There are NOT 195 countries
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How many countries are there? Does the UN's official list of 195 include them all? Which ones are missing? Does Sealand count? Does England count for that matter? And why are Mark and Jay up a tree?
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How could you have posted this 7 hours ago when the video has only been out for 17 seconds?
Awhhh but I don't wanna 😢
8 hours how the fu-
Thank you for including the cue dot. It's presumably very important.
@@jammyjamjars6995 it was probably unlisted until now
The fact that Bhutan doesn’t recognize either china or Taiwan maybe the funniest thing I have ever heard
They have a complicated relationship status.
they dont recognise half of the world. I wonder how their maps look like
and they border china
I actually was so suprised by this that I just had to google it. Apparently it is due to their isolationism.
@@9Calno they don't! China does not exist.
I like the fact that Barbs from Geography Now appeared just to say "of".
Bros become "guest presenter" for less than 1 second
That was cool!!
I didn't know who that was, but he's credited as "guest presenter". 😊
Up there with when they got Tom Scott for a 1 second cutaway of him pretending to feed a coin into a light pole
@@MrPercolator9000 which video is that?
The density of jokes-per-minute in these videos is wild
Absolute magnific
Like a humor neutron star
Like Airplane
The dictionary page itself that only lasts a second or two is worth pausing a good 5min for to try and read the 240p definitions they wrote out for each.
I saw the thumbnail change from "Is this a country?"
Funny tidbit from a lifelong Montevideano, there's a rumour that the Montevideo treaty was defined specifically to exclude the Republic of Parva Domus, a gentlemen's club not far away from the hotel where the convention was taking place, which claims, as a joke, to be an independent country.
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8:52 TREE MEN TREE MEN TREE TREE TREE MEN MEN
There's not tree, only two.
Or Jay's Tree's National Anthem:
MAN TREE MAN TREE MAN MAN MAN TREE TREE
And with those two as leaders, a fair pair of c*ntrees
jk jk
MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN
@@CaveSpiderRider :0
10:32 -ew wtf is that
Did you expect a larger portion than "or"?😂
Bro really only spoke 1 word and it only contains 2 letters
i was so confused
nice cameo bro!!!
99:59:59
Bhutan not recognizing either China or Taiwan is a bit of a longer story - Bhutan doesn't have a list of "these are the countries i recognize as real countries", what people say Bhutan recognizes is actually countries Bhutan has diplomatic relations with, but the thing is that Bhutan is very isolationist, only opening relations on a need-to basis, having India handle most of their daily affairs.
so its not Bhutan not recognizing China or Taiwan, its Bhutan deciding they don't need any business with them so they don't send a diplomatic mission to them.
If you define Bhutan recognizing a country by whether they sent a mission to them, then by this definition Bhutan doesn't recognize the United States nor UK, and only recognizing Germany since 2020. In fact Bhutan only holds relations with 54 countries.
EDIT: I fixed the spelling of Bhutan as I mistakenly wrote "Buthan" every time, sorry.
Thank you for the explanation!
This is the most intelligent comment I've ever seen that misspells the subject of the comment 20 times in a row.
@@jeffallen55 or could it be that the 30 occurrences of the subject are all spelt perfectly but the rest of the comment refers to something unrelated?
@@dinky9216 The name of the country is spelled Bhutan, not Buthan
@@lishark843 But what if @wojtekpolska1013 was referring to the little-known micronation of Buthan?
To be honest, Map Men videos are my comfort videos. I watch them when I feel overwhelmed. Or just for fun. Thank you both for making Map Men!
Yes
Un recognised country ❌
Bhutan recognised country ✅
At the end Bhutan recognised countries could be the real ones 😂😂
they must be very meticulous for how few the recognize
@@stefun4084their stupid
I love visiting the Northern coast of Bhutan 💀
@@ItzDenholm brother you can't call someone stupid and then misspell "they're"
The special effects on those worms are, I am not joking, some of the best visual effects work this channel has ever put out
Idk, the extra fingers spouting out of Jays hands will forever live in my nightmares
Ha I thought he actually covered himself in worms!
As someone with an irrational fear of worms, it was really convincing lol
Low bar achievement.
@@KingfisherTalkingPictures but it was still an achievement. (Drops mike in saucy pirate swagger)
1:53 "Take Taiwan" "Something China wants to do" got me lmao
That one liner was so on the nose and unexpected I actually laughed so hard that I started crying
I was watching this while brushing my teeth. Made me drop my phone in my sink…
too bad china doesnt actually want to take taiwan.
@@temple69Uh… they have been openly saying so for many years now.
@@artugert as a chinese person i can say that you are tellin the truth
UN: Do you believe in China or Taiwan?
Bhutan: Neither. Nothing. All i see is emptiness
ultraw???? the dev on roblox?? dang, didnt expect to see you here..
@@mimchuxx sameee i love restaurant tycoon 2
Its all Mongolia to me
Yo big fan dude
Bhutan: I'll will never recognize the big Bois but recognize the weaklings
In 2014, as a contractor at the U.S. Mint Manufacturing Department, I set about creating a document that itemized and categorized all countries' coins in the world, including the coins' relative value to the dollar and the material from which they're made.
The total number of countries I came up with was 207, not all of which even had coins, and several of which used U.S. currency!
Timor-Leste, a UN-recognised country, uses US dollars as its currency but has its own centavo coins, 100 to the dollar.
@@rais1953 Sounds a bit like Poland which ostensibly uses Euros but also has złoty.
@@Demiglitch Poland does not use euro, wtf. There are places in Poland (tourist-oriented restaurants, bars, etc) that will accept euros at very bad exchange rates, but in 99% of places you won't be able to pay with euro
@@zir1010011010 And expect to be "ripped off" when you pay in Euro. There is a "convenience fee" they add up (pretty normal before the Euro was introduced in most european countries).
When a random commenter does a better job than these clowns wasting 12 minutes of our time without an answer:
10:32 Geography Now jumpscare
*NOW*
_of_
who is it?
I literally had to rewind it to make sure I wasn't going crazy
Jay foreman did a video with Geography Now. i bet this was recorded around that time
This is incredibly well-written and edited
"Take Taiwan..."
"Something China wants to do."
I splurted out my coffee
It's funny and tragic at the same time.
I came to the comments to find this, thank you ☕️💦
It's a bit of silly propaganda by the Pentagon to keep suggesting that Tiwan (which says it's part of China) is not a part of China.
Also that China has no legal rights or legitimate interest in the South China Sea. Which is a bit silly if you just know the name of the sea.
@@TheGrinningViking, Taiwan IS part of China, the Republic of China. The communist China is also part of Republic of China legally.
China does not legal rights to their claim of South China Sea, we have international law that determines maritime borders and they apply to every country equally, the name of the sea is literally irrelevant, just like the Gulf of Mexico doesn't belong to Mexico.
@@TheGrinningViking, Pentagon has nothing to do with it. Government in Taiwan is the legitimate government of the Republic of China, what you call "China" is actually the communist china.
China does not have legal rights to their claim of South China Sea, we have international laws that define the maritime borders very clearly. The "name of the sea" argument is idiotic, The Gulf of Mexico doesn't belong to Mexico, Norwegian Sea doesn't belong to Norway, Indian Ocean doesn't belong to India, Philippine Sea doesn't belong to the Philippines, Gulf of Guinea doesn't belong to Guinea etc etc, and South China Sea doesn't belong to China either. Territorial Sea is the area 12 nautical miles from the shore and exclusive economic zone is 200NM from the shore, that is set in stone.
Mum knocking over the vase for no reason is basically the reason I subscribe to this channel.
Well, to be fair, Graham Hughes's hat wasn't completely accurate...
@@LeafHuntressMy mum totally did smash a vase though 😂
@@politicssocialuk
_Note to self: buy mom a cool exotic vase on my journey_
200-ish countries later:
*_Entering the UK..._* "S*** S*** S*** I FORGOT THE VASE! WHERE DO I BUY A TOBLERONE?!"
Good job, mate. Welcome to the Map Men club!
Your comment reminded me I was not subscribed.
- this has been fixed.
2:45 for anyone wondering, SMOM is the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta", a successor to the Knights Hospitaller which is considered a country under international law, but doesn't control any territory.
Thanks for explaining.
I had such a difficulty understanding what they said. I read and googled SMOM but I just couldn't hear in the video and thought they skipped it or said another word instead. But no, they were just talking quickly and just spelled SMOM.
@@supershinigami1 yeah I actually had to turn on the subtitles to realise what they were saying. Even then I wasn't sure what SMOM meant until I googled it, but once I did it all made sense
Fun fact: It's full name is actually "the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta", and since no shortform name has ever been OFFICIALLY adopted, this makes it the longest name of any country in the world.
@@EireProductions damn and I thought the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea was the longest
7:09 If there are only four countries in the UK, shouldn't the tally only go up to 198? Otherwise you'd include England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland AND Britain, which is a bit weird
2:43 It's honestly really weird that Niue and the Cook Islands aren't recognised by the U.N., like, New Zealand says they're independent countries, and they say they're independent countries, but everyone else says they're part of New Zealand.
Mate, they're part of New Zealand. Who would be tabling a UN motion faster than you could say Стоп! if the Russians moved in?
@@1258-Eckhart They're _not_ part of New Zealand though? Not legally at least, they're considered to be in Free Association with New Zealand, which is as a matter of fact the same relationship The Federated States of Micronesia has with the U.S., but you don't see anybody going around calling Micronesia part of the U.S..
@@rateeightx Kiwi here, most of us don't even really consider the Cook Islands part of NZ. They're our friends and we look after them if need be, but most of the time they do their own thing.
@@rateeightx Darling, we're ALL part of the US in the "West". But a different point, sorry.
@@1258-Eckhart If we're really honest about the NZ navy, there's nothing stopping the Russians moving in right now
I am always amazed at how much effort you put into every millisecond of your videos. You make a special graphic and texting for each of 10 different microcountries just for showing them for a time so short it is hardly pausable to read it. I love it!
I've actually been to Whangamomona and stayed overnight. Compared to other micro nations, I'd say they don't really take the matter seriously, and it's just a tourist and marketing gimmick based on the Forgotten World brand, whereas others such as Hutt River Province (surrounded by the State of Western Australia and created by a farmer due to issues with his crops) went the whole hog with stamps and, I think, currency. (Spell Check didn't recognise the name either)
I set the speed to 0.25 so that I could pause and read all 😁
@@noemiac As did I.
0:47 Pretty smooth editing changing 2023 to 2024. Time travel is possible by the power of editing :)
I thought they were being clever like Tom Scott somehow
Yooo Simulator adventures, you're here!!
They forgot to edit it in the 3200 BC or 5223 BN joke
@@MarinoMoons
Of all the people to find in the comments of a Jay Foreman video
“The answer to how many countries there are depends on who’s gun I’m staring down the barrel of” - some guy on Reddit
“Unrecognized countries- sorry, UN recognized countries” 😂😂😂
I didn’t get this joke, could you explain it?
@@australiangamer7956 if you wrote it as UNrecognised countries can be read both as unrecognised and UN recognised
UN is TERRORISM madness
yes that is something that they said in the video but why did you type it out again
Too bad the only grammatically correct way to write this is with a hyphen: "UN-recognized countries." Written without a hyphen, it is a statement where UN is the subject who did the act of recognizing countries.
I 100% appreciate the little Cue Mark animation at the top right before the advert.
i thought there was going to literally be a tiny Mark in the corner waving at you or something
That rishi sunak joke will become outdated within two weeks lmao
They can just overdub it with 'Nigel Farage'...
@@russellmassey9324 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder. _AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA_
@@russellmassey9324 ...and shortly after that redo the entire video, because there will be a bloody revolution with Scottish Highlanders marching on London, brandishing tartan colored EU flags.
lmao
@@russellmassey9324labour could say absolutely nothing for 2 weeks and still win a massive majority, although to be fair reform could be the opposition
7:15 i am short sighted and have astigmatism... WERE THOSE REAL WORMS??
Thankfully not! Just some very impressive CGI
Just a quick correction. Sealand USED to sell currency and passports. They no longer sell passports and have revoked all sold passports as they realized they were being used to launder money.
The Sealand Rebel government in exile (ran by Germans Achenbach and Pütz) who hired mercenaries to take the fort from Bates in 78 sold passports till Achenbach died.
the what who did WHAT
There was a fucking rebel government in _Sealand????_
Please explain more about this interesting history of Sealand.
They will absolutely sell you knighthood and lord/lady status, though!
Oh my god that second part is some of the funniest shit I’ve heard all day
man i have to say, the CGI worms really worked on me. great job.
4:07 I love the inclusion of the British “Adverts are about to start” bars :P
Cue dots 😁
So thats what that is! I've been wondering for years why he kept adding it.
Cue dots are a cue to the regional commercial TV stations to be ready to press play on their regional adverts tape recorder kinda thing.
A bit like the big black dot in films in the cinema which did a very similar job of alerting the projectionist to be ready to press play on the next reel of film projector.
As mentioned nearby, they can also be used by the more observant of us to nip off to the loo.
Lastly, in another example of Concordian backwards progress, there were TV receivers and recorders which used them to allow their owners to skip the adverts entirely. These put the viewers first marvels were quickly made illegal, I kid you not!
Now that you know that they're there, it'll probably be a while before you forget the fact so I apologise for being one of a number here who has brought them to your attention.
If only there were an unobtrusive aural version that pinged just before the programme was about to start again so that you knew when to take the tea bags out!
And the theme tune on glockenspiel the cherry on top 🤩
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Oh, i remember recorders that could skip recording ads.
We should start calling England a province of the UK.
@@liamturner8540 What? Your comment literally makes no sense.
Agreed. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are more comparable to US states.
The "country" name is just to avoid annoying nationalists.
@@MuchWhitteringA scholar of history clearly 😂
@@MuchWhittering Typically we call these "constituent countries".
@@MuchWhittering Could not have said it better myself.
As someone from the Isle of Man I can tell you there are 282 countries in the world. We pay international tuition fees to attend university in Blackpool
I don't know why, but I've always had trouble believing that the Isle of Man exists. Even more so after working with someone from there.
Isn't that where Narnia is?@@zacmumblethunder7466
No way, I'm Irish and pay home fees in England
@@leashaughnessy4371
Such fees are usually based on main residency criteria.
Your fault for going to uni in Blackpool tbf
The fact that it jumped from 195 to 199 when the UK was split into 4 meant all 5 of: UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were all being considered countries at the same time
I’ll let them off and assume they were also recognising Isle Of Man.
@@Tequilamockingbird71 So how about Guernsey and Jersey?
I don’t think they’re equivalent but I might be wrong? Channel Islands have never had the historic institutions that the Manx did that made it country-like. Channel Islands were a possession of Normandy later rolled into UK.
I'd say that's right. Because scotland Wales and northern Ireland all have their own laws and parliaments, but they also for bigger issues have a shared parliament where they decide on laws for more international and worldwide issues that they let England join In on since England don't have thier own parliament and only have UK law.
@@Tequilamockingbird71 The Channel Islands are not part of the UK. They are autonomous Crown Dependencies.
It’s a common misconception that Bhutan doesn’t recognise half the world, including both Chinas. In reality they just lack diplomatic relations, not recognition.
Honestly great, isolationism is underrated
@@teteeheeted It's rightly underrated... Bhutan is a very underdeveloped country.
@@teteeheeted this is essentially what north korea's juche ideology is about (spoiler alert: isolationism doesn't actually work when you're trying to sustain a country's worth of people)
@@teteeheeted Sure bro, keep saying that till you realise the devide you used to type that silly comment is likely to be made in china.
@@joshk. North Korea's only isolated because the US is deliberately imposing it on them - same with blockading Cuba. Creating those problems is the whole point. You're confusing independence with isolationism I think, the DPRK has always had relations with other countries and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Socialism is generally international by nature - which is why its enemies seek to isolate those countries. They're still truckin' though, that's what a focus on independence and resilience gets ya
Here's one question I have
Here when they start talking about the "UN-recognized" countries they say 10 more countries with Taiwan (2:41-2:45)
But when they put it into the list of countries it adds an additional 13 countries even though they said 11 (2:56-2:59)
What are those 2 unnamed countries?
VERY well spotted!!!! 🏆
In the original script, we also included Luhansk and Donetsk. But after thinking about it, in the final version we decided not to include them, because only one country recognises them (Russia) and casually mentioning them alongside the other examples looked a little too much like we supported Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. But we’d already filmed the bingo caller sketches, and it was too difficult to change all the numbers for the rest of the episode. We thought nobody would notice (or, more accurately, we didn’t notice ourselves!)
@@JayForeman Nuh-uh, before Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics were _kindly taken_ by Motherland, they were also officially recognized by Syria and Korea of the North, as well as by some partially recognized and totally non-recognized states around the region of Eastern Europe. If you included Transnistria, might as well include LPR and DPR as well (even though as of now they both ceased to exist as independent countries and are now just regions of Russia)
Yay I was hoping Sealand would get a mention.
Map Men is the most incredibly well produced series on RUclips. The attention to detail for something that might be a couple of frames and is only readable on pause is remarkable. Add in the humour and comic timing and nothing else comes close. Thanks both. Is a live tour on the cards?
But why not Liberland?
Why isn’t the channel called Map Men and called Jay Foreman? Why does Jay get all the attention of the title name while Mark gets nothing? Mark Cooper-Jones should be an independent country!
Jay has a fair few videos on his own
It’s like daft punk where Thomas Bangalter is more known than Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
MAP MEN DAY!!!!
Map Men Month
@@njoshua3265 map men year
Map men is back
Map men eternity
Map Month
Okay what's the squigly bar that comes on the top right corner of the screen each time before an ad? Also this is one of only two channels where I ACTUALLY LOVE ads and watch them all the way through.
Jay Foreman's strategy for getting more views is to have so many jokes in the background you have to watch the video 3 or 4 times to see them all. Cheeky.
As an Uruguayan I have to say "MONTEVIDEO MENTIONED"
Lovely episode as always
As a not-Uruguayan, your country certainly does have a lot of U's in it.
As an 8th Uruguayan, I support this statement.
Cool.
Haha funny one Cisplatense man
U r gay.
I genuinely love Map Men. Favorite series so far!
Here’s another one: “Long live the Olympics - 206!”
At the Olympics, in addition to the 193 “actual” UN-recognised countries (195 minus the two naughty ones), there are teams from:
- American Samoa 🇦🇸 (officially part of the US)
- Aruba 🇦🇼 (overseas territory of the Netherlands)
- Bermuda 🇧🇲 (British island territory in the Atlantic)
- Cayman Islands 🇰🇾 (where British politicians keep their bank accounts)
- Chinese Taipei 🇹🇼 (Olympic name for Taiwan so as not to annoy China)
- Cook Islands 🇨🇰 (politically tied to NZ)
- Guam 🇬🇺 (US overseas territory in the Pacific)
- Hong Kong 🇭🇰 (UN recognises it as a region of China)
- Kosovo 🇽🇰 (long story)
- Palestine 🇵🇸 (even longer story)
- Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (unincorporated territory of the US)
- British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬
- US Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 (like the British Virgin Islands but with less tea and more cola)
The fact that they all have emoji flags is useful for us when we want to tweet about Flora Duffy winning gold at the Triathlon in Paris in July, or whoever your favourite non-UN-recognised athlete happens to be! 🥇
Top posting! 😄👍
(I'm German, this accounts for top humor in my country)
"(195 minus the two naughty ones)"
I'm afraid the USA has NOT been prohibited attendence... and it's by far the naughtiest one (at least in infrigments of international law, which other measures did you use?)
You list Palestine twice basically. To get to 195, you add the 193 member states and the two official observer states, which are the Holy See and Palestine. For the Olympics you than subtract the two states who aren't invited this year (Russia and Belarus) and then add territories which are 12. That gives you 205.
@@Lawfair I think he meant the observers by the naughty ones; it was a joke. The Vatican doesn't have an Olympic team, and there are 206 competing nations (204 if you exclude Russia and Belarus)
@@PreGyCT Have you considered going outside today
If only every RUclips video made the advertisement just as good as the main content. These guys are sweet blend of genius and kind hearted
This channel has the only advertisements that I never skip. I still remember their skillshare song where they swapped their voices.
Also the little bit in the top right corner just before the ad is a reference to a thing that used to appear on TV in the UK before ads
Consistently the best RUclipsr. Also super appreciate the ad cue in the top right brings back the good old days of ITV and channel 4 when they actually warned you ads were coming. The best thing is the effort you go to for your ads as well. Honestly the dog’s bollocks.
ok i (American) was looking for an explanation of what that was a reference to. thank you lol
@@screetchycello glad I could be "that comment"
@@screetchycello in the UK knowing when the ad was coming allowed you to nip of for a quick brew
Jay (or maybe Mark I suppose) still occasionally responding to comments is so cool to see, Love your vids and cant wait for the next ones.
0:47 love how they specify the time but not the day lol
+
Not even timezone
@@Liggliluff England time
@@vez3834 Tea time
you timestamp this and don't call out the DUB OVER OF THE YEAR?
I love how the bingo reader kept getting more and more and more alcohol
*1 other factor we can use is Emojipedia!*
_which recognises:_
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇪🇭 Western Sahara
also palestine!🇵🇸🇵🇸
They're there because they have emoji flags and that's the case because they're in the ISO list of territories.
🏳️🌈Gay is my favorite country
@@lirachonyr🏁
France 🏳️
Fun fact about Sealand: There was a period of time in the late 2000s when the family considered selling it. Pirate Bay offered to buy it to host their servers there, but several other websites also planned for a collective bid, with the idea that it would be converted to a timeshare where each owner could live in it or rent it out at different times of the year. It ended up staying with the family.
Really thought that after "Depends who you ask" was called, a voice would come up in the background shouting "Bingo!"
The same answer applies to the question: "How many continents are there?"
@@JannPoo that at least is a bit easier. Between 4 and 7
I'm looking at a Map right now. Mr Foreman and Mr Cooper-Jones must be telepathic!
Just wanted you guys to know the huge amount of effort you put into your videos is recognized and appreciated. Well done and YUGELY entertaining! Thank you.👍👍
I was absolutely not coming to watch older videos at the perfect time
The plane coming back to Rio in 8:15 and not Brasilia (which didn’t exist back then) is a nice accurate touch
These guys are silly, but they do know their stuff.
another comment stole yours :(
@@mikihirai335 these damned bots!
“Hey Barbs, wouldn’t it be funny if you only had one word in the entire video?” That’s how I imagine why we got 10:52
I discovered this channel four months ago and binged it as I recovered from my extractions. Thank you.
It's a gold mine here, been watching since almost 10 years ago! Enjoy!!
That geography now cameo killed me!
10:39 As a Belgian, I can confirm that Belgium is indeed Belgium
As a Dutchy... hmmm... how's that taalstrijd going? And the wafelijzerpolitiek?
Come home to momma baby! ~wrings hands in anticipation~
(it's a joke!)
[werkelijk]
@@LeafHuntress wat
Facts!
I can't believe you Terrans insist on using that horrific term. That's why the rest of the galaxy has ostracized you.
@@LeafHuntress as a Frenchman, let's cut the cake in two.
/Germany entered the chat/
Oh crap.
The most important reason to have a fixed list of exactly how many countries there are is to be able to have an interactive web quiz where you have to name every country (and capital, flag, etc) and be absolutely sure you get a 100% score on the whole earth. It depends doesn't cut it!!!
Sporcle counts 197 and has a nice detailed article on how they got to that number.
That's why I think there should be exactly 200. It's just a nice number.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 200 is a pretty boring number, although I'm not sure Srinivasa Ramanujan would agree.
@@Deimos2k5Is that just the UN‘s 195 plus Taiwan and Kosovo? Pretty good list I‘d say, as those two are far closer to being actual countries than like Abkhazia or Niue for example.
But it really does depend. It even depends on when you ask the question. Up until the 1960s or 1970s (not sure) both the western Republic of Germany and the eastern German Democratic Republic didn't recognize each others. Even up until the German Democratic Republic collapsed, both claimed that they were representing all Germans, that's why refugees from the German Democratic Republic immediately received a Republic of Germany passport and the RAF terrorists (Rote Armee Fraktion, not Royal Air Force) that fled into the GDR became GDR citizens immediately. And even though even the Soviet Union recognized Israel, the German Democratic Republic never did, because that way they didn't have to pay reparations for WWII to Holocaust survivors represented by Israel.
10:30 OMG that Geography Now jumpscare really got me
I just read the Wikipedia entry for Sealand. That is the most incredible thing I've ever read. They even had a Rebel Government in Exile at one point. 🤯
You know it’s a Map Men episode when replaying parts of it at 0,25x speed and pausing every two seconds is not only tempting, but actually pays off.
Vive Arbor Marci
Viva La Jay's Tree!
real
A quiz team Aguilera!
The real way to tell if something is a country or not is to see if it was mentioned in the squarest country song
Lol
The presentation and editing style of Mapmen continues to be unmatched. Keep up the good work
I love how you included the small black and white square at the top of the screen just before the ad break
4:05 the old school cue dot advert warning. Love it, good to know i'm getting a local advert on map men that makes sense in my area :)
You guys made it really complicated. Overly, even.
"A country is a political entity that has an army equal in size or larger than ours. Everything else is just free real estate."
Where did you get that quote?
@@melodyclark1944 I came up with it as a result of *logic* applied to Europa Universalis games. It, obviously, does not include the power ones allies add to the equation, but its close enough.
@@LiezAllLiez I believe there's another geographical philosophy put forward by Mohandas Gandhi that's very relevant. "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"
Thanks!
10:32 geography now jumpscare warning
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the Map Men x Countryballs crossover wasn't quite what i was expecting clicking on this video
also i appreciate the toki pona mention
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It becomes even more complicated when you think about that some countries (like for example lebanon and syria) have different factions within them that act independently.
And there also a few more rebelions who are generally not really seen as full-on unrecognised countries becouse they are too weak to be seen as such, but who claim to be such, and control their own small territories. And there also a cases of some territories in politically unstable regions that are fully sovereign from the countries they are in, but do not claim full independence to not really cause more international and internal conflicts (like some areas in Somalia or Myanmar, and formerly in Mexico)
Well, any country recognizing those countries probably chooses a faction to align themselves with, so it's all the same in terms of overall count. You probably won't have a country recognizing multiple warring factions as legitimate ruling governments of the same territory, and if you do, it certainly won't be a significant enough number to impact the count.
@@cabin98 That's only true if all factions involved have ambitions to control exactly the same borders. If there are some separatists inside a recognized state that only want to control a part of that state, it gets tricky.
7:11 Maybe it was a joke, but how did the count increase by 4 (from 195 to 199) when UK (1 "country") was "uncombined" into 4 countries (an increase of 4 -1 = 3)? Or would they be counting BOTH the UK (1 country) AND its constituents (4 countries)?
Beat me to it. It was maybe just an oversight
Counting both, because there was no mention of exclusivity with other "countries'" territories and populations.
He put in Gibraltar too 😂
UK
Northern Ireland
England
Scotland
Wales
All of them make the UK.
@@nickdentoom1173 yes, and how many more are four than one? three more. but they added four more to the counter, hence OP's question.
This is incredibile. Last night I tought "hey, Jay Foreman exists and I miss him" and now i can watch this video!!! Thank you!!!
(Mark, on the contrary, is always in my thoughts and I never forget about him)
Actually, there's a bunch of countries that don't recognise Jay Foreman as existing. It depends who you ask.
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I've been binge watching MapMen and Unfinished London lately and I'm so happy there's a new MapMen episode.
love that Barbs cameo for just about a second
Wait I love how there’s an ad break set up before mid roll ads
Map Men and CGP Grey taking different approaches and arriving at the same answer is the definition of why science and RUclips are so much fun.
Is CGP Catalog of U S Government Publications? Cambodia Genocide Program? Controlled Goods Program? Community Grant Program? Certified Guitar Player? Something else perhaps? Any accurate information you are able to provide is appreciated.
@@Tom.Livanos "CGP Grey" is the name of a RUclips channel, which has uploaded videos whose subjects are sometimes similar to the ones found in videos on the "Map Men" RUclips channel.
@@VAB0L0 Understood. Is 'CGP' a random sequence of three letter, or does it mean something?
@@Tom.Livanos It's the guy's name. Colin Gregory Palmer Grey.
@@ReadyToHarvest
Ah. Much appreciated. Good that it is the person's name. For me, this is from a reliability point of view.
I need for absolutely everyone to pause at 8:19 so you can read all of the other definitions
Con Air
*Crunchie*
Chocolate bar with a honeycomb centre. The holes get bigger towards the middle for reasons to do with VAT.
I think, having read through all of them, "cow" is my favourite.
Sideways bastard
Constantinople’s been removed for some reason
That worm crossing the bottom of the screen at 7:40, though...😂😂😂
Also, can we count Barbs at 10:33 as a cameo, or merely a micro-cameo? 😂😂😂
Map Men is the only show on RUclips where I _don't_ skip the promotions! 🤣
I love you guys so much. So glad you're back together and making these again. Keep up the hilarious and interesting work!
10:15 “Symbolically breaking a loaf of stale Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a naval uniform” 💀
This whole quick-flash slide show bit was rather humorous
Local Florida man starts a symbolic war
Now that you guys have used it twice now, we need a full Jay Foreman Dictionary.
Yes! this would be great!
Boys I want to compliment you on your work…the British humor “sprinkles” woven into the episodes make it epic.
The only 100% true and factually objective listing of countries is the _Squarest country song_
I 400% agree.
You know it’s a good year when jay foreman uploads
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I imagine Jay waltzed in a fishing shop and asked for 22 cans of worms
It’s video edited (at least I hope it is…)
What I like about these videos is that they answer all and none of my questions at the same time
1 planet = 200ish countries
Sounds like a typical archaic Imperial unit of measure to me!
In the future, we should all adopt the geographic metric system, where 1 planet = 10 continents = 100 countries
Oh shit. Now i gonna need elaborate a map/list like that, just to calm my metric mind.
1 universe 10 galaxy clusters 100 galaxies 1 000 suns 10 000 planets 100 000 continents 1 000 000 countries
Battle Royale
It can't be metric. A planet is spherical, and every calculation that measures a sphere uses the value π. Ergo to measure a planet's countries one must use π, which is not a factor of 10 or any other integer. I'd guess the number of countries on a planet can simply be any multiple of π (also meaning a minimum of π countries on each planet, including the likes of Pluto), but this might just be wishful thinking to bring simplicity to such a complicated problem.
@@kaie333 Thank you. Henceforth, all planets will be routinely shaved into cubes.
Yet again, another superb geography explainer from the Map Men. @Jay Foreman - you're always making maps fun and I love every second of it😘
Rebuttal to the tree argument: you do not have complete control over that tree, you can't start a meth lab on that tree, cannot murder someone on that tree. If you do, the real government will come at you
so the tree is autonomous but not sovereign?
@@thewrens_ Well, maybe the Son of the Tree that Owns Itself is sovereign, but anyone who wants to live in there isn't.
So country status is dependent on how willing someone else is to seize the territory by force? ...Actually that started as a joke but that's a pretty good definition.
@@professorhaystacks6606 In this definition antarctica isn't a country, since pretty much every govt has agreed none of them are going to seize it. And you know what? i think im fine with antarctica not being called a country! no permanent and no real govt either.
@@divyanshaggarwal6292 Might need some tweaking: Someone somewhere has to WANT to seize the territory by force, but be unable to for it to be a 'country'. If they are able to then it is 'in flux' and not yet a firm 'country' and if no one wants to it is Antarctica.
6:25 Somewhat Relevant Fun Fact: Before the Soviet Union collapsed, the SSRs of Byelorussia (Belarus) and Ukraine had full membership in the United Nations, despite being under the sovereignty of the USSR.
Humourously informative has to be my absolute favourite kind of youtube video. And you lads do some of the best. Love the hard work.
Fun fact about micronations: I'm the reason why micronations no longer can use the "country" infobox on Wikipedia!
Dish!
1:06 ❤@@Roshkin
What did you do?
How did you do that?
@@andrewwebb917 Someone opened up an RfC, basically a structured public comment, regarding their use of the infobox. Specifically, it was about whether there was a community consensus to make them use a different infobox. Ultimately, I was the "closer", which meant I made the final judgment of what the community consensus was-and I made the decision that there was consensus for making them use a new infobox.
Fun fact, there are three flag emojis for Norway.
Norway, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, and Bouvet Island.
Norway is 3x the country of other countries.
Same for France with the France 🇨🇵 emoji, Clipperton Island 🇨🇵 emoji and St. Martin 🇲🇫 emoji
Don't forget the US with two - the mainland itself and the US Minor Outlying Islands! 🇺🇸🇺🇲
This channel is awesome ! Im so happy I came across it :)
Also, a completely regular MAP MEN intro might just be the most unique intro to date
The giggle ‘it is isn’t it’s at 9:00 is gold