Geography By Geoff

New video out now! When you picture California, you're probably seeing Los Angeles beaches or San Francisco tech hubs. But trapped right between them, hidden behind massive mountain walls, is an invisible empire. Over four million people live here. It produces a quarter of America's food. And if it were its own state, it would have a larger population than Oklahoma or Connecticut. Yet, almost no one talks about it. Welcome to California's forgotten mega-region and why the rest of the country completely ignores it. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/kU4InrwtrjA

New video out now: Look at a map of Canada, and you can’t miss it: a massive bite taken right out of the continent. This is the Hudson Bay. It’s a bizarre, shallow ice machine that birthed the largest corporate empire in history. But more than that, it acts as a brutal weather engine that literally freezes the country, forcing 90% of Canadians to live right against the US border. So how does a distant, arctic bay completely upend Canada’s geography? Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/umhV4Mm0NpQ

New video out now! If you look at a satellite map of Japan at night, you see a blazing corridor of light. From Tokyo in the east to the industrial powerhouses of Hiroshima and Fukuoka in the west, the country looks like one continuous mega-city. But right here... sitting just off the coast of Osaka... is a black hole. This is Shikoku, Japan’s fourth-largest island and by all traditional logic, this place should be booming. But instead, it’s emptying out. So, why is Japan’s fourth largest island so empty? Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/f03iJFUKlqg

New video out now! In Central Asia there are three countries whose borders are so intertwined in looks like whirlpool! And this has caused a lot of issues over the last few decades. Thankfully, these three countries have finally banded together to fix their broken geography. Watch the full video to learn more: https://youtu.be/LgkYz4aA6ps