The mystery of the squarest country

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  • @JayForeman
    @JayForeman  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29905

    Re Ukraine: Many people wondering if Map Men are legitimising the Russian annexation of Crimea at 2:39. We are not. We had intended to make Crimea a different colour, as a way of saying 'look, sticky outy bit that's also currently disputed', but we just forgot to do it. We are sorry. This TH-cam account is not, actually, a Kremlin propaganda bot.

    • @NoHandleToSpeakOf
      @NoHandleToSpeakOf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1710

      I will not write a comment about that then

    • @videocritic2463
      @videocritic2463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3890

      But that's exactly what a Kremlin propaganda bot would say!

    • @iododendron3416
      @iododendron3416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2788

      You forgot to Putin a different colour for Crimea?

    • @thehammmann
      @thehammmann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      You sure?

    • @flarklar2371
      @flarklar2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      It was like have a second on screen.

  • @eaglefern6852
    @eaglefern6852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32438

    This would've been the perfect video to be sponsored by Squarespace.

    • @boomamathics2666
      @boomamathics2666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +831

      The pun would be to strong

    • @yyhewzies1415
      @yyhewzies1415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +690

      WHAT A MISSED OPPRETUNITY!

    • @MarmaladePlan3t
      @MarmaladePlan3t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      I think they have a long standing agreement with stereo

    • @Willybean08
      @Willybean08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@boomamathics2666 For mortal minds

    • @Ptaku93
      @Ptaku93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ohhh boiiii

  • @TheAlps36
    @TheAlps36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1182

    Let's see Jay do his "one syllable out of sync trick" on this song

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Can't, the lyrics are already bollocks

    • @yuvalne
      @yuvalne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      "THATS A FUCKING DIFFICULT ONE"

  • @graf
    @graf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8552

    not going to be long until some cheeky bugger requests this at karaoke

    • @never8931
      @never8931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I hope so

    • @mousedelay
      @mousedelay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      hi graf

    • @jakubmajchrzak9595
      @jakubmajchrzak9595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lmao

    • @AmberO_
      @AmberO_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      verified
      lemme get some of that clout

    • @TotoDG
      @TotoDG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      When this stupid pandemic is over, Jay needs to bring back his live songs, and this needs to be the first thing he plays.

  • @absolutelynot.3739
    @absolutelynot.3739 ปีที่แล้ว +1045

    The "San Marino? San Mari-no", and "the Vatican? The Vatican't" are the best sounds to have ever graced my ears

    • @Sw3den_mapping
      @Sw3den_mapping 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Microstates but no edition: cantorra, san mari-no, vatican't.

    • @henricopter.
      @henricopter. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Can'tada

    • @PBJellyBoi
      @PBJellyBoi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Sw3den_mappingLiechtenst-I don't think so

    • @Coolouie
      @Coolouie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Monacannot
      Chino
      No Zealand

    • @Losangeles_Erlc1
      @Losangeles_Erlc1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Coolouienot zealand

  • @gianb3952
    @gianb3952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2659

    San MariNO and the Vatican't
    Name a more iconic duo

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      You San Mari-Know that you VatiCan't

    • @Diamond-OSCandMarblestuff
      @Diamond-OSCandMarblestuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Botswana and Zimbabwe

    • @bagofcoolness
      @bagofcoolness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Cameroon and a chicken with a huge badonadonk.

    • @zajkevv
      @zajkevv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      IT('s) A LY

    • @MariaDuarte-xh2sm
      @MariaDuarte-xh2sm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      furnace and crafting table

  • @anishraja9655
    @anishraja9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4640

    The Japanese sentence reads: "Dear volunteers, can you translate this sentence? Thank you very much! - Map Men"

    • @Hydrophiidae
      @Hydrophiidae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      No the sign off is more like "male map"

    • @torpeedobootkamchatka2750
      @torpeedobootkamchatka2750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      @@Hydrophiidae now we know the gender of the map men's map

    • @anishraja9655
      @anishraja9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Oh gosh. The sign off is more like " Map of Men"

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@anishraja9655 Sounds more like an artifact than a TH-cam show!

    • @akshat.jaiswal
      @akshat.jaiswal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      World need more people like u

  • @shadowslashful
    @shadowslashful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4092

    I literally said "Egypt is kinda square" at the beginning of the video and I think I've peaked in life.

    • @xeviphract5894
      @xeviphract5894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Me: The squarest country? You mean Egypt?
      Also me: What if it's NOT Egypt?!

    • @twothreebravo
      @twothreebravo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same.

    • @spanner5686
      @spanner5686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one, was dreading Egypt popping up before the end

    • @pavese1379
      @pavese1379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lol, my first thought was actually Ivory Coast

    • @climbingdino9949
      @climbingdino9949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SAME

  • @MesaperProductions
    @MesaperProductions ปีที่แล้ว +236

    I love how they're like:
    "That's a stupid, horrible, dumb, bad, horrible, stupid question."
    "We must answer it immediately."
    "Yes, of course."

  • @deathbower
    @deathbower 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7521

    Finally, the British drawing straight lines all over the map pays off!

    • @CCABPSacsach
      @CCABPSacsach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +485

      Africa: Lots of geographical features with occasional rivers, ponds and lakes along with countless tribal areas, ethnic groups and races
      Europe: imma pretend I didn’t see that

    • @Digighost_5
      @Digighost_5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      You're welcome

    • @victorivanov6603
      @victorivanov6603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am the 669th like

    • @smfe
      @smfe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@CCABPSacsach You realize they only drew straight lines in Egypt because literally nobody lives in the middle of the Sahara desert, right?

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      @@smfe Egypt isn’t the only country that Europe slapped together. They made so many borders throughout Africa ignoring the geography and cultural borders.

  • @ExpeditionThemePark
    @ExpeditionThemePark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4033

    The perfect song does exist.

    • @sdf1000
      @sdf1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      qatar looks like a bean

    • @lucie4185
      @lucie4185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I dont know IMO Wacko did it better but then he is out of date now so...

    • @rabinniroula5201
      @rabinniroula5201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jay: Hold my stolen foods

    • @EnteiFire4
      @EnteiFire4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lucie4185 "Germany now on one piece" shows pretty much how old the song is.

    • @JamesMusicCovers
      @JamesMusicCovers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sam why are you here?

  • @benhandley5319
    @benhandley5319 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    Amazing video! My 13yo is totally obsessed by this -- enough so that he's dragged me down the hole. I ended up writing a program to calculate the squareness of countries, and according to my metric Egypt is indeed the winner at 89.5% square, followed by (North) Sudan and Cote D'Ivoire both at just over 83%. Interestingly (to me at least), these seem to be the only countries that score higher than a circle, which scores exactly 2*sqrt(2)-2, or roughly 0.828, on my metric. So rejecting countries for being "too round" may not be valid, at least not if you're interested in finding square-ish countries beyond the top 3.

    • @maybellx3
      @maybellx3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      WOW

    • @notjeff7833
      @notjeff7833 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm curious. Which country scored the lowest

    • @polypedates62
      @polypedates62 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@notjeff7833 I didn't trawl through all the low ranking ones, but it's surely going to be a far-flung archipelago. If you come up with a shortlist I'll be happy to compare them!

    • @samuela-aegisdottir
      @samuela-aegisdottir 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did you include Kosovo in your calculation too? It seems to be a fairly good square too.

    • @amazingkeller
      @amazingkeller 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@polypedates62 probably kiribati or tuvalu

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3413

    I would like to congratulate you for making the best video the internet has ever seen.

  • @Sealdrop
    @Sealdrop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2362

    u guys are built different

  • @yaseminibrahim6988
    @yaseminibrahim6988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6589

    I am from Egypt and since the beginning I am like, "hey Egypt is a square!"
    I feel like we had just won an award somehow for being a square country although we used to be one nation with Sudan before and then we weren't a square at that time! nevertheless WE WON! WE WON!

    • @alaagamerroblox
      @alaagamerroblox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      WE WON FELLOW EGYPTIAN -(IM EGYPTIAN TOO ( مصر ام الدنيا)

    • @damianbla4469
      @damianbla4469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Yes, you won.
      I am from Poland (look at 01:50) which's shape also resembles a square.

    • @ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски
      @ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Praise Amun!

    • @FarFromHome91
      @FarFromHome91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I was literally thinking what a little moment of national proud...we won being a square xD

    • @destruct0503
      @destruct0503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@damianbla4469 you need to do more conquering man.

  • @Семён-ч7б
    @Семён-ч7б ปีที่แล้ว +192

    0:08 Start
    0:47 What About This Little Countries
    0:53 Song Start
    1:21 What About Landlocked Countries
    2:22 Island Countries
    2:34 Countries With sticky outy bit
    3:46 List Of Countries
    4:52 Square Countries
    5:14 The winner
    5:37 The Capital Cities question
    6:38 Stereo app

  • @blurds
    @blurds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1208

    New episode of mapmen, now that's worth cleaning your phone screen for.

    • @Aezeus
      @Aezeus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I even turned the brightness up

    • @kh2b573
      @kh2b573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep

    • @blurds
      @blurds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Aezeus careful with that battery percentage

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's worth stopping everything else for; these guys are brilliant!

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's worth putting in the good headphones for.

  • @Seniac
    @Seniac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2666

    Chicken with a huge badonkadonk

    • @antonievanbruchem4540
      @antonievanbruchem4540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Best part

    • @coouragee
      @coouragee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The world needs more chicken-countries with huge badonka donks

    • @krxknz
      @krxknz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Seniac with a huge robloxablox

    • @Danielvarndell3981
      @Danielvarndell3981 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @Reiwah
      @Reiwah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Seniac you fool

  • @emlel1948
    @emlel1948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +996

    -Sombody asked what country is the squarest
    -What a stupid question
    -Totally pointless
    I see what you did there

    • @ddbrown30
      @ddbrown30 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      But a square has 4 points...

    • @choco_jack7016
      @choco_jack7016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      somebody once asked me what country is the squarest
      I told them what a stupid question
      I was thinking it was pointless with my finger and my thumb in the shape of a hmm on my chin.

    • @latesthope
      @latesthope 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I dont get it

    • @patrickduffin7912
      @patrickduffin7912 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@latesthope A square has 4 points. Him saying that it's a pointless question is funny. Least from what I can make from it

    • @ushikiii
      @ushikiii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It would be better if they were discussing the most circle shaped nations.

  • @Arthur-yf9yv
    @Arthur-yf9yv ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Saved the video and it automatically saved to my last playlist. A crochet tutorial playlist. One called ‘squares’.

  • @atotallyextinctdinosaur
    @atotallyextinctdinosaur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1031

    I am Egyptian and i just reliazed how hard it was for some people to draw the map of their country in the geography class xD

    • @manetho5134
      @manetho5134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      أخوويااااا🇪🇬😍

    • @AurumFaber
      @AurumFaber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@stella_s yeah...

    • @Yeti2308
      @Yeti2308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well drawing straight lines are hard

    • @Yomesto
      @Yomesto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      just imagine lmao uzbecistan and i live in india but it's still hard :(

    • @potatostuff7179
      @potatostuff7179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You think it's hard to draw one country I can draw all 195

  • @jasonlee6936
    @jasonlee6936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3124

    I love that the Japanese speech bubble was signed “a male map” or perhaps "a map of males" rather than map men

    • @nurizdiharmuhamad9436
      @nurizdiharmuhamad9436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Zoo

    • @phileo_ss
      @phileo_ss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      It could also mean 'a man's map' as in a map (maps) owned by a man or a map (maps) for men. Time code: 01:30.

    • @throckmortonvanhouten5430
      @throckmortonvanhouten5430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      I was able to translate it roughly as "dear volunteer, can you translate this sentence? Thanks! --a male map"

    • @phileo_ss
      @phileo_ss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@throckmortonvanhouten5430 That is correct. Although the Japanese was a bit awkward.
      I found that if you translate 'Map Men' or 'Map men' (but not 'map men') to Japanese in Google Translate, it gives the exact phrase in the video.

    • @NuclearRaven13
      @NuclearRaven13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@phileo_ss
      Maybe a translation like "地図の男 (roughly 'man of the map')" would be better?

  • @piekay7285
    @piekay7285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7554

    As a German I can say: we tried becoming a square twice: The Rest of the world didn‘t like it

    • @Zraknul
      @Zraknul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +691

      The Brits went with the opposite approach and tried to get all the coastline in the world.

    • @bruhmoment-wq5cy
      @bruhmoment-wq5cy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      @@Zraknul we Turks went with opposites of those 2 and just ate anything close to us and created one of the biggest long lasting empires and post ww1 we destroyed the entente bit too easily ngl.

    • @IrKeNoVa
      @IrKeNoVa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      You are still on timeout, btw, no more becoming a square for You.

    • @twothreebravo
      @twothreebravo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      I don't think you tried becoming "square" more "globe" shaped.

    • @mrjonnylowes
      @mrjonnylowes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Under performers.

  • @Hzatif67
    @Hzatif67 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    2:36 Afghanistan
    4:39 Albania
    3:01 Algeria
    3:47 Andorra
    4:58 Angola
    3:47 Antigua and Barbuda
    3:20 Argentina
    4:23 Armenia

    • @Qwazor
      @Qwazor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      You’ve got this buddy. I believe in you

    • @elwisuntemp7199
      @elwisuntemp7199 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You were mentioned on Jay’s twitter!

    • @Hzatif67
      @Hzatif67 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Qwazor thanks!

    • @elwisuntemp7199
      @elwisuntemp7199 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Almost there, good luck!

    • @ryanmo
      @ryanmo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      only about 190 to go!

  • @chriswyatt9869
    @chriswyatt9869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    For Britain's skill at drawing straight lines through Africa, they managed to make surprisingly few square countries.

    • @bagofcoolness
      @bagofcoolness 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am very dissapointed in my country

    • @loqi453
      @loqi453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Egypt?

    • @chriswyatt9869
      @chriswyatt9869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@loqi453 still very few. And it my memory serves i don't think Britain was involved with Egypts borders. My comment was really more about the colonial powers in general (france, belgium etc). I know Libya was colonised by Italy, and they share a border with Egypt so it's probably something to do with them.

    • @loqi453
      @loqi453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chriswyatt9869 im pretty sure map men have got another video, where they show what the borders were before and after they were changed by the British to better reflect tribal boundaries, Bir Tawil in particular
      the borders pre tribal influence changes were extremely square

  • @federicoandrademarambio2913
    @federicoandrademarambio2913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +587

    - Daddy, how did the Bolivian War of Territorial Squarisation began?
    - I believe all began with a catchy song...

    • @mazenayman7512
      @mazenayman7512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is the best comment in TH-cam history

    • @TomJerry12933
      @TomJerry12933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      "ok listen you guys, we are explictly NOT actually trying to take away your land from you: all we want from you is to trade bits of land with your neighbors so we can make all the nations square like they should be.
      ....but we don't even understand wh---
      SHUT UP YOU AND JUST DO AS WE SAY ALREADY"

    • @whyyoulidl
      @whyyoulidl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMFAO :-)

    • @tz8785
      @tz8785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the 1930s, Bolivia already tried to conquer the north of Paraguay (Chaco War). They lost.

    • @albertochavez8364
      @albertochavez8364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bolivian here, I honestly think it's a really bad idea Bolivia pushing for a war since we have only won ONE war since our independence.
      Just search the the map of bolivia in 1936, we used to have sea. 😫

  • @kktt725
    @kktt725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    Jay’s impression of a call service lady is absolutely gold

    • @IxiaClover
      @IxiaClover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      he got all the specifics right, down to the slight uptalk that comes from repeating a phrase over and over

    • @jameslloyd2540
      @jameslloyd2540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'll just put that through for you.

    • @LisaBeergutHolst
      @LisaBeergutHolst 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So so so so ... lol

  • @adinagershon240
    @adinagershon240 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    this is by far the most useful resource and device for geography games I have ever used

  • @hannahme1930
    @hannahme1930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3969

    Petition for these two to have their own horrible histories show but for geography

    • @Jason-Clark235
      @Jason-Clark235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes and YES

    • @andrewsheppard1940
      @andrewsheppard1940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Gorgeous Geographies? ;-)

    • @mathieuleader8601
      @mathieuleader8601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Gregarious Globetrotters

    • @bongo50_
      @bongo50_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      There is a book series called Horrible Geography (as well as Horrible Science and Horrible Histories) and, as the TV shows for the other 2 are Horrible Histories and Horrible Science, it would probably called Horrible Geography.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      They do. That's what Map Men is, basically.

  • @gazoakleychef
    @gazoakleychef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1586

    BEST TH-cam CHANNEL EVER MADE

  • @lonesongbird6557
    @lonesongbird6557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2637

    Our 8yo has this almost completely memorized. (The blobby ones trip him up.). He’s been serenading his globe with it, finding all the countries as he goes. 😂

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1127

      Aw, that’s adorable! Hope it comes in handy in future geography lessons/quizzes. 🏆

    • @AussieBall_Animations
      @AussieBall_Animations 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Lol

    • @ultimategamer4703
      @ultimategamer4703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Me too

    • @meroses73
      @meroses73 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      wait til he's 18.

    • @jonsyahtung7310
      @jonsyahtung7310 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Go to sporcle then let's see if your 8 year old can name every country in the world

  • @petrazakova8612
    @petrazakova8612 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1:50 Czechia says somethink like "fuck off"(i am from Czechia)🇨🇿

  • @aliguibril234
    @aliguibril234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    The fact that it's Egypt didn't dawn on me except halfway through the video even though I live here.

    • @mazenayman7512
      @mazenayman7512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You and me both brother

    • @NorthWestOutlaws
      @NorthWestOutlaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's the first place I thought of, I sent to long looking at maps of this wonderful place back in the 1990s whilst on holiday there, the Cairo museum is fantastic and the people were very friendly.

    • @MohamedElGoharyy
      @MohamedElGoharyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually was thinking Egypt before I clicked on the video... I'm Egyptian too

  • @mistercreeper3029
    @mistercreeper3029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +858

    Lyrics of The Squareness of the Countries (I made that up to be a name to the song):
    Someone's emailed us asking which country's shape is most like a square.
    What a stupid question.
    Totally pointless.
    Slovakia?
    ~ no.
    Georgia?
    No.
    Bangladesh.
    No, Bangladesh looks like a wizard.
    You think everything looks like a wizard.
    Ghana.
    Too long.
    North Macedonia.
    Too round.
    Liberia?
    No.
    Malaysia.
    Jay, Malaysia is not a square.
    But there must be one somewhere.
    Not in Oman or the U.A.E., and Yemen's more of a rectangle.
    Yes, I can see.
    Russia's nothing like a square.
    Too long as I'm aware.
    Mali starts off strongly, but right here is goes to pot.
    Burkina Faso is irregular, four-sides is not.
    Hmm... Italy's a boot.
    So is Papua New Guinea.
    What about Benin and Togo?
    No, they're both far too skinny.
    What about these little countries, Costa Rica, Lebanon?
    There's no square in Singapore, Brunei, Mauritius or Gabon.
    *Quick deep breath* Kuwait looks like a little thumb, Madagscar looks quite lean.
    Burundi looks quite like a heart, Qatar looks like a bean.
    India's a diamond and Slovenia's a splot.
    cuba is very long and thin and both Koreas are short and squat.
    Mozambique has got too many sides, Uzbekistan as well.
    Little Paraguay's no paradigm, Mauritania' an L.
    And Malawi's like a seahorse, Guinea-Bissau's a weathered rock.
    And Nauru's nearly a circle and Somalia's a sock.
    France is famously a hexagon, that fact is quite well known.
    But it's not the only one, it's joined by Sierra Leone.
    What about these landlocked countries, like Nepal or South Sudan?
    They're not square and nor are Denmark, Finland, China, or Iran.
    Luxembourgers are all squares which their borders don't reflect.
    And Australia's a cat dog, and Japan's we must reject.
    Quatemala has two squarish sides in this bit in the north.
    But it won't meet our criteria 'cause it needs a needs a third and fourth.
    - Timor-Leste?
    - Doesn't pass the test.
    - Moldova? Guinea?
    - Don't be silly.
    - Little Rwanda?
    - Doesn't stand a hope in h---.
    - Nor does Israel.
    - Are we seriously going to go through every country?
    - Yes, I think it's important.
    Both the U.S.A . and Canada have squares in large amounts.
    But we are only counting countries and states don't count.
    Poland would look square if it invaded to the south.
    Kazakhstan looks like a turtle with a leaf stuck in its mouth.
    Despite a square's efficiency, Germans don't come close.
    And Peru is like a resting dog, and Guyana's like a ghost.
    Ethiopia and Swizerland look like potato wedges.
    Norway, Sweden and New Zealand all have far too crinkly edges.
    If have a lot of coastline then your sides will not be straight.
    So the squareness of Philippines, Greece and Ireland won't be great.
    Tajikistan's quit funky, as is elephant shaped Thailand.
    There's no square in Indonesia's 18,000 tiny islands.
    If your country's made of islands then a square you'll never be.
    There are loads of island nations that are mostly empty sea:
    *Quick breath* Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Island, the Seychelles, the Maldives, Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe, the Bahamas, Cape Verdi, Tonga, Vanuatu.
    The Netherlands is flat, although its edges do not fit.
    And the following are countries with a sticky outy bit:
    There's Afghanistan, Namibia, the D.R.C.'s got two.
    There's Ukraine, Venezuela, Eritrea, Cyprus and Kosovoo!
    - Is Morocco square?
    - No, it's more a stair.
    - Kiribati?
    - Not square alas.
    - Senegal?
    - Not square at all.
    - San Marino?
    - San Mari-no
    The C.A.R. so near, so far, Botswana's like a flounder.
    Chad looks like Jay Leno, Eswatini couldn't be rounder.
    Mongolia looks like a bat, the Congo's looking kind of foxy.
    Myanmar's like a genie and not slightly boxy.
    Belize has one edge here that's straight, but this bit's rather lumpy.
    Algeria and Kenya are pentagons, Honduras is too bumpy.
    Sri Lanka's like a raindrop, Kyrgyzstan's a bird in flight.
    While Iraq and Jordan's lines are straight, the angles aren't just right.
    Colombia's kind of squarish though its borders are quite rough.
    And Iberia would pass, but Spain's alone's not square enough.
    If Bolivia expanded, then a square it just might be.
    Nicaragua would look square if you viewed it in 3-D.
    Little Liechtenstein and the Argentines are not square in the least.
    The Dominican Republic, that just tapers to the east.
    Lesotho's sort of squarish, but the angle's on a wonk.
    Cameroon is like a chicken with a huge badonkadonk.
    Mexico?
    No no no no.
    Portugal.
    Too thin, too tall.
    The Saudis?
    Too much on a slant.
    The Vatican?
    The Vati-can't.
    Listing every country by its shape is not an easy job, when inevitably loads of them only look like a blob.
    So to make things go more efficient, as I'm sure you've got the gist.
    Here are all the blobby countries in a quick compiled list:
    *DEEP BREATH* Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Czechia, Djibouti, Dominica, Estonia, Granada, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Uruguay, Zimbabwe.
    Samoa's like a butterfly whose wings have been removed, But add Ecuator and Bahrain, and it's massively improved.
    Little Monaco's so tiny you can see the piers within.
    Chile's very very very very very long and thin.
    Uganda cannot be a square, because all of the lakes.
    The Gambia, Vietnam, and Panama all look like snakes.
    Haiti, Croatia, and Zambia all have shapes that wrap them around.
    Syria's just a bit too slopey, and El Salvador's too long.
    That doesn't rhyme.
    Palau looks like a jellyfish, Pakistan looks like a duck.
    Azerbaijan looks like a bird that's been run over by a truck.
    This monkey is Armenian, this shooting star's Laotian.
    Jamaica, Malta, and Niger are creatures from the ocean.
    Greenland's not a real country, even though it's really big.
    The U.K. looks like an old witch sitting sideways on a pig.
    Comoros would if it were glued.
    Some parts of Tuvalu look rude.
    Turkmenistan looks like something ot another.
    Tunisia and Albania look like each other.
    SOUTH AFRICA'S TOO WOBBLY, BULGARIA'S TOO NOBLY.
    BRAZIL IS TOO TRIANGULAR, TURKEY IS TOO RECTANGULAR.
    Now the only countries left are ones whose squareness are the best.
    If you know which ones are coming we're incredibly impressed.
    Little Montenegro's square if you rotate it some degrees.
    South Sudan has left behind a very square North Sudanese.
    The angles in Angola mean it's nearly good to go.
    And Nigeria comes close, although it bulges down below.
    Libya is nearly a square, it's more a parallelogram.
    And Cote d'Ivoire and Suriname do well in our exam.
    Equatorial Guinea's very square, but unfortunately.
    Since its capital's on an island, then the squarest it can't be.
    So the winner of our contest!
    Fitting all our tight prediscriptions.
    It's the squarest of the squarest!
    The nation of the Pharaohs!
    The land of Cleopatra!
    The country where the Sphinx is!
    It's the land of the Egyptiaaaaaaaans!!
    Pah!
    Any more interesting emails come in?
    There's one email asking for every capital city of the world.
    D'oh, that would have made a much better song.

    • @oilyrussianpipecleaner
      @oilyrussianpipecleaner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      underrated

    • @mistercreeper3029
      @mistercreeper3029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@oilyrussianpipecleaner Thank you, a lot of typing and a few hours went to that. :_)

    • @gilgaros8745
      @gilgaros8745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      is nigeria here or i am just a idiot?

    • @tonai
      @tonai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gilgaros8745 And Nigeria comes close, although it bulges down below.

    • @gilgaros8745
      @gilgaros8745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tonai lets say that nigeria passes the test

  • @florianhufnagl2980
    @florianhufnagl2980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    This series feels like I'm in a cult.

    • @derPetunientopf
      @derPetunientopf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This cult has wizards the downside is that you have to bring your own cookies.

    • @Tommy20136
      @Tommy20136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What do you mean, "like"?

    • @sumojack99
      @sumojack99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always have been.

    • @kingt0295
      @kingt0295 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cant wait for Jay to jonestown us :^)

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nicest cult ever though. And remember: Hexagons are the bestagons

  • @marty6779
    @marty6779 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:00 Switzerland looks happy

  • @andrejjavorcek7414
    @andrejjavorcek7414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +649

    I feel honored that the first country you thought of is Slovakia even though it look like a literal *cheeto*

    • @muffin_the_great
      @muffin_the_great 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And they puted Czech swear word in the video. We are honored too

    • @harrisonofcolorado8886
      @harrisonofcolorado8886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@muffin_the_great Czech swear word?

    • @muffin_the_great
      @muffin_the_great 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@harrisonofcolorado8886 1:52

    • @Alkuf100
      @Alkuf100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@muffin_the_great but the sentence is in Slovak... hmm

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Come on, let's be serious. If there's any country that looks like a Cheeto it's obviously Chile.

  • @antonioscendrategattico2302
    @antonioscendrategattico2302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    Jay showing up the Animaniacs by not only making an accurate and exhaustive map of the world in song, but even working in the whole shapes thing.

    • @diggoran
      @diggoran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like the hint at the end about all the capitols of the world making a much better song :)

  • @LSqre
    @LSqre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    I like to think this isn't scripted and they turned on the camera and just started spitting bars.

    • @poodiepie6140
      @poodiepie6140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They would need to know all the exact shapes of every country on earth tho

    • @keruarevalo850
      @keruarevalo850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@poodiepie6140 That's not hard actually, but what would be really hard is to think about something that look a like or describe the shapes in one verse and making it rime

    • @TheFinnish1
      @TheFinnish1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If this made you feel like that way, then the Map Men™ have succeed in this video!

    • @French-Dutch-English-blooded
      @French-Dutch-English-blooded 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yo yo yo they like spitting bars and sheeit

  • @xinzhewu6082
    @xinzhewu6082 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great song!
    In the middle of the song I opened the map of Africa (simply because there're more straight lines than other continents) and caught Egypt at the first sight

  • @daaishifeeling
    @daaishifeeling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    map men being translated as "男性の地図” (dansei no chizu) in japanese is so funny to me, it's literally "men's map" or "a man's map". took me a while to realise it was supposed to be map men lol. a more accurate way to say it would be 地図の男性 (chizu no dansei), lit. "map's men"
    the whole thing translates as
    "dear volunteer,
    can you translate this sentence?
    thank you!
    men's map"
    EDIT: i just put into google translate basically what i wrote above except with "thanks a lot" and "map men" and it came out with the exact phrasing in the video which honestly makes the whole thing even funnier

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Men's map, men's map, men's men's men's map!. map... map...

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Oh yeah, I remember that the "no" possessive being the other way around from the Indo-European languages I was used to was really confusing to me when I was learning a bit of Japanese! I guess they fell into the same trap.

    • @CrasyWolfang
      @CrasyWolfang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      "We are the map, and here are the men!"

    • @trickster1833
      @trickster1833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Came here to post the translation, the "dear" here is dear as in "deep affection", notably not a letter opening(which would be more like "ボランティアへ" (To volunteer,).
      男性の地図(dansei no chizu) could also be translated as "map of men", as in a map showing where men are; 地図の男性 (chizu no dansei) is still more correct with this interpretation, meaning men of map, or men of the map(s)

    • @mebamme
      @mebamme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      thanks, I've been looking for this comment! My Japanese skills are just about enough to go "that must be a mistake, right?"
      Taking another look, doesn't できますか mean "can" only in an are-you-able-to way, not in a please-do-this way?

  • @MaxFosh
    @MaxFosh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1019

    I think you guys would really suit Louis with the groups

    • @goawayimsleeping509
      @goawayimsleeping509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Jay and Mark, vote for this guy to take London to the max!

    • @numismatistuk6745
      @numismatistuk6745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Keep up the fight max

    • @jenko1949
      @jenko1949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      mr.Fosh, you would have my vote if i lived in London

    • @emmalouise9588
      @emmalouise9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@goawayimsleeping509 max fosh can finish london

    • @MaksB.
      @MaksB. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      London London London

  • @jakobsmith1396
    @jakobsmith1396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +769

    I was screaming "Equatorial Guinea" in my head the entire song, and then when they finally got to it that damn island ruined everything! Lol

    • @HelloIAmARandomPerson
      @HelloIAmARandomPerson ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Lol that’s embarrassing
      I guessed Egypt the entire time

    • @jasoncallow860
      @jasoncallow860 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Island nations tend to do that

    • @asnekboi7232
      @asnekboi7232 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jasoncallow860 but most of it isn’t an island

    • @jonsyahtung7310
      @jonsyahtung7310 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @bradensorensen966
      @bradensorensen966 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I knew it was gonna be Egypt, but after looking into Africa before guessing, I too fell for EG.

  • @Tulpen23
    @Tulpen23 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1) That you wrote that song is incredible!
    2) I guessed Egypt before you started, and thought of Libya as a backup 😎

  • @photonicpizza1466
    @photonicpizza1466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    As a Czech, the "pal do piče" with the Polish invasion bit made me crack up.

    • @mikaoleander
      @mikaoleander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      what does it mean?

    • @mydoooom
      @mydoooom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@mikaoleander nearly impossible to translate well but it means something like "go to hell"!

    • @matejpimper3354
      @matejpimper3354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@mikaoleander "bugger off" (not very politely)

    • @jakesteampson7043
      @jakesteampson7043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@mikaoleander Basically "Fuck off"

    • @themumblingdumpling2838
      @themumblingdumpling2838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It's "fuck off", right?
      Also, greetings from Poland. :D

  • @SquirtyBertie
    @SquirtyBertie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1953

    I was very disappointed after listing through the whole song to find no countries were missing ...
    Afghanistan 02:36
    Albania 04:39
    Algeria 03:00
    Andorra 03:46
    Angola 04:58
    Antigua and Barbuda 03:47
    Argentina 03:20
    Armenia 04:24
    Australia 01:28
    Austria 03:48
    Azerbaijan 04:21
    The Bahamas 02:28
    Bahrain 03:59
    Bangladesh 00:14
    Barbados 03:48
    Belarus 03:49
    Belgium 03:48
    Belize 02:58
    Benin 00:45
    Bhutan 03:49
    Bolivia 03:14
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 04:49
    Botswana 02:49
    Brazil 04:43
    Brunei 00:51
    Bulgaria 04:41
    Burkina Faso 00:39
    Burundi 00:56
    Cabo Verde 02:28
    Cambodia 03:50
    Cameroon 03:27
    Canada 01:45
    Central African Republic 02:47
    Chad 02:50
    Chile 04:04
    China 01:24
    Colombia 03:09
    Comoros 04:34
    Congo, Democratic Republic of the 02:37
    Congo, Republic of the 02:54
    Costa Rica 00:48
    Côte d’Ivoire 05:06
    Croatia 04:12
    Cuba 01:01
    Cyprus 02:40
    Czech Republic 03:51
    Denmark 01:23
    Djibouti 03:51
    Dominica 03:51
    Dominican Republic 03:22
    East Timor (Timor-Leste) 01:36
    Ecuador 03:59
    Egypt 05:28
    El Salvador 04:16
    Equatorial Guinea 05:08
    Eritrea 02:39
    Estonia 03:52
    Eswatini 02:50
    Ethiopia 02:01
    Fiji 02:25
    Finland 01:23
    France 01:14
    Gabon 00:52
    The Gambia 04:09
    Georgia 00:11
    Germany 01:57
    Ghana 00:19
    Greece 02:09
    Grenada 03:52
    Guatemala 01:31
    Guinea 01:38
    Guinea-Bissau 01:09
    Guyana 01:59
    Haiti 04:12
    Honduras 03:01
    Hungary 03:52
    Iceland 03:52
    India 00:58
    Indonesia 02:15
    Iran 01:24
    Iraq 03:06
    Ireland 02:10
    Israel 01:40
    Italy 00:42
    Jamaica 04:27
    Japan 01:29
    Jordan 03:06
    Kazakhstan 01:52
    Kenya 03:01
    Kiribati 02:43
    Korea, North 01:02
    Korea, South 01:02
    Kosovo 02:40
    Kuwait 00:53
    Kyrgyzstan 03:04
    Laos 04:25
    Latvia 03:53
    Lebanon 00:49
    Lesotho 03:24
    Liberia 00:24
    Libya 05:03
    Liechtenstein 03:19
    Lithuania 03:53
    Luxembourg 01:25
    Madagascar 00:54
    Malawi 01:09
    Malaysia 00:25
    Maldives 02:25
    Mali 00:37
    Malta 04:27
    Marshall Islands 02:26
    Mauritania 01:08
    Mauritius 00:51
    Mexico 03:30
    Micronesia, Federated States of 02:25
    Moldova 01:38
    Monaco 04:02
    Mongolia 02:52
    Montenegro 04:52
    Morocco 02:42
    Mozambique 01:04
    Myanmar (Burma) 02:55
    Namibia 02:37
    Nauru 01:11
    Nepal 01:21
    Netherlands 02:31
    New Zealand 02:04
    Nicaragua 03:16
    Niger 04:27
    Nigeria 05:01
    North Macedonia 00:21
    Norway 02:03
    Oman 00:30
    Pakistan 04:19
    Palau 04:18
    Panama 04:10
    Papua New Guinea 00:44
    Paraguay 01:06
    Peru 01:58
    Philippines 02:09
    Poland 01:50
    Portugal 03:32
    Qatar 00:56
    Romania 03:53
    Russia 00:34
    Rwanda 01:38
    Saint Kitts and Nevis 02:26
    Saint Lucia 03:53
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 02:23
    Samoa 03:56
    San Marino 02:46
    Sao Tome and Principe 02:27
    Saudi Arabia 03:32
    Senegal 02:45
    Serbia 03:54
    Seychelles 02:24
    Sierra Leone 01:19
    Singapore 00:51
    Slovakia 00:10
    Slovenia 00:59
    Solomon Islands 02:24
    Somalia 01:13
    South Africa 04:40
    Spain 03:12
    Sri Lanka 03:02
    Sudan 04:57
    Sudan, South 01:21
    Suriname 05:07
    Sweden 02:03
    Switzerland 02:01
    Syria 04:14
    Tajikistan 02:11
    Tanzania 03:54
    Thailand 02:13
    Togo 00:45
    Tonga 02:29
    Trinidad and Tobago 02:22
    Tunisia 04:39
    Turkey 04:43
    Turkmenistan 04:37
    Tuvalu 04:36
    Uganda 04:06
    Ukraine 02:38
    United Arab Emirates 00:30
    United Kingdom 04:31
    United States 01:44
    Uruguay 03:55
    Uzbekistan 01:05
    Vanuatu 02:29
    Vatican City 03:35
    Venezuela 02:38
    Vietnam 04:10
    Yemen 00:32
    Zambia 04:13
    Zimbabwe 03:55

    • @atomicmrpelly
      @atomicmrpelly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      We've all got thyme on our hands at the moment.

    • @PeripheryFanboy
      @PeripheryFanboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      Palestine.

    • @lienuslatetips4894
      @lienuslatetips4894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      I think they forgot Taiwan.

    • @JamesTheBell1
      @JamesTheBell1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Can you do this for the Every Tube Station song as well please?

    • @wdwfanatic1394
      @wdwfanatic1394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      "no countries were missing"
      Palestine and Taiwan: *Are we a joke to you*

  • @dempsey8796
    @dempsey8796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Was anyone else really suprised by the lack of the Map Men intro song? I thought the cold open was just lasting longer than usual, took me until botswana to come to terms with it

    • @Kimberton149
      @Kimberton149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Took me until Botswana to come to terms with it" is a lovely phrase

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Kimberton149 If there's any country to come to terms with, it's Botswana. Or maybe Belgium, either one.

    • @dempsey8796
      @dempsey8796 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 idk mate, i'm just thankful it wasn't lesotho, then i coulda been in a bad place

  • @Lumpy970253
    @Lumpy970253 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I feel a little disappointed because it didn't include my homeland Taiwan, but truly a masterpiece! Well done!

    • @sys839
      @sys839 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same. I was excited when they didn't include Taiwan in the map of China, but then they didn't mention Taiwan at all... Since I live here and am married to a Taiwanese guy, I'm always looking to see Taiwan included 😣

    • @averagesingaporean3
      @averagesingaporean3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Map man probably only did UN Recognized nations though but your pain is understandable

    • @fanman-sn7po
      @fanman-sn7po 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      i mean it makes sense to use the un's list

    • @Artemipso
      @Artemipso 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bruh Taiwan isn't even an UN-recognized independent country. They're already getting accused of being Kremlin propagandists for not highlighting Crimea in a different color. Including Taiwan would only spark political controversy.

  • @pulkitmohta8964
    @pulkitmohta8964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    The amount of brainstorming and the number of times seeing the world map for writing this song can only be the work of these two geniuses

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes

    • @aagamjain1395
      @aagamjain1395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now you have 193 like, which is like the 69 for geography nerds

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aagamjain1395 Indeed! Now that you mention it, that would make it a lot of effort! Thanks for mentioning it!

  • @kakungulu
    @kakungulu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    We dedicated most of 6th grade geography to India. Our headmaster was an immigrant from Karnataka and did a wonderful job teaching it. I remember he asked us on exam to draw the map of India. One of the not-so-bright kids drew a rectangle, to which the headmaster quipped: "looks more like Indiana to me". States don't count.

  • @nobodyeverinhistory
    @nobodyeverinhistory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    This TH-cam channel feels like one of those TV programs you encounter while switching through channels. It's out of the ordinary, but somewhat familiar, and its interesting enough to keep you in; then the next thing you know, you have a new favourite show.

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huh...

    • @fitmotheyap
      @fitmotheyap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah
      The second channel where i subbed just by watching one of their videos
      Usually it takes at least 10

  • @withnail70
    @withnail70 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I also love the way the adverts at the end are as entertaining as the documentary ❤

  • @edstervedster
    @edstervedster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Seeing there was still nearly 3 minutes left when they talked about doing every capital city made me terrified they were actually going to do it. They've raised the bar that high...

    • @thelonesculler
      @thelonesculler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was fully expecting them to launch into some Eminem-style blitz of all the capitals

    • @lostwizard
      @lostwizard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thelonesculler And somehow getting a legit cameo from Wako at the same time.

  • @DanAI17
    @DanAI17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    "Oh I'll just watch this new map men before I got to bed, there definitely won't be an incredibly catchy song that I won't be able to stop humming." - me, a fool, 5 minutes ago.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I read this in the voice of Jay pretending to be a character in the sponsor segment.

    • @DanAI17
      @DanAI17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 oh no, my identity as a Jay-bot has been revealed!

  • @adjoint_functor
    @adjoint_functor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    America: Panhandle
    Britain, intellectuals: Sticky outy bit

    • @DaL33T5
      @DaL33T5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The fancy term cartographers use is "salient".

  • @jab9109
    @jab9109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I know this by heart and it's one of the best videos on youtube.

  • @ssik9460
    @ssik9460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +729

    “Bangladesh looks like a wizard”
    That’s the best compliment we’ve ever gotten on the internet.

    • @vimdhayakjiofhimachal6448
      @vimdhayakjiofhimachal6448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Buy India's map n get Bangladesh map free😝😅😅🤣

    • @andrewjennings7306
      @andrewjennings7306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vimdhayakjiofhimachal6448 Bangladesh and Pakistan will be claimed for the glory of the indian nation!

    • @Timon-IrishFolk
      @Timon-IrishFolk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you also look like a wizard?

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Better than being a square!

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hagrid: Yer a wizard, Bangladesh!

  • @levim24
    @levim24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1358

    “There’s one asking for all the capitals of the world.”
    “Well, that would’ve made a much better song.”
    Yakko Warner: *heavy breathing*

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      "Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Indianapolis Indiana and Columbus is the capital of Ohio."
      Oh wait, you mean the other one.

    • @levim24
      @levim24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@DrZaius3141 no, that was Wakko singing state capitals (not country capitals), but Yakko has sung a lot more songs listing things.

    • @RepublicOfChebokstan
      @RepublicOfChebokstan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bizzare bits

    • @emporioalnino4670
      @emporioalnino4670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's the joke

    • @NeillyWheelie
      @NeillyWheelie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte enters the chat

  • @xway2
    @xway2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    Video: describes what every country looks like
    Sweden: *starts sweating*

    • @bruhz_089
      @bruhz_089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Sweden looks like Finland 🇫🇮

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Norway, Sweden and Finland together are the real thing.

    • @tabchanzero8229
      @tabchanzero8229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@gabor6259 No. Just Sweden and Finland.

    • @purpleapple4052
      @purpleapple4052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      DONG

    • @sepep6288
      @sepep6288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gabor6259 Just sweden and finland.. though Norway would make it a thick uncercumcised one

  • @Celinito
    @Celinito 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is probably my favourite video (and song) ever! 😆🤍

  • @3thanguy7
    @3thanguy7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    i love that they're doing a square dance at the end

  • @rrrabab
    @rrrabab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    I'm Bangladeshi and I confirm my country is a wizard.

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Jay's "girl voice" is shockingly good

    • @TR.372
      @TR.372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Literally sounds like every customer service person I've ever spoken to on the phone. Uncanny

  • @shvarra
    @shvarra 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    the czech speech bubble at 1:52 is so hilarious to me and i don't even know why (i'm czech)

    • @SanAntonio_Ball
      @SanAntonio_Ball 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If your Czech translate it then

  • @adrianholroyd4533
    @adrianholroyd4533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This is my favourite song in the squareness of countries genre.

  • @lindybeige
    @lindybeige 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1232

    Thank you for correctly pronouncing 'scheduling'.

    • @ntlespino
      @ntlespino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Hard k forever

    • @jolonghthong
      @jolonghthong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ntlespino yee

    • @harryfenton9965
      @harryfenton9965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      The ultimate crossover doesn't exist. YET.

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wait I didn't know there were multiple pronunciations. Can someone enlighten me?

    • @helix2331
      @helix2331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@majorfallacy5926 some brits say "shed jewel"

  • @SamWickens
    @SamWickens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    As a Luxembourger, I have to say most of our squares are actually imported by investment banks and are not representative of the general population. Also we're shaped like a sideways clog.

    • @nickprocter7090
      @nickprocter7090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've always thought you were shaped like a flame.

    • @STB4G
      @STB4G 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're a burger?

  • @spacefan36
    @spacefan36 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So I finally found the original?
    I love it.

  • @mattthesilent777RED
    @mattthesilent777RED 3 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    Hey Jay, which was more difficult, getting the lyrics right or not laughing? I tried but it was actually very funny

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  3 ปีที่แล้ว +491

      We used autocue and a backing track for the majority of this song. Apart from the spoken intro, which took several excruciating takes and was no laughing matter.

    • @mattthesilent777RED
      @mattthesilent777RED 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@JayForeman One topic for Map Men or something like that is an idea for a UK Motorway or an Underground line, something like that?

  • @MohammedSafwat1
    @MohammedSafwat1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I'm egyptian , I was enjoying the song so much that I didn't thought of egypt as the right answer

  • @joe4ueg
    @joe4ueg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3661

    I'm from Egypt, and as the video began I thought "Egypt is kinda square-ish..... But I'm sure there are other more square like countries.... I'll just sit here and wait for Egypt to be disqualified"
    Then as the video progressed i was like OOOOOH SHIT, NO, NO, IT CAN'T BE !!
    Then once they said the land of the pharoes I threw my arms up so hard i think i dislocated my shoulder.
    Gods know we needed a win.

    • @JasperCasper24
      @JasperCasper24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I shouldn't have read comments first huh

    • @somerandomname3124
      @somerandomname3124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      You did it Egypt you won.
      Enjoy it because this is the last victory you'll get for another century, you long dead empire you.

    • @teiman
      @teiman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@somerandomname3124 thats a bit mean, no?

    • @Biolumi_the_guy
      @Biolumi_the_guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      but its true

    • @yuki_eerhs4591
      @yuki_eerhs4591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@teiman truth hurts 😭

  • @WhoEvenIsYou
    @WhoEvenIsYou ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I only found this channel today and this thing is hilarious

  • @anarghyasumanth8590
    @anarghyasumanth8590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Egypt: Wins
    Sinai Peninsula: Wait that's illegal

    • @yukko_parra
      @yukko_parra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      eh close enough

    • @ahmedalaraby1371
      @ahmedalaraby1371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would agree ( I'm Egyptian )

    • @davidguthary8147
      @davidguthary8147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      If it weren't for the Sinai Peninsula, then Egypt would be more like a trapezoid. In this case, having an extra bit sticking out improves the country's squareness.

    • @Naortsa
      @Naortsa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Israel try to correct that

    • @decseimate9217
      @decseimate9217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sinai peninsula: *is ceded to israel*
      Egypt: Wait that's illegal
      but at least i'm a square

  • @_mels_
    @_mels_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    This song has been very helpful in Worldle, at least for me. Although I'm still waiting on either Monaco or Chile to show up so I can unashamedly sing the best (and only one I know the words for without thinking too much) part of this song.

    • @_mels_
      @_mels_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fuck yeah!

    • @Kanbei11
      @Kanbei11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Cameroon was only recently and I immediately thought of a chicken with a huge badonkadonk

    • @BarginsGalore
      @BarginsGalore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I laughed when Monaco came up a few days ago

    • @Suzyiz
      @Suzyiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When Cameroon came up my brain screamed HUGE BODONKADONK and did not provide me with the country :/

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BarginsGalore And it IS amazing that you can see piers on the national map. That was how I got it.

  • @TheV-Man
    @TheV-Man 3 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    I thought "Egypt" in the beginning and it's the proudest moment of my life.

    • @Worldwidegam3r
      @Worldwidegam3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same :,)

    • @nikitaamien404
      @nikitaamien404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That’s amazing. You have won geography

    • @tomlofmark8788
      @tomlofmark8788 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same! Very happy about it.

    • @kenaikuskokwim9694
      @kenaikuskokwim9694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah, but you neglect Bir Tawil. The Sudanese will be after you!

    • @iMiniBiscuits
      @iMiniBiscuits 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was waiting for it the entire time, it made my day

  • @ThatDutchAnimator
    @ThatDutchAnimator 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    1:52 that has to be one of the most creative

  • @thescooshinator
    @thescooshinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1128

    My last brain cell during a test: "The UK looks like an old witch sitting sideways on a pig"
    Edit: Sorry, but my comment was a lie. I recently did a test and my last brain cell went "Chile's very very very very very long and thin" instead.

  • @felipeitoanuatti
    @felipeitoanuatti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    The Monty Python energy in this one is stronger than usual

    • @FranciscoBurrola
      @FranciscoBurrola 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Animaniacs Energy

    • @mab757
      @mab757 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And bonus points for the H2G2 reference

  • @ovenwater4699
    @ovenwater4699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +514

    Top 10 rappers Eminem is too afraid to diss

  • @lillemieux179
    @lillemieux179 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, I’ve been trying to find you guys forever!!!

  • @skashax777x
    @skashax777x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    The blooper reel for this vid has got to be epic and overflowing

  • @lightningfletch5598
    @lightningfletch5598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    Fun fact: Equatorial Guinea is building a new capital city on the mainland that will be called Ciudad de La Paz, so they might just take Egypt’s title as the squarest county in the world.

    • @DarenStratton
      @DarenStratton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      That still can't happen unless they get rid of their island as well

    • @fjordling
      @fjordling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Bonus fun fact: This will leave Denmark as the only non-island-country to have the capital on an island, seperated from the mainland by sea

    • @Not_thaawesome
      @Not_thaawesome 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      malaysia & indonesia
      equatorial guinea is 1 of 4 countries with an exclave bigger than the mainland
      denmark is another
      Malaysia & indonesia are the final 2

    • @Saminations577
      @Saminations577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but la paz ia 1 of the 2 capital cities of Bolivia the second one its sucre.

    • @Not_thaawesome
      @Not_thaawesome 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2 cities can have the same name
      San Jose is the capital of Costa Rica but San Jose is the most common name for a coty

  • @reemibrahim8687
    @reemibrahim8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    as someone who is half egyptian, i knew it was coming, and was very very excited. i was not disappointed. it was beautiful. just beautiful.

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So, are you trangular or rectangular?

    • @thejfoshow1320
      @thejfoshow1320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NJ-wb1cz we need to know what the other half is

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thejfoshow1320 it doesn't matter, half of Egypt is half of Egypt 🤷 half-egyptian obviously means "resembling or in the form of or akin to a half of Egypt"

    • @Gary-Eng
      @Gary-Eng 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      as a full egyptian, i knew it was coming and this will be the only thing im proud about thats related to egypt

  • @Gian872
    @Gian872 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I legit thought this was some kind of documentary or something but this is still pretty impressive

  • @sebastianortizbioh1516
    @sebastianortizbioh1516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +569

    It's so fucking incredible to me that you nail the expression for anger in Paraguay, because contrary of what everyone must asume we won't react in spanish in that situation. Let me explain: the expression "nde" it's in guaraní (the native lenguage of the country still speak till this day alongside spanish) and it's so crazy because if you try to translate it it's literally "You", so you have to have so inside knowlege to know that's also used like the expression "hey! 😡" 3:14

    • @JayForeman
      @JayForeman  2 ปีที่แล้ว +351

      I lived in Villa Hayes for a year. Mba’eichapa!

    • @sebastianortizbioh1516
      @sebastianortizbioh1516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@JayForeman haha hope you had a good experience here! Come back any time!

    • @twojuiceman
      @twojuiceman ปีที่แล้ว +30

      ​@@JayForemanlived in Paraguay for a year? I want to hear that story!

    • @AdvikVerma-zg4zz
      @AdvikVerma-zg4zz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The pun for it should be "Paraguaint"

  • @geko7844
    @geko7844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    The beginning of this episode is how I like to think Jay and Mark spend their time when they’re not filming.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The entire episode is, actually. They didn't even realize the camera was on.

  • @lucianolizana446
    @lucianolizana446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    As a Chilean i must say I was awaiting my country during the entire song... Totally worth it

    • @felipedaiber2991
      @felipedaiber2991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Very very very very long and thin indeed

    • @macaronsareawesome3605
      @macaronsareawesome3605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      we are like a buttery wing tho :O (Ecuador)

    • @Ellebeeby
      @Ellebeeby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Could be longer... Long Chile lives on in our hearts

    • @andrewjennings7306
      @andrewjennings7306 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is it so long tho?

    • @_qpas_fury_1572
      @_qpas_fury_1572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andrewjennings7306 natural border with argentina (mountains)

  • @AlexanderBonello-u5u
    @AlexanderBonello-u5u 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely brilliant video! So amazingly entertaining.

  • @Bricriu-gj9dd
    @Bricriu-gj9dd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    You guys didn't have to make it into a song, but you did. And thank you so much for it

  • @nr23579
    @nr23579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    And the best sequel to Yakko’s “The Nations of the World Song” goes to...

  • @wildabeastreal
    @wildabeastreal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    This song should be the National Anthem of Egypt.

    • @user-mc4og9zr3d
      @user-mc4og9zr3d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It should be the anthem of the entire world

    • @HelloCruelWorldItsMe
      @HelloCruelWorldItsMe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It's certainly one of the best songs about how square countries are that I've heard in a long time.

    • @joeLotfy
      @joeLotfy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn't like to go to school at 7am and sing about square countries

    • @mikebyers1870
      @mikebyers1870 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe it is but they haven't announced it yet cos its new

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wonder how the rhyming would work out if it was translated into Arabic.

  • @sarahbrowne2343
    @sarahbrowne2343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alternative title: Roasting every Country’s lands

  • @dav948
    @dav948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is the second best advert. The best advert is on "Why every world map is wrong". The call centre lady intonation is perfect.

    • @madisonm1310
      @madisonm1310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My favorite is from "Where does London stop?"
      Skillshare, Skillshare
      It's FREE for the first 2 months
      Skillshare, Skillshare
      His finger just came off.

  • @alistairfyendysh3832
    @alistairfyendysh3832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The only video I’ve ever watched that has had me on the edge of my seat waiting for Montenegro. 5 stars: Alistair V. Fyendysh, Montenegro Tourist Board, 90 Degree Recognition Department.

  • @Squiders
    @Squiders 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3141

    Rest of the world: "Let's have really intricate borders representing millennia of politics and wars"
    USA: "Haha, state border go ☐"

    • @purpleapple4052
      @purpleapple4052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      Gerrymandered districts are worse than the fucking square states

    • @someguy6862
      @someguy6862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Haha
      S Q U A R E

    • @guymor910
      @guymor910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Go square?

    • @ice_sea5527
      @ice_sea5527 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      USA: "Haha, bulldozer go vrrrr over natives and pen go shhhhhhhhhhh"

    • @lol-xs9wz
      @lol-xs9wz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      The entire state of Maryland is a Gerrymander.

  • @ollieho2n
    @ollieho2n ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Map Men musical episode

  • @LostHatProductions
    @LostHatProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    Jay’s call centre voice is so accurate it’s disturbing.

    • @sdf1000
      @sdf1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @seeni gzty this bot just pathetically failed to act like a normal person

    • @HypurrLily
      @HypurrLily 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Voice training 👀

    • @teipeu9033
      @teipeu9033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HypurrLily Jay foremen is an egg confirmed?

    • @aussiereptilesandherping
      @aussiereptilesandherping 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@teipeu9033 egg confirmed

    • @ok0_0
      @ok0_0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aussiereptilesandherping wtf no

  • @jmiquelmb
    @jmiquelmb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    Spain: Portugal must surrender and unite again.
    Portugal: Wait why would we do that
    Spain: So the country is more like a square
    Portugal: That was more convincing than I expected

    • @pedroct6640
      @pedroct6640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      NÃO

    • @diogodavid3557
      @diogodavid3557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      It should be the other way around, Spain must surrender to Portugal

    • @marneus
      @marneus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@diogodavid3557 Why would Spain want to belong to a third world country?

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Either that or independent Galicia.

    • @Click3tyClick
      @Click3tyClick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fuck right off

  • @matthewtopping2061
    @matthewtopping2061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    1:30 "Dear volunteers,
    Can you translate this sentence? Thanks a lot!
    - Men's map"

    • @Baontoes
      @Baontoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Dear volunteers,
      Can you translate this sentence?
      Thank you very much!
      Map of Men
      I simply used google lens

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Baontoes "Map of Men"? Sounds more like an artifact than a TH-cam show!

    • @vaxryy
      @vaxryy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      map of men in the possessive meaning, "men's map" suits more here cuz it doesnt have the ambiguity.

    • @Baontoes
      @Baontoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vaxryy I just look at things with Google lens 🤷

    • @ebonydarkness
      @ebonydarkness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Baontoes I understood "dear" and "men" because I'm Chinese.

  • @ThePurplePims
    @ThePurplePims ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You guys are the best. Really square yourselves, but the best nonethess(t).