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Understand geopolitics videos with a live map

Geopolitics explainers move fast: a strait here, a disputed region there, a pipeline across three countries. Map Along outlines every country and region on a live map as the video names it, so the argument is easy to follow.

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Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine pinned on the map as a Hindsight video about Poland names them.

What Map Along shows you

Countries and regions outlined

Countries, provinces and regions are drawn on the map, not just dropped as pins, so you see what a video means by "the region".

Rivers, straits and mountains

Natural features that shape politics, like rivers, straits, passes and mountain ranges, are found and labelled too.

Synced to playback

The map follows the video. Pause on a point and look around; press play and it picks up again.

Check what you learned

On the Voyager plan, a quiz written from the video asks about what you just watched, and the blank-map challenge asks you to find its places without labels.

Great for

Explainer channels
News reports
Trade routes
Elections
Border disputes
Energy and pipelines
Water and rivers
Country profiles

Popular geopolitics videos to try it on

Some of the most-watched geopolitics videos on YouTube. Open one, click Map this video, and press play.

China's Geography ProblemWendover Productions · 13M views
The deserts, mountains and rivers that decide where China's people live.
Why 95% of Australia is EmptyRealLifeLore · 15M views
Australia's coastal cities, the Outback and the deserts between them.
Why is Russia So DAMN BIG?Johnny Harris · 7.5M views
How Moscow's territory grew across Siberia to the Pacific.
The Modern Middle East, ExplainedJohnny Harris · 7.7M views
Three hours of countries, borders and cities, mapped as they come up.
What's the Most Difficult Place to Get to In the World?RealLifeLore · 15M views
The remotest islands and settlements on Earth, and how far they really are.
Geography Now! IndonesiaGeography Now · 7.4M views
Thousands of islands, from Sumatra and Java to Borneo and Papua.

How it works

Install Map Along from the Chrome Web Store.
Open a YouTube video and click Map this video above the recommendations.
Press play. Places light up on the map the moment they're mentioned.

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