If I could redraw the Continents

We are told that continents are large dry landmasses exposed on the Earth's surface, but there is actually no standardized definition for a continent in the field of human geography, which makes it incredibly confusing for many when using such archaic and outdated terms.
In this video, I'll be discussing how I view the world in terms of human geography and what it would look like if I could redraw the continents, or more appropriately, what countries I would divide into various regions based on geography, culture, history, language, genetics and the other human traits we use to categorize individuals into a collective. Thanks for watching!
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[@Masaman]

Download link for updated map. Enjoy and thanks for the feedback fellas www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/bvdskf/updated_regional_map_of_world_3549_x_1853/

[@despoinab2955]

Can you please tell me why you think Greece and Spain have very little in common? Also what about the strong connection between Greece and Italy? I know you have done your research so I'm curious about what lead you to that conclusion...

[@JoacoBernales98]

Masaman Dude 10:34 Tell me where you find that map to see it completely please

[@underarock9447]

I notice you used modern natonial boundaries as the continental boundaries in your map. can you make one that uses ethnic boundaries as new continents. for example afghanistan and pakistan both have pashtuns, would they be central asian or south asian people. pakistan and iran have balochis. etc.

[@thekillershigh]

In Mexico that’s exactly how we refer to Americans and Canadians: Norteamericanos

[@giannisb2721]

Fine, now get your thumbs down for associating Greece with countries that it surely has little in common in southeastern Europe, and a piece of information, Greece and Spain along with all of southern Europe are quite similar. A video correcting the misinformation above has been just uploaded: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaXTqYytf9yCo6c

[@natemarx4999]

"I am bored out of my mind so I will redraw continents." - Masa.

[@michaelzero5278]

😂😂😂

[@acacius9903]

At least it was entertaining 😃

[@someone-ou3ht]

he could've been of some help when europens drew the map of Africa

[@acacius9903]

@@someone-ou3ht I don't think so. They wouldn't let him there because they were very racist back then. Few racists remained tho there.

[@javierhuey9817]

And it pays too you know ... youtube money

[@rosswebster7877]

I think it's rather presumtuous to count Antarctica as one whole. I mean emperor penguins are nothing like adele penguins.

[@user-jh9nx6tl1n]

@@neillioen what

[@Dragoncam13]

I see we have an intellectual here

[@MyUnoriginalUsername]

They had a war for years man

[@dxubty]

MyUnoriginalUsername Many died in the Great Penguin War, RIP to the fallen 🐧🥀🖤 gone but not forgotten

[@profilepicture828]

doubty//rxwha the adélies should’ve won

[@papalupa]

As a Nigerian, when I meet a fellow West African I feel a proper connection but when I meet an African from other regions, the only thing I feel connects me to the person is us being from the same continent. West Africans have a lot of shared culture, with Senegalese culture being one of the most influential because of the strength of the Wolof empire.

[@papalupa]

@ESTA ROSSA things like traditional clothes and jollof rice come from Senegal, the Wollof empire was very influential before colonisation.

[@papalupa]

@Northumbrian LOL we are all ignorant to a certain extent, I myself did not know about Mexican native tribes until I started living here

[@KateeAngel]

@Northumbrian there are more than 10 million natives in Mexico

[@cl3menti74]

I’m Igbo ^^

[@matthewheckman6218]

Were you born in Nigeria? And if you were, how long did you live there? Or are you still living there?

[@dasain9]

As a Spaniard, I feel like we're more related with the Greeks and the Italians rather than with the French or the Germans.

[@Ezio2713]

And you're not the only one who says that. Literally every Spanish and Greek said that the part that "only climate" is common was wrong.

[@fabioferrarese5600]

One thing that connects us is that we are all poor

[@andrewbecker1013]

The Mediterranean Sea (along with the Pyrenees, Alps, Dinarides, and Balkan Mountains) has definitely created a cultural connection between southern European countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece. Having a similar climate is more important towards cultural links than we often think. That's why almost every empire has been "long" instead of "tall." Plus, the ease of travel and trade fostered by a shallow inland sea will reinforce cultural ties. While not linguistically Latin-derived like Italian and Spanish, Greek is nonetheless still more connected to them than Germanic languages. The three also share a stronger historical link via Roman history than even Gaul.

[@yuzan3607]

Actually, (Europeans might not like to admit it) but all Mediterranean countries has more in common within themselves than with countries of their continents, yes including Arab countries and North Africa.

[@dasain9]

@@yuzan3607 Preach.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

If I could redraw the continents, I would make Mongolia the center of the world to make Genghis proud

[@meatusbeatus5548]

So close... Kyzyl is just a lot better of a center point.

[@brandonvistan7444]

Yes.

[@yoshilorak5897]

Did you know you have a 30% chance of being Genghis Khan's descendant if any of your ancestors came from Eastern Europe or the middle east? If they're from Asia then it's an even higher chance.

[@lostluggage99]

I love Genghis Khan.

[@jzargovalyrian8679]

King in the east!

[@quetaquenya6418]

In Swedish we have "kontinent" which means roughly the same as the English word "continent". but then we also have the word "världsdel", which literally translates into "world part". This isn't really a geographical term, but a cultural one. Eurasia might be considered a kontinent, but Europe is seen as a världsdel. I like this, as it doesn't seem as fuzzy and arbitrary as English might make it seem. People don't tend to use the term continent wrongly and we don't have to have long discussions whether Australia is a continent or not.

[@mikespearwood3914]

Is Australia a continent?

[@sualtam9509]

@@mikespearwood3914 It has it's own tectonic plate.

[@pateuevreutv7462]

In Romania we write ,,continent" the only difference is our prounnounciation.

[@sinoroman]

i think russians, armenians, and turks follow the 'eurasia is one continent' route.

[@quetaquenya6418]

@@sinoroman almost always, we differentiate between Europe/Asia and Eurasia. We have seven världsdelar, but continents can vary depending on who's talking.

[@unovasfinest2623]

**estonia and finland on different continents** **nordic brothers have entered the chat**

[@0Flow0]

Finland is a nordic country and also Finno-ugric in language. Estonia isnt a Nordic country but also finno-ugric.

[@timomastosalo]

@@0Flow0 The Baltic people often want to be more with the Nordic countries, than Eastern Europe. Well, they are like the junction of central Europe, East & West. Consequently they have those 3 genetical backgrounds.

[@IdealMaster55]

@@timomastosalo Indeed the Baltics are a very rough combination of all 3 and its understandable why they prefer to be in the Northern bloc given their past with the East, every Baltic person ive ever met always insists they are Northern European, which given how much they are trying to distance themselves from Eastern Europe they do fall into North Europe for me personally

[@timomastosalo]

@@IdealMaster55 Aye.

[@Byezbozhnik]

That's more like wishful thinking... The Baltic countries stand quite firmly as Eastern European in every way. After all, it's their geographical position what has dictated the fate that they have had.

[@BichaV]

As a spaniard, even if we supposedly have nothing in common with greeks, I think generally, we feel much closer to greeks and italians than to other nationalities.

[@BichaV]

@Bek'a Well, in the video, mason says that Greece has nothing in common with Spain, which I disagree with.

[@duduchannel6729]

As an italian i agree with you, a major western european group doesn't really makes sense

[@randomname5585]

if that doesnt make sense than think about how we arabs are lumped in to BOTH east asians and subsaharan africans at THE SAME TIME, than tell me that "a major western european group doesn't really makes sense". be thankful that you're both atleast on the same continent

[@randomname5585]

thats true, but we do how ever get lumped iin with subsaharn africans though

[@manhattan1vato]

I was going to comment on this too. Another Spaniard here with the same opinion. Italians are IMO the nationals we have most in common with. Concerning greeks, other than the fact that our whole culture can be traced back to Rome and Greece, you hear people speaking greek and it really sounds like Spanish. The food is similar, our characters are similar, the weather is as well...

[@pawerysiejko2058]

Masaman: Every EUIV player: You mean Commonwealth?

[@michaelpothoven1041]

Meeting an eu4 player in the wild: a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@lockrime]

Dunno. After Golden Century Commonwealth almost never appears. Kebab, Russia or both often succesfully invade and Lithuania now sometimes just spontaneously explodes(Lith-plosion?).

[@boofy2592]

Michael Pothoven we are everywhere

[@boofy2592]

Lockrime Channel I haven’t played for a bit but after the Poland patch they had a few month s back it seems commonwealth shits on Russia every game

[@sinoroman]

>inb4 three-way partition

[@leemaxwell1912]

The problem with your maps is that they rely on current national boundaries, which often cross cultural groupings. Problem is, boundaries can't be as fluid and fuzzy as needed to define cultural boundaries.

[@raitiC1]

Those are not the real nations than! Either you can call them federations (like Russian Federation for example), or republics, countries, etc...

[@DeVipurr]

This is a redrawing or the continents he cannot give every single subgroup their own continent otherwise it will infinitely keep splitting the continents. This a very broad definition of continents and I myself agree with his views of how the Middle East has ties with Northern Africa and the “Near East” but they are split into 3 because they have their differences, speaking as someone from the Middle East. If we just keep splitting more and more it will be a never ending cycle.

[@andrewbecker1013]

Agreed, trying to define either continents or regions based on current political boundaries will automatically get you a worse result than if you use other criteria to define your borders. Particularly because a lot of current political borders are based on absolute nonsense.

[@regentofnothing]

@@andrewbecker1013 They are based on year of history. A cultural region never made an entire country.

[@a_bone_in_the_ocean2276]

@@regentofnothing yes that big line between libya and egypt is definetly based on history

[@JonnyJayKhan]

I think the best way to split Europe is between the Northern Germanic Sphere, the Mediterranean Romance Sphere and the Slavic Sphere

[@udkline]

Dude that's simple and brilliant.

[@cseijifja]

Just like america is mostly anglo america vs latin america.

[@Jonathan-sm5oq]

Beautiful

[@johny7even]

Kinda weird that you think that Greece has more in common with Hungary, Croatia, Moldova, Romania and Slovenia than with Spain :P

[@valiumk.9489]

Yeah, quite weird 😁

[@danielfragoso7283]

Not really, they are right next to each other, why would they be less similar?

[@johny7even]

@@danielfragoso7283 Greece has more in common with Italy and Spain that with the above countries

[@Ezio2713]

@@danielfragoso7283 We are not right to each other. Except religion with *some* Balkans countries I can't find similarities. This map is ridiculous.

[@johny7even]

@@franjokristof4007 Well then the Greeks and Italians who say Una faccia una raccia ( one/same face one/same race, meaning that both countries are strongly connected)know less than you ^_^. Not to mention that there is special kind of Greek still being spoken in southern Italy.

[@Milther2]

Spaniards, Italians, and Greeks are actually all very similarly culturally, that is why they get grouped together in southern Europe

[@RomanOf-lo7zn]

Anthony Kartsonis Most of France too

[@Dragoncam13]

I wouldn't say "very similar" but they're similar enough to make a connection I guess

[@TerryKrg]

@Kor Kalom Everytime I am abroad (currently living abroad aswell) when people hear me speak Greek most of the times they ask me if I am Spanish, then Portuguese and Italian. If you exclude the Ottoman occupation in Greece, there was always a common culture, history and in a sense, religion, with Italy even though these countries only keep the cultural parts of their religions rather than the spiritual ones nowadays. The latin alphabet was based on the greek much like the roman culture as well. That's why the Romans never actually conquered the Greeks, in the sense that they always considered them "close" and allies. Now if you go the the 20th century, when the Italians tried to occupy Greece during WWII, even though it was, of course, a militaristic attack, my grandmother always told me that Italians were there just to get chicks lol. Still today like 99% of the school trips have Italy as their destination and we still have an insane amount of words that we use in our everyday lives that are Italian, some are adopted, others adapted. As for Spain I think the most common things are linguistic articulation, relaxed way of living and most importantly, a crisis and austerity that, ironically, united people. Sure Greece has undoubtedly a lot of Balcan influence but in a political and european sphere, it is closer to the other southern countries than the Balcan ones.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

I would argue Spaniards and Italians are more similar to France than to Greece. Spain and Italy's languages are Romance, just like France, and unlike Greece. Spain and Italy's religion is Roman Catholic, just like France, unlike Greece. Spain, France and Italy all have a shared history of (roughly speaking) being Celtic lands, while Greece had its Hellenic Identity, then occupied by Romans and culturally Romanized, while the Greeks kept their civilization, then Spain, Italy and France were occupied by Gothic tribes while Greece remained Byzantine territory, then Spain France and Italy had to deal with North African Arab-Berber invasions and occupation, while Greece had to deal with Central Asian Turkic invasions and occupation, then in the modern age Spain France Italy were always fighting eachother, with both Spain and France taking land from Italy and from eachother, while also running colonial empires, while Greece was under Ottoman rule. Even when it comes to climate, although Spain and Italy are mostly Mediterranean, the Northern half of Italy has a fairly continental European climate similar to Southern France, while the North and West of Iberia have an Atlantic climate like Western France. If France is Western, Italy and Spain should definitely be Western as well. "Southern Europe" is a pointless cathegory.

[@nikolasmacedonites917]

@@FaithfulOfBrigantia true but although i should add that due to the geographic proximity there were always parts of Greece that were controlled under italian states and even under the catalans and even parts of modern Greece that were italian until as recently as WWII and there was a seemingly uninterrupted stream population movement back and forth from Greece into italy for the most part and that is to say that although not enough to alter the whole picture there's definitely more to it than the obvious cultural borders you just mentioned.

[@samuelmcneill1120]

I actually think Spain Italy and Greece have a lot in common though Greece is a little removed because of the Slavic elements of its culture but those three are quite close. Also you may have pissed off all of the Hungarians and Romanians by Grouping them in the balkans same with the Czechs and Slovaks being in Eastern Europe.

[@Ezio2713]

You are right. Greece of course a slavic influence just like Italy has some of Arabic and Spain of North African but that change nothing. The map about these countries was wrong.

[@daarzim1863]

You would rather place czechs and slovaks into balkan?

[@spartan9540]

Could you give one example of Slavic culture in Greece lol, Greeks assimilated the South Slavs that immigrated to the Balkans and they adopted Byzantine customs, not the other way around

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

They are or central european neighbors!

[@spartan9540]

Hungaro Pride The Greek relation with South Slavs is more because of South Slavs assimilating in to the pre-existing groups who had lived in the region. I would say Northern Greeks/Thracian Greeks are closer phenotypically to Balkan population but once you go to the islands or Cyprus it changes a lot.

[@randolph1917]

As a Native Spanish speaker who has been to Greece, we are culturally far more similar than different. The people are virtually indistinguishable phenotypically speaking. Same applies to the Italian cousins

[@Ezio2713]

Yeap.

[@ziovanni77]

@Eternal Fisherman almost like in greece

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

@Eternal Fisherman i think a 90% of the spanish population is white

[@kreb9721]

@@kousvetkousvet4158 skin colour is a redundant classification. Staying longer and harder in the sun? Darker skin. Longer not in the sun? Lighter skin. And over time this information gets encoded into the genes. This is why skin colour is not highly indicative of race.

[@spartan9540]

Kreb Mediterraneans that have dark skin shud embrace it, it’s an exotic and healthy feature that is highly eye-catching

[@Marc-.]

I always thought that Asia is a vague concept. Donno how the idea was formed, but to my Chinese eyes we are definitely more isolated culture wise, and Persians,Arabs(include North Africa maybe?) are historically and racially closer to their European counterparts.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

In ancient Rome there was a province called Asia (now part of Turkey). It was to the east of Rome, so maybe that's what started the tradition of calling territories to the east "Asia". Though at that time the term didn't include present day East Asia.

[@thatsaboat2882]

@@katherinetutschek4757 yeah I’m pretty sure that for Mediterranean people that everything north of the sea was Europe, South of it Africa, and north of it Asia.

[@i_likemen5614]

I mean Persians and Europeans came from the Indo-European groups

[@oooceanman]

People who created continents: continents are just huge isolated landmasses on water! Europe: *exists* hmMmMmmMmmm

[@franciscorodriguez259]

I heard Europe was the lost colony of Africa!!!

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

Technically, the land is not "on" the water. The land continues on, under the water, so really, the water is "on" the land.

[@suelane3628]

Europe exists now. However it was a series of islands during the Late Cretaceous.

[@dawidwojacki5049]

Europe is a peninsula of Asia

[@JohnnyJonathan]

The thing is, from the Mediterranean perspective (Italy and Greece) -- which is the main cultural influence of the Wetern world (which include Latin America) -- there is 3 land mass around them: Europe in the North, Asia in the East and Africa in the South. That is how 1 continent become 3. I think is kind of fair, since the Mediterranean is something really different, there no other place like that in the world: is a big lagoon that is connected with a big ocean.

[@AmazingPhilippines1]

Interesting Masaman. I always enjoy your videos and appreciate your efforts in educating and entertaining so many of us.

[@breakage959]

your content is always awesome brotha!

[@azih8626]

All my life I've been referred to as East African by others (mainly in the US) and have even referred to myself as such many a times. Being Ethiopian, I was always Habesha (which includes Eritreans), or East African (which included Somalia to the aforementioned). I assumed so because our three countries share a lot in common, are neighbors, and we more or less look the same so didn't really question it. Additionally, many Americans, namely famous ones, found Ethiopian/Somali girls good-looking and so would refer to them 'East African girls' in their songs. e.g. as early as Nas and as recent as Drake (Poetic Justice comes to mind). So I think this popularized the term East African to mean only Somali/Ethiopian/Eritrean (and also sometime but rarely Sudani, but really depends on how Arab they're feeling on that particular day lmao). To cut my rambling short, when I first moved to the UK I came to realise, Americans and even we have been categorizing ourselves wrong, and East Africans already exist and they usually refer to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda etc., but not including my country or the other 2, which they call the Horn of Africa. My ex, who was Somali-born Londoner, said that she has never referred to herself as East African, and she just goes by Somali, or African. Whereas in the US, nearly every Horn African girl refers to themselves as East African, and when men back home say things like 'I want an East African shawty' they really mean to say Horn African. It's just been interesting to learn lol, and I sometimes wonder what those people from actual East African countries think about the hijacking of their term lol. If you're still reading this, have a good day!

[@HakimCisse]

The Horn of Africa is part of East African

[@rimun5235]

As a Kenyan, I always referred to myself as East African until I moved to the U.S. I lived in South Africa and considered East Africans to be Tanzanians, Ugandans, Rwandans, etc. I think this may stem from “British East Africa.” However, in the U.S, this seems to mean North East Africans so I just rarely use the term East African. To be fair, in Africa, you don’t really consider the identity of other Africans outside of your country. For instance, I never really thought much about the Ethiopian or Somali identity in Kenya. Honestly, don’t even think I thought about those countries. However, in the U.S, you interact with different Africans and because we are all grouped as one despite our differences, you have to think about it. Americans ask you if you know their Ethiopian or Nigerian friend so you have no choice but to confront and seperate yourself from other African identities.

[@JM-ti2ii]

i m a viewer from morroco and i love your channel. i have little request for you, as my english is not so good! could you please enable automatic subtitles translation? thank you very much, very good job

[@literallynothinghere9089]

👧

[@yimoawanardo]

اضن أنّ على الفيديو أن يدبلج باللغة المطلوبة من قبل شخص ما أو ما عليك سوى أن تستعمل الدبلجة الآنية التي يوفرها أحيانا جوجل لللغة الانجليزية بالإنجليزية.

[@literallynothinghere9089]

@@yimoawanardo Please translate. I can't understand.

[@blamethelag4992]

Literally Nothing here translate it on Google. For God’s sake google translate exists.

[@literallynothinghere9089]

@@blamethelag4992 I am on android I am unable to copy the words due to lag issues

[@AskTorin]

You consistently make quality videos. I have been watching you for about a year, and I can clearly notice that you have gotten better at making scripts. That's very satisfying as a viewer. Keep making great videos!

[@1111kila]

"Technically Quebec is part of Latin America", I'm gonna start calling Quebecois Latinos

[@magnusfox777]

same

[@antonematos6241]

Yo Vito, where the fuck you been?

[@simpique]

Quebec is very North American

[@1111kila]

Some people didn't watch the video lol

[@1111kila]

@@antonematos6241 hey Joe, I thought you were dead lol

[@amaiagomez5111]

Fun fact: Spain and Greece have a lot in common, more than the weather. Words, traditions, culture, history, people... Spaniards love Greeks, and we say that the Greeks are like Spaniards and Italians, but geographycly a little far away

[@Ezio2713]

Yeah I agree. More in common than the Balkans. And about the words Greece and Spain have more words in common than most of Europeans countries. Because of religion most of the times people think Greece is closer to the Balkans yet they forget its very diverse area even about faith to make such category.

[@giannisb2721]

I am a Greek, have been to Spain and agree 100%. This guy has absolutely no idea what he was talking about

[@gnjc3480]

Amaia, Greek history is very different from Spain (ottoman, byzanthines, eastern influence in Greece vs. Al Andalus, America colonization in Spain). For me, there are two different worlds in terms of history and culture, doesn't it make sense for you?

[@PASOKGLOBAL]

7:22 -- How do Spain and Greece have very little in common, seriously?!

[@dexter99999]

They do. From language, legal drinking age. The list goes on u Google it

[@Abdega]

Random Google Account Masaman is Hungarian?

[@javierslytherin9898]

@@dexter99999 Language? Spanish is a Romance language

[@hanyu_dada]

@IdkGoodName Vilius yeah, but nobody was talking about italy, greek is not a romance language

[@Robbie-pc1dl]

@@dexter99999 google lies sometimes

[@flyingzone356]

This is absolutely one of my most favorite videos of yours. And I have watched EVERY video on this channel.

[@Luredreier]

7:23 It's for historic reasons. Estonians actually *feel* Nordic. We have mixed feelings about including them in that term here though to put it that way... That said, the Baltic countries have been fought over by Sweden and Denmark quite a lot throughout the ages. And in the viking age while the Baltic people had their own language, religion and culture there was a *huge* amount of influence both ways in the region due to trade, raiding etc. For instance one of the Norwegian kings where said to once have been a slave in the Baltics and later became a friend with a local ruler there from what I remember. While they linguistically where closer to the Slavs then us Germanic people they where close enough to us for even intermarriages to not be all that uncommon. And they often visited *our* markets as well. And given all the raids they had to deal with from our vikings they ended up with a warrior culture that we could respect. Russia and other both east and west slavic people on the other hand didn't have that coastal connection with us till the Rus people emerged and took over control over areas like Novgorod etc... The west slavic people mainly dealt with the Germans rather then us here in the nordic region since they where too far away from the coast for us to have anything to do with them. And the south slavic people dealt more with countries in the south like the western and eastern roman empire (and later the HRE and Ottomans etc) As for England being included... Eh... England really isn't a part of North Europe. But they *where* a area highly influenced by the vikings given that half of the country was under Danish rule at one point and several other parts of the UK has had varying degrees of norse rule or influence. While I don't necessarily agree with the choices they've made I can certainly see *why* they made them. So in short. I do not feel that the Baltics belong in east Europe. But I don't agree with the UN about England being a part of north Europe. While northeast England *used* to be a part of what I'd consider North Europe the time under Norman rule and later as a superpower changed the nation into something more akin to its West European cousins. In my personal opinion Scotland, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltics makes up Northern Europe with some rural parts of north England that could go either way. (So essentially the areas of what used to be Jórvík in Northumbria being areas I'd say may qualify as potentially in North Europe as well as Scotland, especially Shetland, Orkeney, the Hebrides and Man, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, the Faero islands, all the various islands with Nordic people in them in the Baltic sea like Åland and *arguably* the other two Baltic countries.) Ps. Please read this: www.balticrun.com/the-vikings-of-the-baltic-sea/ I know, I know. It's not exactly a amazing source. But you get the idea.

[@gabrielgagnon3338]

I would put the Xinjiang region in China in the same continent as Kazakhstan and the others.

[@stakeoutrockhound523]

The Islamic Uyghur

[@adityanawani8134]

Gabriel Gagnon Yes and siberia is asia too.

[@pithecophagajefferyi7460]

*the CCP* *-wants to-* *know(s) your location*

[@wudi2864]

Stakeout Rockhound ban islam is the right thing

[@vladdracula9903]

@@wudi2864 and I will ban u

[@OBGynKenobi]

Continents are supposed to be geophysically distinct formations. To that end, use tectonic plates to define continents.

[@underarock9447]

yeah lets split iceland in half put most of europe and asia together and have continents completely in the ocean

[@OBGynKenobi]

@@underarock9447 why not? Massaman already showing current strangeness.

[@underarock9447]

that would be far less practical

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

@@OBGynKenobi We refuse to do that in real life, it's why Europe is a continent despite having like zero good reason to be in my opinion

[@MappingEagle]

@@AbstractTraitorHero I get what you're coming from from a geological standpoint, but there is just such a big difference between europe and asia. Heck, even in Asia itself many things are devided and if we're going off plates, India and surrounding nations should have their own continent too. Europe's border with Asia makes sense too. It's either canals (Istanhul) or mountains (Urals and Caucasus). It makes sense to me.

[@JohnSmith-gh9lw]

So Bulgaria is in Eastern Europe and Serbia is in Southern Europe....

[@johncolasont6195]

4:19 King Mason's world. Hahahaha! love your content and style of presenting man, never change.

[@Jamaal4Jesus]

Masaman, how many hours does it take you to do research and finish a video?

[@shenghan9385]

It all depends I suppose. And depends on his familiarity on different topics, the time spent on research and study can dramatically vary. I think he is an expert of some sort with or without any certificates and diplomas from any academic institutions to show for.

[@WorldWide2017]

Sheng Han He has no degrees, yet. Look around his channel more. He’s issued a disclaimer saying he’s not an expert or anything, he just happens to like making videos and researched the best he can.

[@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937]

5 minutes.

[@III-ip8uc]

Not much because he doesn’t care about facts

[@monroecorp9680]

wtf is this he doesn't care about facts/is biased n ignorant shit? How?

[@rateeightx]

"All Of The Above" Should Be An Option On The Question Poll Thingy.

[@witty2898]

No, then guesses are being wasted because he's not sure what the viewers want. It's not like he won't reinvite the ideas again.

[@rateeightx]

@@witty2898 Excuse Me? It's Just A Question... I Can't Answer Honestly Without "All Of The Above" As An Answer, He's Not Asking "What Should I Make A Video On Next", He's Asking "How Do You Tend To Think Of Divisions Of The World" Or Something Like That.

[@abublu]

In Latin Améric, the word "America" is used tô reffer all "americas", central, south and North as a wholle

[@ubaldo7227]

Pretty much, yeah.

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

Funny that we don't learn it that way in North America. But I think they are enough seperate to be two different continents.

[@abublu]

@@rockinbobokkin7831 the first europeans who came here called evething just "America" due tô Américo Vespúcio who explore south América, more than North América. There is the Panamá linking North and south. In my opinion this difference in USA is a way to say "we don't have anything tô do with these people in south". Like Europe and Ásia, who are the same piece of land, but for cultural reasons it's said that they are different continents.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

Here in Europe we also don't use "the Americas", we just say "America" when refering to both North America and South America.

[@dennis771]

Ricardo Costa Santos day Portugal and Spain not all of europe

[@fockoff]

I absolutely like all the job you're doing. i learnt more about my origins by talking ten minutes with my uncle, than by watching hours of videos online.

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Europe is so small and divided there’s no need for a separate classification

[@apple604]

You make shit I didn't even know I wanted till you drop a video. Keep up the great work bro!

[@maary07]

Greece and Spain have very little in common? Seriously?

[@giannisb2721]

I agree, what he said is retarded, he knows nothing about both countries

[@giannisb2721]

@Kor Kalom will you stop copy pasting the same nonsense under every Greek comment idiot? no matters how you beg us like a little girl to be similar to you, we are not, we are southern european like italy and spain, we are not "very different" to them

[@nikolasmacedonites917]

@Kor Kalom man don't you have anything else going on in your life that you've literally spammed on every single comment that includes Greece with these bullshit?!

[@maary07]

Kor Kalom Go live in Greece and say that again. All these random people talk about my country like wannabe experts. Oh ehmmm, copy and paste is boring you know that, don’t you...

[@reecye]

I LIKE HOW YOU DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT TASMANIA WHEN YOU SAID AUSTRALIA

[@Gaxxor]

He didn’t highlight any islands when naming continents tho

[@parka0m485]

I don't care I'm a brissy boi

[@aussietom85]

as is correct

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Australasia

[@someguy6651]

I love your content Massaman

[@lindalee7322]

Very interesting, historical, and logical coverage. Thank you.

[@ssartre5240]

Very interesting work. Congratulations!

[@kebman]

Thank you for another great video!

[@Swenthorian]

I use "continent" to mean "a logical grouping of contiguous landmasses", and I allow for some islands to be non-continental. To get finer distinctions, I use the term "subcontinent", which can be defined more arbitrarily, but generally should follow natural boundaries.

[@bartdebot1589]

I don't see colours well, i'm not really colourblind but it is hard for me to distinguish similar looking colours. Maybe you could show a version with more contrasting colours besides your relatedness coloured maps in the future

[@hwhshhsjsjahzjsnns6719]

Are you coloblind

[@kolosrece4198]

very interesting video, but why were you limiting yourself with country borders? (Kaliningrad, western Papua) also just a nitpick i would have put east europe and the balkans just into east europe, there isn't really that many differences to justify the split

[@axelandersson6314]

2 ads right after each other in the beginning. Damn, now I kind of miss the Adpochalypse.

[@luciferangelica]

just watch some crazier people

[@BirdEgg123]

I don't see why dividing some countries into multiple continents would even be a bad thing. Making Russia 'it's own thing' is quite disingenuous, since Western Russia is really different from the Far East and you can't really say the Western part is completely different from countries like Belarus and have no similarities. Dividing Russia into three parts would've been much better in my opinion. Southern Russia, Western and Eastern Russia. The same could be said for Brazil, where you group them together with Argentina and Chile. Also classifying Iran with Turkey is kinda iffy.

[@oleksiidmytrenko6114]

I like the idea of dividing Russia. Go for it man! Don't stop with 3 pieces)))

[@boltmix7294]

But Russia aside from Geography is mostly the same in 3 of those regions and all of those regions have European culture, architecture, language, etc... Russia is completly European aside from it's geography Thinking otherwise is objectivly wrong

[@rogerwilco2]

For Europe, I actually agree with the UN subdivision more than yours. The Baltic states have a lot in common with the Northern countries, except for their 50 years of USSR domination. The Mediterranean countries of Europe also have a lot in common. "Eastern Europe" and "Western Europe" are harder to define. Balkans and Mid-European plane would be a more geographical division, while putting all the Slavic countries together with Rumania and Hungary is more reminiscent of their recent cold war history. I don't know enough about the others to make many comments on those.

[@vegitoblue5000]

Thank You Masaman, this is the video I (we all) have ben looking forward for. Do you actually read the comments, that your subscribers have typed?

[@katherinetutschek4757]

This is the sort of question I could spend hours researching and arranging, but I think there will always be groups of people who fit in multiple categories since everyone is a blend, one way or another. Educational to look into, though!

[@SeasideDetective2]

According to a cultural survey taken about 20 years ago, there are basically seven continents: Australo-Anglo-America (the U.S., Canada, and Australia being very similar culturally); and, in order from most to least compatible with Australo-Anglo-American cultural values: Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, South and Southwestern Asia, Eastern Europe, and East Asia. This continuum is based both on the U.S.'s relatively high practice of Christianity and its embrace of democratic and capitalist values. Of all the countries in the world, China is probably the one most unlike the U.S. culturally.

[@docilecrocodile6362]

I would use the major tectonic plates for the names as it has no cultural or historical bias as its just the earths natural land divisions.

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

Agreed but some are absolutely meaningless and almost completely water

[@ssssaa2]

Does it really make sense to consider Iceland and Hokkaido part of the same continent, but northern honshu and southern honshu seperate and distinct continents? I don't think it's reasonable.

[@underarock9447]

nick also iceland would be split in two

[@ec8107]

@@underarock9447 As it should be. Iceland is far too powerful

[@underarock9447]

EC shh they're listening

[@mewinglegorias5733]

I love u. The best channel for this.

[@theartofwarapplied1738]

Impressive analysis!

[@Rico7Point5]

fascinating thinking and a great deep dive on a fun thought exercise

[@RF-pj4bs]

I would say Masaman is playing as god and should stop but... *He already is a god* Also I definitely did not commit tax evasion.

[@baveshero8559]

PinochetTheTurks You can't call a human God dude God is the creator of the world You can't see God Btw I am Zoroastrian

[@oooceanman]

@@baveshero8559 r/wooooosh

[@idk2b58]

Bavê Shero chill

[@maxh19991]

@@baveshero8559 Ooga booga, pls respect muh religious sensitivities

[@baveshero8559]

Name Dude when you die you will not say that be sure

[@generalmichaelconstantine4598]

It's amazing how Greece is Western European due to its side in the cold war, Eastern European due to its geography, southern European due it's geography and culture and part of the balkans all at once.

[@olbiomoiros]

General Michael Constantine όντως

[@TerryKrg]

@Kor Kalom you posted this comment 4 times dude wtf hahahahahah

[@manolisbach2380]

@Kor Kalom where are you from sir ?

[@manolisbach2380]

@Kor Kalom i didnt know romanians dont like greeks that much we kinda like romanians .have you heard greek and it sounds hebrew to you ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/goGwoqJ-ha-tl8U there are vids like this that says that greek sound spanish but whatever at last if you dont see the ties between greek and italy you never studied at school

[@giannisb2721]

@Kor Kalom since you are from Romania i am amazed of how you really think we should be grouped with you, meanwhile from my experience in your country (and other countries in Balkans) we shouldn't but rather should be grouped with Mediterranean Europeans, like Italy and Spain. And what is this autistic patern that "crusaders ripped Greeks" lol are you high we have 2019, that happened 8 centuries ago, and even though many countrymen of me won't admit it, crusaders have left a good legacy here Either you like it or not, yes, we are similar to other southern Europeans

[@channelwhoa66]

My man! You have a VERY interesting channel! Just subbed! I’m curious if you don’t mind. Do you have a degree in anthropology?

[@gordonblues843]

I do find it absurd that the same people who consider the Americas one continent (because they're connected) would still consider Europe, Asia and Africa separate continents.

[@jeffrman777]

Mostly agree with you, but I would put Vietnam under East Asia as well.

[@Ambigious]

Kor Kalom Why are you screaming? Chill down mate

[@Ambigious]

Kor Kalom I can notice your low self-esteem

[@germenfer]

Coolest video ever. Nicely done!

[@juandavidvalencia7536]

By the way... WHAT APP or PROGRAM do you USE to make those AWESOME MAPS?

[@MrTttvideo]

Finland is modernized not because of "centuries of Nordic rule" lol. Its because of their internal policies in the 20 th century. Don't try to pull the old "west is best" type a shit, mister!

[@adityanawani8134]

CRASH West is pest!

[@thechannel6455]

All countries are basically modernized at this point.

[@dr.apollo4226]

The Channel well then you haven’t been outside your country very much. You been to Papua New Guinea lately?

[@exucaviera9084]

So the native Samis are responsible for that?..

[@Chris-xb7gm]

Masagenius, we Greeks feel much closer to south European countries like Spain and Italy than Balkans with which you associated us. I really never understood the way "ethnics" perceive the world, which surely is much different from the way we Europeans do

[@lukewhite8930]

kalchrr Thing you have to remember is historical connection. Balkans are linked both to Rome and Greece. Think of Alexander and the Macedonians or Rome and gladiators like Spartacus. Also the southeast of Italy was originally settled by Messapians who were Illyrians. The balakans connection to Italy and Greece is certainly as ancient if not more than anything else that’s ever thought of. They’ve never really ever been that different from each other. Sure things changed culturally for Balkans after Slavic assimilation. Though historically and/or in late antiquity through much of medieval period there was actually more overlap between the three than differences. So don’t get too offended.

[@Ezio2713]

@@lukewhite8930 Its not about being offended or not. We feel as Southern Europeans than Balkan. Good relations with Serbia or same faith doesn't matter that much. And religion is not the same in the Balkans. Also the Slavic assimilation is a reason I think. For example we think that Balkans = Slavs in majority.

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

But Spain and Italy are much more culturally and historically closer to France than with Greece, so its complicated.

[@manolisbach2380]

@@FaithfulOfBrigantia yeah spain and greece have no historical ties (nowadays greeks like them cause we look alike ) but greeks and italians have many ties from ancient times romans took greek culture and changed it into roman, greeks took roman culture and changed it into eastern roman (byzantine ) , many greeks fled to italy after the fall to the ottomans etc .(also greek was the only accepted language in the roman empire/republic except latin thats the reason greeks speak greek nowadays and not a romance language like the remnants of other roman countries

[@Ezio2713]

@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Say that to Italians lol. There is a not-so-good relation-with France I think. And I doubt Italy culturally iscloser to France than to Greece. Or the South at least.

[@amydiazhollis6642]

Hey Masan! Was wondering if you might consider doing a video on the Karanwaka peoples of Southeastern Texas? That would be cool. Thanks!

[@Soul12000]

Also nice portal song, I remember when I first heard it it is kind of haunting. Can you make a video on a world divided along drainage/river basins? With the smaller ones grouped up to stand a chance

[@user-sy8zt1ty3o]

As a Russian, I see no actual reason not to include Russia in Eastern Europe. If Europe isn't a part of Asia because culture, why can't we just do the same with Siberia?

[@Ezio2713]

Russia is in Eastern Europe. This video is wrong

[@pegeonpera]

7:05 It seems a little weird to include UK along with Scandinavian countries.

[@toroseduto4042]

Yes, very little in common

[@mpgnz73]

If you look on a map they are both in the north. They've also had a close history for much of the last 1500 years.

[@JM-uw8rg]

It's a very accurate description. I see it the same way. 👍

[@multivitamin425]

Could you analyze Pangea and which civilizations would pop where and how would they interact?

[@MattFyrm]

I use this methodology: Where did you say you put that arbitrary line? Okydoky there it is.

[@RomanOf-lo7zn]

Great vid but Greece and Spain (both Mediterranean Greco-Latin countries) aren’t similar yet Greece and Croatia are similar?

[@johny7even]

This !

[@danielfragoso7283]

You right, and Spain isn’t Greco

[@TheHunterOfYharnam]

Greece has nothing in common with the other balkan countries besides the orthodox faith which isn't common in every balkan country

[@keremberkaltorun1788]

Έλληνας Εθνικιστής Don't just think of people, geographically they are sharing many similarities yet I would consider iberia,southern france,italy,southern balkans, greece and western turkey as northern meditarrenian.

[@TheHunterOfYharnam]

@@keremberkaltorun1788 yes but we don't have similarities with the slavs expept from the orthodox faith

[@ArunChauhan87]

Nice work 👍

[@01726463505]

You are getting More and More productive!

[@despoinab2955]

What do you mean Greece and Spain have very little in common? As a greek i think Southern Europe is clearly where Greece belongs. We consider the south italians as almost greek and the spanish as very similar to us.

[@hwhshhsjsjahzjsnns6719]

Is there any genetic, cultural similarites between grrece and turkey?

[@despoinab2955]

@@hwhshhsjsjahzjsnns6719 Yes of course, considering that the Sultans of the Ottoman empire viewed people as muslims=citizens and christians=third class citizens/slaves, many people converted to Islam and after the Revolution and formation of the modern countries that replaced the Ottoman empire, there where population exchanges and christian people where moved/hunted out of Turkey or killed, while muslim people moved to Turkey. If you compare the other Turkic peoples with modern Turkish people you will see they are not alike. That's because only a few Ottoman Turks actually came and conquered the Byzantine Empire, many modern Turks are descendants of greeks/armenians/others that just converted. Even many of the Sultans themselves had greek ancestry because many christian women were kidnapped and put in harems and gave birth to the Sultans' children, that were then raised as muslims. Of course there are a few cultural similarities as a result of the Ottoman empire lasting for more than 400 years, the cuisine for instance. I hope that was helpful. Where are you from by the way?

[@danielfragoso7283]

Maybe with Italy and Greece being that there has been a lot of cultural exchange, but your very different from the Iberians

[@despoinab2955]

​@@danielfragoso7283 Not just cultural exchange, Southern Italy was full of greek colonies so we are genetically similar. Concerning the Spanish it's not the same but there are many cultural similarities among all Southern/Mediterranean Europeans, in comparison with other Europeans.

[@Ezio2713]

@@danielfragoso7283 No we are not. We have similarities with Spain and Portugal.

[@MJ-ur4lt]

next video will be "If i could change country borders"

[@azizabdiwali3364]

Although that's very controversial I would definitely wanna see it

[@bonniebelleoneal5271]

Mason, I have often redrawn maps for a variety of reasons.( Do you know any clubs or groups of compulsive map changers?) My favorite map l'm researching now is the immediate post- Flood families and how they would have developed if they had stayed within the three main branches: Shemetic, Hamatic, and Japhetic. Some people are mixers however so a fourth group is inevitable as everyone is ultimately related to each other from Noah and his wife thus from Adam and Eve or a monkey- whatever. Obviously, I don't consider this hobby odd although I don't exactly announce my Interest either.

[@wolfshadow1514]

Mate, the reason Australia is a continent is because we have our own continental plate (it's on your own map), a constant population, documented history, tourism, military, ect.

[@valiumk.9489]

Very interesting, thank you!! I find modern people have mingled so much, culturally and genetically (obviously some more than others), so trying to separate them into "cultural or ethnological continents" is not an easy thing to do. I find this great, btw!! (As for the greeks and spanish, we seem to have a few more things in common than just our climate, but again those similarities might exist due to the sun and the sea, or it's all just in my head!! 😁 )

[@syn_ukrainy]

In Ukraine we distinguish 6 continents: Eurasia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica, North America and South America. Also 6 parts of the world: Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Africa, Antarctica and America. Your video should be named as "If I could redraw the political regions" (IMO) Thank you for your videos!

[@Rainfall7]

@@mitanshubaranwal8878 I mean, physical geography doesn't care about which people live where. Euroasia is a big continent with a lot of political regions. Masaman was only redrawing political regions, not actual continents.

[@KateeAngel]

@@mitanshubaranwal8878 the Eurasia can be divided culturally into 5-7 regions

[@Alexaflohr]

I haven't seen a continent video in my suggestions since CGP Grey. Nice.

[@ndrw7311]

hi! just a Spaniard here coming to clarify some stuff about Greece/Spain. just because we don't share a border or don't speak a similar language (even though Spanish has at least a 10% of Greek words), it doesn't mean that we don't share cultural and historical ties (and not just in times when the Ancient Greeks had colonies in the Iberian coast, but more recently Greece also had an important population of Sephardic Jews). although it's not the same when Greeks and Spaniards meet as when we do so with Portuguese/Italians, we kind of have that feeling of being like cousins. and, as many others have mentioned, the Italian saying 'una faccia, una razza' (one face, one race) only designates Greeks-Italians to its original extent, sometimes people like to include us as well. furthermore, our languages follow the same phonetical flow, so it's not as difficult for us to start learning it. overall, it's true that Greece might feel closer to countries like Serbia as regards to religion or to Cyprus, since they're mostly Greek too (kind of what happens within Catalonian relationships with Andorra); and even with other Balkan States like Bulgaria as they both share, again, an Orthodox faith and a former belonging to the Ottoman Empire. however, those similarities might be countered back with their Slavic culture against our kind of similar Mediterranean one. btw, Masaman, i love your videos! hope you keep creating content like you do

[@Ghipoli]

Would personally redraw Latin America as: -Caribbean -Mexico -Central America (all central American countries excl Panama) -"Bolivar" America (Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia) -Southern South America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and maybe the south of Brazil) -Brazil -Guyanas

[@andrelamont9001]

dividing latin america is unnecessary

[@buraksimsek7264]

Can you make a video about Circassians? I have a Circassian grandfather and I want to more about their history. How they became muslim and their relation to the Turks.

[@AD-yq8rl]

There is no connection between Circasssians and Ossetians.Circassians are in the Caucasian Language Group.Ossetians are in the Persian Language Group.

[@buraksimsek7264]

@@AD-yq8rl Oke thanks

[@AD-yq8rl]

Burak Simsek Have you ever done any DNA test for the finding roots ?

[@buraksimsek7264]

@@AD-yq8rl I did. One test says Megrel-Abhkaz the other says Adygei.

[@user-no1nj9ji1d]

@@SoghomonTehlirian1915Not really. They are was good peoples under Russian Empire and USSR, respected their traditions and traditions of other folks, many wonderful personalities came out of them - actors, musicians and artists, and I'm still reviewing masterpieces of "Арменфильм" . However, i think now they have completely changed, become very arrogant. Everywhere yelling about hatred to Russians, they nevertheless would still in huge quantities go in Russia to work and live. There is a feeling that the whole Armenia has already moved to Moscow and filled all the markets, trading places and taxis in the city. But again, in the past we were close friends with Armenians and in addition we are all Christians, which also brings us closer.

[@zaippiaz]

Great video! I fully agree with you!

[@karga9014]

REALLY ACCURATE I LOVE THIS VIDEO

[@tinyelephant1533]

I don't think the idea of continents are ever going away. They are a simplified way to describe the earth. While your map is more accurate, the 7 continents idea has been used for so long, and not really broken or cause problems, so why fix it? Edit: but hey, what do I know, this is still a great video and amazing quality, keep up the good work. 👍

[@cogtroper]

To be honest, I think greece is much more similar to spain and portugal than the rest of the balkan countries.

[@cogtroper]

@Kor Kalom I disagree on that point too. Anyway, I meant overall as well, I don't think the guy that made the video knows much about greece, spain or the balkans.

[@giannisb2721]

I am a Greek and having been to both i agree with you. We group our country with Italy Spain and Portugal. Honestly, being to Naples or being to nafplio feels not much different

[@Ezio2713]

@Kor Kalom It's clear that you don't know what you're talking about. I'll just say that Greek and Spanish sound similar. Now you can continue writing inacurancies.

[@Ezio2713]

@Kor Kalom kzbin.info/www/bejne/goGwoqJ-ha-tl8U&t=

[@ollileino2185]

It is interesting that when people talk about the boundaries of Europe the debate isn't just geographical but actually deeply political.

[@ender7278]

8:51 Thank you so much for agreeing with me on this!!!!

[@kjaldir1089]

Here in Poland we don't like us being classified as Eastern Europe, we prefer the term Central Europe.

[@user-zo8hs4yh2h]

Hitler and Stalin *smiles*

[@fidenemini111]

@@user-zo8hs4yh2h They can not smile as they have no lips right now.

[@borekursbmv]

I do not understand, and therefore I do not agree? Could you please explain, in further detail what your current problem with the definition of "continent" is all about?

[@mambojambo4874]

The problem is not about the way the continents are divided, but the criteria, because the same way Europe is split from Asia because of its culture, the Middle east could be, so he is just applying his own criteria equaly, instead of the normal arbitrary definition, but no version is wrong, they are just different, you could ignore culture and say that there are 3 continents (America, Afro-Eurasia and Oceania) and you would still be right by your own definition

[@borekursbmv]

@@mambojambo4874 this would depend on which geographic model you use to determine "continents", in some cases one would use Eurasia as a continent, but when doing so one I would typically also refer to North and South America, as simply America. The split between Asia and Europe is not only cultural and historical, but physical as well. East of the Ural mountain range, South of the Caucasus mountain range and to the east of the black sea-Mediterranean strait.

[@praveen4024]

Do you have your own website filled with all your knowledge and perspectives? :) 🌎🧠👍

[@catsplaining3599]

Can we download a large graphic of your map?

[@yeycor1892]

Europe can be divided for his historical ways of agriculture in two great zones of influence that is the Atlantic Europe regions, and Mediterranean Europe regions. To the east you can add Continental Europe and Coast of Black Sea.

[@suren2313]

Yey Cor 🇦🇲👌🏼

[@camatzuma]

I feel the British isles isn’t Northern Europe although when I think Western Europe I think France ,Germany ,Benelux ,Austria ,Switzerland then I also count the British isles

[@donotcare57656]

Yeah, the Norman invasion of England basically solidified England as being more Western European than Northern European. If that didn't happen, then England would be much more Scandinavian culturally.

[@camatzuma]

Caprikel It gets more complicated with Ireland and Scotland though, England and Wales without a doubt are Western Europe

[@ethanielclyne5810]

@@camatzuma for the most part the whole of the UK is similar culturally, with most differences being historic

[@Alphae21]

@@ethanielclyne5810 what about ireland

[@hassanjaved1400]

As a geography geek, I appreciate your work.

[@humzabhatti6745]

Great video

[@Rostam-vk9hx]

The 'stan' countries have more in common with each other that Iran...???... Even though "estaaan" is Persian/Farsi suffix for "land of". Not to mention that Iran Tajikistan & Afghanistan all speak a form of the Persian language respectively. Or The fact that persianate civilization has had a major influence over Central Asia for millennia. Last time someone arbitrarily redesign the maps of the Middle East was the Sykes-picot Agreement..& how did that work out?