# Map Men: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-11, Map Men has 1,830,000 subscribers, 290,280,622 total views, and 111 videos. It ranks #35,523 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Map Men](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Map Men is “Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible”, a long-form video published Sep 21, 2026.
- These are Map Men’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 3, 2018 and Sep 21, 2026 (42 long-form videos and 6 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 3,396,295. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why are there no bridges in East London?” (8,649,840 views, May 23, 2022). Least viewed: “Robot Olympics (with Bec Hill)” (175,228 views, Aug 3, 2018).
- Median length: 10:19 for 42 long-form videos; 1:21 for 6 Shorts.
- In this sample, Map Men’s consecutive uploads were a median of 40 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 223 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 11, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/hX21ctsGhNc/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 5,616,570 | 16:00 | 2.91x |
| [Where do hills come from?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/6zq5XtyV3yg/) | 2026-06-29 | Long-form | 1,350,696 | 12:16 | 0.7x |
| [The first TWO voyages around the world](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/3mQKM8tE8-E/) | 2026-06-15 | Long-form | 1,572,544 | 15:58 | 0.73x |
| [📕 'This Way Up' - now in paperback](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/iGtUT4doCR4/) | 2026-06-04 | Short | 361,049 | 1:05 | - |
| [The world's most annoying road](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/knCojy_3bmk/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 1,373,837 | 13:22 | 0.6x |
| [Map Men vs Geoguessr 2: Mark's Revenge?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/-tO2FiyjCbE/) | 2026-03-09 | Long-form | 941,693 | 36:46 | - |
| [The English divide nobody talks about](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/DQzqmV7t6_0/) | 2025-12-08 | Long-form | 2,126,961 | 13:04 | 0.76x |
| [Must be watched twice](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/IvmVdJt4kT0/) | 2025-11-27 | Short | 340,203 | 0:34 | - |
| [The Map Men Book is available now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Q0r8UzgTYrg/) | 2025-10-18 | Short | 503,395 | 1:17 | - |
| [This country is 17% fake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/eq-kgUpd-5E/) | 2025-10-16 | Long-form | 2,570,848 | 14:31 | 0.83x |
| [Twin Towns: What Went Wrong?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/zte_vg0D8Z4/) | 2025-09-15 | Long-form | 1,733,870 | 12:50 | 0.53x |
| [Ordnance Survey let us change the map of Britain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/jI87uB_G6As/) | 2025-06-30 | Short | 1,627,854 | 2:37 | - |
| [We met Britain's best map makers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/QeXK2jXtwfQ/) | 2025-06-23 | Short | 2,030,451 | 2:48 | - |
| [MAP MEN BOOK - available now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/UQMZTZW56pw/) | 2025-05-22 | Short | 520,939 | 1:25 | - |
| [Map Men vs. Geoguessr](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/zDsqJTD5LL0/) | 2024-10-13 | Long-form | 2,185,872 | 28:07 | 0.67x |
| [Weird maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/cwBslntC3xg/) | 2024-08-31 | Long-form | 2,416,637 | 11:40 | 0.71x |
| [There are NOT 195 countries](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/3nB688xBYdY/) | 2024-06-23 | Long-form | 3,963,803 | 12:16 | 1.17x |
| [The Phantom Island of Google Maps](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/PVemGumEEgo/) | 2024-04-24 | Long-form | 3,195,684 | 12:26 | 0.94x |
| [You'll never guess the most popular internet country code](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/cD4hxKkqR4E/) | 2023-12-06 | Long-form | 3,006,025 | 11:14 | 0.84x |
| [Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/pJU-KYMREbQ/) | 2023-09-29 | Long-form | 3,363,833 | 10:19 | 0.89x |
| [Why British cities make no sense](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Whqs8v1svyo/) | 2023-08-28 | Long-form | 4,681,761 | 11:14 | 1.11x |
| [Why is North up?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/B14Gtm2Z_70/) | 2023-07-10 | Long-form | 3,779,711 | 9:57 | 1x |
| [What went wrong with the Tube Map?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/jaEhvWXmLyk/) | 2022-11-29 | Long-form | 3,400,476 | 12:35 | 0.77x |
| [The Tube Map nearly looked very different](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/cTLCfl01zuE/) | 2022-09-26 | Long-form | 2,608,666 | 11:24 | - |
| [Why are there no bridges in East London?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/pWZ9ZVRQ0Nw/) | 2022-05-23 | Long-form | 8,649,840 | 13:17 | - |
| [Tower Bridge could have looked very different](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/szUjnEZcp68/) | 2022-02-28 | Long-form | 2,640,931 | 10:14 | - |
| [What happened to Old London Bridge?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/u5CguqywlBk/) | 2022-01-31 | Long-form | 5,466,055 | 9:36 | - |
| [English counties explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/hCc0OsyMbQk/) | 2021-09-13 | Long-form | 6,327,693 | 10:19 | - |
| [The longitude problem: history's deadliest riddle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/3mHC-Pf8-dU/) | 2021-07-28 | Long-form | 2,996,000 | 9:16 | - |
| [How many continents are there?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/hrsxRJdwfM0/) | 2021-06-28 | Long-form | 4,383,775 | 8:40 | - |
| [How do you start a new country?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/hX4s1ZLW_PI/) | 2021-05-31 | Long-form | 3,854,485 | 9:32 | - |
| [Where is America?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/DfXoUaeLcDU/) | 2021-04-26 | Long-form | 3,417,246 | 8:18 | - |
| [The mystery of the squarest country](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/8mrNEVUuZdk/) | 2021-04-12 | Long-form | 5,117,796 | 8:14 | - |
| [Who Owns Antarctica?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Eg1ScKoBnHA/) | 2021-03-15 | Long-form | 3,392,113 | 8:55 | - |
| [What will the world look like in 250 million years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Nlzehe4mta4/) | 2021-02-15 | Long-form | 4,282,588 | 8:43 | - |
| [Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/_bqzwsM6eoQ/) | 2021-01-11 | Long-form | 4,213,796 | 8:49 | - |
| [Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/uYNzqgU7na4/) | 2020-12-14 | Long-form | 6,633,863 | 8:14 | - |
| [The map that saved the most lives](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Na9iO_HEe14/) | 2020-11-16 | Long-form | 2,570,531 | 8:08 | - |
| [What's wrong with London's boroughs?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/_T_0FYHn0I0/) | 2020-05-07 | Long-form | 4,610,809 | 12:09 | - |
| [Why does London have 32 boroughs?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/daeB46Z4fjs/) | 2020-04-04 | Long-form | 7,554,611 | 11:26 | - |
| [The world's silliest time zones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/NBDaLK6EjwI/) | 2019-09-02 | Long-form | 5,426,259 | 6:24 | - |
| [How did triangles shrink France?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/yTyX_EJQOIU/) | 2019-08-07 | Long-form | 4,416,643 | 6:06 | - |
| [Why every world map is wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/jtBV3GgQLg8/) | 2019-06-20 | Long-form | 4,811,828 | 6:16 | - |
| [Why do maps show places that don't exist?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/DeiATy-FfjI/) | 2019-05-13 | Long-form | 3,750,074 | 6:00 | - |
| [The world's oldest border?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/9DqZYsckBwI/) | 2019-04-15 | Long-form | 4,641,083 | 4:57 | - |
| [Where does London stop?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/UAusbJmRB0c/) | 2019-03-01 | Long-form | 5,097,356 | 8:50 | - |
| [What happened to London's trams?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/Ji3C_PjJonM/) | 2018-12-04 | Long-form | 5,099,580 | 10:52 | - |
| [Robot Olympics (with Bec Hill)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@jayandmark/videos/FiFt7I4jSHE/) | 2018-08-03 | Long-form | 175,228 | 1:47 | - |

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