Bosnia actually have 12 miles of coastline, however.

Bosnia has access to the ocean....

But no port

My home country

Bosnia and Herzegovina: then we will create a panhandle. Croatia:NOOOOO

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cringe

Italian king : what is afrika? Where it is?

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How ignorant. Typical.

@@akapam57 ? at least i dont follow people just because theyre the same race as me you pepega

Ok, so I apparently need to somehow cook some hot ramen noodles with a Namibia... Wish me luck!

yeah especially with India,since u can kinda see Bangladesh outlined there

Document d crunch g

Figure it out

@@hugolafhugolaf The tragedy is that you are injecting your own racial bias about Muslims into this discussion. Such malice serves only to add to the animosity toward Muslims which only creates further conflict. In addition to that just look at the history. GB had been colonizing countries around the world for hundreds of years. Hence many residents of many Muslim countries that Britain absorbed would emmigrate to the UK in search of better opportunity. And Muslims in fact served in both world wars. They are not going away so why not make an effort to accept their presence in the UK and elsewhere??

hugolafhugolaf Do you now that "hugolafhugolaf" mean's "idiot" in Swahili. You are IDIOT.

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 One simple reason: lack of general assimilation

@@carboncrafter793 That charge of a lack of general assimilation usually ignores the racist and marginalizing that Muslims often experience from xenophobic people who are ignorant of what Muslims are actually like as people. The Irish were mistreated in early America, as were American Indians, Asians, blacks and so on up right today by people who are prejudging Muslims without even knowing them as people. That has more to do with a minority not assimilating then anything else. Americans and peoples in other countries create a self-fulfilling prophecy because of their animosity toward the "other"!!

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I agree, UK should be accepting of muslim culture, FGM and honour killings for everyone YAY!

Like the Pope drawing a straight line on South America and saying Portugal gets everything east of here and Spain gets everything west of here.

It's probably an over simplification. I would imagine that there were a lot more deals than that, with money, political influence, trade, etc. Land in Africa was fucking precious, so the country giving up it's land wouldn't just go "eh what the fuck, the king of Italy said so, so I guess you guys can have it".

No one respected the lines anyway. =b

+James Mortished Yep, what this guy said ^

The Philippines has a really weird border.It only has straight lines even though you might think it is just an island connection border

Who cares 😅

@@ezzy__6831 i do

​@@ezzy__6831i do

I trust you're familiar with the state of Minnesota and it's way of fucking up the 49th parallel?

Just watched a video about how it's 900 smaller lines at different angles because surveying is hard.

@@AngelBolt CGP Grey?

Terms and conditions apply.

"Perfect"

bc its 3 panhandles and a disconnected peice united

Ikr!?

Well Bosnia for the most part used to be historically Croat land

Seth Alcott thank you you are the first person to make that joke that I’ve been waiting to hear

Bosnia: I want a coastline Croatia: Y E E T

why was he foreboden from traveling to italy?

@@-SPECIALISTDELTA- because in that time people in my country couldn't travel like now, only to specific countries and with a permision, Italy was one of the countries people couldnt visit

...oh right, the cold war. im dum (intentional typo)

Bro almost became the uncle who disappeared for milk

@@TheLordOfIran almost became an uncle from another world

Well yeah the wakhan corridor is the most densely populated region in central asia.

No, the DRC capital is in Congo central! (I think...)

MAPUTO, DAKAR, NIAMEY, BAKU, WELLINGTON ....Technically

What about *C H I L E*

@@DudeBro76 Chile doesn't count, it's a giant panhandle

Hrvat!

I have been in Croatia 3 times. It is a wonderful country!

Niga tata cez hrvata!!!

Good to know. I love Northern Italy, so that's on my short list for my next vacation. Since I want to visit Croatia too, that will give me the perfect excuse!

@@vanegabrijel2815 hrvat je tat

Well the colonial powers have been gone for decades, there's NOTHING to stop you getting together to reset your borders as you like.

Not only that but the arid deserts, being geographically isolated, and scarce resources can't help. I wish the best of luck to the Zambian people in preserving their democracy

@@twoshedsjackson6478 you know inheriting and then changing borders is not that simple

@@thingonometry-1460 Especially when it's easier to blame someone else for your own failings. If it hadn't been for the "colonial" powers arrival Africans would still be living in the stone age.

@@twoshedsjackson6478 power vacuum

😂😂😂

Now that you mention it, I see it.

Crazy am from the caprivi strip therefore this makes our family enjoy 3 nationalities namely Namibia, Botswana & Zambia

​@@imaan19832 What's crazier is David Livingstone naming that waterfall (ironically) after a woman who barely bathed.

Columbus

Haha

well technically you can go that way, despite what flat earthers will tell you

@@finnyoungman2674 only muslim believe in flat earth

@@bijendrakumar3546 not true at all, says it in the bible too

RARE PEOPLE RARE PEOPLE

HAHA LOL XD

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LionSquadGaming kinda looks like a geodude

The British fucked us up

LionSquadGaming i cant😂😂😂

Sebastian Dittgen hahaha too bad all those Germans colonizers didn't get on board of a boat for a trip to the Indian ocean.

They wanted to access the Indian Ocean to link up with their colony there of present day Tanzania. They also traded the island of Zanzibar for the Caprivi, with the British.

Sebastian Dittgen hey but that’s probably the only place Us Namibians have water

Aquarius1011 They also traded an island called Helgoland at Germany for Zanzibar

Ah no

The Senegalese in Cassamance have to travel across a foreign country to reach their capital city!!!!

Sad

What about the panhandle in Bosnia and Herzegovina that touches the Adriatic sea for 20 kilometers and splits Croatia in 2 parts?

+RealLifeLore Excellent video. However, you showed the wrong map of India. If Indians find out you're gonna get a lot of dislikes.

Ohioan Mapping Occupied* it excludes three regions Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Aksai Chin. Therefore the map is wrong

The element on your avatar is extremely radioactive

I SUBSCIRBED 5 MINUTES AGO

@@hugolafhugolaf That is an extreme over simplification and just like your comment about Muslims in GB in another comment is a reflection of your racial bias. Understanding is almost always enhanced by knowledge. Many countries were created by European colonial powers with no regard to the different tribal enities therein. The DRC Demacratic Republic of Congo is such an example. Forcing tribes into one country that have no mutual goals or language can create conflict. Add to that the centuries of slave trade and having their natural resources stolen from them and getting zero compensation in return. And then people like you respond with a judgmental attitude while giving no indication that you have any idea of the history. Get the picture??

@@hugolafhugolaf It's really not that simple. Foreign meddling is what has fucked them over big time. In a hypothetical timeline where colonialism never happened, Africa might have eventually see a "Alexander the Great" that unified large areas of the continent... or it would've looked like that ethnic map with literally thousands of tiny countries. Europe benefited from it's geography, leading to technological and social progress (albeit slow) over time. Africa was divided from this thanks to the Sahara, leaving them to their own devices. There was far less spread of ideas and cultures tended to be in a far more primitive state. A state European powers took advantage of.

@Adam Marcinkowski Looks like you are caught up in your own racial bias calling the black people "weak" for not protecting their homeland from invaders. Study history for a while because you sound extremely misinformed!!

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I checked the history, turns out the Europeans showed up with sticks and stones and took all of the rifles and steam engines away from the Wakandans...I mean Africans

@Adam Marcinkowski I bet you're the same type of person who complains about muslim immigrants. I guess your country is just weak for allowing them to "take over" as the far-right in europe claim

bacon

is tasty

And then they built better fences

Crazed Lions Music oversimplified

@@squidbro5764 yeah

They can't keep getting away with it!

@Skylanderweirdo Sorry you had to find out this way.

More like Belly fat :-)

@@drumroll7073 bruh it's China

Chile Anyways so-

Yeh specially British empire created paxitan which is cancer ♋ for Afghanistan 🇦🇫 🤔

How does immigration & customs work over there? What if... say due to a navigation error or engine trouble, your ferry ends up in the wrong country?

You drove over a river?

VanMaster Gaming Alaska is a part of the us though

VanMaster Gaming We bought alaska way back in the 60's im not so sure though.

It was bought way back when Russia was an Empire, not the USSR, the actual Russian empire in the 1800s. Specifically bought in 1867. But your a tid bit correct, Alaska became a state in 1959.

Well atleast i was close but not about when we bought it only when it became a country and that's why we have history

Fun Fact is, that USA buy Alaska from Russia for 10mio Dollars. Okay... back in the Days 10mio Dollars was far more than today.

It's left hand of india

It does actually

No it does not rocktard.

@@eliasziad7864 shut up

@@eliasziad7864 was that necessary? Was it ya lil’ jerk?

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homie this video is 5 years old

Not anymore. Recently India and Bangladesh swapped their enclaves with each other

Only a far few

It is still awkward...

That sounds like a subject for part 2.

I've seen that on Google maps. All I can wonder is who thought that was a good idea? Was it planned to be like that by Britain or was it established afterwards?

What do you mean?

No, this is Patrick! It’s a dictatorship

@@-Faris- They have a president tho

@Mime :3 RIP Congo. They were a colony of Belgium with slavery and now they have a dictator

It’s name is democratic, he isn’t calling it democratic

All those borders between states in Central Asia were basically created by Soviets, more or less according to the ethnicities that live there.

True

You’re profile picture 😂😂

That area is actually three different panhandles spiraling into one another. There also seem to be quite a lot of enclaves in the area. Quite the mess.

Please see part 3.

How about the simple fact that two of our states are thousands of miles away from the other 48?

Also, I live in Connecticut, and our northern border is pretty straight except for one little blip in the center. Someday I’ll find out how that happened.

And soon Bangladesh will turn into ocean.

+Stan McSerr hope it doesn't happen during my vacation in bangladesh

***** Lol

I was thinking the exact same thing

Yeah, but it just goes a bit off topic.

Isnt that the place where your kitchen might be in Belgium and your living room in the Netherlands? Basically where the border cuts through houses?

Aragorn195 yes it is

That's mental! xD!

Just looked at it on google maps, crazy stuff! What's the history here?

in 1198 part of Baarle was presented by the hertog (duke) of Brabant to what ended up being the Nassau family, which is now the royal family of the Netherlands. The bit that the duke kept is still part of Belgium. It is basically left this way because it causes little trouble. Both nations have a good relationship and very open borders. It's good for tourism, and well, it's a laff! So why change it? For more info and a map see wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle

lol...true that

Also a good answer "An ignorant treaty"

It was said in the Bible.... Is it not? I thought that would somehow cover that...

Tungsten Swipe not everyone has a bible dumbass

W4t3rM3l0nG1rl maybe because it was a joke, stone brain

@Albert D lybian Italian colonie ended in 1943 under Mussolini, cause:allied invasion Ethiopian Italian colonie (de facto) ended in 1941 under Mussolini His "parallel war" caused this not the decolonization

Italy had no colonies

@@coobysnax1106 Lybia and Ethiopia

@@EredediIsilduryeah but like thats it Even then Ethiopia didn't stay for long

@@coobysnax1106 never said Italy was good at this At last the took those things that no one wanted, not even the UK

Whats trieste

@@drumroll7073 an italian city

Ci sono stato, bellissima città

I live in north east india

Well, my city is also mentioned in 1:29 I live in the city that connects India with the North - Eastern side... I live in Siliguri, India

Not exactly, Namibia still doesnt border Zimbabwe, but botswana borders zambia

not really. it is a chili.

I'm from Chile >:I

It's a Snake bitting Peru and Bolivia ass while resting on Argentina who also has a weird panhandle looking thing which goes around Paraguay

except it has no "pan"

F.Javier Díaz del río Pinohandle

Presumably because neither want it badly enough to go up against Russia. Plus it's mostly full of Russians. So they probably wouldn't be happy being part of a different country. Deporting them en masse would be a massive human rights violation (ok, so that's what the Russians did to the former inhabitants, but two wrongs don't make a right).

"why haven't Liet or Pol taken it?" Because it's Russia. End of story. Doesn't matter if it's disconnected from the rest of Russia. Countries don't (or shouldn't) invade others these days. The area is called Kaliningrad Oblast. In the early 20th century, it was German, and it was called East Prussia. It was connected to the rest of Germany, because Germany at that time also possessed what's now the north coast of Poland. After Germany lost WWI, Poland gained some land along the Baltic Sea Coast, and East Prussia became disconnected from the rest of Germany. After Germany lost WWII, Poland gained more land from Germany. The USSR gained land from Germany as well. Poland and the USSR split East Prussia between them. Within the USSR, the Soviet portion of East Prussia became known as Kaliningrad Oblast. Rather than assign it to Lithuania, the Soviet authorities assigned it to Russia, even though it was disconnected from the rest of Russia. And the rest is history. When the USSR broke apart, Kaliningrad remained a part of independent Russia. The residents [nowadays] are Russians, and have no interest in joining Lithuania. Nor Poland. But as I already said, Poland got half of the old East Prussia anyways. You can look up the history of something if you're curious.

Thank you both. I really like Prussian and Russian history. (though Austria's defenitly the most awesome)

because we won that territory during WWII from Germany we didn't give to Lithuania or polandbecause Kaliningrad is an ethnicRussian not Lithuanian or Polish spot Polish and Lithuanian are written in the Latin script so it will mean literally redemarcating everything

"Russian history or one millennium of hard and not so hard fuck-ups" - really, that's literally what i learned in my course of russian history in the school and university.

Situations like this also exist within countries, for a very long time England had numerous exclaves and enclaves between the various counties. They don't exist any longer as an act of parliament made it so that enclaves were part of the enclosing county but they were there for historic reasons for centuries in some cases.

All of India's borders are screwed up. The British drew a line in the 19th century between around the entire dominion called the Durand Line that made no logical sense. The result is a bunch of border conflicts and disputed regions between China and India on one hand, and Pakistan and Afghanistan on the other. And then add the partition borders drawn in 1947-48 that left Kashmir cleaved in two, and other myriad disputes between Pakistan and India.

Yes , those enclave and exclave of various degree exist once , but all dispute resolve in last year , and by this every country give up there exclave to other nation , now the border is almost smooth .

+Peter Gray , All British line are logical in there sense , Durand Line did't draw in betn the dominion , but establish as border of British India and Afghanistan ,it still exist in betn Afg and Pak by the logic that historically and geographically , peak of mountain ridges are the border of India , the disputed line betn India-China also due to this concept. And the Issue of Kashmir is different, it's border messed up because Pakistan invade that area , and king of that state wait for several days to ask for Indian help , result in occupation of a large territory of that state , India retrieve many land back , but ultimately cease fire line establish in 49, which somehow still same .

Shiharan Majumder But my point is that those borders never settled existing disputes, and continue to feed tensions between neighboring countries. China refused to accept the Durand Line, leading to the 1962 border war, and continued territory disputes. And the Line divided Pushtuns between Afghanistan and Pakistan, helping to feed the Taliban insurgency.

Was scrolling through the comments, hoping for someone to mention FL :)

No? It has 1 The rest is a peninsula all of the land is Florida

Florida looks like a boomerang

Look at this video with 50000 mispronounced places

Panic at the disco!!...💙💙💙😍

*_bruh_*

They just kind of got rid of that lake huh?

lake Victoria just turned into solid land 😅

🤣😂

Its also drawn wrong.

Well the border is wrong, idk if it was drawn or not...

How does it feel to know this comment is now 5 years old

When your name is Rhodes and you're so colonial you get several different African countries named after you.

Rip Rhodesia

Well, Bosnia wa held by the Ottomans while Dalmatia belonged to Venetia (I think) and later Austria-Hungary which also possessed Croatia.

That's correct. I believe the Bosnian coastline was due to the southern Orthodox state, Ragusa or Montenegro, wanted to keep away from Austria, due to fear of Austrian invasion. Hence, they let the Ottomans get a short strip of land so they themselves didn't have a land border with Austria anymore... In modern times, Bosnia retained this little strip of coastline.

Real story goes like this. Back in renaissance time Republic of Venice, and Republic of Ragusa ( modern day Dubrovnik) were two competing merchant republics. Venice had stronger military, controlled modern day Croatian provinces of Dalmatia and Istria and was for centuries constant threat to Ragusa. To ease that threat, Ragusa made a deal with Ottomans in 1718. Ragusa ceded 20 km wide Neum Strip to Ottomans to divide Ragusa from Venice and Ottomans granted independence of Ragusa and rights to conduct trade in their lands, mainly in Eyalet of Bosnia. BTW Republic of Ragusa was catholic state, and so was Venice. As for shape of Croatia. Back in the days Croatia had "normal" borders as part of modern day Bosnia was part of it. Bosnia was small duchy between Croatia and Serbia. Modern day shape is result of Ottomans military advances into Croatian lands. They penetrated in the middle of Croatia and their advances were finally stopped after the Long War. The land that Ottomans conquered is assigned to province Elayet of Bosnia and since then border is more or less stayed the same.

What an interesting story , tres tres clarfying, thanxxz

+RealLifeLore I wish you could upload more often but if you can't it's better to have a few quality videos than a bunch of average ones

If the contents' like this... I say you take your time. Kudos!

+RealLifeLore these videos aren't that hard to make 1 every 2 weeks is bad

Please, than make them yourself if it seems easy for you.

+snaipers96 I don't want to that's not what my channel is about

I wonder how many peoples there are in the world it's a reminder of the world and it's vast variations.

+wildchicken007 what is that supposed to mean? Tell me

And it's completely wrong, the north is much less colorful.

I agree. Just thinking of all the genocides and wars currently going on because that map is so colourful brings a tear to my eye. So beautiful and diverse :')

I thought they're all just black in africa!

Well, since mine nearly killed me, I'll take the risk without it. Btw, 5 years without it

Ken Oakleaf It happens.

Well yes but appendix or HEART?

+Allen Hizon What are you talking about...?

thanks finally an answer I knew it had to have real purpose

The fact that some people actually need games and YT channels to know it existed in kinda sad. It should common knowledge.

People in the eastern world would say the same thing about the western world not knowing about the kingdoms and empires from the east besides china, japan, and the mongols.

DZR3WIND I get your point. But AH was at the very heart of WWI. I mean it was the country that started it all. In that way it should be common knowledge. But WWI is usually overshadowed by WWII.

I love Victoria 2, i spent countless hours playing it and modding it, i always enjoyed in partitioning of Austria-Hungary.

sad that i'm one of the few who knew about it without any games or channels though i really like the great war channel (i mean it's not a bad thing you know it from somewere else but you should learn it in history class or something like that)

That one is natural though. "To hell with the pale strangers, we're going up that mountain"

Italian here: hold my San Marino... 🤣

@@robertoarmenio3516 You Italians even have a small country in your own capital 😅

Eswatini as well.. I'm french and we have Monaco.

Well, what else could it be

The Oklahoma panhandle came about starting when in 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union as a slave state and it's borders were subsequently re-arranged by Congress under the Compromise of 1850. Part of what the Compromise did was outlaw slavery north of the 36'30 Parallel cutting into much of Texas' panhandle. The panhandle's area north of the 36'30 Parallel was ceded to Congress and named "Public Land Strip" and commonly referred to as "No Man's Land", setting its southern border with Texas. The Compromise also created New Mexico Territory starting west of the the 103rd meridian, thus setting the western boundary of the strip, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 set the southern border of Kansas Territory as the 37th parallel, thus creating the northern boundary of No Man's Land. Finally in 1890 No Man's Land was assigned by Congress as part of Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act of 1890. In 1907 Oklahoma became a State with the merging of Oklahoma Territory with Indian Territory and that's the end of it.

Jafninetyfour Texas didn't want to give up its slaves so they agreed to have a part of their top cut off. It was added to a territory that is now Oklahoma.

Why the Hell did I get an image in my head of someone holding Oklahoma by the Panhandle and beating the shit out of a random country with it? And why did it make me laugh?

Filip The Czech Gopnik search up "the great state fight" someone did that

No its not

@@johnhattanfine Thats easy for you to say, probably beacuse you think school is good

@@af-zt1rz Ok ok. Can be true