I Name the Subdivisions of Every Country in the World

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  • čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
  • In the tenth instalment of the naming series, I name every first-level subdivision in the world.
    Link to the quiz:
    www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/...
    I also exist on Twitter: / mercateer
    Chapters:
    00:00 Intro
    01:29 Starting the quiz - Canada
    02:47 USA and Mexico
    06:44 Belize and Guatemala
    08:25 El Salvador and Honduras
    09:54 Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
    12:08 Cuba and Jamaica
    13:31 Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    15:23 Bahamas
    17:04 St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda
    17:29 Dominica and St. Lucia
    18:20 St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada
    18:48 Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago
    20:05 Colombia and Venezuela
    22:25 Guyana and Suriname
    23:47 Brazil
    25:04 Ecuador and Peru
    26:40 Bolivia and Paraguay
    28:01 Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
    31:02 South Africa and Botswana
    32:10 Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini
    33:31 Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia
    34:38 Angola and Malawi
    35:39 Tanzania
    36:46 Democratic Republic of the Congo
    38:00 Rwanda and Republic of the Congo
    38:51 Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe
    40:25 Madagascar and Burundi
    42:48 Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius
    44:56 Kenya
    47:00 Uganda
    52:59 Somalia and Djibouti
    53:48 Eritrea and Ethiopia
    54:39 South Sudan and Sudan
    56:07 Central African Republic
    57:31 Cameroon and Nigeria
    59:34 Chad and Niger
    1:01:02 Mali and Burkina Faso
    1:02:03 Benin, Togo and Ghana
    1:03:05 Ivory Coast and Liberia
    1:05:38 Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
    1:06:17 Senegal, The Gambia and Cape Verde
    1:08:39 Mauritania and Morocco
    1:09:49 Egypt and Libya
    1:11:56 Tunisia
    1:12:44 Algeria
    1:15:59 Spain and Portugal
    1:17:46 Andorra and Monaco
    1:18:44 France
    1:20:41 Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
    1:21:54 Switzerland
    1:23:02 Italy, San Marino and Malta
    1:24:33 Germany and Austria
    1:25:51 United Kingdom and Ireland
    1:28:17 Liechtenstein
    1:28:50 Poland and the Czech Republic
    1:30:26 Slovakia and Hungary
    1:31:39 Slovenia
    1:40:30 Romania and Moldova
    1:44:02 Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
    1:45:27 Serbia and Kosovo
    1:46:57 Albania, Bulgaria and Greece
    1:49:40 Montenegro and North Macedonia
    1:54:21 Ukraine and Belarus
    1:56:13 The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania)
    1:58:46 Denmark and Norway
    1:59:40 Sweden and Finland
    2:01:17 Iceland
    2:05:21 Cyprus and Russia
    2:09:58 Turkey and Georgia
    2:13:18 Azerbaijan and Armenia
    2:16:42 Syria and Israel
    2:17:31 Jordan and Saudi Arabia
    2:18:23 Yemen and Oman
    2:19:46 United Arab Emirates and Lebanon
    2:20:41 Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar
    2:21:19 Iraq and Iran
    2:23:42 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
    2:25:17 Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
    2:25:51 Afghanistan and Pakistan
    2:27:16 India, Sri Lanka and Maldives
    2:29:53 Mongolia, Nepal and Bhutan
    2:32:07 Bangladesh and China
    2:34:10 North Korea and South Korea
    2:35:45 Japan and Taiwan
    2:38:36 Myanmar and Laos
    2:40:15 Cambodia and Vietnam
    2:45:07 Thailand
    2:48:54 Brunei and East Timor
    2:49:35 Malaysia and Indonesia
    2:51:42 Philippines
    2:52:48 Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia
    2:54:00 Marshall Islands
    2:54:55 Nauru, Samoa and Tuvalu
    2:56:50 Tonga and Papua New Guinea
    2:57:37 Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
    2:58:10 Fiji and New Zealand
    2:58:31 Australia
    2:59:06 Finishing the quiz
    2:59:32 Some acknowledgements
    Music credits:
    Cyberreality by Mehul Choudhary | / mehulchoudhary
    Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
    Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
    creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Every bit of pronunciation audio in this video has been downloaded from the fantastic website Forvo:
    forvo.com/
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  • @MercateerGeo
    @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +1645

    EDIT:
    There seem to be a few skeptics, which is fair I suppose, so here's a video from another angle:
    czcams.com/video/8VRJs_Xo8yM/video.htmlsi=H7SYUAdX2HBxFzDo
    Hello everyone!
    Due to the sheer size of this undertaking, I have run into some of CZcams's limitations:
    - I can't seem to have more than 100 chapters (timestamps), so I've had to group countries together rather haphazardly.
    - I've had to restrict the timestamp descriptions to country names, as I would otherwise run into the 5000 character limit.
    Also, some minor things I noticed or was made aware of:
    - I miss Mombasa when doing Kenya, but notice this at 2:43:58
    - I somehow forgot to add the flag and facts for Maldives
    - In Norway, *Møre- og Romsdal* was already completed, not Vestland
    This took 6 hours to render. 3 earlier attempts led to crashes, once at 97%.
    Enjoy!
    P.S. I regret not adding some more context to my brief comments on Ukraine/Russia. I meant that I can understand why JetPunk has chosen to consider Crimea Russian as it has been under Russian control for a decade. That said, I also understand that de facto conditions is *not* all that matters, and that by calling it Russian, one contributes to making the whole situation feel more normal/acceptable. In trying to give context to JetPunk's choice, but also wanting to move along as fast as possible, it came out way too nonchalant and one-sided.

    • @IGrindDiana
      @IGrindDiana Před 4 měsíci +11

      🔥

    • @No_One1939
      @No_One1939 Před 4 měsíci +12

      🔥

    • @zacheriah2102
      @zacheriah2102 Před 4 měsíci +86

      You also forgot to put how many districts Bhutan has.
      But I don't care about those details. You are amazing!

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +58

      @@zacheriah2102 Aw, heck! Well spotted 🔎

    • @ThePanEthiopian
      @ThePanEthiopian Před 4 měsíci +9

      Now get off the computer and relax your brain 🧠 🙄

  • @Blueskies2513
    @Blueskies2513 Před 4 měsíci +9703

    what unemployed guys do when their girlfriend is at work

    • @Elmlea.y
      @Elmlea.y Před 4 měsíci +196

      Is true, I am the girlfriend

    • @Auloss
      @Auloss Před 3 měsíci +47

      Spot fucking on

    • @Blueskies2513
      @Blueskies2513 Před 3 měsíci +1

      im not a beta or a boyfriend :)@@MeYouInTheCarSex

    • @soundstation8343
      @soundstation8343 Před 3 měsíci +46

      @@Elmlea.y It’s true, I’m your boyfriend

    • @aimbotxd7992
      @aimbotxd7992 Před 3 měsíci +70

      @@soundstation8343 It's true, I'm your walls.

  • @g-ray4088
    @g-ray4088 Před 4 měsíci +8448

    "i genetically modified my hippocampus for a youtube video"

  • @ajrob1546
    @ajrob1546 Před 4 měsíci +2269

    I am from Slovenia and have never meet a pearson who could name 1/4 of all municipalities. Respect man I think you deserve a citizenship.

    • @GabrielFariaOQue
      @GabrielFariaOQue Před 3 měsíci +124

      I have 22 cousins and can't even name all them at once. This guy is crazy.

    • @IchabodvanTassel98
      @IchabodvanTassel98 Před 3 měsíci +23

      I only know Maribor due to learning about conflicts among Slovenes and Germans during the last days of WW1

    • @ricardomilos7419
      @ricardomilos7419 Před 2 měsíci +30

      A world citizenship

    • @FFortatech
      @FFortatech Před 2 měsíci +34

      you can say that Slovene municipalities look like a phone screen after you drop it from 3rd floor

    • @alexalekos
      @alexalekos Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​​@@IchabodvanTassel98i know maribor, gorica and trnva because of football

  • @goigus
    @goigus Před měsícem +1302

    This man doesn't just name every subdivision, he nails every pronunciation

    • @zinomanezinomybe8244
      @zinomanezinomybe8244 Před měsícem +35

      As a lithuanian i can say that he was surprisingly good

    • @Michael-yy2vl
      @Michael-yy2vl Před měsícem +28

      Slovakia was gobshite, but its not surprising considering our language :)

    • @118Shadow118
      @118Shadow118 Před měsícem +11

      @@zinomanezinomybe8244 as a latvian, he missed some long vowels, but generally really good

    • @tinkornhardfist7574
      @tinkornhardfist7574 Před měsícem +38

      He was decent but I wouldn't say that he "nails" every pronunciation.

    • @zinomanezinomybe8244
      @zinomanezinomybe8244 Před měsícem +6

      @@118Shadow118 yeah i don't say he was perfect, but i know how foreigners say our names and words (butcher it), so for lithuanian he would be 4/10, for foreigner 9/10

  • @JamesA.Garfield
    @JamesA.Garfield Před 4 měsíci +3420

    This is a feat that no human has accomplished and uploaded for the world to see. The amount of time and effort put into this is absolutely astounding. I congratulate you heavily on this, I am dumbfounded on how you even managed to remember all of these names, especially when the translation of them comes out with extremely awkward spelling. You have come a very long way from naming the subdivisions by continent, which was already impressive enough. Outstanding work, Mercateer 👍👍

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +151

      Thank you!! It's been a grind 😅

    • @bbruh2018
      @bbruh2018 Před 4 měsíci +8

      Cough cough muskox....

    • @JamesA.Garfield
      @JamesA.Garfield Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@bbruh2018 he never uploaded himself doing the entire world.

    • @alimbis
      @alimbis Před 4 měsíci +7

      104 104 did this a long time ago in about half the time

    • @cadentrevino5746
      @cadentrevino5746 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@MercateerGeonow do all the second order ones a im jk

  • @SHUTUPDOOKIE
    @SHUTUPDOOKIE Před 4 měsíci +3360

    “You cant name literally every single subdivision of every country on the entire planet? Your obviously American!!”

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +386

      @ndesloten2654I didn't skip it, the provinces are second-level subdivisions, which aren't covered in this quiz

    • @irmaosmatos4026
      @irmaosmatos4026 Před 4 měsíci +223

      @@MercateerGeo if second level divisions were in the quiz, naming every county in the US, every municipality in Brazil, Mexico, and of course China, Russia and India would be absolute madness.

    • @MinerBat
      @MinerBat Před 4 měsíci +7

      @@MercateerGeo...then what is the first level? because as far as i know the provinces are the first subdivision here after the whole country

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +141

      @@MinerBat Yes, it can be a bit confusing, because The *Kingdom* of the Netherlands includes Netherlands as a constituent country, but there are three other constituent countries: Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. This is the first level.

    • @haroeneissa790
      @haroeneissa790 Před 4 měsíci +8

      ​@@MercateerGeoyes, but now I couldn't hear you talk any dutch which would have been the highlight of the video.

  • @tylparys
    @tylparys Před 3 měsíci +524

    I thought one could easily cheat in this challenge and watching with suspicion. I was convinced it was legit immediately when you started Turkey, because no foreigner can pronounce those names that accurately without actually knowing about them. Nailed even the emphasize on certain vowels. Wow! That was an instant like&sub. You even know meanings of those names. I’m in awe.

    • @hognigk96
      @hognigk96 Před měsícem +20

      He also pronounced the Icelandic and Norwegian municipalities as good as any foreigner I’ve ever heard. This guy’s legit.

    • @romanpopyk
      @romanpopyk Před měsícem +5

      ​@@hognigk96 his Slavic pronunciation is also great

    • @hognigk96
      @hognigk96 Před měsícem +5

      Man can speak every language

    • @NoireEiki
      @NoireEiki Před měsícem +3

      his Japanese pronouncication is also pretty good

    • @SpectraVV
      @SpectraVV Před měsícem

      he pronounced the Azerbaijani ones well too, considering all the throat consonants

  • @aoe4037
    @aoe4037 Před měsícem +71

    i have the same type of autism

  • @stupiditiusmaximus
    @stupiditiusmaximus Před 4 měsíci +1253

    Wow this is an insane achievement, I never thought I'd see somebody name all the subdivisions of Vatican City.

  • @SomewhatClassyGoose
    @SomewhatClassyGoose Před 4 měsíci +1365

    *casually names every single subdivision for 2 hours straight*

    • @foxy126pl6
      @foxy126pl6 Před 4 měsíci +106

      3*

    • @MIOKONE
      @MIOKONE Před 3 měsíci +19

      yeah that's gonna be 3

    • @DeadlyLazer
      @DeadlyLazer Před 2 měsíci +9

      ..with surprisingly accurate pronounciations

    • @a_wazza
      @a_wazza Před 2 měsíci

      @@DeadlyLazer I was thrown off by him interpreting the j in Malay and Indonesian to be like the 'j' in many European languages (y) when it's really like the 'j' in English (e.g. Java, Johor)

    • @DeadlyLazer
      @DeadlyLazer Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@a_wazza yeah which is why I said "surprisingly" accurate. It's not exactly 100%, but still definitely close enough to be impressive to come from a foreigner. And lets not forget he's doing this with pretty much every major language on the planet.

  • @daffadnp
    @daffadnp Před měsícem +64

    he even knows the newest state of a country, but the game didn't recognize it.
    bro >>> the game

  • @andresyesidmorenovilla7888
    @andresyesidmorenovilla7888 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Holy shit, this is insane! Massive props! I cannot fathom the amount of time and practice this must have taken you!

  • @seiferklydeparco7608
    @seiferklydeparco7608 Před 4 měsíci +1720

    There is a channel called Geography Sam that is always dreaming of naming all first-level subdivisions of the world.

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +279

      I just saw him play a flag colouring game that I simply *have* to try myself

    • @ericmamleev
      @ericmamleev Před 4 měsíci +1

      *Friends, I did 23 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*

    • @thegoofiestgoooberr
      @thegoofiestgoooberr Před 3 měsíci +16

      @@MercateerGeohow long did this take you? i’ve been learning some in my free time for about 5 days and i have usa, canada, mexico, belize, russia, zimbabwe, malaysia, indonesia, and australia done
      UPDATE: india, china, el salvador, guatemala, honduras

    • @h....7971
      @h....7971 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@thegoofiestgoooberrcomo vocês fazem pra aprender isso? 🫠Alguma dica?

    • @thegoofiestgoooberr
      @thegoofiestgoooberr Před 3 měsíci

      @@h....7971 I’ve just been using seterra. I start on pin mode then graduate to type once I’m ready.

  • @tristansojer4901
    @tristansojer4901 Před 4 měsíci +1080

    As someone from Slovenia, sorry for the additional torture lol. Pretty much everyone in our country thinks it's ridiculous how many municipalities we have.
    Congrats on the achievement, I don't think I'll ever have this type of dedication!

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +183

      I promise I didn't take it personally ;) I actually got a better sense of the pronunciation of slavic languages in general by practising so much, so it wasn't all bad! (that said, I still got many of them wrong x.x)

    • @AllanLimosin
      @AllanLimosin Před 4 měsíci +84

      Not that it's uncommon to have that many municipalities, but it's weird not to have upper level administrative divisions, like regions or states. Same goes for Latvia I believe.

    • @BlackThreath1234
      @BlackThreath1234 Před 4 měsíci +38

      Slovenia was like the middle boss that is actually hardest than the final boss

    • @broyderpole7497
      @broyderpole7497 Před 4 měsíci +4

      I guess you could say the number of slovenian municipalities is obscene 😏

    • @steffkepn2
      @steffkepn2 Před 4 měsíci +19

      Not even Slovenians can't name all of their municipalities 🤣 greetings from Serbia

  • @VectraVX
    @VectraVX Před 3 měsíci +31

    When I saw this video on my feed, clicked on it, and saw your channel and I thought it said 39k subscriber. But only 3.9k? That’s wild. But with this sort of content, you’re gonna have absolutely no problem growing the channel. Phenomenal effort my guy, I’ve been working towards being able to name every subdivision but am nowhere near as confident and knowledgable as you! Well done mate, good luck with your future crazy projects

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 3 měsíci +4

      Thank you! I will try to keep the projects as crazy as is feasible ;)

    • @VectraVX
      @VectraVX Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@MercateerGeo You’re beyond feasible at this point haha.

  • @OtisGD
    @OtisGD Před 2 měsíci +8

    How is this not more popular? This is CRAZY! I could barely do North America, but the entire world?!?!!? This is just crazy! Keep up the great work! :)

  • @Kerguelen.Mapping
    @Kerguelen.Mapping Před 4 měsíci +792

    I’ve always thought I was mediocre at geography but clearly you’ve blown my mind. This is astonishing

  • @matthewkendrick8280
    @matthewkendrick8280 Před 4 měsíci +251

    Gotta love my administrative region getting named in a CZcams video

  • @misterreaglle
    @misterreaglle Před 2 měsíci +5

    I don't know why I watched the whole video but here it is 😂 A big congratulations to you, I've never been so impressed in my life! You are an inspiration to me! Take care ❤

  • @joshuapenetrante2689
    @joshuapenetrante2689 Před 3 měsíci

    After obsessing about geography for a few years, you have inspired me to do the same feat as you. You are such a fantastic person, and I am completely mesmerized by your talents. I've memorized at least 53 countries and cannot wait to learn more!

  • @HehehehawMonkey
    @HehehehawMonkey Před 4 měsíci +462

    I thought that for Slovenia you were going to do the "broader areas" but bro did all municipalities💀. I'm astonished and huge respect

  • @VickyyTheFox
    @VickyyTheFox Před 4 měsíci +360

    Glad to see my massive subdivisions quiz be absolutely demolished, congrats on completing it!!
    Maybe I'll go for 100% some day...

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +51

      Thank you! It's an amazing quiz, must've taken as long to make as it took for me to memorize!

    • @MamtaSingh-bp1sx
      @MamtaSingh-bp1sx Před 4 měsíci +3

      @VickyyTheFox Why do you hate palestine?

    • @VickyyTheFox
      @VickyyTheFox Před 4 měsíci +40

      @@MamtaSingh-bp1sx I don't, I just didn't include it because the site itself doesn't recognize it (however the site itself also DOESN'T recognize the region as part of Israel)

    • @MamtaSingh-bp1sx
      @MamtaSingh-bp1sx Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@VickyyTheFox so which do you support israel or palestine?

    • @csltk7905
      @csltk7905 Před 4 měsíci

      France actually made it easy few years ago.

  • @CED11
    @CED11 Před 3 měsíci +4

    This video was suggested to me and since I love geography, I thought I'd go and watch it and then I'd see it... two weeks ago I asked myself if there was anyone who knew all the outlines of the individual provinces, states, etc. Then I thought to myself that it would never be possible for someone to know all these parts by heart. Then I saw it. You can do it, it's insane. I've never seen such a crazy geography flex, it can't be topped. You have my utmost respect 🤯🤯💪🏻🇩🇪
    I have to honestly admit that this is the sickest geography video I have ever seen, it is just impossible to know it all.

  • @ryanharris3420
    @ryanharris3420 Před měsícem

    This is just unbelievable. I would never have thought it could be done. Massive massive kudos to you.

  • @JadeWhite-xf9xq
    @JadeWhite-xf9xq Před 4 měsíci +174

    1:04:10
    Mercateer: No one is watching this shit anyway
    Me: Nope, I am watching everything through, so I hear you 😂😂😂😂

    • @vojtechstrnad1
      @vojtechstrnad1 Před měsícem

      Missed opportunity to say "No one is watching this, I can even say the n-word" right before doing Niger.

  • @UltraWorlds
    @UltraWorlds Před 4 měsíci +264

    Memorizing the subdivision of every country is insane on its own but despite that the craziest thing about this video is that nearly all of it was a constant stream of guesses, barely even stopping to think. Simply mindblowing

  • @averyshaw2142
    @averyshaw2142 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is the greatest feat I've ever seen on youtube, Id always pulled up this quiz and moved on immediately cause it sounded so ridiculous

  • @OmnoWombo
    @OmnoWombo Před 3 měsíci +1

    How did you not go crazy while making this? 😂 The fact that your pronunciation is so on point, just wow.

  • @abcde_5949
    @abcde_5949 Před 4 měsíci +195

    That was impressive. Your pronunciation of Finnish names were so good that I was guessing if u're actually Finnish (in the end it was the "nm" sound in words pohjanmaa and pirkanmaa that gave it away that u're actually a Swede, i think)

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +132

      Thanks! Haha, I think I was just exaggerating the pronunciations for some reason, I speak both Swedish and Finnish natively :)

    • @quostad
      @quostad Před 4 měsíci +41

      He also pronounced Portuguese and Spanish names really well

    • @vharmi.
      @vharmi. Před 4 měsíci +25

      ​@@MercateerGeoHaha, I was wondering why all the places in Kenya and Uganda sounded really Finnish.

    • @EvilTim1911
      @EvilTim1911 Před 2 měsíci

      Did the Balkan pronunciations really well to. I'm assuming they were all pretty accurate

    • @KilosWorld
      @KilosWorld Před měsícem

      His Japanese pronounciations sound a bit overly enunciated like something from a textbook but otherwise perfect! ^^

  • @pedrohenriquegomes4684
    @pedrohenriquegomes4684 Před 4 měsíci +199

    Really, really impressive work. Your video got me in disbelief. I hope to see more from this channel soon. Congratulations from Brazil 🇧🇷 (Pernambuco)

  • @Bear-ig5gu
    @Bear-ig5gu Před 2 měsíci

    I first watched this when it had around 600 views, great to see how viral it's become. Keep it up

  • @crosszero4969
    @crosszero4969 Před 3 dny

    bro, that's really amazing! Congrats!

  • @yeeoo5772
    @yeeoo5772 Před 4 měsíci +88

    As a colombian i was so happy to hear pronunciation. I found how strange and foreign the native words in central american cities/divisions.

    • @CarlosEduardoSchneiderZanatti
      @CarlosEduardoSchneiderZanatti Před 4 měsíci +11

      Yeaah. I'm from Latin America too, and it was amazing how he pronounced correctly all the Spanish, Portuguese and even Native American names. Fantastic !! This guy is awesome !!

    • @andres00937
      @andres00937 Před 2 měsíci +5

      I KNOW RIGHT, I’m Colombian as well and totally mind blown

    • @fersolesurvivor
      @fersolesurvivor Před 2 měsíci

      I guess its aztec or mayan words

  • @Lord_Drake
    @Lord_Drake Před 3 měsíci +3

    From a guy in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France, you are INSANE ! France has simplified your work in fact, before 2015 we've have 27 régions :) Anyway great job !

  • @arHo-dm8ny
    @arHo-dm8ny Před měsícem

    It’s just amazing dude. You are pronouncing every subdivisions correctly. I can't imagine how much work you have to do for this. Bravo.

  • @vharmi.
    @vharmi. Před 4 měsíci +33

    Shoutouts to Slovenia for being 5,5% of this quiz.

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +7

      Definitely punching above their weight

  • @x.y.g.a.b184
    @x.y.g.a.b184 Před 4 měsíci +89

    I am french fan about geography but you, you are so good. It's just a talent and before this video I didn't think it was possible to retain all the territorial subdivisions of the world. Incredible work!!!👏

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +14

      Thank you!! Going into this, I didn't know if I could do it either. But now I think people underestimate the power of spaced repetition. The hardest part is actually putting in the consistent effort :)

    • @mustaphatoubal7790
      @mustaphatoubal7790 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Il faut que un français fase cet exploit

    • @letsgogothekitchen5823
      @letsgogothekitchen5823 Před 4 měsíci

      Arrête tout de suite ybhtk

    • @mustaphatoubal7790
      @mustaphatoubal7790 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@letsgogothekitchen5823 eh quoi je vais pas faire ce que le gars dans la vidéo a fait

  • @generaledelogu1892
    @generaledelogu1892 Před 2 měsíci

    Unbelievable how you were able to do this. Can't even begin to think of how many hours of preparation you've gone into doing this. Congratulations from Pennsylvania/Wales!

  • @AavenTan44-X-Plain
    @AavenTan44-X-Plain Před 3 měsíci

    Great Work!!! That’s a lot of memorising.

  • @turperper7494
    @turperper7494 Před 4 měsíci +60

    Magnificent work. I've been working on every federal entity for quite a while - and it took me 2 weeks to learn Russia. I couldn't imagine learning Slovenia's.

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +14

      Thank you! I'd like to say it wasn't that bad, but... it really was 😂

    • @nanicrash
      @nanicrash Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​It was quite good, actually! Mad respect ​@@MercateerGeo
      The only correction 🤓☝️ is that we call an outer subdivision "kray" - that means it has borders with other countries. An inner subdivision is called "oblast"
      And you named all the autonomous okrugs and republics just right!

    • @mostazezo
      @mostazezo Před 3 měsíci

      thoughts on novosibirisk

    • @turperper7494
      @turperper7494 Před 3 měsíci

      @@mostazezo what

  • @Googolplexian01
    @Googolplexian01 Před 4 měsíci +73

    This is a revolution in itself. Nobody in the history of YT has done something as remarkable as this. Good job and keep this up!

  • @CatG12
    @CatG12 Před 2 dny

    Love this!! I taught myself every country in less than 2 weeks with just a couple hours here and there. Then I taught myself the world capitals in a week. I'm excited to see how much more I can learn through Seterra!

  • @thecasualcaribou
    @thecasualcaribou Před 2 měsíci

    As a big geography nut and have extensive knowledge, I have been impressed with certain geography channels on CZcams, but I think this takes the cake. This is a phenomenal feat, if this is truly all done from memory. My applause to you sir

  • @hralyb3513
    @hralyb3513 Před 4 měsíci +130

    I used to watch Muskox and his Subdivision naming series but than he gave up after 4 continents. You manage to finish this. Hats down (: And yeah I am your proud 420th subscriber.

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +16

      You are indeed a sub with elevated status, together with sub 1 and sub 69 😁

    • @nileprimewastaken
      @nileprimewastaken Před 4 měsíci +1

      wow, about octupling subs (2.02k as of writing) in 3 days
      also, i think i was the 1337th sub :D

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci

      @@nileprimewastakenWelcome to the special sub club! 😁

  • @spystoudios
    @spystoudios Před 4 měsíci +38

    I am currently trying to learn the subdivisions of every country as well. I can name the subdivisions of Us, Canada, Brazil,France, uk, Italy,Spain,Germany,Greece,Australia ,Japan and the republics of Russia . It is just insane how a human being managed to memorise each and every one of the subdivisions of the world. A very impressive feat. Keep up the good work!

    • @blueknight4684
      @blueknight4684 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Same! I'm learning as well, I became gradually better at making ways of memorizing subdivisions! It gets a little bit faster every country, currenty I can name South and North America (not central or caribbean yet), Africa, western europe and some other random countries!

    • @railroadforest30
      @railroadforest30 Před 3 měsíci +3

      I wrote them all down and their administrative centers and made into little pieces of paper

    • @spystoudios
      @spystoudios Před 3 měsíci +1

      @railroadforest30 I memorize them with their flags , so I am drawing them and at the back write what each Flag is until I learn them all from a country

    • @railroadforest30
      @railroadforest30 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@spystoudios cool

  • @SarayPerri
    @SarayPerri Před 2 měsíci +1

    Good to know I'm insane! 😂 It was amazing the job you did there ❤ and with the pronunciation holly sht, that was very remarkable, it looked like you knew all the language of every country 🌟🙌🏻💕

  • @starrimoss7377
    @starrimoss7377 Před 3 měsíci

    the perfect pronunciation of every state is kinda insane. i can personally vouch for the greek pronunciation. & ty for teaching me something new, i grew up in australia & actually never learned the administrative divisions!

  • @luni1946
    @luni1946 Před 4 měsíci +69

    This was fucking amazing!! Can't believe I actually watched it all
    Finding Mombasa was absolutely clutch, that was amazing. Also super surprised that Western hadn't been done yet until the very end
    I loved how you said (almost) every one as you went, not that I could actually tell if the pronunciation was good or not. Anyway great stuff

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +4

      Thank you! I can't believe you watched it all either 😂 No but I really appreciate the support. I was quite pleased with that Mombasa find, imagine going through that list at the end...

  • @josuaerick9670
    @josuaerick9670 Před 4 měsíci +26

    Well done! This video deserves more recognition in the geography community

  • @BlazeDrew222
    @BlazeDrew222 Před 2 měsíci +6

    This is the most impressive thing I've seen in a while. I don't think you can get a lower-level world geography quiz.
    Bravo!

  • @milkytea_offic
    @milkytea_offic Před 2 měsíci

    yk the fact the u named them all then time stamped them just proves ur a god Keep the work up man

  • @kyowomii
    @kyowomii Před 4 měsíci +22

    this needs to go viral you are insane at this and i appreciate the effort into getting the pronunciations too

  • @Flokenx
    @Flokenx Před 4 měsíci +28

    This my friend, this is what insanity looks like. What the hell man, this is by far the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen. Massive props to you for learning all this. Earned a sub, can't wait to see what else you're up to!

  • @CanALejo2004
    @CanALejo2004 Před 2 měsíci

    Impresionante tu vídeo, creo que nunca había visto algo así antes; aprendí muchísimo con él.
    ¡Saludos desde Colombia!

  • @daandanx
    @daandanx Před měsícem

    Very very impressive. Your memory is a beast. Multiple times i was also convinced you may aswell have been a native speaker of said country, as your pronounciations of the names were wonderful.

  • @lauraelisa6890
    @lauraelisa6890 Před 4 měsíci +13

    this is beautiful, i can't imagine how long it took to memorize all these subdivisions and to make this video too... great work!

  • @Angiie884
    @Angiie884 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Omg this is so impressive, in my school I get bored fast so for months I have done Seterra quizzes but when it comes to continental subdivisions I've only finished North America and South America, I am genuinely impressed by your dedication and persistence to achieve this.
    For me personally, I like to learn maps because I find it entertaining and fulfilling, I get to learn about other places and their history and gets me interested in events in other countries, it also helps me in learning language scripts like Greek and Cyrillic, and honestly just because I can and I'm interested.
    This is seriously impressive and I am glad to see that people share this passion.
    You have an incredible memory, seriously impressive!

  • @mara_altami
    @mara_altami Před 3 měsíci

    This is absolutely insane. The sheer dedication of memorizing all of these divisions motivated me to study more Seterra! I can name every country but my flag game is weak. Thank you for letting the world see your mindblowing achievement! Congrats!! 🎉🎉

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you!! Flags are fun, especially when you already know the names of the countries. It can be nice to mix it up with something purely visual.

  • @pedrodu3626
    @pedrodu3626 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Hi Mercateer. I am currently halfway through watching you name every single 1st division of every recognized country of our planet. Just to let you know that I very much enjoy it and that I heard you curse a couple times during the video. Cheers.

  • @kuchyy
    @kuchyy Před 4 měsíci +12

    Oh my god. This is crazy. Big ups for that. The geography stuff I need to see more often. Even the pronunciation of Czech regions (kraje) was on point. Just crazy

  • @cantingvenus2
    @cantingvenus2 Před 4 měsíci +5

    How does this not have more views is absolutely insane. Amazing work

  • @lanoche2470
    @lanoche2470 Před měsícem

    Bro that is an impressive feat of geographical knowledge right there !!
    Love from Normandie !!

  • @gustavomaiaa
    @gustavomaiaa Před 3 měsíci

    wtf man this is insaaaane, top level congratz

  • @LEITHAL
    @LEITHAL Před 4 měsíci +8

    never thought about this until it popped in my feed but now I'm definitely gonna make it a project to learn all this myself. congrats on accomplishing it!

  • @leoraftu1206
    @leoraftu1206 Před 4 měsíci +5

    This is just amazing, bro you're so underrated

  • @KMS548
    @KMS548 Před měsícem +8

    I was able to 100% this about 2-3 months before you uploaded the video. I haven’t seen them since then, but it’s really cool to see someone else interested in it!
    I have not studied pronunciations nor learned where all of the subdivisions are yet, but I look forward to studying those too!
    I have also thought about doing the subdivision flags next. I found that jetpunk has flag quizzes by for some country subdivisions

  • @the_flipside
    @the_flipside Před 3 měsíci +11

    I don't think I've EVER seen this much effort put into a single CZcams video. This deserves to get at least a million views. Subscribed.

  • @euroschmau
    @euroschmau Před 4 měsíci +68

    Anhui is pronounced as: An-hway.
    When it comes to China, I love how geographically sensible the provinces are and how many are in pairs. You got the Yellow River (Huanghe) separating the provinces of Hebei (north of the river, where bei means north) and Henan (south of the river, where nan means south); then south from those you have Dongting Lake (Dongtinghu) separating Hubei (north of the lake) and Hunan (south of the lake) provinces. Also, you have Shandong (Eastern Mountains) and Shanxi (Western Mountains). Way down south you have The Eastern (dong) Expanse (Guangdong) and the Western (xi) Expanse (Guangxi). This dosen't stop with provinces. Beijing means northern capital while Nanjing means southern capital. Tokyo by the way means eastern capital. There is no Western capital, but there is a "Western Peace," or Xi'an. In the south east however, the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi may seem similar in naming convention, but are quite different, they both refer to a different river which flow through them.
    Anyhow, this was mind-numbingly impressive!

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +20

      Thank you! I actually watched a video on Chinese provinces, and it was indeed very interesting. I was disappointed to realize that I had forgotten quite a few of the pronunciations when I recorded this. They really don't seem to stick in my brain, probably because it's just such a different language to my native ones!

    • @muyangli8003
      @muyangli8003 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ANHUI MENTIONED 皖,合肥,曹操🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

    • @vaiyt
      @vaiyt Před 3 měsíci +2

      I love how you can trace a curve from Japan to Korea and China and pass by a string of cities named Eastern Capital, Capital, Capital, Capital and Northern Capital 😂

  • @enzoleegwater3718
    @enzoleegwater3718 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Oh my god this is amazing i genuinely thought you had around 500k subs from your skill and editing work huge congrats

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thank you, that means a lot :) Still learning as I go

  • @LordSoviet
    @LordSoviet Před měsícem

    Absolutely nuts brother good shit

  • @vesk4000
    @vesk4000 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is amazing!

  • @Zockid22
    @Zockid22 Před 4 měsíci +3

    So glad a video of yours finally popped off, completely deserved!
    Crazy to see this journey finally come to an end, hats off to you man

  • @lildiabeto
    @lildiabeto Před 4 měsíci +41

    What in the absolute jesus have I found. You sir and an insane level of human being, the first of your kind

  • @mr888cool
    @mr888cool Před 4 měsíci

    Absolutely insane. Well done

  • @joaodosidiomas4972
    @joaodosidiomas4972 Před 23 dny

    That is fire. I know all the flags and countries, but I look like a baby next to you, amazing work

  • @Europa_GG
    @Europa_GG Před 4 měsíci +12

    Incredibly impressive, also you had near perfect pronunciation of the Estonian regions, good job!

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +7

      Thank you! Knowing Finnish probably helps a bit :) But you still have that tricky õ!

  • @mosessong1840
    @mosessong1840 Před 4 měsíci +14

    Bro this is really impressive! You are a genius 😮

  • @toku_u
    @toku_u Před 2 měsíci

    They say the human brain has an unlimited capacity. This is a wild undertaking, congrats. I'm impressed with your pronunciation of most subdivisions too, seems you've truly gone above and beyond to assimilate cultures as well.

  • @manuelm1362
    @manuelm1362 Před 4 měsíci +19

    This deserves some kind of world record recognition, absolutely impressive!
    Congratulations from Los Lagos Region!

    • @RyanAmparo-tl
      @RyanAmparo-tl Před měsícem +1

      This guy definitely should be in Guinness Book

  • @armin7515
    @armin7515 Před 4 měsíci +8

    watching from hamadan 2:23:24 😅 you pronounced the names very well for iran.mind blowing to see you can remember the name of thousands of subdivisions around the world! i struggle to remember them for my own country. amazing video❤

  • @M_dMV
    @M_dMV Před 4 měsíci +46

    Surprisingly good Portuguese pronunciation! Was not expecting that, cheers from Portugal 🇵🇹

  • @MyAccountWithNoShame
    @MyAccountWithNoShame Před 2 měsíci

    This is amazing. I was practicing something similar for a while but I never got nearly all the way. Great work!!

  • @arman2998
    @arman2998 Před 3 měsíci

    So cool man really appreciated

  • @Vk_2320
    @Vk_2320 Před 4 měsíci +12

    Dude you are legend .
    It seems like you started this channel recently i hope in future you deserves much appreciation 🙏

  • @Googolplexian01
    @Googolplexian01 Před 4 měsíci +23

    This guy has just taken over the world...quite literally.
    Excellent video! Probably the only one of its kind on YT.

  • @finiarel3
    @finiarel3 Před 2 měsíci

    Wow! Unbelievable! Instant like and sub, waiting for new videos 🔥

  • @soler0fac3
    @soler0fac3 Před 17 dny

    i have no idea why i watched the whole thing but it was weirdly entertaining so thank you

  • @tylerredforge5563
    @tylerredforge5563 Před 4 měsíci +56

    no one is talking about how perfect your pronounciation and accent of the divisions are

  • @flexkat4847
    @flexkat4847 Před 4 měsíci +4

    This was mindblowing, astounding and so much more, but I think the comment section already covers all possible synonyms which I could use. I myself have been eyeing this quiz for perhaps more than a year now, but I could never find the motivation nor time to do it. I wonder what you found to be the hardest country or countries to remember, either because of the amount of provinces or because of the hard to learn spelling?
    And I'm also already looking forward to your next video, which you said might be flags of all subdivisions, but where on earth can you find such a quiz? And what are your plans for after that one? All capitals of subdivisions? Cause I know Jetpunk has a quiz for that one too. Oh and perhaps for stage 3 you could do all seas, all lakes, all highest points, al existing languages, etc. But above all I would be excited to see your knowledge of cities in stage 3/4, perhaps with the Jetpunk quiz of all 100k cities of the world. Oh and now that I'm on it already, you could make stage 4 more country specific. Like all 3143 US counties or do a more varied video with all geography from one country in particular, like I saw you comment with for instance the UK somewhere in this commentsection.
    Feel free to use these as inspiration, though I think you wouldn't mind taking a rest first after your latest achievement. It's not that I demand you to do these things, but it's just my vision of what would be next step(s) and above all, I would be immensely baffled and most definitely watching every single video with joy if you did these (especially the city ones).

    • @MercateerGeo
      @MercateerGeo  Před 4 měsíci +3

      First of all, thanks for your comment! I really appreciate that you took the time to write it.
      When I said I'd do subdivision flags next, I didn't necessarily mean I'd do them all right away. Part of the reason for that is that an exhaustive quiz doesn't even exist to my knowledge (which you seemed to suspect as well), but there are also many subdivisions that don't have flags at all, and many only have unofficial ones, or flags of unclear status. I also quite like starting regionally because shorter videos give me some room to add interesting context without immediately increasing the length to several hours.
      As for what comes next, I'm not sure. I've also thought of second-level subdivisions for selected countries and cities, like you mentioned. I'm still not sure what direction to take as I didn't really plan beyond subdivisions, and never expected to get this much attention. Languages also interest me a lot, but I'm still not quite sure how I'd go about packaging that in an entertaining format. Do I just to quizzes or venture into doing some purely educational videos?
      Also, the stage 1/stage 2 thing just kind of happened, and now I'm not sure if people actually want multiple consecutive videos on one category, it feels like it would be more interesting to mix it up. But there's also a limit to how much I can study simultaneously 😅
      This is turning into stream-of-consciousness, but I appreciate the comment and will definitely keep those ideas in mind!

  • @jajaaa2983
    @jajaaa2983 Před 2 měsíci

    This guy amazing bro! God bless you!

  • @konplayz
    @konplayz Před 3 měsíci

    Well done man!

  • @AkivityGomes
    @AkivityGomes Před 4 měsíci +23

    I can't even remember all subdivisions in my country (Russia), that's why existing of your video is beyond belief for me

  • @railroadforest30
    @railroadforest30 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Finally found good geography content on CZcams

  • @sigismvnd
    @sigismvnd Před měsícem

    Absolutely brilliant!

  • @Flaccidtetris
    @Flaccidtetris Před 2 měsíci

    It was really fun to watch you name the Baltic subdivisions, you pronounced Latvia's and Estonia's better than me and I'm from neighboring Lithuania hahaha. Astounding work! :D

  • @lemonposting
    @lemonposting Před měsícem +4

    this guy just doxxed everyone

  • @eswarjuri
    @eswarjuri Před 4 měsíci +4

    Slovenia is really something else - respect! Even I as an Austrian, who has been to Slovenia multiple times, cannot name any others than the bigger cities!

  • @jackrichards4661
    @jackrichards4661 Před 2 měsíci

    This is wild, i dont think any other human has the capability to do this good job man

  • @dragskcinnay3184
    @dragskcinnay3184 Před 28 dny

    Wwwwwaaaaaaauuuuwwww.
    I have run this quizz a few time, and I've gotten to the point were I have about 1/3 of subdivisions memorized (which is already way more than the vast majority of people). I cannot _fathom_ learning all the municipalities of Slovenia or Kenya. Insane dedication.