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[@blackman7186]

Its so cool that Hinduism never tried to actively convert anyone and stayed in the same place for like forever, and despite so many invasions as well as religious discriminations, forced conversions, it never disappeared. Hell, let alone disappear, it actually became one of the major ones. Truly amazing in my view.

[@Rising___Star]

Yep, it is

[@kzcciynk]

Resistance is in our blood

[@fyndrkraze]

it did tho, it moved to south east asia and Indonesia from violence, even the indian peninsula. theres a lot of violence behind Hinduism, its one of the reasons Buddhism started

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

As a Christian, I work with Hindus and Muslims. Dairy Queen is a family owned business, very nice and respectful... The high school kids they hire in them are fuggin awful.

[@mnikhk]

Hinduism did spread out to south east Asia after conquests and on the west upto some regions of Iran. Nothing wrong with that all religions had that phase, but since it happened so long ago for Hinduism people usually forget.

[@sayantandas8033]

Bangladesh is not that old it became a country only after 1971, historically it was a part of India but then the British showed up and divided bengal region into two parts. That's exactly why we Bengalis still have a state called West Bengal in India🇮🇳

[@rasoirwolf]

It was Pakistan originally, but was treated poorly by Islamabad so left - that's what I've heard about it, but I'm not sure if I'm totally right.

[@sayantandas8033]

@@rasoirwolf you are partially correct, Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan but before 1947 both present day Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India

[@rohanthakkar9119]

​@@rasoirwolfyes Bangladesh was part of Pakistan but in history present day pakistan, Bangladesh,Afghanistan, srilanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia ,Myanmar,Iran, combodia, Thailand all part of India which known as akhand bharat or bharatvarsha at that time

[@Tushar_995]

@@rasoirwolf Dumb even Pakistan was a part of India. So, it simply means that Bangladesh was a part of India

[@sojibhossian391]

Bangladesh not British india part. Bangladesh always independenc all historycal .. the Bangal empire 🇧🇩💥

[@traveltastebysourav2103]

Actually Indus Valley Civilisation (Hindustan/Bharat) is the oldest in the world, hence Hindustan/Bharat is the oldest Civilized place. We cannot describe it as a nation, because the concept of nation is more recent. But we can say The Kingdom of Bharat is the oldest

[@Souledex]

Thats not really based on anything, Sumeria has much older instances of agriculture, Egypt has older monumental building, they entered the Chalcolithic later so as far as I know that's just wrong. Also it definitely wasn't a Kingdom at the beginning that's like the most famous thing about them - they were Heterarchical

[@vanisridhar5509]

@@Souledex Indus and Sumer both has contribution of J2 people.

[@58162O]

Exactly and when it comes to INDIA, INDIA is older than Egypt

[@imjoeim]

oldest civilized place is Mesopotamia. but the video was talking about oldest country not civilization, The Old Kingdom was the first golden age of ancient civilization. it's also known as "The age of pyramid builders". it's formed after the upper Egypt's tribes invaded lower Egypt and united the land, forming the world's first country.

[@Souledex]

@@imjoeim country doesn’t mean anything they would have understood back then. And if we are talking about state functions or social organization than no some place in mesopotamia was first. Just cause they skipped it in elementary school doesn’t mean there wasn’t something earlier than egypt

[@yashmaurya10]

india is way older by the name of bharat

[@eeriee8974]

yea, The first thing Big Bang yeeted out was India.

[@professorrogue3473]

Probably they have to have the same name and flag

[@yashmaurya10]

@@professorrogue3473 hmm maybe 🤔

[@dhairyatiwari4152]

Bro India is 7000-10000 yrs old.....we have proves of temples and other stuff.....we have the oldest language and culture.

[@jingchen9232]

Bro china has more history before x ia dynasty alot more

[@KamikazeKoz]

I guess the source is your dreams and unrealistic legends.

[@ShadowNika4]

​@@KamikazeKoz and I think your source is Trust me bro😊

[@shubhamdattatreya1912]

@@jingchen9232 ok tell me where is chines civilization,all are in books, but he never meet phycally

[@KamikazeKoz]

@@ShadowNika4 Be assured, even if my source was like that, it would be more realistic than Indian sources.

[@europeanhoneybuzzard8328]

Republics aren’t the only subdivisions of Russia, they have okrugs krais oblasts and more

[@PAINNN666]

Maybe making that graphic is hard as oldest countrys but still it's bad. It looks like he doesn't know where is truth cause Russia divide by Federal Okrugs. Vietnam and Philipins looks like: "I don't care put all"

[@user-wl6ku1qf3s]

So it's 89 or 83

[@PAINNN666]

@@user-wl6ku1qf3s 83

[@TinTinych25]

@@user-wl6ku1qf3s 89 according to the Russian government, 83 to 85 according to the international community.

[@melize7035]

I was just about to type that…

[@Rudraiya]

Recent settlements discoverd in southern part of India they discovered the tools and other artifacts which are pre dating 1.5+ million years old and what's interesting is the archeology survey is only 10% complete in the area

[@h_chauhan]

Yeah India is the oldest civilization. Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism are all branches of Sanatana Dharma.

[@synctrox9679]

1.5million years? Thats the start of homo sapiens not even tool use. Im indian. Stop stating whatsapp knowledge. Read some real things

[@bipash_9720]

​@@synctrox9679 says archeological expert..lol Kiddo go and read news if you don't know anything..stop ranting here and start getting facts by watching something useful

[@synctrox9679]

@@bipash_9720 do u even know how big 1.5million is ?

[@SHIN_CHAN_108]

​​​​​@@synctrox9679well i just found an article of nytimes saying we started using tools way back 2.5 million years ago in Africa, so it can be true. Edited - By the way here are the lines from the article: " On the biggest steps in early human evolution scientists are in agreement. _The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago_, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago."

[@lawden210]

2:28 Drew is actually right here, French Guiana isn't (politically) an overseas territory, and is represented in the French parliament like every other administrative region

[@shaygilcreest1098]

Looks like they learned from the mistakes of the British.

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

@@shaygilcreest1098Mayotte enters the chat.

[@Sayitlikitiz101]

@@pratosaurusrex1128 What's with Mayotte? Please enlighten us beyond the memes what you know about the issues with Mayotte and the situation with Comoros. You seem to be knowledgeable if you make such clever comments.

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

@@Sayitlikitiz101 why such the passive aggressive remark? I was merely pointing out that whether you go through the French route of incorporation (e.g Mayotte) or the British route of colonisation (too many examples to mention here) there are challenges that have no easy answers. Sounds like you have had too much internet for one day.

[@funram]

Well we differentiate between metropolitan regions, which encompass several departments, and the Oversea Regions and Departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion, Mayotte) which are regions made of one department each and thus are both regions and departments. And we have Oversea Communities (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélémy, Wallis-et-Futuna, French Polynesia, New Caledonia). Among the metropolitan regions, Corsica has a special status, and amon the Oversea Communities, New Caledonia has a special status. Among the Oversea Regions and Departments, Mayotte got a temporary special status when it became departmentized, but now it's status is regular.

[@gauravsengupta8158]

Recent News:- Archeologists have found that Indus Valley civilisation dates back to 7000 to 10000 BC

[@Sneakyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Yup but it was obvious already

[@gauravsengupta8158]

@@Sneakyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yeah but that was no not mentioned in this video. That's why I posted this comment so that people can get the real facts.

[@Shreyansh_p]

​@@gauravsengupta8158in haryana found.2 month old News

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

11:08 fun fact: the word "Lithuania" is actually older than the country itself as it was first mentioned back in 1009 by some German scholars in Kvedenburg annals.

[@gooseneck3067]

Annals?

[@lawden210]

​@@gooseneck3067It's a synonym of "chronicles"

[@Mendogology]

@@gooseneck3067I prefer vaginal, thank you

[@JH-lo9ut]

That is the case with many, if not most countries. The name for the state is often taken from the name of the people living there, and they have usually been around since before they managed to consolidate and form a political entity.

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

@@JH-lo9ut yeah you right. My comment was just bait. There I said it.

[@vedants.vispute77]

Vietnam's provinces are are like districts here in India imao.. India has 806 districts

[@Pidalin]

Yeah, it's about what division of country you will take and show in the video, every country has another smaller districts or regions, just Prague as capital city has 57 of them. What is shown in video (13 regions for Czech Republic) is modern administrative division of country to bigger "kraj" regions, but in each kraj, there is many other smaller regions mostly called by the biggest city in that region.

[@darkend1998]

​@@PidalinThe bigest sub-division here in Portugal are municipalities and we have 308 of them.

[@vedants.vispute77]

@@darkend1998 The biggest subdivision that have different local bodies elected and manage are 6000+ here.. For example, the country has a A government.. State has B govt.. My district also has C govt...(letters are parties) And more subdivisions have more different governments.. This is also why governance is not much efficient in democracy unlike china..

[@lucas29479]

I love Drew’s reaction when he finds out that countries have more subdivisions that the USA 4:26

[@razier5299]

I mean considering China and India had so little I agree that it seemed kinda overkill to have that many but I don't live there so idk

[@WhizzKid2012]

slovenia has like 200

[@o_s-24]

Ha ha, a filipino definitely made the first video 😂. Russia has 83 internationally recognized (or 89) "states" called federal subjects. They aren't all the same type though, they have oblasts (regions), an autonomous oblast (the Jewish one), krais (territories), autonomous okrugs (places with influential ethnic minorities), republics (mostly non-ethnically-russian places), and federal cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol).

[@19Szabolcs91]

The "oldest country" thing is very very debatable on what you count and what you don't as a predecessor state. By the same logic as many here, you could count the Roman Empirre for modern day Italy, just like the Persian Empire was for modern day Iran. Similarly, the old Jewish kingdoms could be counted for Israel.

[@kabir1934]

Yah of course we should count Roman Empire, Persian Empire and Jewish Empires.

[@user-yv9vd7wx4e]

The Persian empire came late, same with the jewish ones. also we can't take italy as the predecessor of the roman empire as italy and rome are vastly different.

[@D3P5LAY3R]

Thse empires were detroyed, then dissapear, then replaced by others. Italy was born years afters, israel was born years after. I will just ask you, where are the jewish kingdoms in 800 bc ? and where is the roman empire in 1500 bc? Continuityyyyyyyy.

[@TechnoMinarchistBall]

​@@D3P5LAY3RNone of the top ranks in the video existed continuously throughout their stated time.

[@D3P5LAY3R]

@@TechnoMinarchistBall which one of them? Please, enlighten me, china, egypt, india, Iran? I already have an answer for each one.

[@billy-bo_]

Loved this video!

[@JakeTheTrouserSnake]

In the UK we refer to our "states" differently in different contexts. For example, we reffered to Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland as "home nations" in a sporting context but as "devolved parliaments" in a political context. I can confirm that we definitely do not have 4 Kingdoms 😂 EDIT: to clarify, England is not considered a devolved parliament as it is represented directly by Westminster, the greater UK parliament, and as a result has no need for a devolved parliament to increase representation like the devolved states do. There is an argument that by granting a devolved parliament to England the entire UK could benefit from increased representation by way of a federalised state, with Westminster taking the role of a federal government and the states granted the right to set their own laws on any subject not already covered by Westminster law. Unfortunately, independence movements are much more popular than reformist movements in the UK even though the support they gather doesn't last as long, for example, UKIP has existed roughly a decade more than the English Democrats but, while UKIP exploded in popularity and has been bleeding support, the ED has remained a fringe party but has retained a steady rate of growth. EDIT: changed example parties because I'm an idiot, credit to Qalziel for the correction.

[@HarveyJennings-zn2pl]

Also they could of counted counties in the UK

[@DBT1007]

It's "united KINGDOMS" for a reason 😅 The same like "united STATES" 😅

[@JakeTheTrouserSnake]

@@DBT1007 it's 2 Kingdoms (England and Scotland), 1 principality (Wales) and 1 extraterritorial state (Ulster, aka northern Ireland) under one crown, it's the United KINGDOM, not United kingdoms. Only an empire can have constituent Kingdoms, the British Empire fell a LONG time ago and never crowned an Emperor of Britain, the closest we came was with Victoria, QUEEN of the British Empire and Empress of India. Tl;Dr, Kingdom, singular.

[@h-Qalziel]

The English Democrats was founded in 2002 while the SNP was founded in 1934 from the merging of two older parties founded in 1928 and 1932. The SNP is way older and has had a lot of time to slowly grow.

[@JmMateo933]

Cool

[@makikoha]

russia actually has 83 subdivisions, the video only counted the *republics*

[@lawden210]

It didn't really take into how some countries have different types of subdivisions(which would include boosting the US cause of the territories)

[@NajaToxicus]

I don't get why did they go with the republics, you can even see on the map that it's less than half of Russia's land area

[@delfine-hx3zw]

For France they only counted administratives regions but not departments sooo....

[@francoise4678]

@@delfine-hx3zw yes and there is a discrepancy between the number of regions mentioned (18), which is correct, and the number of regions shown on the map (13) because they show only the 13 regions of metropolitan France but there are 5 overseas ones

[@Kostyurik]

It's 89 actually

[@ItsMeMayur007]

Bangladesh how 1432 year old😂 Before 1947 its part of india 😊

[@mr.cat_cz5184]

(Czech here) 1:53 We also include Prague as Region (Kraj), so we have (technically) 14 Regions. The Regions (Kraje) as form of state existed since 13. century, however, their current form exists since year 2000 and are established around cities which have significiant industrial/economical, governmental, and educational value and often have high population. + Kraje are divided into smaller Districts (Okresy [singular: Okres]) which are 76.

[@lawden210]

Regarding subdivisions, not only is population density a factor, but also minority groups

[@elephantofstrawberry]

8:50 fun fact: Britain yoinked Guyana from the Dutch, so that’s why it’s in both. (Also prisoners from India)

[@rasoirwolf]

Only the western part, kind of like with South Africa and Australia and New York?

[@p3chv0gel22]

2:01 everyone knows Germany has 17 states. Mallorca is the honorary 17th Bundesland

[@johngurlides9157]

Greece is older than the 2798 years you show. The Mycenean age ran from about 1500 till 1100 BC when the Dorians migrated to the Greek south.

[@anubratabit3027]

0:46 Drew - Bigger states have less people Laughing in Uttar Pradesh

[@TheLadida42]

based on that they used as definition for other countries (Indus valley civilization for India e.g.), the oldest country should probably be Iraq with the Sumerians dating back over 7,000 years

[@dilogaming9697]

That's the country I was betting on but they didn't say it

[@anubratabit3027]

Modern day Iraq has no continuity with the Sumerian civilization at all. It is more closely associated with Arabia & Persia than Sumer.

[@vidhanbhardwaj5863]

Iraq has no association to Sumerian

[@zjzr08]

Isn't modern Egypt not really connected to the Nubians I think...I'm not sure though.

[@Divano-qw2sb]

@@vidhanbhardwaj5863 And modern day Greece has no association withancient Greece and modern Egypt has no association with anvient Egypt. That video was kind of confusing and inaccurate

[@Liggliluff]

(11:37) I find it interesting that they chose 1052 years old for Sweden. Too often I see the usage of year 1905 or year 1523, but if you count the ages of those other countries then Sweden is really old. The year chosen is before the year 1000.

[@XalasiaBall]

1:25 land formations and oceanic boundaries play a major role in drawing borders.

[@konstkaras]

2:51 it's strange that only 21 Republics are shown, but not all 89 regions - the territory shown in gray contains all Oblasts, Krais, Autonomous Districts, Federal Cities and the only Autonomous Oblast. There are also larger-scale entities called Federal Districts, which are 8, however, they don't have many functions and status.

[@jekabsojarsulskis9740]

Fun fact, us Latvians had about 110 municipalities at one point, around 42 now. Those are administrative territories. But we mostly identify regions into 4 regions, 5 if we go historical. Any other country with this kind of interesting tid bit?

[@TeraBaap-cw6in]

3:42 India other than states also have Union territories which are 8

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Another amazing video and play countryball at wars

[@stargazer-elite]

I think that this video groups them weirdly because it’s only a counting for the proper subdivisions like it’s not accounting for territories, even if they’re not overseas like Canada‘s three territories

[@lawden210]

3:51 Not necessarily a bad thing depending on who you talk to, but as Drew mentioned, this just lets them make senators out of nowhere

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

Bureaucrats! Bureaucrats everywhere!

[@georgiandude4810]

9:05 I'm pretty sure creator of the video went for when each Country technically was founded, but there were some quite weird/interesting choices Also personally, I would have put Kingdom of the West Francia for France and kingdom of the East Francia for Germany, as both kingdoms represent each of their modern counterparts practically.

[@oursenplus1]

I would not. The Franks were a germanic clan. But the french language became a romance language over hundreds of years. And that's because they settled among Gallo-Romans in 476. The Franks have been a "unified" force for much longer than the rest of the german clans.

[@georgiandude4810]

I mean Germany is still descendants of Franks or Eastern Franks, there's reason Charlemagne is called father of Europe, plus we'd have a lot different Germany if Franks didn't conquer other Germanic tribes

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

As French. Allow to clarify this. Before our Motherland France was called. It was named Gaul. In Latin, Gallia. It was first a Romance Language and later on the Frankish Empire came up. The Franks (Germanic tribe France and Germany was one Nation back at that time during the Reign of Emperor Charlemagne 🇫🇷 West of Frankia 🇩🇪 East of Frankia

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

​@@georgiandude4810As French. You got it all correct. France and Germany was once a single nation during the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, Father of Western Europe 800. Lived by Germanic tribes called Franks 🇫🇷 West of Frankia 🇩🇪 East of Frankia Unfortunately it didn’t last forever due to differences

[@georgiandude4810]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 yeah, thanks for clarifying it more though

[@ylette]

These country start dates are stretching it so much I don't even know where to start.

[@margaretedwards5165]

Can u make more country balls drew Druil?

[@lawden210]

12:25 East Frankia is arguably the earliest thing that's close to a unified "Germany"

[@peer5761]

how about the whole of the frankish empire

[@eVill420]

Also the Prussians, don't forget them

[@leoleboss9414]

​@@peer5761 The kingdom of Austrasia could also be considered as the first Germany

[@Infidi]

@@peer5761 France already used that, guess having a more similar name gives them more of a claim /s

[@peer5761]

the franks were a group of germanic tribes@@Infidi

[@mikev.9413]

As a Greek from Creta island, it's my duty to say that there was a civilaization in my island, the Minoans, rooted back to 3.500 B.C. They even had their writing system linear A and it was succeded by linear B, which is the very first form of modern Greek writing system. Linear A has never been deciphered.

[@kostadinbodurov7703]

Or so you think. It actually is deciphered but not using Greek. But this information is heavily censored because depicts Greeks as foreign culture to the Balkans and not the inventors of civilization. Food for thought.

[@mikev.9413]

@@kostadinbodurov7703 I guess the sources of what you are saying are either your imagination or North Macedonia's history books and media.

[@luviagiletta2254]

The same "sea people" who came to Egypt and the Middle East.

[@FreddieHg37]

Japan's Emperor Jimmy has got me cracking up! 😂

[@ahwlsntaolcisjwhysiwhshsos6555]

2:43 actually, no. Map in the video shows only republics, but Russia have other territorial subject types, like oblasts, krays, autonomus okrugs, autonomus oblasts and federal cities. In total, there is 89 regions. You can tell that all regions of the Russian Federation isn't t shown there, at least by the fact that most of the map is gray lol

[@rasoirwolf]

That's not counting things like Krasnoyarsk Krai, if you only count Russia's Republics - which is gigantic. Yakutia is the largest subdivision on Earth that isn't a Nation State (but it's a Republic)

[@samanyupalthi]

We should also consider how much further are these states/provinces further subdivided into! Like Czechia having 13 but do they have smaller ones within those?

[@lucas29479]

yes, in the usa we have counties within states

[@lawden210]

Every country tends to have every region divided until that the smallest is a mayoral city/township. What tends to be different is the amount of levels between that and the first major subdivision

[@Pidalin]

Yes, ofcourse, but these 13 regions are modern administrative division of country, it doesn't have much to do with history. Historical regions are mainly Moravia, Bohemia and Silesia, but each place around some city can have it's historical name like for example "Nymbursko" around city of Nymburk and it's everything about what is your nearest bigger city where you travel when you need to deal with authorities. For example Prague has 57 city parts with their names which were originally independent villages or cities before creating of "Great Prague" in 1920s. But now, most of native people use older post office division of Prague to 10 parts, people who moved to Prague later use modern administrative division of Prague to 22 parts. It's a mess. When you say to a native Praguer that you live in "Prague 22" he will say that such Prague part doesn't exist. 😀

[@Gic424_YT]

Yes

[@19Szabolcs91]

Obviously, just like the UK has subdivisions between the 4 countries.. It's really arbitrary.

[@based_finn]

If You're Counting Civilizations, Iraq Is First As The mesopotamian Civilization Goes back to 8,300-7,600 BC.

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

Yeah, no Sumerians of Iraq, shame.

[@Shashu_the_little_Voidling]

If you're gonna count Indus Valley civilization for India, you might as well

[@vidhanbhardwaj5863]

​@@Shashu_the_little_Voidling the point is Indus Traditions and Culture survived while sumerians disappeared , Mordern day Iraq has no connection to it just like Persia and Iran .

[@yusaki8064]

With the subdivisions it really depends on which one you pick. Because for the UK you could pick Countries, Counties, Constituencies or Councils. Because there are 100 Counties in the UK (although the number varies based on definition), and 650 Constituencies. I don’t know how other countries extra subdivisions work. But considering we have several counties with higher population than a couple American states (Looking at you Wyoming). I think it’s arguable to do counties over countries with the UK.

[@anotherrandomguy6012]

Petition for Drew to make a series covering Ace Combat and its multiple universes: [Day 314] The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. For its wing, Boeing re-used the design from the earlier XB-15 bomber prototype. Twelve Clippers were built, nine of which served with Pan Am.

[@HypnoticChronic1]

It should be noted to that many of those countries don't go beyond the province/departments/states subdivisions, while the US does break it down further into counties, parishes and boroughs of which there are 3,143 in the 50 states and 3,243 if you include the territories as well. Edit: I'd argue the Thai date given is inaccurate, the fact that they label the Khmer Empire as the start date when that really should go to Cambodia since that empire centered around what is present day Cambodia, if they were to give a start date for Thailand then it should be attributed to the Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351) whom eventually conquered the Khmer in 1431. Likewise if they are using old empires in the same basic geographic location as a metric for start date, then Iraq should have been first given that Sumeria predates ancient Egypt by 2,400 years.

[@bongmuon]

That and the fact that the Khmer empire predates that one by some accounts of more than a Millenia (Queen Soma 68 ce widely seen as first Khmer monarch). It looks more like the end of the Angkor empire is what they used as the Thai start date but it could be argued they were an organized part of the Khmer empire and it was a civil war that created the nation of Thailand.

[@MW_Asura]

I'm pretty sure they do, especially European countries

[@arsa_ju]

If we go that small than Germany has over 10000 Gemeinden, which is the smallest "governable" area in germany

[@georgiandude4810]

I was waiting for Iraq to show up, was somewhat disappointed when they didn't

[@HypnoticChronic1]

@@arsa_ju Gemeinden are not one for one the same as US counties, since to my understanding it comprises second, third, fourth and fifth level subdivisions, with sole cities such as Berlin counted among their number as well. While US counties are purely a second level subdivision and tend to have multiple cities within them and thus comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges. Now if we were to apply the same methodology of Gemeinden to the US then the number would be 22,738.

[@WadPerera-zz2sv]

As a Sri Lankan I can tell you it's been 2500 years since we started writing our history. That's the date I think this video based on. But oldest homo sepian sepian skeleton that was found in Sri Lanka is over 100,000 years old. And that's the oldest skeleton found in a rainforest anywhere on earth some arrowheads and some items were found along side it. Google it. That human was smarter coz the pray was smaller and quicker and had to be really stealth and courtseous and patient to get really close to the prey to hunt coz unlike Savannah in the jungle you can't shoot far.

[@Xinnie_The_Flu]

Exactly. I thought srilanka should be as old as India if not more, we have written accounts of srilanka as Lanka in our religious texts, it is actually quite an important country in Hinduism.😂❤

[@user-te2hz2th5f]

13:48, just so you know, there were Egyptian archeologists studying the pyramids.

[@RapinatorOhYeah]

The division of provinces in the Philippines was for the most part artificial but some are actually base on ethnic group division mainly in Cordillera is base on ethnic group

[@Eiralyckholm]

Fun fact: The prevailing belief is that the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia arose in the year 3500 BC, while the civilization of ancient Egypt appeared after that in the year 3200 BC, and therefore the civilization in Iraq is the oldest.

[@shubhmewara7214]

Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old

[@satyamkumar8805]

Another fun fact - There are more proves of Indus valley civilisation being 8000 years older and it was recently discovered.

[@hussein_AbdElaziz]

3200 BC is the is the first dynasty not the beginning of the civilization read about Egypt before king Mena Narmer

[@swarnavaghosh908]

South of the Himalayas are terrai areas and it is also called indian subcontinent

[@theminmo8749]

What I dont really get from the first video is that they didnt always take the biggest subdivions for each country. I think the Philippines has regions (as seen on the map) in which the provinces are grouped. France and Italy would get a lot more subdivions if the regions weren't counted

[@dachibendukidze8452]

actually united georgian kingdom is about 1000 years old but the first georgian kingdom (there were serperate georgian kingdoms) is atleast 3200 years old, it probably is older but the earliest historical document mentioning it is from 12 century bc

[@dacreepyarcher]

A lot of the countries mentioned in the last video don't really make sense imo. Like, saying ancient egypt and current egypt are, in ANY way the same country, is like saying Mexico is the same country as the aztec empire. And the same goes for so many of them, most of the countries in that video were absolutely not actually that old. If I take my own country, Denmark as an example, the video used a mythical, not widely supported year as the founding of Denmark, even though there is a widely supported, well established founding date of Denmark, which is about 300 years later than what the video is claiming.

[@yarsaz4347]

It should be based on whether or not the concept of the nation had been created and whether the people identified with it up until the current date.

[@Little-chilli]

India is also the Aryan invasion of ancient India, and its culture is the ancestor of modern India. It's only 3,000 years ago instead of 5,000.

[@trollmcclure2659]

@@yarsaz4347 So China would be the oldest due to the fact of having the longest continuous history in the world

[@kaspershaupt]

Yeah Gorm den Gamle and that. who the is ongendus?

[@rahulj.005]

@@Little-chilli There was no invasion, it was migration over the centuries. They didn't came over night. There were multiple migration. India still have some culture and customs exsit from Indus-valley. After decline of indus-valley all of those people migrated towards centre and eastern India. So, the culture and civilization is more than 5000 years old in some way.

[@pingping6967]

INDIA ❤

[@Zbyszkov2]

11:41 it says here that Poland has been since 967 BUT the christening of Poland was in 966, and even before that we were existing as Polania or Polonia (idk the english counterpart(

[@RitikRaj-2418]

8:59 it is safe to say, we are kind of Swiss but in religious way 😅

[@leserb9228]

That 1st video was so.... Damn. Russia has like, 80+ subdivisions! Slovenia has around 200 or something!

[@o_s-24]

Yeah definitely made by a proud filipino 😂

[@leserb9228]

@@o_s-24 definitely

[@deepowls]

I was waiting for Drew to lose his mind about Slovenia having 212 občine and was denied. For those unaware, like Hawaii, Slovenia only has one sublevel of government, the municipality/občina. However, Slovenia has more than 40x as many občine as Hawaii does counties...and one of Hawaii's 5 counties is Kalawao County (pop 82). Russia has 83 first-level subdivisions (not counting land stolen from Ukraine). 21 are republics but the video skipped 46 oblasts, 4 autonomous okrugsa, 9 krais, 2 federal cities, and 1 autonomous oblasta...the last being the small Jewish Autonomous Oblast, which borders Manchuria and where only 1% of the population practices Judaism. At least the video had a map in included indicating the republics with a huge swath of gray where the other entities are.

[@2009heyhow]

That first one with the states and provinces is quite misleading. It just shows to highest level of subdivision of each country, but it's not like if it stops there. Some countries have like 3, 4 or even more levels of managed subdivisions.

[@Gambit771]

It showed the lowest division for the UK and those are countries, not states.

[@2009heyhow]

@@Gambit771 The lowest level of administrative divisions for the countries inside of the UK are 'parishes' in England or communities in Wales and Scotland.

[@Gambit771]

@@2009heyhow Which goes to show how wrong the video is.

[@2009heyhow]

@@Gambit771 Yes indeed. Almost every country in the world has its own system of subdivisions going on. Complete with different names for each level and different in what kind of political power each level has. Which is why such a comparison video is never going to work. On Wiki you can find a list of administrative divisions by country. Quite interesting to scroll through.

[@Roblox_mrtomas]

People gotta make a "Youngest countries 1776-2011."

[@KiwiFlyer100]

In New Zealand its a bit weird and complicated so I don't even know if it should be counted, as we have overseas territories and we have regions (Waikato Auckland etc), we have a stake in Antarctica, you have the antipodes, Auckland islands, Stewart island (which are disputed to be their own) its all a bit weird

[@malta_ball701]

Petition for drew to make a malta countryball plushie (Day 8)

[@HEYWOA102]

I need them, so signed

[@GORULLA]

Can we just all appreciate how drew never fails to make us drool with those Hairy masculine Succulent arms

[@Theonlyrealonethereis]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@ThefriendlyAmerican8743]

Hey Poland. why are you sideways?

[@Icantchooseaname136]

We triumphed once we shall triumph once more!

[@starwarsstuff8926]

Canada’s real Independence Day was July 1, 1867. We were still part of the British empire but we had full self autonomy so we could do whatever we wanted. But it’s always shown as 1931 is when we got our independence and that is because we asked to leave the British empire and that was granted.

[@bongmuon]

Canada is older than the country of Germany if we go by their official current government established dates of 1867 and 1871 respectively.

[@oursenplus1]

I would argue that the real canadian independence date should be counted as 1931. The UK still had major power over Canada's foreign affairs up until then. Want a good exemple? In 1927, London took Labrador from Québec and gave it to Newfoundland, which was not yet a province of Canada. Now, which truly independent country allows another to give some of it's land to another entity? There's many more cases that could also be cited.

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

Philippines and Vietnam got crazy province game 😮

[@turbofuss]

In germany, the federal states (Bundesländer) have Subdivisions integrated (Regierungsbezirke), which also have other Divisions (Landkreise). I don't know how far one should take it, but I'd guess the thing you wanted to point out at 2:05 would reflect in the Regierungsbezirke (f.e. Swabia, Upper Bavaria, Franconia, etc...), as they mostly define the culture influenced by history in germany. They are only present in 4 out of the 16 states Landkreise would be the equivalent to US Counties I believe and we have 294 of them + 106 cities / urban areas that do not belong to any Landkreis

[@bananenmusli2769]

The problem with German states are that besides the Free States and the Hanseatic cities, all of the other states were artificially created after World War 2

[@patricklee5239]

1:40 Canada has 10 provinces. Meanwhile, Canada also has 3 territories that they show, but don't mention for some reason.

[@Isaacaijazebf2j]

India actually has 28 States but also 8 union territories with big ones like Kashmir and Ladakh which account for alone more 100K Square kilometres of Area of land so in total India has 36 Provinces!

[@nerysvanbeurden8434]

Not me at the start of the video singing our province song (Nederland heeft twaalf (12) provincies allemaal met een hoofdstad~) Just to have it skip the Netherlands like that lmao.

[@paulgonzales-im7zw]

I was compelled shock seeing my country having the most states/province

[@yellowishyoutubechannel3900]

Love from India ❤❤😊😊 And Merry Christmas in advance to all of you 🎄🎄☃☃

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

Learning Hindu is hard for this American. Namaste.

[@BomBoyzhiphop]

​@@Dafuq-is-going-onsame here, Learning American is also very difficult 😁✌️

[@athinghere]

China is not 4020 years old It

[@GORULLA]

Can we just all appreciate how drew never fails to make us drool with those Hairy masculine Succulent arms

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

My pale skin, scar covered, black haired arms are jealous of Drew's sheltered life.

[@darkno6493]

When they stated Indus Valley civilisation for India, it changes the definition so those nations that came before are actually older by that definition.

[@ccpro8047]

"I feel like there's gonna be a controversial one" *ignores Ukraine being 1162 years old

[@theprinceofdarkness3250]

Yeah lol total propaganda by whoever made that video.

[@santiagov8406]

the video is kind of cheating since these are countries who didn’t exactly exist at their time or where annexed for a long time , they probably used the Kingdom that what at crimea before which I forgot the name as the first appearance of Ukraine

[@nathangamble125]

@@santiagov8406 The date is based on Kievan Rus. You might be thinking of Kievan Rus, or possibly Pontus or Scythia.

[@spino-soar-us9206]

The Kieran Rus was tricky because it was a Russian state, but it capital was in modern day Ukraine. You can say it is both Russia’s and Ukraine’s.

[@annaofcossacks]

​@spino-soar-us9206 in no way it was a russian state, moscow as a settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1272 during the Golden horde rule, at least 4 centuries after Kyivan Rus was established

[@ingeniousvision7186]

India has 28 states n 8 union territories(small states govened by centeral govt)

[@anirneyomajumdar6302]

Italy should be up there for roman empire, alba longa, etruscans and stuff

[@silesian_hussar]

1:34 the reason Poland has 16 voivodships is because it's easier to manage than 48/49 voivodships

[@KKash526]

Armenia was the first Christian country. It dosn't show it in the video but it is.

[@yoongishadow2201]

13:06 "Nation called Iberia" who's gonna tell him?

[@AmericaIsACountry]

Tell him what

[@julesswaffield5491]

Albania

[@-Beliver-Edits-]

Aot referece??

[@alejandrogrande3066]

considering england as the start of the uk but not castille as the start ofspain is... something

[@xtremeryder2838]

Please find on history channel about discovery of Sonali place in India, means to be over 7thousand years old..

[@SUPREETH.]

I'm noticing a pattern of India in THUMBNAIL 👀 views 📈

[@bksk9467]

The oldest country is India always

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

another day of asking Drew to put up the -Guernsey- Guyana flag to show solidarity

[@IndoSlovenian-Animations]

Drew: No one will go over 50 I think Vietnam: You sure about that

[@half55-qo1tq]

5:02 doesn't Slovenia have like 200 first level administrative divisions?

[@mimimimek3488]

Croatia has 428

[@peer5761]

only 21 first-level subdivisions@@mimimimek3488

[@buisnessbandit]

San Marino is to my knowledge the oldest continuous nation which is why it's often called the oldest country

[@Gambit771]

Which is what the definition for the list should be.

[@fuseblower8128]

"Do we really need 2 Dakotas?" - Bill Maher 😆

[@noahhumphries8299]

‘Bangladesh smashes a lot of people’ -Drew Durnil (1:00)

[@GravityMaster07]

11:36 Yes Georgia is much much older than that! There is a factual misunderstanding made by the channel you are reacting to. The history of Georgian states dates back to seccond millenia BC. The date they showed is when the peak of the power the kingdom had...13:08 Yes! Iberia was the old name for ancient Georgia!

[@marcusbitton8572]

This list left off Uganda which has 111 states

[@lawden210]

10:46 Turkey i feel is a weird one, especially when judged against their ottoman history

[@user-nj3oc8vk2k]

petition for drew to make scotland, wales and northern ireland countryball plushies

[@randomhistorystuff165]

Signed

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

Seconded.

[@LuCurtis]

Not Northern Ireland

[@Anjana-]

India and Egypt are modern nations but oldest civilizations

[@lucas29479]

7:29 learning that now in grade 6

[@yuchaoguo8399]

Now I'm just wondering if you could count the ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia as the beginning of Iraq, there's not really that much continuity(?) but I'm also just guessing

[@Gambit771]

Yes because there isn't much continuity for most of the countries in the list.

[@KejriwalBhakt]

​@@Gambit771India has continuity... from language to culture.

[@Gambit771]

@@KejriwalBhakt Which of the many languages and different cultures from not being one country until the British arrived are you talking about?

[@sakshamsethi413]

​@@Gambit771the ide of a nation is very new . Civilizations dont need to be one for different cultures to develop . Your point is not relavent

[@glukog]

I guess instead of the oldest country, we could say the oldest culture / sociopolitical entity in the region.

[@Dafuq-is-going-on]

I concur.

[@johncao6516]

That would be a better title but still all over the place in what's chosen as the "beginning". Like picking Xiongnu as the start of Mongolia is just absurd. They might as well say Russia starts with Xiongnu by that logic since Muscovy grew out of the failing Mongol empire which grew out of a series of steppe empires all the way back to Xiongnu.

[@LuCurtis]

If it refers to the oldest known culture Ireland would have 12’000 years of recognition

[@athinghere]

then china should be older

[@sambros2]

The oldest continuous culture is from indigenous Australians 65000 years of the same people

[@msvcpdll3735]

respect for creators of the rank

[@asmodean26]

I missed the Netherlands with 12 provinces. The birth of this country can be seen at different points in history as well. It was part of the HRE as well but you also can say that it started after the succession war.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

So Belgium predates it? As it was Roman province

[@eaglewingsfinguide3880]

google about Kalpavigrha statue(atleast 20,000 year old shiva statue)...you cant imagine how much hinduism old..not even hindus..😅

[@rollerroadstar8003]

They labeled the start of Thailand as the Khmer empire. Enraged, so sad, shaking, crying