a few weeks ago I made a video about
weird geographical phenomena within
Europe like how Germany is technically
two countries away from the US and three
different ways or how the German city of
Freiburg is closer to ten foreign
capitals then to the German capital
Berlin and although the video was kind
of made in a rush because I couldn't
think of any better ideas for a video
that week that video actually did quite
well so with that in mind here's a
rundown of some weird geographical
phenomena in Europe's large neighbor
Asia so first as I talked about in my
Central Asia video Asia is absolutely
gargantuan especially once you take into
account how culturally diverse it is in
physical size though it is so big that
support'll Japan is actually further
away from Izmir Turkey then it is from
Denver Colorado a theoretical direct
flight from Izmir to Sapporo
despite being entirely within the same
continent would take well over 11 hours
and cross six time zones for reference I
here in Germany am six hours ahead of
the US East Coast in terms of countries
and cultures Asia contains countries as
culturally varied as Japan Myanmar Sri
Lanka Oman Kazakhstan and Armenia with
this in mind Asia like most continents
is very frequently divided into multiple
different sections namely East Asia
Southeast Asia South Asia West Asia also
known as the Middle East Central Asia
and North Asia also known as Russia
though even these regions can still get
incredibly big in fact although it is
considered part of South Asia Nepal is
actually further away from Sri Lanka
than it is from China
we know this fact is stupid okay let's
actually get into some of the facts here
for example we all knows that China is
gigantic in my video about weird
European geography I actually stated
that China's westernmost point isn't
that closer to Istanbul than it is to
Shanghai but India is also huge not just
nothing to sneeze that it's absolutely
enormous
as you can see from the fact that the
city of debris in the state of Assam is
actually about the same distance from
the national capital of New Delhi as it
is from Mongolia before India was its
own country though it was of course part
of British India a colony also
comprising of Pakistan Bangladesh and
Myanmar thus going from sign duck
Pakistan to the Lenya National Park in
Myanmar we can see that sign duck is
actually closer by about 200 kilometers
to Czechia China is of course a
gargantuan country as well and with size
definitely comes some weird geographical
anomalies for one China extends further
to the north east south and obviously
West than all of Korea and Bangladesh
despite its large size however boasts
physical and in terms of population most
of the western parts are largely empty
this has led to the creation of the
imaginary hey huh Tung Chung line or the
i-clay tong tong line between the cities
of hey hood in Heilongjiang
and Tang Chung in Yunnan province to the
east of which lies 47 percent of China's
land area but ninety-four percent of its
population with the other fifty three
percent of its territory housing only
six percent a paltry eighty million
people
seriously though that's like only the
entire population of Germany if I were
to ask you how far Japan is from the US
you would probably say somewhere around
six thousand five hundred 1.4 kilometers
or perhaps two thousand one hundred
ninety five point seven kilometers from
Otsu station Alaska however in reality
it's only about five hundred ninety four
point two kilometres between the islands
of faragonda pecados in the northernmost
of the Mariana Islands and iwo jima in
fact another interesting fact about
Ujima is that it is administered as part
of the yoga Saguaro sub-prefecture which
is part of the Tokyo prefecture so when
someone says the iwo jima is
administered by Tokyo
they don't necessarily mean in the sense
that it's Japanese and Tokyo is the
capital of Japan and all that but in the
sense that it's literally part of toe
kiyo itself despite being over 1,100
kilometers away
in short imagine of the US Virgin
Islands weren't their own territory but
part of the District of Columbia itself
or if Norfolk Island were part of the
Australian Capital Territory that's kind
of what's going on here Japan actually
administers quite a few offshore island
territories possibly the most famous of
which being Okinawa a long chain of
islands
one of which Yonaguni being only 107
kilometers from the east coast of Taiwan
that's even closer than the actually
quite far off Matsu Islands another
series of islands administered by Taipei
that are at their closest only eight
kilometers from mainland China I'm not
here to get into the sovereignty debate
though I'm here to go into Southeast
Asia the Philippines may seem like an
island nation but in fact it is however
some of the islands especially the
monkey islands in the sea Lucy come very
close to other nations in this case
Malaysia which is less than 20
kilometers away from these islands these
islands are tiny and with the population
of over 9,000 they are also very densely
packed and access to the rest of the
Philippines can be difficult at best and
in response to health risks compounded
by a lack of doctors many actually seek
treatment on the nearby Malaysian bangy
Island so yeah I guess this was a pretty
good issue for me to put out into the
world speaking of the islands in the
Philippines however the Philippines
obviously has a lot of them about seven
thousand six hundred forty one of them
to be specific as of the last time we
counted them of which only about two
thousand are actually inhabited or even
named and even then just the top-50
Islands comprise 99 percent of the
national population that however doesn't
even come close to that of nearby
Indonesia which has somewhere in the
ballpark of around 18,000 Islands though
County that many islands is tricky over
such a large area since as you're
probably aware by now
Indonesia is also absolutely giants
though it doesn't even come
close to having the most silence of any
nation was Sweden alone having over
220,000 Indonesia however has the most
populated island in the world beating
out even the likes of Great Britain
Honshu and even Australia Java with a
population of over 140 million which
alone would make it the ninth most
populous country in the world just tie
with Russia or I guess 8th because
obviously Indonesia wouldn't be in the
top ten anymore
this likely has something to do with the
fact that it also has most of
Indonesia's largest cities including the
capital and largest city Jakarta which
is actually separated into four cities
by cardinal direction as well as
Surabaya Bekasi bonding Deepak and
Semarang so hopefully this video was
able to put the size of this continent
into perspective or maybe you at least
learned something about how Asia has
shaped even though I admittedly mostly
stuck to the southern and eastern halves
although to be fair I have made videos
about Central Asia and Siberia in the
past so you can also check those out if
you want me to continue this series even
further with other continents I'd be
more than happy to do so with that in
mind if this video gets at least 4,000
likes I will for sure
make another follow up with another
continent maybe Africa perhaps thanks as
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