Wow never thought Indonesia has such unexpected links to Southern Africa And the whole colonization of Southern Africa started with the Dutch establishing their colony around Cape Town -- as a stopping point on the way to colonize Indonesia
Eastern Europe = a Latin variant of the Slavic name Halych, which is a town in Ukraine today (Russians call it Galych) Spain = named after a Celtic tribe that used to live there, the he Gallaeci or Callaeci. the one in Eastern Europe is called Gah-lee-see-a the one in Spain Gah-lee-thee-a
Swaziland was recently renamed to Eswatini by the king. So he’s still alive. Maybe it already had that name in the local language, I don’t know, but he changed the name in English. 🇸🇿
A name which they chose after they kicked out The Dutch who called the land "The Dutch East Indies". India never made territorial claims over Indonesia, but Indonesia does owe a part of its culture to India and was once the centre of a great Hindu kingdom that dominated the region. So, I think The President of Indonesia knew well from whence he spoke,
@@WaterShowsProd It's an English ethnologist who named the whole archipelago Indonesia in 1850 (including non-Dutch isles). He proposed the word Malayunesia as well but it hasn't been used by the academic circles. Indonesian nationalist groups adopted that name around 1900 when president Soekarno was a newborn baby.
Nice video. Even more fascinating is Namibia's pan handle. The Caprivi Strip, named after a German politician (I believe his was the prime minister) Walter von Caprivi. And nobody ever mentions it ^^
Kind of correct: the Caprivi Strip was named after the Chancellor of Germany from 1890 to 1894. In the politics of German-speaking countries, "chancellor" is usually used to refer to a head of government similarly to a prime minister, so I would understand the mistake. Still, it is interesting for one country's panhandle to be named after another country's leader. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprivi_Strip
@@SoooooWhatt Ah, thanks. You phrased that exactly as I wanted it. I know the Bundeskanzler is similar to the prime minister, just wanted to keep it simple :)
He's not the only living person to name a country. There was an unclaimed bit of land in Europe until 2015 when some activist found that it's unclaimed and claimed it for himself and noone stopped him. It's actually quite funny story, more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
There must a person that have named South Sudan too, but it's of course more a geographical area, also because even Sudan is an old name for the Sahel.
Zaire is good. South Sudan => Dinkanuhr ( people of Nile river) CAR=> Zande (former kingdom that exsisted within the territory) South Africa => Amandla (the battle cry of the anti apartheid movement meaning power) Ivory Coast => Gyaman (former kingdom's name of the eastern half of the country before european colonization.)
3:56 It's a cool quote, but kind of hypocritical coming from the President of a country that was given a Greek name in the way used by white outsiders.
The name Timor, means East in Malay/Indonesian, first used by Majapahit, because the island is located on the east of their empire. The latter east is named such because the country is located on the eastern side of Timor island. The western part is still ruled by Indonesia.
After the UN accept the name people who where living in Namibia they were not allowed mention that name otherwise you will land yourself in jail. I only came to know that in name in 1990.
Sounds funny that the currently ruling party of Namibia uses the country's old name (or label) from before it's independence, especially as the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) played a role in Namibia's independence. Apparently, the "SWA" part was too deeply ingrained into the name of the organization for it to change, so the ruling party of Namibia still uses it's home countries old name. Reference for why the name is seemingly outdated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAPO#Independent_Namibia
What I know is Namibia was a name that lived for a long time but Namibians where getting killed for mantioning this name so when Namibia became independent they decided to name it Namibia that's what I know
This is why I could never be a time traveler. I'd slip up and call that place Namibia in like 1920 amd cause a butterfly effect that would lead to the Soviet Union launching Nuclear missiles after mistaking 99 balloons floating towards East Germany to be a nuclear attack by the United States. It would be tragic.
I've heard a theory that Christians had an issue with naming people after Jesus, but Muslims, who see him as a prophet and not divine, had no problem using the Arab equivalent, Isa. Spain had a lot of Muslims, and they Hispanicized Isa to Jesus for Non-Muslims, and the Church thought it would be easier to convert Muslims (and during the Inquisition, "save" them) if they relaxed the restriction for Muslims named Isa/Jesus, and their descendants, and eventually, they just thought it was a Spanish quirk.
Actually it was a Briton who first used the term Indonesia, as a geographical reference, but The Dutch refused to. When Indonesians rallied for independence they chose this name.
Anyone watching from Namibia?
Ye ye
No.
no
maybe
Next door. In South Africa.
Wow never thought Indonesia has such unexpected links to Southern Africa
And the whole colonization of Southern Africa started with the Dutch establishing their colony around Cape Town -- as a stopping point on the way to colonize Indonesia
'You need a new name for your country?'
'How about Name... ibia?'
3:33 - Pretty hypocritical hearing that from Sukarno who ended up being a slave master himself to the people of West Papua.
As an Indonesian myself, I never know this story before and it really is fascinating.
Sukarno has a really spotty track record but he did have his moments.
"Only living person to name a country"
Let's go fellow Liberlandians, we clearly aren't welcome here.
Vít Jedlička will see to this injustice.
We don't recognize that country - Namibia
We don't even recognize Kosovo - Namibia
I think he means a country that is widely international recognized, such as being part of the UN.
@@joryjones6808 You must be fun at parties.
Liberland isn't really a country to be honest.
Namibia is home to one of the largest concentrations of rock art in Africa.
Namibia is home to the World's most extensive meteorite shower.
chainz with the facts. Good looking repping the motherland like this homie. I see you
Okay, Reverend Michael Scott may have no relation to Steve Carell but he sure looks like him in that side profile!
Never would i have thought to hear his name in this video!
South West Africa and South Africa, very original names. The Namib desert is interesting, they have those cool wheel spiders
I mean, Rev. Michael Scott _does_ look a bit like Steve Carell…
Very interesting, but you didn't explain what meaning the name Mburumba Kerina has and why chose that name in particular.
Why are there two Galicia's? One in Spain, the other in Eastern Europe.
Eastern Europe = a Latin variant of the Slavic name Halych, which is a town in Ukraine today (Russians call it Galych)
Spain = named after a Celtic tribe that used to live there, the he Gallaeci or Callaeci.
the one in Eastern Europe is called Gah-lee-see-a
the one in Spain Gah-lee-thee-a
That could make a good video!
didn't he already make a video about it?
@@SantomPh actually, both are called gah-lee-see-a, it is so in portuguese and galician, and probably spanish too
@@jamm6_514 It's gah-lee-thee-a in Spain, but gah-lee-see-a in other hispanophone countries. In Spain they pronounce differently C and S.
Carry on the good work ipodkiller. We need more people like you. Viva la Android!
What
Hi from Namibia 🇳🇦
I Crack up Everytime he say "Mburumba"
Do _you_ know how to say it correctly? Then again this guy is infamous for mispronounciation.
@@Zestrayswede naw man I am not disrespecting him in any way I totally like his content, I am ust Expressing how I feel
@@prathamchawla2633 legit though, how are you supposed to say it?
Wikipedia here I come.
@@Zestrayswede ig, we should pronounce like he does 😅
Homie can't even say South Africa we'll
Love your videos, Name Explain!
Proud Namibian 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
I'm Namibian and had no idea, I just thought they added flavour to the Namib desert
Really enjoyed the sort 5-minute video. Please continue doing these sort ones.
Btw, 5:48 it says "Something to get invloved with Monday to Friday".
Thank you for making a video about my country!
Swaziland was recently renamed to Eswatini by the king. So he’s still alive. Maybe it already had that name in the local language, I don’t know, but he changed the name in English. 🇸🇿
The Namib is the world’s oldest desert.
man, that was really cool story.I would watch of movie of it for sure.
Another fantastic video NE!
You should do some ancient roman figures, Cicero, Caesar, Cato, Cincinnatus, Marius, Sulla, Remus, Romulus, that sort of stuff.
Thank you for making your videos shorter, now I have time to watch them
i think this is the earliest I've ever been
same lol
"How do Namibia get its name?"
NAMIB DESERT!
Next up...
"The Man Who Named Nambia".
Disco Saturn Loves To Do Subtitled Comedies and Other Things 24/7 Whose administration was listed as trading with Wakanda!
Trump 🤣
Be safe, Name-Man. Things are getting worst every day.
Swaziland is also renamed and that person is still alive Id assume
"slaves and dogs are named by their masters, free men name themselves" - The president of the country literally called "Indian Islands"
A name which they chose after they kicked out The Dutch who called the land "The Dutch East Indies". India never made territorial claims over Indonesia, but Indonesia does owe a part of its culture to India and was once the centre of a great Hindu kingdom that dominated the region. So, I think The President of Indonesia knew well from whence he spoke,
Further evidence children are treated as slaves in this society.
@@WaterShowsProd It's an English ethnologist who named the whole archipelago Indonesia in 1850 (including non-Dutch isles). He proposed the word Malayunesia as well but it hasn't been used by the academic circles. Indonesian nationalist groups adopted that name around 1900 when president Soekarno was a newborn baby.
It's named such as a compromise, so it won't favor one ethnic group over the other.
@@WaterShowsProd the cholas colonized portions of it
This guy's voice is goals
3:55
Quick, let’s play spot the typo!
Nice video. Even more fascinating is Namibia's pan handle. The Caprivi Strip, named after a German politician (I believe his was the prime minister) Walter von Caprivi. And nobody ever mentions it ^^
Kind of correct: the Caprivi Strip was named after the Chancellor of Germany from 1890 to 1894. In the politics of German-speaking countries, "chancellor" is usually used to refer to a head of government similarly to a prime minister, so I would understand the mistake. Still, it is interesting for one country's panhandle to be named after another country's leader.
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprivi_Strip
@@SoooooWhatt Ah, thanks. You phrased that exactly as I wanted it. I know the Bundeskanzler is similar to the prime minister, just wanted to keep it simple :)
@@reiniervanderhulst3375 You're welcome. Indeed, "prime minister" is a simple way to describe a head of government separate from the head of state.
It's now called the Zambezi Region.
Namibia has some of the highest sand dunes in the world.
5:30... Eswatini.. Czehia..
Well ironically Namibia is neither the most west nor the most south part of continental Africa
@Daniel Crutcher Fair point..
He isn't the only person alive to have named a country. In 2018 king Mswati III renamed The Kingdom of Swaziland to the Kingdom of Eswatini!
Imagine if you got to interview that man.
5:26 he doesn't look very satisfied with that visit xD
I'm Namibian!!! 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
You should make a video about naming system around the world
5:24 made me realise that I'll never be as fly as a man who named his entire country.
Do ‘how South Africa got its name’
He already did dude
He's not the only living person to name a country. There was an unclaimed bit of land in Europe until 2015 when some activist found that it's unclaimed and claimed it for himself and noone stopped him. It's actually quite funny story, more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
There must a person that have named South Sudan too, but it's of course more a geographical area, also because even Sudan is an old name for the Sahel.
Zaire is good.
South Sudan => Dinkanuhr ( people of Nile river)
CAR=> Zande (former kingdom that exsisted within the territory)
South Africa => Amandla (the battle cry of the anti apartheid movement meaning power)
Ivory Coast => Gyaman (former kingdom's name of the eastern half of the country before european colonization.)
@siphosihle madondo Are you xhosa or zulu? What does Mzansi mean?
3:56 It's a cool quote, but kind of hypocritical coming from the President of a country that was given a Greek name in the way used by white outsiders.
What a backstory.
Can you do a video about how east timor got its name, cuz the name means east east. Btw I'm from east Timor
Timor is named "East Timor" since it's at the eastern side of the Timor sea. Hope that helps
@@PolyGenre I know, I'm from east timor :)
It is timor leste now
@@goktugyldz574 "Timor-Leste" means "East Timor" in Portuguese.
The name Timor, means East in Malay/Indonesian, first used by Majapahit, because the island is located on the east of their empire.
The latter east is named such because the country is located on the eastern side of Timor island. The western part is still ruled by Indonesia.
Oh Namibia das einzige Land außerhalb Europas wo Deutsch mal Amtssprache war. Sehr interessantes Land eines Tages würde ich gern dort hinreisen!
It was named by Walter Cronkite who was know for smoke the chronic and he called it nam.
We built some things for Namibia, they’re pretty cool
After the UN accept the name people who where living in Namibia they were not allowed mention that name otherwise you will land yourself in jail. I only came to know that in name in 1990.
Fun fact the ruling party of Namibia is South West Africa People’s Organisation
Sounds funny that the currently ruling party of Namibia uses the country's old name (or label) from before it's independence, especially as the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) played a role in Namibia's independence. Apparently, the "SWA" part was too deeply ingrained into the name of the organization for it to change, so the ruling party of Namibia still uses it's home countries old name.
Reference for why the name is seemingly outdated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAPO#Independent_Namibia
They never used the full name again after independence.
Cecil Rhodes =Rhodisia. Now after independence Zimbabwe, means big house of stones. And there were many of them.
the only country that you can show its geographical map with your hand
Proud Namibian
Despite the Indonesian head lecturing him about its name, Indonesia was also named by Europeans and means "Indian Islands"
What I know is Namibia was a name that lived for a long time but Namibians where getting killed for mantioning this name so when Namibia became independent they decided to name it Namibia that's what I know
Is your content considered as name_ology? Or it has a more professional name?
MY COUNTRY THANK U
This is why I could never be a time traveler. I'd slip up and call that place Namibia in like 1920 amd cause a butterfly effect that would lead to the Soviet Union launching Nuclear missiles after mistaking 99 balloons floating towards East Germany to be a nuclear attack by the United States. It would be tragic.
I believe you mean German South West Africa.
I think Christopher Columbus named my country, Costa Rica. Or so the story says.
Do how the 5 main religions (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism) got their names
He made one on Islam.
Namibia's 30th birthday was very recent on March 21st.
Fascinating as always man. Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
Alternative name for the video:
How a sick burn inspired the name of a country
RIP KERINA
0:50 STIKA
Yes
They should have renamed South West Africa just SWA. It would be cool.
before this video i really don't know that namibia name was from him .
Mr Name Explain - opening slide - can you please change:
SUBCRIBE to SUBSCRIBE.
Thanks.
Namibia has the largest population of free-roaming cheetahs in the world!
*Happy Indonesian noise*
Yeah i don't give a damm just because i'm a little bit overproudy.
Steven Namibia
Funny portal joke.
Many Americans are called *Chad*
Any Namibian here they are talking about ua
Name Explain, I always thought you were better than "LiEk AnD sUbCrIbE pLz"
People know how TH-cam works already thanks.
He says that every video lol. At least he isn’t being sponsored by raid shadow legends
then donald trump changed its name to nambia
Explain the names of all indian states
nice
Hiii! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Explain why the name Jesus is popular in Hispanic countries but not in English.
I've heard a theory that Christians had an issue with naming people after Jesus, but Muslims, who see him as a prophet and not divine, had no problem using the Arab equivalent, Isa. Spain had a lot of Muslims, and they Hispanicized Isa to Jesus for Non-Muslims, and the Church thought it would be easier to convert Muslims (and during the Inquisition, "save" them) if they relaxed the restriction for Muslims named Isa/Jesus, and their descendants, and eventually, they just thought it was a Spanish quirk.
Namebia
I did it
wow
said a president whose country name by the dutch (I am Indonesian)
Well, no Indonesia didn't get the name from the Dutch, you can find some historical documents about it online.
Actually it was a Briton who first used the term Indonesia, as a geographical reference, but The Dutch refused to. When Indonesians rallied for independence they chose this name.
hah sand go brrrrrr
Name explain for Senegal and Gambia, p l s.
Senegal from senegal river I think
Gambia from gambia river
Settlers? You mean colonists
What's with the heartbreak letter about being out of beta? seems out of context but even after reading it I'm confused.
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