Every Country With A Terrible Name (How NOT To Name A Country)

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  • There are LOTS of ways you shouldn't name a country, so today I figured I'd go through them all for you!
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  • @ibx2cat
    @ibx2cat  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1935

    You could say Cote D'ivoire made a real faux pas with their name choice, huh?

    • @thedarkholegammertdhg9255
      @thedarkholegammertdhg9255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      As a punishment for this joke, make a video on Rhode Island, and its joke name 'Rouge Island'

    • @thedarkholegammertdhg9255
      @thedarkholegammertdhg9255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yes it is also the name of a bar. if you google this, it will appear first, so instead add state to the end.
      second, All Hail the BIG BLUE BUG, It is a NATIONAL monument

    • @AdriaanZwemer
      @AdriaanZwemer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you do this with languages you'd be like Afrikaans, that sounds perfectly fine to me?

    • @Abc294
      @Abc294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      France is france too in french hence airfrance

    • @intercakefederation
      @intercakefederation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ouai, l’ivoire est illégal en France. Alors l’acheter sera un “faux pas"

  • @theheadbangguy5985
    @theheadbangguy5985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2658

    The best country name is without a doubt "Chad"!

    • @Veroxzes
      @Veroxzes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      For some reasons it's spelled Tchad in swedish...

    • @bowser1166
      @bowser1166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@Veroxzes It's "Tschad" in German, but that's because you need the "t" at the beginning to mark the "t" sound, different from English, where it's all included in "ch". But I guess it might be just for the same reason that Swedish has the "t" in front.

    • @martinpintamalli1449
      @martinpintamalli1449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@bowser1166 Tsjaad in Dutch 😁

    • @paxiio5914
      @paxiio5914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@bowser1166 T posing chad

    • @olligaming6444
      @olligaming6444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The best country names in the world are Chad and Djibouti. They should form an alliance.

  • @Bajun94
    @Bajun94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +862

    "They even call their planes AirFrance" Yeah cause in French, France is called "France".

    • @isaacwilcox3010
      @isaacwilcox3010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nice Profile Picture.

    • @Bajun94
      @Bajun94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@andknuckles101 Guess what, it's also the french term for the country.

    • @Bajun94
      @Bajun94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @@andknuckles101 Française is the feminine of français, which means "French", as in, someone that is french. It doesn't apply to the country of France itself. Source: I'm french.

    • @fjellyo3261
      @fjellyo3261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      La France :)

    • @yeetyeet3426
      @yeetyeet3426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@andknuckles101 you don’t even know what you’re talking about lmao

  • @Ventro_Devientro
    @Ventro_Devientro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Imagine if there's a civil war in Timor-Leste, and then a new country is formed on the East of Timor-Leste. And then when a person travel to the east of East Timor-Leste, they can say they're in eastern East East East

  • @radio_marco
    @radio_marco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    11:59 ... and the terriblest name is "new found land".
    19:52 In German we're calling it Elfenbeinküste (which means Ivorycoast).

    • @MrLump
      @MrLump 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I swear it sounds like “New Finland” when people pronounce it and I hate that.

    • @Litron6
      @Litron6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      in spanish is costa de marfil (which means Ivorycoast)

    • @mrlemur6077
      @mrlemur6077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MrLump cause that is how it's supposed to be pronounced

    • @Krixwell
      @Krixwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Newfoundland is particularly funny when coupled with later knowledge that suggests it was the first part of America to be discovered by Europeans.

    • @indigoproxima
      @indigoproxima ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@MrLump Blame the british lol

  • @aliraza-yu2co
    @aliraza-yu2co 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1800

    FUN FACT: The Sahara is Just a word in Arabic which means desert.
    So BRUH So it's just called DESERT DESERT IN English if we say Sahara Desert.

    • @vruuumvruumm1355
      @vruuumvruumm1355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

      East Timor: finally a worthy opponent

    • @xyzzy219
      @xyzzy219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@vruuumvruumm1355 east east?

    • @Kyuschi
      @Kyuschi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      @@vruuumvruumm1355 *laughs in lake chad and avon river*

    • @sadia6503
      @sadia6503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      The spiderman pointing at each other meme but it's every name in this set of comments

    • @djMacMahon
      @djMacMahon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      [laughs while drinking my “chai tea”...]

  • @Zyphon
    @Zyphon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1990

    So south Sudan is the south of Sudan and not South Sudan, south of Sudan?

    • @user-co8md4yp3m
      @user-co8md4yp3m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      *yes*

    • @alexanderballa6152
      @alexanderballa6152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Y e s

    • @user-co8md4yp3m
      @user-co8md4yp3m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@alexanderballa6152 *y* *e* *s*

    • @grugg3108
      @grugg3108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Technically that applies to any "North -" or "South -". Two things that were previously one thing.
      And just to piss of the Scots, I'll call them North British, becase they were two things that became one things.

    • @alvindzaki6085
      @alvindzaki6085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So South Sudan is part of south Sudan that also once part of southern part of Sudan?

  • @Phazon8058MS
    @Phazon8058MS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    This may be the most aggressively anglo video I've ever seen.

    • @thebasileus4793
      @thebasileus4793 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair he is talking about the names of countries in his language. Why should I as an native English speaker be expected to call Germany Deutschland? It's not that we dislike the culture or anything it is just easier to call it Germany in English. You can call it Deutschland in German if you want but I should not be required to.

    • @oyoo3323
      @oyoo3323 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thebasileus4793 not to say you *should* call it ðat, but "Deutschland" is not even remotely more difficult to pronounce in English ðan Germany. In fact, it seems easier to me, given it has fewer syllables. And for ðat matter, ðe country wasn't referred to as "Germany" in English until surprisingly recently, being usually called Alemania/Alemany prior to ðat.

    • @thebasileus4793
      @thebasileus4793 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oyoo3323 Yeah but no American is taught to call it that thus it would be harder to make people call it that. Also the spelling in English makes no sense with how it sounds which would only add to the problem.

    • @oyoo3323
      @oyoo3323 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thebasileus4793 given English usually retains ðe original spelling of all vocabulary it takes in, ðe spelling makes perfect sense.
      As for ðe first part, who cares? We weren't talking about yankees specifically to begin wið, so why focus in on ðem exactly?

    • @thebasileus4793
      @thebasileus4793 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oyoo3323 Well as a native English speaker I can say for certain that if I showed most English speakers 'Deutschland' they would have no idea how to pronounce it and also I was talking about Yanks as I am one. I suppose I cant speak for other English speakers who are not Americans but I can assure you that very few Americans would know how to pronounce Deutschland. I imagine they would pronounce more like De-utchs-land and not like how its actually pronounced.

  • @recordkeepingandinformatio8206
    @recordkeepingandinformatio8206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Two Chinese provinces: Shanxi and Shaanxi
    A city: Jinan, split into two characters like Ji'nan, but the problem is Jin'an is also a city name

    • @EHMM
      @EHMM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Look at it in chinese characters and it has no problem.

    • @EHMM
      @EHMM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is a problem WHEN YOU FUCKING LOOK AT IN ENGLISH

    • @marianacarina2580
      @marianacarina2580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Chinese characters are rich in a way that the English alphabet can't compare, so I'm sure Jinan mean a totally different thing than Ji'nan. The same with Shanxi and Shaanxi. Depending on the character u pick, even if they have the same sound, the meaning is totally different.

  • @rn8427
    @rn8427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2826

    This man is a national treasure. Can hover over random places on Google Maps and talk at a million miles an hour about nothing for 24 minutes

    • @tinydong4586
      @tinydong4586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      I can’t tell if this is a compliment or insult but I completely agree

    • @Quixotepr
      @Quixotepr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      In Spanish is called talking "cantinfladas" from Cantinflas a Mexican comic who mastered the art of talking a lot and in the end saying nothing.

    • @Jerald_Fitzjerald
      @Jerald_Fitzjerald 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      and we'll watch every second of it

    • @Muhammad-lq7fu
      @Muhammad-lq7fu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😄☕

    • @blufferfish0896
      @blufferfish0896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      he could do it for way more than 24 minutes, walk up to him and ask him to explain the history of Australia and I reckon he will have so many tangents he could keep talking for at least 3 hours.

  • @SimakSantana
    @SimakSantana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1714

    "united kingdom"

    • @Sightnado
      @Sightnado 3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      of great britain AND northern ireland

    • @ascra1693
      @ascra1693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      A brilliant name describes it perfectly

    • @FirstnameLastname-qe3ry
      @FirstnameLastname-qe3ry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      """united""" ""king""dom of ""great"" britain and ""northern"" ire""land""

    • @saueqietrollageposting1477
      @saueqietrollageposting1477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      "United States"

    • @dec3322
      @dec3322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Sightnado ‘great’ Britain

  • @Aspen72
    @Aspen72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    FUN FACT:
    despite popular belief, poland sadly ISNT named after the teletubby

  • @MerkhVision
    @MerkhVision 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Did this guy just completely forget about the existence of words like southern and eastern? Using them correctly would completely eradicate the direction based confusion he described!

    • @puff6796
      @puff6796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ah yes, northern Northern Ireland.

    • @kushtalin9180
      @kushtalin9180 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@puff6796 North of northern ireland. Here, fixed it for you.

    • @liandrysanguishinshin7955
      @liandrysanguishinshin7955 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kushtalin9180 thing is people in Northern Ireland often refers to itself as the North of Ireland... So Northern North of Ireland? North of the Republic of Ireland??

    • @kushtalin9180
      @kushtalin9180 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@liandrysanguishinshin7955 well, i guess if you want to say that you just gotta change the usual "north of ireland" thing. But only when you talk about the northern part of it.

    • @liandrysanguishinshin7955
      @liandrysanguishinshin7955 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kushtalin9180 I'd do that, it's just that Northern Ireland is associated with British Imperialism. Either way, people refer to the north of the north of ireland by its county, not by... well that normally, so it doesn't matter too much.

  • @ec8107
    @ec8107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    Breaking news: a breakaway region of The Congo has declared independence. They will from this point forward be known as Diet Dr Congo.

    • @pdraggy
      @pdraggy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      or 'please don't talk about Ebola here'

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Imagine if a part of Democratic Republic of the Congo broke away and became the People's Republic of the Congo. What a mess that would be.

    • @meneither3834
      @meneither3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Comrade JJ I'll just keep calling them by the name of their capitals.

    • @dlwatib
      @dlwatib 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Liggliluff It's usually the People's Democratic Republic of X, so you'd have the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    • @nikste23
      @nikste23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      DR Congo lost its medical licence now they're called MR Congo

  • @Slaydrik
    @Slaydrik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +559

    alternate title: Eswatini rants about Côte D'Ivoire

    • @lewisbaitup6352
      @lewisbaitup6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @CactusCarrot
      @CactusCarrot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Eswatini is my favorite TH-camr.

    • @Armadeus
      @Armadeus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      eSwatini*

    • @daisybrain9423
      @daisybrain9423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Armadeus Not in English.

    • @flp322
      @flp322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Armadeus Electronic Swatini*

  • @lucycarter3041
    @lucycarter3041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The Maori party in New Zealand are petitioning to have the name officially named to Aotearoa, which is New Zealand's name in te reo Maori. As a kiwi support it, even though it would mean I would be worried about mispronouncing my own country's name cause my Maori pronunciation has gotten kinda bad since moving to Australia.

    • @Thedimensionalwarrior
      @Thedimensionalwarrior 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah if they do that no one is gonna be able to pronounce it and they will just call it new Zealand
      Some people might even confuse it with Eritrea in africa

    • @pocketmarcy6990
      @pocketmarcy6990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It also completely disregards the majority Anglo population of NZ, but you’re from there so what do I know

    • @guppy719
      @guppy719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So you would support calling a country a name that isn't easily pronounceable to the majority of its population. That sounds incredibly stupid.

    • @rustybayonette6641
      @rustybayonette6641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You know what’s a good idea? Renaming your country to its name in a language that less than 5% of your population speaks.

    • @pocketmarcy6990
      @pocketmarcy6990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rustybayonette6641 exactly what I’m saying, I’m on the left but this whole renaming NZ thing is just stupid

  • @conlon4332
    @conlon4332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I was kinda surprised you didn't mention Austria and Australia for having names that sound too similar, but I suppose if any two countries can get an exception for being far enough apart it's those. People definitely do still manage to get them mixed up, though.

    • @ducksongfans
      @ducksongfans 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mostly people who have never heard of austria

  • @pacoramirez7363
    @pacoramirez7363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    “Don’t use New”
    Old Mexico it is.

  • @autarchprinceps
    @autarchprinceps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    “Let’s talk about the one country with new in their name.” - Moves around New Zealand & Papua New Guinea several times. New Caledonia! - That... That’s not even an independant country.

    • @onewxrldmusic7303
      @onewxrldmusic7303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Guinea. Now that's a terrible confusing name of a country. There is The Guinea, there's the Equatorial Guinea, there is Guinea-Bissau, there is Papua New Guinea. Just how many Gunieas you need?

    • @whoeverest_the_whateverest
      @whoeverest_the_whateverest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@onewxrldmusic7303 enough to stock all the guinea pigs in the world

    • @JL-zw7hi
      @JL-zw7hi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I don't think people mix up New Zealand and Zeeland (The Netherlands) with eachother.

    • @helloahla239
      @helloahla239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@whoeverest_the_whateverest Guinea pig which isn't a pig and isn't from Guinea. It's a rabbit from Peru, so it should be called PERU RABBIT instead of GUINEA PIG

    • @whoeverest_the_whateverest
      @whoeverest_the_whateverest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@helloahla239 lol

  • @chvhndrtntlr3482
    @chvhndrtntlr3482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    from any video from this channel I learn that this guy, randomly browsing internet, then make a video about it. he doesn't need to be informative as long as he can keep talking about nothing for nearly half hour. He doesn't need to fact checking or proofreading the facts and dig the facts deeper, just randomly browse on internet and take whatever he like and called it a day.

    • @josephwodarczyk977
      @josephwodarczyk977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      While there's no script, he does have a video plan beforehand.

    • @Sebbir
      @Sebbir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He is just having fun exploring the world through the internet. No harm in that. He doesn’t claim to be some reputable source that should be cited in academic papers

    • @PkPvre
      @PkPvre 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He says every video that he doesn't care.

    • @julianopasaran7200
      @julianopasaran7200 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So true.. time wasterer..a d people believe him😂

  • @Xiphius
    @Xiphius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In South Africa's defense, according to the MLA Grammar Script (the book they use in colleges), if you want to refer to a directional part of a country or region, you say SOUTHERN Africa, not SOUTH Africa. So to refer to the region consisting of Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Botswana, etc., you would say "Southern Africa" and not "South Africa" which is the name of the country.

    • @patrickasselin2326
      @patrickasselin2326 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I picked up on this just living in North America. There are states named North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota, and West Virginia. “Western Canada” means the region consisting of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
      Australia, meanwhile, is terribly inconsistent with the names of its states and territories.

  • @tsg_23
    @tsg_23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +643

    Fun fact: eSwatini changed their name from Swaziland because people confused them with Switzerland, even though they're far away

    • @moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20
      @moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Another fact: dprk doesn’t change their name cause the don’t exist

    • @rado-san6580
      @rado-san6580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      why does it sound like a brand of eReaders... oh

    • @illeagle9560
      @illeagle9560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20 they're just a sitcom set up by the South Koreans and Chinese

    • @luisfelipehv2655
      @luisfelipehv2655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I would keep it cause no one wants to visit it so people get confused and buy tickets to it instead for Switzerland

    • @unlockedaccount
      @unlockedaccount 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      also because they wanted to use their own native language for the name of the country

  • @GuntisTerauds
    @GuntisTerauds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Alternate title: British guy rants about names given to places by the british centuries ago.

    • @spyone4828
      @spyone4828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Except that he starts out talking about a country that was named about ten years ago, then one that changed its name two years ago, and then one named by the Portuguese. He doesn't get into stuff named by the British for quite a while.

    • @NeasCZ
      @NeasCZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Ah yes, my favourite British colony of North Korea.

    • @chadmemes6937
      @chadmemes6937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NeasCZ I would like your comment, but it’s on 69 likes

    • @YourVintageStick
      @YourVintageStick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@spyone4828 well the British did control and split the area known as Sudan and South Sudan with Egypt during the colonial era

    • @Konoronn
      @Konoronn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This might shock you, but people aren't countries.

  • @Roozyj
    @Roozyj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm kinda confused as to why most other languages call us "The Netherlands", when we just say Nederland. There's no plural in Nederland, but in English, German and French there is.
    There used to be a 'republic of the seven united Netherlands', but that's ages ago xD I guess other countries are kinda slow to understand...

    • @nullValo
      @nullValo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same in Spanish, "Paises Bajos" in plural.

    • @Roozyj
      @Roozyj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nullValo Maybe it's because centuries ago, we were called 'the republic of the seven united Netherlands', but that was between 1588 and 1795, so it's been a while

    • @nullValo
      @nullValo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Roozyj I guess so? Names tend to stick if there is not much of a bigger change, lul

    • @Sebbir
      @Sebbir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Im confused why it’s much more common in Denmark to call your country Holland than Nederland

    • @Roozyj
      @Roozyj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Sebbir Holland is the name of our two most populated and I suppose richest provinces. Most boats from the Netherlands came from Holland, so that might be it? I was looking up if Danish cities was ever part of the Hanseatic leagion, but apparently, they were at war, so that's a kind of relationship too I suppose xD

  • @lapiswolf2780
    @lapiswolf2780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I think the "New" in certain territories' names is relative the the old territory with the original name,like York and New York. New York was founded more recently the Old York.

    • @NEELZE99
      @NEELZE99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah...no shit

    • @sammie5998
      @sammie5998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me still finding where old zealand is

    • @GuntisTerauds
      @GuntisTerauds 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sammie5998 Try looking in the Netherlands

    • @puff6796
      @puff6796 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GuntisTerauds deadass?

    • @alvinjy4860
      @alvinjy4860 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sammie5998 the "Old Zealand" is Zeeland of the Netherlands

  • @tekszi
    @tekszi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1269

    North Macedonia was forced to rename itself, it wasn't their own choice.

    • @raidb0ss29
      @raidb0ss29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      To be fair, "Macedonia" refers to a geographic region including North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and parts of western Bulgaria. Calling it North Macedonia is a decent compromise that no longer associates it with part of Greece

    • @endless193
      @endless193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +313

      @@raidb0ss29 in other words,average balkan bullshit.

    • @_0_restart_0_
      @_0_restart_0_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      True

    • @bowser1166
      @bowser1166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      "North Macedonia" is so much better and more understandable than "Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia"...

    • @TheGabybrisa
      @TheGabybrisa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      In Argentina Macedonia is a salad made with fruits

  • @gergelygalvacsy2251
    @gergelygalvacsy2251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    Fun fact, we don’t call ourselves the “Hungarian republic” anymore (we only did it before in formal language anyways) that road sign must be old because we’re simply Hungary (Magyarország) now

    • @plislegalineu3005
      @plislegalineu3005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yeah, I'm Polish and when I drive to Hungary (through Slovakia) I see "Magyarország" sign. Next to the border in Hungary is Sátoraljaújhely.

    • @kingdomofbird8174
      @kingdomofbird8174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      MAGYARIA

    • @erikstenviken2652
      @erikstenviken2652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      In sweden we call it Ungern.

    • @molaesle
      @molaesle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Jó látni, hogy magyarok is néznek minőségi tartalmat.

    • @Notch1234
      @Notch1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@plislegalineu3005 That's a north eastern city that i go to when going to tesco

  • @SHDUStudios
    @SHDUStudios ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want an entire video of Toycat travelling around the world asking “is this the New Caledonia?”

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      14:18 glitch in the matrix wtf

  • @alessiobenvenuto5159
    @alessiobenvenuto5159 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    - Have you ever heard of Luxemburg?
    - Of course!
    - Bet you haven't, it sucks.
    *Confused European noises*

  • @jjtt
    @jjtt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Hello, I'm Eswatini and welcome back to a second channel geography video

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1207

    we don't like to call ourselves "North Korea" and the same for the Koreans down south because we view ourselves as one nation, two governments. So we prefer our official names

  • @sylphid1431
    @sylphid1431 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a pretty interesting video! Thanks, Eswatini!

  • @EquatorCubing
    @EquatorCubing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No one:
    The car at 15:14: Ima just phase through the pole

  • @dehanj6552
    @dehanj6552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    Honestly, I have never heard of someone referring to the southern part of Africa as south Africa. It's southern Africa and South Africa for the country. No confusion there

  • @andrew-paulclements1502
    @andrew-paulclements1502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    "Zealandia"
    Ah yes, Land of the Land of Sea

    • @quidam_surprise
      @quidam_surprise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      More like 'Land of the coastal land'
      But hey, if you really wanna shit your pants, let me introduce you to the brilliant toponym of 'Cartagena'.

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Rede Emitel Apparently "New New City". Cartagena from Carthago Nova from Carthago which is the Latin form of the Phoenician Qart Hadasht which means "New Town"...
      But Cartagena, Colombia is only called Cartagena (de Indias) and not Nuova Cartagena so the fun stops there.

  • @lipton1cetea
    @lipton1cetea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    11:10 Before Belgium became an independant country there was actually one big Luxombourg but Belgium wanted to claim it as part of its territory so they settled by splitting it up in two halves.

    • @AdmiralTails
      @AdmiralTails 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, honestly a lot of this video seems to like to ignore the politics and history that goes into some of these, particularly when it comes to the "similar name" category. Like, the fact that the two Koreas have similar names, when from the point of view of each of them, the other should not exist, as the fact there is the two of them is, in essence, an unresolved civil war.

  • @luisfaria3365
    @luisfaria3365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Local british man rants about country names for 24 minutes straight

  • @destinymills255
    @destinymills255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    Wait until he finds out there's a New England region in New South Wales.

    • @metademetra
      @metademetra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ...But why

    • @humpbacksquarepants5580
      @humpbacksquarepants5580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same in Australia,we have a state with that name.

    • @Tolyuhh
      @Tolyuhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The worst region names in New South Wales have to be the South Coast, Central Coast, and North Coast, all of which are on the East coast.

    • @AnimeReference
      @AnimeReference 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you look at the councils in NSW you'll find Campbelltown, Canada Bay, Liverpool City, Newcastle City. The commonwealth sucks at naming.

    • @Tolyuhh
      @Tolyuhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AnimeReference Canada Bay has always been amusing to me. The stolen British names I get but it's a mystery how we managed to steal any from Canada. There's a suburb in Newcastle called Toronto, too. Very weird.

  • @sponge1234ify
    @sponge1234ify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    At last, Eswatini has cared for his second channel. This is a momentous occasion

  • @kitfisto5132
    @kitfisto5132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Him: talking about slovakia and slovenia.
    Me: oh boy you haven't heard about slavonia yet

  • @alans5414
    @alans5414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is so english-centric, but i'm ngl, this thing is hilarious

  • @welshdragon99
    @welshdragon99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    "The United Kingdom of Great Britain, most of Ulster, and a few islands around Great Britain and Ireland" doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

    • @nevize6660
      @nevize6660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "The United Kingdom of relatively large Britain which includes Wales, England, scotland, some northern parts of ireland but not the most northern part, isle of man, guernsey, jersey, and you know the Rest, falklands i guess"

    • @australium7374
      @australium7374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@nevize6660 “and some islands named after sandwiches”

    • @theirishempire4952
      @theirishempire4952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nevize6660 The fact that the Republic of Ireland is more Northern than Northern Ireland makes me laugh

    • @stgr0186
      @stgr0186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nevize6660 well jersey, Guernsey and the isle of man are not part of the UK, they are crown dependencies, therefore they can't be included in the name of the Kingdom.

    • @nevize6660
      @nevize6660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stgr0186 sigh, i wrote that already

  • @ivanhozjan7137
    @ivanhozjan7137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    Actually, Slovenia and Slovakia get even more confusing when you're refering to them in their native languages. Slovaks call their country Slovenska Republika or Slovensko, while slovenska (in female gender) and slovensko (neuter) are adjectives that mean Slovenian in Slovene language. Also, let's make it even more confusing and sum up everything we can:
    1. Slovakia is in Slovak language called Slovensko or Slovenska Republika, while Slovenia is called Slovinsko or Slovinska republika.
    2. Slovenia is in Slovene language named Slovenija, while Slovakia is named Slovaška. OK, this is the least confusing part.
    3. Slovene language is in Slovenian called slovenščina, and Slovak is called slovaščina.
    4. Slovakian language is in Slovakia called slovenčina, and Slovene is called slovinčina.
    5. Search for all the variants in the languages of neighbouring countries (Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Italian, etc.) to get even more confused.
    6. Nearly 20% of Croatian territory and population is situated in the region called Slavonia. Feel free to add that to previously mentioned parameters.

    • @ivanhozjan7137
      @ivanhozjan7137 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Joe_Mama661 Well, as far as I'm concerned, it ended up being false information.

    • @Joe_Mama661
      @Joe_Mama661 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ivanhozjan7137 i see, good to know

    • @masterzz57
      @masterzz57 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ivanhozjan7137 what ended up being false information?

    • @ivanhozjan7137
      @ivanhozjan7137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@masterzz57 That Slovenia and Slovakia exchange the mail addressed to the wrong country's institutions once a year.

    • @user-fd2tc8gh3p
      @user-fd2tc8gh3p 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This got me when I was playing Geoguessr, I thought Slovenska Republika meant Slovenia.

  • @than217
    @than217 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:41 why I love this channel.

  • @eyesack6845
    @eyesack6845 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video eswatini!

  • @easygoing9328
    @easygoing9328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    as someone from New Hampshire, our motto isn’t a motto, it’s a warning. you better live free while you’re here

    • @AndyZach
      @AndyZach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's the Yankee spirit!

    • @annabenson1238
      @annabenson1238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Forgiven Sinner NEW YORKER

    • @Sofie424
      @Sofie424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We take no prisoners, all captives are executed.

    • @basaltotwoo
      @basaltotwoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      But, if you're killing somene for not being free, You are enforcincing something on that person, and this is the new hampshire paradox

    • @kets4443
      @kets4443 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@basaltotwoo can't be unfree if dead

  • @trentludwig5402
    @trentludwig5402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +776

    Austria should be on here since it means the "Eastern Kingdom (Österreich)."

    • @Silveirias
      @Silveirias 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      China, too, since they call themselves basically the middle kingdom.

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Eastern realm is more correct

    • @marcosboehme4862
      @marcosboehme4862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Yes, that big island with kangaroos

    • @apocm6784
      @apocm6784 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@marcosboehme4862 you mean Australia, not Austria. Lol

    • @MBHM001
      @MBHM001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@apocm6784 Nehh, obviously not. Australia has the Alps, Tirol, castles, Haupstadt Wien (Vienna). Everybody knows that.

  • @modahabbab4576
    @modahabbab4576 ปีที่แล้ว

    alternate title: toycat flames countries with directions in their names for 24 minutes

  • @josephwest124
    @josephwest124 ปีที่แล้ว

    Four and a half minutes of my life I will never regain.

  • @jlpack62
    @jlpack62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Fun fact: the eastern point of West Virginia is further east than most of Virginia, and the furthest western point of Virginia is further west than all of West Virginia.

    • @drewstaser9726
      @drewstaser9726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's even worse because they used to be the same state and then West Virginia broke away

    • @koifish4276
      @koifish4276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      should’ve been called East Virginia damn

    • @human69.
      @human69. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I got confused cuz my brain tricked me into thinking virginia = west virginia

    • @AndyZach
      @AndyZach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's more of a north-south split. It occurred during the civil war, and everyone was just happy to survive that. West Virginia went over to the North and helped elect Lincoln to a second term in 1864. The rest of Virginia led the southern rebellion.

    • @zualapips1638
      @zualapips1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@AndyZach And now they've completely changed places because Virginia became Democrat while West Virginia became Republican. The only reason West Virginia broke away was because the rest of Virginia at the time was wayy too conservative and supportive of slavery, and now the conservative ones are West Virginians lol. How the tables have turned.

  • @HusseinAli-7610
    @HusseinAli-7610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    23:56
    Honestly I call it Drogba's country because he's the only reason I know that country exists

  • @timetroller2556
    @timetroller2556 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I did know it was named after Zeeland you threw me off because i thought i was under the common misconception. good video 7.3/10 would watch again love this map stuff

  • @YellowBunny
    @YellowBunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    Democratic United People's Republic of New South Wales and Central North New Zeestan

    • @vladprus4019
      @vladprus4019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Remember that this name also must be said in very specific language or it is wrong

    • @rhyanmedina1130
      @rhyanmedina1130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      sir this is a mcdonalds i don't speak alien languages do you want sauce with your nuggets or not

    • @YellowBunny
      @YellowBunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rhyanmedina1130 I don't want to get nuggets at all because I don't want to eat dead animals.

    • @rhyanmedina1130
      @rhyanmedina1130 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@YellowBunny sorry bout that i didn't know you were vegan/vegetarian

    • @sponge1234ify
      @sponge1234ify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Kesatuan republik Nuwels et centre nord de Nouveau-Zeestan berpenduduk demokratis

  • @galaxydave3807
    @galaxydave3807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    9:51Actually the languages names of Slovenia and Slovakia are Slovenčina and Slovenščina, which is even more confusing lol

    • @Ogeroigres
      @Ogeroigres 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Even the flags are similar.

    • @galaxydave3807
      @galaxydave3807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Ogeroigres Almost xD

    • @matic.m
      @matic.m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And if you say "slovensko" in either languages, it refers to something of that particular country/language :D

    • @galaxydave3807
      @galaxydave3807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matic.m Woow xD

    • @quevater2470
      @quevater2470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ogeroigres its because they are slav countries, most of them have similar flags, but u prob havent seen romania and chad flags

  • @HalooTheEpokGaemer
    @HalooTheEpokGaemer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2cat: anyway the final thing
    Also 2cat: *just casually passes over Papua New Guinea*

  • @aphextwin5712
    @aphextwin5712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    With towns, sometimes when they expand they call the new part “New-XYZ”. There is Breisach (am Rhein) und Neuf-Brisach, which is just French for New Breisach. There is Neu-Ulm, though that was created when somebody thought having a river as a clean border was worth splitting up a city into two. Then there is Neu-Kölln, created when the town of Kölln expanded in 1662 (now all part of Berlin).
    Then there are plenty of new city quarters called “Neustadt” (German for “new town”) as opposed to the old part of town. There are over 50 municipalities or parts of municipalities called “Neustadt” in Germany.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 3 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    when Côte d'Ivoire is more French than France

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  3 ปีที่แล้ว +290

      everyone knows we all call it République française all the time smh

    • @takashi.mizuiro
      @takashi.mizuiro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ibx2cat yes eswatini

    • @theperfectmix2
      @theperfectmix2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Spotted

    • @IRTG2006
      @IRTG2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You’re everywhere

    • @oliverdouble-u8107
      @oliverdouble-u8107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ibx2cat *
      cinquième république française because france has had 5 republics in 250 years

  • @connortopping6943
    @connortopping6943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    “The pub in Manchester”
    Liverpudlians are triggered

    • @gerrardjones28
      @gerrardjones28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Truly triggered: Liverpool is a million times more famouse than Manchester!

    • @idot3331
      @idot3331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@gerrardjones28 The ultimate question: which is more famous, the Beatles or Manchester United?

    • @gerrardjones28
      @gerrardjones28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@idot3331 the LFC obviously

    • @Bille994
      @Bille994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg I just wrote an almost identical comment haha. Get out of my brain

    • @crazymusicchick
      @crazymusicchick 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@idot3331 Manchester city haha jks

  • @Texan_christian1132
    @Texan_christian1132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New is actually OK to use in a name. It represents a already picked name and by adding new it takes it and makes a NEW name not referring to how old it is.

  • @whitneyferry2519
    @whitneyferry2519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did yo get the intro from on the web?

  • @ludvigwitschel7801
    @ludvigwitschel7801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    "To the rest of the world, it's called Germany". Literally every other country crying.

    • @Tiscando
      @Tiscando 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      In Spanish: "Alemania"

    • @p.s9407
      @p.s9407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      ​In Lithuanian - Vokietija

    • @Brroo
      @Brroo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      In bosnian: Njemacka

    • @ludvigwitschel7801
      @ludvigwitschel7801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      In Danish: Tyskland

    • @ludvigwitschel7801
      @ludvigwitschel7801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      In German: Deutschland

  • @cheskotokarev
    @cheskotokarev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +591

    Pov: British man forgets the words "southern", "northern", "eastern", and "western"

    • @ortherner
      @ortherner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      “Northern North Korea”

    • @cheskotokarev
      @cheskotokarev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@ortherner
      Well, that could easily be used to describe the northern half of North Korea, as opposed to the northern half of the Korean peninsula, thereby eliminating the issue with having cardinal directions in the name of a nation.

    • @MrBrezelwurst
      @MrBrezelwurst 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Or "north/south/west/east of"

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      But the British Northern Ireland still calls itself Northern Ireland and not North Ireland. They should call themselves "British country of northern Ireland" which is like Northern Cyprus calls itself

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      North Ireland and North Cyprus is still called this way even tho it's a political entity and not a georgaphov path of an entity

  • @just_a_feesh
    @just_a_feesh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, Eswatini!

  • @mirabeaux851
    @mirabeaux851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:59 that’s why you use adjectival forms “Southern South Sudan”. “ South Sudan” is more like a compound noun

  • @meneither3834
    @meneither3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    "this accent is possibly offensive but it's not African so I'm in the clear"
    -Toycat 15/12/2020.

    • @flp322
      @flp322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Eswatini 15/12/2020*

    • @paddaboi_
      @paddaboi_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@flp322 why is everyone calling him swaziland lmao

    • @andknuckles101
      @andknuckles101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paddaboi_ have you watched the video yet?

    • @leandrometfan
      @leandrometfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andknuckles101 /whooosh

  • @ericktellez7632
    @ericktellez7632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    “Dont have the same name of your neighbours”
    The United States of America
    The United Mexican States
    🤔🤔🤔

    • @quidam_surprise
      @quidam_surprise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      To be fair, Mexico underwent different regimes in the course of its history. So, pretty much the labels 'Mexico' and 'Mexican' can encompass all of them.
      ...and you can call it as the 'Mexican Republic', if you're not satisfied with UMS, anyways.

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      One of the unofficial names of Mexico before independence and which was proposed and popular to be name of the country was Northern America, in Spanish "América Septentrional" (it was the northernmost part of Spanish America)

    • @abesan70
      @abesan70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not to mention Mexico is in the Americas to boot.

    • @marianaramirez161
      @marianaramirez161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah I'm Mexican and we almost never call it The United Mexican States, we just use it on important documents like your ID, passport etc. We either say Mexico or Mexican Republic

    • @BenjaminMilekowsky
      @BenjaminMilekowsky 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      USA united snake of america

  • @asaasa7900
    @asaasa7900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good job on this video, Eswatini!

  • @LUNE.44
    @LUNE.44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    15:11 coolest looking car ever

  • @larsj.7124
    @larsj.7124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    The Netherlands and Belgium both have a province named: "Limburg"

    • @randyyy2609
      @randyyy2609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And there's a city in Germany also called Limburg, to make it even more confusing ;-)

    • @stansearcheslife6363
      @stansearcheslife6363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      All the brabants: am i a joke to you?

    • @pdraggy
      @pdraggy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is that because you can smell Limburg cheese as far as Limburg to Limburg?

    • @Jaggerrrr
      @Jaggerrrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Let’s go on vacation to Limburg!
      Sure! Let’s go next week!
      *next week*
      Hey where are you??
      In Limburg, Germany!!
      WHAT IM IN THE NETHERLANDS

    • @the11382
      @the11382 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      StanSearchesLife There’s more than two?

  • @Catuireal
    @Catuireal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    Geographical qualifiers are only confusing in the English language, because it's so synthetic (and ambiguous). In Portuguese, Irlanda do Norte and norte da Irlanda are very clear as to what is a noun and what is adjective. And you can compound and still not be ambiguous at all. Although we always use the qualifiers setentrional and meridional, oriental and ocidental, to refer to geographical regions within a geographical entity (country, continent...). What sounds ridiculous to me is the english-centrism of the argument. A good name for a country is one that helps Anglophones to talk about it?

    • @RadenWA
      @RadenWA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It’s not English-centric, it applies to every language. It’s like when Chinese calls America “Meiguo”, or whatever the other European countries call Germany. Nobody’s forcing them to use the name “USA” or “Deutschland”, so an English speaker should also be allowed to use the English version of their names instead of the local name.

    • @remy7663
      @remy7663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Agree with your first part of the argument, but then people always need to make it be about the 'Anglophones' smh^

    • @Fragum19
      @Fragum19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      How is the "english-centrism of the argument" ridiculous when he's specifically talking about the english names of the countries? Is a British man supposed to talk about Portuguese names of countries? What are you on about?

    • @Catuireal
      @Catuireal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@Fragum19 Country names are not arbitrary. The formation of compound names follow the grammar of the language they are being formed in. Some names are "bad" more because of the instrinsic structure of the English language than because of any "naming process". This relationship between grammar and name labelling is what he totally misses. He is not conscious of how that is determined by his mother tongue.

    • @Catuireal
      @Catuireal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@Fragum19 Portuguese is just a counter-example. Some languages compound names like English, some do not. And those that do not differ in more than one way. He is not aware of this because is studied more Geography than History or Linguistics. Which is fine, because he is so young.

  • @SuperJJAlexander
    @SuperJJAlexander 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm pretty sure that the part of the Luxembourg area outside the country of Luxembourg was just land stolen from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, so if someone should rename something, it would be France, Germany and Belgium.

  • @Segalcentral69420
    @Segalcentral69420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ibx2cat: Don't name a place with New or south, north, west or east.
    New South Wales:

  • @ricequin
    @ricequin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Notably Western Sahara isn’t actually called that it’s the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

    • @spacehawkreviewsvideos8262
      @spacehawkreviewsvideos8262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Has Democratic in the name so he’d still be unhappy.

    • @CrumpetCraig
      @CrumpetCraig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Western Sahara is their short name. It's like Russia to the Russian Federation.

    • @niku4154
      @niku4154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      "Western Sahara" is a name for a region, as there is no full government control.
      The "Sahrawi Democratic Republic" claims this land as well as Morocco.
      It's not a name dispute/ confusion, it's a territorial dispute between two governments.

    • @Jokkkkke
      @Jokkkkke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262 Sahrawia would be a bad ass alternative, though I don't know if that would work in their Hassaniya Arabic

    • @helloahla239
      @helloahla239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's just South Morrocco

  • @alioth7403
    @alioth7403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Fun fact: Did you know that the official name of Uruguay is the Oriental Republic of Uruguay? It's has the Oriental geographic qualifier because it's the country east of the River Plate.

    • @volatilelion657
      @volatilelion657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Uruguay is called like that because the entirety of it's western border is the Uruguay river

    • @helloahla239
      @helloahla239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      is there a river named Guay? Because URU-GUAY and PARA-GUAY

    • @volatilelion657
      @volatilelion657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@helloahla239 no but it must be an indigenous word related to rivers

    • @gokuskanji1280
      @gokuskanji1280 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@helloahla239 there's a river called Uruguay which my country is located at the east. They teach us at school that the name Uruguay stands for 'river of the colored birds'. And indeed it all comes from the indigenous language of the natives so as Paraguay.

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      People from Uruguay in Spanish are technically called "Orientales" (Easterns) formally, which kinda sounds more like if they were in East Asia, but in common speech anybody call them ever like that and instead they are said "Uruguayos" (Uruguayans). Before being an independent country, Uruguay was called Banda Oriental ("Eastern Side" I think, banda has many meanings that can fit to name a territory or polity while awkward to be in a placename and I don't know which exactly is here) and Provincia Oriental (Eastern Province).

  • @joanlapeyra
    @joanlapeyra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You didn't mention the many Guinea's and the even more confusing Papua New Guinea.
    Btw, great video. I love your channel!

  • @Kitsuen.z
    @Kitsuen.z 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these nose-candy-fueled nerdy vids

  • @Miku-uw2sl
    @Miku-uw2sl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    ‘France even calls their airline Air France’
    It’s almost like they call their country ‘La France’

    • @Nexandr
      @Nexandr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But they do call the country La France

    • @JuniperBoy
      @JuniperBoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Nexandr whoosh

    • @Nexandr
      @Nexandr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JuniperBoy *S H U T*

    • @nikostsiolis7102
      @nikostsiolis7102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In Greek we call France "Gallia" which means the country of the Gauls

    • @IM_AYKHARAAD
      @IM_AYKHARAAD 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nikostsiolis7102 Yeah, you got our ancien name. 😂 In French « Gaule » (pronounce “gol”) is the ancien name of France.

  • @eddie-roo
    @eddie-roo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Toycat: *complains about how confusing South Sudan, South Africa and Timor-Leste's names are*
    Also Toycat: *doesn't see a problem with the name "America", even tho there's already a South America and a North America (and a whole bunch of other names that have almost nothing to do with the US, like Mesoamerica, Latin America, Hispanic America, etc.)*

    • @kikeruiz539
      @kikeruiz539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Forgot Central America

    • @anti-spiral159
      @anti-spiral159 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Also that in latin (America) countries it's only 1 continent which is America and it's only divided by regions and not continents ( North America is the northern part of America from Mexico); Central America, from Panamá to Guatemala and South America going from Colombia to Chile/Argentina.
      Also calling the civilians of USA "Americans" is more confusing because that makes it sound that if you're not from the USA you're not from the continent, confusing stuff. In spanish and other romance languages, I think, there's a word for their citizens which is "Estadounidenses", which makes a little bit of sense because it's called United States, and besides some other countries like The United States of Mexico, there's a bast majority calling it "US" or United States.
      I guess they can change the name like Prussia did with the title of king, from "King of Prussia" to "King in Prussia (Region)" it was for certain reasons and when they were united it was changed back to King in Prussia but it's not the . Maybe it won't change anything but it would solve some problems when refering to something, just like "region countries" (South Sudan / South Africa)

    • @zikalokof1challenge414
      @zikalokof1challenge414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kikeruiz539 It gets more complicated than that. Basically, for anglos and pretty much all of Europe except some countries, there are only 2 Americas: South and North. However, for Latinos, there are 3: South, Central, and North

    • @corey2232
      @corey2232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He didn't say there wasn't a problem. North America & South America are entire continents, so comparing 2 massive land bodies to 2 smaller countries is much different.
      I don't know if you've looked at a map, but South America is a pretty massive place... so if someone says they're from South America in English, literally EVERYONE knows what you're referring to & would NOT be confused.
      I've lived all over the US, and never once in 30 years has someone ever told me they lived in "South America" and meant Florida or Arizona. In fact, if you're referring to people living in the US specifically, they would say they lived in "the South" (if for some reason they didn't just say their specific state).
      Trying to mess with semantics that don't work in real life situations doesn't really work.

    • @corey2232
      @corey2232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@anti-spiral159 No, that's a new attempt at revising geography. "The Americas" refers to both continents. Being barely attached by a small sliver of land does not make it "one continent."
      Unless you want to say Africa, Europe & Asia are all "one continent," then sure. In that case, Latin countries believe there are only 4 continents on the planet: 1) America, 2) Eurasica, 3) Oceania, 4) Antarctica.
      Tectonic plates give a pretty good indication of land masses, and guess what... North & South America are distinctly divided!
      Being barely attached by a small land area doesn't make you "one continent." That depends on ocean levels, in which case Asia & North America would be one continent any time the Bering Land Bridge attached Russia to Alaska.

  • @sameulyahoot2413
    @sameulyahoot2413 ปีที่แล้ว

    "You should never have a geographical qualifier in your country's name."
    Montenegro: *slowly slips away*

  • @Victor_Andrei
    @Victor_Andrei 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "If you have to force people to call you something, then you aren't that thing." - big ooft

  • @dylanminett8552
    @dylanminett8552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    14:05 did he just call Liverpool “Manchester”?

    • @easytiger6570
      @easytiger6570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He better not be in Manchester and vise versa any time soon

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@easytiger6570 You mean that Manchester better not be in him very soon?

    • @ommy7672
      @ommy7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh God

  • @SuperStingray
    @SuperStingray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    There was a global atlas published by the Onion like a decade ago that basically portrayed Central African Republic as a generic store-brand country where everything is labelled with what it is. Like people wear shirts that say "Person" and the capital city was "Capital City" and it was the funniest shit to me.

    • @adanactnomew7085
      @adanactnomew7085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lmaoooo

    • @neyte7313
      @neyte7313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Fun fact: the old name for Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, is literally translated to "Capital City" in their language

    • @Krixwell
      @Krixwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@neyte7313 In a similar vein in Japan, Toukyou means "eastern capital". As opposed to the older capital in the west, Kyouto, "capital city".

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its capital is Bangui on the Ubangi River- they are anagrams. Over the river from Bangui is the DR Congo.

  • @DaKennyMan22
    @DaKennyMan22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We should break out the thesaurus and replace 'new' and geographical qualifiers with synonyms. For example, New Mexico could be The Most Recent Mexico, New Zealand could be Modern Zealand, New South Wales could be Current Portside Wales, and Timor-Leste could be Timor-Gerontogeous.

  • @polishmappingpresents4609
    @polishmappingpresents4609 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The nation’s and provinces/states with new in it are usally if not allways named after some other region, usally names in the 1600’s-1800’s

  • @cocalero
    @cocalero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    That’s why I’m so happy that my country is called the same in all languages 😁
    Greetings from Peru!
    PS. No mention of Austria and Australia? Or Georgia (the country) which is actually called Sakartvelo?

    • @tonnyfigueira3119
      @tonnyfigueira3119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      not really... in Portuguese Peru is called Turkey... XD

    • @crisremr6894
      @crisremr6894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tonnyfigueira3119 Wtf dude haha what a plow twist

    • @unslaadkrosis9435
      @unslaadkrosis9435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tonnyfigueira3119 then what do you call Turkey lmao

    • @tonnyfigueira3119
      @tonnyfigueira3119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@unslaadkrosis9435 just to make it clear:
      * Turkey the country in Portuguese is "Turquia"
      * Peru the country is Peru
      * but the word "Peru" in Portuguese means Turkey the bird
      =P

    • @unslaadkrosis9435
      @unslaadkrosis9435 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tonnyfigueira3119 ooh okay

  • @antonydi
    @antonydi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Historically New South Wales ruled New Zealand and the entire East of Australia. Thanks to good ol' Captain Cook.

  • @frneptunee
    @frneptunee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Talking of country advertising, I LITERALLY SAW A QATAR ADVERT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VIDEO

  • @aphextwin5712
    @aphextwin5712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a region in Germany called Ostwestfalen, literally ‘East-West-Falen’. More than a thousand years ago, Saxons called the western part of their area “Westfalei” and their eastern part “Ostfalen”. The name for the former stuck around long after the name for the latter fell in disuse. At some point the region called “Westfalen” got administrative subdivisions, the eastern one got the label “Ostwestfalen”.
    The UK has their own Saxon- and cardinal-direction-based province names in the form of Sussex and Essex. The former even got divided into West Sussex and East Sussex.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget Wessex, which stretched from Devon up towards Surrey.

  • @marton154
    @marton154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Hungary dropped the „republic“ from its name 2012 so it’s only „Hungary“ now

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep or the “State of Hungary” if pressed. Same as several other communist/socialist countries who dropped “republic” after returning to classicalism, going by just the name in most official contests and “State of” if pressed; off the top of my head Romania and Ukraine are two other examples in Europe.
      Interestingly the Commonwealth realms are not officially kingdoms, they also try to go by only their name, and go by “Commonwealth realm of” if pressed. The exceptions off the top of my head are Canada, which used to be the British Dominion of Canada and never dropped the “Dominion of” when they fully dropped the British (besides the monarch) in 1982, Australia, which is just “Commonwealth of Australia”, a name that predates its independent status as a Commonwealth realm in 1986, as it its full name historically was the British Dominion of the Commonwealth of Australia, so that title had always been in there and Australia kept it when it gained full independence as a Commonwealth realm. The other exception I can think of is New Zealand, which is basically the same story as Australia except it was called the “British Dominion of the Realm of New Zealand” and is now simply the Realm of New Zealand. But all the other Commonwealth realm countries try to mainly just use their name, a la the post-Communist countries like Hungary, and only use “Commonwealth realm of” when pressed

  • @TheSecretPower
    @TheSecretPower 3 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    Let's go back to calling the DRC: "Zaire" again, that would be easier. And instead of North Korea, let's call it The "Kim Dynasty".

    • @gonun69
      @gonun69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Let's just call it "Kimland".

    • @evilemuempire9550
      @evilemuempire9550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @David Montgomery Why don’t we just call it New Democratic republic of north south bhjbhjvyughbhhygy, that would make it much easier

    • @kauffner
      @kauffner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The colonial names were Congo Free State (1880-1908) and Belgian Congo (1908-1960). Zaire was used from 1971 to 1997.

    • @kauffner
      @kauffner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would go with "Congo-Brazzaville" and "DR Congo." In "Casablanca," Renault mentions the "Free French garrison in Brazzaville." So it's in the pop culture canon.

    • @daveharrison84
      @daveharrison84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Kim Korea, like Saudi Arabia

  • @minecraftlover8085
    @minecraftlover8085 ปีที่แล้ว

    LESS GOO! TIMOR-LESTE BEING MENTIONED BY TOYCAT 🤣🤣

  • @luccacidade
    @luccacidade 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, I haven't finished watching the video, but the first argument regarding geographical names can be confusing only in some languages. There would be no confusion in Portuguese, for an example, since all of them would be something like "Sudan of the North" or "Ireland of the North", making it easy to understand when referring to the south of or the north of determined country.

  • @Eschatonin6666
    @Eschatonin6666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" - Dissect that one
    Also I think you're conflating political territories and cultural ones. Some nations (a people group who see themselves as part of the same community based on language, ethnicity, religion, etc) have part or half of their land and people in another state (a political territory where the state has a monopoly of control), while the rest of that nation has their own state named after themselves. This is why we have North Macedonia, Timor Lest, Papua New Guinea (East Papua) and Indonesian West Papua, North and South Korea, Chinese Mongolia, Belgian Luxembourg, and many many others.
    Also, the names of countries on the map is based on what the country presents as internationally. This has been dominated with what English speakers have called the countries as an international convention, and some countries feel that maybe anglo dominion isn't cool.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      United Kingdom in Swedish is called Storbritannien*, meaning Great Britain, and Great Britain is also called the same. So you got Great Britain inside Great Britain.
      *In Finland-Swedish, it's called Förenade konungariket, meaning United Kingdom. So this only applies to Standard Swedish.

    • @kpc211
      @kpc211 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, I guess he perfectly knows it, but if he acknowledged that in the video, it would sound much less funny...
      North Macedonia is an interesting case, because for many, many years they were in a conflict with Greece, which wanted Macedonia monopoly and was therefore opposing very strongly to Macedonia the country (now North Macedonia) calling themselves Macedonia... This way they were probably the only country in the world with no internationally established and accepted name, and had to be referred to by a long description (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). But finally, they recently gave up and renamed themselves to North Macedonia.

  • @matiasolazabal87
    @matiasolazabal87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    10:37 Fun Fact: in spanish, Sweden and Switzerland's names are almost the same, Suecia and Suiza so they get confused a lot in spanish lol

    • @jesalt8230
      @jesalt8230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      While in English, the names of their habitats are quite similar: Swiss and Swedish.

    • @phil..rubi123
      @phil..rubi123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We know 😢😢
      Greetings Sweden 🇸🇪

    • @wayn0r
      @wayn0r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      A lot of Americans think that Sweden and Switzerland are the same thing, but that’s just due to poor education and Americentrism.

    • @plislegalineu3005
      @plislegalineu3005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In Polish: Szwajcaria 🇨🇭 and Szwecja 🇸🇪
      Sz is š / sh
      C is tz/ts
      W is v
      J is y in yes

    • @lucasobrador
      @lucasobrador 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In Filipino sub language we call it Swissko and Swedenya☺

  • @prestondev176
    @prestondev176 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You made a great video, Eswatini!

  • @LimKip
    @LimKip 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Djibouti” literally takes the cake for best, y’all can fight me..

  • @gbst
    @gbst 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Life changing revelation: second channel, but he does care!

  • @AshChynoweth
    @AshChynoweth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    You mentioned New South Wales literally the second I passed the NSW border 😂

  • @subzero.cuber47
    @subzero.cuber47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    **Skips Countries that qualify for his topic and choose one that barely does**

  • @Citruss001
    @Citruss001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The day I am watching this Geography Now is releasing the South Sudan episode.