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Blue whale versus Vatican City
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Okay, so this is the smallest country in the world with the largest animal in the world
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And it creates a really interesting comparison. The blue whale actually is big enough to be visible
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Roadmap of Canada. Very pretty map, this one. And also very helpful for geo-guessing
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But you can see generally there's a lot of just hugging the border of the US. But it does extend quite a lot over here
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Map I saw at a bar. Right, okay, hang on. So we've got China sucking oil out of Venezuela
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But that's not where Venezuela is, silly map. What you guys? Now, I'm not speaking nor agreeing with the politics behind this map
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but I will say they've drawn it nicely. Like Thailand merging into Central America, you know, they've pulled it off nice
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Tesla's decline in Europe. Difference in registrations between January 2024 and January 2025
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Ooh, so we can see that it is down 18% in the UK, 33% in Turkey, 63% in France, 75% in Spain
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Now, this will partly be because, you know, Elon Musk is, you know, a horrible human
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But also, I do think competing electric cars have gotten a lot better. There was a time where Tesla was sort of just way better than every other electric car out there
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Whereas a lot of other brands have caught up, so there are definitely way more options. The West Siberian Plain, an area of 2.6 million kilometers squared
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where there are no elevations higher than 200 meters. This is a gigantic region of Russia
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Look at that. Like, look at it in comparison to Norway, Sweden, and Finland over there
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And it's just so flat. I want to see an actual picture of the landscape. All right, there it is looking pretty flat. Yep. Should have seen that coming. Police without
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firearms in Europe. Only a few countries in Europe do not have regular firearm use by the police. So
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those countries are United Kingdom apparently minusing Northern Ireland. So Northern Ireland
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do carry firearms. We've got Iceland and we've got Norway and everywhere else the police can just
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carry guns with them. I mean, obviously I don't know a lot about this subject, but I have seen
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multiple instances where the police in the United Kingdom have managed to really successfully
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de-escalate situations with just things like batons and stuff. You know, I can't speak for
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every scenario, but generally having less guns knocking about is truly a positive thing. Stop
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signs around the world! Oh, go on then. Okay, so I've heard about a few of these in Geoguessr
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but I've not learned anywhere near enough of them. You can see that despite there being many
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different languages in the world, so many countries just use the word stop, even though that's not
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always the word for stop in their language. This is just very helpful for Geoguessr though. You can
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see that arete that's french very useful for this region of canada northern america use alto and then
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south america use par with exceptions around these caribbean areas i think that's nearly all of europe
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using stop apart from turkey which use duh look at that though is there any other sign out there
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that is this uniform globally because nearly all of them are the same is it a hexagon is it a hexagon
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it is a hexagon yeah no it isn't it's an octagon it's obviously an octagon there's eight signs that
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took me way too long. Just don't leave that in, Kai. British Railway Network before and after
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Beeching. I don't know what Beeching is. A fellow called Richard Beeching closed thousands of
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branches to improve efficiency, controversially slashing the network. So he got rid of all of the
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unprofitable ones. And it turns out that is a lot, which, you know, I can understand it might
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have made things more efficient, but it is also going to isolate people that are in isolating
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locations Recognition of Mandura as the winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election So So many countries are saying that he was not fairly elected so that everywhere in red which is also nearly everywhere in the continent that he is in
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It's so weird looking at this map with no context, because like, why have Madagascar chimed in
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Is anyone waiting for their opinion on this? They're just jumping in and being like, yeah, Mandura, do what you want
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Two years ago, I ran every street in Manhattan. Oh, we got to see you skedaddling about
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Oh, this is incredible. Look at you go. That's actually a really fun idea, isn't it? Oh my goodness. Think of the video idea. I wonder how
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long this actually took because I assume this is a pretty massive region. You've also had to do
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quite a bit of doubling back on yourself, which obviously makes sense. You can't just spawn in
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in random locations. At this point, I'm kind of just saying any random thing that pops into my
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head without breathing because I would like to witness the whole thing in one fluid motion
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I've ran out of things to say. It looks cool though. Percentage of people who believe that having children is a moral duty. Well, I believe that's ridiculous. What are you talking about
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Apparently 11% of other people in the United Kingdom think that it is something that you
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should absolutely do. What are you talking about? I think it should be have them if you want them. Don't pressure other people to do something that's going to control their lives, even if
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they don't necessarily want it. Look at that. 83% of people over in Bulgaria believe that having
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children is a moral duty. That's such an interesting spread. General low numbers
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but some high numbers here and there. Oh, on the longest day of the year, the sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland or Scotland
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Ooh, let's have a little click. Wow, it's so interesting, isn't it, thinking about the way the sun is angled throughout the year
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I mean, to be honest, at the moment, it's annoying me because the sun's way too low throughout the winter
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and I can't see anything when I'm driving along. So the longest day of the year is 21st of June
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My birthday is the 24th of June. And when I was little, I used to think that, you know
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I was so privileged to get to have a birthday that's longer than so many other people
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How cute is that? Most popular girl named by state. Okay, Lisa's dominating. Mary's making a
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comeback. No, I take her back. Lisa is absolutely dominating throughout the 60s. Michelle coming in
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out of nowhere. Isn't it fascinating how these trends are... Whoa, Jennifer has just colossally
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taken over at the start of the 70s. I love these kind of maps and I find it so interesting how all
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of us humans in different areas just follow the exact same patterns. Like everyone's just... you'd
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You'd want your child to have a unique name, but in reality people en masse are picking quite fashionable names
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Look at that. Jessica now taking over with Ashley's throughout the 80s. Oh
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What can I predict? I'm not really gonna know any of these more historical ones
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But when we get to the 2020s, I think we're gonna see Olivia that's probably gonna pop up. Okay, we're in the 90s. Now we've got Emily's Taylor popped up briefly in a few states
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Lots of Emily still That's gonna disappear Madison as we now are in the 2000s
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Emma, I guess that's thanks to friends, perhaps. Rachel's baby was called Emma. Isabella's popped
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up briefly. We've got Madison's. Emma's back in 2008. Isabella, quite big there. Olivia. I said
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Olivia. It's popped up now. Emma's still absolutely dominating. Mary make... Oh, it's looped
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I thought Mary made a huge comeback out of nowhere. Whoa, that's insane to look at. 16,591
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babies were born in the last hour. Wow, that's crazy. So you can see huge numbers throughout
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Africa collectively but then you can see individual countries like India and then China massive numbers once again You can see that birth rates are slowing down a lot throughout Europe with a few little exceptions here and there but wow So 16 babies have been born in the last hour That at
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least, I don't know, 2,000 babies born since you clicked on this video? That's crazy to think about
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Well, look at this little baby. I wonder who that is. Is that like Reunion Island or something? North America shown with cities from Europe and North Africa at the same altitude. Ah, I'm always
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interested in this. Never kind of get my head around it. Just feels like everything should be
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more like this, but it's not. It's more like that. So London, when you think of London, you think of
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it being at the same latitude as like Tennessee, you know, down here, but it's not. It's all the
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way up in Canada. Look at Copenhagen all the way up there. Look at Helsinki. Helsinki actually does
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make a bit more sense, but then you go over here, you've got Dubai at the same latitude as Florida
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It just really doesn't feel like that would be the case, at least not to me anyway. America split
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into 10 regions with equal population oh it's very pretty it looks like the kind of thing you'd
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want to like lick it looks like a nice little ice cream or something doesn't it no it's not just me
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what i will say is a fairly nice even balance right obviously the map maker has done it in the
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most satisfying way possible but it's a lovely spread ah so alaska is included within this
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region because i was confused there because i know that this is like los angeles is highly populated
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oh they've shoved in hawaii as well now i know alaska and hawaii they're not super popular you
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Could you not shove them under a different colour? The distance between points A and B in different parts of the world
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Right, hang on, what? Right, okay, I understand. So because the world is curved and the top of a lot of maps are projected to be way bigger and more stretched than they actually are
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this region here, which is a smaller line, is actually a significantly further distance than this region at the top
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because obviously, imagine a globe. I'll get me globe, one sec. Yeah, okay, so if you imagine this bit at the top of the map going from, like, here to here
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Obviously because it's a globe that is way smaller than this region here, but on a flat map it looks a lot bigger
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Well, I think I explained that perfectly Oh following a similar theme vladivostok is closer to darwin than it is to moscow
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So look they've added the curve, which is obviously helpful. Do you need me to get me globe out again
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Nope, hold me back. Come on. Hold me back areas of sweden that had a white christmas since 1975
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All right So this map shows us that generally speaking I guess white christmases are getting more common in the uk
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It is pretty rare for a white christmas. I honestly don't know if i've had one in my lifetime. Ah the trouble
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Look at this. No, no, no Even if just a tiny little bit of snow snores on christmas day
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It still gets counted as a white christmas, so it doesn't even have to like set on the ground
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No, i'm not counting that apparently the last widespread white christmas in the uk was 2010 and I think I do remember that
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Yeah, i've searched up my facebook here. I am writing my name in the snow back in 2010. Well, that's adorable
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This is my little house that I used to live in there. I am having a little hot chocolate You gotta stay cozy, Jack
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It's 83% snowfall. Sorry, I got hugely distracted there. What am I looking at
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Oh, here we go. How countries type laughter. So in the UK, we say ha-ha or lol
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In Ireland, we say ha-ha or lol. In Spain, we type ya-ya. In Portugal, they type aha
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In France, they type ha-ha or murder. In Andorra, they type ya-ya. In Italy, they type aha
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Then we've got ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha, he-he, ha-ha
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he hee ha ha hee ha ha hee ha ha hee ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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well i love a map like that i just can get enough of it i retain none of the info but i have a good time while I there Countries that Trump has threatened with military action He loves it doesn he He just whacks out a little casual threat of military action willy
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Nigeria can have some military action. Iran? Yeah, go on. Venezuela? Yeah, we've nicked your president
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A Russian village today versus 1950. Ooh. Okay, so way more planned out farmland back in 1950
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You can see the village way smaller as well. What's going on here? Ah, it's just completely abandoned after the Soviet Union ended
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So the fields have just slowly turned back into forests. Well, speaking purely about, you know, trees and nature, I suppose that's nice
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I read somewhere that Russia alone has some 30,000 abandoned villages. That's crazy to think about
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I kind of want to go visit them, you know. Japan is actually more north, south, east, and west than Korea
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Oh, they've taken all four. Look at that. Thanks to the little islands that they own
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Oh, that's close as well for the west. I expect the other directions, but west, they've been cheeky there
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If you flew in a straight line from Mackellen, Texas to Bangkok, Thailand, you would only be over water for 50 miles
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Whoa. This is a perspective I'm not used to seeing that's throwing me off. So there's Europe upside down
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This was quite recognizable, but the rest was really weird to see at first. Look at that
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That's actually really really interesting. That's like half the earth, right and only 50 miles of water
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I guess mainly in this region geologically israel is in africa Ooh, so this is referring to the actual tectonic plates of the earth. The eurasian plate is obviously eurasia
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That makes sense. But the african plate includes this little area of israel
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Oh, I did not realize there was a Somali plate. That's interesting. So obviously that's a big area of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
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Lots of countries are included within this and Madagascar down there. Arabian plate quite small compared to other plates
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I haven't learned about plates for years. We used to talk about them all the time in GCSE geography
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Light pollution in the Iberian Peninsula. Wow. I mean, I'm not saying that light pollution is good
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but I'm saying that it looks pretty from this angle. I go mad for a fairy light. I'm not going to lie
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I was in London yesterday. All the shops had little pretty fairy lights outside. Oh, it's beautiful
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Greece on alert. Northern European phallic-shaped blast brings snow. Why is it shaped like that
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If I was in Greece and this thing was heading towards me, I would be feeling concerned
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The Pan-American Highway, the longest road in the world. Okay, well, I'm gonna have to jump in and say that, you know, this part is not official
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and it is actually a little bit difficult to do. So it kind of splits the whole thing in half. I don't know if I can count it
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Countries with a smaller population than London. Oh, wow. So what have we got? We've got Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova
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Oh, I'm not naming all them. But I am surprised with the numbers because London's not a huge population
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Around 9 million people. That's a lot of countries with less than 9 million people. I assumed that Sweden would be way above that
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Most common baby girl name in European countries. Oh, there it is, Olivia. I knew I'd heard that one a lot recently
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Olivia, also popular in Sweden, which is interesting. Olga. That's over in Belarus. I like Olga. That's a good one
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Zofia. Oh, that's cool with the Z. Zeynep. Ooh, that's an interesting one. Zofia, Maria, Jade
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Mia, Marie. They're all nice names. I like them. All right, I think that's enough maps for today. If you enjoyed this video, please do click that like button. Also do subscribe. This is the first
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