Biracial Boy then [unspecified number] nations would be so confused as to why you want to look down a barrel. Especially when there is multiple types of barrel.
You can because if it were made today he'd have thrown Donetsk and Luhansk in as part of the disputed "Russia thinks they're countries, no one else does" camp.
Fun fact, work in an immigration-related field and in my job interview they asked me this very question. And because I watched this video, I was able to give them an impressively comprehensive answer. Thanks Grey!
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how CGP calls every country 'she', except Vatican City, 'given his demographics'. Well played, CGP, well played.
Interesting thought. I mean, anytime I've heard someone talk about "defending America" (with varying degrees of credibility), it's always been "we'll defend *her.* " English doesn't generally have feminine/masculine nouns, but I think cars and countries tend to be feminine.
@@ichijofestival2576 because most call their countries, Mother Country / Motherland. though, I've seen Germany WWII propaganda call theirs Fatherland and (i'm no expert) but latin for country is patria, similar or related to father = patri. so nevermind what i said.
There is no such country called Taiwan, its official name is "Republic of China", it is a limited recognize state (And when someone recognize it as a country, it is recognized as the sole legal government of the whole of China)
The Generalissimo In 2036 the Vatican will take the gold in: The "100 meter Holy Hand Grenade toss" (Barely beating out the US, whose many MANY Olympic grenade tossers were unaccustomed to these grenades' incredible holiness) The "200 meter Latin chant competition" (Japan will take silver, the UK will take Bronze. Italy will embarrassingly not place) The "Solid Gold Crucifix lift" The "200 meter Scripture writing relay" (Saudi Arabia gave them a run for their money, though) The "most wrinkles competition" (Almost lost to the newest contender Yourmomia) The "100 meter Altar Boy" (which was not televised in some countries) And Pole Vaulting. Weirdly, they only got silver for the "Funniest hat" competition, losing to Team Fortress 2.
Isak Svensson Lol. Have you seen Brother Maccabays arm though? That man can make it *brimstone.* Once, as he was training in the Apostolic Palace, he threw one so hard he made the Pope crap his pants. Hence the most appropriate use of the words "holy shit" by any human being.
Yes! People must stop thinking of countries as more than they are, which is the equivalent of a file cabinet. Culture, language, and worldview make us who we are; nationality is an insignificant birthmark.
Lone Starr SO TRUE. Nationality is purely a political construct. Your race and ethnicity is what defines you. Even political borders are something we need to transcend. I hope future societies allow for fluid mobility and travel and find a better alternative to passports, visas and border control.
Ascolano Irl Of course there will be problems at first, it might seem impossible, ending slavery in America seemed impossible but hey then the Civil War came about and slavery was abolished. There should be a less border control universally.
Ascolano Irl I don’t think you got what I said, in fact you are changing the topic. What I am saying is that’s there is a need for a radical redefinition of a “national boundary”, there has to be a better alternative to passports, something more efficient than border control and visas, equal access to all services regardless of citizenship status. Maybe that’s too idealistic, but nonetheless possible
Lone Starr I would like to add that many times, culture and language define political borders. When a single culture inhabits a single country, it's called a nation state. Certain nation states include Japan and Germany. In fact, World War 1 and 2 were partially caused by the lack of Nation states in Europe. Because of this, most borders in Europe are defined specifically with culture and language in mind. This doesn't apply to many countries however, especially in Africa, where most of the borders have been superimposed with little regard to culture by former colonizers, leading to years of struggle and conflict. Nation states exist specifically to stop this kind of devicive conflict between ethnicities and cultures. Wow, sorry. I didn't mean to go on a tangent like this. I guess I'm having flashbacks from my Human Geography class, lol.
Hmm, I wonder why the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, that was made after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, is recognized by Turkey and no one else. Can't seem to put my finger on it
Also 20+ countries said they are waiting for a signal from Turkey to recognize North Cyprus. But Turkey gives reunification talks the priority instead. For now, at least. As Turkey seems to be fed up with the endless fruitless reunification talks (after decades) and mostlikely will start soon with active recognition politics.
We don't know which is cannon, if Skyrim became a country, or stayed as an Imperial Provence, because both are possible in the game! This would be cool if it leaded to a split timeline theory in the Elder Scrolls universe! It's like Schrodinger's Country!
António Santos it’s a fucking joke not an insult. An insult is that the Catholic Church is stupid and deserves to be burned. A joke is “the only way the Vatican City could earn a gold in the Olympics is if god intervened”
This reminds me of something I've heard before - "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Languages are surprisingly hard to define! One of the key differentiators is mutual intelligibility (whether or not you can understand each other) - but speakers of different dialects of chinese can't understand each other, yet speakers of spanish and portuguese languages sometimes can!
This doesn’t even get into asymmetric intelligibility, where speakers of one dialect/language can understand the other much better than the inverse (e.g. the Portuguese people I know can often understand quite a bit of Spanish, but Spanish people generally can’t make anything of European Portuguese).
As a Southeast Asian, I always think of those Chinese so-called "dialects" aren't actually dialects, they are separate languages written in the same writing system. I think it's the same as English and German that both are written in Latin alphabet, but being two separate languages.
@@rusticcloud3325 oh definitely. Ask a linguist and they'll probably say that they're mostly different languages. But politically they're considered a single language, because China is very much invested in having a strong national identity. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have BSC, because for linguists and language learners there is almost no point in trying to actually distinguish between Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. But politically and culturally they're considered 3 languages
I love how he just breezes through all this complicated, lengthy material. He summed up the revolutionary and civil war in like, 3 sentences. And the decades of controversy with China and Taiwan was summed up in about the same amount of time. And it all makes sense! It doesn't bother me at all, because the slightly sarcastic narration is so great at poking fun at history and easily explaining the countries' places in the world.
Q: So how come with Olympics Britain takes part as a country, but in football England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately? A: YES!!!
The bit about Taiwan makes me so happy, I’m sometimes afraid of telling mainland Chinese that I’m taiwanese just in case they get really mad and start calling me weird names like traitor and stuff, but honestly Taiwan in all consideration, should be a country, it has everything to be a country but it’s just mainland China wouldn’t let go of this island
There's UK on Olympics. But if talking about football national teams - no UK, but England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland... And Great Britain is not even federation. That always confuses my pupils.
can we just talk about how kosovo individually thanks each country that recognizes it, that is just the cutest thing i have ever heard. i can imagine the president of a foreign country going "listen, i understand we don't recognize them now, but i mean how cool would it be for a shoutout on that website?"
Another consideration is whether the UK is one country or four. It is one unitary sovereign state and often counted as one in these lists. But the comprising nations are definitely thought of as countries (as opposed to states or prefectures) with their own national identities, culture, languages and sports teams.
Odd thing I just noticed - when CGP Gray says "some countries come" he shows South Sudan, yet on the world map, it shows a world before South Sudan's independence.
@@vam_ire1589 as someone who lives through the conflict every day, I think that was the best possible reaction. No 'one sentance summery' could give both sides justice, and at the end of the day, I wouldn't care for his opinion (even if he supported my view), as it is very rare to see people with actual well developed & researched opinions on the subject.
while I don't have a law degree, the "royal" family of Sealand did at least "salvage" an abandoned fortress (it is not an oil rig) and therefore own it legally. whether or not they made it into a country is another issue.
CGP Grey, out of all the RUclips channels and vids I have seen, you are THE ONLY ONE who gives 15-20 seconds at the end of your content before the video ends. Everyone else ends immediately or almost immediately after the content stops. This makes it difficult to pause the video to do various tasks that video viewers like to do at the ends of videos. Therefore, THANK YOU!!
+Renn Li Taiwan's recognition as a country is more and more out of border over the past few years. Some suggested that Taiwan is a country as R.O.C. in Taiwan. Some claims that Taiwan is a part of unclaimed territory of US(Which a bit weird theory imo) Some thinks that Taiwan should (Or already) become a independent country. (Which the next party run for office DPP bias to) Which will piss off China the most. Like some people and legislators in Taiwan likes to stick stickers of Taiwan on their ROC passport. Which I think it's a bit of stupid act.
Holly Creavin It's still controversial topic here. And I guess you arrived in the south of Taiwan. Where most of the people support DPP there. In my opinion, Taiwan really doesn't have the problem to be independent or not. I just don't understand why there are some people denies the existence of ROC, where the government that rules Taiwan is ROC... We are indeed ROC, not PRC, fact. (Say me biased, but this is the truth.)
Holly Creavin Oh, so you went to the Northern Taiwan? Not surprise. And that old palace IS an art museum. It's called the National Palace Museum, it's really famous. It's home for some the artifacts that were from the original National Palace in Beijing. The indigenous culture museum...don't know what is it...
Please make a video on the issues in the Middle East. I understand that is extremely broad, but I think it is one of the most important topics today. Please give this suggestion a thumbs up so that CGP Grey can see it!
"Though even her inflated list doesn't include the Vatican City because given his demographics, divine intervention would be required to take home a gold." Golden
Why are all countries female? Is it so that you can make their skirts the flags? Because if so that's really cute and a good idea.Keep up the great content :D
James Bond Though China is a HUGE trading partner for the west, USA already has massive economic problems, getting a trade embargo from China would make USA collapse, and so most of the western world..
In germany, there is a '3-factor-definition' for countries. Regarding that, everything is a country that has - a state people - a state territory - a state government
Am from Taiwan and thanks for mentioning Taiwan! It's nice to have more people understand about Taiwan and.. all the China or Chinese Taipei or whatever etc. Great video!
I'm Taiwanese too (my family has been there for generations--over a century, and I have some aboriginal blood). What I find odd, is that Taiwan has its own currency, laws, political system, passports, health care system...none of which have changed in the last few decades, and none of which looks anything like the PRC's. Still, Taiwan was more widely recognized as a country in the 80s and 90s than it has been in the last decade, as China's gained economic and political power--essentially bullying other countries to at least stay silent on Taiwan's status. Kind of funny that the status of one country/territory/place (Taiwan) can be called into question based on the fluctuating power of another country (China)...(but as this video illustrates, that happens all the time, given that whether the UN recognizes a country is based on the opinions of a few select countries...) In any case, glad that Taiwan was brought up in this video!
GAO Xiang Both you and Taiwan are provinces of the only rightful China; the Empire of China. Both of your existences brings shame to your ancestors who fought to protect the emperor. You should both be ashamed of yourselves.
GAO Xiang Republics are flawed, and nothing but Western propaganda that you have fallen for. There is no logic or morals to majority rule. Your ancestors defended the Empire, it was only after being attacked by the West that you decided to become traitors.
I still think of Taiwan as the Republic of China. The Republic was formed in the 20s, disrupted by the Japanese, and overthrown on the mainland by the Communists. One people, two lands, two governments.
China: Look Vegeta! It’s a Chinese Taipei! Taiwan: I’m not a Chinese Taipei, I’m Taiwan! Taiwan! China: Hear that Vegeta? It’s a Chinese Taipei! I’m gonna catch it!
It gets a bit painful waiting for vids cause this guy is essentially a one man operation. I *suspect* he may also be a perfectionist =D. If you like the content make sure to subscribe on subbable.
sealand is more of a country then you think. at one point germany invaded and 20 years later they came beack in a helicopter and with shotguns and imprisoned a german for 9 months. It has a royal family who have ruled for decades too. Edit: I know all of this because for my birthday my bro bought me lordship of sealand(off of their website, you get a certifacte and passport-ish thing), its really cool (i have no power, just a title). It got me interrested in Sealand.
4:46 Sealand is also very complicated, and moreso than just a crazy person with a flag. It was illegally built in international waters, making it not technically the property of England.
Geography lessons in school might have been more interesting if we got more thought provoking lessons like this rather than just being tasked with remembering the names of a bunch of countries, labeling some of their major cities and natural features, and then coloring them in on blank maps.
0:46 Kind of reminded me of Hetalia, specifically Sealand trying to become a country at the World Conference Someone please help me I think I have an obsession
That’s a surprisingly simplistic description of the Taiwan situation. While PRC does not recognise ROC, it is important to remember that ROC does not recognise PRC either. A hold over of the unresolved Chinese civil war.
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The answer to "How many countries are there" is "Depends on who's gun I'm staring down the barrel of".
Super Smash Dolls whose
How about John's, how many countries now?
@@sistersad7830 197
Sister Sad Do you know how little that narrows it down?
Biracial Boy then [unspecified number] nations would be so confused as to why you want to look down a barrel. Especially when there is multiple types of barrel.
This is the thing I love about CGP Grey. His videos are so high quality that you cannot say if the video was from 2013 or 2020...
also CONSISTENCY!!! which is extremely amazing given that technically they can make a more elaborate or complex style
You can because if it were made today he'd have thrown Donetsk and Luhansk in as part of the disputed "Russia thinks they're countries, no one else does" camp.
@@pattersong6637 and if it were made today... let's not talk about that
@@pattersong6637 pretty sure Syria recognizes them…
Me i thought it was 2 days ago then he said 194 countries i was like what year is that then i looked it was written 8years ago, i was shock-ed!
*walks into UN HQ's General Assembly*
*starts counting*
*gets arrested*
o k .
Oooohhhhh, so *YOU* were *THAT* guy everyone in un was talking about. You know you did alot of damage walking in on us.
Would give you a like, but you have 420 and I wouldnt touch it
@@trezapoioiuy 9 months later im here to remind you that you may like the comment now
@@Engieman909I see, people vandalized the number
Fun fact, work in an immigration-related field and in my job interview they asked me this very question. And because I watched this video, I was able to give them an impressively comprehensive answer. Thanks Grey!
Did you get the job?
@@anonymouscausewhynot Yes!!
@@KingJaredoftheLand great to hear!
@@KingJaredoftheLand congrats!!
@@KingJaredoftheLand do you still work there?
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how CGP calls every country 'she', except Vatican City, 'given his demographics'. Well played, CGP, well played.
huh?
Vatican City doesn't have any official Female Citizens.
And he used the stick from the Vatican City video which was his male "model"
Interesting thought. I mean, anytime I've heard someone talk about "defending America" (with varying degrees of credibility), it's always been "we'll defend *her.* " English doesn't generally have feminine/masculine nouns, but I think cars and countries tend to be feminine.
@@ichijofestival2576 because most call their countries, Mother Country / Motherland. though, I've seen Germany WWII propaganda call theirs Fatherland and (i'm no expert) but latin for country is patria, similar or related to father = patri. so nevermind what i said.
"Easy, just grab a map and start counting"
*Yakko Warner comes in and starts dancing.*
The Spanish Sahara is spain
B O T S W A N A !
Germany now wants peace.
Ashling Mcdonagh *Germany now in one piece
*UNITED STATES CANADA MEXICO PANAMA HAITI JAMAICA PERU, REPUBLIC DOMINICAN CUBA CARRIBEAN GREENLAND EL SALVADOR TO-*
it's pretty crazy how well this video has aged
We need a definition of a country that implicitely recognizes Sealand as a country.
@@grenadaball7655 by your definition every town is a country if they choose to be
Me searching in google: Is Taiwan a country?
*China wants to know your location*
Chinatown
Nuclear strike detected
I am in Taiwan as of me reading this comment what a coincidence 😂😂
Shit changed fast in the six years since this video released.
There is no such country called Taiwan, its official name is "Republic of China", it is a limited recognize state (And when someone recognize it as a country, it is recognized as the sole legal government of the whole of China)
Vatican city needs to hold the olympics. Just imagine. Professional Latin reading or Preaching.
The Generalissimo In 2036 the Vatican will take the gold in:
The "100 meter Holy Hand Grenade toss" (Barely beating out the US, whose many MANY Olympic grenade tossers were unaccustomed to these grenades' incredible holiness)
The "200 meter Latin chant competition" (Japan will take silver, the UK will take Bronze. Italy will embarrassingly not place)
The "Solid Gold Crucifix lift"
The "200 meter Scripture writing relay" (Saudi Arabia gave them a run for their money, though)
The "most wrinkles competition" (Almost lost to the newest contender Yourmomia)
The "100 meter Altar Boy" (which was not televised in some countries)
And Pole Vaulting.
Weirdly, they only got silver for the "Funniest hat" competition, losing to Team Fortress 2.
Let Us No, England would win Holy Hand Grenade toss as King Arthur passed the knowledge down the ages.
Isak Svensson Lol. Have you seen Brother Maccabays arm though? That man can make it *brimstone.* Once, as he was training in the Apostolic Palace, he threw one so hard he made the Pope crap his pants. Hence the most appropriate use of the words "holy shit" by any human being.
Let Us I see, going to be a great show. Can't wait for 2016 Olympics.
Isak Svensson Rio de Janeiro, right? Going to be awesome.
"Okay, no more politics!" That's literally the only thing that defines countries.
Yes! People must stop thinking of countries as more than they are, which is the equivalent of a file cabinet. Culture, language, and worldview make us who we are; nationality is an insignificant birthmark.
Lone Starr SO TRUE. Nationality is purely a political construct. Your race and ethnicity is what defines you. Even political borders are something we need to transcend. I hope future societies allow for fluid mobility and travel and find a better alternative to passports, visas and border control.
Ascolano Irl Of course there will be problems at first, it might seem impossible, ending slavery in America seemed impossible but hey then the Civil War came about and slavery was abolished.
There should be a less border control universally.
Ascolano Irl I don’t think you got what I said, in fact you are changing the topic. What I am saying is that’s there is a need for a radical redefinition of a “national boundary”, there has to be a better alternative to passports, something more efficient than border control and visas, equal access to all services regardless of citizenship status. Maybe that’s too idealistic, but nonetheless possible
Lone Starr I would like to add that many times, culture and language define political borders. When a single culture inhabits a single country, it's called a nation state. Certain nation states include Japan and Germany. In fact, World War 1 and 2 were partially caused by the lack of Nation states in Europe. Because of this, most borders in Europe are defined specifically with culture and language in mind. This doesn't apply to many countries however, especially in Africa, where most of the borders have been superimposed with little regard to culture by former colonizers, leading to years of struggle and conflict. Nation states exist specifically to stop this kind of devicive conflict between ethnicities and cultures.
Wow, sorry. I didn't mean to go on a tangent like this. I guess I'm having flashbacks from my Human Geography class, lol.
The fact that Kazakhstan was #4 in the beginning is nice. A usually overlooked country got to shine here.
Which is impressive considering it's amongst the top 10 largest nations by surface area.
Overlooked? Considering the wild success of Borat, I’d disagree 😂 That country gets waaay more attention than warranted lmao
The Kazakh national anthem is also a BANGER
“Hong Kong: makes no claims to independence”
That didn’t age well.
Why not? They are not claiming independence even now, you should really research why you shoutout "Free Honk Kong" before you fucking do it...
@@TrungPhan-cz3bi "LOL IM 10 AND I THINK EVERYTHING IS WOOOOSH"
@@vatri357 It's called a joke, Genius
@@vatri357 woosh
@@vatri357 wooosh btw its hong not honk
3:37 never have I seen a bespectacled stick man look so 900% done with humanity
It’s Palestine’s fault
@@Planetyyyy not... now...
@@Planetyyyy no it isn't
I live in Cyprus and Northern Cyprus literally has one supporter.... Turkey
@Артём And all of the UN other than Turkey
Hmm, I wonder why the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, that was made after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, is recognized by Turkey and no one else. Can't seem to put my finger on it
@@HeadCannon19 Because the USA have threatened other countries not to recognize.
Also 20+ countries said they are waiting for a signal from Turkey to recognize North Cyprus. But Turkey gives reunification talks the priority instead.
For now, at least. As Turkey seems to be fed up with the endless fruitless reunification talks (after decades) and mostlikely will start soon with active recognition politics.
@@ferka6447 Let me make a wild guess, you're a Turk, right?
It took me the entire video to realize that this is 9 years old. This aged remarkably well
*Click on the video*
How many countries are there?
"About 200?"
*End of the video"
"I was more right than I thought."
*HAPPY OLYMPICS NOISES*
195
9000!
Funnily there’s almost two hundred likes on this
At least 3.
So is Skyrim considered a country or still part of the Empire?
As a wise man said, "Menjar be I caga fort, a la tingues por de la mort."
Bonus pts to whoever translates.
Max Wilderson
"Eat shit and be strong, to be afraid of death."
We don't know which is cannon, if Skyrim became a country, or stayed as an Imperial Provence, because both are possible in the game! This would be cool if it leaded to a split timeline theory in the Elder Scrolls universe! It's like Schrodinger's Country!
Icarus Solarus I think it's going to be the timeline where you don't pick a side.
Icarus Solarus Heh.
Giving Vatican city's demographics, divine intervention would be required to take home a gold.. HAHAHA
Roast...
António Santos you realize the joke is about the fact the citizens of Vatican City are those employed by the pope and statistically are 50+
António Santos it’s a fucking joke not an insult. An insult is that the Catholic Church is stupid and deserves to be burned. A joke is “the only way the Vatican City could earn a gold in the Olympics is if god intervened”
António Santos and you’re clearly an insult on the human race
António Santos you really mean that 🥺 what gave it away 🙄
4:13 I would pay significant money to watch some Cardinals play in the olympics. Special medals for "most broken hips".
4:14
There’s now a part of me that wants to train a Vatican City Olympic team
Can they include the Swiss Guard as Vatican citizens?
The next crusade
Why not? Get some monks together! Shot put!
@@artistwithouttalent Yes, they can.
And funfact the Swiss Guard has even a soccer Team.
I need to see this, a bunch of old religious men doing hardcore sports would be a dream come true.
I spot a creeper lurking at 0:12 :D
nice eyes
Vision 1000
I found it
@luke kelly top right
I did too
Watching this video 9 years later, knowing what happened recently in Tansnistria, Karabakh and Ossetia is weird.
Hey, guy from 2 days ago, what about Kosovo today?... Tomorrow?
What happend to these countries? Can't check rn.
Kosovo je Srbija
@@ayrtonpavot3096 that's like saying Austria is Germany
@@ayrtonpavot3096 ne
Thanks!
For the interested:
The two flags that Grey shows at 4:46 are the flags of the micronations Republic of Minerva and Sealand, respectively.
Thanks.
Sealand Forever!!!
@@kirkorpicard 30 people, sounds like a country to me
This reminds me of something I've heard before - "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Languages are surprisingly hard to define! One of the key differentiators is mutual intelligibility (whether or not you can understand each other) - but speakers of different dialects of chinese can't understand each other, yet speakers of spanish and portuguese languages sometimes can!
This doesn’t even get into asymmetric intelligibility, where speakers of one dialect/language can understand the other much better than the inverse (e.g. the Portuguese people I know can often understand quite a bit of Spanish, but Spanish people generally can’t make anything of European Portuguese).
As a Southeast Asian, I always think of those Chinese so-called "dialects" aren't actually dialects, they are separate languages written in the same writing system.
I think it's the same as English and German that both are written in Latin alphabet, but being two separate languages.
@@rusticcloud3325 oh definitely. Ask a linguist and they'll probably say that they're mostly different languages. But politically they're considered a single language, because China is very much invested in having a strong national identity.
On the opposite end of the spectrum you have BSC, because for linguists and language learners there is almost no point in trying to actually distinguish between Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. But politically and culturally they're considered 3 languages
I love how he just breezes through all this complicated, lengthy material. He summed up the revolutionary and civil war in like, 3 sentences. And the decades of controversy with China and Taiwan was summed up in about the same amount of time. And it all makes sense! It doesn't bother me at all, because the slightly sarcastic narration is so great at poking fun at history and easily explaining the countries' places in the world.
Man, I'm sad to know CGP Grey doesn't support my plans to make a small island nation off the coast of Canada :(
0:29 oh my Lord I just realized how old this video is
That number hasn't changed the last change was 193-South Sudan in 2011
Palestine is sort of a country now... ish... but who can tell at this point
I think he was talking about the ui
There are 195 countries now
@@fortunateghost7438 isnt it 197
Summary
Q: How many countries are there?
A: Yes
Well yes but actually no.
There are 18 trillion countries
Oof
Q: So how come with Olympics Britain takes part as a country, but in football England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately?
A: YES!!!
Damn
0:26 oh god, this was such high quality I didn’t realize it was so old
The bit about Taiwan makes me so happy, I’m sometimes afraid of telling mainland Chinese that I’m taiwanese just in case they get really mad and start calling me weird names like traitor and stuff, but honestly Taiwan in all consideration, should be a country, it has everything to be a country but it’s just mainland China wouldn’t let go of this island
台灣才是真正的中國!
Taiwan is absolutely a country. I wish other countries (like my home Australia) would grow some balls and recognise Taiwan.
Taiwan also isn’t letting go of china mainland as well. Is a problem from both sides
It does make sense that China wants to protect its territorial integrity. Other countries do it as well with their separatist territories.
Make them mad, they're the real traitors
Well now I know that the earth is like high school...
High school is actually a pretty good small scale representation of how society works. It's terrifying.
Except you know, the things you learn in school are pretty- useless.
is not susprising. adults are in nothing diferent from kids. kids want toys. adults want money to buy toys. what a diference.
Annabel R The un is like a club, while capitalism, monarchs, and communists are clubs fighting each other.
Annabel R high school never ends!
There's UK on Olympics. But if talking about football national teams - no UK, but England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland... And Great Britain is not even federation. That always confuses my pupils.
And what about Sovereign Military Order of Malta?
+Andriy Vasylenko Actually, there is a Great Britain Olympic team. Not a UK one.
Also, despite Wales having its own football national team, Welsh clubs compete in the English Championship
Ambie Gibson Lol
Ambie Gibson Another +1 to all of the UK/GB/ENG story))
can we just talk about how kosovo individually thanks each country that recognizes it, that is just the cutest thing i have ever heard. i can imagine the president of a foreign country going "listen, i understand we don't recognize them now, but i mean how cool would it be for a shoutout on that website?"
Another consideration is whether the UK is one country or four. It is one unitary sovereign state and often counted as one in these lists. But the comprising nations are definitely thought of as countries (as opposed to states or prefectures) with their own national identities, culture, languages and sports teams.
Odd thing I just noticed - when CGP Gray says "some countries come" he shows South Sudan, yet on the world map, it shows a world before South Sudan's independence.
I love how Gray brings up the Israel/Palestine graphic before just going "not gonna happen."
I was waiting to see how a usually neutral guy would address the situation there. I laughed when he skipped it but I was nevertheless disappointed
@@vam_ire1589 as someone who lives through the conflict every day, I think that was the best possible reaction. No 'one sentance summery' could give both sides justice, and at the end of the day, I wouldn't care for his opinion (even if he supported my view), as it is very rare to see people with actual well developed & researched opinions on the subject.
The two are in a state of war so perhaps the best answer is 'unresolved'.
@@yanivrubin4166 In essence, the thing there is "On dispute"
@@yanivrubin4166 Probably right but I was still disappointed.
CGP: talking about countries "Nutter who plants a flag on an island or oil rig"
Sealand: [crying in corner]
He kinda just made that to cheat taxes and pirate radio
while I don't have a law degree, the "royal" family of Sealand did at least "salvage" an abandoned fortress (it is not an oil rig) and therefore own it legally. whether or not they made it into a country is another issue.
CGP Grey, out of all the RUclips channels and vids I have seen, you are THE ONLY ONE who gives 15-20 seconds at the end of your content before the video ends. Everyone else ends immediately or almost immediately after the content stops. This makes it difficult to pause the video to do various tasks that video viewers like to do at the ends of videos.
Therefore, THANK YOU!!
Did anyone else press the WWIII Start Now Button?
THAT explains the mushroom cloud I saw earlier.
+Francisco what would happen?
Sorry But I pressed pressed it so hard it broke.
Muslims do. They need learn.
Andres Ortiz
insert THAT'S RACIST gif
Was that a Homestar Runner reference?
Fancy seeing you here.
Hello! *Parv Grin*
Trogdor!
i love you guys
aren't you pressfarttocontineu logged in with adiffernt account
I love how you just showed a picture of the West Bank, and was like "fuuuuuuck this".
Benjamin fuck yeah
I'm impressed. 9 years later and two of his video suggestions (0:30) are actually correct.
00:11 Why there is a damn creeper on the right ?
he did that in other videos. I think he's done that in more episodes too.
Oh no. That does not look good for un.
Year 2030 minecraft declares independence
Aw man...
oh lol
According to RUclips my video was banned in 248 countries. Everywhere except Canada. But google says 196 countries. WHAT IS THIS.
What dose RUclips consider the country? "Yeps"
Your “Minecraft” video got banned?
Slackow there is only 214 countries
193 countries exist.
make a separate video about Taiwan like you did Macau and Hong Kong XD
+Renn Li
Taiwan's recognition as a country is more and more out of border over the past few years.
Some suggested that Taiwan is a country as R.O.C. in Taiwan.
Some claims that Taiwan is a part of unclaimed territory of US(Which a bit weird theory imo)
Some thinks that Taiwan should (Or already) become a independent country. (Which the next party run for office DPP bias to) Which will piss off China the most.
Like some people and legislators in Taiwan likes to stick stickers of Taiwan on their ROC passport. Which I think it's a bit of stupid act.
Holly Creavin
It's still controversial topic here. And I guess you arrived in the south of Taiwan. Where most of the people support DPP there.
In my opinion, Taiwan really doesn't have the problem to be independent or not. I just don't understand why there are some people denies the existence of ROC, where the government that rules Taiwan is ROC...
We are indeed ROC, not PRC, fact. (Say me biased, but this is the truth.)
Holly Creavin
What landmarks did you went when you go to Taiwan?
Holly Creavin
Oh, so you went to the Northern Taiwan? Not surprise.
And that old palace IS an art museum. It's called the National Palace Museum, it's really famous. It's home for some the artifacts that were from the original National Palace in Beijing.
The indigenous culture museum...don't know what is it...
+黃鑫（mario123007） 我觉得其实台湾理论上就是和中国独立分开的，只不过挂个中国名而已。
It’s really hilarious watching this seven years later and seeing how nothing has changed since this video came out
Please make a video on the issues in the Middle East. I understand that is extremely broad, but I think it is one of the most important topics today. Please give this suggestion a thumbs up so that CGP Grey can see it!
ITS NOT AN OIL RIG
Its
Oxydation
Is
Loss of electron
Reduction
Is
Gain of electron
Is that a poland ball cartoon?
@@redrock9319 really
@@strider04 yup
Sealand, calm down. You are a real country
"Though even her inflated list doesn't include the Vatican City because given his demographics, divine intervention would be required to take home a gold."
Golden
Vatican City wouldn’t get the joke then?
literally
Considering recent events, it might be interesting to see the sequel to this video sometime in the nearish future.
Why are all countries female? Is it so that you can make their skirts the flags? Because if so that's really cute and a good idea.Keep up the great content :D
+King Duck It's because countries are referred to as shes.
most country's are referred to she like "mother russia" and stuff like that but Germany refers it to a guy "father land"
+David Crooning Brazilians call their country "Mother" but still refer to it using male articles and pronouns. It's weird.
Yea...But Why Make Me A Country Called The Repulbic Of Wiginstine!
"It's a she" and "the motherland" "mother russia"
Certain countries would use Fatherland...Germany comes to mind.
I almost died at the "Is China gone?" bit, I don't know what about it was so funny but it just had me rolling. xD
James Bond Taiwan and Hawaii is different though, Taiwan and China has been at war for over 70years, ofcourse its a sensitive mater for many chinese
James Bond
Though China is a HUGE trading partner for the west, USA already has massive economic problems, getting a trade embargo from China would make USA collapse, and so most of the western world..
James Bond
Ah sorry, answered the wrong guy .-.
In germany, there is a '3-factor-definition' for countries.
Regarding that, everything is a country that has
- a state people
- a state territory
- a state government
That makes Taiwan a country. And Vatican.
That makes all dutch provinces countries, as all have a, though smaller, branch of government
4:12 I mean, divine intervention is sort of what they base their whole life around, so maybe they should give it a shot
0:11 - That'sssss a very nice committee you have there.
Harrison Shone would be a ssssshame if anything would happen to it.
I know, there isssss a creeper... Nice CDP Grey...
Thank you, someone that likes Notch
*explodes*
"Get off my land" "make me! Also, you don't exist" LMAO
I love this guy!! Sarcastic, humorous and educative at the same time.
Is it just me loving math too much or the numbers at 4:59 reminds me of factorial in mathematics?
Fun for #Friday !
CGPGrey is just brilliant.
brillant ;)
The CIA World Factbook provides information for 267 world entities or "countries."
Make a crack on the facenorris wall
Countries are increasing every century then how globalization will be there in future ?
Vivek Rajendran It's interesting, isn't it!
0:11 Creeper in the background.
Be careful employee it will blow up
nice catch
I dont see it.
@@malyhakhakwani5388 Look at the man in the dark suit at the corner of the painting. It's next to him.
Shawn Domenico i see a green alien on the right corner
But not the creeper
Im getting so stressed.😣
although given it's demographics, divine intervention would be required to bag the gold! this was gold!
Elderly European clergymen are not generally star athletes
The year is 2022 and this video hits differently right now ngl
Am from Taiwan and thanks for mentioning Taiwan! It's nice to have more people understand about Taiwan and.. all the China or Chinese Taipei or whatever etc. Great video!
lalalalalalalalalalalalala cao ni ma
I'm Taiwanese too (my family has been there for generations--over a century, and I have some aboriginal blood). What I find odd, is that Taiwan has its own currency, laws, political system, passports, health care system...none of which have changed in the last few decades, and none of which looks anything like the PRC's. Still, Taiwan was more widely recognized as a country in the 80s and 90s than it has been in the last decade, as China's gained economic and political power--essentially bullying other countries to at least stay silent on Taiwan's status. Kind of funny that the status of one country/territory/place (Taiwan) can be called into question based on the fluctuating power of another country (China)...(but as this video illustrates, that happens all the time, given that whether the UN recognizes a country is based on the opinions of a few select countries...)
In any case, glad that Taiwan was brought up in this video!
1:27 woah...that homestar runner throwback.
interesting , the vatican is the only male country
Tapash Alister That's because countries and continents are usually called 'she' but there are only men in Vatican City because...religion.
Every country ending with "-stan" is a male country. (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan)
Serhii Mamedov Vatistan City
tri lol
Vatican has all the girls to himself
I love the annotation at 3:30 that takes you to the nuke map
I love geography so much so this is super cool cause no one else I talk knows that they exist
Or don't exist
TheGreatNorth I AGREE WITH YOU MAN
TheGreatNorth You should check out the Channel: Geography now! He's really awesome and such!
nobody in this chain speaks english!!!!!
lol
My favorite country is Tai- *CENSORED*
you play drawception eh?
It's the Republic of China
Tailand
or
Thailand
Taiwan ain't a country
@@memosore7712 that's where u buy tails
"You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor." lol
TRAITOR *sick spins*
+Tomas Canevaro REBEL SCU- I mean TRAITOR!
It's possible to be both, +Baran Hekimoglu
ThePCguy17 But why be both when you can pull off some dank-ass memes
Baran Hekimoglu Because then you can pull off more dank-ass memes at once?
I love coming back to these videos, and not noticing how old they are at all
4:41 You besmirch the name of Sealand!
SEALAND IS A COUNTRY
Did Sealand join the EU?
Hi, I am a Taiwanese. Thank you introduce the situation between China and us(Taiwan, R.O.C, Chinese Taipei, China Taipei...whatever you say)
GAO Xiang Both you and Taiwan are provinces of the only rightful China; the Empire of China. Both of your existences brings shame to your ancestors who fought to protect the emperor. You should both be ashamed of yourselves.
GAO Xiang Republics are flawed, and nothing but Western propaganda that you have fallen for. There is no logic or morals to majority rule. Your ancestors defended the Empire, it was only after being attacked by the West that you decided to become traitors.
It's just Taipei......(China doesn't own us)
I still think of Taiwan as the Republic of China. The Republic was formed in the 20s, disrupted by the Japanese, and overthrown on the mainland by the Communists. One people, two lands, two governments.
2:02 honestly thought i went blind for a sec until i looked up lol
the only thing I can learn form CGP Grey is "hexagons are the Bestagones"
Yeah everything else hurts my brain because it’s so confusing.
CGP: How many countries are there?
Yakko: *am I a joke to you?*
The passage with China and Taiw...err sorry, Chinese Taipei was adorable.
Or am I the only one to think that 'cause I'm weird?
Oh.
You're not alone. :3
Cloudstar of Cloudclan
:3
Olympic is a bit... Special.
*Badum tss*
;D
Was that on purpose?
Kakakakakaaksywnwjayh
2:54 **CGP Grey is banned in China**
doesn’t matter as google and youtube already are banned
The olympics has an extra country for independent people who dont want to go underneath a flag.
What's the name of that extra country? Or should I say, where is it located?
Joseph Rain It's not really a country... try to recognize the Olympics as a country, and imagine it includes the whole world. Okay?
China: Look Vegeta! It’s a Chinese Taipei!
Taiwan: I’m not a Chinese Taipei, I’m Taiwan! Taiwan!
China: Hear that Vegeta? It’s a Chinese Taipei! I’m gonna catch it!
AMERICA blocked the poké ball! Don't be a thief!
I just found this channel... and wow.
Welcome to the club :D I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay.
It gets a bit painful waiting for vids cause this guy is essentially a one man operation. I *suspect* he may also be a perfectionist =D. If you like the content make sure to subscribe on subbable.
The only channel where I don't need to play the video on a faser speed.
The American Civil War bit was fantastic
sealand is more of a country then you think. at one point germany invaded and 20 years later they came beack in a helicopter and with shotguns and imprisoned a german for 9 months. It has a royal family who have ruled for decades too.
Edit: I know all of this because for my birthday my bro bought me lordship of sealand(off of their website, you get a certifacte and passport-ish thing), its really cool (i have no power, just a title). It got me interrested in Sealand.
+Learn Quick Germany is the only country ever to recognise Sealand. No one else has
+Halofreak117 UK.....
UK does not offcailly regonisce Sealand, they just call anyone on Sealnd a bunch of squatters
Halofreak117 That's your opinion, not reality.
I dont know much about Sealand history, so if im wrong please enlighten me. I enjoy history alot and wouldnt mind having this in my back pocket
I love how the second he saw the Israel/Gaza issue he was like "Nope, I give up."
palestine isn't a country.
I love how throughout the video you actively alternate in calling the locations either "countries" or "places".
1:16 South Ossetia looks like candy corn
Uuuu wa wo
*and or Georgia*
While on a map it looks like a ballsack
*FATALITY*
I’m I the only person who saw that creeper 0:11
What the fuck is it doing
Stormy Stevens aww man
That was well hidden
@@JusaRandomHuman so we back in the mine
Shay. W. Got our pickaxe swing from
4:46 Sealand is also very complicated, and moreso than just a crazy person with a flag. It was illegally built in international waters, making it not technically the property of England.
Geography lessons in school might have been more interesting if we got more thought provoking lessons like this rather than just being tasked with remembering the names of a bunch of countries, labeling some of their major cities and natural features, and then coloring them in on blank maps.
0:46 Kind of reminded me of Hetalia, specifically Sealand trying to become a country at the World Conference
Someone please help me I think I have an obsession
I think the principality of sealand counts
The principality of Sealand is the only country
Say it brother!
There are more Sealand Comments, than People from Sealand ^^
KOSOVO STRONKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
*LONG LIVE THE PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND*
Notice that at 0:12 there is a creeper. You really like Minecraft references, don't you CGP Grey?
i cant see it
it's at the VERY back of the painting of all the people. If the time is incorrect, I apologize
***** and 0:12. depending on how your computer pauses
Spot the creeper LOL
Kai Yang XD
That’s a surprisingly simplistic description of the Taiwan situation. While PRC does not recognise ROC, it is important to remember that ROC does not recognise PRC either. A hold over of the unresolved Chinese civil war.
Asking how many countries is like asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
DDub04 It takes 270 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
What if your tongue is extremely rough. It would take less possibly
Numbers between 190! and 210! are definitely wrong, by orders of magnitude
and then there's 9000!, which is just
Darth-Vader-Stan.
"You are a member of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!"
Super good video. Love it!