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Apologies if some of the transitions of these videos seem a bit janky, I cut out things like Patreon Saint shout outs and Sponsor reads. I didn't make them with the foresight that I'll need to put them into a compilation at some point!
And yes I know all of these aren't countries, it's just a less bulky title lol.
Hello all! I hope you are all well. I see this video has gone live all okay as I’ve only just found a WiFi spot in Sri Lanka. I hope you all enjoy this compilation while I’m away. There’ll be another one next Friday!
There is a good video on the breakup of Yugoslavia by Feature History.
Macedonia is the northern part of Greece however North Macedonia is the country formed out of the southern part of Yugoslavia
America and Armenia
Nigeria has the ia at the end referring to Britannia ( roman Britain ) of the times the UK ruled Nigeria?
Why did you upload a video 4x as long as normal on vacation? lol
When I went to Austria the airport gift shop had a shirt with a crossed out kangaroo that said "YOU GOT THE NAME WRONG WE ARE AUSTRIA"
lol i would want that
Can I have that shirt please?
Ya that would be cool to wear
I got a cup similar to that
It actually translates to "There are no Kangaroos in Austria" I am from there and have seen that shirt. It's quiete popular.
When the character generator says "Sorry this username already exists"
Australia would be XAustria_Gamer01X
Yeah i had account Manbasi and Then a milion other people started making names very close to eachother
r/floridiawoman
Imagine someone typing HelloThisIsVryMislpeldNdWeeCnBeeAngreeAbtSorryThisUsernameAlreadyExists2626262738393998271625254334536271810092827262652524331342527278393003 just for it to be a username that exists
Agree hahaha
"How'd you get out of Iraq?"
"Iran."
Since I am Iranian people always say “did you RUN from Iran to America” (i live in America) then they burst out laughing
Watch out watch out. Amir gota bomb.
Creepy DepressedChic everyone gangsta till Amir shouts Tenno Heika Banzi
@@Ethan-vj5mt 😂
That's from z-flo's Arab song right?
When I was younger I thought that Austria and Australia were the same thing so I thought that Mozart was Australian
Crikey this song is the best.
of course a kpop stan thought that lmao
He was he just happened to live in Austria.
Ah yes, Mozart... the great composer who wrote such masterworks as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the Magic Flute, Waltzing Matilda, highway to Hell....
You mean to tell me Mozart didn't write "Down under"?
In Sweden, the Baltic sea is called "Östersjön" which means "eastern lake"
Lake? Weird.
@@gato-junino maybe because they didn't know it was a sea before. Like they didn't know it was connected through the straight between Denmark and Sweden so they thought it was a lake
But sjø also means sea? If not it would be very weird for us to call the North Sea "Nordsjøen". I don't if there's something special with Swedish, but in Norwegian lake is called "innsjø" (inner sea) and sjø just means sea, or a bigger body of water.
@@sugarinmywounds oh really! That's very interesting. But yeah, in Swedish sjö is lake and sea is hav, but the meaning must've changed.
Also I'm a huge esc fan aswell lol
@@neville1311 Yeah. We also use hav. But it's kinda more like hav=ocean and sjø=sea. Though the saying "the seven seas" translates to "de syv hav" so it's not exact. But I feel like hav is used for even bigger bodys of water even further out. Norskehavet, Barentshavet, Nordishavet, Atlanterhavet. While when it's closer and more limited I guess, like the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, we use sjø "Østersjøen" and "Nordsjøen".
But a bit interesting: we have a few names of places that has "sjø" in them. Like Mosjøen, Sandnessjøen and Sjusjøen. And while Sjusjøen lies in the far inner part of the country, by a lake with the name "Sjusjøen", both Mosjøen and especially Sandnessjøen lies by the coast of northern Norway, or more specifically Helgelandskysten. (The coast of Helgeland, which is beautiful and very underrated btw.)
Mosjøen lies a bit further in, because it is the kind of inner end of a fjord (Vefsnfjorden).
Mosjøen's most known and appreciated street/area is Sjøgata (or Sjygato, as the inhabitants would say) where there are a lot of beautiful old houses right by the water.
Then we also say "Å dra ut på sjøen" about going out "on the sea/ocean" typically to fish or etc. And it could often be used when someone is going to work on a boat or a platform out on the sea for å long period of time, especially when we say it like "til sjøs".
But it could also mean going out on a lake, although I think we just would say "dra på sjøen" not "ut på sjøen" for that one. (Possibly "inn på sjøen", but I'm not really from a place where we have a lot of big lakes. I grew up on a little island by the coast, so fjords and seas and oceans are more common to us.)
Yeah I thought I recognized you from somewhere. Probably the comments of tons of esc-videos hahah.
What about all the “Guinea” connected countries (Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, and Papua New Guinea. And also the two closely sounding Guyana and French Guyana)
It means black.
guinea means faraway land. simple as that.
French guyana is not a country IT a part of france
Guinea means black, so when European people showed up and saw people with dark skin they acted... accordingly.
Guyana and French Guiana along with Suriname are part of a region known as "the Guianas". They're separate because they were originally British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, and French Guiana. French Guiana remained a part of France to this day, while Dutch Guiana became Suriname and British Guiana became simply Guyana.
Its french giuana not french guyana
Did you know: Slovakia in its national language is “Slovensko” which can somehow be misinterpreted as "Slovenia"
know.
I always thought it was "Slovenska". As in "Slovenska Republika". Why is it "Slovensko"? Sounds like an adjective for a beer or something.
Goran Sekulic My bad, it’s actually Slovenska
not completly wrong but incomplete
its Slovenská and it is just the adjective word part that always follows with "Republika" part for obvious reasons and its the official full name of the country
Slovensko is the short commonly used name as a noun word, for the country, just like the full name of France and Italy is French Republic and Italian Republic but everyone just calls them France and Italy.
@@goransekulic3671 it is a bit complicated, but let´s make it simple you´ll not say Czechia Republic but the Czech Republic same goes for Slovakia not Slovakia/Slovensko Repulic but Slovenská/Slovak Republic. The Slovak language is extremely hard to learn for English native speaker
0:00 Slovakia & Slovenia
4:20 Paraguay & Uruguay
6:34 Taiwan (My home) & Thailand
9:49 Iraq & Iran
12:50 (Tokyo & Kyoto)
17:38 (Baltics & Balkans)
21:39 Zambia & (The) Gambia
26:45 Russia & Prussia
29:27 Niger & Nigeria
32:51 Dominocan Rebublic & Dominica
41:39 Austria & Australia
India & Indiana & Indonesia
Combodia & colambiya
I used this ignorant clip about Iraq and Iran as an example of why the internet is not always a good source of information. My students were amazed of how much time and energy was put in to garbage information. How ignorance can sound like a documentary. Every time I listen to it I am reminded that retarded people have access to the internet also.
Lel
Thanks
For some reason people confuse Sweden and Switzerland also... .
kosovo?
*thousands of serbians are typing*
@Pedro Pony B R U H
Pedro Pony
Serbian spotted, sir!
@John Boudreaux thanks!
Its not only kosovo its kosovo and metohija. Kosovo means on serbian black bird and metohija means on greek land of monasteries
Lol I’m not even Serbian just Russo-Manchuria but I also had to state that technically Kosovo isn’t independent yet lol
I'm from Taiwan, this is actually the first time I heard where the name comes from (I knew about "Formosa", as it is taught in history class, but we were never taught where the name "Taiwan" came from). Thanks for the information.
Greetings from Greenland! 🇬🇱🤝🇹🇼
@@joshimations1964 Thank you! 🇹🇼🤝🇬🇱
I find this fascinating too 😊
Thank you for 5 minutes of fame
From sLOVEnia 🇸🇮❤
Mate, the names of Slovakia and Slovenia are easy to mistake in its familiar languages, especially in Slovak, where Slovakia is Slovensko and Slovenia is Slovinsko. In Slovene Slovakia is Slovačka and Slovenia is Slovenija. I 'm also the Slav, but not a Slovak nor even a Slovene. My country's name was mistaken with the recent name of The Netherlands (Poland - Holand). And in my language is possible to say "Niderlandy" instead "Holandia". But "Holandia" is also still acceptable.
@@przemysawdata6246 i didnt say anything about that, also slovakia in slovene is Slovaška and slovene (language) in slovene is slovenščina😘
It's interesting for Taiwanese to learn that people get Taiwan and Thailand mixed up, these two countries might sound similar in English, but they sound completely different in their respective language, Taiwan being 台灣 and Thailand being ราชอาณาจักรไทย. You couldn't get more different than that... but just like Canada sounds similar to Ghana in Mandarin, I guess people from non-English speaking countries are more used to the idea of "different perspective".
I went to a camp in Slovakia. (Im Latvian) and there were students from Slovenia. I sometimes forgot where we were - Slovakia or Slovenia😅
Sveiki .-.
Sveiki .-.
The kiwi approves.
Slovawhereakia ?))
I love how mentally stimulating your content is. I'm glad you are in this world.
Slovakia (Slovak Republic) vs Slovenia (Republic of Slovenia)
Czechia (Czech Republic) vs Chechnya (Chechen Republic) [Part of Russia (Russian Federation)]
Serbia: DiD Yu SAy KoSOvOo?????!!!!!
Czechia recognised Kosovo
🇽🇰 is independent
69 like
Kosovo is serbia
косово је србија!
We know that Uruguay is named after the Uruguay River, so maybe Paraguay is named after the Paraná River, probably called Paraná Guay = Paraguay, in Guaraní.
When you say iran and iraq in their respective languages they dont sound that similar
But...... How?
@@dzerhoba The q in Iraq is ق in arabic which sounds nothing like q [k] in english. Also, the i in Iraq is pronounced ع which is also very different to the letter i.
Aurelijus Jankus simply put turn Iraq to Araq the the first A is pronounced like “A” in Axe, and the second “a” sounds like the “A” in Ark. then the “q” is pronounced like “r” in French.
And Iran is just Iran, not as Eye ran but ee run (just like the word run)
@@Vario99 you're totally wrong you spelled the persian spelling of Iraq!!
"I" is a unique arabic sound it's a throated A it's non found in another languages.
"R" is like rolled spanish R.
"A" is just an A sound.
"Q" is another unique arabic sound it is like a palatial rough k sound but it is nothing like k sound.
@@dzerhoba copy "عراق" in google translate than click the little speaker icon incide the arabic text box
in bulgarian language, we call lithuania ''litva'' and we often get it mixed with latvia.
Just north of you we call Latvia "Letonia" and Lithuania "Lituania" so it's also very confusing
The same in Croatia
It’s funny, in Persian we call Latvia "Letoni" and Lithuania "Litvâni" which causes a lot of confusion. Nowadays though it’s slowly becoming more common to use "Lâtviā" for of course Latvia.
As a bonus and just in case you were wondering what we call your countries:
Bulgaria -> Bolghārestân
Romania -> Români
Croatia -> Korovâsi
About Paraguay, actually water in guarani is "Y" and "gua" means from... but when we want to say that something is "from water" the term used is "Ygua"... For the "Para" part in guarani it means spotted or of uneven color... so it coooould mean "from the spotted or unevened colored water" but even though I'm from Paraguay, to be honest I'm not sure where the name comes from...
You should do a video of places left off maps. Like the 68,401 km² of Tasmania you left off the map of Australia.
I don't know where you did that explanation of the name of Prussia got from, I always considered it a very clear fact that Prussia got its name from the local West Baltic tribe (Old Prussians in English to distuingish it from the German Prussians). And the name of the tribe is probably a hydronym, meaning something with "face washing."
Also "guay" means "cool" in spanish so...
Urucool and paracool!
Cool in what sense -- like cold or like awesome?
@@aformofmatter8913 awesome.
@Nallib Fadel that’s what he said.
It's Cro Ats. You pronounce the o and then an a.
AngryJack where are the Cros at?
Maybe they should just be the Cos
@@willhendrix3140 co
Sometimes the state of Georgia and the country of Georgia makes me scratch my head before the context of their use becomes clear.
jrt818 reexer and the south georgia sea which is down by south america
Just make georgia (us) part of georgia. Lmao
Use Sakartvelo
@@LA-MJ Since Georgia is an exonym that sounds like a solution .
@@jana31415 You got georgia on your mind
I literally dropped my cup when you said Krotes instead of Croats :o. You owe me a cup :p.. but.. still a fan of your channel ;-)
Cro-ats?
26/5000
はい、わかりませんでした。
When did he say it?? I missed it
He also says Botic instead of Baltic.
@@azuregriffin1116 Yeah. CROW-atts.
9:30 Mandarin and Thai don't come from the same language family. Mandarin belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, while Thai belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family. It's only the Chinese government who insists that Tai-Kadai languages belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family because they have Tai-Kadai minorities living most in the south.
We all know how accurate the Chinese government is and how they expect everything they say to be taken as fact lol
Spanish speaker here. The island in 36:18 is called isla (island) "La española", literally translating to "the spanish [one]". Hope it helped
It's interesting that Iran wanted to do away with the name Persia. I mean, it's a very archaic and prestigious name. Unless, of course, it has some unwanted religious or nationalist connotation for the Iranian government.
It's an exonym, derived from the province of Fars/Pars, which is where the Achaemenid and later Sassanid empires were centered. It was changed under the Pahlavi dynasty of the 20th century, who wanted to modernize and I suspect emulate the old native Persian empires in some way, since the name they gave themselves was Eran
İran has always been called Iran by indeginous population , regardless of which Empire ruled . Persis was a Greek name for Pars .
I hope this covers swaziland and switzerland , that one made no sense to me , has to be a coincidence
Munjee Syed its also known as eswatini now so no worries
@@scolipede1549 No, it's properly knows as Eswatini as it changed its name officially in every language
I get more confused with Suez and Swiss 😅
The Austrian Australian i know it !
Austria comes from Ostërreich that in german means eastern empire
Australia comes from latin and means something "from the south"
Am i right ?
It was called something along the lines of furthest south when it was first found by the dutch, not completely sure but as an Australian im confident in my national history
As a australian the name cames from land fir south
Österreich not Ostërreich and yes its german: Osten - East , Reich - Empire
When Australia was discovered by the Dutch they called it "Nova Hollandicus" (New Holland) After their homeland due to The Netherlands also being known as "Holland". After that but before the British came across it was known in Latin as "Terra Australis Incognita" (Unknown Southern Land). The British then renamed it to "Terra Australis" which was then changed again to "Australia" while the western half was still known as "New Holland", until the entire country adopted the name Australia in 1824.
*Ö. In Swedish Austria is Österrike, which means the exact same thing XD
*i got one*
_Ireland and Iceland_
:P
Ireland means land of eiru, the Gaelic matron goddess of the country
Iceland is obvious.
16:51 The pronouciation of two TOs (TO of TOKYO and TO of KYOTO) are different. TO of TOKYO is a long vowl and TO of KYOTO is a short vowl.
TO of TOKYO and KYO of both were originaly double vowls like TOU and KYOU. TOKYO is written TOUKYOU by Japanese characters (not Kanjis) and pronouced TOOKYOO, and KYOTO is written KYOUTO by Japanese characters (not Kanjis) and pronounced KYOOTO.
Toaru Nyanko thank you, I wanted to say this, but I searched for a comment first. I agree, there’s a whole bunch of difference in japanese between long and short vowels. I hate this global transcript of japanese words, cause you won’t learn the length. If it were written like “Tōkyō”, and “Kyōto”, anyone could learn the difference.
If it was written in IPA, it's even more clear: Tokyo: [toːkʲoː], Kyoto: [kʲoꜜːto]
And it also shows that it isn't tok-i-o or ki-o-to, that's a palatalised K.
Vowel
Toaru, it's perfectly fine to call the other scripts by name: Hiragana and Katakana.
@@Morghan999 Be happy Japanese uses pictographs. Vietnamese, thanks to the French and Portuguese, uses a shortened Roman alphabet. The thing both have in common is inflection, the key to all meaning and context in each language.
Very well researched, fast paced, excellent narration. What a treat!
AMAZING VIDEO MAN! I learnt a lot. You deserve 1M subs. keep up the excellent work man!
Iran: between Iraq and a hard place.
I'll see myself out...
Does that mean Pakistan is "hard"? Can't it just take a cold shower??
Thanks folks! I'll be performing here all week. 😊
Us (Iraq) and Iran has a hard time loving each other (aka: we hate each other toooooooooo much)
@@markmh835 what about Afghanistan? Doesn't it exist?
@@alvarogarcia519 -- Is Afghanistan a "hard" place? ..... Well, it does have that strange appendage to the east, abutting China...... Hmmm.......
@@markmh835 If you ask numerous empires in history, Afghanistan is indeed a hard place.
It hurts whenever I hear him mispronounce Tokugawa :(
Same here.
I went looking for this comment when I got to that section! I’m surprised theres not more of these. The comments are all focused on Slovenia/Slovakia and Iran/Iraq
although it was written correctly failed to spell it right every single time XD
Perhaps the single best video on CZcams. Thank you!
I think the most significant thing I learned in the borders of Yugoslavia looks a bit like the silhouette of a hippo
9:25 I am sorry, but this is awfully wrong, Thai is part of the Kra-Dai language family and the Formosan languages are part of the Austronesian family (even though, the majority on Taiwan if Chinese).
Both these language family originated somewhere in southern China but have no relation with each other and no relation with Sino-Tibetan.
Julian Fejzo well both of these are correct, but the official language of Taiwan is not a formosan language.
@@deadlive3212 I never said the official language of Taiwan/ROC was a Formosan one.
Julian Fejzo in the video he said that the language of the people in taiwan is sino tibetan, which is true. You comment seemed like you said that this is not true.
@@deadlive3212 He referred to the Aboriginal Taiwanese, the Taiwanese of Chinese origin indeed speak Sino-Tibetan languages but are not indigenous of Taiwan.
Julian Fejzo watch the video again. He referred to the chinese one.
9:35
When you were talking about Australia you forgot to include Tasmania in your image which is an island state of Australia
In Romanian, "balta" means "pond", but it is most commonly used for "puddle". Knowing this, for a very long time, I've associated the Baltic Sea and the Baltic states with the concept of water, or small water. There is also an old Romanian word for a woodsman's ax, "baltag". I'm not convinced there is any connection, though. As such, the word Balkan/Balkans/Balkanic doesn't sound like anything to me in Romanian, except that I know the area that bears the name.
Very interesting. I guess it makes sense that the Baltics would be associated with water, or at least more than the Balkans are.
We were going to Austria and my dad said to the lady at the check ins that we were going to Australia, she looked at us weird till my mum pointed out my dad's mistake
18:21 In Australia, we use "baltic" to meant incredibly cold weather of very cold in general. As an Aussie, I actually had no idea that the word had other uses
Aussie here..... Ummm, no. No we don't.
Ray Ok maybe not in your part of australia but most people I know do so you can’t really make that claim that we straight up dont
LOL Baltic for very cold, as in Baltic countries? You Aussies clearly haven't been in the Nordic countries then, come here in January and you can feel the cold!
We straight up don’t
I have Slovak ancestry, I like learning more about similarly named countries
2:08 he legit was like, "I'm just going with what Google Translate told me to say" I'M DED!!
Usign the Czech voice. But yeah, better to look up IPA.
@@Liggliluff It's not that easy. Better than not looking it up at all.
Besides, he was pretty close coming up with "slovenyin" instead of "slovenin".
7:50 The Taiwan part, scholars said that some Austronesian people come from Taiwan. In my language, "tao" means people much like "tau"; many scholars claim my ancestors came from or became the descendants of the natives of Formosa/Taiwan. There are some similar sounding words in my language from dialects of Chinese and indigenous languages found in Formosa.
Japan and Nigeria both have ancient places named Edo.
They also have similar words in their languages. And they are both riverine/ sea people.
Nigeria has Edo?
...wow!
I always tell people how similar Japanese is to a lot of African languages. I've a very strong suspicion that we are being lied to a lot about this planet's history. My language has a lot of similarities with Japanese language, I'm African also.
Obama, Japan
@@aerospherology2001 I know you are trolling, but I'll reply sensibly I'm not from Edo but close to Edo and the same tribe as most Edo in Nigeria and even my language has similar words to japanese like Osaki which sounds like Osaka but then you realise Japan also has Osaki as well, in my language Osaki means stand up while in Japanese Osaka means high something or something standing tall like a hill or high place, there are many other similarities too. one time I saw a Japanese firstname with an English last name and assumed the person was Nigerian Ijaw which is a tribe that cuts across several states in Nigeria including Edo state only to find out the person was a Japanese lady and not Nigerian. I was surprised and that was when I started looking more into the similarities
@@h.m.5724 obviously without a doubt we have been lied to intentionally or not, remember history is written by those who won and during slavery, colonialism and all that Africans and Africa lost alot we did have our victories but we lost alot, lost especially our history since most people who passed oral history, language and culture were killed, enslaved and what have you without them passing these knowledge or writing it down.
We had writing systems but Islam, slavery, colonialism like I said killed all that, most sculptures and artifacts were destroyed because in Islam they are not allowed way of dressing was changed, languages were replaced and killed by Arabic which was the language of the Koran, we had indigenous writing systems like the Nsibidi complete with alphabets, numbers and so on, we sailed the world evidenced by how black people are native to everywhere on earth from India to Arabia to the America's there are "Black" African people who are aborigines of those places how did they get there? Even before the modern day inhabitants of those places got there? So we have alot of missing information the world does not want us to know.
Well done indeed! I always enjoy watching your educational videos. Thanks for that.
Regarding the name of Iraq and Iran; the name of Iraq is originally derived from the name Uruk, which was one of the cities of ancient Sumer in southern modern day Iraq. Iran, however, as you mentioned, means the Land of Aryans. Iranian people themselves have always called their own country Iran while it used to be more known as Persia to the western world.
Very nice explained. Thank you!
Bruh that old school "CGP Grey" music gave me weird nostalgia.
Guyana, French Guiana, and Guinea? I always confuse them especially when u thrown in papua new guinea
Guinea Bissau
I’m fine rewatching these and giving you the extra view
Ahem... Iceland and Ireland not similar enough for ya?!?😂🤣
The Irish thank the Norse Vikings for starting their cities, but not much else.
i am waiting for the video to mention these two but i take it from your comment i am probably wasting my time
just finished the video and Ireland/Iceland was not mentioned, have to ask why? there has to be a reason since both differs by one letter, i demand a this video should be remade
ireland comes from eire and iceland literally comes from ice. how dumb you need to be to need a video explaining that
@@andymccoy8370 it was joke. calm yourself. don't be that person.
Thanks for the detailed explaination! But what's the right pronunciation: Slovakia or Slovenia?
I am Slovak and this video is.
Fascinating :D good job dude. :)
“Taiwan and Thailand”
Wait are we going through EVERY single name? To me it doesn’t sound familiar
Bfdi_Pencil e
what's the name of that flute music in the beginning?
during the baltic part i heard useful charts opening theme in there or whatever song it is that they both are using
Nice compilation. Happy Friday the 13th, remember to let a black cat walk across your path.
0:34 You forgot to put "North" in North Macedonia.
*Angry Greek nationalists triggered
ALEKSANDER GREAT WERE BORN IN HELLAS NOT GAY NO RTH MACEDONIA
This is an old video put into the compilation, before the name change
It took like half a century to get that compromise. Malakes can at least use the official name! (I know the orig vid was probs before the change)
@@oligultonn Don't put down gay people by associating then with Skopia!
blackcollarbish ATFU U ARE ANTI HELLAS FUCK HELLAS WILL RISE N TAKE SKPGAYJA U WILL SEE WAT HELLAS POWER MEAN!!!
nice video how ist the music in background cald?
Did something happen during editing? I get the feeling that this video could be better presented.... As near 21:19 the video is treated like it is just beginning.
Like the parts before 21:19 (or thereabouts) should be placed after the parts following that time with the "Balkans and Baltic" thing should be closer the the end of the video....
Edit: I wrote this before realising that it was a compilation.
Slavonija,region in Croatia,Slovenija,Country beside Croatia.
Now THIS DESERVES an episode!
@@goransekulic3671 da
@ yes,Slavonija
What's interesting is the etymology of Thai from Thailand, and Tai from Taiwan to the word 'Tao' (pronounced as Ta - o) in Filipino, which means a person or people. Coincidence or connection?
Probably some influence, or just a coincidence. Words are borrowed and adapted in different languages.
You are from the UK. I thought that the "Z" (around 22:10) only in the USA was pronounced as "ZEE" and in the UK as "ZED". It is confusing since "ZEE" sound too much as "CEE" and it is confusing to hear a "EE" sound when you see a "ED" sound letter.
Omg I almost shat myself from laughter when I saw the picture of the Slitheen. Kudos to you for that.
for god sake.
it is not "I ran". it is not with "I" it's with "E" not ( آی رَن ) it's ( ایرآن ).
Every time I hear I RAN in news want to ask: From what you ran?
I ran from an oppressive theocracy.
I'm persian and that's correct
From Iran obviously
i ran is an exonym i guess?
yez so annoying hahaa
سلام عليكم
Kevin MacLeod: the patron saint of royalty-free music
I stopped on 12:35 , just to say what a fantastic job you did mate . Well done .
Sorry I have to go now , plenty to watch still .
What is the music? I here it alot plz help me in the beginning
Iraq and Iran have completely different name and pronunciation in Arabic
العراق (Iraq) ايران (Iran)
العراق (Iraq) ايران (Iran)
True
I hat when people say آی ران instead of ایران
BKKG or Eye Rack instead of Iraq lol
What about Latvia and Latveria?... Oh, wait. Ooops! 😉
Wot
And I oops!
@@blackpinksdiscography100 and I oop sksksksksk
@@Brown9622 stfu vsco girl
Wut
The similarity in *Iran* and *iraq* in English , is due to the fact that English lacks many words that are use within other languages as *ایران* and *عراق* are only similar in r and a ، ر and ا , I'm native Iranian and I know this , my guess is for other name similarity in other countries is due to the fact that the foreign languages in their perspective , lack certain word and Grammer structures .
Four years late, but I just found your channel so... But I speak French and petunia is the only word I can think of that ends in "ia" and that only because you reminded me of it as I may not have thought of anything since you were talking about countries.
I love how Spain and France border eachother in Europe, and used to on this island. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
So would "Eastern City" in Japanese be "Toto"?
Well, Tōto. It should be Tōkyō and Kyōto, but people don't always put those macrōns there, which marks long vowel (that is, a prolonged vowel).
Then you wonder what the famous band’s name has to do with Africa and where it comes from...
(19:20) Isn't the German name taken from Swedish, because it's also the east sea/lake in Swedish, and it makes more sense in Sweden. But it's also known as the east sea in Finland if I'm not mistaken.
Thank you for the slav moment, i feel warm and fuzzy inside
''That's a lovely accent you have there. New Jersey?'' ''Austria'' ''Ahhh G'day, mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!!'' ''Let's not.''
0:00 - I keep going to Czechoslovenia all the time. 🤦
0:12 - Then there's times when the post goes to the wrong continent because there's similarly named cities like London Ontario/UK, Paris Texas/country, or Georgia US/country. I've had that happen before and shook my head so hard, I got whiplash.
0:28 - Yugoslavia got slaughtered. I had a friend who lived through the war and said how awful it was. :-\
1:01 - They wanted to gain their own national identity… by merging into a hybrid with another country. ¬_¬
1:26 - Slovaczhech sounds more like a last name than a country. I wonder how things would be different if they used that. 🤔
9:50 - When discussing names, it would be good to pronounce them correctly. ¬_¬ "ee-ron" "eh-raagh"
12:06 - Pars was the name of just a city in the Persian empire but the Greeks didn't understand that and called them all "Persian" (just like how Europeans didn't understand that Kanata was just a word for village and ended up calling the country Canada 🤦). It's a weird situation now because "Iran" is the proper endonym but that has bad connotations because of its connection with religious zealots as well as being the source for the term Aryan which the Nazis ruined, but Persia is a Greek exonym, so Iranians/Persians have no good choices; either way, they have to make a compromise. :-\
12:29 - Legend has it that Hitler convinced the Shah to change the name of the country from Persia to Iran to reflect their Aryan roots (which is strange considering that Nazis redefined "Aryan" to specifically mean Nordic and Persians wouldn't count. 🤦)
13:18 - It becomes a lot less amusing if you do it properly.
22:41 - Or if it was called Cecilly. Then you'd have another video to do. 😀
Paris is a city in France not a country, but otherwise I'll take your word for the corrections!
> _"Then there's times when the post goes to the wrong continent because there's similarly named cities"_
That can't be true, because you have to list the country you're sending it to. If you're going to send to London Ontario, you list it as: "{STREET} / London, ON N6B 1T6 / CANADA" and if you're sending to London UK, you list it as: "{STREET} / LONDON / WC2N 5DU / UNITED KINGDOM" (slashes marks line breaks). If someone in say Russia is sending these letters, it should be clear where to send them based on the country name listed at the bottom.
Another example is Gerogia and US Georgia. To send to US Georgia, you list it as "{STREET} / Atlanta, GA 30334 / USA" and to send to Georgia, you list it as "{STREET} / Tbilisi 0112 / GEORGIA". If you send that second mail from USA, I can see someone confusing Georgia for the state, and the format is kinda similar. But other post offices around the world should know about the country Georgia unless they assume that the country name "USA" was not included.
I can't say that it doesn't happen, and it probably happens a few times. Probably not if you're sending to London from Europe, but if you're sending to London within USA/Canada maybe. But I doubt it happens that often if you format the letters correctly.
When you've seen them all but you'll do it again back to back.
00:30 I'm not complaining but why did you give Dubrovnik to Bosnia?
Is it bad I just found out that Czechslovakia no longer exists
No
ElectricDoggo ok good
"Yugoslavia split into B&H, Croatia, Kosovo-"
this ytber needs to do some research, Kosovo split out of Serbia not Yugoslavia
And Montenegro split from Serbia-Montenegro.
Hi there. can you do the capital cities now. like Freetown, Georgetown and Bridgetown among others. Thanks
Hi ! French guy here ! The French "ie" suffix is the equivalent of the English "ia" suffix. Exemples: Russie, Indonésie, Algérie, Tunisie etc... I have no idea why Niger wasn't called "Nigérie" though...
I still don't believe how can people confuse Austria n Australua, Slovakia n Slovenia, Zambia n Zimbabwe and the Baltic with Balkans.
(Keep my secret, once my classmate confused Greenland and Some Asian country)
Greatland
Geogoria
Germany
@@jinokep3256 germany isn't asian, and i've never heard of Greatland
@@redkampretz Greeland
The "to" in Tōkyō and Kyōto are not pronounced the same in japanese. The line over the "o" means that it's a long vowel. So the "to" in tokyo is said with a long vowel and the "to" in kyoto is said with a short vowel.
The "kyo" is the same in both. (It means "capital.") And the "to" in "Tokyo" means "eastern."
I'm not sure what the "to" in "Kyoto" means, though.
Japanese is metronomic. The to transliteration as to in Tokyo is two syllables. To-o. The to in Kyoto is one syllable.
@@grantorino2325 -to city
In the Italian language there are two Monacos -one refers to the tiny country in the south of France and the other to Munich the capital of Bavaria -so they add d'Baviera to the second Monaco.Both names come from the Greek word for "monk." -probably because there were once monasteries in both places.
Nice.
Why did you add that U when you have written Jug?
would i be right in saying that im pretty sure Croat is Pronounced "Cro-At"
Spot on.
@ minus the W and the E being pronounced, yes
By the logic how australia got its name, America would have been called Atlantis
27:39 You marked "Spitsbergen" (Svalbard) to Russia, but it belongs to Norway
"Bro I RAQ"
"Same bro.. BUT I RAN HAHA"
Yeah Slovenia and Slovakia are similar in English, but if you say it in slovenian:
Slovenija-Slovaška
Not so similar😕😐
but in Slovakian its Slovínsko and Slovensko, just one letter diffrence
@@stefansolciansky7302 and next door you have a region called Slovácko in Czech.
and then there's Slavonija next to Slovenia in Croatia.
Also in German:
Slowenien and Slowakei
Three types of slavs:
-Slovak
-Slovic
-Slavic
Oh I forgot theres four of them! *YUGOSLAVIC
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0:58, that's the Czechia flag and the SLOVENIA flag, a good rule of thumb for those two similar flags is that Slovenia has the smaller shield thingy, and Slovakia has the bigger shield thingy.
So not only the names are similar, but the flags are similar too
i.imgur.com/zpHjmXX.jpeg
32:11~ Bulgaria/Bulgarie, Ethiopia/Ethiopie, Bolivia/Bolivie
→ Reminds me of hysteria (English)/ Hysterie (Germain), melancholy/ melancholia, Italy/ Italia, etc.