Flag Friday! ESTONIA (Geography Now!)
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That forest photo though. So cool! :)
thanks ou i am estonian
Yea basically every estonian has seen it including me
Thank you i am from estonia
Thank you I am also from estonia
Seriously, who cares if they're 'nordic', 'eastern' or 'northern.' Estonia is a great country no matter what, don't change your flag. I think it's really beautiful. Love from Spain.
im estonian and i agree
Aww, thanks. (im estonian)
me too
The flag don't matter, but they could join the Nordic passport union & become full members of the Nordic council.
Well, I think if they want to they should go for it. If the nation feels like they're more in touch with their Nordic history and want to show that by changing their flag, it's their right. I don't think it's a bad thing to want to connect with their roots and make it visible. Also, Latvians and Lithuanians usually say that Estonia isn't Baltic because the people there aren't related to them at all.
We watched your video on Estonia in our English class today
...Are you in Estonia?
yeah
Aaa sa oled eestlane siis. Mis tunnis?
inglise keeles
Gollonia Geegee
Estonians: please don't change your flag. It's the coolest flag in the world and most people are aware of the nordic connection.
why not both
It's almost trippy (with respect) when looking at pictures like the one in this video and then looking at the flag as it is now. Just my personal opinion.
Hence the both part. Lots of people don't seam to know the sigifigance of the cross, many take it for being religious. The sideways nordic cross is not a symbol for christianity but one for nordisim, you use a nordic cross flag to show the world "I AM NORDIC" while a off center, multicolored circle says, we are not nordic but subjugated by them (sapmi & greenland) when estonians use a tricolor they are basically making a statement saying "our revolution is more important than our nordicness". however wouldn't it be cool if estonia became the first nation in the world to use 2 flags simultaneously
I know I'm biased, because I'm Estonian myself, but I think that our flag is really aesthetically pleasing, plus the fact that it looks like blue sky, the forest and the white snow. Top 3 flag for sure to me. I personally hope that we never adopt the nordic cross variant, although the one with blue base and white cross outlined by black looks kinda cool.
I agree, the Estonian flag is easily the sexiest flag in the world
Youre flag basic af lol. It's literally 3 stripes of blue black and white.
kr0pp I like your flag, the palette compliments each other.
I am a Czech myself, so Im unbiased about the Estonian flag, and i really like it! It feels both unique, and pleasant to look at. Props.
My favorite is still Bhutan though, with the dragon on the yellow-orange border c:
The Estonian flag is my favourite without a doubt, the Union Jack being a close second due to its unique design.
still on top of the list of my favorite flags.
Really?! Its so generic lmao
+TPCWorld - Top 5 Space Videos! "Nice and simple" is a good way to answer you.
Simplicity at its finest.
Same
When I think of Estonia, I think of winter and snow.
When I think of Latvia and Lithuania, I think of summer and sun.
I don't know why this is, but I guess that makes Estonia pretty nordic to me.
It's probably the Blue and White combination which makes you think of snow and winter.
The Duke Of Estonia yeah probably
when i visited latvia i noticed it was much warmer there even tho it was summer (i live in estonia)
Samovar maker estonia is not snowy
When I think of the three, I think snow.
Actually the history of Estonian flag is much more interesting. The colours blue, black and white were first adopted and are still used by Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts (EÜS, Estonian Students' Society) which is the oldest academic student organization in Estonia. The first flag which was made in 1884 is still intact and kept in Estonian National Museum. I recommend to Google it :)
BLOOD OF THOSE WHO F.....Oh wait....
Seriously though, question for you guys, which one of the "Nordic variants" is your favorite?
Enjoy #Estonia's FLAG FRIDAY!
My favorite is the white base with black outlined blue cross. But I think it will look the same in distance with Finnish flag. So I'll go with blue base and black outlined white cross!
I'm not even nordic or estonian, I just love nordic/scandinavian countries in general .-.
EESTI
The 1st!
third one of course
1st!
I really like the current one, but the 1st Nordic Cross (with blue background and white cross) looks freaking beautiful!
agree i also like the other top Nordic Cross.
No, the other top Nordic cross looks too similar to finland.
I like the one with the black cross, with white in it. (the 3rd one)
I really like the top left one and the bottom left. To me it should be changed to one of the two.
I like the top left and the bottom right. the top right looks too similar to finland.
the first nordic estonia flag looks gooood
Barby, can you add population density when talking about the population in future Geography now videos? Also the name of the national anthem. I think those two would be really cool additions.
BARBY NEEDS TO SEE THIS!
*+*
Can't like on mobile
+koolipoiss27 Nice, what does that mean in English?
My fatherland , my joy and happiness . Something like that
Seriously though I have a weird obsession with Estonia. Seems like such a cool country.
Taco1011 same
Come and visit then ;)
Thx;)
Same
Iris Kreen I agree with the commenter but.. how? I’m an 11 year old child in California. I’ve never been out of country and the only time I’ve ever gone out of state or even on a plane was when I was 4 years old and went to my Aunt in Ohio’s wedding
1:51 Just like Bandiaterra🙃
If you know you know xD
And Dominica.
It is important to note, that Estonia was never conquered by the Livonians, but the Livonian Brothers of the Sword who actually were German.
Exactly. The Livonians were aqually part of the Finno-Ugry family and were indepedent until the Prussian Teutonic Order came in and began the "Baltic Crusade".
I have no idea. We just called Livonians ------------Liivlased.
Livonian Confederation consisted of both Estonia and Livonia, so I would still consider it incorrect to say that Livonians conquered Estonia. There is a good reason why Estonians say that there was 700 years of serdom under Germans and not Livonians. The Latter would also include Estonians themselves.
No mention of how the flag was the flag of the Estonian Student's Society before it became the national flag? Love the Estonian flag. My favorite tricolor.
Wow, you have been doing pretty hard work researching all this stuff! Right now you are famous in here Estonia!!!😊😄🔵⚫⚪
He's even more famous in Bandiaterra.
Some say he's the most famous person in Bandiaterra
The blue background with black-outline white Nordic cross is life goals.
im estonian! Eesti on parim
ma ka
nõustun
Tere
Estonia's probably the coolest country no one's heard of.
If by "coolest" you mean "lowest average temperature", then you might be on to something. Everyone probably has heard of countries that are "cooler" than Estonia on average. (At least when I google it I find Estonia in the top 10 with all the other 9 being far better known.)
Aerroon
No...by coolest I mean coolest.
coolEST? ;)
1:40 I like the top left flag best
I have to say Estonia and the Baltics have some of the most unique flags of Europe.
I just wanted to clarify since you didn't mention it here that Estonia thought about joining the Nordic countries 100 years ago already after it gained independence in 1919 and the design for all the Nordic flags was done then too. So it's not a new idea.
Paul Many parts of Estonia were under Polish-Lithuanian Commonwelath rules as well.
Its amazing how precise information, good job! :)
On the sides of the Estonian SSR coat of arms, there writes "Workers of the world, unite!", in both Estonian and Russian, not "Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic". In the middle, there is only the abbreviation (Estonian SSR).
yes and estonian ssr means estonian soviet socialist republic
thats what he meant
I've always loved the many different Soviet inspired coat of arms, i know it's propaganda, but i just find them so aesthetically pleasing.
***** The Soviets used roughly the same coat of arms for all of the SSRs. Even the RSFSR.
Ivar Kich, Communism was the best thing to happen to this country. The only "occupants" are NATO.
@@sonya7025 Communism and Nazism are in close competition in terms of how cool they are
Im from estonia and i live there. I really enjoy these videos 🇪🇪
Siiick love your vids and Btw I am from Estonia so greetings from here!
I also really love geography love learning it in school!
Latvia Ball Hey
Hello from Sweden!
+luminoustarisma hey
hello from Portugal, hope i visit Estónia one day
Thanks For Putting Out This Vid On My B-Day
Ohhh i love the Estonian flag and coat of arms! And that forest picture tho, it's great! Love from Indonesia. ❤
1:30 Thanks for including this. 20 years ago in my college world geography class I wondered why while leaning more towards being Nordic instead of eastern European the had a tri-colors instead of a Nordic cross
I'm from Estonia. Your videos are so cool ✌I wish you luck. 👌
I love how flag friday is about more then just about flags. Its also about history!!!
Thank you for making this flag video, Paul! My favourite of the 4 Nordic variants are the ones on the top row, but I must confess that I really love the one on the top right side. It would be so awesome if Estonia could adopt that flag and join club Nordic (the Nordic council)...
Also, splendid, now I have a new for the country my mother was born in: the _Eesti NSR_ or the Эстонская ССР. I really like Estonia’s current coat of arms with the blue lions! I only wish I had some blue lions...
Estonias national bird "suitsupääsuke" was selected because under its wing is seen the combination of blue black and white. It was also on the 500 ekr bill when we had it. The national flower "Rukkilill" is also a combination of blue black and white.
its in top 5 of my fav flags ....simple and nice
Väga lahe video. Good job :)
omg I'm from Estonia and you posted the video a day before my birthday.
Thanks for the vid I’m from Estonia
Yes, people, I recently discovered your channel through CZcams in Estonia, and now I love what you're doing :D I'm also interested in geography, history, culture, music.
BTW, one of those cross flag concepts (don't remember which) is often seen at football matches with a foreign country :D
Now I'm really intrested about estonian culture and history.Greetings from Poland!
Barbi you where also on one of the most popular danish news media :)
1:49
Bulgaria: Oh hi reverse version of me!
I'd totally make Estonia a Nordic country. The only problem being that I'm not Nordic... The top left flag was definitely the best variant though
love the both on top the right one is more like this finnish type XD
Thanks doc
i live in Estonia! in a small town called Kohtla-Nõmme! "Armastan seda videot!" that means "i love this video!"
I agree. I Have Learned more in this video than my all school time. I'm from Estonia
Estonia has such a pretty flag, I love the colors! ^_^
2:50 Umm, the wreaths on the sides read the Soviet motto in Estonian (”Kõigi maade proletaarlased, ühinege!”) and in Russian («Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!»); which both mean: ”Proletarians of the world, unite!”. Only in the center does it read: ”Eesti NSV” (”Estonian SSR”).
I really like how you made a video of my country.
I don't know, but after all the videos about Estonia that you posted now I really want to visit that country. And I don't even know why, it has something
Points for using "vexillological" in a sentence, even though it's a rare time when he does a silly pronunciation. Truly enjoy that Barbs does his background work and respects each place & its people-groups to do his best to accurately pronounce place names and other words
Congrats for getting your video covered on Estonian cyberspace.
that forest photo is like an entry in the postcards for Eurovision 2014.
Many Estonians could have had blue blood. Just saying...
WIN
...or black o_0
VertyBlox So you're saying the blue in the flag does not stand for the blood of the fallen who were defending the country? ;-)
Fedor Steeman no..we sang for freedom and we got it...
Once you've been screwed by so many different nations, having blue blood is kinda out of the question.
I know it still has a long way, but I'm really excited for the Portugal Episode ;:p you can count on me to tell you some things about the Archipelago of Madeira wich has a different kind of culture from mainsland Portugal :p
One of my favorite flags
Much love
2:18 Thank you for giving vexillology/heraldry nerds their recognition :D
Estonia can into Nordic
you totally should make retrospective videos for the coat of arms you haven't done!
Hi Barby. Greetings from Iceland. I hope you visit someday
If they had chosen to go with a nordic cross type flag with those three colours, the fimbriation should be a metal (in this case white). The concepts described here somewhat went another direction. It's not that you have to follow the rule of tincture with flags, but it looks better. The flag of Faroe Islands goes against this rule by using a blue fimbriation, but i guess this was pretty much because you can only have so many combinations of red white and blue with the nordic cross before they start to look the same. To use a white field is kind of bold.
i dont know about uprisings in Harjumaa in year 1314. however, in 1343 big uprising called Jüriöö ülestõus (umlaut time!) indeed started from Harjumaa.
Its really funny how he says some words in estonian bc im estonian myself :D
I don't know what makes this flag so good looking. I just really like the look. I don't know whether its the colours or the arrangement, but it's just a good looking flag.
This flag was made before 20th century actually.
On the 29th of september 1881 it was the flag of Estonian Students' Society in Tartu what was made in 1870 they made this flag and Estonia adopted this flag for their national and countrys flag.
1:37 i like the one on the top left
No problem my guy
One of the best tri-colored flags IMO.
After you do UN countries can you do Autonomous Regions such as Abkhazia, New Caledonia and Cook Islands
Can't wait for Latvia.
Bulgaria also had 3 lions on a shield
I want to ask you geography now a question top 3 unique country based on general aspects
fun with flags
Today I was walking in my tiwn and I found this little badge with three Blue lions and a yellow background. I remembered when you talked about the danish coat of arms and I looked for hearts but there werent any. Then a few hours later I watch your video and I see the Estonian coat of arms and I'm like "Oh! That's the one I picked up earlier!" ps. I live in Norway
the first one on the top is my favo
Thanks a lot for this very interesting video about the the Estonian flag and coat of arms but there is a big mistake at 2:49.
In the communist coat of arms, "Kõigi maade proletaarlased, ühinege!" and "Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!" mean "Workers of the world, unite!", in Estonian and in Russian respectively. It doesn't read "the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic".
But it's true however that "Eesti NSV" in the center is the abbreviation for "Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik" ("Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic" in Estonian).
Thanks Barby from France for your awesome videos.
Un très grand merci à toi et à toute la super équipe de Geography Now. Passionné d'histoire et de géographie, j'apprécie toujours énormément vos vidéos !
Beautiful flag.
i live in Estonia!😊 in a small town called Kohtla-Nõmme! "Armastan seda videot!" that means "i love this video!"
I like the Nordic flag on the top left :)
I think the Nordic Flag on the Top right looks the best
As an Estonian this stuff is cool to know :D What people think about us is very interesting
white is snow, black is dark woods in backround , blue is sky
1:49 when you copy Bulgaria's homework
I am from estonia and I live in Hiiumaa and city Kärdla😀 and something from estonia you can translate it ,
Tere siin olen Hiiumaalt, now translate
A country that has been passed around? Reminds me of what I learned about Poland in History class.
Rafael Sabbat I Schaut nur, spielt selber nicht. You listened in history class? NERD!
Awesome Blobfish You have interests, you listen ;)
One of the most attractive flags ever.... I don't know what it is about it but I love it.
1:37
damn, that nice top left flag though..
Good luck with Latvian coat of arms(???). Everything, I think even colour, means something and there's bunch of stuff on it
2:19 *heraldic terminology! :P
i m est but i didnt know that we have been wanting to be nordic and those flags those were gool
im from estonia yay tere
do Latvia
2:21 *heraldic
Most beautiful flag in the world to me!
Ma võtsin just oma sokid ära..
Kaisa Lotta Käärik lol
Of the 4 Estonian Nordic variants here's what i think of each
1: This one is "ok" it's not my favourite, plus we already have Sweden & Åland which both have blue backgrounds so in a sense, no
2: This one's also is "ok", it's a little better than the other one TBH. But it does look like Finlands flag from afar so while it's "better" one some levels, no
3: I feel like this one has too much detail to it, that really narrow white line when there's already white in the bottom, is my nitpick, but other than that I find this one very plausable
4: I'll say it, the fourth one is the best one of the bunch, it keeps a simple design, the cross being narrower than Finland's is also a nice choice whoever designed it, All the colours fit together well, having the top blue and the bottom white is recognisable from afar. So yeah, if Estonia's gonna switch to one of these let it be the fourth one.
Please talk about mardi päev and kadri päev those are like halloween but instead of 1 holiday we have 2
also toady was teachers day ;)
meaning teachers dont teach you and 9th grade students teach even if im in 8th i got to teach since they needed more people
X3
Aguila701 yep
Aguila701 pärnu
Aguila701 right now boring the summer is like the party place but other seasons quite boring
Aguila701 most learn at 3rd i started at second
I started before school cause cartoons and older brothers and stuff :D so I got like basic stuff taught to me early and then its practially everything was easy until like the start of eight grade then it dropped from all years of fives to a four or something like that :/
Where do you do your research?