@@marysmith9562 I knew a girl from Guyana (not French Guiana) and she pronounced her country’s name as if Ana was a guy. So I guess Guyana and Guiana have completely different pronunciations.
@@daerdevvyl4314 that's the case. Even in French it's different, in spite of many French speakers not being aware of this. But in Spanish and Portuguese it's the same word and pronunciation.
I feel like a lot was missing in this video, like how Chile exists both along the coast and within the mountains, or how despite the Panama Canal is a popular sea route it's extremely difficult to get from North to South by land for example
The thing about Chile is basically because the middle latitude and the cold Humboldt current allowed a temperate climate to exist in a long strip of 2000 km, similar to the one that exists from California to Seattle. This meant that there was a relatively large population in that space (1 million inhabitants for the year 1500). As the Spaniards went wherever there were people and gold, they soon went to Chile. They founded their Hispanic kingdom, which administered central Chile and western Argentina. But since the mountain range was too difficult a barrier and as the indigenous people in Chile were rebelling, the west of present-day Argentina came to be administered by Buenos Aires. When Chile became a Republic, it sought to expand to the south (fertile lands and the Strait of Magellan) and to the north (minerals). If you are looking for the geological explanation, it is simply the collision of two plates that raised a huge mountain range and a strip of land was left on its side.
I'd love a geological perspective but if I'm not mistaken Panama is geographically North American, which of course takes a human perspective more so than objective physical reasoning.
i expected it to be a video about the Amazon and Andes and how they affect the continent and livelyhood, but instead it is a video saying that it's slightly more to the east than some Americans might've thought and for some reason this has to be weird
Exactly my thoughts. Just talking about 1 country; Chile has both the driest hot dessert in the world in the north and territory on the Antarctica in the south, as well as the eastern island, this country has all the types of climates except from jungle, since it’s far longer than europe from north to south.
Living in New York and having a friend in Buenos Aires, I was very surprised to find that his timezone is an hour ahead of mine until I actually looked at a map.
Here in Peru the time zone is the same as in New York, although what surprised me is that some cities in North America change their time depending on whether it is summer or winter. Does that happen in New York?
@@ecb706 in Brazil we have "horário de verão" meaning "summer time", we change our clocks 1 hour because the sun is out for too long when it's summer lol. Also helps decrease energy consumption because we will wake up 1 hour later and go to sleep 1 hour later
Here are some other cool facts about Brazil's geography (coming from a Brazilian) - Brazil's easternmost point is actually closer to africa than to Brazil's westernmost point, mindblowing. - We are the 5th largest country in the world and our area is 8.5 million square kilometers, even bigger than Australia. - We are divided between 26 states + a federal district, where our capital, Brasília, (yes, rio de janeiro isn't our capital, stop saying this ffs) is located. - We are also divided between 5 regions, North, Northeast, Southeast, Center-West, and South. - Our biggest city is São Paulo, maybe you've heard of it. With 12.3 million people, it's pretty similar to New York, it has some very important buildings and avenues. - São Paulo, like New York, is both a state and a city also.
@@Jotonio A cidade de são paulo em si, sem contar a região metropolitana ou estado, tem 12 milhões de habitantes, apenas as pessoas que vivem no território da cidade
@@corvetaumbr2410mas a grande são Paulo, as cidades satélites que ficam coladas, por exemplo guarulhos, se juntarmos todas somam 21 milhões de habitantes, ou seja mais gente do que o Chile!
@@johnrobert9164 Sim exatamente, a Grande São Paulo é gigante, porém apenas a cidade em si, sem contar a região do ABC, Guarulhos, Oscasco, etc. tem apenas 12 milhões de habitantes, o que ainda assim é muito
Fun fact: The world's 6 largest countries (Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia) occupy 40.3% of Earth's total landmass. If we also include Antarctica (9.2%), that's 49.5% of Earth's total landmass, almost half of the world.
@@LRM12o8 Plus one big landmass (East Antarctica), but all these landmasses are under permanent ice. On the surface, Antarctica can be considered a solid continuous landmass.
I think the implication is Brazil's northern most Continental point is closer to Africa than to the southern end, but technically the island is closer. Thanks Rodolfo.
Another geographical quirk is that we often think of Australia and New Zealand being rather close, but the closest points between the two countries is longer than between London and Warsaw. And from Aukland to Perth is around the same distance as from London to Afghanistan.
One interesting fact is that areas that have an oceanic climate in the northern hemisphere are between about 50° north to 60° north. In the Southern Hemisphere, oceanic climates are found about 40° south. Same thing with Mediterranean climates being closer to the equator in areas such as Southern Australia and Central Chile, rather than further away as in Italy and California.
@@amywalker7515 the sun actually shines the most in the equator. With so much heat and energy, a lot of clouds form right on the equator with a lot of overcast in the tropics. Hurricanes are even born around 8 to 20 degrees N and S of the equator.
@@lzh4950 Singapore speaks English, Hong Kong and Macao speak English, Phillipines speaks a languages similar to spanish, Macao and East Timor and Goa still have portuguese speakers, many chinese speak mandarin regardless of their own vernacular language, and China sends Uyghurs to reeducation camps where schools cannot teach their own language, so I don't think Asian countries have a lot of standing on this point.
@@modalmixture On the other hand you won't really hear Japanese spoken in Taiwan or the Koreas, Dutch in Indonesia or French in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos. While English & Portuguese are official languages in HK & Macau respectively, there aren't that many speakers of those languages there I understand (though less so in the former, though Cantonese is still more common). Also didn't think Tagalog sounded similar to Spanish.
@@lzh4950 in south America, it's because they forced the natives to spoke Portuguese / Spanish and hurt /killed who refuses and continued to speak the native language. And at least in Brazil, the various native languages didn't have a written language, so with the domain of the Portuguese language, almost all of the native languages are gone, forever...
I am from Lima, Peru which is almost a perfect antipode to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so when i was in Phnom Penh, i placed a slice of bread on the ground, then asked a friend in Lima to do the same to create an Earth sandwich.
Do a video on the weirdness of Canada's geography, it's wacked. For example: St. John's Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than Winnipeg, Winnipeg is only halfway across Canada....Vancouver is on the west coast, but it is pretty far east of the westernmost part of the country...there are a lot more things than that...
In the late 80's my wife coworker told her that in the 50's a relative living in Ireland mailed him a latter asking him to go meet his cousin arriving to Canada East coast from Ireland by boat, my wife's coworker sent a letter back saying: "why don't you go meet him yourself, you are closer to him than me", my wife's coworker was living in Alberta at the time !! 😄
I lived in Ecuador for a few years and i remember being surprised to find that even though it's on the Pacific Ocean, it's in the same time zone as Miami.
Even weirder is that the U.S calls itself "America", neglecting the fact that Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean countries, Central and South America are all part of AMERICA.
Of the Americas ,no mames hablo español y hasta yo se la diferencia, en Español América es el continente, en inglés Américas son los continentes porque en ingles hay 2 continentes que son Norte y Sur, es cuestión de lenguaje ya que el lenguaje dicta como vez el mundo
@@jeremymyers924 en inglés es de Norte América , te caería bien un poco entender otra cultura ,busca en Google maps de continentes en inglés, hay 7 continentes en la cultura en inglés ,en ruso hay 6 y en Español hay 5, cosa de que ven el mundo de diferente manera
@@Poporoporancio Mire amigo, soy de New York, he vivido en 5 paises y tengo muchisimo mundo recorrido para que me venga usted a hablar de cultura. Lo que dije desde un principio es que me parece injusto que a los estadounidenses se les llame Americanos y al resto del continente Latinoamericanos, cuando America es todo el continente es America.....claro....esto viendolo desde el punto de vista HISPANO, porque aca en USA desde primaria se te ensena a que hay 2 continentes, Norte America y Sur America, algo con lo que yo nunca he estado de acuerdo, porque entonces que es Centro America? Un itsmo, como me dijo una profesora en el bachillerato.
@@jeremymyers924 y miré amigo yo he vivido en 10 países y respeto la cultura de cada país y lengua que hablo, por eso le digo que son formas de ver el mundo y que en Ruso son 6 continentes y en inglés 7, lo entiendo del latino promedio que comenta en RU-vid que apenas y conoce solo USA y su propio país. Pues eres muy ignorante la verdad, parece que fueras alguien que no fue a la escuela que cree que la única forma de ver el mundo es en Espanol, donde hay 5 continentes, no pareces alguien culto para nada. Bien sabrás que América Central como lo llamamos en Espanol, en Inglés es parte de Norteamérica igual que América insular, claro, de seguro te gusta el regeton y no te cabe en la cabeza que hay diferentes formas de ver el mundo, y no entiendes por más que te explique los 7 continentes , o los 6 en Ruso, crees que la verdad absoluta es en Español donde hay 5. Eres como los religiosos que creen que la verdad absoluta está en su religión y deciden pelear porque no creen que el Islam o los Ortodoxos tengan razón y no los respetan y pelean que el único con la razón es tu religión , los latinos son muy fanáticos lamentablemente.
As someone who lives in the Southernmost state of Brazil this video just reinforced to me the impression that we are way too far away from the rest of the country. That's why is easier, cheaper and faster to go to Uruguay and Argentina than to go to other Brazilian states. It's a pity as our country is absolutely beautiful and I wish I could see it all.
It's a border people thing, happens all around the world. People from northern Uruguay (who often speak Portuñol or perfect Portuguese as a second language) feel closer culturally to Brazilians and often have been in different parts of Brazil more often than the rest of Uruguay. A similar thing happens in Northern Mexico and the Southern US.
As brazilian I realized how much in east we are when our football teams were playing in Mexico. I was watching the game at 11 pm here and the match was in daylight, and I was like wtf?!
@@ericktellez7632 it's a very famous brazilian food. It is a stuffed dough with chicken and may have cheese inside. Coxinha is much better than taco. Taco is mexican, its not common in Brazil.
@@rebecacunha5343 I live in Brazil, but I'm sorry, there is no way Coxinha is better than taco. Coxinhas are bland crap. Coxinhas and the other salgados in the Lonchenetes are the absolute worst example of Brazilian food. Low quality and bland as fuck. (I am not insulting all Brazilian food. In general there is a lot of good food here but there is not way Coxinhas beat tacos.) Perhaps you have only had shitty ass tacos from taco bell or somewhere like that but, having lived in Mexico, I can say tacos win by far.
Fun fact: North of Argentina, bordering Paraguay, lies Formosa province. Its name was given by spanish colonizers who found the place so beautiful they called it "Curva Fermosa". Its capital city is called Formosa as well. On the other side of the globe, 20.000 km away, lies its antipodal, Keeling city, located in Taiwan. Taiwan's original name? "Ihla Fermosa", given by Portuguese colonizers who first arrived at the island and which was also later conquered by Spanish colonizers for a couple of years.
In my opinion South America is the most underrated continent, because it has spectacular mountain ranges, fascinating cultures of Spanish, Portuguese and Amerindian and Aztec.
Totally, he didn't say anything impressive. He only talked about how Southamerica is more to the east than he thought it would be. Or how the US is more to the west, depends on how you see it.
Meh. To sum it up: republics, dictatorships, more republics, then more dictatorships, civil wars, widespread corruption, civil unrest, even more dictatorships, more civil unrest, more republics, then more widespread corruption. Basically all of Latin America, if I'm not mistaken
I live in Roraima wich is the state where the Nothernmost point of Brasil is, and it's Surprisingly pretty far from everything else in the entire country.
Well damn, that helps my befuddlement of why I’m actually taking a flight out of my hometown Detroit than Texas to get to Colombia. I couldn’t understand why it was a shorter or a close to equivalent flight. I didn’t exactly research very hard but this video was a pleasant source!
Also, you could have mentioned that despite being named South America, it spans both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Brazil is also the only country to have both the Equator line and Tropic of Capricorn running through it.
The name South America has nothing to do with what hemisphere it’s in. South Carolina, South Dakota and South Korea are all in the northern hemisphere. These names mean that they’re the southern part of Carolina, Dakota and Korea respectively. Similarly, although “America” is now often used to mean the United States of America, it actually means North America and South America combined. So South America is the southern portion of that, regardless of what hemisphere it’s in.
@@daerdevvyl4314 - referring to USA in spoken English as “America” has existed since the time of the thirteen colonies. If you’d like to refer to both continents of North America and South America collectively in English you must use the plural, “The Americas”. This is how native speakers make the distinction.
When I was in the UK 🇬🇧 - I was asked where I was from ... instead of saying “Canada” (which is so huge & varied, I thought I’d narrow it down), I said “I’m from British Columbia” - the room fell silent- suddenly someone blurted out, “Oi, you look rather pale to be from South America!” - 😜 😂
another stigma... people thinking people from south america are all mixed race or black, which only applies to the northern countries of south america such as venezuela... Countries like chile, argentina or uruguay has most of its population of white people...
Actually, there is no way to DRIVE to Suriname, since both the border crossing with Guyana and French Guyana requires you to take a ferry across the river. Also another fun fact is that Santiago lies between Washington DC and NYC measured by longitude.
just went and measured, not counting the Chilean antarctic claim Brazil is longer than Chile, by like a hundred km give or take (4282.9km), including the antarctic (which is kind of ridiculous bc it's not supported by most nations) it jumps to 7526, but by that logic norway would be the longest country as it has a claim in antarctica and is partially within the arctic circle
It's worth mentioning that besides all the countries of the Americas, the northernmost point if Brazil is also closer to Cape Verde, an island nation off the African coast, than to the southernmost point. The distance to the Azores Islands, which are part of Portugal, is just around 300km longer.
Theoretically. Realistically it's utterly impossible ((of course, but never know what others know or don't know), heat & pressure gets exponentially more intense deep down & destorys everything. Deepest hole ever dug was kola superdeep borehole went over 7.5 miles deep, reached 356 °F ( or 180 °C)
The nail in the coffin is that at that exact moment he's saying - I quote - “The biggest reason for why this may come as a surprise to you is because most of us in the northern hemisphere have a weird misunderstanding of where exactly south America is located geographically.”
One thing you should have mentioned: There's a province in Argentina called Formosa which is coincidentally the antipode to northern part of Taiwan, which was also known as "Formosa".
Another interesting point. You can fly 8 hours from New York which is next to the Atlantic Ocean, to Lima, Peru, which is next to the Pacific Ocean, and you will still be in the same time zone!
Part of Australia that has Brisbane in it is very far east. The town Dirranbandi is a fair way inland but I was surprised to find if I draw an imaginary line south, it would pass through Orbost on Victoria’s east.
Pretty cool fact... Here’s one for you about the U.K. If you travel to Towns/Cities like, Luton, Bradford, Rotherham, Birmingham, parts of London etc. Believe it or not, you actually end up in a foreign land!
Woah! Not only did I never notice that South America is not directly south of North America, but I also never noticed how much closer to Africa it is than I realized. Love these videos! 🙌🏽
Yeah, but closer to Africa than to US ? Mr Topo happily chooses the eastern most point for measuring that distance, but takes the most norther point for the other one, whereas US is to the Northwest, so why not choose the closest point to the States to measure it that distance ? Only 15 k difference now so Z so South America being closer to Africa may not be all true
One thing that you didn't mention in this video, and that I find a lot of people are unaware of, is the fact that it snows in some parts of South America. That being said, it's in the very South of South America, and it rarely happens, but the interesting thing is that this year it snowed a lot in South of Brazil, and from the pictures, one would think it was in Canada lol.
@@ixlnxs - methinks you have mixed up one meteorological phenomenon (hail or hailstones) with another (gale - a strong wind). But yes, with the Andes there is snow even at the equator, where some of the mountains are snow-capped year round. I have seen it myself from Quito.
He sounds like he is from the united states, so we will cut him some slack. I got back to the States after two years in Guatemala. some one at the bar asked me where I was. I said Guatemala. They asked is that in Africa?
Interesting and informative video however, you highlighted Trinidad and Tobago an independent nation as part of Venezuela during your illustration about how far apart the northern and southern tips of Brazil are.
The book, "The Floating Brothel" is a record of the first shipment of female convicts from the UK to Australia, on board the "Lady Juliana". Their route took them southwest to the Azores and then Recife, Brazil. From there they crossed the Atlantic (again) to Capetown, South Africa. Rounding the tip of Africa, prevailing winds brought them straight to Australia, without stopping anywhere in Asia, far to the north. It was a journey of 11 months.
I always forget that guyana, guyana francesa and surinam are countries in southamerica. It's like the kid who doesn't talk in class and no one knows his voice, they are forgotten
Yooooooooo actually reconize us .Its tri mist ppl just walk pass us idk why everyone so hype to talk about brazil Venezuela and such but. Guyana suriname and frend Guyana are outcasts it like a oddity in the world
Those 3 countries have a culture that is more closely related to the Caribbean than the rest of South american, so they became basically outcasts here, thats why they are somewhat forgotten
@@dresdi Poisé ksksk acho que a ideia é referenciar a america do sul toda e nao so o brazil. vai ver ele viu esse footage com uma estatua de braços abertos e: hmm, brazilllllllll
Plot Twist: This is not the real projection. The Azimuthal Equidistant map is more Accurate (as far as ACTUALIZED straight line commercial flight paths) than this Mercator Projection.
I’m a Nova Scotian and it’s weird to think that my province is closer to Brazil than the south point of Brazil, well at least the South Shore of Nova Scotia
@get to the Choppaa Haha, some people from Brazil says they are curious to know how snow looks like, i sometimes say to them "people that live in snow countries don't seem to like it that much", i hope i'm not misleading them... :p
@get to the Choppaa Ty for the info! Indeed, looking at videos i think "well, maybe seeing snow once would be cool, but have to clean the pathway from the door with a shovel looks like a extra-burden, and snow is not a novelty anymore". Cool, feel welcome here! I hope you enjoy your stay! I also wanted to visit north america, both Canada and USA... But i would prefer to go in the summer... :p Thanks, take care you too! :)
I was hoping for more. That's cool Brazil is big, and that French Guiana is part of France. There is plenty more to talk about. South America is fascinating. (And the Panama Canal is in not South America.)
@@Sutchii_ there is no central america geologically everything west of colombia is north america and everything east of panama is south america "central america" is a made up political term to differentiate undeveloped countries in the itshmus from their more developed neighbors north and south basically another way for the rich boys to look down at the small, poor and defenseless during the cold war
What's crazier is that Brasil has almost all of the "habitable" land of the continent, a great part of the other countries are the deserts, mountains and the antartic areas
What? More than half of Brazil is uninhabitable, but due to deforestation, urbanization in jungle areas and the reduced protection of the environment by the government, this has been changing, unlike its neighbors, who take care of their natural areas and don´t turn them into cities like Brazil has done, also, countries like Uruguay, have most of their territory habitable because their territory are mostly coasts at sea level
@@iamisaid2295 Yes! Large portions of Brazil are above the equator and also below the Tropic of Capricorn. I live in a very cold region of Brazil under the Capricorn tropic, however a friend of mine lives in a very hot place in Roraima which is above the equator. It is interesting to know that we are in the same time zone and speak exactly the same language but we are separated by 4000 km, 4 unique biomes, 5 climates, the Amazon river, pantanal swamplands, including he is also living in another season of the year (here is in srping and there is in fall) . when we look at the sky we don't even see the same stars!
@@joaofabio5927 that is so cool. although really, there's no such thing as "fall" at the equator, not in the sense of changing leaf colours. even at the tropic of capricorn there's no true winter, except the water is a tiny bit chillier. they basically can grow mangos and avos all year long.... endless summer.
@@iamisaid2295 Yes, there is a true winter south of the Capricorn Tropic. Have you been over there? Just type "fall in Argentina" and you are going to see, ther is no endless summer in this region of the souther cone of South America.
American's are also lead to believe "Mexican" food, decor, culture is all of South America. My Chilean host family knew zero about Mexico, Chile/Peru don't do hot spicy food, etc. They definitely orient to Brazil as a cultural super force.
@joão jose silva costa curta Consider Suriname, a country which does not have either Spanish or Portuguese as an official language, and does not border a Spanish-speaking country.
@@ensaladadepapaya8511 Not to mention multiple types of potatoes to include purple corkscrew ones, little orange types, and some that are bitter. Also fish. And history.
It's kinda crazy how Brazil doesn't have much relations with its neighbours countries besides when it comes to Football. Culturally we don't share almost anything
What? Chileans like the people of Brazil a lot but we have very few in common culturally speaking. southern chile is culturally similar to argentina and northern chile is similar to Peru. Central Chile has it's own isolated culture
‘Mum can we go to France’ ‘No, I cannot afford it as I have to pay off the mortgage and have 4 overdue car bills. We may need to sell a few possessions for next month.’ France at home:
