If you like these weird borders, you can watch the extended edition over on Nebula with a few more along with the first episode of my brand new series Ghost Towns!! Ghost Towns especially is super cool, I'm traveling to ghost towns across the United States and hopefully later the world to document what they're like today and how they became abandoned. The first episode is live on Nebula right now and it's about the communities around the Salton Sea in California. The best way to get access to Nebula is through the bundle deal with CuriosityStream at CuriosityStream.com/reallifelore, which is absurdly only $12 for an entire year right now. Thanks so much y'all for sticking around in 2020 and I'll see you all again throughout 2021 :)

The US East: borders shaped by rivers and mountains The US west: *RECTANGLES*

4:40 “To be fair, they didn’t really know what they were doing” This one statement sums up most of human history

if Colorado is a hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon, I don’t wanna know what the eastern states are

1:56 Honestly being only 1 mile off is pretty damn impressive for the method.

Colorado not being a perfect rectangle hurt me inside

Every state: *Has a unique and distinctive shape to it* Wyoming: *RECTANGLE*

POV: you’re in Delaware and this is the most recognition anyone out side the state has given to DE

All the borders mess starts with someone saying: "Let's ignore all the natural landmarks and people occupations and define this border as a straight line. "

People: colorado is a rectangle RLL: No its a jsjdudjebsbsndjsjsjgsvs heptigon

Who was the loser of the Ohio Michigan war? Wisconsin

"This video is getting long. Let me spend 20% of the video shilling for my sponsors."

I live in Colorado and since it’s such a small state ( at least in media ) I just feel so warm when it’s talked about. Especially for that long

So the Ohio and Michigan rivalry goes even further back than I thought lol

Asian borders: is drawn by mountain ridges, or a river dividing them Europeans: does the same North American borders: *I GOT LINES WHAT YOU WANT*

Ohio and Michigan: *Fight over Toledo Strip* Federal Government: "It's all Ohio" Ohio: "Always has been"

RLL’s mortal enemy: Delaware’s circle boarder.

I’m glad I looked at my phone before I got in the shower. Edit: I didn’t think clarification was needed but wow the internet is a stupid place. I didn’t watch the video in the shower I watched the video and then had a shower.

"Hexahectanneacontakaiheptagon" -Colorado, USA

RLL: "Everybody knows Michigan has this big upper peninsula..." People outside the US: "hmm..."

Realifelore: *exists.* Dashlane, Brilliant, and Squarespace: *I can milk you.*

Michigan and Ohio: *Fight over Toledo* Spain: "Get the fuck out of my country!"

"Colorado ain't no rectangle" - Real Life Lore 2020

As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I always wondered why the hell the UP was part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. Never realized it was because there was contention between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip. Tell you what, Michigan made out like bandits in that deal.

The more I learn about US geography and how the individual states were formed, the more I realize it's basically 50 countries kind of haphazardly glued together XD

"This video is already getting pretty long and youtube doesn't like that" 1 minute of Nebula ad OK

The "extended cut" on Nebula is 9:44. The extra content is literally shorter than the Nebula ad on the KZfaq version.

4:28 Virginia resident here, we actually have a name for the VA, DE, MD border gore. Its referred to as Delmarva.

Delawarean here... thank you for getting The Wedge history and geography EXACTLY RIGHT !!!

New York: *expands into New Jersey waters* I can see why New York is the Empire State

“This video has been getting pretty long” *hasn’t even gotten to 10 minutes yet*

4:05 Oh my gosh, it was like a retro version of the South China Sea Dispute!

Out of all the issues going on imagine going to the Supreme Court over a tiny island 😂

I thought "The Toledo Strip" was a gentleman's club...

The strange peninsula on the bottom right of michigan is called the "lost peninsula". Its like a 25 min drive around

Colorado: im a square Wyoming: in your dreams (turns colorado into a Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagon)

Gotta love people talking about the weird borders of my home state of Delaware.

Hey, cool video! I’m a land surveyor myself, and it’s fascinating to learn about all the land disputes and errors that eventually decided our borders. If you have time, I recommend you do a segment covering Andrew Ellicott’s survey of the 35th parallel and the dispute over GA’s northern border!

The u.s is like a whole bunch of mini countries in 1 always arguing.

7:30 Michigan has 3 disconnected peninsulas. You have to count the “main” one as a peninsula, too, and such, the total is 3.

This entire video is just "What were the colonists thinking when figuring out the borders!!?!"

"YT algorithm doesn't really favor that very much." *looks at YT recommendations and their 16 to 30 minute videos*

“Colorado AIN’T no rectangle”😭😭i lost it at the beginning of the video and had to pause. 😂laughed way too hard

"Wacky united states" -German empire, 1918.

LIBERTY ISLAND: New York or New Jersey? CGP Grey discussed this a few years ago.

Geowizard needs to see the part about colorado, reminds me of his straight line missions.

The rectangular-looking Canadian province of Saskatchewan has a jagged border with Manitoba. When Saskatchewan was surveyed in the 19th century, townships were designed to be 6 miles square, but that meant that every 24 miles going north from the southern border, a jog had to be put in the eastern border, 225 feet, to keep the townships from shrinking.

The Narator's criticisms about borders always makes me entertained.

"see the thumbnail" Ah it's cgp grey

There are so many enclaves an enclaves with the Mississippi and Missouri River states, due to the changing of the river

I love how this series has gone on for like 4 years at this point

As someone from Ohio, give toledo to Michigan, or as I call it little Detroit

exclaves and enclaves: we are a mess ellis island: *let me introduce myself* edit: no point reading the comments lol

“The Toledo War” Combatants: Michigan, Ohio Winner: Michigan and Ohio (sorta) Loser: Wisconsin

The people calculating Colorado's borders were doing straight line missions before GeoWizard made them popular.

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

For the amount of Colorado references you make, you must either live there or be from there! 😂 I am a native Denverite though, so I always love seeing the references!

The us just looks like a map drawn by a toddler using rectangular stencils.

For anyone wondering, Michigan wanted Toledo to increase its population enough for statehood

Probably my favourite bizarre state boundary situation is the Kentucky Bend, a piece of Kentucky separated from the rest of the state as a result of the Mississipi River and the boundary agreements between Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. The 36.5 Parallel was supposed to be the whole boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky up to the river, but when surveyors reached the river it was a 10th of a degree north of the parallel. The one between Kentucky and Missouri is the river, hence why Kentucky Bend is cut off from the rest of the state

GeoWizard would've done a perfect straight line mission, only if he was there :D

Minor nitpick: The NY-NJ dispute did not "go all the way up to the Supreme Court." SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over disputes between states. The case started and ended with SCOTUS.

Usa: The Most Confusing Geography Country in the World

Keep this series going, i love it.

7:00 I think we have situations like Hancock everywhere in Germany. Our state lines are based on geographical features and centuries old land claims, so there's probably not a single straight line anywhere longer than a few hundred meters. Switching states several times on a straight stretch of road isn't that rare here.

I moved from the UK to Toledo as part of a foreign exchange for two semesters between my university here and UT. From my personal experience all I can say is, Ohio, it was not worth fighting over. 😂

ngl this is my favorite series of yours

Love these border videos! Keep them coming!

2:29 well actually, if you take it from ancient Greek, but flip the digits, as with the rest of the shapes, it's a hexakosia kai enenekonta kai hepta-gon, or all in one word, hexakosiakaienenekontakaiheptagon

I used to live right next to that Michigan upper peninsula. So cool that you included it!

"colorado aint no rectangle" just got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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People: Colorado is a rectangle RLL: No it’s a hexahectanneacontakai heptagon

“This video is already getting pretty long”... continues to have an ad for the next 2 minutes.

The video I needed! I've always looked at the US map and scratched my head over state borders (especially Colorado) =)

Wow that was so cool and quite funny to me haha I love your videos I'm from Mexico I can't understand a 10-15 % of what you're saying but your channel is a lot interesting to me I've learned a lot from you thank you

So as a Wisconsinite, we got screwed out of the UP because of Ohio? Just another reason to hate Ohio

There’s also a little circle of land in the southwestern corner of Kentucky that’s completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee called the Kentucky Bend. It’s pretty weird.

Okay video. Thanks for uploading! Like how long it was!

Your videos are super interesting and for some reason they help me sleep when I’m tired… thank you!

As a person that's from Wisconsin, I'm still salty that we don't have the upper peninsula.

0:31 “Colorado ain’t no rectangle” This made me laugh embarrassingly loud at home

I've been to the Lost Peninsula in Michigan. It's a bunch of private houses/marinas, two restaurants, and a small sign saying "Lost Peninsula." That's it. Since it's not much, it doesn't surprise me that few people know of it

Love your videos, Lore!

2:08 GeoWizard: Yep that's easy lol

Can we remind the US of the NC and VA borders in the outer banks where 18 miles south of the VA line there is an outer banks island which belongs to VA and the beaches belong to north carolina there is a similar situation where the town of beaufort NC/SC is cut in half. Not sure why either of these happened but if that could be clarified it would be great.There are probably more and probably an entire show in the outer banks.

dang 1 mile off that’s really impressive

“ Colorado ain’t no rectangle” HAHA🤣🤣🤣🤣

The feeling when historical content is visualized and made interesting is only possible on this channel. :)

10 minutes isn’t too long for the KZfaq Algorithm what do you mean

Finally a new video about strangest borders!!!

Crazy borders are some of my favorite of your videos.

Maybe, instead of uploading rest of the video into nebula, u could make part 2?!?!?

This video was technically made possible by your microphone and whatever editing software you had.

That wicked smooth transition at 8:54 😎

Just subbed, very fun and interesting channels

2:29 Forget CGP Grey! Hexahectanneacontakai Heptagons are the Bestagons!!!

Happy new year guys!! from Slovakia =D

The return of the best series lfg

This series is just mind-blowing.... Im loving this.... 😅