The largest CITIES in the USA summarized - Part 1 (Geography Now!) 

We just finished filming the next few episodes today so while we are in post-production editing the next country, Many of you requested this topic for filler week so here it is! PART 1 of the Largest cities PER STATE summarized! Birmingham Alabama to Kansas city Missouri. Enjoy!

conspiracy theory: swaziland changed their name to get their geography now episode early

Imagine eSwatini just changing their name to just be mentioned sooner in Geography Now

I live around Detroit, and I love it. The Urban decay is actually pretty cool, to look at. Its sort of post apocalyptic, centered around a pretty cool downtown, reminds me of fallout. And with the steady swarm of hipsters moving here, there's a lot more art, good food, and craft beer here. Good area for music and comedy too!

The Atlanta airport is actually the busiest in the world, not just in America. Also, on another transportation note, according to a recent study, Atlanta has the 8th WORST traffic in the world. Being from here, I believe it. I-285, Atlanta's perimeter, is the worst.

"A lot of the streets don't make sense like they're kind of twisty and windy": Literally every city in Europe.

Connecticut is also where the slender man come from I’m believe

I’m from Denver and I laughed so hard when he said the airport is in the middle of some corn field. 😂😂😂 it’s true DIA is about 40 minutes outside of Denver.

"Oh, and never ever put ketchup on your hot dogs" Looks like I wasn't meant for Chicago.

Atlanta international Airport ATL is not just the busiest airport in the US but the entire WORLD. Over 100 million passengers a year.

three things to note about connecticut: 1) it has one of the largest income inqualities in the US. this means some of the richest postcodes in the country are right next to some of the poorest. 2) towns close to new york and along the coastline *tend* to be nicer (so southern CT) (bit of a generalization but y’know) 3) towns also tend to be nicer/wealthier than cities. so bridgeport is quite poor and depressing but it’s right next to the towns of fairfield county, which are very beautiful and wealthy.

People think detroit is like mega dangerous which yeah it isn't the safest city in the world And I wouldn't wanna be out at night (walking or driving depending on the area) But unless you go to some dangerous part of the city you should be fine. Plus detroit has great pizza so you should go

Can you do the largest cities in Europe summarised next ? Kinda liked this.

Would be amazing if you could include some maps, for us, European muggles.

i think there are three titans of California: LA, San francisco, and San Diego

Jacksonville has more ppl than Miami in the city limits

Ohio will be interesting... Cleveland: "We're the largest urban area!" Cincinnati: *"We're the largest metro area!"* Columbus:"We'll be the largest!"

As a non-US viewer, please, complete this list. It's so great to actually get nuanced information about states and cities of the US, how it's not just all "american city", but instead local stereotypes and specialities. Love it!

I've always said that Atlanta is "The Hollywood of the South."

Birmingham is the “Pittsburgh of the South.”

ALMOST 1 MILL SUBS!!!!!

Chicago’s known for its suburbs and how everyone who says they’re from Chicago are actually from Naperville.

As someone from Tucson, I can say even though I've never been to Phoenix, based off this, Tucson and Phoenix are very similar. Here in Tucson there are mountains surrounding the whole city, and you can see them at every corner. We also have lots of cactuses and we regularly drive through highways that wind up mountains and through valleys.

Thank you for the Des Moines shoutout!! I've lived here for 13 years and will be sadly moving in August. I had the opportunity to live there during a time of rampant growth which has been awesome, I always say the city feels bigger than the population would suggest!

Connecticut: literally the definition of wealth inequality. You got places like Greenwich which is like pretty much Gilmore girls and then places like Bridgeport,waterbury etc that are poor and crime ridden. Theres a town where jfk's nephew has a mansion and on the same street theres a bunch of mobile homes

Now I want to travel to USA. This is great video content, Barbs!

Kansas City for sure is known for our BBQ. If you ever come back, try the burnt ends. They're delicious and you can't go wrong ordering them.

Finally someone talks about Detroit that actually has real knowledge about the city.

Do the same with the largest cities in Europe

Hey Barbs! I love watching your vids! When you get to New Jersey, as I was born and raised in the state, Newark in summary is quite historic and diverse in people and culture with a predominantly Hispanic community. It's a cool place to visit as there is great food to try and there's Branch Brook Park, a park well known for having the well known Cherry Blossom trees.

Jacksonville is the biggest city in Florida, not Miami

Yes, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the busiest airport in the U.S. However, it is also the busiest airport in the world, and has been for a number of years! Very cool

I live in New London County, Connecticut. A brief description of Bridgeport and our state in general is that certain parts of the state are very clean and rich and preppy, other parts are farm country, and other parts are industrial wastelands. Cities are generally very poor and underdeveloped and not maintained, while suburbs are kept well. Schools in public cities are failing while suburb schools are thriving. Any questions? AMA.

How many people still don't get it that Barbi goes alphabetical ...... apperently a lot LOL

8:16 lol that's so True I almost got jumped in Chicago for putting ketchup on my Hotdogs 😂

"Maybe my city will be on this list" *BIRMINGHAM* "My city BETTER be on this list."

You should try geogessr for a filler week. I think youll like it.

I'm from Phoenix. In Arizona, you actually get a property tax deduction for not having grass.

You defiantly need to visit New Orleans/ Louisiana! I’ve lived here my whole life and we love visitors coming and being interested in our culture and history!⚜️💜💚💛

10:20 that rollercoaster you see, was actually removed over 8 years ago

I work in Baltimore and you were really accurate about the attractions. The neighborhoods are great and next time you come, check out inner harbor. Lots of good restaurants. Also, there is the National Aquarium. I wasn’t born or raised there, but I do feel like I belong. Looking forward to hearing your impression of NYC. I’m from NY, but I grew up on Long Island. Keep up the great videos. Really entertaining

*Atlanta has one of the largest metro areas in the country and the biggest and busiest airport in the world*

This was cool. Hope there's a part 2!

I live in Minneapolis and you’re right, I would add the growing diversity, and the Minnesota friendliness to the mixture. Our favorite landmark, Mall Of America. And the crazy fun activities you can do during both summer and winter. From sledding, snowboarding, skiing, kayaking, swimming, fishing, ice fishing, driving on lakes, boating, golfing, walking down eat street ( a 4 mile road of restaurants), hiking, and all the snow shoveling lol

Sweden's first attempt at colonialism in the US is just about as forgettable as Delaware itself. As for Atlanta, that has the busiest airport in the world, not just the country.

Miami is my hometown so I’ll summarize it: “Miami, Cuba, but richer”

Dope Video!

You my friend, are awesome. And I love the Baltimore one xD

In CT we go by Nutmeggers and Bridgeport is not a nice 'clean' city AT ALL and is very depressing

Best way to describe LA is by watching Bladerunner

As an Alabamian that lives right outside of Birmingham, I’m offended you assume we all root for Alabama. The whole state is pretty much split evenly between Alabama and Auburn fans 😂. Great video nonetheless

You got EVERYTHING right about Denver. Especially the airport.

Even if the name change is widely adopted, the e- of eSwatini is kinda equivalent to the "The" in "The Gambia" so you could certainly still argue for alphabetising under "Sw". This is kinda also true of Lesotho, Burundi but the capitalisation scheme in siSwati emphasises the root as the primary thing (unlike that in Sesotho and Kirundi) so the alphabetising eSwatini under "Sw" is not that inconsistent with capitalising Lesotho under "Le" (rather than "So") or Burundi under "Bu" (rather than "Ru").

Some facts about Boise, ID 1. It's BOY-see, not boy-ZEE (don't worry, no one pronounces it right outside of Idaho) 2. It's the fastest growing city in the country 3. It's centered around the Boise River, one of the cleanest rivers in an urban environment in the country 4. We have the largest Basque population in the United States (there's an entire Basque section of downtown Boise) 5. We're really nice people and many people visiting the city remark on how strange it is that everyone says hi to one another on the street even though there are 500,000 people in the Treasure Valley 6. No, we're not in Witness Protection (at least to my knowledge) 7. If I had to compared us to other cities it'd be a mix of Portland, SLC and Denver. We have a thriving (though small) progressive area of the city (the NorthEnd), are heavily influenced by the Mormon religion like SLC, and are an outdoorsman's dream like Denver (seriously, nowhere can compete with our combination of hiking, fishing, camping, rivers, foothills, forests, etc.) You should visit. Just keep it to yourself that you're from California. We're obnoxiously anti-California because many from the state are moving here and causing the cost of living to go up even though our wages aren't changing. Also, we're crazy conservatives (Boise is more moderate), so Cali politics are insane to most in the state. Just stay away from Canyon County.

Dude hell ya I've grown up in Anchorage Alaska. The cold makes you strong. The snow makes you tuff.

Hey will u pleaseeeee make videos ranking all the US states based on different criteria? Like rank the warmest, coldest, snowiest, most diverse, least diverse, highest/lowest crime, etc etc! Aaaand please do ranking of 1-50, do cities aaaand states, maybe two cities per state? A lot of youtubers do a similar thing but they only do like a 1 to 10 ranking and I’m looking for a new place to move and I want to compare all the states on all the criteria and cities!

The coolest thing happened today we are some watching your videos in our geography lessons, my teacher discribed you as a 'rather strange presenter'

Denver and elk? I've never heard of that and I lived there for years. Mind you, they do some exotic food out there. Have you ever tried Rocky Mountain Oysters? I told my Dutch husband about them prior to our trip there and he looked confused 😂😂😂 Keep on going. Almost 1,000,000 subs 👍🏼

Wow he has the part of slovenian flag in his room🤗 Grettings from slovenia

I live in Denver, can confirm that was fairly accurate. Can't leave out that its the weed capital of the world tho Haha.

Oh Barb! Summarize the Native indian reservation areas next! That'll be very interesting I think

As a New Orleanean, we criiinnngggeeee when people say New Orleeeeens (like you did) or Nawlins - because that's not how we say it. New Or-lunhs is jussstttt fine. Back to the show... *hugs*

You should do a video on state capitals if you haven’t

@3:36 - 4:01 Hi Paul, I've been watching and subscribing since the India episode (I'm not Indian, but I was coincidentally working on a project about Gandhi in my history class) and I'm born & raised in Colorado (I even lived in Northglenn for 4 years @3:51). Many of the people are known for hiking or walking around lakes (sometimes reservoirs if they're one of those hardcore people who rarely go inside), but some prefer to be in the metro area to walk down Denver's 16th street mall (an outdoor mall stretching several blocks which includes a few retail stores, a bowling alley, and a movie theater). Here it is not uncommon to have people taking pictures and/or selfies of the scenic points within the city (especially during a sunset/sunrise), and people might even pull over to a backroad for a minute or two to do this (guilty as charged)! Trail mix is definitely common in gift shops and tourist sites, and surprisingly enough there's a city by Rocky Mountain National Park called Estes Park which has elk burgers (I've never tried any though) but here's some more CO quisine intel aside from the typical burger joints: vegetarian/vegan restaurants & yogurt shops, Rocky Mountain Oysters at the infamous Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant, and the Original Chubby's for their Mexican-American menu featuring choices "north and south of the border." As far as kayaking goes, it's fairly common along rivers; but there's a huge thing for skiing and snowboarding in the winter as well as paddleboarding in the spring/summer. Many of them have the purple "coexist" sticker on their vehicle (which is usually a Subaru outback with a bike rack, and also light green or forest green 8 times out of 10). Cheers!

So true about Miami! It’s definitely the Latin Capital of the world, from Mexico, all of the Caribbean, to the southern most tip of South America you can find every type Spanish speaking country native. Televisa, Telemundo, Univision all have headquarters here. The food for sure is amazing, last night I ate Peruvian food and went to eat Honduran food the day after. Its crazy. I won’t ever get tired of Miami.

Wow nice animation at the end with all the floating Geography Now logos

Love from Los Angeles to all the other geograpeeps out there

Finally, someone mentioned Detroit and talked about stuff other than crime and bankruptcy. Thank you. -From a Michigander

Louisiana is like the Quebec of America.

You can’t beat Chicago. There’s so much to love. And No Chicago isn’t all violence.

Recently moved to Boise ID. Pretty cool city. Real hipster vibe downtown and it's been in the top 10 fastest growing cities the past couple years.

3:25 Paul: "Broken Dreams" Me: "Yeah I have Broken Dreams, too, because of MY MOM!?!??!?" **gets depressed**

iirc Atlanta's airport is actually the word's busiest as well

Nice video. And we may have started a debate on weather you will go with Columbus or Cleveland for Ohio and you probably will go with c-bus but I hope you do c-land. There is a Great Lakefront culture (no pun intended) a decent shipping industry, and good downtown bars and restaurants.

Detroit is awsome!! I go there a few times every year and I swear, there is a new sky scraper every time I go!

I'm from Jackson, MS and this is the first time that i've ever seen a youtube video that pointed out some of the good of the city. basically everyone hates our state and our capital but hey, we don't care because it's absolutely beautiful here year round. We have amazing museums, great entertainment. great food, and we definitely have culture. Over the last few years the city has gotten a lot safer and the crime rate has actually started to fall for the first time in many many years. Not to mention the downtown revival that started in the late 2000's that has made downtown Jackson into a lively area where people come together all the time.

Damn, my city is next week

Phoenix's Cactus flipping the bird to everyone 😂

Boise is pronounced “boy-see” not “boy-z”...This is the number one way to know if someone is from Idaho or not.

Absolutely true about crabs in Baltimore. To the point where you can get almost anything flavored with our local crab seasoning "Old Bay", from chips to burgers to BBQ sauce.

Wrong Jacksonville is the largest city in florida

"Minneapolis is a safe town".

Nice vid

I like this filler week episode which gives the information for largest cities in the usa and it was kind of good think ok thank you! Barbs

We call ourselves “Connecticuties”

Boise. Pronounced "Boy-C" not "Boy-Z". Common mistake I used to make too. Wasn't til I moved here that I finally learned.

When you talked about KC barbecue I bursted with joy. Joe’s KC barbecue is a place anyone who visits Kansas City MUST go to

9:44 I think he missed one line thatI feel like should've been added as a mention. "Oh, they also have this rescued B-29 named Doc, it's at there airport."

when will you buy actual microphone?

Could you do this, but for UK cities?

That makes me want to go to all of these cities!!

I'm from Connecticut and it's very interesting... because I live in tolland county and in tolland county there are farms in the west and forest in the east then suburban towns in the center pretty much Connecticut's bigger cities like Hartford, bridgeport, Newhaven and new London have very rundown/ almost haunted sections and pretty much stay away from the coastal areas of new haven and new London counties and its much less depressing and scary but then hartford like the coastal sections of new London and new haven counties except less as bad

How dare you forget about Atlanta.

I moved from NJ to LA, and that double edged sword thing you said couldn’t have been more true.

that's about right for denver except for the trail mix in the cars. you should come here you'd love it!

I used to live in the Atlanta area, and yeah, the weather can be reasonable and the scenery is beautiful. And I hear that a lot of movies being filmed there within the last year or so. Specifically action movies or sitcoms.

I wonder what he'll say about Milwaukee. It's like Chicago except smaller, more segregated and more beer/ale focused.

Swaziland definitely changed their name so they dont have to wait anymore to be featured

4:25 On that note, I have some ancestors called the Tuttles that were really creepy people from Connecticut. You should look it up cuz it’s like it came straight out of a horror movie

That description of Denver was pretty accurate. Although, I’ve never eaten elk in my life.