Straight Line Borders AREN'T As Terrible As You Think

[@fatyoshi4853]

0:58 people living in Saarland have been annexed by Luxembourg within a second. Nobody, including Luxembourg, knows what happened

[@toby4784]

I’m not complaining, Luxembourg deserve the world

[@YetiFell]

And nobody in Germany really cared

[@peterkesseler9898]

Yes, he made a big mistake, as he pointed on the German-French border!

[@Mofritte]

The area where he pointed at actually was Rheinland-Pfalz, not Saarland. Saarland is a bit more west, so its basically the same border with france

[@brokkrep]

That wasn't even Saarland. That was Rheinland-Pfalz.

[@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262]

“I like my borders like I like my women: curvy.” - Geography chat up lines 101

[@ibx2cat]

I like my borders like I like my women: straight if possible, but it's okay if they're not too

[@bhsiao9352]

@@ibx2cat this is gold

[@joutakujo9773]

//o_o//

[@alpajino5400]

@@ibx2cat what if? There are no borders 🤔

[@fxshyy]

@@ibx2cat LMFAO

[@maddies_he4rt]

Of course an englishman would make this video lol

[@ibx2cat]

we even try to use a straight line when we divide England into north and south

[@lawea957]

Bruh

[@skyryou]

facts

[@Meerkat_2110]

@@ibx2cat true north is best

[@aviz8590]

@@Meerkat_2110 yeah, it’s further away from France

[@James_Dolensky]

the one dislike on this video was a welsh border control officer

[@isyraqfirdaus5322]

aged badly

[@James_Dolensky]

@@isyraqfirdaus5322 why what happened

[@monoromo]

I knew a British person would like straight line borders

[@someone.6259]

There not that bad 😩

[@mxlqn]

@@someone.6259 american here and i disagree

[@trent800]

@The last Bean bender A ton of those borders are straight lines

[@keytron1391]

@The Master mind very funny

[@snowman7514]

"if a camel's on this side of the border, he's a chad camel" word

[@veselinboyadzhiev4724]

I can see the Guardian's headline tomorrow: A white Englishman breaks lockdown rules by illegally crossing the Welsh border just to prove that colonization wasn't "as terrible as you think"!

[@danieledwards3376]

ibx2cancelled!

[@datitingammez]

LMAOOOOOOAOAOO

[@nowdefunctchannel6874]

LMAO MY ASS OFF

[@yooochoob]

Weirdo

[@cristiano7541]

*straight borders

[@JoseAlvarez-ic9ju]

you know you're home when you hear "i like this map too much, i'm sorry"

[@theshawshankinception1220]

This man traveled to the England-Wales border for a second channel video he doesn’t care about.

[@theshawshankinception1220]

@@smeggiamagarwine he actually rode an electric scooter lol

[@bruhz_089]

Second Chan probably care?????

[@WrenoYT]

borders with straight lines aren't inherently a problem and in some cases are very sensible, the problem is dividing people across borders because a colonial power didn't understand where the different ethnic groups were.

[@guppy719]

The Problem was that they drew the border for administration and then when decolonizing there was no way to change it since where different groups actually live isn't defined by a rigid line and they would almost certainly fight over it.

[@MetanoiaMan]

Or even as maliciously as to do it on purpose to create ethnic hierarchies (divide and conquer) or empowered aristocratic minorities just because they're half a shade lighter pigmented.

[@and_raw2036]

@@MetanoiaMan nah you’re reading too much into it, they were just lazy

[@MetanoiaMan]

@@and_raw2036 Consider looking up the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi aristocracy by the Hutu majority.

[@anonymm3152]

Oh they knew. They did it intentionally so that the people would be too busy fighting each other to rise up against their colonizers.

[@SilvanaDil]

ToyCat: "It's how you use it [that matters." ToyCat's girlfriend: unconvinced

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

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[@leemsvg]

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[@nightxgeorge.]

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[@arkesh110]

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[@mcvibing2785]

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

A Straight Line Border in the middle of a desert is usually a good thing. The US's borders being straight lines also doesn't matter all that much because nobody really lived in the border regions at the time. Most of the US-Canada border is a straight(ish) line through the middle of a huge-ass forest. Not too much to really worry about, is there?

[@Q75]

I mean the us Canada border was actually very disputed with the british since the hudson bay company needed to use the river for their work so they proposed a border that let them both use the river but america being america rejected it for a straight line

[@irenaveksler1935]

@@Q75 bruh the British also rejected reasonable requests from the Americans but the Americans also rejected reasonable requests from the Brit’s

[@efilwv1635]

All nations should be triangle shaped with all national capitals being squares.

[@qbek_san]

What about city-states?

[@efilwv1635]

@@qbek_san City states shouldn’t exist.

[@plislegalineu3005]

@@efilwv1635 or maybe isosceles trapezoid?

[@efilwv1635]

@@plislegalineu3005 I’m for it!

[@mettycandy]

Hello Efil, do you take criticism

[@slugmanantonio]

"Straight line borders aren't as terrible as you think," says the Brit.

[@osiand9328]

6:58 "you see a border that is very precise" *Shows an arc of a circle with a random section cut out*

[@LUNE.44]

13:44 toycat really giving hope to those who’s borders may not be as large

[@jrr6947]

Yep, as our (hopefully) to be new country's government has told us, land area doesn't matter, it's the people and their hard work that makes a country. From a CapeXiteer (South Africa)

[@jjdieterich]

7:13 The Middle East, its a place with some problems with uh everything. killed me

[@totti-wb3yc]

I mean like he is not wrong.

[@alistersinclair4600]

Straight lines aren't the issue, it's the location of those lines that creates problems. Sykes and Picot could have drawn straight lines in the Middle East and created a stable, culturally and economically sturdy regions, but their borders were designed for the opposite reason to this, dividing resources and people groups in order to prevent strong local nations forming/consolidating and therefore improving the strength and power of the European powers in those regions.

[@nooraldeen6327]

Toycat "zooms at saudi arabia/ iraq border and sees 4 cities near the border". Also toycat : "as you guys see nobody lives here"

[@zakaryloreto6526]

When you realize chad and Libya had fought over that useless border called the Aouzou strip

[@Antarius1999]

And Chad win. As always.

[@mikeymikey4186]

Yeah, Libya invaded that area because of the Oil resources in the Aouzou strip

[@CaptainAlexande]

There was oil what do you expect. Its not just the Americans who do it

[@Liggliluff]

Fun fact, the border between Sweden and Norway; it is defined at a resolution of about 5 km, marking points of where the line should go through. Since the border is 1630 km long, that makes it 326 segments of 5 km straight lines. This is unlike most borders that follows natural elements which are very squiggly. It also means that the border is exactly 1630 km since it doesn't have a fractal pattern.

[@cameronclare2132]

The Chad Camel Vs the Virgin Human Citizen

[@oceanorvital5373]

when this guy goes on a tangent, he truly flourishes and becomes incredibly fun to watch

[@enderf4515]

europe 1000 years ago: Messy Borders europe 100 years ago: functional borders europe now: no borders

[@MUCM]

of course it does, it just has free access, and eventually the european federation might form and in that case, no there won’t be borders, but what’s the problem with that?

[@P7777-u7r]

Some animals actually DO have borders among their own species but humans dont care about those borders nor they ours You know what would be interesting? Have someone try and map out the "borders" so to speak between wolf packs or gorilla troupes. Would be a real eye opener.

[@tathnousoxide9707]

I wanna se like a history of a street and see what dogs conquered what by pissing on it

[@segacedi1]

I live in Germany near the Czech Republic. A physical border doesn't exist hear anymore. But the red deer heards still don't cross the old cold war boarders even though there is not a single deer which lived during the cold war still living today.

[@Opanker_]

Apes will declare independence and make their own country.

[@Torantes]

@@Opanker_ Apes. Together. Strong

[@JJJRRRJJJ]

“It’s not the size of your border; it’s how you use it.” Lol.

[@SapioiT]

Australia and New Zealand also didn't change their borders.

[@spencergraham-thille9896]

Same with Canada, I think.

[@danshakuimo]

@@spencergraham-thille9896 They get that little piece of land from the US in northern Minnesota.

[@ianstobie]

Straight line borders usually need less troops to control than curvy ones, because they are shorter. This works over flat empty terrain. Where you have rivers and mountain ridges, using the natural features may be more efficient.

[@adamaviation6236]

“Non hospitable” as you zoom up on the hundreds of towns in Saudi Arabia

[@Alderak1]

It doesn’t matter how you pronounce “Grande”, you just have to say “Rio Grande”, NOT the “River Grande” or “Grande River”

[@eddie-roo]

It's actually called Río Bravo now

[@EriniusT]

@@eddie-roo not in the US

[@plislegalineu3005]

This comment be like: O, say, can you see The Grande River? Oh no! I can't see, I see only the Rio Grande.

[@thadsul]

"Rio Grande River"

[@rejereal42623]

Its Río Bravo

[@EINTR4]

Didn't Libya invaded Chad over the placement of that straigth line? "Toyota Wars" or something.

[@funfoxvlad7309]

They did...

[@crazysanta6641]

You can not stop Chad. Chad can not be defeated

[@hellspawn4083]

"Let's Go Places"-Toyota motor company Dec/31st/2012

[@ThomasMuller-cu8sj]

They did and won because they used Toyota instead of tanks which Lycia had but there toyotas were so quick they dodged the tank amno and run over minefield without blowing up

[@vicentenavarro8359]

Saying the ENTIRE french-german border is the rhine, then pointing to germany and saying "this is luxemburg"

[@vicentenavarro8359]

@@vo4zw-vo4zw I know, I just found it funny, no ill intention :)

[@rogink]

The English/Welsh border isn't just difficult to define, it's got loads of minor roads and country lanes passing through it. Most of these don't even bother with a sign telling you the county, so I'm impressed you found that quiet country road that actually tells you you're at the border.

[@LUNE.44]

New idea for the countries which have borders around the Sahara: make the border line spell out “send nudes”

[@bruhz_089]

In Arabic or English?

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

@@bruhz_089 BOTH

[@Ron-]

In french

[@KornalyUr]

Autocorrect: did you mean sand dunes?

[@LUNE.44]

@@KornalyUr genius

[@cliffh.3279]

The French-German border doesn’t follow the Rhine river, it only makes up a small section of the border. Most of the Rhine is entirely within Germany and the Netherlands

[@comb-t]

Breaking News: 90% Of England Votes to Become Welsh, leading to people looking back on the ancient Brittonic Cultural Lands and the British Isles before the Germanic Invasions, Where the "Welsh" were the primary occupants of the English Region. Though Its much more likely that "the North" would join Scotland for That sort of argument, their benefits are generally better than ours (the welsh) - though Celtic/Brittonic influence is still kind of prevalent in Northern England I believe in that they can use some Welsh-Descendent words in their local dialect to a greater degree than normal English.

[@azuregriffin1116]

My father has Welsh family, and so used random bits of Welsh.

[@lilbrit1019]

but since the Germanic invasion most of north england became anglo's and tbh the idea that wales and Scotland are still celtic is a weird imo they are pretty much identical to the english in culture apart from a few minor bits

[@isaacbobjork7053]

0:58 germans find themselves living in Luxemburg

[@user-tv4ih2kq6r]

"The only countries that look vaguely the same is Papua... Egypt, and Oman" Japan, Australia, Cuba, Philippines, New Zealand, and the rest of countries with no land border: hmmm

[@LUNE.44]

Toycat breaking lockdown restrictions to make a video. Our hero

[@wernerhiemer406]

At least he did not exhaled into other persons inhaling zone, vice versa.

[@spanishsparta]

Much love to your content sir! Coming at you all the way from Seattle Washington! Bro I just wanted to say you make the videos so we’ll and they are such a joy to watch. God bless you

[@markshortall3384]

Could you do a video explaining what Belgium is?

[@louw-h3754]

it’s a country

[@bruhz_089]

@@louw-h3754 in Africa

[@Dommi1405]

0:57 Not even an entire minute in and he already gave away the entire palatinate (or even everything east of the Rhine), to Luxembourg of all countries!

[@g4mel_]

0:53 The city on the left is actually the city of Passau and it's located in south-eastern Bavaria near borders of Austria. The river is Danube and far into the picture u can see river Inn joining Danube. and behind the tunnel, bridge and building on the left is another river, river Ilz, joining the mighty Danube. I just wanted to make clear, that this isn't any French city, but pure German city near borders of Austria.

[@EpicBoss-]

all borders straight: lesotho: aight i'mma head out

[@jrr6947]

Swaziland simply vanishes.

[@decorn2542]

2:50 "European sphere of influence" isn't that the earth?

[@fatyoshi4853]

Andrew uploading a video on his 2nd and 3rd channel at the same time Absolute madman

[@trueriver1950]

Absolute madman

[@bryanbradley6871]

6:38 how would you know? Also there's animals who have borders between rival groups of their species, this have been documented by humans

[@jobx3x]

Really enjoy your videos,love to learn things I don't need to know. Greets from Germany.

[@ledvapour6937]

You should have a look at the border at Baarle-Nassau. A beautiful mess of borders.

[@Lord_Skeptic]

20:38 a desert is somewhere that gets less than 10 inches of rain a year

[@helloitsme4718]

Oh sorry I'm late I was busy watching someone go to the Welsh border on a scooter

[@TheGuyWhoAsked69420]

“Precise lines” can still be very bad, like when the europeans carved up africa . Yes, they are “precise” but it disregards the cultures and traditions there.

[@borkwoof696]

@Wind Rose yup, the concept of "nation" and "nation state" is a European export item that doesn’t really apply everywhere

[@yahnmahn9035]

Perhaps a better example of what your trying to say here would be the example of the middle east. In the wake of the collapse of the ottoman empire, Britain and France carved up its southern territories among themselves. With zero disregard for the ethnicities and people living in the region When those places gained independence. They almost immediately collapsed to authoritarian regimes backed by the USA and Soviet Union because there was valuable oil there and it would be important to have control of the region in the future. When the cold war ended and interest in the region collapsed, The dictators there almost immediately fell victim to large revolts widespread throughout the country. And in Syria those revolts escalated to a full civil war. All because some white men with little knowledge of the region and its peoples; used a ruler to draw the borders.

[@salbeitee2]

I don't know if anybody has mentioned this already but at 0:52 there is a picture of "Passau" shown as a exemple of the rhein boarder between france and germany. But Passau is a city in Germany located near austria and even though the city isn't divided by a border, not far from the city is a border between germany and austria which follows the danube (the danube flows through Passau).

[@irisrobinson6716]

The title just sounds like something Africa would say to Europe.

[@empirus8732]

I’d think that it would be the reverse as it was the Europeans who propped up those borders in the first place

[@sidimightbe]

@@empirus8732 yup balkans destroyed africa 👍🏻

[@irisrobinson6716]

@@empirus8732 Ah, true true

[@chraman169]

Because that map at 8:00, like you said, has not been implemented, Turkey is often not considered to have been colonized (but invaded in WW1 but to no avail) Iran generally is also not considered to have been colonized by Europeans.

[@brandonbrowne8847]

im glad he made a comment about northern ireland critiscizing the brits

[@thurmanmerman2720]

The straight line border for Northern Ireland actually follows the demographics much better than the option imposed by the British bureaucrats at the time. Of course that's the only place the British Empire went with the alternative.

[@fathomless2151]

That first map showing which countries were colonized by Europe is disappointing to me because Ethiopia was never really colonized. Sure Italy was stationed there for a few years but they were constantly being fought back against for the duration of the time and never had any actual governmental control of the region.

[@fabplays6559]

Same with marking Ireland as not being colonised even though we were… we even had our own language other than English which was systematically educated out of our children…

[@bhsiao9352]

"It's not the size of your border, it's how you use it." - ibx2cat, 2021

[@rogink]

It's for 'work' purposes - so OK :o)

[@androlsaibot]

When he points between Yemen and Oman three times and says Oman would be mostly unaffected by his new borders. Oman would lose quite a few towns at the UAE border.

[@adamabouelleil160]

Can you do a video about the UAE and Oman border (there is an exclave inside of an exclave)

[@Lord_Skeptic]

There is a town called Saltney where the England Wales border runs through a road. Boundary lane.

[@Chris-np9bf]

Minute 0:53 is the German town of Passau. Both sides in that picture are thus Germany. Interestingly the hill in the background is Austria :)

[@ee-tp4qu]

0:59 why Luxembourg? It is the border near Wissembourg Germany - France, isn't it?

[@poankiyu7664]

I guess those people in that village really took being 'Welsh' to a whole new level.

[@birkner510]

If I were a rich man, Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum. All day long I'd biddy biddy bum. If I were a welshy man.

[@jaxrippon2106]

7:37 just so you know, the first map was at a time when the whole land was under british control, the second map was a UN partiton plan that the jews agreed to, the arabs declined, the 3rd map is the proposal after the 6 day war in 1967. once again, the jews agreed and the arabs declined, and finally, the 2012 map is not showing the context that the west bank is divided into areas A, B, and C, area A which is shown under israel, area B which is also shown under israel (although the palestinian authority controls most of it except for security), and area C is showing the control of the palestinian authority and hamas. i just wanted to let you know that the map that you showed is very misleading and can be interpreted by most to show mostly false information. otherwise great video!

[@Gearkiller25]

as an israeli i will add to this by saying that gaza and the west bank were fully part of israel too, taken from egypt and jordan (reminder that jordan and egypt annexed gaza and the west bank, hence the name "west" bank, back when israel was just born. on a A-Political map, israel does control most of the west bank with only some minor places by the others. so this map on that time stamp is mostly false. arabs declined so the 1947 borders never existed. in their name it says it is a proposal. and the small dots of the west bank and gaza were the actual first time they gained somewhat land by the oslo accords. the british mandate of palestine was actually the jewish country (changed it's name from a european one to the old one) since if you will see posters of it back then, you see football groups of palestine with a magen david and posters saying "free palestine" by the zionist organization. the more you know

[@jaxrippon2106]

@@Gearkiller25 :) עם ישראל חי

[@Gearkiller25]

@@jaxrippon2106 ברור :)

[@PartyComrade]

Credit to ibx2cat for teleporting during the video

[@gotham61]

Wait, just how did you say Mauritania? It's called the Rio Grande, even in English. Nobody says River Grande. The sections of the US Mexican border that are unprotected are in incredibly inaccessible and inhospitable areas where there is a good chance of death if you attempt to cross. If it was easy to just walk across, people wouldn't be paying coyotes thousands of dollars to smuggle them in. The US also has a 1,300 mile dead straight border with Canada that doesn't seem to cause any problems.

[@realtwovo]

Because why would you want to leave Canada for the US

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

Parts of the U.S/Canada border are definitely problems

[@hebonky]

If I see a straight line border my first thought is "those guys are good friends"

[@DeBellorumSimulationibus]

''it's not the size of the border, it's how you use it'' lol

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

As a Belgian I'd like to know how and when Lille was a part of Belgium

[@tayloryoung9803]

indeed hahah

[@Its_Versus]

Canada's borders would only be slightly changed if the borders were straight lines

[@stephenwodz7593]

For the Anglophones, it's the river "grand", for the Mexicans, "grand-ay".

[@e.moonbound2420]

actually in spanish the E is not pronounced as "ay" but as "e" (I don't really know how to explain the E pronunciation to an English speaker)

[@quarol732]

@@e.moonbound2420 "alglophones" máquina 😎

[@casperhammerich356]

Egypt doesn't change much *Laughs in Denmark only has one almost straight border on a peninsula"

[@zylnexxd842]

1:48 Wait what?? The British and Russians did Occupy and divide Iran among them and the British also managed to conquer Afghanistan for a few years in 1800s. I don't get this map

[@kevincronk7981]

You mentioned european borders and how people on each side are q different group of people, but you forgot Hungary where everyone near the border on both sides is Hungarian, thank you treaty of trianon

[@JontyLevine]

The map at 1:37: **Exists** Ethiopia: What the hell, man? You made LIberia orange but not me?

[@pascal9527]

Well it was colonized by Italy

[@mitchhennen3525]

@@pascal9527 occupied not colonized

[@pascal9527]

@@mitchhennen3525 Still under European control

[@icwatto]

@@pascal9527 thats means that france was colonized by Europe

[@emiledvardhoem6832]

I knew toycat coulnt resist crossing the border 13:08

[@jan_Mamu]

DENMARK WASN'T CHANGED WHEN YOU MADE THE BORDER STRAIGHT?!

[@ninjadude414gaming4]

What is this "Denmark" you speak of?

[@yeetdelete851]

Part of the border changed.

[@androlsaibot]

Thank you for giving us Pattburg back! You get Kobbermølle in return.

[@sunled5602]

KZbinr :Only Egypt is unaffected. Australia: Are you sure about that.

[@daviddavoodion258]

Lets give the guy props he went to the english-welsh border to make a video insted of just talking over some maps

[@MCernoble]

20:25 or “there is no way to establish a sustainable sedentary habitat”

[@KornalyUr]

Hungary is the only country in the world that's only bordered by itself. You should make a video about that. If nothing else, it would trigger some *insert 7 nations*-ian people :D

[@PokoTheDinosaur]

4:28 every island nation: am I a joke to you?

[@stangrange1558]

"People on this side are from Liechtenstein" Literally points at saarbrucken🤣

[@luk-128]

Spain and Portugal in the treaty of Tordesillas:YES

[@camelopardalis84]

ibx2cat: "Nigeria" Me: "Haha, there's no such country!" Me: "Wait, he's just pronouncing it like a Brit." Me: "Why were you just being dumb, me? Was it time to do so again already?"

[@bruhz_089]

Unfunny

[@camelopardalis84]

@@bruhz_089 Then don't laugh and don't like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@camelopardalis84]

@@hiccup1001 Not at all sure what you're confused about. I was thrown off by him using the *English* pronunciation of the word. English is not my native language. But I wanted to be more specific, so I wrote "like a Brit". I didn't mean "as opposed to Like someone from the US". In case that helps.

[@shyfuzzy3941]

13:19 Oh no he did the bad thing

[@vubic]

0:57 "People who live on this side of the line are in Luxemburg" *proceeds to point at German lands west of the Rhine*

[@aleksandertisler3624]

2:00 shows iran as not binging invaded Sad alexander the grate noises

[@Leebpascal1]

0:46 Errr... Nope ! The franco-german border goes from Switzerland to Luxemburg, and the rhine doesn't border luxembourg, not even close.

[@aminingjatt007fromtechsupp4]

19:36 That wasn't really going to work as all the religions literally lived together in a lot of cases as in the same villages or towns.

[@nielsreyngoud2870]

Super interesting video! It just confuses me what you mean with a ‘free prescription’? Prescription for what exactly?

[@lotka1205]

they are also some of straight borders in europe. look at former borders between ussr and poland, when it is not bind to a river, its pretty straight (poland-russian border, or poland-ukraine border)

[@kenthepianoman8483]

6:59 is that an arc?

[@sebdoes]

pog new second channel geography video

[@bruhz_089]

Pig is cringe

[@Lucy-vk1el]

Countries shouldn’t be drawn on ethnic lines unless those groups hate eachother, in which case they need to grow up. That is why I propose uniting the Balkans into one superstate and if there are any ethnic conflicts, tell them to cut it out.

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Josip Broz Tito likes this

[@FozzQuaker]

6:59 The person drawing the border in North West Egypt was having a laugh

[@mattmatt7717]

10:15 when ibx tomcat turned into Tom Scott

[@vulkanofnocturne]

18:30 I don't understand why creating those borders was so bad though?