Would you believe Spain is a country and not a language? That was a geography fact nobody gets wrong but this guy.

It's a good thing Daz learned more about geography after school, considering his teachers completely ignored Africa as a continent 🤣🤣

He's wrong about English not being the "most widely spoken language". It is. There are more native speakers of Mandarin, true, but the vast majority of them reside in China. That's not the definition of "most widely spoken".

If you count all fluent speakers, English is the most spoken language in the World.

Those distortions on maps are due to the Mercator projection. It's an attempt to represent a 3d object (the Earth) on a 2d surface.

Spain is not a language 😂

Thanks guys for reacting to my video. Oh and Dave I'll make sure to lower the volume of the sound effects😇 Much love for you guys, loved the reaction!

Yeah the “bup bup bup bup” effect got me too. Lol

The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island, which is in the state of New York, even though it's surrounded on all sides by New Jersey waters. When the borders were fixed in 1834, Liberty Island was one of a number of exclaves that resulted. Ellis Island, where most immigrants from Europe arrived, was another. New Jersey successfully sued New York in the late nineties, arguing that only the parts of Ellis Island that were above water in 1834 were in New York, and everything created artificially since is in New Jersey. So now Ellis Island is split between both states. And it ended up being such a nightmare from an administrative perspective that New Jersey hasn't tried the same thing with Liberty Island. So currently the entirety of Liberty Island is in New York, up to the water's edge.

The Nile river is a full 100+ miles longer than the Amazon, idk where he's getting his facts. In terms of volume of water though, the Amazon is by FAR the largest river. Like...it's not even close. And English IS the most widely spoken language. There's a difference between "native language" and being able to speak a language. There's hundreds of millions of people who speak English despite it not being their native tongue.

1.there is a river paradoxon so thats why the 2 rivers can both be the largest in the world and 2. mandarin is only the most nativ spoken language , but more people know english than mandarin

The Missouri River is the longest only if you count the third of it's shown length AFTER it merges into the Mississippi River. It's like saying the small street I live on is the longest in the country because I can eventually merge onto I-10 and drive from Florida to California.

10:40 the problem here and with Greenland earlier is the map projection. There’s no way to make a flat map of the globe without some distortion in shape, area, the direction, or distances. The projector most commonly used is the Mercator projector which preserves the shape of landmasses at the price of area as you go north or south

Spain is not a language. Spanish is a language. Neither the question about the most speakers of Chinese or the second most (Spanish) are technically geography questions since not all speakers of ANY language are contained exclusively in a geographic area.

Im bilingual in English and Spain.

Nobody thinks Texas is bigger than Alaska

In china 5 continents : asia america africa europe oceania(australia)or 6 with artartida also coutries as : vietnam indonesia south korea france italy spain portugal turkey greece rumania and others coutries

You most DEFINITELY need a Passport to cross the Windsor-Detroit border, either by Ambassador Bridge or by Tunnel. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

32 is wrong. it is English. he says that English doesn't have the most speakers, but then talks only about native speakers.

Where the hell HASNT Daz lived? I swear I keep learning about places he’s lived

Statue of Liberty one is bullshit. Shouldn't the geography guy know what exclaves are? I guess Lesotho is really South Africa then. 🙄 Greenland being smaller depends on what kind of a map you're looking at... There's no such thing as an accurate 2d map, it's distorted because of the shape of the Earth and there's literally hundreds of different types of 2d maps to try and make the most accurate version as possible. LMFAO Spain is a language?

I hate it when people say "actually mandarin is the most commonly spoken language" yeah in china. Go to any country in the world and you will find people who speak english. Try the same with mandarin and you'd be out of luck

"Spain" is the 2nd most spoken language? I'm shocked Daz didn't say anything.

The question of in what state is the Statue of Liberty located is surprisingly complex. Its island has been owned by the federal government since 1801. Geographically, the island sits in the New Jersey side of New York Harbor. Politically is where it gets confusing. If Wikipedia is correct, New York has control of some administrative functions, such as collecting sales tax at the Statue gift shop and "serving process" for litigation. This means that Liberty Island is an exclave of the state of New York, according to a 1908 Supreme Court case. In the 1980s, New Jersey sued to change this. Wikipedia says the case was not heard by the Supreme Court, leaving the 1908 decision in place. Because of this confusion, when it was a question on a citizenship test the acceptable answers were "New York Harbor," "Liberty Island," "New Jersey," "New York," "New York City," and "on the Hudson." It seems to me that the "longest river in the U.S." should be defined as the entire length of the Missouri River plus the portion of the Mississippi River downstream of their confluence at St. Louis. Liberia was "sort of" a colony of the United States in the early 1800s. It has been independent since 1847. According to how the term "Middle East" was defined decades ago, Afghanistan and Pakistan might have been considered part of it. "Near East" was used for Turkiye, Lebanon, Israel, and the other Asian Arab countries that comprised the Ottoman Empire. I don't know about Iran/Persia. The "Far East" was what we now call East Asia.

The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island IS in New York, it's the water around it that is apart of New Jersey

The statue of liberty is within New Jersey yes but the land actually does belong to New York. I always get confused thinking about it because I think one state owns the land below water, and the other owns the land above the water. I can never remember which though lol

My native language is Spain! Thank you for the representation.

SEE 4 BILLION YEARS IN AUSTRALIA. PBS, UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH IS UNCHANGED IS AMAZING!!!!

The reason most people don't know the true size of Greenland is due to the Mercator projection used to create flat maps as early as the 16th century. The cylindrical projection kept the features needed for navigation though it loses size accuracy the further an area is from the equator. And I'm sorry but "Alaska is just too big" is NOT a fact.

what kinda fact is "Alaska is too big"....????

I had no idea that the language in Spain is Spain

The Statue of Liberty one was tricky. But technically the island itself is NY, the waters around the island is NJ. Prepositions are important here, the SOL is ‘within’ NJ, but is ‘in’NY. Lol I don’t get it either.

7:33 - Ethiopia was not the only independent country in Africa. There was also Liberia.

DISCOVERED HOW WRONG ABOUT GEOGRAPHY I WAS WHEN I PLAYED TRIVIAL PURSUIT, BOUGHT ATLAS IF DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEM TO STUDY. COUNTRY NAMES AND BORDERS CHANGE. GOTTA KEEP UP.

7:33 It wasn't exactly that Ethiopa was able to protect itself, it was that nobody wanted Ethiopia.

I always thought the US had the longest coastline - allowing for measuring all the ins and outs of every bay and inlet of the lower 48 along with Alaska and Hawaii

Damn Daz. That’s impressive

You can't just cross into Canada with a regular DL, it has to be an Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDL)

1 more fact is that France longest border is not with spain or germany or any other country in europe but its longest border is with Brazil thanks to French Guyana and France being colonial queen of not letting go

Forgot to add that loads of foreigners think Sydney is the capital of Australia

If you guys like geography, yall should watch RealLifelore how geography make the US overpowered

All you need to know about New Jersey is that there are two football teams and a Statue of Liberty that are inside Jersey borders and all are New York icons.

If you offer me pheasant, I'd rather have grouse.

Oslo, Ottowa, and Ouaga Dougou

The Mercator Projection gives some Canadians a big head. It's only *thismuch* bigger than the USA or China. (Most of that coastline is pretty useless/cold. Ditto for Norway and Russia. Much better to have less, but be Brazil, the USA or Australia.)

i hope you don't mind me watching your videos Daz

Shoutout to Liberia.

And Oranjestad, capital of Aruba, is another “O”.

good vid, though he many times referred to maps not representing the true scales of countries, he failed to actually explain why, which has to do with the curvature of the earth and converting it to a 2D map, there are maps online which depicts the true sizes of countries, which disregards their location on earth.

Some of his "facts" are wrong such as including the Mississippi River as part of the Missouri River. I also suspect Spanish is not the 2nd most spoken language.

He's wrong about the polar bears and penguins. I've seen old documentaries where they DO run into one another. But I do suppose it could be a rare event of migrations or something. Possibly even groups of escaped animals.

I'm also a geography nerd. Travel will do that to you.

2:00 So did Mike know that or not?

You guys forgot to finish your trivia question about world capitals that begin with “O”

Spain is the 2nd most spoken language? surely he meant Spanish

do more geography

Can someone please explain how Spain is a language I’m really confused now. Lol

This video makes a mistake on their continents map. They show Greenland colored as part of the European continent even though it's part of North America. It's a European territory on the North American continent.

Someone tell the college dunce narrating that Spain is not a language,

"Spain is the second most spoken language"? This video is rife with errors. Even the ellipticality of the Earth was misrepresented, the Earth is slightly flattened horizontally by 47 miles, not vertically.

Lower the audio of the intro its way too loud

I saw Polar bears in Canada and Alaska. He's wrong

9:35

capital of joarden is oman 😂

There are maps of the US that show Alaska and Hawaii below California, some people believe this is their actual location. And Alaska is shown smaller than Texas, so this is where people get the misconception that Texas is larger.

he's wrong about the language. He didnt specify primary language. English is the most widely spoken language on the planet. It's not the most widely spoken primary language.

This guy already got two "facts" wrong. Florida is the most southern state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. The same way Texas is the largest state in the CONTIGUOUS, US. Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the contiguous US. There's a difference. Don't leave out wording to make your facts.

don't make me learn things

Not feeling real confident in this guy's info...