Maps I find Mesmerizing

Maps I find mesmerizing

Mexico and Greenland swap in the Mercator projection. Look how teeny and tiny and shriveled Greenland just got

and now Mexico's going all big and ginormous. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, there we go

So is that suggesting that they are somewhat roughly the same size? I suppose, yeah

Yeah, look at that. Look at them, like, next to each other. Yeah, they're kind of like the same kind of landmass

I think Greenland's slightly got the edge. A section of a hand-drawn map I completed recently

Edinburgh, Scotland. Oh, my God. Enhance, enhance. Whoa, that's actually insane. That's drawn by hand with a little pencil

That is actually crazy, you know. You've done such a good job. Is this Arthur's seat, I'm assuming

It's a nice spot. The world map according to Google Street View in 2023. I'm gonna need another Enhance Enhance

So fair play Google Street View. It's quite complete now. All Europe at this point

USA is like absolutely there. South America even looking pretty good. The bits that aren't covered

There's just kind of no roads. It's just Africa still letting the side down. and then I suppose actually Asia's kind of skimping as well

Getting a 3D street view of basically the entire planet is no mean feat, so fair play

Argentine railway network, 1990 versus 2014. So the railway network's much more scarce

I have no idea why that is. All right, according to this Argentinian, the railway networks were nationalized

so the government were in charge of them, but the government just didn't keep up with it and everything ended up kind of in disarray

How curved is Chile? Okay, I mean, I've never actually thought about it

Do you know what? It's quite curved. I was thinking of the flat longness, but never the curviness

This is what ChatGPT considers the most notable thing about each country in Europe

Ooh, enhance enhance. Ireland have got Guinness beer, the UK have got the Beatles

geothermal hot springs in Iceland, fjords in Norway, IKEA in Sweden, Northern Lights in Finland

I mean, yeah, this all sounds about right so far. Ballet for Russia. Hmm, not sure

Chernobyl disaster, Dracula, Eiffel Tower, windmills, Oktoberfest, pizza. This is quite interesting

I suppose quite a bit of it does align with kind of the first few things you think of. US plan to create an alternative to the Suez C

Right, so currently it goes through Egypt up here. But they want to whack one straight through the middle of Israel

Are Israel on board with this idea? I'm not sure, guys. Whoa, the Himalayan weather wall

So it's crazily hot, 40 degrees in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar. But that heat is just blocked by the Himalayan mountains

But it's not just blocked only around the mountains. It stops the heat getting into any of this vast area of China

That's crazy. But hang on because heat covered from the sun which is like way higher than the Himalayas Oh I don get it Google Maps have updated their satellite images of Maripol Ukraine Oh my God that so sad It so much more war and desolate

There's so much less greenery. Wow, that's awful. Jeez, how sad. Largest towns in 1050 in Europe, North Africa and West Asia

1050, very long time ago, points out how old some areas are, such as Cairo, Damascus, Kiev, Venice, Fez

Constantinople, which is now Istanbul, I think. Whoa, I've just seen to qualify

you only have to have over 40,000 people. Keep in mind there's now 8 million in central London

That's kind of crazy. Russia's unfriendly countries list in 2023. Russian government's making a lot of enemies

The Korean War, 1950 to 1953. Yeah, I think I've seen this one before

So you can see that North Korea managed to occupy a load of South Korea

but then wait for it. And there we go. South Korea start fighting back and they like take over a bunch of North Korea. Oh, goodness me

But then North Korea start fighting back again and it's just back and forth over and over again

And I think technically they are still at war to this day. But these days they just kind of look

at each other angrily from each side of a fence. We have 8 billion people now. So where do they live

Well, there's 1.4 billion just in India, now officially the most populated country, second to

China, 1.426. That's nearly 40% right there. Asia really dominating the global populations at nearly

60% then we've got 18% in Africa which is still an absolute ton it's interesting how South America

a pretty large continent only contributes to 5.5% of global populations estimated migration of early

homo sapiens out of Africa to the rest of the world okay so each number represents a thousand

years we need an enhanced enhanced so 200,000 years everyone kind of started in this what is

now Ethiopia and then slowly since then we've migrated out of Africa which is crazy to think

of isn't it and it makes all the horrible colonial things that happen to Africa so much worse because

we've started in Africa ourselves. But yeah, it took 50,000 years for Homo sapiens

to make it to the bottom of Africa. And then it was 45,000 years ago that we made it to Central Europe

65,000 years it took to get to Australia. And then of course, obscure islands like New Zealand

have only had habitation for the last 1,000 years. Which is crazy to think about those islands

just sat there with no one knowing they existed for millions and millions of years

What year is it right now? Wait, hang on. Are you telling me that not every country in the world

thinks it's 2023 right now? I mean, it's obvious when you think about it, But why have I only just found out that not everyone's using the same system

So in Japan it's year five. What?! And to all of Northern Africa it 1444 It 2015 in Ethiopia What Relief map of San Marino one of the smallest countries in the world but it not actually that small to be fair

It looks small for me, but let's compare it to London. For a long time, I thought it was dinky

but you can see San Marino covers multiple areas of London. Anyway, it is mainly a big, cool, epic castle on a hill

That is unreal. I'm excited to go to San Marino at some point. It looks like a really cool place

Today I bring you Large Zealand, stolen from Facebook page. Tourist map of the world

Why have they made New Zealand just absolutely ginormous? I don't get it

A map of submarine cables connecting British Empire in 1902. Jeez, that must have took some doing

That is a bloody long way. What were they used for then? Just allowing submarines to follow

According to the comments, there were actual electrical cables that could send information

1902, who knew? The most watched movies in Zimbabwe in 2015. Okay, it was eye in the sky everywhere other than here, where it was specter

That is a really specific map. Map depicting the changes in Costa Rica's forest coverage over time

This is interesting. So in 1940, 75% of the country was forest

Absolutely incredible, amazing place. But then it did start decreasing as humans did their thing

and it got down to 31 and then 21% in 1987. But from there, Costa Rica's having a huge push to restore their forests

And by 2010, it was back to 50% of the country, which is epic to see. I made a chart showing the world's 25 most populated islands

Ooh, go on then. So the most populated island is Java in Indonesia with 151 million people

Okay, then we have Honshu in Japan, 100 million. Then Great Britain's third

Jeez, 66 million. So it's based on population rather than size, remember

Okay, then Luzon, Philippines, Sumatra, and Indonesia. Scrolling out, anyone else interesting

Long Island, USA makes it onto the list with 8 million people. And Ireland also makes it onto the list, 7 million

That's a lot less than 66 million Great Britain. An interesting map I found of world cloud coverage

Ooh, that explains a lot. That's cool though, that's dramatic. Roman Empire's border defences in 150 by National Geographic

Ooh. All right, all I know about is Hadrian's Wall, this tiny little bit here

because it's just quite near to where I grew up. But you can see they had so much of Europe on lockdown

I mean, they really knew what they were doing, the Romans, to be fair. Not saying they're good, but yeah, it's quite the empire

Satellite map of Chad. Why does it look so much like a person like I could accept all of this But the actual eye in the correct place that too much Come on New York versus los angeles size comparison so all of new york manages to just sit comfortably right there oh that cool

hawaii population density so like a lot of places basically everyone lives on the main island that's

a really nice pretty looking little map country names in finish okay let's butcher some pronunciation

norway is noia sweden is russi finland's suomi wait uk is yudias tient kunuskas kunta

us wildlife map work in progress look at the creature suggestions wow that is gonna look

incredible when it's done what a very talented artist percentage of urban tree covering european

capitals wow 72 for norway's oslo that is a lot of trees switzerland also pretty high nicosia cyprus

4% is the lowest, but I imagine Cyprus is just not a very tree-friendly environment

but perhaps I'm wrong there. You can see for London, it's 21%. Considering these are all

capital cities, they're not actually too bad. The entire coast of Bosnia, 20 kilometers. Yeah

I can't understand how this is a thing. It's absolutely mad. So this is the area that they're

referring to, and if you zoom out, you can... What? How did this happen? Croatia have this whole bit

here. They even have this little separate bit there, and I only just learned recently that they

also have these islands. What? Do we have an explanation in the comments? Okay, here's a rough

explanation if you want to pause it. There's far too many words for me to say in the video. Oh

I remade a map-based daily game. Travel. Name countries to make a path from A to B. That sounds

like my kind of thing. Oh, that's a hard one to do. I have to get from the Gambia to Namibia. I've

got 13 guesses, and if I get there, you have to subscribe. Okay, is Guinea on there? Let's try

Guinea, please. Guinea is one of the guesses, but it isn't a direct connection. So, Senegal, I reckon

surrounds it thinking about it, doesn't it? Yeah, there we go. So now we're away. From Guinea

I'm going to do, I think, hopefully Burkina Faso. Let's try that. No, maybe I'd be better

starting at Namibia. I'm going to try Angola. Guess. Yeah, there we go. And then I'm going to

do DRC. Guess. Yes, nice. And from DRC, can I get Cameroon maybe? I don't know. Oh, there's a gap

Well, we'll do Republic of the Congo next. That gets us there, right? So then we'll do Nigeria

followed by Benin. Then if I can connect Burkina with Guinea, I'm there, right

Is it Liberia maybe? Oh, no, it isn't. I'm screwing this up

Ivory Coast. We got there. Yes. I don't think it was the most efficient route, but we got there

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