Which country's maps should I make a video on next?

I'm from Wales, and the Welsh Language is alive and strong, most of our children now attend Welsh Medium Education and for the first time the highest percentage of speakers is the young.

The Scottish Highlands aren't inhospitable, they were forcibly depopulated and are still mostly owned by large landowners who keep it empty for tourism and hunting

The Scottish Highlands aren't exactly "inhospitable", there's complicated history as to why there's hardly any people living there. People were cleared off their land, and had to emigrate or move to lowland towns and cities for work (especially since the industrial revolution). Also land ownership in Scotland is incredibly backwards, a small minority own so much of the country, and many of them inherited the land from their ancestors who stole the land from the original inhabitants. Which is clearly a system not fit for a modern country. The lack of people living there over recent history has made building infrastructure more difficult, as the demand for trains etc is so low, and ability to buy land/ find housing is so difficult. I'd love to see the population of the Highlands and Islands grow in future, there's no point in it just being the UK's back garden/a playground for Lords and rich land owners to shoot grouse. It's interesting to think how different Scotland could have looked without all this dark history.

England has “greenbelt” protection around several cities, to stop them sprawling. It isn’t about nature; it’s about keeping towns compact and walkable.

As a person from northern ireland, alot of people over here would actually claim themselves to be 'northern irish' instead of 'british' or 'irish', But like you said its very hard to find updated statistics or just statistics in general for this. Great video though

The Religion dip on Protestantism compared to Catholicism is to do with culture I believe. Whilst a few generations ago almost all British families would go to church its very rare now. Whereas with Catholicism their religion is often ingrained in their family so theres more of an identity there, a lot of people who identify as catholic aren't actually practicing the religion but see it as their cultural identity (Probably because they have been a minority in the country for a long time)

The population density clearly shows why it's called the Central Belt in Scotland, the vast majority of the population lives in that corridor from Glasgow across to Edinburgh and up to Dundee, splitting the country in two.

A really interesting effect can be gained by overlaying a map of coal deposits on top of the map of UK pop density.

I'm going to have to watch this a few more times [and be quicker on the pause button!] to be able to take in all the information. The maps of language over time I found particularly fascinating. Thank you for such detail.

Do Portugal next please...they're old friends🇵🇹 🇬🇧

Wales feels left out so much, being included in videos like this and hearing places like Cardiff mentioned always feel really cool, probably just me tho

Very interesting, map can say a lot. I really enjoy analyzing maps

I'm from Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway and the reason it is so underpopulated despite the large land area and suitable agricultural land is that we have the UK's largest land owner the Duke of Buccleugh. Luckliy there has been a few community buyouts allowing us to steward the land the way we want to mostly for conservation and helping equalising agricultual land share.

I speak Welsh and when I was in Northern France I could speak Welsh with Bretons. It wasn't the most flawless conversation they are not the same language but we could understand eachother.

this is awesome and really well done video. Thank you putting this together! First video I have seen and just subscribed.

This was super interesting. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for that. Interesting to see a non UK resident looking through data with a clear, external view.

I live in the far north of the Scottish Highlands. Population density is 9 per square kilometre. Nearest McDonalds is 105 miles away, no motorways, no major events, no good quality shopping...just lots of big moody skies, sea cliffs, empty moors, empty beaches, wind and peace and quiet. It's paradise to me, don't think i'll ever move away.

Nice addition of the quote in the opening, subtle and to the point

Great work (and lots of it compiling this info).

As a Irish-British Catholic, living in England, the reason I would say that Catholicism has remained stable is due to migration, and also in previous years the ability to convert to be catholic. Catholicism was illegal, then became legal and many returned or made public their faith. For the migration side, I'm from Ireland and many Irish migrated with Catholicism. Although most of my family do not attend mass, we all say we are still Catholic, as it can be seen as culture. There are many more migration groups, like Filipinos, Malayali's, Poles and others.

I'm from Aberdeen, and we're quite often the exception to the rule when it comes to most of these categories. A fascinating history has influenced our language, religion, culture etc. that breaks the mould in more ways than one. For good or for ill, the isolated location of the city affords us a unique contradiction to many of these statistics, which would probably require a video of its own to distinguish. Absolutely love your channel btw, keep 'em coming!

This is a fantastic video. Clearly you've done your research! Just a cpuple of things, though, and it's about the language. Firstly, "Scots Gaelic" is more accurately known as "Scottish Gaelic" or simply "Gaelic". In relation to the Scottish language, "Gaelic" is pronouned "Gah-lick" (as opposed to "Gay-lick" as in Ireland). Scotland also has a third language, known as "Scots", which is similar to English, but also very distinct. I don't have any figures on how well spoken it is, but Scotland does have 3 languages.

Thanks for doing GB🇬🇧. Portugal next would make sense. We do like them alot 🇬🇧♥🇵🇹

The reason that map shows just England and Wales is probably because they have a joint census, while Scotland and Northern Ireland each run their own census. So sometimes maps only show results for England and Wales, rather than combining data from different sources. There are various other cases where "England and Wales" is treated a single entity. Wales was essentially an extension of England (in legal terms) for a few hundred years, so it doesn't have as many of its own institutions as Scotland and Northern Ireland do.

This is incredible !

Really enjoyed this. Still learning about my country as an adult.

For my own material interests I voted against Brexit, but I accepted leaving and continue to look pensively towards discovering what role Britain will play in the world going forward. I’m just glad we don’t spend all day talking about it anymore, it was an exhausting time.

Love this series ! Can you do it about France ?

Great video.

really good video portuga : )

Great video! As a soccer/football fan, I'd have liked a graph that shows the support of different football clubs across the UK. Particularly in London, which has many teams with different loyalties and fans.

8:59 I live a few minutes away from one of the main protected areas in the UK, the Peak District.

Very interesting video.

Hi from the Scottish Highlands... Contrary to many posts here I can confirm that the environmental here in many places is an inhospitable climate. Especially in winter and at higher altitudes where if you took a photo would look like somewhere in Norway or Canada. However the summers can be beautiful particularly at lower altitudes. The reason there's little population is a combination of this and clearances that took place hundreds of years ago but to be fair... It still isn't an easy place to build a modern community in. One correction though: Gaelic here is pronounced "gallick". "Gaylick" is what it's called in Ireland.

You left out the best UK census 2011 fact on religion (visible in their 2011 ons dashboard): there are about as many Jedi Knights as there are Hindu's in the UK - falling just shy of the legal definition of major religion (100k followers). It's also one of the fastest growing religions. I'm hoping to see them hit major religion status when the results come out later in the year.

Do one for Portugal next!

Would love a part two!

Fab. Thanks

This was indeed interesting. The last one about life expectancy was the most interesting. Scotland having the lowest of the four constituent nations. Could that be related to the fact they deep fry everything? 🙈 Could you do one on Italy?

I’ve never met a single person who said I regret voting to leave the EU

I subbed because you didn't forget about the cornish 🤜🤛

Can you do The Netherlands next please? Love your videos

the evolution of language in the uk totally missed out Scots as a language.

It would be interesting to know if it is a correlation but in areas where there is the lowest life expectancy especially in Scotland and North East England were predominately ship building areas. I wonder the chemical and materials used in older ships during the 60s-80s affected people because a lot of the shipbuilders in my family who worked during those times had lung problems or develops cancers in later life.

I subbed

Hey, could you possibly do a flag competition?

8:46 I can only speak for Northern Ireland but a lot of Catholics in northern Ireland who support unification (or at least to not be affiliated with the UK) keep their faith quite strongly as to differentiate them from "the English". This is the same for the border regions in Ireland you will see high levels of catholism here too. My sister for example practices pretty strongly and lives up at the border region. The level of protestantism has decreased because generally Wales England and Scotland are either Protestant or Anglican, hence the large drops in these numbers as their religious identity isn't as important to differentiate themselves. I might be wrong I live quite a bit from the border and am not 100% clued in but this is a decent assumption I think.

I'm from England and I was definitely expecting more people here to identify as British than as English.

Where did you get your sources from? I'm doing an assignment at uni and the data im using is different to yours, the life expectancy one you're using I think is incorrect

very interesting

From what i have read the subsequent 'regret' factor is largely composed of those who didn't vote but retrospectively saying that if they had have voted they would have voted to remain.

I'd just like to point out maps of Wales political leanings can be misleading. For example the electoral maps make it look like Wales votes conservative but this is due to population density in certain areas. Wales has actually always voted for the liberal or labour parties since records began, literally -no literally literally- everytime, so mot as conservative as it looks

The highland clearances is the glaring omission here when explaining why the highlands are empty. That’s the region I come from and even thought it was a couple a generations ago it’s effects are still noticeable.

My city of Plymouth is in between Devon and Cornwall. I would argue we are not defined by either county.

The interesting thing on life expectancy is that Scotland, despite having the same levels of wealth as the UK average, and higher state spending, is lower than not just poorer Wales and Northern Ireland, but all of the English regions, even those poorer than it. Also the gap is widening rather than closing.

7:50 "there are two colours, yellow and green, Hinduism and Islam" The map legend, however, indicates yellow as Buddhism. I had expected Hinduism too, because if UK owned India for a while and many there are Hindus. But I then think of Myanmar, Burma, that had been British too and the major religion in Myanmar is Buddhism. Very interesting video, thank you 🖐🏼👴🏼

Really interesting video, thank you. A couple of observations on the style though: what's the point of the background marching music? To me, it seems pointless and vaguely annoying. Also, like many youtubers, you talk too fast and never leave any pauses. However, I'm definitely looking forward to more of your great work.

In the gdp map you can clearly see the north south divide and one of many ways in how it affects us as a nation. Power and wealth have always been predominantly in the south going back to the formation of the country as the powerful rulers such as Offa of Mercia (modern day midlands) and egbert of wessex (modern day hampshire) and later Alfred the great of Mercia.

The reason northern Ireland is still super religious it's mostly because it's the way we keep our identity idk how it's always been against protestants and Catholics

Do Ireland next

GK in 1 year: interesting ZAMBIA maps that teach us about the country

The one about identities, there will be more up to date data with the 2021 census just being done last year, it may just be that that data hasnt been made publicly available yet

As a Brit these maps seem fairly accurate. We had a census last year, so hopefully some updated maps and graphs will come out over the next few years. Also, the languages over time one was fascinating and clearly shows the various invasions and political decisions at certain points in history. It would be interesting to see if minority languages make a resurgence over the next few decades (I know that Welsh and Irish both have strong movements at the moment).

Why did you leave out the Scots Language? It is a germanic language that is not related to Scottish Gaelic, 30% of the Scottish population speak it and it makes absolutely no sense to ignore it.

Honestly you probably could have just saw the differences between accents/dialects of the Uk, but checking where each place calls a bread roll. You could also add a jokey one about the culture of the UK by checking a map of all the pubs in the UK. I also think if you check like average income and maybe compare that to the price of living in each region, would help shed light on how divided the UK and England is

first 3 seconds of the video had me thinking about life. That quote killed me

South Africa next would be cool

Can you please do something simlilar for the Rupublic of Ireland? Great video by the way

Land protection has been around for over a thousand years since around 1066 where the forest laws were introduced making it illegal to use the kings land to gain any kind of resource

I say I am from Eastern Ireland. Weather is great and we have super beaches too.

The evolution of the English language isn't quite what you mentioned in your video, you forgot that in 1066 we were invaded by the Normans and our Language changed as a result of that. we started using new words and our old ones evolved into the new ones we use currently

POV: you were watching your county the whole time

its like it is everywhere smaler towns and villages farm areas and so on are more conservative while people living in towns or groups who have a compleate diffrent culture even though part off the same country can be more liberal or rather modern that has to do woth several factors history education culture and personal life experience

Great video, but remember to show relief maps and major roads.

There is an interesting fact about how is the japanese name for the Britain is a little "different" due to the portuguese teachings

Interestingly enough Manx, Cornish and the different Scottish languages - are `coming back'. There is more and more interest in people learning their 'heart languages' - there is even a primary school on the Isle of Man where students only learn in Manx!

You could do a combined video for the Scandinavian countries.

Do Argentina next!

Fun fact: British is the only country in the whole world which doesn't have an independence day...because they are busy giving independence to countries they invaded 😅

The language part is incorrect, Welsh is the oldest spoken language in Europe, older than Irish Gaelic.

I would be very interested to see the GDP map modified, especially in the case of oil, to see the regional GDP if oil revenue was recognised on where it landed in the UK and not shared per head of population in the UK. The Orkney's and Shetland's GDP would increase dramatically and Scotland's significantly whilst England's and Northern Ireland would decrease significantly. (don't read anything into my question/observation as to Independence arguments.)

The regions of England shown are those used for statistical purposes mostly, they don't have their own government, except London, English voters have not had any enthusiasm for regional government, local democracy is at a lower level of counties or local councils.

For the past 5 years of learning what my home city of Glasgow is famous for, it's drugs, low life expectancy, poverty, and crime. lovely.

Catholicism has remained the same due to immigration. I went to a Catholic school in Scotland. A significant amount of pupils were foreign (mostly Polish).

The life expectancy seems to co-inside with the areas that have/had the most factories and mines, London is mainly office workers, the north east is filled with a lot of manual labour type jobs which pay less and are more dangerous

1:11 we dont usually refer to places like the north west and south west, we usually just say cumbria and cornwall respectively

Some updated stuff on national identity. In Cornwall a high proportion of cornish people identity is cornish. Thabk you for mentioning the cornish language. It is much appreciated.

You may notice that GDP has gone up, but the cost of living has gone up 4 times as fast, and since 2017, life expectancy has been reducing. Our government says the UK is "full" when referring to taking refugees, yet look at all the blue on the population density map.

I speak Gàidhlig fluently and can understand Gaeilge, which I'm learning. I don't understand Cymraeg, though I have learned some. As others have said, yes, mainly Highland but also Lowland forced clearances of people led to large population decline in Scotland. I'm Catholic and I'd say it too is on the decline, though Polish immigrants did boost church numbers. In terms of Brexit, most Scots were against it, and most remain like myself opposed to it, still seeing ourselves depending on the individual as Scottish, British, European.

The thing about the Catholics, I can only speak from my own American perspective, but there are three (technically four) situations a person can find themselves in. The first is the more traditional Roman Catholic. There's more emphasis on traditions, traditional roles, traditional families, values that have existed since the creation of Christianity and earlier. So if you're of a more conservative mindset, this is the side of the church that appeals to you. The second situation is the more modern American Catholic. There's more emphasis on keeping up with the times. Drums and guitars playing with the songs instead of pipe organs for example. Historical values are still very much important values to have, however, there's less stigmatism involved if you fall out of those traditions, like having premarital relations, for example. It's discouraged, but if it happens, so be it, say a couple Hail Mary's and endeavor to do better. They place heavy emphasis on updating practices while still being mindful of tradition to fall more in line with the general feel and attitude of modern society making the religion continue to be appealing, especially to younger people, rather than looking outdated and more suitable to the elderly. Then there's the third situation. The Holiday Catholic (often referred to as a "Fair Weather Catholic"). This is a person whom only goes to church and practices the religion on important days. Going to church on Christmas and Easter, and observing Lent, but not attending a weekly service, and not really following the rules like obeying the ten commandments to the letter, and whatnot. Outside of the important days, religion is more of an afterthought if its a thought at all. People may have traditional values, they may have progressive values, but they still only visit on the holidays. Not to be left out completely, there is another group of non practicing people that still consider themselves to be of the Catholic faith, or at least others still consider them to be Catholics, and the church allows them to say this while gently encouraging them to maybe just come in at Christmas and be festive with everyone and try to at least turn them into a Holiday Catholic. Now considering that these three (four) situations pretty much cover every possible religious tendency for a faith, the interesting thing about it is that all the groups consider themselves to be a part of the same exact church, and all feel the Pope is the leader of the church. You might be traditional, you might be progressive, you might be only when you need to be, you might used to have been, but aren't really currently part of it, the church doesn't really care. The Vatican, for it's part, openly accepts and embraces all the groups as people who just like to experience the religion a little differently and is willing to accommodate, everyone is still Catholic and the church would love to have you all the same. So at the end of the day, when it comes to statistics, the level remains pretty solid, but when you dig down into the details, you'll see the church is actually pretty fractured, and some groups within don't really care too much for other groups, but because the Vatican encourages all Catholics to just be Christian no matter your personal level of participation, even if, like in my case if asked what's my religion, I was raised to be Catholic, but I haven't stepped into a church in decades, so I don't participate, I'm still counted as a Catholic in the eyes of the church, and would be welcomed back as if I had never stopped participating.

Is it just me or at 1:20 does one of the counties in Anglia look like Bulgaria?🤔🤔🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

That middle strip is called the central belt

8:33 This makes sense as most Protestants in England follow the Church of a England, a religious sector created based on the idea that Catholicism was too strict and a more relaxed set of rules must be made for the Church. While you definitely will find many Religious Protestants, a lot tend not to be very religious and are simply affiliated based on inheritance or local community rather than actual religious practice. Therefore, as time has gone by, many Protestants that weren’t so religious have tended to align more with being Agnostic or even atheist. The Church of England has influenced the idea of Christianity is an identity rather than something one must strictly follow and practice, naturally many have gradually moved away due to a lack of involvement. This is uncommon with most other religions, as there is more of a requirement for common practice and loyalty to be affiliated. It’s a unique and interesting case, but it’s easy to see why it’s the case.

When you ban people from practicing their religion it makes them more defiant and not only keeps their faith strong but also their sense of identity. A large proportion of Catholics in the UK are also of Irish descent and were treated horribly when they moved to the UK, which again only made their identity stronger in addition to Britain's occupation of Ireland.

I state I am British as that’s what it says on my passport. I’m born here from immigrants, and to identify as English to me is more of a heritage thing rather than citizenship.

6:40 british brythonic was effectively an early version of the Welsh language

It would have been better had you included GVA because many of the differences reflect economic differences. The big issue is deindustrialisation. The Industrial Revolution bypassed rural areas and most of Southern England. The decline of manufacturing industry has had a massive effect on those areas with the highest mortality. By contrast most of the modern, globally competitive industries are located in areas which did not industrialise, principally London and the South.

The reason Northern Ireland folk retain a strong British nationality is because their ancestors were Scottish and English. The correct name for these people is the “Ulster Scots”. These people came from Britain around 400 years ago. They created Northern Ireland to keep it inside the UK. Whilst the south and west of Ireland broke away from Britain in the 1920’s.