan area is roughly 20m-30m.
Same with delhi The main capital delhi is different than what is considered the NCR(which includes the surrounding cities which were developed to decrease the load of the capital)
True, but I feel like it’s inaccurate to call the whole compound as the property of the President, since most of it is the national library, some are museums (welt museum, spanish riding school, etc) and then you’ve got the volksgarten which is a public park. Most of the other buildings on the list aren’t open to public like that.
12:00 in Italy you’ll see everybody slow down from 120 kmh to 70 just because there’s a speedometer in the zone, just to immediately get back to 120 after 50 meters.
10:10 drew...just because Italy controlled Libya doesn't mean Libyans learned italian. They didn't just randomly start eating pizzas instead of couscous when the flag changed.
Actually, Germany has a speed limit of 100 km/h on ordinary roads, maybe of 120 km/h on some four-lane roads, and a _usual_ "guiding speed" (_Richtgeschwindigkeit_) of 180 km/h on the Autobahn. But even that has limits.
