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Africa looks almost the same, its actually a bit smaller on the globe - this is because most flat maps use an equatorial type of projections ... this means the distortion is the smallest a the Equator and grows further out towards the poles, the most extreme example is Antarctica ... since Africa is relatively close to the Equator the distortion of its size is small ... and so the proportions are quite accurate ...
@@renanstpc Well most people hear about this only once or twice if at all in school and are not interested in geography enough to look up or remember such fact, as it does not really have any effect on their lives ... so its understandable ... But ibx2cat basically is all about maps so you would assume he had at least a basic idea of how projection works .....
You can be even more precise: the only function that the mercator projection fulfills perfectly is for navigating with ships (and over land for most purposes)
@@guppy719 It isn't, but it's the best compromise between being readable/usable and being accurate. The "best" maps would be conical/pseudoconical maps or the Azimuthal equidistant projection (seen from above where the southpole looks like an ice ring around the world.) Or polyhedral maps would be very precise. But those maps would be very confusing to read and navigating would be extremely hard. With the mercator projection we, simple people, can easily read the map and navigate, despite it not being accurate. Now try to navigate from Europe to the New World with the Fuller projection for example
I like how he said the most populous country in Europe is not the larges, meanwhile Russia (technically in Europe) is the largest and the most populous (edit: spelling)
13:00 Austria is so slim because Italy nicked part of it after WW1, where they speak German to this day (South Tyrol or Alto Adige). Otherwhise Austria would be a bit wider.
3:55 those are the 2100 UN projection which are frankly terrible. IIASA projection are much more realistic and don't just project current growth like UN does.
I've been watching toycat for a long time, and once I got into geography and world politics about two years ago now, I started watching more of 2cat. I remember when this channel has 20k subscribers
That population map that looks like the continents are over-inflated, or under-inflated balloons is called a cartogram. The exaggerated features (like continent, or country size) helps showcase the data set size/amount of data points.
7:10 I think the correlation is even simpler than that. I think the wealth was there 2000 years ago cuz that’s where the most people were. The reason there’s so many people there today is that on average the growth across the world will roughly balance out meaning that the proportion of the world that lives in India has never changed hugely.
"you looking pretty fat there united states'" Keep talking and we'll go to war with you *eats nuclear missile* We may be fat, but we have more bombs than we know what to do with young man
I notice that open defacation seems to be much rarer in Bangladesh than in the rest of South Asia, particularly India. (Compare to the population map.) Maybe it's because they know their country floods.
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10:00 "Kiev is beautiful, just remember that. Before it becomes, inevitably, a part of a much more brutal [and] less pretty country. Enjoy Kiev while it lasts." Hm, this is interesting to hear now. Given current events.
I always wondered how they recored the nationality of a Nobel Prize Winner cause if I remember correctly, most “American” Prize Winners are just intellectuals who moved the US.
@@scottwhitley3392 - A TON of scientists are educated and/or conduct their research in the U.S. In fact, the USA has won one or more Nobel Prizes each and every single year going back to the early 1930s (save for 3 yrs in WW2 when none were given).
I mean, yeah these maps may be usefull in a raising awareness but they look ugly so I can't approve. Wouldn't a colour coded map have done the same job while still preserving the ability to recognize and understand the data of all countries. Still, this is my favorite channel where we talk about the world and stuff so I guess I can deal with it;)
Majority of india now has a birthrate close to 2 or less than 2. Urban cities are edging closer to 1. The problem remain two states in north/central india which have a combined population of 300mn....which still have a fertitlity around 2.5 and much of our population problem is the affects of what the previous generations did 30 years ago lmao.
This is where we have that fun moment and debate whether I meant countries solely in Europe, or if the fact that a country spans 2 continents disqualifies it.
Hey! I live in the western part of Austria! And yea, my part of Austria is very well linked to germany, italy and switzerland, it takes about the same amount of time to get to those countries closer big cities like Milano or Munich etc. Convenient indeed
How about a video on twin US States that are nothing alike: Nevada/Utah, Minnesota/Wisconsin, Vermont/New Hampshire? Or twin countries that are nothing alike: North Korea/South Korea, Chile/Argentina, USA/Canada?
You are conflating 2 things: countries which are nothing alike, like North Korea/South Korea and ones which are similar but slightly more different than they should be based on the fact that they are neighbors (everything else you've mentioned). For example USA/Canada are objectively similar. You may be biased to see them as different if you are from an English-speaking country because you just have a lot of knowledge about them, so you know a lot about the differences as well. To everyone else, they are very similar. Of course I'm taking into account things that affect everyday life, like the quality of life, freedoms, etc, rather than the geography which may indeed be different, but then you may just as well talk about the geographic regions like plains, mountain ranges etc, rather than countries, which are political creatures.
Excuse me, but I happen to love the "let's visit the McDonald's" part of every video, and that, along with the search for the world's best kebab, are integral to why I'm here
Will we ever run out of maps? I guess never Btw what about fictional maps or historical maps would you think you can work with those? Dante's inferno Tolkien Lord of the rings map stuff like that
It's not if Europe was connected to Africa again via the strait of Gibraltar, it's a when. Africa is moving north towards Europe, that's where the Alps came from.
