Examining Interesting Maps Part 4

Taking a look at some cool maps of North America and the World. This is part 4 in this series. Check out the other videos in the series.

Album Displayed: "American Beauty" by the Grateful Dead (1970)

[stifledvoice]

Google Earth has consumed hours of my life. Nice to find kindred spirits who love to look at globes and maps.

[GateMesh]

As a geologist, I inherited this (albeit shameful) stigma against geography in college where we considered it a “boring, lesser science, ” but your videos have really changed my views on how awesome geography is and its importance in tying together a bunch of different fields 🤙 Really, really enjoy your content man, keep up the great work!

[albertbatfinder]

These videos are just about perfect. Good length, good pace, not a dull or wasted moment.

[divingdave]

6:30 Here in Germany the minimum legal age to purchase strong alcohol like Whiskey is 18, but you can buy as much beer as you want when you are 16 without your parents. You are allowed to drink alcohol with 14 when your parents allow it.

[timothyball]

Those first two maps really highlight the rain shadow effect in the northwest. It's amazing the difference in plants when crossing over the Cascade mountains and how quickly it changes.

[Xtheist]

As a young kid, I loved topographic maps. I would look/study them for hours and I got to the point I could look at an area on a topo and see it in 3D in my head. This really helped me in my military career. Ahead of time, I could see an area and know very well what geography we had to traverse. At 65, I still look at a map and everything gets recorded in my...🤯 and hardly ever get lost. Accept at night. My kryptonite, darkness.

[vhhawk]

That eagle's journey is my favorite map here. What a legend. Makes me wish I could see the flight maps of the birds I see in my yard.

[mumflerfump]

Honey wake up, Geography king dropped another banger

[rwt]

Viewer in Shanghai here (born in Scotland; lived in the States): Just wanted to let you know Kyle that I started watching your channel last month. Love your videos and your down-to-earth personality. I've re-watched your March Madness videos several times. LOL. Keep up the great work!

[foisixes]

Always a good day when Geography King uploads

[robertmoore]

There’s a an incorporated community in Iowa called Key West of all things! It is a tiny community a few miles south of Dubuque. Thanks Kyle, I love the interesting map series. I look forward to the next one!

[andrewmiller]

The best steak I ever had was at the Atlantic City Mercantile in Atlantic city, Wyoming! Cooked over Aspen logs. I'm originally from Lander Wyoming and it's cool to see you mention it!

[aaronmeyerink]

Love your videos. Growing up in Utah, I was always ignorant about how Outdoors our state is, but I love the last map you had in there. The name of Utah comes from a local Piute tride word for "Tops of the mountains." You can see why we have 5 national parks as shown by a previous map.

[Yormsane]

This is such a great series, entertaining and educational in equal measure. Please keep 'em coming!

[weepingscorpion]

Great video as always, my comments are mostly on the surname map at around 8:40

Polish, Czech, and Slovenian are different for sure but not that much different but it's fun that their most common surname pretty much translates as "New Guy". The most common Croatian and Slovak surnames are actually of Hungarian origin and this word has meant Slav and/or Slovak across time.

Iceland does have proper surnames as well, but they are much less common than the patronymic names, but they like in the other Nordic countries (minus Finland), these are mostly frozen patronyms aswell, I think Thorarensen (< Þórarinsson) is way up there. Notice, how Danish Jensen (it's been superseeded by Nielsen since this map was made), Norwegian Hansen, and Faroese Joensen look differently? Well, they're all local variations of "son of John", in fact, the Faroese top three is Joensen, Hansen, and Johannesen, all of which translate to "son of John". :)

[stephencampbell]

Love that you have American Beauty on vinyl! A fantastic album! And love this show in general with all the interesting maps, including ones you've created.

[wildsouth]

The tree cover map really shows how much of our forests have been lost and converted into farmland etc.. lack of tree cover around the Mississippi River delta is not because it’s floodplain it’s because it’s been logged and converted into farmland. There used to be huge trees and vast forests growing in that floodplain. And while the map is pretty accurate it’s still missing a bit.

[josephlance]

One of the better series on YT. Thank you sir

[John-ihbx]

Another great video about maps and the data. Your videos are consistently interesting, insightful, and well-paced, which is very important because you have lots of data to cover.

[andrewlowden]

12:12 My car broke down 10 miles of Las Vegas NM; they had to get a part from Santa Fe so I spent the night at the Super 8. Also the town was the filming location of the original "Red Dawn"