The first.

Czechia

So which name do you prefer Russia or Russian federation, srsly, they just made (noun) second official name when first was (adjective+republic)

@@aisir3725 *The first*

Czech Republic. Czechia doesn't fit very well for me.

yeah woww

maybe the second part is needed.

East Pakistan was only a region of Pakistan and only become Bengladesh when it became independent of Western Pakistan

I found three more: Gold Coast to Ghana French Sudan to Mali Ottoman Sublime State to Turkey

Maybe he should have been clearer than 'here is a few of the countries that have changed their name' in the video.

Cube8 in Poland we say :Czechy , Republika Czeska

In German we usually say "Tschechien" and not "tschechische Republik" and I dont know if it was ever different after the separation of Czechia and Slovakia.

In north macedonia we say češka or czechia, I've never heard of anyone adding the "republic" in the end

Same in Sweden ("Tjeckien")

True

you are right, i'm also suprised !

Cool breeze. Siam changed to Thailand.

And the USSR changed to the Russian Federation, Chechnya, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan,

United States of Indonesia to Indonesia only.

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ITS ESWATINIII

Hey now...its Confoederatio Helvetica

You can ski in Swaziland, and Switzerland offers skiing safaris. I’m assuming you meant this? Have fun! (This is a joke for all of you idiots out there)

Swaziland has ice???

and british guyana to dutch guyana, later changed to surinam

Da homey???? The homey????

Republic of China to Formosa to Taiwan

Burma-->Myanmar

The Island has been Called Formosa and Taiwan. The country has always been called the Republic of China.

Ou burma to Myanmar

or zaire to d.r. congo

Or Republic of the United States of Brazil to United States of Brazil to Federative Republic of Brazil

@@victorluispadilha5111 Brasil tem nem graça velho kskdkdkslslsk

koala1203 I think Siam never changed its name. Siam is an exonym and the Thai people never called themselves Siam, after the revolution in 1932 they simply started using Thailand in official documents without ever going through a name change like Persia.

When I was in America, I, an Australian, met a guy from Austria. We then met a Bermudian guy who asked us if we knew each other before getting to America because we were from the same country. We had such a good laugh in our respective accents. Bless his cotton socks. (For the record, no we did not know each other)

@@courtneylaine8112 aah Americans. They think Pakistan is in the middle East when, it's right next to China. Literally thousands of miles away.

When I was young like 8 I actually did confuse em

@@Darkest_matter Your FIRST mistake was thinking that this guy is American. He CLEARLY is not. Second, your "literally thousands of miles away" logic is flawed. Mumbai is "literally thousands of miles away" from Hong Kong. Yet, they're both in Asia. So, there's that. -_-

ah yes Slovakia and Slovenia

why

@@LBRF1_ in the siSwati language, like other Ngunu languages, uses prefixes aswell as suffixes to show the relation of words to eachother

@@thefitness.gram.pacertest no, that’s not the question. why won’t i see you again?

and i saw u today so

@@LBRF1_ ooohhhh well u probs just wont see another comment of mine

Turqoise Ketchup I sure do wonder where this guys from

I often wonder what would it be if the King or Queen would return so it would have to drop the repulic

What about pronauncing Czechia as "Shekia"?

Paweł Kulas That triggered me too but I don't mock people because of their accent and in this case I wasn't sure whether it's bad pronunciation or just his accent.

@@turqoiseketchup4414 Tzekia?

Burma to Myanmar

Zaire to Congo

Actually, DRC was at first called Belgian Congo. When they became independant, they changed their name to The Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the 1970s, the name was changed to Zaire. And then in 1997, the country became The Democratic Republic of the Congo once again.

@@emmayoung736 ...So, it's still "Zaire to Congo."

Yeah. But it's also Congo to Congo to Zaire to Congo

Its actually an irish flag backwards

Chad: *hOlD mY rOmAnIaN fLaG!*

@@Cjnw Chad really should change it, so it's less confusing. Also, the Romanian flag isn't very good in the first place.

@@mrbisshie what s wrong with it?

Upper Volta holds the old German Imperial Flag

So Formosan termites are Taiwanese termite?

Technically yeah

It's the Cape word only he's talking about I think

Verde means green

@@muhammadfarhan581 in romanian too

Nope. That Cape was named "verde" because of the color, sure, but later on it became the actual name of the place. Names, as you may know, are not translated. So, in English, it's still Cape Verde. The same applies for Rio de Janeiro, for instance. If it was actually translated, americans and the British would call it January River, but that's not the case.

Also "beyond the Jordan" highly depends on from which side one is looking.

No, Czechy means Bohemia, Bohemia Is just one of the czech lands, in Czechia Is Bohemia, (Bohemia Is in West of Czech rep.), Moravia (Moravia Is closer with Slovakia) and czech silesia (silesia Is closer to Polish silesia in Poland)

Also in the Netherlands is was always "Tsjechië" , which is the same as Czechy

@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 yes, but Tsjech...Is Czechia, not Czechy, Czechy (Bohemia, Čechy..) in netherlans means Bohemen

@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 Bohemia Is like Holland. Holland Is just a part of Netherlands.

@@lmaocetung So what is the difference between Czechia and Czechy? Is the second one plural of the first?

This counties got their independence, en that came with a name change. The video is about already indipendent countries that changed their name.

That would be the swazi king

I think perhaps "his majesty" may have been making a little joke: Its G0OD to be KING! (Mel Brooks)

swaziland is not Swaziland Its now called Eswanti

Swaziland changed Eswanti

Well, there are people that are confused by sweden and switzerland.

There are different countries. Dominican republic speak Spanish ,race 85% black and 15% white while Dominica speak English, race 95%black

Ok

@@atrillagaming7805 yeah u do

Dominica: Yes

@Lolrence thanks btw

They should rename their capital to Zurich

@@guidojansen6720 the swiss capital is Bern

@@thekrieg4251 Switzerland does not have a capital officially

@@guidojansen6720 Yeah but all their government building are in Bern.

@@abandonedchannel7277 that doesn't automatically make it a capital. Carefully read the Wikipedia page about Switzerland and you will see that Switzerland don't acclaim a capital.

Where is that?

@@AmharizzSri Lanka

Ceilão comes from the "páli language - _sihala_" meaning "land of lions".

Kalana Herath how does ceilão sound anything like Sinhala

Don't forget that Tamil people's are they are our brothers love from Indian Tamil (Tamilnadu)

Agree! It was named after the Swazis, a tribe. It's like saying do you come from Holland? No, I was born in Nederland! Gets right up my nose!

You mean eSwatini lol

@@RandyRandomson It is Eswatini on google maps, but yes.

If you're an og, you call it Swaziland

I think it doesn't

Also Zaire to DR Congo

Bengal to Bangladesh

@@YK-xh3ls Zaire was made up of 2 countries. Republic of The Congo and Democratic Republic of The Congo

Formosa to Taiwan?

Burma to Myanmar

Well he’s got an accent, so idk

I say shrekia

SearOtterFilms 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Savage...

It's my country!! In Czech is Česko = Czechia and Česká Republika = Czech Republic

he did the portuguese spelling, (he is portuguese), " chekia", is read "shekia" in portuguese , written chequia, or chekia, and said "shekia", the "chekia", is read "tchekia"

I never herd Upper Volta, but I herd Burkina Faso

@@moopybobsayhi6480 Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara.

He said he was doing a few not all

Is that a country? Never heard of it.

@@odanilooliveira of course it's country, you need to learn african geography😉!

LMAO

I see what you did there...

Lots of people confuse Switzerland with Sweden.

@@TrangDB9 portuguese for example use suiça and suecia (read suisa and suesia in english approx) for switzerland and sweden respectivly

Walle031106 PC In Spanish speaking countries a lot of people confuse Suiza (Switzerland) with Suecia (Sweden)

DR Congo -> Zaire (1971-98) -> DR Congo

North and South Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Zambia.

to be complete : before 1960 : Belgian Congo --> 1961 DR Congo-Kishasa --> 1971 Republic of Zaire --> 1997 DR Congo the Zaire part was part Mobutu mass name changes, to distant the country from it's colonial past in place names. Of course Mobutu was a dictator, so the country name change by him, got reversed after his reign.. ps, he claimed Zaire as a African origin name for the country, while it was some Portuguese for river , so just linked to an other colonial past of African countries.. While Congo, came from the Congo river, and an old same name African Kingdom that once existed. So Congo was always more real African then Zaire..

Doctor congo

@@pixiepandaplush i prefer Zaire, cause Congo to me relatated more to the time French minority dictated all in Belguim...

*Jас не сум геj* capital : my swamp

@@jadenramesh3505 xD SHREKia

Šrekia

Jaden Ramesh привет ????

Ti ne si gej

Joey Bird // why did they change the name?

@@Green-zw9pv because they changed their government from fascism to democracy

and then before zaire it was congo.

@@skinni153 Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Republic of Congo Léopoldville

It's a dare

I thought the exact same thing.

Me to like he said that so perfectly

Yes I think

@@EACArq i've seen some other videos and yeah, he's gotta be portuguese

Same thoughts

Stellar Kartograff Burma and Myanmar are both still used but ok-

not huge, just same word, different pronunciation. if you say it a burmese accent it is closer to mya-ma. just like sri lanka/ceylon

n o Still used but it’s officially now recognized as “Myanmar” while some people still refer to it as its former name “Burma”. Many people still refer to Mumbai as Bombay (Yes I know it’s a city) or Many people also refer to Ho Chi Min City as Saigon.

I'm a Burmese and I still prefer the name Burma.

@@mikemrod-7167 Lol The *capital, flag & country's name* were changed by the military government without popular consensus. One day when the military is no longer in power and the country goes fully democratic, all of these changes will likely be reversed. Burmese democratic leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi always refers to the country as Burma.

Never changed it was another name of Ethiopia

Well it was Ceylon up until 1972.

@@truebelief3631 I know. I think you completely missed the point I was making. What's next, a global map with the names Old World and New World on it?

Ya-Boi-CBlyth Rhodesians never die

I think Rhodesia applied to a bigger region in southern Africa, but yes you're right it should be mentioned (among many others).

@@5-Minutegeography Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, Nyasaland became Malawi and Southern Rhodesia became Rhodesia, which was shortly known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and then as Zimbabwe

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Taco ಠ_ಠ capital: my swamp

The guy in the video pronounced it correctly. He's a Portuguese native speaker.

@@MedK001 So you're saying the pronunciation of 'Ceilão' in Portuguese & 'Ceylon' in English is the same?

@@NikhileshSurve Compare 9:14 and 9:24 (where he's saying Ceylon in English) with 9:26, where he says Ceilão, in European Portuguese.

@@MedK001 Yes I suppose there's some difference that can be spotted there. But now if you read my comment again with the 9:38 time stamp you'll see my comment really isn't about correcting his pronunciation but about his question regarding the reason Portuguese chose that name. The pronunciation part in the bracket that I've mentioned (which seems to give the impression I'm correcting his pronunciation) is just to explain my comment from my point of view that Portuguese word 'Ceilão' probably comes from the mispronunciation of 'Sri Lanka' itself (which is the older name for the island) which they may have heard it something like 'Si lank'.

Similar to polish I can easily read it it says in polish dobry dzien which is good day

Same in Russian as well

In Serbian language it is "dobar dan" which also means good day

Dobry den

Dobryi den'

whoisaffiq @ You are absolutely right thanks to this idiot president we have !!

Not the first time either! The upright and moral North and the wicked and debauched slaveholding south.....

Jonathan Williams @ Your stupidity is blessed. Where would America be today had your southern friends wan the war ? Just think about it if your not to stupid to think ??

you have just made my brain die

Jonathan Williams @ My question is how stupid can a-hillbilly be ? Never mind I can see by reading your bullshit !! There is no limit to their stupidity !!

In 10 to 11 century it was Chola Mandala

Thankyou for this explanation my friend....very interesting.....i didnt know this......

1000 iq brain time

Every indian knows Lanka, Sri Lanka as Kingdom Island from Ramayana since 5,600 bce. In all Hindu scriptures.

Ceylon was pronounced "Si-LON," not "SAY-lon."

I think he knows that; he just has trouble pronouncing it.

he is portuguese, and in both portugal and brazil portuguese we say Shekia because in portuguese, people normally say República Checa rather than República Tcheca.

Or, you know, it's an accent. That's why so many names are pronounced differently in different languages

Same discussion here applies to his pronunciation of Cape Verde.

@@pinkywind1302 You're right about Portugal but wrong about Brazil. In Portugal we write República Checa (and 'ch' in Portuguese is pronounced as 'sh' in English) In Brazil they write República Tcheca, precisely to make the sound like "Cz", not "Sh"

Wth is serendip

Actually it is not Sri Lanka it is lanka after Ram visit Lanka to save his wife and killed ravan it name changed to Sri Lanka.

Foreigners call it Albania but we albanians call it Shqiperia

Sri Lanka or ceilao part of the Portuguese colonies formalities.

I had a stroke trying to read the hindu (?) word

finally i found a Bech. to Bots.

Hannodb1961 yes Malawi used to be called Nyasaland

Malaya to Malaysia

Upper Volta to Burkina Faso

Careful! Maybe I am wrong, but I feel we should establish a clear difference here: on one hand, countries that have changed their name from a colonial one to an independant one, such as Nyassaland to Malawi, North Rhodesia to Zambia, South Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and so on... and on the other hand, countries that have actually changed their name while being fully sovereign countries, such as Zaire to Democratic Republic of Congo (in 1997), Swaziland to Eswatini (2017), FYROM Macedonia to North Macedonia (2019) or even more recently Holland to Netherlands (January 2020). Being so, I understand the video is explaining only cases of fully sovereign countries, and not the ones that changed name when becoming independant. However, there are many cases still missing, like Burma to Myanmar (2010) or Republic of Venezuela to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1998), just to mention two.

Every time there is country name selection, like for example when you are choosing your keyboard language layout and you are scrolling through names. As someone from Slovakia, I often have to double check if I didn’t miss-clicked Slovenia. Because when you are scrolling you are usually only focusing on first few letters. So I can completely understand if someone does that mistake. Not to mention actual talking. Since I’m not native speaker all similar sounding words, just sound similar.

Stewie Griffin I mean they’re both mountain countries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@ColePenner it is no longer called Swaziland

Swaziland changed its name recently.

Play Dog hmm I do, in fact, already know this.

And republic of srpska

@bis225 Unlike The United States of America The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Bear in mind that when you shorten Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bosnia you are ignoring the entire region of Herzegovina, and the people that live there. it's somewhat like referring to the UK as just "England", and ignoring the existence of the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish, only somewhat more sensitive at the moment.

Bosnia I Herzegovina*

@@akoden2667 Bosnia and Herzegovina is the English name. Bosnia I Herzegovina is a made-up mix. Bosna I Hercegovina is the Bosnian name

Hugo 57k thanks for correcting me I’ll be sure to use proper name

Turkey was never called anatolia

Region is called Anatolia or Asia Minor not the state

Formosa means beautiful in Latin :)

Iraq has been always called Iraq. Mesopotamia was the name the Greeks gave it during the Macedonian empire, but it's name was Uruk, than transliterated in Iraq, just like Iran

Scotland was Albania

klopt

Maitsaire -> Hungary

Malaya To Federation of Malaya

dont include sabah...its ours (philippines)

No it's Malaysia now.

@@jameschristianarmada4434 Okay, keep claiming...

Spain: yes

Overused meme, i mean its an historic meme so its kind of impossible to be original but come on, the same memes over and over again

O fato de ter vindo da árvore não é a única versão

And in Van Diemans Land the Vandemonians had a bad reputations from being a penal colony and became Tasmania

@@lexneville6544 Isn't Tasmania named after Abel Tasman

HOW DID THAT ONE NOT GET TALKED ABOUT, HERE!?

ikr

@@jubileegabrielmateo7437 no

@@jubileegabrielmateo7437 its like calling Germany the German reich, its no longer an official name of any sorts.

loophole Germany is how english speakers call them not their real or official name

They did accept the loss. In 1988 they withdrew al their claims to the West Bank in favor of the PLO, and revoked the Jordanian nationality from the Arabs of the West Bank, who then became the Palestinians.

Pretty much every country is like that

@@gayvideos3808 nope, not really. These are complete word changes, not just pronunciation and a few letter changes.

It is called Nihon not niPPon wtf is niPPon?!

@@Bazinga3972 it's spelt Nippon, that's what it is.

شھران بلؤچ i can speak Japanese we call it Nihon, nobody says nippon.

Also Tyskland I believe 🤔

And keep in mind that Holland doesn't make up all of the Netherlands.

You just translated Germany into French and German. But it's still the same name.

What ?

But before it was Akmola, then Akmolinsk, then Tselinograd and only then Astana and Nur-Sultan.

TributesAndUnique Czech sounds like chick

@@LovePrayGame Only if you pronounce one of them wrong.

Brem still they are similar

Persia sounds good but CP sounds too formal.

Bohemia sounds cool, though.

but holland is a part of the Netherlands. Like Bavaria in Germany, New York in USA or Kosovo in Serbia ;)

@@thelastprussian6491 I’m aware but in the past, it was correct to refer to the whole country as Holland. It was not until semi-recently that the government „re-branded“ everything to The Netherlands mostly for tourism reasons.

@@hakon_brennus_wolff106 No that’s not true. When the Dutch began colonization and trade by ships practically all ships were sent from 2 havens: Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Amsterdam is located in North-Holland and Rotterdam is located in South-Holland. North-Holland is 1 of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. South-Holland is also 1 out of 12. But back then, North and South were still 1 province called Holland. So when these people went sailing, other countries would ask “where are you from?” And they would say Holland. That’s why so many languages say Holland in stead of the Netherlands. Later in the future North and South Holland split into 2 provinces which is the current situation. The Netherlands was never officially called Holland, and it was never right to say Holland when referring to the entire country. Not even in the past.

@@alaakalaf21 you're absolutely right. In 1579 it was the Republic of the seven united provinces, in which Holland was the most important territory, contributing about 60% of the state budget. In 1815 the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded, that also included Belgium and Luxemburg. Belgium broke away in 1830, and the country was named Kingdom of the Netherlands.

And what's the problem with calling the country out of its capital city? Mexico was named Mexico after the capital of the country and nobody is complaining!!

@@ortizricci Nothing wrong with it if the name of the country was the same name as its capital like the Mexico example you gave. But Iran was always called Iran and its capital cities were always given a different name. You wouldn't call the US Washington for example or call France Paris. Some people still call Iran and other Persian speaking countries Persia referring to when it was the Persian empire but the country itself has always been called Iran / Aryan

It was still called 🇸🇿 Swaziland in English

Mishor is the arab name, the original name is actually km.t, more commonly known as Kemet. Egypt comes from what the ancient greeks called it: Aigyptos.

That makes sense because when the Arabs conquered the Byzantine province of Egypt they changed the name but the West kept it in it's old form. Perhaps it's time for a change?

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 I'm not Arabic. I'm south Asian.

@@BamBamGT1 its actually masr in egypt and misr in fusha and most other arabic dialects

Kemet

@John Rambo Johnny, dude. The Trumpster call it "Jaina" as in vagina. He has a real problem with reality. I'm sure you know what I mean.

Nice

No it should be Chingto

@Trevor The Collector You mean 'your stupidity'? Also, can you respect everyone's opinion and stop throwing hate at people?

As you're the one getting offended, it appears that your stupid is showing.

*these kinds of videos

@@areez3433 *kind

My guess is that the guy making this video is a native speaker of Portuguese. It is extremely difficult for Portuguese speakers to say CH like most other people. I teach English to foreigners in the US and I have a lot of experience with Brazilians. I find it fascinating that in situations where we say Ch in English, they’ll say Sh, HOWEVER when they pronounce the letter T in most cases they say CH. For example 22 for a Brazilian person is Chwenty Choo. Laptop is lappy-choppy. What’s even funnier, is that they always try to convince me that they say everything right. Side note, the guy in the video also says YugoZlavia.

Good video, but for the entirety of that SHekian section my ears were bleeding

dont forget Shri Lanka

Oh lord it killed me hearing this part... č makes a different sound to š 😩

@@colinafobe2152 "Shri" Lanka is correct