What Country Did Your Independence Come From?

Countries around the world celebrate their independence differently...
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[@DrewDurnil]

I know where Tonga is, my editor who zoomed in on Comoros does not... lol

[@boaz6816]

Hahahah

[@gekkouga2828]

It's fine! People do make mistakes lol

[@toastbot9496]

in an alternative universe, it was comoros time instead of tonga time

[@Pandastico0]

lmao

[@419prince]

Plot twist, you edit your videos

[@riatom7314]

France celebrating their "independance" from France is the most french thing I've seen in a while.

[@misterkeyboard.]

BAISE LA BASTILLE

[@almatymapper8038]

F r a n c e.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Technically the Franks were never subjugated and finished off what was left of the Western Roman Empire so we really didn't get our independance from anyone

[@strasbourgeois1]

@@Duke_of_Lorraine We got our independence from the cruel monarchy.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@@strasbourgeois1 France remained France, it wasn't controlled by a foreign power. Plus Louis XVI was quite enlightened for his time, the revolution was mainly things getting out of control

[@meestanaef1109]

“I don’t know what happened” Answer: Romanians gained the right to work and live anywhere in the EU some time after the country joined the union in 2007. Italy is a popular choice due to the similarities of the languages and popularity of Italian culture in Romania.

[@-3720-]

Been to Romania, and as a Portuguese i find italian and romanian way more similar than I ever expected. Then again, Romania is the only country in eastern europe which language derives from latin

[@PLTakeMe]

@@-3720- Romania is from Rome, as far as i know it was ex legionaries and romanian mean citizen of rome or sth like this

[@uralbeking]

@@willi_hd910 Not all

[@ejokurirulezz]

If you are an EU national, you do not need to show your national ID card or passport when you are travelling from one border-free Schengen EU country to another.

[@ejokurirulezz]

@@PLTakeMe Iirc Wallachia used to be there before Romans took over.

[@baddbabylon]

Pennsylvanian Dutch is the language spoken by the Amish community. It's basically a amalgamation of German, English & some words that they made up on their own. It's called Pennsylvanian Dutch because early Pennsylvanians confused Deutsch for Dutch & it's just stuck from then. There's also a few words that mean different things in German & Pennsylvanian Dutch.

[@frickle55]

I love that this guy just talks about anything. These videos are maximum entertaining and interesting i love it

[@outerspace7391]

Drew you do realise Russia gained independence from the USSR four days earlier than Kazakhstan, right? Kazakhstan was for four days the entire USSR.

[@vladko312]

Entire territory of USSR. The government was in Moscow and existed for 10 more days as a country without territories

[@King_Maguire_The_IV]

Technically there was also Kaliningrad for a while.

[@azatgaripov2380]

Russia didn't get independence from the USSR. Moscow has always been a capital of both.

[@le_meme_man8983]

@@azatgaripov2380 Russia DID get their independence from USSR

[@outerspace7391]

@Pedro Zalazar wait real life lore had made a video about it??

[@connorfraser9822]

Drew: Knows A lot about Maps Also Drew: "points out a island of the coast of Africa and calls it Tonga"

[@MrChemicalravi]

Yeah it's Comoros

[@little_mr_divergantz1435]

It was his editor apparently

[@mewmere6069]

Not evening the Pacific 😅

[@mewmere6069]

*even

[@trishl4794]

I was looking for a comment that pointed that out

[@Gavroche_]

Fun Fact: In Russia apart from the independence day which was mentioned in the video they also celebrate what they call a "Unity Day" on November 4th, which is the day they retook Moscow in 1612 from Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to be precise)

[@CoolBoy12099]

As a Russian i confirm this. Explonation is too simple, but kinda true. Because PLC tried to make Russia third part of Union and make Orthodox Russia catholic one, but they got divided 182 years later.

[@syriuszb8611]

Yeah, that's weird that it is missing from the chart, especially since they put France celebrating independence from France, so they did not use strict criteria.

[@JontyLevine]

The worst part of leaving the EU, as a British person, is that we get excluded from statistical maps of Europe. Now, along with Norway and Switzerland, we join the trans-continental league of No Data.

[@silva3658]

Are u really sure that's the worst part? Lmfao

[@antonischatz.2133]

​@@silva3658 You didn't mention the logistical problem with the truck drivers in UK.

[@jeffthevomitguy1178]

You guys are officially airstrip 1. (Jokes don't flame me.)

[@LeifurHakonarson]

Iceland says hello 🙂

[@ivy_angels]

I mean from the Netherlands we can look across the chanel and kinda see what's going on but sadly not conclusive enough for statistics

[@still_resume]

*Fun fact: The largest continuous French border with another country, is with Brazil*

[@still_resume]

(Not Spain because of Andorra)

[@yellowflag9945]

@@still_resume evil Andorra

[@wornyt]

It was on a Drew video a few months ago.

[@lukamartinovic976]

Drew and most of his active or OG viewers already know this but thanks for the fact.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

🇪🇦🇦🇩🇨🇵

[@renrenzambales]

Hi @Drew! I find this video soooo interesting. Well, regarding the islands 4:55 beside Madagascar, they're Mauritius and Reunion.

[@thesaltyguy3564]

WOOOW that was the best video i've seen in a really long time

[@flyingblueduck6379]

Fun fact: Scotlands National animal is a unicorn. It’s also represented on the British coat of arms, along with the lion.

[@Souledex]

Notably because in myth it’s able to kill lions. Also funnily English lions in most text is referred to as leopard from the French word because they barely knew what they looked like after Rome for a while there. So both names and terms in heraldry have a weird history

[@PlaceholderFutureChanges]

I already knew this,but I like how the unicorn is on so many girl toys.

[@logannichols5848]

If you look on the coat of arms the unicorn has a golden collar around its neck with a gold chain being held by the lion.

[@logannichols5848]

I just looked it up the chain is free. Could have sworn that the lion was holding it.

[@drey8]

@@logannichols5848 it's interesting because the UK royal coat of arms has some grass to which the chain appears to be fixed, but the UK government has a modified coat of arms with a banner replacing the ground and the chain is free. That has to be symbolic. It's about time the unicorn had a rainbow mane and tail though, I mean come on, diversity.

[@okamiexe1501]

"Where did your independence come from?" 85% of the world: *looking at Britain*

[@ImmortalSpelldagger]

Uk: Poland from what country u got independence? Poland: yes Uk: What? Bro what are you talking about men? Poland: yes Austria: he got from ME Poland: No Austria: didnt work Poland: yes Deutsch: Polen tell NOWW Poland: ME UK: ok Austria: What? Deutsch:What? Russia: What?

[@jmundi2002]

85% is way too much

[@marioluigi9599]

I think that chart is wrong because it didn't even show that the US celebrates its independence from the UK on 4th July

[@steve20097]

Russia

[@KITTYKITKATFOREVER]

Yasss the comment make me giggle Hehehehhehehehehehhs

[@TravisBickle82]

Nice Polandball with hussar wings in the background.

[@Henrydinotpot]

Drew I'm watching this in summer so it's good to be there

[@shalmalsoni3864]

Shows Comoros. Drew: Oh yes, Tonga in the pacific

[@koyonafri]

he replied with the pinned comment lol

[@orangesufi]

Well to be fair Comoros is the African Tonga

[@silversunset]

He knows where it is. It was just an editing error

[@Sheepo-nj9sj]

Frank did it i think

[@vinnyhickey3701]

Well it seems like an troll if he pulled up where togo is i would understand if he showed tonga

[@roddbroward9876]

0:36 I like how Ecuadorians have camouflaged themselves among Romanians in Liguria hoping no one would notice

[@counmaptry171]

Egypt had joined the chat

[@insertusernamehere1]

Ukraine has joined the chat

[@irrelevant_noob]

@Rodd Broward *Equadorians

[@roddbroward9876]

@@irrelevant_noob Thank you, fixed it.

[@dynmo_awesome1053]

OMG I didnt noticed so well played lol

[@lormaeris]

The independence day, at least for Slovakia and Czech republic, is not about celebrating leaving Czechoslovakia, but about founding of their own states. In Czech republic we also have a day to celebrate creation of Czechoslovakia. This might sound like a small difference, but the feeling are quite different about it. Comparing it for example with independence of USA from UK or Latvia from USSR.

[@thecountrygirly]

0:00 BAHAHAHAHAH, im half Italian half Romanian and I can confirm this 🤣 “Italy land is literally taken over by vampires” That killed me 💀

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

Romanian (the language) and Italian are quite similar, so learning Italian as a native Romanian speaker is quite easy. That is probably one reason why there is so many Romanians in Italy. And Romanians move west in large numbers in general I feel like.

[@Nightlight16]

It's because they are both romance languages right?

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

@@Nightlight16 yep both originate from Latin. And as far as I can tell, they are both quite close to Latin, more so than for example French. Might be mistaken tho.

[@Tovalokodonc]

@Romania Insight Ya, ya, ya. Keep spewing your fairytales

[@mil3tic]

Its because in between those years, Romania joined EU (2009), so many Romanians naturally fled to country with similar language and with better living standard etc. which they couldn’t do in large numbers before joining to EU.

[@clashsupreme9394]

@Romania Insight when they say better living conditions part of that is making more money like you mentioned with the friend being payed more in germany.

[@Grizzly_mike_00]

Austria celebrates their independence from the USA, USSR, UK and France. Since these countries occupied Austria and split it up. Frence had Vorarlberg and Tyrol in the West, the US had Salzburg, Upper Austria and a part of Styria, the Brits had Styria, East-Tyrol and Carinthia and finally the USSR had Lower Austria, Burgenland and a little part of Upper Austria. Vienna was split similarly as Berlin was

[@Jordaniantrex]

I always wondered why they occupied Austria

[@NorthieStangl]

@@Jordaniantrex Austria was split between the four Allied countries after the war, just like Germany. Austria regained independence in 1955.

[@Kath2378]

Hi, German here, I don't really understand why that would warrant an "independence day" though. Those couple messy years of occupation after WW2 don't even come close to enough oppression for that in my opinion as it really was our own fault and it takes a while to establish proper democracies. I'd even find it more understandable if you'd celebrate independence from Germany, even if that were kind of ironic

[@-Eisenfaust-]

@@Kath2378 Weil Österreich damit seit 1938 wieder Souverän wurde, seit dem Anschluss an NS-Deutschland. Die Bedingung für die Aufhebung der Besatzung war die Annahme der strikten Neutralität Österreichs sowie die Bestätigung sich niemals wieder mit Deutschland zu verbinden. Damit endete die 10-jährige Besatzungszeit.

[@Kath2378]

@@-Eisenfaust- Das versteh ich schon, nur nicht warum das Ende einer 10-jährigen, gerechtfertigten, Demokratie gründenten Besatzung einen Unabhängigkeitstag braucht.

[@bedrock-chess]

Commenting 2 years late on this sort of video, but that map at 1:46 perfectly represents the current state of the Nordics. Here in southern Finland we still have quite a bit of snow even though we're halfway through April.

[@oliverczako258]

0:54 You can see Slovakias outline 😆

[@gigachad1661]

I JUST SAW IT💀💀💀

[@meogen]

The Pennsylvania Dutch are actually German. When everyone was immigrating and they said "where are you from", they said Deutsch, and people thought they said Dutch. So, Pennsylvania Dutch ensued.

[@nuggetgachaguy6342]

For any people who can't speak German, Deutsche is pronounced Doi-ch

[@Tonyx.yt.]

it's the language of amish people, that's why it come in 3rd place after spanish

[@chriskooijman3334]

I live in the netherlands

[@PeterAuto1]

@@nuggetgachaguy6342 but they would say Deitsch. Also Dutch and Deutsch are cognates, so have the same origin.

[@frellor6704]

Surprised to see you here, omega.

[@Emlif]

"the swedish controlled finland for a second there" Meanwhile most of finnish history: *Inhales* Sweden Sweden Sweden Sweden....

[@unclear6055]

Also Sweden never gave Finland independence. Russia annexed the eastern part of sweden (Today Finland) in the finnish war, which in turn developed into the finnish nation which got it's independence from the Russian Empire (correct me if I'm wrong).

[@edgarratsep3631]

@@unclear6055 Finland was a junior partner of Russia with its own parliament and laws that were semi-independent from Russias. So Finland was technically created by Russia

[@unclear6055]

@@edgarratsep3631 The way I see it Finland never had a unique identity within Sweden, but that idea of a nation started to grow when the region was under Russia.

[@edgarratsep3631]

@@unclear6055 That's pretty much how it was. If i'm not mistaken Finland under Russia also had its own unique currency and had its own army that was allowed TO NOT participate in Russias wars and besides all of that Finnish people had a lot more freedom in comparison to Russias population. Quite a unique country Finland was/is.

[@unclear6055]

@@edgarratsep3631 Guess that's what happens when you get squeezed between Sweden and Russia.

[@lollopoldo9192]

0:10 aim from italy and theas is so real!

[@_Xlsoni]

Drew: "Poland is relatively flat I thought, like why is there just red everywhere," Germany laughing at the corner:

[@smtuscany]

Re: Romanians in Italy. After the admission of Romania in the EU (2007), Romanians flocked to other Eu countries looking for jobs. Obviously, they preferred countries where the language was easier to understand for them, mainly Italy and Spain. Result: there are over one million Romanians in Italy now.

[@florinvarga4123]

Almost 2 milions, but that was like 3 years ago, a lot of romanian left because of shitty wage the italy give

[@cricio9139]

@@florinvarga4123 meglio

[@florinvarga4123]

@@cricio9139 per noi rumeni sicuramente, ma per voi che avete una natalità ridotta già di vostro e un tasso altissimo di neolaureati che scappanno all' estero per niente, pure noi figli di rumeni che sono nati e cresciuti quà stiamo scappando dall'italia alla prima occasione

[@gianluca.c.4126]

@@florinvarga4123 il problema e che in Italia siamo sempre pieni di problemi e la maggior parte degli italiani hanno una mentalità molto chiusa per qualsiasi cosa

[@filipporiva2555]

@@florinvarga4123 giusto! Purtroppo non abbiamo questa coscienza strategica.

[@ItsToolintime]

Drew is getting more and more Chad with every single video he posts

[@theplutonimus]

Kiyotaka sucks tho

[@Boop__Doop]

Nah I'm pretty sure he is getting more Romanian than Chad with every video

[@_blank-_]

@@Boop__Doop Watch your wallets guys

[@Lx_l4c78]

@@_blank-_ what?….??…

[@sandrohernandez4401]

@@Lx_l4c78 I think they're betting

[@TheAshleyYoyo]

To see an American with geography knowledge this good warms my heart. You’re doing good to break down the stereotype

[@bluestingray8955]

Good?

[@justaldeo7354]

the captions omg

[@Ghiaman1334]

7:03 Please, please tell me this is a joke. Drew: sees an island in the Indian ocean Also Drew: That's the Pacific, so it's Tonga time!

[@Nobody-qy7zp]

I wanted to coment this. And how does one mess up comoros and tonga so badly

[@somerandomperson2768]

Yeah

[@theplutonimus]

@@somerandomperson2768 Yea

[@theplutonimus]

Yea

[@theplutonimus]

@@Nobody-qy7zp Yea

[@machinethegod]

11:35 This is WRONG. Portugal doesn't celebrate independence from Spain. Spain didn't even exist at that time. Portugal's independence was gained from the Kingdom of Leon and Castille. Spain only came to be a country a few centuries later and is the composition of many different Kingdoms (Leon, Castille, Galicia, Navarra, Aragon and Granada).

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

The date in the graphic is still correct. We restored the Portuguese Monarchy from the Spanish on the 1st of December 1640. We were a country before that, but lots of countries in that graphic were countries too before their last period of non-independence.

[@juspjgarcia]

@@Obi-WanKannabis incorrect. It was always 2 independent countries, 2 crowns. We had the same person (3) with 2 crowns, but Portugal was NEVER part of Spain. Never. In case you have any doubts left: NEVER.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

@@juspjgarcia Semantical cope

[@FullKnight51]

Defacto it was a part of Castille which defacto controlled the rest of Iberia

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

@@Obi-WanKannabis Spain was only created in 1718, so no, Portugal was literally never part of Spain, it was part of Habsburg domain during 1580-1640, but it was still called the Kingdom of Portugal, independent of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.

[@Greatludde12]

Finally Snow in south Norway i have been waiting for years!

[@ooga_booga72]

As an Australian, I can confirm that what drew said about the distance from Perth to the east coast is right, except that in the middle of Australia, there is a city that you could describe as Denver in the metaphor

[@duud9839]

"there was a second there when Sweden had Finland" I thought Sweden had Finland for about 600 years and Russia had it for about 100

[@the_labelguy_]

Yeah that's what we're taught in school here in Finland

[@bkgames2]

Comoroes: Island in the Indian Ocean Drew: Tonga, and island in the pacific Edit: I wrote ”Tonga, AND island in the pacific”, it was meant to be written ”Tonga, AN island in the pacific”

[@JonJonRizz]

was hoping someone else would notice!

[@joundii3100]

I was about to comment that too

[@rafabastos4609]

Why didnt you just edit the and

[@plushluigi7417]

It wasn't Drew's fault. It was the editors

[@bkgames2]

@@rafabastos4609 Good question

[@jonahcats]

I like the random star wars graph in the middle.

[@bayern_3234]

"all the way in the pacific,tonga" (shows map of indian ocean,comoros)

[@tusidex5228]

Russia actually celebrated Independence from Poland. Specifically the date the Polish garrison in Moscow was kicked out in 1612.

[@izawa9211]

Ironic

[@somerandomperson2768]

Yeah

[@qzg7857]

Poland and Russia can celebraye from each other. Cool

[@_blank-_]

Russians came back with a vengeance 😈

[@MusTelOJ]

No, Russia actually gained Independence from Kazakhstan, since Kazakhstan was the last country to leave the USSR

[@TheFrankExp]

11:22 "France celebrates their independence from France." Lol

[@MahdiKort524]

LOLLLLLL

[@MotiVation-lz1mu]

At [4:55], you can see the Mascarene Islands. The biggest island is La Réunion, an oversea French department and region. The others islands are Mauritius Republic. :)

[@YoBoy_Alex]

@DrewDurnil , The African islands are Mayotte and La Reunion, they were part of the French Empire, and are still ruled by France. And with the independence plan, French people celebrate the day the prison of Bastille in Paris was taken down (Prise de la Bastille) which happened on the 14th of July 1789. La Bastille was mainly taken down because of its gunpowder and weapons, Actually, it was the first place attacked during the revolution.

[@H1ydra]

0:48 BRO you can see the hungarian-romanian 1914 border perfectly

[@Writer_Productions_Map]

*Austro-Hungarian--Romanian borders

[@kristijanveljaca1687]

@@Writer_Productions_Map Also why did you choose the year 1914

[@johnmcfly-zf2xh]

It's because of the carpathian mountains I'm romanian from Transylvania and nobody lives in the mountains

[@kristijanveljaca1687]

@Obedient doormat He said 1914 borders

[@krio1267]

@@johnmcfly-zf2xh same thing with alps

[@flyingdiamonds8492]

Not only did he call Comoros Tonga, he also called the Indian Ocean the pacific cuz he knew tonga was in the pacific lol (edit: didn't see the pinned comment, I guess his editor didn't know where tonga or the pacific was lol)

[@thekraken1173]

Its big brain Time

[@Aidansands2]

Lmao thought he was good at geography sad

[@seans6999]

Ameriken

[@AbsinthedeLaRochefoucauld]

It's like Drew spent a lot of brain energy to confuse them and still get their geographical location correct.

[@ShayanSaqiba]

LMFAO

[@arnaudpayet6173]

SO... First : These island you're referring to at 4.56 are Réunion island and Mauritius Second : French is not an official language in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia but it's still widely used by thoses countries Third : Please, show your editor where Tonga is

[@Igor23_]

1:05 because of the forests that cover a lot of area?

[@MTTT1234]

Austrian independence day, coming ahead in 4 days, is inofficially the day where the last occupation forces of the allies from WW2 left the country, while officially it is the day we signed our state treaty / constituation, where we pledged ever-lasting neutrality.

[@leadharsh0616]

Yeah I also thought that those France/uk/usa ones were probably WW2 occupation. They were considered as a bit of axis and it still isn't clear the circumstances under which austria joined Germany. Did they do it willingly or were they actually occupied? The allies considered the former and divided it just like Germany.

[@Mexalen81]

@@leadharsh0616 there is practically no one that doubts, that Austria was not conquered by Nazi-germany but joined willingly. The ones that say otherwise just try to victimise the country, instead of owing up to what our forefathers did.

[@_blank-_]

So Autria is Switzerland 2.0?

[@LordofGold]

@@_blank-_ That's the plan... so next time we will just sit back, grab some popcorn and "enjoy" the show...

[@patrickvanderlaan]

In the Netherlands, we also have an indipendance day from germany.

[@martinottesen1053]

3:50 French is still probably the 2nd most spoken language in Louisiana. The rules of the map is that it shows the most spoken language outside of english and spanish, but it doesn't say that english and spanish needs to be top 2

[@_flipflop_]

1:08 haha Poland just has wonderful neighbors

[@Blendette]

16:04 Yes they did not just die, the asteroid hit the earth, raised alot of smone and blocked the sun from reaching the surface. Proof is that on pretty much every rock if you dig it up deep enough you will see a black line trough it (thats all the smoke/asteroid pieces)) that setteled down

[@baronvonvideo2386]

Drew: Swiss want us to think the yeti isn’t real Scotland: unicorns are a thing

[@fajaradi1223]

Some bloke tell the other bloke about his recent safari in Africa. Said he saw a rhino and a zebra, and describe them to the other bloke. But the other bloke is kinda confused, and think that those were a single animal.

[@yellowflag9945]

When your country gives out all the independence days: (🇬🇧)

[@distorted4378]

Lol

[@Wolvek]

Then why dont give it also to scotland?😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@yellowflag9945]

@@Wolvek I’m not a politician

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

@@Wolvek I think that there will be a new referundum soon but i doubt it will pass the polls still say something like 51% remain and the people who want to stay don't go to every single poll. Also if we leave we will never join the eu we would be almost bankrupt as the government gives us more money in taxes than we pay i, i mean we would literally be a bigger financial burden than poland and they recive like 30 billion more a year than they pay in. Not to mention it would take years like how iceland took half a decade and barely got anywhere before canceling and they didn't have the complications that a land border with England would cause

[@zasproductions9258]

7:02 Drew: “Tonga doesn’t have a national animal” The map: *shows the Comoros*

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

There was a story on the radio in my area where a girl named Alexa was legally allowed to change her first name because she was bullied because of it in school, her classmates would always give her commands and ask questions. That's really mean and hilarious at the same time😂😂😂

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

"Legally allowed" What does that even mean? Everyone is legally allowed to change their name if they fill out the right documents and with parental consent

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

@@Alucard-gt1zf As far as I know you need a good reason to change it, you can't just change it because you don't like it anymore (at least in my country)

[@TK-zj7cl]

Drew: "When arent there more red dots in poland" Me, as a german, starts sweating: "I have no idea"

[@marcinkrz3140]

Germans bombs Warsaw - Warsaw Becomes biggest most prosperous city in Poland USA bombs Japan - Japan gets "post war miracle" WW2 bombs had some weird effects on it's targets

[@mateuszwodarczyk1428]

Ngl USSR has a quite big part in that as well cuz they were sending a looot of our ppl deeeep inside Russia, even all the way to the Siberia. But that's just a detail haha

[@unilajamuha91]

@@mateuszwodarczyk1428 On the map you can clearly see that Silesia Pomerelia and East Prussia are the ones with less dot's, that's not because they are underpopulated, but because they are highly urbanised, like you can have five dot's, each being a 1k village, or you can have one, and it's a big city like Wroclaw

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@marcinkrz3140 if you want to know why it's because destroyed cities can start fresh and 'update' themselves meaning they grow quicker and attract more investment than non 'updated' city's *usually There's a story about how Russians stole German factory's after ww2 and brought them back to Russia, the problem was that these were already considered dated equipment so the German factory's simply bought the newest equipment while the Russians were stuck with 10+ year old equipment meaning Germany actually came out on top

[@I_love_jesus_1211]

Hmmm...Ill ask my great grandfather, who left in the 30's. bet he knows

[@duke3987]

The dutch dont celebrate their independence from spain, we celebrate the end of the occupation from the germans in ww2

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

Liam Thomas im 18 and have never celebrated our independence from Spain, not have i heard about someone celebrating it

[@Djerszium]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@MetDaan2912]

@@jorritvanderkooi939 In Leiden doen ze dat wel, verder heb ik er ook nog nooit van gehoord.

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

MetDaan kan maar ik heb het zelf niet meegemaakt, en ik krn ook niemand die het viert

[@juliaboskamp9666]

we do celebrate that's why it's April fools is a thing and we also celebrate carnival when the spaniards of Felipe Vll were chased from the south of our country

[@charlietaggart2180]

“Ireland doesn’t have as many towns but yeno like potatoes” is possibly the most American opinion on the irish I’ve ever heard ahahahhahaha. I’m Irish and this had me rolling 😂

[@karl-erlendmikalsen5159]

As for the red dots on the map for places with more than 1000 inhabitants. I think it depends on how each country has divided itself into 'places'. In the Stavanger area in Norway you have three 'places' that are jutted together - Sandnes, Stavanger and Sola - each over 1000 inhabitants. But there is continuous inhabitation, so it could as well only be one place. And Stavanger could be registered as several smaller places easily, divided by roads and rivers and even a little bit of ocean. So each red dot in Russia is probably the seat of an area, which is the only 'place' registered on the map, and so the map has fewer dots than it otherwise would have.

[@NotAHamster]

2004: "So back in the day almost 17 years ago" I feel old

[@newromanianmappernrm4420]

"Pizza is being taken over by vampires, it's just a sea of romanians and I have no idea why." Ok Drew, I'm gonna give you classified information: The Draculesti Cabal has found out in recent times that because of our liking to eat Pizza with sauces we've been able to slowly build up an immunity to garlic from all the garlic sauce we're able to eat with the delicious Italian pizzas, if our plans go on and we receive more tributes of Pizza then we shall finally become immune to garlic and conquer the mortalworld

[@linnymiddy]

Oh no

[@irrelevant_noob]

So how come you're giving away your secret plan BEFORE fully building up that immunity? >:-]

[@robertnett9793]

@@irrelevant_noob Yes. That's the rules. The evil overlord HAS to lay out their entire plan to the agent, when the agent is in the death trap. Then the overlord has to walk out to give the agent time to disable the trap in a cunning way and make a daring escape. You seeming to lazy to escape the deathtrap, looks like a you-problem.... :D

[@mistersir7882]

go watch pokemon, kid

[@vali69]

@Lamborghini Huracan Vlad Tepes inspired Dracula and Transilvania is commonly associated with being the birthplace/origin of vampires in many stories.

[@MissAeraki]

4:10 hey! I'm from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania dutch is a language used by the Amish people local to here and is sort of a mix between swedish and german.

[@JeremyTheBluespottedCornetfish]

"Crestaceous period" Drew Durnil does not know when T-Rex and most of the famous Dinosaurs lived.

[@somegermanonline4254]

"France celebrates from... France...?" I can only imagine the meme where his one guy stands there with himself standing behind him pointing a gun at his head. I'm also out here wondering why Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus are celebrating their independence day from Germany.

[@696190]

WW2?

[@insertname2insertsurname216]

Because they were fully or partly in Ober Ost, German occupation zone in WW1

[@Klliansimabras]

@@insertname2insertsurname216 No, indépendance from the monarchy

[@anonUK]

France celebrates its independence from the monarchy, which came back after Napoleon- but went away again in 1870 and never came back.

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@Klliansimabras literally nobody says that in France.

[@jokemon9547]

Did he forget about how most of the nations who declared independence from Russia did it from the Russian Empire or one of the White Russian governments during the Russian Civil War? It also shows that most celebrate independence from Imperial/White Russia as well as the USSR, since many were briefly independent during the interwar period until the Soviets did their thing in WW2.

[@pinkbabycrocs5577]

exactly, he specifically brought up Estonia and then misread the map as only pointing to the USSR

[@thebandit0256]

Reminder he's from Alabama their history is just an small book

[@PatrickIsBackAtWar]

As someone from Perth, I can confirm we are just a small, isolated village

[@huzaylkhan133]

7:21 YOU HAD ONE JOB 😂

[@lukevandevenis9780]

As a Dutch guy, I can say we ‘celebrate’ our independence from Germany more than Spain. That we got our independence from spain is only mentioned in history books in school. At least to my knowledge.

[@camogamesandmusic7949]

*Laughs in German*

[@algiz21]

Germany did nothing wrong, they are our brothers.

[@kaasmaster8892]

Yeah 4 and 5 may are a big deal

[@Gradus_Schrute]

Fellow dutchie here, ur completely right ☝️

[@elidia6167]

The country of Spain is literally mentioned in your national anthem.

[@sqeezyyy]

My guess with the Austrian independence is that Austria was occupied by the allies much in the same way as Germany after WW2. So it would only be logical that they could celebrate independence after the allies pulled out of the country in 1955.

[@angb4ng]

exactly, Austria was split up and central district in Vienna was shared! tho the 26th isnt an independence day its the day we declared neutrality. we cebrate that neutrality but indirectly also that the last non-austrian soldier left austria

[@Ex-President-Trump]

@@angb4ng Der Nationalfeiertag ist einfach nur ein Witz. Wie kann man so ein Zeichen der Schwäche feiern? Traurig.

[@ImmortalSpelldagger]

@@Ex-President-Trump me no speak Deutsch

[@fennavanbrakel9082]

I live in the Netherlands and I have never celebrated the independents from Spain. We do celebrate the end of WWII on the 5th of may. Especially in the city I come from (Wageningen), because the end of WWII in the Netherlands was made official here. And on the 4th of may we commemorate the veterans from WWII.

[@sebe2255]

The case of Spain is weird. Emperor Charles V was basically Dutch. No one knows this, but there was a similar revolt against his rule in Castile when he placed Dutch nobles and clergy in control over it. He then gave the Low Countries to his son Philip, who identified completely with Spain unlike his father. The Dutch revolt against Spain happened under his rule and unlike the revolt in Castile was successful. The point is the Dutch were not even under Spanish control for a generation and they only were because of a Dutch emperor in the first place, so it is not a huge deal

[@christophermartinez3717]

Chinese in Italy? I can't wait for some fusion dishes in the future.

[@JL-cw4yz]

That just makes me happy how someone has got a almost perfect explanation of Australian geography in an nutshell

[@Anonimo-yl4st]

7:04 That’s no Tonga’s flag, thats Comoras’ flag. Tonga: 🇹🇴 Comoras: 🇰🇲

[@amfogus2705]

Normal Mistake

[@Suo_kongque]

Editor mistake

[@slavic_viking9638]

Check pinned comment

[@Anonimo-yl4st]

@@slavic_viking9638 I’ve

[@Gleeebus]

its comoros

[@LeboShu]

The highlighted part of South Africa is a province called the Western Cape (where Cape Town is). It's where the Dutch basically came in from. even the buildings have a lot of Dutch influence. And the other islands are Mauritius and Madagascar

[@BoringturkSinos]

Nice!!

[@graciie77]

You can see Bulgaria has 2 independent dates from the Ottoman Empire. 3 March 1878 the North was liberated then 22 September 1908 North and South are compeltely out of Ottoman control.

[@dannydonovan4421]

When he asked "Who hurt you, Bulgaria?" ngl I kinda choked and whispered: Who didn't?.. I guess It's just our mindset

[@Javlafan]

You've missed the second arrow for Estonia there. Here we celebrate independence from Russia (back in 1918) and restoration of independence after the fall of the Soviet Union (in 1991).

[@irrelevant_noob]

Yeah he failed to address the "multiple days" he was wondering about earlier; i expected an "aha" when he first noticed multiple arrows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

Same with Georgia

[@aiocafea]

0:49 the black plague (& wars. A LOT of wars) (and other plagues)

[@MultiTsai]

Estonia gained its independence from Russia in 1918 and restored its independence in 1991 from Soviet Russia. (Actually you can even see it on the graph, it has two arrows). Originally Finland and Estonia got their independence at the same time (1917 and 1918 respectively), but Estonia was later occupied by Soviet Russia, then nazi Germany and Soviet Russia again, which ended up lasting half a century.

[@angrysponge2683]

The Netherlands do actually celebrate independance from Germany and it is on the 5th of May

[@gino-qd1oy]

Its not really seen as independance day but as liberation day.

[@larsmulder3050]

Thank you for saying it. I have never heard anything about celebrating the 26th of July

[@gino-qd1oy]

@@larsmulder3050 i honestly didnt even know out independance day was the 26th of July, i literaly found out by you're comment😂 but to be fair i find it a bit strange that we do celebrate the 5th of may but dont even have an event or anything for our idependance day. I mean ww2 was terrible i get that but we literaly fought the Spanish for EIGHTY f*cking years and you hear nothing about that😂

[@Luzitanium]

11:36 wrong Portugal was never under Spanish rule to get its independence, it was a Iberian Union not a Spanish Union, Portugal and Spain shared the same Monarch who was also half Portuguese, but the Kingdom of Portugal remained independent, its what shows the document agreed by the King himself at Courts of Tomar in 1581, the independence we celebrate is a Dynastic independence, not territorial nor administrative.

[@colinafobe2152]

similar error was made for Montenegro and Serbia, which had federation before deciding to go on their own

[@iwto_ampere5821]

Kinda the same with Belgium and The Netherlands, they together were 1 country until the people of Belgium revolted. (Belgium was not a part of the current country that is the Netherlands)

[@Apedragon92]

That island east of Madagascar is reunion. It was a french colony and has a french flag in the game rise of nations.

[@MatthewAshworth]

Regarding that last map (eras of the Earth's age), a few interesting things. Dinosaurs existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous period, although majority of the dinosaurs we know from Jurassic Park films and other popular media (T-rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops) actually existed in the Cretaceous period and not Jurassic. Another interesting fact is that the extinction event that brought about the end of dinosaurs (K-T event) wasn't even the worst extinction event in the Earth's history. It stands as second after the Permian-Triassic (P-T event), which happened right before the dinosaurs came about, and that one occurred due to huge changes in the Earth's climate, and it is estimated that possibly up to 90-95% of all species that lived at the time went extinct during that event.

[@vakcreations2135]

Official languages are way more Important than you think drew especially for a country that speaks multiple languages like India every state here has a separate official language

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

14:53 Notice how you can tell apart the French parts of Belgium and the Dutch parts of Belgium so perfectly.

[@alphalance9408]

Yes but I wouldn't be surprised if its false because the map about independence was also wrong about Belgium.

[@Dogeymcdogerdogeface61371]

8:23, oh, I think I know why Leia had more screen time in return of the jedi. ;)

[@kristykelly6157]

Not Australia’s exleader holds the most beer drunk in two minutes

[@irishkelly2062]

States within the US have English as an official language. It's just not on a federal level

[@hre1489]

Drew: sweden must have a lot of internal problems Me: you couldn’t get more right

[@_blank-_]

Is it really an internal problem when it comes from abroad? 🤔

[@opai1821]

@@_blank-_ yep once they are in , its their internal problem now .

[@opai1821]

i wanted to right but you wrote luckily .

[@testacals]

@@opai1821 some kind of immigration problem ?

[@oliverm257]

I hate that you're so right

[@dum747]

There is this "city" that I believe is the hardest to get to First you take a 4hr plane ride to Nikolai (no bathroom) from Anchorage Alaska Then at top speeds take a 12hr boat ride to Salmon River Alaska with 6 people

[@tnapeepeelu]

Him saying Alexa while I have an Alexa on my tablet, not trying to turn it on: *nervous sweating*

[@carterpritchard5063]

I like how drew just continuously ignores Nebraska I though for sure he was going to point it out for speaking Nepali that is so random

[@planetnesscute785]

Drew: points Comoros Also Drew: yeah, that's definetely Tonga. And he calls himself good in geography because he knows all of the 50 us states

[@leadharsh0616]

Yeah. That was a bit cringe ngl.

[@user-nn7iz7ku5m]

Some people don't even know what state they live in.

[@bobpobcf9723]

@@user-nn7iz7ku5m those are people who live in mental institutions

[@diogoferreira7427]

It was an editing error lol

[@planetnesscute785]

@@diogoferreira7427 what

[@fryteks_opnsopyyt9974]

11:20 I think it speaks of the occupation of Austria after WW2

[@varvarith3090]

1:23 The real reason Russia looks sparsely populatod on this map is climate: Population is concentrated if fewer bigger towns and cities (200K considered a small town) because it's more eficcient for central heating logistic.

[@x7rogue153]

2:13 the U.S. has no official language

[@parkergoodson3428]

Yeah

[@nutsi3]

Iceland is ALWAYS no data

[@_MC529]

How does Drew, an American, concerning himself with Geography for years, does NOT KNOW ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH??? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE AMISH?!

[@KeiHard]

As a Dutchman, I have never heard about something on July 26. We do however celebrate our freedom from Germany on May 5th.

[@NotAfraidToQuestionThings]

Exactly

[@MSMDOFrocks]

Drew: Talks about Tonga Camera: zooms in on Comoros