Countries That Are SHRINKING In Size Right Now

[@molexi6537]

If you convert something to freedom units, atleast use the correct ones, for example, my house is about 5 AR-15s tall

[@lukedetering4490]

Rolexi my house is 3 elephant heads tall

[@victorious5906]

My house is 5 oil barrels high

[@molexi6537]

"Did someone mention... OIL???" *invades*

[@hunterolson3744]

My house is 11 pizza boxes tall

[@maximumthrottle5391]

@@benny_lee probably something to do with the republican party and their use of the elephant as a icon.

[@lukedetering4490]

I love how accurate your imperial system conversions are :)

[@duffal0]

I like fortnite!

[@ItsWazzza]

@@duffal0 good for you

[@duffal0]

@@ItsWazzza I like fortnite!

[@HahtaanDaetori]

*Western Sahara is Antarctica*

[@molexi6537]

You are talking about Maldives like they would be the first country without land but the Knights of Malta haven't had any in a long time

[@ibx2cat]

First UN member state that will lose it's territory / also the first people group. I still think it'll be an interesting precedent, but I perhaps should've mentioned the sovereign order or Malta you're right

[@molexi6537]

I guess I wasn't focusing enough. Sorry about that. Could you do a video about Knight of Malta some day? I don't think alot of people know about them

[@SantomPh]

the knights of Malta are officially a recognized sovereign group but do not actually have any land and borders.

[@damjanivanovski801]

Country:Mr World, i dont feel so good.

[@Jake-dq2xw]

R.I.P

[@carl8752]

Ah fuck you

[@phospamic]

Œ

[@coatigoatb3171]

Toycat: The Maldives might be the first digital only country! The Sovereign Military Order of Malta: :(

[@sobs291]

Do a video on Liberland

[@stacey8347]

Oh how 4:55 aged over the course of a couple years.

[@brandon9172]

Kosovo is Australian

[@machonacho2767]

Australia is Mongolia!

[@thetrashmaster1352]

I'm Australian. I can confirm Kosovo is Australia and Australia is the United Kingdom.

[@burinvoyager8964]

No both are Canada and Canada is united kingdom

[@kylejackson3742]

Astoris Minecraft is Sweden.

[@LunaBari]

Are you insane?

[@Daniel-br4nc]

Let's just use a few boats and pick up the islands then bring them to the land!

[@wafflepenguin4440]

Great idea! That would be definitely possible to do and it would certainly work!

[@uyuman1]

Whose land?

[@Daniel-br4nc]

uyu man The islands can stay at my house

[@sonnydog830]

Daniel LET'S TAKE BIKINI BOTTOM, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!

[@HahtaanDaetori]

*Crimea is Kosovo*

[@HahtaanDaetori]

Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff lol, it's a joke calm down 😂

[@user-pv7vc9kp9k]

Taiwan is Crimean kosovo

[@pvfsm]

At 18:37 When you say "unrecognized territories like this part of Armenia" you actually showed the Nakhchivan Exclave which belongs to Azerbaijan and it's undisputed territory. You probably wanted to point to Artsakh aka Nagorno-Karabakh which is east of Armenia, not west, but doesn't show on google maps as disputed area. I guess it's not shown as disputed area by google maps because even tough it's de facto ruled by ethnic Armenians who want a union with Armenia, Armenia never officially claimed the territory even if they support the local forces in their fight against Azerbaijan, but I'm not actually 100% sure whether they claim it or not. Sorry for being "that guy" always pointing the small mistakes in your videos, the truth is that i like your videos and i think they have quality so when I spot something a little detail that you missed I like to let you know.

[@tjvanderyacht9806]

I would love to see a video on how Chile got its such weird shape and pretty much owning the pacific ocean on the western south america xD

[@SantomPh]

TJ VanderYacht when the Spanish ruled most of the continent they split it up into different divisions to rule it easier. Chile happened to be one of those divisions. as each nation gained independence separately, it was left as a skinny strip down the continent. Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru plus Argentina set their borders, with the Andes as the main border (and wierd river bends) wonderwhy does a grear video on this

[@colewalker2916]

They took over the coast from Bolivia and stuff that’s it

[@duffal0]

They separated the South American countries by their Fortnite wins, and Chile had the most so they got the whole coast

[@HeviErkka]

I think in year 2120 Maldivians are a people group without a country. Like Romani people. Or they have became like half-Maldivian half-Indian people.

[@thatoneguy9582]

Bhaalspawn84 Or they’ll go to Sri Lanka

[@WizardToby]

I've always considered Greenland it's own country even though they're technically part of Denmark XD

[@leotard2536]

that's just wrong

[@himtraldi]

As a Dane I prefer Greenland voting in referendums to stay because they want to, not be cause they can't afford not to.

[@Saturntwilight]

Keep up these great geography videos toycat!

[@turkeycooktime458]

I have heard that Tonga is actually growing in size, because of new volcanic islands along the Tonga Trench

[@FilK79]

You are so cool. At my time in Yugoslavia young people in school actually cared to study history and geography and felt proud and cool to demostrate knolledge about it. Then I moved to Western Europe and I found myself in a place where my schoolmates knew shit about the world and geopolitics. Like totally ignorant and not even wishing to know anything about it. I really need to say that despite Serbia/Yugoslavia had not been a Eastern Bloc country, it had a communist regime, and in regard of education, all these countries did so well in making schools actually educate youngsters from early age about important world stuff. For instance, I studied 2nd and 3rd grade in elementary school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in late 1980s and we already had there history and geography. I left Serbia to Portugal in 1988 with 10 years and already knowing all geography and history of Yugoslavia and most important stuff of the world. When I came to Portugal I went to 4th grade and saw them playing as babies wihout knowing or studiing any of this.

[@ivandjurdjevic7463]

Kosovo is Serbia

[@Nikodem2008]

Unlike Britain, they know ZERO about geography. At school there was a little Europe poster and they thought Bulgaria was in Spain and they spelt “Bolgayra” wrong. It also said Prague was in Spain and it also said some random sea which was between uk and Denmark but it was in Baltic Sea. Come on seriously

[@duffal0]

I live in the US and I’d be shocked if half the people I know could name a European country outside of the the UK, France, Germany, Italy, or Russia

[@sidimightbe]

I think that has to do with you being in portuqal, I bet it’s better in the actual west

[@sidimightbe]

@@duffal0 the us is western centric cause it is wester and only briefly talks about Russia

[@oxcaxx]

Do countries that are growing. For example UAE and the Netherlands making artificial islands.

[@erkinalp]

A flood deleting all of European Netherlands and they would suddenly need to move to Belgium and Carribean.

[@4N9vxO3WnK]

You could also add countries that are affected by post-glacial rebound to that list.

[@シロダサンダー]

Erkin Alp Güney nah, we'd just reclaim the land again.

[@towaritch]

Monaco also is building a 6 ha artificial polder.

[@jeddro2]

And China is doing it illegally

[@_Dalton_]

4:47 well that didn't age well.....

[@lukaskarlstrom7548]

Denmark is expanding in mass... lol

[@comicallytv6046]

Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Nauru, and Kiribati are all sinking as well

[@Mr.Nichan]

18:37 "This part of Armenia is one." I think you messed that up a bit. If that pat of Azerbaijan is de facto independent (which makes sense; I think it was a special Soviet Republic), then Azerbaijan has 2 different de facto independent states in it, the other being Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh west of Armenia (and connected to Armenia by regions of Azerbaijan that were occupied by Armenia until the 2020 war, after which what remains of Artsakh has only been connected to Armenia by a thin Russia-occupied corridor).

[@jakobsmith4046]

Eleven minutes into this video and i have already learned more than i did all day at school.

[@pelasgiaillyria1445]

Jakob Smith True. 😂

[@ludvigwitschel7801]

I'm Danish, and I only know a few people who've been to Greenland. We maybe spend two or three hours learning about it in class, and many Danes don't even recognise their flag. I wouldn't even call it a part of the country of Denmark, only the Kingdom of Denmark.

[@adaaam37]

What about France and Spain? There's an island between them that changes from France to Spain every 6 months

[@thatoneguy9582]

Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff No, there’s a different one

[@smpark12]

claim it at the second it switches. SAJAKA SHALL OVERCOME! are you talking about Andorra tho? that's a country that is half owned as a king and a president and ahhh complicated

[@SantomPh]

Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff Andorra's leader is referred to as a prince, which is just a fancy term of head of state (not royal). the island referred to is Pheasant Island on a river border in the Pyreenes region. the island is uninhabited by humans and changes hands every six months due to a 17th century treaty between France and Spain. it is more of a technicality as pretty much anyone can navigate the river.

[@towaritch]

@@SantomPh the Bidaxxoa river is small it is only navigated by fishermen and tourists canoes . There is a French monument (stele) on Pheasant islet that dates back to the 18th century.

[@Frahamen]

What happens when a country has no land anymore? Well they stay as an observer state in UN, like the Sovereign Military Order of Malta did centuries ago. No land anymore, but on a lot of levels is still a "country".

[@SantomPh]

Frahamen nothing happens. unless there is a government in exile (like Tibet) the instruments of state cease to exist.

[@towaritch]

A "country" reduced to a building in Rome 😁😃

[@pyr4911]

Atlantis is going to be real...

[@kostam.1113]

Kosovo has always been Serbia, it's just occupied currently just like East Timor for example was occupied by Indonesia.

[@TobuscusGameing]

Pyrope Nope

[@Tuberex]

@@kostam.1113 Who asked

[@DominoLarry]

ibx2cat: "The average size of countries will be shrinking over the next hundred years!" Russia: "Challenge accepted!"

[@erkinalp]

You pointed the wrong part. Disputed one is Artsakh, not Nakhchivan. Nakhchivan is a sparsely-populated Azerbaijani territory. Armenia proposed corridor exchange plan, swapping Nakhchivan and eastern Artsakh with a small linking corridor from Nakhchivan remaining, Azerbaijan and Turkey disagreed.

[@jordanobeid2305]

in a perfect world some country will give a small section of land to Maldives in a perfect world

[@jordanobeid2305]

hopefully someone will

[@Luredreier]

The Faero Islands will probably also become independent at some point. And another thing, neither the Faero islands nor Greenland actually belong to Denmark, they belong to the Danish Kingdom, something Denmark also do. But it's more of a we have a same owner who due to customs follow the decisions of our parliament kind of thing then a we own you kind of thing.

[@Triadii]

The 6 donkey heads joke got me 😂

[@Random_Evolution]

Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran are in thread of shrinking too.

[@Styggejoe]

Greenland has a seats in the danish parliament, few, but some.

[@IkeReviews]

Where's memelantis

[@towaritch]

The majority of people in S Tyrol want to reunite with Tirol but Italy is blocking it.

[@keithwolfe1942]

Instead of sea rising, it is the island chain that is sinking.

[@deanseawa]

I like your show and share your love of maps. But I have one request. Can you slow down on the zooming in and zooming out and jerking left and right. It really gets hard to see anything when you do that.

[@ibx2cat]

thanks for the tip - I do it "live" so it takes some mental training but I'm trying to make smoother pans :)

[@illeatyourbird4149]

Hey you should do a video on the chesapeake bay

[@smpark12]

Toycat make a video on the Democratic Monarchy of Sajaka

[@decorn2542]

Please make a video on Hungary.

[@Jan-hm1xz]

you said in the video that it is beneficial to be a small country but. what are the benefits of being a small country?

[@ibx2cat]

most small countries do significantly better in the modern age

[@xp_strikerobloxian7296]

I can’t wait to watch the whole video!

[@GlobeOil0030official]

Basically countries that would no longer be countries

[@ramuk1933]

What about Artsakh and Somaliland?

[@emieloverduin5542]

THE SEALEVEL IS RISING??????? HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY COME

[@psd_seth]

You should make a video on Villa Las Estrellas!

[@josephpaterson8274]

South Sudan is Sudanese!!!

[@KenrickBrown75]

Tbh the best way for Africa to advance itself is to federalize its governments into several or maybe even a handful or one

[@uyuman1]

South Sudan is Serbia.

[@lukedetering4490]

Kenrick Brown honestly it might be best to let africa fight itself. That way the ethnic groups that want to be together can be

[@engineer4931]

Everything is Érie

[@IhaveBigFeet]

Irelandball Gamez South Sudan je Srbja

[@LaUtErKnALL04]

Please make a video about Kosovo. It's very interesting :)

[@anonim0022]

theo steinmann and very Serbian as well ;)

[@Hollywood2021]

Was Greenland’s Parliament working out of a classroom?

[@Knutwolf]

Can you once and for all tell us what name you go by on KZbin? You always say it so quickly during the startup, but I have never been able to pick up on what it is. Other than that: keep up the good work.

[@ibx2cat]

toycat, or 2cat

[@reskypanda5197]

Correction British empire was 1/3 of worlds land and commonwealth is 1/3 of the worlds population

[@Hoehlenmaensch]

31 Seats. Pretty sure stuff gets passed real quick in that parliament.

[@samjl584]

r.i.p maldives in the next 100 years

[@henktwerda291]

If China can artificially make islands ij the South China sea, than the Maldives can artificially increase the height of some of their islands.

[@mario7049]

The Maldives are rapidly sinking

[@gott7574]

Germany is going to expand into Poland in the next 100 years? Nice

[@dressrosacr7]

xDDDDDDD

[@execat]

He almost convinced me that I should care about the second channel.

[@ZAvier8021]

Make the cities Float. If Iceberg can do it so can we.

[@spacestationz]

All I can think of is Yakko's World right now. I'mma sing along to it right after this. Gotta love animaniacs

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

This video is 2 years and 1 day old

[@RealMozart]

I love your intro

[@louiethepitt]

a lot of this examples fall under "Countries that are administer by other countries".... autonomous territories and autonomous countries inside other countries....guess all Federations fall into this one like Russia, UK, USA, Spain, etc.... in the case of Georgia I think this 2 small republics are official, same goes for Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan.... we are not even counting the De facto self Proclaim countries that are recognize by other countries but not the Administer of the territory like Nagorno-karabakh which has its own coin, military, ID, parlament and minister and laws....and its recognize by very few countries...same goes for Taiwan.

[@darthsawlex8257]

Scotland voted to stay in the UK therefore they aren't leaving. Angry rant over. Nice video 2cat!

[@ieppuux]

Well Finland is gaining more land mass :))

[@Phantomminer-be5xs]

Learning with Toycat

[@bigbadbear2962]

I’ve been on holiday in the thumbnail

[@samuelquintin5787]

Russia is also dealing with its own separatist movements. Most of the territories at the heart of these movements are federal subjects of Russia, and have been demanding either whole or partial autonomy or campaigning for absolute freedom from Moscow’s rule for a long time. Of these, the movements centering Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, and Tatarstan, have historically been the most robust and often bloody. It's only a matter of time before Russia breaks up and becomes smaller.

[@erkinalp]

Kaliningrad+Moscovia+Primorye would be successor of Russia. Greater Finland, Armenocaucasia, Turkic Union, Greater Mongolia would take all the remaining parts.

[@mapacore4152]

can someone count how many times he said "in the next (number) years"

[@NeoFlorian1]

im 13 so i will probably live until 2100

[@MemilyLove]

The moment I read the title I thought “oxbow lake”

[@Khloya69]

Japan has more islands than Maldives

[@marcchef98]

you pronounce abkhazia wrong, it's with ipa x (like scottish loch) and not with a k, for the kh

[@contermann2]

But Abchasia and Ossetia were influenced by Russia whereas Kosovo wanted independence by itself! So it is different!

[@ibx2cat]

Influence from Albania is not hard to argue, though

[@dhawthorne1634]

The US seems to be growing more land pretty quickly at the moment.

[@sonnydog830]

D Hawthorne their east coast is shrinking, while their west is growing. Not to mention Hawaii.

[@TobuscusGameing]

Kosovo is Kazakhstan

[@Triadii]

I accidentally watched the whole video

[@jahangirkhizer6289]

What about sria

[@sploofd6902]

South Sudan is Sudan

[@donlimonesioyt9644]

No

[@chimefloon-w-4146]

how bout you do a border vid with rhe german states like you did with the us states? :P

[@grizzley6937]

We should take Bikini Bottom, and push it somewhere else!

[@swissintro7000]

1:44

[@principalmcvicker6530]

This video turns 4 today

[@PeterBuvik]

Iceland is Norway

[@arposkraft3616]

we can make land for the maldives if we want to

[@republicofgoldlandia838]

God The creator and narrator of reality: 20,00 years later republic of gold landia after 2034 in 2035: America we want independence America: no : republic of gold landia: *goes to war with America America: ok ok your independent jeez

[@akashviswam5457]

Kashmir is India!!!!

[@tabbo1-mapping]

Akash Viswam yeah

[@CDADRacer]

THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA!!

[@clairemayes6218]

Save the ruffiya ....NOW THERE IS GONNA BE FLOTING MONEY NOOOOOO because im a money collector and i dont like floating money hehe

[@subsetsgaming8412]

There is a something on earth with 1 populaion

[@westernautocrat]

KOSOVO IS SERBIAN

[@pelasgiaillyria1445]

AI R509 DARDANIA IS ILLYRIAN

[@gigachadkartik]

India, as China is expanding it's border

[@ryanvogel2027]

China is growing (south China sea)

[@dorkaholic_]

How about Wakanda? Black panther died

[@chrisrus1965]

Please do one about Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia Please

[@uzumrazvan719]

basarabia is romania

[@cortanax1407]

Serbia is Kosovan

[@luk-1006]

Georgian Here! It's Abkhazia not abskhazia. :D