Funny thing about the straight israel-egypt border: it bends in two places because the british cartographer who drew it had his fingers on sticking out of the ruler when he drew the line.
Urban myth. There's a similar story about a small bump in the otherwise straight railway line from Moscow to St. Petersburg. That the Tsar drew a line and his finger created a small bump, but the engineers carried everything out exactly as shown on the map. I wouldn't be surprised if there's stories like this all around the world. Like the story of ruler-X who commissioned engineer-Y to design building-Z, and it was so beautiful the ruler had him blinded so he couldn't build something so beautiful again.
"Pretty much every global hotspot can be traced back to a mustachioed British man drawing a straight line on a map and going 'there we are, learn to live with it.'"
I learnt about the situation of that piece of land whilst I was 12 in a schooltrip to Germany with my group of friends and we officialy declared it ours and called it "Ploucistan/Ploukistan" ( that literally means Peasantstan, we are Frenchies and "Plouc" is quite an unused and familiar word to mean Peasant, the right pronounciation is "Plookistan" ) Acknowledge us as the rightful Assembly of Several Prime Minister of the Republic of Ploukistan or face our wrath.
I'm a random American guy who lives in the Philly suburbs, but I *can* trace my ancestry back to European royalty (not uncommon) in Britain, France, Germany, so on. I can rule you guys if you need a sovereign with royalty in their blood. Je peut parler en Français aussi, il est trés facile. Fais-moi savoir si tu veut un roi légitime, Henry douxieme est le dernier roi Français dont je descends.
Canada US border is a series of squiggles followed by a line on a globe and is therefore a curve, not a straight line thank you very much. Which also means there's a few peninsulas with only water access to the home country, and several towns sliced up. One has the border run through the town library.
Africa actually has relatively few rectangles in densely populated regions. The straight lines are mostly through the sparsely populated Sahara or the Namibian desert. The border between Egypt and Libya for example, looks like a straight line, however it is not so straight when you get to the more densely populated northern section.
Joseph Bleasdale HALA'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB s triangle is of home of Illuminati Egypt has pyramid THATS WHY THEY WANT HALAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB S TRIANGE
+Abdelrahman ElMorshedy This is TH-cam pet, shallow is often as deep as some go. Best advice is to ignore anything you read that you don't like, but if you get the impression that some of the "participants in the discussion" (in quotes because that's me trying to not start an argument but show that if my brain cells had all come to work today, I'd have thought of a better phrase ;-)) actually want to know what's what, please educate by explanation. You may be surprised by at least some positive reactions. And even if only one person is better educated, the world has one less twerp :-D
I cannot express how fantastic this is. It explain the past, which in turn explains the present, in an entertaining way which is understandable for everyone. It explains distant events which may have little effect on our individual little words, and makes us more aware of the world!
That's just the stereotypical Yank Abroad accent. You know, American tourists who think they're suntanned but in reality look like boiled lobsters, who come up to your face and ask, "DO. YOU. SPEAK. ENGLISH?" like you're hard of hearing.
In similar way Liberland happened. During Yugoslavia, just after WW2 there was a border established between Serbia and Croatia that followed river Danube. During the years river has moved, or has been moved, so border was not following river itself. After Yugoslavia, Serbia wanted to redraw borders to it's current state - by middle of river, while Croatia wanted to keep old borders, because that way they would have more land. That way there is a land claimed by both, and land claimed by none.
+OxO_Sw4gM3i5t3rG3n3r4l_OxO Well, we MIGHT. But we almost definitely won't. In the meantime there are five more Map Mens on their way in the next few weeks.
How is NO ONE talking about the way they end the video by teasing us with the start of the song Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but without ever actually letting the song start? That’s evil and not I need to go listen to it on repeat to cleanse myself. 😂
OMG, when Princess Mark spit... I... I was still busy thinking "wow, what a great american accent by Jay there" and a bit of "what a fucking wig", and he spit and I absolutely lost my mind. I have tears coursing down my face. Just, thank you. This is so genuinely amazing I'm in awe.
Someone make a 10 hour version of Jay saying Hala'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib Triangle. Please.
Egypt and Sudan: Our Partition was the worst Israel and Palestine: No ours was the worst Amateurs All of them: Who said this India, Pakistan: We said amateurs
I'm gonna claim it and start a telesales company there. In a few years and thousands dead I'll be a millionaire and they'll have to accept me as king and it a country. I shall name it Little Sandy England.
olliemad Good luck. That area is filled with rebels. Unless you're former military id doubt you could handle yourself and operate a an that probably will malfunction.
From looking at the satellite photos of the area, I would have to say that is is basically sand and rocks. I suspect that neither Egypt nor Sudan has a shortage of either of those two things, so they might not be that concerned with it. If there are any people who might live there, they must be living in either tents or something too small to show up on the satellite images.
The hala’ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib Triangle
@@AbsolXGuardian its Deep Well** and no but i think the psychology behind that name must be that the land has no water, its dry and literally a desert and basically = inhabitable.
Fun fact: Sudan actually has the most recent historical claim to the Hala'ib Triangle, which before Ottoman Egypt conquered the country was the northernmost point of the Funj Sultanate.
I just watched this video again, and I found it quite entertaining! The pith helmet on one of the officials, the cowboy accent with your portrayal of Jeremiah Heaton (I'm actually American myself), and the hollow globe were nice touches! Thanks for the video!
1:16 It's not the only land in the world that nobody wants - for example there's a few islands on the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, and a Czech guy came there and proclaimed the island an independent country - Liberland (he got so arrested)
I got emotional when I saw that a father claimed the land to make her daughter a princess. I am not a father yet, but when I become one, I would be kinda similar.
I noticed that the squiggly border on the table placed the scissors and ball on the opposite sides of the table compared to the straight border. Was there perhaps an abandoned plan to use those items as props to represent the Hala'ib Triangle and Bir Tawil?
I took a screenshot, cut the unnecessary stuff, put it into google images and looked around a bit. Unfortunately I do not live in the UK and I'm going to be away for the next 2-3 weeks. So what do I need to do in that situation?
Wasn't he only the 2nd person with the correct answer? I can only see one other (charles k, 4 months ago). I'd attempt to claim the prize for myself, but it's simply too much effort, even though I've already gone to the trouble of writing this comment.
It's not the only piece of land that neither side wants due to a border dispute. There's also the dispute along the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, in which the micronation of Liberland attempted to set itself up.
My favorite part of this whole thing is that since literally nothing is in bir tawil (and almost nothing is in the halaib triangle), it’s entire existence implies the fact that the British only drew the squiggly border for the sake of squiggliness
Egypt: you have it Sudan: you have Egypt: no it’s yours Sudan: no this is for you Egypt: then i’ll give it to you Sudan: then i’ll return it back *Basically every arab conversation ever*
Thank you Jay - your videos are most amusing (what a very British thing to say) and the Map men fill a gap where Unfinished London used to sit (wedged between Geoff and a short clip about a robot Thomas the Tank engine). Thanks chaps!
What a treat to find this channel! Whit and education combined always make for a positive to the politic. Palpable learning for everyone indeed. Please keep it up!
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"Including worryingly Google." I almost died.
I would be perfectly okay with Google administering a city-state. I might consider living there.
Fucking Google attempting to run a totalitarian dictatorship in the middle of the desert.
lol /\
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Let's sanction Google!
It’s in the middle of a barren desert.
Funny thing about the straight israel-egypt border:
it bends in two places because the british cartographer who drew it had his fingers on sticking out of the ruler when he drew the line.
Is that right?!
that would mean he was left-handed - which is very unlikely
Urban myth. There's a similar story about a small bump in the otherwise straight railway line from Moscow to St. Petersburg. That the Tsar drew a line and his finger created a small bump, but the engineers carried everything out exactly as shown on the map. I wouldn't be surprised if there's stories like this all around the world. Like the story of ruler-X who commissioned engineer-Y to design building-Z, and it was so beautiful the ruler had him blinded so he couldn't build something so beautiful again.
@@ShyguyMM i've heard that ruler x before
Mason Building Z is actually in my home town (country 1)
It beautiful but honestly all the fucking tourists ruin it
"Pretty much every global hotspot can be traced back to a mustachioed British man drawing a straight line on a map and going 'there we are, learn to live with it.'"
John Oliver, Ayyyyyyyyyyyy! *pathetic finger guns*
Until somebody changes it and the guys moustache gets ripped of
Now that's an awful generalisation. Some of the straight lines were probably drawn by a mustachioed French man.
...or a mustachioed Soviet comrade, lest we forget.
@@lucillerrose and don't forget the unexpected Spanish twizzly mustachioed men
I learnt about the situation of that piece of land whilst I was 12 in a schooltrip to Germany with my group of friends and we officialy declared it ours and called it "Ploucistan/Ploukistan" ( that literally means Peasantstan, we are Frenchies and "Plouc" is quite an unused and familiar word to mean Peasant, the right pronounciation is "Plookistan" )
Acknowledge us as the rightful Assembly of Several Prime Minister of the Republic of Ploukistan or face our wrath.
We’ll face your wrath, thanks.
si j'adhère j'ai droit à quel poste? (et surtout quelle paye?)
^ç^
I'm a random American guy who lives in the Philly suburbs, but I *can* trace my ancestry back to European royalty (not uncommon) in Britain, France, Germany, so on. I can rule you guys if you need a sovereign with royalty in their blood. Je peut parler en Français aussi, il est trés facile. Fais-moi savoir si tu veut un roi légitime, Henry douxieme est le dernier roi Français dont je descends.
Only if you acknowledge me as the rightful MP for Old Sarum...
Oi Aaron, The cNeno lo le qTawil ("Tawil Empire" in the language my class made) also holds that claim and we're ready for civil war.
I hope Bir Tawil somehow has a ton of gold and diamonds underneath its sands.
+forgingiron123 I hope some hyper-rich madman buries his entire fortune underneath the place.
I hope there's oil under it so MURICA
@@TypicallyThomas
*SATAN* APPROVES THIS MESSAGE
@@TypicallyThomas ah yes, the sweet smell of capitalism. I love it.
Nah Egypt has enough gold to not want it, it'll probably take oil to "Ignite* something... I'll see myself out
Africa: *Has various cultures*
Europe: Rectangles!
Haha straight lines go brrr
Haha us-canad border go brrrr
Canada US border is a series of squiggles followed by a line on a globe and is therefore a curve, not a straight line thank you very much.
Which also means there's a few peninsulas with only water access to the home country, and several towns sliced up. One has the border run through the town library.
The US Canada border also was an agreed apon line by the two nations effected by it
Africa actually has relatively few rectangles in densely populated regions. The straight lines are mostly through the sparsely populated Sahara or the Namibian desert. The border between Egypt and Libya for example, looks like a straight line, however it is not so straight when you get to the more densely populated northern section.
Map Men is good. Many thanks for your satisfactory programme.
Mr. Thorax program*
''British English uses programme unless referring to computers. ''
Just google it, dumbass. Saves you from looking like a moron
Mr. Thorax no
David Allen don’t you ever say a dialect is wrong you moron
Twisted it’s not a separate dialect, the spelling of words were just changed
egypt: this is yours
sudan: no u
e: no u
s: _n o u_
e: *_N O U_*
@@afatcatfromsweden yeah like how backwards in time do you have to be, uncultured swines.
Lancomepotatoes there is loads of swedish culture.
Sudan: Ok.... You!
Who are the fuckers the uncivilized? This Uno reverse card, you can put it in your asshole
Uno reverse card
Fantastic.
Well, surprising to see you here!
yes
I’m sure you mean AUUUTASTIC
Ya
@Ronen Estrada actually there's 7
"As with many badly drawn borders, it starts with the British" 😄
Wahey 🇬🇧😆
😂😂
Is your outro literally just the guitar opening to the song maps looped 3 times?
Donger Ino It's not looped. That's how long it is.
Jesus christ I remember it being a lot shorter.
Reminds me of the Newsround intro.
it's from Maps - Yeah yeah yeahs
I was waiting for the drums to start
"including most worryingly Google"
@Hiro Takkan Google doesn't have anything to do with Captchas.
Yep that’s what the video says ur comment is useless
@@Shemegory reeeeeecaptcha
1:42 Hala'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib triangle. Laughed so much.
choked on my drink there
Joseph Bleasdale HALA'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB s triangle is of home of Illuminati
Egypt has pyramid
THATS WHY THEY WANT HALAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB S TRIANGE
That a very shallow understanding now..
+Abdelrahman ElMorshedy This is TH-cam pet, shallow is often as deep as some go. Best advice is to ignore anything you read that you don't like, but if you get the impression that some of the "participants in the discussion" (in quotes because that's me trying to not start an argument but show that if my brain cells had all come to work today, I'd have thought of a better phrase ;-)) actually want to know what's what, please educate by explanation. You may be surprised by at least some positive reactions. And even if only one person is better educated, the world has one less twerp :-D
Joseph Bleasdale I
I cannot express how fantastic this is. It explain the past, which in turn explains the present, in an entertaining way which is understandable for everyone. It explains distant events which may have little effect on our individual little words, and makes us more aware of the world!
That southern accent is surprisingly accurate.
Not really; it's a Deep South accent, and Virginia is not the deep south.
That's just the stereotypical Yank Abroad accent. You know, American tourists who think they're suntanned but in reality look like boiled lobsters, who come up to your face and ask, "DO. YOU. SPEAK. ENGLISH?" like you're hard of hearing.
@@ismailniyaz5167 Funny, in the USA that accent is stereotyped more as a "cartoonish cowboy" accent, or maybe "cartoonish rural Southerner."
I'm from the South, and not really
I’m from Texas, no one who heard that accent would think it was authentic.
Croatia: it's not mine
Serbia: well it isn't mine either
Vít Jedlička: it's mine then
wundrweapon Viva la Liberland!
croatian police: wait no, that's trespassing
Haha smesno
Josip Broz Ttito: "Miss me yet?"
Ending song is "Maps". Nice touch.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
You have forget about Liberland, a "country" established on piece of land between Croatia and Serbia that both did not want.
wow that is cool you are cool
1:37 deeply disturbing
I love how whenever Americans are involved you guys play banjo music
Thank you, now I can't pronounce "Hala'ib" the same way again
Hala’ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib
need more harakat
@@Banom7a xD...
Up to 6 tho xD
Mad wajib muttasil
Thanks for making this video, I had an essay question on my geography test about Bir Tawil, I got an A+, thanks Jay and Mark!
I'm here from that recent park bench with Matt. I had to know what this was about. I am not disappointed.
AnUntitledAbridger 'No body wants?' Have you tried Chinese? They will have some maps showing it as their territory SINCE ANCIENT TIMES.
AnUntitledAbridger I
ToNi they don't teach us that in social studies
As a Georgia native, I have to say that that is a fine southern accent 1:35
Are you Cree, Cherokee or Kartvelian?
wow Georgia, how nice, I love Tbilisi and Batumi is cool as well
1:39 I choked on my water
Mateusz well she choked on sand.
Ehhhhh
Uranus InBanana id be hard pressed to call that a she
@@williamkrause5831 she can be whatever she wants you rut /s
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ain't nothin' important than my daughtas happiness, now she got everything she eva wanted, isn't than righ sugerplum.
*spits out dirt*
Rajan Rao
I m laughing so much because of what he said but also because his accent is first irish and then south american.
@@TC-kr3wx South american? Which drugs are you on?
Forrest Gump accent
In similar way Liberland happened.
During Yugoslavia, just after WW2 there was a border established between Serbia and Croatia that followed river Danube. During the years river has moved, or has been moved, so border was not following river itself. After Yugoslavia, Serbia wanted to redraw borders to it's current state - by middle of river, while Croatia wanted to keep old borders, because that way they would have more land. That way there is a land claimed by both, and land claimed by none.
Still today?
@@claudiodidomenico yes
I love the way you say 'by both and by none'. I'd say 'by neither' but your.way is so more poetic.
@@zanussidish8144 I am sorry for my mistake. I am not a native speaker.
@@Mladjasmilic It's not a mistake, it's a nice way to say it.
1:22 Now *that* is some proper American theme music!
Mark spitting out sand in a plaited wig made me nearly spit cookie all over my laptop, thanks guys
map men
map men
map MAP
*MAP MEN* (men)
intro song gets me everytime.
1:03 postcard is clacton-on-sea, i have one of these postcards at home :)
hope i get the kitkat!
You guys are the Bob Ross of maps. The colliding head intro is a trip in itself. Fantastic work
Please make a fourth episode of Unfinished London :D
+OxO_Sw4gM3i5t3rG3n3r4l_OxO Well, we MIGHT. But we almost definitely won't. In the meantime there are five more Map Mens on their way in the next few weeks.
What could such an episode be about?
He can't - or it would be finished.
He now has
Bir Tawil will is technically still part of Britain because it was never formally given independence so no this is not an unclaimed bit of land
Only thing is that even the UK doesn’t claim it, so no. Just because a piece of land isn’t formally handed over doesn’t mean it’s still claimed
How is NO ONE talking about the way they end the video by teasing us with the start of the song Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but without ever actually letting the song start? That’s evil and not I need to go listen to it on repeat to cleanse myself. 😂
Yes!! I was looking for this comment!!!
WAIT! They don't love you like I love you
As if they couldn’t get any better, they lay the best Easter egg ever with the outro music being the song “Maps” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
OMG, when Princess Mark spit... I... I was still busy thinking "wow, what a great american accent by Jay there" and a bit of "what a fucking wig", and he spit and I absolutely lost my mind. I have tears coursing down my face. Just, thank you. This is so genuinely amazing I'm in awe.
1:39 GHHEUGH
This was 8 years ago. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
Someone make a 10 hour version of Jay saying Hala'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib Triangle. Please.
Egypt and Sudan: Our Partition was the worst
Israel and Palestine: No ours was the worst
Amateurs
All of them: Who said this
India, Pakistan: We said amateurs
*laughs in India bangladesh*
Laughs in British
I'm gonna claim it and start a telesales company there. In a few years and thousands dead I'll be a millionaire and they'll have to accept me as king and it a country. I shall name it Little Sandy England.
Unfortunately you'd have to build your own infrastructure. I guess you can use solar panels and satellite phones.
Easy peasy, I'll use solar panels to product electricity and then make water like how Matt Damon does in the martian.
olliemad Good luck. That area is filled with rebels. Unless you're former military id doubt you could handle yourself and operate a an that probably will malfunction.
@Richard Bosnak I saw you on another video today
VolunteerEMS its uninhabited actually excpet for the few times camel hearders stay there in the year.
From looking at the satellite photos of the area, I would have to say that is is basically sand and rocks. I suspect that neither Egypt nor Sudan has a shortage of either of those two things, so they might not be that concerned with it. If there are any people who might live there, they must be living in either tents or something too small to show up on the satellite images.
Great video! Surprisingly good southern-american accent.
It's the one American accent British people can actually do.
*Southern USA
USA cannot be found in South America
@@januzairamli4426 - Right. That's why they said "Southern American," not "South American." Two totally different things.
The southern drawl is just how some Brits used to talk
😂😂😂😂😂 You guys crack me up every time. The American "princess" and accents. Brilliant!
The hala’ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiib Triangle
Fun Fact: "Bir Tawil" means "Tall Well" in Arabic.
بئر طويل
Does it contain a tall well?
@@AbsolXGuardian no i don't think so
@@haz0816 That's odd then
@@AbsolXGuardian its Deep Well** and no but i think the psychology behind that name must be that the land has no water, its dry and literally a desert and basically = inhabitable.
Smashing work chaps! I'd love to see more Map Men stuff :3
I swear if someone said there’s oil there everyone would want it
egypt : its yours
sudan : no its yours
*finds oil*
usa : MINE NOW
Don't worry they checked
There is oil in the hala’ib triangle, which is one of the things that makes it valuable
Halayeeeb actually is full of both, that's why
1:32 this gets me everytime 😂
Fun fact: Sudan actually has the most recent historical claim to the Hala'ib Triangle, which before Ottoman Egypt conquered the country was the northernmost point of the Funj Sultanate.
“Welcome to map men”
Auto caption: welcome to mock men
Honestly, both are right
That goodbye at the end reminds me of Victoria saying goodbye on Only Connect
*British* “We’ll take that thank you.”
*Both countries* “Oh how very kind of you.”
Just realised the outro music is the intro to "maps" by the yeah yeah yeahs. This channel is awesome
I just watched this video again, and I found it quite entertaining! The pith helmet on one of the officials, the cowboy accent with your portrayal of Jeremiah Heaton (I'm actually American myself), and the hollow globe were nice touches! Thanks for the video!
the credits having the opening guitar from Maps made me way more giddy than it should have
1:53 is hilarious
1:32 My favorite Jay Foreman scene ever xD. Mark's facail expression is gold
1:16 It's not the only land in the world that nobody wants - for example there's a few islands on the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, and a Czech guy came there and proclaimed the island an independent country - Liberland (he got so arrested)
It's different though, as that's not a disputed territory. Bir Tawil is, as both countries insist it's part of the other country.
Its yours
@@Thoomas2001 Solution: Split Bir Tawil in half, give one half to Sudan and the other to Egypt. Do the same with the Hala'ib triangle
I got emotional when I saw that a father claimed the land to make her daughter a princess. I am not a father yet, but when I become one, I would be kinda similar.
you would colonize africa to install a foreign monarchy??
@@Zee-iv9oe nope. I hate that. but I love the bonding of parent and child. that is what I was pointing at.
Don't. That's why there's so many entitled women nowadays
@@Zee-iv9oe yes
And they have no way of defending themselves from invaders so if a country does invade all they can do is watch. Girl: “Daddy make them stop!” Lol
This better continue! AND PLEASE FOR ALL THINGS HOLY, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER UNFINISHED LONDO|\
+Koala Koala although... it would be funny in a way if Unfinished London will remain... unfinished
+Elad this really wrinkles sprinkles...
I'd pledge to Jay's patreon if he had one!
+Jonty Levine he does! :)))
He just did.
Clever use of the "Maps" guitar thingy at the end there haha
Please make more of these
after 6 years I've just realised the ending is an Easter egg.
The sound in the outro is the start of Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Love this show.
I just discovered your channel today and it is great. I love the content you guys put out and the humor you use. keep up the good work.
"About the size of London"
Me, an intellectual: *searches in google*
Also me: its literally 500 km square bigger than London
That globe punch though 😁
why am I discovering these videos just now? this is a youtube treasure
i officially recognize the kingdom of north sudan as an independent nation
I noticed that the squiggly border on the table placed the scissors and ball on the opposite sides of the table compared to the straight border. Was there perhaps an abandoned plan to use those items as props to represent the Hala'ib Triangle and Bir Tawil?
Very well spotted. Yes!
the "HALA'IB TRIANGLE" poster at 1:03 is Clacton-On-Sea, Essex?
CORRECT!! How did you know? One kit kat on its way to you sir/madam. Email me your postal address.
I took a screenshot, cut the unnecessary stuff, put it into google images and looked around a bit. Unfortunately I do not live in the UK and I'm going to be away for the next 2-3 weeks. So what do I need to do in that situation?
+Alwin Priven Google can do that?! That's totally cheating!!
Well you didn't say how can I do that, so I did it the only way possible without guessing, but guessing would get me nowhere.
Wasn't he only the 2nd person with the correct answer? I can only see one other (charles k, 4 months ago).
I'd attempt to claim the prize for myself, but it's simply too much effort, even though I've already gone to the trouble of writing this comment.
It's Clacton on Sea. Can I pleeeeease have a Kit Kat?
Totally should do The border with Baarle-Hertog, Belgium/The Netherlands next!
0:25 - drawing a border that precisely joins the coastal line at 0:30 amazed me pretty much.
"I assure you the man that drew that line has been shamed"
*Removes Mustache in shame*
Did not expect that Yeah Yeah Yeah's sting at the end of the video, but... well, Maps
Mark Cooper-Jones looks like the guy from Mr Robot.
did your entire prop budget go on fake mustaches?
No, they also had the fake history book from a few episodes ago, and the taxi in the last episode.
the british guy drawing the border was the best part
0:27 "Can I please have a sandwich?"
NO, YOU WILL NOT... 'YA BLOODY TOSSER!!!!!
It's not the only piece of land that neither side wants due to a border dispute. There's also the dispute along the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, in which the micronation of Liberland attempted to set itself up.
Out of all the thought out jokes I didn't expect "unright" to get me the hardest
Bir Tawil National Anthem
Bir Tawil
The land of map men
Jay and Mark
Neither Egypt nor Sudan
Bir Tawil
That one land no one wants
Bir Tawil!
I'm from Sudan so the next time I visit I could plant my own flag in Bir Tawil lol
Edit: Also the way Jay pronounces Sudan at 0:11 is correct.
Music at the end = opening riff of "Maps". Well played, gentlemens.
1:24 That kinda stuff just warms my heart...
0:50 top ten most Humiliated people
My favorite part of this whole thing is that since literally nothing is in bir tawil (and almost nothing is in the halaib triangle), it’s entire existence implies the fact that the British only drew the squiggly border for the sake of squiggliness
Halayeb Triangle is rich in gold and minerals
love the little guitar trill at the end from the intro to Maps that you've just extended haha
0:22 lol, that's exactly how it happened
That reminds me of how teams used to fight over me on the basketball court. "You take him!" We don't want him. "He's on your team!"
This was brill, and theres loads more insane geography in the world that I hope this could be a series! 👍
What, did I stumble upon the First Ever Map Men video? That's incredible! I'm glad TH-cam Algorithm has blessed me on this day.
Brill.
Egypt: you have it
Sudan: you have
Egypt: no it’s yours
Sudan: no this is for you
Egypt: then i’ll give it to you
Sudan: then i’ll return it back
*Basically every arab conversation ever*
2:00 2020 be like
Map Men using Maps as an outro song. Briliant.
Thank you Jay - your videos are most amusing (what a very British thing to say) and the Map men fill a gap where Unfinished London used to sit (wedged between Geoff and a short clip about a robot Thomas the Tank engine). Thanks chaps!
What a treat to find this channel! Whit and education combined always make for a positive to the politic. Palpable learning for everyone indeed. Please keep it up!
the HALA'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB TRIANGLE
The Hess Triangle
A triangle about a half square meter once in dispute between New York City and Mr Hess
Ha, I'm enjoying the start of Yeah Yeah Yeah's Maps being played on a loop at the end there.
This is great, guys! Love your videos! Is this gonna be a series? It'd be a good one
what
@@dontspikemydrink9382look at the date of the comment, this is the very first map men video
In case anyone was wondering, the triangle is De Facto controlled by Egypt.