Liked the Input on Switzerland :) Altough... Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden could roughly be translated to Inner-Rhoden and Outer-Rhoden. So it's "Rhoden" instead of "Hoden". What makes this funny is that "Hoden" actually means testicles in German ;)
I think Sipaliwini in Suriname should get an honourable mention. It’s covered in Amazon rainforest and pretty much nobody lives there. The thing is that it’s actually much bigger than all other provinces in Suriname combined, so a Surinamese map looks like a WIP map of a country where the southern states are yet to be drawn.
One mistake: Belgium was a unitary state for most of its history. Since the 70s there is some regionalization, but Belgium only bacame an actual federation in 1993. That is after the Maastricht treaty and surely long after Brussels had been de facto capital of the EEC or EU.
And the amount of projects there, because if one region gets the funds to do something, the other one wants that money as well. Which got better now, but there is still lots of unfinished stuff around.
I would not say USA is as simple as you make it out to be. Sure. There are 50 equalish states. Simple enough. But when you look closer at USA you will notice that you have areas like Porto Rico which is not a state but maybe should be. You have some islands that are a part of US colonial legacy. You have in USA several native american reserves, all with there own special status. And lets not forget Washington DC. Oh. And some states are actually Commonwealths. Yeah... It USA gets pretty crazy to.
Very true. I did not go in to that because equal representation is also something one can debate over when it comes to definition of what is equal representation.
I just used Pueto Rico as a example without going in to the details. The point of my post was to show that USA is not as simple or uniform as ibx2cat makes it out to be. It not just 50 states and that is it. ;) And yes. Just to go off topic a bit. Naming is be quite confusing sometimes. The Commonwealths of USA are as far as USA concerns just States. And they do not act really any different then the regular states. Not that I am a expert on the gritty details of states. But is also why I added it at the end of my post just to show a other little weird oddity of USA. In the end the oddities of USA are actually interesting to go in to. It shows part of US history. How the country came to be.
You say the United States gets the same amount of people no matter population. It's just 2. But we have the House of Representatives. Which is by population. Did you talk about blue in Russia?
@@ibx2cat to make matters even more confusing, the district of columbia has no representation in either the house of representatives or the senate, but they get three votes (one for house of representatives and two for senate) in the electoral college. speaking of which, i would *love* to hear about what people outside of the united states think about the electoral college.
blue are autonomous okrugs, which are generally for very cold northern places with lots of oil and some indigenous peolle with deer and stuff. thay are usually a part of an oblast while at the same time being equal to them in their status of a russian province, which makes no sence; one of them is also not a part of an oblast and is just its own thing despite having a population of about 50 000 people. our administrative division is a mess.
I like your enthusiasm for Swiss politics. It is a very confusing topic and you captured a lot of it clearly. Greetings from Basel. I did laugh when you pronounced Basel like the food spice. We say it like Baah-zel. Still, the video was really cool. I learned a lot about Russia's states that I didn't know before your video.
Lol, you could probably do a whole episodes of weird borders just based upon the Swiss cantons x) Switzerland is also very strange cause it's a country where internal borders can move and thus democratically. In 2020 a few municipalities will switch of cantons.
The belgium system is complicated. Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels have their own parlement, then the Dutch, French and German speaking community have their own parlement (Brussels has some rules of the Dutch and some of the French), then Flanders and Wallonia both are cut into 5 provinces, which also have their own parlement and then every city can also decide a lot of rules for themselves
2:40 if you remove one letter from both appenzell cantons, they could be translated to appenzell inner testicle and appenzell outer testicle (orange/green)
The reason why Wallonia can block the trade pact with Canada is because the federal government has no authority over economy. So Brussel, Flanders and Wallonia had to given their permission. The video is not really correct in the way how belgium works.
On those pictures of the Federal Council, there always is the Federal Chancellor included. They are not a member of the Swiss government, but rather the head of the general staff of the Federal Council.
He even said there were 7 leaders but another one is required to be president and go to foreign events and stuff, not sure how that one gets elected though
I feel like you probably already know this, but US states also get different levels of representation in the House of Representatives based on population. Every state gets at least 2 representatives. California is the most populous state and has 52 representatives.
im from just outside Edmonton and i can understand why Canadas population is mostly south winters here are freezing and its in central Alberta. i cant even imagine how cold it must get in the territories.
Elephantinus Cornelius I heard it for the first time in this video. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a…well…special country with a lot of special and unike things in it so I thought cantons were just another thing invented for B&H.
goran gruev I forgot to say the cantons are in half of my country (the federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), the other half (the Republic of Srpska, where I live) doesn't have cantons.
Maybe someone already explained in the comments, but explaining some of Belgium for geography/politics nerds: Belgium is a federal state with complete seperation of powers. If the federal government has power over some aspect (like social security), then the regions (states) don't have any power over this. And if the regional (state) government has power over something (like education), then the federal government has no say at all about this. It's not like in the US where states can make their own decisions/laws as long as they don't conflict with federal decisions/laws, but powers overlap. Quite a few powers were transferred to the regional governments in Belgium: Education, Economy, Energy, Agriculture, Public transport, Employment, and so on all are regional powers, not Federal. So when people say Belgium was without a government for 541 days, that's not really true. There was no new federal government during this period, but the new regional governments formed fairly quickly. So quite a few important departments, government powers and policies were were decided and running quite quickly in the regions. And even then, if there is no new government after an election in Belgium, the last government just keeps things running. They just have no powers to make big new decisions or to set new policies. So in thruth, Belgium was forming a NEW government for 541 days, but never really was WITHOUT a government. the old government kept running, and the regions had their governments quite quickly. It was blown completely out of proportion in the media...
In Europe we have Bosnia and Herzegovina which is formed of two countries: Republika Srpska and Federetion of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Funny fact, the name "Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" is missleading and makes many believe it is the entire country, but is not, it is just one half of Bosnia and consists of territory held by Bosniak and Croat troops. There is also a Canton of Brcko which is formed of Brcko municipality, and has a special status belonging technically to both because it is a territory that is the bridge uniting the Western with Eastern parts of R>epublika Srpska, and also an enclave along Sava river in the North with the rest of Fed. of BiH. Its basically used as a bridge by both entities.
I thought he would talk about the Brazilian States + Federal District - that are also really big - and visible from above. Or the Chinese provinces - with different status.
Belgium has the Federal government, Flamish government, Walloon government, the Crown. 4 seperate entities that control parts and most control parts of the others. Hellhole to administer. They once went for over a year without elected officials because nobody got along.
If this guy knew how to make videos with animation like CGP Grey or Wonderwhy this channel would have millions of views in most of its videos. Still enjoying the content, but it's hard not to say this.
These are all the Half Cantons. *Basel* Basel-Stadt Basel-Landschaft *Unterwalden* Obwalden Nidwalden *Appenzell* Appenzell-Ausserrhoden Appenzell-Innerrhoden
Belgium is actually more complex then you explained... I can tell you 'cuz I'm Belgian (Flemmish) but it's hard to explain down here in the comment section 😜
You seem to forget The US has States, Territories & Districts. (Still not as many sub-division classes as Russia though.) PS: Is Guantanomo Bay a US District? If not, it can't be plural because the only other is Washington, DC.
In sweden we have 3 big regions and I think 24 landskap iside of them. And then, completly seprete to that and with overlaping bounderies we have I think 22 län. Where as landskap is the new governing regions, län is the old system that still holds some importance.
You just solved the Israeli Palestinian conflict! There’s already a Jewish state as you’ve mentioned and it’s got a lot in common with its neighbours - Russia, China and most of all - North Korea. 🇮🇱 🇰🇵 🇵🇸
I'm kind of disappointed he didn't talk about native american reservation when he brought up the U.S.A. They have a lot of similar powers to states and are even considered semi-sovereign nations. It was a missed opportunity.
states could almost be semi autonomous countries. we have our own constitution In each state. and own laws. And our own flag. plus some of our states are larger than some nations.
In the US, we have representatives by population AND the 2 for every state. Congress is made up of 2 parts, the House of Representatives, which is based on population proportions, and the Senate, which has an equal number of senators from each state
It is very hard to see differences in color on that map that is supposed to show which countries are or are not federations. Blue, black, and green? It all looks black to me.
Actually in America some states are worth more than others but it's the smaller states that have more power in the vote, but still a great video and I really enjoy your content
I hope he doesn't slow down.. Any slower and he'll take 10 years to move to the next subject. A lot of information to get through, If you want to watch a long video, put it on 0.5 speed. ;)
You do realise he speaks fast even by the fastest of languages standards? Not everybody has the same hearing and understanding of English as fucking terminator. Not to mention alot of people agree with me
challenge to ibx2cat: try to make a video without talking about the north of america/europe/australia or new zealand and without saying the countries from africa, asia south of america or oceania are hell.
In Canada provinces are equal to the federal government in terms of power... the difference is in the powers they are given, for example provinces control education so it varies province to province but the federal government controls the post office and criminal law so that's the same across the country. Lastly cities have no constitutional powers, they only exist as recognized by the province which makes them very different than U.S. cities which are more autonomous I think
Isn't the UK a federation of its constituent countries? They're all controlled by the central government in London, but then England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have their own parliaments, right? And each of them have their own international sports teams and the UK as a whole doesn't have a unified sports team except for the Olympics (Team Great Britain).
They compete in the Olympics as Team GB & England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have individual teams in football & most other sports but then in Rugby England, Scotland & Wales, have their own teams but Northern Ireland have a combined team with the Republic of Ireland.
actualy most of the Europeans were happy, that Valonia blocked the CETA Treaty with Canada. If there would have been an EU-wide popular vote abozut this treaty, it wouldn't have passed. Most of the European Governments decided against the will of their people concerning this treaty. There were HUGE demonstrations throughout Europe against the treaty.
I like these vids but this one is hard to follow, you're all over the place:) and now I don't know why there are 8 people elected in the swiss but they only elect 7?
Leningrad oblast,Murmansk oblast and and Republic of Karelia. If i was playing Crusader Kings 2 or EU4 then Finland would have eternal claims on part of those. In reality Finland doesn't need them back. We have enough poor rural areas already.
The problem with that is, for instance in the US, LA county has more people than the state I live in (Michigan) and many other states. Even though those states provide the actual things the nation needs such as cars, food, ect.
That's why we have (or at least I assume) a separation between the HoR and senate, and why both need to agree on legislation. The senate providing two people per state (preventing smaller states from being irrelevant), and the house being based on state population (reflecting the population, which obviously gives more populated states more power). I am not sure if anything specifically outlines that it's the reasoning, but I am guessing that was why.
You live in UK? Wondering what you think of the concept of a federal UK? I think it makes a lot of sense, but I'm not British. I'm Canadian and we have a federal structure and I think it is better than unitary structure personally.
The UK is essentially federal minus england, which is too big to have equivalent powers - so you have to split England up and deciding how to do that is a little too tricky for most to bother haha
ibx2cat very true, I just think it would definitely be more equal and head off nationalists to a degree. English nationalists are raising in power and they are kinda scary tbh, and an English state with its own powers would help to fend them off. I dunno, apparently Labour is considering big constitution changes like making UK federal and turning House of Lords into a federal Senate. I dunno, definitely an intriguing idea imo.
4 in Belgium please, French area, Dutch area, Brussels areat witch is a state and a city at the same time and the German area. 3 languages in the country. And thanks for your video.
It's a bit more complicated: There are three _regions_ (Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels) and three _communities_ (Flemish, French, and German), with the communities being defined by language. Both sets of subdivisions are similar but not identical. In terms of regions, the German-speaking part is part of Wallonia. In terms of communities, Brussels is ruled by both the Flemish and the French Community (as it's officially bilingual).
If I may jump in on that pronunciation issue.. I was born and raised in Thunder Bay, which is the city closest to Nipigon.. Let's see if I can teach you how to pronounce it though text.. All three vowels of Nipigon are actually pronounced the same.. With an 'I' sound like 'dip'... So, Nipigon is kinda pronounced 'Nipigin'... If that makes sense ahah
You think federations have strange internal states, you haven't even had a look at the Scandinavian nations. For instance Sweden, is divided in many ways. Linguistically, Norway, Sweden and Denmark is so divided that it's hard to tell where a dialect starts and ends. An ethnic swede is not guaranteed to understand what I say and I live in the same nation. And by law speak the same language.
That was quite rambling. It felt like you knew quite a bit about a couple of them, then just threw in the others to round out an episode. That run-through on Russian was nearly incomprehensible. You described one part by referencing another, that had not been mentioned, then never really did explain it. You talked about how the US has two representatives for each State, but didn't mention that in Canada each Province gets representatives based roughly on population. It would be best if you maintained a consistent level of detail throughout a video. How can we really understand the differences between the countries if one or two nations get much more detail than the others?
Wait? Where was Germany in this video? In Germany, the separate regions have so much power on their own, that the country even got split in two for a half a century!
I really hope you're kidding. Germany was split in four by the USA, UK, USSR and France after World War Two and then two because the western Allies' regions fused together. Unification was a German goal as early as when the FRG wrote its constitution. That being said, the Bunderländer do have a lot of power. Theoretically each of them could leave the FRG via popular vote at any given time. In Bavaria there even is a party with that specific goal.
Thundergozon No, they can't. In the German constitution, each land have the right to its own constitution as long as it doesn't break not even one of the five Verfassungskern: People's rights, democracy, federalism, social state, and Rechtstaat. Meaning that NO Bundesland might for instance replace democracy for monarchy, nor leave the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Just as in the US, federal law breaks state law.
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Who else enjoys watching this channel and not knowing anything about his main channel?!
Yeah, I think he runs a minecraft channel or something.
I didn't even know he had a main channel xD
Ahmed Abdulla Ahmed hahahaha sooo true😂
me
What's his main channel?
"They made themselves a little government, isn't that cute?- Toycat the alien observer 2017-18
3:28 The Swiss leaders in front of a Minecraft painting 😂
2:22
"Hey, where are you from?"
*"Zug."*
Cyrule "Zug" also literally means "train" in German.
@@Moderkek88 "I'm from Zug."
*Whips out google translate*
"What train was you born on?"
Liked the Input on Switzerland :)
Altough... Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden could roughly be translated to Inner-Rhoden and Outer-Rhoden. So it's "Rhoden" instead of "Hoden".
What makes this funny is that "Hoden" actually means testicles in German ;)
That was what I read at first actually. ^^;
Yes, I heard that and thought "not in scrotum" :)
Isn't there a city in Germany whose name literally translates to "intestine city"? Is it Darmstadt?
@@yespls4184 yes
one element of the periodic table is named after that city, "Darmstadtium"
@@yespls4184 wow im actually from darmstadt xd
My country is a federation of two islands. Used to be three islands but one broke away and became a dependent of the UK
Gaz Matic What country?
MaxFI probably saint kitts and nevis
Gaz Matic is that Antigua and Barbuda?
Person 1 yes. St Kitts and Nevis
I think Sipaliwini in Suriname should get an honourable mention. It’s covered in Amazon rainforest and pretty much nobody lives there. The thing is that it’s actually much bigger than all other provinces in Suriname combined, so a Surinamese map looks like a WIP map of a country where the southern states are yet to be drawn.
One mistake: Belgium was a unitary state for most of its history. Since the 70s there is some regionalization, but Belgium only bacame an actual federation in 1993. That is after the Maastricht treaty and surely long after Brussels had been de facto capital of the EEC or EU.
And the amount of projects there, because if one region gets the funds to do something, the other one wants that money as well. Which got better now, but there is still lots of unfinished stuff around.
Oh yeah, i love subdivisions
I'm pretty sure the seeing states clearly before you zoom in thing is based on size, it also happens with Brazil.
I would not say USA is as simple as you make it out to be. Sure. There are 50 equalish states. Simple enough. But when you look closer at USA you will notice that you have areas like Porto Rico which is not a state but maybe should be. You have some islands that are a part of US colonial legacy. You have in USA several native american reserves, all with there own special status. And lets not forget Washington DC. Oh. And some states are actually Commonwealths.
Yeah... It USA gets pretty crazy to.
Cythil Also he said all the states have equal representatives, which is only half true, we got two administrative bodies.
Very true. I did not go in to that because equal representation is also something one can debate over when it comes to definition of what is equal representation.
i don't know if commonwealth actually means anything different than state, other than the name. .
I just used Pueto Rico as a example without going in to the details. The point of my post was to show that USA is not as simple or uniform as ibx2cat makes it out to be. It not just 50 states and that is it. ;)
And yes. Just to go off topic a bit. Naming is be quite confusing sometimes. The Commonwealths of USA are as far as USA concerns just States. And they do not act really any different then the regular states. Not that I am a expert on the gritty details of states. But is also why I added it at the end of my post just to show a other little weird oddity of USA.
In the end the oddities of USA are actually interesting to go in to. It shows part of US history. How the country came to be.
Cythil oh yes man so crazy what did u say states that arent states and indian reservations whaaaaaaat
Do a video on Chechnya, that’s actually really interesting, that and Dagestan I really want to learn about how their governed separately to Russia
Fun fact: in Venezuela, deciding between a centralist government and a federal government actually caused a civil war
You say the United States gets the same amount of people no matter population. It's just 2. But we have the House of Representatives. Which is by population.
Did you talk about blue in Russia?
yes but the senate (the house I mentioned) is always 2 - I was referring specifically to that
@@ibx2cat to make matters even more confusing, the district of columbia has no representation in either the house of representatives or the senate, but they get three votes (one for house of representatives and two for senate) in the electoral college. speaking of which, i would *love* to hear about what people outside of the united states think about the electoral college.
blue are autonomous okrugs, which are generally for very cold northern places with lots of oil and some indigenous peolle with deer and stuff. thay are usually a part of an oblast while at the same time being equal to them in their status of a russian province, which makes no sence; one of them is also not a part of an oblast and is just its own thing despite having a population of about 50 000 people.
our administrative division is a mess.
@@wkbj7924 The electoral college is even worse than first past the post
I like your enthusiasm for Swiss politics. It is a very confusing topic and you captured a lot of it clearly. Greetings from Basel. I did laugh when you pronounced Basel like the food spice. We say it like Baah-zel. Still, the video was really cool. I learned a lot about Russia's states that I didn't know before your video.
Yeah, it looks pretty complicated, even for someone from another federal nation. But it seems to work quite well.
12:55 if you think this is bad look at Europe during the Middle Ages
Lol, you could probably do a whole episodes of weird borders just based upon the Swiss cantons x)
Switzerland is also very strange cause it's a country where internal borders can move and thus democratically. In 2020 a few municipalities will switch of cantons.
The belgium system is complicated. Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels have their own parlement, then the Dutch, French and German speaking community have their own parlement (Brussels has some rules of the Dutch and some of the French), then Flanders and Wallonia both are cut into 5 provinces, which also have their own parlement and then every city can also decide a lot of rules for themselves
Look at things like the scottish parliament. The amount of devolution in the UK is probably the closest to Belgium even within federal states.
Can you do a video on the coldest and hottest places inhabited by humans?
Hottest : Africa
Coldest : Antartica
@@Sprixx3D coldest: Siberia
Warmest: Ethiopia
2:40 if you remove one letter from both appenzell cantons, they could be translated to appenzell inner testicle and appenzell outer testicle (orange/green)
WALLonia:
"Trump got his idea coming here in an holiday"
The reason why Wallonia can block the trade pact with Canada is because the federal government has no authority over economy. So Brussel, Flanders and Wallonia had to given their permission.
The video is not really correct in the way how belgium works.
Wait, 7 or 8 leaders in Switzerland? You say 7 but there are 8 people on the picture
On those pictures of the Federal Council, there always is the Federal Chancellor included. They are not a member of the Swiss government, but rather the head of the general staff of the Federal Council.
ITS 8
8? You know that an uneven number makes more sense because if there were 8, there could be a 4/4 stall when voting on a topic, right?
Counting requires effort
He even said there were 7 leaders but another one is required to be president and go to foreign events and stuff, not sure how that one gets elected though
I feel like you probably already know this, but US states also get different levels of representation in the House of Representatives based on population. Every state gets at least 2 representatives. California is the most populous state and has 52 representatives.
The US does have different levels of federal subjects? All the different types of territory - incorporated, organised, etc...
im from just outside Edmonton and i can understand why Canadas population is mostly south winters here are freezing and its in central Alberta. i cant even imagine how cold it must get in the territories.
Here in the South of France we freeze with 35°F at night and 45°/50°during day.
Wow people in Australia think our Commonwealth of Australia is complicated, but after seeing this...
Leningrad oblast (as well as Leningrad Zoo) keeps its name in memory of Defend of Leningrad during WW2
Also, you didn't mention number of languages and nationalities in Russian Federation, which explains why do we need so many provinces
The first one I think about is Germany because I'm German^^
Bundeslands are actually a pretty normal/well balanced system
ibx2cat True
Gladly I live in one of the more populated so we have more seats in the parliament
@GamingCouchDE
Which one?
The first one I thought of as well :)
Aus Dänemark :)
yeah in the 2nd chamber of the parliament...
Listening to this guy, I'm starting to think that I don't actually speak English...
"awfanlirfnrfhaetjsththrsgdiggha" -direct quote from this video
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat, I thought cantons were a special thing only existing in my country (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Mr. Dr. Genius lol... switzerland is known for having cantons since centuries
Elephantinus Cornelius I heard it for the first time in this video. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a…well…special country with a lot of special and unike things in it so I thought cantons were just another thing invented for B&H.
goran gruev I forgot to say the cantons are in half of my country (the federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), the other half (the Republic of Srpska, where I live) doesn't have cantons.
goran gruev What referendum?
goran gruev No, there isn't a referendum. We had one a year ago about the 9th of January being our Republic day and we voted yes.
man's understanding of Canada is pretty shet. Tabarnak! good video tho! keep it up 2soycat.
Maybe someone already explained in the comments, but explaining some of Belgium for geography/politics nerds:
Belgium is a federal state with complete seperation of powers. If the federal government has power over some aspect (like social security), then the regions (states) don't have any power over this. And if the regional (state) government has power over something (like education), then the federal government has no say at all about this.
It's not like in the US where states can make their own decisions/laws as long as they don't conflict with federal decisions/laws, but powers overlap.
Quite a few powers were transferred to the regional governments in Belgium: Education, Economy, Energy, Agriculture, Public transport, Employment, and so on all are regional powers, not Federal.
So when people say Belgium was without a government for 541 days, that's not really true. There was no new federal government during this period, but the new regional governments formed fairly quickly. So quite a few important departments, government powers and policies were were decided and running quite quickly in the regions. And even then, if there is no new government after an election in Belgium, the last government just keeps things running. They just have no powers to make big new decisions or to set new policies. So in thruth, Belgium was forming a NEW government for 541 days, but never really was WITHOUT a government. the old government kept running, and the regions had their governments quite quickly. It was blown completely out of proportion in the media...
I was in Basel Stadt in September this year (2020) and there were no Corona restrictions, but in Basel Kanton, there were! Weird.
In Europe we have Bosnia and Herzegovina which is formed of two countries: Republika Srpska and Federetion of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Funny fact, the name "Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" is missleading and makes many believe it is the entire country, but is not, it is just one half of Bosnia and consists of territory held by Bosniak and Croat troops. There is also a Canton of Brcko which is formed of Brcko municipality, and has a special status belonging technically to both because it is a territory that is the bridge uniting the Western with Eastern parts of R>epublika Srpska, and also an enclave along Sava river in the North with the rest of Fed. of BiH. Its basically used as a bridge by both entities.
I thought he would talk about the Brazilian States + Federal District - that are also really big - and visible from above. Or the Chinese provinces - with different status.
Hey Australia has some weird states... Is what I would've said if you didn't make a video talking about them.
when I think of Switzerland I think of a large pocket knife and clock making corporation with 7 CEOs that's also into banking
Belgium has the Federal government, Flamish government, Walloon government, the Crown. 4 seperate entities that control parts and most control parts of the others. Hellhole to administer. They once went for over a year without elected officials because nobody got along.
It kinda makes sense that a canton that has a sixth of the population is worth more than one with 15,000 ppl
Toycat can you make a top 10 best and worst flags vid??
Next time you can try to talk about the states with most diferent cultures within it or something like that
If this guy knew how to make videos with animation like CGP Grey or Wonderwhy this channel would have millions of views in most of its videos. Still enjoying the content, but it's hard not to say this.
These are all the Half Cantons.
*Basel*
Basel-Stadt
Basel-Landschaft
*Unterwalden*
Obwalden
Nidwalden
*Appenzell*
Appenzell-Ausserrhoden
Appenzell-Innerrhoden
Man, I been watching you for a nearly a year now. I love your content.
"Someone from unitary states like myself", says the guy from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Belgium is actually more complex then you explained... I can tell you 'cuz I'm Belgian (Flemmish) but it's hard to explain down here in the comment section 😜
You seem to forget The US has States, Territories & Districts. (Still not as many sub-division classes as Russia though.)
PS: Is Guantanomo Bay a US District? If not, it can't be plural because the only other is Washington, DC.
Video idea: Counties and district of the UK ?
In sweden we have 3 big regions and I think 24 landskap iside of them. And then, completly seprete to that and with overlaping bounderies we have I think 22 län. Where as landskap is the new governing regions, län is the old system that still holds some importance.
You just solved the Israeli Palestinian conflict!
There’s already a Jewish state as you’ve mentioned and it’s got a lot in common with its neighbours - Russia, China and most of all - North Korea.
🇮🇱 🇰🇵 🇵🇸
It makes sens to preserve the Leningrad Oblast called like that because Lenin is a national heroe, he freed Russian Empire dominions from the Tsars
Hey what about the UAE? emirates are kind of like states
I'm kind of disappointed he didn't talk about native american reservation when he brought up the U.S.A. They have a lot of similar powers to states and are even considered semi-sovereign nations. It was a missed opportunity.
that plus the four levels of territories, and the special case of D.C = seven levels of "statehood", easily as complicated as the Russian example.
Well I mean we weren't "cut off front eachother" in Canada when that bridge was down, just would have to go way out of your way to get there.
The story behind the Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a pretty wild one. I love it so much.
As an American it makes perfect sense that some Swiss states are half. Damn electoral college.
Belgium has a German section as well (it's very small)
Oh you said just after
states could almost be semi autonomous countries. we have our own constitution In each state. and own laws. And our own flag. plus some of our states are larger than some nations.
In the United States the only subdivisions that are like countries AREN'T just states! Also Native American reservations!
You speak so fast that I couldn't keep watching after 3 minutes. You jump from topic to topic and it gets a little annoying, and even confusing.
You should talk about all of Australia's States and Territories
Oblast is Slavic for set or area.
Forgot about the 6 states and 2 territories in Australia
Would recomend learning more about the Republic of Tuva, Altai and Sahka all in russia! really interesting places
I like how you babble on about Russia. It's almost an art form
In the US, we have representatives by population AND the 2 for every state. Congress is made up of 2 parts, the House of Representatives, which is based on population proportions, and the Senate, which has an equal number of senators from each state
It is very hard to see differences in color on that map that is supposed to show which countries are or are not federations. Blue, black, and green? It all looks black to me.
Actually in America some states are worth more than others but it's the smaller states that have more power in the vote, but still a great video and I really enjoy your content
Nice but why so fast?
Everytime you said Appenzell Innerrhoden you were actually saying Appenzell Inner-Testicles
Slow.the.fuck.down
Thepigmaster i mean, even he speaking this fast his videos reach 20 minutes, imagine how long the video would be if he spoke slowly?
I hope he doesn't slow down.. Any slower and he'll take 10 years to move to the next subject. A lot of information to get through, If you want to watch a long video, put it on 0.5 speed. ;)
youtube has speed control.. use it instead of trying to get people to conform to your slowness
You do realise he speaks fast even by the fastest of languages standards? Not everybody has the same hearing and understanding of English as fucking terminator. Not to mention alot of people agree with me
I Don't see how you can not understand him speaking, far out, even in Australia this isn't particularly fast speaking.
Blue in Russia is for Okrug, you missed that one
Canada has a Parliament just like UK
Because in ww2 Germany dont have enough money for pay the countries they need to give eupen to belgium
challenge to ibx2cat: try to make a video without talking about the north of america/europe/australia or new zealand and without saying the countries from africa, asia south of america or oceania are hell.
In Canada provinces are equal to the federal government in terms of power... the difference is in the powers they are given, for example provinces control education so it varies province to province but the federal government controls the post office and criminal law so that's the same across the country. Lastly cities have no constitutional powers, they only exist as recognized by the province which makes them very different than U.S. cities which are more autonomous I think
Ever thought about decaf?
I'm from Mari-El Republic and my dream is Chuvashia.
Isn't the UK a federation of its constituent countries? They're all controlled by the central government in London, but then England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have their own parliaments, right? And each of them have their own international sports teams and the UK as a whole doesn't have a unified sports team except for the Olympics (Team Great Britain).
They compete in the Olympics as Team GB & England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have individual teams in football & most other sports but then in Rugby England, Scotland & Wales, have their own teams but Northern Ireland have a combined team with the Republic of Ireland.
actualy most of the Europeans were happy, that Valonia blocked the CETA Treaty with Canada. If there would have been an EU-wide popular vote abozut this treaty, it wouldn't have passed. Most of the European Governments decided against the will of their people concerning this treaty. There were HUGE demonstrations throughout Europe against the treaty.
It is nice yeah. Nice channel man.
I like these vids but this one is hard to follow, you're all over the place:) and now I don't know why there are 8 people elected in the swiss but they only elect 7?
"Russia has six separate teirs" watching this in 2021 when the uk has teirs 🤣
You could argue that the US doesn't have equal states due to the Electoral College
Or more significantly, due to the House of Representatives.
I learning eng for years, but this guy still too fast for me xD
Italy and Spain shouldn't be blue, they're both federal republics with a lot of regional power
i dont know if there are any other countries where states are self governed the way the USA is
Fun Fact: The First Four Letters Of Russia, Rearranged, Spell USSR, Coincidence? I Think Not!
How do you highlight things in red on google maps?
Leningrad oblast,Murmansk oblast and and Republic of Karelia. If i was playing Crusader Kings 2 or EU4 then Finland would have eternal claims on part of those. In reality Finland doesn't need them back. We have enough poor rural areas already.
In my opinion if you have a larger population you should get more represtation in the government.
The problem with that is, for instance in the US, LA county has more people than the state I live in (Michigan) and many other states. Even though those states provide the actual things the nation needs such as cars, food, ect.
Not in Belgium! 😂😂
That's why we have (or at least I assume) a separation between the HoR and senate, and why both need to agree on legislation. The senate providing two people per state (preventing smaller states from being irrelevant), and the house being based on state population (reflecting the population, which obviously gives more populated states more power). I am not sure if anything specifically outlines that it's the reasoning, but I am guessing that was why.
You live in UK? Wondering what you think of the concept of a federal UK? I think it makes a lot of sense, but I'm not British. I'm Canadian and we have a federal structure and I think it is better than unitary structure personally.
The UK is essentially federal minus england, which is too big to have equivalent powers - so you have to split England up and deciding how to do that is a little too tricky for most to bother haha
ibx2cat very true, I just think it would definitely be more equal and head off nationalists to a degree. English nationalists are raising in power and they are kinda scary tbh, and an English state with its own powers would help to fend them off.
I dunno, apparently Labour is considering big constitution changes like making UK federal and turning House of Lords into a federal Senate. I dunno, definitely an intriguing idea imo.
4 in Belgium please, French area, Dutch area, Brussels areat witch is a state and a city at the same time and the German area. 3 languages in the country.
And thanks for your video.
It's a bit more complicated:
There are three _regions_ (Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels) and three _communities_ (Flemish, French, and German), with the communities being defined by language. Both sets of subdivisions are similar but not identical.
In terms of regions, the German-speaking part is part of Wallonia.
In terms of communities, Brussels is ruled by both the Flemish and the French Community (as it's officially bilingual).
Hi, I libe in Brussels, and German community exist even if it is partly attached to wallonia.
I didn't doubt that it exists. :)
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types of Federal Subjects of Russia should be translated
"oblast" - territory
"krai" - region
"okrug" - district
If I may jump in on that pronunciation issue.. I was born and raised in Thunder Bay, which is the city closest to Nipigon.. Let's see if I can teach you how to pronounce it though text..
All three vowels of Nipigon are actually pronounced the same.. With an 'I' sound like 'dip'... So, Nipigon is kinda pronounced 'Nipigin'... If that makes sense ahah
You think federations have strange internal states, you haven't even had a look at the Scandinavian nations.
For instance Sweden, is divided in many ways.
Linguistically, Norway, Sweden and Denmark is so divided that it's hard to tell where a dialect starts and ends. An ethnic swede is not guaranteed to understand what I say and I live in the same nation. And by law speak the same language.
1997 wasn't just when the switz allowed woman vote it was also when they finally abolished slavery
That was quite rambling. It felt like you knew quite a bit about a couple of them, then just threw in the others to round out an episode. That run-through on Russian was nearly incomprehensible. You described one part by referencing another, that had not been mentioned, then never really did explain it. You talked about how the US has two representatives for each State, but didn't mention that in Canada each Province gets representatives based roughly on population.
It would be best if you maintained a consistent level of detail throughout a video. How can we really understand the differences between the countries if one or two nations get much more detail than the others?
Wait? Where was Germany in this video? In Germany, the separate regions have so much power on their own, that the country even got split in two for a half a century!
[Sable] they got split by the winners of WW2, not themselves wanting it
I really hope you're kidding.
Germany was split in four by the USA, UK, USSR and France after World War Two and then two because the western Allies' regions fused together. Unification was a German goal as early as when the FRG wrote its constitution.
That being said, the Bunderländer do have a lot of power. Theoretically each of them could leave the FRG via popular vote at any given time. In Bavaria there even is a party with that specific goal.
Thundergozon they gave it back to the germans
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Thundergozon No, they can't. In the German constitution, each land have the right to its own constitution as long as it doesn't break not even one of the five Verfassungskern: People's rights, democracy, federalism, social state, and Rechtstaat. Meaning that NO Bundesland might for instance replace democracy for monarchy, nor leave the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Just as in the US, federal law breaks state law.