Autonomous Areas Throughout the World (Part 2 by General Knowledge)

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks for the opportunity man! I had a lot of fun making this

[@FireHerobrineYT]

Hi genaral I love watching your videos

[@enesakhan4032]

so ..where can i find the rest of this :D where is part 3 ? there are still many autonomous territories in the world you see

[@gianurwiler5098]

Hey Sir General Knowledge

[@garbageguy4245]

pog

[@fefid2218]

No matter the sex. The Lord of man is the title.

[@harkalyjonas]

Balkans: *_Am I already so much that I can’t fit into any of the episodes?_*

[@rj5848]

Thanks for collabing or else I would never get to know if this channel existed Seriously underrated

[@Grenadier_]

the title is Lord of Mann regardless of gender

[@connordevereaux759]

Good video I'm irish so I liked the part on northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@brotherhogan6880]

Us Irish must stick together 🇮🇪

[@DaneTygheletsdrive]

I enjoyed it too, apart from the graphic that incorrectly claims Ireland is part of the British Isles.

[@martychisnall]

@@DaneTygheletsdriveYou realise Ireland is part of the British Isle right?

[@k.c1126]

You should continue this collaboration and do a few more countries...

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

So Jersey and Isle of Man are on here, but Guernsey isn't? WHAT KIND OF LOGIC IS THAT!?

[@marcelolopez1001]

...brevity?

[@StAngerNo1]

Same with Hongkong but not Macau and Xinjang but not Tibet.

[@lawrencep8923]

Shocking eh?

[@schwarzer0se463]

3/4 of those videos was about UK.. which kind of disappoints me, since there are so many other interesting autonomies in the world

[@mrcanadaottawa1517]

2 videos in. A day hell yeah

[@papagato1399]

Part 1 and part 2 of these regions of the world was so entertaining i love it.

[@mr.strawberry7]

the first country to let women vote in europe has literary got man in it's name

[@JimmiAlli]

New Zealand?

[@mr.strawberry7]

@@JimmiAlli in europe

[@JimmiAlli]

@@mr.strawberry7 sorry

[@sherwingonsalves8821]

Lady of man

[@log.fjord47]

Isle of man

[@JimmiAlli]

Pity that Hong Kong’s autonomy is being eroded.

[@krov.]

Best collaboration ever

[@simonrancourt7834]

Québec has some form of autonomy from Canada

[@WeirdPrWhat]

Formally with greater autonomy than all other provinces. yes. But I bet you knew that eh, ton nom sonne kébécois ;)

[@jacklovejoy5290]

Jersey and Guernsey still refer to the Queen as the Duke of Normandy

[@legoleviathan6411]

*Duchess

[@draconian_79]

@@legoleviathan6411 *Duke. Regardless of gender the British Monarch is always referred to as the Duke of Normandy, just like she is also the "Lord" of Man.

[@j12112-e]

I live in jersey and I’ve never done that haha

[@ff_crafter]

You guys need to cover more autonomous areas in Asia

[@jedigy1]

An interesting fact about Northern Ireland, the International Olympic Committee recognizes Northern Ireland athletes as competitors from Ireland. The United Kingdom does not sponsor an Olympic committe, however, athletes from England, Scotland and Wales compete as Great Britain. To make it even more confusing, FIFA, the international governing body of World Cup Soccer, recognizes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as independent nations and each competes individually in international soccer tournaments, with the exception of the Olympics, where England, Scotland and Wales must merge soccer athletes to form a Great Britain team and soccer players from Northern Ireland compete with the Olympic soccer team from Ireland.

[@azorac7188]

a little problem: Xinjiang is not the only autonomous territory in China… and in fact, there are 5 province-level autonomous territories, which includes Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Guangxi, Ningxia. all of those territories are governed by the locals from the primary local ethnic group, for instance, xinjiang is indeed governed by Uyghurs, tibet by Tibetans, Mongolia by the Mongolians, Guangxi by the Zhuang population, and Ningxia by the Hui population (which is basically sinisized muslims) however, the idea behind autonomy in those territories are based on including those minority population into the local and central government. other than that, it is just a province: it executes policies from beijing, it does not have local armed forces, it shares the same market and currency, population moving across provinces are not limited unlike hongkong.

[@Bohemian0522]

in the Chinese political hierarchy, the CCP Secretary (or the party chief of Chinese Communist Party) is the highest ranking official in each of those autonomous regions. So, they may have an ethnic minority holding the position of the region chairman, but the ultimate authority is still in the hands of the party leaders, who are always Han Chinese and only serve the interests of Beijing. I'd be skeptical to say that these regions are governed by their own people.

[@azorac7188]

@@Bohemian0522 first, the vid mentioned Xinjiang, thus it would be lame and incorrect to not mention other regions also, i did mention they function like a province and execute orders from Beijing, so their is no need for your skeptical thoughts… however, it is still worth mentioning that ccp actually has a large number of ethnic minorities in its membership, and within the poliburo… gosh why you guys cared for ethnic minorities so much… you guys probably never even talked to them…

[@log.fjord47]

@@azorac7188 that’s like saying why do u care so much for equality

[@log.fjord47]

@@azorac7188 and also they probably do not want to spend 5/10 territories on a single country

[@sambarrett3059]

Thanks for sending me down a cgp grey rabbit hole with his no flag northern island video

[@Terraider]

Dang you are spoiling us today man

[@hafda010]

Whereʼs Macao?

[@towaritch]

There are also some entities that are "kind of" autonomous regions : - the Sahrawi People's Democratic Republic (a slice of desert) - the Palestinian authority - the northern Cyprus Turkish Republic - Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh - Transdnistria - South Ossetia - Abkhazia - LPR/DPR

[@patrickgallagher1161]

Good list! Isn't Kalmykia one as well?

[@towaritch]

@@patrickgallagher1161 no kalmykia is a full-fledged russian republic

[@patrickgallagher1161]

@@towaritch Ahh thank you!

[@nam_1018]

Most of these are disputed countries/unrecognized countries rather than autonomous regions

[@towaritch]

@@nam_1018 yes but they exist de facto

[@GranRey-0]

I didn't know _Autonomous Regions_ meant: Regions that are ruthlessly oppressed and it's people are disappeared for Crimes of thought.

[@rumo893]

Actually its the opposite. If you are actually autonomous, your internal affairs are your own. But puppet autonomous regions are a convenient way to suppress, as people in autonomous regions cannot take part in the political discourse of the central government. This makes Xinjiang for example not actually autonomous, as the central government DOES intervene (killing and incarcerating people), but Jersey for example is self governing, therefore actually autonomous.

[@kyriljordanov2086]

Do you march in SJW rallies?

[@Bohemian0522]

you know, those countries who call themselves "people's republic", or "democratic people's republic", are often the worst offenders of human rights and freedom. How ironic, the more it want to emphasise it being autonomous or democratic, the less they actually are.

[@PLKartofel]

Didnt know that ''autonomous'' meant putting innocent minorities into camps and making a genocide of them

[@alisontaylor4013]

@@Bohemian0522 Like United States isn't united?

[@NikhileshSurve]

8:22 I don't think Jersey & Guernsey are considered part of the British Isles, I think they're considered separately as Channel Islands.

[@olciairafcio]

who cares

[@NikhileshSurve]

@@olciairafcio Apparently enough care to put them as such in that venn diagram.

[@kma3740]

Anyone from a Hong Kong here?

[@Khananewasright]

Nice job

[@swarnadwipa9816]

The special region of Yogyakarta is a monarchical province in Indonesia, this is very interesting to discuss.

[@rustix3]

Is Span made up of only autonomous regions?

[@jrfacts2336]

Great video here are the autonomous regions in my country, the Philippines: BARMM and CAR

[@ronaldvictoria8214]

The Cordillera ADMINISTRATIVE Region is not an AUTONOMOUS region

[@jrfacts2336]

@@ronaldvictoria8214 oh right

[@karlbasallote6719]

Warning: Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is not an autonomous region of the Philippines.

[@IkeSan]

Sucks nobody of you talked about Iraq Kurdistan.

[@imadeyoureadthis9124]

it isnt just iraq having problems turkey is having some problems too which is ongoing

[@IkeSan]

@@imadeyoureadthis9124 I was talking about the Iraq Kurdistan special area, not the Kurdistan region that embarks like 4 different countries.

[@imadeyoureadthis9124]

@@IkeSan i know

[@RandomLorence]

Portuguese Autonomous Regions: 1) Azores Archipelago 2) Madeira Archipelago Pontinha: Am i a joke to you?

[@monarchistheadcrab8819]

There is at least 2 more parts needed to this topic, at least...

[@Southern21076]

Will there be a 3rd HOPEFULLY!!!

[@murrellfemis8914]

What a wonderful coverage of Macau... not! As a resident of Macau, I expected more from you😖

[@Bohemian0522]

indeed, Macau is among the most interesting out there, having been one of the earliest European colonies in East Asia. It's long history deserves its own section in the video.

[@brotherhogan6880]

As being from Northern Ireland I can say that our history is very complicated

[@reineh3477]

Nice collab. Now I have a new channel to subscribe to

[@zhubajie6940]

Strange for China you mention Hong Kong and Xinjiang but not Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, and Ningxia although the way CCP defines Autonomous I find rather lacking as is Hong Kong.

[@justakathings]

Saaaaame I was expecting at least Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia and Tibet for China but no lol just Hong Kong

[@BahKnee]

10:38 when your country's parliament looks like a college classroom.

[@LearnwithJanice]

Hi from Kansas 🇺🇸

[@ZetaFuzzMachine]

Maybe HK will get some coverage again...

[@kingdedede584]

#freeeastturkistan

[@bikkiikun]

You should have mentioned, that Northern Ireland was carved out (gerrymandered, if you will) in a way, that unionists will have guaranteed majority.

[@gianurwiler5098]

Hello Guys

[@jana_t]

Thank you for mentioning China's Human RIghts violations in Xinjiang, which is supposed to be the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where China is working hard now to commit culturecide, trying to extinguish the Uyghur language and culture. Similar things are going on in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where China is trying to remove the Mongolian language as the teaching language in schools and from libraries.

[@Peter-rp1cm]

Greenland is not going to be independent anytime soon, they would miss approx. 530 mEUR every year in their budgets and would on top of that find a way to pay for military support

[@michaelvey0239]

Im not sure about the budgets but they probably wouldn't need to fund a military as there is no real reason for anyone to invade them, and if for some crazy reason russia or someone did I guarantee the US wouldnt have any of that.

[@frederikjrgensen252]

@@michaelvey0239 I am Danish and I can tell you they are far away from independence. They are really dependent on Denmark and cannot survive without the 530 m Euro. The Danish state also takes care of the police force and 31 other areas (and pays for them too). They pay for their own healthcare but are often flown to Denmark when the disease is more complicated. There was a child abuse story they could not even manage that problem and had to ask Denmark for money. Their new airports are paid by money lend from Denmark. Many greenlanders are fleeing to Denmark because it can be expensive to live there and housing is tough to come by. Their politicians always brag about independence but it is nowhere near and may never happen. The Faroe Islands can become independent if they wanted to but unionism is way stronger there.

[@liamnevard1591]

By the way in Britain and the Commonwealth countries, lieutenant is pronounced “left-tenant” weird, huh? (I’m from Canada)

[@WeirdPrWhat]

But we don't call Lieutenant Governor "Left-tenant" governor. Weird, eh? (I'm from Québec)

[@liamnevard1591]

@@WeirdPrWhat Really? I'm from BC!

[@iucasabon]

30

[@TLK_FOOTBALL]

It’s called Qing dynasty

[@SolaceEasy]

"Geographically DISTINCT"

[@SolaceEasy]

Not "Distant"

[@a_literal_lurking_rock]

Greenlanders don't want to leave Danemark according to polls from 2017, where 78% said no as tgem gaining independance would mean a drop in living standards.

[@shawndorisian1857]

Queen Elizabeth II is still called the Lord of Man, just as she is called the DUKE of Lancaster- nor the DUCHESS.

[@jstantongood5474]

Xin Jiang sounds like Shin jyang.

[@jakobseger514]

The queen is the lady of man 🤣

[@rc9667]

Azores here!!!

[@rodrigosilvacabral]

Eu sou tbm dos Azores!

[@PowersOfDarkness]

the only group calling for xinjinag independence, at least independence as "east turkistan" is the east turkistan party which has thousands of fighters in syria fighting with isis and al queda i wouldnt say they are the good guys

[@altaic9202]

Wait, you have 65k subs now? I remember you having like 270 subs when I subscribed to you

[@jgr7487]

when a country wants to give more freedom to a region, but ain't got the guts to make itself a federation.

[@junjunjun212]

China: you are an autonomous region! Hong Kong and East Turkistan: Am I a joke to you?

[@sherwingonsalves8821]

Macaw too

[@haroeneissa790]

I don't think greenland will work as an independent country. It's location is simply to good to ignore for the powerful countries.

[@ntt-5041]

Thank you, but a mistake here in XInjiang. The Uygur people are only about a half, followed by Han Chinese around 40%, and 10+% of others (like Kazakh, Mongols) The same 'province-level autonomous regions' in P.R.China are Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, and Tibet. Only in Tibet the ethnical Tibetan people are dominant (90+%). Like in Yugoslavia and USSR, every nations, regions, or republics are equal with each others, but not equal to the party.

[@mustbeyourimagination8651]

Talking about autonomus area "around the world" but actually only China, America and Europe

[@mustbeyourimagination8651]

Come on maybe some autonomus region in South East Asia, Middle East, South America or even Africa

[@memotype]

RIP Hong Kong :(

[@meejinhuang]

Hong Kong is no longer an autonomous region. FYI, Tibet and East Turkistan are not autonomous regions either. China calls them SARs, but that is a big lie.

[@vrenak]

Oh they're specially administered alright, just not how they say they are. But in the way of brutal oppression, mass murder, ethnic cleansing etc.

[@isaactang4685]

You know what the basic law ( aka the law of Hong Kong ) says : our final goal is to achieve ' full democracy ' . Yeah right no , there is no democracy here . Central government says it all

[@TimeMeddler]

The Isle of Man parliament is pronounced "tin-walled", not "tin-vold".

[@NihilNonSonticus]

Great video, but I would liken Hong Kong's chief executive more to a colonial governor of sorts. The position isn't elected via universal suffrage, which was what sparked the Occupy Central protests in 2014

[@NihilNonSonticus]

( I think calling that position analogous to a prime minister conveys democratic legitimacy where perhaps none is deserved)

[@Bohemian0522]

agreed. A prime minister is the leader of the legislature, which is democratically elected. The Hong Kong chief executive is not a member of the legislature, neither is he/she elected by the general population.

[@kennywong4239]

It seems a big part of the suffrage news were completely ignored by the world. In 2015, Hong Kong was to vote for a suffrage in 2017 by all the residents of Hong Kong. The only thing is that, the candidates must be approved by a 1200 members Electorate Council. However, due to the pan-democrats (the rioters) opposition, the suffrage failed to pass the legislative council. From then, the pan-democrats went on a more confrontational approach. Many Hong Kongers were of the view that they were calculative and acted as agent of foreign influence, because if they were genuine in their fight for universal suffrage, they could have voted for and competed in the 2017 suffrage, and proceed to gain more political mileage.

[@cloudsclouds]

do sicily and i’ll subscribe

[@MK00040]

if the Dutch and English captured Gibraltar together, why do only the English have control over it now?

[@marcelolopez1001]

The Dutch have money, live below sea level, and buy weed in the grocery store. Give me only two of those (I get to choose which two) and I'll give you all the fortified rocks in the Mediterranean you could dream about.

[@dorianbrlic8632]

and what about Tibet in China :=?

[@shredhead67]

This aged well.... :/

[@TimeMeddler]

I wouldn't really call Northern Ireland an autonomous region - it's a constituent part of the United Kingdom with devolved powers. Under that definition Scotland and Wales would be autonomous regions too, which they are not. I live in Scotland BTW.

[@frostleaf7833]

im not chinese but i think thats not the way u pronounce Xinjiang/Sinkiang

[@blanksandthepanks4394]

Too much UK

[@kebabson3797]

5:09 “according to some” just say you are a ccp shill

[@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493]

when your sources on organ harvesting and uyghur concentration camps comes from a cult that thinks their leader is immortal and a doomsday evangelist

[@kebabson3797]

@@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 ccp bot

[@hwg5039]

@@kebabson3797 Yeah someone having a different opinion must be a "ccp bot"

[@kebabson3797]

@@hwg5039 yes if he denies the uyghur genocide.

[@hwg5039]

@@kebabson3797 Are you a victim of it? Do you have any direct proof?

[@abhishekkl9085]

am sry to say that you does not know anything arunachal pradesh is a state of india not chinas plzz show the maps correctly k

[@lawrencep8923]

Really? You mention Jersey and Isle of Man but not Guernsey? Our system is even more unique than the other Crown dependencies as we are a bailiwick and still have some form of feudalism on one of our islands, should've at least mentioned Guernsey smh

[@ThatIsInterestingTII]

I have a whole video on the Crown Dependencies, and I go into Guernsey in that.

[@davidstretch5614]

The pronounciation on both videos of the countries and regions is quite bizarre and does not correspond to most British dialects, including the one many would say is the standard one.

[@swiftlymurmurs]

Well yes, I believe General Knowledge is Portugese

[@freshtahawramy9040]

Kurdistan?

[@alansilverman8500]

You can scratch Hong Kong off the list!

[@DaneTygheletsdrive]

Northern Ireland was an artificially created gerrymandered statelet set up to deny Irish democracy and a tragic legacy of the horrors of English colonialism. And Ireland is not part of the British Isles as the graphic mistakenly suggests, it's the Irish and British Isles.

[@AVB1336699]

Free Hong Kong!

[@rosiefay7283]

Please could you desist from the music in your audio? It makes your videos unlistenable, and thus unwatchable.

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

I think Kosovo could negociate be an autonomous region of Serbia.

[@lucianboar3489]

because that worked so well before...no way, that sh(q)ip has sailed

[@aldri346]

Hong cong isn't independent any more