Apologies for my mistake on the Crimea thing! I thought I’d seen the border change on Google maps but I think it was a dotted line. Let me draw that one again!! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

Brits and drawing borders... name a better combo.

british man drawing borders going "I like that, I like that shape". A real classic

Nice one Tom, you started like 6 major wars, and the whole balkan is on fire.

> "That's quite a big Poland... But hey, they had a rough time of it, let's give em some land" > Proceeds to shrink polish border on every direction

Tom : oh look I can zoom all the way into Rome 2 minutes later Refuses to zoom in on Andorra

"harder than it looks" no, it looks pretty hard.

Thank you for sending Oslo to Sweden. Much obliged, Jan from Bergen.

The complete disregard of geographical features as potential borders is classic tom

Using the Danube would have simplified your life a lot in a few of these.

Tom: "Just realise I can zoom really far in!" Also Tom: "I'm going to draw random shape in the Pyrenees and hope Andorra is nearby...oh bother, it isn't."

You should totally do April Fools video when you just cross St. Peter's square in a straight line and call it a straight mission across Vatican

I wonder if anyone else, in the history of humanity has said ever said “I’m going with my heart” in relation to drawing an outline of Andorra from memory.

My right hand is incredibly strong too. From drawing. Yes.

Tom's pronunciation of Czechia and the potato he decided to draw for its borders really made my day lol (I'm a Czech). But hey, at least we've got back Kladsko from Poland!

We’ve got 41 countries, i presume that’s all the countries in Europe… We’re off to a great start 😂

Three things are guaranteed in life… death, taxes and Tom saying ‘are we recording’ at the start of every video

According to Tom I'm now a Dutchie living at the German border and lots of friends of mine are Germans hahaha. Mans just gave the whole Eastern region of The Netherlands away to Germany like it was nothing lol.

I enjoyed the bit where the English guy described drawing Irish boarders as "easy"

Tom: Zooms into Vatican City to see streets and the walls and geta a near perfect guess Also Tom: 0% on Andorra? I find that hard to believe. It must be around....here. *Doesn't zoom in the map at all* Never change, Tom.

“I do have a bit of information, albeit false.” Golden. (Seriously, though, this was damned impressive!)

Hey Tom. If you're looking for a video idea then I've got one that may be good or may be a complete car crash (pun to become evident). I was watching a dash cam compilation video and saw one of the clips was somewhere I recognised so I jumped onto Google maps to have a look at the area. Then while I was looking I thought that dash cam clips could work as a pseudo Geoguessr and we'd also have some poor driving to laugh at as well. So the video idea is to use a dash cam compilation video (you'll have to be careful because some give the location) then try and locate the exact location on Google Earth. I think there's many factors that make it compelling. You've got the different camera qualities might make signs easier or harder to read, different clip lengths give varying bits of info, different looks of different areas, different accents of the drivers when they are swearing at other drivers. All aspects which slightly change it from Geoguessr enough to make it more unique. You can also partake in the dash cam compilation comments tradition of naming a TotW (Tw*t of the Week).

You gave half of my county (Schleswig-Holstein) to Denmark! 😢 Funnily the way you drew it is exactly what the border used to be before the German-Danish war in 1864

Fun fact about Bulgaria, kids in school learn to draw it as a right-facing dog. Tail in the North West, head in the north east, paws in the South East.

As always with Tom's map quiz viral videos this will be for members only for a few days due to the Google Maps API costs, but will be free soon for all. Other drawing quizzes are free though!

Tom, you're one of the very few people on youtube that are genuinely funny. You're always spontaneous and genuine. I love your little jokes here and there ❤❤😂😂

thats a really brave video for you to do, been wheezing for the whole length of it

Playing GeoGuessr and saying no photographic memory you got. Incredible 😅. The level of knowledge this challenge requires is extremely high. Doubt anyone can get 80% accuracy here first try

Imagine being from the UK and the country you’re best at drawing is France 😂

Great video! Very brave of you to attempt this challenge, there are several borders that could've earned someone less experienced a public quartering

Mindblowing performance!!! Actually insane how good that was

Hey Tom, the internationally recognised border of Ukraine is from 1991, after the fall of the soviet union. This includes crimea, and Russia's annexation of it and the Donbas starting in 2014 was and remains internationally rejected. thanks for your vids mate :)

If youtube was around in 1939 youd have just kicked off WW2. Beautiful stuff

Thank you for the good laughs and this was absolutely incredible

8:56 Nooo, not "Tchetchia"! :Ddd It's Czechia with the same pronounciation as in "Czech", but with "-ia"

I was screaming in pain while watching this Great job keep it up!

Both the video and these comments are great stuff. Thanks Tom!

he almost drawn Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 😅🤣 made me laugh and then he got 90 points for that, great vid Tom

On the one hand this is incredibly impressive. I wouldn’t have the first idea how 2/3 of the countries are shaped much less which other countries they border but you could have made this so much more accurate by zooming in more and following rivers lakes etc.

I am impressed with how well you did at the end. I doubt many people could do any better unless they have a very niche profession where they have to know the borders accurately

I like how you annexed Flanders, thank you on behalf of the Dutch

A recommendation would be to zoom in a bit more, and remember that borders usually follow rivers, or watersheds (drainage basins) , another example of something you probably already knew was the lake constance border .

I claim that triangle between Austria, Hungary and Czech. According to your map it doesn’t belong to any country, right? 😂 The climate in that area is very pleasant to grow wine. This video was so much fun! I would have totally failed, because all those “new” countries didn’t exist back then when I had to learn the map of Europe in geography classes… 😳 I definitely should spend some time on it. Thanks for reminding.

Would be interesting if Hugequiz published the average european borders

That's seriously well done!

Plenty of right hand practice due to working on animations huh Tom? Loved this one, really interesting!

On the first day of AP European History class during my senior year of high school in 1999, my teacher had everyone draw a map of Europe on a blank sheet of paper. We also had to label all the countries and many of the most important physical features. My map was so accurate that many people accused me of cheating or even tracing a real map. Of course I scored the highest and I still have this map over 25 years later so I can make a video showing everyone eventually. I definitely would have done a really good job with this game than Tom!

I'm from the Isle of man so was refreshing your channel every 5 minutes 😂 can't wait for Sunday haha

16:07 Appreciate it Tom! XD

Great video, so fun. Really looking forward to the race across Isle of Man. Legend. P.S. Your initial Luxembourg draw seemed near perfect; its bigger than you think!

we really appreciate your huge hugequiz quizes

This is about as chaotic as I expected it to be

You did very well and I had a really good laugh 😀. Well done Tom 🎉

this video had me CACKLING all throughout, great one Tom. not to say i would've done at all better though, lol

Swear I hadn’t laughed that hard in a while during your Liechtenstein drawing 😂

Had a chat on the other screen but looked over just as you had finished my dear Finland. Let out an instinctive OUUFF, what an absolute shambles. Good stuff mate, good laughs.

Created a whole new country after drawing France - the gap between Germany/Belgium/Holland/France

Lithuanian here. It’s alright, Tom, I’m not sure any of us could have done much better tbh. Though I do wish you had gotten the shape at least somewhat right…

Would love to see you do this on other continents, Asia Africa and Central America would be tough

In estonia you drew the exact borders of how far estonians soldiers went in their independece war in ww1, before the peace agreement

As an estonian thank you for restoring the land that russia took from us

I‘d love to see you try a version of this focusing on bodies of water because that could be quite helpful.

The commentary on this is just hilarious.

I love how the Czech border is practically there from the start :D

Fun game and impressive performance, If we werent heading into WW3 already, we sure are now. I know there is a piece of unclaimed land on the border of Croatia and Serbia, but I am quite confident Tom has exaggerated it here haha.

7:39 this war has thrown a spanner in the works 😂😂😂

this was so much fun to watch id love to see some of other continents too or maybe even a uk counties one if that's an option? looking forward to the straight line mission nonetheless

the best strategy for the micro-nations is probably to draw them much larger than they actually are-- better to get a low score from a large area with the country included than no score because you've gone the right size but aren't nearby! great video as always :)

As a dude with a grandmother who was born in Liechtenstein I winced a bit at that placement, but I suppose it wasn’t a bad guess.

Do you think you would attempt this again, but taking much longer and zooming in more trying to get the exact borders more accurate? Not necessarily having to do random countries, as that may make it more complicated. You could do like one country a day or something and see how accurate you can get it.

As a Belarusian i can tell you did surprisingly well for a...non-belarussian xdd Usually not a soul in the world knows where we are

Checking big rivers Like Mosel and Donau would have helped, I think. Well done anyway.

it was so funny to see so many countries turn into blobs and especially my own 😂

You did surprisingly well

Branching out into cartography. Nice!

25:37 that giggity got me 🤣

The way the point system works it's very easy to get a score of at least 50 every time because the points are the average of the percentage of the drawn shape inside the country (a) and the percentage of the country inside the drawn shape (b) so if you just draw a very big shape around the country there will be 100% of the country in the shape and a tiny percentage of the shape will be in the country. a =

gg bruh definitely better than I could have done, this was a cool challenge lol and think you did a good job with Ireland, tis a very tricky border in many ways lol

The points seems to just be the average of % of the country you covered and % of the area you drew actually within the country. Gaming the points should be pretty easy. For instance: Just drawing a box around all of Europe should be above 50 points for every country (averaging 100 and some small number). This would work particularly well for the small countries. If you drew a circle 10 times the size of Andorra, but you are sure it surrounds it, you’d score 55 rather than 0 for missing it completely

Lithuania😢😢😢

Swede, here. I'm very impressed that you managed to get 90% of Sweden right. In fact, it probably would've been 100% if you'd included the two islands found to the east of our south-eastern coast.

Since you can zoom so close, using rivers would be a great help when drawing borders

Damn! You only got me by 1 point. I scored 2963.

loved this!

would love you to pay attention to borders more for a while (as you will inevitably do) and have another go at it whenever :D

enjoyed this a lot

Great vid tom, I look forward to sunday too

Great vid mate

Thought you were a footy fan Tom. Couldn't believe it when you cut out the Louis II Stadium on the Monaco round!

What people forget about Republic of Ireland is that the northern part of the Irish Republic goes all the way to the north coast and is actually further north than Northern Ireland

There were equally-distant and identical sirens where I am that started with this video, so I was VERY confused for about 20 seconds

Tom drawing a very small Bulgaria: Yea, that's about right. 🙃 Me seeing the Danube river (which makes a big part of Bulgaria's border with Romania) right there just a bit to the north: 😬 😄 Also.. to make Lithuania medieval, you'd have to draw it a lot bigger (see Grand Duchy of Lithuania) 😅

this was a truly wild episode

Cracking attempt Tom. Bell-land, will there be enough room...?

Just for including maastricht you get a pass from me. Groningen? Who needs 'em.

For San Marino, it might have been smart to just draw it bigger - might guarantee you get at least a few points for having it within your border

I'd like to see a challenge where you draw all these countries on a blank piece of asetate or tracing paper, then afterwards put it back over an atlas. Make you do the coasts as well. Plus abit more lo-fi. Alternative though - just have you make your own illustrated map someday. Scrapbook your adventures on it. Here be farmers!

As a Bellander myself, I enjoyed the video.

The point system at denmark shows you got 99% of the country, but only 60% of your area is in the country. That implies that were right and the top part should be excluded.

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