@Érik i noticed on the previous one which had ad1900 under it lol

@Érik Same lol

Papa Smurf that is not hard because the year is on the bottom of the picture every time.

@@nathanzanting6576 r/woooosh

Ahaha

@@VisboerAnton I dont even have Reddit

Nathan Zanting r/whooooosh

I'm starting to feel like he's not a wizard after all

He’s just wholesome and honest

4:38

@@danyDesigns How can he not tell! It's clearly Manhattan

ngl i didnt notice until he pointed it out... somehow..

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@@mslo7312 that’s epic ngl

And the location of the fort is where Battery park got its name.

And the fact that Dutch settlers had no imagination is how it got the name "New Amsterdam".

And there are still pieces of the original wall in the pavement in some places in NYC.

@@thewildnath it's not like New York is any more imaginative!

@@thewildnath Well, honestly though, none of the colonizing settlers had any imagination whatsoever: New Amsterdam, New York, New England, New Spain/Mexico, New South Wales, Nova Scotia. If they weren't named after other places they were generally named after monarchs and benefactors.

yeah but the new york thing was even more embarrising

Kaba is cacao-powder

@@thecamp2000 Maybe for an american, but I didnt know it either. I thought of a colonie, but maybe shouth africa or something. But yea, I guess that isnt famous enough

@@heinrichmirgrautsvordir6613 I would 100% say being American helped me out on New York. The shape of Manhattan is just so easily recognizable to us (or at the very least us East Coasters)

@@thecamp2000 I'm American and I got all but New York and Lisbon. I just didnt recognize Manhattan's shape facing sideways

SAME! but i have to say ive never seen Mecca map, it just first name that comes to mind

kraorus I’ve never seen a map either, but it was Arabic, with a very large rectangular building in one spot, just knew it was the Kabbah

@@fredfishmonger or at least a "tempel" structure and since jerusalem was already out...

@@tudor1257 statue of liberty is on an island...

Nathanael Jehn felt the same with New York, picked it in about 5 seconds, thanks Assassin’s Creed 3

And the canal is where Canal street is, fun little fact, the canal is still under the street

@@warrcoww6717 yup, didn't know that one. thx

That IS a fun fact!

@@warrcoww6717 Canal street is actually a different canal pretty far north of Wall St. The canal on this map is Broad St today. I do think you're right that the canal still exists under the street, though. Also fun, the large street at the top is Broadway, which is also pretty famous.

@@goose5 an other fun fact: is that in that time it was called new amsterdam

Yeah, up until 3:36 I think he genuinely had not seen the dates and was making legit guesses.

Nah, it’s because KZfaq’s dislike bots to even out the numbers

NYC's original name back when it was still full of Dutch was New Amsterdam

Same xD

I mean it is kinda easy

Same here.

Same.

And now you’re all in a watch list

Me too, but then I decided to stop and watch this video instead

Yep, I thought it was Quebec City

@@GeneralTotoss new amsterdam

Its literally called Battery Park now

For those curious, he was really not far off with that translation. The river actually means river of silver, but plata=silver while plato=plate in Spanish. So he would have been correct if it were río del plato instead of río de la plata. Edit: apparently it really is called the River Plate. Despite it also meaning the river of silver in Spanish. See my later comment.

@@stopmotiontacos "plato" isnt gold in spanish, "plato" means plate. Gold is "oro"

@@Bre0n you're right, and I knew that too. My comment doesn't even make sense talking about gold. I definitely meant to say plate. Thanks for the correction, I'll edit it

But hum... you guys know the english name for the Rio de la Plata is River Plate. As in "Battle of the River Plate" (1940-ish)

@@MadManchou woah you're right, I shouldn't have corrected GeoGuessrWizard. But confusingly it still does mean "river of silver" in Spanish. Very odd. www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAmericas/SouthArgentina.htm Reading further it appears that "plate" used to be a common English word that meant "silver" or "gold." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata

And the broad way is called broadway

Huh?

Master Trams New York used to be New Amsterdam when it was controlled by the Dutch

cause its sporcle and sporcle is boring

no its not

Some people are pissed because he "dropped" Geoguessr. I'm an old subscriber and I don't really care tbh, better for Tom

They’re upset because he didn’t notice that there are already years listed and he is guessing them.

@@kyrin4558 what does that mean, he dropped it? did he stop playing it or what?

@Érik I was lucky enough to be chosen for the hometown roulette, and I am so glad Tom's channel skyrocketed since then! Dubrovnik truly is a beautiful place, but during the summer it's really overcrowded, and full of classic tourist traps

sporcle is boring

@@carlholi1104 Speak for yourself

It's named after the original dutch name, and not the wall. However there might be some relation between the dutch word 'wal' and the english word 'wall', but that relation would be much older than NYC

I don't know, I couldn't get NYC. Probably because the map was inverted and southern tip pointed west instead of south. I knew it had to be an American city but couldn't tell. My first thought on Mecca was Damascus or Baghdad but I got there. What's hard is very subjective, I'm from Europe and knew the cities instantly when I saw the map.

Canal street is another mile or two north of the wall

I'm just mad cause i took the quiz before watching the video just to see how i would do in it and my first guess was Mecca for that map but i forgot that you write it with two "c" so i wrote it with two "k" like we do it in german cause i thought the english do it the same so i didn't got the point for it. Basically the same happend with Tokyo cause i wrote Tokio in german cause i forgot it's not the same in english.