I'm pretty sure the Unicorn thing really happened in Scotland. And Welsh Dragons just haven't been discovered yet. Lol in any case hope you enjoy this fun little "side quest" video and Thanks to José from the Spain episode for Guest starring! ALSO!! HAWAIIAN Geograpeeps! hit me up! I need you for the USA episode! UPDATE: I accidentally said “God is my right “ when it’s God AND my right” lol I accidentally mistook “et”with “est” when talking fast
Random fact: A British rock band named Queen has their symbol based on the coat of arms, they switched up the animals on the coat of arms to their zodiac signs. 2 Lions for Roger (drummer) and John (bassist) for Leo 2 fairies for Freddie (lead singer and pianist) for Virgo And they switched the crown into a crab for Brian (guitarist) for Cancer. And they changed the emblems into a letter Q for Queen
@Truth Before Opinions Welsh people are still British (as much as Scottish and English 😂). Culturally all three are ad unique as eachother, with Scotland and Wales sharing quite a bit thanks to their celtic routes (also Cornwall but we don't talk about them). Brits = England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland. Although all of those countries would rather be called by their defined names (English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish) to different degrees.
4:35 - glad you made this point. so many numpties think this is some symbolism of "English oppression" of Scotland when in truth it was simply the Scottish King - William the Lion - saying he could properly control and govern the country and given he was the longest reigning monarch of the Scottish throne, it was a pretty apt statement.
3:01 Why add the St David’s cross to the Union Jack when you can add the dragon? You won’t be disappointed with quick google image search of “Union Jack dragon”
4:22 Just want to point out, Scots is a language, not a dialect. Scots is listed on the European Charter of Languages, which has been signed by the EU, UK Govt., and Scottish Govt.
About that wikipedia article: there is indeed an English wikipedia article about geography now, and there are also articles about this channel in Russian, Finnish and Hebrew. I was actually surprised to see that there's one in Hebrew, especially considering that I'm an editor of the Hebrew Wikipedia for a few years now.
It was a great episode the only thing that I would have liked to have seen as a Black Brit would have been something about the Black British music scenes in the UK in the music segment whether our take on hip hop, soul, jazz, reggae, dub poetry, Afrobeat and garage or native scenes like Jungle, Grime, Trip Hop and 2tone as well as our DJ and sound system cultures our influence on music in this country is disproportionately huge, fun fact the first Black artists played on MTV were Musical Youth a UK reggae group
To be fair, to even attempt to cover British music would have been an entire episode on its own! He barely scratched the surface in the episode as it was.
The UK episode was so good that I was surprised that nearly a whole hour had gone by when it ended. It could very well have been longer and we would have been happy with that! You do a great job. And I need to get my act together and send a package. How is Gabs doing after the break-in?
I just realized that after Queen Elizabeth II's passing and King Charles III's accession, the UK's coat of arms was slightly changed from St. Edward's Crown to Tudor Crown to suit King Charles's royal cypher.
I find it really frustrating that Cymru(Wales) is still not represented on the Royal coat of arms. Especially when you consider England and Scotland are represented twice on their respective versions. I appreciate that there are historic technicalities behind this. But to still have zero presence on these symbols in 2023 is bloody annoying!!🏴 Maybe old Charlie boy can instigate a change!😎
Man I was expecting some facts about the 4 flags (3 constituent countries + the banner of Ulster) and even about overseas territories and crown dependencies.
Another interesting fact regarding wales/friendzone: There’s a Welsh speaking community in Argentina who descend from Welsh Settlers, and as far as I know, there are at least a couple of bilingual Spanish/Welsh schools.
This was actually mentioned (a long time ago) in the Argentina episode I remember watching it and being amazed that there was a welsh community in South America
Oh, nice, that’s one of the places where Low Saxon is still spoken by a significant minority of people, right? It’s the closest relative to the Anglo-Frisian languages, the only other language in the Ingvaeonic/North Sea Germanic branch. Have you ever encountered it?
4:47 Unfortunately the pound coin here is no longer in use, it got changed to a 12 sided coin in 2016 and now displays a Tudor rose, some sort of crop (maybe wheat?), a thistle and a shamrock clover with a crown around them
I mean, I would love a 5 hour long Geography Now video. It would probably cost alot to make, but personally the time isn't really an issue when you got to wait a month or more (excluding flagf fridays and filler week episodes) before the next video's out.
Whoa, 1:36 - Barbs was like 15 minutes down the road from me at one point!! Can't believe of all the (infrequent and minor) errors in that 47-minute epic, it was Hannah missing a single stroke of the pen when reading out 'Mackem' that got people riled up the most. Don't mess with those Sunderland folk!
Ah finally, after seeing the australia fiji new zealand and tuvalu episode we finally learned what that crossy thing on the corner of their flag is actually about
Of all the Overseas Territories, Gibraltar 🇬🇮 is the only one that doesn't feature the Union Jack on it. Adopted in 1982 it features a two colour flag widthways with the upper 2/3 white and the bottom third red with a red castle and golden key in the middle. The white two thirds represents (according to World Atlas) Peace and Honesty, the red bottom third can be interpreted as the blood shed for those who fought for Gibraltar and the castle and key represents its strategic location at the point where the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean meet
You didn't quite nail the explanation of the design of the flag. The St Patrick's cross isn't shrunk, it is split half and half with the Scottish saltire in a pinwheel layout (ie white on the clockwise side, red on the anticlockwise side) but then a white border is added on both sides to comply with the heraldic rules of tincture. Ok maybe I didn't explain it any better, it's a little complicated.
It is not illegal to fly it upside down unless in a situation where it could be credibly seen as a misrepresentation of a state of distress (which in modern times would practically never be the case). The UK have no “flag protection” regulations or laws à la USA
As a Welshie i am to this day still bothered that the dragon isn't on the union jack if it was people outside the UK would be able to stop asking me "hey why isn't the welsh flag apart of the Union jack?" it's tiring having to explain why, it's why i don't call myself british.
I couldn't even tell you when I started watching. I know I stopped watching for a bit and came back for the Spain episode. I've seen every episode and am ready for USA!
I know I’m almost a year late and this will never get seen, but the main things missing from the episode to me were the fact that we have the highest rate of published authors, wales has more castles than any other country in Europe, and guy Fawkes day/bonfire night
You better mention Puerto Rico as part of the United States in your USA video or else... I'll just be internet unhappy but still continue to watch all your videos. Love your content for the last many years.
Fun fact; traditionally the Lancashire county flag is a white background with a red rose, but it was never registered with the Flag Commission. When they tried to register it they were told it was already taken, so they had to switch to the yellow background. Often you'll see both flown around the county.
Fun fact, the coat of arms of the uk (England) used to have the welsh dragon instead of the Scottish unicorn but when james I came to power, as he was a scott either he changed it to the unicorn or it changed during the act of union
Dieu et mon droit translates to "god AND my right" not "is my right". If it was "is" it would be "EST" not "ET". From Wikipedia: The motto is French for "God and my right", meaning that the king is "Rex Angliae Dei gratia" ("King of England by the grace of God"). It is used to imply that the monarch of a nation has a God-given (divine) right to rule.
“Dieu et mon droit” translates to “God and my right”, not “God is my right”. Since the British coat of arms is also the personal Royal Arms of the Monarch, I believe it’s referring to the ancient belief of the Divine Right of Kings, where the Monarch is the Monarch because God said so.
It pains me to say it but, unlike Scotland, the Welsh were conquered by the English. That is why they are not represented individually on the Union flag. The English crushed the Welsh and they are now just a region of England.
I mean we're as much as of a region of the UK as England is, but no region of England in any legal sense since 1967 and we've had our Senedd since 1998. Yma o hyd ar fath na o beth.
Small correction: When you refer to the 'Act of Union 1801' at 01:55, I'm fairly sure you mean the Acts of Union 1800. (If that's not correct, someone please correct me, I'm basing my correction on studying it nearly two years ago and a quick Google search, so I could be mistaken!)
the letter your country starts with is really like a risk-reward system you can live in a country at the start of the alphabet, and you will get a Geography now episode very fast but it will be kinda lame you can live in a country at the end of the alphabet, and you will have to wait a LOOONG time to get a Geography now episode but it will be super awesome
A few things I want to add to the UK episode: The third largest city in the UK is actually Leeds, not Birmingham. Birmingham is second, Manchester is only considered the top 4 when you include Greater Manchester, which is a county, not a city. Counting places like Bolton, Wigan etc into Manchester is like including Pasadena into LA. It doesn’t count. I wish you included the division between North and South England, they are polarised just as much as England is from Scotland. In the music section, it would have been nice if you mentioned the plethora of genre's that emerged from the underground London scene: -Jungle -Dubstep -Grime -Drum n Bass -Garage -Future Garage etc. Other than that, great video!
If you're looking only based on city the limits then Birmingham is the largest city in the UK not London which is obviously wrong. Manchester has a stupidly divided council system within its urban area. If you look at urban area, metro area, or travel to work area population, Manchester is the second or 3rd largest city - with an incredibly similar population to Birmingham. The idea of Birmingham being the second city is becoming more and more outdated now, Manchester's economy has grown at an incredible rate and the city's population has expanded rapidly, both outpacing Birmingham for a number of years now. Visiting Manchester is evidence enough to know it's not 5th largest or whatever the city council boundaries include. The truth is Manchester and Birmingham are very similarly sized, with certain criteria giving Manchester the larger population while others give Birmingham the larger population. If you can't recognise this fact then you really need to do some research. For reference I'm not from Manchester, I'm from Cardiff so I come at this from an outsider's perspective.
Yeah, Manchester is bigger than Leeds when you consider the metropolitan area, which is how most people define the size of cities internationally. I don't know how he ranked Birmingham below Manchester, but Manchester is more populated than Leeds by any reasonable measure.
Few mistakes: it's Louis Le (he) Prince and not Louis La (she) Prince ; “Dieu Et Mon Droit” means “God AND My Right” (not “God Is My Right”), otherwise, still rocking since next to 10 years now! Sorry, but yes, I still watch Flag/Fan Day ! 😅
Correct. It's officially only supposed to be called the Union Jack when at sea and is just the Union Flag at any other time, though most people incorrectly call it the Union Jack wherever they see it.
Before you get to the U.S. episode, check out how to pronounce the various regions of the country. Appalachia is pronounced: App-a-lah-cha. 'Cha' as in 'chariot' and 'chase'. Just trying to save you some (any?) backlash from the natives of the region.
Hello geography now im from Yemen from the north where tourist cant go even though confilt has died down over there im going yemen end of this month if you need me to go to locations/historic sites i will happily do so
Excellent job, just one note on Scottish education. We don't do GCSEs and A levels as Scotland have a completely independent or 'devolved' education system. Healthcare, town planning and the legal system are also devolved. Again, great job. This was a mammoth episode!
Haven't seen the other ep yet. Maybe I should wait for the 5 hour Director's Cut. Would be totally up for that. :) Can I move there for their flag, alone?! (Though the Welsh language would scramble my brain. Wow.)
Ooh I can actually use my Medieval Languages degree! "Dieu et mon droit" actually means "God and my right" alluding to the divine right to rule. It is in Old French, likely in what we call Anglo-Norman French which came about post-Conquest and really hit its stride in the reign of Henry II.
It’s still a shame that Scots wasnt mentioned during the language section. It is a unesco recognised minority language and is as much a dialect of English as Swedish is a dialect of Danish
Am suprised there wasn't any from the UK or at least in time for the airing of the episode. Maybe there will be some by the time the US episode has come out. Who knows.
I'm pretty sure the Unicorn thing really happened in Scotland. And Welsh Dragons just haven't been discovered yet. Lol in any case hope you enjoy this fun little "side quest" video and Thanks to José from the Spain episode for Guest starring! ALSO!! HAWAIIAN Geograpeeps! hit me up! I need you for the USA episode!
UPDATE: I accidentally said “God is my right “ when it’s God AND my right” lol I accidentally mistook “et”with “est” when talking fast
You guys did great on the UK episode! Cant wait for whats next!
@FancyClassy Yeah me too
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Love this!
Please answer my email
Random fact:
A British rock band named Queen has their symbol based on the coat of arms, they switched up the animals on the coat of arms to their zodiac signs.
2 Lions for Roger (drummer) and John (bassist) for Leo
2 fairies for Freddie (lead singer and pianist) for Virgo
And they switched the crown into a crab for Brian (guitarist) for Cancer.
And they changed the emblems into a letter Q for Queen
Wow! Can’t wait to hear more from this small and obscure British band called Queen
“If I had kept all the information that was in the original script. The episode would’ve been like over 5 hours long I swear”
I see no problem here.
Same
But then that would only increase the amount of people demanding longer episodes for the A-to-C-ish country episodes 😆
Us Brits have been waiting a decade for this, and I couldn't be more grateful it is finally here 😂🙌
Yeah I've been here since about Algeria!!
Same😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Brits? Define Brit please? Do you mean geographically British like the English and Scots, or Culturally British like the Welsh?
@Truth Before Opinions Welsh people are still British (as much as Scottish and English 😂). Culturally all three are ad unique as eachother, with Scotland and Wales sharing quite a bit thanks to their celtic routes (also Cornwall but we don't talk about them).
Brits = England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland. Although all of those countries would rather be called by their defined names (English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish) to different degrees.
9 years*
I’m not British but the UK episode has got to be one of my favorites
Same
Exactly!
It was great
Same. But I am British :)
Very glad that Barbs and Jay did my nation proud.
4:35 - glad you made this point. so many numpties think this is some symbolism of "English oppression" of Scotland when in truth it was simply the Scottish King - William the Lion - saying he could properly control and govern the country and given he was the longest reigning monarch of the Scottish throne, it was a pretty apt statement.
3:01 Why add the St David’s cross to the Union Jack when you can add the dragon?
You won’t be disappointed with quick google image search of “Union Jack dragon”
I love how much culture is in the UK.
The flags, the emblems, the accents.
LOL. I know! Especially here: 4:50!
too bad they dont accompany the culture with collective intelligence
@@Black.Templar_002 the irony
@@Black.Templar_002 Literally invented some of the most important things in history
@@Black.Templar_002 have you seen the usa? 🤦♂ and where do you live exactly...
I've learned more about geography from gn than textbooks. Facts. keep it up barbs, we're with you!
As in school textbooks? In which case, isn't that the case for most people?
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster yes, school textbooks
4:22 Just want to point out, Scots is a language, not a dialect.
Scots is listed on the European Charter of Languages, which has been signed by the EU, UK Govt., and Scottish Govt.
Everybody always asked “Where is Wales” but nobody ever asks “How is Wales?”
Or "Why is Wales?" (Kidding, kidding. Wales is actually my favorite country in that area.)
@@ms_scribbles why?
When is Wales?
"you know how crazy Brits are for tea"
Legend has it destroying tea causes UK to declare war on your country
At the time, destroying tea caused us to invade ourselves...!
Oh yeah. It’s a big deal for us
China invented tea
@@billyr2904 i'm pretty sure the tea plant invented tea
I know it's silly but I'm so glad that you added Portugal to the friendzone as they are indeed our oldest ally.
Great stuff!! As a huge anglophile this week has been amazing. The BOTs, the flag, the episode itself. KEEPS GETTIN BETTER 😭😭😭
I love how the british culture is encapsulated perfectly in the uk episode
Not mentioning the North South divide is a massive omission, I loved the episode but not mentioning it was bonkers :(
@Luke Austin I think you need to chill. There is only so much that can get in the video, and some of us want to focus on what unites us not dividing.
@@Andy-hr2kf maybe so but it is a massive part of of our culture and history
British culture? The video clearly shows you how there isn’t a single culture, but three. English (Anglo), Scottish (Scoti) and Welsh (British).
There is no such thing. I am Scottish. Never British.
About that wikipedia article: there is indeed an English wikipedia article about geography now, and there are also articles about this channel in Russian, Finnish and Hebrew. I was actually surprised to see that there's one in Hebrew, especially considering that I'm an editor of the Hebrew Wikipedia for a few years now.
Jew? German?
@@OGrandomunknownperson go somewhere else
@HovTchil i was asking question. I stay somewhere
It was a great episode the only thing that I would have liked to have seen as a Black Brit would have been something about the Black British music scenes in the UK in the music segment whether our take on hip hop, soul, jazz, reggae, dub poetry, Afrobeat and garage or native scenes like Jungle, Grime, Trip Hop and 2tone as well as our DJ and sound system cultures our influence on music in this country is disproportionately huge, fun fact the first Black artists played on MTV were Musical Youth a UK reggae group
Good grief.
To be fair, to even attempt to cover British music would have been an entire episode on its own! He barely scratched the surface in the episode as it was.
@@ejl1000 ^This
Assimilate or leave.
« Dieu et mon droit » actually means “God and my right”
Amazing video as always
“God” represents the Monarchy (King ordained by God to rule) and “Right” represents the people’s right to democracy.
Fuck it you were faster than me
@@JonathanReynolds1It represents the former claim of the English monarchs over the kingdom of France back during the Hundred years war
i think he misread « et » as « est, » and that's where the confusion comes from.
Est and et are too Similar.
Sad how only a few more countries are left till the end thank you barbs for helping with my geography
The UK episode was so good that I was surprised that nearly a whole hour had gone by when it ended. It could very well have been longer and we would have been happy with that! You do a great job. And I need to get my act together and send a package. How is Gabs doing after the break-in?
I just realized that after Queen Elizabeth II's passing and King Charles III's accession, the UK's coat of arms was slightly changed from St. Edward's Crown to Tudor Crown to suit King Charles's royal cypher.
I find it really frustrating that Cymru(Wales) is still not represented on the Royal coat of arms. Especially when you consider England and Scotland are represented twice on their respective versions. I appreciate that there are historic technicalities behind this. But to still have zero presence on these symbols in 2023 is bloody annoying!!🏴 Maybe old Charlie boy can instigate a change!😎
The Green King can add a bit of green, surely! Besides, he was Prince of Wales long enough… I’m rooting for Wales, too! :D
As a Brit living in London, I love Wales Scotland and NI too and would love full representation :)
Man I was expecting some facts about the 4 flags (3 constituent countries + the banner of Ulster) and even about overseas territories and crown dependencies.
UK episode was epic, proud Brit here!
Another interesting fact regarding wales/friendzone: There’s a Welsh speaking community in Argentina who descend from Welsh Settlers, and as far as I know, there are at least a couple of bilingual Spanish/Welsh schools.
Not in Beunos Aires, idiot, I use to live there (not argentine tho)
Nobody cares
@@Dan-B wow so clever. dude are you 14?
This was actually mentioned (a long time ago) in the Argentina episode I remember watching it and being amazed that there was a welsh community in South America
09:15 That card shows the flag of the province of Groningen.
Oh, nice, that’s one of the places where Low Saxon is still spoken by a significant minority of people, right? It’s the closest relative to the Anglo-Frisian languages, the only other language in the Ingvaeonic/North Sea Germanic branch. Have you ever encountered it?
Jay Foreman being in the video perfected the episode.
4:47 Unfortunately the pound coin here is no longer in use, it got changed to a 12 sided coin in 2016 and now displays a Tudor rose, some sort of crop (maybe wheat?), a thistle and a shamrock clover with a crown around them
It’s a welsh leak!
Its still a pound coin just a different design
@@taggymcshaggy6383 yeah, that's why I said "the pound coin here (at the timestamp)" because it's a different coin now
Barbs mentions Portugal
Portuguese: Ah ... Justice!
I mean, I would love a 5 hour long Geography Now video. It would probably cost alot to make, but personally the time isn't really an issue when you got to wait a month or more (excluding flagf fridays and filler week episodes) before the next video's out.
THANK YOU BARBS for not saying the "nobody watches these anyways"... Made me feel weird since I ALWAYS watch Flag Friday
Whoa, 1:36 - Barbs was like 15 minutes down the road from me at one point!!
Can't believe of all the (infrequent and minor) errors in that 47-minute epic, it was Hannah missing a single stroke of the pen when reading out 'Mackem' that got people riled up the most. Don't mess with those Sunderland folk!
Ah finally, after seeing the australia fiji new zealand and tuvalu episode we finally learned what that crossy thing on the corner of their flag is actually about
Thank you so much for putting a spotlight on my home country. For a country rich in so much, we often go unheard so diolch yn fawr.
I love that you rectified everything you missed in the main episode! Even things like the coins making a shield!!! Well done Paul!!!
There’s a really big movie industry in the uk with Warner brothers and Harry Potter world just outside of London in Watford.
7:54 i saw it get to #4 Trending in the UK!
Of all the Overseas Territories, Gibraltar 🇬🇮 is the only one that doesn't feature the Union Jack on it. Adopted in 1982 it features a two colour flag widthways with the upper 2/3 white and the bottom third red with a red castle and golden key in the middle. The white two thirds represents (according to World Atlas) Peace and Honesty, the red bottom third can be interpreted as the blood shed for those who fought for Gibraltar and the castle and key represents its strategic location at the point where the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean meet
This was absolutely amazing! 1k views in ten minutes! Great video
I love! LOVE! the flag of the UK, but I love this series more!
Ahhhh yes, finally it was on Friday sgsin
You didn't quite nail the explanation of the design of the flag. The St Patrick's cross isn't shrunk, it is split half and half with the Scottish saltire in a pinwheel layout (ie white on the clockwise side, red on the anticlockwise side) but then a white border is added on both sides to comply with the heraldic rules of tincture. Ok maybe I didn't explain it any better, it's a little complicated.
3:36 « Dieu ET mon droit = God AND my right ». 😊👍
Finally! Flag Friday ON Flag Friday!
When the flag is flown upside down, it is indicative of a state of distress. It is theoretically illegal to fly it upside down as well
It is not illegal to fly it upside down unless in a situation where it could be credibly seen as a misrepresentation of a state of distress (which in modern times would practically never be the case). The UK have no “flag protection” regulations or laws à la USA
Except that it's always upside down depending if you look at the front or the back of it 🤔
Wembley Stadium was misspelled in the original video. Enjoyed the UK episode. Most of my family tree is from the UK or France.
I've been living there for over 6 years now. I'm for every grateful for it ❤
As a Welshie i am to this day still bothered that the dragon isn't on the union jack if it was people outside the UK would be able to stop asking me "hey why isn't the welsh flag apart of the Union jack?" it's tiring having to explain why, it's why i don't call myself british.
We won't need it once we leave
Amazing video!
Also happy to be first
wow, that's great. Keep it up gn, i've been watching you since 2014!1
I couldn't even tell you when I started watching. I know I stopped watching for a bit and came back for the Spain episode. I've seen every episode and am ready for USA!
Great content as always.
Fun Fact: The very Arthurian legend he speaks of can be visited today. Dina's Emrys. Where the Dragon still sleeps..
(ps. I appear in the UK video!)
Love this series especially
I know I’m almost a year late and this will never get seen, but the main things missing from the episode to me were the fact that we have the highest rate of published authors, wales has more castles than any other country in Europe, and guy Fawkes day/bonfire night
Doing a VERY GOOD JOB teaching us about other nations... MANY THANKS 👍👍😊😊
You better mention Puerto Rico as part of the United States in your USA video or else... I'll just be internet unhappy but still continue to watch all your videos. Love your content for the last many years.
Fun fact; traditionally the Lancashire county flag is a white background with a red rose, but it was never registered with the Flag Commission. When they tried to register it they were told it was already taken, so they had to switch to the yellow background. Often you'll see both flown around the county.
10:33 ZAI-deh-coh
Normally I wouldn't quibble about such things, but that one hurt my ear.
I like the positive vibes of this channel.
Fun fact, the coat of arms of the uk (England) used to have the welsh dragon instead of the Scottish unicorn but when james I came to power, as he was a scott either he changed it to the unicorn or it changed during the act of union
Love your flag episodes, especially when there is red in the flag
I could say that the UK flag is the most aesthetically pleasing in the same manner as the Qatar flag
3 flags are better than one!
UK, South Africa, and Brazil have the best flags imo.
@@thetimelapseguy8 so does Qatar
Kazakhstan has a great flag too. I really love the shade of blue.
@@dangerousshoes I love it too (it's the opposite of red called Cyan)
Another amazing video
Yup
Dieu et mon droit translates to "god AND my right" not "is my right". If it was "is" it would be "EST" not "ET". From Wikipedia: The motto is French for "God and my right", meaning that the king is "Rex Angliae Dei gratia" ("King of England by the grace of God"). It is used to imply that the monarch of a nation has a God-given (divine) right to rule.
Thank u 4 getting my postcard!
The USA episode should be over 5 hours long, featuring a guest from every state
Nah just have ben Brainard doing every one of his state characters.
I forgot to comment this, but Scotland has its own Supreme Court, since the UK didn't establish one until 2009.
“Dieu et mon droit” translates to “God and my right”, not “God is my right”. Since the British coat of arms is also the personal Royal Arms of the Monarch, I believe it’s referring to the ancient belief of the Divine Right of Kings, where the Monarch is the Monarch because God said so.
It pains me to say it but, unlike Scotland, the Welsh were conquered by the English. That is why they are not represented individually on the Union flag. The English crushed the Welsh and they are now just a region of England.
I mean we're as much as of a region of the UK as England is, but no region of England in any legal sense since 1967 and we've had our Senedd since 1998. Yma o hyd ar fath na o beth.
@@gota7738 Wales and England are the only UK countries that share a legal system
@@MonTheWell1886 Am y funud hon.
@@MonTheWell1886 so what?
Small correction:
When you refer to the 'Act of Union 1801' at 01:55, I'm fairly sure you mean the Acts of Union 1800.
(If that's not correct, someone please correct me, I'm basing my correction on studying it nearly two years ago and a quick Google search, so I could be mistaken!)
the letter your country starts with is really like a risk-reward system
you can live in a country at the start of the alphabet, and you will get a Geography now episode very fast but it will be kinda lame
you can live in a country at the end of the alphabet, and you will have to wait a LOOONG time to get a Geography now episode but it will be super awesome
A few things I want to add to the UK episode:
The third largest city in the UK is actually Leeds, not Birmingham. Birmingham is second, Manchester is only considered the top 4 when you include Greater Manchester, which is a county, not a city. Counting places like Bolton, Wigan etc into Manchester is like including Pasadena into LA. It doesn’t count.
I wish you included the division between North and South England, they are polarised just as much as England is from Scotland.
In the music section, it would have been nice if you mentioned the plethora of genre's that emerged from the underground London scene:
-Jungle
-Dubstep
-Grime
-Drum n Bass
-Garage
-Future Garage
etc.
Other than that, great video!
They actually said that Manchester is 2nd and Birmingham is 3rd which hurts my soul as the descendant of like 10 generations of brummies 😂
@@HekatieSquires You’re right! My bad, but my point still goes that the largest cities by population are:
London
Brum
Leeds
Glasgow etc
If you're looking only based on city the limits then Birmingham is the largest city in the UK not London which is obviously wrong. Manchester has a stupidly divided council system within its urban area. If you look at urban area, metro area, or travel to work area population, Manchester is the second or 3rd largest city - with an incredibly similar population to Birmingham.
The idea of Birmingham being the second city is becoming more and more outdated now, Manchester's economy has grown at an incredible rate and the city's population has expanded rapidly, both outpacing Birmingham for a number of years now. Visiting Manchester is evidence enough to know it's not 5th largest or whatever the city council boundaries include.
The truth is Manchester and Birmingham are very similarly sized, with certain criteria giving Manchester the larger population while others give Birmingham the larger population. If you can't recognise this fact then you really need to do some research.
For reference I'm not from Manchester, I'm from Cardiff so I come at this from an outsider's perspective.
Yeah, Manchester is bigger than Leeds when you consider the metropolitan area, which is how most people define the size of cities internationally. I don't know how he ranked Birmingham below Manchester, but Manchester is more populated than Leeds by any reasonable measure.
@@matthewregister6845 I know, it still causes me psychic damage though 😂😂
Few mistakes: it's Louis Le (he) Prince and not Louis La (she) Prince ; “Dieu Et Mon Droit” means “God AND My Right” (not “God Is My Right”), otherwise, still rocking since next to 10 years now!
Sorry, but yes, I still watch Flag/Fan Day ! 😅
Where can I sign up to see the 5 Hour version of the UK video? :D :D
Reminder: we use Union Jack only in use with a Royal Navy ship, otherwise it’s just called the Union Flag
No it can be called a union jack anytime
Correct. It's officially only supposed to be called the Union Jack when at sea and is just the Union Flag at any other time, though most people incorrectly call it the Union Jack wherever they see it.
@@greendaytom1988 Not correct. Just a thing some people say
I'm a 38 year old Brit, and it took until this video to learn about the coins! I never even realised! Amazing!!
They really couldn’t just add a tiny bit of green for Wales or something? 😂
It would ruin the colour pallet 😂 and everyone would think it was just Ireland again...
They should Just make the blue on the bottom green
Canada has a simalar Coat of Arms which has some inspiration from the UK
Before you get to the U.S. episode, check out how to pronounce the various regions of the country. Appalachia is pronounced: App-a-lah-cha. 'Cha' as in 'chariot' and 'chase'. Just trying to save you some (any?) backlash from the natives of the region.
I'm sure despite his best efforts, someone, somewhere, will find something to crab about. That's how the internets be.
I suppose that this being an American channel they know how to pronounce American names.
Unpopular opinion, but I would love a 5 hour episode of Geography Now
Bermuda is like: "So we don't exist to you?" 🥺😢😭
The flag of my county Devon is one of the newest in England and it represents us well
Thanks for correcting Mackem!
Love United Kingdom from Uruguay 🇬🇧🇺🇾💙
I love youre content best geography video!
man the last time i watched this channel it was the spain video. and before that the russia video.
✨time flies✨
The Tudor rose has the white rose for Yorkshire and the red rose for Lancashire.
Hello geography now im from Yemen from the north where tourist cant go even though confilt has died down over there im going yemen end of this month if you need me to go to locations/historic sites i will happily do so
We love seeing the Groningen flag
Awesome video
ive waited long for this one mates
W video GN
Excellent job, just one note on Scottish education. We don't do GCSEs and A levels as Scotland have a completely independent or 'devolved' education system.
Healthcare, town planning and the legal system are also devolved.
Again, great job. This was a mammoth episode!
You post this on Friday!
Haven't seen the other ep yet. Maybe I should wait for the 5 hour Director's Cut. Would be totally up for that. :)
Can I move there for their flag, alone?! (Though the Welsh language would scramble my brain. Wow.)
I love being British! Hello from Nottingham in the UK! 🏹 🌳
Ooh I can actually use my Medieval Languages degree! "Dieu et mon droit" actually means "God and my right" alluding to the divine right to rule. It is in Old French, likely in what we call Anglo-Norman French which came about post-Conquest and really hit its stride in the reign of Henry II.
It’s still a shame that Scots wasnt mentioned during the language section. It is a unesco recognised minority language and is as much a dialect of English as Swedish is a dialect of Danish
So does that makes Scotland a Germanic rather than a Celtic nation, or is it really three nations (one Gaelic, one Scots, one Norn) wearing one cloak?
Am suprised there wasn't any from the UK or at least in time for the airing of the episode. Maybe there will be some by the time the US episode has come out. Who knows.