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Why So Few Americans Live Along The Mississippi River, Especially In The South
The Mighty Mississippi is truly one of the mighty rivers of the world. And like other mighty rivers, it has become an integral part of the land, people, and country it exists within. However, unlike other major rivers in the world such...
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Why WYOMING Is "Empty" And COLORADO Is Not
Wyoming and Colorado are two states that would appear to have many similarities. Location, physical geography, history and even their very shapes mirror each other in interesting ways. However, Colorado has ten times the population as...
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Why So Few People Live In This HUGE Area In The Middle Of Spain
Spain is the fourth largest country in the European Union by population with more than 48 million people. Despite this, the vast majority of these people live either within the Madrid metropolitan area or within cities on the coast. This...
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Why Greenland Is So Incredibly Empty... It's Not Just The Ice
Greenland is a spectacle to behold! It's almost entirely covered in ice, yet there are some "green" areas. Still, the largest island in the world is home to only about 56,000 people making it one of the least densely populated regions of...
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Why The Vast Majority Of All Chileans Live Near Its Capital
Chile is the world's longest and narrowest country. And squished in between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountain range is 19.5 million people. But despite being a large (if skinny) country, the vast majority of Chileans live within...
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Why The United States Is SO MUCH LARGER Today Than It Was In 2023
As of January 2024, the United States grew by about 400,000 square miles of territory or larger than the state of Texas. This was done under a little known United Nations policy called the Extended Continental Shelf. So why has the...
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Why So Many Americans Moved To California And Not The Other Western States
California is a huge state! With almost 40 million people, it's currently larger than the other 10 western states combined. This is due to a wide range of reasons that date all the way back to when California was a remote colony of the...
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Why So Many Americans Are Leaving The Great Lakes States
The Great Lakes are a tremendous resource for the United States. In an age of climate change where water is becoming more scarce, the states and surround the Great Lakes are in an enviable position for the future. Despite this, however,...
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Why So Few People Live On New Zealand's South Island
New Zealand is incredible to behold. Its physical geography, mostly on the South Island, is some of the most awe inspiring in the entire world. And its for this reason, that the country has gained international fame through the likes of...
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No Major Cities: Why So Few Canadians Live In On The East Coast
Much like the United States, Canada's first European settlements began on its east coast. But where many of the US's first settlements would eventually emerge as major population centers such as Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia,...
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How Mexico City Grew So LARGE And Why It's Facing An Existential Problem
Mexico City is the largest city in North America by far at about 22 million people in its metro area. But despite being such an overwhelmingly dominant city, it's facing an existential crisis due to some absolutely god awful geography....
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Alaska: Why America's Largest State Is Also Its Most Important
Alaska is a truly huge state that the United States acquired from Russia for basically peanuts. But Alaska isn't just very large, it's also become an incredibly important state for the U.S. in terms of national security for today and...
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Test your World Knowledge with this Quiz!
What country is it? Test your world knowledge with this countries of the world quiz. Try to guess the 10 countries in this video. Each country has video clips and audio facts. You will learn about: what continent the country is in,...
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Why The United States Has Two Carolinas: North Carolina And South Carolina
North Carolina and South Carolina. Two states that began their life as a single province and colony of England. So how did we end up with two states that share a single connected piece of land? Well, as with the Dakotas, it boils down...
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Why The United States Gets So Many Powerful Tornadoes
Tornadoes are one of Earth's most incredible natural phenomena. But while every continent gets tornadoes to some degree, the United States in particular gets far more, at a higher frequency, to a greater degree of strength than almost...
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Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government
The United States federal government is the largest land owner in the entire country. In particular, most of its current land holdings exist within the western half of the contiguous United States, with very little in the eastern half....
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Why So Many Americans Move To Florida And Not Georgia
Florida and Georgia make up just about 10% of the entire United States' population. But while at one point Georgia was home to many more Americans than Florida, over the last few decades Florida has exploded in growth to become more than...
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Why So Few People Live In Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or Southwest England
The United Kingdom is one of Europe's largest countries by population with about 67 million people. Despite this, the vast majority of those people live with England and, more specifically, the central part of England. This gives England...
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Why So Few Americans Live In Delaware As Compared To Pennsylvania, Maryland, or New Jersey
COUPLE QUICK CORRECTIONS: 1. Sorry about the mispronunciation of Lewes. 2. I used a video of the Chesapeake Bridge and not the Chesapeake Bridge and Tunnel. Delaware is a tiny state in terms of population. And while it's also small in...
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Greater Idaho: Why Idaho Wants To Take Over Oregon And Eventually Washington and California Too
Oregon often feels like a progressive state, but once you get outside of Portland and Eugene, and especially beyond the Cascade Mountains, it gets very conservative. Because of this cultural difference, there's been a concerted effort to...
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Geographic History of France: How France Acquired The Land It Owns Today
Welcome to a new series where we'll be exploring the geographic history of various countries. Today we kick it off with France! Beginning in 481, this video will walk you through the years and decades to see how France expanded,...
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34 NEW STATES: Why Every Major U.S. City Should Be Its Own State, But Never Will Be
Hawaii was the last state to be admitted to the Union, all the way back in 1959. But since then the country has grown by more than 150 million Americans, the vast majority of which have migrated to the major cities of the country....
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Why So Many Countries Claim Antarctica But Can’t Do Anything With It
Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it. And because of this, as it was explored in the...
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Why So Many Canadians Live In This Tiny Area: The Golden Horseshoe
Canada is the second largest country in the world when it comes to area. Despite this, over one quarter of all Canadians live in an area that makes up less than 1% of all land. This region has been dubbed Canada's "Golden Horseshoe"...