Every Country With A Terrible Name (How NOT To Name A Country)

[@ibx2cat]

You could say Cote D'ivoire made a real faux pas with their name choice, huh?

[@thedarkholegammertdhg9255]

As a punishment for this joke, make a video on Rhode Island, and its joke name 'Rouge Island'

[@thedarkholegammertdhg9255]

yes it is also the name of a bar. if you google this, it will appear first, so instead add state to the end. second, All Hail the BIG BLUE BUG, It is a NATIONAL monument

[@AdriaanZwemer]

If you do this with languages you'd be like Afrikaans, that sounds perfectly fine to me?

[@Abc294]

France is france too in french hence airfrance

[@intercakefederation]

Ouai, l’ivoire est illégal en France. Alors l’acheter sera un “faux pas"

[@aliraza-yu2co]

FUN FACT: The Sahara is Just a word in Arabic which means desert. So BRUH So it's just called DESERT DESERT IN English if we say Sahara Desert.

[@vruuumvruumm1355]

East Timor: finally a worthy opponent

[@xyzzy219]

@@vruuumvruumm1355 east east?

[@Kyuschi]

@@vruuumvruumm1355 *laughs in lake chad and avon river*

[@sadia6503]

The spiderman pointing at each other meme but it's every name in this set of comments

[@djMacMahon]

[laughs while drinking my “chai tea”...]

[@rn8427]

This man is a national treasure. Can hover over random places on Google Maps and talk at a million miles an hour about nothing for 24 minutes

[@tinydong4586]

I can’t tell if this is a compliment or insult but I completely agree

[@Quixotepr]

In Spanish is called talking "cantinfladas" from Cantinflas a Mexican comic who mastered the art of talking a lot and in the end saying nothing.

[@wolfgang2453]

and we'll watch every second of it

[@Muhammad-lq7fu]

😄☕

[@blufferfish0896]

he could do it for way more than 24 minutes, walk up to him and ask him to explain the history of Australia and I reckon he will have so many tangents he could keep talking for at least 3 hours.

[@Ventro_Devientro]

Imagine if there's a civil war in Timor-Leste, and then a new country is formed on the East of Timor-Leste. And then when a person travel to the east of East Timor-Leste, they can say they're in eastern East East East

[@Bajun94]

"They even call their planes AirFrance" Yeah cause in French, France is called "France".

[@isaacwilcox3010]

Nice Profile Picture.

[@Bajun94]

@@andknuckles101 Guess what, it's also the french term for the country.

[@Bajun94]

@@andknuckles101 Française is the feminine of français, which means "French", as in, someone that is french. It doesn't apply to the country of France itself. Source: I'm french.

[@fjellyo3261]

La France :)

[@yeetyeet3426]

@@andknuckles101 you don’t even know what you’re talking about lmao

[@Zyphon]

So south Sudan is the south of Sudan and not South Sudan, south of Sudan?

[@ПетарСтанојевић]

*yes*

[@alexanderballa6152]

Y e s

[@ПетарСтанојевић]

@@alexanderballa6152 *y* *e* *s*

[@grugg3108]

Technically that applies to any "North -" or "South -". Two things that were previously one thing. And just to piss of the Scots, I'll call them North British, becase they were two things that became one things.

[@alvindzaki6085]

So South Sudan is part of south Sudan that also once part of southern part of Sudan?

[@radio_marco]

11:59 ... and the terriblest name is "new found land". 19:52 In German we're calling it Elfenbeinküste (which means Ivorycoast).

[@MrLump]

I swear it sounds like “New Finland” when people pronounce it and I hate that.

[@Litron6]

in spanish is costa de marfil (which means Ivorycoast)

[@mrlemur6077]

@@MrLump cause that is how it's supposed to be pronounced

[@Krixwell]

Newfoundland is particularly funny when coupled with later knowledge that suggests it was the first part of America to be discovered by Europeans.

[@indigoproxima]

​@MrLump Blame the british lol

[@ec8107]

Breaking news: a breakaway region of The Congo has declared independence. They will from this point forward be known as Diet Dr Congo.

[@pdraggy]

or 'please don't talk about Ebola here'

[@Liggliluff]

Imagine if a part of Democratic Republic of the Congo broke away and became the People's Republic of the Congo. What a mess that would be.

[@meneither3834]

@Comrade JJ I'll just keep calling them by the name of their capitals.

[@dlwatib]

@@Liggliluff It's usually the People's Democratic Republic of X, so you'd have the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[@nikste23]

DR Congo lost its medical licence now they're called MR Congo

[@theheadbangguy5985]

The best country name is without a doubt "Chad"!

[@Veroxzes]

For some reasons it's spelled Tchad in swedish...

[@bowser1166]

@@Veroxzes It's "Tschad" in German, but that's because you need the "t" at the beginning to mark the "t" sound, different from English, where it's all included in "ch". But I guess it might be just for the same reason that Swedish has the "t" in front.

[@martinpintamalli1449]

@@bowser1166 Tsjaad in Dutch 😁

[@paxiio5914]

@@bowser1166 T posing chad

[@olligaming6444]

The best country names in the world are Chad and Djibouti. They should form an alliance.

[@recordkeepingandinformatio8206]

Two Chinese provinces: Shanxi and Shaanxi A city: Jinan, split into two characters like Ji'nan, but the problem is Jin'an is also a city name

[@EHMM]

Look at it in chinese characters and it has no problem.

[@EHMM]

This is a problem WHEN YOU FUCKING LOOK AT IN ENGLISH

[@marianacarina2580]

Chinese characters are rich in a way that the English alphabet can't compare, so I'm sure Jinan mean a totally different thing than Ji'nan. The same with Shanxi and Shaanxi. Depending on the character u pick, even if they have the same sound, the meaning is totally different.

[@autarchprinceps]

“Let’s talk about the one country with new in their name.” - Moves around New Zealand & Papua New Guinea several times. New Caledonia! - That... That’s not even an independant country.

[@onewxrldmusic7303]

Guinea. Now that's a terrible confusing name of a country. There is The Guinea, there's the Equatorial Guinea, there is Guinea-Bissau, there is Papua New Guinea. Just how many Gunieas you need?

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

@@onewxrldmusic7303 enough to stock all the guinea pigs in the world

[@JL-zw7hi]

I don't think people mix up New Zealand and Zeeland (The Netherlands) with eachother.

[@helloahla239]

@@whoeverest_the_whateverest Guinea pig which isn't a pig and isn't from Guinea. It's a rabbit from Peru, so it should be called PERU RABBIT instead of GUINEA PIG

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

@@helloahla239 lol

[@pacoramirez7363]

“Don’t use New” Old Mexico it is.

[@jesalt8230]

"Old York"

[@Reydriel]

*Old Zealand*

[@korfrag6865]

Mexico 2

[@certifiedbruh2180]

@@jesalt8230 West York

[@silentsword9456]

East Virginia

[@Aspen72]

FUN FACT: despite popular belief, poland sadly ISNT named after the teletubby

[@Dufsdff]

Alternate title: British guy rants about names given to places by the british centuries ago.

[@spyone4828]

Except that he starts out talking about a country that was named about ten years ago, then one that changed its name two years ago, and then one named by the Portuguese. He doesn't get into stuff named by the British for quite a while.

[@NeasCZ]

Ah yes, my favourite British colony of North Korea.

[@chadmemes6937]

@@NeasCZ I would like your comment, but it’s on 69 likes

[@YourVintageStick]

@@spyone4828 well the British did control and split the area known as Sudan and South Sudan with Egypt during the colonial era

[@Konoronn]

This might shock you, but people aren't countries.

[@Slaydrik]

alternate title: Eswatini rants about Côte D'Ivoire

[@lewisbaitup6352]

Lol

[@CactusCarrot]

Eswatini is my favorite KZbinr.

[@Armadeus]

eSwatini*

[@daisybrain9423]

@@Armadeus Not in English.

[@flp322]

@@Armadeus Electronic Swatini*

[@Phazon8058MS]

This may be the most aggressively anglo video I've ever seen.

[@thebasileus4793]

To be fair he is talking about the names of countries in his language. Why should I as an native English speaker be expected to call Germany Deutschland? It's not that we dislike the culture or anything it is just easier to call it Germany in English. You can call it Deutschland in German if you want but I should not be required to.

[@oyoo3323]

@@thebasileus4793 not to say you *should* call it ðat, but "Deutschland" is not even remotely more difficult to pronounce in English ðan Germany. In fact, it seems easier to me, given it has fewer syllables. And for ðat matter, ðe country wasn't referred to as "Germany" in English until surprisingly recently, being usually called Alemania/Alemany prior to ðat.

[@thebasileus4793]

@@oyoo3323 Yeah but no American is taught to call it that thus it would be harder to make people call it that. Also the spelling in English makes no sense with how it sounds which would only add to the problem.

[@oyoo3323]

@@thebasileus4793 given English usually retains ðe original spelling of all vocabulary it takes in, ðe spelling makes perfect sense. As for ðe first part, who cares? We weren't talking about yankees specifically to begin wið, so why focus in on ðem exactly?

[@thebasileus4793]

@@oyoo3323 Well as a native English speaker I can say for certain that if I showed most English speakers 'Deutschland' they would have no idea how to pronounce it and also I was talking about Yanks as I am one. I suppose I cant speak for other English speakers who are not Americans but I can assure you that very few Americans would know how to pronounce Deutschland. I imagine they would pronounce more like De-utchs-land and not like how its actually pronounced.

[@tsg_23]

Fun fact: eSwatini changed their name from Swaziland because people confused them with Switzerland, even though they're far away

[@moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20]

Another fact: dprk doesn’t change their name cause the don’t exist

[@rado-san6580]

why does it sound like a brand of eReaders... oh

[@illeagle9560]

@@moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20 they're just a sitcom set up by the South Koreans and Chinese

[@luisfelipehv2655]

I would keep it cause no one wants to visit it so people get confused and buy tickets to it instead for Switzerland

[@unlockedaccount]

also because they wanted to use their own native language for the name of the country

[@dehanj6552]

Honestly, I have never heard of someone referring to the southern part of Africa as south Africa. It's southern Africa and South Africa for the country. No confusion there

[@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414]

Hi same pfp guy

[@moonagaming6068]

yeah

[@DoubleAAce]

@@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414 its cause u have D in your name.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

Well you're right there.

[@masingitachauke6678]

Word

[@lucycarter3041]

The Maori party in New Zealand are petitioning to have the name officially named to Aotearoa, which is New Zealand's name in te reo Maori. As a kiwi support it, even though it would mean I would be worried about mispronouncing my own country's name cause my Maori pronunciation has gotten kinda bad since moving to Australia.

[@Thedimensionalwarrior]

Yeah if they do that no one is gonna be able to pronounce it and they will just call it new Zealand Some people might even confuse it with Eritrea in africa

[@pocketmarcy6990]

It also completely disregards the majority Anglo population of NZ, but you’re from there so what do I know

[@guppy719]

So you would support calling a country a name that isn't easily pronounceable to the majority of its population. That sounds incredibly stupid.

[@rustybayonette6641]

You know what’s a good idea? Renaming your country to its name in a language that less than 5% of your population speaks.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

@@rustybayonette6641 exactly what I’m saying, I’m on the left but this whole renaming NZ thing is just stupid

[@tekszi]

North Macedonia was forced to rename itself, it wasn't their own choice.

[@raidb0ss29]

To be fair, "Macedonia" refers to a geographic region including North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and parts of western Bulgaria. Calling it North Macedonia is a decent compromise that no longer associates it with part of Greece

[@endless193]

@@raidb0ss29 in other words,average balkan bullshit.

[@_0_restart_0_]

True

[@bowser1166]

"North Macedonia" is so much better and more understandable than "Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia"...

[@GabyArgentina]

In Argentina Macedonia is a salad made with fruits

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

Fun fact, we don’t call ourselves the “Hungarian republic” anymore (we only did it before in formal language anyways) that road sign must be old because we’re simply Hungary (Magyarország) now

[@plislegalineu3005]

Yeah, I'm Polish and when I drive to Hungary (through Slovakia) I see "Magyarország" sign. Next to the border in Hungary is Sátoraljaújhely.

[@kingdomofbird8174]

MAGYARIA

[@erikstenviken2652]

In sweden we call it Ungern.

[@molaesle]

Jó látni, hogy magyarok is néznek minőségi tartalmat.

[@Notch1234]

@@plislegalineu3005 That's a north eastern city that i go to when going to tesco

[@MerkhVision]

Did this guy just completely forget about the existence of words like southern and eastern? Using them correctly would completely eradicate the direction based confusion he described!

[@puff6796]

Ah yes, northern Northern Ireland.

[@kushtalin9180]

@@puff6796 North of northern ireland. Here, fixed it for you.

[@liandrysanguishinshin7955]

@@kushtalin9180 thing is people in Northern Ireland often refers to itself as the North of Ireland... So Northern North of Ireland? North of the Republic of Ireland??

[@kushtalin9180]

@@liandrysanguishinshin7955 well, i guess if you want to say that you just gotta change the usual "north of ireland" thing. But only when you talk about the northern part of it.

[@liandrysanguishinshin7955]

@@kushtalin9180 I'd do that, it's just that Northern Ireland is associated with British Imperialism. Either way, people refer to the north of the north of ireland by its county, not by... well that normally, so it doesn't matter too much.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

we don't like to call ourselves "North Korea" and the same for the Koreans down south because we view ourselves as one nation, two governments. So we prefer our official names

[@juliusnepos6013]

I heard you were democratic and a republic at the same time

[@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry]

i love you

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry You earn a seat on the Politboro

[@jordanbenjamin7665]

Nice to see you in the chat sir. All hail.

[@jordanbenjamin7665]

Dear leaderrrr

[@destinymills255]

Wait until he finds out there's a New England region in New South Wales.

[@metademetra]

...But why

[@humpbacksquarepants5580]

Same in Australia,we have a state with that name.

[@Tolyuhh]

The worst region names in New South Wales have to be the South Coast, Central Coast, and North Coast, all of which are on the East coast.

[@AnimeReference]

If you look at the councils in NSW you'll find Campbelltown, Canada Bay, Liverpool City, Newcastle City. The commonwealth sucks at naming.

[@Tolyuhh]

@@AnimeReference Canada Bay has always been amusing to me. The stolen British names I get but it's a mystery how we managed to steal any from Canada. There's a suburb in Newcastle called Toronto, too. Very weird.

[@chvhndrtntlr3482]

from any video from this channel I learn that this guy, randomly browsing internet, then make a video about it. he doesn't need to be informative as long as he can keep talking about nothing for nearly half hour. He doesn't need to fact checking or proofreading the facts and dig the facts deeper, just randomly browse on internet and take whatever he like and called it a day.

[@josephwodarczyk977]

While there's no script, he does have a video plan beforehand.

[@Sebbir]

He is just having fun exploring the world through the internet. No harm in that. He doesn’t claim to be some reputable source that should be cited in academic papers

[@PkPvre]

He says every video that he doesn't care.

[@julianopasaran7200]

So true.. time wasterer..a d people believe him😂

[@jjtt]

Hello, I'm Eswatini and welcome back to a second channel geography video

[@sponge1234ify]

At last, Eswatini has cared for his second channel. This is a momentous occasion

[@Xiphius]

In South Africa's defense, according to the MLA Grammar Script (the book they use in colleges), if you want to refer to a directional part of a country or region, you say SOUTHERN Africa, not SOUTH Africa. So to refer to the region consisting of Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Botswana, etc., you would say "Southern Africa" and not "South Africa" which is the name of the country.

[@patrickasselin2326]

I picked up on this just living in North America. There are states named North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota, and West Virginia. “Western Canada” means the region consisting of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Australia, meanwhile, is terribly inconsistent with the names of its states and territories.

[@ivanhozjan7137]

Actually, Slovenia and Slovakia get even more confusing when you're refering to them in their native languages. Slovaks call their country Slovenska Republika or Slovensko, while slovenska (in female gender) and slovensko (neuter) are adjectives that mean Slovenian in Slovene language. Also, let's make it even more confusing and sum up everything we can: 1. Slovakia is in Slovak language called Slovensko or Slovenska Republika, while Slovenia is called Slovinsko or Slovinska republika. 2. Slovenia is in Slovene language named Slovenija, while Slovakia is named Slovaška. OK, this is the least confusing part. 3. Slovene language is in Slovenian called slovenščina, and Slovak is called slovaščina. 4. Slovakian language is in Slovakia called slovenčina, and Slovene is called slovinčina. 5. Search for all the variants in the languages of neighbouring countries (Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Italian, etc.) to get even more confused. 6. Nearly 20% of Croatian territory and population is situated in the region called Slavonia. Feel free to add that to previously mentioned parameters.

[@ivanhozjan7137]

@@2wodrqwoa Well, as far as I'm concerned, it ended up being false information.

[@2wodrqwoa]

@@ivanhozjan7137 i see, good to know

[@masterzz57]

@@ivanhozjan7137 what ended up being false information?

[@ivanhozjan7137]

@@masterzz57 That Slovenia and Slovakia exchange the mail addressed to the wrong country's institutions once a year.

[@user-fd2tc8gh3p]

This got me when I was playing Geoguessr, I thought Slovenska Republika meant Slovenia.

[@andrew-paulclements1502]

"Zealandia" Ah yes, Land of the Land of Sea

[@quidam_surprise]

More like 'Land of the coastal land' But hey, if you really wanna shit your pants, let me introduce you to the brilliant toponym of 'Cartagena'.

[@peterfireflylund]

@Rede Emitel Apparently "New New City". Cartagena from Carthago Nova from Carthago which is the Latin form of the Phoenician Qart Hadasht which means "New Town"... But Cartagena, Colombia is only called Cartagena (de Indias) and not Nuova Cartagena so the fun stops there.

[@conlon4332]

I was kinda surprised you didn't mention Austria and Australia for having names that sound too similar, but I suppose if any two countries can get an exception for being far enough apart it's those. People definitely do still manage to get them mixed up, though.

[@ducksongfans]

Mostly people who have never heard of austria

[@Axitutl60]

The German name for Austria is Österreich, so it's the fault of us Anglos for giving it a name similar to Australia.

[@welshdragon99]

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain, most of Ulster, and a few islands around Great Britain and Ireland" doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

[@nevize6660]

"The United Kingdom of relatively large Britain which includes Wales, England, scotland, some northern parts of ireland but not the most northern part, isle of man, guernsey, jersey, and you know the Rest, falklands i guess"

[@australium7374]

@@nevize6660 “and some islands named after sandwiches”

[@theirishempire4952]

@@nevize6660 The fact that the Republic of Ireland is more Northern than Northern Ireland makes me laugh

[@stgr0186]

@@nevize6660 well jersey, Guernsey and the isle of man are not part of the UK, they are crown dependencies, therefore they can't be included in the name of the Kingdom.

[@nevize6660]

@@stgr0186 sigh, i wrote that already

[@galaxydave3807]

9:51Actually the languages names of Slovenia and Slovakia are Slovenčina and Slovenščina, which is even more confusing lol

[@Ogeroigres]

Even the flags are similar.

[@galaxydave3807]

@@Ogeroigres Almost xD

[@matic.m]

And if you say "slovensko" in either languages, it refers to something of that particular country/language :D

[@galaxydave3807]

@@matic.m Woow xD

[@quevater2470]

@@Ogeroigres its because they are slav countries, most of them have similar flags, but u prob havent seen romania and chad flags

[@Roozyj]

I'm kinda confused as to why most other languages call us "The Netherlands", when we just say Nederland. There's no plural in Nederland, but in English, German and French there is. There used to be a 'republic of the seven united Netherlands', but that's ages ago xD I guess other countries are kinda slow to understand...

[@nullValo]

Same in Spanish, "Paises Bajos" in plural.

[@Roozyj]

@@nullValo Maybe it's because centuries ago, we were called 'the republic of the seven united Netherlands', but that was between 1588 and 1795, so it's been a while

[@nullValo]

@@Roozyj I guess so? Names tend to stick if there is not much of a bigger change, lul

[@Sebbir]

Im confused why it’s much more common in Denmark to call your country Holland than Nederland

[@Roozyj]

@@Sebbir Holland is the name of our two most populated and I suppose richest provinces. Most boats from the Netherlands came from Holland, so that might be it? I was looking up if Danish cities was ever part of the Hanseatic leagion, but apparently, they were at war, so that's a kind of relationship too I suppose xD

[@easygoing9328]

as someone from New Hampshire, our motto isn’t a motto, it’s a warning. you better live free while you’re here

[@AndyZach]

That's the Yankee spirit!

[@annabenson1238]

Forgiven Sinner NEW YORKER

[@Sofie424]

We take no prisoners, all captives are executed.

[@basaltotwoo]

But, if you're killing somene for not being free, You are enforcincing something on that person, and this is the new hampshire paradox

[@kets4443]

@@basaltotwoo can't be unfree if dead

[@jlpack62]

Fun fact: the eastern point of West Virginia is further east than most of Virginia, and the furthest western point of Virginia is further west than all of West Virginia.

[@drewstaser9726]

It's even worse because they used to be the same state and then West Virginia broke away

[@koifish4276]

should’ve been called East Virginia damn

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

I got confused cuz my brain tricked me into thinking virginia = west virginia

[@AndyZach]

It's more of a north-south split. It occurred during the civil war, and everyone was just happy to survive that. West Virginia went over to the North and helped elect Lincoln to a second term in 1864. The rest of Virginia led the southern rebellion.

[@zualapips1638]

@@AndyZach And now they've completely changed places because Virginia became Democrat while West Virginia became Republican. The only reason West Virginia broke away was because the rest of Virginia at the time was wayy too conservative and supportive of slavery, and now the conservative ones are West Virginians lol. How the tables have turned.

[@lipton1cetea]

11:10 Before Belgium became an independant country there was actually one big Luxombourg but Belgium wanted to claim it as part of its territory so they settled by splitting it up in two halves.

[@AdmiralTails]

Yeah, honestly a lot of this video seems to like to ignore the politics and history that goes into some of these, particularly when it comes to the "similar name" category. Like, the fact that the two Koreas have similar names, when from the point of view of each of them, the other should not exist, as the fact there is the two of them is, in essence, an unresolved civil war.

[@trentludwig5402]

Austria should be on here since it means the "Eastern Kingdom (Österreich)."

[@Silveirias]

China, too, since they call themselves basically the middle kingdom.

[@Damo2690]

Eastern realm is more correct

[@marcosboehme4862]

Yes, that big island with kangaroos

[@apocm6784]

@@marcosboehme4862 you mean Australia, not Austria. Lol

[@MBHM001]

@@apocm6784 Nehh, obviously not. Australia has the Alps, Tirol, castles, Haupstadt Wien (Vienna). Everybody knows that.

[@YellowBunny]

Democratic United People's Republic of New South Wales and Central North New Zeestan

[@vladprus4019]

Remember that this name also must be said in very specific language or it is wrong

[@rhyanmedina1130]

sir this is a mcdonalds i don't speak alien languages do you want sauce with your nuggets or not

[@YellowBunny]

@@rhyanmedina1130 I don't want to get nuggets at all because I don't want to eat dead animals.

[@rhyanmedina1130]

@@YellowBunny sorry bout that i didn't know you were vegan/vegetarian

[@sponge1234ify]

Kesatuan republik Nuwels et centre nord de Nouveau-Zeestan berpenduduk demokratis

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

- Have you ever heard of Luxemburg? - Of course! - Bet you haven't, it sucks. *Confused European noises*

[@meneither3834]

"this accent is possibly offensive but it's not African so I'm in the clear" -Toycat 15/12/2020.

[@flp322]

Eswatini 15/12/2020*

[@paddaboi_]

@@flp322 why is everyone calling him swaziland lmao

[@andknuckles101]

@@paddaboi_ have you watched the video yet?

[@leandrometfan]

@@andknuckles101 /whooosh

[@ludvigwitschel7801]

"To the rest of the world, it's called Germany". Literally every other country crying.

[@Tiscando]

In Spanish: "Alemania"

[@p.s9407]

​In Lithuanian - Vokietija

[@Brroo]

In bosnian: Njemacka

[@ludvigwitschel7801]

In Danish: Tyskland

[@ludvigwitschel7801]

In German: Deutschland

[@mirabeaux851]

0:59 that’s why you use adjectival forms “Southern South Sudan”. “ South Sudan” is more like a compound noun

[@eddie-roo]

Toycat: *complains about how confusing South Sudan, South Africa and Timor-Leste's names are* Also Toycat: *doesn't see a problem with the name "America", even tho there's already a South America and a North America (and a whole bunch of other names that have almost nothing to do with the US, like Mesoamerica, Latin America, Hispanic America, etc.)*

[@kikeruiz539]

Forgot Central America

[@anti-spiral159]

Also that in latin (America) countries it's only 1 continent which is America and it's only divided by regions and not continents ( North America is the northern part of America from Mexico); Central America, from Panamá to Guatemala and South America going from Colombia to Chile/Argentina. Also calling the civilians of USA "Americans" is more confusing because that makes it sound that if you're not from the USA you're not from the continent, confusing stuff. In spanish and other romance languages, I think, there's a word for their citizens which is "Estadounidenses", which makes a little bit of sense because it's called United States, and besides some other countries like The United States of Mexico, there's a bast majority calling it "US" or United States. I guess they can change the name like Prussia did with the title of king, from "King of Prussia" to "King in Prussia (Region)" it was for certain reasons and when they were united it was changed back to King in Prussia but it's not the . Maybe it won't change anything but it would solve some problems when refering to something, just like "region countries" (South Sudan / South Africa)

[@zikalokof1challenge414]

@@kikeruiz539 It gets more complicated than that. Basically, for anglos and pretty much all of Europe except some countries, there are only 2 Americas: South and North. However, for Latinos, there are 3: South, Central, and North

[@corey2232]

He didn't say there wasn't a problem. North America & South America are entire continents, so comparing 2 massive land bodies to 2 smaller countries is much different. I don't know if you've looked at a map, but South America is a pretty massive place... so if someone says they're from South America in English, literally EVERYONE knows what you're referring to & would NOT be confused. I've lived all over the US, and never once in 30 years has someone ever told me they lived in "South America" and meant Florida or Arizona. In fact, if you're referring to people living in the US specifically, they would say they lived in "the South" (if for some reason they didn't just say their specific state). Trying to mess with semantics that don't work in real life situations doesn't really work.

[@corey2232]

@@anti-spiral159 No, that's a new attempt at revising geography. "The Americas" refers to both continents. Being barely attached by a small sliver of land does not make it "one continent." Unless you want to say Africa, Europe & Asia are all "one continent," then sure. In that case, Latin countries believe there are only 4 continents on the planet: 1) America, 2) Eurasica, 3) Oceania, 4) Antarctica. Tectonic plates give a pretty good indication of land masses, and guess what... North & South America are distinctly divided! Being barely attached by a small land area doesn't make you "one continent." That depends on ocean levels, in which case Asia & North America would be one continent any time the Bering Land Bridge attached Russia to Alaska.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

when Côte d'Ivoire is more French than France

[@ibx2cat]

everyone knows we all call it République française all the time smh

[@takashi.mizuiro]

ibx2cat yes eswatini

[@theperfectmix2]

Spotted

[@IRTG2006]

You’re everywhere

[@oliverdouble-u8107]

@@ibx2cat * cinquième république française because france has had 5 republics in 250 years

[@SHDUStudios]

I want an entire video of Toycat travelling around the world asking “is this the New Caledonia?”

[@duffal0]

14:18 glitch in the matrix wtf

[@Catuireal]

Geographical qualifiers are only confusing in the English language, because it's so synthetic (and ambiguous). In Portuguese, Irlanda do Norte and norte da Irlanda are very clear as to what is a noun and what is adjective. And you can compound and still not be ambiguous at all. Although we always use the qualifiers setentrional and meridional, oriental and ocidental, to refer to geographical regions within a geographical entity (country, continent...). What sounds ridiculous to me is the english-centrism of the argument. A good name for a country is one that helps Anglophones to talk about it?

[@RadenWA]

It’s not English-centric, it applies to every language. It’s like when Chinese calls America “Meiguo”, or whatever the other European countries call Germany. Nobody’s forcing them to use the name “USA” or “Deutschland”, so an English speaker should also be allowed to use the English version of their names instead of the local name.

[@remy7663]

Agree with your first part of the argument, but then people always need to make it be about the 'Anglophones' smh^

[@Fragum19]

How is the "english-centrism of the argument" ridiculous when he's specifically talking about the english names of the countries? Is a British man supposed to talk about Portuguese names of countries? What are you on about?

[@Catuireal]

@@Fragum19 Country names are not arbitrary. The formation of compound names follow the grammar of the language they are being formed in. Some names are "bad" more because of the instrinsic structure of the English language than because of any "naming process". This relationship between grammar and name labelling is what he totally misses. He is not conscious of how that is determined by his mother tongue.

[@Catuireal]

@@Fragum19 Portuguese is just a counter-example. Some languages compound names like English, some do not. And those that do not differ in more than one way. He is not aware of this because is studied more Geography than History or Linguistics. Which is fine, because he is so young.

[@cheskotokarev]

Pov: British man forgets the words "southern", "northern", "eastern", and "western"

[@ortherner]

“Northern North Korea”

[@cheskotokarev]

@@ortherner Well, that could easily be used to describe the northern half of North Korea, as opposed to the northern half of the Korean peninsula, thereby eliminating the issue with having cardinal directions in the name of a nation.

[@MrBrezelwurst]

Or "north/south/west/east of"

[@gamermapper]

But the British Northern Ireland still calls itself Northern Ireland and not North Ireland. They should call themselves "British country of northern Ireland" which is like Northern Cyprus calls itself

[@gamermapper]

North Ireland and North Cyprus is still called this way even tho it's a political entity and not a georgaphov path of an entity

[@LUNE.44]

15:11 coolest looking car ever

[@connortopping6943]

“The pub in Manchester” Liverpudlians are triggered

[@gerrardjones28]

Truly triggered: Liverpool is a million times more famouse than Manchester!

[@idot3331]

@@gerrardjones28 The ultimate question: which is more famous, the Beatles or Manchester United?

[@gerrardjones28]

@@idot3331 the LFC obviously

[@Bille994]

Omg I just wrote an almost identical comment haha. Get out of my brain

[@crazymusicchick]

@@idot3331 Manchester city haha jks

[@Miku-uw2sl]

‘France even calls their airline Air France’ It’s almost like they call their country ‘La France’

[@Nexandr]

But they do call the country La France

[@JuniperBoy]

@@Nexandr whoosh

[@Nexandr]

@@JuniperBoy *S H U T*

[@nikostsiolis7102]

In Greek we call France "Gallia" which means the country of the Gauls

[@IM_AYKHARAAD]

@@nikostsiolis7102 Yeah, you got our ancien name. 😂 In French « Gaule » (pronounce “gol”) is the ancien name of France.

[@lapiswolf2780]

I think the "New" in certain territories' names is relative the the old territory with the original name,like York and New York. New York was founded more recently the Old York.

[@NEELZE99]

Yeah...no shit

[@sammie5998]

Me still finding where old zealand is

[@Dufsdff]

@@sammie5998 Try looking in the Netherlands

[@puff6796]

@@Dufsdff deadass?

[@alvinjy4860]

@@sammie5998 the "Old Zealand" is Zeeland of the Netherlands

[@Everythingwithonehand]

Notably Western Sahara isn’t actually called that it’s the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

[@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262]

Has Democratic in the name so he’d still be unhappy.

[@CrumpetCraig]

Western Sahara is their short name. It's like Russia to the Russian Federation.

[@niku4154]

"Western Sahara" is a name for a region, as there is no full government control. The "Sahrawi Democratic Republic" claims this land as well as Morocco. It's not a name dispute/ confusion, it's a territorial dispute between two governments.

[@Jokkkkke]

@@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262 Sahrawia would be a bad ass alternative, though I don't know if that would work in their Hassaniya Arabic

[@helloahla239]

it's just South Morrocco

[@ericktellez7632]

“Dont have the same name of your neighbours” The United States of America The United Mexican States 🤔🤔🤔

[@quidam_surprise]

To be fair, Mexico underwent different regimes in the course of its history. So, pretty much the labels 'Mexico' and 'Mexican' can encompass all of them. ...and you can call it as the 'Mexican Republic', if you're not satisfied with UMS, anyways.

[@asherl5902]

One of the unofficial names of Mexico before independence and which was proposed and popular to be name of the country was Northern America, in Spanish "América Septentrional" (it was the northernmost part of Spanish America)

[@abesan70]

Not to mention Mexico is in the Americas to boot.

[@marianaramirez161]

Yeah I'm Mexican and we almost never call it The United Mexican States, we just use it on important documents like your ID, passport etc. We either say Mexico or Mexican Republic

[@BenjaminMilekowsky]

USA united snake of america

[@Lord_Skeptic]

7:14 Zaire. That is the old name for it.

[@SuperStingray]

There was a global atlas published by the Onion like a decade ago that basically portrayed Central African Republic as a generic store-brand country where everything is labelled with what it is. Like people wear shirts that say "Person" and the capital city was "Capital City" and it was the funniest shit to me.

[@adanactnomew7085]

Lmaoooo

[@neyte7313]

Fun fact: the old name for Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, is literally translated to "Capital City" in their language

[@Krixwell]

@@neyte7313 In a similar vein in Japan, Toukyou means "eastern capital". As opposed to the older capital in the west, Kyouto, "capital city".

[@anonUK]

Its capital is Bangui on the Ubangi River- they are anagrams. Over the river from Bangui is the DR Congo.

[@beetheenbee3276]

5:24 Im from Northern Ireland and we sometimes just call the piece of ireland above us (Donegal) the north of Ireland which sometimes can get confusing or we call it Donegal which is the name of the region

[@larsj.7124]

The Netherlands and Belgium both have a province named: "Limburg"

[@randyyy2609]

And there's a city in Germany also called Limburg, to make it even more confusing ;-)

[@stansearcheslife6363]

All the brabants: am i a joke to you?

[@pdraggy]

Is that because you can smell Limburg cheese as far as Limburg to Limburg?

[@Jaggerrrr]

Let’s go on vacation to Limburg! Sure! Let’s go next week! *next week* Hey where are you?? In Limburg, Germany!! WHAT IM IN THE NETHERLANDS

[@the11382]

StanSearchesLife There’s more than two?

[@SimakSantana]

"united kingdom"

[@Sightnado]

of great britain AND northern ireland

[@ascra1693]

A brilliant name describes it perfectly

[@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry]

"""united""" ""king""dom of ""great"" britain and ""northern"" ire""land""

[@saueqietrollageposting1477]

"United States"

[@dec3322]

@@Sightnado ‘great’ Britain

[@HusseinAli-7610]

23:56 Honestly I call it Drogba's country because he's the only reason I know that country exists

[@TheSecretPower]

Let's go back to calling the DRC: "Zaire" again, that would be easier. And instead of North Korea, let's call it The "Kim Dynasty".

[@gonun69]

Let's just call it "Kimland".

[@evilemuempire9550]

@David Montgomery Why don’t we just call it New Democratic republic of north south bhjbhjvyughbhhygy, that would make it much easier

[@kauffner]

The colonial names were Congo Free State (1880-1908) and Belgian Congo (1908-1960). Zaire was used from 1971 to 1997.

[@kauffner]

I would go with "Congo-Brazzaville" and "DR Congo." In "Casablanca," Renault mentions the "Free French garrison in Brazzaville." So it's in the pop culture canon.

[@daveharrison84]

Kim Korea, like Saudi Arabia

[@alioth7403]

Fun fact: Did you know that the official name of Uruguay is the Oriental Republic of Uruguay? It's has the Oriental geographic qualifier because it's the country east of the River Plate.

[@volatilelion657]

Uruguay is called like that because the entirety of it's western border is the Uruguay river

[@helloahla239]

is there a river named Guay? Because URU-GUAY and PARA-GUAY

[@volatilelion657]

@@helloahla239 no but it must be an indigenous word related to rivers

[@gokuskanji]

@@helloahla239 there's a river called Uruguay which my country is located at the east. They teach us at school that the name Uruguay stands for 'river of the colored birds'. And indeed it all comes from the indigenous language of the natives so as Paraguay.

[@asherl5902]

People from Uruguay in Spanish are technically called "Orientales" (Easterns) formally, which kinda sounds more like if they were in East Asia, but in common speech anybody call them ever like that and instead they are said "Uruguayos" (Uruguayans). Before being an independent country, Uruguay was called Banda Oriental ("Eastern Side" I think, banda has many meanings that can fit to name a territory or polity while awkward to be in a placename and I don't know which exactly is here) and Provincia Oriental (Eastern Province).

[@EquatorCubing]

No one: The car at 15:14: Ima just phase through the pole

[@dylanminett8552]

14:05 did he just call Liverpool “Manchester”?

[@easytiger6570]

He better not be in Manchester and vise versa any time soon

[@camelopardalis84]

@@easytiger6570 You mean that Manchester better not be in him very soon?

[@ommy7672]

Oh God

[@cocalero]

That’s why I’m so happy that my country is called the same in all languages 😁 Greetings from Peru! PS. No mention of Austria and Australia? Or Georgia (the country) which is actually called Sakartvelo?

[@tonnyfigueira3119]

not really... in Portuguese Peru is called Turkey... XD

[@crisremr6894]

@@tonnyfigueira3119 Wtf dude haha what a plow twist

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

@@tonnyfigueira3119 then what do you call Turkey lmao

[@tonnyfigueira3119]

@@unslaadkrosis9435 just to make it clear: * Turkey the country in Portuguese is "Turquia" * Peru the country is Peru * but the word "Peru" in Portuguese means Turkey the bird =P

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

@@tonnyfigueira3119 ooh okay

[@aphextwin5712]

With towns, sometimes when they expand they call the new part “New-XYZ”. There is Breisach (am Rhein) und Neuf-Brisach, which is just French for New Breisach. There is Neu-Ulm, though that was created when somebody thought having a river as a clean border was worth splitting up a city into two. Then there is Neu-Kölln, created when the town of Kölln expanded in 1662 (now all part of Berlin). Then there are plenty of new city quarters called “Neustadt” (German for “new town”) as opposed to the old part of town. There are over 50 municipalities or parts of municipalities called “Neustadt” in Germany.

[@antonydi]

Historically New South Wales ruled New Zealand and the entire East of Australia. Thanks to good ol' Captain Cook.

[@Dark_Detective]

That's why they keep building Captain Cook Statutes

[@kabalofthebloodyspoon]

One of my favorite Mitchel and Webb bits is the naming of

[@meandyouagainstthealgorith5787]

East New South Wales?

[@christopherellis2663]

West Australia was, technically, French.

[@antonydi]

@@christopherellis2663 I believe you mean Dutch

[@marton154]

Hungary dropped the „republic“ from its name 2012 so it’s only „Hungary“ now

[@TheLocalLt]

Yep or the “State of Hungary” if pressed. Same as several other communist/socialist countries who dropped “republic” after returning to classicalism, going by just the name in most official contests and “State of” if pressed; off the top of my head Romania and Ukraine are two other examples in Europe. Interestingly the Commonwealth realms are not officially kingdoms, they also try to go by only their name, and go by “Commonwealth realm of” if pressed. The exceptions off the top of my head are Canada, which used to be the British Dominion of Canada and never dropped the “Dominion of” when they fully dropped the British (besides the monarch) in 1982, Australia, which is just “Commonwealth of Australia”, a name that predates its independent status as a Commonwealth realm in 1986, as it its full name historically was the British Dominion of the Commonwealth of Australia, so that title had always been in there and Australia kept it when it gained full independence as a Commonwealth realm. The other exception I can think of is New Zealand, which is basically the same story as Australia except it was called the “British Dominion of the Realm of New Zealand” and is now simply the Realm of New Zealand. But all the other Commonwealth realm countries try to mainly just use their name, a la the post-Communist countries like Hungary, and only use “Commonwealth realm of” when pressed

[@aphextwin5712]

There is a region in Germany called Ostwestfalen, literally ‘East-West-Falen’. More than a thousand years ago, Saxons called the western part of their area “Westfalei” and their eastern part “Ostfalen”. The name for the former stuck around long after the name for the latter fell in disuse. At some point the region called “Westfalen” got administrative subdivisions, the eastern one got the label “Ostwestfalen”. The UK has their own Saxon- and cardinal-direction-based province names in the form of Sussex and Essex. The former even got divided into West Sussex and East Sussex.

[@anonUK]

Don't forget Wessex, which stretched from Devon up towards Surrey.

[@puchamati]

10:37 Fun Fact: in spanish, Sweden and Switzerland's names are almost the same, Suecia and Suiza so they get confused a lot in spanish lol

[@jesalt8230]

While in English, the names of their habitats are quite similar: Swiss and Swedish.

[@phil..rubi123]

We know 😢😢 Greetings Sweden 🇸🇪

[@wayn0r]

A lot of Americans think that Sweden and Switzerland are the same thing, but that’s just due to poor education and Americentrism.

[@plislegalineu3005]

In Polish: Szwajcaria 🇨🇭 and Szwecja 🇸🇪 Sz is š / sh C is tz/ts W is v J is y in yes

[@lucasobrador]

In Filipino sub language we call it Swissko and Swedenya☺

[@werrywit]

Toycat: there are only 2 countries that force people to call them what it's called in the local language Cabo Verde:

[@Jeremiah1110]

and São Tomé and Príncipe

[@bloomingapril7547]

@@Jeremiah1110 And El Salvador

[@C003]

@@bloomingapril7547 well El Salvador doesen't even have an english name, the literal translation is "The Savior" so I think it's better to keep it that way, same with Sao Tome and Principe.

[@Tuberex]

@@C003 In polish we do have a name for sao tome and principe "Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca" Which translates to "Islands of Saint Thomas and princely" The last part doesnt really make sense

[@doylethechocolatelab]

I live in a county called northern Ireland and I've had people going "oh so like Dublin?". Nope. That's in the South. But people get confused. Like am I talking about the North or Ireland or am I talking about northern Ireland. Edit: omg he mentioned it! I feel noticed 👉👈

[@unteach]

One of my favourite local names for countries that's different in English is Croatia, which we call Croazia in Italian (still close, would make sense the original name's also similar right?), and then you go there and find out it's called Hrvatska!

[@nexusmlbb8121]

And then you go to poland, and you hear Chorwacja

[@renzoraschioni3886]

I see no problem in Slovakia and Slovenia names, they're just different enough. Unless one reads only the first 3 letters of every name, but in that case I would call it "idiocy"

[@stafer3]

It’s more fun in Slovak language. Slovensko - Slovakia Slovinsko - Slovenia Compared to that English translations are quite distinct. But when I think about it, that’s probably source of confusion. If someone writes on postcard Slovakia in Slovak language (Slovensko), some foreign post office worker might get quite confused, since they probably will see first 6 letters identical to Slovenia only with different suffix.

[@Liggliluff]

Worse is the names of the languages in their own languages: slovenčina - Slovak in Slovak slovenščina - Slovene in Slovene

[@helloahla239]

And their flags are similar, and they use the same currency

[@TheAndro5]

You all forgot the best part: Slovenec - Slovakian person in Slovak Slovenec - Slovenian person in Slovene

[@jozefmasny8349]

@@TheAndro5 Not true, though. Slovakian male person is called Slovák, female is called Slovenka.

[@матушлюбитХриста]

10:13 We hate when someone says we are in eastern Europe. Literally, we are in center :D

[@Eschatonin6666]

"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" - Dissect that one Also I think you're conflating political territories and cultural ones. Some nations (a people group who see themselves as part of the same community based on language, ethnicity, religion, etc) have part or half of their land and people in another state (a political territory where the state has a monopoly of control), while the rest of that nation has their own state named after themselves. This is why we have North Macedonia, Timor Lest, Papua New Guinea (East Papua) and Indonesian West Papua, North and South Korea, Chinese Mongolia, Belgian Luxembourg, and many many others. Also, the names of countries on the map is based on what the country presents as internationally. This has been dominated with what English speakers have called the countries as an international convention, and some countries feel that maybe anglo dominion isn't cool.

[@Liggliluff]

United Kingdom in Swedish is called Storbritannien*, meaning Great Britain, and Great Britain is also called the same. So you got Great Britain inside Great Britain. *In Finland-Swedish, it's called Förenade konungariket, meaning United Kingdom. So this only applies to Standard Swedish.

[@kpc211]

Well, I guess he perfectly knows it, but if he acknowledged that in the video, it would sound much less funny... North Macedonia is an interesting case, because for many, many years they were in a conflict with Greece, which wanted Macedonia monopoly and was therefore opposing very strongly to Macedonia the country (now North Macedonia) calling themselves Macedonia... This way they were probably the only country in the world with no internationally established and accepted name, and had to be referred to by a long description (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). But finally, they recently gave up and renamed themselves to North Macedonia.

[@heleenmyburgh7419]

South African here! When we talk about the south of africa, we just say southern africa

[@fjellyo3261]

Mzansi yay

[@gaelbrd]

18:50 What was the point about AirFrance? I mean... France is also the namee in French

[@gbst]

Life changing revelation: second channel, but he does care!

[@danieledwards3376]

12:20 You're trolling New Zealand, right?

[@kitfisto5132]

Him: talking about slovakia and slovenia. Me: oh boy you haven't heard about slavonia yet

[@Kintabl]

22:07 Dude! Slavic J is pronounced like Y in word Yes.

[@plislegalineu3005]

The "j" which he made is Dž (most Slavic languages using Latin Alphabet), Polish: Dż

[@sigma_is_op7970]

@@plislegalineu3005 in Bulgaria "J" is pronounced like "Djuh"

[@plislegalineu3005]

@@sigma_is_op7970 Bulgarian (and Macedonian) are different from the rest, and that is one of the differences. Other differences are mainly lack of noun cases and existence of articles (Eng: a, an, the)

[@plislegalineu3005]

@@sigma_is_op7970 And they use cyrylic

[@Sightnado]

ah yes, i love the name of doctor congo

[@luisfaria3365]

Local british man rants about country names for 24 minutes straight

[@mimikal7548]

Maybe an alternative name for one of the Congos could be Zaire, as long as they're sure they won't get any Belgian occupation flashbacks from it.

[@Benzebuth18]

As a Belgian I can guarantee it would not be appreciated by Congolese ;.)

[@guppy719]

Go back to naming it Zaire and the capitol leopoldville

[@kristoffer-2614]

TC: ”Rule 1: No geographical qualifiers” East Timor: ”My name is Timor-Leste which means East-East” TC: ”understandable” TC internaly: *listen here you little sh-t*

[@timetroller2556]

I did know it was named after Zeeland you threw me off because i thought i was under the common misconception. good video 7.3/10 would watch again love this map stuff

[@AshChynoweth]

You mentioned New South Wales literally the second I passed the NSW border 😂

[@zyrexnotpyrex3205]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Wm7forthewin]

lol

[@kristoffer-2614]

TC: ”Don’t do the whole ’Use our name for our country’ thing.” *What about Belarus?*

[@zayan1018]

Doesn't Belarus Mean White Russia???

[@kristoffer-2614]

@@zayan1018 Indeed it does. In Sweden we litteraly called it White Russia (Vitryssland ~ Vit = White | Ryssland = Russia) until 2020 when the media (and some normal people) started calling it Belarus because not using the countries own name is apparently racist or something like that.

[@zayan1018]

@@kristoffer-2614 Yeah Same In Russian Too White In russian Is Called Beylo And Russia Is Rusya. Actually When Belrus First Became Independent It was Used to be called Bylorossya. But since then they have changed it to Belarus.

[@drewstaser9726]

This is the first comment section where I learned something and didn't see an argument breakout (yet)

[@nikitap957]

@@zayan1018 well, Belarus means white Russia too. Rus is an old name for Russia and 'bela' is a short form of adjective that means white. But the short form of adjective is sometimes used as a verb (russian language you know, weird). So Belarus is literally 'Russia that is white'

[@alans5414]

this is so english-centric, but i'm ngl, this thing is hilarious

[@TheMightofDab]

*Watching him make fun of other countries* "hahaha, what utter fools" *He brings up my country* "How dare you"

[@nikolaevkatesla3823]

Everybody: oh so those are bad names for countries Me: so his name is Andrew

[@Edibleimp134]

Wait, you didn't know that? One of his other channels is called "Andrew Andrews".

[@taiga1295]

Well yes. But call him Eswatini.

[@danielmarmolejo1622]

The Sweden-Switzerland thing is really confusing in Spanish since they are called Suecia y Suiza. It’s very common to hear people confusing them and then be like “or are we talking about that other one”

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Talk about Austria and Australia in english

[@kristianjerak]

Thank you Eswatini for this educational video

[@The_Jzoli]

19:27 Funnily enough, in Finnish, Timor-Leste is called Itä-Timor, which meams East-Timor. So that's not really the case with Timor-Leste.

[@Veroxzes]

Oh yeah, same in swedish. (Östtimor) The world is weird.

[@remopoldmann5402]

In Estonian it's called Ida-Timor

[@MoempfLP]

Similar in German: Osttimor (Ost = east)

[@guppy719]

Does anybody in East Timor even speak finish? That might be why.

[@Kylora2112]

As far as official/diplomatic uses go, they want to be called Côte d'Ivoire and Timor-Leste (same goes for Czechia, as they do not want to called "Czech Republic" in international relations), but that doesn't mean the hoi polloi can't use old/local language names.

[@AndrewJFO]

03:51 - it's quite simple, generally if you are referring to the region around South Africa, you call it Southern Africa - not that hard.

[@VizzlePuff]

14:18 The building says "THHE CALEDONIA" !? .. the other side says "THE CALEDONIA" with only one H...

[@ohaddovben-naim1835]

Their answer: Thank you, we will soon fix this, we ordered a new H sign and it is now shipping

[@helloahla239]

2 differents images from the Google car overlapped

[@migueltomi3087]

3:23 in Latin American schools this just get resolved by name the whole continent "America" (I don't want to start a war)

[@ciqme]

I mean, it really is just one continent without the Hu man made canal. Personally I think they should change how they teach about the continents everywhere

[@camelopardalis84]

In at least parts of Europe you are taught that there are five continents: - Afrika - America - Australia - Asia - Europe

[@Mercure250]

@@camelopardalis84 That's also the five continents we learn in Canada

[@camelopardalis84]

@@Mercure250 The most obvious problem with that categorization is that there's no place for New Zealand when you're also being taught that "Australia is both a country and a continent" or even "Australia is a country, a continent, and an island". There are of course more problems with that, but as a child, I first learned about New Zealand being a thing that exists and only later about what is basically Oceania (which again, wasn't included in Australia according to the additional definition of Australia I was taught). The North and South Pole not being mentioned in this list of continents I could live with; I just thought they weren't continents. But the "The world can be divided up into five continents" thing also made no sense in this context.

[@eddie-roo]

Camelopardis - The Green Giraffe Australia is not a continent, it's a Country. The Continent is called Oceania.

[@Segalcentral69420]

ibx2cat: Don't name a place with New or south, north, west or east. New South Wales:

[@Everythingwithonehand]

This year I had to take a train from Brussels to Luxembourg City. It was very important to make sure I bought a ticket that didn’t go to Brussels Luxembourg station or one of the stations in Belgium Luxembourg. Fortunately the Belgian railways site lists the confusing stations with (BE) or (LU) after them.