Geography Now! UNITED KINGDOM

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!

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

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.

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

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 :)

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.

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.

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 🇿🇲❤🇬🇧

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! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

As a Dutchman, I've visited the UK a bit more than 5 times in my life, and the food has been nothing but amazing every single time. The average quality of pub food is astoundingly high

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.

What does it mean to be Ukrainian? Ukrainians: "To be free and strong enough to fight for it" What does it mean to be British? Brits: "To be a Gregg Sausage roll" Before you say it, I know the context of these questions are VASTLY different right now, so answers might not have been 100% comparable, but I thought the contrast was funny.

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.