2023 UPDATE The 2023 Azerbaijani offensive into Artsakh has ended in a ceasefire where all Artsakh institutionns will be dissolved by next year. Artsakh will effectively cease to exist, and the population is fleeing to Armenia to avoid human rights violations. In terms of how many countries there are, you would need to remove 1 from unrecognized countries, and my answer becomes 205.
A really good breakdown of how different territories are recognised. Thanks also for covering Taiwan and also some of quirks of the UK such as the Isle of Man.
i found your video about the math behind the colour space, my only advice is dont change, dont try to emulate other youtubers / "become more professional" or anything like that, keep doing topics and your channel will eventually become very big, as you do have quality. if you are eventually to try to make money (thinking ahead to 100k+ subscribers) then i suggest having ONE mention of a product at some point in the video, but only promote products that you yourself think are good value propositions (by doing this you can build a career as a "seal of approval" / reveiwer letting you monetize the views on your videos without paying a large cost to your viewership growth)
You have incredible quality for a new channel, keep up the good work! I'd love a video about the pan-american highway, about china's belt and road initiative, or some of the independence movements around the world.
The interpretation I follow: it is a country if 1) has territory and at least 11 people to form a national team and/or 2) has enough economic power to print "made in" label on their products.
Interestingly, there is one country that doesn’t recognize either China or Taiwan. That is Bhutan, who refuses to officially recognize almost 140 UN member states!
@@johnnyc447 Opinions exist when something is subjective and obviously there is no government there in kurdistan this should be simple enough for you to understand. I'm not going to argue further because I don't care what you think.
@@pXnTildeAny disputed territory in an active warzone is being illegally occupied until war is over and countries sit and agree on which territory belongs to whom.
This isn't necessarily a correction as it's more a matter of framing but the phrase "economic freedom" is a term created by right wing think tanks to portray "fewer taxes and regulations for corporations and rich people" as "freedom". I'm not an expert by any means and I am not here to defend or congratulate China for anything whatsoever, but Hong Kong's legislative council is a little less than half people chosen directly by corporations (google "functional constituencies in Hong Kong"), and they have major issues of inequality and poverty which wealthy capitalists benefit from, and which the United Kingdom sought to preserve not to protect "freedom," but to protect British corporate profits. This is why most English-language resources on the topic (usually created by a corporation or capitalist-aligned government) present it similarly. This is not to say that citizens of these regions have no legitimate fears of undeniably authoritarian mainland China's power grabs, or that there are no tangible freedoms that exist in these regions that do not exist in mainland China which deserve to be defended and advocated for, because they do and there are, but i think "economic freedom" is a deceptive way to describe the differences. I've watched all your videos and enjoyed them and am excited to see where this channel goes! Keep up the good work!
You may also add a category with the name of "significant exclaves and island territories far from the country proper". This category contains Alaska, Hawaii, Kaliningrad, Nakhcivan, Cabinda, Canaries, Azores, Andaman-Nicobar Islands....
There are 223 countries and there is how: There are 193 UN members, + 2 observer states = 195 countries Add partially recognized countries 196. Kosovo 197. Sahrawi 198. Republic of China 199. Abkhazia 200. South Ossetia 201. Northern Cyprus 202. Nagorno-Karabakh 203. Transnistria 204. Somaliland And there is UK. For this, we'll assume England is a UN member but somehow other countries in UK are not 205. Northern Ireland 206. Scotland 207. Wales Adding countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands: 208. Aruba 209. Curaçao 210. Sint Maarten Countries in the Kingdom of Denmark 211. Faroe Islands 212. Greenland American Territories: 213. Puerto Rico 214. Guam 215. Northern Mariana Islands 216. US Virgin Islands 217. American Samoa Finnish territories: 218. Âland Islands Countries freely associated with New Zealand 219. Cook Islands 220. Niue Special administrive (I'm sure I misspelled it) regions of China: 221. Hong Kong 222. Macau Special administrive (Again I misspelled it) regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina: 223. Serb Republic You probably think it's done, but I unrecognize North Korea and I recognize micronation that me and my classmates created so they cancel out.
The number of UN member states is a fact. The number of observation countries is a fact. To say that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land is an opinion. It is important to distinguish between facts and opinions. By the way, it is a known fact that in the 6 Days War, Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan, conquered the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and conquered the Golan Heights from Syria. Israel never conquered territories from a State of Palestine.
Yeah I agree. It was a mistake on my part to present it as a fact, and I was never trying to weigh in on the debate personally with that line. If I made this video today, I would probably instead say "Most of Palestine is occupied by Israel, but this is widely condemned"
When you write: "Most of Palestine is occupied by Israel, but this is widely condemned", it is still very misleading. One can understand that there was a Palestine state that was occupied by Israel. That is not true (as explained in my previse comment). For some reason lots of Western countries chose the 6 Days War as the suggested border for the 2 states solution they would like to see inside Israel. They could choose different partition of Israel or they could choose to recognize Jordan as the Palestinian state or lots of other options. So, you could say that lots of countries that recognize Israel's right to exist, condemned Israel for not giving away the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the local Arabs (Palestinian people are not well defined). Note that the Golan Heights has a different status. Unfortunately, those Western countries do not understand the map. I advise you to compare the size of Israel to the size of Texas (it is a well-known fact that Texas is a country conquered by the US from Mexico, and the US has no intention of returning it to Mexico). Perhaps this mathematical comparison will convince you that there is no practical way to divide the territories controlled by Israel. If Biden's vision comes true and Israel gives the entire West Bank to its enemies, then Israel will be a narrow strip between the mountain and the coast whose narrowest area is less than 10 miles (16 km). One doesn't need to be a military expert to know that this kind of border cannot be defended, so the bottom line is that Israel has to choose between being condemned or being dead. As for the Gaza Strip, it has been fully controlled by local Arabs since 2005. Israel tried to please Western countries and local Arabs by unconditionally withdrawing from the entire Gaza Strip. These days (October 2023), the military force organized in this area raided the communities inside Israel and murdered their residents. It is possible that Israel will come to its senses and reconquer the Gaza Strip. @@Kuvina
Hey, I am from Israel. This statement would still be wrong. These territories are considered disputed, not occupied. Disputed is a fact, as both Israel and Palestine are having claims for the land. By saying occupying one assumes they belonged to someone and were stolen, hence taking the stance against Israel which is more of an opinion, an opinion shared by many countries and people who hate Israel, but nonetheless an opinion. The truth is both sides have strong claims that can't be dismissed so easily. It ignores reality, as Israel didn't just "take it" but people were killed in an existential war against Israel, which Israel did not start, in which Israel gained those territories. By calling it occupied territories you promote the 'occupier' nerrative according to which Israelis are no more than white european colonialists that are an outpost of the western world and have no connection to Israel itself and they came to an existing country and stole it, nearly none of which is true. It promotes lies and myths like the 'fading map' lie & the '94% myth' according to which nearly all land belonged to the Palestnians. Lies and myths that have been debunked time and time again. It gets even worse as you said 'widely condemned'. Technically that's true, but that doesn't mean it's rightfully condemend. It gives any viewer not familiar with the conflict and now war the impression that not only is it condemend but it is rightfully condemend which again is taking a hard anti-Israel stance. In reality most condemnation comes from muslim countries that are very anti-Israel and some other anti-Israel sentiments from the west. Even the U.N recognized this and therefore calls it 'disputed territories' and not 'the disputed territories'. This little "the" may seem like a small difference but legally it means a big difference. It gives a wider, more generalizing interpretation to it being disputed rather than one side being the rightful owner and the land and the other side not being so. Long story short, this is a very complex topic. The true uniabsed and completly factual stance is that it has a long history & the territories are in dispute. I believe you had good intentions while making the video, so just letting you know. Especially now, in the middle of a war, it is exactly these things that are being used as false news and are spread like wildfire so context means everything. Other than this, great video, I found it to be very informative :) @@Kuvina
@@RacetasClubMost of the West Bank is literally occupied though, and the vast majority of countries, not just Muslim-majority ones, do support Palestine, in one form or another. The only reason the situation is as it is now is because of United States vetos in the UN. You also seem to be under the impression that Israel is not a colonial state. But doesn't this go against the fact that native Palestinians are often evicted from their lands in the area for Israelis to settle there? And the land only became settled by Israelis after the horrors of the Holocaust, where the ideology of Zionism became dominant and proclaimed an Israeli state in the land previously primarily inhabited by mostly Arabic speakers, Palestinians, if I recall. This certainly seems colonialist to me. This isn't to say I think that all Israelis should all be evicted from there because the land belongs to the Palestinians anymore than they should have been displaced in the first place just because their religion hailed from that area literally millennia ago, I just think it's a little silly to say it's not the case that the Israeli settlement of the land was colonialist and resulted in the displacement of many people who already lived there, and that the problems that creates should be acknowledged and worked on with respect if possible, but I'm a white American so I'm not at all an expert with the situation or history or qualified to speak for the people that live through and in it, just giving my two cents, but not looking for a shouting match or anything.
2023 UPDATE
The 2023 Azerbaijani offensive into Artsakh has ended in a ceasefire where all Artsakh institutionns will be dissolved by next year. Artsakh will effectively cease to exist, and the population is fleeing to Armenia to avoid human rights violations.
In terms of how many countries there are, you would need to remove 1 from unrecognized countries, and my answer becomes 205.
Your channel is an absolute gem. I love your presenting style, graphics and explanations! Keep it up!
A really good breakdown of how different territories are recognised. Thanks also for covering Taiwan and also some of quirks of the UK such as the Isle of Man.
i found your video about the math behind the colour space, my only advice is dont change, dont try to emulate other youtubers / "become more professional" or anything like that, keep doing topics and your channel will eventually become very big, as you do have quality. if you are eventually to try to make money (thinking ahead to 100k+ subscribers) then i suggest having ONE mention of a product at some point in the video, but only promote products that you yourself think are good value propositions (by doing this you can build a career as a "seal of approval" / reveiwer letting you monetize the views on your videos without paying a large cost to your viewership growth)
18:44 Update on Bougainville, they are becoming independent in 2027.
You have incredible quality for a new channel, keep up the good work!
I'd love a video about the pan-american highway, about china's belt and road initiative, or some of the independence movements around the world.
thank you !!
I think everyone can agree that all your videos so far are amazing .Maybe a video about civil wars or empires?
thank you!
Impressive first video.
Thanks for this great overview
Nice, I like that you actually go over so many different options. The idea of a country seems simple at first but it's actually so complicated...
Hitting it out of the ballpark on the first video, I think I'm going to binge all of your content soon
The interpretation I follow: it is a country if 1) has territory and at least 11 people to form a national team and/or 2) has enough economic power to print "made in" label on their products.
Haiti isn't a country then
I consider all two letter ISO 3116 or whatever the number is as a country, including unassigned codes. So that makes 26*26=676 countries
This is a great video
I wish that you did more geography videos... =)
This is so cool 🔥🔥
Military conflicts that led to millions of death illustrated with cute colorful geometrical forms
197 countries 193 un members 2 observers, Kosovo and Taiwan.
Nah its 198 countries 195 un countries kosovo roc western sahara cook islands niue minus prc and dprk
The interpretation i follow is the un member and observer states plus Taiwan and Kosovo
Not enough. I use 226.
@@ferudunatakan199 better (195 UN countries + kosovo roc western sahara cook islands niue sealand - prc dprk)
Why aren't the Azores and Madeira included in the Dependent Territories list?
Interestingly, there is one country that doesn’t recognize either China or Taiwan. That is Bhutan, who refuses to officially recognize almost 140 UN member states!
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I would say
246 (247 - Artsakh)
+ Sealand
+Sovereign Military Order of Malta
+ Catalonia
+ Bougainville
+ Tibet
+ East Turkestan
+ Kurdistan
=253
Why did you put
+ East Turkestan
+
= 253
None of those are countries except sealand also the last one is blank
@@mertatakan7591it’s not and hasn’t been blank, and it’s my opinion and you don’t have to agree with it
@@johnnyc447 Opinions exist when something is subjective and obviously there is no government there in kurdistan this should be simple enough for you to understand. I'm not going to argue further because I don't care what you think.
Why has there been so much fighting over stuff like this throughout history
I'm seriously surprised there aren't more hissy fits being thrown here over the (correct) use of the word "illegal" at 2:50.
"correct" lol, even Kuvina conceded that it was not correct to have used that word in a comment. Disputed at best.
@@pXnTildeAny disputed territory in an active warzone is being illegally occupied until war is over and countries sit and agree on which territory belongs to whom.
This isn't necessarily a correction as it's more a matter of framing but the phrase "economic freedom" is a term created by right wing think tanks to portray "fewer taxes and regulations for corporations and rich people" as "freedom". I'm not an expert by any means and I am not here to defend or congratulate China for anything whatsoever, but Hong Kong's legislative council is a little less than half people chosen directly by corporations (google "functional constituencies in Hong Kong"), and they have major issues of inequality and poverty which wealthy capitalists benefit from, and which the United Kingdom sought to preserve not to protect "freedom," but to protect British corporate profits. This is why most English-language resources on the topic (usually created by a corporation or capitalist-aligned government) present it similarly. This is not to say that citizens of these regions have no legitimate fears of undeniably authoritarian mainland China's power grabs, or that there are no tangible freedoms that exist in these regions that do not exist in mainland China which deserve to be defended and advocated for, because they do and there are, but i think "economic freedom" is a deceptive way to describe the differences.
I've watched all your videos and enjoyed them and am excited to see where this channel goes! Keep up the good work!
GREAT!!!bMore please and thank you
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triangle
Artsakh still exists in my eyes!!
The only Korean Unification will happen is if one side fully conquers and integrates the other side.
sealand is a country
yeah
You may also add a category with the name of "significant exclaves and island territories far from the country proper". This category contains Alaska, Hawaii, Kaliningrad, Nakhcivan, Cabinda, Canaries, Azores, Andaman-Nicobar Islands....
I’d say 195
One ninety SEVEN
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There are 223 countries and there is how:
There are 193 UN members, + 2 observer states = 195 countries
Add partially recognized countries
196. Kosovo
197. Sahrawi
198. Republic of China
199. Abkhazia
200. South Ossetia
201. Northern Cyprus
202. Nagorno-Karabakh
203. Transnistria
204. Somaliland
And there is UK. For this, we'll assume England is a UN member but somehow other countries in UK are not
205. Northern Ireland
206. Scotland
207. Wales
Adding countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands:
208. Aruba
209. Curaçao
210. Sint Maarten
Countries in the Kingdom of Denmark
211. Faroe Islands
212. Greenland
American Territories:
213. Puerto Rico
214. Guam
215. Northern Mariana Islands
216. US Virgin Islands
217. American Samoa
Finnish territories:
218. Âland Islands
Countries freely associated with New Zealand
219. Cook Islands
220. Niue
Special administrive (I'm sure I misspelled it) regions of China:
221. Hong Kong
222. Macau
Special administrive (Again I misspelled it) regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
223. Serb Republic
You probably think it's done, but I unrecognize North Korea and I recognize micronation that me and my classmates created so they cancel out.
The number of UN member states is a fact. The number of observation countries is a fact. To say that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land is an opinion. It is important to distinguish between facts and opinions. By the way, it is a known fact that in the 6 Days War, Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan, conquered the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and conquered the Golan Heights from Syria. Israel never conquered territories from a State of Palestine.
Yeah I agree. It was a mistake on my part to present it as a fact, and I was never trying to weigh in on the debate personally with that line. If I made this video today, I would probably instead say "Most of Palestine is occupied by Israel, but this is widely condemned"
When you write: "Most of Palestine is occupied by Israel, but this is widely condemned", it is still very misleading. One can understand that there was a Palestine state that was occupied by Israel. That is not true (as explained in my previse comment).
For some reason lots of Western countries chose the 6 Days War as the suggested border for the 2 states solution they would like to see inside Israel. They could choose different partition of Israel or they could choose to recognize Jordan as the Palestinian state or lots of other options.
So, you could say that lots of countries that recognize Israel's right to exist, condemned Israel for not giving away the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the local Arabs (Palestinian people are not well defined). Note that the Golan Heights has a different status.
Unfortunately, those Western countries do not understand the map. I advise you to compare the size of Israel to the size of Texas (it is a well-known fact that Texas is a country conquered by the US from Mexico, and the US has no intention of returning it to Mexico). Perhaps this mathematical comparison will convince you that there is no practical way to divide the territories controlled by Israel. If Biden's vision comes true and Israel gives the entire West Bank to its enemies, then Israel will be a narrow strip between the mountain and the coast whose narrowest area is less than 10 miles (16 km). One doesn't need to be a military expert to know that this kind of border cannot be defended, so the bottom line is that Israel has to choose between being condemned or being dead.
As for the Gaza Strip, it has been fully controlled by local Arabs since 2005. Israel tried to please Western countries and local Arabs by unconditionally withdrawing from the entire Gaza Strip. These days (October 2023), the military force organized in this area raided the communities inside Israel and murdered their residents. It is possible that Israel will come to its senses and reconquer the Gaza Strip.
@@Kuvina
Hey, I am from Israel. This statement would still be wrong. These territories are considered disputed, not occupied. Disputed is a fact, as both Israel and Palestine are having claims for the land. By saying occupying one assumes they belonged to someone and were stolen, hence taking the stance against Israel which is more of an opinion, an opinion shared by many countries and people who hate Israel, but nonetheless an opinion. The truth is both sides have strong claims that can't be dismissed so easily.
It ignores reality, as Israel didn't just "take it" but people were killed in an existential war against Israel, which Israel did not start, in which Israel gained those territories.
By calling it occupied territories you promote the 'occupier' nerrative according to which Israelis are no more than white european colonialists that are an outpost of the western world and have no connection to Israel itself and they came to an existing country and stole it, nearly none of which is true. It promotes lies and myths like the 'fading map' lie & the '94% myth' according to which nearly all land belonged to the Palestnians. Lies and myths that have been debunked time and time again.
It gets even worse as you said 'widely condemned'. Technically that's true, but that doesn't mean it's rightfully condemend. It gives any viewer not familiar with the conflict and now war the impression that not only is it condemend but it is rightfully condemend which again is taking a hard anti-Israel stance.
In reality most condemnation comes from muslim countries that are very anti-Israel and some other anti-Israel sentiments from the west.
Even the U.N recognized this and therefore calls it 'disputed territories' and not 'the disputed territories'. This little "the" may seem like a small difference but legally it means a big difference. It gives a wider, more generalizing interpretation to it being disputed rather than one side being the rightful owner and the land and the other side not being so.
Long story short, this is a very complex topic. The true uniabsed and completly factual stance is that it has a long history & the territories are in dispute.
I believe you had good intentions while making the video, so just letting you know. Especially now, in the middle of a war, it is exactly these things that are being used as false news and are spread like wildfire so context means everything. Other than this, great video, I found it to be very informative :)
@@Kuvina
@@alonizmirli6673holy shit take it to a publisher 💀
@@RacetasClubMost of the West Bank is literally occupied though, and the vast majority of countries, not just Muslim-majority ones, do support Palestine, in one form or another. The only reason the situation is as it is now is because of United States vetos in the UN.
You also seem to be under the impression that Israel is not a colonial state. But doesn't this go against the fact that native Palestinians are often evicted from their lands in the area for Israelis to settle there? And the land only became settled by Israelis after the horrors of the Holocaust, where the ideology of Zionism became dominant and proclaimed an Israeli state in the land previously primarily inhabited by mostly Arabic speakers, Palestinians, if I recall. This certainly seems colonialist to me.
This isn't to say I think that all Israelis should all be evicted from there because the land belongs to the Palestinians anymore than they should have been displaced in the first place just because their religion hailed from that area literally millennia ago, I just think it's a little silly to say it's not the case that the Israeli settlement of the land was colonialist and resulted in the displacement of many people who already lived there, and that the problems that creates should be acknowledged and worked on with respect if possible, but I'm a white American so I'm not at all an expert with the situation or history or qualified to speak for the people that live through and in it, just giving my two cents, but not looking for a shouting match or anything.
I go with the UN member states only, so 193.
wrong. it's all ohio
bruh ohios a state of the usa
@ytuberonyt No way! Are you sure? How could that possibly be?
yes
Not even tiny ytbers safe from stupid jokes -_-
Roflmao
First video
I use the only unrecognised UN observers thingymajig. #PalestineOnlyCountry /j