Missed out that Northern Ireland used to be the biggest shipbuilding centre in the world for around 200 years. The Channel Islands should have had a mention, when he spent so much time on The Isle of Man.

The IoM's position isn't "unique". There are two other Crown Dependencies.

No idea who the narrator is, but his pronunciation of "Hebrides" was wildly incorrect lol

He missed out a lot of other factors… Scotland and Wales are both more mountainous and so historically, have far less available farm land to support a larger populace. Also the brutal physical, political and economic suppression of the North, East and South West of England during the Harrying of the North, Peasants' Revolt and the Bloody Assizes have had lingering repercussions.

As usual this video is incorrect and simplified. Glasgow was often seen as the second city of the Empire. South Wales was a major industrial centre.

If you look at the map at around 06:57, Connor, the lines on it denote the UK motorway network. The one heading up the east, or right-handside as you look at it, stops at Newcastle; whereas the westerly one continues right through to Scotland. The most northerly point on the entire network is just outside the City of Perth, from which it continues (as a dual-carriageway first class trunk road named A90) through to the major east coast cities of Dundee and Aberdeen; as well as to the (mainly single carriageway; but being gradually upgraded A9 trunk road, to the City of Inverness, around 110 miles to the north of Perth.

The transport infrastructure also tends to reflect that distribution. If, for example, you download the national rail map (the all-stations version), you can already get a pretty clear idea of population density.

I live in south west England. It is great.

@McJibbin the three legs of Man comes about from the legend of Manannan Mac Lir (Manannan son of the sea). He was a magical figure who ruled the Island, and if threatened, he would shroud the island in mist to make it harder to find. If they did manage to land, he would cast burning three legged Stabits at invaders. The island’s motto is “quocunque jeceris stabit”, from the Latin meaning “whichever way you throw it, it will stand”…much like the island itself: often tossed about by destiny, but somehow, still going.

The Channel Islands are also not a part of the UK with their own governments yet they feel more British than many areas of the UK when you visit with their own unique French influences.

London was by far the biggest city long before empire and industrialisation, and it has simply grown and grown in importance, the south east essentially feeds it both with people and supplies. Beyond that it is about industry and ports. There is a band of cities across the North, Manchester was built by cotton, Leeds and west Yorkshire by Wool, Sheffield by steel, and Liverpool and Hull are the ports at either end. Stoke had its potteries, Birmingham engineering, and many places had coal to power it all. Newcastle is part of a smaller cluster on the north east coast built with coal. Its not true to say their wasn't industrialisation in the other nations, South Wales had a huge coal industry, Belfast was a great ship building city and Glasgow was considered the second city of the Empire. The South West had little industry, little coal and land that mostly is good for grazing, its big city is a legacy of the slave trade and its industry was sugar related. The truth though is that particularly with regard to Scotland the country is becoming more unbalanced. While England's population has increased by a third in the last 70 years, as has Northern Ireland, Wales by 20%, but Scotland by just 5%. In 1951 England had 8 times Scotland's population, now it is 10.5 times. The Scots live shorter lives, young Scots often move south and very few immigrants choose to move there, even compared to Northern Ireland. 😊

"just" 67 million people. More than ten times the amount off people than Finland in a smaller country.

Other commenters have rightly pointed out that there are two other Crown Dependencies near the British/Irish Isles. These are the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey; in other words, the Channel Isles. (Their principal officials are called 'Bailiffs'). Their Parliaments are called 'States'; the Bailiwick of Guernsey includes Alderney and Sark, which both have subordinate States. I believe French, along with English, is still an official language, and a few still speak the native language, a strange form of French. Just as King Charles is 'Lord of Mann', he is also 'Duke of Normandy' for the Channel Isles. He rather missed out the industrial centres in the far north of England, at the mouths of the Tyne and the Tees. Newcastle should be called 'Newcastle-upon-Tyne', to distinguish it from another large city, 'Newcastle-under-Lyme' - Lyme was an ancient forest - in the Midlands. Manchester is a relatively small city; it is the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester - where I was born - that has 2.8 million people. Similarly, Birmingham - actually bigger than Manchester - is only part of the West Midlands Metropolitan County, and it is the West Midlands Metropolitan County that has 2.7 million. The Black Country - in this County - where I now live, has more people than Birmingham, and would be affronted by this video. I know well the beautiful view you said you would run up the hillside. It is of Gribun Rocks on the Isle of Mull of the west coast of Scotland.

My Irish ancestors fled after the Famine, arriving at the Port of Liverpool, and remained in the city. It is highly likely your Irish ancestors also passed through the Port of Liverpool to get to the New World. It always amazes me when I walk through the Docklands here today. Practically all of the Irish who immigrated to America walked over these cobblestones and boarded the ships, fearful, but also optimistic. If my ancestors had more money, I would likely today be American, and not English and Scouse. This is also why 75% of Liverpool's population has Irish ancestry, despite being an English city.

I lived in Deva which was Roman for Chester.

But Wales was part of the industrial revolution, coal mines played a huge part in keeping the Welsh language alive, due to people not having to move or emigrate on masse, South Wales towns were growing in a par with places like Chicago atone point.

If you look at the map in the video the middle of England would go up to Scotland. It doesn’t. It’s really the South East of England, not the middle, specifically London, and the urban sprawl from there outwards. Mining and rail were huge in Wales. Scotland had a massive shipbuilding industry. To say there was little industry in Scotland and Wales is naive at best. The three legs of the Isle of Man originate from the royal coat of arms of three Kings from the Isle of Man. Google the Manx Cat, (from the Isle of Man) I believe they are unique.

If you look at England's population overall density of approximately 450 people per square km, then you can tell how different the population is distributed because in Lincolnshire where I've lived all my life, that population density figure goes down to around 150 people per sq km. I think I'm as close to a "country boy" as you can get in England. I've spent all my life living or being around small remote villages, farms, fields of sheep and cows, nothing locally more than a church so having to drive ten miles of country backroads to get to a supermarket, of there being no bus services or trains, being cut off for days when it snows in winter and frequent power cuts. Many of the outlying, isolated houses close to where I live are still off the mains gas grid. Their heating is ran off heating oil. Even today I go out my front door and all I hear is the birds in my garden hedge. I can't imagine living in a city. I couldn't stand the bustle and hustle. Being so tightly packed together with so many other people, such as sharing a London underground carriage with more people than live in an entire village out here. I would get claustrophobic.

Newcastle (upon Tyne) is in the north east, above Yorkshire & County Durham. It has a population of 300 K (City), 1.1 M (Metropolitan area). Not mentioned in this video probably because it counters his basic premise. Uk population is concentrated in lumps, with open country between. Just that in the South/East the lumps are closer together and the further north & west you go the more the open country predominates. BTW as far as I am concerned the South starts at Leeds, the Deep South @ Birmingham & Hades @ Milton Keynes. Your journey to learn is going well young man; keep going!

Manchester & Liverpool are in the North West of England. We wouldn't refer to them as being in the centre or middle section of England. Newcastle is the North East.

To be honest mate its a bit inaccurate because in Brimingham it's a got a bigger pop than Manchester

I thought Scotland was empty until I came to Finland.

If you're still interested in this topic, I'd recommend watching a video on the 'Blue Banana' (a megacity that includes from Manchester, through London, the Low Countries, the Rhine Valley, and down to Milan). Megacities are a fun topic as they challenge our understanding of what it even means to be a city in a globalised world, and which definitions of a city work for which purposes (e.g. the 'Blue Banana' is not politically unified so is less useful for predicting governance, but it has a practically useful definition for planning infrastructure and trade cooperation.)

07:20 "The Sheb-re-das"! 🤣

The relationship between the Isle of Man and the EU wasn't unique: Jersey and Guernsey, two other self-governing Crown Dependencies within striking distance of the UK, were in a similar position: neither of them were ever in the EU despite being just off the coast of France.

Newcastle is on the north east coast

Newcastle's further north, on the east coast closer to the Scottish border. The Isle of Man isn't completely unique, BTW - the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, off the coast of France, are also Crown Dependencies. The Manx symbol is called a triskelion (or in Manx, "Ny tree cassyn") and is an ancient Celtic design often found in stone engravings - weirdly, the Italian island of Sicily also uses it as a symbol.

fun fact if the british hadnt starved us in the 1840s ireland is projected to have a population similar to poland about 30 million people. Instead we only have 8 million, less than we had 200 years ago.

The majority of people live where the living is easiest. Geography and logistics make living in the lumpy (rainy, poor, distant...) bits more difficult. 6:43 The reservoir shown is Loch Fada on the Isle of Skye... 9:32 Newcastle is in the North of England on its Eastern coast (just above the 'd' of England in the caption).

during the industrial revolution wales exported slate, steel, tin, copper, iron, gold and famously, its coal. merthyr tydfil, the rhondda valleys, swansea, cardiff, barry were booming. cadw (wardens and inspectors of our historic sites & buildings) even says that wales was the first industrialised nation. the first million pound cheque (in the world) was signed at the coal exchange building in cardiff due to the coal mining industry during this time.

The "gow" in Glasgow rhymes with "grow", not with "brow".

I live in Lincolnshire in Eastern England, It's England's second largest county by land area but only has a total population of 778,000 people. Out of them about 111,000 thousand live in the main city of Lincoln. Much of the county has very few people living in it.

When he talks about the populations of the cities, hes using metropolitan area numbers and even those seem inflated. For example belfast has just shy of 350,000 people, hes saying it has near 700,000, considering NI as a whole has 1.9 million people, thats near half of the population in 1 city which is over double the official statistics, he might be adding a lot extra due to the area near belfast also contains lisburn, the 3rd largest city, as well as a lot of other smaller towns but those are seperate metropolitan areas/entities. The greater london area has 9.8 million people according to trends on historical data which is 4 million less than stated, thats an error of around 30% the stated value or it would be like just him adding 6% of the countries total population to london. Idk where he got his stats from but at least for NI or london theyre just wrong, idk about the others but i wouldnt trust them.

"Heh-breed-us..."? 😂

I see Ireland as a koala clinging to a tree looking back over its shoulder towards England, with Lough Neagh as its eye.

England's population has become a good brickbat against immigration (legal or otherwise) in the last 7 or 8 years - and, in some respects, long before. I suspect there is something in that. We have (for example) less than half the landmass of Germany, but only about 30 million less people. So ideally the problem is 'Why shouldn't immigration be larger to other parts of the union?' And that's squarely down to relative wealth. With so much power and money concentrated in the south-east of England and - to a lesser degree - in some of the larger cities, it's obvious that the smaller countries or regions can't compete. As it is, I have to concur with an Australian backpacker I used to know here (he used to work for Channel 9) who described - or perhaps decried - Britain as a 'damp, overcrowded, little island'.

This guy has a very strange concept of central England. If you tell someone from Leeds, Liverpool or Manchester that they live in the Midlands, they would laugh in your face. Loudly.

I see he left the north eastout

I've never ever heard lough neagh pronounced so badly.

Certain islabs, like Man ... are crown priperty, not UK property.

Scotland is like New Zealand,full of Mountains,Hills,lakes (Lochs) etc so there only limited bits of flat land where people can live! England is much larger and flatter,hence,more people can live there!

Geoff should understand it is one kingdom but four nations. Though Fife may disagree.

I know 30 US state capital cities, I'll try to add Providence to make it 31

It is not four separate kingdoms. It is only one - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (I have no hesitation in saying that Tony Blair's Devolution policy was and is lunacy.) Wales was colonised by Edward I (Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots). The Union of the Crowns in 1603 was caused by Elizabeth Tudor leaving no issue. The political union of England/Wales and Scotland was consumated, as it were, by the Treaty of Union, 1707, provoked by the Darien Venture which bankrupted Scotland (see story on this).

I am a true Englishman. Italian, French, Viking and Irish in my background. 😂😂

The Isle of Man symbol: 'knock me over and I shall still stand!'

you could look into the 'isle of wight' as well

The music is sending me a bit. Do they think we all stand around doing Morris Dancing or something?

The Isle of Man could preserve its freedom by playing off the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland against each other. Whether that accounts for the three legs I don't know, but it echoes its motto which translates as 'Whichever way you throw me, I stand'

I wonder why more Americans don’t live in Alaska it’s so sparsely populated and who wouldn’t just love to live on the side of a mountain at 40 degrees below.

Isle of Man 3 legged symbol .... "Which ever way you throw me I will always stand up"...

What is a 'Hebbridduss?'

I have visited Rhode Island.

Newcastle is way up north, my friend.

missed the 2.6 million that live in just the North East of England..................the river Tyne runs through Newcastle and onto the sea at Tynemouth.

Your from long island have you ever seen the guys from impractical jokers that’s it you know about that show ?

Before the bloody romans. BEFORE the romans. Just in case - before the romans

I wonder if the voice over is AI computer generated.

The north of Ireland doesn't spend a £1 note.

Open borders has definitely inflated our numbers. We're a small bunch of islands, so now we're becoming overcrowded.

Too cold.

mate cheap trick us Scots try not dislike the English certainly not the north but we try to stop them comeing here hence only 2 trainlines......but they love us so team hug... for now

We are not an island off Europe. The UK is in Europe a well. Mainland Europe is an island off the UK!!

Thank good for that ,we could afford to pay for any more of them

Now we have uncontrolled immigration therefore, our identity is under threat. Immigrants don't like to go to Scotland because it is cold. Last year England and Wales net migration was 750,000 so the size of Birmingham and shows no sign of slowing.

This quirk in Uk population is caused by the economic differences deliberately skewed in favour of southern England

Too bloody high scotland and wales ok

Is this made for 6 year olds ?

You get people in the south of England who never travel north, the don't knoe what they are missing.

Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds are all bigger than Manchester

He is a fool he did not know what he is talking about EG Newcastle is mutch bigger than Swansea

I dont know where the hell this video is getting its population stats becauae Cardiff does not have even close to a million people, never mind leeds

The three legged symbol of the Isle of Man was a result of too many booster Covid jabs.😆

This is why the weather on UK TV annoys me No one lives there no one cares.

I’m half Scottish, live in London. Never been to Scotland, though I love the look of the countryside but not keen on cold weather and midges. personally, London is the best place in the UK to live

You think Ireland looks like a bird? Honestly anyone can see it's a Scots terrier!😄

Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland. The correct geographical term for these Islands is Great Britain and Ireland. The correct political term for these Islands is the UK and Ireland 🇮🇪.

this narrator guy is butchering british place names! 🤦🏻

Instead of wasting your time reacting to videos you could spend your time learning proper english... wouldnt that be something......

I wish Connor would stop shoving his clothes into his mouth every time he starts a video.

Because Wales is Gods country and our English friends are only allowed to visit 😊

Quite a lot of people live in the West of England due to moneyed people moving there. The biggest empty area that feels devoid of interest and people is between Preston and Carlisle near the Scottish border.

Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 is not a British Isle/Island This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland. The correct geographical term for these Islands is Great Britain and Ireland. The correct political term for these Islands is the UK and Ireland 🇮🇪.