Northernlion's Official Map of the United States 

actually drawing out his rants is the little bit of extra effort that makes the librarian the goat

Honestly, he was pretty accurate. Picking out NYC and not just New York state was a nice touch

HUGE graphic job here librarian

Finally I get it. They call it the midwest because it's mid. Thanks Librarian.

i really needed the canada map like you did the US map lol

He knows US geography more than most Americans

Me when I am a vile minion doing the bidding of an evil matriarch: I'm serving mother

The way he pops off at 8:04 is gold. The map is a great touch. Praise be

NL's description of Canada is quite unironically how the government groups the nation as well, in terms of how it allocates funding and designs policy.

0:00 - 0:20 Thats the most NL has talked about Super Auto Pets we have seen in 8 months. Type 1 chatters pogging

It's pretty funny that as a Swede this is exactly how i group America in my head, apart from the north west.

I’m from oregon and I frequently travel and visit the border between east Oregon and idaho and I come to say, I appreciate that he did not include idaho in the northwest. I feel like they would also rather it this way.

The disrespect to not even draw the Canadian map

my rule of thumb is that if a state is shaped like something other than a sort of vaguely rectangular blob, you should probably know it. that does unfortunately result in michigan being a state you should know (shaped like a mitten) but it rules out a lot of the boring ones so i think it works

For Australia: Sydney is the economic powerhouse, Melbourne is the cultural powerhouse. Sydney has the big name sights to see but Melbourne has all the events. Sydney is definitely New York right down to everyone outside of Sydney fucking hating Sydneysiders for being assholes and suits, and Melbourne is like a lot of California rolled into one, being up themselves, hipsters and hippies. Canberra is indeed just like Ottawa, its made to be a capital and it's boring. If you could give me any stereotype about Brisbane or Perth if be impressed, let alone any other Australian city Only thing if change with the US is add "retirement desert" to Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico with Las Vegas as a special zone cos Paradise is literally a special zone.

Pittsburgh is so midwest pilled its crazy, anyone who thinks otherwise just has a chip on their shoulder or some pride to get over. Our iconic Guy Type is goateed alchoholic who wears jersies to formal events and 2 of our culinary touchstones are different ways to cook potatoes

US map makes total sense- I do feel like he needs to include the southwest as its own region- desert part of the country like New Mexico Arizona Nevada and some of Colorado probably

If he divided stuff up a bit more into mountain states and doing something for the southwest would actually be a pretty legit map. My condolences to Hawaii.

I can't believe he didn't mention skibidi Ohio

Thanks for the maps Librarian.

My friend who lives in Melbourne told me he's right on all the australian city comparisons, so there ya go.

''what you say fuck me for'' always has me laughing

Incredible and informative

I love your dedication to the rants by making a drawing of his interpretation of the US. 😂 +2 my sapling

the visuals on this vid is crazy. this is why you're my goat librarian

Librarian bought a wacom tablet for this video

I’m so happy someone else has seen season 1 of The Terror on fx, what a specific namedrop

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” - Skibedee Williams, famous playwright

the only edit i'd make is that the midwest-northeast dividing line should be lancaster, not philadelphia. other than that bro cooked

You could probably add the rust belt as its own region as well. Also as a born and raised Ottawan who has since lived in several cities and multiple provinces, Ottawa isn't that boring, it's just not on the same level as the major Canadian hub cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver). I'd probably put it somewhere in tier 2 with cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, and Quebec.

Surprised about the PA Midwest pushback. Also, I think Arizona, Nevada, and NM should be deserty California

OK, hear me out Denver doesn't get it's own special district but the Blue Mustang Statue at the airport, a.k.a Blucifer, does

As an American, this is actually a very close approximation of how I’d describe it to a foreigner. Great work on the dynamic map Librarian

Holy hes yinzer coded.

Unexpected Montana mention in the fourth quarter!!! (The way you know a state is in the Midwest is if people get hyped about their state being mentioned)

No way in hell is VA in the north east. I live in northern VA and spend a lot of time in upstate NY and the vibes of the two areas are night and day different. And the southern part of VA is even further removed from the north-eastern vibe.

I was 100% on board until 6:15 because what on God's green Earth is he talking about that Virginia is part of the North East?

As Pittsburghers, we can be mad, bur he's right lol. Bro came with the yinz receipt

Pog maps

There's gotta be a division around the rockies and to the west.

Correct

he's been talking about scotland a lot recently, lucky us

Librarian on point with the graphics

I live in Southern Illinois. Map is very accurate aside from Chicago. You’d struggle find someone from around here who has anything in common with someone from Chicago, but you’d find plenty who have traits from places like St. Louis/Indianapolis/Kansas City.

Little bit of regional bias but I think his map is pretty close but I’d probably make a southwest carve out that contains essentially Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and at least the southern half of Utah. Desert people are just a bit more off kilter than typical midwesterners

I feel like I distinctly remember a time when Ryan wanted to make a point that he has no problem with cussing, and kinda blurted out the cursed phrase "c**t blisters" to drive it home. Anyone else recall this for some reason?

NL just mad that our Stanley Cup is silver here in Vegas

nice

Arizona midwest lmao

Okay, I've figured it out. NL is 100% correct with his US assessment. The Midwest section would just be broken down into small sections that are mostly just like the already notable ones, just less extreme/notable. Examples include: Chicago is Midwest NYC, Denver is Midwest PNW, Hawaii is ocean California, all the states east of Chicago are new England Midwest, all the states south of Ohio are south Midwest, southwest states are California Midwest, all the states east of the Dakotas are Texas Midwest, Alaska is PNW Midwest. The only one that I am having trouble with is the middle Midwest (the states around and including MN). I have home bias since I'm from Minneapolis/St Paul. If I had to put a label on it, north middle Midwest would be California Midwest.

I would have given chicago and detroit special perms for being the mid west metro area or something. Other than that pretty much spot on, from the perspective of a non NYC new yorker

R.I.P. McDonald's beside the Rideau Centre

As a rep of both Tucson, Arizona and Pittsburgh I have to say he has a bit of a point

I think you need to draw a line down the middle of the Midwest because there’s just no reason for Arizona and Minnesota to be part of the same region.

the terror mentioned 💯💯💯 what the fuck is the northwest passage ‼

Almost correct. The NE does not claim Maryland or Virginia. They're their own special region as well.

1. Can somebody please explain the Gillian Anderson lampooning? I don't keep up with hollywood anything and the twitter jokes make no sense to me. 2. His map is pretty good for a foreigner. The midwest comments are just funny, but the only edit I almost require is that Appalachia (Central PA tracking southwest down to Eastern Tennessee) is definitely culturally distinct from everywhere else

PagMan the library

He forgot about Pennsyltucky 😢

BOISE STATE MENTIONED RAHHHHH 🗣️ 🔸🔹🐴

Virginia in the northeast makes more sense than it looks

Did he do the UK and Australia too like he promised? Splitting the UK up anyway besides North and South is a minefield, almost literally.

This is Louisiana erasure

Nova goes north, rest of Virgina goes south

Coast to Coast, LA to Chicago...

+2 for the map

can someone tell nl to stream at a time more convenient for Australians other than 3-8am

Just a few changes: Virginia south of Richmond is the "South". North of it is "Northeast". Add Appalachia to the map for West Virginia and Pennsylvania west of State College. Also, separate Midwest from "West" starting at Colorado, I guess. Plains people, don't @ me. There's only like 12 of you anyway.

he forgot the southwest, which is very culturally distinct from the midwest

As a Californian I approve this message

I'd just like if NL rolled into like 3 jellyfish turn 3 and just said "That's so cunttt oh my goshhhh "🤩

How many places has he actually been to in the US

I don't think I've ever seen anyone say that Arizona is in the midwest lol

This is fucking fax

I mean he aint wrong, slight bias being form TX but I don't see any flaws in this map.

ngl 10 year old kids in america say see you next tuesday at school also. I know because thats where I learned it

Its almost perfect, except I would add like a desert state Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico. Americans may hate it, but that is how America is.

hes unironically right and i hate it, but only because hes right

Anything within about ~200 miles from Kalamazoo, MI is midwest. Outside of that you're either in New England, Appalachia, the south, Canada/psuedo-Canada, or the plains

can I check this map out from the library pls

Thought sidney was miami

Wtf, the northeast goes into PA almost to Ohio.

hi

the only thing i take issue with is my personal belief that texas is not really south. south east is the real south. oklahoma is midwest of course, and the southwest is kind of a real thing. it doesn’t matter that much though

He ran out of colours so CA is just blank aintnoway

This map infuriates me to an unreasonable degree

Cmon Idaho should be part of the PNW

This was good, except for calling Arizona and Nevada midwest. We're basically California-lite out here. Just call us California. And you could probably call Oregon and Washington State canada as well

This is basically how i see the map ad a PNW resident lmao. Alaska is welcome in the PNW for sure

He's right, except Virginia should be at least half in the South

my gf loves northenlion we have that in common. hes so verbose

+2

as a midwesterner close to chicago i'm mostly fine with the map but i'd make two changes i'd make the south extend through arizona and new mexico (not too controversial) and i'd put alaska in the midwest (potentially controversial). hear me out: it's a cold wasteland where people do a lot of hunting, fishing, and drinking recreationally. that's midwest af

He's right and it makes me angry

As an Albertan, I want to challenge NL here. Alberta, alone, is Texas. And a bit of Florida. Sask and Manitoba are Idaho.

PA shits on NY in terms of baked goods... that's about it.

I'm going to cry, Virginia is not northeast

Better map accuracy than Apple Maps. This joke is from 2010.

Arizona and New Mexico aren’t Midwest, the rest is good

As someone from the midwest, this is NLs worst take