Reacting to YOUR Obscure Geography Facts 

My favorite one is that the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to every country in the Americas (along with Cabo Verde) than it is to the southernmost point of Brazil

Coolangatta Airport doesn't just cross a state border. Half the year it's in two different timezones. An absolute nightmare for people trying to catch flights!

Similar to the Panama question. You actually travel south across the bridge from Detroit in USA to Windsor in Canada.

As a Brit the Edinburgh thing did indeed blow my mind

Related to that last fact: if you draw the line of latitude at the southernmost point of Canada, obviously all of Canada is north of that line, but in fact there are more people living the the USA north of that line than the entire population of Canada.

My dad and I have been collecting these for years. I think our best ones are: * Marseille is south of Florence * Miami is west of Lima (or -- same underlying misintuition -- Boston is west of Santiago) * Prague is west of Vienna * Málaga is south of Tunis * Venice is west of Palermo And here's a trivia question: what's the closest US state to Baghdad?

I love that Japan is further north, east, south and west from the entire Korean peninsula

I always got a kick out of that 'Panama Canal Fact'... and unreasonably pleased with myself for having independently noticed this! (I was even going to point it out myself, had you not done so!) Few things I like better than browsing through atlases and maps for no particular reason -- just, 'because... '

One of my favorites: The Niagara Falls are shy south of the city of Marseille in southern France at the Mediterranean Sea.

When it was built in 1906, the Goldfields pipeline in Western Australia was the longest freshwater pipeline in the world, being just shy of 600 km long.

There's also the one where the both the easternmost and westernmost points within the USA (not including territories) are both in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, where the westernmost Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian.

I really enjoyed your video and it is so refreshing to hear a familiar Australian accent!. I live in Lavington, NSW, a suburb if Albury. There is an unnamed island in the Murray River near here which is in Victoria which can only be accessed from NSW. There may well be others along the river, but the one I'm talking about, but there are several farms on this one. I have search for this island's name, but so far have been unsuccessful.

Point Roberts, Washington is a great one. It's in Washington, but it's only accessible through Canada.

I'm so glad I found you today. Howdy from Texas. I love geography facts. Not that I'm good at geography. I'm not. That's why I like learning about it. I subscribed. It looks like I have many videos to catch up on.

With that exact wording, Dili of Timor Leste is the closest capital city to Darwin

As a Swede, it blows my mind that all of Mongolia is further south than all of Sweden.

My fav one is the one I learnt about on a deployment to one of Australia's most remote territories - the Cocos-Keeling Islands. It is closer to Sri Lanka than it is to Perth while remaining (in some degree) part of WA.

If you zoom in and follow the Mississippi River you’ll find quite a few weird cases. Mostly due to the River changing course since the border was defined. A lot of one state owning land across the river only bordering another state by land. A big one is the Kentucky Bend. It’s surrounded on most sides by Missouri, to its south is its only land border, which is with Tennessee, and it has no connection to Kentucky proper, even over river.

Perth to Cairns (3441 km) is a shorter air line than Perth to Brisbane (3606 km)

The northern most islands of Australia Bramble Cay (uninhabited) and Boigu Island (inhabited) are north of both Port Moresby the capital of PNG and Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Another interesting fact is that the eastern border of South Australia is aligned with majority of the border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia at 141° East

Very fun and thank you for going through them without excessively dragging it out like many creators. Subscribed!

great to see a new video of yours! i just recently found this channel and i was sad to see it inactive but i subscribed anyway!

Norway is the number one country in terms of distance between undisputed northern and southern territory. Norway has both Svalbard and Bouvet Island, which spans 135.4 degrees. Including the Antarctic claim, that becomes a whopping 171 degrees. Second is the UK at 111.7 degrees from the Shetland Islands to the Falkland Islands (including the british antarctic claim: 120 degrees) Third is France at 100.3 degrees from Northern France to the Kerguelen Islands (including the french antarctic claim: 101 degrees) Only considering inhabited territory, France remains quite high at 72.1 degrees (northern France to Reunion), but Chile beats it with 73.4 degrees (all mainland territory!). Then there's Australia at 54.5 (Bamaga to Cockle Creek, Tasmania), the US at 52.2 (Utqiaġvik/Barrow, Alaska to Naalehu, Hawaii), Brazil at 38.3 (Uiramutã to Chuí), and so on. Norway falls down to only 20.3 degrees (Svalbard to Mandal) and the UK is a measly 10.1 (Shetland Islands to Isles of Scilly). Also, Norway's mainland goes from being as far west as Amsterdam to being as far east as Antalya, Turkey. Many people think of Norway as this tiny vertical country at the top of the map but it's got some serious geographical flexes.

It is shorter to fly from the East Coast of Australia (Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne) to San Francisco than to Los Angeles (by about 100-200km depending on which city) You think it is the other way due to LA being that much further south, not thinking Sam Fran being that further west make any difference - but I guess it does! Lol

The southernmost point of Greenland is further south than the northernmost point of Scotland.

New South Wales has the longest land border of all the Aussie states and territories. It adjoins Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory, making a total of 4 635 kilometres.

A good chunk of Northeast TN (like most of the area east of I 75 and North of I 40) is closer as the crow flies to Canada than Memphis

There was also a small pocket of NSW that was inaccessible from NSW but accessible from the ACT like your SA / Victoria pocket. However the ACT is going to purchase the land from NSW and redraw the border to expand a housing estate in the ACT.

Great video, I love geography stuff like this so my RU-vid recommended actually did something right for once

A fun fact like this about my native Finland that I like to throw around is the question of "What is the largest port east of Helsinki in Finland". The answer is Oulu, but this really doesn't fit the mental map of the country most Finns have.

Cool facts! Thanks NSW is north of the Murray River. Vic. is South of the Murray River. But the Barmah Hotel, in Victoria, is the only hotel north of the Murray River. Broken Hill, which is in NSW, actually runs on the SA time zone.

detroit michigan is surrounded by Canada on 3 sides ( north, east and south)

Something about the US state borders, if they are a straight line, they are almost always, maybe even always, either on a parallel (42nd parallel for example) or half of a parallel(36th and a half parallel for example).

One that always mess with my brain is the Montreal is more south then Paris. The weather are so opposite!

Very interesting video, well done!

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador mostly borders Quebec, but it also shares a tiny land border with the territory of Nunavut, on Killiniq Island, just north of Cape Chidley, the northernmost mainland part of Labrador.

My favorite one is that France's largest land border they share is with Brazil.

If you are in Detroit, Michigan, the fastest and easiest way to go to Canada is to go south.

Interestingly, California is known for its wine industry. So is the southernmost part of Canada.

There are six US state capitals, that are west of Los Angeles, CA: Sacramento, CA, Carson City, NV, Portland, OR, Olympia, WA, Juneau, AK, and Honolulu, HI.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about South Australia so much in 1 video before

2:50 - Technically Port Moresby, and Dili are closer to Darwin (need to reword the claim to "closest Australian capital city).

My favourite Australian one is that Tasmania shares a common border with Victoria. Apparently, there is a small island between Tasmania and Victoria that is jointly owned by the two states - hence they have a border!

I was not surprised by Edinburgh and Bristol. Quite a number of years ago, the British weather maps were not aligned North-South, but with the south coast of England positioned horizontally. Not sure when the map became N/S aligned, but it was at that point I started checking out the long, lat of places. It felt very weird, as if I had been lied to all my life.

A few hundred metres east of the southern end of Coolangatta airport is a gated community called Kirra Shores. The only car entrance is at the intersection of Appel St and Binya Ave, which is in Qld, though all the property is in NSW. A few of the houses on the edge have private personal gates through the fence, but cars can only exit by going to another state.

I think it has been covered many times before. There is a part of the USA that is cut off in Canada in a town called Point Roberts.

For the river-border intersections, there is another in Australia! Along the north-western border between NSW and ACT, there is a suburb-sized region which is closed off from the rest of NSW by the Murrumbidgee River and Ginniderra Creek. My personal favourite facts are: that Harbin, China (famous for its ice festivals and generally being very cold) is at the same latitude as the northernmost point of the Mediterranean, at the town of Monfalcone, Italy, and that France shares its longest country border with Brazil, thanks to French Guyana

out of all the big west coast cities (seattle, portland, SF, Sacramento, LA) portland is simultaneously the furthest from the ocean and the furthest west of them all

I have 2 favorite geography facts: St martin is an island so nice they named it thrice And The city of london is a city in a city in a country in a country

Just discovered you. Like the videos. Live in London, UK..........well north of Australia 😂😂

Western most point of the island of Great Britain ? It's not Land's End in Cornwall, it's Ardnamurchan Point in Scotland. Smiles

One of my favorite geography quirks is that New York and Rhode Island have a shared border, just it's over water. Another one is just how close some states get to each other without actually bordering. Louisiana and Oklahoma are only 49 miles apart, New Jersey is really close to both Maryland and Connecticut, Maine is really close to Vermont and Massachusetts, Texas and Colorado are only 30 miles apart, and there's a bunch of other combinations, too

The point on the southeast corner of Queensland, on the coast at the border with New South Wales, is closer to: -every other Australian state -New Caledonia -Vanuatu -New Zealand -Papua New Guinea -and Solomon Islands than it is to Boigu Island, the furthest point from it in Queensland.

A fun fact to go along with the Canada/California bit is that while the 49th parallel defines the bulk of the US/Canada border, 70% of Canadians live south of it.

There is a part of NSW that is also isolated by a river and the ACT border. As Canberra grows, this area is proposed to become a residential area and has become subject to discussions about a potential border shift.

4:25 reminds me of a river near my house which crosses into my county, and then about 100ft further downstream it crosses back into the neighboring county.

Here is another fun one. Edinburgh is north of moscow.

Medellin Colombia is further east than Miami, Florida, despite Colombia being in the north west corner of South America.

I think the thing British people find difficult to wrap their heads around with Bristol/Edinburgh is that Bristol is the West Country city - it's the big city where everyone talks like the Wurzels and it's in the south west, so obviously it's further west than a city on the east coast of Scotland, right? Obviously not!

hey man, i was really interested by the calculations you did in the last part of the video and I was wondering if you could recommend anything in regards to learning how to do this?

If you want strange border stuff there is always Baerle-Duc and Baarle-Nassau at the Belgium and Netherlands border. And the many Spanish enclave in Morocco like Ceuta or Penon de Velez de la Gomera, and Llívia in France

One of my favorites: The US state of Arkansas borders six other states (Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma); it is possible to cross from Arkansas to each of these six states while traveling directly south.

All those weird facts were pretty interesting. Edinburgh really got me because Britain seems quite North South but aint. BTW I thought a friend who also likes weird facts would be surprised by a Vic Tas land border but he already knew about it. Common Trivia Night question he said.

I really liked the Panama and Darwin facts, I hadn't heard them before

One I love is that the southernmost point in Canada is more west than the entirety of South America

there's also a part in the USA called Point Roberts, that's in the northwest separated from the rest of the USA, and kids in high school have to travel in Canada, then back into the USA that's not separated just to go to high school.

The most interesting border in Australia which not only is the shortest land border between two states but is also the only land border between Tasmania and Victoria. It is located in the Bass Strait on what is called Boundary Islet.

I've flown in and out of Coolangata Airport several times for the Indy races 15 years ago. I had no idea!

lol, I saw that video in the last week myself. Along with presumably lots of other people.

One that I got for you, Winnipeg the coldest provincial capitol of Canada is further south than 16 European capitols, all cities with vastly warmer climates than Winnipeg.

There are a couple of examples of land getting cut off from the rest of its territory along the US-Canada border. Point Roberts in Washington and Angle Inlet in Minnesota (which is also the northernmost point in the continental US)

Similar to the part of South Australia that is only accessible by land from Victoria due to a river, the southwestern-most part of Kentucky is only accessible from Tennessee due to a bend in the Mississippi River.

To the point on the Gold Coast airport how you touch the tarmac in New South Wales first but the plane stops in Queensland, there is another interesting fact for most passengers. They nearly all live in Queensland, but when we drive to that airport, we drive down the highway from Queensland into New South Wales and back across the border into Queensland to park our cars as the highway sort of curves and loops around the border. It’s only for about 300-400 metres but it happens.

In North America, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the U.S./Canada border. The library has two different addresses: 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, Vermont, USA, and 1 rue Church (Church Street), Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.

The Panama one was literally jaw dropping for me!

The Coolangata airport (officially called "Gold Coast Airport") had trouble during Covid - when Queensland decided to open it they had trouble because half the employees are from NSW, which was locked down. I don't have more details on how they dealt with it.

In Albury Wodonga there an island in the murray River that is in Victoria, but you can only access by driving into Nsw. Must've been hard for the people living there during the border closures!

Sorry if this one was said, but Alaska in the US is technically the most Western and Eastern state due to the international date line.

i remember reading about the california fact and i was so shocked i had to check myself

The Adelaide-Darwin thing is really cool.

Nsw and Act. There is a small section of Nsw only assessable from Act because of a river. Though I heard that are trading the land from Nsw to Act.

a)Check out the lines on longitude between the Welland Canal and the Panama Canal! b)the shoreline of the Great Lakes is about 10,000 miles c) You can fit Wales into Lake Huron- twice!

The surprising one for me was learning that the US-Canada border, specifically the 49th Parallel portion, is not actually a straight line. At the local level it swoops around a lot because of the low tech survey equipment used at the time, but because the line cuts through a lot of forested area you can actually see the political boundary from satellite because of all the cleared away trees xD

Perfect trivia for bar bets

The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, Italy (45.43N) is just north of the Peace Tower on the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada (45.42N). Most of Venice is north of most of Ottawa.

The little pocket cut off by the river can also be found in my home state of Kentucky! It’s called New Madrid and it’s completely surrounded by the land of Tennessee and the Mississippi River. Another interesting fact is it’s a seismic hotspot home to one of the largest earthquakes in USA history, which caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards creating what is now Reelfoot Lake!

Kinda random fun fact: Seattle is one of the US's most northerly cities, but sees far less snow than places hundreds of miles south of it, like Chicago. Yet the coastal waters of Los Angeles are much, much colder than those of Washington, DC! This is because the US midwest gets slammed by cold polar air in winter, and the Great Lakes do nothing to stop this, while western states have multiple mountain ranges to block cold air, and get warm air blowing in off the Pacific. However, the ocean is cold because the thermal circulation currents in the Earth's oceans turn clockwise in the northern hemisphere. This means cold water comes down from Alaska to California, chilling the coastal waters, even though the Pacific at large is actually warmer than the Atlantic. Conversely, warm water from the Caribbean flows up the east coast, keeping coastal waters very warm.

awesome facts!

Some cool city ones in the North America are Point Roberts, which is just weird, and there’s one city in Mexico in that little nook between California and Arizona where going in any cardinal direction ends you in the US. Also it’s always weird for me to remember that Paris is north of most of the population of Canada.

My favorite geography thing: out of the six extremes in the United States (highest point, lowest point land point, easternmost, westernmost, southernmost, and northernmost - and only looking at the 50 states); four of the six are in Alaska. Hawaii is southernmost, California is Lowest (Death Valley); and Alaska is north, west, east (Crosses 180, though the date line bends around the Aleutian Islands), and highest (Mount Denali).

There is a similar point in northern Minnesota, called the northwest angle, that is completely cut off from the rest of the country by a lake. When the lake isn’t frozen over, residents have to travel either by boat or through Canada to reach the rest of the state. It is actually the most northern point of the continental US.

A fact I find wild is that the most direct route from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Santiago, Chile would be to go north through Russia and the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. It looks crazy on a Mercator projection but makes more sense when you switch it to a globe projection

I never looked at a map of the UK in detail before but I always generaliser Scotland as being more west then England and Wales given the shape of the continent so I guess I knew Edinburgh was further west

The southernmost tip of the North Island of NZ is 125 km south of the northernmost tip of the South Island. The Cook Strait ferry from the North Island (Wellington) travels North West to get to the South Island (Picton), and travels South East to get from south to north.

I’ve always loved the fact that Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, AND easternmost state in the US (because the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° line). And since Hawaii is the southernmost, that means that none of the other extremities of the US are actually in the continental states. 😂

Chicago, USA is slightly south of Rome, Italy. Rome receives almost no annual snowfall while Chicago receives 94 cm.

One of my favorites is that Atlanta is West of Detroit

The southernmost airport in Canada is closer to Atlanta Hartfield Airport than Miami Airport The flight from Melbourne to Auckland is shorter than the flight from Melbourne to Perth If you fly non-stop from Sao Paulo to Seoul (shortest route), you fly over Europe, but if you fly non-stop from Sao Paulo to Tokyo, you fly over North America. You can sail in a straight line from England to New Zealand

One of my favorites is the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the coldest cities in the Continental United States is about the same latitude as Bordeaux, France.

Not many people know that the city of Dublin grows in size by a factor of two every year!