# Matt and Julia: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, Matt and Julia has 527,000 subscribers, 77,656,350 total views, and 147 videos. It ranks #145,098 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Matt and Julia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/). 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 Matt and Julia is “The Korea the Internet is Hiding From You”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are Matt and Julia’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Mar 7, 2025 and Oct 23, 2026 (47 long-form videos and 1 Short).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 359,359. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Typical Soviet Apartment Tour (How Russian People REALLY Live)” (5,674,925 views, Oct 8, 2025). Least viewed: “This was DPRKrazy! 🇰🇵 #northkorea #dprk #pyongyang #travel” (31,928 views, Mar 12, 2026).
- Median length: 34:55 for 47 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Matt and Julia’s consecutive uploads were a median of 10 days apart (shortest gap 3 days, longest 44 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Korea the Internet is Hiding From You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/hgbNzDGgUjU/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 122,543 | 30:11 | 0.52x |
| [Inside A Country That Doesn't Exist On Any Map](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/AWIfLwJTd-I/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 209,761 | 41:27 | 0.62x |
| [IRAN The Media Never Shows You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/82Ox4deq1J8/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 368,459 | 39:06 | 0.83x |
| [INSIDE TEHRAN (Life in Iran's Capital in 2026)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/Sr_sIlX9cDg/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 1,419,714 | 26:15 | 2.98x |
| [The Iran Your Government is Hiding From You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/w7K5QxoQd3Y/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 758,733 | 35:22 | 1.63x |
| [INSIDE IRAN IN 2026 (Intense)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/_GMgofd_Agw/) | 2026-08-25 | Long-form | 3,428,569 | 36:58 | 7.85x |
| [We Stayed on Saudi Arabia's Luxury Island Where "Anything Goes"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/zaqYGGI7jcs/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 415,101 | 33:53 | 1.18x |
| [24 Hours in Africa's Most Chaotic City](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/Gxm22GgRyYk/) | 2026-07-25 | Long-form | 188,092 | 40:24 | 0.61x |
| [Entering the "North Korea of Africa" ended badly! 🇪🇷](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/eBEXOBhlhFo/) | 2026-06-30 | Long-form | 816,311 | 40:45 | 2.11x |
| [I was Warned NOT To Do This in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/hXmB0XrJAFo/) | 2026-06-19 | Long-form | 151,833 | 42:41 | - |
| [Saudi Arabia They Are Hiding From You 🇸🇦](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/GHb2rHRwgbI/) | 2026-06-02 | Long-form | 471,263 | 48:14 | 1.52x |
| [Interrogated on the North Korean Border 🇰🇵 (this was intense!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/p40wuakMsVI/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 480,128 | 34:20 | 1.54x |
| [The China That Never Makes the Tourism Brochures](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/5wgw6rT6jOc/) | 2026-05-05 | Long-form | 459,834 | 39:08 | 1.58x |
| [Humiliated in China’s Shady Russian Border Town](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/SMsc_dwEw0g/) | 2026-05-02 | Long-form | 289,138 | 38:04 | 1.05x |
| [Causing Trouble in Stalin's "Jewish State" (Russia's Strangest Region)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/kZu4aohN7mE/) | 2026-04-24 | Long-form | 260,824 | 22:33 | 0.95x |
| [We Were Warned NOT To Visit This Russian City…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/7ysDCQVoImg/) | 2026-04-17 | Long-form | 330,418 | 33:37 | 1.26x |
| [Inside Deepest Siberia 🇷🇺 (How People Actually Live)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/9t-5BApTvt0/) | 2026-03-27 | Long-form | 157,268 | 31:33 | 0.68x |
| [This was DPRKrazy! 🇰🇵 #northkorea #dprk #pyongyang #travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/w75nTHsi2bs/) | 2026-03-12 | Short | 31,928 | 0:28 | - |
| [LIFE IN RUSSIA IN 2026 (things have changed)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/yIKKbhGXmfw/) | 2026-03-07 | Long-form | 443,966 | 29:56 | 1.69x |
| [Traveling to Russia Went Horribly Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/RA3F6AYW5_s/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 198,156 | 25:03 | 0.76x |
| [Life in CARACAS, VENEZUELA after Maduro](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/bLw3omzSW8s/) | 2026-02-06 | Long-form | 290,491 | 34:55 | 1.11x |
| [Entering VENEZUELA in 2026 (intense journey)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/sRZr3ioeoXA/) | 2026-01-23 | Long-form | 381,653 | 39:27 | 1.65x |
| [Who We REALLY Are (Honest Q & A)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/j6J8PNi4roI/) | 2025-12-28 | Long-form | 145,396 | 44:54 | 0.63x |
| [They Live on the Divide Between RUSSIA & EUROPE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/h3_ORKsoq7s/) | 2025-12-19 | Long-form | 234,349 | 30:53 | 0.93x |
| [The Reality of Life in the UK Right Now (The Brutal Truth)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/AM03eITK9jw/) | 2025-12-12 | Long-form | 748,637 | 32:15 | 2.55x |
| [Partying in Romania's Forgotten Gypsy Village 🇷🇴](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/GzGItSpDOSg/) | 2025-12-05 | Long-form | 227,263 | 49:41 | 0.78x |
| [Would You Ride This Soviet Sleeper Train?!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/Nv_Tg4x64qg/) | 2025-11-21 | Long-form | 137,069 | 34:05 | - |
| [Typical Soviet Apartment Tour (How Russian People REALLY Live)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/B5Ncxd2GljE/) | 2025-10-08 | Long-form | 5,674,925 | 19:20 | 13.15x |
| [Lost in Russia's Strangest Republic 🇷🇺](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/yeHwRSVLh58/) | 2025-09-24 | Long-form | 350,258 | 42:42 | 0.81x |
| [SERBIA the Media Never Show You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/xq_BqdZlAHY/) | 2025-09-20 | Long-form | 114,134 | 36:27 | - |
| [Tourists Don't Visit This Balkan Country (THIS Is Why You Should!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/MFmO8FMNRKk/) | 2025-09-10 | Long-form | 110,980 | 40:55 | - |
| [Would You Live in This Soviet City? (Our New Home!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/eoNjtPhLraQ/) | 2025-09-03 | Long-form | 315,491 | 35:32 | 0.55x |
| [Inside The Country Torn Apart For 50 YEARS (Emotional Journey)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/d2OLjCRpoas/) | 2025-08-23 | Long-form | 270,772 | 55:23 | 1.18x |
| [ENTERING CHECHNYA (Russia's Most Infamous Region)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/6DPWTqHVy8k/) | 2025-08-13 | Long-form | 816,868 | 42:48 | 1.26x |
| [Entering Russia's "Most Dangerous Region"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/KQdXqv-LHYI/) | 2025-07-30 | Long-form | 783,847 | 51:03 | 1.21x |
| [Crossing the Badlands of Rural Afghanistan (Hostile)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/cMijdxGMmEU/) | 2025-07-09 | Long-form | 632,523 | 36:28 | 1x |
| [THE REAL AFGHANISTAN (Life Beyond Taliban Control)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/YbhWzHbLzd8/) | 2025-06-28 | Long-form | 512,886 | 15:02 | 0.89x |
| [INSIDE AFGHANISTAN IN 2025 (World's Most Dangerous Country)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/1KnbFhtrNTU/) | 2025-06-20 | Long-form | 3,201,788 | 32:59 | 5.69x |
| [Inside Pakistan's Most Dangerous Town (NOT Welcome)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/76W-1XvfX6I/) | 2025-06-06 | Long-form | 488,040 | 35:38 | 1.14x |
| [Traveling to the Pakistan / India Border in 2025 (tense situation)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/4o9Mes5Y4s0/) | 2025-05-27 | Long-form | 223,640 | 31:58 | 0.57x |
| [All Aboard The North Korea Propaganda Bus 🇰🇵](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/1WJnGmEhLzY/) | 2025-05-06 | Long-form | 661,540 | 26:25 | 1.36x |
| [I WENT TO NORTH KOREA FOR THIS 🇰🇵](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/2HGQbNHVy0A/) | 2025-04-29 | Long-form | 369,270 | 27:31 | 0.76x |
| [NORTH KOREA (THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE) 🇰🇵](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/pLOyYKv3ATg/) | 2025-04-18 | Long-form | 1,144,039 | 26:12 | 2.36x |
| [INSIDE NORTH KOREA IN 2025 (intense)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/cFNFThla5t0/) | 2025-04-11 | Long-form | 5,262,084 | 45:40 | 14.47x |
| [How Russians REALLY Live Under Sanctions in 2025 (Honest Assessment)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/Ft2sCeB26Co/) | 2025-04-02 | Long-form | 636,786 | 16:40 | 1.75x |
| [Entering Europe's MOST Controversial Region](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/0GWLlIV0bw0/) | 2025-03-26 | Long-form | 141,369 | 26:30 | 0.53x |
| [Lost in Deepest Siberia 🇷🇺 (This is Russia)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/kUfSbe9dTd4/) | 2025-03-19 | Long-form | 140,589 | 19:51 | 0.53x |
| [Traveling Across Russia - Honest Q&A](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mattandjulia/videos/jUx4Hr639jg/) | 2025-03-07 | Long-form | 149,604 | 34:44 | 0.57x |

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