What Country Did Your Independence Come From?

[@DrewDurnil]

I know where Tonga is, my editor who zoomed in on Comoros does not... lol

[@boaz6816]

Hahahah

[@gekkouga2828]

It's fine! People do make mistakes lol

[@toastbot9496]

in an alternative universe, it was comoros time instead of tonga time

[@Pandastico0]

lmao

[@419prince]

Plot twist, you edit your videos

[@riatom7314]

France celebrating their "independance" from France is the most french thing I've seen in a while.

[@misterkeyboard.]

BAISE LA BASTILLE

[@almatymapper8038]

F r a n c e.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Technically the Franks were never subjugated and finished off what was left of the Western Roman Empire so we really didn't get our independance from anyone

[@strasbourgeois1]

@@Duke_of_Lorraine We got our independence from the cruel monarchy.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@@strasbourgeois1 France remained France, it wasn't controlled by a foreign power. Plus Louis XVI was quite enlightened for his time, the revolution was mainly things getting out of control

[@meestanaef1109]

“I don’t know what happened” Answer: Romanians gained the right to work and live anywhere in the EU some time after the country joined the union in 2007. Italy is a popular choice due to the similarities of the languages and popularity of Italian culture in Romania.

[@-3720-]

Been to Romania, and as a Portuguese i find italian and romanian way more similar than I ever expected. Then again, Romania is the only country in eastern europe which language derives from latin

[@PLTakeMe]

@@-3720- Romania is from Rome, as far as i know it was ex legionaries and romanian mean citizen of rome or sth like this

[@uralbeking]

@@willi_hd910 Not all

[@ejokurirulezz]

If you are an EU national, you do not need to show your national ID card or passport when you are travelling from one border-free Schengen EU country to another.

[@ejokurirulezz]

@@PLTakeMe Iirc Wallachia used to be there before Romans took over.

[@connorfraser9822]

Drew: Knows A lot about Maps Also Drew: "points out a island of the coast of Africa and calls it Tonga"

[@MrChemicalravi]

Yeah it's Comoros

[@little_mr_divergantz1435]

It was his editor apparently

[@mewmere6069]

Not evening the Pacific 😅

[@mewmere6069]

*even

[@trishl4794]

I was looking for a comment that pointed that out

[@outerspace7391]

Drew you do realise Russia gained independence from the USSR four days earlier than Kazakhstan, right? Kazakhstan was for four days the entire USSR.

[@vladko312]

Entire territory of USSR. The government was in Moscow and existed for 10 more days as a country without territories

[@John_ballz]

Technically there was also Kaliningrad for a while.

[@TrueCyberian]

Russia didn't get independence from the USSR. Moscow has always been a capital of both.

[@le_meme_man8983]

@@TrueCyberian Russia DID get their independence from USSR

[@outerspace7391]

@Pedro Zalazar wait real life lore had made a video about it??

[@JontyLevine]

The worst part of leaving the EU, as a British person, is that we get excluded from statistical maps of Europe. Now, along with Norway and Switzerland, we join the trans-continental league of No Data.

[@silva3658]

Are u really sure that's the worst part? Lmfao

[@antonischatz.2133]

​@@silva3658 You didn't mention the logistical problem with the truck drivers in UK.

[@jeffthevomitguy1178]

You guys are officially airstrip 1. (Jokes don't flame me.)

[@LeifurHakonarson]

Iceland says hello 🙂

[@ivy_angels]

I mean from the Netherlands we can look across the chanel and kinda see what's going on but sadly not conclusive enough for statistics

[@still_resume]

*Fun fact: The largest continuous French border with another country, is with Brazil*

[@still_resume]

(Not Spain because of Andorra)

[@yellowflag9945]

@@still_resume evil Andorra

[@wornyt]

It was on a Drew video a few months ago.

[@lukamartinovic976]

Drew and most of his active or OG viewers already know this but thanks for the fact.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

🇪🇦🇦🇩🇨🇵

[@Gavroche_]

Fun Fact: In Russia apart from the independence day which was mentioned in the video they also celebrate what they call a "Unity Day" on November 4th, which is the day they retook Moscow in 1612 from Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to be precise)

[@CoolBoy12099]

As a Russian i confirm this. Explonation is too simple, but kinda true. Because PLC tried to make Russia third part of Union and make Orthodox Russia catholic one, but they got divided 182 years later.

[@syriuszb8611]

Yeah, that's weird that it is missing from the chart, especially since they put France celebrating independence from France, so they did not use strict criteria.

[@flyingblueduck6379]

Fun fact: Scotlands National animal is a unicorn. It’s also represented on the British coat of arms, along with the lion.

[@Souledex]

Notably because in myth it’s able to kill lions. Also funnily English lions in most text is referred to as leopard from the French word because they barely knew what they looked like after Rome for a while there. So both names and terms in heraldry have a weird history

[@Gunchucks]

I already knew this,but I like how the unicorn is on so many girl toys.

[@logannichols5848]

If you look on the coat of arms the unicorn has a golden collar around its neck with a gold chain being held by the lion.

[@logannichols5848]

I just looked it up the chain is free. Could have sworn that the lion was holding it.

[@drey8]

@@logannichols5848 it's interesting because the UK royal coat of arms has some grass to which the chain appears to be fixed, but the UK government has a modified coat of arms with a banner replacing the ground and the chain is free. That has to be symbolic. It's about time the unicorn had a rainbow mane and tail though, I mean come on, diversity.

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

Romanian (the language) and Italian are quite similar, so learning Italian as a native Romanian speaker is quite easy. That is probably one reason why there is so many Romanians in Italy. And Romanians move west in large numbers in general I feel like.

[@Nightlight16]

It's because they are both romance languages right?

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

@@Nightlight16 yep both originate from Latin. And as far as I can tell, they are both quite close to Latin, more so than for example French. Might be mistaken tho.

[@mil3tic]

Its because in between those years, Romania joined EU (2009), so many Romanians naturally fled to country with similar language and with better living standard etc. which they couldn’t do in large numbers before joining to EU.

[@clashsupreme9394]

@Romania Insight when they say better living conditions part of that is making more money like you mentioned with the friend being payed more in germany.

[@chairmanmeow8481]

@SuperduperobergruppenstuppentruppensturmStuka I guess Romanian as a latin language just came out of nowhere... and that's not a fairytale? sounds like you're room temp iq

[@Grizzly_mike_00]

Austria celebrates their independence from the USA, USSR, UK and France. Since these countries occupied Austria and split it up. Frence had Vorarlberg and Tyrol in the West, the US had Salzburg, Upper Austria and a part of Styria, the Brits had Styria, East-Tyrol and Carinthia and finally the USSR had Lower Austria, Burgenland and a little part of Upper Austria. Vienna was split similarly as Berlin was

[@Jordaniantrex]

I always wondered why they occupied Austria

[@NorthieStangl]

@@Jordaniantrex Austria was split between the four Allied countries after the war, just like Germany. Austria regained independence in 1955.

[@Kath2378]

Hi, German here, I don't really understand why that would warrant an "independence day" though. Those couple messy years of occupation after WW2 don't even come close to enough oppression for that in my opinion as it really was our own fault and it takes a while to establish proper democracies. I'd even find it more understandable if you'd celebrate independence from Germany, even if that were kind of ironic

[@-Eisenfaust-]

@@Kath2378 Weil Österreich damit seit 1938 wieder Souverän wurde, seit dem Anschluss an NS-Deutschland. Die Bedingung für die Aufhebung der Besatzung war die Annahme der strikten Neutralität Österreichs sowie die Bestätigung sich niemals wieder mit Deutschland zu verbinden. Damit endete die 10-jährige Besatzungszeit.

[@Kath2378]

@@-Eisenfaust- Das versteh ich schon, nur nicht warum das Ende einer 10-jährigen, gerechtfertigten, Demokratie gründenten Besatzung einen Unabhängigkeitstag braucht.

[@lormaeris]

The independence day, at least for Slovakia and Czech republic, is not about celebrating leaving Czechoslovakia, but about founding of their own states. In Czech republic we also have a day to celebrate creation of Czechoslovakia. This might sound like a small difference, but the feeling are quite different about it. Comparing it for example with independence of USA from UK or Latvia from USSR.

[@rb98769]

0:36 I like how Ecuadorians have camouflaged themselves among Romanians in Liguria hoping no one would notice

[@lfcfan28]

Egypt had joined the chat

[@insertusernamehere1]

Ukraine has joined the chat

[@irrelevant_noob]

@Rodd Broward *Equadorians

[@rb98769]

@@irrelevant_noob Thank you, fixed it.

[@dynmo_awesome1053]

OMG I didnt noticed so well played lol

[@meogen]

The Pennsylvania Dutch are actually German. When everyone was immigrating and they said "where are you from", they said Deutsch, and people thought they said Dutch. So, Pennsylvania Dutch ensued.

[@gamersodaguy]

For any people who can't speak German, Deutsche is pronounced Doi-ch

[@Tonyx.yt.]

it's the language of amish people, that's why it come in 3rd place after spanish

[@chriskooijman3334]

I live in the netherlands

[@PeterAuto1]

@@gamersodaguy but they would say Deitsch. Also Dutch and Deutsch are cognates, so have the same origin.

[@frellor6704]

Surprised to see you here, omega.

[@Emlif]

"the swedish controlled finland for a second there" Meanwhile most of finnish history: *Inhales* Sweden Sweden Sweden Sweden....

[@unclear6055]

Also Sweden never gave Finland independence. Russia annexed the eastern part of sweden (Today Finland) in the finnish war, which in turn developed into the finnish nation which got it's independence from the Russian Empire (correct me if I'm wrong).

[@edgarratsep3631]

@@unclear6055 Finland was a junior partner of Russia with its own parliament and laws that were semi-independent from Russias. So Finland was technically created by Russia

[@unclear6055]

@@edgarratsep3631 The way I see it Finland never had a unique identity within Sweden, but that idea of a nation started to grow when the region was under Russia.

[@edgarratsep3631]

@@unclear6055 That's pretty much how it was. If i'm not mistaken Finland under Russia also had its own unique currency and had its own army that was allowed TO NOT participate in Russias wars and besides all of that Finnish people had a lot more freedom in comparison to Russias population. Quite a unique country Finland was/is.

[@unclear6055]

@@edgarratsep3631 Guess that's what happens when you get squeezed between Sweden and Russia.

[@thecountrygirly]

0:00 BAHAHAHAHAH, im half Italian half Romanian and I can confirm this 🤣 “Italy land is literally taken over by vampires” That killed me 💀

[@okamiexe1501]

"Where did your independence come from?" 85% of the world: *looking at Britain*

[@ImmortalSpelldagger]

Uk: Poland from what country u got independence? Poland: yes Uk: What? Bro what are you talking about men? Poland: yes Austria: he got from ME Poland: No Austria: didnt work Poland: yes Deutsch: Polen tell NOWW Poland: ME UK: ok Austria: What? Deutsch:What? Russia: What?

[@jmundi2002]

85% is way too much

[@marioluigi9599]

I think that chart is wrong because it didn't even show that the US celebrates its independence from the UK on 4th July

[@steve20097]

Russia

[@Idiotnumbertwo]

Yasss the comment make me giggle Hehehehhehehehehehhs

[@stefano_etrusco]

Re: Romanians in Italy. After the admission of Romania in the EU (2007), Romanians flocked to other Eu countries looking for jobs. Obviously, they preferred countries where the language was easier to understand for them, mainly Italy and Spain. Result: there are over one million Romanians in Italy now.

[@florinvarga4123]

Almost 2 milions, but that was like 3 years ago, a lot of romanian left because of shitty wage the italy give

[@cricio9139]

@@florinvarga4123 meglio

[@florinvarga4123]

@@cricio9139 per noi rumeni sicuramente, ma per voi che avete una natalità ridotta già di vostro e un tasso altissimo di neolaureati che scappanno all' estero per niente, pure noi figli di rumeni che sono nati e cresciuti quà stiamo scappando dall'italia alla prima occasione

[@gianluca.c.4126]

@@florinvarga4123 il problema e che in Italia siamo sempre pieni di problemi e la maggior parte degli italiani hanno una mentalità molto chiusa per qualsiasi cosa

[@filipporiva2555]

@@florinvarga4123 giusto! Purtroppo non abbiamo questa coscienza strategica.

[@shalmalsoni3864]

Shows Comoros. Drew: Oh yes, Tonga in the pacific

[@nafreal]

he replied with the pinned comment lol

[@orangesufi]

Well to be fair Comoros is the African Tonga

[@silversunset]

He knows where it is. It was just an editing error

[@Sheepo-nj9sj]

Frank did it i think

[@vinnyhickey3701]

Well it seems like an troll if he pulled up where togo is i would understand if he showed tonga

[@frickle55]

I love that this guy just talks about anything. These videos are maximum entertaining and interesting i love it

[@flyingdiamonds8492]

Not only did he call Comoros Tonga, he also called the Indian Ocean the pacific cuz he knew tonga was in the pacific lol (edit: didn't see the pinned comment, I guess his editor didn't know where tonga or the pacific was lol)

[@thekraken1173]

Its big brain Time

[@Aidansands2]

Lmao thought he was good at geography sad

[@seans6999]

Ameriken

[@AbsinthedeLaRochefoucauld]

It's like Drew spent a lot of brain energy to confuse them and still get their geographical location correct.

[@ShayanSaqiba]

LMFAO

[@bkgames2]

Comoroes: Island in the Indian Ocean Drew: Tonga, and island in the pacific Edit: I wrote ”Tonga, AND island in the pacific”, it was meant to be written ”Tonga, AN island in the pacific”

[@JonJonRizz]

was hoping someone else would notice!

[@joundii3100]

I was about to comment that too

[@rafabastos4609]

Why didnt you just edit the and

[@plushluigi7417]

It wasn't Drew's fault. It was the editors

[@bkgames2]

@@rafabastos4609 Good question

[@MTTT1234]

Austrian independence day, coming ahead in 4 days, is inofficially the day where the last occupation forces of the allies from WW2 left the country, while officially it is the day we signed our state treaty / constituation, where we pledged ever-lasting neutrality.

[@leadharsh0616]

Yeah I also thought that those France/uk/usa ones were probably WW2 occupation. They were considered as a bit of axis and it still isn't clear the circumstances under which austria joined Germany. Did they do it willingly or were they actually occupied? The allies considered the former and divided it just like Germany.

[@Mexalen81]

@@leadharsh0616 there is practically no one that doubts, that Austria was not conquered by Nazi-germany but joined willingly. The ones that say otherwise just try to victimise the country, instead of owing up to what our forefathers did.

[@_blank-_]

So Autria is Switzerland 2.0?

[@LordofGold]

@@_blank-_ That's the plan... so next time we will just sit back, grab some popcorn and "enjoy" the show...

[@patrickvanderlaan]

In the Netherlands, we also have an indipendance day from germany.

[@baddbabylon]

Pennsylvanian Dutch is the language spoken by the Amish community. It's basically a amalgamation of German, English & some words that they made up on their own. It's called Pennsylvanian Dutch because early Pennsylvanians confused Deutsch for Dutch & it's just stuck from then. There's also a few words that mean different things in German & Pennsylvanian Dutch.

[@martinottesen1053]

3:50 French is still probably the 2nd most spoken language in Louisiana. The rules of the map is that it shows the most spoken language outside of english and spanish, but it doesn't say that english and spanish needs to be top 2

[@ItsToolintime]

Drew is getting more and more Chad with every single video he posts

[@theplutonimus]

Kiyotaka sucks tho

[@Boop__Doop]

Nah I'm pretty sure he is getting more Romanian than Chad with every video

[@_blank-_]

@@Boop__Doop Watch your wallets guys

[@Lx_l4c78]

@@_blank-_ what?….??…

[@sandrohernandez4401]

@@Lx_l4c78 I think they're betting

[@Ghiaman1334]

7:03 Please, please tell me this is a joke. Drew: sees an island in the Indian ocean Also Drew: That's the Pacific, so it's Tonga time!

[@Nobody-qy7zp]

I wanted to coment this. And how does one mess up comoros and tonga so badly

[@somerandomperson2768]

Yeah

[@theplutonimus]

@@somerandomperson2768 Yea

[@theplutonimus]

Yea

[@theplutonimus]

@@Nobody-qy7zp Yea

[@_Xlsoni]

Drew: "Poland is relatively flat I thought, like why is there just red everywhere," Germany laughing at the corner:

[@duud9839]

"there was a second there when Sweden had Finland" I thought Sweden had Finland for about 600 years and Russia had it for about 100

[@the_labelguy_]

Yeah that's what we're taught in school here in Finland

[@tusidex5228]

Russia actually celebrated Independence from Poland. Specifically the date the Polish garrison in Moscow was kicked out in 1612.

[@izawa9211]

Ironic

[@somerandomperson2768]

Yeah

[@qzg7857]

Poland and Russia can celebraye from each other. Cool

[@_blank-_]

Russians came back with a vengeance 😈

[@MusTelOJ]

No, Russia actually gained Independence from Kazakhstan, since Kazakhstan was the last country to leave the USSR

[@H1ydra]

0:48 BRO you can see the hungarian-romanian 1914 border perfectly

[@kristijanveljaca1687]

@AngolaProductions [U.M.] Also why did you choose the year 1914

[@johnmcfly-zf2xh]

It's because of the carpathian mountains I'm romanian from Transylvania and nobody lives in the mountains

[@kristijanveljaca1687]

@Obedient doormat He said 1914 borders

[@krio1267]

@@johnmcfly-zf2xh same thing with alps

[@nagatomutsu844]

@SuperduperobergruppenstuppentruppensturmStuka Australia-Hungary :)

[@arnaudpayet6173]

SO... First : These island you're referring to at 4.56 are Réunion island and Mauritius Second : French is not an official language in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia but it's still widely used by thoses countries Third : Please, show your editor where Tonga is

[@jokemon9547]

Did he forget about how most of the nations who declared independence from Russia did it from the Russian Empire or one of the White Russian governments during the Russian Civil War? It also shows that most celebrate independence from Imperial/White Russia as well as the USSR, since many were briefly independent during the interwar period until the Soviets did their thing in WW2.

[@pinkbabycrocs5577]

exactly, he specifically brought up Estonia and then misread the map as only pointing to the USSR

[@thebandit0256]

Reminder he's from Alabama their history is just an small book

[@machinethegod]

11:35 This is WRONG. Portugal doesn't celebrate independence from Spain. Spain didn't even exist at that time. Portugal's independence was gained from the Kingdom of Leon and Castille. Spain only came to be a country a few centuries later and is the composition of many different Kingdoms (Leon, Castille, Galicia, Navarra, Aragon and Granada).

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

The date in the graphic is still correct. We restored the Portuguese Monarchy from the Spanish on the 1st of December 1640. We were a country before that, but lots of countries in that graphic were countries too before their last period of non-independence.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

@@juspjgarcia Semantical cope

[@FullKnight51]

Defacto it was a part of Castille which defacto controlled the rest of Iberia

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

@@Obi-WanKannabis Spain was only created in 1718, so no, Portugal was literally never part of Spain, it was part of Habsburg domain during 1580-1640, but it was still called the Kingdom of Portugal, independent of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.

[@LHollan]

@@Obi-WanKannabis not semantically, Iberian Union was like United Kingdom with same monarch but independent countries. Scotland is not part of England as well as Portugal never was part of Spain both were together in a Union

[@newromanianmappernrm4420]

"Pizza is being taken over by vampires, it's just a sea of romanians and I have no idea why." Ok Drew, I'm gonna give you classified information: The Draculesti Cabal has found out in recent times that because of our liking to eat Pizza with sauces we've been able to slowly build up an immunity to garlic from all the garlic sauce we're able to eat with the delicious Italian pizzas, if our plans go on and we receive more tributes of Pizza then we shall finally become immune to garlic and conquer the mortalworld

[@linnymiddy]

Oh no

[@irrelevant_noob]

So how come you're giving away your secret plan BEFORE fully building up that immunity? >:-]

[@robertnett9793]

@@irrelevant_noob Yes. That's the rules. The evil overlord HAS to lay out their entire plan to the agent, when the agent is in the death trap. Then the overlord has to walk out to give the agent time to disable the trap in a cunning way and make a daring escape. You seeming to lazy to escape the deathtrap, looks like a you-problem.... :D

[@mistersir7882]

go watch pokemon, kid

[@vali69]

@Lamborghini Huracan Vlad Tepes inspired Dracula and Transilvania is commonly associated with being the birthplace/origin of vampires in many stories.

[@classicallpvault]

No such thing as my independence - my country annexed my ancestral homelands from the Duchy of Jülich, then part of Prussia, in 1817 without it ever having been Dutch before. The Netherlands had existed as a nation for almost 240 years at that point. My hometown of Steyl was one of the only places where German merchants had access to the river Maas, alongside the town of Gennep further north.

[@lukevandevenis9780]

As a Dutch guy, I can say we ‘celebrate’ our independence from Germany more than Spain. That we got our independence from spain is only mentioned in history books in school. At least to my knowledge.

[@camogamesandmusic7949]

*Laughs in German*

[@algiz21]

Germany did nothing wrong, they are our brothers.

[@kaasmaster8892]

Yeah 4 and 5 may are a big deal

[@Gradus_Schrute]

Fellow dutchie here, ur completely right ☝️

[@elidia6167]

The country of Spain is literally mentioned in your national anthem.

[@sqeezyyy]

My guess with the Austrian independence is that Austria was occupied by the allies much in the same way as Germany after WW2. So it would only be logical that they could celebrate independence after the allies pulled out of the country in 1955.

[@angb4ng]

exactly, Austria was split up and central district in Vienna was shared! tho the 26th isnt an independence day its the day we declared neutrality. we cebrate that neutrality but indirectly also that the last non-austrian soldier left austria

[@ImmortalSpelldagger]

@Ex-President Trump me no speak Deutsch

[@baronvonvideo2386]

Drew: Swiss want us to think the yeti isn’t real Scotland: unicorns are a thing

[@fajaradi1223]

Some bloke tell the other bloke about his recent safari in Africa. Said he saw a rhino and a zebra, and describe them to the other bloke. But the other bloke is kinda confused, and think that those were a single animal.

[@fryteks_opn]

11:20 I think it speaks of the occupation of Austria after WW2

[@TK-zj7cl]

Drew: "When arent there more red dots in poland" Me, as a german, starts sweating: "I have no idea"

[@marcinkrz3140]

Germans bombs Warsaw - Warsaw Becomes biggest most prosperous city in Poland USA bombs Japan - Japan gets "post war miracle" WW2 bombs had some weird effects on it's targets

[@mateuszwodarczyk1428]

Ngl USSR has a quite big part in that as well cuz they were sending a looot of our ppl deeeep inside Russia, even all the way to the Siberia. But that's just a detail haha

[@unilajamuha91]

@@mateuszwodarczyk1428 On the map you can clearly see that Silesia Pomerelia and East Prussia are the ones with less dot's, that's not because they are underpopulated, but because they are highly urbanised, like you can have five dot's, each being a 1k village, or you can have one, and it's a big city like Wroclaw

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@marcinkrz3140 if you want to know why it's because destroyed cities can start fresh and 'update' themselves meaning they grow quicker and attract more investment than non 'updated' city's *usually There's a story about how Russians stole German factory's after ww2 and brought them back to Russia, the problem was that these were already considered dated equipment so the German factory's simply bought the newest equipment while the Russians were stuck with 10+ year old equipment meaning Germany actually came out on top

[@I_love_jesus_1211]

Hmmm...Ill ask my great grandfather, who left in the 30's. bet he knows

[@TheFrankExp]

11:22 "France celebrates their independence from France." Lol

[@Kortlandball]

LOLLLLLL

[@NotAHamster]

2004: "So back in the day almost 17 years ago" I feel old

[@JeremyTheBluespottedCornetfish]

"Crestaceous period" Drew Durnil does not know when T-Rex and most of the famous Dinosaurs lived.

[@duke3987]

The dutch dont celebrate their independence from spain, we celebrate the end of the occupation from the germans in ww2

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

Liam Thomas im 18 and have never celebrated our independence from Spain, not have i heard about someone celebrating it

[@Djerszium]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@MetDaan2912]

@@jorritvanderkooi939 In Leiden doen ze dat wel, verder heb ik er ook nog nooit van gehoord.

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

MetDaan kan maar ik heb het zelf niet meegemaakt, en ik krn ook niemand die het viert

[@juliaboskamp9666]

we do celebrate that's why it's April fools is a thing and we also celebrate carnival when the spaniards of Felipe Vll were chased from the south of our country

[@somegermanonline4254]

"France celebrates from... France...?" I can only imagine the meme where his one guy stands there with himself standing behind him pointing a gun at his head. I'm also out here wondering why Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus are celebrating their independence day from Germany.

[@696190]

WW2?

[@insertname2insertsurname216]

Because they were fully or partly in Ober Ost, German occupation zone in WW1

[@Klliansimabras]

@@insertname2insertsurname216 No, indépendance from the monarchy

[@anonUK]

France celebrates its independence from the monarchy, which came back after Napoleon- but went away again in 1870 and never came back.

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

@@Klliansimabras literally nobody says that in France.

[@Javlafan]

You've missed the second arrow for Estonia there. Here we celebrate independence from Russia (back in 1918) and restoration of independence after the fall of the Soviet Union (in 1991).

[@irrelevant_noob]

Yeah he failed to address the "multiple days" he was wondering about earlier; i expected an "aha" when he first noticed multiple arrows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

Same with Georgia

[@DonPedroman]

In Spain we don't have an independence day because nobody has conquered the totality of our teritory since the goths converted to catholicism, but we usually refer to the war against the French and Napoleon as the war of Independence ("Guerra de Independencia"), and the 2 of may (that day the French executed by firing squad a large amount of resistance fighters in Madrid) is a somewhat relevant festivity (specially in Madrid and Cádiz)

[@graciie77]

You can see Bulgaria has 2 independent dates from the Ottoman Empire. 3 March 1878 the North was liberated then 22 September 1908 North and South are compeltely out of Ottoman control.

[@dannydonovan4421]

When he asked "Who hurt you, Bulgaria?" ngl I kinda choked and whispered: Who didn't?.. I guess It's just our mindset

[@vakcreations2135]

Official languages are way more Important than you think drew especially for a country that speaks multiple languages like India every state here has a separate official language

[@irishkelly2062]

States within the US have English as an official language. It's just not on a federal level

[@oliverczako]

0:54 You can see Slovakias outline 😆

[@gigachad1661]

I JUST SAW IT💀💀💀

[@Luzitanium]

11:36 wrong Portugal was never under Spanish rule to get its independence, it was a Iberian Union not a Spanish Union, Portugal and Spain shared the same Monarch who was also half Portuguese, but the Kingdom of Portugal remained independent, its what shows the document agreed by the King himself at Courts of Tomar in 1581, the independence we celebrate is a Dynastic independence, not territorial nor administrative.

[@colinafobe2152]

similar error was made for Montenegro and Serbia, which had federation before deciding to go on their own

[@iwto_ampere5821]

Kinda the same with Belgium and The Netherlands, they together were 1 country until the people of Belgium revolted. (Belgium was not a part of the current country that is the Netherlands)

[@paradoxicalpotato8927]

14:53 Notice how you can tell apart the French parts of Belgium and the Dutch parts of Belgium so perfectly.

[@alphalance9408]

Yes but I wouldn't be surprised if its false because the map about independence was also wrong about Belgium.

[@JL-cw4yz]

That just makes me happy how someone has got a almost perfect explanation of Australian geography in an nutshell

[@rokas-d8o]

"all the way in the pacific,tonga" (shows map of indian ocean,comoros)

[@planetnesscute785]

Drew: points Comoros Also Drew: yeah, that's definetely Tonga. And he calls himself good in geography because he knows all of the 50 us states

[@leadharsh0616]

Yeah. That was a bit cringe ngl.

[@AleksandraSudobina]

Some people don't even know what state they live in.

[@bobpobcf9723]

@@AleksandraSudobina those are people who live in mental institutions

[@diogoferreira7427]

It was an editing error lol

[@planetnesscute785]

@@diogoferreira7427 what

[@VincentSplat]

15:50 Fun Fact! The Jurassic Period was named after the Juras area of France where many dinosaurs from that period were discovered

[@frenchhornempire_8479]

Wonder if the Jura Forrest of Tensura was also inspired by it

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

So yeah, other periods were also named by places, the difference is that Drew didn't know that lmao

[@susanwestern6434]

The Devonian Period is named after Devon, England, UK.

[@camello0108]

5:58 As a Venezuelan, I can confirm that most of Venezuela's population lives along the coast and in the Andes, we literally just have like 2 big cities that are in the south and it isn't even that far off the coast XD

[@reversereverse9703]

bro how do you have the internet? Thought life was crazy under Maduro

[@camello0108]

@@reversereverse9703 Because I left Venezuela years ago lmao

[@PolishMustardLick]

@@camello0108 good, i hope youre gonna have great life

[@user-dl1bs6lm1g]

People in Venezuela have internet. It's the second worst internet in the world behind Turkmenistan's but it still works.

[@TheAshleyYoyo]

To see an American with geography knowledge this good warms my heart. You’re doing good to break down the stereotype

[@bluestingray8955]

Good?

[@hammero_]

Drew: ”the swedish owned finland for a second there ” The swedish owning finland for 600 yrs Sweden: *slowly backs away*

[@DDanV]

Portuguese independence from Spain is a bit difficult, as Portugal precedes Spain by almost 4 hundred years. Portugal gained independence from the Kingdom of Leon, a kingdom that eventually joined several others and together they became Spain. Portugal and Spain shared a dynasty, but Portugal never lost sovereignty (was ruled by the same king, but kingdom, courts and laws were our own). That 1 of December there is when we celebrate the end of that cursed dynasty (that tried to null the Portuguese independency by voiding the agreement reached in the Courts of Tomar in 1581, so in 1640 we revolted and placed another dynasty on the throne), but Portugal was never under Spain rule, just the kings were the same (and when they tried to put us under the Spanish Courts, we sent them packing).

[@angrysponge2683]

The Netherlands do actually celebrate independance from Germany and it is on the 5th of May

[@gino0717]

Its not really seen as independance day but as liberation day.

[@larsmulder3050]

Thank you for saying it. I have never heard anything about celebrating the 26th of July

[@gino0717]

@@larsmulder3050 i honestly didnt even know out independance day was the 26th of July, i literaly found out by you're comment😂 but to be fair i find it a bit strange that we do celebrate the 5th of may but dont even have an event or anything for our idependance day. I mean ww2 was terrible i get that but we literaly fought the Spanish for EIGHTY f*cking years and you hear nothing about that😂

[@jegvilhakebab]

1:41 I mean, yea, I don't want to be here in the winter

[@Anonimo-yl4st]

7:04 That’s no Tonga’s flag, thats Comoras’ flag. Tonga: 🇹🇴 Comoras: 🇰🇲

[@amfogus2705]

Normal Mistake

[@Suo_kongque]

Editor mistake

[@slavic_viking9638]

Check pinned comment

[@Anonimo-yl4st]

@@slavic_viking9638 I’ve

[@Gleeebus]

its comoros

[@abc68130]

The Austrian "Independance day" is actually the date Austria declared its Neutrality. Doesn't really directly involve the US, so I don't know what whoever made that chart is on about. There are arrows to GB and France too, so I guess it's about the WWII occupation, but the agreement to withdraw troops had been signed 90 days earlier, and by the 26th there were actually still some (British IIRC) troops left within Austria.

[@_MC529]

How does Drew, an American, concerning himself with Geography for years, does NOT KNOW ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH??? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE AMISH?!

[@TravisBickle82]

Nice Polandball with hussar wings in the background.

[@carterpritchard5063]

I like how drew just continuously ignores Nebraska I though for sure he was going to point it out for speaking Nepali that is so random

[@x7rogue153]

2:13 the U.S. has no official language

[@parkergoodson3428]

Yeah

[@nutsi3]

Iceland is ALWAYS no data

[@vds4327]

0:01 as an Italian, I believe that this migration of Moroccans, Albanians and Romanians to Italy is simply characterized by the fact that it is the closest free and social right nation to their homeland, let's say for convenience,and not Really for the similitude language

[@vacariuflavius8051]

Cause many romanians like to move to countries like that because simple jobs like collecting potatoes us paid more

[@silva3658]

As an Italian/Romanian: Yes, but also the cultural similitudes are quite important, Germany is the same distance from Romania why they don't have that many Romanians? It's even economically better, and I mean waaay better. The similar language implies many things, you will integrate faster and easier than in other countries, especially for kids this is an important factor.

[@marionicolasmartin]

no, for romanians the language plays a big part

[@parjol9064]

No, personally as a Romanian, language plays the biggest part why Id choose Italy over other countries

[@Lay-Man]

@@parjol9064 I like your language.

[@SummitSprint]

update: in Europe villages have more than 1000 inhabitants. a group of villages is called a Commune (from French). A commune can have up to 10k inhabitants. In Romania for example a small town must have 10k inhabitants otherwise is a commune, and a city must have 50k inhabitants otherwise is a town and then a municipal city is usually from 100k inhabitants. so yeah, we have plenty of villages with more than 1k inhabitants.

[@susanwestern6434]

In the UK a hamlet is smaller than a village.

[@archerarts4351]

7:03 Things wrong with what he just said: A: that's the Indian Ocean B: Thats the Comoros not tonga I can see why you got that wrong but c’mon there in 2 different oceans

[@ludexia5338]

C: It was the editor's mistake.

[@ezraabbadon5082]

Actually, the asteroid is said to have wiped out about 75% (I think, might have messed up the number) of the species on land in the first day. The debris and stuff from the impact then caused a global winter and basically no sunlight was able to reach the earth which killed a lot of plants, including algae in the seas, which resulted in the extinction of the large marine reptiles. There's a video by the channel kurzgesagt that explains it quite well if someone is interested, called the day the dinosaurs died- minute by minute

[@64lizards32]

Please enjoy this information about Pennsylvania Dutch: It's a form of High German that was brought over to Pennsylvania during the 17th and 18th centuries when they fled Germany to avoid religious prosecution. There are actual people in Pennsylvania whose first language and main language is Pennsylvania Dutch. There are people like that who live in my area and no joke will have full blown conversations in PA Dutch at the grocery store that's a two-three minute drive from my house.

[@stepanek7404]

the germans in south tyrol weren't a minority, they were the majority as it was former austrian territory

[@thekraken1173]

Me: Having a rest after an exam, thinking I should study more physics Drew: uploads video with my country’s flag on thumbnail

[@highlanderonion5871]

Based Türk Kraken

[@thekraken1173]

@@highlanderonion5871 How the hell did you understand I was a Türk

[@Gaming4Justice]

Estonia actually celebrates the independance day on the 24th of Febuary of becoming independant from the Russian Empire. Then there is the reindependance day on the 20th of August from the Soviet Union. So not exclusively from either one, you can literally see arrows xd. Finland doesn't celebrate independance from Sweden because it wasn't a country then.

[@albinoguidedog]

4:55 those are french islands: Reunion island and Mauritius.

[@Movilancer]

Mauritius is independent

[@albinoguidedog]

@@Movilancer is it? Then does it have a protection deal with France?

[@Blendette]

16:04 Yes they did not just die, the asteroid hit the earth, raised alot of smone and blocked the sun from reaching the surface. Proof is that on pretty much every rock if you dig it up deep enough you will see a black line trough it (thats all the smoke/asteroid pieces)) that setteled down

[@jac-kun2486]

10:35 As an Estonian I have to explain that Estonia has had 2 indpendences from russia once in 1918 from Russia. after the WW2 we were part of russia once again and in 1991 before the end or USSR we declared independence once again

[@krissdev6301]

But USSR had government from all republics of USSR that means it was union so if you are in EU now you also not independent if in USSR you was not independent 😅🙄

[@Kortlandball]

​@@krissdev6301ok either your words aren't wording or my brain ain't braining

[@Lyx364]

Russian empire

[@fej775]

Me a german: have been staring at this language map for one and a half minute waiting for Drew to say smth about the many german speaking states. Me after one and a half minute: I feel betrayed

[@faridflashbang]

Genau meine Meinung

[@Aemillius07]

Fühle ich

[@hre1489]

Drew: sweden must have a lot of internal problems Me: you couldn’t get more right

[@_blank-_]

Is it really an internal problem when it comes from abroad? 🤔

[@opai1821]

@@_blank-_ yep once they are in , its their internal problem now .

[@opai1821]

i wanted to right but you wrote luckily .

[@testacals]

@@opai1821 some kind of immigration problem ?

[@oliverm257]

I hate that you're so right

[@reihera]

4:10 hey! I'm from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania dutch is a language used by the Amish people local to here and is sort of a mix between swedish and german.

[@FireTurkey]

Pennsylvania Dutch is actually a type of German for anyone who doesn't know. Deutsch was simplified to Dutch because us English speakers are stupid.

[@hendrikdependrik1891]

To make things even more complicated: Dutch and Pennsylvanian Dutch are both Low Saxon dialects, but we Dutch don't consider Dutch to be a German language while in Germany they do.

[@nervachadikus]

I was confused for a bit there cuz I know they're Germans, but I was like "Wait is it considered a different language or something??"

[@rauðaz]

@@hendrikdependrik1891 Dutch and Low Saxon are different subgroups of West Germanic

[@rauðaz]

It has nothing to do with stupidity, Pennsylvania Dutch is neither Dutch nor German but a variety of Low Saxon (often referred as Low German). Despite the name, Low Saxon is much closer to English and Frisian than it is to Dutch and German, they are in fact grouped as North-Sea Germanic (Dutch forms it's own group with Frankish and a language called Limgurgish, German and its many varieties form another). For the name "Dutch/Düütsch/Deutsch" it was used by both Dutch, Low Saxons and Germans in the past and it had the meaning of "people", Deutschland literally translates in "the land of the people" in German. You see, sometimes things are way more complicated than they may appear and we shouldn't judge stuff so quickly.

[@FireTurkey]

@@rauðaz Thank you this was very informational, a bit hard to read (the issue is on my end) but none the less very cool. I do think it came out a bit more passive aggressive than you intended but eeeh.

[@yellowflag9945]

When your country gives out all the independence days: (🇬🇧)

[@distorted4378]

Lol

[@Wolvek]

Then why dont give it also to scotland?😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@yellowflag9945]

@@Wolvek I’m not a politician

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

@@Wolvek I think that there will be a new referundum soon but i doubt it will pass the polls still say something like 51% remain and the people who want to stay don't go to every single poll. Also if we leave we will never join the eu we would be almost bankrupt as the government gives us more money in taxes than we pay i, i mean we would literally be a bigger financial burden than poland and they recive like 30 billion more a year than they pay in. Not to mention it would take years like how iceland took half a decade and barely got anywhere before canceling and they didn't have the complications that a land border with England would cause

[@susanwestern6434]

Britain did become independent from the Roman Empire.

[@Cp.Chaos707]

2:57 wait… YOU ARE TELLING ME ALL THESE KARENS WERE *WRONG?!*

[@KeiO993]

For the independence chart. As to why Baltic nations celebrate independence from Russia as opposed to USSR is that they are celebrating independence from Russian Empire in 1918. There's also another arrow that goes to USSR and that's for the restoration of independence

[@amazingbluelobster]

1:50 Wrong, Only the northernmost parts do have snow and no lakes are frozen

[@sepep6288]

2:43 nope, Egypt was a protectorate not a colony, the British barely intervened in Egypt. In fact till this day Egyptians still see English as hardest subject at school.

[@aykrivwassup]

I knew Pennsylvania Dutch was a type of person/ethnicity (they're German people who came to PA - the German word for "German" is Deutsch), but I didn't know there was a language too! That's really neat! According to Google, "Pennsylvania Dutch, referred to as Pennsylvania German in scholarly literature, is a variety of West Central German spoken by the Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonites and other descendants of German immigrants in the United States and Canada, closely related to the Palatine dialects."

[@T.O.H.]

10:10 What the Balkan countries do not understand is that the Ottoman Empire no longer exists. Since they cannot find a place to vent their hatred, they vent their hatred towards the Turks (sometimes and some people). The last Ottoman sultan fled to England, leaving his lands to the winning countries in World War I. His last words were "Do not resist, we made a deal with them." There are people in Turkey who do not like the Ottoman sultans and rest assured that they are not in the minority. People who learn their history do not like the Ottomans because they are the cause of most of the suffering we suffer now. There are some "Erdogan supporters" who like the Ottomans and think they are "Ottomans", but as you know, they are "Erdogan supporters". Ottoman is a family that rules the country. This family has nothing to do with Turks. They are not respected by the Turks who know history because they speak Ottoman, have no other job than having children with foreign women, and cannot adhere to Turkish culture.

[@Juho.S.]

10:22 Finland wasn't a part of the USSR. The independence of Finland came from the Russia (in 1917, after the October Revolution, which happened in November) before the forming of the USSR (in 1922 after the balance of power had finally shifted to the Bolsheviks).

[@dushas9871]

Finland also never existed as an independent country prior to Lenin personally granting them independence. In return Finland proudly participated in what ended being mass murder of an over a million civilian people during the siege of leningrad some 20 years later, good times.

[@dushas9871]

@Snowstorm literally the first passage from wikipedia "The siege of Leningrad (Russian: блокада Ленинграда; German: Leningrader Blockade) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied *Finnish army* invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city."

[@MetDaan2912]

14:31 The funny thing is that there is a sharp line between the Dutch and French speaking parts of Belgium. I wouldn’t know the exact reason, but it is very interesting indeed.

[@_blank-_]

The French speaking part is poorer and poorer areas/countries on the map tend to be orange/red. But there's maybe a cultural component maybe. The Germanic countries are all very green-except Sweden. Latin countries are more orange/red.

[@jamesbernadette6216]

Nah, Drew, Finland isn't celebrating independence from Sweden because it never happened. Just the management changed from Sweden to Russia. And I suspect the whole Austria thing is due to American occupation after WW2.

[@_blank-_]

Allied occupation. Austria was divided into occupation zones like Germany.

[@bedrock-chess]

Commenting 2 years late on this sort of video, but that map at 1:46 perfectly represents the current state of the Nordics. Here in southern Finland we still have quite a bit of snow even though we're halfway through April.

[@iszox2973]

Austria celebrates its independence from the USA, France, Great Britain and the USSR

[@Aplari13]

11:55 No, Finland was part of sweden for ~600 years and then russia took finland for ~100 years and 1917 finland was finally independent

[@MultiTsai]

Estonia gained its independence from Russia in 1918 and restored its independence in 1991 from Soviet Russia. (Actually you can even see it on the graph, it has two arrows). Originally Finland and Estonia got their independence at the same time (1917 and 1918 respectively), but Estonia was later occupied by Soviet Russia, then nazi Germany and Soviet Russia again, which ended up lasting half a century.

[@lollopoldo9192]

0:10 aim from italy and theas is so real!