# Places: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-05, Places has 454,000 subscribers, 86,654,919 total views, and 254 videos. It ranks #168,896 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Places](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/). 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 Places is “Marbella: The Wall Street of Organised Crime”, a long-form video published Nov 1, 2026.
- These are Places’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 23, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026 (40 long-form videos and 8 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 253,003. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Afghanistan is Now So Much Worse Than You Think.” (1,540,272 views, Jun 26, 2026). Least viewed: “The Dam That Saved a Sea” (3,257 views, Oct 18, 2026).
- Median length: 33:08 for 40 long-form videos; 0:36 for 8 Shorts.
- In this sample, Places’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 10 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 6, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Marbella: The Wall Street of Organised Crime](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/3NXCOKap5gc/) | 2026-11-01 | Long-form | 255,912 | 29:39 | 1.13x |
| [How Scotland Became Europe’s Drug-Death Capital](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/uVkiNN_7exE/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 445,499 | 28:23 | 1.78x |
| [The Questionable "Free-Love Utopia" That Became a Cutlery Conglomerate](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/dxoao8t9AH4/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 85,322 | 39:33 | - |
| [How Chechnya Became Chechnya.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/4PgVIgmIvag/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 323,586 | 41:52 | 1.23x |
| [Why Everyone Wants Somaliland.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/FoW9dBVufU0/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 250,094 | 29:58 | 0.92x |
| [These Islands Have the Weirdest Time Zones in the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/vWkHyEFDVT4/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 21,508 | 0:33 | 1.19x |
| [Mom Help! The British are Drawing Lines Again](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/RPV8iEGsBQ8/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 31,584 | 0:45 | 1.78x |
| [The Island That Hid a Secret Laboratory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/f1V9V3dYvWg/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 18,395 | 0:32 | 1.3x |
| [One River, Four Countries](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/5zCvEnP5ZWM/) | 2026-10-18 | Short | 17,776 | 0:39 | 1.69x |
| [The Dam That Saved a Sea](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/FiYJF_CVFpQ/) | 2026-10-18 | Short | 3,257 | 0:35 | - |
| [The Soviets KNEW This Would Happen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/-bIgOLkRdt8/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 10,560 | 0:38 | - |
| [The Aral Sea is Nearly Gone...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/Vc3j04eJZm4/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 8,560 | 0:35 | - |
| [They Lost Half a Sea for Nothing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/oh_Zyf9mvGo/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 20,108 | 0:43 | - |
| [The Utopian Commune That Banned Everything.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/wdyjzXMTMDM/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 267,372 | 36:46 | 0.93x |
| [Why Putin Really, Really Wants This City.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/atbRqdSE-q0/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 293,651 | 41:21 | 1x |
| [Libya is Still a Disaster](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/OQrXWlHsldQ/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 323,600 | 31:57 | 1.04x |
| [Why Algeria is Falling Out with Everyone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/RLPaLc8WfgQ/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 673,326 | 45:57 | 2.09x |
| [The Most Corrupt Construction Project in the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/FULmoBD3xsY/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 674,678 | 29:09 | 2.1x |
| [The Salton Sea: America's Most Toxic Lake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/mhP-vqexgf8/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 301,801 | 32:00 | 0.94x |
| [Dandong: The Chinese City That Keeps North Korea Alive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/6vxMkIU5h6o/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 284,679 | 28:30 | 0.81x |
| [The Brazilian City of 2 Million in the Rainforest.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/aQ3QKIRE8QI/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 231,034 | 35:45 | 0.66x |
| [China Just Built Another Island in the South China Sea...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/bgljz-HkYfA/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 338,021 | 23:08 | 0.87x |
| [Homs: The City That Never Recovered.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/KSK38Yr0JR8/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 154,955 | 33:11 | - |
| [Bodie: California's Best-Preserved Ghost Town](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/k-h1mKq_eXw/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 90,052 | 28:11 | - |
| [Bnei Brak: The City That Refuses to Fight for Israel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/8iCuLyWyhZ0/) | 2026-09-14 | Long-form | 410,812 | 28:13 | 0.88x |
| [The Marxist Autocracy You Didn't Know About.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/BAgAvJXEAW4/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 363,661 | 34:31 | 0.78x |
| [Ashgabat: The World's Weirdest Capital](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/E8_cQyYSUOc/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 566,139 | 33:06 | 1.21x |
| [Nigeria is Now So Much Worse Than You Think](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/nxOPkpxXBZs/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 1,452,461 | 59:38 | 4.38x |
| [The World's Most Enormous Military Base](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/W8hENB_9hW0/) | 2026-08-27 | Long-form | 525,705 | 32:45 | 1.59x |
| [This is the World's Emptiest Airport](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/e0yeQNA_mpc/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 192,112 | 31:14 | 0.72x |
| [Ghana's 'Witch Camps' Are Just Disturbing.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/tnw3UuPMrQY/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 479,503 | 32:35 | 1.79x |
| [Why Does Every Neighbour Hate Pakistan?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/JQfq4kSZt40/) | 2026-08-18 | Long-form | 1,443,013 | 52:39 | 6.69x |
| [Europe's Most Vulnerable Border.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/m8pHb94yi0M/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 97,183 | 24:37 | - |
| [Kandahar: The Most Fundamentalist City on Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/qMSRrfmOjSo/) | 2026-08-11 | Long-form | 457,740 | 41:46 | 2.12x |
| [Holmesburg: The Prison That Turned Inmates Into Experiments.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/WGt5wBcA8Ms/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 205,882 | 28:55 | 0.95x |
| [The Tokyo Detention House](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/MLIRiamAxRs/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 130,927 | 40:15 | 0.63x |
| [The World's Weirdest Borders](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/WVfeOFcm-GI/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 88,414 | 45:40 | - |
| [Haiti is Now So Much Worse Than You Think](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/_kAwkL2S7vY/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 489,005 | 40:16 | 1.7x |
| [North Korea's Secret Schools in Japan are Failing.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/I17V5N9yMII/) | 2026-07-22 | Long-form | 330,533 | 37:41 | 1.39x |
| [Willowbrook State School: America's Most Barbaric Children's Institution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/9W1rijLUOU8/) | 2026-07-21 | Long-form | 187,773 | 29:16 | 0.81x |
| [La Oroya is Peru's Chernobyl (And People Live There)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/uRO0eAuMe7s/) | 2026-07-19 | Long-form | 225,500 | 29:01 | 0.93x |
| [Why China is Terrified of This Tiny Island](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/pV9NEdd1WdU/) | 2026-07-12 | Long-form | 373,166 | 33:24 | 1.31x |
| [Iran Built a City Inside Lebanon...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/npZ2Jo_C9b0/) | 2026-07-08 | Long-form | 123,293 | 39:58 | - |
| [The City That Controls Iran.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/2XdSoBBTrQE/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 245,940 | 44:52 | 1x |
| [Qincheng: China's Most Notorious Prison.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/zkKlOr1gJtA/) | 2026-06-29 | Long-form | 170,059 | 31:54 | 0.7x |
| [Afghanistan is Now So Much Worse Than You Think.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/zL1ZtVB5yno/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 1,540,272 | 43:34 | 5.39x |
| [An Enormous Open-Air Drug Market. In the United States.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/tSyZ7XhFS74/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 401,867 | 28:58 | 1.45x |
| [Diyarbakir Prison Was a Special Kind of Hell](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@places302/videos/E9ZmM3kUvLA/) | 2026-06-23 | Long-form | 136,494 | 37:49 | - |

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