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@10thDoctorWhoovez
@10thDoctorWhoovez Жыл бұрын
0:52 The 2 countries that have X on their names are Luxembourg and Mexico.
@axe561
@axe561 Жыл бұрын
*in
@randomman2384
@randomman2384 Жыл бұрын
@@axe561 i was seriously thinking about calling you a nerd
@axe561
@axe561 Жыл бұрын
and thats living proof i have no friends…
@Finch460
@Finch460 Жыл бұрын
Luxembourg…. That’s the one I couldn’t think of lol.
@fumme
@fumme Жыл бұрын
@@axe561 lol same
@lecmanuel
@lecmanuel Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Peru is the only country you can type using only one line of the keyboard.
@brianarbenz1329
@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын
What about the tiny kingdom of Asdfghjkl?
@justiceramphetu1975
@justiceramphetu1975 Жыл бұрын
Whaaaaat
@brianarbenz1329
@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын
@@justiceramphetu1975 Asdfghjkl. It's just south of Qwertyuiop.
@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks
@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks 11 ай бұрын
@@brianarbenz1329that’s east of zxcvbnm
@OverTheRiver_
@OverTheRiver_ 10 ай бұрын
​​@@brianarbenz1329goghetitplanacityofgogogoch
@10thDoctorWhoovez
@10thDoctorWhoovez Жыл бұрын
5:21 Fun fact, although it is not a country name, "Nauruan" is actually a palindrome.
@mugilvannan5552
@mugilvannan5552 Жыл бұрын
@Random Dude Æ Œ yes
@matroqueta6825
@matroqueta6825 Жыл бұрын
It's a relatively unknown fact even among argentinians that the argentine province of Neuquén is a palindrome.
@AdityaVeeravalliOfficial
@AdityaVeeravalliOfficial Жыл бұрын
The two countries which have the letter X are Mexico and Luxembourg.
@clothmanz
@clothmanz Жыл бұрын
5:51 I really hope Nigeria and Germany never go against each other in Football
@aravindnair5227
@aravindnair5227 Жыл бұрын
💀💀
@brianarbenz1329
@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, "Germeria" is such an awful slur!
@ArtUniverse
@ArtUniverse 8 ай бұрын
Austria derives its name from the German word "ost", meaning east, while Australia comes from the Latin "auster", meaning south. So despite sounding very similar, the names of these countries are derived from two different cardinal directions.
@pobelix5803
@pobelix5803 Жыл бұрын
This Swe - Den thing is quite funny. :) Good thing there wasn't (as far as I know) a match between Nigeria and Germany. It could've caused some problems with shortening those countries' names the usual way and display it on TV.
@footbread
@footbread Жыл бұрын
I think there was 😯
@willstanley279
@willstanley279 Жыл бұрын
Fortunately Nigeria's FIFA code is actually NGA so this isn't such a problem. However, there would be an issue if Niger played against Germany, though as far as I'm aware the two nations have never met on the football pitch.
@footbread
@footbread Жыл бұрын
@@theduckter6058 ?
@theduckter6058
@theduckter6058 Жыл бұрын
@@footbread?
@theduckter6058
@theduckter6058 Жыл бұрын
@@footbread i dont think i said anything
@nongthip
@nongthip Жыл бұрын
As a fellow geography nerd fanatic, I love this channel. I have a few Geography nerd friends and it's always funny to challenge each other to geo-trivia quizzes, and I get some good stuff from this channel so thank you very much.
@Uditsahu777
@Uditsahu777 Жыл бұрын
Russia has 6 letters in it and an area of about 17.1 million sq. kilometres. So it makes russia the country with the highest area/letter ratio at 2.83 million km
@MaxBurns-xo8io
@MaxBurns-xo8io Жыл бұрын
Thailand's capital is actually the longest name for a capital city. No, Bangkok is a short version of a 168 letter name.
@OZtheRedDevil
@OZtheRedDevil 8 ай бұрын
thats only in thai though right? not english
@Bachirabbit
@Bachirabbit Жыл бұрын
Wow! This vodeo is so underrated (for now). Loved this video.
@Geo197Plus
@Geo197Plus Жыл бұрын
New facts. Really interesting video. Thank you for your hard work for creating this wonderful video.
@mariojoao395
@mariojoao395 Жыл бұрын
0:57 The two contries which have "x" in their names are Luxemburg and Mexico.
@dimitrosskrippka2154
@dimitrosskrippka2154 Жыл бұрын
I worried that San Salvador was missed from list of capitals having same names as countries, but it indeed technically doesn’t contain El Salvador
@kelsealautner505
@kelsealautner505 Жыл бұрын
well it had bassau
@shiyang2030
@shiyang2030 Жыл бұрын
Also for countries with similar names, check out The Commonwealth of Dominic and The Republic of Dominica, both located in the Caribbean area
@potatoespotatos
@potatoespotatos Жыл бұрын
On number 7: you forgot about Brazil's (spelled Brasil in Portuguese) capital, Brasilia :D
@kleberschenk
@kleberschenk Жыл бұрын
Actually, the word "Brasilia" means "Brazil" in Latin. I think Brazil is the only country whose capital has the name of the country itself in a language that is not official in it.
@amychen3508
@amychen3508 Жыл бұрын
This is on of my favorite videos. Love how excited you get about some of the facts :)
@sammycool1653
@sammycool1653 Жыл бұрын
Peru and Fiji are two countries whose capitals are also 4 letters Capitals which contain their country names should include El Salvador/San Salvador
@lewiswoz7296
@lewiswoz7296 Жыл бұрын
great video :)
@tldr7730
@tldr7730 Жыл бұрын
The guinea pig is not originated in either of the Guineas, but named after it´s price in early modern english - 1 Guinea, the coin that was named after the Region - western Africa - where the used gold was mined.
@Tylersgaming24
@Tylersgaming24 Жыл бұрын
Mexico and Luxembourg 🇱🇺 🇲🇽
@alexroberts771
@alexroberts771 Жыл бұрын
Should have mentioned Slovakia and slovenia in the part on simarlarly spelt countries. Not only do they differ by two letters, but both are members of NATO and the EU, both use the Euro as their currency and bot have red, white and blue in their flags 🇸🇰 🇸🇮
@pobelix5803
@pobelix5803 Жыл бұрын
Another fun fact: The Vatican has two popes per km²
@Republic_Flight
@Republic_Flight Жыл бұрын
Can you do a video about the disputed areas in the world
@thisislilraskal
@thisislilraskal Жыл бұрын
that would be cool but I can imagine all the hate & negativity in the comments section a topic like that would cause
@Republic_Flight
@Republic_Flight Жыл бұрын
@@thisislilraskal ok that's true
@lennydowntown9376
@lennydowntown9376 Жыл бұрын
Luxembourg and Mexico both have the letter X in their name.
@brontewcat
@brontewcat Жыл бұрын
Fun fact there is one country which contains the word democratic in its name, and is rated as being the most democratic country in its region. That is the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, which is the newest and is considered as the most democratic country in SE Asia. PS East Timor is what the country was called before it was established as its own country.
@brianarbenz1329
@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын
Monaco is listed on some info sites as having no capital city. Most of the government buildings are within the "quarter" of Monte Carlo, one of the five quarters within the nation. The term Monaco means the whole nation, but is also called a city-state. So what its capital city is can be debated.
@what_27
@what_27 Жыл бұрын
Cool!😊
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
I know Gambia don't like people not using The before its name, but otherwise Gambia and Zambia are also similar. You mentioned Niger and Nigeria but Slovenia and Slovakia also differ by only two letters...oh and Austria/Australia
@idosh1341
@idosh1341 Жыл бұрын
mexico luxembourg
@monzumaakter
@monzumaakter Жыл бұрын
The two countries with the letter X is Mexico and Luxembourg .
@IsaaacWithThreeA
@IsaaacWithThreeA Жыл бұрын
Before 1 hour gang.
@AndyGooglegd1206
@AndyGooglegd1206 Жыл бұрын
43 min for me
@dimitrosskrippka2154
@dimitrosskrippka2154 Жыл бұрын
50
@edplayssims
@edplayssims Жыл бұрын
56
@gouridixit4591
@gouridixit4591 Жыл бұрын
56 min...so guess i'm in😅
@debadityanath4398
@debadityanath4398 Жыл бұрын
I am here 59 min
@thrillseekers_united
@thrillseekers_united 10 ай бұрын
2:24 you should add Algieria for Algiers
@MalaysianPlayer19
@MalaysianPlayer19 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for teaching all of these facts in a better fun and entertaining way that school dosen't teach us in at all and for doing research on all the facts and for teaching us better than how school does
@thales-
@thales- 4 ай бұрын
2:14 you could probably add Brazil to the list, because "Brazil", in Portuguese, is spelled "Brasil", and the capital is Brasília
@sportschannel7278
@sportschannel7278 Жыл бұрын
Mexico and Luxembourg
@dumoulin11
@dumoulin11 Жыл бұрын
I'd always wondered where "Papua New-Guinea" came from. Thanks!
@danielszekeres8003
@danielszekeres8003 Жыл бұрын
Like New York is the new version of York
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
Well Papua is thought to come from Malay words meaning curly-haired.
@sammoninger6929
@sammoninger6929 Жыл бұрын
Mozambique is spelled wrong 😆 2:43
@hett1988
@hett1988 Жыл бұрын
In the section number 7, brasilia could be added to
@thisislilraskal
@thisislilraskal Жыл бұрын
Is that a typo on the map at the end of the video? = it says "Papau" or is it "Papua"?
@kriegwhatever
@kriegwhatever Жыл бұрын
Mexico and Luxembourg (countries with letter x in their names)
@itssomething1043
@itssomething1043 10 ай бұрын
As an Irish 🇮🇪 I'm glad to be in this video, twice!
@Geography_Master69
@Geography_Master69 Жыл бұрын
I already knew that meXico is the country with the biggest pyramids and also luXembourg is the richest country in the world, i knew both of those facts
@AppleAndroidstudio.
@AppleAndroidstudio. 11 ай бұрын
In fact #12 4:30 you have said countries with simular names and you didn't mention Slovakia and Slovenia! 🇸🇰🇸🇮
@sruthima88
@sruthima88 Жыл бұрын
Slovakia and Slovenia
@ChrisW101
@ChrisW101 Жыл бұрын
2:46 Mozambique misspelled as "Mozamibque"
@ravenx5004
@ravenx5004 Жыл бұрын
4:15 what about Russia....its area is 17.1 million sq. km and has 6 letters in its name ,,,,,,,2.85million square KM per letter
@Viktoria_Selene
@Viktoria_Selene 7 ай бұрын
hey I guessed mozambique nice
@sans1331
@sans1331 Жыл бұрын
2:43 you forgot about the *U* n *I* t *E* d st *A* tes *O* f america
@Pixelarator
@Pixelarator Жыл бұрын
2:42 mozambique*
@pknee219
@pknee219 Жыл бұрын
What about Niue for 4 letter countries?
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
Niue's status along with the Cook Islands is complicated but they aren't in the UN's list of 193 sovereign states yet (or two observer states, The Holy See and Palestine).
@bopax4317
@bopax4317 Жыл бұрын
It has 5 letters😅
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
@@bopax4317 Did you misread Niue as Nauru by any chance?
@redmath991
@redmath991 Жыл бұрын
all of us waiting for stan to come up are very sad now
@satyam._.poddar
@satyam._.poddar Жыл бұрын
Luxembourg and Mexico
@MalaysiaMapperandGamer
@MalaysiaMapperandGamer Жыл бұрын
There is one W Country and it is a Micronesia called Wallis and Futuna, I think
@10thDoctorWhoovez
@10thDoctorWhoovez Жыл бұрын
Wallis and Futuna is French territory.
@MalaysiaMapperandGamer
@MalaysiaMapperandGamer Жыл бұрын
@@10thDoctorWhoovez but it's still a Country
@tytsuw2320
@tytsuw2320 Жыл бұрын
@@MalaysiaMapperandGamer NO
@Lightmations2024
@Lightmations2024 Жыл бұрын
@@MalaysiaMapperandGamer THERE IS ONLY 197 COUNTRIES NOT 399 IDIOT STOOPID
@ranashohag7725
@ranashohag7725 Жыл бұрын
You can add Bangladesh as it contains it Languages in it's name which is Bangla.
@hkrohn
@hkrohn Жыл бұрын
That's quite common. Think about German, Thai, etc.
@chefnyc
@chefnyc Жыл бұрын
X is not a real letter. There are also a few “words” that start with X. Most other languages are just fine using “ks” for the same purpose.
@tldr7730
@tldr7730 Жыл бұрын
It is in many languages. Several languages consider the slavonic "ya" (looks like a mirrored capital R) not a letter, it´s even a common trope in english/US imagery to mirror any "R" in a word to make it look "russian". There are many letters that no exist in many other languages/alphabeths.
@monicagarciapedro5038
@monicagarciapedro5038 Жыл бұрын
4:12 You forgot Iceland…
@debbieanne7962
@debbieanne7962 Жыл бұрын
Countries with x in their name. I could only think of Mexico!
@DashQC
@DashQC Жыл бұрын
The other one is Luxemburg!
@alenalesgorancickrajnc282
@alenalesgorancickrajnc282 11 ай бұрын
Mexico 🇲🇽 Luxembourg 🇱🇺
@imhxll
@imhxll Жыл бұрын
United States of America also contains all the vowels of the english alphabet
@tldr7730
@tldr7730 Жыл бұрын
As the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" does. ;-)
@chiefpred9982
@chiefpred9982 6 ай бұрын
0:53 They are: Mexico and Luxembourg
@SissyFlower5
@SissyFlower5 6 ай бұрын
it took me forever to come up with Luxembourg because my brain kept helpfully supplying Texas. not in this century
@markgarin6355
@markgarin6355 10 ай бұрын
Australia and Austria
@pratheekarchitect52
@pratheekarchitect52 Жыл бұрын
What's in the name? Yeah a lot of facts😂
@FoxyEatingTacos990
@FoxyEatingTacos990 Жыл бұрын
Dont forget about french guinea
@oyibejames712
@oyibejames712 Жыл бұрын
There's a country named Yap u know 3 letters long
@shiyang2030
@shiyang2030 Жыл бұрын
"The People's Republic of China" also contains all 5 vowels, FYI
@lorrainepaugh6955
@lorrainepaugh6955 Жыл бұрын
Before 3 hours gang
@stevenmitchell764
@stevenmitchell764 Жыл бұрын
On the football topic the same goes for CYP - RUS
@PhantomYT558
@PhantomYT558 Жыл бұрын
the 2 countries are mexico and luxembourg
@zdl1965
@zdl1965 11 ай бұрын
How many nations ending with -stans are there?
@ZayZayvlogging
@ZayZayvlogging Жыл бұрын
Mozambique heya
@weirdsciencelaboxford1252
@weirdsciencelaboxford1252 Жыл бұрын
Xian. That's the proper name. We sloppily mispronounce it. But we have now corrected Beijing. We have now corrected Turkeye. Recognize Xian and employ it.
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
Too much fuss is made about this sort of thing. Most languages have consonant and vowel sounds that don't exist in English, for example, the "oo" sound in the French article "une" is nothing like "oo" in English. This means that the English ways of saying foreign words are only ever likely to be approximations of the original anyway. It works both ways and other countries will also have their own ways of pronouncing foreign names, and this can even differ between countries speaking the same language (British English: Van Goff, American English: Van Go, neither of which are much like the Dutch). As someone who lives near Shroozbree/Shrozebree, I can confirm that some places don't even have one standard pronuncation in their own country.
@gchecosse
@gchecosse 9 ай бұрын
He never even mentioned that place.
@Quickrage
@Quickrage Жыл бұрын
All continents ends with the same letter they begin with😮(america and austrailla)
@chandraathithan11
@chandraathithan11 Жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@Pixelarator
@Pixelarator Жыл бұрын
the 2 countries that have x in their name is mexico and luxembourg
@sammycool1653
@sammycool1653 Жыл бұрын
Timor Leste means East East
@charliemango
@charliemango Жыл бұрын
The X one was easy. Mexico and Luxembourg
@yovalyoval5412
@yovalyoval5412 Жыл бұрын
damn im the 400th like
@alansun70
@alansun70 11 ай бұрын
Luxembourg
@Gmackematix
@Gmackematix Жыл бұрын
1. United Arab Emirates is the longest country name that alternates vowels and consonants. 2. There is only one country in Asia that contains no letters of the word Asia. 3. Since Montenegro left Yugoslavia its internet domain has changed from .yu to .me. 4. The only country with "sofa" in its name is the United States of America. 5. Somalia and Romania have other countries in the middle of their names. 6. Mexico's full name is the United Mexican States. 7. The seas around Italy (Ionian, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ligurian) happen to begin with the first four letters of Italy. 8. Austria and Australia differ by only two letters but are named after two different compass points. 9. According to their full names Brazil is a Federative Republic, Guyana is a Co-operative Republic, Bolivia is a Plurinational State and Uruguay is an Oriental Republic. 10. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland happen to start with the four compass points.
@Reputationlover89
@Reputationlover89 Жыл бұрын
The country that has all five fouls is United States Of America 2:29
@ninbendoyt3203
@ninbendoyt3203 Жыл бұрын
5:49 see what happens when nigeria and germany play 😏 😳
@jeffmarion2040
@jeffmarion2040 Жыл бұрын
Fact #12 !!! What about Gambia & Zambia? NEVER forget the 😊 birthplace of Humanity… AFRICA!
@markokostelac7282
@markokostelac7282 Жыл бұрын
Congradulations
@JohnnyAngel8
@JohnnyAngel8 Жыл бұрын
I think it's called "The Gambia".
@dragorocky
@dragorocky Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t the “U-n-I-t-E-d St-A-tes Of America” count as using all the English vowels?
@dragorocky
@dragorocky Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t “ p E O ple’s rep U bl I c Of chin A” also use all the English vowels?
@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks
@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks 11 ай бұрын
4:14 AND DEUTSCHLAND
@alierkaleducation
@alierkaleducation 7 ай бұрын
2 countries that have letter X: Mexico and Luxemburg!
@DrakeLavenderZXShorts
@DrakeLavenderZXShorts Жыл бұрын
2:42 Y?
@ChasMusic
@ChasMusic Жыл бұрын
Got Mexico but not Luxembourg. Oh well. Is "kazak" a cheat for "Kazakhstan" (since kh is probably for one sound)? Hmmm, maybe not. Wikipedia says the original is қазақ, which appears to be a palindrome.
@sans1331
@sans1331 Жыл бұрын
2 countries with x in their name are luxembourg and mexico les gooo
@justiceramphetu1975
@justiceramphetu1975 Жыл бұрын
Peru
@carsongambaro
@carsongambaro Жыл бұрын
2 countries with X: Mexico Luxembourg
@drricorotinggo1840
@drricorotinggo1840 11 ай бұрын
Mexico and Luxembourg have X
@Xenj5
@Xenj5 Жыл бұрын
Swe den den mark W
@kreizidennis
@kreizidennis Жыл бұрын
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@kriegwhatever
@kriegwhatever Жыл бұрын
Mozambique has 5 different vowels
@judumontier
@judumontier Жыл бұрын
Indeed and it was also mispelled, with an inversion of I and B, which I thought was funny...unless the creator has dyslexia...then not funny
@poojaganeshwala7117
@poojaganeshwala7117 Жыл бұрын
Mexico Has a X😅♥️🏐💚
@suzannal9403
@suzannal9403 3 ай бұрын
And Tunisia has its name in the capital
@suzannal9403
@suzannal9403 3 ай бұрын
What about Z? I know what countries have Z in their names they are Mozambique and Azerbaijan
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