@@REDH3X thanks, this comment had me really confused lol

@@REDH3X Thanks for that amazing translation. I've wanted to visit a museum of permafrost for years but all we have here are museums of subtropical.

Erudite Evan out here

@@spcxplrr I'm not a flat earther, Unfortunately, Second, search what is Blue Marble Image and what Google Earth is using right now, I made it clear that the purpose of that is to make an Satellite View of the Earth without the obstruction you would find naturally, Read twice and don't be a jerk

@@REDH3X I no 1t confeusin’ rlly

Yup

Welp, with how things are going, it might as well be

Yeah, I was shocked by that. Wasn't sure if it was a weird map or everything I knew was wrong. It feels like they share more in common with SE Asia than, say, Taiwan.

I think I would associate the Philippines with Malaysia and Indonesia instead of China and Japan.

Especially weird since they’re part of the SE Asian organization: ASEAN

North Korea is the moody teenager living in their mum's basement who refuses to go to school or get a job.

Actually finding themselves is pretty accurate. They have yet to find themselves as a nation, that is not a personal slave of party

@@Pining_for_the_fjords Yes, let's just blame everything on communism and socialism instead of what the actual problem is that isn't allowing these socialist countries to actually prosper. Anti-communist propaganda is an actual disease.

@@diorsse I never mentioned communism or socialism.

@@Pining_for_the_fjords You are clearly slandering the DPRK and hiding it with a joke.

Yeh... cause there's only 4

@@arrgghh1555 jeff,bezos,anime,waifu

@vary helpful It's America and Eurafrasia, though 😕...

@vary helpful Everybody knows it's called eurofrasia 🤨

@@hooliganfanatic7241 I'll take it.

Are you sure about that? Every time I look at a map showing what countries exist, North Korea is shown as "No data"

Does it though? Have you gone to North Korea? 🤔

i am very happy that i am not the only one that found this interesting.

With daddy kim

According to the South Koreans it's another bit of South Korea.

That's why the Melbourne CBD electoral district is called Batman.

@@jakekaufmann2937 was*

Yeah the Dutch rocked up saw nothing but rats, sand and flies and buggered off soon as the mines came along they couldn't get enough of it.

I don't believe rats are a native part of Australia

@@beaukennedy4618 People from Sulawesi already sail to Northern Australia to do fishing and trade with native Australian Aborigin since 1700, way before European came. National Museum of Australia acknowledge the fact.

Ok

I am European and I think "America" being referred as 1 country is dumb

Yep that's basically it

It all comes from people from the US being called American while people from other parts of America generally are not called American

Canada and the US should just unify already so the country can be called Anglo America and the name of the people becomes "anglo americans". Quebec can be independent, of course. Problem solved!

same goes with Africa, kind of.

The peninsula Turkey is on is known as "Asia minor"

I would imagine most ancient descriptions of "Asia" would refer to what is now the Middle East

@@quidam_surprise the weird thing,africa use roman name not Greek name like 2 other continent

because the romans called it that, because they needed a name for turkey

-ngl it took you pointing it out for me to realize-

The fact that I can’t tell if this a joke makes me happy.

penguins aren't people

@@carlosandleon I am interested in learning about the indigenous penguin culture tho

@@carlosandleon duh

my thought too like philippines is like the second vietnam in term of the number of country that colonize it

@@wansichen3743 most of south east asian colonized by some other country more than 3 times

@@muhammadfatihakramsalim5015 except non actually do, most of them were colonized by either the british, the dutch or the french, some with a history colonized by the portugeuse before that,the rest are colonized by the america/japan ,non of them usually have 3 colonizer,left along more than 3

@@wansichen3743 you forgot spain and chinese

@@muhammadfatihakramsalim5015 but even with them it doesnt make any of them go above 3, also spanish only colonized philippines for a while before america took over(which arguably is not colonization because there were plans to make it a state like how hawaii eventually did )

@@Fralther39 continetal climates are much more extreme when it comes to temperatures.

@@Fralther39 No, that's about right. There are tons of temperate land in Siberia that could be used for agriculture and such. Most of such land bordering China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan etc. You have to consider that most of this border region is about as south as London, or more southern than all of Denmark is

Southern Siberia can get very hot, and if only Russia had more people they could develop that land.

Yea. A town in siberia has the biggest tempiture diffrence across a year of any human settlement in the world

Yes it gets hot indeed for two months or so, but most of the other months are much colder than denmark

Martian colonists

aliens: Write that down! Write that down!

Yes we aliens do that

I dunno some places aren't too educated about the planet besides their own home nation.

Haha yes, as if...

It's sad. They don't know the baianos...

Spain know what they are without an S

@@senhordoutorprofessormestr8629 brazilian spoted

@@gustavosauro1882 we are everywhere 😳

@@senhordoutorprofessormestr8629 everywhere at the end of time

OMG same!

Me too. Small world!

Sorry, can’t relate... I live in Pennsylvania

Same! Wow what a small world

@@MrAsianPie no worries! Just visit sometime in the near future and you’ll see the beauty of the world!

ik i was like Kenya and even Tanzania ranks higher than Ethiopia and so does Djibouti . Uganda is alright . the only real problem is Somalia and Eritrea

@@shaddythewiz3836 Uganda is dominating Africa geo-politically

Kenya is part of the East-African Community and will join the East African Federation so yeah they’re East African

@@sajidursajid2291 are you hallucinating

I'm interested to see how the East African Federation turns out if it becomes a full country. Kenya is a member state of the East African Community and by extension the EAF if it becomes an actual thing.

Underrated comment

Romania is in the crossroads, but i don*t think is an viable option to divide it. Nice coment!

@@antoinelejeune2106 Thanks!

@@felixmihai7976 Sure, I don't wish to devide it either, but it's hard to put it just in one region. You can find tremendous changes between east and west, north and south there ... I guess if I would have to group it in a single region, I would choose the Balkans. The former Wallachia is, where the capital is located, and Romanians share the trauma of centuries of fighting against Osman occupation with the Bulgars and the Serbs.

Like Asia's N, W, S, E, SE, Central

Yeah the term Oceania has gotten pretty widespread over time, I'm surprised he didn't mention it

I'm from the USA and we learn Oceania haha

I'm from Poland, at school they taught me the name "Australia and Oceania" lol

Well, I'm Aussie. We have no such delusions. Australia is both a continent and a country. A continent is a large continuous expanse of land and as such Oceania can't be a continent because it's got shitloads of water. *Ocean* -ia. To teach Australia is Oceania defies logic and try telling a Kiwi they are from the same continent as an Aussie and you'll get ya head bitten off. There are really only 3 inhabited continents. AfriEurAsia, the Americas and Australia.

@@Chapps1941 there could be a fourth east of Australia

Generally agree with you but Taiwan is the origin of most filipino languages... You could argue that without the chinese civil war Taiwan would also be SE asia, or that the philippines are kind of east asia.

@@szurketaltos2693Good sir or Madam I do agree on you with the first point, that the indigenous taiwanese language is the ancestor of the malay language group. But I don't agree on the statement "without the chinese civil war Taiwan would also be Southeast Asian, or that the Philippines will be kind of be East Asian". The Island of Formosa/Taiwan is the origin point of the Austronesian peoples from the Pacific Islands, Oceania, Madagascar, and Maritime Southeast Asia. But the problem with the statement above is that it leaves out the history between the two. Taiwan could have been part of Southeast Asia, but not because of the Chinese colonization of Taiwan. While the philippines could never be part of East Asia. Taiwan as a state can't be part of Southeast Asia, because of the Chinese colonization and sinicization, because starting from 17th century when the Chinese did mass migrations into Taiwan but they were already sending people and expeditions from the 3rd and sinicization of the taiwanese population and even more during the 7th century. The sinicization caused the indigenous Taiwanese to lose their identities as their tribe slowly while the colonization caused a increase and addition of Han population and culture to the Taiwanese regions. As such by the modern era the state we call Taiwan is more Chinese then it is Indigenous therefore it could have been part of Southeast Asia but it wasn't because its majority culture is far to distinct and different to the rest of the Southeast Asian Nations. While the Philippines could only be Southeast Asian, all because the majority population retained their culture. the Philippines did have a huge Chinese population but those were relatively new well most of them at least, but not all, the Filipino people had a lot of intercultural marriages and a lot of Filipino have Chinese blood but the main difference is that the Chinese culture was not integrated into the Filipino Society and the Filipino Culture managed to keep itself in the majority and as well as made the early Chinese population adapt to the culture rather than the Filipinos to adapt to their culture. Taiwan's culture had become mostly very Chinese like and the only a few retained their original culture such as the Ami, Atayal, Paiwan, Bunun, Puyuma, Rukai, Tsoa, Saisiyat, Thao, Kavalan, Sakizaya, Tao/Yami,and the Taroko/Truku. I'd say only those tribes can be called Southeast Asian, due to their similarity to the rest of Southeast Asian culture and customs while the rest or the majority of the population would be more Han therefore more East Asian. But there have been other states that had been part, colonized, or consider themselves Chinese but are part of Southeast Asia particularly Vietnam why is that? Well to clarify Vietnam is part of Southeast Asia due the fact that Vietnam had been retaining their Traditions even when they consider themselves Chinese. Vietnam at least Northern Vietnam had a lot of influence from Chinese culture but they integrated it into their Original traditions making new reasons the Tradition had to be kept but in essence was still the same, while the Southern Vietnam kept their traditions against everyone that tried to take it away from them. Even When the Vietnamese Kings, Particularly, the Northern Kings called themselves Han the Population was still Vietnamese. That is the reason why the Vietnamese are part of Southeast Asia. Also please note the difference between mainland Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia. Mainland Southeast Asia is from the Hmong-Mien/Sino-Tibetan/Kra-Dai/Miao-Yao language family while maritime Southeast Asia is from the Austronesian Language Family. the Main reason as to why they are not separated is due to the cultural connection both families have to the tribes of pre-chinese culture South China that connection being that both are from that Baiyue/Yue tribes that lived in Northern Vietnam and Southern China before they were displaced and assimilated into the Chinese culture as the Han peoples expanded. I can also give you citations from books historians made good sir to give affirmation to the information to my statements above. Would you like the citations good sir or Madam?

@@szurketaltos2693 Taiwan is the origin for pretty much all Austronesian languages, by that logic that makes madagascar east asian.

@@francobienlecias5830 dude, it's a counterfactual. Calm down.

@@carlosandleon Madagascar people are 50% from Borneo so yeah kind of.

Anglo toponymy... don't bother. It's mostly useless

How is Oceania a continent? It's 90% ocean...

@@arrgghh1555 Gotta classify all those volcanic chains somehow!

@@mrbyzantine0528 Islands

Who calls the Australian continent Oceania

It is kinda a niche topic. Not everyone likes geography

Too over rated imo, just a dude talking over Google maps

@@toycat LOL

@@toycat *man he actually comment this with his main lol*

@@toycat brooooo talk about South Asia more you literally are 25% bro 😢😢

Wasn't his idea though

@@justbecause7402 Well spotted

I guess it’s because the islands belong to the subcontinent of Northern Europe. Just like Corsica is a part of Southern Europe and France

@@Lukas-fy3xz that would make sense, if Corsica wasn't culturally more Italian and closer to Italy. I'm guessing the logic in the map is that everything in the Baltic Sea is for some reason Northern Europe, even though it literally makes no sense since Saaremaa and Hiiumaa are a part of Estonia and culturally Estonian. Also doesn't explain the disappearance of Ahvenanmaa.

@@yere7851 but sub-continents can be base on geography too. Like Karelia could be norther Europe too although it’s apart of Russia

@@sefhammer6276 you can categorize geographical locations however you'd like, just saying that the categorization here could be better, in my opinion anyways edit: Also, you refer to the fact that subcontinents can be based on geography, but I would think that according to geography the whole of Estonia should be a part of Northern Europe, not just the islands, or vise-versa. I thought the purpose of the video was to better categorize geographical areas, so separating the islands from the rest of Estonia and grouping them with the nordic countries seems weird to me

Estonia is trying to join the Nordics

So you just admitted that you guys do lol

going to another city must already be a huge undertaking :P

@@edofluit6568 I haven't been to another city in years

@@lyxandrast0ttr0n1x8 I can totaly understand, you probably from perth arent you?

@@edofluit6568 yep

I literally live near the border of 2 countries but never been to either 😂

Bit more of a political nut, seems to me. The geographical and historical come second to that.

Imo he got alot of things wrong

while the sahel regions were incredibly wealthy & had fantastically deep cultures they weren't exactly great inovators of science & civilisation so far as we know, the Nok are a huge question mark in the current day

i mean couldn't you name a few things he forgot about literally any subcontinent?

i just checked and he spent more time on africa than most other continents, than the entire americas in fact

He talks fast enough that non-native English speakers may have problems with him.

@@AndyZach He sounds Irish.. Is he?

@@lilieshii1809 As far as I know, he's English.

@@AndyZach he talks slowly. im a native English speaker

@@mcplumpkin6191 I said the opposite of what I wanted to say. I meant non-native English speakers may have trouble understanding him.

Yeah but his statement that it's not even a continent is pretty inaccurate. Right now, the main island of that "archipelago" would be Australia sized, and the plate beneath is a continental plate, they're not islands on an oceanic plate. In pre-history, Antarctica was almost always solid landmass, and the only reason large parts of the land surface are just below sea level right now is because of the kilometers thick ice sheet on weighing it down. If the ice melted, there would be a rebound effect that would result in it coming above water as the natural state of things.

@@panner11 yeah, I ignored the bit about it not being a continent. But you have some good points. I'd never given it much thought before, but it's all pretty interesting.

@@panner11 exactly, I was hoping for someone to say it

@@panner11 a similar case would also be the submerged "continent" of Zealandia, which is composed by continental crust and not oceanic crust

That's what I thought too lol😂

i was thinking of Philippines as south east Asia too

I had to learn that in elementary school since there literally is no middle school in my country. Once you finish elementary school, you enter high school and graduate at age of 14/15

I don't care about you unifying America, but Europe and Asia being different continents is still crazy

@@realmless4193 How is it crazy? I don't understand.

Brazil can be divided in three sub-subcontinents: the Northeast, the Brazilian Amazon and the Center South. The classic division by Milton Santos.

He's just an inmigrant European. Don't expect that much.

@F. OPE Just out of interest, how many continents do you think they are, including Antarctica. If the answer is 6, you are wrong

@@yoironfistbro8128 It's six as it has always been

What are they. You established that the Americas is one. Then we have Eurasia, Africa, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica. That's five, and that's keeping Africa separate from Eurasia. What's the sixth continent? Zealandia?

@@yoironfistbro8128 The division of a continental is based on culture. Europe’s division is based on Roman Empire and Greeks. While, Asia is based on ancient empires, Chinese, Indian, Arab, Persian, etc empires. Oceanía while is not located in a tectonic plate, they share similar culture, the austronesian from east. Us, Americans, came from east Siberia since 24 000 years. Our complexion is dark brown and red skin and our religions is based on nature. Africa is based on their skin color sub Saharan kingdoms and confederations. In contrast, the Berbers don’t share that much culture with black Africans.

I would extend toycat division: 1. amazon for all the north region, 2. andes for the west coast regions, 3. pampas/patagonia for the south, argentina, uruguay and southern brazil, and 4. cerrado for the rest of brazil, paraguay and northern argentina. I'm oversimplifying but it's just for fun :D

I mean, i would add a central clasification considering Peru, Ecuador and Bolvia are their own thing with all of the andean culture and the andes

I disagree, you can't group Uruguay with Bolivia and not southern Brasil

Bolivia is mostly in the north

argentinas and chile are the only ones doing allright. Uruguay ;-;

@@qcthesxientist actually Argentina is not doing right.

@@ZuGa1384 now is going down hill, but historically was the powerhouse of South America and the whole southern hemisphere

@@ZuGa1384 what I was saying is because Uruguay is economically doing much better than chile and Argentina but this guy says chile and Argentina are the only 2 doing ok

@@qcthesxientist thats the problem with outsiders they have biased vision of what the media tells them, Argentina and Chile are not in a good position in the last years as well as Brazil, at least Uruguay doesnt have this problem since their population is minuscule.

I would consider the South of France as Southern Europe also but I guess it’s easier to lump the entire country one way or the other.

There's a lot of minority nations in France. The Occitans, Catalans and Basque in the South are closer to Spain and Italy, but the Alsatians are closer to Germany.

Yes. As a US citizen, this is the first time I've heard of it. We have a lot of Eastern Europeans in the US and there is no big deal about it.

As an eastern european I don't blame them. We're just awful people. The eastern expansion was a mistake

@@AndyZach we have tons in aus, and they call themselves wogs, don't really hear anything about them being a problem

It makes no sense at all. Continent means "continuous land", Oceania means ocean... the exact opposite of land.

Landia

@@arrgghh1555 better than just australia

Don't get it either.

North America is different from South America

@@wonderbread7327 No way. You came up with that on your own ?

@@quidam_surprise do you really think that the USA, Canada and Mexico are the same as Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana?

@@wonderbread7327In what base?

and he also put québec with the rest of the east coast

100% true, I feel like people are ignorant of the Middle East or make generalisations and a lot of it is ether wrong or dated information.

@@eavocado5890pppj i definitely have to agree. They all base it off of the fact that they see there’s desert and the camel cliche and that automatically it’s some sort of death ray region. And to add to the original commenter, the levant gets pretty cold at times as well. And even that aside it’s actually snowed in the peninsula, etc.

@@eavocado5890pppj Honestly though I think these stereotypes follow every country. The lowest recorded temperature in India is -60°C but most people just assume India is entirely hot & humid.

@@starsign0805 true

Besides the Gulf and Egypt, all countries in the "middle east" are cold during the year, extremely cold in the winter. The "middle east" in general is an oriental and colonial term, the middle east isn't a thing, the Arab countries of the region are related to the Arab countries in North Africa, not Turkey, Cyprus or Iran, and Iran isn't similar to any country in the region, and if talking geographically, it doesn't make sense countries around the Red Sea are understandable to have a geographical term to describe them, but the rest of countries have nothing to do with it. I prefer to use the "Near East" or sometimes the "Mediterranean and Red Sea" dominion, which include West Asia, East Africa, North Africa and Southern Europe, when talking from a cultural view point as an area of influence, which connects Greek and Rome to their natural historical area of influence by Egypt and Mesopotamia instead of calling them European when Europe wasn't a thing and most of the people to the north, east and west of Rome and Greece were barbarians, and geographically, West Asia is more accurate.

Sometimes germany is also considered as northern europe when it comes to weather If you live in north german states (Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Hamburg, lower saxony). Because everything that hit denmark also hit the german coast.

@@Jan_Hannibal Maybe some people consider Germany "nothern", but honestly, Denmark itself barely qualifies if we're talking weather... Both northern Germany and Denmark are too flat to really have north European weather. Denmark is mostly included in Northern Europe for cultural reasons. Basically, Ireland, Wales, England, Benelux are western European, Germany *could* be considered western European (especially politically) or central European (geograhically) Scotland, the Nordic countries and (due to long time under nordic rule) Estonia is northern European, the rest of the Baltic countries + Russia is eastern European. Lithuania and Latvia isn't really northern European in my book since they've spent most of their time under either German or Russian rule and their language is closely related to Slavic, although I can see valid arguments for the point of view that they *are* northern European since they share the Baltic sea with us and the Baltic peoples (including the now gone baltic Prussians, not the germanic ones) all had close ties with the nordic region throughout most of history.

Come on let’s speed up the process! Faster global warming for a habitable Antarctica!

Trondheim is nice, try Tromsø during the winter :)

Typical Anglos for you, what do you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?

@@quidam_surprise haha blame anglos for everything, your just jealous that the USA aka America is more successful than whatever wasteland you come from

@@wonderbread7327 bruh that's not the reason, its because the US appropriated the term America (continent) and American (people from The Americas) to use it as yours, like not our fault u dont know geography

@@danielgiron6 there is nothing wrong with our name. You literally said the Americas. Our name is the United States of America because we are a group of United States on the American continent.

@@wonderbread7327 i said the Americas for u to understand, the thing is that people from the US use America and its denonym American as if it only defines them, when the first one is the name of the continent and the second it refers to everybody in North and South America, like if u want ur own term use united statian or usian

It's just a geographical descriptor, man... nothing to be so confused about

Yeah, people born on one side of Istanbul are europeans and on the other are asians, so when it's right at the borders the labels don't mean anything.

hard to someone that leaves in a west part of brazil think he is o the east part of SA

The easiest way would be to divide it by culture... in which there would be the three caribbean countries (guiana, french guiana and Suriname), the spanish speaking countries and Brazil.

I'd divide South America in 6 regions: Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay Andes: Non amazonian parts of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela The Amazon Forest Brazil's Northeastern states Brazil's south central states The Guianas

I don't think so. From what I heard, some West Asians nowadays tend to distance themselves for the perspective of being Asian.

@@quidam_surprise as a Middle Eastern I find it so dumb it’s like do you think we don’t know geography? we are 100% in the Asian continent why is that hard to believe. I think it’s more of a western problem and the way they view Asians, it’s so dumb. 🤷‍♂️ also what does being Asian mean and how do you distance yourself from it.

@@eavocado5890pppj Here's an actual comment that I've found : 『 Lebanese are Arabs. *We are not Asian,* we are not European, we are Middle Eastern. The Arabic language is one of, if not, the oldest language of the world. The only reason people assume we are Asians is because the WEST separate the world into continents without giving our own. Part of the divide and conquer strategy 』

@@quidam_surprise I don’t care what one commenter has too say. You must actively try and deny the truth, it must be exhausting. Btw I don’t disagree that some Middle Easterns think that way, a lot of people are dumb and it’s ok.

@@eavocado5890pppj I wasn't finished talking, nor did I say that I agreed with them. I was simply providing you a proof for what I stated earlier... I'll come back later to comment on that.

Yep

How

Its actually pretty straight forward and it even has a wikipedia page which most people would agree North south america: Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia Andean south america: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia Brazil: Brazil, the other 2 guyanas Cono sur: Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

@@Jequetepeq atleast the map that i learned in my school was that, this one that you showed is more political, that one was geographic

Of course! We're your ex-colony, after all.

I consider Canada the least foreign country, if not for the weather I don’t think adjusting would be difficult at all (excluding Quebec). If I had to choose between Alaska or Canada I would pick Canada. The UK would be a learning curve but in a fun way, anywhere else in Europe I feel like I would make faux pas left and right.

nah, as a british person i must say ive always found more in common with france, despite them being our old rivals and them speaking an entirely different language

@@blubfishuwaaa interesting, why France before geography?

Language aside, Norway and the UK are two of the most similar countries in the world in terms of people, belief,and culture. Way more than UK and Americans.

It was like one street or something right

@@wonderbread7327 Like a European village sized territory

I think some folks consider it a continent composed of New Guinea, Australia and the island of Tasmania... but it's a mostly useless concept, tbh 😒 (Can't even bother to have a proper distinctive name for it when they're the one who cling on that silly notion🤦‍♂️)

Lol

that's so wholesome :D