Did any of this data surprise you?

Eastern US state borders: based off geography like mountains, rivers, etc Western US state borders: R E C T A N G L E S

Maybe the NE more Catholic because of the Portuguese Irish and Italians: "am I a joke to you?"

I liked the Portuguese map. A nice little personal touch. I actually grew up in California near San Francisco and there were a few Portuguese kids in my high school. There had been a settlement in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area. And they were descended from that wave of immigration.

Hawaii is actually majority Asian, so Europeans/Whites are technically the largest minority

Ohio : "with God all things are possible" Utah : "I n d u s t r y"

I found an old globe in my middle school’s basement a few years ago when getting props for the school musical. It still had the USSR and the British and French colonies. The guineas were also grouped together

"Live Free or Die" from New Hampshire is my favorite.

Population density makes the Catholic numbers look misleadingly small on the map. The US is actually more Catholic than it looks-- it has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world and more than any European country. Plus, Roman Catholicism as a denomination is actually bigger than any individual protestant denomination, at around 25%, with Baptists coming in second at around 15%.

I'm from Hawaii and I can say that we have a lot of retirees and senior citizens (perfect climate to retire). So that could be a reason why when you factor the number of older people the average may be higher than others states. That and we have a lot of Asian people who came from countries that normally have high expectancies (e.g. Japan).

Can you do this but for the world?

Being from South Carolina, I am surprised our water usage is so much higher than our neighbors in NC and Georgia, which are more populated (and Georgia just as hot). Heck, we seem to lead the east coast. My best guess is that it's because we have more golf courses per capita than any other state, and golf courses require enormous amounts of water to maintain.

“Caucasian people are the largest group in every single state” Hawai’i, with a 60% Asian population: LMAO LOOK AT THIS GUY😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

“How the States Got Their Shapes” is a good read on a similar topic.

The quality of your videos is steadily improving, a joy to experience.

There’s book actually on how states got their borders “How the States got their shapes” I forget most of them but usually states were divided by parallels just because that easy or they are decided by rivers or a mix of both (rivers that become straight lines). Also some planning occurred especially in the central-western states to make the states equal at that point. For example Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota all have roughly equal latitude height. And them together with Colorado and Wyoming have similar lengths too.

Nice video... A few years ago the History Channel made a show called how States got their shapes... Could have been interesting but they turned it into... welcome to this city in Texas which is famous for BBQ. Then talk about amusement parks and Bs. Nothing to do with how they got their shapes

Nice video about American maps it explains quite interesting stuff about the us you do pretty good videos general I really enjoy watching them

This was very interesting. Utah’s motto, Industry, while mundane on the surface, goes back to early pioneer attitudes of hard work and perseverance. It also relates to Utah’s nickname; The Beehive State.

This was a really cool video. I've always liked maps and various statistics. Nice job 👏💯

Can you make a similar video about Europe? I think it's pretty interesting to see how different we are on this small continent. I love your videos btw. they're entertaining, and helps me to understand more geography and history.

Utah's motto industry is based is our symbolism of the honeybee - that hard work is a chief virtue that made our state. I do not think it is weird at all.

As someone who lived in RI for 16 years and now living in MA, I can definitely say we have a ton of Portuguese people. I love the food so much flavor and spice.

Woah, the last map really drives home how incredibly young the US is. I grew up having picnics in a castle ruin dating from the 14th Century, visiting museums from the 15th and earth works and burial sites dating all the way back to the Bronze Age, all within 20 miles of my home. And in European terms, my country is fairly young xD

I'm 35 and I'm born and raised in Virginia very very insightful I love to learn great video!

You deserve these subs gg

Also a lot of Mexicans are Catholics and in the southern of border of the us we can see this influence

Woow 500K+ subscribers. Feels like you yesterday have 150K. Keep up the good work. Next stop 1M.🥇

Thx for all of this info. I enjoyed this video.

"Chinook Jargon" is an English phrase to reference a mixed/creole/trade language used in the Pacific Northwest, which is based most heavily on the Chinook languages; the word "jargon" is literally an English word.

You deserve more subs

Its wonderful for people who seek knowledge. Thank you so much.

Super interesting video, thanks for this!

One of the best things about living in Hawaii for three years was the Portuguese bean soup. Literally the best thing since PB&J!

4:07 since when was Texas’s motto friendship I was never told this

Great video. Keep up the awesome work!

Incredible. I subscribed and hit the bell. Looking forward to seeing what other great stuff you got coming . I'm putting your channel next on my binge list.

Hey General Knowledge, Since you're Portugese, would you sometime like to explain why there are so many Portugese people in Luxemburg? I read that it is the second most spoken mother tongue in Luxemburg, even more than French and German! :))

4:06 Small correction here "Chinook" is the language, and in this case "Jargon" is a synonym for "language". It's just what the settlers ended up calling it - especially because early in Washington's history, Chinook became a very prominent trading language, melding with English, with some words from Chinook being used by locals up to today. Cheers!

This video is great. I spotted my county and followed along with the data of each map.

Very interesting and informative. I felt like I'm sitting in a classroom ✔💯

4:06 Jargon - /ˈjärɡən/ - special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. It is jargon in the Chinook language, not the language "Chinook Jargon".

Why life expectancy is lower in the south isn't that complicated. There are four simple reasons. 1. Di 2. A 3. Beet 4. Us

Really fascinating!! Thanks 👍!!

Fascinating - thanks!

"How the States got Their Shapes" is an ibteresting book.

Great video! Congrats for the 500k!!

This is well made, concise and informative. I appreciate his dictation and speaking quickly. This took a lot of time and a effort to create. Should be a bigger channel

8:53 lol the way he pronounced piedmont lmao. btw, as someone who lives near that region, they aren't really as connected as this map make it seem. Between greenville and atlanta there are miles of just nothing lol

The city I live in, vallejo, is considered the most diverse city in the US (2012). My high school had a lot of Latino, Polynesian, African American, and Asian people. It’s the coolest thing about the town in my opinion. I was really happy to have friends from different backgrounds.

Great presentation! Thanks

Fascinating. Thank you

In the life expectancy map, the big island of Hawaii was replaced with the whole island of Puerto Rico? I've never seen that before lol

Me: finally a General Knowledge video without Portugal in it General Knowledge: 10:12

well done like always

outstanding--many, many thanks

"That part of Michigan in the Wisconsin Peninsula." On Wisconsin! We shall avenge the Toledo Compromise!

8:12 You SHOULD make a video about how the state borders were drawn, because a lot of them have incredibly interesting stories. In the east, early colonial charters establishing borders were very vague, and often conflicted. Vermont exists because both New York and New Hampshire claimed the area, and the settlers caught in the middle got fed up and declared independence. Maine was an exclave of Massachusetts, and something of a colony of a colony. Rhode Island started when the Puritan settlers kicked a guy out of Massachusetts. New Jersey and New York fought in the courts over places like Staten and Ellis Island until the 1970s. The first colonies also claimed huge swaths of land going west, which helped lead to the Revolution when Britain banned western expansion after the Seven Years War. These claims didn't come to fruition, and the lands became territories. As more people moved into those areas, Congress and territorial governors slowly began dividing up the land somewhat arbitrarily, usually for the purposes of not creating states that were way too big and making sure all states were connected to transportation routes, like the Mississippi and its tributaries and the Great Lakes. Of course, there are exceptions. Michigan and Ohio both wanted a strip of land on the western shores of Lake Erie called the "Toledo Strip", and almost went to war over it. Ohio was granted it, and Michigan got the Upper Peninsula as a consolation prize.

OMG. Your starting example of someone looking at a map or globe and being able to guess when it was produced sounds just like me. I subconsciously do it every time I see one.

Well done on 500k mate

I think its supposed to be "Jargon" as in the word meaning like "special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand."

I have a grandparent from Hawaii and she’s part Portuguese. But yeah Hawaii surprised me about percentage of Portuguese

How the States Got Their Shape. Excellent informative book if a tad repetitive and or dry. Including many of the oddities of each state.

Awesome video! I just subscribed. Loved it!

Should be noted those "Portuguese" in the northeast US are mostly Azoreans, and rather be called that.

I've been to Hawaii several times and I'm always surprised at how many native Hawaiians I meet have a Portuguese ancestor(s). I could be wrong but I think the Portuguese settled and interbred with the natives sometime in the 19th century.

Nice job.

I live in north Alabama, the life expectancy is actually 80 While in the area around Selma is about 71 It really is because of most of Alabama (except for north and beaches in Alabama) have bad living conditions

Cool video 👍 congrats 🎉

I love these kinds of maps!

I love how the Texas motto is friendship lmao

imagine how much older the life expectancy illinois would be without Chicago

Intresting, thank you!🇺🇸

My first time watching you're content. Really good content.

Something that is sort of interesting is that the American Hispanic population in most of the US is primarily of Mexican extraction. The folks that live in Arizona or New Mexico or wherever either came from Mexico or had parents that came from Mexico or ancestors that came from Mexico at some point over the last several hundred years. And I suppose I'm probably due back to when those areas were actually physically still part of Mexico. In Florida rather uniquely, the Hispanic population is overwhelmingly of Cuban extraction. There's always been a large population of cubans in Florida, but following the Cuban revolution in 1950 the number exploded, and then I got another bump during me Mariel boatlift in 1980. This is interesting because there is a fundamentally different cultural background between two groups. The food is very different for instants, the accents are different, and this occasionally causes tension because tourists will come to Florida and assume everybody is Mexican because the only Hispanics that ever met our Mexican, and the Cubans don't like that very much. They're very proud of their own identity. There's no ground significance to this, it's just interesting I guess

Ohio should have included the serpent mound formations, built around 300 B.C.E.

Great video

Awesome vid

Shout Mississippi. We really just continuing to lead the nation in yet another bad thing. Adding that to the never ending list

Crazy that California has such a high life expectancy yet gets such a bad rep.

I love this video!

That's interesting and thank you. Do a state by state video, especially the Kentucky Bend, the only way to get there is by going to Tennessee.

I know where I'm moving to instead of staying in Alabama.. moving to where the Native Americans live

The Northeast is very catholic Bc of Irish and Italian immigrants, while the Southwest is catholic because of Mexican and Central-American immigrants

Thanks!

Very interesting video. I particularly liked the ide of dividing states by rivers and natural landmarks. Although, I am originally from Michigan and hesitate about giving up the UP, it does make more sense for Wisconsin. But if that were the case, would the Mackinac Bridge have been built?

Catholicism in the Northeast is probably more due to the Irish than the Portuguese haha

Regarding the age expectancy in USA ,males have a age expectancy of 76 whereas females have a age expectancy of 81 years , literally a difference of 5 years i think thats why it ranges from 74 to 81 maybe due to the gender as well.

extremely interesting to me and my family members. Please do more

Superb

Had a question. You are Portuguese, so is your favourite footballer Cristiano Ronaldo? If it's No,then who. But If you don't want any controversy you my say it's him

The official name of the church since April 26, 1838 (for over 183 years) is, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". Mormon was an ancient prophet that compiled a book called The Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. Members of the church worship Jesus Christ. I recommend you update the map data to reflect them with Christian status. Thank you

I found this video VERY interesting!

8:06 Potomac river: Am I a joke to you? But nice video, never noticed how square some of the western counties were until now.

There was a 30 part series on the history Channel called "How the states got their shapes". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes There's also innumerable videos about that subject. 10:15. No, it's not Portuguese immigration that made the East coast catholic. It's Irish immigration that did it.

Why the color yellow on the map for Asians and Black for African americans....just kidding, I'd color it the same way lol.

The large number of Catholics in the Northeast is due to Irish, Italians, and around NYC also Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. Elsewhere in the country, it's due to various Hispanic groups, most notably Mexicans. Re small number of Jews, I think that there are only something like 12 million Jews worldwide, of which around half live in the U.S. In a country of over 300 million, that's not a lot.

Love these maps. Would also love to know how to add these graphics to videos.

This would be a really good video idea for other countries as well, if you could find enough interesting maps. Or entire continents, alternatively regions.

3:17 americans view on race will always be too funny for me xD