Fun fact: the most popular president ever was in fact Charles D B King of Liberia, who was elected with 1590% of the vote.

There's a joke about the fat fingers of the British officers that drew the Israeli-Egyptian border with a ruler.

Northwestern Maine only has a handful of private logging roads, and *literally* no one lives there. Between the Golden Road in Seaboomook Lake to Dickey on the Allagash River, there's nothing but woods, lakes, and moose fucking. There's less than 100 people (permanent residents, not counting people with summer camps there) that live in that massive space. It's also all mountains, so it's not a simple place to just *build towns*.

hmmmm so no one is gonna talk about the air fryer porn?

"Australiasia" is what we were taught to call the continent.. I grew up in Australia.

That part of Angola separated from the rest is called Cabinda! The reason it's separate is because Cabinda once had the Congo River as the only natural boundary with Angola, but in 1885, the Berlin Conference extended the territory of the Congo Free State to the river's mouth. Modern Cabinda is the result of a fusion of the three kingdoms of N'Goyo, Loango and Kakongo. The Portuguese arrived at the mouth of the Congo River in the mid-15th century, making contact with the Manikongo, the powerful King of the Bakongo tribe. Over the years, Europeans established trading posts and small palm oil processing factories in Cabinda. Trade continued and the European presence grew, resulting in conflicts between the rival colonial powers. Between 1827 and 1830, the Imperial Brazilian Navy actually maintained a naval base there! Portugal first claimed sovereignty over Cabinda in the 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco, which gave Cabinda the status of a protectorate of the Portuguese Crown under the request of the princes and governors of Cabinda. Reserving rights to the local princes and independent of Angola. However in 1956, Cabinda was transferred to the governor-general of Angola. When Angola was declared an "overseas province" within the empire of Portugal in 1951, Cabinda was treated as an ordinary district of Angola. Those in Cabinda felt betrayed and so in 1956, secessionist groups formed in Cabinda for Cabinda independence. In 1975 however, under Angolan pressure, the Portuguese recognized Cabinda as part of Angola.

Iraq's borders are the result of combining the Ottoman vilayets of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra under British administration after World War I. So the reason Iraq has such a small coastline is because of the Vilayet of Basra's borders. For the Iraq-Jordan border, the British also gained the southern half of the Vilayet of Syria (roughly what's now western Jordan). This latter area was contested between the UK, the Arab Kingdom of Syria, Zionists in the Mandatory Palestine, and Ibn Saud of Nejd (what would become Saudi Arabia), resulting in a confused period in which the region was essentially an ungoverned space. Eventually in 1921, the British declared a mandate and created the Emirate of Transjordan, under the semi-autonomous rule of King Abdullah I. No precise boundary between the Iraq and Transjordan mandates was drawn at that time. The location of the border between Transjordan and Iraq was considered strategic with respect to the proposed construction of what became the Kirkuk-Haifa oil pipeline. It was first set out in December 1922, in a treaty to which Transjordan was not party to, the Uqair Protocol between Iraq and Nejd. Iraq and Jordan's northern frontier with the French Mandate of Syria was fixed during the period 1920-23 by the Paulet-Newcombe Agreement, and eventually an Iraq-Jordan border consisting of a single straight line was agreed upon by an exchange of notes between British and King Abdullah in 1932. However in 1984 they revised it, as they realized that in 1973 Iraq had accidentally built an airfield on the Jordanian side, the Ruwayshid Air Base. In 2003, this base was abandoned by the Iraqis after the US-led Coalition captured it.

Yup, Bosnia and Herzegovina indeed has a small 20-kilometer/12-mile-long coastline, so it's wrong when people say it's land-locked like the Bosnia "I wanna swim" meme! The Neum corridor dates back to the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, whereby the Republic of Ragusa was separated from the Dalmatian possessions of its rival Venice by two buffer zones ceded by Ragusa to the Ottoman Empire to prevent the possibility of Venice invading via land. The Karlowitz borders were reaffirmed in 1718 by the Treaty of Passarowitz, but then the Ottomans, tired of negotiating in vain with Venice for a widening of their maritime access, simply usurped the territory of Gornji Klek and most of Klek from Ragusa, which it had bought from King Dabiša of Bosnia at the end of the 14th century. After the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Austrian Empire, which had annexed both the Dalmatian possessions of Venice and the territory of Ragusa, tried to buy back the Neum and Sutorina enclaves from the Ottomans, but in vain. Instead, it stationed a warship to block access to the port of Neum until the Treaty of Berlin, which gave the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary in 1878. When Bosnia became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the government ignored the borders it inherited and Neum became part of the Littoral Banovina and Banovina of Croatia. But under the socialist government, it became part of Bosnia again. Thus cutting off the southernmost Croatian exclave from the rest of Croatia. However the Pelješac Bridge which opened in 2022 helped make it easier for Croats to reach the rest of Croatia by not having to enter Bosnia & Herzegovina.

11:20 They tried giving that part to Lithuania, but they refused, because it had way too many Russian people living there.

I request that those who say a country has "bad" borders be invited to redraw them while the citizens of both countries involved are watching.

16:39 wtf

It seems to me that the whole Prussia becoming Russia thing is completely understandable. Someone probably said to Stalin " All we have to do is delete the Ps from the signs"

Yeah Sweden took Skåne, Halland and Blekinge from Denmark and Germany took South Slesvig and Holstein. Thats just okay now. But we are some who still wants them back!! 😂

Funny enough there is actually a New Ireland and it’s part of Papua New Guinea, for a moment there I thought you’d notice it when you started talking about PNG! A long way from Maine to be sure…

4:20 Hexagons are the Bestagons.

Chilean here, can you guess which political parties dismantled the railway system and have been against building a HSR system for the longest time?

Yeah, but that land in Canada's gonna be prime real estate once the current ice age ends!

6:46 Hey Toycat, I'm an American and do indeed call Australia a continent. But it's not just renamed Oceania. Oceania is just a region larger than the continent of Australia. Continents are based on tectonic plates, and Oceania isn't all 1 plate. No one refers to all of Oceania as Australia. We all agree what Oceania and Australia are, we just disagree which one counts as a continent.

There are plenty of weird internal borders also. Some of them are due to a border being defined as "the river" and over time the river's course has changed, so there are little exclaves of states, like the airport for St. Joseph MO not being reachable by car without driving through Kansas. There's also just generally freakery like the DE/PA border and the "natural" part of Ellis Island being New York, but the "reclaimed" part they built up by dumping dirt in the river is New Jersey, because the dirt CAME from New Jersey.

4:14 👀🎨🇦🇹

6:49 I believe the term is supposed to be “Australasia” though that has of course been often mistaken as “Australia”

But Kaliningrad WAS indeed connected to the USSR via Lithuania

The fact that Senegambia was a thin at one point makes its border more understandable. It didnt work out

I liked this video, not for the accurate information (because it wasn’t lol) but solely for the toycat energy 👍

About Kaliningrad, maybe Poland and Lithuania would take it, as USSR proposed it to both of them, but problem was that russians imported thousands of russians there, and neither wanted to have large russian minority, thats just inviting trouble.

6:00 we do actually have high speed trains :)

This video sucked, and I'm glad. It's like one of the old videos, but crummier.

"Chile's very very very very very long and thin" - Jay Foreman, Map Men

I want to play this version of Family Feud

Fun fact: Chile could have had the entirety of Patagonia

4:18 France is Fry.

Nova Scotia mentioned

Nice vid

As someone pointed out below, that part of Maine where a road connecting Quebec to the Maritimes would logically go through is a part of Maine traversed only by private logging roads and no one lives there. I would add that most of the land is privately owned by lumber corporations and special permission is required to enter. For more information look up "Maine North Woods." Also, because of the way Ontario dips south into the lower Great Lakes most people from Michigan or points west who need to go to Buffalo or western New York will enter Canada at Windsor, Ontario and drive up the 401/403/QEW to Niagara Falls or Fort Erie and then re-enter the U.S. as the all-American alternative around Lake Erie is FAR longer.

Good video.

16:39 💀

Poland always gets the short-end of the stick. 🇵🇱 🤕

Tectonically speaking Indonesia is NOT Australia. Well, a little bit in the East is I guess. Look at the geologic record and you’ll see that.

10:55 *Germans and Prussian Lithuanians. There's a reason why it's historically known as Lithuania Minor. Currently, Lithuania only owns a portion via Klaipeda and Russia occupies the other half

The borders of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and what ever happened between Fribourg, Vaud and Neuchâtel

Indonesia is in Asia, not Oceania.

i'm irish 💀 2:14

Ibx:the strangest parts of Indonesia are Borneo and Papua New Guinea Timor leste:👀

Im Iraqi and when we learned how to draw our borders we just imagine a duck

Papua New Guinea is in Australia or in Asia? O.o I know Indonesia is in Asia.. but Papua New Guinea I have no idea. O.o

@13:45 "Who are we to say you can't invade your neighbor...?" 🇬🇧 🧐 Yes, indubitably, British citizen--who *are* you to say you can't invade your neighbor...? 😒

there's a old rumor of a story about haiti and the dominican republic - when splitting up the island a spaniard and a frenchman met on the beach, and said we will walk in opposite directions, and where we meet again on the beach, that's where we draw the territory line. the frenchman drunk wine as he walked, the spaniard drank water. and that's why the spanish part makes up two thirds of the island.

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6:00 My guy, we do have high speed rail now! Our current president ran on a platform of Trains for Chile and we now have the fastest trains in South America

Borders have been fluid asing ad there have been borders. This modern idea that we should be getting involved in border disputes on the other side of the planet is misguided at best.

13:05 air fryer porn showed up when he hovered on the tabs 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

bro i was just watching your other video !!!!

KZfaq. Collects. Data. For. The. First. 15. Minutes. Of. The. Video.

Saddam troll 😂