Why is Vietnam So Long and Narrow?
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Stop bodyshaming countries. All countries are beautiful.
First
There are 148,939,063.133 Km squared of land in this world and someone took all the ugly ones and put em into Yemen! Oman that was a burn
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Idiots still believe men made fantasy that was clearly derived from other nations older mythologies and older religions with little to no basis on reality and yet declared as and insisted as truth.
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@@isyraf9989 Muhammad is the same as Hitler. No difference.
For pretty much every long, skinny country the answer always seems to be mountains. Hell, its almost more impressive when a country with massive mountains cutting through it manages to actually hold together (and sometimes they don't)
@@wonderplaceholder Colombia too,but almost all population is on one side though
Chile is included lol
*Laughs in Iran*
@@augustuscaesar8287 laughs in greece
@@vassily-labroslabrakos2263 Laughs in Switzerland
Short answer: Mountains.
Long answer: Mountain range.
Also applies to Norway and Chile who also suffers from long-thin syndrom
In Vietnamese that mountain range is actually called "Long Mountain" lol :))
@@BritskNguyen
長山 :)
If it be Vietnamese than it's Núi Dài
@@Arjibi It's "Trường Sơn" for you
Damn I was gonna type that
All I remember about Vietnam is that they defeated the Mongols, got colonized by the french and then were repeated again and again when I last visited my grandpa in the metal hospital.
"Vietnam" as a geographic country did not existed until 1802/1804.
Vietnam back then were main three kingdoms: Angkor, Champa, Dai Viet. It is always a multiethnic country.
The Annamite empire wasn't kinda "colonized by French" but was shattered into three pieces that became under France Republic protection by 1887.
@@phamnguyenminhquan the Annamite empire of nguyen dynasty before French colonization.
@@hermannboyen5392 I'm assuming you're looking at this from a French perspective. Before the French colonization they were still named Dai Viet, however the Chinese still call them An Nam. Because Dai Viet is unknown to the western world at this point so the French colonizers simply call it Annam, Annamite is basically "Annamese" in English which is the name the French gave for the people there. Dai Viet at this point was considered an empire because of it manpower, manly in the Nguyen dynasty early years. However the Nguyen quickly decline due to the ruler's bad policies, one of them is hunting down priests (the Nguyen was worried of spies and they saw the priests as one of the highest risk to national security). The French and Spanish used this as a justification to invade Vietnam and they succeeded. They then divided it into 3 pieces like you said which are colony, half colony half protection and protection on paper. But the overall policies and laws makes it entirely a colony just like others.
@@kharkovluzhin8333 not French perspective. The world maps of 19th century back then always feature the kingdom of Annam / Royaume d'Annam/Annamite empire /Empire d'Annam or Vietnam, and was named such long before the French colonization, at least the early 17th century. You could search around walmart to see these old maps.
@@kharkovluzhin8333 so by 1802, the Nguyen dynasty's Annamite empire was basically the amalgamation empire of multiple kingdoms and dominions: Dai Viet, Champa, Angkor that had existed for thousand of years. By the time of the French military arrival in 1858 that empire had been weakened and the vietnamese court accepted French protectorate and sovereignty while China wanted to keep the vietnamese court within their tributary system. And France drove the Chinese out of Vietnam in request of the Vietnamese emperor Hiep hoa, which mean it was not a "brutal colonial subjugation" like post-colonial popular assumptions about French Indochina.
All I know about Vietnam up until this video was French Indochina and funny farmer guerillas who defeated the USA. This video actually helped me know more about medieval and early Vietnam!
Nah signed a peace treaty with them in 73 and usa left meaning u can't lose if u aren't participating. Also kd ratio and agent orange going brrrrr
@@ZTOXZZ I'm not saying what side won,, because I don't really care. But the quitting thing seen as winning is such a lame excuse
@@crowpotking1100 well both sides quit so??? Since it was a peace treaty. It's a valid thing to say
@@ZTOXZZ cope
@@comradekenobi6908 seethe harder
I have never been to Vietnam but I regularly eat Vietnamese food, and it is amazing. When I am sick I have a bowl of an aromatic pho and I feel myself immediately better.
Where do you live? Sounds like Vietnam food is pretty popular in your country? I’m a bit curious
Well, we add some herbs as well as gingers while making Pho broth to create its signature aroma. That's probably why Pho makes you feel better.
when you sick, hot food is very helpul for health. this trick vietnamese used thousand of years :)
It's the broth that makes it different from other noodles :)
I'm Vietnamese. Our country looks like a letter 'S' lying next to the South China Sea and just like what has been shown in the video our country consists of 3 parts: the North, the Central, and the South. The narrowest land in Vietnam is in the Central part (particularly in the province of Quang Binh), which only extends about 50 kilometers. And because our country is long and thin, the more you move to the South, the warmer it is. The temperature in Hanoi (our capital city located in the North) can drop down to 8°C during winter. A few mountainous areas in the North even have snow in late December and January. However, the temperature in Ho Chi Minh city (our largest economic city situated in the South) never drops below 18°C around the year. The Central part is the most pity one because 80% of the hurricanes in each year pass here. I would say ideal Vietnamese cities to study are Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city; to start a business is Ho Chi Minh city; and to retire is either Ho Chi Minh city or Da Nang. We have stunning landscapes, surprisingly cheap prices, rich culture, and such delicious food (have you ever heard of Phở and Bánh Mì?😁). So, Vietnam is also a wonderful place to travel. We really welcome foreigners to our country. About 80% of the young generations from Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh city (those were born from 2000s) can speak English.
Hope the information above is helpful for those who want to travel, study, and work in Vietnam.
Thank you for your comment, you made me crave to visit Vietnam, love from London
Do you consider yourself culturally southeast asian though?
@@rikadomez8201 we're closer to northeast asia countries (mostly China) in culture so we are quite stand out from other countries in region. But food is a mix between southeast asia and northeast asian.
Love your country by the way. Beautiful sceneries, hotels at very low rates and fantastic local cuisine. I'm from the Philippines, but my gf is actually from Da Nang, and she looks very East Asian (though it infuriates her everytime I call her as some who looks like of Chinese descent). I just wonder what percentage of the country are of East asian ethnicity and how many are Austronesians like us Filipinos, Indonesians and Malaysians.
@@musicloversylver6723 Hi. It's pretty hard to estimate but I guess the majority of the Vietnamese look like a mix between East Asian and Southeast Asian (or Austronesian look, hope I don't generalize too much), but definitely the mix has more East Asian element.
Ethnicity is really complex to talk about because although ethnic Kinh Vietnamese people sharing the same language, their 'look' may be pretty diverse. Many Vietnamese people do resemble ethnic Chinese, but not everyone does. And it doesn't mean that any Chinese-looking Vietnamese has Chinese ancestry. (Due to past and present animosity between Vietnam and China, telling a Vietnamese person that he/she looks like Chinese may cause some awkwardness, though some of us do look quite/very Chinese).
But Vietnam also has people that look like those from other Southeast Asian countries. I met many Filipinos and I believe that they can easily blend in a Vietnamese crowd. From my experience, Vietnamese people tend to have bigger eyes compared to typical East Asians. Regarding skin color, many Vietnamese are quite light-skinned, including me. But many have darker shade as well.
Vietnam has some truly Austronesian population (speaking Austronesian languages and having ancestry). They include the Cham people (Champa kingdom in the past) and numerous tribes in the central highlands of Vietnam. One of the most famous Austronesian Vietnamese is Miss Universe Vietnam in 2018.
Hey, Vietnamese here, I appreciate your video man, your pronunciation is quite good too. But at 6:38, that's not Prey Nokor/Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. It's actually about 130km Northeast of that.
Also, in Vietnamese 4:39, we call the Annamite Range "Trường Sơn", literally the long mountain range.
Bảo sao Sài Gòn sao sát biển thế, tưởng hoa mắt hoá ra k phải
@@buiquanghuy7589 Mình lúc đầu cũng tưởng vậy v:
Bây giờ mình mới biết
Dude you don’t to explain like that, all countries are beautiful and Vietnam also beautiful. We got many beautiful culture and many thing, but I really appreciate your work ? Very thank you!!
Hello đồng bào :D
Dude : tui là Việt Nam
As a european I always respected the Vietnamese people. Thank you for all Vietnamese that are answering our questions in the comments and fixing common mistakes about their language, geography and history. Greetings from Spain!
Vietnamese here. One common miss conception about the vietnam war is about kill count, but we both know that american use kill count to justify racial superiority.
"The estimates for the number of North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas killed during the Vietnam War range from around 400,000 to over 1 million. The lower number is likely to be closer to the truth, as the North Vietnamese government only officially confirmed around 1 million military and civilian deaths on both sides."
That statement suggests that the actual number of North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas killed during the Vietnam War is likely to be lower than the estimated range of 400,000 to over 1 million. The lower end of that range is considered to be more accurate, as the North Vietnamese government only officially confirmed around 1 million military and civilian deaths on both sides.
There are several possible reasons why the US military have inflated the body count of enemy soldiers killed during the Vietnam War:
Pressure to show progress: The US government and military were under pressure to demonstrate progress in the war effort to justify the continued investment of resources and lives. Inflating the body count have been seen as a way to show that the US was making progress and winning the war.
Rewards and promotions: US military personnel who reported high body counts were often rewarded with medals, promotions, and other forms of recognition. This created an incentive for soldiers to inflate their reports in order to receive recognition and rewards.
Lack of accurate information: The difficult terrain, dense jungle, and guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong made it difficult to accurately estimate the number of enemy soldiers killed. In many cases, soldiers have overestimated the number of enemy casualties due to the chaos and confusion of the battlefield.
Propaganda: Inflating the body count was seen as a way to boost morale among US troops and the American public. By portraying the enemy as weak and vulnerable (racial superiority), the military may have hoped to undermine support for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese government.
Just ruining some guy's copium
It's true that the Americans overestimated the number of Vietnamese soldiers they killed during the Vietnam War. The body count was a common metric used by the US military to measure their success in the war. However, the actual number of enemy soldiers killed was often inflated due to a variety of factors, such as the inclusion of civilians, double-counting, and the misidentification of bodies. This overestimation of the enemy body count led to a distorted view of the progress of the war and contributed to the public's disillusionment with the conflict.
To be honest, I think it's important to see other's perspective in war. Maybe those american who tries to cope still think they did only good in vietnam. You should watch video Vietnam War #3 (Rape&Murder), those former soldiers talk about the SOP (Standard Operating Protocol) towards civilians, and mostly towards women. There were cases of enslavement and lot of miss treatment towards girls, and that's why family hides them from american troops who were well known to commit those horrible crimes. No wonder the vietnamese had more rage towards them and wanted to kick them out of the country. Many americans also talk about torture, saying that vietnamese tortured american soldiers while not realising american did just as bad.
If you learn history, you'll realise that everyone can do bad things, no one is innocent, just like the vietnamese in the past who massacred the native people (but those native also massacred other neighboor and vietnamese villages). There's no such thing as a superior or good/league of justice race running around in some pajamas.
@@KFC431 This looks AI generated and appears to be massive copium
@@KFC431Womp womp enjoy napalm
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some random Vietnamese geography + feng shui self-importing trivia here: the country is somewhat S-shape, dividing the land and sea parts, in which the Tonlé Sap is a massive lake in Cambodia and Hainan is a massive island in the South China sea, so it kinda looks like a Yin Yang symbol
I'm Vietnamese but have never heard anyone describe our country like a Yin Yang symbol. That's quite cool.
@@vnXun this is the "justification" for the reason why we were invaded so many times throughout history by some people, kinda self-importing; and the shape is also quite arbitrary - Tonlé Sap (Biển Hồ) is not that big anyway - but serve quite nice as a random geographic trivia I guess
The Annamites is one of several tangled tails of the Himalayas
@@DarkDragon5551669 The Tonle Sap (ទន្លេសាប) doesn't look big, but trust me, it's very big. Because Cambodia is a very humid and low country, it floods all the time and expands to double or triple the size.
Damn Zhanjiang Peninsula, ruining the cool thing
The massive dynasty changes is btw also the reason why so many vietnamese people have the 'Nguyen' family name.
Could you please explain a bit more? Why did Nguyen specifically become so widespread? Like why isn't a name like let's say Cheng as big
Whenever a new dynasty took over, people associated to the previous one (such as through their surname) got persecuted, so many change their name to avoid such fate as well as to pledge allegiance to the new lord.
So, to answer your question, it is probably due to the fact that "Nguyễn" was the last dynasty in VN. Once the feudal system was abolished, people stopped changing surnames.
Just like to add that "Cheng" is not a Vietnamese name lol, it's Chinese. Kinda similar to calling someone named Alejandro by Alexander.
@@samuelwhite1228 Surname like Lê,Trần..etc still very common, not as common as Nguyễn but it also a result of dynasty.
Other non-vietnamese dynasty relates surname usually come from smaller clan or of old chinese root. For example my surname is Hoàng, it not a very common surname and it directly related to old chinese settler from area like fuzhou, it gradually turn into vietnamese and turned into the surname Huỳnh but some family still remain with the surname Hoàng.
Also Cheng is a chinese surname, the closest thing to Cheng in Vietnamese is Trịnh which is a uncommon but not rare surname.
Nguyen was originally Chinese forced surname for various tribes in northern Vietnam during the Han dynasty. But the latter Nguyen clan (actually the Nguyen Phuc clan) were not the ancestry of all Vietnamese Nguyen surname bearers.
Vietnam: I’m so long.
Chile: Same.
Norway: Can I join you guys?
Long boi gang
Kudos to your pronunciation efforts!!! From a Vietnamese here.
I'm always amazed by how populated East Asian countries are.
EDIT: DO CHILE PLEASE!
it's actually pretty simple. Chile and argentina are separated by the andes mountain range, the second highest mountain range. Chile can't realistically expand into argentina nor can argentina expand into chile due to these mountains. It's like a wall
@@akai4942 Yeah I know, I'm Chilean, I just want to see a video from the perspective of a foreigner.
@@mapache-ehcapam a
bueno, saluditos desde el otro lado de la cordillera 😎👍
It’s cuz we have less money and so spread in less land in general cuz of some colonization history and stupidly high taxes. Now our governments have debt they cannot pay.
Ofc this except for China i forgot the reason why it was populated high…
Vietnam isn't East Asian though
I shall continue my valiant crusade against silent "s" pronunciation of "Laos."
amen brother
'Crusade' is a good word to use for that. It's literally an outsider trying to impose their own rule on something that is still accessible to them in the form it takes when following native conventions.
j/k: It's fine to pronounce it with an s, I think it's just rude to shame people for using the other pronunciation.
Illinois has enetered the chat
Lao = demonym
Laos = country
I will pronounce the "s" just to differentiate between the name of the country and its demonym.
I don't understand why it has an S tho? who romanized their name?
as a Vietnamese person raised in Australia I felt kind of disconnected to the country I was born in, but this brought me a lot closer! A lot of Vietnamese educational content here is to do with the war, which I already learnt about, so thank you
If you want to study about a country, pick up a geography book first, not history book . For example Germany, if you want to go there and study you need to know the culture and geography, not “THE HISTORY “💀
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more medieval vietnam content, specifically when the mongols got fucking impaled on spikes when trying to escape vietnam through the bach dang river after failing to conquer it
@@gururu1286 I mean in germany's case it does not hurt to know about hitory, and what is kinda taboo here
u still know vietnamese no?
@@user-sg9ql8nk1u Yeah, I speak Viet with my parents
I am interested in Vietnam, but I never asked _why_ it is shaped that way! This video answers _that_ question and more! Thanks for the video!
Vietnamese call our country "the S country"
@@spookyengie735 It really does look like an S.
@@adarshmohapatra5058 it looks more like a c turned the wrong way around but who am I to judge when my country is a literal number 7
@@abdiabdi3225 wait are you from Somalia?
@@abdiabdi3225 did't Italy look kind a like the S too or was it the T shape
Vietnam, Japan, Chile, Norway, and Italy, should together form the United States of Long Nations.
@@TuPham-sk6gv r/woooosh
Let's make it happen in a virtual reality
no
And Chile shall be the leader of them all
And croatia 🇭🇷
When i think of vietnam i think of Chill, nice, Friendly people who mind their own businesses. But when crossed into their red zone they turn into Fierce brave warriors. And that's why i admire them !
Greetings from Turkey to Vietnam o/
Thanks ^^
Tukish people are kinda warm-hearted and very unite.
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Honestly, even though you apologized for being unable to pronounce the names properly at the beginning, I was surprised to find out you actually seemed as committed to pronouncing them correctly as possible. Most other youtubers I know would have pronounced "Xang" as something stupid like "Ksang", so I'm always pleasantly surprised to see someone go out of their way to try and use correct foreign pronounciations. Keep it up!
As a viet - I'm also surprised by how well he pronounces Viet names too!
I'm not Vietnamese but I'm glad to see people appreciating this because I do too (as an African). Other youtubers, especially American really don't care about researching the correct pronunciations
@@colourqueen22 I know right? It makes me a bit annoyed and a bit sad at the same time (though that's partially personal pedantry because I'm into foreign languages and I always try to pronounce foreign things as best as I can, and I shouldn't really blame others for not being as obsessive as I am :P)
@@floppyearfriend I am obsessive too 😅 I try to pronounce everybody's names as accurate as possible be it Asian, Latin American, European... So maybe that's why I (and we) pay particular attention
I would assume Vietnam is a Longboy for the same reasons as Norway and Chile.
It’s a real shocker, as your pronounciation is so spot on. 10/10
Really?
@@undergroundlace1686 really
@@undergroundlace1686 Most of it, but the efforts are there and he nailed it
Stop lying.
But it's not bad for a white guy.
This channel is the best, I learn a lot with you. From the beginning I leave you a good like.
"To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people"
- Ho Chi Minh
And that was how the Vietnamese imperialists colonized Cambodia and Laos during the early 19th century under two emperor Gia Long and Minh Mang, but that brutal Vietnamese occupation and genocide of Cambodia from 1813 to 1845 is now simply forgotten, still remembered by the Cambodian people and Western academies.
7:30 He'd intended to cover that period, but then dropped so to avoid the dark past and his video get demonized
@@hermannboyen5392
Vietnam stronk 💪💪🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
@@hermannboyen5392 Like other country colonized as angel
As a Lao we do not hate Vietnamese as others would make such claim and I would assume the same with Cambodian
🇻🇳🇰🇭🇱🇦✌️
@@evilherojain4412 Yeah bro , Lao is good brother. Cambodian do hate us though
I have been living in Vietnam for almost 3 years but what I learnt from your video regarding Vietnam 🇻🇳 is awesome 👏
The charm of these videos gets me everytime - Awesome videos KhAnubis
Chile: *nervous laughter*
Ben Kiernan is a great author and I am glad you used him for this video. Not just a good video but also good sourcing.
I’m Vietnamese and I’m here to give credits to the research team!! They did a pretty good job with all these facts and timeline milestones! 👌🏼👏🏻
Man, I need to learn more about ancient and medieval southeast Asia. Thank you for the fascinating video!
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)
Vietnam is indeed a long boi. The distance from the top north to the southernmost point is like from Berlin to Sicily, or from Seattle to San Diego.
Just like Chile and Croatia they have joined the “Beach Taker” club.
Norway, Eritrea and Somalia should join the club too
@@blackman5867 add in Somalia 2.0 Djibouti to your list
@@blackman5867 I just a slight issue with your comment I know it is a joke but I just want to clarify that Somalia never took Ethiopians coast as much as it was Ethiopia coming from the mountains to take the ogaden
@@abdiabdi3225 what ? I was just listing the countries that blocks the others access to the sea. No one mentioned if they stole it or not. Simply just because it looks funny
Vietnam be like: *Somedays I feel Skinner than all the other days!*
Thật vui khi nghe người phương Tây phát âm tên tiếng Việt
Đúng đúng đúng
Ừ
Xin loi
Bên Việt mới là bên không tôn trọng phát âm, nhất là tên người Hàn.
Kang Sae Byuk hay Park Hang Seo vì tiếng Anh u đọc là ơ (eo) vì tôn trọng phiên âm tiếng Hàn,
chứ như mấy ông cố chấp bảo như thế mới giống tiếng Việt mình rồi lúc thì Paris đọc Pa-ri hay Pe-rít chứ Pa-ghi (đọc kiểu pháp) bảo thằng này phát âm sai r,
Seo đọc là sờ eo seo, Byuk lại Bi-úc, chế là bảng Latin hoá kiểu Việt Nam đọc là Sơ với Biếc cho xong
The origin of the Vietnamese ethnic group is in the North.
In 1558, Lord Nguyen Hoang defended the land of Thuan Hoa (now in Quang Binh) and he started the expansion of the territory to the south, and continued to expand to the next 9 lords, extending to Ca Mau cape.
And Under the Nguyen Dynasty, the territory of Vietnam claimed sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands
Thank you for reading
Ethnic Vietnamese =/= Vietnam's territory. The Vietnamese call themselves Kinh, not Vietnamese. "Vietnamese" is exonym. Without the political unification in 1802 of Gia Long, there's never a nation called Vietnam. Gia Long unified them, and gave the first idea of Vietnam, ruled the first empire of Vietnam. Without him, there's no Vietnam, and the fragmented Vietnamese still found themselves divided into different kingdoms and domains north, central and south.
@@cudanmang_theog technically we do call ourselves the Vietnamese as in “người việt” literally the viet people
@@cudanmang_theog without Vietnam, there is Dai Viet
Yue was a word from ancient china called all the barbarian tribes in the South, which include Nam Yue (South of Yue) because we were the Southest tribes ancient China at that time knew of.
BRAVO!!!! You nailed the History aspect of Viet-Nam well!!!!!!
The reason why they didn’t ‘expand’ their empire inland was because of all that coastline they had access to, They not only had a Great trade location (anywhere on the coast), but also access to Great Seafood too!!!!!🤗🤗🤗
Thank You for the information and a great video.
Its a wonderful country, the hospitality of the vietnamese people is amazing 🙏🙏👍👍
very good question, thank you very much for making this video.
There isn't nearly enough history on non-Europe/NA, so thanks for this! So fascinating.
I run into that problem when worldbuilding. Many devices have a "translate page" option.
My solution was to just type the phrase I want to Google on Google Translate into the preferred language; then Copy-paste it in the search bar; go to the page I want; press "translate page" and read.
I'm sure the countries wrote about their own history, so fly my little one and explore
Enjoyed this video so much! No idea on your Vietnamese pronunciation but kudos for trying.
Thank you for that informative video.
Thought I'd add something here. It sounds like you are pronouncing the southern empire as "Chamba". It's more accurately written in English as Champa. This was a Hindu empire that was never under any external rule from the 2nd century A.D. all the way into the 19th century. At times, it was a consolidated powerful empire, at other points in history it became a collection of much smaller kingdoms. The Indic roots can be found not just in the Hindu temples found there today, but also in Sanskrit names of cities like Indrapura, Panduranga, and Vijaya, and Sanskrit inscriptions on various older structures (including the aforementioned temples). The names of royalty as well as honorifics used, were also Sanskrit. For example, King Rudravarman, King Bhadravarman, etc. Some Cham communities are practicing Hindus even today, while some others have been converted to Islam and Christianity over the last 400 years or so.
I wanted to add this because, the way I see it, the Champa empire and culture endured for nearly a millenium, without ever being annexed by external powers. In your video, you place more emphasis on North Vietnam, but it is the Champa empire which serves as the backbone of modern Vietnam. This may be a somewhat subjective thing to say, but simply based on the length of independent existence and thriving, it seems to be the most canonical reading of ancient and medieval Vietnamese history.
the Chams lost their final capital in 1471, after which it is safe to say they're in a constant state of retreat from the tremendous pressure from the north (I quote many of the history books on the Chams).
the Cham civilisation is indeed relevant to the long shape of Vietnam, but they are by no means the backbone of the country. the North had always been the centre of politics until the 16th century, and the existence of the kingdom of Dang Trong in the south never mde them any less relevant. the kingdom of Dang Trong itself relied on the vibrant trade with the outside world, on new agricultural practices from the north, from Vietnamese settlers and of course from the Chams who stayed, but saying that Champa was responsible for the rise of Vietnam is a bit of stretch.
And the ancient city port of Kauthara too.
Vietnam is basically the Italy of Asia in the department of land shape.
this is a great video. Good work
I think there's a problem in this video. You mainly just blurred out the southern part of the current map and gradually revealled them to show the Southward March. However, the border as we known today was defined by the French. Before the French came the Nguyen Dynasty actually controlled a much larger corridor in the central of Vietnam.
I wish to visit this beautiful country oneday..
Good job! Good information too.
Great video!
really enjoy foreigners trying to pronounce Vietnamese names. so hilarious
When will you invade Cambodia again?
@@scintillam_dei When Cambodia raid us again, duh?
@@shreowotheartist253 (I didn't say you SHOULDN'T invade)
@@scintillam_dei wtf we never invade cambodia pon pot invade south vietnam first and we fight back
@@scintillam_dei They didn't invade them, Pol Pot, USA and the revisionist Deng invaded Vietnam.
come to think of it vietnam is just chile of asia but shorter
Now I want to know why Myanmar and Thailand have long tails.
like almost all thing in history it comes down to the French and British almost going to war and bullying countries again and Myanmar Burma whatever you want to call it was the British being Britain taking random pieces of land without any afterthought.
@@abdiabdi3225 I don't know how it happened but the long tail of Myanmar has been around since before the British. But other than that I don't know much. That's why I was asking.
it's because of a mountain range again
@@thekingminn for Thailand's, it used to be part of Malay kingdoms but Thai influence and eventually conquest spread when the Malay were weakened
Vietnam : I am so long and narrow.
Chile : Hollaaa....
Except the natural boundary mountains with Laos, Nguyen Dynasty back then captured most of Cambodia
And that's why Cambodian netizens are demanding Ho Chi Minh city and a large part of the South
@@caupikachumatday7227 we don't
*3:30* thank you for that Stellaris reference
That was pretty good documentary it did explain a lot about Vietnam play Vietnam is so incredibly thin thanks
That explains yuenanren in Mandarin. (I work in a Chinese shop with a lot of Vietnamese customers). Fascinating.
0:45 amazing how much Mandarin influenced the Vietnamese language, since the northern part was a vassal to the Chinese empire for centuries before independence.
Bac Bo = Bei Guo = Northern Nation
Trung Bo = Zhong Guo = Middle Nation
Nam Bo = Nan Guo = Southern Nation
No, "bắc bộ" is beibu in Chinese, not beiguo, mean Northern Region, but it gradually became less common in favor of a more native name "miền bắc".
部 bu bộ
国 guo quốc
面 mian diện (non-sino-viet miền)
Probably not mandarin as that's a fairly modern Chinese dialect, but middle Chinese so think Shanghainese and Cantonese.
Not Mandarin but Middle Chinese aka Han language which is closer to Cantonese.
No, u re wrong. Cantonese have more influence the Vietnamese language. u can check out on the youtube how they pronoun it like 80% the same. Cantonese and Vietnamese also known Yue people of 100 yue group. and Vietnamese and Cantonese were a part of NANYUE KINGDOM.
Chile: *"Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary"*
😆😆😆😆
Stellaris refference... LOVE IT!
SO GOOD !!
Poor Champa Kingdom, majority of Cham people are now in Cambodia.
They ruled Vietnam for centuries.
The word "skinny" made me laugh so hard even though I (and most other Vietnamese) already know why! Like this vid.
Why is Vietnam so long and skinny
Chile: Hold my beach line
Why is Vietnam so long and marrow?
Chile:
My man just explain the most complicated part of Vietnam history easily, wtf??? The part is the Mạc, Lê, Trịnh, Nguyễn stuff
It not that complicate if compare to 12 su Quan aka the 12 warlord period where Dinh Tien hoang emperor manage to defeat the other warlord and unite the country after Ngo Quyen die still lost some land up north to china though
Wow. Your pronunciation of Đà Nẵng is surprisingly accurate!
Great video, especially the pronunciation of Vietnamese names. Just a small missing island of Phú Quốc in all maps/graphics.
fun fact : vietnam block laos from the sea,making laos the only country in south east aisa with no coast
laos many time in the past were a vietnamese or siamese protectorate so that dont really matter
I mean, their historical territory never touched the sea so
You're saying it as if we don't know that when we look at the map lol
Laos is the homeland of Vietic speaking peoples 5 thousand years ago. Even today the Vietic tribes of Laos were still hunter gatherer nomads practicing Vietic shamanism, but there're some Laotian Vietic ethnic groups are Theravada Buddhists and Christians. Compared to ethnic Vietnamese or the Kinh who are known as the sinicized Northern Vietics, counting 85% of Vietnam's multiethnic population.
Well that is why Vietnam allows Laos to use some of their ports in central area
Finally a worthy opponent.
Greetings from Chile.
I might start calling it Nam Viet again. See if it catches on.
Probably not since it a name that the chinese force on us
@@spookyengie735 Well the Chinese are trying to rule the world, especially their neighbors, so perhaps it would make Xi happy to hear Nam Viet again!
@@spookyengie735 Well, it was technically Zhao Tuo that named it to us, so at least be happy that our nation even got a proper name lol
honestly Dai Viet is the only suitable name for this country. Nam indicates it is the southern kingdom from China and China should no longer be viewed as the centre of the world.
I'm from Viet Nam too, great vedio!
Definitely would watch more videos like this. Follow video up for Thailand? If you need a topic, it was the only SE Asian nation not colonized by the west...
Can you please make a video about the siliguri corridor of india,this at its narrowest point only status 17 km, any attack from Bangladesh aur Nepal supported by China, can disconnect the whole of the Indian North East several separatist movements, can you pls male it?
Austranesian = Southern Islands
Austroasiatic = South Asia
It's pretty easy to remember if you know what words mean
Also Austroasiatic can also be called Mon-Khmer if you think both term are two confusing
@@Frahamen Mon-Khmer is only one of the 3 major branches of the austroasiatic, so not exactly accurate either.
CZcams: "Why is Vietnam so skinny?"
CHINA: "Why is Vietnam not part of China?"
Rice farmer: Want to try 😑
@@thefirstkingdogo1126 Viet Nam ❤ Trung Quoc
Can you do a video about lesotho?
Not even gonna mention how French colonization influenced Vietnamese borders with Lao and Cambodia?
Ironically, Vietnam's borders actually benefited from French colonialism:
as the French took land from China, which they then "gave" to Vietnam (the far northwest of the country today), and allowed the Vietnamese to keep lands that they'd already taken from Cambodia.
And on the flip side, so did Cambodia: as the French forced Thailand to give land back to Cambodia immediately after WWII
I suspect only Laos never got anything; as it was one of three colonies where the French did absolutely nothing to help develop : Mauritania, Central African Republic, and Laos.
@@Suite_annamite lol my guy... vietnam took in parts of yunnan (nanzhao) full of mountains whereas the french gave the chinese chunks of cao bang, lang son and quang ninh which have more arable and fertile land. Vietnam also lost houphan in laos and chunks of central vietnam that crossed over to laos and lost chunks of kampot, svay rieng, takeo that extended.all the way to sihannoulville. Vietnam actially lost more land with french colonization.
Vietnamese food Bru SOOO GOOD
I'm glad you like it ☺️ There are many more, you will be overweight if you spent your whole life discover all of them 😆😆😆😆. Anyways, really happy that foreigners like you like our cuisine 😘
Ị just want to say kudos for the research of the history of vietnam 👌
You should talk about the rescue of Princess Huyền Trân sometimes. It's really fascinating.
Who? I am from Vietnam and I don’t know her
@@khanggamr7454 she was the reason why vietnam had Hue and Quang Tri to this day
@@vaninhhuu3215 ohh
Vietnam may be skinny but it's length is about the length of the US east coast from Maine to Florida.
Very impressive. Your knowledge of Vietnamese history is even better than some Vietnamese!
I’ve been wanting to know how southern Vietnam came to be and if the inhabitants were the same people as the north Vietnamese. Thanks for your video 😋
7:56 nice to see you again Celestium Willie
"Fat" America couldn't fight "skinny" Vietnam lol
usa be like: aieeee israel sama save me, tasukete gomenesaiiii
I'm not American but america was actually really close to win the war the north Vietnamese moral was very low at end of the war I'm not saying that's as a good thing I like Vietnam and I'm glad they won.
As a Lao, we call our country Muang Lao. Just like thai People call their country Muang Thai. The S is indeed Silent, the "S" I supposed was added when the french unified all the Lao puppet kingdoms that used to be seperated starting 1707, Champassak, Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Mueung Phuan from the Former greater Lan Xang Kingdom. Muang Phuan came under The Dai Viet's control many times and was once a province called Tranh ninh. Where the Viet tried to enforced their cultures above all. Nonethless we are neighbors and brothers from very far away relatives.
Brother in arms for the forseeable future!
Where does the term "Muang" come from?
I only know the words "pratet" and "pathet", which come from the Sanskrit political term "pradesh", meaning a "State".
@@Suite_annamite
From Proto-Tai *mɯəŋᴬ (“township”). Cognate with Thai เมือง (mʉʉang), Northern Thai ᨾᩮᩬᩥᨦ, Lü ᦵᦙᦲᧂ (moeng), Tai Dam ꪹꪣꪉ, Shan မိူင်း (móeng), Tai Nüa ᥛᥫᥒᥰ (möeng), Ahom 𑜉𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 (müṅ), Zhuang mwngh, and Mường?, Etc. Wiktionary
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This dude knows about history of my country more than i ever did, gawd damn
HEY!!! Countries come in all shapes and sizes! Vietnam is a normal shape and shouldn't be judged on silly made up concepts like this! 😭😭😭
yeah :C
Because it's Vietnam
3:29 didn't expect to see Stellaris Invicta here
In your clip, I don't see the appearance of 3 islands (Hoang Sa and Truong Sa) in the Central, Phu Quoc island in Kien Giang province in the South and many surrounding small islands under the sovereignty of Vietnam.
Vietnam has to be one of the most oddly shaped countries in the world!
I never thought about that.
This video explained my own country's history better than our educational system
Silly speaking. Where your home town in Vietnam?
i am Vietnamese, love your video.
Has a lot in common with the short lived Trbiizond Empire. The Trebizond state, was so focused on the sea, and all military recruites where trained in the same type of warfare as Marines.
Nanyue itself was a Sino-Viet kingdom that was a formed after a general from the Qin Dynasty was ordered by Emperor Qin Shi Huang to invaded Au Lạc with an army of several hundred thousand troops. The native people before the invasion there was a combination of the proto-southern Chinese and proto-northern Vietnamese peoples (one of the Baiyue/hundred tribes of the Yue) who had inhabited the lands that now make up southern China and northern Vietnam.
There are no such things called "Proto-Southern Chinese" people and "Proto-Northern Vietnamese" people.
@@randomspartanhoe4501It is a generic description of the ancestors of modern day Southern Chinese and Northern Vietnamese people. The "Yue people" (which is itself a generic description given to many different people by the Han Chinese people of the central plains) would not have considered themselves Chinese or Vietnamese because those are more modern terms.
@@Intranetusa The prefix "Proto-" is only used to call a mother language of a language family. That's why I was confused when you called ancestors of Southern Chinese and Northern Vietnamese people "Proto-Northern Vienamese" and "Proto-Southern Chinese".
@@randomspartanhoe4501 "Proto" is a broad word that can mean early stage, earliest form of, etc. The common lingustic ancestor that you referred to is a secondary definition of proto, so proto can be applied to more than just language families. For example, the word "proto-lithic" refers to the earliest periods of the Stone Age, and "proto-dynastic" refers to the earliest dynasties or the period just before the formation of dynasties.
@@Intranetusa I haven't seen anyone uses the word proto in tribes or people before. Yes, the word proto means before or something like that. Proto-Italic was spoken by Italic people not Proto-Italic people, Proto-Viet-Muong was spoken by Vietic people, Proto-Hellenic was spoken by Hellenic people.