What are the two LEAST similar countries in the world?
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In one aspect they are quite similar; ie immigration. Both are extremely low, Niger no-one wants to move there, Japan no-one is allowed to move there.
well for japan it will become a problem if they will still let so few people in
@@extazy9944 No, it wont. their population will decrease. stabilize. and eventually stay roughly the same.,Poverty or more space and cheaper living will increase birthrates. those "country will have population by 2065" thing only include current growth with very minimal change for dozens of years. which countries wont have. thats why they are almost always wrong on the longer term. If Japans economy stays good while decreasing., more people will have more childeren.
If their economy collapses and they have their "great depression" once they recover the population will pick up again.
No need to change the culture by adding mass immigration. A countries people are responsible for itself.
PewDiePie moved to Japan
@@RK-cj4oc bro those people will all be old
@@svbahs6091 it's probably much easier to be allowed to move there if you can show a nice fat bank account to prove that you won't be a burden on society.
So what did I learn from this interesting video ? Put a Japanese person in Niger, and he'd be shocked by the lack of general infrastructure, sanitation and daily convenience, resulting in a heart attack. Drop a Nigerien into central Tokyo, and he'd be shocked by the futuristic looking vending machines on every street corner, resulting in a heart attack.
Niger and Nigeria are different country
@@edennorthyt8702 He said Nigerien, as in person from Niger, not to be confused with Nigerian, person from Nigeria.
@@tylerkostich6203 Indeed I did. I know the difference between a Nigerian and a Nigerien but apparently some people don't ;)
@@Monatio79 You don't
@@edennorthyt8702 should he say niger of what
It would be interesting to see which two bordering countries are the most different
Well, my nominee pair: Dominican Republic and Haiti
Ooh that's a good one. Singapore Malaysia, Norway Russia, ehm France Brazil, ZA Zimbabwe, NK SK... (that last one answers it and makes it boring though)
Something that's interesting is often a large country will have more places within that are very different than the average will be compared to neighbouring countries.
@@Bozebo i think that NK and SK is just far different from each other, the rest isnt different much. even norway and russia is just a little bit apart about he happiness index
@@Bozebo singapore and malaysia- not so much, because the people are the same ethnically and speak malay (and english)
North Korea and China?
When I clicked on this video I was skeptical that this question could even be answered. But you did a amazing job with a solid argument. Great video
This comparison was really interesting, please do more videos like this
I agree! @geographybible Special request - please do neighbouring countries that are least similar.
@@rajanranjitmistry
North and South Korea
Israel and Palestine
Until 30-50 yrs ago UK & Ireland (Ireland was very poor and Catholic, now its more like the UK and irreligious)
USA & Mexico (but though paradoxically, they're different on the surface level, they are so similar in many ways when you think about it)
@@rajanranjitmistry probably also China and Mongolia if you look at aspects such as Population density and total population
China and Tibet if Tibet was still a country
China and India (Religion is important in India while not so much in China)
China and Burma
China and Laos
China and Pakistan
China and the Stan countries
I think it's New Zealand and Afghanistan
Geography: One is temperate archipelago in the southern Hemisphere with very distinct characteristics, other is dry, landlocked highlands region with vague borders that don't match the geography
Notable demographic differences: 1) Population Pyramids 2) Education/Urbanization rate 3) New Zealand has one dominant ethnic group, while Afghanistan is very divided by ethic groups 5) They're also very different by culture traditions
Politics: One is one of the most democratic, prosperous, peaceful, developed countries, while the Afghanistan is in the civil war, with no to little developed social institutions, and the Taliban is pretty authoritarian to say the least, and the country generally counts the worst in suck things like GDP or human development index
History: Afghanistan is ancient historic region with old records and ancestry. Afghanistan was never actually "Colonized", although it's borders were defined by regional powers. While the New Zealand is fairly new country, which was settled by English colonizers as some kind of frontier, and never actually been to any war or political instability
but they are both mountainous, also their people are both Caucasians, furthermore their languages are from the same family
new zealand is a very ethnically diverse country with many people from asia, the pacific, and europe. Also, afghanistan has lots of mountainous regions like new zealand.
@@jeffjones114 None of Afghanistan's languages are anywhere near English, which is a Germanic language.
Many of Afghanistans languages are Proto Indo European languages which are in fact stil, related, albeit distantly. The languages of Niger and Japanese are totally unrelated in all senses@@davidz3879
@@davidz3879 English, Dari and Pashto are all from the Indo-European language family.
We should mix these two countries' entire populations in one territory to see what they can do together
No thanks, You and your whole family can mix with niger and move to their country.
Population stagnation
Probably gonna segregate themselves
Civil war
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1. Japan/Niger
2. Qatar/DRC
3. Canada/Burundi
4. Switzerland/Somalia
5. Iceland/Ethiopia
Both Switzerland and Somalia have pride in their will to fight and have no ethical questions when doing business.
Canada and Burundi both have French as a second most spoken language (the most spoken language is English in Canada and Kirundi in Burundi).
Qatar and DRC both have noticable populations of muslims and natural resources. Both colonized,
south korea / north korea have nothing in common in terms of country building
Qatar and DRC are rich in natural resources. Canada’s and Burundi’s histories are defined by the conflict and compromise between the two major ethnic groups- English/French-Canadians and Hutus/Tutsis. Iceland and Ethiopia are very mountainous and they control an essential resource for their more powerful neighbors, causing conflict. Ethiopia controls Nile river water which flows to Egypt and Iceland had cod wars with the UK.
@@RK-cj4oc DRC majority is Christian tho
Loved all the points that were made here. The conclusion is very reasonable and I fully agree now. Before this video I would've thought that the two least similar countries would be North and South Korea but this makes WAY more sense!
Only different politically and economically. North and South Korea have the same racial and ethnic groups, same language, many similar traditions, etc. They were the same country in the past after all.
@@Nutty151 That is absolutely correct, those are the types of things I didn't think about when forming my initial opinion
I disagree Niger was colonised by France for decades but Japan was never invaded so it’s does matter
but isn't that also what make them so different? one was a colonized country and the other was the colonizer.
That makes them even more different, proving the Creator's point.
No, it doesn't matter, plus Japan was destroyed in ww2
We Americans occupied Japan for nearly 7 years. This after sinking virtually the entire IJN, firebombing every city to rubble (except: Osaka (spared due to cultural importance), Kokura, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and other cities planned for nuclear attacks), nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, invaded the Japanese Island of Okinawa, and following the surrender aboard BB-63 USS Missouri, soft invasion of Japan's mainland.
I didn’t know you were Welsh until I heard you say years. Great video
Burkina Faso and Canada
United States and North Korea
Eritrea and Norway
are 3 I can think of from the top of my head.
Switzerland and Somalia
Burkina Faso and Canada both speak French
If, according to legend, Kim Jong Il invented the cheeseburger then North Korea and the US have something in common.
NK kills 0 Foreigners
USA kills thousands of Foreigners
@@rtemper Quebec you mean
New subscriber after this and one of your other videos!! Now you have me questioning something you may be interested in looking into, possibly? How has internet connectivity in a country affected its religious views ratios over the past 20 or so years? If enough data is present, and enough countries are compared, this could be really neat if it goes the way I think it may.
I have a great idea I need a geography yter to make a video on the different regions and characteristics within the Sahara desert. It has many different types of landscapes etc.
Hi Sam,
Can you make a video comparing Japan and Albania because they are opposites of each other and it would be fun to make a video about? 😊
I might’ve gone for Luxembourg and Bangladesh but this works too
both are extremely densely populated
@@pawsindmeinlieblingsfach3518 yes also city states are always different anyway... Bangladesh vs Russia can happen though
Me too
@@abhisekdas435 em yeah maybe but Russia is poor, sexist, racist, and exophobic too but just probably Bangladesh is way more poor. In population density Russia and Bangladesh are waaaay different though.
Both speak an Indo-European language
Well even though you got the two most different countries, both Japan and Niger still share a lot of similarities. Both have very low immigration rates, both countries are homogenous, both countries have severe, harsh punishments for crimes
Niger is homogenous? There are plenty of different peoples of Niger. Fula, Hausa, Yoruba, Kanuri, Ijaw, theres tons
@@carljohnson4320 oh sorry I forgot about the different ethnicities in even single African countries.
@@carljohnson4320 are the Fula, Housa and Yoruba different on a cultural and linguistic level or are they also different on a genetic level? I know there is A LOT of genetic diversity in Africa, so much so that even two ethnicities in Africa can be more different from each other than a Portuguese man is to a Han Chinese man. And this is if I exclude Northern African countries and South Africa.
@@supermonk3y07 language and culture yes, most Hausa and Fula are Muslims. And I do not think there is a genetic difference in the tribes but Hausa and Fulani are known for being nomads so should have diff genetics
LOLLLLLLL you're probably one of the people who think Africans are all the same ethnicity
Haiti and the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 They share the same island but that’s about all they have in common. Please do a comparative analysis of them 😊
Great video. One minor mistake though, maybe a bit pedantic. You were talking about the average ages, whereas your source indicated medians. Mean and median are very different metrics
I thought it would be Finland and Niger as the lifestyle, opportunity, economy, culture, population and location are so different. Your choice works too, but the villages of J***n may not be that dissimilar.
why did you censor japan
@@OlexsiiKovtan not a man of culture, i see
@@OlexsiiKovtan Didn't want to give away the answer in the comment. I only mention Niger as it was my opinion. Nothing against Japan, love the county.
@@GeographyNuts People would still be able to figure it out, as far as I'm aware there's only one country that starts with a J, ends with an N and has five letters.
Interesting I thought of Denmark and the Western Sahara, but you mentioned population which I think these two are quite similar, everything else though matches up.
I guess they don't teach you in Denmark that western Sahara is not a country 😑😒
Western Sahara isn't recognized by many countries, hence it is a very controversial country to talk about, he probably would avoid controversy of such a manner
@@giviko1709 it’s not a country, only visiting it will make you realize that it’s completely similar to Northern Morocco and its people identify as Moroccan
@@giviko1709 Cities like Laayoune, Smara, Dakhla, Lagouira are all fully controlled by the government, so Western Sahara is moroccan
@@XY2Moroccoball Your comment is proving my point mate, many people do not recognize it as a different country and the entire comment section of a video showing West Sahara as a country would just be people like you explaining how it's not. It also has some land it controls that Moroccans don't, but mostly useless landlocked desert that can't be used for anything remotely useful.
French is the official language of Niger, but it is almost entirely spoken as a second language. It is also only the third most widely spoken language. Niger has about a dozen distinct cultural groups speaking as many as 32 languages, Japan is (excepting Iceland) the world only and certainly largest monocultural state, with one ethno-cultural group and one language.
portugal?
@@giantandomniscientlevitati8969 Portugal is a third the size of Japan, and has a twelfth of the population. They also have multiple additional cultural influences such as Arab and Spanish. But that was a good suggestion.
There is the aniu language
@@ciyrainshgaming507 Which is nearly extinct if I recall correctly.
Impressive
Switzerland and Bangladesh
Don't underestimate Bangladesh! They have an enormous economic development, important industries, a railroad network and a birthrate at replacement level. Schools are usual, and mass transit in the capital is under construction.
@@rolandschmidt3432 PROUD BENGALI!!!! (coming from a realer point, yeah you are true, the capital (dhaka) has MANY and i mean MANY skyscraper projects and transit projects in planning, and our economy is growing by about 10% every year. we already surpassed india in gdp per capita)
@@tasnim569 That was in 2020, India's GDP per Capita is still higher than Bangladesh at $2568, the latter one being $2498, so not much difference. But when we talk about GDP per Capita (PPP), India is far ahead at $6800 while Bangladesh is at $5300. Moreover, GDP per Capita doesn't reflect the whole picture of the economy. For Ex. Liechtenstein is the richest country on planet in terms of GDP per Capita, nearly double that of the USA, but we all know who's the most influential and powerful among both of them. It's needless to say that only GDP per Capita shows how developed a country is, period.
@@alexresse4586 NOOOOOO not the cringey “period”!
@@icebird8575 Lmaooo sorry mate 😂
Gud vido.
Another way to find two very different countries is by looking at the Democracy Index done by the EIU, on top this year was Norway, on the bottom is Afghanistan… Wonder if there’s two more different countries than that?
But they're both mountainous.
Burundi vs Iceland
This video could have indeed been called, "What is the biggest possible culture shock?"
The population status for Cameroon is not correct about 28,000,000 other than the 24,000,000 show in the video. But I do love the video very much 👍👍👍👍
Maybe that's just how fast its growing- 4 million increase in a few hours
@@nathanwu6296 it is already 1 billion now
Maybe it is because it is Niger vs Japan. NOT Cameroon
@@aigenerated6786 its already 10 trillion
@@tasnim569 dang its already 87 trillion now
Only thing i managed to remember is Archapelago is his favorite word
I would say monaco and mongolia, or liechtentein and bangladesh
Cool 😎
Before watching the video I would say Switzerland and North Korea. One is a european capitalist democracy home to wealthy bankers known for making chocolate and being extremely neutral, and one is an Asian communist dictatorship full of poor people that wants to take over south korea and is known for making guns and nuclear weapons
Nestlé is equal to or worse than the North Korean government
As a 16 Year old, i'm glad that i'm older than the Average Person in at least ONE Country.
I'm 17 now!
i was thinking something like, canada vs timor-leste
I quickly guessed something like Burundi and South Korea, kinda on the right track
South Korea was poorer than almost all the African countries. South Korea wasn't a developed country until 2005. Also, Korea has social problems and some economic problems as well. Their society is very judgemental and very superficial. They're racist, classist, sexist, and even ageist.. there's a lot of pressure for them to get into the top universities, otherwise their salaries aren't that high and they're barely making it to the end of the month in Korea.
@@supermonk3y07 한국을 시기질투하는 흔한 후진국 열등감 덩어리
Why does this guy speak exactly like my essays?
Switzerland-Tuvalu
Norway and Burundi
The US vs Bhutan
Compare IQs between the nations
Your IQ < everyone else
Burundi 🇧🇮 and Monaco 🇲🇨
They're both densely populated.
In my opinion it’s Singapore and North Korea
Singapore is rich, happy, fun, free, peaceful, healthy, safe,
North Korea is the exact opposite in everything
Rich dictatorship, poor dictatorship
They do have one thing in common; beautiful people ☺️
Can you name any of Niger's models, actors etc.?
My guess before watching was Norway and Somalia
US/Bhutan?
I’d say Luxembourg and Afghanistan
It is sad how poor countries experience a population boom. It is bad for the environment and the world. They should try to stop the population explosion.
Yess they do it by not giving them food and HealthCare
I originally guessed something from the Middle East, maybe UAE, and something from Sahara Africa, but no specifics.
I did decently.
Burundi and Japan
Monaco and Gabon
What about Bangladesh and Canada?
Bangladesh has people's money grabber(thieves)
Those thieves are given shelter by Canada!
both are a democracy
@@Tenjooonot really, bangladesh is very corrput
was expecting Switzerland and North Korea here
That is a good on, polar opposite in politics/freedom
Both are fortresses and drill their entire population sometimes.
North Korea and switzerland both have mountains
Fun fact. Kim Jong Un went to school in Switzerland
@@GeographyNuts Switzerland is surprisingly conservative, Nordics or Canada are much further advanced in terms of freedom.
Monaco and Indonesia or DRC
1:40 it's a median of age, not average ;)
median is a type of average
median is an average though
You did Niger dirty.
This video is just a diss to Niger Republic.
and it didn’t need to be a diss video for example
“DISGUSTINGLY hot year round”
Since when is “hot” disgusting? Since you used it to describe an African country I guess. 🤦🏽♂️
Heat waves in Europe and USA are described as hot summer, heat wave, Sun soaked etc.
Same heat but Africa: Disgustingly hot
Ikr
In the UK (where I'm from) we have a heatwave right now. I have heard it be called "disgustingly hot" 3 times in one day. Even the British news uses the phrase to describe the UK. It's a common phrase.
If you are unaware, the UK is not in Africa.
We call it a heatwave when it's comfortably warm, and disgustingly hot when it's uncomfortably warm. It has nothing to do with where the country is.
Bcz it is.
@@Chevron_ videos like these and media in general are more likely than not to use words with negative connotations towards African countries as opposed to non African countries especially European countries
CAR / Monaco
Austria and Somalia? Mongolia and Costa Rica?
Well said👍👏
I think its North and south korea or Liechtenstein and burundi.
I would say Mongolia and South Korea
Central America has really changed
South Korea and North Korea
Luxembourg and Burundi
Is what I'd say
south and north korea are similar culturally
OMG 😳 i guess right japan 🗾 vs African country
Niger, like almost all African countries (the only exception I can think of is Ethiopia though perhaps Egypt too), is a European construct. Very unlike Japan.
best not think too much, a lot of these people are proud of their nations.
I’m Nigerian and I’m not proud nigeria should’ve never existed the British were too damn greedy
Mali and Japan
USA Android Burkina Faso
Canada and peru
North korea and south korea, if we're talking economy n political wise
As someone currently living in Japan, this makes me want to visit Niger now.
Niger is one of the world's most dangerous countries.
Adopting a country possible? how about each country buddies up . Not Chinese sugar daddy diplomacy or new commonwealth type thing .
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Timor Leste and Surinam
This is the most argumentative comment section I've ever seen on TH-cam lmao
North Korea and South Korea
Croatia and Serbia. One is good, the other is bad.
I thought it was sk and nk
I thought it was interesting that when you had Taiwan on one of your lists you had a dash instead of a number. Do you guys not recognize Taiwan 🇹🇼?
Pretty sure he got it from a website, he didn't make the list idk though
Taiwan is not fully recognised inthe world, which iw probably why the list didn’t give Taiwan a number. He’s not the one who made the list though
Micronesia and Russia
do the MOST similar countries in the world
According to the country similarity index used in this video, Qatar and the UAE are the most similar countries in the world
@@tpu4179 Anglophone Countries and Continental Western Half of Mainland Europe are similar indeed but with different languages
N. Korea 🇰🇵 and Norway 🇳🇴
What's interesting about this one is that North Korea and Norway are separated by just one country: Russia
Japan has oledat average if You Don’t count micro countries like monaco monaco has oldest
Indonesia and idk
Luxembourg maybe, small and landlocked, rich, no volcanoes
According to the country similarity index used in this video, Indonesia and Canada are the least similar countries in the world.
i thought singapore and DR congo
Will an arid country like Niger be able to accommodate so many people?
I feel these predictions are useless.
The living conditions would be atrocious but if a country the size of the uk can hold 67 million, the southern area of Niger could possibly hold just as many and more
But yeah the predictions are useless
@@kd4n347
UK has a long coastline, 1000 times better infrastructure than Niger, larger arable land and good friends (allies).
@@Abhinav_Sengupta infrastructure will be able to improve when countries develop.
The Least similar to be Germany vs Congo
Nigeria has resources to. It is heavily exploited
The least similar countries in history is the World and North Sentinel Island
One more thing: Niger has a future, Japan has only history.
What do you mean ? Japan doesn't have a futre to you? I don't think so. Japan has history and future. All contries have both.
@@yr7283 i think That japan would be colonize by china
Big noses are for breathing better?
yeah they absorb more oxygen, which is important in humid climates as there is more water in the air
@@tasnim569 I have a really big nose
Should I be proud?
@@aksamhuda7 d
I know two countries that arnt a like at all the Netherlands an Afghanistan.
The Dutch are known for having liberal marijuana laws, while Afghanistan cultivates the opium poppy plants for heroin. Or at least it used to.
Your spelling is wrong
It's not Knee Jar
It's Naee Jar
yeah but that pronounciation sounds like something else
North Korea vs South Korea
Both have the same language, both have the same culture, both have similar food, Both are neighbors
Lol NK doesn't have food while SK has mukbang
Japan germany and Italy are the oldest country
Me: mmmmmh sus
The most similar thing is they are both on the earth...
And they're both countries.
@@Daisukiii and they both have people
Japan and Chad
There´s one metric they come close, suicide rate
I really expected to see North and South Korea for some reason
I thought you meant the 2 most different neighbouring countries. Was going to say PNG and Australia. The continent of Africa will overtake Asia as the most populated continent on Earth in 100 years. Japan has to be the most xenophobic country on earth. Seeing they won't admit foreigners their population will shrink substantially in the next several decades. There will be alot fewer young people to care for the elderly peoples needs, especially health care
Japanese not related to any other language: bs, a large portion of its vocabulary comes straight from Chinese.
The Japonic language family is completely separate to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Just because today they use some borrowed vocabulary does not mean they are related. The only group of languages that it is even thought may share a relationship with the Japonic is the Koreanic, but it is still unknown.
A comparison on education and literacy would have been interesting too.
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Do similar countries to Mexico
Do most dissimilar countries to Mexico
According to the country similarity index used in this video,Mexico and Colombia are the most similar countries in the world,most dissimilar country to Mexico is Somalia