Paul Barbato

Paul Barbato (Born 7 June 1987) is an American filmmaker, best known for being the founder and the host of the YouTube channel Geography Now, a channel which tries to profile every UN-member country. As of February 2020, the channel has over 2.0 million subscribers and over 230 million views.

Paul Barbato was born on the 7th of June, 1987 in Minnesota, United States to a father of Half-Korean and Half-Italian heritage and to a mother of Half-Korean and Half-Irish and French heritage.

He grew up in Chicago, and he currently lives in Los Angeles.

Pre-Geography Now

Paul Barbato started his first YouTube channel in 2009. This channel mainly revolved around him speaking foreign languages. As of March 2020, this channel has over 37,600 subscribers and over 5.4 million views.

Geography Now

Paul Barbato started the Geography Now channel in August 2014, however activity and promotion of the channel didn't start until October, where he released two videos on both his old Paul Barbato and his new Geography Now channel explaining his fresh idea of creating videos about every UN-member country in the world and his feelings about it.

In 2018 Barbato visited the Gruening Middle School in Anchorage, Alaska to host a 'Geograbee' in the school

Reception

The reception to Paul's work on Geography Now has been mostly positive. The YoungPost section of the South China Morning Post ranked Geography Now as one of the 7 best YouTube channels that will improve grades. Japan Today made an article praising his Japan episode.