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Maps I think are Crazy. @JackSucksAtLife @JackSucksAtStuff @JackMasseyWelsh on JackSucksAtGeography we upload a range of easy to watch & sometimes educational geography related content. I have successfully learned all 197 countries and flags of the world. I also look at interesting maps to teach us more about different parts of the world and their culture. On this channel I also play Geoguessr. video edited by: https://instagram.com/kairossbest instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmasseywelsh my subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/jacksucksatlife/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jackmasseyw twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmasseywelsh business email: jack @ skycade . net
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Maps I think are crazy
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A map of the Gulf of Mexico. Oh yes. Donald Trump got back into office and immediately decided that the number one priority is renaming
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the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. So this is how it's now labeled if you're in the US on Google Maps
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And then this is how it's labeled if you live in the UK. Gulf of Mexico brackets Gulf of America
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Nice and confusing. And then if you're in Mexico, it is still called the Gulf of Mexico
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Completely pointless change or a good idea. What do you reckon? The word sort of sweeps across the US
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So from 1947, most of the US called fizzy drinks pop, a few sodas knocking about, but mainly coke, which is interesting
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But now in 2024, only sort of the North say pop, most people say soda, and the South still say coke
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In the UK these days, it would be pop, but it's a word in my experience not used much at all these days
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I feel like generally you just specify the specific drink that you require. Google Earth has begun updating images of Gaza
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Okay, so this is Gaza before the Israeli war, and then this is after
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that is heartbreaking to see here's another one i mean yeah that is that is that's really really
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horrible like everyone in these houses they're just civilians just innocent families and this
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is really really sad to see the impact here these before and afters just put things into even more
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perspective that is horrible south american map made out of football jerseys oh that's cute isn't
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it so brazil's is in the shape of brazil taking on most of the space feel like they've made the
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falkland island's a bit too big i'm just saying you know look how teeny tiny it is it's the same
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size as uruguay there you should have cut your shirt up that's what i'm expecting this is really
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epic to see one flight two map projections all right let's enhance enhance so we're traveling
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from california over to dubai i guess and you can see from directly above the north pole it's pretty
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much a straight line but this is how the same route would look on a standard micarta projection
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map it really puts into perspective that maps just can't show the earth accurately land american
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largest trading partner 2000 versus 2023 so 23 years ago everywhere in central and south america
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relied on the us for trades whereas in 2023 china has largely taken over most of south america i
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mean china are manufacturing everywhere they have so much power in terms of what they export to the
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rest of the globe it's probably a good thing that south america are less reliant on the united states
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but is china a better choice i don't know they're just good at making stuff and using a lot of
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plastic aren't they let's be honest Muslims in some European countries okay as you can see the
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numbers are just very low six percent in UK 1.6 percent in Ireland incredibly low 0.4 percent in
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Portugal highest being Austria 8.4 percent we are witnessing something beautiful look at this
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how far from London can you get by train in 12 hours ah so you know four hours and you've got
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all of England ah but 12 hours you all the way over in Austria I wish I could pause it can I pause No I can Okay I just gonna have to take it all in So two hours I still kind of in London Oh wait eight hours I in Switzerland 12 hours I made it to Italy
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Can I get to Spain in 12 hours? Let's see. Oh, yeah, just, just
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Kind of crazy to think that I could get a 12-hour train to Barcelona. Why have I not done that
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Maybe I should get it booked. Generally, I would like to do a lot of videos like that, and I am now in a position to do so
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What would be an exciting place to get a train to for a video? Start in London, end in Rome
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Maybe. who needs a visa to enter the usa okay so more or less all of europe is visa free as long as you
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only stay 90 days don't i'll stay you're welcome canada is visa free for six months which is nice
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given its proximity australian new zealand what's new zealand over there who's moved new zealand you
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thought i would notice that's not where new zealand goes get this map off my screen the
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world's longest straight stretch of road is highway 10 in saudi arabia which features a completely
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straight segment that spans an incredible 256 kilometers which is 159 miles without a single
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curve. Wow, that is crazy. If that wasn't Saudi Arabia, that would once again be another video
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Though, would it actually be an incredibly boring vlog? I assume once you've seen an hour of the
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scenery, it's probably pretty much the same thing. But that is crazy to see from this distance
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Second biggest religion in European countries. So you can see green, which is Islam, which is
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Muslim, absolutely dominates this map, which is interesting because that previous map showed how
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low the percentages was. So that just shows how high Christianity is in the majority of these green
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countries. Aliwai. Aliwai? I've never even heard of that religion. That's Syria, and nor have I
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heard of Bahai, which is Czechian. Fair enough. Countries by that participation in the Paris
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Agreement, so everywhere was either already in it, or they've joined, apart from the USA
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which have withdrawn. When you're the only country out of, like, 200 different cultures and
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territories to withdraw from something, it suggests that perhaps that wasn't the correct decision
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The human cost of World War II in Europe. When I see maps like this, I always think it's interesting and obviously very sad how much Russia lost
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24 million? Because in British schools, we're taught a lot about World War II. It's probably the main thing that you learn about in history
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And we lost 450,000 people, which, you know, obviously is a lot and all death is bad
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But we don't really hear about any other countries and the sacrifices that they made
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And you can see that some of these numbers are ridiculously high. How to say John in Europe
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So in the UK, it's John. In France, it's Jean. In Spain, it's Juan. In Portugal, it's Hweo. In
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Iceland, it's John. In Norway, it's Johan. In Sweden, it's Johan. In Finland, it's Johanna
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In Germany, it's Johan Hans. In Italy, it's Giovanni. In Turkey, it's Jeya. In Russian
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it's Ivan. And in Ireland, it's Sean. The transatlantic slave trade uprooted millions
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This is the number of enslaved Africans arriving onto the American continent. This is from 1514
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to 1866. So even though Europe benefited hugely from the slave trade, I always think it's interesting
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how few Africans were actually taken from Africa and put into Europe
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The vast majority headed over to the Americas ridiculous numbers just so so unbelievably sad to think about Each one of these individual people think about how scary that would have been and how many horrible things that I had to have gone through
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And it didn't even end that long ago. It's, yeah, really, really sad. India holds populations of all of these countries within that space
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Okay, insane to think that Russia, which has a massive population of like well over 100
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million people, that whole population can be held in just this purple area
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Same with the United States. Oh my god, yeah, United States and Mexico, they have even bigger populations than Russia
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United Kingdom as well, small country but big population, but still absolutely nothing on India's population
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That is wild, isn't it? Can you shop in the supermarket on Sunday
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So in the UK, it closes at 4pm and this is a constant source of inconvenience for Becky and myself
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because we always forget every single time and we're heading there at like 4.30 and then we have to turn around
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It's very sad. A lot of Europe, you can just shop on Sundays. some places in Europe like Germany and Poland, they close completely and in a few countries
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it's mixed depending on where you are. I always find this really interesting. I don't quite get
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it because you would think in the capitalist world that we live in, the law would have just been changed because the CEO of Tesco is not going to be like, nah, I actually think it's quite nice
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that we limit all of the revenue that we could be making at 4pm every single Sunday. But alas
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it's exactly what happens. It's interesting. Many shops close early on Sundays to give their staff
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time to rest and spend time with their families. Okay, yeah, but you can work different shifts
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The weekend doesn't have to be Saturday and Sunday. You could work on a Sunday and then be
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off on a Monday, and then it's just quieter and less busy everywhere. I don't get why people have
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to stick to Saturday and Sunday. If we all just merged and mixed about, the places that you want
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to go to on the weekend would be less busy because everyone's shifts would be spread about. There is
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no way that the big billionaire CEOs are like, nah, give them a rest. It's a Sunday. Why can't we all
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just spread out our shifts? Countries with a higher GDP per capita than Poland. This is 1990
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versus 2018. Okay, so let's see what changed. So 1990, a lot of countries had a higher GDP. However
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it looks like Poland had been making a few moves or some other countries have been in decline
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because these days, per capita, Poland is now actually doing better than places like Russia
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and Kazakhstan and all of South America too. Well, I think that's good for Poland. Shout out to you
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Poland. Europe's five oldest flags that are still valid. Shout out to Scotland, the oldest there at
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832 AD. And it's a classic, to be fair to Scotland. Nice-looking flag. All of the flags here, quite
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straightforward design. Apart from Albania with their scary two-headed eagle, which is pretty
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badass-looking, isn't it? Amazing, isn't it, to think about, like, how long ago this actually was
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and how much has changed while these flags have existed. Coin hordes of Roman Empire mapped. What
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does coin hordes mean? It's coins that have been buried together. Right, so I think they're suggesting
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that this is where coins are located underground or where they've been found underground. Obviously
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just shows that basically anywhere in Europe you could find them but then it does spread as far as some areas of India and even China too I could fancy a nice Roman coin you know I looked at websites where you can buy them you know you want to see me buy a roman coin let me know the us canada border is the longest international border in the world this is how it
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looks overlaid onto europe wow that really puts things into perspective look how far that travels
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look at this we're already further than france you can't even fit it into europe it stretches
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more than the entire way across countries whose citizens have flown in space wow that's actually
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far more countries than I would have expected. I want to see a country whose citizens have landed
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on the moon map. I found one. As you can see, far fewer. Obviously, we've got the USA, we've got
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Russia, but we also have China and India. A really interesting fact I learned about the moon
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I've forgotten, so I'm going to Google it. No one has been back on the moon since 1972. Does
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no one else find that crazy? So much has happened since 1972. It's like, yeah, they made it to the
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moon in 1969, and then they were like, well, we've done that. Now there's not really much point in
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going back, is there? I just think that's mad. You'd think at this point, they'd have a little shop up there or something. Mexican Empire at its greatest territorial extent. This was back in 1823
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You can see that it's spread into a lot of the USA, what is now the US, and a lot further down
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into Central America too. Top 10 most visited cities in the world. Number one is Bangkok. Okay
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fair enough. I thought it was Paris. Why did I think Paris was the most visited city? I wonder
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if it's like most visited from another country or something like that, but it's actually Bangkok
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istanbul then london is third which is very high hong kong mecca italia which is a second time
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that turkey appears dubai macau paris and kuala lumpur crazy that none of the americas there are
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featured at all since the year 2000 every single men's water polo olympic gold medalist has been
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born within this circle it's actually quite interesting you know almost any country in the
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world can enter the olympics but this is where all of the winners have been born what are they
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up to over there what's in the water what the european map would look like if sea levels dropped
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by 1 000 meters this is always a really crazy looking map look at how different the united
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kingdom looks and look at the fact that it actually can connect to the faro islands and
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then iceland from an extension of that and then iceland ends up connecting to what greenland i
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assume whoa sweden's down here norway's gone all the way up here oh my god that looks crazy it's
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interesting though because you see portugal spain turkey greece this whole area even africa and
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and everything. It doesn't look any different. Like, yeah, the Italian islands are connected
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and I suppose we do also connect to Africa now. And Malta, hmm, is slightly bigger. But it's over
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here that's had the greatest change. Whoa! Map pie? They've made a map of Europe and Northern Africa
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on a pie. How do you even do that? I assume it's not an accident. All right, we're gonna end on
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that. Quite a nice looking pie, actually. It's a lovely pastry. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed, please subscribe. I just want to get to two million. I don't know how many times I
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