I Name the Subdivisions of Every Country in the World

In the tenth instalment of the naming series, I name every first-level subdivision in the world.
Link to the quiz:
www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/309965/all-first-level-subdivisions-of-the-world-with-a-map
I also exist on Twitter: mercateer
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:29 Starting the quiz - Canada
02:47 USA and Mexico
06:44 Belize and Guatemala
08:25 El Salvador and Honduras
09:54 Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
12:08 Cuba and Jamaica
13:31 Haiti and the Dominican Republic
15:23 Bahamas
17:04 St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda
17:29 Dominica and St. Lucia
18:20 St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada
18:48 Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago
20:05 Colombia and Venezuela
22:25 Guyana and Suriname
23:47 Brazil
25:04 Ecuador and Peru
26:40 Bolivia and Paraguay
28:01 Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
31:02 South Africa and Botswana
32:10 Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini
33:31 Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia
34:38 Angola and Malawi
35:39 Tanzania
36:46 Democratic Republic of the Congo
38:00 Rwanda and Republic of the Congo
38:51 Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe
40:25 Madagascar and Burundi
42:48 Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius
44:56 Kenya
47:00 Uganda
52:59 Somalia and Djibouti
53:48 Eritrea and Ethiopia
54:39 South Sudan and Sudan
56:07 Central African Republic
57:31 Cameroon and Nigeria
59:34 Chad and Niger
1:01:02 Mali and Burkina Faso
1:02:03 Benin, Togo and Ghana
1:03:05 Ivory Coast and Liberia
1:05:38 Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
1:06:17 Senegal, The Gambia and Cape Verde
1:08:39 Mauritania and Morocco
1:09:49 Egypt and Libya
1:11:56 Tunisia
1:12:44 Algeria
1:15:59 Spain and Portugal
1:17:46 Andorra and Monaco
1:18:44 France
1:20:41 Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
1:21:54 Switzerland
1:23:02 Italy, San Marino and Malta
1:24:33 Germany and Austria
1:25:51 United Kingdom and Ireland
1:28:17 Liechtenstein
1:28:50 Poland and the Czech Republic
1:30:26 Slovakia and Hungary
1:31:39 Slovenia
1:40:30 Romania and Moldova
1:44:02 Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
1:45:27 Serbia and Kosovo
1:46:57 Albania, Bulgaria and Greece
1:49:40 Montenegro and North Macedonia
1:54:21 Ukraine and Belarus
1:56:13 The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania)
1:58:46 Denmark and Norway
1:59:40 Sweden and Finland
2:01:17 Iceland
2:05:21 Cyprus and Russia
2:09:58 Turkey and Georgia
2:13:18 Azerbaijan and Armenia
2:16:42 Syria and Israel
2:17:31 Jordan and Saudi Arabia
2:18:23 Yemen and Oman
2:19:46 United Arab Emirates and Lebanon
2:20:41 Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar
2:21:19 Iraq and Iran
2:23:42 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
2:25:17 Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
2:25:51 Afghanistan and Pakistan
2:27:16 India, Sri Lanka and Maldives
2:29:53 Mongolia, Nepal and Bhutan
2:32:07 Bangladesh and China
2:34:10 North Korea and South Korea
2:35:45 Japan and Taiwan
2:38:36 Myanmar and Laos
2:40:15 Cambodia and Vietnam
2:45:07 Thailand
2:48:54 Brunei and East Timor
2:49:35 Malaysia and Indonesia
2:51:42 Philippines
2:52:48 Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia
2:54:00 Marshall Islands
2:54:55 Nauru, Samoa and Tuvalu
2:56:50 Tonga and Papua New Guinea
2:57:37 Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
2:58:10 Fiji and New Zealand
2:58:31 Australia
2:59:06 Finishing the quiz
2:59:32 Some acknowledgements
Music credits:
Cyberreality by Mehul Choudhary | soundcloud.com/mehulchoudhary
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Every bit of pronunciation audio in this video has been downloaded from the fantastic website Forvo:
forvo.com/

[@MercateerGeo]

EDIT: There seem to be a few skeptics, which is fair I suppose, so here's a video from another angle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boe1e6aVjdRrr68si=H7SYUAdX2HBxFzDo Hello everyone! Due to the sheer size of this undertaking, I have run into some of KZbin's limitations: - I can't seem to have more than 100 chapters (timestamps), so I've had to group countries together rather haphazardly. - I've had to restrict the timestamp descriptions to country names, as I would otherwise run into the 5000 character limit. Also, some minor things I noticed or was made aware of: - I miss Mombasa when doing Kenya, but notice this at 2:43:58 - I somehow forgot to add the flag and facts for Maldives - In Norway, *Møre- og Romsdal* was already completed, not Vestland This took 6 hours to render. 3 earlier attempts led to crashes, once at 97%. Enjoy! P.S. I regret not adding some more context to my brief comments on Ukraine/Russia. I meant that I can understand why JetPunk has chosen to consider Crimea Russian as it has been under Russian control for a decade. That said, I also understand that de facto conditions is *not* all that matters, and that by calling it Russian, one contributes to making the whole situation feel more normal/acceptable. In trying to give context to JetPunk's choice, but also wanting to move along as fast as possible, it came out way too nonchalant and one-sided.

[@IGrindDiana]

🔥

[@No_One1939]

🔥

[@zacheriah2102]

You also forgot to put how many districts Bhutan has. But I don't care about those details. You are amazing!

[@MercateerGeo]

@@zacheriah2102 Aw, heck! Well spotted 🔎

[@ThePanEthiopian]

Now get off the computer and relax your brain 🧠 🙄

[@g-ray4088]

"i genetically modified my hippocampus for a youtube video"

[@JakkzOfficial]

Real

[@WatercraftGames]

The usual

[@ericmamleev]

*Friends, I did 23 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*

[@CTzons]

Very real

[@darracqboy]

Real

[@JamesA.Garfield]

This is a feat that no human has accomplished and uploaded for the world to see. The amount of time and effort put into this is absolutely astounding. I congratulate you heavily on this, I am dumbfounded on how you even managed to remember all of these names, especially when the translation of them comes out with extremely awkward spelling. You have come a very long way from naming the subdivisions by continent, which was already impressive enough. Outstanding work, Mercateer 👍👍

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you!! It's been a grind 😅

[@bbruh2018]

Cough cough muskox....

[@JamesA.Garfield]

@@bbruh2018 he never uploaded himself doing the entire world.

[@alimbis]

104 104 did this a long time ago in about half the time

[@cadentrevino5746]

@@MercateerGeonow do all the second order ones a im jk

[@goigus]

This man doesn't just name every subdivision, he nails every pronunciation

[@zinomanezinomybe8244]

As a lithuanian i can say that he was surprisingly good

[@Michael-yy2vl]

Slovakia was gobshite, but its not surprising considering our language :)

[@118Shadow118]

@@zinomanezinomybe8244 as a latvian, he missed some long vowels, but generally really good

[@tinkornhardfist7574]

He was decent but I wouldn't say that he "nails" every pronunciation.

[@zinomanezinomybe8244]

@@118Shadow118 yeah i don't say he was perfect, but i know how foreigners say our names and words (butcher it), so for lithuanian he would be 4/10, for foreigner 9/10

[@tylparys]

I thought one could easily cheat in this challenge and watching with suspicion. I was convinced it was legit immediately when you started Turkey, because no foreigner can pronounce those names that accurately without actually knowing about them. Nailed even the emphasize on certain vowels. Wow! That was an instant like&sub. You even know meanings of those names. I’m in awe.

[@hognigk96]

He also pronounced the Icelandic and Norwegian municipalities as good as any foreigner I’ve ever heard. This guy’s legit.

[@romanpopyk]

​@@hognigk96 his Slavic pronunciation is also great

[@hognigk96]

Man can speak every language

[@NoireEiki]

his Japanese pronouncication is also pretty good

[@SpectraVV]

he pronounced the Azerbaijani ones well too, considering all the throat consonants

[@aoe4037]

i have the same type of autism

[@KINGoftheHunters]

Get this man to 1K likes!!! 💀

[@JeoffreyZzz]

Oh

[@skippitysmithsonshorts]

Aw, tysm!

[@Blueskies2513]

what unemployed guys do when their girlfriend is at work

[@Elmlea.y]

Is true, I am the girlfriend

[@Auloss]

Spot fucking on

[@Blueskies2513]

im not a beta or a boyfriend :)@@Rafaal03

[@soundstation8343]

@@Elmlea.y It’s true, I’m your boyfriend

[@aimbotxd7992]

@@soundstation8343 It's true, I'm your walls.

[@ajrob1546]

I am from Slovenia and have never meet a pearson who could name 1/4 of all municipalities. Respect man I think you deserve a citizenship.

[@OGabrielFaria]

I have 22 cousins and can't even name all them at once. This guy is crazy.

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

I only know Maribor due to learning about conflicts among Slovenes and Germans during the last days of WW1

[@ricardomilos7419]

A world citizenship

[@FFortatech]

you can say that Slovene municipalities look like a phone screen after you drop it from 3rd floor

[@alexalekos]

​​@@IchabodvanTassel98i know maribor, gorica and trnva because of football

[@stupiditiusmaximus]

Wow this is an insane achievement, I never thought I'd see somebody name all the subdivisions of Vatican City.

[@Ex-memegodita]

I live in the Vatican

[@heidenrosleinmondschein3933]

​@@Ex-memegodita what's it like?

[@Caballero_Templario]

Whats is like? ​@@Ex-memegodita

[@thedeadlinger6992]

I think the Vatican guy got kidnapped :P

[@aceman0000099]

Pope's bedroom, popes bathroom, pope's assistant's room, pope's receptionists room....

[@daffadnp]

he even knows the newest state of a country, but the game didn't recognize it. bro >>> the game

[@IntensaEmozione]

Which?

[@daffadnp]

​@@IntensaEmozioneIndonesia. Highland Papua, Southwest Papua, South Papua was established at 2022

[@JokinIsCool]

​@@daffadnpok

[@alexlopezvieira7697]

Also one in Montenegro

[@OtisGD]

How is this not more popular? This is CRAZY! I could barely do North America, but the entire world?!?!!? This is just crazy! Keep up the great work! :)

[@50_cal_enjoyer]

“You cant name literally every single subdivision of every country on the entire planet? Your obviously American!!”

[@MercateerGeo]

@ndesloten2654I didn't skip it, the provinces are second-level subdivisions, which aren't covered in this quiz

[@irmaosmatos4026]

@@MercateerGeo if second level divisions were in the quiz, naming every county in the US, every municipality in Brazil, Mexico, and of course China, Russia and India would be absolute madness.

[@MinerBat]

@@MercateerGeo...then what is the first level? because as far as i know the provinces are the first subdivision here after the whole country

[@MercateerGeo]

@@MinerBat Yes, it can be a bit confusing, because The *Kingdom* of the Netherlands includes Netherlands as a constituent country, but there are three other constituent countries: Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. This is the first level.

[@haroeneissa790]

​@@MercateerGeoyes, but now I couldn't hear you talk any dutch which would have been the highlight of the video.

[@SomewhatClassyGoose]

*casually names every single subdivision for 2 hours straight*

[@foxy126pl6]

3*

[@MIOKONE]

yeah that's gonna be 3

[@DeadlyLazer]

..with surprisingly accurate pronounciations

[@a_wazza]

@@DeadlyLazer I was thrown off by him interpreting the j in Malay and Indonesian to be like the 'j' in many European languages (y) when it's really like the 'j' in English (e.g. Java, Johor)

[@DeadlyLazer]

@@a_wazza yeah which is why I said "surprisingly" accurate. It's not exactly 100%, but still definitely close enough to be impressive to come from a foreigner. And lets not forget he's doing this with pretty much every major language on the planet.

[@Kerguelen.Mapping]

I’ve always thought I was mediocre at geography but clearly you’ve blown my mind. This is astonishing

[@waterwatereverywhere3574]

Are you from the kerguelen archipelago?

[@Chad113yea]

I know every country

[@First-Name--Last-Name]

​@@Chad113yeaNot that impressive

[@Chad113yea]

@@First-Name--Last-Name who said I was trying to impress people

[@the_flipside]

I don't think I've EVER seen this much effort put into a single KZbin video. This deserves to get at least a million views. Subscribed.

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you so much!

[@Lord_Drake]

From a guy in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France, you are INSANE ! France has simplified your work in fact, before 2015 we've have 27 régions :) Anyway great job !

[@moistschmeckles400]

That's why slovenia gave him extra homework. jesus christ

[@tristansojer4901]

As someone from Slovenia, sorry for the additional torture lol. Pretty much everyone in our country thinks it's ridiculous how many municipalities we have. Congrats on the achievement, I don't think I'll ever have this type of dedication!

[@MercateerGeo]

I promise I didn't take it personally ;) I actually got a better sense of the pronunciation of slavic languages in general by practising so much, so it wasn't all bad! (that said, I still got many of them wrong x.x)

[@AllanLimosin]

Not that it's uncommon to have that many municipalities, but it's weird not to have upper level administrative divisions, like regions or states. Same goes for Latvia I believe.

[@BlackThreath1234]

Slovenia was like the middle boss that is actually hardest than the final boss

[@broyderpole7497]

I guess you could say the number of slovenian municipalities is obscene 😏

[@steffkepn2]

Not even Slovenians can't name all of their municipalities 🤣 greetings from Serbia

[@seiferklydeparco7608]

There is a channel called Geography Sam that is always dreaming of naming all first-level subdivisions of the world.

[@MercateerGeo]

I just saw him play a flag colouring game that I simply *have* to try myself

[@ericmamleev]

*Friends, I did 23 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*

[@thegoofiestgoooberr]

@@MercateerGeohow long did this take you? i’ve been learning some in my free time for about 5 days and i have usa, canada, mexico, belize, russia, zimbabwe, malaysia, indonesia, and australia done UPDATE: india, china, el salvador, guatemala, honduras

[@h....7971]

​@@thegoofiestgoooberrcomo vocês fazem pra aprender isso? 🫠Alguma dica?

[@thegoofiestgoooberr]

@@h....7971 I’ve just been using seterra. I start on pin mode then graduate to type once I’m ready.

[@VickyyTheFox]

Glad to see my massive subdivisions quiz be absolutely demolished, congrats on completing it!! Maybe I'll go for 100% some day...

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! It's an amazing quiz, must've taken as long to make as it took for me to memorize!

[@MamtaSingh-bp1sx]

@VickyyTheFox Why do you hate palestine?

[@VickyyTheFox]

@@MamtaSingh-bp1sx I don't, I just didn't include it because the site itself doesn't recognize it (however the site itself also DOESN'T recognize the region as part of Israel)

[@MamtaSingh-bp1sx]

@@VickyyTheFox so which do you support israel or palestine?

[@csltk7905]

France actually made it easy few years ago.

[@Default10000]

Your channel is terribly underrated this is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen

[@andresyesidmorenovilla7888]

Holy shit, this is insane! Massive props! I cannot fathom the amount of time and practice this must have taken you!

[@matthewkendrick8280]

Gotta love my administrative region getting named in a KZbin video

[@ронин2к]

Same

[@HehehehawMonkey]

I thought that for Slovenia you were going to do the "broader areas" but bro did all municipalities💀. I'm astonished and huge respect

[@UltraWorlds]

Memorizing the subdivision of every country is insane on its own but despite that the craziest thing about this video is that nearly all of it was a constant stream of guesses, barely even stopping to think. Simply mindblowing

[@CED11]

This video was suggested to me and since I love geography, I thought I'd go and watch it and then I'd see it... two weeks ago I asked myself if there was anyone who knew all the outlines of the individual provinces, states, etc. Then I thought to myself that it would never be possible for someone to know all these parts by heart. Then I saw it. You can do it, it's insane. I've never seen such a crazy geography flex, it can't be topped. You have my utmost respect 🤯🤯💪🏻🇩🇪 I have to honestly admit that this is the sickest geography video I have ever seen, it is just impossible to know it all.

[@KMS548]

I was able to 100% this about 2-3 months before you uploaded the video. I haven’t seen them since then, but it’s really cool to see someone else interested in it! I have not studied pronunciations nor learned where all of the subdivisions are yet, but I look forward to studying those too! I have also thought about doing the subdivision flags next. I found that jetpunk has flag quizzes by for some country subdivisions

[@pedrohenriquegomes4684]

Really, really impressive work. Your video got me in disbelief. I hope to see more from this channel soon. Congratulations from Brazil 🇧🇷 (Pernambuco)

[@antoniogabriel8820]

Realmente cool to see another guy from here. I am from Recife by the way

[@pedrohenriquegomes4684]

@@antoniogabriel8820 Me too

[@GabrielCosta-hp1rl]

I'm also from Recife

[@augustob.s3301]

@@antoniogabriel8820 Realmente cool me pegou desprevenido kkkkkkkkkkk

[@gggame4633]

Brabo, sou do RS

[@abcde_5949]

That was impressive. Your pronunciation of Finnish names were so good that I was guessing if u're actually Finnish (in the end it was the "nm" sound in words pohjanmaa and pirkanmaa that gave it away that u're actually a Swede, i think)

[@MercateerGeo]

Thanks! Haha, I think I was just exaggerating the pronunciations for some reason, I speak both Swedish and Finnish natively :)

[@quostad]

He also pronounced Portuguese and Spanish names really well

[@vharmi.]

​@@MercateerGeoHaha, I was wondering why all the places in Kenya and Uganda sounded really Finnish.

[@EvilTim1911]

Did the Balkan pronunciations really well to. I'm assuming they were all pretty accurate

[@KilosWorld]

His Japanese pronounciations sound a bit overly enunciated like something from a textbook but otherwise perfect! ^^

[@JadeWhite-xf9xq]

1:04:10 Mercateer: No one is watching this shit anyway Me: Nope, I am watching everything through, so I hear you 😂😂😂😂

[@vojtechstrnad1]

Missed opportunity to say "No one is watching this, I can even say the n-word" right before doing Niger.

[@misterreaglle]

I don't know why I watched the whole video but here it is 😂 A big congratulations to you, I've never been so impressed in my life! You are an inspiration to me! Take care ❤

[@joshuapenetrante2689]

After obsessing about geography for a few years, you have inspired me to do the same feat as you. You are such a fantastic person, and I am completely mesmerized by your talents. I've memorized at least 53 countries and cannot wait to learn more!

[@hralyb3513]

I used to watch Muskox and his Subdivision naming series but than he gave up after 4 continents. You manage to finish this. Hats down (: And yeah I am your proud 420th subscriber.

[@MercateerGeo]

You are indeed a sub with elevated status, together with sub 1 and sub 69 😁

[@nileprimewastaken]

wow, about octupling subs (2.02k as of writing) in 3 days also, i think i was the 1337th sub :D

[@MercateerGeo]

@@nileprimewastakenWelcome to the special sub club! 😁

[@x.y.g.a.b184]

I am french fan about geography but you, you are so good. It's just a talent and before this video I didn't think it was possible to retain all the territorial subdivisions of the world. Incredible work!!!👏

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you!! Going into this, I didn't know if I could do it either. But now I think people underestimate the power of spaced repetition. The hardest part is actually putting in the consistent effort :)

[@mustaphatoubal7790]

Il faut que un français fase cet exploit

[@letsgogothekitchen5823]

Arrête tout de suite ybhtk

[@mustaphatoubal7790]

@@letsgogothekitchen5823 eh quoi je vais pas faire ce que le gars dans la vidéo a fait

[@Googolplexian01]

This is a revolution in itself. Nobody in the history of YT has done something as remarkable as this. Good job and keep this up!

[@BlazeDrew222]

This is the most impressive thing I've seen in a while. I don't think you can get a lower-level world geography quiz. Bravo!

[@lemonposting]

this guy just doxxed everyone

[@turperper]

Magnificent work. I've been working on every federal entity for quite a while - and it took me 2 weeks to learn Russia. I couldn't imagine learning Slovenia's.

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! I'd like to say it wasn't that bad, but... it really was 😂

[@nanicrash]

​It was quite good, actually! Mad respect ​@@MercateerGeo The only correction 🤓☝️ is that we call an outer subdivision "kray" - that means it has borders with other countries. An inner subdivision is called "oblast" And you named all the autonomous okrugs and republics just right!

[@mostazezo]

thoughts on novosibirisk

[@turperper]

@@mostazezo what

[@spystoudios]

I am currently trying to learn the subdivisions of every country as well. I can name the subdivisions of Us, Canada, Brazil,France, uk, Italy,Spain,Germany,Greece,Australia ,Japan and the republics of Russia . It is just insane how a human being managed to memorise each and every one of the subdivisions of the world. A very impressive feat. Keep up the good work!

[@blueknight4684]

Same! I'm learning as well, I became gradually better at making ways of memorizing subdivisions! It gets a little bit faster every country, currenty I can name South and North America (not central or caribbean yet), Africa, western europe and some other random countries!

[@railroadforest30]

I wrote them all down and their administrative centers and made into little pieces of paper

[@spystoudios]

@railroadforest30 I memorize them with their flags , so I am drawing them and at the back write what each Flag is until I learn them all from a country

[@railroadforest30]

@@spystoudios cool

[@luni1946]

This was fucking amazing!! Can't believe I actually watched it all Finding Mombasa was absolutely clutch, that was amazing. Also super surprised that Western hadn't been done yet until the very end I loved how you said (almost) every one as you went, not that I could actually tell if the pronunciation was good or not. Anyway great stuff

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! I can't believe you watched it all either 😂 No but I really appreciate the support. I was quite pleased with that Mombasa find, imagine going through that list at the end...

[@AyazAbdulazimov]

2:14:40 He knows my country's subdivisions better than me LOL

[@yosgir]

😂

[@ryanharris3420]

This is just unbelievable. I would never have thought it could be done. Massive massive kudos to you.

[@yeeoo5772]

As a colombian i was so happy to hear pronunciation. I found how strange and foreign the native words in central american cities/divisions.

[@CarlosEduardoSchneiderZanatti]

Yeaah. I'm from Latin America too, and it was amazing how he pronounced correctly all the Spanish, Portuguese and even Native American names. Fantastic !! This guy is awesome !!

[@andres00937]

I KNOW RIGHT, I’m Colombian as well and totally mind blown

[@fersolesurvivor]

I guess its aztec or mayan words

[@vharmi.]

Shoutouts to Slovenia for being 5,5% of this quiz.

[@MercateerGeo]

Definitely punching above their weight

[@Flokenx]

This my friend, this is what insanity looks like. What the hell man, this is by far the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen. Massive props to you for learning all this. Earned a sub, can't wait to see what else you're up to!

[@Akito_gachaglobe]

Oh my gosh, I thought I was good at naming Country regions, but this, absolutely PHENOMENAL!!

[@toxin6584]

Thank you for doing this, you've inspired me to do this too. I started recently and I aim to finish by 3 months, meaning about 2 countries a day, or around 40 subdivisions a day. I don't post on youtube but I hope I'll be able to finish and post my completed result

[@MercateerGeo]

Sounds like a sensible pace! It's very similar to what I did

[@SebsTruckStop]

When I saw this video on my feed, clicked on it, and saw your channel and I thought it said 39k subscriber. But only 3.9k? That’s wild. But with this sort of content, you’re gonna have absolutely no problem growing the channel. Phenomenal effort my guy, I’ve been working towards being able to name every subdivision but am nowhere near as confident and knowledgable as you! Well done mate, good luck with your future crazy projects

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! I will try to keep the projects as crazy as is feasible ;)

[@SebsTruckStop]

@@MercateerGeo You’re beyond feasible at this point haha.

[@josuaerick9670]

Well done! This video deserves more recognition in the geography community

[@kyowomii]

this needs to go viral you are insane at this and i appreciate the effort into getting the pronunciations too

[@Bear-ig5gu]

I first watched this when it had around 600 views, great to see how viral it's become. Keep it up

[@agtx567osu]

i thought memorizing every flag in the world was an achievement but now im beyond impressed

[@leandroblockmango2673]

I think memorzing every countries flags is a basic geography knowledge.

[@finlarion9126]

@@leandroblockmango2673I don’t think so… I know so. Beta males out here knowing 193 countries and thinking they’re special!?

[@kuchyy]

Oh my god. This is crazy. Big ups for that. The geography stuff I need to see more often. Even the pronunciation of Czech regions (kraje) was on point. Just crazy

[@Europa_GG]

Incredibly impressive, also you had near perfect pronunciation of the Estonian regions, good job!

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! Knowing Finnish probably helps a bit :) But you still have that tricky õ!

[@lauraelisa6890]

this is beautiful, i can't imagine how long it took to memorize all these subdivisions and to make this video too... great work!

[@gelatinnnnn.]

2:51:44 overproud filipinos screaming rn

[@thecasualcaribou]

As a big geography nut and have extensive knowledge, I have been impressed with certain geography channels on KZbin, but I think this takes the cake. This is a phenomenal feat, if this is truly all done from memory. My applause to you sir

[@Googolplexian01]

This guy has just taken over the world...quite literally. Excellent video! Probably the only one of its kind on YT.

[@Ngerogeography101]

😱😱😱

[@Googolplexian01]

@@Ngerogeography101 🐟👆

[@tylerredforge5563]

no one is talking about how perfect your pronounciation and accent of the divisions are

[@Kidms3]

Bro this is really impressive! You are a genius 😮

[@MercateerGeo]

Thanks! Practice makes perfect :)

[@manganesegoblin981]

Hey, thanks for inspiring me to complete all of asia! Probably won't do the rest though, Slovenia is quite disheartening.

[@arHo-dm8ny]

It’s just amazing dude. You are pronouncing every subdivisions correctly. I can't imagine how much work you have to do for this. Bravo.

[@euroschmau]

Anhui is pronounced as: An-hway. When it comes to China, I love how geographically sensible the provinces are and how many are in pairs. You got the Yellow River (Huanghe) separating the provinces of Hebei (north of the river, where bei means north) and Henan (south of the river, where nan means south); then south from those you have Dongting Lake (Dongtinghu) separating Hubei (north of the lake) and Hunan (south of the lake) provinces. Also, you have Shandong (Eastern Mountains) and Shanxi (Western Mountains). Way down south you have The Eastern (dong) Expanse (Guangdong) and the Western (xi) Expanse (Guangxi). This dosen't stop with provinces. Beijing means northern capital while Nanjing means southern capital. Tokyo by the way means eastern capital. There is no Western capital, but there is a "Western Peace," or Xi'an. In the south east however, the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi may seem similar in naming convention, but are quite different, they both refer to a different river which flow through them. Anyhow, this was mind-numbingly impressive!

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! I actually watched a video on Chinese provinces, and it was indeed very interesting. I was disappointed to realize that I had forgotten quite a few of the pronunciations when I recorded this. They really don't seem to stick in my brain, probably because it's just such a different language to my native ones!

[@muyangli8003]

ANHUI MENTIONED 皖，合肥，曹操🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@vaiyt]

I love how you can trace a curve from Japan to Korea and China and pass by a string of cities named Eastern Capital, Capital, Capital, Capital and Northern Capital 😂

[@lildiabeto]

What in the absolute jesus have I found. You sir and an insane level of human being, the first of your kind

[@LEITHAL]

never thought about this until it popped in my feed but now I'm definitely gonna make it a project to learn all this myself. congrats on accomplishing it!

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you and good luck!

[@bernardovrea7775]

holy shit the pronunciation of the subdivisions of Portugal was crazy impressive!

[@milkytea_offic]

yk the fact the u named them all then time stamped them just proves ur a god Keep the work up man

[@armin7515]

watching from hamadan 2:23:24 😅 you pronounced the names very well for iran.mind blowing to see you can remember the name of thousands of subdivisions around the world! i struggle to remember them for my own country. amazing video❤

[@sutixela]

Ecbatana

[@cantingvenus2]

How does this not have more views is absolutely insane. Amazing work

[@Angiie884]

Omg this is so impressive, in my school I get bored fast so for months I have done Seterra quizzes but when it comes to continental subdivisions I've only finished North America and South America, I am genuinely impressed by your dedication and persistence to achieve this. For me personally, I like to learn maps because I find it entertaining and fulfilling, I get to learn about other places and their history and gets me interested in events in other countries, it also helps me in learning language scripts like Greek and Cyrillic, and honestly just because I can and I'm interested. This is seriously impressive and I am glad to see that people share this passion. You have an incredible memory, seriously impressive!

[@daandanx]

Very very impressive. Your memory is a beast. Multiple times i was also convinced you may aswell have been a native speaker of said country, as your pronounciations of the names were wonderful.

[@MarsyBarsy13-gn2vg]

54:03 When Ethiopia started, I saw the date (*as of), which was exactly one year before this comment.

[@manuelm1362]

This deserves some kind of world record recognition, absolutely impressive! Congratulations from Los Lagos Region!

[@RyanAmparo-tl]

This guy definitely should be in Guinness Book

[@M_dMV]

Surprisingly good Portuguese pronunciation! Was not expecting that, cheers from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@esqueletaceo]

As a Brazilian I envy you

[@Ziad.G]

Dude knows egypt more than it's own people my geography teacher will not be happy to know this lol

[@Lucashallal]

Cool but did you know that this video is exactly as long as the first sub-3 super mario sunshine 120 shines speedrun?

[@Vk_2320]

Dude you are legend . It seems like you started this channel recently i hope in future you deserves much appreciation 🙏

[@enzoleegwater3718]

Oh my god this is amazing i genuinely thought you had around 500k subs from your skill and editing work huge congrats

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you, that means a lot :) Still learning as I go

[@leoraftu1206]

This is just amazing, bro you're so underrated

[@PParsa]

This is absolutely crazy I was NOT expecting for you to get the pronunciation of Iranian provinces that right

[@Boop__Doop]

i would just like to applaud your icelandic pronunciation and accent there were times i thought you were icelandic, and im an icelander who works in tourism so i have heard so many attempts. you might also BE icelandic in which case good job on the rest of the world.

[@MercateerGeo]

Thank you! I'm Swedish but practised the pronunciation a lot, glad to hear it wasn't for nothing 😁

[@Boop__Doop]

@@MercateerGeo you have the Icelandic seal of approval

[@Akivity]

I can't even remember all subdivisions in my country (Russia), that's why existing of your video is beyond belief for me

[@flexkat4847]

This was mindblowing, astounding and so much more, but I think the comment section already covers all possible synonyms which I could use. I myself have been eyeing this quiz for perhaps more than a year now, but I could never find the motivation nor time to do it. I wonder what you found to be the hardest country or countries to remember, either because of the amount of provinces or because of the hard to learn spelling? And I'm also already looking forward to your next video, which you said might be flags of all subdivisions, but where on earth can you find such a quiz? And what are your plans for after that one? All capitals of subdivisions? Cause I know Jetpunk has a quiz for that one too. Oh and perhaps for stage 3 you could do all seas, all lakes, all highest points, al existing languages, etc. But above all I would be excited to see your knowledge of cities in stage 3/4, perhaps with the Jetpunk quiz of all 100k cities of the world. Oh and now that I'm on it already, you could make stage 4 more country specific. Like all 3143 US counties or do a more varied video with all geography from one country in particular, like I saw you comment with for instance the UK somewhere in this commentsection. Feel free to use these as inspiration, though I think you wouldn't mind taking a rest first after your latest achievement. It's not that I demand you to do these things, but it's just my vision of what would be next step(s) and above all, I would be immensely baffled and most definitely watching every single video with joy if you did these (especially the city ones).

[@MercateerGeo]

First of all, thanks for your comment! I really appreciate that you took the time to write it. When I said I'd do subdivision flags next, I didn't necessarily mean I'd do them all right away. Part of the reason for that is that an exhaustive quiz doesn't even exist to my knowledge (which you seemed to suspect as well), but there are also many subdivisions that don't have flags at all, and many only have unofficial ones, or flags of unclear status. I also quite like starting regionally because shorter videos give me some room to add interesting context without immediately increasing the length to several hours. As for what comes next, I'm not sure. I've also thought of second-level subdivisions for selected countries and cities, like you mentioned. I'm still not sure what direction to take as I didn't really plan beyond subdivisions, and never expected to get this much attention. Languages also interest me a lot, but I'm still not quite sure how I'd go about packaging that in an entertaining format. Do I just to quizzes or venture into doing some purely educational videos? Also, the stage 1/stage 2 thing just kind of happened, and now I'm not sure if people actually want multiple consecutive videos on one category, it feels like it would be more interesting to mix it up. But there's also a limit to how much I can study simultaneously 😅 This is turning into stream-of-consciousness, but I appreciate the comment and will definitely keep those ideas in mind!

[@datchanin17]

Bro I'm Russian and even I wouldn't probably be able to name all of our subdivisions. Kudos!!

[@Zastavnik]

Do you only divide by oblast (Which if our languages are at all similar means ruled? governed from?) or are there any other subdivisions you have such as municipalities of cities... ?

[@Klactech]

@@Zastavnik There are republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs. In total 85

[@fingertorturer]

​@@Zastavnik​ In russian, means and they are governed by () (official term is crazy long: the head of the highest executive body of state power of the subject of the russian federation)

[@Zastavnik]

@@fingertorturer Thanks for the explanation, thought so... In Slovene/Yugoslav languages it means the goverment

[@railroadforest30]

And every oblast has raions

[@freelilbird1]

i thought me naming all the countrys 3 times was cool then this guy shows up💀

[@generaledelogu1892]

Unbelievable how you were able to do this. Can't even begin to think of how many hours of preparation you've gone into doing this. Congratulations from Pennsylvania/Wales!

[@eswarjuri]

Slovenia is really something else - respect! Even I as an Austrian, who has been to Slovenia multiple times, cannot name any others than the bigger cities!

[@MattiAntsuK]

1:59:40 As someone who's born in Finland and lives in Sweden. I heard you say Sörmland like most Sörmlänningar like to call it. My guess is you're from "Södermanland". And your pronounciations of the Finnish subdivisions were spot on!

[@MercateerGeo]

I'm from Stockholm but also speak Finnish natively, so you're not far off! 😉

[@benvanzon3234]

Still sad that it doesn't have the provinces of the Netherlands. Still an extremely impressive feat, I can't imagine how long it took to learn this!

[@florisred]

yeah why is that

[@dubstepXpower]

Same with New Zealand like wtf the country isn't one province.

[@AavenTan44-X-Plane]

Great Work!!! That’s a lot of memorising.

[@SkenonSLive]

This is all over the place :D The divisions of the US stop at whole states while my Serbia which has only 2 or 3 autonous regions(depending on who you ask) is listed down to every xxx(not sure how to translate it if possible put it's a far smaller division).

[@Yes-qj4bi]

I'm sending this to all my friends who think I'm a crazy nerd for knowing every country in the world including territories damn ur memories good bro

[@MercateerGeo]

Haha, thanks man! I appreciate it

[@paneperunovski]

This is a nobel prize material! The pronunciation of Macedonian names is better than 80% of the Macedonian citizens

[@MercateerGeo]

Thanks man!

[@CthulhuRocks]

Oh so your from earth? Name every place This guy:

[@guillermo.mserrano]

I have just taken the 90 minute quiz and I got 1056. Thanks for showing me this quiz. Fml, what am I spending my time on.

[@MercateerGeo]

Hahaha 😂 If you enjoy it, it's not a waste of time! At least that's what I tell myself

[@pedrodu3626]

Hi Mercateer. I am currently halfway through watching you name every single 1st division of every recognized country of our planet. Just to let you know that I very much enjoy it and that I heard you curse a couple times during the video. Cheers.

[@Черепабло]

Slovenia is just crazy. And you too, tomorrow I trained to name every country and I did it, but I sometimes forget some African and oceanian countries and such countries as Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and I just can't imagine how can you remember all the subdivisions of every country

[@JAKE-ng8yr]

ye this guy has some hardcore autism

[@wolnyczowiek8705]

As a citizen of Earth I'm glad that you know my subdivision.

[@JaxEntersEvasion]

Polish name and racist flag? Thought I'd never see the day

[@wolnyczowiek8705]

@@JaxEntersEvasion racist flag 🤣🤡

[@crowhaze1]

i thought i was good at geography. holy shit

[@conkrcstf6405]

This is so insane. Not even stopping to say hmm whats that name i cant remember. He just knows every single one

[@FronteiraAlternativa]

This bro took "what happens if we use 100% of our intelligence" literally 😶