What On Earth Are The Baltics?

[@desultore6993]

Latvian here. You should've mentioned that Latvia and Lithuania is very similar by ethnicity as they are Baltic people (Balts) while Estonians are culturally & langauge wise closer to Finland.

[@karkevicius]

@@desultore6993 All four countries are genetically similar through a haplogroup (I forgot which one 😗). But even ethnically Latvia has just as much connection to Estonia as it does with Lithuania, if not in fact more.

[@carleryk]

​@@karkeviciusBut it's mostly one way - Latvians are genetically closer to Estonians than Estonians are to Latvians. Probably because Latvians assimilated Livonians who were a Finnic ethnic group. And also, the research varies depending on the 'test subjects' who were chosen to represent these countries. Southern Estonians have obviously greater chances of having Baltic ancestors than Northern Estonians. Research has been done in Tartu University in Southern Estonia which most probably means overrepresentation of Baltic genetics.

[@rutos7]

@desultore6993 we are brothers and sisters in Baltic countries 😘❤️

[@karkevicius]

@@carleryk Hi, do you have the link to this study? I would be EXTREMELY surprised to find out that Tartu University did not account for regional discrepancies. Also while that’s probably true for Latvia, it’s probably true in the Finnic sense. Centuries of contact with Northern Europe and rule over probably have made the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Finland genetically similar by the additions of the same invading genetics. Estonia and Latvia less so now because of historical events, but for both of their original ethnic populations, that’s still probably true.

[@martinkoitmae6655]

@@desultore6993 this

[@eglebruzinskaite6341]

Lithuanian here. We make fun about UK every year as those butnuts anounce 'artic freeze' at 2 snowflakes and anything below 10 degrees :D Pretty sure days of normal winters is long over, no more months of --20

[@dainiusm5436]

😅😅😅

[@Rydonattelo]

That's because we have the gulf stream and very mild climate for a country so far north. Thats why we're wealthy. The gulf stream.

[@heinedenmark]

I'll be visiting all three countries next summer.

[@rem1ss]

Håber du vil hav en godt rejse! Bedste ønsker fra litauisk i Danmark! 💫☺

[@arturasandriusaitis8832]

Population of Lithuania: 2,885,891 (2024).

[@estonian-1996]

Greetings from Estonia and th for the nice video. Keep up the good work.

[@LuDux]

I either forgot or never knew that Latvia is almost same size as Lithuania

[@carleryk]

Tallinn is the closest capital to both Helsinki and Stockholm. Estonia is a Finnic nation closest to Finland, while Latvia and Lithuania are actually Baltic nations. 'Baltic region' is a Soviet relic since it benefits mostly the Russian population that immigrated/colonized these countries from 1950s to 1990s . Most younger Estonians consider themselves Nordic not Baltic. The culture of these countries are pretty different from each other from Lutheran Estonia to Catholic Lithuania, with mix of both in Latvia. The assumption of being similar or close most probably comes from similar stance on Russia by politicians, but that is virtually only similarity. Traditions and customs are different, so is cuisine, especially Estonia's and Lithuania's. One-on-one relationships between regular people are not common especially between Estonians and the Balts, mostly because Estonian isn't even Indo-European language. Estonia's population is concentrated to it's northern part, like Finland's population is concentrated to it's Southern part. So both country's population is mirroring each other's. Similar mirroring doesn't occur with Latvia and Lithuania for some reason.

[@loganj.harris3439]

Bruh, Latvia and Estonia share essentially the same history for past 700 years. The only difference is Tallin's proximity yo Helsinki and Estonian language being very close to finnish. Do you really put Estonia as nordic only because of the language? If Estonia is Nordic, then Latvia is as well.

[@funkee004]

This guy wants to think that he sits in Ivory tower and he tries to find ways to differ Estonia from Baltics, but to be honest Estonia shares very similar culture, history, public opinion about many topics, political stance, ideology and so many other things to other 2 Baltic countries. Of course every time you mention Baltics you mention all three countries, because cmon, we have so much in common. Your idea that you mentioned a couple of times, that the main things that connects us is "Russian stance" or things that Russians implemented is complete bullshit, then your point about people not having one--on-one relationships because Estonian language has different language group is another bullshit, because most of recent history we talked between each other was is Russian or English. What type of mirroring of counties population are you talking about? So Latvia and Lithuania should "mirror" their neighbours cities close to each other? Cities are formed organically by having some kind of geographical advantage, not by trying to find your neighbours biggest city and trying to build near it (but those cases exist also). Even though I would agree Lithuania and Latvia is closer to each other than Estonia is to us, but dude, you use fake logic and your own made up reasons why you want to be nordic. You are the most nordic of us, I agree to that, but Estonians have much more common to Baltics than Scandinavia. Ärgake, Baltimaad! Atmostas Baltija! Bunda jau Baltija! LIETUVA! LATVIJA! EESTIMAA!

[@loganj.harris3439]

@@funkee004 this guy what ? I stated a fact

[@Hydra13910]

Thank you for making this video

[@KantslerOlaf]

❤ from Estonia! May your videos go viral!

[@miatx6818]

Something interesting about Riga latvia’s capital. If i’m correct, Latvia (excluding the micro countries) has the highest rate percentage of people living in the capital compared with the whole country. Almost 1/2 of Latvia’s population lives in Riga thats 50%. One of the lowest i believe are i think Amsterdam with 800,000 people living in the capital in a country with over 18 million people. And Berlin, a country of 82 million people and in the city live i think 2-3 million people. Still 2-3 million people is still really big on of the biggest cities in Europe.

[@itsmellsfishy3978]

no the population of Riga is 600k and the population of Latvia is 1.8 mil so its actually around 33%

[@thaddeus.the.thiccemus]

@@itsmellsfishy3978 i think they mean the urban area

[@thaddeus.the.thiccemus]

Nahh its Kuwait

[@blueeyedbaer]

@@thaddeus.the.thiccemus Nah, it's Vatican city, Monaco and Singapore.

[@IZ4DAYZ_]

Love your videos mate

[@jimlawton4184]

I had no idea that brits used this pejoratively! It’s pretty rich for them to point fingers about weather. Any time from now on it’s gray and dull I’ll call it the British gloom! 😅

[@planetarystargazer]

What If The Earth rotated twice as fast and Earth Days were twice as short where each Earth Day was only 12 hours long 🌎🌍🌏

[@IsabelJones69]

Like Jupitar which only has a day length of 10 hours, the shortest in the Solar System.

[@planetarystargazer]

⁠@@IsabelJones69 Yeah but an Earth that rotated twice as fast would have days that would be shorter only 12 hours long

[@BeeGamingBSS]

3:19 that pronounciation was crazy😭😭😭, 6:39 also literally only the old town has cobblestone streets

[@sirnigel100]

It would be good to know what the colors of the flags signify.

[@SurrealisticLEO]

Estonian here: the colours mean, respectively, the sky, the ground and the snow. Of course they also have more poetical and symbolical meaning like faith for freedom and education (blue), our dark past of being subjugated by many countries (black) and our want for education and spirituality (doesn't always mean Christianity, just spirituality), our white winters, light summer nights and the colour of birch bark (white). And it really portrays our country during the winter months, it really looks like that - if we get any snow thanks to the climate change...

[@dainiusm5436]

Lithuania 🟡-☀ 🟢-🌳 🔴-🩸 LT

[@edgedg]

Latvian here: The flag, or a similar one, was used 800 years ago, used when our ancestors fought with and against the crusaders invading them, a true mess. It became a symbol of peace-keeping. But all we really know is that it's a red flag with a white stripe. We don't know any details, let alone the historical meaning of the colors. It could be an Austrian flag, since the local ruler used to be a local ruler in Austria. Nobody knows for sure.

[@sandrisjansons1515]

In addition Latvias true colors are Dark maroon-white-dark maroon , not red. Many people mistakenly quote we have an Austrian flag. The proportions of stripeas are 2-1-2 .

[@averagegamer6912]

​@@sirnigel100 Latvian here, I've got a legend for you: A military commander was bleeding, so the soldiers laid him down on a white sheet. Around the commander, the sheet became red, but where he was sleeping, it remained white.

[@wrcfan2024]

proud to say that i am latvian

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

The Duchy of Courland, Curonia is one of the lesser known colonial piwers...the island of Tobago and the mouth of the Gambia

[@iirishele5787]

Let's talk about how it is correct,the Baltic Sea is L ä ä n e m e r i in Estonian, which means the Western Sea in English. So I live by the Western Sea. For Swedes and Finns the Western Sea is the Eastern Sea, in Finnish Itäinen meri. The Baltic States is an unofficial geopolitical term that is used today as a collective name for three independent countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. All three Baltic countries are located in Northern Europe on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Where the heck did the word baltic come from???

[@blueeyedbaer]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea#Etymology_and_nomenclature

[@IsabelJones69]

If the region merged, what would it be called and what would its capital be? The capital could be Riga as it is in the middle of the 3.

[@edgedg]

With three languages, merging is too strange to be considered by us. Unity of laws does have benefits, but that's what European Union is for. Unity of currency is solved by the Eurozone. Friendly competition helps. If our neighbors can do X and Y, our politicians have some heat under their incompetent asses.

[@alfonsasgrinevicius7477]

There is no necessity to artificially amalgamate these nations into one unit. We have have the EU & NATO as globalizing factors. That's quite sufficient. Best wishes ❤️ from Kaunas.

[@MrsUnderwriter]

@@IsabelJones69 the region will never merge. Why?

[@ItsOmas]

Lithuanian here. Our people that work in the government rn kinda suck.

[@alveensLV]

Riga is riverside city.

[@planetarystargazer]

What If the 5 largest countries vanished from each continent

[@SkidMark1256]

@@planetarystargazer AUSTRALIA #1!!!!

[@JuwyProductions]

​​@@SkidMark1256 less wildfires

[@automation7295]

@@JuwyProductions Even with less wildfires, it's not something you can prevent unfortunately.

[@wraithofsolidarity]

I miss the Baltic influx from the EU.

[@dainiusm5436]

Lithuania 👍 🚶🛴🚴🏍🚗🚌⛵🚂✈

[@henrikmanitski1061]

The displayed size of the territory of Estonia is wrong by about 2000 km2.

[@kriskt4754]

Population is 6.1M not 5.8M.

[@benitasstonys8065]

Estonia is almost not apart of Baltics because it's culture and everything is closer to Finland, but the video is almost only Estonia's clips of it's capital and everything not even Lithuania or Latvia

[@blueeyedbaer]

Watch again. Yes, there's a lots of shots from Tallinn, but as much from Riga and Vilnius as well. It's shame that you don't recognize your own capital.

[@KohaAlbert]

​@@blueeyedbaerhonestly, it should tell a thing or two on how different the capitals actually look...

[@jonaszukas3249]

Yes, and now put everything together per person - land, roads, ports, cities, sports, etc. and compare with the Singapore city. Wait 10 more years and you'll be rushing here for the better life (as many already do, hence statistics are inaccurate). Weird video, hand picked facts (show GDP per capita PPP adjusted), forgetting to mention some other key facts, like economies that are the most advanced in the post soviet space and stop comparing London flat with the Lithuanian ranch. BTW they are the largest supporters of freedom on earth, dedicating the largest percent of GDP per then any other country. Oh, and not to mention ecology...

[@yozhikas]

Latest news - Vilnius just beat Riga population wise

[@TAmbour1ne1]

where the fuck did you get that information from

[@neeneeboy1412]

If only Kaliningrad were an independent country, it would comprise as 4 baltic states.

[@vatoloco5584]

@@neeneeboy1412 no for real true Baltic is latvia and Lithuania Because we have long history and one of oldest baltic language who still exist

[@kairemeriniit]

@@vatoloco5584 Yeah, but Kaliningrad was old Prussia, which had Prussians, a Baltic tribe besides Yatvingians and Scalovians. In historical sense Kaliningrad plus some northern Poland is Baltic region (not to be mixed up with Baltic countries), and that is why between world wars Poland was also considered a Baltic country.

[@vatoloco5584]

@kairemeriniit ye but Prussia don't exist anymore is Russian culture in Kaliningrad that's mean is not Baltic but bastard who try destroy Baltic country's even when ssrs take Lithuania they try destroy Lithuania language and culture but we stand strong and still Lithuania language one of oldest and most beautiful language's

[@blueeyedbaer]

@@kairemeriniit Kaliningrad has nothing to do with Old Prussia, just the land that they occupy. Old Prussians were Baltic people, inhabitants of Kaliningrad are just Russians who were moved there after WW2 and their descendants.

[@onionterror8659]

first

[@StephenBassett-m4g]

Is the world really that dumb it needs this video? What's next, what is Africa?

[@ronniemullinsjr.2247]

@@StephenBassett-m4g Yes.

[@bmjv77]

You overestimate the intelligence of the average person.

[@kairysisKrantas]

Lithuanisn here. We basicaly suck at everything. We are in a downfall after we left USSR.

[@matchaa121]

Lol. Go move to russia then😂😂

[@kairysisKrantas]

@matchaa121 who the f are you to tell me where I should go :-D ?

[@matchaa121]

@@kairysisKrantas well i'm Estonian and I can't imagine anyone from the Baltics saying that the soviet times were "glorious". You must be a vatnik at heart, therefore russia seems like a perfect place for you 😂😂

[@kairysisKrantas]

@matchaa121 oh I embrace the title of vatnik with great honour, my friend. Also your imagination means nothing in real world. You are probably some nazi lover. Go to Germany, nazi sympathizer :-D. You are not welcome here.

[@poopoo1533]

we finns go to Estonia to get cheap booze and I've heard that the cycle continues southwards with estonians going to Latvia and latvians to Lithuania, anyone know if this is accurate?

[@ThatRandomEstonian]

as an estonian it's not that accurate, but those living near the Latvian border would go south for cheap booze (typically anyone living more than 50km from latvian border IN estonia would go to an estonian store instead)

[@eimantas6235]

not anymore. Lithuanians are going to Latvia or Poland if they live near the border.

[@poopoo1533]

@@eimantas6235 I need a map of Europe, hell the world with just lines to see which countries go to which for cheap booze

[@KohaAlbert]

It depends on the region. The train kinda starts with the Norway (the priciest booze). At north they buy from Sweden and Sweds from Finland, at arctic everyone goes to Finland. At south Scandinavians go to Germany, while southern Finns to Estonia. Southern Estonians to Latvia and Latvians to Lithuania or Poland. Estonians, Finns and Sweds - cruises aren't that popular without reasons either... Some people have been wondering about Russia and Belarus, answer is visa... __ Still not exact science, but kinda like that.