Why New York isn't the Capital of the United States 

You know, that's completely fair. I remember, when I was a kid, I would often confuse India, Indiana and Italy. China is also on this list, interestingly enough, though Beijing is itself a really big city, so yeah.

Kaifeng, Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Chang'an (I refuse to call it Xi'an), Nanking, Xuchang (Wei), Jianning (Wu), and Chengdu (Shu) were capitals of China too

It's hardly even a Chinese city.

HLM ?

Zelong Xiong It’s a city state the PRC pretends is part of it.

Youre not the only one who got reference lol.

Whats the reference?

@@KarthikeyanDuraivel someone named bill wurtz made a video about the history of Japan, and it turned into a meme

@@TacticalBaguette aahh I need to expand my même culture

@@KarthikeyanDuraivel I do recommend Bill Wurtz's videos History of Japan, and History of the Entire World I Guess. Both are really well made.

haruka plays exactly.

Upstate doesn’t like being left out

Because the city is inside 3 states

NYC and NY is the same

The reason is that the original courts of New York State after the war was Albany, which is where the capital of NY was placed

They need to be kept separate for the sake of proper governance and safety from the coast

and everytime the president needs to move around, a whole financial center doesn't get shut down (at least in the case of Washington and New York)

Nah

I agree too

And influence of those specifically coastal cities

Missed the chance! Oh well, plenty of other opportunities out there.

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Yep. But even then, Canberra is not halfway between. This is because the compromise within the compromise was: Because Melbourne was allowed to be the TEMPORARY capital UNTIL the official capital city was founded, the end location would be able to be geographically closer to Sydney. This means that Sydney has always had more economic, political and financial clout than Melbourne. Even if Melbourne were to become bigger than Sydney again, Sydney would STILL be more influential in Australia than Melbourne.

Well, that would be a comically wide definition of Europe

KhAnubis EUROPE

Turkey is in Europe though. It's north of the Mediterranean and west of the Caspian.

Very funny haha. He meant because it's on the continents Tokyo is in Japan, aka East Asia, aka no-where near the middle East or Europe.

Zelong Xiong *EUROPE*

I came for that

Yeah haha

I was here for the same reason

It happened in a room

@@PandFfactory And no one else was in the room where jt happened

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y-you don't think that Turks speak arabic... right ?

I prefer Constantinople to not offend Greeks. They are still mad from the Muslimification of Anatolia.

Snowy Mapping lol

@@somatia350 Anatolia was never Greek in the first place. just look up ancient history. back when Greek cities were a thing, Pharaohs ruled Egypt and Assyrian empire existed. You would notice that a country existed in Anatolia. People native to Anatolia are Hittites and not Greeks or Turks.

AnDutchGuy wtf?

really why?

​@@a.hakan.yildiz because the Duke of holland(which controlled roughly North and south holland and Utrecht) build his palace in The Hague. and then the spanish came, and then after the Netherlands defeated the spanish they desided to use that as the parlement, but when Napoleon invaded us and made his brother the King of the Netherlands he choose Amsterdam as the capital, and no one ever changed that.

didnt know about Napoleons brother making Amsterdam the capital until now myself :D

@@a.hakan.yildiz In 1800 The Hague was a little town. King Napoleon and his wife came from Paris. His wife was used to be live in luxury and the grandeur of Paris. Also she complained about the little palace in The Hague. In Amsterdam there was a big city hall. King Napoleon converted it in a Royal Palace so he and his spoiled wife could live there. From then Napoleon made Amsterdam the capital. Eventually his wife couldn't live in The Netherlands and she went back to Paris. After Napoleon was defeated the new King of Holland, kept Amsterdam the capital city. But still today the government, parliament, ministry buildings, embassies and the Royal Dutch family are situated/living in The Hague. Fun fact is that Holland was the first republic (1581) in Europe. After Napoleon invaded Holland, he made his brother King of Holland. Since then The Netherlands is still a monarchy.

Canadian arguments...

Sorry

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I’m from Canada and I’ll put you in the hospital with our free healthcare and then say sorry eh

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Yeah it’s kinda like how technically, the UK should be in there since Westminster is technically the Capital but it’s not the largest London Borough :/

@Digimon’s Republic Xros Heart cebu city should be the capital since it is in the middle.

just throwing it out there, Brooklyn is the most populated borough. Manhattan is the most densely populated borough, but is actually the third most populated after Brooklyn and Queens.

Ivorocious Manila was, is and always will be the inseparable capital of Filipino history and culture, tho. That’s actually why they switched the capital back to Manila from QC in the 70s.

Nope, it wasn't misleading, that actually happened. Cebu was the Philippines' first capital, not Manila. Manila only became capital due to Miguel Lopez de Legazpi insisting it to be the Philippine capital in the late 1500s. In the 1900s, Quezon City was actually built to replace Manila as the Philippine Capital, and Quezon City eventually replaced Manila right after the WW2, from 1948 and lasted for 28 years until 1976 when Manila took its status as the city capital back from Quezon City. That's the reason why the President lives in Manila while the Congress and the Senate is located in Batasan Hills in Quezon City. And that's the reason why most government offices such as DENR, COA, DOST, etc. are found in Quezon City, while some are still in Manila, such as the Supreme Court. It wasn't until the 1970s that Manila became capital again and the NCR was formed to become a centralized region. Also, Manila City is different to Metro Manila, Manila City is the city, while Metro Manila was the successor of the Province of Manila. It's not terribly planned, but it's governed terribly because the US dissolved the Province of Manila and made Manila City like DC, an independent city, as well as other surrounding cities that made up today's Metro Manila. That's why Metro Manila is a region and not a province because the cities within Metro Manila are all independent cities/charter cities.

True

Jupiter is bigger than earth.

London is the second largest city by area in the world behind New York

maybe London is bigger in area but Paris is larger in population?

@@qyvonl5876 Noooooooope. London has 4x the population of Paris.

@@martychisnall Actually the second largest city by area is Tokyo Metropolitan area.

@@potatonoodlebear8035 it isn't comminh from a speaker do you know how hard it us for us to pronounce french word

If you can tell what he’s trying to say he did his job

Bino Dino maxilimilanMus royal guard Oh yeah yeah

I also hear a French _R_ in his pronunciation of _Rio de Janeiro_ and _Brasilia_ .

Better use french than the standard spanish

The reason why they moved it was because in 1790, Southern states agreed to allow the debt from Northern states to be transferred to the federal government in exchange for a southern capital. This is a huge part to leave out of the video.

Thanks! Appreciate the support!

No, New York is still better being our largest and most important city. Philadelphia and Chicago just don't compare

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I think that it should be more centralized than Philly of Chicago, my idea is to take the average location of Americans which is in Texas country Missouri, and pick a major city near there.The closest major city to that would be Memphis, but I personally think the second closest major city which is St.Louis would work better, because it better bridges north and south.

Why do people get so triggered over calling it Istanbul as if it is the end of the world

Silver Well, it was the last standing Roman city, so it’s quite irritating how they completely changed its name.

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Timothy McLean well most cold, desert and mountainous countries due.

@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 or island countries lol

About 1/6th of the UK population live within Greater London so it’s not that uncommon I guess :/

Buenos Aires is like 33% of Argentina's population... Since we're 44 million people and in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires are like 15 million people

Well, you SHOULD include the suburbs. Because that's the extent of a city's influence, people commute, business transactions are carried out and urban planning is done for the entire metropolitan area. For example, it's misleading to say that Sydney only has 208,000 people, when the metropolitan region is more than 4.8 million people and accounts for 19.3% of Australia's population. And another example is London - 8.5 million in the Greater London region, but about 14 million in the wider metropolitan area.

It was not Jacksonville that was big but St Augustine, which was the old capital of Florida for over two hundred years

@@Moribus_Artibus From St. Augustine, can confirm.

There is there was a statewide think referendum in the 1960s to move the capital from Tallahassee to Orlando and they got voted down and stayed in Tallahassee. I should’ve done it with bacon cause I’d be a lot cheaper back on the move and there’s a lot of land in Orlando available for the capital.

Canberra Sprite

People's Republic of Taiwan Oi Mate, you wonna Sproite Crênberri

I think it's based off of his German, because of the way he rolls his Rs.

Horbin Rodas its portugese, portugese and french are both latin/romance languanges

yeah haha

Entirely fair. I need to keep that in mind.

Came from asmr, being ear raped

@@potatonoodlebear8035 such is thé joruney of the internet

かみやん Burmese dynasties have a history of building remote capitals to protect themselves from a popular uprising.

Well be happy that at least you know your own stuff. Learn well and learn plenty, it'll help you to open your mind and develop a better understanding of things.

@@MrMinerGuy142 No, its just annoying in english, its just because everyone speaks english like an indian scammer (really strugless) and i speak it fluently. I understand what your trying to say, and yes, i do know my own stuff.

@@dragoljubobucinski7985 *you're

@@MrMinerGuy142 Serbs actually speak English pretty well, we learn languages easily. Sadly, most of our population doesn't understand importance of English as international language.. (I am 16 btw and I speak English better than my teachers so, yay! )

Guten Tag, Kosovo ist Serbien?

It was Quezon city then moved back to Manila city. But both cities are still within the NCR (National Capital Region) aka Metro Manila.

@@anondelirius3255 Okay, thanks for the help. Would it be like if New York became the capital but the boroughs broke into their own cities? That's how it seems to me, but as I said I know nothing on this so I feel dead wrong here.

@@_TehTJ_ Yeah actually like that. What happened in Metro Manila was the ancient towns were geographically close with each other but still isolated due to the large population of Mangrove trees in the area. What happened is ancient towns becoming their own cities instead of merging into one. Also, interestingly, Metro Manila holds the record for the most densely packed region in the world.

@@_TehTJ_ No probs mate, I hope I didn't convoluted it too much

Yeah I like that he tried but he got it so weirdly wrong that it was just cringe

The Revolution China was supposed to be Nanjing but the communists moved it to Beijing because they had more control there. Mumbai was always more populous and more important than Delhi during colonial eras but the chose Delhi more due to history and eventually it grew bigger.

I am Communism I am communism, oooof

The map just shows countries whose capital isnt also their largest city

@@Vat19Nvjds i thought New Delhi was the biggest indian city.

@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 Mumbai was more populous but even during British Raj after some year the capital was Delhi when it was moved to there from Calcutta (now Kolkata)

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Because all of RU-vid is made up of people from you 8th grade history class

Well US history isn’t a class in Australia and Europe

Angus Hsieh kindergarten history*

Sidney isn't. Canberra is.

we all know it is perth

pfft you fools, everyone knows the capital of Australia is Cairns.

Pfft. Everyone knows Australia *DOESN'T EXIST*

Uneducated bunch. Its Auckland

Turkey's capital was never İstanbul. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish Republic was founded with Ankara as its capital. :)

Mexico City.

Beach, North Dakota is the biggest city in North America