Somehow I have a feeling this isn’t the first time a British guy has uttered the phrase “cause Ireland doesn’t count” throughout history.

"The Netherlands is our third closest country because Ireland doesn't count." Comedy like this is why I love this channel.

And that’s one of the struggles of traveling as a Brazilian: everything is so goddamn far apart

Possible fun fact, part of the reason the maine boarder is weird, is when drawing out the map they were following a river, but started following the wrong river, so from there they just went southwest in a line until they decided it was good. Not sure how true this is, but heard it in class a while ago and it makes sense.

Somehow we went from Brazil and Canada to the Caboose Bar in Tennessee to talking about stupid American borders ( and being a resident of Maryland I can give you and official pass on that) to Brunei and Indonesia. It's almost like a fever dream.

Toycat: "1939s Germany" Also toycat: zooms in on Xinjiang

Being a Brazilian I can confirm, everything is super far

Also, Brazil is closer to Africa (Sierra Leone) than Continental USA.

20:50 This actually happened! Before Nova Scotia was Nova Scotia, it was part of Acadia, a french colony similar to Quebec. When the british and the french fought in 1755, the british left Quebec nominally French but forcefully evicted large amounts of french speaking Acadians out of present day Nova Scotia and settled their own english and scottish there instead. These Acadians moved in mass to Louisiana among other places, and their culture began to morph into what was first called Acadjun and eventually Cajun culture.

When you think you're "Coming to brazil" but you end up traveling the world from canada to Netherlands and messing with the irish along the way.

Northern Maine has towns where people fly the Canadian flag but not because they're loyalists or something but because they're french speakers. Maine fought a war for that territory, not the US, just Maine. 1 person died, of pneumonia. The Aroostook War.

It's difficult for this older person who knows a lot of history (and has seen a bit as well) to find these things strange or surprising. But kudos for the title topic; it *is* pretty cool that Brazil's northernmost point is closer to Canada than to Brazil's southernmost point.

Fact about Poland: Before WWII it was far more east than today. Towns that today are in eastern Poland were in western Poland back then

When the islands are spread over the distance, Indonesia is one of the largest countries in the world. It also has a large population. It spans the width of the North American Continent.

Hey toycat I made that map on the thumbnail, I love your videos bro

You managed to roast the only two states I lived in with 10 minutes of each other

as someone from nova scotia, it is honoured for someone to talk about us for once

Title : About Brazil Halfway through the video : "'Great drinks, great prices, great food." I'll be the judge of that!"

Fun fact: Brazil is closer to the UK (SGSSI) than Brazil

Toycat: Maybe the Netherlands is our closest neighbor after France Ireland: *sad potato noises*

You EXACTLY remind me of what I sometimes put my dad through. Rambling on and on about crazy geographical and historical facts, linking them together and finding interesting connections, and often randomly switching gears altogether. Guess I'm not the only one!

"Speaking of 1930's Germany" *zooms in on Xinjiang*

I just got finished watching your livestream. And at the end you said that you made a video on your second channel. Omg I’ve never actually looked at what this channel is all about, THIS IS AWESOME! great video! (Subscribed)

Its funny you mention kicking out the Nova Scotians, but that's what the British did in the mid 18th century where they kicked out the Acadians (OG French speaking community distinct from Quebecois French Canadians) and resettled the land with British or Anglo Canadian farmers.

21:00 I see what you're doing there ToyCat ... -1 000 000 social credit 😂

BTW, at the time of the Alaska purchase, St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia. (It was the Bolsheviks that moved the capital back to Moscow.)

I didn't know this channel existed, this is great

My question about St. Pierre isn't "Why is this bit of France over here?" but rather "Why does this not share a time zone with Newfoundland (or even France)?"

A good thing to point is that the world is round, and not flat like the mercartor projection. So the parts of canada that are in the eastern side, are much closer to South America than the parts that are in the western side. Much cloeser than it apears in the mercartor map at least. That's mostly why Nova Scotia is closer to northern Brazil than Southern Brazil. Besides that, Brazil is much more huge than it looks in the mercartor projection too. Bigger than the continental USA for exemple.

The Original Canada was Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Southern Ontario, Southern Quebec. Everything else was added later. Nova Scotia would have been about 10% of Canada's land area back then.

"Netherlands is our second closest country because Ireland doesn’t count.” Spoken like a true brit toycat.

"The US could take all of Canada" Could they? Canada is really big and it is full of nicely-angry canadians.

6:00 Don't worry guys! No pigs were hurt I promise!

"Why does the US have such weird borders." *Wyoming:*

Brasileiro aqui vendo o vídeo!!! Já ganhou mais um inscrito!!

Hey toycat, there is some real interesting stuff happening with socotra, the UAE and Saudi Arabia right now which might make for an interesting video:) Specifically the latter ones are dumping piles of cash on the poor yemeni archipelago having basically bought the loyalties of the population allready. Also the UAE are paying the salaries of local officials and are building up infrastructure specifically geared to tourism. Seems to me like they are eying a referendum in the future to maybe annex the place. Also did I mention that the UAE is reportedly building a military base there with israeli assistance? And that the archipelago sits at a strategic point?

you would honestly be such a fun geography teacher

I was waiting for you to mention Northwest Angle... The little exclave caused by a surveying error.

12:45 IIRC for things like some part of a building being in a different state, I believe the state it's in is considered to be where the mailbox is (could be wrong, but I think that's how it works in the US)

Very enjoyable trip, Dude. Earned a new subscriber 👍🏻🇺🇸 🌎

Your hair looks very fresh today :)

"Nova Scotia is not what you picture when you picture Canada. If you do picture it when you picture Camada, you're doing it wrong, probably." No... That's doing it right, actually, just maybe more right than is normal.

7:46: "why does he have a sniper rifle" Lol probably because there's bears up in Alaska

As someone who lives in northern Maine where our main export is potatoes, the new Ireland thing actually makes sense lol

Imagine a timeline toy cat becomes pm of UK

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I love that his voice slowly slows down throughout the video.

AlternateTitle: Brittish Minecrafter rants about the U.S. shapes being wierd

Can you make a video on Egypt's new planned capital city?

Some parts of my house are closer to my neighbours house than my own, I never realised this before until now.

Click bait! When you think the video is about Brazil but actually is about North America 😒

Dropping that point in Alaska and landing on those guys with snipers was pure comedy

I've been subscribed for a while now and don't recall a video on the Alaska purchase. Could be wrong though.

Another interesting thing: Maine and Ireland are roughly the same size in height and width. Though Maine has a population of about 1.4 million v. Ireland's 6.9 million islandwide.

The part of Minnesota north of Lake of the woods (Angle Inlet) and the part of washington State south of Vancouver (point Roberts), the border between Ohio and Michigan that is not straight east/west (they had a battle over the border shape there), the southwest corner of Kentucky that you have to drive through Tennessee to get to, the part of Virginia across the Chesapeake Bay, the 4 corners monument where 4 states touch, the southern border of California is not straight east/west, the border between Saskatchewan and Manitoba is not straight north/south (it hogs east/west 20 times), the French oversees territory called St Pierre and Miquelon just off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada, the city of Detroit, Michigan is just north of Windsor, Ontario, only 1 highway connecting Manitoba (and western Canada) with Ontario (and eastern Canada).

I love you, Mr Cat.

As the crow flies (it would be further to drive it because of lake Erie) some of Eastern TN is closer to Canada than to Memphis

Most people in Canada actually live south of the Northernmost point of mainland America. A large amount of Canadians live in and around Toronto as well as in Quebec along the St Lawrence River. I recently moved to Nova Scotia from Toronto and we are entirely south of the American border as well.

Questions about taxes with stuff on state lines: there is in Sharon, PA that is only partly in Sharon and part of it is on the other side of the state line in Ohio. (IIRC, you cannot cross the state line inside the store.) Basically, anything PA taxes is sold on the Ohio side and anything Ohio taxes is sold on the PA side.

If you picture Nova Scotia (one of the founding provinces of Canada, the Nova Scotia accent is the most globally recognized as the "Canadian accent", Canada's most notable television shows and movies originating from Nova Scotia for example trailer park boys, as well as one of the first parts of Canada to be originally colonised by the British) when you picture Canada, apparently that's wrong. Just as wrong as picturing England when you picture Britain. Bit of a daft remark toycat but I suppose we can overlook it.

I'll ask again here, between the Baltic sea and the White sea, there are a series of canals, rivers, and lakes that, aside from two (maybe three, its blurry in google maps) dams, its a continuous route. Since this makes the northern peninsula disconnect from asia/europe, would this make it an island? or do rivers not count for that?

Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Uruguay than southernmost point of Brazil

we can apply this to mamy countries (strecthed countries with many neighbors), if the rule is from one end to the other end of country.

By the way, Kentucky is split in 2 and so is Michigan (but the second one is probably much more well-known). I am not American, and I still know that

As a brazilian: this is a certified bruh moment

Brazil is also closer to Africa than brazil

Loved the accent slip. Yeah, wrong channel.

If you live in Detroit, you can easily visit Canada by driving south. Or at least, you could before Covid.

so proud of my country! soo big!

I think this is your main channel now

NC is pointy because we wanted to have a piece of them smoky mountains

maybe take a look at the "1920 Schleswig plebiscites" on wikipedia... Germany "loosing" a part to Denmark wasn't entirely because of WW1 but goes back to the wars before in the 19th century and were decided back then as well (kind of) but those rulings ignored until after WW1.

My family has a cabin in Point Roberts, it's great because you can pop across the border and pick up a package if they don't deliver to Canada, however these poor guys that live permanently there are getting screwed over with COVID regulations

If you ever want more info about Alaska I used to live there for 22 years. (Now I live in Georgia, NOT the US state.)

Wendover Productions did a video on this a while back

11:50 missed chance to point out the afganistan panhandle, where england and russia gave away their borders to afganistan, so they wouldn't border eachother anymore

Do a video about the dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey over Ellis Island and over the Statue of Liberty. Everybody was concerned about sales tax revenue from the gift shop.

12:38 Sales tax for a parking lot? Are you talking about when you pay for parking?, because I think parking is usually free at national parks. (Actually, it's usually free anywhere except in busy parts of big cities, just speaking from my experience as a Texan whose been to New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, DC, maybe North Dakota, maybe Maryland, and nowhere else, though I was less than 5 years old in Nevada and Utah and at most 5 in California and Arizona, and I've never been involved in parking in Louisiana, and my memory of some other states is also very limited.)

and national parks are owned by the fed if you're in two states you pay to the state you ether enter the property from or to the state that holds more of the property.

I'd love to see more videos about the world that exists outside Europe and Northe America

12:54 beautiful park

That sneaky china reference at the end was just on point

so..... the video with Brasil on the title starts about Brasil and stays like that for 20 seconds before coming back to the USA, Canada and whatever, interesting

It's odd to call WW2 the "arguable" bad thing. WW1 is much, much, more arguable. It's one of those funny things in history class, where, from our modern perspective (or at least a modern American perspective), it looks really absurd to blame WW1 entirely on Germany* and it seems very obviously to be the victorious countries just "blaming" the looser because they won and so got to decide, and obviously they didn't want to pay for it, they were happy to get rid of a geopolitical rival, and basically they were just getting their "spoils of war" from Germany.** *Actually, the only reason the Austrohungarian and Ottoman empires didn't have to pay for the war was because they were completely dissolved. I think people sometimes forget that and it makes blaming Germany look a little less absurd when you realize they're actually just blamed ALL the central powers. **And the Ottomon Empire, which allied powers basically took over parts of.

About Newfoundland I'm told we had 3 options after WW2. to join Canada, remain/become our own nation or to join the US. Newfoundland has never had good management and it was during the great depression so we joined Canada for reasons. And I hear the US were a bit too busy at the time to bargain for Newfoundland.

Look up split cities, like Tenga East coast states were original expansion divided by terrain and people, west coast states were more rapid conquests, during more land was obtained Also if you don’t have a gun in Alaska grizzlies get you

I think that thing about germany your talking about had some to do with a little angry bald Italian man, cant remember

You probably already knew this about Texas USA but El Paso is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to Corpus Cristi on the Atlantic coast.

Geography and the world and stuff

Federal land belongs to congress/what ever department they choose to manage it. Tax, laws, law enforcement is also federal and hast very little to do with the state itself. If you commit a crime you are tried in the state you committed the crime, by a jury of the people who live in the county/state. The states don’t ever see the money that the federal government might collect from the land, unless the federal government then develops that land further

You should know that unless you're an urban area in the United States you do not have to pay for parking

Lmaoo I did not expect to see my province in here. Nova Scotia ❤️

Imagine an episode on Taipei's street

As far as the park that's federal, any state fees wouldn't matter because, while it is in two states, neither state has jurisdiction over federal property. The opposite is also true but in this case, only the federal government matters.

Part of your greenscreen wasnt greenscreened the entire video. Really annoying line. This is exactly the quality ive grown to expect and love from you

As a Brazilian: WOOOW

2:00 me who lives in Nova Scotia: 😭

NFKRZ should do a video about Kaliningrad sometime

As a Nova Scotian, I'm going to throw hands

Amazing vid, all the best from Poland. 🇵🇱😃