What Are The Most Inland Capital Cities? 

Mexico City?

@@cuentadell7469 Mexico City is only about 200 miles from Veracruz, 4-5 hour drive with much better road conditions. You can expect a 16 hour drive through mountainous terrain and jungle to reach Cartagena. Meanwhile on the Colombian pacific coast is extremely desolate and inaccessible as well.

Ulaanbatar

@@dr.woozie7500 An unusual feature of Colombia is that, despite having as long a Pacific coast as California, there are only two public roads to that coast. The Panama Canal company has always opposed the construction of new roads. One of them, the Tumaco road, is frequently closed - as a show of power, delinquents often park in the centre of the road while they have a beer or twelve and other road users just have to wait. There is a third pristine private road but it is not marked on any maps and blurred out on Google Maps, being for illicit use only.

​@@MylifesuckslolThe entire country being landlocked is cheating lol

"landlocked" is subjective - you can sail down the ottawa river to the st lawrence , around mtl, past quebec and out into the atlantic. it's pretty inland, sure, but i don't know about "landlocked"

I thought it had to do with the fact that Ottawa lies on the border of Ontario and Quebec or pretty much french speaking Canada and english speaking Canada. I think I read somewhere that Ottawa's population is the closest you'll get to even native english speakers and native french speakers

@@lanzsibelius you may be right but realistically the choice was mostly made strategically due to the relative distance between Ottawa and the American border, where there had been some notable tension within the past few decades

@@greatpyramid4348 farther - further Farther and further are both comparative forms of far. Farthest and furthest are the superlative forms. When you are talking about distance, you can use any of these forms.

It isn't. Furthest is and furthermost.@@greatpyramid4348

We have to use the nearest coast in a straight line

But the practicalities of travel are interesting too, you can't get from A to B as the crow flies

Brasília é longe do mar e das fronteiras.

The thing is, Brasília is perfectly planned so as not to be attacked by any neighboring country or other places, it is just lower than any hill in Brazil just in case a missile tries to hit the capital

amsterdam does border it

Ummm not really. It's close but not directly on the coast. It can still access the ocean via the numerous canals in the city.

@@StefanVeenstraYou can listen to a correct pronunciation on the Oceania wikipedia page.

The I is not silent.@@StefanVeenstra

As much as it makes me cringe as well, the fact he butchered the pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro (by saying Ja-ne-rio instead) immediately afterwards nearly made me punch my monitor.

Yeah that is somethign you sshould definitely know, especially if you wanna brand yourself as a geography channel.@@sdpnz

​@@sdpnz he took the /i/ sound he didn't pronounce in Oceania and added to Rio de Janeiro

well, South Africa has 3 capitals and one of them (Cape Town) it's in the wet part of the country, i don´t know if it's the wettest part but it's wet

then europe and asia should be counted as one continent as it has the same landmass and shelf.

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Personally I agree (which would reduce the number of trans-continental countries to two), but we do also have to consider politics. And there are subtle differences between the two, most notably where the Tethys closed.

The video should really have been called Which Capital Cities Are Furthest From The Sea? Because obviously everything in a landlocked country is inland by definition. So this video, being titled 'Inland', ought to have restricted itself to countries with coastlines.

yeah that would've been more interesting@@phuttyyt

@@phuttyyt True.

Islamabad at 1130 kms from the ocean Delhi 850

@@saad-wo3kb Nope, Islamabad is about 1100 kms and Delhi about 1020 kms not 850 as you have mentioned. These are roughly equal distances.

I just thought on Delhi not as Also Bengaluru is also an inlan

@@MudaliarKanishkar Capital city.

Yes Delhi is perhaps the most inland capital city among countries who have coastline.

​@thecomment9489 Islamabad 🇵🇰 is approximately 1130 kms away from the ocean which is probably the most inland capital of a coastal country Although dehli 🇮🇳 is also pretty far away at 850 kilometers,can't think of more inland capitals for coastal contries

I dont think that are any besides saharian or gulf countries. A river is just too necessary for the develop, transport and source of water for a big city as usually capitals are.

Astana is closer to Arctic ocean

​@@adamsiroky161Thanks, I realize it's that big cove from Russia that's helping out!

​@@adamsiroky161thats not fair.

It got changed to Nur-Sultan in 2019 and back to Astana in 2022

Brasilia. It's so far from the sea and the borders

@@italomatheus8615 I know! That was one of the good ones. The central Asian countries as well as Paraguay and Bolivia were boring choices because they’re so obvious

Most rivers are connected to the sea. Chicago has international shipping facilities. No one would say Chicago is not inland. Therefore no one would say Kiev is not inland.

@@gurrrn1102 we talkin about capital cities fam. it makes a huge difference if a capital city has a river/sea you can do business with.. London isnt directly on the ocean but the Thames connects it to the ocean so it also has harbour & docks.. Sofia/Bulgaria doesnt have any of that + is the highest altitude capital in Europe together with Madrid & Andorra

@@mike15. so my point is negated just because my example inland port city isn’t a capital?!

The correct pronunciation is ki-GAH-lee

@@mysteriousDSF Not like it really matters. I’ll consider pronouncing it like that though

Seeing how he can't pronounce Rio de Janeiro or Oceania correctly, you shouldn't really worry. Yours is probably more correct than his anyway.

@@SquishyOfCinder Remember that he is British. British people talk differently. I kinda like the pronunciation “Kih-gah-lee” better anyway.

@@ItsKyltii sure they pronounce things differently, but his pronunciations are still wrong even in the british dialect

Yes, a lake called the Caspian Sea.

Kemerovo isn't the "capital of Siberia". Novosibirsk is. Also, Siberia isn't clearly defined, but Novosibirsk is a center of Siberian Federal District encompassing much of Siberia. Kemerovo is the center of one of the regions in Siberia - namely, Kemerovo oblast with some 2.5 mln people in the region, Kemerovo itself being 0.5 mln. Novosibirsk on the other hand has well above 1.6 mln people.

Kemerovo is not the farthest point, it is a bit south in China, Xinjiang

It would appear what my local interpreter told me was a load of bollox@@bhookkaintezam

nah, talk about beijing.

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Beijing though inland is not as much inland as Delhi. Delhi is more than 1000 kms away from the nearest coastline.

No he shouldnt

@@gurrrn1102 why?

@@thecomment9489 why should he talk about Delhi?

Istanbul is right on the coast

It's on the coast you silly person.

Istanbul is not a capital city and it is on the coast

Ankara is the capital...

@@greatpyramid4348wrong Moscow Red Square is 670 km to the water northwest of Kotlin Island

@@greatpyramid4348 go measure it yourself I’ll wait.

@@greatpyramid4348 I measure from the Red Square then from Kremlin directly straight in a line to Kotlin Island west of Fort Rif. So how did you get your results ?

I think you mean New Delhi.

@@DickTate New Delhi is contained with Delhi. So they are basically the same for all practical purposes.

@@thecomment9489 Delhi boasts a history that spans several millennia, with evidence of ancient civilisations and empires, some peaceful and some not so peace-friendly. New Delhi has a relatively shorter history. It was planned and constructed during the British colonial era. Delhi exhibits iconic architectural styles reflecting Mughal and Persian influences. Whereas, New Delhi features predominantly British colonial architecture. This is what we call Lutyens’ Delhi. New Delhi specifically refers to the central administrative area that houses important government institutions like the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House, Supreme Court and iconic landmarks like the India Gate. Delhi is made up of a mix of old and new neighbourhoods. There is Old Delhi with its iconic landmarks like the Jama Masjid and Red Fort, bustling markets, old narrow lanes and centuries-old residential areas. New Delhi is characterised by well-planned, wide boulevards, and open spaces. The difference is stark.

@@DickTate Well their distances from the nearest shoreline won't depend on their histories but geographies and as I already mentioned New Delhi is contained within Delhi.

Adelaide is much more like the Vancouver of Australia. On the west coast and isolated from the main population centres in the east.

That’s not true though.

Beijing New Delhi Moscow Berlin Kinshasa Cairo None of them have ocean access.

​@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71You named 6 cities. How is that "most?"

⁠@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71 Kinshasa and Cairo are on rivers that empty into the ocean and would hardly be considered "in land"

Paris, London, Madrid, etc@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71