Du Mu (杜牧) once wrote: "Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it"

My wife is Chinese and she was laughing throughout the whole video at the translations. She salutes your bravery to pronounce them but still laughs

2:42 The "xia dynasty" is not the ancient xia dynasty 5000 years ago. It refers to the Tangut kingdom, which was referred to "western Xia" in China. When the Mongols conquered it, they created this province called ningxia, short for xia di an ning, which means the land of the western xia is pacified.

Just immediately thought of Shanxi and Shaanxi when he uploaded this

I have to point out a major error, xinjiang does means new land, yet its name is from the general Tso左宗棠(yes, that general tso )‘s written letter to Qing dynasty emperor Qianlong, as he just have just taken major victory defeat yapub bek and retrieve xinjiang from colonist Tsar Russia. Therefore in his letter, he wrote "他族逼处，故土新归"(the foreigner have expelled, ancestor's land newly returned), therefore, xingjiang is the abbreviation of "newly returned land" also another reason that ruler at that time adopt this name is because even thought this land is ancestor's old land to Han Chinese, yet the ruler at that time are Manchurian, for them, anyland newly acquired from han are called new land. at that time, even guizhou province were temporarily called xinjiang, too. xingjiang is not newly accquired land for Chinese, In han dynasty (around 200 bc), this land was conquered by han wu di. At that time, Han dynasty was in a humiliating tready with xiongnv by paying huge amount of wealth and marrying out princess(heqin) every year, in order to be safe from xiongnu's attack. until han wu di sucessfully drove xiongnu all the way to west. and established xiyu protectorate (current day xinjiang) in tang dynasty it's called Anxi Protectorate. the reason why I'm so serious about this name is because I'm from the western region of china, we have the heroic story of 13 heroes triumph to yumen, Guiyi Circuit who use defend anxi and eager to return to the motherland Tang dynasty. my family lived here before other ethnicity even exist, calling this place newly acquired is kind of insult to my ancestors. Sorry for being angry, it just doesn't feel good when foreigner trying to deny my culture's existance. For example, uyghur only exist after fall of huihu Khaganate, which comes from oigur people during sui dynasty. It's more than 600 years later than han chinese enter xinjiang, yet I don't know why foreigner's always thought they are native and han chinese like me are invader？ it's like saying native american taken the america's land that belong to white american, it's just logically doesn't make sense.

I would really appreciate, if you could add the original spelling of a name in the native language/alphabet in future videos. Especially for Japanese and Chinese names, it's good to see the characters, because they give the meaning of the name. Just seeing the romanized version makes it harder to see the origin.

2:37 The Xia here refers to the Western Xia Dynasty centered around that area, not the OG Xia dynasty. 3:58 The Shaan (陕shǎn) in Shaanxi refers to a location in modern-day Sanmenxia prefecture, Henan province known as Shǎnyuan. 4:57 Although the name Tianjin has a longer history, the name was sealed in 1404 by emperor Zhu Di of the Ming dynasty. Thus it is commonly believed that it’s the Heavenly Ford because the son of heaven aka the emperor used it. 5:11 It’s named calm/tranquil because people don’t want it to flood 5:52 There are couple hypotheses, the most popular one being the two celebrations are 1. prince Zhao Dun of Song Dynasty was granted the land of modern-day Chongqing 2. He later became the emperor. 6:05 Huīzhou, not Guizhou. 6:46 Not, it refers to the Yangtze River. The name Jiangxi is an abbreviation of the Song Dynasty subdivision 江南西路 （Jiangnanxilu, or Jiangnan West Circuit, lit. the western circuit south of the Yangtze River). There was also a Jiangnan East circuit but that name didn’t stick. 7:23 The Guang in Guangdong and Guangxi refers to the Western Han dynasty Guangxin county in modern-day Zhaoqing prefecture, Guangdong. The county is located near the border of the two provinces. The Guang here means the wide spreading of (imperial) virtue. The two provinces were newly incorporated into the empire back then and were sparsely populated.

Xizang (Tibet). Apparently means “western treasure land” or “treasure vault to the west”, cool name

Is it me or is the audio very quiet?

Thanks for trying but you did butchered some of the name pronunciations Content wise, it's fine. It makes more sense if you can understand the Chinese character and not just read them through pinyin. Interesting thing to note is that Tibet is the only one on this list of names that isn't translated from Chinese pinyin. Tibet in China is known as Xizang. Xi is west, Zang is a term came from ancient Tibetan empire.

hey from Guizhou, (pronounced: Gway joe). I've hear the Gui Mountain theory of the origins of the name before. But it also can be directly translated as "Expensive Province", which could be seen as referring to the fact that the mountainous terrain has historically made travel in and out of Guizhou, along with trading and development notoriously slow and expensive

3:17 It's a new type of "however" punctuation for clarity: you surround the however statement in a high and low pitch "however". Love it x)

The only ones I knew before this was Shanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet because I've played quite a bit of HOI4 where they are independent nations. I also knew the municipalities of Beijing and Shanghai because they're pretty well known cities.

Pronunciation errors (Part 2): 5:13 - sh is really a combination beetween r and s, d is an unaspirated t 5:20 - He is pronounced with a schwa as the "e" 5:27 - Si is pronounced without the i, only s, and ch is the hard version of zh (aspirated zh, zh is a constrained ch or ts) 5:44 - ch is the hard version of zh (aspirated zh, zh is a constrained ch or ts) 5:54 - b is a sp without the s (unaspirated p) 6:00 - ui is actually uei, same aplies to iu, which is actually iou 6:05 - Q is an aspirated ch, G is pronunce like a sk without the s (unaspirated k), and the said name is incorrect, not only it isn't zhau, is zhou, zh is a constrained ch or ts, but it's completely wrong and the right name is GueiZhuei 6:09 - j is pronounce like a ch and it's not jang, is jiang 6:12 - jiangjing, it's jiangning, and it isn't zhau, is zhou, zh is a constrained ch or ts 6:15 - sh is really a combination beetween r and s, 6:28 - j is pronounce like a ch 6:42 - X is sh always, never j 7:02 - G is pronunce like a sk without the s (unaspirated k), ui is uei, zh is a constrained ch or ts and ou is not au 7:10 - It isn't gyu is (s)kuei 7:11 - yu is pronounce ü, like in german 7:23 - G is pronunce like a sk without the s (unaspirated k), X is sh always, never j, d is an unaspirated t 7:46 - j is pronounce like a ch, it isn't zhau, is zhou, zh is a constrained ch or ts +17 errors, 31 errors in total

Bro, how do you misspell county? 0:29

06:05 Anhui, comes from the name of "Anqing" and "Huizhou", not "Guizhou"

At 3:38, shaanxi is pronounced as sha'an xi, the 'an' being seperate from the sha.

Tibet in Chinese is 西藏 Xi Zang: Western Zang Province (I believe referring to the Zang people or the Tibetan people) Jilin 吉林: Lucky forest Also you have to realize that using the latin lettering does not represent the full meaning. There are a lot similarities in province names and a lot of geography terms are used in province names mixed with local tradition. You hear jiang (江）a lot as well as He (河)....it will help if you had the Latin lettering and Chinese characters so you can see the similarities.

I feel genuinely bad that he had to pronounce all of these names without knowing (Mandarin) Chinese to begin with hahaha. But I applaud your dedication, it's mostly pretty close!

this vidio is verry usefull

This was great, thank you!

What the hell he say at 1:55? “Fervor is my guiding light in all this?”

tldr, rivers, mountains and sometimes lakes;)

The Xia in ningxia do not meant the xia dynasty, instead it means the western xia , a tangut kingdom existed in that region during the Song Dynasty.

Hey, your videos are awesome, but your volume is always very low. I don't know why exactly, but I have to raise everything to 100%. Would be nice if you added 1 or 2 dB at least :)

My favorite Chinese food is Chongqing chicken. Love when it’s super spicy. So delicious

I don't know if anyone else told you. But in Pinyin zh is pronounced like something between the g in garage and the j in Joe, there's no s/z sound. Guangzhou become guan'joe as an example.

Will we ever get Brazilian states?

i love how the empties parts are the bigger as it is nothing worth there

Think you can tell me where the name SHATON comes from??

What travels in the ocean and occurs in the human body? Explain what does vessel mean? Add to that the word vase, it seems to be part of it.

Liaoning is named after an once nomad dynasty, called Liao, in the that region.

River, lake, sea, mountains

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can you do Germany next?

Most of the pronunciation mistakes are understandable, but why does Heilongjiang have an extra syllable? I know pinyin can be confusing though, so I appreciate the effort.

Xinjiang was also the frontier of the Indo-Europeans because the Tocharians lived there!

Pronunciation errors (Part 1): 1:51 - Xingjiang's j is pronounce like a ch 2:09 - G is pronunce like a sk without the s (unaspirated k) 2:15 - zh is pronounce with the theeth blocking the air while saying a ch or ts 2:36 - Ningxiao isn't Ningxia and X is sh always, never j 2:42 - X is sh always, never j 2:45 - It isn't Aning, is An Ning 2:48 - Hei isn't Hi, j is pronounce like a ch and The name isn't 4 sylables (HeiLongJiangJiao), is HeiLongJiang 3:02 - j is pronounce like a ch 3:05 - Is wula, the wu is never reduced 3:31 - Q is an aspirated ch 3:39 - j is pronounce like a ch and sh is really a combination beetween r and s, X is sh always, never j 4:13 - He is pronounced with a schwa as the "e", is Huh(s)pei not Hipei and b is a sp without the s (unaspirated p) 4:27 - j is pronounce like a ch, b is a sp without the s (unaspirated p) 4:45 - j is pronounce like a ch 14 errors

Cover the divisions of Japan 🇯🇵.

heee bei lol 😂

I was just watching loawhy lol. What a coincidence when this came out!

I'm from Guangdong Providence, formerly Canton

early bird gang

How did Taiwan get its name

all the malays including me are here

So, AN means south.

“It’s not these broad titles we’re interested in today.” Speak for yourself

I wish i were your Chinese fact checker lol

A lot of mistakes

chinas provinces, more like china pronounce these provinces names

Cool, no views, no likes

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Top notch, world class name butchering! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

You missed Taiwan. Despite all the political argument, it is legally a province of Republic of China, for sure a part of geographical China.

Kinda difficult to understand what you are saying at times and I am English. Also you pronounce many of the province names wrong.

Awesome People's Republic of China

The million dollar question: Will he include Taiwan?

Isn't Tibet its own country?

Tibet is no more part of China than Iraq is part of the United States. Occupation does NOT constitute ownership.

I'm not sure why, but this channel has the lowest audio of any channel I ever watch.

East Turkestan, Southern Mongolia and Tibet won't be happy about how you didn't recognise their independence.

Long Live the People's Republic of China

These place names suck.The ancient place names in historical records are much better.

I think Taiwan should've been included in this video, because officially it is the Republic of China and both it and the People's Republic of China agrees that it is a province of China

I am just a second language speaker of Mandarin, but your pronunciation of Chinese is even bad by my standard. Sorry to say that.

Thank you for not making Taiwan apart of the Chinese map 🙏🙏

Breaking News: Hubei officially changes its name to Covidia to let the world know that it definitely wasn’t created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

台湾在中国吧？

A lot of mistakes