Whoa. No idea why there's like 32 extra seconds of nothing at the end of this video. Must've rendered it weird. Oh well ENJOY UKRAINE'S FLAG/ FAN day! It's gonna get U-KRAI-ZY!!! And Jonas from the Sweden episode guest stars in this epsiode! Enjoy!

As a Kenyan I love the design of the Ukrainian coat of arms.

Thank you so much for the compliments Jonas! 😍 Have been waiting since Christmas for you guys to read my postcard 😉😅

A little correction on the red-black flag: it's actually older. Red-black banners were used in cossack times and can be seen on several paintings, even on the Repin's letter to the sultan

Our flag and Tryzub are so beautiful! 💙💛 Thank you for this video!

As a Crimean Tatar, just TYSM for mentioning us 🌷 P.S. And yeah, there are much more of us, than 70 thousand. In Ukraine itself there around 500-600 thousand and unfortunately, thanks to Russia during last a couple of centuries, there are more than a million Crimean Tatars around the world, especially in Europe. Because they simply had to immigrate since harsh and severe conditions, that Russia created for them over and over again

Love and respect to Ukraine from Azerbaijan

Love Ukraine from Malaysia 🇲🇾♥️🇺🇦

Love Ukraine from the U.S 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇺🇦

I love that flag its so simple yet so iconic

I know due to political climate and all that has been happening in Georgia but you did miss adding Georgia in the friends zone segment for Ukraine. We've been vocally supporting Ukraine since day 1 despite our current governments' relations are quite... "Interesting". As people we know what they've gone through/are going through and we deeply love the country for their fierce people and colorful culture. We stand with Ukraine 🇬🇪🤝🇺🇦

Antytila is not known only in Ukraine but also in most of Europe. In Estonia for example, he is legendary! He is amazing

12:48 come to Moore, just south of Oklahoma City, where some of the more infamous tornadoes come through

I actualy really like the Ukraine flag yeah it's simple but thats what i like about it love from Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦❤️🇺🇦

love ukraine from georgia

The demographic data you provided (80% Ukrainian origin and 17% Russian origin) actually INCLUDE Crimea and the occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. These figures are from the 2001 census, and if you exclude Crimea and the occupied territories, the percentage of people of Russian origin would be significantly lower (because Crimea and Sevastopol were the only territories of Ukraine where the majority of the population was of Russian origin in 2001).

Hi, one small detail. Photos of planes are switched. An-124 Ruslan has four engines and An-225 Mrija has six engines and "whale tail".

Hey, Barb, the red'n'black flag wasn't quite originated in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It was a long-time Cossack banner alongside with the blue-yellow banner.

Most countries put symbalic colors and symbols on thier banner, "red for blood, blue for indurance" and then there's Ukraine which is just: Sky,Field. That is why ukraine is my favorite flag.

Make a scandinavian episode and even other regions of the world episodes, it will show how several countries work together through history. I'm following you since the France episode (I'm french) and your videos are awesome. But sadly I can't imagine that the videos about the countries of the world will finish, I hope you will still do videos.

One thing you overlooked in the previous video: Easter traditions (pysanky and paska). Also, you probably should've mentioned Okean Elzy in the music section.

زنده باد اوکراین 🇺🇦❤️

Thank you for doing my country! 💛💛💙💙

Pray for those who died in War🙏🙏🥺🥺

By the way, Red and black flag (we also call it a combat flag) was used by Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, you can even see it in the Illia Riepin's painting "Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan".

The red and black flag was also used during the Galicia Massacres against Polish and Jewish population during WW2 by UPA and OUN.

Red and black flag was also used by Cossacks, It was drawn by Repin in his work Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Never stop making Flag Fridays. Always loved them from the start

Thank you for your work! Glory to Ukraine!

Also, when blood gets on our blue and yellow flag it turns red and black, literally.

i am kazakh and i love urkaine! i lived side by side with russians and ukrainians and we always coexist in peace! Politics aside!

interesting fact. if the blue-yellow flag gets soaked with blood, it will turn to red-black. This year we have seen this in practice.

3:10 Not only against the Soviets but also against Polish ethnic minority in Ukraine, "Volhynian slaughter". To this day when we Poles see this flag we feel discomfort but we understand that for most people in Ukraine flag is not associated with that event.

I was hoping to see Taya Ukraine in those episodes. Love to Ukraine from France 🇫🇷❤️🇺🇦.

Yes please make a Scandinavia episode, I would love that as a filler week topic, overall, those are great

Gloria a los heroes de Ucrania 🇲🇽❤🇺🇦 Es bastante curioso saber que Barbs tambien habla Francés y un poco de Español ❤

Fun fact, pick ordinary ukrainian flag and spil some blood on it, it will become red and black. Red and black flag is often called the "war flag"

If Barbs does make a Scandinavian region episode, id love to see a Baltic region episode.

Just like Ukraine today, my country was attacked by separatists supported by two neighbouring countries. Ukraine helped us Macedonians by donating 12 beautiful Ukrainian attack helicopters, which helped us win the war. Thanks to the Ukrainian people, God bless you. Macedonia will never forget you. SLAVA UKRAINA!

3:56 *TAMGAS* 😎

4:29 Three Fingers Salute for Myanmar and Thailand 🇹🇭🇲🇲III🤝🏻🇺🇦

As a midwesterner I would like to point out that Oklahoma is considered a plains state. Going nado chasing does sound like a ton of fun though! The OKC area is a magnate for some big tornados too. I personally would suggest checking out Extreme Tornado Tours, it was founded by Dr. Reed Timmer in 2008 and they mainly stick to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Enjoy and stay safe!

Thank you for your work! 4th video about Ukraine on one of my favorite youtube chanels is like a gift!

yes to the Scandinavian episode! I'd love especially to see a lot more focus on the Sami people 💙

Long Live UKRAINE!!!!! LOVE MY UKRAINIAN BROTHERS!!!! 🇲🇽🇺🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇲🇽

One thing about the red-black flag and its highly problematic association with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA is that after UPA ditched the Nazis and started fighting against literally everyone, they were also fighting against the Polish partisans from the Home Army or AK and committing brutal massacres of local ethnic Poles in western Ukraine, especially the Volhynia region. This is all extremely nasty and complicated stuff, as there arguably were legitimate grievances that Ukrainians had against Poles (that in no way justified UPA's actions). Some Polish partisan units engaged in revenge-killing of Ukrainian civilians (on much smaller scale, and without the approval of the AK command), and after the war, the Soviet-controlled Polish communist government committed the "Operation Vistula", which was an ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians from the south-eastern corner of modern Poland. At the same time, there were cases of reluctant cooperation between Polish anti-Communist partisans (mostly formef AK members) and UPA, despite that they were most viciously fighting each other just before that. So yeah, there is a lot of ugly historical drama between Polish and Ukrainian peoples, and despite what you said in the main video, it's much more recent than the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and we haven't worked it out completely yet. But I think it makes current Polish-Ukrainian cooperation even more remarkable and gives me hope for the future.

Man. Such a cool flag. A trident ready to skewer evil.

Love Ukraine from Austin Texas, USA in hopes world peace and freedom in the world will be the new normal one day.

I dont know why, its really subjective, but the combination of yellow and blue is so beautiful!

Great to see that my postcard arrived!! And great attempt at the Danish, Jonas 😆 and yes, I am Danish and I do drink 😂 greetings from København

Raise your hand if you've been watching Geography Now for a long time🤚

Hey Barbs, I’m a huge fan of this channel. Thanks for putting out excellent videos again and again. I am sure you guys work really hard to make it happen. I hope you keep doing great, world exploring content for a very long time. You have a great cast too! Shout out to Keith, Noah, Hannah and the rest.

Just imagine had the mongols didn't burnt down Kyiv... Wait then that would mean Ukraine would be Russia because Moscow would be a small town or a medium town.

Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, according to Omeljan Pritsak, was the name of a Khazar khagan of the mid 830s. He led a rebellion of the Kabars against the Khagan Bek. As this rebellion took place roughly contemporaneously with the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism, Pritsak and others have speculated that the rebellion had a religious aspect. Omeljan Pritsak speculated that a Khazar khagan named Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, exiled after losing a civil war, settled with his followers in the Norse-Slavic settlement of Rostov, married into the local Scandinavian nobility, and fathered the dynasty of the Rus' khagans. Nevertheless, the possible Khazar connection to early Rus' monarchs is supported by the use of a stylized trident tamga, or seal, by later Rus' rulers such as Sviatoslav I of Kiev; similar tamgas are found in ruins that are definitively Khazar in origin.

Hey Barbs love your videos. First episode I watched was the egypt episode in 2016. Keep up with your videos Barbs.

Nice job. I also became your fan by knowing so much from so many countries.

SLAVA UKRAINI

I'm from Ukraine, these lollipops reminded me of my childhood. We ate these in childhood.

Thank you for Great Work!

Дякую, друже!

Some additional info about Ukrainian Insurgent Army: they were active during 1942-1960, the main goal was to regain Ukraine's independence on all theritorries, where ethnical Ukrainians lived. They were fighting not only with the Soviets, but also Nazis and Polish resistence movement (Armia Krajowa). UIA initially were waiting until Soviets and Nazis exhaust each other. Important to note, that after Holodomor (1932-1933) and mass repressions done by the Soviet army and government, Ukrainian resistence movement was ready to use anybody's help to fight Soviet occupiers, hence the so-called "collaboration" with the Nazis. Hitler actually promised Ukrainians, that if they help fight the Soviets, Nazi Germany will help regain independence instead. At that time that seemed like a good deal, even though UIA didn't support any of the Nazi's views.

You can and even SHOULD include Crimea in the territory/demographics etc of Ukraine. It is legally demanded to include Crimea into the map of Ukraine b/c it belongs to the territory of Ukraine internationally recognized ☝️

Glad you liked my postcard from Antarctica barbs! I’ll shoot you an email in the morning, but spoilers, it’s really difficult to get down to the Ice! 🇦🇶

Dude - the flag on your sweatshirt is wrong, blue should be on top and yellow on the button.

Have you heard of the pysankas (Ukrainian easter eggs)? They're all so unique and beautiful.

Clarice Lispector, one of Brazil's most famous writers, was actually born in what is now Western Ukraine. Her family fled to Brazil when she was a little over 1 year old. The more you know :D

The tryzub is pretty cool.

I need that Scandinavian episode ASAP!!

Glory to Ukraine

Slava Ukraina 🇺🇦 from 🇪🇸

Funny how much Scandinavian stuff appeared on the fanmail since I'm on exchange in Norway right now! Maybe I'll send my own bit of fanmail if I find cheap postcards

Funfact: This video was posted at 13:05 in Ukraine

I would love a scandinavia video, not just comparing the different languages and stuff, but hopefully you will look more into the many dialects and see how they compare and influences on them

3:00 These guys even had a song about the meaning of the colors of their flag "Прапор червоно-чорний це наше знамено Червоний це кохання, а чорний - пекла дно" (The red-black flag is our banner, The red stands for love, and the black for the bottom of hell)

Hi Barbs, Are you going to update the information from the older episodes? The newer episodes have more segments and it would be cool to see a throwback to earlier episodes.

extra fact: the yellow at the bottom of the flag also stands for sunflowers which is a popular national symbol

We also had a project of a large coat of arms, where the tryzub had to have a supporters: A lion from the left side (symbol of Lviv, Galicia-Volyn principality and Western Ukraine in general), and a Cossack from the right side (symbol of Zaporizhzhya Sich, the Hetmanate and Eastern Ukraine as in general), but currently, there is no official approval of this project from the government

Peace to Ukraine from Armenia 🙏

Actually the red and black Ukrainian flag goes back at least several centuries. Both red/black and blue/yellow flags were used by the Zaporozhian Cossacks. You can even see them both in the famous Repin's Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks painting.

Thank you from Nikopol (Dniepropietrovsk oblast)

I know you've already made a Finland episode but if you make a Scandinavian/Nordic Episode I'd be very happy if you include Finland :DD (and in that case Iceland as well)

Love from 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

Very funny you mention Steve Morse, I always wondered after the Switzerland episode when the montreux jazz festival was covered what the deal with Steve Morse was. Montreux has booked a massive list of artists who are household names that could have been mentioned but who is Steve Morse? 🤣Pat Metheny was a bit of an obscure reference also but big Pat Metheny fan here so not going to knock that one 😅

Hey barbs! I'm currently in cardiff, Wales for about 8 months of the year for uni and Cornwall, England for the rest of the year. So when you come visit the UK I'd love to show you round wherever I am when you are here. If I'm in wales could go to some castles. Cornwall there's plenty of stuff to do like visiting the tin mines and trying some cornish pasties

YES we want a Scandinavian episode. PLEASE

Happy Ukrainian Flag Day!! 🇺🇦 PS. Crimea is Ukraine.

I am one of those few guys who watch the flag/fan day video and skips its actual geography now episode.

I'd totally be down for a Scandinavia filler week episode!

3:29 u left out what happend in woyln

I’m shocked that there most comments were nice in the video 😅would’ve expected it to be your most controversial episode so far

Thank you for your hard work ❤

I believe it says a lot about nation ground when you need only two color or three fingers to show where you are from

Super cool video, thank you for doing such a great job, just one detail, it's Odesa not Odessa (it's russian version) :)

Please do a Scandinavia video @GeographyNow greetings from Denmark👋🇩🇰

1 more episodes till the UK episode.

Fun fact: The same flag (but different coat of arms) is also used in Lower Austria, a federal state of Austria.

Beautiful flag ❤️ Glory to the heroes!

Awesome video as always, Barbs! One relevant question I have is why do some people use "the" before Ukraine? Like "I am from The Ukraine" or "Let's talk about about The Ukraine"? People don't say "I'm from The Russia" or "The France" but people do say "The USA" so I can relate.

you could make a great teacher very interesting to listen

i havent kept up to date on these since around maybe the Netherlands? when did flag/fan friday move?