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Maps I find memorable. This is what Google Maps looked like on its launch day in 2005
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That is so interesting. So they have the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, which is interesting
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and then just the United Kingdom and Ireland. Isn't that amazing to think about? Whereas these
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days, what, every part of the earth is basically covered and in ridiculous detail as well? It is
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actually just amazing to think about the impact that Google Maps had. Like, I can remember in my
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of early childhood, my mom would drive around with an atlas, like a physical book that had all
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of the roads on it. Like, you just can't comprehend that these days. A map of every place where
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ancient Roman coin hoards have been found. Oh, this is going to be a good video. We're getting
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some great maps this time. So obviously this very much aligns with just where the Roman Empire
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controlled. But it is interesting seeing how far and wide the odd one or two spread. Like
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look over here, past China, there's been markings. Stupid question, how did they get past sewers
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There was no c at that time, obviously. Actually, there was an ancient equivalent to the Suez C
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It's called the C of the Pharaohs. Whoa, I never knew about that
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That's amazing to think about. The German language area before and after World Wars
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So language area in 1910 spread quite a bit further than just sort of modern day Germany
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It is rather sporadic though. I will say it'd be nice to see different country outlines
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And obviously they're slightly different than they were in 1910. But you know, I just put some lines on this so we can get a little bit more context
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percentage of households in the usa with at least one air conditioner now we're getting to the juicy
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stuff okay as we can see air conditioners are pretty common averaging basically 94 of homes
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i've actually got a little air conditioner on right now look at this little fella it's not really a proper one because you know for some reason houses in the uk don't have them i might
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actually just be called a fan thinking about it but you know the thoughts there so only seven
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percent of alaska have air conditioners obviously that does make sense it's generally colder in
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in Alaska and perhaps a bit less developed as well. I am surprised that numbers are lower here
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though because I thought this was like quite a hot area, but maybe I'm wrong. California's quite low
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as well, 72% because, you know, that's a hot place. It's also fairly wealthy, but maybe the average
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person isn't particularly wealthy. I don't know. Let's check the comments. All right, apparently, generally, because of the way the houses are built in California, it's not too extreme. It's only sort
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of a couple of weeks of the year, which is somewhat similar to the UK in all fairness. Gun ownership
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in the US. The US has more guns than people with nearly 400 million in civilian possession. I mean
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that is ridiculous. How can a country need more guns than actual humans that live there? Nah
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this is just absolutely outrageous. I do not understand it at all. The Aldi equator in Germany
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What? Okay, so I'm familiar with this Aldi. This is a supermarket in the UK, but for some reason
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north of this line, there's this version of Aldi? Are they owned by the same people? The official
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story about the division goes back to the sale of cigarettes. One of the founders wanted to sell
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them, the other didn't. So they split up into two separate businesses. Aldi North and Aldi South are
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two completely different companies. It's a split between brothers just like Adidas and Puma. So I'm
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curious why Aldi South made it to the UK but Aldi North didn't. The agreement was basically that the
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company who first expanded into a country would have the exclusive rights for that country. The
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only exception is America where there's both. For something that on the surface sounds so
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unbelievably boring. It's quite interesting that, isn't it? How Americans get to work. Most common
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means of transportation to work by county. Okay, so basically everywhere it is driving alone in a
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vehicle which is it not good really is it It a lot of emissions I mean I also drive a car so I can really be too hypocritical here but it is a little bit depressing to think about how much unnecessary carbon is created there
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which could be avoided by, you know, just better public transport. We can see that this area over on the East Coast
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actually does favor public transportation, which is great. Obviously, it's just very small
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but also in Alaska, they do a lot of walking, which, you know, I guess that's the best one, if possible
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At least 10 countries around the world apostasy, which is the act of leaving religion being punishable by death
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which once again is ridiculous and just leading to people being terrified in their own countries
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Map of the Ocean Floors, as published by National Geographic. Okay, finally something that's not just like kind of depressing
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This is really cool to see. It might be an enhance enhance. So this is the Pacific Ocean, which kind of looks like it's been a bit downscaled
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I'm not gonna lie, but isn't it fascinating to think about all of these underground mountains
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Like look at this giant mountain range here. I assume this is just like tectonic plates lining up with one another
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But it's fascinating to think that the land that we see as land is just bits that are high up enough
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All right. What else have we got? Whoa, it's rather extreme over in the I guess this is mainly the indian ocean
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Yeah, look at that. That's crazy. I'm surprised there's not more land peeking out in this area
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I guess it just shows how deep it is. Oh, look at the borders around the countries as well. Look at that
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That's really interesting So I guess we'll have like bits of the maldives just poking out here just like right at the tippy top
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All right, what else we got? Ooh, so this is the Atlantic Ocean
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Huge fault lines. Is that what you call them? Probably not. Kind of looks like a giant crocodile's back
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Just me, maybe. Okay. Whoa, this one looked like a creepy face at first
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So this is the Arctic Ocean. Yeah, it's freaking me out. I don't know. It's making me feel uncomfortable
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The entire railway network of the world. All right, this just shows you how little railways there are
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Like, obviously, Europe is pretty good with its rail network. You're quite set up there
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but it's amazing to think that there is just no rails anywhere in this huge region
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Same with like this area of sort of South America, mainly Brazil, and then all of Africa
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You know, you'd think you'd have like at least one running through the Sahara, kind of like what they've done over in the outback over here
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Interesting seeing India take a little bit of a lead with rail compared to surrounding countries
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The natural habitat of the giant panda. So just this very specific region of China
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I'm curious how many wild pandas are still knocking about. approximately 1,900 giant pandas left in the wild
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Number has grown thanks to conservation efforts. Well, that's good news. Hopefully it keeps up. I mean, 1,900 is ridiculously low
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and they're such incredible animals as well. I don't understand how they ever came to be though
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because they just seem so helpless. There's always that falling over and rolling about, you know
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How did they make it this far? Habitability map of Australia from 1946
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Well, it's pretty straightforward. I love how just it's being marked as literally useless
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this ginormous region that's similar to the size of Europe. They're just like, nah, don't bother
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Surprising amount of grazing land though. Like I thought that this would just be kind of too hot for much to go on
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Of course, very sad to just have such a brutally simple map mocked up
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Identifying these huge areas of agricultural and grazing land. And having no mention anywhere of what humans and animals are already inhabiting that area
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Map of European territories by the number of years spent being part of France. Oh, okay
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So the colors are quite difficult to actually work out the specifics of
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but I never had any idea that Italy was once part of France and also this region of kind of what, Croatia
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But this main chunk has been France for well over a thousand years Interesting Nunavut is the largest electoral district on earth It literally eight times larger than the UK and it just one electoral district I assume it doesn have a hugely high population but you would expect there to be you know quite a few different
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cultures all within this area because it's so big. Yeah, 40,000 people spread across the entirety
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of Nunavut, which explains why it's classified as just one district. You know, there are, what
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70 million people in the UK and this is eight times larger compared to just 40,000 people
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soil quality in Europe. Oh, more juicy maps. Here we go. All right, let's have a look at the UK
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So a lot of very poor soil. Oh, dear me. Wales has had a nightmare with their soil, to be fair
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as is this area of Scotland. But there's still plenty areas of nice soil. Okay, fair enough
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Norway actually have been consistently poor soil, basically the entirety of the country
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This is really quite interesting. Look at that. There's actually a lot of poor soil everywhere
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But then there's some fantastic soil in areas like Ukraine and the Balkans. Nice soil, guys
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fair play the great wall of south america wow look at that and from that previous map think about how
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deep this goes below the sea or on this side oh it's mental to think about mobile screen time in
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hours per day okay i'm looking at this and i will be honest i think this is kind of low feeling from
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myself and other people that i talk to at the moment i'm sometimes double two and a half hours
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of screen time and i'm not really a huge fan of that i wonder if this is accounting for just all
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ages and that's maybe what brings things down because i suppose people over the ages of maybe
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70 which is a big portion of the population maybe they're less inclined to be on their screens but
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yeah it's a weird thing staring at your phone i think definitely more of a balance is required but
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once again i gotta accept some hypocrisy so many people are watching on me right now on a phone
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screen mourn about screen time bougainville soon to be the newest nation in the world september 20
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27 i've heard about this since the start of the jack sucks a geography channel what are they
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faffing about for? What takes so long? Surely, if everyone's, like, up for it, you should just be
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able to be like, yeah, we're a new country now. It's very interesting to think. I wonder if I'll
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still be doing Jackson's geography videos when Bougainville finally becomes its own thing. Oh
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think of the content opportunities. I can just do, can I name all 198 countries of the world
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The true size of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, this is kind of what I was talking about earlier. It felt
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like that, that sea map had been squeezed in a bit, so it'd appear more aesthetic, because this is
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Russia, like a gigantic country, and it belly dents the Pacific Ocean, you've got Canada over
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here being its massive self, all the USA, that's all of Brazil, all of China, Australia, I mean the
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best way to show it is just via global, because if we just scroll around, you can see it takes up
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basically 50% of the earth, you can't see any of the countries, it's that big, driving direction in
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Europe in 1922, ah don't confuse me, this is just gonna throw me off further in geo-guessing
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Words for horse and car share a distinct origin. Ooh. The distinct connection between horse and car
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Because obviously they're both seen as transport methods. So the English word for horse is horse
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The English word for car is car. However, if we look at Proto-Indo-European kres, I'm sure I've nailed the pronunciation
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Kres meant to run, which turned into kresos. Kresos sounds a bit like hos
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Yeah, fair enough. Proto-Germanic, krosa, kros, horse. But then at the same time, pros or Celtic, caros, carus, car, car. There we go. I imagine there is
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so many things like that. It's very interesting. What Americans call driving around in circles
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Okay well I would call it doing donuts which apparently 80 of Americans agree with me Doing cookies Who saying that Whipping shitties You what And then other I wonder what the others were There was 10 different responds The red area is home to 60 of Icelanders
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despite covering just 1% of the land. Very common for people to just sort of hang about in their capital city
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and the rest of their country would be fairly empty, but this is quite an extreme case, with over half of the entire population just being in this tiny little red region
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The only countries larger than European Russia. This is just the part of Russia that's considered the European part, which is quite small
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because Russia obviously expands over into Asia significantly. Yet still, just this small region is only beaten by one, two, three, four, five different countries
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It just shows you how just slightly distorted the map is, but also just how massive Russia is
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The world divided into four equally populated parts. So, two billion people in each, which is, wow, that's kind of mental, isn't it
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All of the Americas, all of Europe, all of Russia, and a bunch of others
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You know, there are some seriously populated countries in here. We've got the US, we've got Brazil, we've got Mexico
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But still, they barely dent the populations of Africa and this area of the Middle East
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Literally nearly 2 billion people just in China. And then India, I think this also maybe includes a couple of other places like Bangladesh
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But yeah, 2 billion people, that is crazy. Canada is just flexing at this point
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Okay, I don't quite know what I'm looking at. Oh, it's islands with lakes inside of islands with lakes. Whoa
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The most common occupational related surnames in Europe. Ooh, this is interesting
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So Smith is the most common in the UK, and I assume that means like blacksmith. Ah, and then the foreign equivalents of the same name also mean blacksmith
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which is pretty common in a lot of different countries. Ah, okay. So what's red
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Miller, a person that works in a mill. That's common for Ukraine, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, quite a few places then
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Baker pops up only in Belgium. Okay. Imam, I'm not sure what that is
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An Islamic spiritual leader. Ah. So that's only down in this area
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What's the green one? Sea Warrior? How does Ireland get Sea Warrior
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That's the coolest thing ever. Murphy means Sea Warrior. I imagine there are a bunch of people with the last name Murphy right now
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having no idea that their ancestors were Sea Warriors. That's the best name I've ever seen
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I don't even care about the rest of the map. Indonesia laid out over Russia. Wow
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So this kind of alludes to what I was referencing before about map projections being distorted at the top and the bottom
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because Indonesia here, put on this part of the map, spreads this far
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That's massive. It gets to show you just how massive Indonesia is. Like, that's a crazy size
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Like, just this island would cover, I don't know, half of Europe? Wow, that's crazy
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Countries where dinosaur fossils have been found. Okay, well, this is interesting
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So, the big dogs, like the T-Rex, the Triceratops, all found in the USA
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which I find interesting. I have a little fossil collection, and most of them were found in Wyoming
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I wonder why nothing's ever been found in areas surrounding Indonesia, the Philippines, etc
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Is that just because they're not really looking? Or is it just something to do with what the land was like millions of years ago in that now region
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Okay, this is about Turkey because there's nothing being found in Turkey. Anatolia is a very young piece of land that used to be submerged just 50 million years ago
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It rose above the sea long after the dinosaurs were already extinct. I mean, that makes so much sense, but it's very, very interesting to think about
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Sounds like it would be a good place to find marine fossils. Absolutely. All right, apparently nothing much found in Indonesia because a lot of the land is jungle with protected species
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So that's good. Wow, really interesting stuff there, actually. And you know what? On that quite delightful note, I think we'll end off this video
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Thank you very much for watching. Maps, I think, are memorable. If you enjoyed this, please do click that like and that subscribe button
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