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Maps I find insightful. All countries mentioned in the Bible, and it is not very many. Pretty good indicator of how old the Bible was and how small the world felt when it was written
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Quite interesting to think of how many people follow the Bible that live in this whole region, even though the people writing it didn't even know this land existed
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Spain got a mention though, fair play. All countries that have legalized same-sex marriage so far
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This is another crazy one. Being able to marry someone you're in love with feels like a basic human right, yet it isn't allowed in most countries in the world
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If we enhance and enhance, it's not even legalized in over half the countries in Europe
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Poland, Italy, Croatia? Basically nowhere in Africa. Basically nowhere in Asia. That is crazy
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Countries not self-identified as democratic. So this is countries where the people in charge have accepted they're a dictatorship
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Because I guess some countries like North Korea, for example, they're probably a bit in denial about it
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No joke, there's an awful lot of lying on this map. Yeah, I mean, running a dictatorship is obviously bad
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But running a dictatorship and lying about it is even worse. The tallest statue is on every continent
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Oh, here we go. So the tallest in North America is the Statue of Liberty. Probably the most famous on this map, to me anyway
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But I've heard it's actually kind of much smaller than you'd think. 93 meters. In Europe, it's Sanctuary of Christ the King, which is in Portugal
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I've never even heard of this. I thought this was Christ the Redeemer on first glance. It's 110 meters
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Virgin Mary, 47 meters. South America, African Renaissance Monument. Only 52 meters, but a really epic statue
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Like, how absolutely epic does that look? Wait, the tallest statue in Oceania is 15 meters
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How has nobody beaten that yet? It's a giant sheep. Oh my god, that's insane
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Look at the size of it compared to a cat. That's so tiny. I feel like if I stood up straight, I could be the tallest statue in Australia
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And then tallest statue in Asia is by far the tallest in the world
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Statue of Unity, 182 meters. Look how insane this looks. It looks like something from, like, Game of Thrones
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Look at people sat on his toes. How Earth will look with current international borders in 250 million years
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This is so interesting to think about, isn't it? Because, like, 250 million years is such an inconceivable amount of time
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that the assumption is that humans will just not exist then. But with technology and what the super rich have got access to
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you do wonder, will humans as we know them still be around? Because we're unlikely to keep evolving because of the way our life is now
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So it's just interesting to think about. But yeah, basically, all continents will collide, forming the new Pangaea
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Brazil will be squashed with Antarctica, which is crazy to think about
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The Indian Sea is kind of the only ocean that'll still exist, excluding the big one that'll surround most of the Earth
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Let's enhance, enhance, get a good look at Europe. Whoa, so Europe and Africa are just all squashed together
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If we head over here, we've got Canada and Greenland squished up, that makes sense
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But then we have, oh, look at that, the Atlantic Sea. Oh, that's so cool to think about
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Atlantic Ocean is just a teeny tiny little sea now. And we have New York and the Republic of Congo just a sea away from each other Oh that insane Oh look at Namibia and central america squashed up there is no sign of the caribbean though that sad lake mexico this is so weird
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who knows what life will be like here i mean presumably burning and dead google street view
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google are constantly adding more countries to their street view and as we can see a lot of the
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earth is now covered which is kind of insane to think about because you know a little car's
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have to drive around everywhere looks like basically all of europe is covered now obviously
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there'll be some countries where it's not every road russia for example very hard to track
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everywhere but i think major roads are covered now all of india as well which is pretty huge
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a lot of africa still cannot be seen a lot of central asia a lot of south america now covered
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that's very impressive i love how we've got a border around iceland because there's just not
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road friendly roads throughout the middle of it yeah it's really impressive how much of the earth
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is visible to anyone now. This is an advert for tights. Not sure why that's here. Luxembourg
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compared to other countries. Yeah, this is an interesting one. Obviously, Luxembourg is a small
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country on the grand scheme of things, but I always, when I first learned about it, thought of it as a
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little micro state like Liechtenstein. But you can see Liechtenstein is far, far more dinky than
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Luxembourg, and you can actually fit a bunch of small countries inside of it. Malta, for example
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I've been to Malta. It didn't feel small. You kind of assume in your head you can just walk around these places
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but you just forget how big the earth is. Even the small countries are large. You know, you need transport to get around Malta. So comparing that to Luxembourg, that's a large country
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Brazil, five areas of equal population. Ah, that's really interesting, isn't it? Look at that
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I mean, you see it with most country population density maps. Historically, people just settle around water
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For example, Egypt's population density is just the same shape as the Nile
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Australia have basically everyone just following the east coast. But I've never seen Brazil's before
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Look how shallow this outer green line is. This is an equal population to not only this much thicker green line
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but also this entire yellow one, which I guess is mainly Amazon rainforest
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Whoa, countries where Wikipedia editors have been prosecuted. So is that Chinese Wikipedia editors have been prosecuted in China
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Or have people from other countries been prosecuted in these countries? Because that's crazy either way
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The most overworked countries in the world. This is interesting. From what I know, I would have guessed Japan being on this list
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But Japan's not even in the top. And actually, we've got Canada on here, which you really wouldn't think either
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The stereotypes around Canada is everyone's kind of really chilled out. But here we are with very high average hours worked by employees
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So I'm looking in the comments. A lot of people from Greece are saying they completely agree with this
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It's pretty normalized to work more hours than you're actually paid for, which is obviously terrible. Poland's historical borders compared to today
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Look at that. That's crazy. Poland used to have such a huge region and it's not like it's shrunk in the middle. It's shrunk
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from the east to the west. Yeah, that's really interesting. Percentage of people that identified as white British in 2021 So the bluer it is the whiter the area and you can see that most of the UK is very white at the moment I mean I grown up my entire life in the north of England which is a very white area Like I lived here which is a 95 white area
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which is crazy, isn't it? People from the south will be shocked by this, but in my primary school, everybody was white
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and in my secondary school, there was one black person, that's it. We didn't have anyone that was Asian
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Almost everybody was white British. Obviously, as time goes on, everything will change
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but yeah, for the most part, the UK are very white. We can see numbers are decreasing
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1991 it was 94 percent 2021 it's 74 obviously more diversity is always good percentage of adults
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getting less than seven hours of sleep per day most of the us is getting less than seven hours
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per day but the darker colors mean they're getting more than seven hours per day obviously people are
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different i know that i myself kind of need eight good hours if i want to feel really healthy and
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refreshed but yeah it looks like a lot of people are under sleeping oh this is the coolest geography
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info i've heard in years in maori which is a language of the native people of new zealand
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the official name for france is a wee wee the six different regions of asia age is obviously the
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largest continent in the world so a lot of cultural diversity there southeast asia down
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here we've got like indonesia we've got the philippines those kind of places east asia
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apparently china mongolia the koreas and japan but also taiwan quite a small region south asia
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central around india west asia kind of those middle eastern areas central asia a bunch of
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the stands uzbekistan tajekistan that kind of thing and russia gets its own spot which i guess
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makes sense russia does feel kind of the least asian canada divided into four equally populated
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regions ah these are always so interesting look at this so about eight and a half million people
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in each of these colored zones once again it just shows how many people don't live anywhere
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Obviously, this is kind of hugely distorted in terms of scale because this is right at the top of the earth
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So if we grab Connor and we move it down you see how much smaller these fiddly little islands actually are
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But even though this is still a huge area of land that is not very populated at all
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Are one of the five big cats in your country? Oh, okay. We got jaguars leopards tigers lions basically none in Europe
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Obviously you do have the siberian tigers up in russia. This is really interesting big cats do spread a lot of the earth
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don't they obviously i'm assuming these days they're very low numbers but there's still a
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presence of some sort in africa nigeria is the only country that only has lions which is interesting
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sunshine duration in hours per year united states versus europe so what this shows us is the u.s get
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a lot more sun than we do obviously i think spain and italy are kind of a similar level to most of
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the us so this does make sense but i don't know why does the uk get such low sunlight if sweden
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And then all of these areas in the east still get a decent amount. What's that about? It's like we've been targeted
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What do you call a small piece of wood under the skin? This is 1950s versus 2016
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Well, before looking at any data, I'd call it a spelk, which I don't think is a particularly common word
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Oh, look at that. Literally the area I grew up in right here, they call it spelk
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And then basically everywhere else in the UK and Ireland they call it a splinter That so weird Ah but in 1950 it was a lot more diverse Northeast still going strong on the spelk
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Spelk is such a weird word. I've never thought about it before. Of course, splinter makes more sense
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But apparently, 1950s, it used to be all kinds of things. Just splints, spliles, speels, slivers, apparently, spools
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Ah, this is so interesting. Makes me weirdly proud to be from the Northeast, even though it's just a word
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Oh, here we go. actual size of countries compared to traditional maps obviously if you've never thought about it
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before the earth is a globe it's super round so it's hard to evenly show everything on a
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traditional map and you end up with major distortion around the top and the bottom and
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even some shrinkage in the middle but this map tries to more accurately portray things it really
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enlightens how much of the earth is ocean like basically entire half of the globe is just the
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pacific ocean but we can see a shriveled up canada we can see that northern europe does shrivel up
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a bit as well it's so interesting to look at everything's so much more curvy in reality as
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well whereas on this traditional projection everything's kind of lined up nicely and look
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how different antarctica is portrayed as well wow elevation maps of the world so this is asia you
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can see that kind of around the himalayas and that sort of area there's huge evolution which
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does make a lot of sense south america has huge elevation around chile and also basically just
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all along the west north america a similar thing i assume that's following the same tectonic plate
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lines is south america europe pretty flat for the most part does get a bit spiky around the alps and
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whatnot africa also surprisingly flat i suppose a lot of this is sahara desert then we do have huge
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elevation here areas like tanzania kenya ethiopia really interesting and very pretty maps i may add
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we've had lots of population density maps this month so let's end on one in specific countries
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in france you can see that basically everyone lives in paris in germany you can see it's a bit
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more spread about but obviously major cities is where you've got all of the spikes italy a much
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much more even spread actually there are far more tall spikes that aren't in the big cities i guess
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just because italy's got a lot of very nice areas to live turkey istanbul really dominating and
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then kind of quiet a lot of the other places england another much bigger urban spread no one's
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got huge disproportionately spikes even london's isn't that much bigger than places like birmingham
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and stuff next up we have denmark whoa copenhagen really dominating there norway quite evenly spread
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a lot around oslo how badass do these maps look by the way they also like structures you see in
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a lot of the rings and stuff we've got spin nice even spread whoa where's this area it's akar runa
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which i haven't heard of must be quite a small but very densely populated area next up switzerland
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Ireland kind of all just spread about Portugal Lisbon obviously dominating a lot there and then
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finally Romania yeah all kind of quiet in Romania apart from Bucharest which got a bit of a spike
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anyway thank you very much for watching they were some insightful maps I enjoyed this if you did
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