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[josuaerick]

the other geography fact that still surprises me until today is that the tiny island of Java Indonesia has more population than the biggest country on earth: Russia

[TheGeographyBible]

Fact #13 correction: we meant to say that Nauru is the world's smallest non city-state country! :-)

[linkevan]

Shout out to the guy who count every single tree in the world

[geografisica]

The Amazon Rainforest is not located only in Brazil, 8 other South American countries have a portion of it.

[pedromenchik]

the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil

[princeofchetarria]

I feel like the Burj Khalifa being 1/10 as high as Mount Everest is more of an impressive fact about the building than the mountain! That’s wild haha

[telhudson]

I live in New Zealand and a lot of tourists think that we are close to Australia. One American lady even thought the Sidney Harbour bridge connected Sydney with Auckland. However Canada is nearer to Mexico than New Zealand is to Australia.

[TexasTimeLord]

The most interesting fact in the world is that the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is further east than the Atlantic entrance

[Jochen-iqvx]

If you want to walk from north Korea to Norway you only have to go through a single country. Russia.

[suserman]

#19 4:41 You meant "kilometers" instead of "kilometers squared". It's distance, not area.

[Danflave]

Another correction: Lake Superior is located in both Canada and the U.S. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Michigan and Minnesota.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

1:33 Here's a fact about St. Barthelemy listed there, the Caribbean island was once SWEDISH from 1784 to 1878! France gave Sweden the island in exchange for French trading rights in Gothenburg. The Swedish West India Company was established, but the colony wasn't quite successful. The islanders faced a feverish epidemic that led to the deaths of 300 people in 1840, as well as a severe drought in 1850. Sweden no longer saw the colony as viable and attempted to give it to the US in the late 1860s. They even tried giving it to Italy, but Sweden stopped talks with Italy after Italy said they wanted to use it as a penal colony.

So when Oscar II became King in 1872, he approached France about returning the island, which they agreed to in August 1877, and the French officially reoccupied it in March 1878.

[duckmeister]

Maine is the closest state in the U.S. to Africa. More than 85% of Australia's population lives within 50 km of the coast.

[EpsteinNoSeppuku]

Loved the vid. I will say that #33 is a bit misleading in my opinion though. It puts it into perspective how tall the burj khalifa is from sea level, but not exactly how "hard" it is to climb. Base camp, where you would actually start climbing, would be something like 6.5 burj khalifa's from sea level.

[TheMapGod]

3:20 it’s the 3rd smallest behind the Vatican and Monaco.

[michaelsokol]

Nauru isn’t the smallest country. 3:25

[mysteriousDSF]

geography channels should be given a credibility medal when they pronounce Kiribati the proper way. the perfect way to test that they're actually good at geography

[pmbrig]

Here are my favorite weird geographical facts. Check them out on a world map if you don't believe them.
1) Orlando, FL, is just about exactly at the same latitude as Mt. Everest.
2) If you go due south from Orlando, what part of South America do you hit? Most people would guess Colombia or Brazil, but actually you don't hit South America at all! You just barely miss the easternmost tip of Ecuador.
3) The northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire are at the same latitude as the southern border of Montana, and Seattle is further north than the northern tip of Maine.
4) London is at the same latitude as the Aleutian Islands.
5) The entire French Riviera is further north than Boston.
6) The Island of Attu, in the Aleutians, is further west than the North Island of New Zealand.

[rogulus]

4:43 I find it infinitely fascinating that the greatest distance between any two points in the United States is a mind-blowing "9400 kilometers squared" from Hawaii to Florida. TRULY MIND-BLOWING!!!

[gregcavaluzzo]

Cool video! Should note though that the footage of “Jamaica” used at 5:43 is actually of Jamaica, Queens, NY - not the island nation of the same name.