Why Germany Has No Major Cities On The North Sea

Try Mammouth AI now at https://www.mammouth.ai/ -- 🗺️ Get the limited-time Mount Rainier map from my new store, "Maps By Geoff": https://mapsbygeoff.com/ -- The Failed "New York" of the West:    • The Washington Metropolis That Never Happened   -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- If you look at Europe at night, the coastlines are practically glowing. From Rome to Amsterdam to Copenhagen, Europeans love to build massive, wealthy cities right on the ocean. But right here, along the northwest coast of Germany, the map suddenly goes dark. For hundreds of miles, featuring some of the most strategically valuable coastline in the world... there is almost nothing. No sprawling metropolises. No massive skyline. Just empty space. So why doesn’t Germany, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, have a major city in such a valuable location? -- Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - The Geography of a Vanishing Coast 4:29 - Sponsored By Mammouth.ai 6:22 - The Atlantis of the North Sea 11:43 - The Luxury of Retreat -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)