This was a Big one coming. First off- HUGE thanks to all the #UK geograpeeps that either helped out or participated in this video especially @JayForeman (Guest host) and Thomas Watson for taking me on a wild road trip trough all #England #Scotland and #Wales. We couldn't fit all the information and it STILL ended up over 47 minutes long. Welcome to the land of Kings, Queens and everything in betweens. Cheers, and enjoy this one!

UK!! 🇬🇧😎

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Great video!

@Ian Eons you're not lmao

It's actually incredible that after over 8.5 years, you're finally like a dozen countries away from the end of the main A-Z series. Compared to the early 10-minute episodes, your production value has grown immensely.

It's only fair they start remaking those early episodes after they finish.

​@300fusionfall As an Argentine i need a remake of the Argentina one, it was only 10 minutes long 😢

@21stcenturydegenerate My country, Greece could've been more in depth as well.

@300fusionfall My country Bangladesh has so many stuffs in it, why only 10 minutes

Absolutely outrageous that you didn’t mention that Portugal is our best and oldest friend!

England’s best friend, not Scotland, Wales’ or NI’s.

sorry do not respect people who lost 13-0 😂😂😂😂😂

who cares

Well we are in the same time zone.

As an American, I can safely say that Britain lives rent free in our heads. We are poking fun at Britain more than ever nowadays, but honestly, we will always love our pals from across the Atlantic. We hate you out of love is the best way I can describe it. Never stop being you, Britain! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

Speak for yourself brother only time I think about foreigners is when I want to make fun of em lmao

​@Kunt that's called cope

@Kunt cope

I'm not the biggest fan of the US, it's common with many Brits but we just get on with each other for the sake of peace.

​@Kunt I mean that's basically how I treat my own country so fair enough

As a Kenyan, we borrow so much from the UK and it's nice to learn a bit more about the complicated mess that they are.

Sorry about all the colonisation and whatnot - the UK

@Sean Cooper same

Still can’t believe that I was a co-host on my favourite show of all time! That week was easily the most random / exciting one of my life and I’m so happy you got to experience the rest of the UK outside of London. Next time you come though Paul, make sure it’s for a minimum of 1 week, 2000 miles in 3 days really does take it out of you, haha 💀 For the record too guys (and girls), both Barbs and Jay are complete legends and I feel honoured to have met and filmed with both of them, really cool and smart guys who I hope to meet / host / work / hang out with again some day :)

@ThePoshPenguin 12:44 onwards :)

You had a lot of fun and is very informative with all of the places and most popular places in the UK.

@Matsuna13 Thank you, it was a lot of fun :)

Jay Foreman was the best possible co-host for this video 😂

The only way it could've been better was if he'd also been able to get Mark. Have a proper Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Men co-hosting power duo. But Jay's phemonenal.

Shoulda had GeoWizard on! Or maybe not because he would have outshined Barbs’s geography knowledge

No offence but its Tom Scott

The only person better could have been Jacksucksatlife

Barbs should just leave the others out of this episode and get Jay, Mark, Tom Scott and GeoWizard instead of them. I mean it's hard to be worse than Art lmao.

I have been living in UK since my birth and still do, it's a beautiful country, love it as a Polish 🇵🇱❤🇬🇧

Glad to hear

Damn right

Up the poles

I love Poland.

Go back

As a Welsh person and someone from Llanelli. I really appreciiate the effort put into the pronunciations for the place names. Da Iawn

Da lawn?

​@Dollar Weeb "Very good"

⁠@Dollar Weeb Da lawn.

I think they both did a great job. Stwff bendigedig.

I would have thought Australias relationship with the UK would have had a greater mention, given the fact, as much as Australians may deny it, there is still so much in common between the two, in a weird way, the relationship between Australia and the Uk, mainly England, is rather similar to the US and Canadian relationship.

I was surprised that the USA would be the "closest" friend. While the USA and UK are most certainly very close, the British influence is not as distant in Australia.

@Marc Samuelson i mean there is so much more aussies and brits have in common than americans and brits, but hey maybe the UK still looks down at aussies.

@Marc Samuelson agreed, uk and Australia have much in common in terms of culture. The US doesn't even have a people with British ancestry at this point.

Portugal is our longest ever ally. BIG props to the Portuguese, lovely people beautiful country and had some of the greatest explorers to have ever sailed the seas. Poland is next. Absolutely LOVE the Polish people. Strong, Hardy people who have come over here to Britain and made it better place for their presence.

Portugal might be England's oldest ally, but France is Scotland's oldest ally.

Big up Poland for helping us to win the battle of Britain!

@Mark G Yes, for nearly a century more.

Just a small correction on the image captions. The Scottish Gaelic singer's name is Julie Fowlis, not Judy Fowlis. For those interested in the Scottish Gaelic language and that like soft, traditional songs, Julie's music is phenomenal. I really enjoyed this overview of the UK and like always, you do an awesome job with your episodes of Geography Now!

How in the living hell did you guys forget about Portugal in your friendzone segment? They literally have the oldest alliance in the world!!!! 🇬🇧❤🇵🇹

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I'm half zambian and british and i definitely visited the UK 3 years ago during christmas and I enjoyed the culture and had fun there. I felt it was like my other home and i didn't want to go back to zambia which is my homecountry. I love the UK so much by the way 🇿🇲❤🇬🇧

Interesting mix. Half British and Zambian? How'd that work? Anyway UK is awesome 😎

@Proud Anglo-Saxon Stokie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 UK colonised Zambia, so there's the connection. Zambian people can easily work in the UK, in healthcare at least.

​@FriedEgg101 that's right.

​@Proud Anglo-Saxon Stokie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿because I'm a lineal descendant of my greatgrandfather who came from scotland to settle in africa and my father is related to him and his proud of his british roots by the way.

​@Anthony M Andersonwell so you're just 1/8 british.

I'm of partly British descent (even have an English family name) and went to an English language high school in continental Europe, where we took school trips to England and Scotland, so this made me quite nostalgic. Just sad you didn't mention the UK's enormous contributions to electronic music (Jungle/ Garage/ Drum n Bass/ "Intelligent Dance Music"/ Grime/ UK Hip Hop/ Trip Hop)

English are Anglo Saxons and are only British due to their country being founded on the island. But those who founded it were Germanic. The British (Britons)…are now known in English as the Welsh.

@Truth Before Opinions Not entirely true given Cornwall and Cumbria (Kingdom of Stratclut) also had very large native Britain populations post the Saxon arrival and of course interbreeding from the start.

@Truth Before Opinions The term "British" in everyday language denotes someone from the British islands. I didn't want to go into details as to which different nations from Great Britain I come from because it would have been too much writing, but here we are.

College in the UK is also a subdivision of a university that is sort of self-governing. You find them in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, London and Wales (until 2007).

To be honest I personally think France would be included in the ‘best friends’ bit- i would say they’re kind of like our twin sibling- squabbling a lot but always very close

Our sibling is the Americans but the French are our annoying ex who is a bit possessive

Despite adoring France and having visited many times, I could not disagree with this more! They are and will always be the Old Enemy

It's not often I feel proud about being British or English, but that segment when you asked people in London really got me feeling pride. Thank you.

43:40 I can't believe you didn't include Portugal. The oldest alliance in the world is between the UK and Portugal and while the Brits have a love/hate relationship with the Spanish, the French, the Germans, etc... The Portuguese and British are like the two childhood friends that are now aging but still talk to eachother and catch up when they can.

Bro how have you even watched that far 😂

@henrytthorpe ikr

I think I remember Barbs mentioning England in the Portugal episode for the friend zone section, but I’m not certain.

People fast forward and skip around, guys.

@BoraCM Yeah he actually did I remember it from the episode.

Thank you for your lovely segment with all the interviews asking what it means to be British! Such a great show of what a diverse country this is

I've been waiting more than 8 years for this episode! Well done Barbs - you massively did it justice!

This is one of the episodes that I've been anticipating since I started watching this channel five years ago and you guys delivered it well! 😊 Rule, Britannia! 🇬🇧 I can't wait for the USA episode too! It'll be another long video!

I‘ve never laughed so much as in this episode 😂 very well done 👍 hannah congrats 🎉

Honestly, as an Aussie, Kaleb's accent wasn't too bad, almost all of the vowel phonemes were correct to the ones we use, just not necessarily all in the right place.

What's really weird is when you're from a commonwealth nation, a lot of the things which people from most other countries find weird about the UK is actually quite normal to you.

As a Canadian… yeah

Tea breaks, school uniforms, British style education system (with students taking 'O' and 'A' level papers set by Cambridge), left side of the road driving, double decker buses, Type G plugs, obsession for football, British vocabulary (trousers, lorry, maths, spanner, car boot, torch, lift, dual carriageway, carpark) and SO much more. There's so many things in my daily life I could point to and say "It's this way because some British people many years ago decided it should be this way and we kept it even after they left".

Yeah I’m a Canadian and some of this stuff looks normal to me lmao. I’m likely going to feel the same about the US.

@Barbecue Water O levels have not been in existence since 1988. The only reason i know is that i was the last group to take them in 1987. GCSEs came in in 1988. A levels in England still exist.

@Jimbo Is that so? Cause it's still around here. Students still need to sit for 'O' Levels (or 'N' Levels if they're in a different stream) in order to graduate from secondary school. If they go to a junior college after graduation, they'll sit for 'A' Levels in order to graduate from there. Even if the UK itself doesn't practice it anymore, I still like to think of it as yet another example of British influence in my country.

A minor correction, Birmingham is actually the second largest city in the UK after London. Manchester itself is technically down in 7th. Only when you include the metropolitian conurbations does Greater Manchester become larger than the West Midlands, and even then it's very close, but if talking specifically "cities", then Birmingham is bigger. (I mean, if we're being truly pedantic, Birmingham is actually the biggest in the UK, since the City of London is tiny! It's the Greater London area that is the big thing)

THANK YOU!

Thank you!!

Yeah it's one of those where it's dependent on what criteria you choose to select before counting, not sure it ultimately matters but it's interesting for sure

Arbitrary administrative areas are a poor indicator of ‘city’ sizes. Nobody actually thinks that Manchester is only the 7th largest.

@Jamie then why use the arbitrary administrative region of Greater Manchester then? Its just an amalgamation of Manchester, with other smaller towns in the same region. The city of Salford is within Greater Manchester, but they don't always identify as mancs. In the same way that if you tried to call someone from Wolverhampton a brummie, you'd get a black eye. Manchester is of course a major city despite its size. But Birmingham is bigger.

One thing that people rarely talk about is Britain’s legal influence. Many laws from British colonial authority remain in countries which were at some point or other colonised (including some really terrible laws that have been used to attack sexual minorities), but today the English courts and the UK Supreme Court (via the Privy Council, where British judges decide cases voluntarily sent from commonwealth countries) have a very strong influence on the interpretation and development of law from constitutional to criminal to commercial and contracts. The English and British judicial system is well respected for how independent it is from government and fair it’s judgments are, and decisions are often followed in the US, India, Australia, NZ etc. English courts also invented “equity” which forms the basis for shareholder law, charities, and trusts among other things. English law forms the basis for most international law, and many international jurisdictions like the DIFC in Dubai expressly use English law, so English-trained lawyers often work in international arbitrations and cases. Britain also took a leading role in writing many of the conventions and treaties that underpin the international community, both during the colonial era and using its international influence and respect post-war. It’s worth pointing out that Britain as a whole is not a single jurisdiction, but rather split into Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England and Wales. English and Welsh law is often referred to as English law, and as British law by those less familiar with the system. The exception is “reserved matters” which the UK Parliament legislates on, and the jurisdiction of the UK Supreme Court which covers most issues but not all from England and Wales, Scotland, and NI.

Well said

As a Colombian, I forget we also have mixed measuring systems (until I saw this). We do gas in gallons, pints of beer, sometimes use feet and inches (for TVs) and we do pounds (although our pounds are literally half a kilo thus the government has prohibited is use in offical documents and packaging, especially for export).

There is a 500g 'pound' in the Netherlands, too. Their word is 'pond' (pronounced "pont"). 😉

Having the UK and US back to back feels like the infinity war and endgame era of geography now episodes

😂 🇬🇧♾️🇺🇸

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An extremely important but often unstated or unnoticed facet of the UK is its incredibly strong literary culture. The UK publishes 500 new titles PER DAY and has the most books published per person per year of any nation in Europe (and most likely on the entire planet if edition reprints are taken out of other nations' stats) The only nations whose literary traditions come close is Iceland (who due to its small size has more authors per person), and Slovenia, whose national mythos is based on literature. British books are cornerstones of western literary canon and the foundations of multiple genres, and a large reason for that is that it is simply very cheap to buy new books, relative to many other countries

He absolutely should have talked about literature. There are so many famous writers from the UK.

I'm surprised they skipped the "famous people" section. I suppose the idea is that the audience is already familiar with a lot of British figures, but it'd be nice to highlight some of the important stuff.

@Vigilant Cosmic Penguin Geography Now UK Part II!

Lord of the rings Harry Potter not even a mention

As I always read about the UK I read a lot of books about the history of this country of course the culture is something that makes this place amazing

A shame there wasn’t a little more on Northern Ireland in the ‘what it means to be from the UK’ or the languages section, because there are Irish speakers there! There’s even a Gaeltacht in Belfast. I guess it feels fraught to talk about? And my understanding is that northern Irish identity can be very complicated. Nice to see mentions of Gaelic football and hurling. Had a fun time watching!

Tbf I think they split NI information between the ROI and UK videos as to avoid any offence (very easy to do here lol).

Northern Ireland simply never comes to mind as part of the UK to not only the average American but even the average Brit. I (someone from Ireland) was watching this expecting some reference but tbh I don't blame there not being much of an emphasis on NI; it's semi-detached from the UK at best. Irish republicans wave flags to proclaim their identity there in spite of NI being in the UK; unionists/loyalists wave their flag because they feel insecure and under siege

20:26 I would like to mention that technically are largest native mammal is actually the European Bison, it was once native went extinct in the uk but a herd has been reintroduced onto a site in Kent where they roam freely just in a restricted area.

12 years ago I would wonder what my life would look like when this video finally got uploaded. I worked out it would take him about 8 years to get there. It’s always been a pretty big deal for me. Unbelievably it came out the day after I finished university!

Having lived in Devon my entire life I'd say Janner is specifically Plymouth, not Devon in general. While there are references to it being a broader term in the past, these days I don't think you'd find anyone refer to someone outside of Plymouth (and technically even born outside of Plymouth) as a Janner. Also, loved Jay's explanation of our use of the two measuring systems, spot on!

UK: "Its the Channel Tunnel, or the Eurostar, or the shuttle, or anything but Chunnel. Nobody says Chunnel." USA: "I'm calling it Chunnel." **perfectly sums up our nations history** 😂

The part with the shot of espresso was also lit 😂

I disliked your comment cause it said british

It just hit me, no one said "Mind the gap"

Uk: Football Usa: straightforward but I disagree

I've waited years for this episode. It was 100% worth the wait!

I guess so for a British person 🇬🇧

Respect from Japan to the UK🇯🇵🇬🇧

ありがとうございます！🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵

Hello our Asian twin We love you too

I love Japan, can't wait to visit.

@Suraimu This is the first time I've seen an Englishman who likes Dragon Quest😳

@suk Ever I can't wait for XII. 🙂

“Cornish is spoken in Cornwall by about 4 people” - Jay Foreman the legend 😂

Is there anything more satisfying as a Brit, than laughing about all the nonsense and absurdities and contradictions of our countries foundations? It low-key saves us from going a bit mad... so thanks for this brilliant, well-researched video. And shout out Jay for the deep-cut Monty Python reference ('lord protectooor of england') ps. I cracked up at the unexpected David Bennett cameo, did not expect all the YouTubers I learn from and repeat facts from constantly to all appear in the same video 😅

Wow have we been waiting a long time for this!! To be honest there was ALWAYS going to have be LOTS of info you had to cut out for times' sake, but generally I think you did a good job! It's a shame we cant make them twice as long and as detailed :D I'm ready for the USA!!!

I'm from 2:34 :)

as a portuguese person i wish our alliance with the uk was mentioned, not only do we have a lot of shared history in terms of colonial issues, their most famous dish (fish and chips) is literally from sephardic portuguese jewish people that immigrated to the uk

I believe we also drink tea due to influence from the wife of Charles II, Catarina de Bragança, I was dissapointed not to see Portugal mentioned at all :(

Don't worry, we don't forget Portugal. In primary school I told my tutor I want marry a Portuguese woman because of this 😂

Portugal, our oldest friends in Europe!

Loved the time I spent in Portugal, I feel like our sense of humour is quite similar. Also have a lot of Portuguese speakers near me, Brazilian and Portuguese

When the Jews arrived in Britain, potatoes were not even discovered by Europeans. People been frying meats, vegetables and fish for hundreds of years around the world. It's like somebody claiming they invented bread or soup 😂

As somebody who grew up in and around Whitby I can confirm it does have some of the best fish and chips - but not only that, amazing places to eat in general. If you ever travel there, I would recommend staying at Sneaton Castle and eating at their restaurant, amazing food cooked by a chef who used to cook for the Saudi royal family - I may be biased as the castle is owned by family friends but I would definitely check it out if you plan on going.

I think it is important not to reduce the debate over monarchy to tourism and tradition/identity vs modernity and pragmatism. In the UK the hereditary role of monarch is also intrinsically linked to religion, as well as many other institutions both public and private. The tabloid papers and gossip is the part foreigners see most, and those publications make most money on. Domestically, it is very entwined with the national fabric. Which, depending on your viewpoint, is either a lovely bonus or a great issue.

Surprised you didn’t talk about the north-south divide? It’s a massive part of culture in England, at least in the eyes of Northerners. It’s nice that the constituent countries got recognised, but maybe shining a spotlight on the specific challenges faced by Northern England, a distinct cultural region, should have been included?

OMG OF COURSE the UK episode takes 45 MINUTES!!!!!!! Wouldn't expect anything else from our stupid neighbours across the channel. Keep doing you England. - love from a Dutchie

only thing i think was missing is from music. the UK has a hudge number of dance music and electronic music from it. mostly thanks to caribbean diaspora we've produced a lot of jungle, garaje, house, techo and really the list just goes on. some are from the UK and some are very popular in the UK. and to the jamaicans that brought their sound systems in the 60s I just can't thank you enough for all the beautiful sounds and dances I've had the joy of having!

Agreed. I was disappointed to be proved right that mr piano man was going to focus on the influence of white british music. Our music scene is amazing and ever evolving. Don't forget dubstep and grime. Homegrown, DIY and punker than punk. Music that grew organically out of working class black british communities. Class is something else missing from this video. So much of our culture, conciousness, communities etc is influence by what class we are part of. We are pretty obsessed with it. Great video mind.

Fun fact, Scotland has its own education system which is entirely separate and very different to the rest of the UK, even the qualifications are different! Scots also get free university tuition.

Subsidised by England

@DLC24 thanks England☺️

That seems like how it is in America since states control education too. The federal government has no laws on education. This is also why saying “American education system” makes no sense.

@DLC24no, subsidised by all UK taxpayers for the Scottish government to do as it sees fit, as education is a fully devolved matter.

Fellow Scot here, our education systems are connected but distinct, and university here is not free, it's just free at point of use. We do have to pay it back via installments once we begin work.

I have been to Uk 3 times (once in Londan and Leister, once in Broadstairs and Cantebury and once in Edinbrough). Going in again this year i will be part of The Tall Ships races. Looked so much for this episode! i m from Estonia and have watched you since the Estonian episode. keep up the good work cant wait until the last countrie episode is done and you will start with something New!

I love Estonia! I have some very close Estonian friends and really enjoyed visiting Tallinn. As a Brit your country is so underrated:)

Fun fact, Judo was invented in England! The man responsible was Jigoro Kano, a Japanese man who had moved to London. He distilled the sport from Jiu-Jitsu, which also spawned Karate and Aikido via other people

Great video, Hannah could have done with some pronunciation guides 😅 congrats on the little one! ❤

I am indebted to @JayForeman for introducing me to this channel. This is a treasure trove of knowledge, you guys do your research and present an impartial view of the world. Great work all around!

23:47 the way they said demographics was so wholesome. It’s like Barbs forgot what they were doing for a brief moment while enjoying his crumpet, and then realised that they probably had hours upon hours of filming left to do

We love David! ❤ Big plus for this episode!

It‘s astounding how many people in Europe speak English as their second language and how well they do it. I mean for Jay and Thomas you were barely able to hear that they‘re British.

Eh, anyone in Europe can definitely pinpoint a Brit from how they talk. I guess it's like Australians and Kiwis, they can tell each other apart but the rest of the world can't.

Actually I’ve never heard British, they all speak English, it must be a secretive language

yeah ok the language of the money but certainly not the language of our hearts, not by choice that is (european here)

@Karl König-Mehrtüssen I'm Also British and one more thing God Save The King!

just to clarify a bit of misinformation in this video. they used the wrong statistics when mentioning city sized. Manchester is not the second biggest city in the uk, it has 510k people in it, and it's country has 2.8 million it, which is where the innacurates "2nd biggest city in the uk" line comes from. the CITY of Manchester, is 5th biggest city in the uk, not the 2nd as this video misattributes it as.

The one thing I don't get is how a lot of foreigners think British only means English because online they call English folks British(Brits) but don't call the Welsh, Scottish and even the Northern Irish British(Brits) but instead call them by their respective names.

I think it’s coz most people from Wales and Scotland don’t like to be associated with England 🤷‍♂️ as someone not from the uk at all Lol

also what Jay said is so true... english people will call themselves british... whereas scottish\welsh people wouldn't

It's pretty easy to get why.

@ed little Some obviously wouldn't, but I bet a lot would based on the fact that the independence reference failed

Exactly.

Jay Foreman and David Bennett! My two favorite YouTube brits in one video! Well done guys.

great episode you guys! what a joy to see two of my favorite youtubers together. and congrats hannah!!

Cheers mate, really appreciate it :) Oh wait, did you mean Jay 😄

Been waiting ages for my country, was well worth the wait. Probably my favourite episode

As a British native myself I do strongly recommend everyone who is visiting the UK to keep an open mind about the traditional food as it is a lot nicer than people and the sterio type like to make it out to be. Recomended meals to try include Fish and Chips (seen by most as the national dish and which tastes similar to Japanese fried Tempura), the Sunday Roast, The English breakfast and Sheppards pie, though the first 2 alone will already be good enough. For the fish and chips I recommend using either salt or vinegar on the chips or at least one of each for extra taste. They kind of look like takeaway places from the inside as the whole point is to get them from a proper fish and chip shop instead of a pub or restaurant. With The Golden Chippy fish and chip shop being the biggest lore in London for tourists, though poppies is also a popular fish and chip shop in London. That being said I still advise trying Fish and Chips on the coast instead as they generally just tend to taste so much nicer but if you won't be on the coast, you'll know where to go. For international food, I recomend either Italian, Indian or Japanese. Seriously though, I would honestly find it a lot more open minded and respectful to give the food a fair chance as that's part of the whole cultural experience, hence emerging yourself in the culture. If you don't like it then fair enough but an open minded try will never hurt and British food is a lot nicer than people make it out to be.

I’ve been waiting for this episode for years! So glad that Jay Foreman was this episode’s co-host! 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

Me too! I’m glad to see an episode about the UK finally

Don’t know if this has been commented on , but the shin-kicking picture is actually taken at the Cotswold Olimpicks (correct spelling , it pre dates the modern Olympics it was first recorded in the 1600 ) on Dovers Hill above the Town of Chipping Campden . This year’s champion is Mike Newby from Cheltenham he won it on Friday 2nd June 2023

I'm from England UK and you did an awesome job of explaining my country.

Tourism isn't actually the reason why the royal family brings in more money than it spends, it's the crown estates. CGP Grey has a good video about this

The impact of British influence on Cinema and TV ought to be emphasised

Also Music!

Actually, everything to be honest. By far the most important group of countries in history. Newton, Darwin, Watt, The Beatles, Football, Golf, Rugby, Shakespeare, Dickens,Harry Potter, GTA, James Bond, TV, Radar, The telephone, Antibiotics....the list is literally endless.

British culture influences the world. It will never end

British culture influenced American culture, the latter of which has no doubt spread across the whole world, or mainly the western world. So cool how this stuff works 🕺

@Beautiful Corpseother way around

The excessive sugar with the tea scene cracked me up, especially Jay's reaction to Barb's sugar consumption and not hating it as much as he should lmao.

It's amazing to think back to Geography Now's first videos, which were a few minutes long, and, now, they are fully researched, well edited and crafted 45 minutes long videos. Crazy how the end is almost here

Hopefully in the near future. They could give many of the early countries he did the full video treatment they truly deserve. Would love to see some of the early nations (Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, etc.) even a few of the smaller notable nations like Armenia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, etc. would be great to get a lot more info on them.

just to clarify a bit of misinformation in this video. they used the wrong statistics when mentioning city sized. Manchester is not the second biggest city in the uk, it has 510k people in it, and it's country has 2.8 million it, which is where the innacurates "2nd biggest city in the uk" line comes from. the CITY of Manchester, is 5th biggest city in the uk, not the 2nd as this video misattributes it as.

Didn't he say that he plans to move to disputed regions like Kosovo after he does Zimbabwe?

I actually can't believe that when talking about the industrial revolution, you didn't talk about the powerhouse that was South Wales and it's black gold! Welsh coal pretty much powered the revolution, and not just in Britain, but around the world. Even to the point that the first million pound cheque ever was written in the coal exchange in Cardiff Bay. Quite frankly, without the welsh coal industry, there would not have been an industrial revolution in the UK!

You guys did an amazing job explaining the mess, that is the UK!

Canada’s very similar. We measure people in pounds, most other things in kilograms or grams, distances in kilometres and cm but people in inches and feet, we drive in kilometres as well. We measure temperature in celsius with many people simply stating the number rather than if it is negative or positive. It has also been mentioned that Canadians measure distances in time rather than length. (3 hours to Calgary from Edmonton, not 300 kilometres.) Also, anyone else get oddly mad when people say keelow-metres?

It's weird in Britain we drive in MPH but sports are measured in KM like marathons etc.

I'm the other way around. I find kill-law-metres annoying. Not only those, but we measure temperature in °C but cook in °F. We do say when it's positive or negative when it's close to freezing, especially around Vancouver where negatives are rare; but further from freezing it's pretty obvious.

From the Isle of Man you can see England, Wales Scotland, and Northern Ireland all just by turning around. I think it's the only place you can do that from.

I love how you always describe Canada achieving independence as "kinda sorta just asking for independence" Rather, as a Canadian, I view it as us achieving independence via diplomatic means, while Americans forcefully grabbed it

You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this episode, I’m welsh and I’m glad my country got recognition.

He got our population wrong though, we are nearly 5% of the UK not 1.5%! I wonder where he got that number from haha

@Kymran Sabnis Thomas sources trust me bro

Wales = not a real country .

Another thing that people seem to not really remember about the UK is how influential we were to the modern day computer science industry. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace created the world's first mechanical computer, Alan Turing was key in the cryptoanalysis of the Enigma machine in WW2 and Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.

Thanks Barb for the efforts of making this video. This reminds me I gotta revisit the UK. Damn the Lake District is pretty!

Brilliant episode guys - its one complicated country. Barbs - those clips from your roadtrip around UK look awesome! And Jay - more map men please!!!

For a Brit, Jay speaks amazing English!

There are even rivalries/divisions within each country. North Wales vs South Wales. Scottish Highlands vs Scottish Lowlands. Southern England vs Northern England. The regional identities can be very strong.

Fun fact: The Welsh language was once referred to as the 'British language'

Brythonic =/= British

​@TreacleMary Sure but it is a fact that it used to be the case that the Welsh language was referred to as the British language. Your comment won't change that.

Also, Brythonic, or Common Brittonic is a different language entirely, being the ancestor of the Breton, Cornish, and Welsh languages. The word Briton is cognate to the word Brython, and it seems to be the case that the word 'British' had a more Celtic connotation that the current usage of the word, and it apparently used to be synonymous with 'Welsh', which is no longer the case now.

Wasn’t exclusive to Wales either. Brittany in France and Galicia in Spain formed what is referred to as the “Brittonic community”.

​@XXXTENTAClON Brittonic. Not British

Regarding the whole football/soccer thing, the term "football" actually dates back many many centuries (I think to the 1500s) and used to be a broad term to describe any sport played on foot (as opposed to sports played on horse back). The term "soccer" came about as a way of differentiating what we now know as football from other sports played on foot.

been waiting for this episode! so well done, thank you

so happy that you got Jay Foreman for this episode too

Finally, the collab we all have been waiting for! Jay Foreman is the perfect co-host for the UK episode!!

Will you do an episode on the crown dependencies? Because they are so interesting

The UK has to be one of the most bizarrely complicated countries in the world to talk about! There's just no simple way to really describe them. And I think that's awesome!

At least we germans streamlined our county from the mess that was the holy Roman empire 😂

@CH Heinrich ahhah I think that says just as much about the British character than the German (in how each nation simplifies lol)

@chheinrich8486  I don't worry about, everything here is stupidly confusing. but it works so we just leave it. everything's been the same here for hundreds of years. but that's what happens when you don't have civil wars or Revolutions. along as I can go to work, eat and sleep then i dont worry about it

@chheinrich8486  well the Soviets kinda un-streamlined for a few decades.

I'm so glad this video finally came out, and i enjoyed it. Love from London, UK!❤

London ≠ UK. You are your own thing - like your own country. We don't see London as England/UK.

​@Proud Anglo-Saxon Stokie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿chill dude, by the way love from india

really loved this video. I only clicked the video because of Jay from mapmen and thought he was starting a new channel. Really loved the format, very informative. I just hit subscribe and look forward to binge watching the back catalogue. Thank you!

Hearing americans trying to say “scouse, manc, geordie” made my day considerably better

Love David and his music segment 42:32

Even in England people say wales is just full of sheep and has a few scattered castles laying about. Nice to see people actually tell the history of it. To be honest as a Welshman myself the first statement is correct, but only for the north

As an English woman from the West Midlands, very close to Wales, I absolutely adore Wales. Beautiful country with the best people

This is so exiting, time to learn about my own country 😂🇬🇧

Same

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Same here 😂

Been waiting for this for so long

the demogrpahics transition was the most smooth and effective transition and should be copied for every section transition from here on. Jay is a treat and Map men is such a good colab with geonow

The Famous Landmarks transition was also pretty good ;) 12:36

I've been living there for 6 years now. I will always be grateful for it

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I hope one day you are coming back to do a separate one for an independent Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Yay you covered the country I lived Which means I recognise a lot of what you said already, and I was a bit surprised to see how lots of stuff was specific to UK.

As usual, informative and fun episode. I love this channel. Jay was great. Handsome guy 😁 But... why so silent? What happened to the background music? I've noticed its absence a few episodes back and I am missing it. Keith, shame on you for allowing that to happen. We are almost at the end of the alphabet. Can't wait for the rest of the countries.

Ive been waiting 8 years to learn about my own country and the day has finally come

8 years???? Damn

@mpscrapz95 What did you learn?

@C Rose I personally didn't know that place name endings were influenced by certain ethnic groups, was actually always curious about the obvious pattern

As a fun additional fact, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi stated one of their main inspirations for music was Christopher Lee's Dracula.

He started in Afghanistan 1,623.5 days ago, thus based on my aptitude for math, he has currently visited 184 nations. that indicates that 1 country is released for the video every 27.058333333333 days, or 0.0166666666666 countries each day. There are 193 member nations of the UN, with 9 more to go. He will be finished in 14.307557077625 years if he continues to release at his current rate. Accordingly, the video will finish on May 3, 2024.

Lovely to see a really good and accurate video about my home 😊

It’s about time I’ve being waiting years for UK British one. Brilliant video lots of love from SCOTLAND