Prins van Oranje we can't miss oppression times maybe pink skin pigs do but black don't coz they we killed like fly's everyday by pink skin pigs Aka boars(farmer's)
Fun fact: even the nine present day provinces are heavily waited towards directions. 5 out of 9 have directions in them: Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, North West (yes, its just called the North West province) & Mpumalanga (the Zulu /Swati word for "east"). A sixth province used to be called Northern Province but that got changed to Limpopo province after the Limpopo river about 15 years ago.
+andreas michael If you check parts of it are north (Bioko, Rio Mini) and parts are south (Annobon) of the equator. However there is no perfect example of a country being bisected by the equator perfectly, although in Africa Gabon is pretty close, definitely closer than Ecuador!
Taco his point still stands, it's called East Timor because there's a West Timor, it doesn't matter if the latter is a country or not. If China annexed North Korea it's not like South Korea would suddenly be grouped in with South Africa and the Central African Republic in videos like this.
@@HeroismOfRyan no your country should change its name because Zambia, Botswana is also South Africa your country shouldn’t be named a location that will only cause confusion later in history
When the Boer state of Transvaal (land beyond the Vaal) was an independent country it was officially known as the "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek". Which means "South African Republic". "The british and the Afrikaaners set aside their differences" Thats another way of saying that the British waged a succesful genocidal war of conquest on the independent Boer nations and forced them into submission.
The British were the first to invent concentration camps, and the Afrikaaners were unfortunately the first to experience them. It's been interesting reading up on 'Boer States', since none of this kind of stuff was taught to us in school (Matriculated in 2014)
@@Sceptical_Giraffe Wrong. Concentration camps existed during the American Civil War (1861-1865) which came BEFORE the British had them. They've been used throughout history in almost every war no doubt, just because the term hadn't been coined doesn't mean they weren't the same thing.
Cramer They immigrated here recently and are not of Chinese descent. The British did not "bring" them here. He is confusing Indians that the British brought here as indentured servants to work on Natal's sugar plantations, in the middle of the 19th century, with Chinese.
There is a third country which takes its name from its geographical location. Uruguay. The official name is Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay). It means the Republic is to the east(Oriental) of Uruguay(the river Uruguay)
The video is about a country that has a name which refers to its location in relation to the continent which contains it (South + Africa). So river-influenced country names do not count. I know, it's a really messed up, pointless idea for a video - 5½ minutes with very little of substance. Ecuador (Equator) is also disqualified.
This. German Democratic Republic/Federal Republic of Germany; Democratic People's Republic of Korea/Republic of Korea; People's Republic of China/Republic of China; Democratic Republic of Vietnam/Republic of Vietnam; People's Republic of Congo/Democratic Republic of Congo; People's Democratic Republic of Yemen/Yemen Arab Republic. No geographical descriptors to be found, since both countries often claimed the entirety of the territory.
NO it's not spot on! Transvaal was a country independent of Britain the then Republic of the Transvaal had their own government,flag,president etc as did the Orange free state.
Vietnam Mapper they changed their name from French Equatorial Africa to the Central African Republic. They removed the French and changed the Equatorial to Central. And maintained a Republic ( apart from a brief mad stint as an Empire)
Different naming conventions. Both "state of X" and "X-ian state" have basically the same meaning. In French, there's a nice adjective "centrafricain", and there's the official name of France, "République Française" as a model, so they went with "République Centrafricaine" instead of "République d'Afrique Centrale".
I can posit a couple of additional reasons for this: 1) Since we use Central Africa to refer to the whole region, it would be ambiguous and unnecessary to call the country 'Central Africa'. 2) Lots of countries have full names that are longer than their common names, and these often describe the type of state that it is - like the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, or the United States of Mexico. It would be wordy and redundant to always use these full names, so naturally we use just 'Russia', 'Spain', and 'Mexico'. In the case of the Central African Republic, maybe we just don't talk about it enough in English (or at least in my community) for it to have developed a shorter common name.
NB. Consider also the case of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, which _is_ widely known as DRC (at least in places/among people who have cause to talk about it often). Hey, Name Explain! Can you do a video on the two Congos, plis?
Belarus is also named after the geographical position, because Bela come from biely what means white an white in old slavic refers to "western”, the other directions being named: red - “south”, black - “north” and green - “east”. So Belarus means Western Russia.
"Bieli" actually means *white*, so *Belarus* means *White Russia*, in reference the three coloured lands of Rus' at the time: white, black, and red. It might also be a reference to it being the first bastion of freedom for the Eastern Slavs against the Mongol Horde.
Sorry i don't know mutch about slavic history, i only remembered of read that in some place, but i really tink that white (what is the translation of biely) don't means the color himself but have other meaning because some old slavic tribes used colors as cardinal directions.
Uruguay, officially named Republica Oriental del Uruguay, which means Republic east of Uruguay, which reflects it's location, east of the river uruguay, is pretty much named after it's geographical location.
Did you know? In the beginning of mining in SA (South Africa). The 'british' couldn't get the natives to work for them (at the time the africans owned their land and were extremely self-sufficient ) so they (colonials) were forced to bring in Chinese and idian people to work in the mines. Only later in 1913 the government passed a law ( it was called the land act) That forced the natives to leave their lands and had to work. That was then the native were forced to come into cities and to get wages and taxes. So please not say that the natives 'were struggling ' with wages and taxes. They never had any. I hope you read up on your history next time. - A grade 9 SOUTH AFRICAN.
South Africa and central Africa were not the only European colonies named after their Geographical location. there were also : west Africa (fr), west Sahara (sp), east Africa (ger), south west Africa (ger), and east Africa (ita)
Hey in Marathi and Konkani ( indian languages) NATAL also means Christmas .Many Indian words have a Portuguese origin example potato is called batata both in Marathi and Portuguese . Pineapple is called annanas in hindi as well as in French .Names can be a really fun thing
Uruguay also have a geographical name. Its official name is República Oriental del Uruguay (Eastern Republic of Uruguay), in spanish it means that it is a republic situated at the east of the River Uruguay
according to some people North- and South America should be one continent. And if someone would say America i would think of both. So America is a location imo.
Yes, there's a similarity. USA was named after its continent and, kind of, sort of, its administrative organization. It was the first federation to form on the New World, so its name was one of a kind back then. Not creative, but original in a sense.
I'm South African and if you had to ask anyone here they would tell you that the British named the country South Africa and the name stuck. Oh and by the way it wasn't Chinese miners it was mostly Malaysian miners coming into the country.
When Europeans split up Africa, they named their colonies after Geographical locations, native names or the person who colonised the area. Namibia was called South West Africa, Kenya was called British East Africa, Tanzania was German East Africa, North/South Rhodesia were named after Cecil Rhodes. After independence, these names were usually changed, but South Africa never changed its name.
"South Africa" is definitely not a relic of British imperialism, it was championed by the Transvaal which was interchangeably known as the South African Republic from 1852-1877 and again from 1881 - 1902
We (NZ) have had a long history with SA, especially sport. When SA become a Republic and left the Commonwealth, we (NZ) started calling it just "The Republic". As an example, Peter Williams (a NZ sport journalist) recently wrote " five of six teams from the republic lost " & " Through ten rounds this season, New Zealand teams have a one hundred percent winning record in the republic." (www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/rugby/peter-williams-south-african-rugby-in-very-delicate-almost-unstable-condition)
Jonathan Seal but the country is not named after the person. It's named after the places. The places are geographical locations named after Amerigo Vespucci, but USA isn't named after an explorer
The less official and more subjunctive reason has to do with colonialism. When people name their own countries they like to name ithe something special and unique that represents the people or a quality. But colonial powers simply wanted to name their colonies something that was easy to govern, something pragmatic. Even after independence, due to African nation consisting of many cultures unwillingly clumped together, there was not really enough of consensus on cultural identity to have a name to represent to culture so they just named the nation by where it was
It's kinda similar to how Yugoslavia was formed. Yugo means "south" so the country's name is "South Slavia" and was formed by uniting the South Slavic nations of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montengro and Macedonia.
The Central African Republic was called Ubangi-Shari prior to it's independence, and was briefly renamed to the Central African Empire. Also another British colony that had a similar situation was South Arabia which renames itself South Yemen.
Oh dear... That picture of an Afrikaner holding the British hand just made my ancestors do a 360 down under.... What an inaccurate depiction 😂😂😂 Cause, I mean, why mention the fact that a third of the Afrikaners died during the Anglo-Boereoorlog, fighting to remain independent..? Or that the Afrikaners killed nearly double that amount of British? Eish...
Can you explain the incongruous names of sub-sovereign jurisdictions in Australia? They are *South* Australia, *Western* Australia, *Northern* Territory, and New *South* Wales. Typical naming convention keeps the root noun for political jurisdictions (West Virginia, North Dakota, South Korea} while the adjective is reserved for regional, less specific designations (western Canada, northern England, eastern Europe, etc). Australia blends the two styles.
Other commenters have noted that Australia, Austria, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, and Norway all refer to their geographic locations. Adding to these, the Chinese name for itself (used by both the PRC and ROC) is Zhōngguó, which means "Middle Nation." The term originated as a name for the heartland of the country in the Central Plain, but came to mean the whole country. Japan too is Nippon or Nihon in Japanese, commonly translated as "Land of the Rising Sun," which it is called because of its location on eastern edge of Asia.
Matheu Roux Tegnies is hy reg, van die oorgawe (Verdrag van Vereeniging) in 1902 tot Uniewording in 1910 was dit die Oranjerivierkolonie en die ZAR was die Transvaalkolonie. Die twee republieke het immers die oorlog verloor en moes toe Britse kolonies word.
I don't think it was called after Transvaal. While the official name was the ZAR, it was rarely used within the country. It's own government and citizens practically referred to the country as Transvaal. Even the anthem of the ZAR referred to it's citizens as "Transvalers".
I've always learned of South African Republic as being the previous name of Transvaal. That could have also partly contributed to the South Africa name.
Also just a few notes: 1. When next you do a vid on an African country, it would be really cool if you find some musical examples of it e.g. South Africa has got lovely forms of Jazz like Marabi and Kwela that work beautifully as background music. It sets a mood. 2. Names back in the day were overwhelmingly basic😂 there are a lot of Afrikaans names of towns and other stuff that explain what you see.
fun fact, Natal is also the closest city to Africa in the South American continent, it was used by the americans in WW2 to serve as a flanking route to get to Africa. and..... is where I live.
Holy shit, right when you said "Thank you guys for watching, bye" I unknowingly paused it by accident and so for 30 seconds seconds im like..... okay, jokes over?? are you serious?
Zealez Kiddo Actually, Scorpio got the name _Africanus_ *after* defeating the Carthaginians and was seen as the conquer of Africa which at the time Greco-Roman people understood to only mean northern Africa not the other way around.
there is so many people claming the african origin of the name africa...i heard once it was a lybian divinity..another time a southern wind french used to call...so azania refers to south africans like maghreb refers to north africans. im glad for discovering that..one love azanians. can we talk about north azanian? ;) africa unite. peace and love.
No it really doesn't. His full name was Publius Cornelius Scipio. He only ever received the cognomen Africanus after his victory in the second punic war.
East Timor (Timor - Leste) is also an example of a country named after a geographic location. It is on the eastern half of the island of Timor (the west is part of Indonesia).
Well Swedes called Finland Finland (Fenland = Swampland) and it stuck.... Finnish name for Finland Suomi means something similar but not exactly. OH WAIT it was you who made video about that already :D
Just a quick right setting. The "Orange River Colony's" real name was the Oranje Vrystaat Kolonie, translating to the Orange Freestatae Colony. After we became a republic it changed to simply the Freestate province.
No, it was never "Oranje Vrystaat Kolonie"! It was "Orange River Colony" - so-named by the British, changed to Orange Free State (Oranje Vrystaat) after Unification in 1910 as a province of the Union of South Africa, and after 1994 sometime, the Orange was dropped, and it became just "Free State".
Penelope Pittstop: Northern Ireland is considered a "country" of the United Kingdom, yes. But not of Great Britain. That's why the official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
i understand to you Azania would make no sense because the history you read is written by the same people that colonized this country and tried to change the culture and everything into whatever they wanted but for us south africans we grew up with both narratives from our parents and the one that we need to pass school grades. the Union of south africa was created by the British not South Africans.
The only reason South Africa is a fuck up today is because of corruption, the economy of South Africa was actually improving after the apartheid until people without education voted for Thabo Mbeki and later Zuma (which is our current president) The fact that you accuse the economy of falling due to the apartheid's failure is utterly non factual and stupid. Bordering countries refused to export goods for South Africa, we had to rely on our mining business (which was dying) and our manufacturing of military vehicles (which was very good at the time). And of course farming but that was very minor in terms of the big scheme of things. I just think it's delusional and poorly researched to say that the apartheid was an amazing era for us and that the economy was thriving. I also think people who don't actually live in South Africa are allowed to give an opinion about the subject because most of the people I saw in the comment section ( one even said there was a massive fence splitting the races, it's bullshit and there were no fucking fence like the wall of Berlin)
Australia and Austria has their names called after directions (South and East respectfully). You can say that Austria (Österreich=Eastern realm) is because of a devision from the rest of the German principalities, but Australia is basically "southern", with no past country to be south of.
uhh, you missed a few Western Sahara East Timor Antarctica (though not literally a compass direction it is "anti-arctic" referring to it being opposite in location)
The actual sound you use for Boer is a bit difficult to explain to the English and Afrikaners alike because the 'oe' sound isn't really used in either English or modern Afrikaans. We still use it in Dutch though. The Afrikaners usually pronounce it with either 'oo' or with an 'u' sound and the English often use the 'u'.
In Russia we call South Africa similarly to the Central African Republic - “South African Republic*” (SAR), obviously, so it isn’t as weird. When the name “South Africa” appears in Russian resources it usually refers to the southern part of Africa, including Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa (“SAR”), etc. (I dropped the article because the Russian language has no articles*).
Wikus Swart u kan sê, wat u van die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek (uitgespreek as “you-are” in Engels maar die “R” is hoe in Afrikaans) kom af. Mense sal verstaan. Verskoon my vier my Afrikaans, dis nie baie goed nie
Yes, the other half of the island. But Timor by itself does not exist "from bigger nations splitting up" like Korea and Germany. He said there were only two like this, but East Timor would be a third
The exists North Korea and South Korea. What if North Korea joins China and there isn't a country called North Korea anymore? Does that mean that the reason we call South Korea "South Korea" changes? And by the way there's no country called "North Sudan" as well.
What about that one named for being territorial entities joined together in the continent that is told in school was discovered by some guy named Columbus? that one where is self named like continent... or the part of the continent that annoy much people?
Son: this cereal fucking sucks dad: you should be thankful this came all the way from the fucking miserable disease ridden rainforest where those insane cannibals gave it to me in return for a blood sacrifice
If that is the history of South Africa, wouldn't it make sense if the current Usa was named "United States of East North America" and after some time be called "East North America"?
What would happen if every dog was called Jeff?
They would all say 'my name is jeff'
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hi i'm bob
J'emmapelle jeff
Name Explain I searched that and this video came up lol
Fun fact: between the years 1910 and 1961 there were two USAs in the world. The United States of America and the Union of South Africa.
De Unie van Zuid Afrika. Miss those good old times there.
Prins van Oranje nope it was the union of south Africa
die Unie van Suid-Afrika
Hannodb1961 UZA my ou, duits
Prins van Oranje we can't miss oppression times maybe pink skin pigs do but black don't coz they we killed like fly's everyday by pink skin pigs Aka boars(farmer's)
Fun fact: even the nine present day provinces are heavily waited towards directions.
5 out of 9 have directions in them: Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, North West (yes, its just called the North West province) & Mpumalanga (the Zulu /Swati word for "east").
A sixth province used to be called Northern Province but that got changed to Limpopo province after the Limpopo river about 15 years ago.
Wow so after independence before it was Limpopo it was called Northern Province
What about *Equatorial* Guinea?
By the same merit, Ecuador. It's long form Spanish name is República del Ecuador, the Republic of the Equator.
Its geographic location is why.
+Opiniones de JACC's Opinions
Equatorial Guinea is actually not located on the Equator just close enough
+andreas michael
If you check parts of it are north (Bioko, Rio Mini) and parts are south (Annobon) of the equator. However there is no perfect example of a country being bisected by the equator perfectly, although in Africa Gabon is pretty close, definitely closer than Ecuador!
And Equador.
At 2:50 Lesotho was accidentally considered part of South Africa
it used to be
It will be soon
@@LaylaTheLateBloomer lesotho will be and kzn will become its own country
Alakhe Jack Very true but KZN will self-destruct since the corruption, crime rate and rape rate there is rising drastically.
And cape town will become the african singapore
Don't forget that Namibia was called "German South West Africa" AND later just "South West Africa". This comment comes from a South African by the way
Isn't East Timor one? Or am I wrong?
Nikhil 101 next to it is the Indonesian territory of West Timor, which complicates things.
+SantomPh Not really. West Timor is a state within Indonesia, not it's own country. And technically the state is called Timor Palau.
TacoSeniour and technically East Timor's name is Timor Leste
East Timor just means east-east because Timor means east.
Taco his point still stands, it's called East Timor because there's a West Timor, it doesn't matter if the latter is a country or not. If China annexed North Korea it's not like South Korea would suddenly be grouped in with South Africa and the Central African Republic in videos like this.
I think the name South Africa, while uncreative, still has a nice ring to it.
Truth! 🤣
I kinda like my own country's name too :)
@@HeroismOfRyan no your country should change its name because Zambia, Botswana is also South Africa your country shouldn’t be named a location that will only cause confusion later in history
As a Saffer, I like it too.
@@Maleekthegreat2023 oh sush you
What about Western Sahara...?
Cause it's on west of Sahara?
Psychphuq no one actually recognizes it apart from Algeria
And the "official" name of the non-Moroccan part of it has no "West" in it, it's just "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".
Not the official name. Technically the official name is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which will piss off a lot of Moroccans.
SantomPh
All of africa recognizes it as the offical government is in the African union.
When the Boer state of Transvaal (land beyond the Vaal) was an independent country it was officially known as the "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek". Which means "South African Republic".
"The british and the Afrikaaners set aside their differences" Thats another way of saying that the British waged a succesful genocidal war of conquest on the independent Boer nations and forced them into submission.
The British were the first to invent concentration camps, and the Afrikaaners were unfortunately the first to experience them.
It's been interesting reading up on 'Boer States', since none of this kind of stuff was taught to us in school (Matriculated in 2014)
@@Sceptical_Giraffe Wrong. Concentration camps existed during the American Civil War (1861-1865) which came BEFORE the British had them. They've been used throughout history in almost every war no doubt, just because the term hadn't been coined doesn't mean they weren't the same thing.
@@paulburns1333 they started in Cuba by a Spanish guy.Pretty interesting if you read up about it.☺
Austria (Osterreich) and Australia (Terra Australis) are also named because of the location
I was just about to say the exact same thing.
I'm sure there are others.
Stan Kilaru Yes, this guy is an idiot, where are these large numbers of Chinese the British brought here?
+Callie There are roughly 300-400 thousand people of Chinese decent in South Africa.
So are many plaves but they eventually became separate words to what they're derived from.
Cramer They immigrated here recently and are not of Chinese descent. The British did not "bring" them here. He is confusing Indians that the British brought here as indentured servants to work on Natal's sugar plantations, in the middle of the 19th century, with Chinese.
There is a third country which takes its name from its geographical location. Uruguay. The official name is Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay). It means the Republic is to the east(Oriental) of Uruguay(the river Uruguay)
The video is about a country that has a name which refers to its location in relation to the continent which contains it (South + Africa). So river-influenced country names do not count. I know, it's a really messed up, pointless idea for a video - 5½ minutes with very little of substance. Ecuador (Equator) is also disqualified.
East and West Germany were never named that way. Only dubbed. Same goes for South and North Korea. And others I assume.
MrTohawk thank you!! that bugged the hell out of me
That's their short name in UN.
This. German Democratic Republic/Federal Republic of Germany; Democratic People's Republic of Korea/Republic of Korea; People's Republic of China/Republic of China; Democratic Republic of Vietnam/Republic of Vietnam; People's Republic of Congo/Democratic Republic of Congo; People's Democratic Republic of Yemen/Yemen Arab Republic.
No geographical descriptors to be found, since both countries often claimed the entirety of the territory.
MrTohawk are you sure? I was still in school when they were separate and we learnt then as 2 different countries with different capital cities etc
They were the Federal Republic of Germany (west and current Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (east Germany). Those were the official names.
Hi from South Africa. Well done on the research. Spot on.
NO it's not spot on! Transvaal was a country independent of Britain the then Republic of the Transvaal had their own government,flag,president etc as did the Orange free state.
Why is not Central African Republic named Central Africa?
Vietnam Mapper they changed their name from French Equatorial Africa to the Central African Republic. They removed the French and changed the Equatorial to Central. And maintained a Republic ( apart from a brief mad stint as an Empire)
Different naming conventions.
Both "state of X" and "X-ian state" have basically the same meaning. In French, there's a nice adjective "centrafricain", and there's the official name of France, "République Française" as a model, so they went with "République Centrafricaine" instead of "République d'Afrique Centrale".
I can posit a couple of additional reasons for this:
1) Since we use Central Africa to refer to the whole region, it would be ambiguous and unnecessary to call the country 'Central Africa'.
2) Lots of countries have full names that are longer than their common names, and these often describe the type of state that it is - like the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, or the United States of Mexico. It would be wordy and redundant to always use these full names, so naturally we use just 'Russia', 'Spain', and 'Mexico'. In the case of the Central African Republic, maybe we just don't talk about it enough in English (or at least in my community) for it to have developed a shorter common name.
NB. Consider also the case of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, which _is_ widely known as DRC (at least in places/among people who have cause to talk about it often). Hey, Name Explain! Can you do a video on the two Congos, plis?
its because the central african republic is not in the centre of africa; the DRC holds the central point of africa
Belarus is also named after the geographical position, because Bela come from biely what means white an white in old slavic refers to "western”, the other directions being named: red - “south”, black - “north” and green - “east”. So Belarus means Western Russia.
interesting
"Bieli" actually means *white*, so *Belarus* means *White Russia*, in reference the three coloured lands of Rus' at the time: white, black, and red.
It might also be a reference to it being the first bastion of freedom for the Eastern Slavs against the Mongol Horde.
Seconded Le Huy-Anh.
Here, in Poland, we call Belarus "Białoruś", which literally means "White Russia".
Sorry i don't know mutch about slavic history, i only remembered of read that in some place, but i really tink that white (what is the translation of biely) don't means the color himself but have other meaning because some old slavic tribes used colors as cardinal directions.
No, Ruthenia isn't the same as Russia. Belarus means "White Ruthenia", which is geographic region where the country is located.
Uruguay, officially named Republica Oriental del Uruguay, which means Republic east of Uruguay, which reflects it's location, east of the river uruguay, is pretty much named after it's geographical location.
4:25: Azania is also believed to be taken from Tanzania as mamy of the a great numbet of bantu people in South Africa came down from Tanzania.
Did you know?
In the beginning of mining in SA (South Africa). The 'british' couldn't get the natives to work for them (at the time the africans owned their land and were extremely self-sufficient ) so they (colonials) were forced to bring in Chinese and idian people to work in the mines. Only later in 1913 the government passed a law ( it was called the land act) That forced the natives to leave their lands and had to work. That was then the native were forced to come into cities and to get wages and taxes. So please not say that the natives 'were struggling ' with wages and taxes. They never had any.
I hope you read up on your history next time.
- A grade 9 SOUTH AFRICAN.
South Africa and central Africa were not the only European colonies named after their Geographical location. there were also : west Africa (fr), west Sahara (sp), east Africa (ger), south west Africa (ger), and east Africa (ita)
They produce a lot of white chocolate.
I think this is one of your best videos yet.
As is so often the case, the answer is "Because Imperialism" followed by a clarification of which parts of Imperialism matter most.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Name Explain, I watch.
I'm not a simple man. If the video looks interesting, I watch.
Only two countries? What about East Timor?
Timor means east
Central African Republic real sad right now
You forgot Austria as it is named the after the German name which would translate into Eastern kingdom/country you can even hear it in English.
East Empire* not kingdom.
It makes more sense for Austria to be called Austria than royaume oriental or “East Kingdom”. It’s ridiculous.
what about East Timor?
mack rut same case with Korea and Germany, except West Timor is a region within Indonesia.
Given that "Timor" means east, as does "Leste", all versions of that country translate into "East East".
I love that name
Your pronunciation of the South African names are hilarious 😂
Hey in Marathi and Konkani ( indian languages) NATAL also means Christmas .Many Indian words have a Portuguese origin example potato is called batata both in Marathi and Portuguese . Pineapple is called annanas in hindi as well as in French .Names can be a really fun thing
4:45 "Cosca language" XD lololol
Uruguay also have a geographical name.
Its official name is República Oriental del Uruguay (Eastern Republic of Uruguay), in spanish it means that it is a republic situated at the east of the River Uruguay
Could one argue its a similar situation with the USA? They are just a "union of states in the continent of America".
Luisivan Moran no. There is no direction to our name. If we were called the United States of North America, then yes
I mean... United States is a more simple way of saying "union of states..."
according to some people North- and South America should be one continent. And if someone would say America i would think of both. So America is a location imo.
Yes, there's a similarity. USA was named after its continent and, kind of, sort of, its administrative organization. It was the first federation to form on the New World, so its name was one of a kind back then. Not creative, but original in a sense.
Officially America is one continent. That;s what they taught us in school anyway.
I'm South African and if you had to ask anyone here they would tell you that the British named the country South Africa and the name stuck. Oh and by the way it wasn't Chinese miners it was mostly Malaysian miners coming into the country.
Did you guys know that for a time The Republic of Central Africa was for a time the Empire of Central Africa
When Europeans split up Africa, they named their colonies after Geographical locations, native names or the person who colonised the area. Namibia was called South West Africa, Kenya was called British East Africa, Tanzania was German East Africa, North/South Rhodesia were named after Cecil Rhodes. After independence, these names were usually changed, but South Africa never changed its name.
And Norway for fuck's sake!!! Norway comes from elder Old Norse Norðvegr and Old English Norþweg (North way), the way to the north.
Eiliv Ulvestad Henschien came to the comments to say just that
I love your videos! Keep up the good work
finally some one makes a South Africa thanks man
As a South African, your pronunciations are grinding my gears
Australia is named after its geographical location.
"South Africa" is definitely not a relic of British imperialism, it was championed by the Transvaal which was interchangeably known as the South African Republic from 1852-1877 and again from 1881 - 1902
In New Zealand we just call it "The Republic", especially when talking about rugby
+Martyn Chalmers
Why?
We (NZ) have had a long history with SA, especially sport. When SA become a Republic and left the Commonwealth, we (NZ) started calling it just "The Republic".
As an example, Peter Williams (a NZ sport journalist) recently wrote " five of six teams from the republic lost " & " Through ten rounds this season, New Zealand teams have a one hundred percent winning record in the republic." (www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/rugby/peter-williams-south-african-rugby-in-very-delicate-almost-unstable-condition)
as a South African, this seems quite bizarre...
Norway comes from "Nordvegen" wich means "The Way North" so you could say its named after its location
United States of America is named after location too, right?
Ian Cook hope you're kidding. America (both north and south and the USA) are named for a European explorer
Jonathan Seal but the country is not named after the person. It's named after the places. The places are geographical locations named after Amerigo Vespucci, but USA isn't named after an explorer
Where in The United States of America do you see the words East, North, West or South?
Matthew Brown
For next time, is actually _Norteamérica_ or _América del Norte._
+sion8 or America do Norte
4:43: 😂 I was gonna say something but opted out and let the video play on LOL great video. It's funny.
The less official and more subjunctive reason has to do with colonialism. When people name their own countries they like to name ithe something special and unique that represents the people or a quality. But colonial powers simply wanted to name their colonies something that was easy to govern, something pragmatic. Even after independence, due to African nation consisting of many cultures unwillingly clumped together, there was not really enough of consensus on cultural identity to have a name to represent to culture so they just named the nation by where it was
I'm from SA (your pronunciation makes me laugh lol, but it was a wonderful attempt, well done) and this is very informative. Thank you!!
*cough* equatorial guinea and Ecuador *cough*
It's kinda similar to how Yugoslavia was formed. Yugo means "south" so the country's name is "South Slavia" and was formed by uniting the South Slavic nations of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montengro and Macedonia.
What about East Timor?
because West Timor is in Indonesia
The Central African Republic was called Ubangi-Shari prior to it's independence, and was briefly renamed to the Central African Empire. Also another British colony that had a similar situation was South Arabia which renames itself South Yemen.
Oh dear... That picture of an Afrikaner holding the British hand just made my ancestors do a 360 down under.... What an inaccurate depiction 😂😂😂
Cause, I mean, why mention the fact that a third of the Afrikaners died during the Anglo-Boereoorlog, fighting to remain independent..? Or that the Afrikaners killed nearly double that amount of British? Eish...
Can you explain the incongruous names of sub-sovereign jurisdictions in Australia? They are *South* Australia, *Western* Australia, *Northern* Territory, and New *South* Wales. Typical naming convention keeps the root noun for political jurisdictions (West Virginia, North Dakota, South Korea} while the adjective is reserved for regional, less specific designations (western Canada, northern England, eastern Europe, etc). Australia blends the two styles.
Im from South Africa
khwezi c Me to
Lol me 2
Where in sa?
@@portelm3137 Pretoria
Goed so. Hoekom sou ons om gee? (Jk, I watch these videos to chat with other South Africans)
Other commenters have noted that Australia, Austria, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, and Norway all refer to their geographic locations. Adding to these, the Chinese name for itself (used by both the PRC and ROC) is Zhōngguó, which means "Middle Nation." The term originated as a name for the heartland of the country in the Central Plain, but came to mean the whole country. Japan too is Nippon or Nihon in Japanese, commonly translated as "Land of the Rising Sun," which it is called because of its location on eastern edge of Asia.
Orange river? It was called The Orange Freestate.
Matheu Roux Tegnies is hy reg, van die oorgawe (Verdrag van Vereeniging) in 1902 tot Uniewording in 1910 was dit die Oranjerivierkolonie en die ZAR was die Transvaalkolonie. Die twee republieke het immers die oorlog verloor en moes toe Britse kolonies word.
If you think about it, every country is named after its location.
e.g., Switzerland is called Switzerland because that's where Switzerland is located.
You forgot that Lesotho existed here th-cam.com/video/M3tQJrURaZo/w-d-xo.html
Also maybe Azania is from the San people
How did you forget East Timor?
You absolutely butchered the the Afrikaans and Xhosa names
-Love from South Africa
Ecuador is also named for its geographical location. It straddles the Equator.
I come from The Republic of North North America, where are you from?
The Republic of West Mid-west North America (formally Kansas).
IjahByte North Asia and north east Europe (its one country)
IjahByte The Greater Republic of Central North America
Jonathan Seal Do you really hate Alaska that much?
IjahByte I come from Terra Australis
Great video
2:50 you left Lesotho in South Africa
My grandmother was from Natal..... British Columbia, Canada but everyone associated Natal with South Africa and would not believe her
I thought it was called after the official name of the Transvaal Republic: "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek" or "South African Republic".
I don't think it was called after Transvaal. While the official name was the ZAR, it was rarely used within the country. It's own government and citizens practically referred to the country as Transvaal. Even the anthem of the ZAR referred to it's citizens as "Transvalers".
'Transvalers! Edel was uw streven,' is a line in their anthem. Transvaal meaning past the Vaal, so I guess it was named after its location.
I love how all of this is irrelevant post 1994
I've always learned of South African Republic as being the previous name of Transvaal. That could have also partly contributed to the South Africa name.
@@eve_avery History only becomes irrelevant to people who enjoy being stupid
Also just a few notes:
1. When next you do a vid on an African country, it would be really cool if you find some musical examples of it e.g. South Africa has got lovely forms of Jazz like Marabi and Kwela that work beautifully as background music. It sets a mood.
2. Names back in the day were overwhelmingly basic😂 there are a lot of Afrikaans names of towns and other stuff that explain what you see.
What about the name of Suriname? It is similar to Suricate or Surname.
I believe Suriname is named after the river of Suriname, which in turn was named after a local tribe that lived along that river.
Oh, It makes sense. Thanks!
fun fact, Natal is also the closest city to Africa in the South American continent, it was used by the americans in WW2 to serve as a flanking route to get to Africa.
and..... is where I live.
Orange River never was the name of Oranje-Vrystaat. Oranje-Vrystaat was Orange Free State..
Old South Africa Ball hi
And the river was named after De Huis van Oranje.
Holy shit, right when you said "Thank you guys for watching, bye" I unknowingly paused it by accident and so for 30 seconds seconds im like..... okay, jokes over?? are you serious?
I'm South African. :))))))))))))))
me too
What do you mean? It's been 23 years and there are still more white people in South Africa than some european states
+The Holy Schois
More fake propaganda to promote hatred and racism.
Why did you link to Gazi Kodzo? Do you support him?
I'd be fine with South Africa being called Zanzibarland.
Nah bruh C'mon
4:54 You accidentally included Swaziland as part of Mozambique.
Hey was only including colonies within south africa
Africa comes from the roman general Scipio Africanus
Zealez Kiddo
Actually, Scorpio got the name _Africanus_ *after* defeating the Carthaginians and was seen as the conquer of Africa which at the time Greco-Roman people understood to only mean northern Africa not the other way around.
yeah but they called it Libya before
there is so many people claming the african origin of the name africa...i heard once it was a lybian divinity..another time a southern wind french used to call...so azania refers to south africans like maghreb refers to north africans. im glad for discovering that..one love azanians. can we talk about north azanian? ;) africa unite. peace and love.
No it really doesn't. His full name was Publius Cornelius Scipio. He only ever received the cognomen Africanus after his victory in the second punic war.
East Timor (Timor - Leste) is also an example of a country named after a geographic location. It is on the eastern half of the island of Timor (the west is part of Indonesia).
It appears the etymology of the Union of South Africa is not unlike the etymology of the United States of America
True.
Well Swedes called Finland Finland (Fenland = Swampland) and it stuck.... Finnish name for Finland Suomi means something similar but not exactly. OH WAIT it was you who made video about that already :D
Its been literally 2 seconds since the video was uploaded and someone disliked the video :(
Just a quick right setting. The "Orange River Colony's" real name was the Oranje Vrystaat Kolonie, translating to the Orange Freestatae Colony. After we became a republic it changed to simply the Freestate province.
No, it was never "Oranje Vrystaat Kolonie"! It was "Orange River Colony" - so-named by the British, changed to Orange Free State (Oranje Vrystaat) after Unification in 1910 as a province of the Union of South Africa, and after 1994 sometime, the Orange was dropped, and it became just "Free State".
Ahh Northern Ireland ??
Conor O'Callaghan Glad someone else noticed this!
Not a country though.
Cramer you get his point.
Cramer is considered a country of Great Britain just love Scotland England and Wales
Penelope Pittstop: Northern Ireland is considered a "country" of the United Kingdom, yes. But not of Great Britain. That's why the official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2:50 why you include lesotho in south africa
Damn brits
Sorry South Africa if you change your name I will forget you.
Remember any of those weird names proposed are too complicated vs just South Africa.
IT WAS FIRST AZANIA THEN came the union of south africa
Don't be ridiculous, it never was Azania!
i understand to you Azania would make no sense because the history you read is written by the same people that colonized this country and tried to change the culture and everything into whatever they wanted but for us south africans we grew up with both narratives from our parents and the one that we need to pass school grades. the Union of south africa was created by the British not South Africans.
And it appears that you never passed!
ye i always get people with huge balls over social media and yours are getting there.
Appreciate the compliment! Thanks.
In Dutch, Austria is called Oostenrijk (IPA: /ˈostə(n)ˌrɛɪ̯k/), and litterally translated that’s East (Oost/Oosten) Empire (rijk).
The only reason South Africa is a fuck up today is because of corruption, the economy of South Africa was actually improving after the apartheid until people without education voted for Thabo Mbeki and later Zuma (which is our current president) The fact that you accuse the economy of falling due to the apartheid's failure is utterly non factual and stupid. Bordering countries refused to export goods for South Africa, we had to rely on our mining business (which was dying) and our manufacturing of military vehicles (which was very good at the time). And of course farming but that was very minor in terms of the big scheme of things. I just think it's delusional and poorly researched to say that the apartheid was an amazing era for us and that the economy was thriving. I also think people who don't actually live in South Africa are allowed to give an opinion about the subject because most of the people I saw in the comment section ( one even said there was a massive fence splitting the races, it's bullshit and there were no fucking fence like the wall of Berlin)
Australia and Austria has their names called after directions (South and East respectfully). You can say that Austria (Österreich=Eastern realm) is because of a devision from the rest of the German principalities, but Australia is basically "southern", with no past country to be south of.
It is not the Orange River as a state it is the Orange Freestate as a state .....lol
But there was also the Orange River Colony.
Prins van Oranje - Prins it was an English outpost just over the Orange River it was not a state or a province in the Orange Free State
Prins van Oranje
ye, but the Orange River isn't where it was put on the map in the video
Wouldn't Ecuador be included with this since it's named after itself being on the Equator? (only in spanish)
we should rename South Africa to Jeff, and the music with this video shouldve been jack parow
agreed
uhh, you missed a few
Western Sahara
East Timor
Antarctica (though not literally a compass direction it is "anti-arctic" referring to it being opposite in location)
Boer is pronounced like Bur.
Actually it's pronounced like b-oo-r. I'm from South Africa, so I'd know.
Yeah, youre right, i wasnt sure how to write it so that Englishspeakers would pronounce it that way, thats probably a better way.
The actual sound you use for Boer is a bit difficult to explain to the English and Afrikaners alike because the 'oe' sound isn't really used in either English or modern Afrikaans. We still use it in Dutch though. The Afrikaners usually pronounce it with either 'oo' or with an 'u' sound and the English often use the 'u'.
We use it. Boer, vloer, moer, koer, toer, voer, roer, loer, doer, poer-poer...
Boer, the 'oe' is pronounced like the German 'oe' or 'ö.'
In Russia we call South Africa similarly to the Central African Republic - “South African Republic*” (SAR), obviously, so it isn’t as weird. When the name “South Africa” appears in Russian resources it usually refers to the southern part of Africa, including Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa (“SAR”), etc.
(I dropped the article because the Russian language has no articles*).
Иван Грязин This could be confusing as Transvaal was named 'Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek' (South African Republic).
Transvaal is usually called just "Transvaal" in the Russian language (with a refinement that it's official name was "SAR/ ZAR" as well).
Interesting. How would one refer to South Africa in Russian? Specifically how do I refer to myself as South African in Russian?
@@ivan.gryazin Transvaal, Transvaal, strana maya...
Wikus Swart u kan sê, wat u van die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek (uitgespreek as “you-are” in Engels maar die “R” is hoe in Afrikaans) kom af. Mense sal verstaan. Verskoon my vier my Afrikaans, dis nie baie goed nie
You forgot about East Timor, there's no country called "West Timor"
Spencer Twiddy but there's a region called West Timor within Indonesia.
Yes, the other half of the island. But Timor by itself does not exist "from bigger nations splitting up" like Korea and Germany. He said there were only two like this, but East Timor would be a third
The exists North Korea and South Korea. What if North Korea joins China and there isn't a country called North Korea anymore? Does that mean that the reason we call South Korea "South Korea" changes? And by the way there's no country called "North Sudan" as well.
What about that one named for being territorial entities joined together in the continent that is told in school was discovered by some guy named Columbus? that one where is self named like continent... or the part of the continent that annoy much people?
what about East-Timor? 😄
God damn where was Timor in my research?!
i know for sure you're researching it rightknow 😂
or the western Sahara
Well... apparently it's because a West Timor exists...inside Indonesia
Transvaal is pronounced 'Traans-Faal.' With a really deep pitched 'A.'
You can't 'discover' a place that was already full of people and trading internationally.
Neani Neto it all depends on perspective
I discovered some sausages in the fridge this morning
Neani Neto worked for columbus
It was populated by hunter-gatherers, who conducted no trade at all.
Son: this cereal fucking sucks
dad: you should be thankful this came all the way from the fucking miserable disease ridden rainforest where those insane cannibals gave it to me in return for a blood sacrifice
If that is the history of South Africa, wouldn't it make sense if the current Usa was named "United States of East North America" and after some time be called "East North America"?