What are the Guiana countries?

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[@somethung8188]

People don't realise how big Guyana is. Guyana is almost as big as Great Britain despite having 700K people.

[@diannamonk2753]

Its THAT BIG no way

[@bernardogoncalves825]

Omg, it seems a lot smaller because of its neighboring countries, thanks for that.

[@puskasisagod3727]

Yes but so much of it is rainforest and mountains. That’s why despite being the same size, more people live in London than the whole of Guyana lol.

[@oneof29]

As a citizen of an island nation that spans as long as the European continent itself, that's small in comparison

[@blackman5867]

More like, how small great britain is

[@maestro9113]

This channel has a lot of diverse people and culture and also a lot of hot girls

[@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318]

Indeef

[@maestro9113]

@Gim e Tendies everywhere

[@lucianosalvattorekollnespe2428]

Simp 😎

[@GermanK13]

I think this is one of the few videos where that last part was not mentioned

[@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318]

@@GermanK13 Especially Crimea episode

[@shreyasbhat0506]

Fun fact: Suriname is the only COUNTRY in South America which doesn't border a Spanish-speaking country

[@boouja2536]

@Samuel Cao no not rlly bcs france borders spain and french Guyana is part of france so no

[@Sean-sn9ld]

@Samuel Cao France isn't in South America tho :p

[@vaclavrejzl2670]

@@Sean-sn9ld yes the french guyana is still french

[@Sean-sn9ld]

@@vaclavrejzl2670 ok but it's not France is it? Ive been to France and it's definitely not in South America

[@Sean-sn9ld]

@@vaclavrejzl2670 it's like saying Canada is England but that'd actually make more sense

[@mossfen583]

Fun fact: France shares its longest border with Brazil (730km), which is almost 100km longer than its second longest border with Spain (650km)

[@mateusdesousav.8277]

l hate France 😉

[@mossfen583]

*looking for relevancy*

[@djiboutiforever2768]

@@mateusdesousav.8277 Good enough. And why ?

[@mateusdesousav.8277]

@@djiboutiforever2768 it's a joke

[@inaki5989]

@@mateusdesousav.8277 average r/shitposting user

[@marielb2924]

Yeah I'm Brazilian and I practically always forget that those three are there just above our heads lol

[@amosamwig8394]

Damn

[@MathRaven1910]

Ehhhh Amapá border???

[@joshuajagmohan4553]

Lololol

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

"Above your heads" means in the sky .

[@quidam_surprise]

@@lhistorienchipoteur9968 Je pense que c'était une figure de style pour parler du nord.

[@aland9328]

In the meme community of latinamerica, the people always forgets that these 3 countries exists😂, Actually, there's not highways between their neighbors

[@luisacosta54]

If you wanted to go from Venezuela to Guyana you literally have to drive all the way to brazil and then you drive up north to Guyana

[@Blue-pk4ny]

*2

[@nickh6619]

theres a road between brazil and guyana ;)

[@republicadominicana8589]

@@luisacosta54 and why I should want to go there in the first place and vice versa? 😂🤣

[@luisacosta54]

@@republicadominicana8589 you're dominican, so drugs maybe?

[@fritoss3437]

what you need to know is that the great majority of French prisoners who arrived in Guyana were killed because of the living conditions and therefore no big European population existed in French guyana today

[@mr.ocelotguy8995]

*exists

[@FOLIPE]

@Safwaan They aren't doing that much better than the neighboring countries as is

[@petitsoleil2083]

I have french Guyana origin and I can tell you, many french people live here nowadays. A part of them are the descent of colons and the second part are descent of prisoners and the last are metropolitan french.

[@matnotyou]

I mean, French people make up 25% of French Guyana and has the largest share compared to the other 2 Guyanas.

[@fritoss3437]

@@petitsoleil2083 i live in french guyana and outside of kourou their is not a lot of white french

[@agme8045]

It’s really crazy how most people in South America barely know these countries exist

[@KarmaKraftttt]

Nobody cares. And why should they? Lol

[@optimusedits7269]

@@KarmaKraftttt rude

[@KarmaKraftttt]

@@optimusedits7269 うるさい

[@optimusedits7269]

@@KarmaKraftttt um what?

[@optimusedits7269]

@@KarmaKraftttt what noisy

[@KingPongC327]

One time for a school project I had to pick a country in South America and do a. Presentation on it, and I refused to acknowledge that French Guiana was a valid option

[@oneof29]

You aint wrong though, technically their still under the french

[@royalsniper3994]

Technically speaking, you could do France and it would still be correct.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

refuse all you want , but those folk live a fine life under the eu protection

[@alfrredd]

@@polasamierwahsh421 I wouldn't say a "fine life" they do maybe compared to the surrounding countries but living in Guiana is definitely NOT the same as living the the Champs Elysees

[@polasamierwahsh421]

@@alfrredd yes but as you said good compared to your surroundings

[@beepboopman]

yay my country was finally in a country balls explained video as someone from Suriname, everything he said is true.

[@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b]

I feel you bro

[@hirohunter2314]

I have a question. What your race?

[@agme8045]

@@hirohunter2314 i bet he’s mostly Indian, and maybe he has some African/native blood in there very mixed in with his Indian ancestry.

[@myaccount4699]

Hello, neighbor. Brazilian here. Stay strong. Stop giving great footballers to the Dutch.

[@ls200076]

@@agme8045 or maybe Javanese

[@pawlaovicto7824]

Another shocking discovery about Brazil (for me): Amapá was once known as Portuguese Guyana

[@FOLIPE]

It was always a part of Brazil though

[@andarilho_31]

@@Clemehl Amapá is still has boats so it's not like they're 100% separate.

[@unterplaink1526]

@@Clemehl yeah, It is true, and It nearly worked, the military did preparativos for the invasion but It was cancelled like, a week prior because the leader of the country abidicated

[@andarilho_31]

@@Clemehl English is teached in Brazilian schools as an optional discipline. It's not obligatory.

[@andarilho_31]

@@Clemehl Brazil knows how the Amazon works. Our army is one of the largest in the world. The most logical thing France would do is to attack maritime cities and bombard cities in the sky through their air force. By land, i don't think France has a chance honestly.

[@JC05]

I am from Antigua, my mom is from Guyana, I have been to Guyana many times and it honestly does feel like the Caribbean there in terms of the culture, I hope to see Suriname one day Edit 2 yrs later: currently in Guyana right now for university, my aunt's promised me a trip to Suriname 😇

[@krio1267]

mmmmm rare people

[@apeman9238]

whatever you do, DO NOT CALL SURINAMESE PEOPLE DUTCH like how the guyanese do

[@SantomPh]

CARICOM and the West Indies cricket team are based there, and the locals have a strong Caribbean accent

[@ls200076]

@@apeman9238 wtf

[@wanderwanderlust8174]

Interesting! I’m Guyanese and lived in Antigua for 18yrs. Only been to Guyana once in my life. I live in Canada now. Always constantly trying to learn more about Guyana since my upbringing was more in different countries

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

Technically French Guyana is latin american as well as French is like Spainish and Portugese a Romance language

[@braziliantsar]

Well, kinda. French is the most unrelated to latin romance language.

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

@@braziliantsar Romanian:Pathetic

[@clement7652]

@@braziliantsar Indeed french is a hybrid romano-germanic language

[@mantea3481]

@@clement7652 and english is a hybrid germanic-romano language

[@gamermapper]

@@braziliantsar what about Gallo or Wallon

[@novomundo7559]

Curiosity: The flag of French guiana idependence movement is similiar of an flag of an brazilian state called Acre.

[@anupamtiwari5587]

Acre? That's a made up place. Also, does this mean that French Guiana doesn't exist?

[@sauronmordor7494]

yes

[@stickyglue8083]

Acre ia not real.

[@c3phs]

Isn't Acre full of dinosaurs

[@kartoshka_1876]

Please tell me guys is it a meme in Brasil that acre doesnt exist? Because we have a similar meme in Germany as well

[@ansosboy8687]

I'm Indonesian ethically Minangnese - Javanese I hope one day I can Visit Suriname 🇮🇩❤🇸🇷

[@krio1267]

i wish to go to guyana, because im from malaysia :) also love indonesia

[@ansosboy8687]

@@krio1267 🇮🇩❤🇲🇾

[@beepboopman]

Lmao Tis very gud here

[@dr.rodrigo554]

Ethnically*

[@ansosboy8687]

@@dr.rodrigo554 sorry 🤧

[@Makem12]

I love the Haiti reference when the revolt was put down

[@jonnyrocket7570]

Wrd

[@sibericusthefrosty9950]

5:34 Ah yes, what you need in order to assimilate to the French. A baguette.

[@1000eau]

As a french citizen, this is true, to be french, you need the B A G U E T T E

[@TheSonofGod1]

This is what happens when you get your indepence late.

[@dumplingsbig1184]

If they gained indepencece much earlier they would of been conquered by neighbouring countries.

[@TheSonofGod1]

@@dumplingsbig1184 Hmm... Nope. Tell me then Why Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador still exist.

[@dumplingsbig1184]

@@TheSonofGod1 Argentina and Brazil where instable back then.

[@TheSonofGod1]

@@dumplingsbig1184 My point still stands.

[@andarilho_31]

@@TheSonofGod1 Paraguay exists because of a us president (i forgot his name oops) decided to keep a buffer zone between Brazil and Argentina. If it wasn't for him, Paraguay would actually be divided between both countries. Uruguay only exists because the British wanted a pupper state in south America to keep their influence there. There was actually a war between Brazil and Argentina (Cisplatine war) over Uruguay, but both countries just finished their independence wars so the armies were exhausted. As for Equador I dunno lol.

[@someguysomeone3543]

To extend on why spain let the Dutch colonise. After the 80 years war or the Dutch war of independence, spain and and Netherlands basically just scrambled who would get the most out of the old lands of the iberian union, and to also expand where they already had set ports. Plus it had also some weird thing to do with the habsburgs and their weird marriage stuff, to the point Austria actually became part of Spain once.

[@venezemapping9920]

7:18 I love the fact that these Guyanese guys are like "Venezuela who" when Venezuela is literally claiming a 74% of their land for decades and even planing a few invasion plans. (Fun fact, those moments where Venezuela tried invading Guyana, another president came in at the last moment and had a slightly change of plans XD)

[@pecadodeorgullo5963]

It wouldn't be a smart idea considering Guyana is a commonwealth nation.

[@venezemapping9920]

@@pecadodeorgullo5963 Kinda, but probably UK wouldn't do too much. (I mean, it would do something, but not something BIG)

[@pecadodeorgullo5963]

@@venezemapping9920 Well, it wouldn't just be the UK so it wouldn't be a good idea. There'd be more consequences than those us sanctions which is something.

[@mossfen583]

@@venezemapping9920 I mean, we know what they did for two hilly islands across the globe. I'm sure they would do a lot more than "some aid".

[@venezemapping9920]

@@pecadodeorgullo5963 Yeah, I know what the Brittish did for the Falkland Islands, but that was for 2 main reasons. First, Margaret Tatcher, and second, the falkland islands is a dependency of the Brittish crown, so it's like close to be a colony. Unlike Guyana, Guyana it's already an independent state, so, if any country decided to invade it, that wouldn't really affect the Brittish crown. Plus, Suriname has some probability to also invade them, after all they claim some of their southern land (But still Suriname is a very weak country :P). Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, since UK has bad relationships with the actual venezuelan gouverment, it is more likely that they will send a big support to Guyana.

[@HighPeakMapping]

Never forgetting the hot girls. Where would we be without them?

[@nearpod5207]

we literally wouldn't exist

[@KingPongC327]

@@nearpod5207 I mean… you’re not wrong…

[@mathewvanostin7118]

He watch his language ever since he is monetized 😂

[@JC05]

@@mathewvanostin7118 thats how you play to win bro

[@Zenkka]

@@mathewvanostin7118 Gotta secure the bag 😎

[@juliosilveira7891]

The thing about Argentina. They are not (directly) called so because of the metal. It is because of the Río de La Plata (The river of the silver). Similar to Uruguay they named themselves after a body of water. The Plata river, on its turn, is called so because it was used to convey the silver mined in Bolivia and Peru to the Buenos Aires harbour and then to Europe. So, in short: Argentina is not named after silver since no silver was mined on Argentina.

[@artilire]

wait what is uruguay named after

[@juliosilveira7891]

@@artilire ...the Uruguay river. Their official name is actually "Republic of the Eastern Banks of Uruguay (River)" (República Oriental del Uruguay). And no, Homer was not right. It is not named after "U're gay".

[@gaviriak]

"To the buenos" is a wrong sentence Just say "To buenos aire's"

[@juliosilveira7891]

@@gaviriak actually grammar mandates the apostrophe after the "s" wherever the name or pronoun ends with such consonant. Thus it should read «Buenos Aires'». But this sounds way more vernacular than my formulation which stresses the harbour which, by the way, predates the city by many years.

[@juliosilveira7891]

@@scratchsoft2347 "argentine" is the adjective related to "silver". In this case, the Silver River (río de la Plata). The country name is "The Silver Republic" (where "Argentine" qualifies the Republic. Argentinians are also knows as "Platenses" in the same way related to the river, not the mineral, which was never mined in Argentina.

[@marcusanimations1843]

No one: France to french Guyana: Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down

[@granatapacifica]

If I have to be honest Suriname is my favorite out of the three, and I absolutely have no specific reason to prefer it, I just like it more

[@hussain6469]

I think it has an awesome name

[@ttyagraj9554]

Same, cause my great, great, great grandfather's family lives there.

[@mog5397]

It has cool flag and cool shape of country

[@amosamwig8394]

because of a random germanic language being spoken up there plus sranantongo which is used here in the netherlands as slang

[@youngsantana5905]

@@amosamwig8394 faka dan

[@krishibrahmania8432]

Love and respect Guyana from India 🇮🇳❤️🇬🇾

[@Jacooo0_]

TYSM and love and respect for you too (I'm from Guyana..hope you have a great time!)

[@Mechagodzilla170]

As a guyanese I approve this message

[@melbiamil5144]

I love how happy brasil is in your videos.

[@rhuniizada]

Its a funny contrast with the actual sadness that consume the people in our country

[@andarilho_31]

@@rhuniizada Nada ver o Brasil é considerado um dos países mais felizes do mundo.

[@user-sy9jw8nm4j]

@@andarilho_31 no exageres Brasil es el 28 país más feliz del mundo, mi país es más feliz, es el 27.

[@tommybrad6393]

@@user-sy9jw8nm4j What's the name of your country?

[@amosamwig8394]

@@andarilho_31 I dont know any portugues but damn I can understand this

[@GreatJapaneseEmpireball]

Love Guiana countries from Japan!!! 🇬🇾🇸🇷🇬🇫❤️❤️❤️🇯🇵

[@apeman9238]

Actualy it's more like: 🇸🇷🇫🇷🇬🇾.

[@ZukiDaiski]

Dankje 🇸🇷

[@Leahslifeonhere]

@@apeman9238 What they said was right deal with it

[@thatguywhosayshi7021]

0:56 that mad lad Rick Rolled us…

[@kenqin0901]

I like how in the "french guyana part" France says "never gonna give you up" Its like a "countries explained but there is a rickroll"

[@braziliantsar]

Since when does Brazil have a "bland" demographic? Dude, we pretty much got everyone from everywhere here. We have the biggest population of japanese people outside of Japan.

[@FOLIPE]

Brazil is nowhere near as diverse as the Guyanas, specially culturally, that's why.

[@mateusdesousav.8277]

@@FOLIPE Brazil has the greatest diversity in the world idiot

[@raviolithebest8644]

That's what I was thinking

[@tiocroc4814]

​@@mateusdesousav.8277 think mateus think. we have africans, japanese, europeans, and natives. they have all of that and have chinese and indians, that we do not have. and theres no such thing as "greatest diversity".

[@mateusdesousav.8277]

@@tiocroc4814 Brazil and Colombia have the greatest ecological diversity in the world. Brazil has 20% of all biodiversity in the world.

[@HighPeakMapping]

The French bits are still French- Guyana is like the Australia of France- *Countryballs Explained is no longer available for offending nationalists in French Guyana*

[@visitbolivia1218]

Also France: *Never gonna Give You Up*

[@fandemusique4693]

@@visitbolivia1218 *never gonna let you down* *You will always be french, and love it*

[@rimacalid6557]

@@visitbolivia1218 never gonna let you be independent*

[@gontrandjojo9747]

@@rimacalid6557 You speak as if Guianese wanted to be independant but "evil France" was holding them...

[@hendrikdependrik1891]

@@rimacalid6557 It's more like the other way around. Massive protests were held to keep France in French Guiana.

[@gillianoaxwijk6368]

Much love from SURINAME 🇸🇷

[@cdgui267]

im from brazil and sometimes i ask myself about these 3 countries, thanks for explaining!

[@planteruines5619]

Hello , as a french i would like to have the harmepa state did you want to give me or not

[@cdgui267]

@@planteruines5619 do you mean amapa?

[@planteruines5619]

@@cdgui267 yes but i prefer to call it harampa ,don't know why but if you give me this bits of land the city will definitively be renamed , anyway i want this piece because i consider this a part of a complete Guyana with Guyana the french one and Suriname , i want a united Guyana under french

[@cdgui267]

@@planteruines5619 to much to ask my man, AMAPA É BRASIL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@planteruines5619]

@@cdgui267 it's like acre but costal like why would you defend this little bit

[@pretendtheresaname9213]

00:11 “A bunch of south american lands that do not fit into latin american culture” Me, a brazilian: That's gotta be us!

[@agme8045]

Well at this point Latin American culture is basically Mexican-American and Caribbean-American culture, a lot of argentines don’t feel very represented by the “latino” tag, im sure lot’s of other south Americans feel the same way

[@MaverickTsuki]

@@agme8045 Where did you get argentines don't see themselves as latinos? We might say we have both spanish and italian roots, but that's what makes us a latinamerican country. Also we share lots of culture with our neighbourgs. Still, i don't get why some brazilians don't consider themselves as latinamericans... i mean, Portugal is a country with latin roots too (also they had a big wave of italian imigration too). Maybe they confuse the term with "hispanicamericans"...

[@agme8045]

@@MaverickTsuki it’s not about what the term “Latino” literally means. It’s about how it’s perceived by everyone. Thanks to American media being a Latino means dancing salsa, eating tacos and spicy food, speaking Spanish, living somewhere really hot and tropical year round, living in a place full of organized crime with gangs wanting to kill everyone, drug lords running countries, etc. Brazilians don’t fit into “Latin America culture” because Latino culture is overly represented by Spanish speaking Latinos, specially those from central and Northern America. How can someone from Ushuaia, Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz, Southern Chile, Montevideo, southern Brazil (to name a few) feel Latino when they literally don’t share any similarities with the Latino stereotype? We are all quite aware of what being Latino means, of course we are all technically latinos, but do you really feel like one when it comes to how Latinos are portrayed in American/European media? (And that media is reproduced literally everywhere else) By the way, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Romanian people are all “Latinos” too, but have you ever seen them using that word to describe themselves? No, bc we’ve reached a point in which Latino basically means Mexican, Cuban or Puerto Rican culture (or a mix between them all) So anyway, I know I’m Latino, but I don’t like using that word to describe myself, I rather think of myself as South American, it feels closer to me, it’s definitely not as stereotyped as “Latino”, and it actually does a better job at describing where I’m from. (Again, a Latino can literally be from 1/2 of the world, if you are south American you can only come from about 14 countries.

[@shweli4326]

@@agme8045 You don't need to write an essay

[@pretendtheresaname9213]

@@shweli4326 He explained exactly why I said what I said. Latin american culture is associated with a mix of central american and caribbean hispanic cultures, not latin american culture because there isn't any “latin american culture”, there are many different ones in many countries that speak romance languages. The term itself is very generalizing and it shows on how Canada and Quebec is never included (and they themselves feel offended if called latinos), imagine saying “anglophone culture”, it sounds just as inaccurate to the reality of things.

[@ashadow4313]

1:52 Let's all admit it, we read that in Oversimplified's voice.

[@helix1016]

2:59 this is not Haiti... I AM DEAD 💀

[@artrack15]

technically french Guyana is latin America

[@tiojuan7887]

@@user-sy9jw8nm4j El francés es un idioma latín.

[@tiojuan7887]

@@user-sy9jw8nm4j Étnicamente y geográficamente pertenece a Latinoamérica, no tiene nada que ver que sea una colonia. Qodopqndow: es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica_Latina

[@eliann124]

@@tiojuan7887 y ahí es donde estamos mal... Ser latino americano no tiene nada que ver con etnias no con la geografía... Solo con el idioma hablado y no más.

[@1000eau]

@@user-sy9jw8nm4j No es una colonia pero una region de Francia

[@edryctan672]

I recently searched about the Guiana countries, and this came up lol. This must be due to the fact that the creator saw about Malay people in Suriname(the Dutch brought them there).

[@oneof29]

You mean Javanese?

[@ls200076]

Javanese?

[@edryctan672]

@@oneof29 Yes

[@edryctan672]

@@ls200076 And yes

[@edryctan672]

Imagine speaking perfect Javanese in a non Malay country located in Latin America

[@dietsch5273]

Always keep going man great content!

[@jonathanreid5615]

"United Guyanese republic" people let's make it happen, let's create a new country in south America

[@MrBaconMan823]

Nah

[@jonathanreid5615]

@@MrBaconMan823 yes.

[@planteruines5619]

Yes but it's french département

[@cavallariraymondi6860]

@@planteruines5619 no, France is Guiana department

[@planteruines5619]

@@cavallariraymondi6860 then all it will be

[@gethuksea4640]

It's funny to me as Javanese, that in fact there is Javanese live in another continent and speak Javanese there

[@kakfafadillahe]

Yup, we only can speak them (especially Suriname) use Javanese language (to meet our Javanese sibling's) & little mix with English also Dutch language

[@yashmundada8128]

3:38 hahahahha the French saying he will strike if he is asked to work is so French

[@quirkyqwerty9878]

My parents are from Guyana and this explained a load of stuff, thanks!

[@lynoska1951]

0:15 i mean even if French guiana isn't culturally simular to the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries French guiana is Latin American just like haiti

[@FOLIPE]

yeah I agree tbh when one says Caribbean I also think the English speaking Caribbean is the one that's different because DR or Cuba or PR are very similar to the rest of LatAm

[@PURAHAN]

THAT "This is not Haiti" is a BIG BRAIN JOKE 🤣 I even 👏-ed after reading that!

[@Joridiy]

French Guiana IS part of Latin America (Latin America is composed of Hispanic America, Brasil, Haiti, Quebec, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and the French Caribbean). Suriname and Guyana aren't part of Latin America because of the language and culture which isn't latin (romance) but germanic based (Guyana is part of Anglo-America and Suriname part of Dutch-America), so those two are part of Germanic America (composed of Anglo-America, Dutch America and Greenland which is a constitutive kingdom of Denmark). And for those that say "no, they can't be pan-germanic because race/culture is too diverse" then most Latin America wouldn't be Latin because Latin America is also extremely diverse. Both terms, Latin America and Germanic America, are linguistic terms which also have traits of culture and history. Quebec is as Latin as the French Caribbean and Guyana/Suriname are as Germanic as the British Caribbean or Dutch Caribbean, hence Germanic-American.

[@bacan703]

Yes, you are right.

[@Lina-wr1fn]

No lol

[@Joridiy]

@@Lina-wr1fn yes lol

[@maximelover3314]

No it's not, your perception of Latin America is inaccurate.

[@Joridiy]

@@maximelover3314 That is Latin America, if you take one of the three regions then you have either Iberoamérica or Hispanic America

[@amosamwig8394]

When I was a kid I often went to the library to study maps and culture, I really loved it. It's a real privilege to experience the visual lore about the atlas, on youtube it shouldnt came as a suprise but who had tought that youtube would be such a informative diverse place to make yourself either wiser or more dumber, either way love this channel.

[@vstrom650gr]

Video requests: •Why Kurdistan is not an independent country, and what if it was? •Why Cyprus is disputed?

[@petitsoleil2083]

I'm surprise you don't talk about the conflict between french Guyana and Brazil in the 19th century. And, many Brazilian people go to french Guyana, and the Brazilian state of amapa have french for second language in school.

[@slohmann1572]

I’m from south Brazil and I had no idea about French being taught in Amapa. We are very close to Uruguay and Argentina, and Paraguay a little bit, and the rest of South America feels like some exotic land.

[@SantomPh]

The French footballer Flourent Malouda was born and raised in French Guiana, and learned Portuguese in school. He even has a Brazillian wife.

[@kg7518]

Video suggestion: why isn't Italy a European power

[@nicoislazy]

“Why don’t Italians have feelings?”

[@zyopera]

Actually It is

[@yunghung1856]

Because they are to busy talking about food

[@planteruines5619]

No because they were never unite during the empire time , but venise did a pretty nice job in the méditerranean

[@legalduidriving]

Because of incompetent leadership, the mafia problem, and corruption, thats why.

[@hafizfirliansyah7784]

Indians from Asia are confusing when they heard Amerindians/Native Americans called Indians too.

[@viniciusduarte5970]

They are called indigenous actually

[@hafizfirliansyah7784]

@@viniciusduarte5970 nah,when Legit Indians immigrated to US they heard some White guys talking Native as Indian while you lived in Arizona.

[@hafizfirliansyah7784]

@@viniciusduarte5970 probably most Indian Asians are not accepted call themselves as Indians while in abroad(even though Sovereign state of India established in '47)instead calling them as Bengali Punjabi,Gujarati.

[@pedrosabino8751]

Thats why in portuguese we have different words for them. "índios" to indigenous people and "indianos" to indians of Asia

[@fillipesampaio9425]

Just in English

[@senku9444]

Never thought I would see my home country Suriname on my favorite channel 🇸🇷

[@youngsantana5905]

Same bro sranan🔛🔝

[@senku9444]

@@youngsantana5905 my name is also jair and we are from te same country✊🏾🇸🇷

[@gery8218]

Greetings from 🇦🇹❤🇸🇷

[@apeman9238]

@@gery8218 Greetings from Suriname

[@independentwarfootage4909]

Video suggestion: make a video about Central asia its one of the least talked about Region

[@ddwkc]

I wonder how they become kinda "forgotten" for the Western world considering how important they are historically.

[@independentwarfootage4909]

@@ddwkc probably because they got their independence in the 90s snd they were part of the much bigger state "the soviet union". And thry are mostly dictators there but western nations dont say anything as thry get a lot of gas and recources from there

[@haikalmiftah2529]

He did, here the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqeTZmiJjtlsfdU

[@haroldomil]

8:19 The Countryballs meme at the end is very hilarious and sarcastic too. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Never mind that Venezuela can be soooooooooooooooooo mighty!

[@amosamwig8394]

in the netherlands we have lots of suriname people so much to the point that you'll be like everyone *should* know where suriname is located at the least.

[@EscalaAnark]

Thanks! Finally i can see my country as a ball in one of your videos (Perú) interesting video! :D

[@gabriellipereiradiniz5504]

Eu sou brasileira e agradeço pela aula!

[@haroldomil]

8:02 Exactly same feeling when American tourists came to Puerto Rico making video blogs and having fun speaking in English in a clearly Hispanic and overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking land! I feel messed!

[@aryanyadav3690]

Love Guyana and Suriname from Índia 🇮🇳

[@apeman9238]

Because our people of indian descent?

[@Kris-lx2cf]

The Comic at the and of the video was gold

[@romanlegion470]

This channel is so addictive

[@luisacosta54]

Representing spanish guayana in here! 😎

[@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b]

Venezuelans

[@luisacosta54]

@@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b southern eastern venezuela, especifically the state of Bolivar.

[@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b]

@@luisacosta54 ah what you think of your government claim over our land?

[@luisacosta54]

@@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b El Sol de Venezuela sale por el Esequibo

[@gtgbrb.Chad.v1b]

bueno ese sol debe mio es propio bisness porque el essequibo es de guyana.

[@paarthrudrapathak6596]

I use to think Guyana to be a part of Carribbean for their regular participation on cricket in major tournaments, particularly siding with the united team of The West Indies, and not as an independent cricket team

[@ciavasquesholder4108]

Guyana is anglophone Caribbean. It’s the capital for Caricom

[@zidane8452]

@@ciavasquesholder4108 it's not no damn anglophone caribbean when yall south American. Y'all wanna be caribbean so damn it's embarrassing,, stay south American

[@Keijspermeister]

I'm Dutch, and I've never been to Suriname, but you can just go there, ask waar de markt is, and they'll understand

[@chediamor3607]

5:38 i hate to be that guy but the DRC wasnt a french colony, it was belgium.

[@Ajax020Paris]

Just flex your knowledge mate, nothing wrong with that

[@altanata5060]

Love the fact that Dutch ball is so high ;D 0:46

[@bipboup7761]

European Latins : French is a latin language like the others American Latinos : you French came along brits and dutch. Wouldn't that make you too Germanic ?

[@clementmaire9658]

French white people are a mix of germanic, celtic, and latin blood, so there is no wrong or right answer

[@alioshax7797]

@@clementmaire9658 Technically speaking, so are the British (and to some extent, Italy and Spain), but France speaks a romance language, so it's often considered latin. Language is a clearer way to differenciating people than DNA.

[@zhirbeanhunter4850]

video suggestion:any topic about the kurds

[@pedroferreira7214]

6:56: Brazil: why not both? Why not all??

[@yubrajamrajh2814]

Finally a video on the Guianas

[@AimonsL_oignon]

French Guiana is technically latin American

[@planteruines5619]

Yes , but guyanas are more Guyanas than carribean and south America

[@nhae0]

As long as they stay tied up they aren't. Neither do they seem to want to be.

[@escpikayohann4760]

Because of the languages (french & spanish are in the same group of languages)

[@planteruines5619]

@@escpikayohann4760 yes but they are not like the other

[@shopo8423]

@@planteruines5619 even if they're different, french Guiana Is in fact Latin American doesn't matter what

[@inferno38]

In french guyana there was the "Bagne" its was our own gulag

[@juanschroder6519]

Make a video about all the etnic groups in Bosnia Herzegovina

[@imaduckinspace8138]

How to offend the Balkan 101 mate

[@erikastockunaite5192]

@CIA: Central Intelligence Agency YES

[@alexcontreras5637]

Pls do anything on El Salvador 🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻

[@lordofreality]

F o o t b a l l W a r

[@alexcontreras5637]

@@lordofreality I know a lot about it but i personally wouldn’t mind a video on it

[@flavio6878]

I don’t even know why they don’t have more relation with the other South American countries. We are super fun!! :D

[@joshuajagmohan4553]

Okay lemme answer that question, Am from Guyana The reason is because Venezuela wants our land and they hate the s8t out of us And number 2 is because nobody in guyana really knows any other language but english tbh So there is not really much we can do. And most people in Guyana wants to get out of this country and go to a first world country cause this country sucks

[@petitsoleil2083]

French guyana have a huge relation with Brazil. The Brazilian state of amapa speak french as second language, and in the south of french guyana the first language is Portuguese

[@FOLIPE]

@@petitsoleil2083 That's not really true though, Amapá has hardly any connections with French Guyana except in the far north where very few people live. Even the one and only bridge connecting Amapá and French Guyana is closed. Regardless, most people live far from the border in the capital which is in the southeast of the state and no people don't speak or study french in Amapá

[@andarilho_31]

@@petitsoleil2083 i think french is only spoken in Oiapoque tbh, Wich is a small city where the Brazilian-French border is located.

[@petitsoleil2083]

@@FOLIPE Don't speak when you don't know ... Many ignorant nowadays and they love that ... Historically, part of the state speaks a kind of French Creole, karipúna (called lanc'patua Louço-Francés by the speakers), which makes this area the only French-speaking area in Brazil. This language is little spoken today, the most generally accepted estimates point to 500 to 1,000 speakers [7]; some however go up to 20,000 people. Since 1999, the State of Amapá has made the teaching of French compulsory in public schools [8]. French has some success, because Guyana is almost the only foreign territory bordering it, and the English-speaking countries are very far away (Guyana is the closest English-speaking country). The countries where Spanish is spoken are all also out of reach, for a population globally quite poor and modest, where long trips are expensive. The movements of the fairly young population to French Guiana are very important, where the targeted jobs are: garimperos (gold diggers), dockers in Cayenne, work in the construction industry (construction and public works), agricultural work, etc. Amapá is the only Brazilian state where the first foreign language learned is not Spanish or English, but French. Brazilian federal institutions are encouraging this openness towards the Francophonie, seen as a “springboard” and a “bridge” towards Francophone countries. Brazil wishes to maintain the use of French in this State, because it opens up economic and cultural prospects for the French-speaking market and world, while English and Spanish are widely used in the other States. Thus, this political approach is aimed at the French-speaking world, which is not negligible, especially as regards exchanges with France, and a large number of French-speaking African States. Amapá is therefore seen as an experimental “window”.

[@FormerlyHshjdigli]

Fun fact:this is one of countryballs explained's only videos without any swearing

[@DonCristian_DPB]

Your videos are always so informative and fun, I really love your style bro ;)

[@zsombortelek8411]

Great video! Video ideas: Why are Poland and Hungary BFFs? Why is Kaliningrad part of Russia? What is Bavaria?

[@mlprao]

The Baltics of South America

[@nifecike1325]

I am a citizen of St. Lucia and I have friends from guyana

[@GermanK13]

There is Bri'ish Guy-ay-nah There is hom hom hom Gui-oh-nown And there is weed pirates. They may not look like south americans, and they aren't. As such, they play the Caribbean Cup instead of Copa América

[@apeman9238]

Define a South American for me please! -someone from Suriname that feels more South American than Caribbean.

[@apeman9238]

@@GermanK13 first off all, that is the culture you are talking about. Every country on the continent is a South American country! Second: you don't have be a latino to be from South America! Third: there is a diffrence between South America and Latin America!

[@_steamfunk_2271]

Glad you uploaded this

[@hamstersiriofeliz3260]

Quem ousa citar o nome do Brasil? Agora você despertou os mais de 210 milhões de brasileiros

[@kailou502]

transalation: Who dares mention the name of Brazil? Now you have awakened more than 210 million Brazilians

[@theunfunnychannel5567]

@@kailou502 OH SHI-

[@kailou502]

@@theunfunnychannel5567 run. run while you still can, brother. there are coming.

[@MathRaven1910]

216 M of Brazilians are coming protect yourself as a friendly Brazilian

[@theunfunnychannel5567]

@@kailou502 I know the one thing that can destroy a Brazil. A PORTOGUL

[@mediocremuffin6770]

I’m guyanese and damn I’m happy to have seen this video, niceeee

[@kissadev.]

That's right, in Brazil we have a border with France.

[@francoise9056]

... which means you have a border with the european union because French Guiana is a part of it 🤭🤭

[@user-sv3um1yd9d]

"Not happy being kicked out of Suriname" "The English joined the fun in harassing the french as well" Lol

[@salvation7779]

French Guiana speaks French right and it's inside and it's in the Americas therefore it's a Latino country Latino stands for the Latino languages which is Portuguese french Spanish Romanian and Italian those are the Latin languages therefore French Guiana is Latino American

[@ethanelpendejo]

Altough French Guyana isn't independant. By that logic, as a Québécois since i speak French and i lives in the Americas i would be a Latin American ? (Wouldn't complain tho since i like Latin America :)) (also i think Latino and Latin American are different bc one is mostly by stereotypes while the other is by actual languages)

[@andarilho_31]

Eh. It's quite complicated. New Mexicans could be considered Latinos as well, but no one refers to them as such.

[@shweli4326]

5:34 Congo , Vietnam , Algeria balls + baguettes = French balls France: It's how French people are made! UK and the Netherlands: Interesting.......

[@scaredycousins]

Who else learns more from this guy than from school?

[@bacan703]

Me, school sucks :P

[@knownanonymous1691]

Country ball explained , i just wanted you to know that i've watched all of your videos at least 3 times Keep it up mam

[@vin6665]

Suriname is Indonesia's great distant cousin that probably Indonesians doesn't even know about

[@apeman9238]

Indonesia is Suriname's Asian stepbrother. Ohhh Indonesian (especially Javanese people) know, search Didi Kempot in Suriname or Suriname Javanese. Every comment is Indonesian

[@gsw977SoekarnoNederlands-Indie]

@@apeman9238 They were both colonised by the dutch. Before Indonesia was called Indonesia it was Netherlands India or Nederlands Indie in the dutch language. Netherlands india was like a overseas territory of the netherlands back then. My great great grandparents were Netherlands indians when they migrated to Suriname. They weren't Indonesians.

[@apeman9238]

@@gsw977SoekarnoNederlands-Indie ja je hebt gelijk

[@unmilanbaruah2995]

Fun fact: Sir Viv Richards is actually a legendary cricketer from Guyana.....Guyana is very popular for cricket

[@EspeertinhuCA]

There is also a isle alongside of Argentina that people are anglophone. huehuehuehuehue

[@AdamTangela114I]

Fun fact: French guiana is a part a france as a overseas department, but it is also a part of the guiana countries

[@XXV_Flea333]

1:52 Dude, Uncool

[@bobinskiplays1779]

I love your content! I can't live without your content! I also like it, because your videos are serious but funny at the same time. 😀👍

[@ZebraGER]

"Sprechen sie Spanish or Portuguese?" German, my favourite language in South Africa. Was that a mistake or on purpose? I was a bit surprised Great video though, love the use of TTS in this format and the use of countryballs!

[@lionkidmg5125]

Can you speak German ?

[@ZebraGER]

@@lionkidmg5125 Ja, Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache. Yes, German is my mother tongue

[@lionkidmg5125]

@@ZebraGER Bist du Deutscher ?

[@andarilho_31]

South America*

[@axelprino]

We in South America tend to forget that these three exist, there's barely any contact between them and the rest of the countries

[@syv5013]

As Javanese (We pronounce it "Jowo" or "Jawa") ethnic/tribe...im proud that Javanese people can be in the other lands/country which is Suriname. We as Javanese people are family friendly & family loving. We love to live with our family. We rarely go migrate to distant land or country. Its change, Maybe when 2nd President Soeharto create the program of Transmigrasion. We Javanese actually migrate to other island inside Indonesia -> Sumatra, Kalimantan, Papua, etc.

[@voicelessuvularplosive]

yes!!

[@FOLIPE]

They are pretty isolated, basically islands except in one side they are separated by the jungle not by the sea.

[@apeman9238]

by rivers