00:00What if the United Kingdom and India switched places?
00:03First off, geography would flip the world upside down.
00:06The UK would now sit between China and Pakistan, right where India is.
00:11And India?
00:12It would be a chilly island in the North Atlantic, next to France and Ireland.
00:17Climate would change everything.
00:18The UK and South Asia would be roasting in tropical heat,
00:22while India in the North Atlantic would face cold and wet winters.
00:27Population is where it gets wild.
00:29Imagine 1.4 billion Indians squeezed into the British Isles,
00:34one of the most crowded places on Earth.
00:36Meanwhile, the UK's 67 million people would suddenly have a huge landmass,
00:42the size of India, all to themselves.
00:45History, too, would look totally different.
00:47No British Empire in India, because the British wouldn't even be in Europe.
00:52And India, sitting right next to France, Germany and Spain,
00:56might have been a European-style empire itself.
00:59self.
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