Another likely disappearance could be Moldova uniting/joining Romania. With increased threat from Russia, Moldova may want to unite for protection, economical, historical and cultural reasons.

I never thought I’d say this but I genuinely think an independent Ireland could be united within my lifetime, which if you’d asked me even a few years ago I would have laughed at the idea.

If Belgium broke apart, it would be in four parts: Flanders joining the Netherlands, Valonia joining France, the German communities joining Germany and Brussels being a European Capital District under direct control of the EU.

As a Taiwanese person, it will be impossible for the Prc and the roc to unite peacefully without riots, annexation, or coups.

As someone from one of this separatist regions of Spain I am feeling quite disturbed by that part of the video. Despite that, I don’t think that there is a big nationalist movement in Andalusia since I have never met an Andalusian separatist in my hole life.

Bougainville (the upcoming new country) is going to be independent not next year but on 2027

It's going to be hilarious if the uk falls apart and all that's left of it is England or England+Wales. Colonize the entire world and end up left with a quarter of your already tiny land mass

Unification of Romania and Moldavia leading to the independence of Gagauzia and Transnistria is also a real possibility.

Belgium is very likely to disappear. The political situation is very tense, and Flanders want independance more and more, deeming that helping Wallonia costs them too much among other arguments. Wallonia couldn't hold on on its own and would have to join France in this case. Brussels would be a problem though, a french speaking capital in Flanders territory. Both would fight to keep it.

We faced a sort of separatist movement here in south Brazil some time ago. Some people from the 3 southernmost states have created a trend that says "The south is my country", wishing to to gain independency, but nowadays that movement kinda died out.

Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands are both very mountainous nations and are thus far above sea level. I'm pretty sure you mixed them up with Nauru and the Marshall Islands. Same energy as Austria and Australia, but it happens lol And there is definitely nobody advocating for a peaceful union of Taiwan with China. The pro-China Kuomintang party's popularity has declined, the CCP doesn't have a presence on the island, the ruling DPP advocates for Taiwan independence, and their constitution claims the Mainland as theirs...if you want to reunify peacefully, this isn't the way to do it

If Flanders and Wallonia get absorbed, I'd expect Brussels to turn into a city state. I can see Brussels becoming part of Flanders, I don't see it becoming part of the Netherlands. Might just be me tho

One fact you forgot to mention about the first example - China really is considering Taiwan as the part of the state, but Taiwan is also considering China as the part of one country lead by them, currently "occupied" by communists (and also they take Mongolia as not independent but part of that country)....

Unification of Romania and Moldova is a possibility too 🇷🇴🇲🇩

Another possibility of reunification or breaking apart could be Puerto Rico by either becoming independent or joining the US as the 51st state

There has been talk over the years of Western Australia seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia, most recently during the pandemic with W.A instituting the hard border closures with the rest of Australia. It would be financially viable given the mining revenue generated in that state and a poll in 2020 gained 28% support to secede. It is interesting to note that a referendum to secede in 1933 was successful but never implemented. As an Australian I wouldn’t like to see it happen but if the people of WA choose to do it then good luck to them. I think it would be a complete waste of time as the cons far outweigh the pros.

The Andalusian independence movement is barely a thing anymore. In the 80s it was a bit relevant, with around 10% you could say. The main problem is that those parties tend to form part of bigger alliances, like United Left, and nowadays United We Can (which Unied Left is part of), so they also used to have voters who weren't Andalusian independentists. Not the same thing can be said about the Basques or the Catalionians. The Basque President has been from the Nationalist Basque Party since 1979 (with the exception of 2009-2012), and in the last elections in 2020, between they and Bildu (a Left Wing independentist party) they got 67% of the votes, literally two thirds. The Catalionians are around the same, with the Catalonian President being from an independentist party since 1977 (except for 2003-2010), and in the last elections in 2021, 51% of the votes were for one of the four parties for independence.

Before making any comment on Iran,please be patience and let me explain Iran for you; The first thing that you get wrong is that being an Iranian means that you are ethnically Persian (although we technically don’t have Persian as a single ethnic group) I’m ethnically Lur,but I’m Iranian,that’s same for a Kurd,Balooch,Arab,Mazani,Gilak,Azeri,Turkmen or Talysh, You see,the point is unlike some counties, Iranian nationality is not linked to a specific ethnic group, All these ethnicities in Iran have lived together for at least 11 centuries, and Iran has been like this since the first time it unified under the Median Shahdom (2700 years ago) Unlike what many think, we have always called our country Iran and identified selves as “Iranian”, take the book Shahnameh written by the great poet Ferdowsi,or any poem from any poet from anywhere of Iran,even places that are not today part of Iran,even though they’re from thousand(s) year(s) ago,when nation-states didn’t exist,you realise us Iranians living in this geographical location called Iran(used to be bigger),despite our different ethnicities identified ourselves as “Iranians” and that’s really unique if you take a look at the majority of other countries existing in the world. Currently there is a anti-government protest going on in Iran,after the two nationwide anti-government protests we had in 2018 and 2017,this is the third largest by far,until now there has been ongoing protests for days in; all ethnically Lur provinces,both ethnically Arab and Lur parts of Khuzetan province, city of Neishapour in Khorasan,ethnically Azeri city of Ardabil, ethnically Kurdish city of Kermanshah and parts of metropolitan Tehran.In all those cities and provinces you hear the slogans “we will die we,will die,but we will take back our Iran” and “(people) Don’t be afraid we are all together,(government) be afraid be afraid we are all together” These slogans were heard all across 29 provinces of Iran in November of 2018,and Iran has only 31 provinces… Doesn’t that illustrate anything to you?..

As a foreigner living in Spain, my subjective impression is that the independence of the Basque seems more justified from a cultural perspective, while Catalonia it seems more economical rather than cultural, there isn't even a big difference between Catalonia and Castilian languages and for the little Spanish history I know, they share quite a lot of common history and culture.

i live in spain, more specifically in andalusia. and things are not that bad, except in catalonia and as of what i can see in my daily life, galicia and andalusia are very united to the kingdom of spain and not wanting to separate, as far as i know

6:20: No, Vanuatu and the Solomon islands will certainly NOT disappear due to rising water levels, both are highly mountainous. Neither is marked on the adjoining map.

Northern Ireland, like you say, is going through a hell of a time. I just wish that, whatever happens to it, it happens peacefully, but I'm not optimistic. (And the problem with people like me, however well-meaningly, saying "I don't care about the border question as much as I care about peace" is that it incentivises sectarians on both sides to threaten violence to get what they want on the border question...)

Fun fact: The president of Republika Srpska stated that if kosovo gains full independance from serbia, he will annex all of his territory to Serbia, thus taking away a big chunk of Bosnia and giving it to Serbia.

6:18 Me who lives in Maldives: oh, hm, interesting, WAIT A MINU-

The part about independence movements in Spain was kind of shallow and misleading, specially when grouping Galicia and Andalucia with the Basque Country. Those 2 regions have a strong identity, but their independence movements are non-existing when compared with Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Vanuatu and Solomon Islands are both mountainous island nations, they are not in danger of disappearing even if all glaciers melted.

Well, Belarus being just a region of Russia sounds doubtful, but Belarus and Russia are officially building the Union State, integrating deeper

4:26: “D.R. Congo” My brain for no reason: D O C T O R C O N G O

Good job avoiding the hot topic of the moment, I was waiting to see how you would manage it and I was disapointed... but very happy, if all politicians were this diplomatic we would all be at a better place.

Never heard anything about the East African Federation. That will be interesting if it happens.

Je me suis abonné depuis longtemps, continue comme ça, you make greatful videos

Thank you for your videos! The Andalusian independence movement is almost non existent and the Galician one never went over 25% (and that was a long time ago). The Bask movement is quite strong, although it seams to have calmed down lately.

The situation in eastern Europe is so fluid right now that if (or when) the Lukashenka dictatorship is over thrown the end result can not be foreseen.

The East African Federation will be more like an EU institution. Not losing of countries.

A bit late, but one topic you mentioned that I haven't seen talked about is the Sudanese question. No, South Sudan is not gonna reunite with Sudan. The decades of conflict and genocide perpetrated by al-Bashir's regime have caused enough of a rift that South Sudanese do not want to have anything to do with that nation. Especially since the current leader, al-Burhan, is basically just a toned down version of al-Bashir. Another reason is that the vice president, Hemetti, was directly responsible for leading and organizing several rebel groups which operate to this day in South Sudanese territory with support from the Sudanese gov't (note: South Sudan also supports a ton of rebel groups in Sudan, specifically operating in Darfur, Kordofan and the Blue Nile regions). Third reason, and one of the most important ones, is that there's still a ton of unsettled disputes between the two nations. Most notable are the regions of Abyei (South Sudanese territory occupied by Sudan) and Heglig (Sudanese city and oil field occupied by South Sudan), along with some other regions and places. These areas have kinda entered a deadlock, where no one really wants to do anything for fear of another full-scale confrontation like happened in Abyei during the independence period. As you mentioned, there's also the issue of politics and culture. The entire reason for why South Sudan separated to begin with was the ridiculous oppression of the region (which is majority Christian due to not really being controlled by Egypt back when it controlled Sudan) by al-Bashir's regime, which banked on using Islamic extremism to gain popularity with other majority Arab states and also with the majority Arab population located in Sudan. There were two brutal wars fought because of this, and the regions were always distinct even when looking at ethnic composition, which is a major thing in African politics. And as a last reason, I'd add the most classic of problems - greed. South Sudan has A LOT of oil. It's one of the main reasons Sudan never wanted to let go of the region, and fought so hard to keep it (although it failed). South Sudan wants to keep these natural resources for itself, and despite the complete incompetence of the government to actually use the money to better the situation in the country, it is still one of those things they realize they need for their own wealth and future. Sudan has a history of taking that oil and then not giving any money to the region it took it from, which would most definitely happen again were the two nations to be reunited. One only has to go back to 2012 and onwards to see the constant disputes between Sudan and South Sudan due to Sudan stealing South Sudanese oil, which has to flow through Sudanese pipelines to reach the port where it is sold and shipped. So all in all, the two Sudans will not reunite anytime soon, definitely not in our lifetime.

the Flanders Wallonia problem is more a joke and an idea then a practical plan haha greetings from Belgium

Although your accent isn’t perfect, you don’t sound like you’re struggling to speak French, good job and great video btw

Doulingo won’t be very happy with this

When your country isn’t in the list: *visible relief*

cant wait for the new map updates

That was a superb piece of analysis. Thank you so much for taking the time to make it. We're all so caught up in the short-term of international affairs that it was incredibly welcome to to be reminded that there's more going on in the world. Thank you again.

1:40 as a French, your accent is really funny to hear haha

Good vid

It’s so annoying when people don’t include countries because they are far away like Australia, Western Australia (An Aussie State) voted 45% to leave Australia.

Taiwanese here, and regarding the united or merging option, I can't say it's utterly impossible. There are 2 major parties in Taiwan, the current biggest opposition party KMT, or Chinese Nationalist Party, somehow gradually are infiltrated by the CCP for decades and was now more prone to be united with China, even if it comes with being ruled by CCP. in 2014, there was a so called Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, which was against the ruling party of Taiwan to sign the treaty to dampen bilateral trading. That ruling party, KMT, was eager to strengthen Taiwanese economic dependence on China. Lots of evidence also showed that KMT politicians wanted to help China rule this island to let them hold on to the power to this island. I think it's suffice to say that scenario is not unlikely.

I wouldnt underestimate switzerland. Germans speaker dont see the french speaking part as real swiss people meanwhile the french speakers feel discriminated and if you look at what the strongest parties are and how the votings end you can see a clear difference between the german speaking and french speaking part. The german speaking part is also more catholic and more conservative meanwhile the french speaking part is more atheist but also with many protestans and more liberal.

In Spain we have various types of nacionalism: For example Catalonian, Basque, Aragonese or Galician (every one has their own language, and parties qant the independence). Others lie leonese want only to be separeted from Castille and Leon community, being the autonomous community of Leon. And some other like "El Bierzo" search to join Galicia and become a the fifth province, or a the new one in Linea de la Concepcion (Cadiz). It´s a hard situation

As a Belarusian, I can confirm this. Some of Russian propagandists are already speaking out towards "reunification". Like Tigran Keosayan, who during the protests said that "if people would be protesting with Russian flags, we'd be like to help them". And back in 10's there was a diplomatic conflict between Russia and Belarus because of some Russian parliamentary said that "there is no Belarus, but 6 regions of Russia". Besides of that, dozens of Russian nationalists support the idea of annexing Belarus, as they are considering the whole nations to be made up by the Soviets in order to split Russia. Belarus future is really uncertain because of Lukashenka's pro-Russian views and Russia tending towards territoal expansionism. Let's hope Belarus would survive those crazy times. I'd rather live under somewhat independent Belarus under Lukashenka than in "six regions of Russia".

People are being so ambitious in comments Calm down no one is gonna unite and disintegrate except some genuine cases

Tu parles très bien français l'ami. You speak really good french friends. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Can you make a video about state recognition and the derecognition process of states?

I love how educational this is

I am Catalan and I am proud to be spanish, as a country we have gone through a lot, but we always persevere, viva España!

im kinda disappointed that new jersey isnt on this list. we could really do with its sudden disappearance

I'd like to hear your ideas about West Sahara/Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. I don't really know much about the history of the conflict, and I think with the recent talks between Spain and Morocco that would be an interesting topic.

Actually Polar caps melting is not the main reason why the sea levels are rising. Due to the air temperature increasing every year it will warm up the ocean, water expands when their is more heat and this expansion will lead to ocean levels to inevitably increase.

Alright so i say that saying my country (Maldives 🇲🇻) isnt sinking but that has a very less chance of happening right now, might happen in many years from the future.

Belarus-russian union state is actually a very old concept it started in early 90s, so its basically as old as the independent country of Belarus itself and the border between belarus and Russia is already much more open than, say, between Russia and Estonia in similar vein unrecognised states of Abkhazia and south osetia may also join Russia soon-ish I've been to Abkhazia and I can tell you that people there not only speak Russian but even use Russian rubles as currency despite formerly being part of Georgia and not being internationally recognised as independent from it

gonna screenshot the world map before the new update hits 🔥🔥🔥

The Island of Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz literally has an ancient Seaport now under water on its north-east coast. Cities are going to be lost.

I don't know/don't think that the Galicia uniting with Portugal is a possibility, but historically, Galicia and Portugal shared costumes and similar languages and traditions. I do think It's unlikely, but a possible referendum is Galicia in the future might decide it.

Cyprus should unite first, high time to unite

I think partitions and annexations in this day and age are highly unlikely and people shouldn't make fanatsies because these things(especially for nuclear countries) would lead to big wars

As a Spaniard, I'm 85% sure catalonia is never going to become independent. A lot of the people who consider themselves "separatists" just don't know what they are talking about, and a substantial amount of Catalonia's funds come from nation wide taxes. I don't think they would be able to survive long, also counting the fact that joining the EU would probably not be an option, since the EU has an unanimous vote entrance system.

Indonesia has a little potential to breaking apart since separatism of West Papua still be a threat for Indonesia integracy

If Bosnia and Herzegovina fell apart, it wouldn't be due to the people themselves. It's the way the country's leaders divided it. For example: look at Croatia above it. Divided into 21 counties, with each one having a major city as it's "capital", and the capital of the country Zagreb being it's own administrative region. Unlike that, Bosnia was divided into two regions: Republika Srpska, with a Serbian majority, and the federation of B&H. Also Brčko district, which is just there to connect the regions, as Srpska is divided in two pieces, and the federation has a little exclave of itself above Brčko. With the border gore of the regions, it's obvious that the country was divided ethnically. That was because of the Bosnian war, where Muslim Bosnians wanted their own country, recently independent Croatia wanted unification with it. The Serbians in Bosnia wanted to stay with Serbia a.k.a. the federation of Yugoslavia. The division helped to make the militants and rebels happy, and they also have three presidents, one Croatian, one Serbian and one Bosnian. Now it just sparks nationalism. The country needs to refurbish itself and divide itself into cantons or counties, and have an election of one president, where the ethnicity isn't important. The nationality problem here doesn't make sense, and it's been going on since WW1. To put it simply, every Croatian and Bosnian has Serbian blood coursing through their veins. And every Croatian and Serbian has Bosnian blood in them, as well as how Serbians and Bosnians have Croatian ancestors. Everyone has been mixed with everyone, there is no pure blood Serbian, Croatian, nor Bosnian. We have been in the Balkans for over a millenium, and everyone mixed with everyone, but we still Jill each other over the question of ethnicity.

water level rising has little to do with ice melting, most of it actually is caused by thermal expansion

Well if Northern Ireland and Scotland leave, they’ll have to put Whales on the Union Jack.

Belarus is not moving away from Europe. It would need a catastrophic tectonic event for this to happen.

Nothing feels better for Portuguese people than to talk about Catalan.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING PLACES RIGHT!!

General Knowledge: Maldives will be under water Me: Huh, Whats the maldives Me 1 second later: Wait, I LIVE IN THE MALDIVES

French is also my dream language that I wanted to know but I already know some words!

I don’t recognize the Beijing government’s claim on Taiwan. I recognize the Taipei government’s claim over the whole China

Muito boa pronúncia dono do canal!

We had to watch ur video of treasure island in school and I don’t care it’s just nice seeing a KZfaqr that u know about at school

Flemish people, you are welcome to join with us. Love, a northern neighbour =)

Well russia refused to annexed Belarus cause they want Belarus to exist as a wall state to divided Russia and the west bloc

Do part 2

The independence movement in Galicia is negligible and in Andalucia I doubt it exists at all.

Those Chinese people who escaped to Taiwan in 1949 and their descendants actually make up the majority of those who support China's annexation of Taiwan. However, a good portion of them have also grown to identify Taiwan as their home, and value the ideals of freedom, liberty and democracy over their ethnic lineage. The rest of the Taiwanese people, mostly Taigi and Hakka speaking Han Taiwanese who has been on the island prior to the end of WW2, as well as the indigenous Austronesian peoples, mostly prefer Taiwan to remain at least de facto independent if not fully independent.

I don't think the Northern Ireland situation is about more catholics in the north. I think both sides of the border have become more secular so the initial division that existed between the two sides has faded.

can someone tell what to do when i cant go to watch videos and always says (Something went wrong Tap to retry) pls tell me what to do plsssssss

I live in maldives and the capital (malé) is protected by huge rocks preventing it going underwater

Bougainville actually already had the referendum, they will become a sovereign nation in 2027

0:47 spain gonna get the pain

The first scenario happened to England, Scotland, and Wales in 1707, except they accidentally annexed each other

The background music is the Radetsky march?

0:52 duolingo be like:

Imagine California & Texas independence.

Another possibility of Union/merge may be Northern Cyprus with Cyprus or Cyprus with Greece (since they are the two Hellenic countries of the world).

3:40 what is this march called?

Hawaii should be independent, but I don't see that happening

Another example of a country that might break into smaller countries is the Philippines. Currently there is a lot of internal chaos in the country.

A referendum is more than likely to happen in South Africa in 5 years times where the "western cape" is seeking independence away from the rest of South Africa. The movement is up to 1 million people at the moment, when it reaches 2.5 million a referendum will take place. Though it will be a tricky situation as it's not a straight-forward, I guess the same as Catalonia and Spain

Hellas is classical Greek and modern Norwegian. The present endonym is Ελλάδα (Εlladha)

East African Federation is the most interesting one to me

I could see North Korea become an autonomous region of South Korea. But instead of South Korea being called South Korea and just name it Korea. Then you make South Korea the superior country in charge of both Korea's but with North Korea as an Autonomous region of Greater Korea. And that way the Kim Family is still technically in charge of their region "Country". Then over time Autonomous region of North Korea will eventually dissolve into a province of Korea. Also turn Korea into a Federation with Seoul as the Capital of Korea, Busan as Capital of the province of South Korea and Pyongyang as capital of the province of North Korea

5:58 link of the map please

Flanders does sound a bit hilarious for a name for an area, and image if there's a new capital named 'Diddly Doodly' And the owner is Ned Flanders.