EDIT: There seem to be a few skeptics, which is fair I suppose, so here's a video from another angle: th-cam.com/video/8VRJs_Xo8yM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H7SYUAdX2HBxFzDo Hello everyone! Due to the sheer size of this undertaking, I have run into some of TH-cam's limitations: - I can't seem to have more than 100 chapters (timestamps), so I've had to group countries together rather haphazardly. - I've had to restrict the timestamp descriptions to country names, as I would otherwise run into the 5000 character limit. Also, some minor things I noticed or was made aware of: - I miss Mombasa when doing Kenya, but notice this at 2:43:58 - I somehow forgot to add the flag and facts for Maldives - In Norway, *Møre- og Romsdal* was already completed, not Vestland This took 6 hours to render. 3 earlier attempts led to crashes, once at 97%. Enjoy! P.S. I regret not adding some more context to my brief comments on Ukraine/Russia. I meant that I can understand why JetPunk has chosen to consider Crimea Russian as it has been under Russian control for a decade. That said, I also understand that de facto conditions is *not* all that matters, and that by calling it Russian, one contributes to making the whole situation feel more normal/acceptable. In trying to give context to JetPunk's choice, but also wanting to move along as fast as possible, it came out way too nonchalant and one-sided.
@@118Shadow118 yeah i don't say he was perfect, but i know how foreigners say our names and words (butcher it), so for lithuanian he would be 4/10, for foreigner 9/10
This is a feat that no human has accomplished and uploaded for the world to see. The amount of time and effort put into this is absolutely astounding. I congratulate you heavily on this, I am dumbfounded on how you even managed to remember all of these names, especially when the translation of them comes out with extremely awkward spelling. You have come a very long way from naming the subdivisions by continent, which was already impressive enough. Outstanding work, Mercateer 👍👍
@@MercateerGeo if second level divisions were in the quiz, naming every county in the US, every municipality in Brazil, Mexico, and of course China, Russia and India would be absolute madness.
@@MinerBat Yes, it can be a bit confusing, because The *Kingdom* of the Netherlands includes Netherlands as a constituent country, but there are three other constituent countries: Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. This is the first level.
From a guy in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France, you are INSANE ! France has simplified your work in fact, before 2015 we've have 27 régions :) Anyway great job !
@@MercateerGeohow long did this take you? i’ve been learning some in my free time for about 5 days and i have usa, canada, mexico, belize, russia, zimbabwe, malaysia, indonesia, and australia done UPDATE: india, china, el salvador, guatemala, honduras
As someone from Slovenia, sorry for the additional torture lol. Pretty much everyone in our country thinks it's ridiculous how many municipalities we have. Congrats on the achievement, I don't think I'll ever have this type of dedication!
I promise I didn't take it personally ;) I actually got a better sense of the pronunciation of slavic languages in general by practising so much, so it wasn't all bad! (that said, I still got many of them wrong x.x)
Not that it's uncommon to have that many municipalities, but it's weird not to have upper level administrative divisions, like regions or states. Same goes for Latvia I believe.
After obsessing about geography for a few years, you have inspired me to do the same feat as you. You are such a fantastic person, and I am completely mesmerized by your talents. I've memorized at least 53 countries and cannot wait to learn more!
@@leandroblockmango2673for someone that is a geographer or the geography community it is definitely basic knowledge, just like knowing all the outlines and capitols, but amongst the general population almost all do not know all the flags
@@mr.cancer7270 I had an encyclopedia as a child, it had all countries their main industry, culture and some facts, also flags and population, I learned all of them by age 15 I think. But that was before the internet so not much you could do back then except such things.
@@DeadlyLazer I was thrown off by him interpreting the j in Malay and Indonesian to be like the 'j' in many European languages (y) when it's really like the 'j' in English (e.g. Java, Johor)
@@a_wazza yeah which is why I said "surprisingly" accurate. It's not exactly 100%, but still definitely close enough to be impressive to come from a foreigner. And lets not forget he's doing this with pretty much every major language on the planet.
Memorizing the subdivision of every country is insane on its own but despite that the craziest thing about this video is that nearly all of it was a constant stream of guesses, barely even stopping to think. Simply mindblowing
@@MamtaSingh-bp1sx I don't, I just didn't include it because the site itself doesn't recognize it (however the site itself also DOESN'T recognize the region as part of Israel)
I thought one could easily cheat in this challenge and watching with suspicion. I was convinced it was legit immediately when you started Turkey, because no foreigner can pronounce those names that accurately without actually knowing about them. Nailed even the emphasize on certain vowels. Wow! That was an instant like&sub. You even know meanings of those names. I’m in awe.
They say the human brain has an unlimited capacity. This is a wild undertaking, congrats. I'm impressed with your pronunciation of most subdivisions too, seems you've truly gone above and beyond to assimilate cultures as well.
That was impressive. Your pronunciation of Finnish names were so good that I was guessing if u're actually Finnish (in the end it was the "nm" sound in words pohjanmaa and pirkanmaa that gave it away that u're actually a Swede, i think)
How is this not more popular? This is CRAZY! I could barely do North America, but the entire world?!?!!? This is just crazy! Keep up the great work! :)
Yeaah. I'm from Latin America too, and it was amazing how he pronounced correctly all the Spanish, Portuguese and even Native American names. Fantastic !! This guy is awesome !!
I am currently trying to learn the subdivisions of every country as well. I can name the subdivisions of Us, Canada, Brazil,France, uk, Italy,Spain,Germany,Greece,Australia ,Japan and the republics of Russia . It is just insane how a human being managed to memorise each and every one of the subdivisions of the world. A very impressive feat. Keep up the good work!
Same! I'm learning as well, I became gradually better at making ways of memorizing subdivisions! It gets a little bit faster every country, currenty I can name South and North America (not central or caribbean yet), Africa, western europe and some other random countries!
@railroadforest30 I memorize them with their flags , so I am drawing them and at the back write what each Flag is until I learn them all from a country
Magnificent work. I've been working on every federal entity for quite a while - and it took me 2 weeks to learn Russia. I couldn't imagine learning Slovenia's.
It was quite good, actually! Mad respect @@MercateerGeo The only correction 🤓☝️ is that we call an outer subdivision "kray" - that means it has borders with other countries. An inner subdivision is called "oblast" And you named all the autonomous okrugs and republics just right!
I am french fan about geography but you, you are so good. It's just a talent and before this video I didn't think it was possible to retain all the territorial subdivisions of the world. Incredible work!!!👏
Thank you!! Going into this, I didn't know if I could do it either. But now I think people underestimate the power of spaced repetition. The hardest part is actually putting in the consistent effort :)
I used to watch Muskox and his Subdivision naming series but than he gave up after 4 continents. You manage to finish this. Hats down (: And yeah I am your proud 420th subscriber.
When I saw this video on my feed, clicked on it, and saw your channel and I thought it said 39k subscriber. But only 3.9k? That’s wild. But with this sort of content, you’re gonna have absolutely no problem growing the channel. Phenomenal effort my guy, I’ve been working towards being able to name every subdivision but am nowhere near as confident and knowledgable as you! Well done mate, good luck with your future crazy projects
Unbelievable how you were able to do this. Can't even begin to think of how many hours of preparation you've gone into doing this. Congratulations from Pennsylvania/Wales!
As a big geography nut and have extensive knowledge, I have been impressed with certain geography channels on TH-cam, but I think this takes the cake. This is a phenomenal feat, if this is truly all done from memory. My applause to you sir
This was fucking amazing!! Can't believe I actually watched it all Finding Mombasa was absolutely clutch, that was amazing. Also super surprised that Western hadn't been done yet until the very end I loved how you said (almost) every one as you went, not that I could actually tell if the pronunciation was good or not. Anyway great stuff
Thank you! I can't believe you watched it all either 😂 No but I really appreciate the support. I was quite pleased with that Mombasa find, imagine going through that list at the end...
This my friend, this is what insanity looks like. What the hell man, this is by far the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen. Massive props to you for learning all this. Earned a sub, can't wait to see what else you're up to!
the perfect pronunciation of every state is kinda insane. i can personally vouch for the greek pronunciation. & ty for teaching me something new, i grew up in australia & actually never learned the administrative divisions!
Anhui is pronounced as: An-hway. When it comes to China, I love how geographically sensible the provinces are and how many are in pairs. You got the Yellow River (Huanghe) separating the provinces of Hebei (north of the river, where bei means north) and Henan (south of the river, where nan means south); then south from those you have Dongting Lake (Dongtinghu) separating Hubei (north of the lake) and Hunan (south of the lake) provinces. Also, you have Shandong (Eastern Mountains) and Shanxi (Western Mountains). Way down south you have The Eastern (dong) Expanse (Guangdong) and the Western (xi) Expanse (Guangxi). This dosen't stop with provinces. Beijing means northern capital while Nanjing means southern capital. Tokyo by the way means eastern capital. There is no Western capital, but there is a "Western Peace," or Xi'an. In the south east however, the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi may seem similar in naming convention, but are quite different, they both refer to a different river which flow through them. Anyhow, this was mind-numbingly impressive!
Thank you! I actually watched a video on Chinese provinces, and it was indeed very interesting. I was disappointed to realize that I had forgotten quite a few of the pronunciations when I recorded this. They really don't seem to stick in my brain, probably because it's just such a different language to my native ones!
I love how you can trace a curve from Japan to Korea and China and pass by a string of cities named Eastern Capital, Capital, Capital, Capital and Northern Capital 😂
20:39 Funny when you type Amazonas it checks for 4 different subregions. You're a legend, btw. Great pronunciation as well. Cheers from Paraná, Brazil.
Oh my god. This is crazy. Big ups for that. The geography stuff I need to see more often. Even the pronunciation of Czech regions (kraje) was on point. Just crazy
watching from hamadan 2:23:24 😅 you pronounced the names very well for iran.mind blowing to see you can remember the name of thousands of subdivisions around the world! i struggle to remember them for my own country. amazing video❤
I don't know why I watched the whole video but here it is 😂 A big congratulations to you, I've never been so impressed in my life! You are an inspiration to me! Take care ❤
Omg this is so impressive, in my school I get bored fast so for months I have done Seterra quizzes but when it comes to continental subdivisions I've only finished North America and South America, I am genuinely impressed by your dedication and persistence to achieve this. For me personally, I like to learn maps because I find it entertaining and fulfilling, I get to learn about other places and their history and gets me interested in events in other countries, it also helps me in learning language scripts like Greek and Cyrillic, and honestly just because I can and I'm interested. This is seriously impressive and I am glad to see that people share this passion. You have an incredible memory, seriously impressive!
Hi Mercateer. I am currently halfway through watching you name every single 1st division of every recognized country of our planet. Just to let you know that I very much enjoy it and that I heard you curse a couple times during the video. Cheers.
never thought about this until it popped in my feed but now I'm definitely gonna make it a project to learn all this myself. congrats on accomplishing it!
Slovenia is really something else - respect! Even I as an Austrian, who has been to Slovenia multiple times, cannot name any others than the bigger cities!
2:01:17 As an Icelandic person I am shocked at how good your pronunciation is. I haven't even heard of some of these places and the fact that you can just name every one of them is mindblowing to me.
1:59:40 As someone who's born in Finland and lives in Sweden. I heard you say Sörmland like most Sörmlänningar like to call it. My guess is you're from "Södermanland". And your pronounciations of the Finnish subdivisions were spot on!
I thought I was impressive for remembering 14 countries, but you are clearly on a whole nother level, congrats! (in this order, USA, Canada, Australia, India, China, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and France. And I didn't even include the US overseas territories or Washington DC, and for France the only ones I memorised are the 18 regions)
You are a super intelligent dude, and I'm not just saying this because you named every first-level subdivision of every country in the world. Your general demeanor also informs of your intelligence. Nice work chap.
Do you only divide by oblast (Which if our languages are at all similar means ruled? governed from?) or are there any other subdivisions you have such as municipalities of cities... ?
@@Zastavnik In russian, means and they are governed by () (official term is crazy long: the head of the highest executive body of state power of the subject of the russian federation)
This was mindblowing, astounding and so much more, but I think the comment section already covers all possible synonyms which I could use. I myself have been eyeing this quiz for perhaps more than a year now, but I could never find the motivation nor time to do it. I wonder what you found to be the hardest country or countries to remember, either because of the amount of provinces or because of the hard to learn spelling? And I'm also already looking forward to your next video, which you said might be flags of all subdivisions, but where on earth can you find such a quiz? And what are your plans for after that one? All capitals of subdivisions? Cause I know Jetpunk has a quiz for that one too. Oh and perhaps for stage 3 you could do all seas, all lakes, all highest points, al existing languages, etc. But above all I would be excited to see your knowledge of cities in stage 3/4, perhaps with the Jetpunk quiz of all 100k cities of the world. Oh and now that I'm on it already, you could make stage 4 more country specific. Like all 3143 US counties or do a more varied video with all geography from one country in particular, like I saw you comment with for instance the UK somewhere in this commentsection. Feel free to use these as inspiration, though I think you wouldn't mind taking a rest first after your latest achievement. It's not that I demand you to do these things, but it's just my vision of what would be next step(s) and above all, I would be immensely baffled and most definitely watching every single video with joy if you did these (especially the city ones).
First of all, thanks for your comment! I really appreciate that you took the time to write it. When I said I'd do subdivision flags next, I didn't necessarily mean I'd do them all right away. Part of the reason for that is that an exhaustive quiz doesn't even exist to my knowledge (which you seemed to suspect as well), but there are also many subdivisions that don't have flags at all, and many only have unofficial ones, or flags of unclear status. I also quite like starting regionally because shorter videos give me some room to add interesting context without immediately increasing the length to several hours. As for what comes next, I'm not sure. I've also thought of second-level subdivisions for selected countries and cities, like you mentioned. I'm still not sure what direction to take as I didn't really plan beyond subdivisions, and never expected to get this much attention. Languages also interest me a lot, but I'm still not quite sure how I'd go about packaging that in an entertaining format. Do I just to quizzes or venture into doing some purely educational videos? Also, the stage 1/stage 2 thing just kind of happened, and now I'm not sure if people actually want multiple consecutive videos on one category, it feels like it would be more interesting to mix it up. But there's also a limit to how much I can study simultaneously 😅 This is turning into stream-of-consciousness, but I appreciate the comment and will definitely keep those ideas in mind!
i would just like to applaud your icelandic pronunciation and accent there were times i thought you were icelandic, and im an icelander who works in tourism so i have heard so many attempts. you might also BE icelandic in which case good job on the rest of the world.
@@florisredit’s because it’s only the first level subdivision and technically the Netherlands first level subdivision is Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Netherlands. They are all self governing countries within the kingdom of the Netherlands
This video was suggested to me and since I love geography, I thought I'd go and watch it and then I'd see it... two weeks ago I asked myself if there was anyone who knew all the outlines of the individual provinces, states, etc. Then I thought to myself that it would never be possible for someone to know all these parts by heart. Then I saw it. You can do it, it's insane. I've never seen such a crazy geography flex, it can't be topped. You have my utmost respect 🤯🤯💪🏻🇩🇪 I have to honestly admit that this is the sickest geography video I have ever seen, it is just impossible to know it all.
Hey, congrats on this achievement! It was very funny to see you say "Meck pomm" as I personally thought no one outside of Germany would know or use that :D I would totally love to do something like that, but I don't think I could do more than name all countries and the first level divisions which I know anyway (US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia)
I do geoguessing and learning this would be amazing for that, although can't imagine the amount of time it would take. Also, never expected you to remember the full name of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in India
Very very impressive. Your memory is a beast. Multiple times i was also convinced you may aswell have been a native speaker of said country, as your pronounciations of the names were wonderful.
EDIT:
There seem to be a few skeptics, which is fair I suppose, so here's a video from another angle:
th-cam.com/video/8VRJs_Xo8yM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H7SYUAdX2HBxFzDo
Hello everyone!
Due to the sheer size of this undertaking, I have run into some of TH-cam's limitations:
- I can't seem to have more than 100 chapters (timestamps), so I've had to group countries together rather haphazardly.
- I've had to restrict the timestamp descriptions to country names, as I would otherwise run into the 5000 character limit.
Also, some minor things I noticed or was made aware of:
- I miss Mombasa when doing Kenya, but notice this at 2:43:58
- I somehow forgot to add the flag and facts for Maldives
- In Norway, *Møre- og Romsdal* was already completed, not Vestland
This took 6 hours to render. 3 earlier attempts led to crashes, once at 97%.
Enjoy!
P.S. I regret not adding some more context to my brief comments on Ukraine/Russia. I meant that I can understand why JetPunk has chosen to consider Crimea Russian as it has been under Russian control for a decade. That said, I also understand that de facto conditions is *not* all that matters, and that by calling it Russian, one contributes to making the whole situation feel more normal/acceptable. In trying to give context to JetPunk's choice, but also wanting to move along as fast as possible, it came out way too nonchalant and one-sided.
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You also forgot to put how many districts Bhutan has.
But I don't care about those details. You are amazing!
@@zacheriah2102 Aw, heck! Well spotted 🔎
Now get off the computer and relax your brain 🧠 🙄
"i genetically modified my hippocampus for a youtube video"
Real
The usual
*Friends, I did 23 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*
Very real
Real
I am from Slovenia and have never meet a pearson who could name 1/4 of all municipalities. Respect man I think you deserve a citizenship.
I have 22 cousins and can't even name all them at once. This guy is crazy.
I only know Maribor due to learning about conflicts among Slovenes and Germans during the last days of WW1
A world citizenship
you can say that Slovene municipalities look like a phone screen after you drop it from 3rd floor
@@IchabodvanTassel98i know maribor, gorica and trnva because of football
what unemployed guys do when their girlfriend is at work
Is true, I am the girlfriend
Spot fucking on
im not a beta or a boyfriend :)@@Rafaal03
@@Elmlea.y It’s true, I’m your boyfriend
@@soundstation8343 It's true, I'm your walls.
This man doesn't just name every subdivision, he nails every pronunciation
As a lithuanian i can say that he was surprisingly good
Slovakia was gobshite, but its not surprising considering our language :)
@@zinomanezinomybe8244 as a latvian, he missed some long vowels, but generally really good
He was decent but I wouldn't say that he "nails" every pronunciation.
@@118Shadow118 yeah i don't say he was perfect, but i know how foreigners say our names and words (butcher it), so for lithuanian he would be 4/10, for foreigner 9/10
i have the same type of autism
Get this man to 1K likes!!! 💀
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Aw, tysm!
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Wow this is an insane achievement, I never thought I'd see somebody name all the subdivisions of Vatican City.
I live in the Vatican
@@Ex-memegodita what's it like?
Whats is like? @@Ex-memegodita
I think the Vatican guy got kidnapped :P
Pope's bedroom, popes bathroom, pope's assistant's room, pope's receptionists room....
This is a feat that no human has accomplished and uploaded for the world to see. The amount of time and effort put into this is absolutely astounding. I congratulate you heavily on this, I am dumbfounded on how you even managed to remember all of these names, especially when the translation of them comes out with extremely awkward spelling. You have come a very long way from naming the subdivisions by continent, which was already impressive enough. Outstanding work, Mercateer 👍👍
Thank you!! It's been a grind 😅
Cough cough muskox....
@@bbruh2018 he never uploaded himself doing the entire world.
104 104 did this a long time ago in about half the time
@@MercateerGeonow do all the second order ones a im jk
“You cant name literally every single subdivision of every country on the entire planet? Your obviously American!!”
@ndesloten2654I didn't skip it, the provinces are second-level subdivisions, which aren't covered in this quiz
@@MercateerGeo if second level divisions were in the quiz, naming every county in the US, every municipality in Brazil, Mexico, and of course China, Russia and India would be absolute madness.
@@MercateerGeo...then what is the first level? because as far as i know the provinces are the first subdivision here after the whole country
@@MinerBat Yes, it can be a bit confusing, because The *Kingdom* of the Netherlands includes Netherlands as a constituent country, but there are three other constituent countries: Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. This is the first level.
@@MercateerGeoyes, but now I couldn't hear you talk any dutch which would have been the highlight of the video.
this guy just doxxed everyone
From a guy in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France, you are INSANE ! France has simplified your work in fact, before 2015 we've have 27 régions :) Anyway great job !
That's why slovenia gave him extra homework. jesus christ
I’ve always thought I was mediocre at geography but clearly you’ve blown my mind. This is astonishing
Are you from the kerguelen archipelago?
I know every country
@@Chad113yeaNot that impressive
@@First-Name--Last-Name who said I was trying to impress people
There is a channel called Geography Sam that is always dreaming of naming all first-level subdivisions of the world.
I just saw him play a flag colouring game that I simply *have* to try myself
*Friends, I did 23 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*
@@MercateerGeohow long did this take you? i’ve been learning some in my free time for about 5 days and i have usa, canada, mexico, belize, russia, zimbabwe, malaysia, indonesia, and australia done
UPDATE: india, china, el salvador, guatemala, honduras
@@thegoofiestgoooberrcomo vocês fazem pra aprender isso? 🫠Alguma dica?
@@h....7971 I’ve just been using seterra. I start on pin mode then graduate to type once I’m ready.
As someone from Slovenia, sorry for the additional torture lol. Pretty much everyone in our country thinks it's ridiculous how many municipalities we have.
Congrats on the achievement, I don't think I'll ever have this type of dedication!
I promise I didn't take it personally ;) I actually got a better sense of the pronunciation of slavic languages in general by practising so much, so it wasn't all bad! (that said, I still got many of them wrong x.x)
Not that it's uncommon to have that many municipalities, but it's weird not to have upper level administrative divisions, like regions or states. Same goes for Latvia I believe.
Slovenia was like the middle boss that is actually hardest than the final boss
I guess you could say the number of slovenian municipalities is obscene 😏
Not even Slovenians can't name all of their municipalities 🤣 greetings from Serbia
After obsessing about geography for a few years, you have inspired me to do the same feat as you. You are such a fantastic person, and I am completely mesmerized by your talents. I've memorized at least 53 countries and cannot wait to learn more!
i thought memorizing every flag in the world was an achievement but now im beyond impressed
I think memorzing every countries flags is a basic geography knowledge.
@@leandroblockmango2673I don’t think so… I know so. Beta males out here knowing 193 countries and thinking they’re special!?
@@leandroblockmango2673for someone that is a geographer or the geography community it is definitely basic knowledge, just like knowing all the outlines and capitols, but amongst the general population almost all do not know all the flags
@@mr.cancer7270well yeah no shit
@@mr.cancer7270 I had an encyclopedia as a child, it had all countries their main industry, culture and some facts, also flags and population, I learned all of them by age 15 I think. But that was before the internet so not much you could do back then except such things.
*casually names every single subdivision for 2 hours straight*
3*
yeah that's gonna be 3
..with surprisingly accurate pronounciations
@@DeadlyLazer I was thrown off by him interpreting the j in Malay and Indonesian to be like the 'j' in many European languages (y) when it's really like the 'j' in English (e.g. Java, Johor)
@@a_wazza yeah which is why I said "surprisingly" accurate. It's not exactly 100%, but still definitely close enough to be impressive to come from a foreigner. And lets not forget he's doing this with pretty much every major language on the planet.
I thought that for Slovenia you were going to do the "broader areas" but bro did all municipalities💀. I'm astonished and huge respect
Gotta love my administrative region getting named in a TH-cam video
Same
he even knows the newest state of a country, but the game didn't recognize it.
bro >>> the game
Which?
@@IntensaEmozioneIndonesia. Highland Papua, Southwest Papua, South Papua was established at 2022
@@daffadnpok
Also one in Montenegro
Holy shit, this is insane! Massive props! I cannot fathom the amount of time and practice this must have taken you!
Memorizing the subdivision of every country is insane on its own but despite that the craziest thing about this video is that nearly all of it was a constant stream of guesses, barely even stopping to think. Simply mindblowing
Glad to see my massive subdivisions quiz be absolutely demolished, congrats on completing it!!
Maybe I'll go for 100% some day...
Thank you! It's an amazing quiz, must've taken as long to make as it took for me to memorize!
@VickyyTheFox Why do you hate palestine?
@@MamtaSingh-bp1sx I don't, I just didn't include it because the site itself doesn't recognize it (however the site itself also DOESN'T recognize the region as part of Israel)
@@VickyyTheFox so which do you support israel or palestine?
France actually made it easy few years ago.
I thought one could easily cheat in this challenge and watching with suspicion. I was convinced it was legit immediately when you started Turkey, because no foreigner can pronounce those names that accurately without actually knowing about them. Nailed even the emphasize on certain vowels. Wow! That was an instant like&sub. You even know meanings of those names. I’m in awe.
He also pronounced the Icelandic and Norwegian municipalities as good as any foreigner I’ve ever heard. This guy’s legit.
@@hognigk96 his Slavic pronunciation is also great
Man can speak every language
his Japanese pronouncication is also pretty good
he pronounced the Azerbaijani ones well too, considering all the throat consonants
I have to constantly keep up on it just to be able to 100% the 192 countries map on Seterra! Massive props to you, but also please seek help lol
They say the human brain has an unlimited capacity. This is a wild undertaking, congrats. I'm impressed with your pronunciation of most subdivisions too, seems you've truly gone above and beyond to assimilate cultures as well.
Really, really impressive work. Your video got me in disbelief. I hope to see more from this channel soon. Congratulations from Brazil 🇧🇷 (Pernambuco)
Realmente cool to see another guy from here. I am from Recife by the way
@@antoniogabriel8820 Me too
I'm also from Recife
@@antoniogabriel8820 Realmente cool me pegou desprevenido kkkkkkkkkkk
Brabo, sou do RS
Shoutouts to Slovenia for being 5,5% of this quiz.
Definitely punching above their weight
That was impressive. Your pronunciation of Finnish names were so good that I was guessing if u're actually Finnish (in the end it was the "nm" sound in words pohjanmaa and pirkanmaa that gave it away that u're actually a Swede, i think)
Thanks! Haha, I think I was just exaggerating the pronunciations for some reason, I speak both Swedish and Finnish natively :)
He also pronounced Portuguese and Spanish names really well
@@MercateerGeoHaha, I was wondering why all the places in Kenya and Uganda sounded really Finnish.
Did the Balkan pronunciations really well to. I'm assuming they were all pretty accurate
His Japanese pronounciations sound a bit overly enunciated like something from a textbook but otherwise perfect! ^^
Your channel is terribly underrated this is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen
How is this not more popular? This is CRAZY! I could barely do North America, but the entire world?!?!!? This is just crazy! Keep up the great work! :)
As a colombian i was so happy to hear pronunciation. I found how strange and foreign the native words in central american cities/divisions.
Yeaah. I'm from Latin America too, and it was amazing how he pronounced correctly all the Spanish, Portuguese and even Native American names. Fantastic !! This guy is awesome !!
I KNOW RIGHT, I’m Colombian as well and totally mind blown
I guess its aztec or mayan words
I am currently trying to learn the subdivisions of every country as well. I can name the subdivisions of Us, Canada, Brazil,France, uk, Italy,Spain,Germany,Greece,Australia ,Japan and the republics of Russia . It is just insane how a human being managed to memorise each and every one of the subdivisions of the world. A very impressive feat. Keep up the good work!
Same! I'm learning as well, I became gradually better at making ways of memorizing subdivisions! It gets a little bit faster every country, currenty I can name South and North America (not central or caribbean yet), Africa, western europe and some other random countries!
I wrote them all down and their administrative centers and made into little pieces of paper
@railroadforest30 I memorize them with their flags , so I am drawing them and at the back write what each Flag is until I learn them all from a country
@@spystoudios cool
1:04:10
Mercateer: No one is watching this shit anyway
Me: Nope, I am watching everything through, so I hear you 😂😂😂😂
Missed opportunity to say "No one is watching this, I can even say the n-word" right before doing Niger.
Watched the entire thing from start to finish in one sitting.
I'm insane.
2:59:08 "0% of test takers also scored 100%" sounds about right
This is a revolution in itself. Nobody in the history of YT has done something as remarkable as this. Good job and keep this up!
Magnificent work. I've been working on every federal entity for quite a while - and it took me 2 weeks to learn Russia. I couldn't imagine learning Slovenia's.
Thank you! I'd like to say it wasn't that bad, but... it really was 😂
It was quite good, actually! Mad respect @@MercateerGeo
The only correction 🤓☝️ is that we call an outer subdivision "kray" - that means it has borders with other countries. An inner subdivision is called "oblast"
And you named all the autonomous okrugs and republics just right!
thoughts on novosibirisk
@@mostazezo what
I am french fan about geography but you, you are so good. It's just a talent and before this video I didn't think it was possible to retain all the territorial subdivisions of the world. Incredible work!!!👏
Thank you!! Going into this, I didn't know if I could do it either. But now I think people underestimate the power of spaced repetition. The hardest part is actually putting in the consistent effort :)
Il faut que un français fase cet exploit
Arrête tout de suite ybhtk
@@letsgogothekitchen5823 eh quoi je vais pas faire ce que le gars dans la vidéo a fait
I first watched this when it had around 600 views, great to see how viral it's become. Keep it up
Oh so your from earth? Name every place
This guy:
I used to watch Muskox and his Subdivision naming series but than he gave up after 4 continents. You manage to finish this. Hats down (: And yeah I am your proud 420th subscriber.
You are indeed a sub with elevated status, together with sub 1 and sub 69 😁
wow, about octupling subs (2.02k as of writing) in 3 days
also, i think i was the 1337th sub :D
@@nileprimewastakenWelcome to the special sub club! 😁
When I saw this video on my feed, clicked on it, and saw your channel and I thought it said 39k subscriber. But only 3.9k? That’s wild. But with this sort of content, you’re gonna have absolutely no problem growing the channel. Phenomenal effort my guy, I’ve been working towards being able to name every subdivision but am nowhere near as confident and knowledgable as you! Well done mate, good luck with your future crazy projects
Thank you! I will try to keep the projects as crazy as is feasible ;)
@@MercateerGeo You’re beyond feasible at this point haha.
Surprisingly good Portuguese pronunciation! Was not expecting that, cheers from Portugal 🇵🇹
As a Brazilian I envy you
Unbelievable how you were able to do this. Can't even begin to think of how many hours of preparation you've gone into doing this. Congratulations from Pennsylvania/Wales!
As a big geography nut and have extensive knowledge, I have been impressed with certain geography channels on TH-cam, but I think this takes the cake. This is a phenomenal feat, if this is truly all done from memory. My applause to you sir
This was fucking amazing!! Can't believe I actually watched it all
Finding Mombasa was absolutely clutch, that was amazing. Also super surprised that Western hadn't been done yet until the very end
I loved how you said (almost) every one as you went, not that I could actually tell if the pronunciation was good or not. Anyway great stuff
Thank you! I can't believe you watched it all either 😂 No but I really appreciate the support. I was quite pleased with that Mombasa find, imagine going through that list at the end...
This my friend, this is what insanity looks like. What the hell man, this is by far the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen. Massive props to you for learning all this. Earned a sub, can't wait to see what else you're up to!
Well done! This video deserves more recognition in the geography community
the perfect pronunciation of every state is kinda insane. i can personally vouch for the greek pronunciation. & ty for teaching me something new, i grew up in australia & actually never learned the administrative divisions!
Oh my gosh, I thought I was good at naming Country regions, but this, absolutely PHENOMENAL!!
this needs to go viral you are insane at this and i appreciate the effort into getting the pronunciations too
Anhui is pronounced as: An-hway.
When it comes to China, I love how geographically sensible the provinces are and how many are in pairs. You got the Yellow River (Huanghe) separating the provinces of Hebei (north of the river, where bei means north) and Henan (south of the river, where nan means south); then south from those you have Dongting Lake (Dongtinghu) separating Hubei (north of the lake) and Hunan (south of the lake) provinces. Also, you have Shandong (Eastern Mountains) and Shanxi (Western Mountains). Way down south you have The Eastern (dong) Expanse (Guangdong) and the Western (xi) Expanse (Guangxi). This dosen't stop with provinces. Beijing means northern capital while Nanjing means southern capital. Tokyo by the way means eastern capital. There is no Western capital, but there is a "Western Peace," or Xi'an. In the south east however, the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi may seem similar in naming convention, but are quite different, they both refer to a different river which flow through them.
Anyhow, this was mind-numbingly impressive!
Thank you! I actually watched a video on Chinese provinces, and it was indeed very interesting. I was disappointed to realize that I had forgotten quite a few of the pronunciations when I recorded this. They really don't seem to stick in my brain, probably because it's just such a different language to my native ones!
ANHUI MENTIONED 皖，合肥，曹操🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
I love how you can trace a curve from Japan to Korea and China and pass by a string of cities named Eastern Capital, Capital, Capital, Capital and Northern Capital 😂
no one is talking about how perfect your pronounciation and accent of the divisions are
20:39 Funny when you type Amazonas it checks for 4 different subregions.
You're a legend, btw. Great pronunciation as well. Cheers from Paraná, Brazil.
I am trying to get to your level! You are a legend bro
this is beautiful, i can't imagine how long it took to memorize all these subdivisions and to make this video too... great work!
Oh my god. This is crazy. Big ups for that. The geography stuff I need to see more often. Even the pronunciation of Czech regions (kraje) was on point. Just crazy
watching from hamadan 2:23:24 😅 you pronounced the names very well for iran.mind blowing to see you can remember the name of thousands of subdivisions around the world! i struggle to remember them for my own country. amazing video❤
Ecbatana
I don't know why I watched the whole video but here it is 😂 A big congratulations to you, I've never been so impressed in my life! You are an inspiration to me! Take care ❤
Helt sjukt imponerande. Blev jävligt förvånad över hur bra du uttalade våra län, innan du nämnde att du var svensk. Stor eloge!
Incredibly impressive, also you had near perfect pronunciation of the Estonian regions, good job!
Thank you! Knowing Finnish probably helps a bit :) But you still have that tricky õ!
What in the absolute jesus have I found. You sir and an insane level of human being, the first of your kind
Not sure why it took me this long but when he got to Iceland with the insanely long municipality names is where I lost it
yk the fact the u named them all then time stamped them just proves ur a god Keep the work up man
Omg this is so impressive, in my school I get bored fast so for months I have done Seterra quizzes but when it comes to continental subdivisions I've only finished North America and South America, I am genuinely impressed by your dedication and persistence to achieve this.
For me personally, I like to learn maps because I find it entertaining and fulfilling, I get to learn about other places and their history and gets me interested in events in other countries, it also helps me in learning language scripts like Greek and Cyrillic, and honestly just because I can and I'm interested.
This is seriously impressive and I am glad to see that people share this passion.
You have an incredible memory, seriously impressive!
This deserves some kind of world record recognition, absolutely impressive!
Congratulations from Los Lagos Region!
This guy definitely should be in Guinness Book
This guy has just taken over the world...quite literally.
Excellent video! Probably the only one of its kind on YT.
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@@Ngerogeography101 🐟👆
Hi Mercateer. I am currently halfway through watching you name every single 1st division of every recognized country of our planet. Just to let you know that I very much enjoy it and that I heard you curse a couple times during the video. Cheers.
1:23:04 WHY THE HELL IS THE PRONUNCIATION SO GOOD SJSJSOOA
How does this not have more views is absolutely insane. Amazing work
never thought about this until it popped in my feed but now I'm definitely gonna make it a project to learn all this myself. congrats on accomplishing it!
Thank you and good luck!
Slovenia is really something else - respect! Even I as an Austrian, who has been to Slovenia multiple times, cannot name any others than the bigger cities!
This is just unbelievable. I would never have thought it could be done. Massive massive kudos to you.
2:01:17 As an Icelandic person I am shocked at how good your pronunciation is. I haven't even heard of some of these places and the fact that you can just name every one of them is mindblowing to me.
This is just amazing, bro you're so underrated
I can't even remember all subdivisions in my country (Russia), that's why existing of your video is beyond belief for me
1:59:40
As someone who's born in Finland and lives in Sweden. I heard you say Sörmland like most Sörmlänningar like to call it. My guess is you're from "Södermanland". And your pronounciations of the Finnish subdivisions were spot on!
I'm from Stockholm but also speak Finnish natively, so you're not far off! 😉
This is absolutely crazy
I was NOT expecting for you to get the pronunciation of Iranian provinces that right
I thought I was impressive for remembering 14 countries, but you are clearly on a whole nother level, congrats!
(in this order, USA, Canada, Australia, India, China, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and France. And I didn't even include the US overseas territories or Washington DC, and for France the only ones I memorised are the 18 regions)
Oh my god this is amazing i genuinely thought you had around 500k subs from your skill and editing work huge congrats
Thank you, that means a lot :) Still learning as I go
Bro this is really impressive! You are a genius 😮
Thanks! Practice makes perfect :)
Dude you are legend .
It seems like you started this channel recently i hope in future you deserves much appreciation 🙏
You are a super intelligent dude, and I'm not just saying this because you named every first-level subdivision of every country in the world. Your general demeanor also informs of your intelligence. Nice work chap.
How is this even possible? You are a legend
Bro I'm Russian and even I wouldn't probably be able to name all of our subdivisions. Kudos!!
Do you only divide by oblast (Which if our languages are at all similar means ruled? governed from?) or are there any other subdivisions you have such as municipalities of cities... ?
@@Zastavnik There are republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs. In total 85
@@Zastavnik In russian, means and they are governed by () (official term is crazy long: the head of the highest executive body of state power of the subject of the russian federation)
@@fingertorturer Thanks for the explanation, thought so... In Slovene/Yugoslav languages it means the goverment
And every oblast has raions
This was mindblowing, astounding and so much more, but I think the comment section already covers all possible synonyms which I could use. I myself have been eyeing this quiz for perhaps more than a year now, but I could never find the motivation nor time to do it. I wonder what you found to be the hardest country or countries to remember, either because of the amount of provinces or because of the hard to learn spelling?
And I'm also already looking forward to your next video, which you said might be flags of all subdivisions, but where on earth can you find such a quiz? And what are your plans for after that one? All capitals of subdivisions? Cause I know Jetpunk has a quiz for that one too. Oh and perhaps for stage 3 you could do all seas, all lakes, all highest points, al existing languages, etc. But above all I would be excited to see your knowledge of cities in stage 3/4, perhaps with the Jetpunk quiz of all 100k cities of the world. Oh and now that I'm on it already, you could make stage 4 more country specific. Like all 3143 US counties or do a more varied video with all geography from one country in particular, like I saw you comment with for instance the UK somewhere in this commentsection.
Feel free to use these as inspiration, though I think you wouldn't mind taking a rest first after your latest achievement. It's not that I demand you to do these things, but it's just my vision of what would be next step(s) and above all, I would be immensely baffled and most definitely watching every single video with joy if you did these (especially the city ones).
First of all, thanks for your comment! I really appreciate that you took the time to write it.
When I said I'd do subdivision flags next, I didn't necessarily mean I'd do them all right away. Part of the reason for that is that an exhaustive quiz doesn't even exist to my knowledge (which you seemed to suspect as well), but there are also many subdivisions that don't have flags at all, and many only have unofficial ones, or flags of unclear status. I also quite like starting regionally because shorter videos give me some room to add interesting context without immediately increasing the length to several hours.
As for what comes next, I'm not sure. I've also thought of second-level subdivisions for selected countries and cities, like you mentioned. I'm still not sure what direction to take as I didn't really plan beyond subdivisions, and never expected to get this much attention. Languages also interest me a lot, but I'm still not quite sure how I'd go about packaging that in an entertaining format. Do I just to quizzes or venture into doing some purely educational videos?
Also, the stage 1/stage 2 thing just kind of happened, and now I'm not sure if people actually want multiple consecutive videos on one category, it feels like it would be more interesting to mix it up. But there's also a limit to how much I can study simultaneously 😅
This is turning into stream-of-consciousness, but I appreciate the comment and will definitely keep those ideas in mind!
i would just like to applaud your icelandic pronunciation and accent there were times i thought you were icelandic, and im an icelander who works in tourism so i have heard so many attempts.
you might also BE icelandic in which case good job on the rest of the world.
Thank you! I'm Swedish but practised the pronunciation a lot, glad to hear it wasn't for nothing 😁
@@MercateerGeo you have the Icelandic seal of approval
Nice video, i see you from Tamaulipas Mexico!
holy shit the pronunciation of the subdivisions of Portugal was crazy impressive!
Still sad that it doesn't have the provinces of the Netherlands.
Still an extremely impressive feat, I can't imagine how long it took to learn this!
yeah why is that
Same with New Zealand like wtf the country isn't one province.
@@florisredit’s because it’s only the first level subdivision and technically the Netherlands first level subdivision is Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Netherlands. They are all self governing countries within the kingdom of the Netherlands
This video was suggested to me and since I love geography, I thought I'd go and watch it and then I'd see it... two weeks ago I asked myself if there was anyone who knew all the outlines of the individual provinces, states, etc. Then I thought to myself that it would never be possible for someone to know all these parts by heart. Then I saw it. You can do it, it's insane. I've never seen such a crazy geography flex, it can't be topped. You have my utmost respect 🤯🤯💪🏻🇩🇪
I have to honestly admit that this is the sickest geography video I have ever seen, it is just impossible to know it all.
imagine if you do this but you have to write in the language of that area
Hey, congrats on this achievement! It was very funny to see you say "Meck pomm" as I personally thought no one outside of Germany would know or use that :D
I would totally love to do something like that, but I don't think I could do more than name all countries and the first level divisions which I know anyway (US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia)
I do geoguessing and learning this would be amazing for that, although can't imagine the amount of time it would take.
Also, never expected you to remember the full name of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in India
I'm sending this to all my friends who think I'm a crazy nerd for knowing every country in the world including territories damn ur memories good bro
Haha, thanks man! I appreciate it
2:14:40 He knows my country's subdivisions better than me LOL
😂
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It’s just amazing dude. You are pronouncing every subdivisions correctly. I can't imagine how much work you have to do for this. Bravo.
Very very impressive. Your memory is a beast. Multiple times i was also convinced you may aswell have been a native speaker of said country, as your pronounciations of the names were wonderful.