Where is America? 

Jay going out on to a street shouting, ringing a bell and wearing a ridiculous costume to make a 10 second gag is the kind of confidence I aspire to have

Patiently waiting for the day they say "we're the map" in map costumes, and "here's the men" revealing their faces under the curtain

The other critical difference between Columbus and Vespucci is that there are a lot of historians who think Vespucci was lying. The area of coastline he claimed to have explored includes the mouth of the Amazon, a truly collosal geographic feature that he just didn't bother to mention. This has led to the theory that Vespucci never actually went to the New World, instead basing his account on plagiarized portions of other today-forgotten explorers' accounts.

3:22 The 8-bit rendition of Skin Sofa blended really nicely into the video.

Three Map Men videos in just over a months time. This truly is a golden age.

Lol @ “hot Canada”

The complete list of potential new names for the U.S.A. (For those of you who missed it) North Mexico Hot Canada The Republic Kingdom The United States of Columbus The Fifty Appalachia Greater New England Big Country Freedonia Worse Britain Chad 2 Vespuccio Our Graham Law and Order Republic of Rodeo Pacifica The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Woking Butter Dish The United States of Sub-par Railways (USSR) North of America Cooperworld-Jonesania Turtle Island Bradley Walsh The Incarcerators Chad 3 Destiny Manifested Have a Nice Day Land of the Rising Gun

The 8-bit version of Skin Sofa is the ring tone I never knew I needed

I hereby declare the United States henceforth be referred to as Chad 3.

Hi I’m a Cooper-Jonesanian living in the UK

3:45 We appreciate how much Jay is trying not to laugh. Well done.

Thank u for the Esperanto subtitle! I really need it! Dankon!

"Land of the Rising Gun" incredible

‘The United States of Sub-par Railways *USSR* ‘ that got me

7:26 Descended into more madness then usual. Your vids are too hilarious. Keep it up!

Omg, I nearly cried with laughter pausing the list of name alternatives! Very well done!

This version of the Map Men theme song sounds a little more juicy than normal

Ah yes, exactly how I like my sponsorship segments: 23% useful information, 77% psychological horror.

I’m just rewatching this for some quality map men content and realised the town crier bit was recorded in Enfield Town. Every video I get closer to working out exactly how close I live to Jay, who is (or was) definitely somewhere on the northern part of the Piccadilly line, and thus working out how alert I should be for possible sightings. Very exciting.

4:56 with 308 signatures, that is only slightly less than the 4.5 mlllion signatures asking AH to be removed from the Aquaman 2 movie.

1:40 Watching Jay Foreman is not knowing whether this was a green screen or actually just Jay in the outside

RIP to the guy who bought a map of a random House for almost 300,000 pounds...

I “discovered” this channel only a few weeks ago, and I am bing watching it all! Content is great, but the ad - especially this one - is pure (honey) gold!

Honestly, your commercials are the best I’ve seen!

Jay manically laughing while pouring honey into his mouth is an image I don't think I'll be able to unsee.

Winnie the Pooh: Yes, piglet! My relationship with honey is perfectly healthy. Winnie the Pooh 5 seconds later: 7:39

I am a map aficionado and you guys are hilarious! Thanks

This is both hilarious and informative. Seen a few now, will definitly watch more😂

The ability of these two to be unblinkingly deadpan is a joy to behold!

I love how Chad 2 and Chad 3 are both on the list of other possible names for the USA

As someone from the US that is rewatching this, I found this to be quite entertaining! The fact that "America" can mean, depending on the place and context, either a country or the entire landmass makes for quite a complex situation! Luckily, I have taken 3 years of Spanish classes, so now, I _do_ give thought to this (bucking the rule from 4:35): when speaking Spanish, just to be safe, I use the term _Los_ _Estados_ _Unidos_ to refer to the US, _estadounidense_ to refer to its people, and _América_ only to refer to the landmass! Thanks for the video! Also, I found the town-crier scene at 1:38, the Columbus list at 5:28, the list of names at 5:49 (particularly "the United States of Subpar Railways", which, as someone who is interested in trains, seems to apply to our passenger rail network quite well), the reference to "the USA of America" at 6:02, and the ad to be quite funny!

I nominate calling the USA, "Hot Canada"

I like to think Vespucci has finally got recognition in GTA5. They named the beach after him.

Little is known that when Amerigo departed, also set sail his twin brothers, Afrigo and Antarctigo, to discover new lands.

Intro was so great that I subscribed immediately.

The commercials are so honest, I love to watch them

Obviously Jay Foreman and Tom Scott post at the same time... again

It's like having a channel on RU-vid featuring two dudes and name the channel after only one of them

These are the only guys who make me watch an ad, and amuse me at the same time

1:39 Jay in yeoman custom is priceless!

After 12 years of watching you Jay, I'm going to subscribe

"Where is America?" -A question you'd never hear asked in an alien invasion movie.

OK, OK...I think i just confirmed to myself that laughter really is contagious... at 7:20 i was first highbrowed, 'that wasn't funny'... but then by the end of that little skit i was choking for air haha! Best sponsor intro ever lol! I love you guys x

The only youtubers who's adverts are a worthwhile watch!

Mark: ...Map Men. Auto-generated subtitles: *mad men* Seems legit.

One of the theories why Columbus never admitted that the america was a new continent Was because Spain only gave him governorship over any lands he discovered in _india_

In Amerigo's defense, though he was after Colombus, he was the first European exolorer, supposedly, to actually set foot on the continental mainland. Columbus had only landed on the Caribbean islands until a year after Amerigo. Yes I know i'm ignoring the vikings. Sorry.

This might be the best map men video AND best ad 😂

“Land of the Rising Gun” Oh my.

Short answer: it’s Somewhere. Slightly longer answer: America is in America, though America isn’t America because America has an America inside it, and also borders America.

One of the most enjoyable wikipedia fights is the long-running battle over what page searches for "America" should direct the reader to. You've gotta dig through the talk page of the "America (disambiguation)" to find it, but it's totally worth a read.

Great ,thanks for sharing😍

3:00 Fun fact. Leif Erikson did in fact name one of the areas he discovered "Mark Land" (or Merkiland) meaning "claimed land"

"Land of the Rising Gun" Perfection

I just found your channel ... hilarious and really well done! I will be back!

I've enjoyed ads before. I've had a hearty chuckle at some of them. But I've never had an ad make tears come out of my eyes from laughing.

"the united states of sub-par railways" got a real chuckle out of me, nice one y'all lol

had to rewind a few times to make sure it was skin sofa I was hearing in the background, whoa

that honey add is a blessing

THESE GUYS ARE MAGNIFICENT 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

keep up the good work

As a brazilian, it was really clever to include Chapulin on 4:42 as he is the one character that unites us all, both the spanish and the portuguese speaking countries

00:10 Mark needs someone to tell him how to button up a shirt.

that map at 1:54 - what is (by whom? from when?) it's interesting that there is "LA BORADOR" in the upper right part. I was googling it and found that apparently the region Labrador's etymology is the Spanish word Lavorador, so I have no idea how it ended up as two words on that map and then came back to one word Labrador

"Latin America, in the Spanish speaking world..." Brazil: "Am I a joke to you?"

The sponsor bit turned from a sitcom to a horror pretty fast

Superb! Brilliant don’t ever stop! Do you perform on comedy circuit?

3:23 I JUST noticed the 8-bit cover of Skin Sofa is playing in the background!!

Where I was born and raised (Costa Rica), we learned as kids that América was one continent that had four parts: North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands. Since I’ve lived in the US for almost 20 years, I have understood that in English, America means the USA, but NEVER in Spanish.

One of Mexico’s first names was “América Septentrional” ie “North America”. Imagine the confusion that’d had created had they’d stuck with that name 🤣

3:22 Gotta love the 8-bit version of "Skin Sofa"

I loved the Vespucci (aka Rigo Pooch) letters and the US name list. So many hilarious details

2:54 - "Nobody knows why Martin named it after Amerigo's fairly common first name rather then the Vespucci part". In fact in the accompanying book Cosmographiae Introductio written either by Waldseemüller himself or in close collaboration with him, it is clearly stated that they chose America (or Amerige) because the continents of Europe and Asia were named after the personal (i.e. in our understanding "first") names of two mythical ancient women. Back then the view of names was different from ours, the surname was much more viewed as a name of the "house" and naming the continent after the whole house of Vespucci would have diminished Amerigo's personal achievements as an individual not to mention hinting uncomfortably at a possibility of ownership claims. Also for Germans like Waldseemüller the name Amerigo would have been fairly exotic and he would have no idea that it was a fairly common name in Italy.

That list of alternate USA names was the literal best.

THESE GUY ARE GENIUSES. I LOVE THEM.

Bro what was that ad lmao I actually stayed to watch it and was a great time

3:55 : "the map finally found it's wrongful place..." - it's little gems like this that make Map Men so great!

The sponsor is the first time i have properly laughed at a RU-vid video in a while

4:00 It should belong to Brazil.

The level of dedication for the gag of vespuicci is absolutley diabolical

Buys electrical tape, receives duct tape. .....I’m on to you, Honey

Absolutely love having El Chapulín Colorado in the frame for Latin America. Now that's a cultural icon!

2:24 was that the ABC jingle I heard?

Great video!! Had a laugh

This is completely anecdotal but as Canadians, we rarely say America in casual conversation. It's almost always referred to as "The US".

"the united states of sub par railways" "the land of the rising gun" lol

I can totally tell that the sound bite you used for the 90's is from a ninja turtles game boy game! Love it!

I’d really like to know what the outro song (the one over the credits) is, and if a full version exists. It sounds wonderful!

0:40: "heavily debated" is one way to describe one guy with a book versus all the evidence discovered by the entire academic community.

I've always liked calling it "South Canada"

The 8 bit skin sofa is perfect

Just noticed the background track is an 8-bit version of Skin Sofa. Goes hard

This video reminds me of a story from my childhood. My heritage is South American although I was raised in the northeast of the United states. visited Colombia for the first time when I was 10 years old and some of the local kids that I was playing with asked where I was from, I said "America". They looked at me confused like I was avoiding their question. My sister, who was in boarding school there at the time, looked at me and said "no, you're from Los estados unidos!"

The subtle shift in harmony for the opening title did not go unnoticed

3:45 You guys are literally the best

3:22 is that an 8 bit rendition of skin sofa oh my god

I’ll never call it anything but Hot Canada again.

If it makes you feel any better Mark, in my Dungeons and Dragons world there is a country called Markland

I’m sorry but the electro remix of ‘skin sofa’ is the greatest thing ever

Haha! Love the list of suggested names.