@@hugolafhugolaf The tragedy is that you are injecting your own racial bias about Muslims into this discussion. Such malice serves only to add to the animosity toward Muslims which only creates further conflict. In addition to that just look at the history. GB had been colonizing countries around the world for hundreds of years. Hence many residents of many Muslim countries that Britain absorbed would emmigrate to the UK in search of better opportunity. And Muslims in fact served in both world wars. They are not going away so why not make an effort to accept their presence in the UK and elsewhere??
@@carboncrafter793 That charge of a lack of general assimilation usually ignores the racist and marginalizing that Muslims often experience from xenophobic people who are ignorant of what Muslims are actually like as people. The Irish were mistreated in early America, as were American Indians, Asians, blacks and so on up right today by people who are prejudging Muslims without even knowing them as people. That has more to do with a minority not assimilating then anything else. Americans and peoples in other countries create a self-fulfilling prophecy because of their animosity toward the "other"!!
It's probably an over simplification. I would imagine that there were a lot more deals than that, with money, political influence, trade, etc. Land in Africa was fucking precious, so the country giving up it's land wouldn't just go "eh what the fuck, the king of Italy said so, so I guess you guys can have it".
UK and Belgium: Draw a line for us King of Italy: Ok I drew the line you wanted UK and Belgium: so much... *H E A R T* was put into this, amazing. We'll use it.
I live in Croatia and Trieste is the closest Italian city. I go there 5-10 times a year and it is one of the most beautiful cityies I have ever been to.
Good to know. I love Northern Italy, so that's on my short list for my next vacation. Since I want to visit Croatia too, that will give me the perfect excuse!
Worth mentioning that the Caprivi strip didn't even give Germany access to the east coast of Africa because Victoria Falls is just up the river and so their boats wouldn't have been able to go past it
Not only that but the arid deserts, being geographically isolated, and scarce resources can't help. I wish the best of luck to the Zambian people in preserving their democracy
@@thingonometry-1460 Especially when it's easier to blame someone else for your own failings. If it hadn't been for the "colonial" powers arrival Africans would still be living in the stone age.
Did you know that a micro state exists in Australia? It is a territory under the influence of the Great Emu Empire. During the First Emu War the Emu army took the territory and proclaimed it as a part of Emuland. Little did the Australians know the Second Emu War was coming, and they were unprepared. Emus attacked the weak spot, which turned out to be under their control. So they just expanded Emuland's territory. That territory is now known as "Sydney". The more you know.
The Appendix does serve a purpose. It stores good bacteria so if you lose everything in the colon (diarrhea) the appendix can secrete the good stuff back into your system.
It was bought way back when Russia was an Empire, not the USSR, the actual Russian empire in the 1800s. Specifically bought in 1867. But your a tid bit correct, Alaska became a state in 1959.
When you, a Black man, have to give up your land to the Belgians because an Italian king decided that the borders look good and Belgium and England agreed with him somewhere in Europe. *Visible Confusion*
@@hugolafhugolaf That is an extreme over simplification and just like your comment about Muslims in GB in another comment is a reflection of your racial bias. Understanding is almost always enhanced by knowledge. Many countries were created by European colonial powers with no regard to the different tribal enities therein. The DRC Demacratic Republic of Congo is such an example. Forcing tribes into one country that have no mutual goals or language can create conflict. Add to that the centuries of slave trade and having their natural resources stolen from them and getting zero compensation in return. And then people like you respond with a judgmental attitude while giving no indication that you have any idea of the history. Get the picture??
@@hugolafhugolaf It's really not that simple. Foreign meddling is what has fucked them over big time. In a hypothetical timeline where colonialism never happened, Africa might have eventually see a "Alexander the Great" that unified large areas of the continent... or it would've looked like that ethnic map with literally thousands of tiny countries. Europe benefited from it's geography, leading to technological and social progress (albeit slow) over time. Africa was divided from this thanks to the Sahara, leaving them to their own devices. There was far less spread of ideas and cultures tended to be in a far more primitive state. A state European powers took advantage of.
@Adam Marcinkowski Looks like you are caught up in your own racial bias calling the black people "weak" for not protecting their homeland from invaders. Study history for a while because you sound extremely misinformed!!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I checked the history, turns out the Europeans showed up with sticks and stones and took all of the rifles and steam engines away from the Wakandans...I mean Africans
@Adam Marcinkowski I bet you're the same type of person who complains about muslim immigrants. I guess your country is just weak for allowing them to "take over" as the far-right in europe claim
The Caprivi Strip is actually more useless than this video suggests. Shortly after Namibia secured this land, which they wanted so they can access the Indian Ocean through the Zambezi River, they learned of this little obstacle called Victoria Falls! The river was actually unnavigable, and the Germans really fucked up!
They wanted to access the Indian Ocean to link up with their colony there of present day Tanzania. They also traded the island of Zanzibar for the Caprivi, with the British.
When Yugoslavia still existed, my uncle was on vacation in Istria and tried wind surfing, but because there was a big wind and he was not very experienced, the wind took him to Italy, where was forbidden to travel. Fortunately, he somehow got back, but it's a funny story
@@-SPECIALISTDELTA- because in that time people in my country couldn't travel like now, only to specific countries and with a permision, Italy was one of the countries people couldnt visit
That area is actually three different panhandles spiraling into one another. There also seem to be quite a lot of enclaves in the area. Quite the mess.
4:12 when I realised he was being sarcastic I couldn't stop laughing. The Italian King was like "yeah.. think Belgium would like that swamp, I'ma have to give it to Belgium, sorry UK..."
@Albert D lybian Italian colonie ended in 1943 under Mussolini, cause:allied invasion Ethiopian Italian colonie (de facto) ended in 1941 under Mussolini His "parallel war" caused this not the decolonization
I've seen that on Google maps. All I can wonder is who thought that was a good idea? Was it planned to be like that by Britain or was it established afterwards?
The Gambia has one of the most delightfully-strange country shapes in the world and I love it. It almost looks as though it's _all_ panhandle. It is the answer to the question "What if we made our country completely along a narrow strip around one river?" .. and then named the country after said river!
In general, beyond what you mention, the Caprivi Strip was an attempt by Germany to begin to prevent a north to south British presence in Africa that linked Cairo to the Cape (this was a definite consideration for this panhandle beyond the river access to eastern Africa, which inevitably was discovered not to provide access to the Indian Ocean due to the blockage of Victoria Falls).
Very nicely researched, Joseph. I wasn't all that interested in history at school, but I did find this video interesting. When you see Earth from space, you realise that were all sharing a very fragile planet. It's sad that a lot of wars are fought over borders.
The Oklahoma panhandle came about starting when in 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union as a slave state and it's borders were subsequently re-arranged by Congress under the Compromise of 1850. Part of what the Compromise did was outlaw slavery north of the 36'30 Parallel cutting into much of Texas' panhandle. The panhandle's area north of the 36'30 Parallel was ceded to Congress and named "Public Land Strip" and commonly referred to as "No Man's Land", setting its southern border with Texas. The Compromise also created New Mexico Territory starting west of the the 103rd meridian, thus setting the western boundary of the strip, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 set the southern border of Kansas Territory as the 37th parallel, thus creating the northern boundary of No Man's Land. Finally in 1890 No Man's Land was assigned by Congress as part of Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act of 1890. In 1907 Oklahoma became a State with the merging of Oklahoma Territory with Indian Territory and that's the end of it.
Jafninetyfour Texas didn't want to give up its slaves so they agreed to have a part of their top cut off. It was added to a territory that is now Oklahoma.
Why the Hell did I get an image in my head of someone holding Oklahoma by the Panhandle and beating the shit out of a random country with it? And why did it make me laugh?
I agree. Just thinking of all the genocides and wars currently going on because that map is so colourful brings a tear to my eye. So beautiful and diverse :')
The border between Baarle nassau and baatle hertog is one of the weirdest borders in the world it's a part of the border between the netherlands and belgium
in 1198 part of Baarle was presented by the hertog (duke) of Brabant to what ended up being the Nassau family, which is now the royal family of the Netherlands. The bit that the duke kept is still part of Belgium. It is basically left this way because it causes little trouble. Both nations have a good relationship and very open borders. It's good for tourism, and well, it's a laff! So why change it? For more info and a map see wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle
5:29 Last year I drove through Zambia and went over Zambezi river on that tiny opening from Zambia to Botswana. Then driving 10km through Game Park in Botswana and over a river to Namibia . Then driving through this Caprivi strip to get to the coast. Very strange border indeed!
What about the little Russia spot? You know, the one between Lithuania and Poland with that use to be Prussian city. It's not a panhandle, but why haven't Liet or Pol taken it?
Presumably because neither want it badly enough to go up against Russia. Plus it's mostly full of Russians. So they probably wouldn't be happy being part of a different country. Deporting them en masse would be a massive human rights violation (ok, so that's what the Russians did to the former inhabitants, but two wrongs don't make a right).
"why haven't Liet or Pol taken it?" Because it's Russia. End of story. Doesn't matter if it's disconnected from the rest of Russia. Countries don't (or shouldn't) invade others these days. The area is called Kaliningrad Oblast. In the early 20th century, it was German, and it was called East Prussia. It was connected to the rest of Germany, because Germany at that time also possessed what's now the north coast of Poland. After Germany lost WWI, Poland gained some land along the Baltic Sea Coast, and East Prussia became disconnected from the rest of Germany. After Germany lost WWII, Poland gained more land from Germany. The USSR gained land from Germany as well. Poland and the USSR split East Prussia between them. Within the USSR, the Soviet portion of East Prussia became known as Kaliningrad Oblast. Rather than assign it to Lithuania, the Soviet authorities assigned it to Russia, even though it was disconnected from the rest of Russia. And the rest is history. When the USSR broke apart, Kaliningrad remained a part of independent Russia. The residents [nowadays] are Russians, and have no interest in joining Lithuania. Nor Poland. But as I already said, Poland got half of the old East Prussia anyways. You can look up the history of something if you're curious.
because we won that territory during WWII from Germany we didn't give to Lithuania or polandbecause Kaliningrad is an ethnicRussian not Lithuanian or Polish spot Polish and Lithuanian are written in the Latin script so it will mean literally redemarcating everything
"Russian history or one millennium of hard and not so hard fuck-ups" - really, that's literally what i learned in my course of russian history in the school and university.
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They have a lot of enclaves and 2nd order enclaves between as well as the demarcations that run through the street to ensure where the boundaries are between the two countries.
well before battlefield 1 there was Victoria 2 so i did actually know about the Austro Hungarian empire. o and i cant forget about the great youtube channel the great war
People in the eastern world would say the same thing about the western world not knowing about the kingdoms and empires from the east besides china, japan, and the mongols.
DZR3WIND I get your point. But AH was at the very heart of WWI. I mean it was the country that started it all. In that way it should be common knowledge. But WWI is usually overshadowed by WWII.
sad that i'm one of the few who knew about it without any games or channels though i really like the great war channel (i mean it's not a bad thing you know it from somewere else but you should learn it in history class or something like that)
I'm from South Africa and the thing that absolutely confuses me is the tiny country of Lesotho. Which is surrounded by the rest of South Africa but isn't part of South Africa. Tl:dr Lesotho is a tiny country inside another bigger country.
Now I am wondering about Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatia seems to "hog" the coastline while Bosnia and Herzegovina does not get much, except for ~20 km that seperates Dalmatia from the rest of Croatia.
That's correct. I believe the Bosnian coastline was due to the southern Orthodox state, Ragusa or Montenegro, wanted to keep away from Austria, due to fear of Austrian invasion. Hence, they let the Ottomans get a short strip of land so they themselves didn't have a land border with Austria anymore... In modern times, Bosnia retained this little strip of coastline.
Real story goes like this. Back in renaissance time Republic of Venice, and Republic of Ragusa ( modern day Dubrovnik) were two competing merchant republics. Venice had stronger military, controlled modern day Croatian provinces of Dalmatia and Istria and was for centuries constant threat to Ragusa. To ease that threat, Ragusa made a deal with Ottomans in 1718. Ragusa ceded 20 km wide Neum Strip to Ottomans to divide Ragusa from Venice and Ottomans granted independence of Ragusa and rights to conduct trade in their lands, mainly in Eyalet of Bosnia. BTW Republic of Ragusa was catholic state, and so was Venice. As for shape of Croatia. Back in the days Croatia had "normal" borders as part of modern day Bosnia was part of it. Bosnia was small duchy between Croatia and Serbia. Modern day shape is result of Ottomans military advances into Croatian lands. They penetrated in the middle of Croatia and their advances were finally stopped after the Long War. The land that Ottomans conquered is assigned to province Elayet of Bosnia and since then border is more or less stayed the same.
+Mosco Monster I mean you've got to remember, every country was made 'artificially' at one point. There's a video on RUclips that just shows how the British Isles looked throughout history and what country's were upon it - and it basically comes down to, someone has a lot of power, the power expands, extends over time - cultures mix, merge and suddenly it becomes easier to take over each other. For reference on just how 'artificial' country's and borders are - many country's before the industrial era didn't all speak the same language, France had multiple languages and cultures for example. It was only when everyone started living closer together did people start to adapt a lot quicker. The most well-known example to date is the fact that the UK currently still has Whales within its borders - and if you've heard the Welsh language it's nothing like English. Yet there it is - and it's fine with being part of the UK and function just fine within it. The fact is, country's and people adapt, and surprisingly quickly - it only takes a couple of generations to get used to such things. After all, people need to communicate to prosper - so they tend to learn the language that's spoken by the most people - which is why most of the UK speaks English, even though places like Scotland spoke something completely different originally. Eventually country's like those shown here, weird borders or not, just adapt, they find a language in common and old cultures will bend and adapt to the majority. So yeah, it appears weird to us now and right now the statistics look weird - but give it 50 years and assuming the borders don't change, the language and cultures there will have.
graveeking Yeah, that's true. Every country was once an arbitrary collection of people and land that was only linked by the people they had to pay their taxes to. But you have to agree with me that things don't adapt as quickly as you are suggesting, I mean, Europe had fights and wars for years that could be linked to border claims and ethnic claims. I live in Brazil, a country were more than 100 languages are spoken. In the past, there were more than two equally spoken languages, from native to european languages, but as time went by, the european language of Portugal became the general mean of communication. It happened , but wasn't quick. It took the country 400 years at least, and in the mean time, countless wars were fought, with ethnic justifications, even when the country was already a free country.
I heard that one of India's borders with another country is quite screwed up. There's a section of India inside of a section of the other country inside of a section of India inside of a section of the other country... It's confusing as hell.
Situations like this also exist within countries, for a very long time England had numerous exclaves and enclaves between the various counties. They don't exist any longer as an act of parliament made it so that enclaves were part of the enclosing county but they were there for historic reasons for centuries in some cases.
All of India's borders are screwed up. The British drew a line in the 19th century between around the entire dominion called the Durand Line that made no logical sense. The result is a bunch of border conflicts and disputed regions between China and India on one hand, and Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other. And then add the partition borders drawn in 1947-48 that left Kashmir cleaved in two, and other myriad disputes between Pakistan and India.
Yes , those enclave and exclave of various degree exist once , but all dispute resolve in last year , and by this every country give up there exclave to other nation , now the border is almost smooth .
+Peter Gray , All British line are logical in there sense , Durand Line did't draw in betn the dominion , but establish as border of British India and Afghanistan ,it still exist in betn Afg and Pak by the logic that historically and geographically , peak of mountain ridges are the border of India , the disputed line betn India-China also due to this concept. And the Issue of Kashmir is different, it's border messed up because Pakistan invade that area , and king of that state wait for several days to ask for Indian help , result in occupation of a large territory of that state , India retrieve many land back , but ultimately cease fire line establish in 49, which somehow still same .
Shiharan Majumder But my point is that those borders never settled existing disputes, and continue to feed tensions between neighboring countries. China refused to accept the Durand Line, leading to the 1962 border war, and continued territory disputes. And the Line divided Pushtuns between Afghanistan and Pakistan, helping to feed the Taliban insurgency.
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There are three types of salients in American geography: 1. Chimney - going northwards (Idaho, West Virginia, Texas) 2. Panhandle - going either eastwards (again West Virginia) or westwards (Connecticut, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska) 3. Bootheel - going southwards (Missouri, New Mexico)
Australia's got a few (external) islands and that's it, lol. Other than that, we here in Australia basically have an entire continent to ourselves, apparently. The population is only ~24 million. Australia has 7 states with fairly reasonable (ie straight) borders (although the ACT is completely inside of NSW, there is a logical explanation for this), as well as the Northern Territory (which is basically just another state), and a few other territories like Jervis Bay. There are also lots of national parks, especially in areas like the Cape York Peninsula. Australia also has a lot of "internal islands" like "Kangaroo Island" and others. There are a few Indigenous territories and "homelands" within Australia, though these areas aren't exactly on the same level as Indigenous territories in the USA, for example.
Australia's actually boring af, because there are no neighbours via land. New Zealand, New Caledonia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea are our closest neighbours, and we can only reach them by crossing vast seas (the smallest gap is from Cape York Peninsula to Guinea).
The Sarstoon River separating Belize from Guatemala is a very interesting border and is even currently awaiting a trial at the International Criminal Court (ICJ). As a Belizean, I am in for it being settled in favour of Belize but all the same, it is very interesting. Maybe you should make a video about it!
I've been to Mufulira in Zambia which is quite close to the pan handle with DR Congo. They mostly speak Bemba there so you don't feel anyway close to Congo. At least I didn't until my lady friend at the time, who was from Mufulira, pointed out that a couple of men we passed one evening had a different accent and suggested they might have been from Congo. When you have no knowledge of African languages you don't notice accents if you don't understand what they're saying. At least I didn't notice anyway. Just a random fact I felt like sharing.
The Luba and the Bemba straddle the Congo, Zambia and Malawi borders. They can move around these countries without anybody knowing which particular country they belong to.
The bordering cities of Santana do Livramento (Brazil) and Rivera ( Uruguay) share the Fronteira da Paz (Peace Border). Basically, you can walk back and forrh between the cities unchecked. The Brazilian football team, Grêmio Santanense, would host some of their matches in the Uruguayan stadium in Rivera.
The U.S. Canadian border has a library where you can walk in on America and leave in Canada. There's also quite a few states with neighborhoods laying directly on borderlines.
These are often called proruptions which is the case with Namibia. Also, Africa’s borders are mostly superimposed meaning that many of the straight lines seen there are just because some rich people met up and drew straight lines without any care in the World. This led to conflict in certain countries over cultural preferences.
Yes. The Brits drew a line over a watershed. Now my ethnic group is divided into two between Congo and Uganda. Sadly both groups are at different levels of development due to the political turmoil in Congo
False: the appendix is vital to our immune system and acts as a storehouse to revive the gut bacteria after a catastrophic infection which empties the intestines of necessary beneficial bacteria. People that have their appendices - like their tonsils - removed are more likely to have chronic illness and cancer than people who still have theirs.
Regarding the Siliguri Corridor, when I was a kid, it looked even narrower. This is because Sikkim, which is an Indian State today, was an independent country sandwiched between Bhutan and Nepal. so the Siliguri Corridor looked *much* more tenuous.
The British Empire is involved in almost all of these
@@hugolafhugolaf The tragedy is that you are injecting your own racial bias about Muslims into this discussion. Such malice serves only to add to the animosity toward Muslims which only creates further conflict.
In addition to that just look at the history. GB had been colonizing countries around the world for hundreds of years. Hence many residents of many Muslim countries that Britain absorbed would emmigrate to the UK in search of better opportunity. And Muslims in fact served in both world wars. They are not going away so why not make an effort to accept their presence in the UK and elsewhere??
hugolafhugolaf
Do you now that "hugolafhugolaf" mean's "idiot" in Swahili. You are IDIOT.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 One simple reason: lack of general assimilation
@@carboncrafter793 That charge of a lack of general assimilation usually ignores the racist and marginalizing that Muslims often experience from xenophobic people who are ignorant of what Muslims are actually like as people. The Irish were mistreated in early America, as were American Indians, Asians, blacks and so on up right today by people who are prejudging Muslims without even knowing them as people. That has more to do with a minority not assimilating then anything else. Americans and peoples in other countries create a self-fulfilling prophecy because of their animosity toward the "other"!!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I agree, UK should be accepting of muslim culture, FGM and honour killings for everyone YAY!
Then there is the 49th parallel; a perfect line.
I trust you're familiar with the state of Minnesota and it's way of fucking up the 49th parallel?
Just watched a video about how it's 900 smaller lines at different angles because surveying is hard.
@@AngelBolt CGP Grey?
Terms and conditions apply.
"Perfect"
*Bosnia and Herzegovina* : we want access to the ocean
*Croatia* : _No_
Bosnia actually have 12 miles of coastline, however.
Bosnia has access to the ocean....
But no port
My home country
Bosnia and Herzegovina: then we will create a panhandle.
Croatia:NOOOOO
Italian guy: literally draws a line on a map.
Belgium & UK: Looks good to me.
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cringe
Italian king : what is afrika? Where it is?
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The story with the italian king drawing the border is funny and sad at the same time
Like the Pope drawing a straight line on South America and saying Portugal gets everything east of here and Spain gets everything west of here.
It's probably an over simplification. I would imagine that there were a lot more deals than that, with money, political influence, trade, etc. Land in Africa was fucking precious, so the country giving up it's land wouldn't just go "eh what the fuck, the king of Italy said so, so I guess you guys can have it".
No one respected the lines anyway. =b
+James Mortished Yep, what this guy said ^
The Philippines has a really weird border.It only has straight lines even though you might think it is just an island connection border
These panhandles actually are helpful in terms of memorising the country's shape and fun indeed
How ignorant. Typical.
@@akapam57 ?
at least i dont follow people just because theyre the same race as me you pepega
Ok, so I apparently need to somehow cook some hot ramen noodles with a Namibia... Wish me luck!
yeah especially with India,since u can kinda see Bangladesh outlined there
How the hell is no one talking about Croatia
bc its 3 panhandles and a disconnected peice united
Ikr!?
Well Bosnia for the most part used to be historically Croat land
Seth Alcott thank you you are the first person to make that joke that I’ve been waiting to hear
Bosnia: I want a coastline
Croatia: Y E E T
UK and Belgium: Draw a line for us
King of Italy: Ok I drew the line you wanted
UK and Belgium: so much... *H E A R T* was put into this, amazing. We'll use it.
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Figure it out
I live in Croatia and Trieste is the closest Italian city. I go there 5-10 times a year and it is one of the most beautiful cityies I have ever been to.
Hrvat!
I have been in Croatia 3 times. It is a wonderful country!
Niga tata cez hrvata!!!
Good to know. I love Northern Italy, so that's on my short list for my next vacation. Since I want to visit Croatia too, that will give me the perfect excuse!
@@vanegabrijel2815 hrvat je tat
What if I told you
Uzbekistan is the only country to have a capital city in its panhandle
Well yeah the wakhan corridor is the most densely populated region in central asia.
No, the DRC capital is in Congo central! (I think...)
MAPUTO, DAKAR, NIAMEY, BAKU, WELLINGTON ....Technically
What about *C H I L E*
@@Dudebro76 Chile doesn't count, it's a giant panhandle
Worth mentioning that the Caprivi strip didn't even give Germany access to the east coast of Africa because Victoria Falls is just up the river and so their boats wouldn't have been able to go past it
Crazy am from the caprivi strip therefore this makes our family enjoy 3 nationalities namely Namibia, Botswana & Zambia
@@imaan19832 What's crazier is David Livingstone naming that waterfall (ironically) after a woman who barely bathed.
Zambian here. We have so much in common with our brothers in the Pedicle. Colonialism's scars are still evident.
Well the colonial powers have been gone for decades, there's NOTHING to stop you getting together to reset your borders as you like.
Not only that but the arid deserts, being geographically isolated, and scarce resources can't help. I wish the best of luck to the Zambian people in preserving their democracy
@@twoshedsjackson6478 you know inheriting and then changing borders is not that simple
@@thingonometry-1460 Especially when it's easier to blame someone else for your own failings. If it hadn't been for the "colonial" powers arrival Africans would still be living in the stone age.
@@twoshedsjackson6478 power vacuum
I subscribed to this channel because of the GoT content but this is actually far more interesting! Keep it up!
What about the panhandle in Bosnia and Herzegovina that touches the Adriatic sea for 20 kilometers and splits Croatia in 2 parts?
+RealLifeLore Excellent video. However, you showed the wrong map of India. If Indians find out you're gonna get a lot of dislikes.
Ohioan Mapping Occupied* it excludes three regions Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Aksai Chin. Therefore the map is wrong
The element on your avatar is extremely radioactive
I SUBSCIRBED 5 MINUTES AGO
“We're going pretty far away to India”
*camera pans left*
Columbus
Haha
well technically you can go that way, despite what flat earthers will tell you
@@finnyoungman2674 only muslim believe in flat earth
@@bijendrakumar3546 not true at all, says it in the bible too
Did you know that a micro state exists in Australia? It is a territory under the influence of the Great Emu Empire. During the First Emu War the Emu army took the territory and proclaimed it as a part of Emuland. Little did the Australians know the Second Emu War was coming, and they were unprepared. Emus attacked the weak spot, which turned out to be under their control. So they just expanded Emuland's territory. That territory is now known as "Sydney". The more you know.
And then they built better fences
Crazed Lions Music oversimplified
@@squidbro5764 yeah
They can't keep getting away with it!
@Skylanderweirdo Sorry you had to find out this way.
The Appendix does serve a purpose. It stores good bacteria so if you lose everything in the colon (diarrhea) the appendix can secrete the good stuff back into your system.
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the fact that alaska and the us aren't even slightly touching.
VanMaster Gaming Alaska is a part of the us though
VanMaster Gaming We bought alaska way back in the 60's im not so sure though.
It was bought way back when Russia was an Empire, not the USSR, the actual Russian empire in the 1800s. Specifically bought in 1867. But your a tid bit correct, Alaska became a state in 1959.
Well atleast i was close but not about when we bought it only when it became a country and that's why we have history
Fun Fact is, that USA buy Alaska from Russia for 10mio Dollars.
Okay... back in the Days 10mio Dollars was far more than today.
1:38 it looks like a hi-five
It's left hand of india
It does actually
No it does not rocktard.
@@eliasziad7864 shut up
@@eliasziad7864 was that necessary? Was it ya lil’ jerk?
3:57 man Zambia has some muscles! Look at him flex!
HAHA LOL XD
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LionSquadGaming kinda looks like a geodude
The British fucked us up
LionSquadGaming i cant😂😂😂
I love how you included Liechtenstein in the beginning. Kind of sucks how they are often forgotten. ❤️🇱🇮
Who cares 😅
@@ezzy__6831 i do
@@ezzy__6831i do
When you, a Black man, have to give up your land to the Belgians because an Italian king decided that the borders look good and Belgium and England agreed with him somewhere in Europe.
*Visible Confusion*
@@hugolafhugolaf That is an extreme over simplification and just like your comment about Muslims in GB in another comment is a reflection of your racial bias. Understanding is almost always enhanced by knowledge. Many countries were created by European colonial powers with no regard to the different tribal enities therein. The DRC Demacratic Republic of Congo is such an example. Forcing tribes into one country that have no mutual goals or language can create conflict. Add to that the centuries of slave trade and having their natural resources stolen from them and getting zero compensation in return. And then people like you respond with a judgmental attitude while giving no indication that you have any idea of the history. Get the picture??
@@hugolafhugolaf It's really not that simple. Foreign meddling is what has fucked them over big time.
In a hypothetical timeline where colonialism never happened, Africa might have eventually see a "Alexander the Great" that unified large areas of the continent... or it would've looked like that ethnic map with literally thousands of tiny countries.
Europe benefited from it's geography, leading to technological and social progress (albeit slow) over time. Africa was divided from this thanks to the Sahara, leaving them to their own devices. There was far less spread of ideas and cultures tended to be in a far more primitive state. A state European powers took advantage of.
@Adam Marcinkowski Looks like you are caught up in your own racial bias calling the black people "weak" for not protecting their homeland from invaders. Study history for a while because you sound extremely misinformed!!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I checked the history, turns out the Europeans showed up with sticks and stones and took all of the rifles and steam engines away from the Wakandans...I mean Africans
@Adam Marcinkowski I bet you're the same type of person who complains about muslim immigrants. I guess your country is just weak for allowing them to "take over" as the far-right in europe claim
Chile is biggest backbone i've ever seen
More like Belly fat :-)
@@drumroll7073 bruh it's China
Chile Anyways so-
Yeh specially British empire created paxitan which is cancer ♋ for Afghanistan 🇦🇫 🤔
The Caprivi Strip is actually more useless than this video suggests. Shortly after Namibia secured this land, which they wanted so they can access the Indian Ocean through the Zambezi River, they learned of this little obstacle called Victoria Falls! The river was actually unnavigable, and the Germans really fucked up!
Sebastian Dittgen hahaha too bad all those Germans colonizers didn't get on board of a boat for a trip to the Indian ocean.
They wanted to access the Indian Ocean to link up with their colony there of present day Tanzania. They also traded the island of Zanzibar for the Caprivi, with the British.
Sebastian Dittgen hey but that’s probably the only place Us Namibians have water
Aquarius1011 They also traded an island called Helgoland at Germany for Zanzibar
Ah no
When Yugoslavia still existed, my uncle was on vacation in Istria and tried wind surfing, but because there was a big wind and he was not very experienced, the wind took him to Italy, where was forbidden to travel. Fortunately, he somehow got back, but it's a funny story
why was he foreboden from traveling to italy?
@@-SPECIALISTDELTA- because in that time people in my country couldn't travel like now, only to specific countries and with a permision, Italy was one of the countries people couldnt visit
...oh right, the cold war. im dum (intentional typo)
Bro almost became the uncle who disappeared for milk
@@72o0_Tehran almost became an uncle from another world
2:55 what about the part of Tajikistan in the north?
All those borders between states in Central Asia were basically created by Soviets, more or less according to the ethnicities that live there.
True
You’re profile picture 😂😂
That area is actually three different panhandles spiraling into one another.
There also seem to be quite a lot of enclaves in the area. Quite the mess.
Please see part 3.
3:40 It's anything except democratic
What do you mean?
No, this is Patrick! It’s a dictatorship
@@-Faris- They have a president tho
@Mime :3 RIP Congo. They were a colony of Belgium with slavery and now they have a dictator
It’s name is democratic, he isn’t calling it democratic
Great video! I've always had a fascination with reading maps and atlases. Looking forward to more!
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homie this video is 5 years old
As a Namibian I'm happy that you put us in your thumbnail& that you mentioned us in your video so thx a lot
RARE PEOPLE
RARE PEOPLE
Lol... I live in Trieste... I didn't expect to see it here!
Whats trieste
@@drumroll7073 an italian city
Ci sono stato, bellissima città
I live in north east india
Well, my city is also mentioned in 1:29 I live in the city that connects India with the North - Eastern side... I live in Siliguri, India
Nobody:
RUclips recommendations: “It’s rewind time!”
Look at this video with 50000 mispronounced places
Panic at the disco!!...💙💙💙😍
*_bruh_*
Great video, but I feel like you should have mentioned how East Pakistan turned into present day Bangladesh, just to add to the video
And soon Bangladesh will turn into ocean.
+Stan McSerr hope it doesn't happen during my vacation in bangladesh
***** Lol
I was thinking the exact same thing
Yeah, but it just goes a bit off topic.
4:12 when I realised he was being sarcastic I couldn't stop laughing. The Italian King was like "yeah.. think Belgium would like that swamp, I'ma have to give it to Belgium, sorry UK..."
Entire world: Italy you lost a lot of your colonies what happened?
Mussolini:I happened
@Albert D lybian Italian colonie ended in 1943 under Mussolini, cause:allied invasion
Ethiopian Italian colonie (de facto) ended in 1941 under Mussolini
His "parallel war" caused this not the decolonization
Italy had no colonies
@@coobysnax1106 Lybia and Ethiopia
@@EredediIsilduryeah but like thats it
Even then Ethiopia didn't stay for long
@@coobysnax1106 never said Italy was good at this
At last the took those things that no one wanted, not even the UK
0:47 true af
Battlefield 1 actually led me to learning about world war 1 and seeing the mistakes it has about history
When someone ask "Why weird border?", Just answer "the colonization!".
Work on any case.
lol...true that
Also a good answer "An ignorant treaty"
It was said in the Bible....
Is it not? I thought that would somehow cover that...
Tungsten Swipe not everyone has a bible dumbass
W4t3rM3l0nG1rl maybe because it was a joke, stone brain
As a Zambian, we love to say that our country is shaped like a butterfly. And we do cut across the Congo pedicle on some bus routes. No visa needed.
😂😂😂
Now that you mention it, I see it.
Enclaves in the area of Kulchibari (India/Bangladesh)
It's like geographic recursion, enclaves in enclaves...
Not anymore. Recently India and Bangladesh swapped their enclaves with each other
Only a far few
It is still awkward...
That sounds like a subject for part 2.
I've seen that on Google maps. All I can wonder is who thought that was a good idea? Was it planned to be like that by Britain or was it established afterwards?
The Gambia has one of the most delightfully-strange country shapes in the world and I love it. It almost looks as though it's _all_ panhandle. It is the answer to the question "What if we made our country completely along a narrow strip around one river?" .. and then named the country after said river!
The Senegalese in Cassamance have to travel across a foreign country to reach their capital city!!!!
Lmao Chile is a Panhandle
not really. it is a chili.
I'm from Chile >:I
It's a Snake bitting Peru and Bolivia ass while resting on Argentina who also has a weird panhandle looking thing which goes around Paraguay
except it has no "pan"
F.Javier Díaz del río Pinohandle
In general, beyond what you mention, the Caprivi Strip was an attempt by Germany to begin to prevent a north to south British presence in Africa that linked Cairo to the Cape (this was a definite consideration for this panhandle beyond the river access to eastern Africa, which inevitably was discovered not to provide access to the Indian Ocean due to the blockage of Victoria Falls).
Very nicely researched, Joseph. I wasn't all that interested in history at school, but I did find this video interesting. When you see Earth from space, you realise that were all sharing a very fragile planet. It's sad that a lot of wars are fought over borders.
05:07 When Zambia was British, it was called North Rhodesia. Correspondingly, Zimbabwe was South Rhodesia.
When your name is Rhodes and you're so colonial you get several different African countries named after you.
Rip Rhodesia
Oklahoma panhandle
Well, what else could it be
The Oklahoma panhandle came about starting when in 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union as a slave state and it's borders were subsequently re-arranged by Congress under the Compromise of 1850. Part of what the Compromise did was outlaw slavery north of the 36'30 Parallel cutting into much of Texas' panhandle. The panhandle's area north of the 36'30 Parallel was ceded to Congress and named "Public Land Strip" and commonly referred to as "No Man's Land", setting its southern border with Texas. The Compromise also created New Mexico Territory starting west of the the 103rd meridian, thus setting the western boundary of the strip, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 set the southern border of Kansas Territory as the 37th parallel, thus creating the northern boundary of No Man's Land.
Finally in 1890 No Man's Land was assigned by Congress as part of Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act of 1890. In 1907 Oklahoma became a State with the merging of Oklahoma Territory with Indian Territory and that's the end of it.
Jafninetyfour Texas didn't want to give up its slaves so they agreed to have a part of their top cut off. It was added to a territory that is now Oklahoma.
Why the Hell did I get an image in my head of someone holding Oklahoma by the Panhandle and beating the shit out of a random country with it? And why did it make me laugh?
Filip The Czech Gopnik search up "the great state fight" someone did that
1:28 that's where I'm from.
Sad
King od Italy be like
Umm... Uhh... **draws something** BOOM it looks nice
The ethnic map of Africa is stunningly colourful love it!
I wonder how many peoples there are in the world it's a reminder of the world and it's vast variations.
+wildchicken007 what is that supposed to mean? Tell me
And it's completely wrong, the north is much less colorful.
I agree. Just thinking of all the genocides and wars currently going on because that map is so colourful brings a tear to my eye. So beautiful and diverse :')
I thought they're all just black in africa!
The border between Baarle nassau and baatle hertog is one of the weirdest borders in the world it's a part of the border between the netherlands and belgium
Isnt that the place where your kitchen might be in Belgium and your living room in the Netherlands? Basically where the border cuts through houses?
Aragorn195 yes it is
That's mental! xD!
Just looked at it on google maps, crazy stuff! What's the history here?
in 1198 part of Baarle was presented by the hertog (duke) of Brabant to what ended up being the Nassau family, which is now the royal family of the Netherlands. The bit that the duke kept is still part of Belgium.
It is basically left this way because it causes little trouble. Both nations have a good relationship and very open borders. It's good for tourism, and well, it's a laff! So why change it?
For more info and a map see wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle
I've passed through that Tri-border between Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, such fun.
This is better than my history and geography classes.
No its not
@@johnhattanfine Thats easy for you to say, probably beacuse you think school is good
@@af-zt1rz Ok ok. Can be true
The US state of Florida is LITERALLY made up of TWO pan handles
Was scrolling through the comments, hoping for someone to mention FL :)
No? It has 1
The rest is a peninsula all of the land is Florida
Florida looks like a boomerang
5:29 Last year I drove through Zambia and went over Zambezi river on that tiny opening from Zambia to Botswana. Then driving 10km through Game Park in Botswana and over a river to Namibia . Then driving through this Caprivi strip to get to the coast. Very strange border indeed!
How does immigration & customs work over there? What if... say due to a navigation error or engine trouble, your ferry ends up in the wrong country?
You drove over a river?
4:27 I'm sorry guys, but we italian love art. That panhandle is a fricking gorgeous spectacle
5:17 oh god just look at the ivory coast
What about the little Russia spot? You know, the one between Lithuania and Poland with that use to be Prussian city. It's not a panhandle, but why haven't Liet or Pol taken it?
Presumably because neither want it badly enough to go up against Russia. Plus it's mostly full of Russians. So they probably wouldn't be happy being part of a different country. Deporting them en masse would be a massive human rights violation (ok, so that's what the Russians did to the former inhabitants, but two wrongs don't make a right).
"why haven't Liet or Pol taken it?"
Because it's Russia. End of story. Doesn't matter if it's disconnected from the rest of Russia. Countries don't (or shouldn't) invade others these days.
The area is called Kaliningrad Oblast. In the early 20th century, it was German, and it was called East Prussia. It was connected to the rest of Germany, because Germany at that time also possessed what's now the north coast of Poland. After Germany lost WWI, Poland gained some land along the Baltic Sea Coast, and East Prussia became disconnected from the rest of Germany. After Germany lost WWII, Poland gained more land from Germany. The USSR gained land from Germany as well. Poland and the USSR split East Prussia between them. Within the USSR, the Soviet portion of East Prussia became known as Kaliningrad Oblast. Rather than assign it to Lithuania, the Soviet authorities assigned it to Russia, even though it was disconnected from the rest of Russia. And the rest is history. When the USSR broke apart, Kaliningrad remained a part of independent Russia. The residents [nowadays] are Russians, and have no interest in joining Lithuania. Nor Poland. But as I already said, Poland got half of the old East Prussia anyways.
You can look up the history of something if you're curious.
Thank you both. I really like Prussian and Russian history. (though Austria's defenitly the most awesome)
because we won that territory during WWII from Germany we didn't give to Lithuania or polandbecause Kaliningrad is an ethnicRussian not Lithuanian or Polish spot Polish and Lithuanian are written in the Latin script so it will mean literally redemarcating everything
"Russian history or one millennium of hard and not so hard fuck-ups" - really, that's literally what i learned in my course of russian history in the school and university.
3:40 Error... *Look at Uganda* 😂
They just kind of got rid of that lake huh?
lake Victoria just turned into solid land 😅
🤣😂
Its also drawn wrong.
Well the border is wrong, idk if it was drawn or not...
Me describing panhandles: These are the things that happens when a country hires someone that is shit at drawing to draw their borders.
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I’m from northeast India ! And grateful you guys mentioned us
Hiiii from Kolkata 😃😃
Hi
I am from TamilNadu 😁
Hi
From Haryana
Country united🤣🤣
@@unknownrealms8452 😂😂
North Korea has a very small border with Russia. It is located in the North East of North Korea.
Bunkerevs Gaming well observed.
🇳🇦: I have the super panhandle case
🇪🇷: I have the longest Pan handle
🇦🇫: I have the panhandle That didnt exist sorta
🇽🇰: I have a small panhandle
🇨🇱: *im just a random panhandle*
🇳🇵: *my flag has a panhandle*
🇨🇾: me almost have panhandle
again, the amount of research done for these videos omg
Belgium and the Nederlands have a strange border look it up to understand
They have a lot of enclaves and 2nd order enclaves between as well as the demarcations that run through the street to ensure where the boundaries are between the two countries.
yes we have, I was thinking about Limburg and Zeeland...
INFERNO Baarle?
Uh how?
well before battlefield 1 there was Victoria 2 so i did actually know about the Austro Hungarian empire. o and i cant forget about the great youtube channel the great war
The fact that some people actually need games and YT channels to know it existed in kinda sad. It should common knowledge.
People in the eastern world would say the same thing about the western world not knowing about the kingdoms and empires from the east besides china, japan, and the mongols.
DZR3WIND
I get your point. But AH was at the very heart of WWI. I mean it was the country that started it all. In that way it should be common knowledge. But WWI is usually overshadowed by WWII.
I love Victoria 2, i spent countless hours playing it and modding it, i always enjoyed in partitioning of Austria-Hungary.
sad that i'm one of the few who knew about it without any games or channels though i really like the great war channel (i mean it's not a bad thing you know it from somewere else but you should learn it in history class or something like that)
0:45 Italy:You stole my part!!😡 Austria-Hungary: Huh? • • _
Ayy got that nexpo intro music.It’s called black heat by Ross budgen for those who are interested
Most countries/states: we have borders that follow rivers and have been altered ny historical events and wars.
Wyoming: *S Q U A R E*
Colorado too
@@currypenguin yes
a rectangular void of nonexistence
Oklahoma: L I T T E R A L F U C K I N G P A N
4:33 look at Kenya’s border
its looks like a mama is getting pregnat
It's not Kenya, Malaui southern border
Where did a part of 🇺🇬 go ( ͡°+**%‘}^“|”€’“？>‘・bjkぉkjʖ ͡°)
Africa needs to redraw it's borders
Have you seen how violent some of us can be?
World Tension +10
Africa is a CONTINENT. How can a CONTINENT, made up of MANY NATIONS redraw its borders?
@@fhddhdhk9319 ikr
Its to corrupted there they don't give a shit about borders
Real life lore whoever is writing these scripts and visualizing them is doing an A1 job
this would be an awesome channel if he just posted more content
+RealLifeLore I wish you could upload more often but if you can't it's better to have a few quality videos than a bunch of average ones
If the contents' like this... I say you take your time. Kudos!
+RealLifeLore these videos aren't that hard to make 1 every 2 weeks is bad
Please, than make them yourself if it seems easy for you.
+snaipers96 I don't want to that's not what my channel is about
I'm from South Africa and the thing that absolutely confuses me is the tiny country of Lesotho. Which is surrounded by the rest of South Africa but isn't part of South Africa.
Tl:dr Lesotho is a tiny country inside another bigger country.
That one is natural though. "To hell with the pale strangers, we're going up that mountain"
Italian here: hold my San Marino... 🤣
@@robertoarmenio3516 You Italians even have a small country in your own capital 😅
Eswatini as well.. I'm french and we have Monaco.
Now I am wondering about Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatia seems to "hog" the coastline while Bosnia and Herzegovina does not get much, except for ~20 km that seperates Dalmatia from the rest of Croatia.
Well, Bosnia wa held by the Ottomans while Dalmatia belonged to Venetia (I think) and later Austria-Hungary which also possessed Croatia.
That's correct. I believe the Bosnian coastline was due to the southern Orthodox state, Ragusa or Montenegro, wanted to keep away from Austria, due to fear of Austrian invasion. Hence, they let the Ottomans get a short strip of land so they themselves didn't have a land border with Austria anymore... In modern times, Bosnia retained this little strip of coastline.
Real story goes like this. Back in renaissance time Republic of Venice, and Republic of Ragusa ( modern day Dubrovnik) were two competing merchant republics. Venice had stronger military, controlled modern day Croatian provinces of Dalmatia and Istria and was for centuries constant threat to Ragusa.
To ease that threat, Ragusa made a deal with Ottomans in 1718. Ragusa ceded 20 km wide Neum Strip to Ottomans to divide Ragusa from Venice and Ottomans granted independence of Ragusa and rights to conduct trade in their lands, mainly in Eyalet of Bosnia.
BTW Republic of Ragusa was catholic state, and so was Venice.
As for shape of Croatia. Back in the days Croatia had "normal" borders as part of modern day Bosnia was part of it. Bosnia was small duchy between Croatia and Serbia. Modern day shape is result of Ottomans military advances into Croatian lands. They penetrated in the middle of Croatia and their advances were finally stopped after the Long War. The land that Ottomans conquered is assigned to province Elayet of Bosnia and since then border is more or less stayed the same.
What an interesting story , tres tres clarfying, thanxxz
Thank you,Bismarck. For participating to Scramble Africa.
Proud to be Namibian❤️🇳🇦
Hello from Germany
@@EternalMuscovite oh boy🤣
@@nikkirabie7921 Wannabe our Colony again?
@@EternalMuscovite 🙃😭😭
@@EternalMuscovite hätt ich nix dagegen xxD
Am from the country on the thumbnail....*NAMIBIA*😍😍
GAME FREAKERS nice!
Heartburn52 thanks
EL NAMIB , EL NAMIB , EL NAMIB EL NAMIB EL NAMIB
YA ESTAS ADVERTIDO DE MI ITENG. E
GAME FREAKERS No one fucking asked
I feel offended he didn’t talk about Oklahoma
It looks like blunt knife. lol
not again..what part of "country" dont u get ??????????
Vicky Bagul I think with the pan handle it looks like a pan
James Ware he didn’t say just Country’s
You have a point, but I think he was talking about individual countries. Obviously, Oklahoma is a US state.
I love how you updated the thumbnail, yet the video is the same since you can't change it.
You forgot:
Alaska's panhandle (USA)
Oklahoma's panhandle (USA again)
And Mexico's Pancake handle
uhh I meant panhandle
And the texas pan pandle
From when texas became independent from mexico and modern day texas
he didn’t mean to do all of the borders.
Those are states tho?
Those are states
these African boarders are just absurd! how can a country prosper if they were artificially made?
They can not prosper because they still live in mud huts and throw spears to hunt.
tru
Larry Smuggs I think you inverting the cause and effect cause here. They live in bad conditional because they cannot prosper.
+Mosco Monster
I mean you've got to remember, every country was made 'artificially' at one point. There's a video on RUclips that just shows how the British Isles looked throughout history and what country's were upon it - and it basically comes down to, someone has a lot of power, the power expands, extends over time - cultures mix, merge and suddenly it becomes easier to take over each other.
For reference on just how 'artificial' country's and borders are - many country's before the industrial era didn't all speak the same language, France had multiple languages and cultures for example. It was only when everyone started living closer together did people start to adapt a lot quicker.
The most well-known example to date is the fact that the UK currently still has Whales within its borders - and if you've heard the Welsh language it's nothing like English. Yet there it is - and it's fine with being part of the UK and function just fine within it.
The fact is, country's and people adapt, and surprisingly quickly - it only takes a couple of generations to get used to such things. After all, people need to communicate to prosper - so they tend to learn the language that's spoken by the most people - which is why most of the UK speaks English, even though places like Scotland spoke something completely different originally.
Eventually country's like those shown here, weird borders or not, just adapt, they find a language in common and old cultures will bend and adapt to the majority. So yeah, it appears weird to us now and right now the statistics look weird - but give it 50 years and assuming the borders don't change, the language and cultures there will have.
graveeking
Yeah, that's true. Every country was once an arbitrary collection of people and land that was only linked by the people they had to pay their taxes to. But you have to agree with me that things don't adapt as quickly as you are suggesting, I mean, Europe had fights and wars for years that could be linked to border claims and ethnic claims.
I live in Brazil, a country were more than 100 languages are spoken. In the past, there were more than two equally spoken languages, from native to european languages, but as time went by, the european language of Portugal became the general mean of communication. It happened , but wasn't quick. It took the country 400 years at least, and in the mean time, countless wars were fought, with ethnic justifications, even when the country was already a free country.
Me: lives in Namibia
Him: that absurd strip
Me: excuse me
You are a noob minion
Who tf lives in Namibia??
Hello, fellow Namibian!
3:52 i feel like Congo is stabbing Zambia lmao
True
0:36 that looks like Hawaii! Just if you put the islands together...
I heard that one of India's borders with another country is quite screwed up. There's a section of India inside of a section of the other country inside of a section of India inside of a section of the other country...
It's confusing as hell.
Situations like this also exist within countries, for a very long time England had numerous exclaves and enclaves between the various counties. They don't exist any longer as an act of parliament made it so that enclaves were part of the enclosing county but they were there for historic reasons for centuries in some cases.
All of India's borders are screwed up. The British drew a line in the 19th century between around the entire dominion called the Durand Line that made no logical sense. The result is a bunch of border conflicts and disputed regions between China and India on one hand, and Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other. And then add the partition borders drawn in 1947-48 that left Kashmir cleaved in two, and other myriad disputes between Pakistan and India.
Yes , those enclave and exclave of various degree exist once , but all dispute resolve in last year , and by this every country give up there exclave to other nation , now the border is almost smooth .
+Peter Gray , All British line are logical in there sense , Durand Line did't draw in betn the dominion , but establish as border of British India and Afghanistan ,it still exist in betn Afg and Pak by the logic that historically and geographically , peak of mountain ridges are the border of India , the disputed line betn India-China also due to this concept. And the Issue of Kashmir is different, it's border messed up because Pakistan invade that area , and king of that state wait for several days to ask for Indian help , result in occupation of a large territory of that state , India retrieve many land back , but ultimately cease fire line establish in 49, which somehow still same .
Shiharan Majumder But my point is that those borders never settled existing disputes, and continue to feed tensions between neighboring countries. China refused to accept the Durand Line, leading to the 1962 border war, and continued territory disputes. And the Line divided Pushtuns between Afghanistan and Pakistan, helping to feed the Taliban insurgency.
Why do I want to learn here and not in school?!?
*@sesamesushi,*
1. The Teaching Methods Are Way Better!
2. The Teacher Teaches In an Interesting Way!!
3. You Don't Have To Cram The Things!!!
4. You Can Learn While You're Relaxing/In Sleeping Position, Where As In School You Have To Be Very Attentive!!!!
5. Because There's NoOne To Disturb You, While You're Learning, Where As There Are Your ClassMates In School To Disturb You!!!!!
6. Because You're Learning In Your Home!!!!!!
7. Same Goes With Me!!!!!!!
Good question
sesamesushi 1.everything @Suraj Luthra said and because you actually *do* learn here unlike in school.
@@surajluthra.9126 You're right, especially about 2 and 5.
do both.but u can cuss here
There are three types of salients in American geography:
1. Chimney - going northwards (Idaho, West Virginia, Texas)
2. Panhandle - going either eastwards (again West Virginia) or westwards (Connecticut, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska)
3. Bootheel - going southwards (Missouri, New Mexico)
What about Australia!
Oh wait..
Australia's got a few (external) islands and that's it, lol. Other than that, we here in Australia basically have an entire continent to ourselves, apparently. The population is only ~24 million.
Australia has 7 states with fairly reasonable (ie straight) borders (although the ACT is completely inside of NSW, there is a logical explanation for this), as well as the Northern Territory (which is basically just another state), and a few other territories like Jervis Bay. There are also lots of national parks, especially in areas like the Cape York Peninsula. Australia also has a lot of "internal islands" like "Kangaroo Island" and others. There are a few Indigenous territories and "homelands" within Australia, though these areas aren't exactly on the same level as Indigenous territories in the USA, for example.
Australia's actually boring af, because there are no neighbours via land. New Zealand, New Caledonia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea are our closest neighbours, and we can only reach them by crossing vast seas (the smallest gap is from Cape York Peninsula to Guinea).
i thought australia doesnt exist
samatron hi Nah that’s Wyoming
Jimby Smith Nah it's both
The Sarstoon River separating Belize from Guatemala is a very interesting border and is even currently awaiting a trial at the International Criminal Court (ICJ). As a Belizean, I am in for it being settled in favour of Belize but all the same, it is very interesting. Maybe you should make a video about it!
1:29 It looks like their high-fiving
It is done by you.
Rest of us: What the heck are you doing
Great Britain: In the King's name I order you to be silent
😒: Okay
Plot twist:
Namibia looked once like a guitar, and then somebody drew a big appendix to its bottom
I want a guitar in the shape of Namibia
I've been to Mufulira in Zambia which is quite close to the pan handle with DR Congo. They mostly speak Bemba there so you don't feel anyway close to Congo. At least I didn't until my lady friend at the time, who was from Mufulira, pointed out that a couple of men we passed one evening had a different accent and suggested they might have been from Congo. When you have no knowledge of African languages you don't notice accents if you don't understand what they're saying. At least I didn't notice anyway. Just a random fact I felt like sharing.
The Luba and the Bemba straddle the Congo, Zambia and Malawi borders. They can move around these countries without anybody knowing which particular country they belong to.
@@adroapatricklumumba1618 interesting
@@eamonahern7495 Thank you
0:53 Yugoslavia was called The Kingdom of Croats, Serbs and Slovenes (aka Croats, Serbs and Slovenes or KCSS) before WWII.
Thank you for making my country the thumbnail 😊
The bordering cities of Santana do Livramento (Brazil) and Rivera ( Uruguay) share the Fronteira da Paz (Peace Border). Basically, you can walk back and forrh between the cities unchecked. The Brazilian football team, Grêmio Santanense, would host some of their matches in the Uruguayan stadium in Rivera.
Very interesting
5:27: as you see, the panhandle covers enormous amounts of ethnisity
Me: thats just 2 groups XD
U mean 5:17
Ask to any Italian, nowadays no one would ever consider Trieste not part of Italia.
Just curious, why not?
Trst je naš!
Trieste, what does it mean in English, sad ?
Mr. You are foolish, it’s is not east Pakistan it is Bangladesh. Before making Vedio you must gather knowledge l.
@@Kaucher1963 it's Bengladesh only since 1971
Another great video I watched
the strangest border must be the one between belgium and the netherlands
Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Hertog.
P&WJsmith4liberty Both.
The U.S. Canadian border has a library where you can walk in on America and leave in Canada. There's also quite a few states with neighborhoods laying directly on borderlines.
TomScott has a good video on those kinds of borders. In fact he has a lot of good videos in general, check him out
These are often called proruptions which is the case with Namibia. Also, Africa’s borders are mostly superimposed meaning that many of the straight lines seen there are just because some rich people met up and drew straight lines without any care in the World. This led to conflict in certain countries over cultural preferences.
Yes. The Brits drew a line over a watershed. Now my ethnic group is divided into two between Congo and Uganda. Sadly both groups are at different levels of development due to the political turmoil in Congo
False: the appendix is vital to our immune system and acts as a storehouse to revive the gut bacteria after a catastrophic infection which empties the intestines of necessary beneficial bacteria. People that have their appendices - like their tonsils - removed are more likely to have chronic illness and cancer than people who still have theirs.
Well, since mine nearly killed me, I'll take the risk without it. Btw, 5 years without it
Ken Oakleaf It happens.
Well yes but appendix or HEART?
+Allen Hizon What are you talking about...?
thanks finally an answer I knew it had to have real purpose
Regarding the Siliguri Corridor, when I was a kid, it looked even narrower. This is because Sikkim, which is an Indian State today, was an independent country sandwiched between Bhutan and Nepal. so the Siliguri Corridor looked *much* more tenuous.