Maps I find Weird

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on JackSucksAtGeography we upload a range of easy to watch & sometimes educational geography related content. I have successfully learned all 197 countries and flags of the world. I also look at interesting maps to teach us more about different parts of the world and their culture. On this channel I also play Geoguessr.

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[dominiccarver]

8:00 classic Jack misunderstanding. The second slide showed the percentage of people that thought the colonies were better off due to colonisation, not the occupying country

[sdspivey]

The most common family name is "Wang." The most common given name is "Muhammad." But you never meet anyone named Muhammad Wang.

[FernLake]

Love this new series of Jack mispronouncing different languages

[nicholasharvey]

8:48 I believe the reason why France is shown as having so many more venomous animal species than the rest of Europe is because its overseas departments are included. Most of the venomous animals in France are probably only found in, say, French Guiana. Mainland France probably doesn't have any more venomous animals than its neighbours.

[unvl]

1:17 Jack: *pointing out how the UK a flag looks a bit weird*
Also Jack: *completely misses the fact that they made Northern Ireland part of Ireland*

[admzng]

As a New Zealander I can confirm we travelled to the Atlantic Ocean last night

[poruzu]

Jack is the type of guy to read an ad thinking it was a map

[ethancooper]

I refuse to believe Jack hasn’t used the word “weird” yet

[arhombus]

I know it's not geography but at this point I feel like we need a "learning how to pronounce words in Spanish" video

[vizelya]

Fun fact, Indonesians don’t really have or use last name! We mostly use one word name and Sari is one of the most common names. Sari’s name would just be Sari, no middle name or last name, just Sari.
But for some regions, like Bali, they put their family name at the front unlike some places that use (name) (family name), those places use (family name) (name) which I found very interesting.

[bexgking]

2:44 I like how he pronounced the Croatian and Bosnian names differently even tho they are the excact same

[Stellar_]

9:59 as an American I find this hilarious how he’s mispronouncing it😂😂😂
(Apple-a-shon)

[emilymesch]

Re; 6:25 Jewish population map - note that I'm not a historian so I might be a little off on the margins here, but there are several reasons that the European Jewish population is lower.

One is, yes, the Holocaust. That is really the #1 factor. It's estimated that only in the last ten years has the *global* Jewish population come back to its pre-Holocaust levels. Considering that the Holocaust affected European Jews almost exclusively, it makes sense that Europe would be the last region to see its numbers recover.

But also, Israel exists. Whenever there is any kind of social or humanitarian crisis, there are good odds that a chunk of the Jewish population in the affected region will just say "screw this, we're better off leaving, " which is an option that probably wouldn't exist without Israel as a landing spot. Possibly the greatest case in point for this is that in the year after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Israel saw something like a million immigrants from Eastern Europe.

There's also, more specifically, been a general and steady rise of anti-semitism throughout Europe in the last few decades. This is best personified in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn's fall from grace, but other examples exist throughout the continent. So even in areas without social or humanitarian crises, European Jews may leave their home country because, well, we know what happens when you wait too long. Which I suppose feeds back into reason #1.

I do want to point out that France appears to be the only country with an increase in Jewish population between the two maps, and I'll speculate on why: In the 40's, 50's, and 60's, Jews started emigrating from Muslim-majority countries en masse, due to increasing violence against Jews in those regions. In most cases, the easiest landing spot was Israel (see reason #2), but if you lived in Algeria or Tunisia, both controlled by France at the time of Israeli independence, a lot of times your easiest landing spot was France, instead. There is a very large North African Jewish population in France today, because of that, which didn't exist pre-WWII.

Anyway, I hope someone found this interesting and worth the read.

[Smileyreal]

8:10 the uk was in a good financial position because it exploited its colonies, the question is whether or not the colonies themselves were better off because they were colonized and the answer is an easy no if you know anything about british history. The uk profited off their suffering.

[farinozcelik]

8:06 In this one it is saying the colony has benefited, not the colonist. It's the percentage saying something like "Kenya is now better than it would be because it was colonised by the UK" etc.

[jibay]

7:40 In Belgium we have a village named "Mon idée" which litterally means "My Idea"

[JUMALATION]

7:14 YLE in Finland as a news source is very reliable. And this is not coming from someone having worked there 2014-2020 necessarily, objectively the transparency is excellent.

[aggiesrecruitingexpert]

The reason most presidents were born towards the east is because for about 60-80 years worth of presidents, the west wasn't a thing, and then for the next 50+, the West was essentially a bunch of badlands. Not many presidents coming from there.
The reason there are 4 from the same area in Massachusetts is because 2 of them were related and for the ones born in the last 100 years, their families were there cause they're rich.

[FraggyTheCapy]

Jack is the kind of guy who brags about having multiple pairs of glasses

[thedailyupdate]

6:33 The Jewish population in Europe also decreased because in 1948 Israel was established and then all the Jews immigrated to Israel