Thanks

Delaware capital is Wilmington I think

@@monkofdarktimes Dover.

7:58 "Jordon"

@God-tier Basement Dweller yeah you're right that looks like Norfolk. But if you're not in the US I guess it doesn't really make a difference.

He specified UN members and Vatican City isn't an UN member

@@zelkovas well, it is an observer state and as such recognized by the UN. I believe he was mainly discounting Palestine because.... yeah

@Wally Banter well personally I want secular governance over the historical Palestine region but yeah basically. tbf if Jordan didn't intervene in the Six Day War we might have a Jordanian or Palestinian Palestine

@@yaj1v The Vatican is a bullshit state anyway that was created to reduce tensions with the Catholic Church and the Pope which explains why it's only an observer state as in it doesn't really have a say on anything apart indoctrinating people of course

@@Forlfir yeah ofc

A little ironic that the state capital of Alaska isn't connected to the rest of the state by roads

@@lzh4950 you can just drive through canada

@@kafuchino3435 not right now, Americans currently can't travel into Canada

@Erik Seville Only via ferry IIRC

also both cities have the east capital and west capital in their names.

Alejandro Rodolfo Mendez no, Tokyo means “Eastern Capital”, while Kyoto simply means Capital.

i just forget which one is one... but check the kanjis. i forget about it, but in the chapter of geography now japan explain it well. basically kyoto was the capital then became the other capital.

@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Kyoto is 京都, the characters standing in for respectively "capital-city", whereas Tokyo is 東京, literally "east-capital".

@Alejandro Rodolfo Mendez Japanese here. Kyoto is indeed just “capital”. Huh, Geography Now made an error, it seems...

Interesting coincidence.

Los Angeles’ original name was also very long - “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula" (in English, "the town of our lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula").

Jimmi Alli Eh, Does It Matter? The Place’s Walls Are More Vandalism Than Wall

@@JimmiAlli los Angeles is now the queen of homeless drug users and street vendors, thanks to the mayor.

nvm

That makes no sense. Germany would have a lower GDP if you remove Berlin unless you mean GDP per capita.

+kami - Have you not heard of the famous Berlin money-burning pyres? It's pretty much all they do in that city these days... Nah, of course it isn't, but that is pretty much the only action you could undertake that lowers your absolute GDP. I suspect +itsjustnils was indeed talking about per-capita GDP.

@@rjfaber1991 , +Kami, yes I meant Per Capita.. sorry and thanks for pointing it out for me :D

Hmm... Maybe something to do with a sudden influx wotgin the past 5 years of the city's and also the whole country's population?

+zymon Gorczynski - That influx has been way too small to have an effect of that nature. It's far more likely that it's to do with the old wealth disparity between East and West Germany, which is still visible to this day, albeit to much less of an extent than in 1989...

Thank you Kim! Very cool!

yes very nice

Hey Kim, could you work on the wifi? It isn't working for some reason

@VardarBanovina Smh his country's too poor to feed it's people, but it's *certainly* rich enough to make giant memorials and a giant building. It's all about priorities

I love saying Pyongyang

Did you know: "Kingston was named the first capital of the United Province of Canada on February 10, 1841."

@@ChrisPollitt I'm aware, however this video was more focused on present day capitals 😉

There is National Capital Region, a term which includes Ottawa, Gatineau, and surrounding areas. However, this area is not independent. It's still part of Ontario and Quebec respectively.

Fun fact: London is in Ontario

Any “ Guay ”

you make good videos

You too make great videos I have subscribed you

Your videos are becoming more boring, create interesting videos next, I don't want you to look like Real Life Lore

@@Adrian-ve5tv But Real life lore is a good channel like Atlas Pro.

So, there are 4 then.

If you count provinces, than the capital of British Columbia (Canadian Province) Victoria is located on Vancouver Island.

Equatorial is currently building a capital city on their mainland, Oyala.

@Mr. P. Enis The island of Great Britain is the mainland of the UK though as the vast majority of it's territory is located on said island as is it's capital London. Same goes for Iceland, Japan also Tokyo is on the island that forms the mainland of that nation Honshu. Mainland is a rather fuzzy term that is sometimes used in multiple different contexts but the most common definition is the largest contiguous landmass within a defined geographic area whether that be a county, state, country or whatever. So for example if you are talking about the UK then the island of Great Britain would be mainland UK but the continental mainland of the European Peninsula is mainland Europe because Great Britain is the largest single landmass of the United Kingdom but for the continent of Europe that is of course the main European Peninsula itself (Including it's own smaller peninsulas like Italy and Iberia). So TLDR it's literally the Main land of [area in question]

@Mr. P. Enis Yeah dunno where they got that from since New Guinea is the largest, Java is the 5th I think NG, Borneo, Sumartra and I think one other who's name I forget are bigger. I havn't actually been there so I don't know which the locals consider the mainland it could be one of the exceptions though as it is one example where the most populated island and the largest island are not the same place. Honestly it's not exactly a scientific term and what people in an area consider the mainland can be fuzzy like I said it usually means the largest but then usually largest and most populated/economically important are the same place Indonesia doesn't follow this trend as Java has 3-4 times more people than the next most populated despite being 5th in terms of raw size. As another example of where things get quite fuzzy if you ask a British person to colour in Mainland Europe on a map many would colour the continent including Scandinavia ask most Scandinavians and they generally only count the area south of the Baltic sea so it really is somewhat more of a cultural term and depends a lot on the perspective of the person identifying which land is the mainland from their perspective. Course for most of the Scandinavian population by far the easiest route to the rest of the content is across the water and not the long (and thanks to geopolitical BS overly complicated) slog up through Russia

Google maps lists Valparaiso as a capital

@@doomxtreme It doesn't? Chile only has one capital

For anyone with doubts about this: Valparaiso has our Parliament, but Santiago has everything else, including our old Parliament, a lot of population (close to one third of the country's total) and is the center of economic activities

@@JPWack ..why do you refer to your national legislature as 'parliament'? .while Mr Ricardo Santos refers to it as 'Congress'?..just curious..in Anglophone nations, it is not a semantic difference..parliaments are much different than congresses..

@@disoriented1 by mistake, I didn't know there was a difference. Yeah, Chile has a Congress, independent of the executive branch of government. Maybe I watch too many British tv shows 😂

Except a modern city should prioritize public transportation over wide highways. Also, I wouldn't be surpised if corruption had anything to do with the oversize highways.

@@Gonza-lh2vo true, although no amount of public transport can completely eradicate the individual freedom of owning personal transportation like a car or a bike. Having said that, I agree that questionable things may have happened

@@SiVlog1989 Of course, some people prefer or need a car.

I too watched the Top Gear special in Burma

@@Sebotway THIS! :D

Geography now launched Nauru episode yesterday and they talked about Nauru's capital.

Its a big week for nauru now that theyre famous thanks to youtube geography vids

Don’t forget the Vatican

That was fast

Yay(:

Why do YOU have to be in every comment section of a popular video?

Justin Y. How are you always so quick to comment?

Whir twerp And Reykjavik the most northern 😉

Well it depends on what you define as a capital. Hobart is a state capital and it's further south than Wellington. But Stanley is the capital of the self governing, fast growing and very wealthy Falkland Islands and they increasingly refer to themselves as a "nation", even if they can't be technically independent "due to the obvious military threat."

@@Dave_Sisson Hobart is still in Australia. Tasmania is not an independent country hence it doesn't count as a capital city of the country.

@@Dave_Sisson If we talk about state/province capitals, Ushuaia is the most southern one

@@juanpedronardin8596 but we don't

That's not true. Back when Tallahassee was settled, the only two cities in Florida were Jacksonville and Pensacola. Instead of choosing which city to make the capital, Tallahassee was chosen since it was halfway between them. At the time it was just a small native American village, but it was technically in the center for Florida's population.

Well, looking it up, it seems the Florida history book we were mandated to read in fourth grade may have had some errors in it. I thank you for clarifying. However, the two towns were Pensacola, and Saint Augustine, which is the oldest continuously occupied city in the US. Jacksonville had only just been settled in 1822, a mere two years before Tallahassee was chosen to be the capital, and their town charter wasn't approved by the Florida legislature until 1832. Thank you for prompting me to look into this.@@LlamaKing9000

I wish it was in the middle of the state imo it makes more sense to put it more near Orlando now because most of the biggest population centers are in central and south Florida, but moving the capital would probably decimate Tallahassee and would be too much work moving many government stuff here

If that was true then Orlando would be the capital

Well seeing Vatican city is a country in a city, yes, but then one would have to consider Vatican City to be the capital of... Vatican City? If an entire country is just one city, does that make that city the capital? That's a philosophical question. Maybe WonderWhy will try and answer :)

Vatican City is not a UN member

@@6zeekoe9 fair enough, just an observer state. But he still should've mentioned it I think. (sorry WonderWhy, I love you, but technically Vatican city is the only capital city *inside* another capital city)

He did specify the closest capital cities of two UN members, Vatican City is an observer state rather than a full member so it wouldn't count under this criteria. But you're right, in terms of countries generally they would be closest (with the Vatican being literally inside Rome). Would've been worth a mention

​@Faarquad Borislav But he said the closest capitals of UN members.

How did Dar es Salaam become the capital in the first place? I'd have thought that after Britain got Tanganyika as a mandate and joined it up with Zanzibar, they'd keep Zanzibar City as their capital, and so would the subsequent independent countries that owned it. After all, Zanzibar was already much more well-developed and it's in a fantastic strategic position.

He can’t mention all capitals. My countries were mentioned, but cool fact

@@doomxtreme And why should that be mentioned in a video about curious capitals? I mean if it already means capital city there is nothing special about it...or am I missing something?

Almaty means land of apples. Btw in Bengali the word Astana means shelter

Fun fact: Astana was renamed in a honor of an autocrat.

You must mean glorious N U R S U L T A N

Alexander the Greater Jesus dude 😂

This joke was pretty bad not gonna lie

You are like the second Justin Y

Meister Meme don’t underestimate the kermit

kremit At least he’ll be Safe and Sound.

I found out about that one a while ago, and it was quite odd; you'd expect a city with such an obviously Mayan name to be the continuation of an old Mayan city, as is the case all over Central America, but instead, it's a brand-new planned city...

Culo

I don't. What is it?

@@BJGvideos A country that's so small that it only consists of one city.

@@scythal So...Vatican City is a city state? How about Nauru?

@@BJGvideos Nauru is not a city, it's s couple of Towns but Nauru is better called an Island Country anyway lol.

@@carlosandleon A couple of towns? I thought it was Yaren and nothing else.

Many creative

they had other names before they became capitals though. beijing was once named ji, xi'an's first names were feng and hao, and nanjing was once jinling. those names were 2-3 thousand years old though. as for japan, kyoto was called heian, and tokyo was called edo.

Except Pyongyang.

I guess we wanted everyone to get the memo?

Delhi was before called shahjahanabad and mumbai was called bombai

Can I just be a massive spoilsport and say that as a Dutchman, I can attest to the fact that I've never heard anyone here mention or even think of The Hague as our capital? If you've grown up with the idea that a country's capital is where the government is seated, that may seem strange, but there's no reason why it should be the case, and Dutch people are very used to the idea that the two don't need to align.

South Africa has three capitals.

@Connor Black.....lol..to be honest..most of us in Missouri at times forget Jeff City is the capital!

good point

They should change it to Taipei.

@@scythal they pretty much wont ever give up their claim as tye real China...

i know what is so unique about Malabo it is the only capital city in the world that isn't on its mainland

@CRTF Brebu Well, Copenhagen has that distinction too. So one of two.

True

Actually, you can drive into Honolulu from the other municipalities in Oahu.

Yeah, but you can’t drive to it from the state at large.

+Matthew Lebo But that's not what your comment says.

You can drive into Juneau, there’s a road through British Columbia

@@stefanetienney2666 No there isnt.

South Africa has 3

That's because when Spain got Equatorial Guinea from Portugal, the mainland part of the country was very sparsely inhabited, certainly by Europeans. The islands is where the population lived, as it had done (and continues too do) in the Portuguese colony that Equatorial Guinea was originally part of, Sao Tome & Principe.

Equatorial Guinea isn't equatorial

@@adamdodda3275 I know.

Bolivia doesn't have two though. Sucre is only in the name only. They said it in their first constitution, but never did any governing then.

Glad to hear it's worth waiting for.

Dudes he doesn't upload one every like 10 years. He takes his time and research into his videos, so it isn't worth making jokes about his absense.

@@zzzzzz4110 ...

Terraria Man r/wooooosh

Somehow I dreamt that 2024 was today’s current year, which is funny since I dreamt of it on Friday, April 24, 2020.

that's because tokyo and kyoto have the same situation like in china and the japanaese use kanjis that are borrowed signs from the one that use in china.

Kyoto 京都, literally "capital city", was the official capital of Japan until 1868. Tokyo 東京都, literally "eastern capital city" was made capital in 1869 and was formerly known as Edo 江戸，literally "bay entrance".

Yeah but that doesn't mean that the Chinese will necessarily use that. In this case, they do.

you're lucky you're new, us old timers have waited years between videos

Because it requires a lot of research, editing, and whatnot. There's less time between sponsored videos, though.

I guess the guy has a life...

well hello there new watcher ... small note to you the next video will be in 2050

TheGodfather441 been here for about 5 years and seen about 10 videos since subbing

I was scrolling through the comments to see if someone would mention this!

And then at 10:11 he shows a painting of the colonial Capitol building in Williamsburg while talking about current capitals that used to be the most populous, as if it's still the capital. It's especially strange because he later acknowledges that Richmond is the capital when he talks about independent cities at 10:42.

You're a child.

Either this is an r/woooosh or you had no childhood.

United States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru!

@@battleprattlealternativeac8978 republic Dominican,Cuba Caribbean Greenland el Salvador to.

@@personinapurplebackground7410 Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela , Honduras, Guyana and still...

Cuz it looks cool probably

Russia might have been a good example of a country that moved its capital as well

@@amcghie7 Moscow to Saint Petersburg back to Moscow

@@DarthMalgusSith_Lord yup

That’s Moscow!? Now I see why Trump is so lovestruck with Russia.

@wonderwhy ^

Surprisingly enough almost no comments are about that

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it was a mistake

@@madingwang7778 wow thanks

There are a lot of incorrectly US State capitals listed.

Not officially until census 2020

True but Phoenix, Arizona is still in the lead!

Bruh

3of11 i live in orlando and i like it a kot better than talahasse

Yeah, wholesome.

As an Israeli i wish that everyone just forget about us,lol,just the opposite of New Zealanders i guess 🇮🇱😃

Islamagood would have been my personal pick though.

Nah

@@yarpen26 ik you are mostly kidding, but Islamabad literally translates to city of Islam in Persian and it's delusional brother Urdu.