Geography March Madness 2021 Round 1 Part 1

Round 1 of the Geography competition between US and Canadian states, provinces, and territories. This is a 64-team/place tournament set up like the NCAA basketball tournament, with a seeded bracket based on population. The places will compete in a wide variety of categories, including economic, physical, and cultural geography. Check out my website www.geographyking.com to print off a bracket, examine the rules of the tournament, and to view the categories used in the competition. Please note that I have removed from consideration several categories that I had previously decided to use. After a practice run it was determined that several categories would be very difficult to use in the real competition. The categories removed are: #19 - Percent of population in prison #24 - Coolest thing manufactured there #25 - Condition of interstate highways #41 - Freshwater recreation #57 - Highway fatality rate (a downer of a category for a fun video series) #66 - Best invention made there #68 - Best university mascot #69 - Best movie based there #70 - Liquor laws #71 - Most significant historical event #74 - Best/funniest county name I know that this is a VERY long video but hopefully you ll find it interesting. You may want to watch it at 1.25% speed. Source material: www.city-data.com www.worldpopulationreview.com www.census.gov www.statcan.gc.ca/eng www.wikipedia.org