My parents were born in Eritrea and lived there when they gained independence. My mom told me that, when everyone voted on whether or not they wanted to separate from Ethiopia, only TWO people voted against independence. And it was a mistake! They accidentally voted against independence because they were nervous! I think that's kinda funny.
@LEILA NABZ Don’t forget north africa is entirely different than the rest of it. Those are arabs while the others aren’t. So uniting the continent isn’t really plausible.
"Baby Yoda" is actually 50, believe it or not. During the last minutes of Czechoslovak TV, they played a song called Sbohem Slovensko (Goodbye Slovakia) where a man and woman who represented the Czechs and Slovaks. They're in a court filing for a divorce, the Slovak wanted it while the Czech was just chilling. Then the court favored the Slovak and a guy with a long beard came in with a chainsaw to separate the long arm that connected them together, which released Czechoslovak coins (to represent the currency's fall). They turned into children to represent that they're now young nations
Marco Polo that’s kind of independence’s though, is it not? Because most British colonies were dominions, even more free than Czechoslovakia, and they still consider their independence to be when they ceased to be dominions
@@sovietmuffin501 It's a technicality. Czechoslovakia was recognised as an independent sovereign state, despite in reality being a soviet puppet. But British colonies were recognised as being under British sovereignty, despite being mostly free to rule themselves in many cases.
It's even more complicated. After WW2 the Czechoslovak communists gained gradually more control over state institutions (parliament, government, police, army...) and in 1948 they comitted a successful coup. In 1950's the red terror started (judicial murders, forced labour in uranium mines...) - people feard the communist government but the Czechoslovak polititians wouldn't even fart without an order from their "advisors" who came from USSR and who were the real rulers of our country. In 1960's Czechoslovakia gained more independence and in January 1968 even started some democratic reforms (e.g. abolition of censorship). In August 1968, however, the armies of Warsaw Pact (with the noble exception of Romania) came to stop the "counter-revolution" and to start the "normalisation" of the political situation and the entire society. This lasted untill late 80's when the regime lost its support from USSR and during the peaceful Velvet Revolution (17th November - 29 December 1989) even the control over state institutions.
@@patrod2327 I know right...... but then that's interesting, since Pakistan doesn't recognize Armenia as a country then what do they call the land that Armenia is on? Or mark Armenia as a territory instead of a country, like how China does to West Sahara?
@@GavinLiuranium From what I understand, in Reality it Exists, but by their Laws, it doesn't. Same goes with those other Countries. Countries might be the better Term as opposed to Sovereign state, they are the Undisputed regions and the Term is Superior, e.g. Denmark (State) owns Greenland (Country).
First of all Croatia wasn't the first to separate from Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia didn't gain indipendence from USSR, also Slovaks didn't fell under the rule of Czechs during the Soviet rule. It was a federation. I like your videos but I think you need to do alot more research before making videos in order for it to be more accurate.
Another very interesting video. Thanks Not sure we can be 100% sure Bougainville will become independent - although I think on balance it will be the next UN member. By the way, in case you’re interested, I just posted a vid on why Republika Srpska (part of Bosnia) certainly won’t be independent any time soon!
While I agree it is not 100% sure for Bougainville, it does seem very probable. The question remains is how this impacts Western Papua claims for Independence?
The results of the Bougainville referendum are not contested on either side, and the parties have agreed to work together on a schedule to make independence effective. I suspect the global pandemic might delay the completion of this process, as governments are kept busy by the crisis, but there is no opposition by the parent-State to this secession so it should happen sooner rather than later.
There is one country that surpassed how young South Sudan was, it’s Catalonia. It was granted independence by Spain in 2018 and lasted 8 seconds before it rejoined Spain.
It’s up to debate (whether you recognize Kosovo or no) and Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro remained 1 country even after the break up of Yugoslavia making them even younger than Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and North Macedonia. I hope this helped👍 It also said this in the video lol
In a few days or weeks time we’re gonna see Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) become independent. When it does I demand a remake of this video with an extra 30 seconds added to talk about it
Another great video! Thanks for sharing this knowledge.
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As a Spanish speaker, kudos for using the 5 continents model for dividing the regions in this video: specially having America from Alaska to Patagonia and Oceania including Australia, NZ and other Pacific islands
How about Curacao and Sint Maarten? These have become independent states withing the Dutch Kingdom in 2010. Aruba did that already in 1986. We might see one of these go for full independence and UN membership in the future.
Pat Rod pakistan denies because it is an ally of azerbaijan. denying of one country doesn’t make Armenia young. It has been more than 27 centuries that we existed
Sadly, I don't think that'll happen while that idiotic PRC is still around. Hopefully, some kind of uprising in the future will allow that to happen. About Catalonia, I think it could happen on the near future.
Scotland Will be allowed to vote again for indepedence in next generation, agreement with england when they did it last time, tho they may still do it, catalonia unless idk UN supports it, isn't geting indepedence, if catalonia gets indepedence it may cause for other spanish teritories to declare indepedence, making spain fall, hong kong eh doubt they Will be able to get due to PRC/China, same for tibet and east turkistan, and Taiwan/RC is indepedent, tho few countries recognize it
'East Timor' was obsolete as the term associates mainly with being an ex Indonesian province. FYI the UN and all English-speaking states (even monolingual Australian media) and international organizations use the term 'Timor-Leste' instead of 'East Timor' just like with 'Iran' (instead of 'Persia'). Different from the case with Spain. The UN and everybody (including the Spanish government and people themselves) use the term 'Spain' instead of España to refer to their country in English.
@@yoyohehe2034 Maybe they did but Croatia had a few years of war before they officially got independent but Slovenia got independent almost immediatly after we declared our independence with few days of war
@@erikkorenjak9737 Not maybe, that's factual... Also it doesn't matter that Croatia had to fight for years unlike Slovenia because both Croatia and Slovenia were internationally recognised at the same time.
South Africa should've gotten an honourable mention, because though it gained independence in 1961 as a Republic, it's current form has only existed since 1994, after Namibia's independence, and the abolishing of Apartheid, the country was restructured as a democracy and the 4 old provinces (Transvaal, Oranje Vrystaat, Cape Province and Natal) were divided into 9 in 1994, we also got a new flag as well as an updated National Anthem (the anthem came into service in 1997).
@@SoujiOkitaTwo I fact checked myself and apparently they declared independence on the same day. 25th of June. So I can't say which declaration came first. My claim was from a "de facto" standpoint. Slovenia was the first to effectively leave Yugoslavia. Anyway I was wrong to make this claim so boldly without any regard for context or fact checking myself prior to posting the comment. Thanks for helping me find the way!
Canada should've been a good mentioned for the America's. Canada didn't fully gain their full independence until 1982 when the British parliament passed the Canada act. Up until 1982 Canada had to get permission from Westminster to pass laws, and Westminster could pass laws for Canada (it never happened, they pretty much just rubber stamped whatever Canada wanted, but officially it still stood as being a dominion)
I think that you will find that Slovenia was the first Republic to leave Yugoslavia. Also I read a few days ago that New Caledonia is also about to hold yet another independence referendum.
To be honest, I believe that, you can’t go calling a nation “new” because it gained independence recently, you need context. As an Armenian I know that civilisations of ours have existed around 2000 years ago making us some of the first globally. We might have only gotten our independence in the 90s but we’ve existed longer than almost any other current nation
As a Hungarian I find weird that more people arguing about you said there was 7 new countries born from Yugoslavia, then Slovakians arguing about that their country is vers young. Usually when a Hungarian making fun of it it's always a problem for them because they say it's older than Hungary. That makes me feel most Slovakians are antimagyar national-chevinists (idc which country is older I just want peace ffs)
Country is young, people group is older, linguistic subgroup in that place is older than Hungarian, national identity is younger than Hungarian. It really just depends how you phrase the question. Nations in context as we know them today are pretty recent for everyone. Few centuries back you would identify more with your social class or religion than with some kind of nation. You were either nobility and use Latin or if you were peasant, there was no standardized version of language, people in different valley might talk completely different than you. These things changed after Martin Luther translated bible to German (in era of print). Which brought access to wider audience and created certain widespread standard for language. Soon after during 16. century other languages got through such standardization (again, thanks to print). This also coincided with creation of nation states with bureaucracy. And through this work for state national identity was being created among bureaucrats. France was most ahead in this regard. Then you get enlightenment and the most important part standardized schools and literacy. From disunited groups with different unintelligible dialects you get one cohesive group. France assimilated/eradicated different language groups and as big unified nation got greater power. Other absolutists monarch wanted to do that as well. In Austria, the emperor wanted to do the same with German language. And get this whole unified block. Which didn’t go well with Hungarian nobility which was always against emperor’s hegemony, so they started push Hungarian language and culture. Which then sparked same counter push in other minor nations in empire against them. And by 19. century everyone in Europe wanted to be nation. In this regard Hungarian nation is few decades older than Slovak one. Everyone who talks about millennia old nations, is using that term wrong. That’s just 18./19. century people retroactively picking things from the past to construct their own history. If you talk about linguistic subgroups. Slavic tribes got in the area around 6. century and Hungarians tribes got here at the end of 9. century. If you talk about nation states. It would be 1867 for Hungarians in Austria-Hungary. And 1918 for Slovaks in Czechoslovakia. Obviously if you want to go just for their own thing. Then 1918 for Hungary and 1939 for Slovakia. And if you are talking about current recognized form. Then 1918 for Hungary and 1993 for Slovakia. So I’m going to assume that them seeing their start in that 6. century arrival of Slavic tribes or some later Slavic state. And you’re counting from middle ages Hungary. While everyone is largely wrong because nations in modern sense became a thing in 18./19. century.
Depending on your definition of "country", you might have to include Sint Maarten and Curaçao. They became countries in 2010, but remain part of The Kingdom of The Netherlands. (Much like Scotland's relationship with The United Kingdom.)
@@General.Knowledge Sovereign recognised states are the most understandable and useful definition of country. Maybe do a video on the different definitions of country!
And on that note, if Scotland does become independent, some people might take issue with calling it a "new country" because it's already considered a country now.
I mean, Yes Kosovo doesn't have worldwide recognition but lets be honest, they govern themselves and borders between Serbia and Kosovo are closed and Serbia doesn't really have control of the area. I'm not taking sides but I mean it's kinda true
Transnitria (Moldova) also govern themselves, but they arrent a country, same as Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia), Taiwan (China) etc.
Are you kidding? With Transnistria... Even though Romania never ruled over that land, the 1992 census shown 40% Romanians, 30% Ukrainians, 30% Russians. While Romanians and Ukrainians are natural populations in the area, Russians were colonized as the local populations who did not agree with the new rule (Russian Empire took over from the Ottoman Empire) were deported in Kazakhstan and Siberia. The absolute majority of the Russians live in the cities, as Hungarians ruled Transilvania from the cities so the Russians actually rule that sliver of land. The Transnistrian propaganda says that there is only one nation the Transnistrians, none other are recognized. Busts of Lenin and other comunist propaganda are all over the place like in North Korea. And the cherry on top: the president of Transnistria since 1992( until recently when Putin retired him) was the former KGB operations officer in Lithuania where he is wanted for multiple assassination. The "new" president is also a FSB ( ex. KGB) agent who was stationed in Siberia. That's Transnistria! Black hole of Europe artificially maintenained by Russia.
Jesus god men, learn things before making videos. Slovenia and Croatia declared independence od the same day. Slovenia was much more influental in gaining it, and there was only 10 days long war. Croatia is totally different story.
@Christian Luong Larsson First of all, geographically speaking, Armenia is closer to Europe than Azerbaijan, and second of all, both of them are in West Asia geographically, culture doesn't influence your political geography. You can't say 2 countries that are super small and border eachother and one is eastern europe and the other is west asia like
Azerbaijan and armenia aswell georgia are in europe the europe and asia borders are border between georgia azerbaijan and armenia to iran and turkey Yes they are in europe
@@sovietmuffin501 There was a non ratified vote but this was declared illegal by Spanish govt. The main reason Spain does not recognise Kosovo as a state is if they did this, they would have to apply same rules of a free vote to Catalonia
Honestly when I read the title I thought you were talking about which countries had the youngest people. Lol! Oh well. I still enjoyed this video a lot. I would have titled it newest countries
Is it just me or does Eritrea and Ethiopia as one country look ugly? I could be biased, seeing as I am Eritrean, but is just looks weird to me! Also, La Michael, the map shows North and South Sudan as separate countries, which, as the video explained, happened very recently. The map is just plain wrong.
Serbia is not a country from 2006. It is one of the oldest countries in Europe, whose internationally recognized statehood dates back to the 12th century. After losing its independence from Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, it regained it back in the 19th century. As an independent country it formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918., together with other South Slavic nations.
@@sovietmuffin501 Lewa, Toa of Air : "They want to be called “Czechia,”" -> Can you name the sources of that statement? There was not a referendum, constitutional law or just law about change of name of our country, which is still named the Czech republic. And to be honest majority of Czechs don't use it at all, only tiny minority likes that UNOFFCICIAL name. Most people use Czech republic when speaking english or just weird adjective "(in/from) czech".
kolomaznik333 technically it’s the official short hand name, while Czech Republic is still the normally used name. In 2016 the cabinet agreed to make it the official short hand name for the Un
Empire of Fatal, Serious and Critical Errors wow... you’re really going to give credibility to some random content creator over people who ACTUALLY LIVE THERE?? It’s clear he got his facts from Wikipedia as that’s what it showed if you look up “first country to break from Yugoslavia” and also, I’m Slovenian as well just in case you’re going to question my credibility too
Barbados was a country since 1966 They broke off from having the queen as the head of state last year So, they have their own rulers and are now the newest REPUBLIC, not country Thought that could help :)
Kosovo is not region of Serbia. It is actually heart of Serbia since 7th century , so about last 1400 years. Exept the time when Serbia was under ocupation of Otoman Empire between 15th and 19th century. In modern history Kosovo is liberated and was part of Serbia from 1918 not from 1945. In Kosovo there was 900 Serbian Orthodox monesteries most of them over 800 years old until last 15-20 years when Albanian islamic terrorists destroyed them or burned them to the ground.
😂😂😂 what a joke. Firstly when u serbs came to steal our territories dardanians, an illyrian tribe was in that territory. And as u know illyrians are albanians. And when Kosovo was under Yugosllavia they wanted to add serbs to Kosovo but failed. So stfu
Albanians are naive in Kosovo even before 7th century! We are successor of Illyrians. In my city we have an Illyrian tower that is 2000 years old. Just because you came as barbarian at 7th century you think you belong in here?
Please revise your statement that it was illegal for South Africa to govern namibia, after WW1 South west Africa (nambia) was placed under administration through which South Africa had to administer it as per the league of nations mandate.
Olá camarada, olha eu queria deixar uma recomendação. Haveria maneira de fazeres um vídeo sobre alianças históricas menos conhecidas? Por exemplo, toda gente sabe que Portugal e a Inglaterra são aliados desde o tratado de Windsor mas também tínhamos alianças com outras nações como a Flandres e até mesmo a Holanda pré-União Ibérica. Era engraçado saber um bocadinho mais sobre essas relações menos conhecidas. Cumprimentos
Jackson Pelletier Who you agree, me or him? Oh by the way, Transcaucasia is considered european because of the border with the european part of Russia, and Turkey haves european lands (Edirne and Istambul)
Tim Daley Same! Armenia has absolutely 0% land in Europe and Georgia and Azerbaijan having negligible land. Meanwhile Kazakhstan, the last country to declare independence from USSR, has about 10% land in Europe, why has he never mentioned that? Really don’t know what this guy’s standards are. Also he mentioned “Republic of Kosovo” is the newest independent European country. What about “Lugansk People’s Republic” and “Donetsk People’s Republic”? All are independent states with limited recognition, but not all are mentioned. Biased much
I think "the baby yodas of political geography" is the best sentence I've said in a video so far
Maybe maybe not
It's either your best, or your worst
Is South Sudan the disruptive adopted kid?
I beg to differ
General Knowledge it’s the worst
First one to separate from Yugoslavia was SLOVENIA, not Croatia.
Yeah i was watching that part and went wait a minute that flag isn't slovenian
Also, he includes Kosovo as a country but it technically isn’t and shouldn’t be
@@mattwakefield4147 He said that Kosovo is still recognized by only half of the countries and he did put a * next to the name on the list.
Simon Tičar why
He also forgot to mention the FYROM.
My parents were born in Eritrea and lived there when they gained independence. My mom told me that, when everyone voted on whether or not they wanted to separate from Ethiopia, only TWO people voted against independence. And it was a mistake! They accidentally voted against independence because they were nervous! I think that's kinda funny.
lol so that means everyone should have actually voted independence XD
Well actually, 1822 people voted against independence, but 1,100,260 voted for independence so I guess it's pretty much just 2 haha :-)
@LEILA NABZ Don’t forget north africa is entirely different than the rest of it. Those are arabs while the others aren’t. So uniting the continent isn’t really plausible.
i feel like eritrea has a very small population the
Wow! I understood, but...where life is BETTER?
"Croatia was the First one to separate from Yugoslavia"
Slovenia: am i a joke to you
"Baby Yoda" is actually 50, believe it or not. During the last minutes of Czechoslovak TV, they played a song called Sbohem Slovensko (Goodbye Slovakia) where a man and woman who represented the Czechs and Slovaks. They're in a court filing for a divorce, the Slovak wanted it while the Czech was just chilling. Then the court favored the Slovak and a guy with a long beard came in with a chainsaw to separate the long arm that connected them together, which released Czechoslovak coins (to represent the currency's fall). They turned into children to represent that they're now young nations
Is there a video of that
Wow, that is extremely interesting!
@@robertpucovsky Yes there is! Just search the song's title
Compared to how old he is supposed to be in the original trilogy, I'd say 50 is pretty baby for him
FACINATING FACT
Czechoslovakia didnt gain independence from the ussr. They just ceased to be a puppet of them.
Marco Polo that’s kind of independence’s though, is it not? Because most British colonies were dominions, even more free than Czechoslovakia, and they still consider their independence to be when they ceased to be dominions
@@sovietmuffin501 It's a technicality. Czechoslovakia was recognised as an independent sovereign state, despite in reality being a soviet puppet. But British colonies were recognised as being under British sovereignty, despite being mostly free to rule themselves in many cases.
Now theyre America's puppet states... how ironic
I am from Czech Republic, :D
It's even more complicated. After WW2 the Czechoslovak communists gained gradually more control over state institutions (parliament, government, police, army...) and in 1948 they comitted a successful coup. In 1950's the red terror started (judicial murders, forced labour in uranium mines...) - people feard the communist government but the Czechoslovak polititians wouldn't even fart without an order from their "advisors" who came from USSR and who were the real rulers of our country. In 1960's Czechoslovakia gained more independence and in January 1968 even started some democratic reforms (e.g. abolition of censorship). In August 1968, however, the armies of Warsaw Pact (with the noble exception of Romania) came to stop the "counter-revolution" and to start the "normalisation" of the political situation and the entire society. This lasted untill late 80's when the regime lost its support from USSR and during the peaceful Velvet Revolution (17th November - 29 December 1989) even the control over state institutions.
Slovenia was the first to get independent from Yugoslavia before Croatia did.
As a Serbian I confirm this si true 100%
I'm a Serb and I approve this is 100% true.
Memester Gangster nice
Slovenia and Croatia declared both their independence on 25. June 1991. but Slovenia became the first one to be internationally recognised.
I aprove I'm from Croatia
I can't stop finding a baby Yoda meme everywhere
qwerty 000 yeah it’s annoying
The problem is, it's not even funny nor interesting.
deal with it.
@@rattfish no u
@@rattfish no u
New country : **exists**
USA : Looks like you need recognition!!
Palestine: What about me?
@@Apfel99 Palestine > Israel
@@Apfel99 Palestine land has been occupied by Israel,not independent country.
This baby Yoda reference isn't going to age well
Yes baby Yoda is actually 50
@@Arristuff
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Does he consent?
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Krakka Jakk711 are you thinking of smthng r smthng
Yes
Hello from a South Sudanese🇸🇸
Hi
good country. Wish you peace
Hello
Hi from North Korea
“Armenia (1)”
Kazakhstan: Is my European clay a joke to you
Pakistan: Denies Armenian existence
@@patrod2327 I know right...... but then that's interesting, since Pakistan doesn't recognize Armenia as a country then what do they call the land that Armenia is on? Or mark Armenia as a territory instead of a country, like how China does to West Sahara?
@@GavinLiuranium From what I understand, in Reality it Exists, but by their Laws, it doesn't. Same goes with those other Countries. Countries might be the better Term as opposed to Sovereign state, they are the Undisputed regions and the Term is Superior, e.g. Denmark (State) owns Greenland (Country).
@@patrod2327 what does armenia look like on a map to pakistan?
@@patrod2327 Maybe, that makes quite some sense
First of all Croatia wasn't the first to separate from Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia didn't gain indipendence from USSR, also Slovaks didn't fell under the rule of Czechs during the Soviet rule. It was a federation. I like your videos but I think you need to do alot more research before making videos in order for it to be more accurate.
10:45 and Serbia started existing in 1180. Year, wtf??? Why he put Serbia in 2006
Kiluu *current form*
@@kiluu9076 1180? Bruh much earlier, first Serbian principality was in 7th century
@@kiluu9076 and he explained why he put it there.
He said that Czechoslovakia changed their government from communism, not declared independence from them
Another very interesting video. Thanks Not sure we can be 100% sure Bougainville will become independent - although I think on balance it will be the next UN member. By the way, in case you’re interested, I just posted a vid on why Republika Srpska (part of Bosnia) certainly won’t be independent any time soon!
While I agree it is not 100% sure for Bougainville, it does seem very probable.
The question remains is how this impacts Western Papua claims for Independence?
Oh, hello Mr. James!
98% vote I think is a pretty freaking sure bet
I think Bougainville will be independent
The results of the Bougainville referendum are not contested on either side, and the parties have agreed to work together on a schedule to make independence effective. I suspect the global pandemic might delay the completion of this process, as governments are kept busy by the crisis, but there is no opposition by the parent-State to this secession so it should happen sooner rather than later.
There is one country that surpassed how young South Sudan was, it’s Catalonia. It was granted independence by Spain in 2018 and lasted 8 seconds before it rejoined Spain.
He is talking about countries which still exist
But Yugoslavia have 6 parts.
Bravo
MEGA Sarma no it doesn’t
@@eewag1 yes it does
It’s up to debate (whether you recognize Kosovo or no) and Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro remained 1 country even after the break up of Yugoslavia making them even younger than Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and North Macedonia. I hope this helped👍
It also said this in the video lol
It’s only 6 if you don’t recognize Kosovo.
Hey man great video! I'm glad you finally pronounced Czechia right!
Matěj Gorniak czech republic
DULA PEEP that’s the offical name. Czechia is just the shorter name. No one calls Russia the “Russian Federation”
In a few days or weeks time we’re gonna see Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) become independent. When it does I demand a remake of this video with an extra 30 seconds added to talk about it
I'm as old as Timor-Leste. I like that country from what I've seen so far.
Uup nevermind they're afflicted with an inferior mythtype.
2:22 that's actually false... Slovenia was the first to break away. Croatia was second
What's your reference?
@@happyfacefries Slovenian education system
True Luka zorko
And wtf Serbia???? 10:45 what the... Serbia existed since 1180
General Knowledge is never wrong, so you’re wrong!
Another great video! Thanks for sharing this knowledge.
As a Spanish speaker, kudos for using the 5 continents model for dividing the regions in this video: specially having America from Alaska to Patagonia and Oceania including Australia, NZ and other Pacific islands
si, le suma muchos puntos a la calidad del video
I think you may have forgotten Belize. Belize's independence was recognized in 1981
Normies be like: *BEBE YODA SHOULD BE LAND AND MEME OF THE DEKADE*
What does “*BEBE YODA SHOULD ME LAND*”MEAN
@@bigyoshiofficial yes
@Robbert Kööp yes
Can I buy 2 acres of baby yoda
How about Curacao and Sint Maarten? These have become independent states withing the Dutch Kingdom in 2010. Aruba did that already in 1986. We might see one of these go for full independence and UN membership in the future.
GK: Croatia was the first to break away from Yugoslavia
Slovenia: am I a joke to you?
seriously tho why does Slovenia constantly get ignored lmao
IT HURTS!!
I mean it is practically a micro state and its sergegation from yugoslavia was mostly peacefull
it doesn't get ignored! sometimes people call Slovakia, Slovenia!
Chechnoslovenia
literally only 2 million people are in Slovenia, ofc people would ignore it all the time!
@@1leon000 Croatia barely has 4 million people. just because Slovenia is small doesn't mean it should get ignored
Armenia: *Becomes exists*
Greece: Y O S
*Grammar not found*
r/engrish
Pakistan: Denies Armenian existence
Pat Rod pakistan denies because it is an ally of azerbaijan. denying of one country doesn’t make Armenia young. It has been more than 27 centuries that we existed
Extremely interesting thank you!
2:22 Slovenia*
Fast answer:
South Sudan
lol
Greece: one of the oldest countries that now exist
Armenia: *HOLD MY LAVASH*
😂😂😂 I'm Armenian and this hade me laugh
Pakistan: Denies Armenian existence
@@patrod2327 we don't care about cows
@@hovhannespalyan9127 Wa?
@@patrod2327 actually, we don't expect anything from Pakistan, because,in 1915 you were part of India so, your choice literally won't change anything
General Knowledge: South Sudan is the world's youngest country today
Bougainville: Am I a joke to you?
It's not a country yet because they arent recognized
Daniel Magro they just voted in a referendum they don’t even consider themselves independent yet
They're not independent yet. Think Brexit, or elections, and you'll understand
Eh, you dummy it's not independent, it's not recognized, it has juststarted to prepare for independence lol...
Also, Nirvana in the Pacific is gonna become a country
I want to see independence for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, Scotland and Catalonia.
Please don't call that country as Xinjiang, it's a ridicilous Chinese name. It's actual name is *Uyghuristan* or East Turkestan.
Sadly, I don't think that'll happen while that idiotic PRC is still around. Hopefully, some kind of uprising in the future will allow that to happen.
About Catalonia, I think it could happen on the near future.
Scotland Will be allowed to vote again for indepedence in next generation, agreement with england when they did it last time, tho they may still do it, catalonia unless idk UN supports it, isn't geting indepedence, if catalonia gets indepedence it may cause for other spanish teritories to declare indepedence, making spain fall, hong kong eh doubt they Will be able to get due to PRC/China, same for tibet and east turkistan, and Taiwan/RC is indepedent, tho few countries recognize it
The first four are PRC China!
'East Timor' was obsolete as the term associates mainly with being an ex Indonesian province. FYI the UN and all English-speaking states (even monolingual Australian media) and international organizations use the term 'Timor-Leste' instead of 'East Timor' just like with 'Iran' (instead of 'Persia'). Different from the case with Spain. The UN and everybody (including the Spanish government and people themselves) use the term 'Spain' instead of España to refer to their country in English.
Slovenia June 1991
Thats before Croatia
@@erikkorenjak9737 Exactly.......
Actually both Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence at the same day
@@yoyohehe2034 Maybe they did but Croatia had a few years of war before they officially got independent but Slovenia got independent almost immediatly after we declared our independence with few days of war
@@erikkorenjak9737 Not maybe, that's factual...
Also it doesn't matter that Croatia had to fight for years unlike Slovenia because both Croatia and Slovenia were internationally recognised at the same time.
Bruh when he was taking about sedan an oil the American in me went “oil!?!?!?”💀
Serbia is one of the oldest countries in the world.Montenegro is new country.Serbia is in 7 century
South Africa should've gotten an honourable mention, because though it gained independence in 1961 as a Republic, it's current form has only existed since 1994, after Namibia's independence, and the abolishing of Apartheid, the country was restructured as a democracy and the 4 old provinces (Transvaal, Oranje Vrystaat, Cape Province and Natal) were divided into 9 in 1994, we also got a new flag as well as an updated National Anthem (the anthem came into service in 1997).
🇨🇿🇸🇰 Brothers forever. Visegrád forever
ApollonCZ I have no slovakian brother
And there is hungary too
🇭🇺🇮🇩🇸🇰🇨🇿
Marcell Mihály oh yes the four brothers, hungary, monaco, slovakia and czech republic
Hell yeah! VISEGRÁD 4EVER BRO 😎
🇵🇱 Polska
🇨🇿 Česko
🇸🇰 Slovensko
🇭🇺 Magyarország
Armenia is not exactly in Europe, it's South of the Kaukaz mountains that separate Europe from Asia
How did you talk about all -stans from USSR and forgot about Kazakhstan?
Big mistake: Slovenia was the first to leave Yugoslavia, not Croatia. Croatia was the second to break off.
Youthure Stop! You. Are. Wrong
@@SoujiOkitaTwo I fact checked myself and apparently they declared independence on the same day. 25th of June. So I can't say which declaration came first.
My claim was from a "de facto" standpoint. Slovenia was the first to effectively leave Yugoslavia.
Anyway I was wrong to make this claim so boldly without any regard for context or fact checking myself prior to posting the comment.
Thanks for helping me find the way!
Youthure no, you’re not wrong... he just gives too much credibility to content creators
Chuuk in Micronesia and New Caledonia are having independence referendums next year. Maybe they will be the next baby Yodas!
Chuuk? But why?
Chuukoslavakia?
Canada should've been a good mentioned for the America's. Canada didn't fully gain their full independence until 1982 when the British parliament passed the Canada act. Up until 1982 Canada had to get permission from Westminster to pass laws, and Westminster could pass laws for Canada (it never happened, they pretty much just rubber stamped whatever Canada wanted, but officially it still stood as being a dominion)
I think that you will find that Slovenia was the first Republic to leave Yugoslavia. Also I read a few days ago that New Caledonia is also about to hold yet another independence referendum.
To be honest, I believe that, you can’t go calling a nation “new” because it gained independence recently, you need context. As an Armenian I know that civilisations of ours have existed around 2000 years ago making us some of the first globally. We might have only gotten our independence in the 90s but we’ve existed longer than almost any other current nation
Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia before Croatia did.
Baby yoda got you thinking about country, mmmm. I think it's the hair
That moment you realize baby Yoda is 50 years old
FBI: Wants to know your location
YUGOSLAVIA HAS 6 PARTS!
Yodaslavia
@@spookyengie735 ?
It’s only 6 if you don’t recognize Kosovo.
We have Slovenia,Croatia,Serbia,Bosnia,Kosovo,Macedonia,Montenegro so that 7. ..
Yugoslavia doesn't exist any more.
Since the wars it is now 7 parts.
Stomping your feet and crying like a toddler will not change that.
2:16 NO! SLOVENIA WAS THE FIRST!
Croatia And Slovenia Broke Away From Yugoslavia In The Same Day Slovenia Was Only The First To Recognize
Thank you for considering Kosovo 🇽🇰❤ as a country. Because it is
Yeah!
For me it’s an cross road of Servian and Albanian cultur!
You guys are a country 100%
Kosovo is just south serbia
So shut up
Adoro o trabalho que fazes tanto a nível de conteúdo como em termos graficos. Parabens
As a Hungarian I find weird that more people arguing about you said there was 7 new countries born from Yugoslavia, then Slovakians arguing about that their country is vers young. Usually when a Hungarian making fun of it it's always a problem for them because they say it's older than Hungary. That makes me feel most Slovakians are antimagyar national-chevinists
(idc which country is older I just want peace ffs)
Country is young, people group is older, linguistic subgroup in that place is older than Hungarian, national identity is younger than Hungarian. It really just depends how you phrase the question.
Nations in context as we know them today are pretty recent for everyone. Few centuries back you would identify more with your social class or religion than with some kind of nation. You were either nobility and use Latin or if you were peasant, there was no standardized version of language, people in different valley might talk completely different than you.
These things changed after Martin Luther translated bible to German (in era of print). Which brought access to wider audience and created certain widespread standard for language. Soon after during 16. century other languages got through such standardization (again, thanks to print). This also coincided with creation of nation states with bureaucracy. And through this work for state national identity was being created among bureaucrats.
France was most ahead in this regard. Then you get enlightenment and the most important part standardized schools and literacy. From disunited groups with different unintelligible dialects you get one cohesive group. France assimilated/eradicated different language groups and as big unified nation got greater power. Other absolutists monarch wanted to do that as well. In Austria, the emperor wanted to do the same with German language. And get this whole unified block. Which didn’t go well with Hungarian nobility which was always against emperor’s hegemony, so they started push Hungarian language and culture. Which then sparked same counter push in other minor nations in empire against them. And by 19. century everyone in Europe wanted to be nation.
In this regard Hungarian nation is few decades older than Slovak one. Everyone who talks about millennia old nations, is using that term wrong. That’s just 18./19. century people retroactively picking things from the past to construct their own history.
If you talk about linguistic subgroups. Slavic tribes got in the area around 6. century and Hungarians tribes got here at the end of 9. century.
If you talk about nation states. It would be 1867 for Hungarians in Austria-Hungary. And 1918 for Slovaks in Czechoslovakia. Obviously if you want to go just for their own thing. Then 1918 for Hungary and 1939 for Slovakia.
And if you are talking about current recognized form. Then 1918 for Hungary and 1993 for Slovakia.
So I’m going to assume that them seeing their start in that 6. century arrival of Slavic tribes or some later Slavic state. And you’re counting from middle ages Hungary. While everyone is largely wrong because nations in modern sense became a thing in 18./19. century.
Depending on your definition of "country", you might have to include Sint Maarten and Curaçao. They became countries in 2010, but remain part of The Kingdom of The Netherlands. (Much like Scotland's relationship with The United Kingdom.)
Good point! I think I was going more for sovereign nations in this
@@General.Knowledge Sovereign recognised states are the most understandable and useful definition of country. Maybe do a video on the different definitions of country!
And on that note, if Scotland does become independent, some people might take issue with calling it a "new country" because it's already considered a country now.
@@GeographyWorld My very thought! To keep with the channel's titling conventions: "Countries that aren't fully independent" or similar.
The last to break away from the soviet union actually was Kazakhstan.
I mean, Yes Kosovo doesn't have worldwide recognition but lets be honest, they govern themselves and borders between Serbia and Kosovo are closed and Serbia doesn't really have control of the area. I'm not taking sides but I mean it's kinda true
Transnitria (Moldova) also govern themselves, but they arrent a country, same as Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia), Taiwan (China) etc.
Are you kidding? With Transnistria... Even though Romania never ruled over that land, the 1992 census shown 40% Romanians, 30% Ukrainians, 30% Russians. While Romanians and Ukrainians are natural populations in the area, Russians were colonized as the local populations who did not agree with the new rule (Russian Empire took over from the Ottoman Empire) were deported in Kazakhstan and Siberia. The absolute majority of the Russians live in the cities, as Hungarians ruled Transilvania from the cities so the Russians actually rule that sliver of land. The Transnistrian propaganda says that there is only one nation the Transnistrians, none other are recognized. Busts of Lenin and other comunist propaganda are all over the place like in North Korea. And the cherry on top: the president of Transnistria since 1992( until recently when Putin retired him) was the former KGB operations officer in Lithuania where he is wanted for multiple assassination. The "new" president is also a FSB ( ex. KGB) agent who was stationed in Siberia. That's Transnistria! Black hole of Europe artificially maintenained by Russia.
Sehr gut recherchiertes Video!
2:30
No Slovenia was first country to get indpendence
The people in Czechoslovakia didn't want to separate, the politicians did.
Long live Timor Leste (East Timor), our brother nation..... (portugal)
Slovenia and Croatia both declared independence on the same day, 25 June 1991. Macedonia declared independence later that year.
Jesus god men, learn things before making videos. Slovenia and Croatia declared independence od the same day. Slovenia was much more influental in gaining it, and there was only 10 days long war. Croatia is totally different story.
Reminder that Somaliland should be considered a country.
Since are Armenia and Azerbaijan part of Europe?? Hello??
*Since when
@Christian Luong Larsson First of all, geographically speaking, Armenia is closer to Europe than Azerbaijan, and second of all, both of them are in West Asia geographically, culture doesn't influence your political geography. You can't say 2 countries that are super small and border eachother and one is eastern europe and the other is west asia like
Azerbaijan and armenia aswell georgia are in europe
the europe and asia borders are border between georgia azerbaijan and armenia to iran and turkey
Yes they are in europe
@@joaotaveira4604 always?
@@EuropeanAndrew yeah modern maps are made so caucasus region is in europe. because technically they are in eastern europe and west asia.
How strange that you completely forgot about the Middle East! Almost all countries are new there: Iraq, Syria, UAE, SA, Jordan, Israel,...
Soon this will be updated with Scotland
Maybe!
@Christos Christodoulidis Catalonia might also become independent
MCKingPlaysGames didn’t Catalonia declare independence but Spain is trying to keep them in?
@@sovietmuffin501 There was a non ratified vote but this was declared illegal by Spanish govt.
The main reason Spain does not recognise Kosovo as a state is if they did this, they would have to apply same rules of a free vote to Catalonia
Nik Turk I knew about the referendums being declared illegal, but the Catalonian parliament did declare independence did it not?
Honestly when I read the title I thought you were talking about which countries had the youngest people. Lol! Oh well. I still enjoyed this video a lot. I would have titled it newest countries
8:07
Waht is going on in that map?
Yemen is split in two and Eritrea is part of Ethiopía
Its a map from the 60s for some reason. When south yemen and north yemen existed and israel had sinai
Is it just me or does Eritrea and Ethiopia as one country look ugly? I could be biased, seeing as I am Eritrean, but is just looks weird to me!
Also, La Michael, the map shows North and South Sudan as separate countries, which, as the video explained, happened very recently. The map is just plain wrong.
@@longliveplanetawesome3223 Ethiopia looks so sad without a coast tho :(
Now two Yemens became one,Eritrea is independent country.
I'm someone from Europe and has never heard the term, the Old Continent before.
4:30 **angry Serb noises**
*Happy Kosovo noises*
:(
@@serbia4230 Kosovo is Young!
🇷🇸->🇽🇰
Serbia is not a country from 2006. It is one of the oldest countries in Europe, whose internationally recognized statehood dates back to the 12th century. After losing its independence from Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, it regained it back in the 19th century. As an independent country it formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918., together with other South Slavic nations.
But Czechia is still Czech republic.
They want to be called “Czechia,” but that news hasn’t spread far enough.
Lewa, Toa of Air the way I understood it is that they don’t care either way, but think that Czechia is an acceptable name for casual speech
@@sovietmuffin501 Lewa, Toa of Air : "They want to be called “Czechia,”" -> Can you name the sources of that statement? There was not a referendum, constitutional law or just law about change of name of our country, which is still named the Czech republic. And to be honest majority of Czechs don't use it at all, only tiny minority likes that UNOFFCICIAL name. Most people use Czech republic when speaking english or just weird adjective "(in/from) czech".
@@kolomaznik333 www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36048186
kolomaznik333 technically it’s the official short hand name, while Czech Republic is still the normally used name. In 2016 the cabinet agreed to make it the official short hand name for the Un
This is definitely one of the best and most in depth videos I've seen on the topic! Well done! I love that you divided them by continent 😊
But what about Kosovo?
It isnt already a country and it won't never be one
Baby Yoda is not as young as you think he’d probably be 90 in human years
Ah yes, The Country of....
What ever planet Baby Yoda's Species is called...
Thanks George...
Baby yoda in the thumbnail is the best thing ever.. 😂
Actually slovenia broke from yugoslavia first and then around week later also croatia
Aleksander Zakrajšek Stop! Many people have said that. What General Knowledge says is the correct answer!
Fatal Error yeah but the problem is i am from slovenia and i know history of our country
Empire of Fatal, Serious and Critical Errors wow... you’re really going to give credibility to some random content creator over people who ACTUALLY LIVE THERE?? It’s clear he got his facts from Wikipedia as that’s what it showed if you look up “first country to break from Yugoslavia” and also, I’m Slovenian as well just in case you’re going to question my credibility too
Video: “The youngest countries in the world”
Barbados 🇧🇧: Excuse me?!
Barbados was a country since 1966
They broke off from having the queen as the head of state last year
So, they have their own rulers and are now the newest REPUBLIC, not country
Thought that could help :)
Kosovo is not region of Serbia. It is actually heart of Serbia since 7th century , so about last 1400 years. Exept the time when Serbia was under ocupation of Otoman Empire between 15th and 19th century. In modern history Kosovo is liberated and was part of Serbia from 1918 not from 1945. In Kosovo there was 900 Serbian Orthodox monesteries most of them over 800 years old until last 15-20 years when Albanian islamic terrorists destroyed them or burned them to the ground.
Danilo Ninkovic true, are you Serbian?
😂😂😂 what a joke. Firstly when u serbs came to steal our territories dardanians, an illyrian tribe was in that territory. And as u know illyrians are albanians. And when Kosovo was under Yugosllavia they wanted to add serbs to Kosovo but failed. So stfu
Albanians are naive in Kosovo even before 7th century! We are successor of Illyrians. In my city we have an Illyrian tower that is 2000 years old. Just because you came as barbarian at 7th century you think you belong in here?
Youngest ones out of 12/30/2020:
1. Bougainville (2019)
2. Kurdistan (2018)
3. South Sudan (2011)
4. Kosovo (2008)
5. Montenegro (2006)
6. Sealand (2002)
7. Timor Leste (2002)
8. Croatia (1991)
9. Palau (1994)
10. Eritrea (1993)
Kurdistan and Bougainville are still not official yet
You should do “proposed states in the us”
Uh Montenegro was not first established in 1852 it was actually first established in 1486
Kosovo isnt really independent, atleast yet
That Slavic Dude and won t ever be in Our Tito-hearts
@Oscar Ulrich nah I'm from the United States and I don't consider Kosovo a country more of a extension of Albania
@@starvingpotato4100 thats worse...
@Oscar Ulrich ok so why is it not in UN by now? I do not consider anything that is not in UN as a country...
@@thatslavicdude7541 oh I just see them as Albanian and not as a country hell I consider them part of Serbia
Almost everyone here was alive during the creation of South Sudan
Europe where is Liberland the newest country in Europe its between Serbia and Croatia
Dino CR7 that shit doesn t exist . The only micro states who deserve to be independent are Andorra H-K Vatican and SAN Marino
Mistake. Croatia was not the first state to split from Yugoslavia: Slovenia and Croatia declared indipendence in the same day.
Please revise your statement that it was illegal for South Africa to govern namibia, after WW1 South west Africa (nambia) was placed under administration through which South Africa had to administer it as per the league of nations mandate.
Olá camarada, olha eu queria deixar uma recomendação. Haveria maneira de fazeres um vídeo sobre alianças históricas menos conhecidas? Por exemplo, toda gente sabe que Portugal e a Inglaterra são aliados desde o tratado de Windsor mas também tínhamos alianças com outras nações como a Flandres e até mesmo a Holanda pré-União Ibérica. Era engraçado saber um bocadinho mais sobre essas relações menos conhecidas. Cumprimentos
No one:
Not a single soul:
General Knowledge: _"the baby Yodas of political geography"_
Normie
The youngest the countries the more troublesome they are
Interesting
Why do you consider Armenia, Azerbajian, and Georgia as a part of Europe when they are in Asia?
Tim Daley sometimes they are geographically located in Europe, and thats what i think, they are european
Jackson Pelletier Who you agree, me or him? Oh by the way, Transcaucasia is considered european because of the border with the european part of Russia, and Turkey haves european lands (Edirne and Istambul)
Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are *not* part of Europe.
Because they are Europe
Tim Daley Same! Armenia has absolutely 0% land in Europe and Georgia and Azerbaijan having negligible land. Meanwhile Kazakhstan, the last country to declare independence from USSR, has about 10% land in Europe, why has he never mentioned that? Really don’t know what this guy’s standards are.
Also he mentioned “Republic of Kosovo” is the newest independent European country. What about “Lugansk People’s Republic” and “Donetsk People’s Republic”? All are independent states with limited recognition, but not all are mentioned. Biased much
Thank you. Greetings from Armenia!!!
4:37 what is this?
That is Kosovo my friend
@@noob_man8985 What, I don't understand?
@@НиколаБећаговић oh so apparently you dont know your country map
@@НиколаБећаговић well then to are a d umass who has nothing to write another Serbian wanting attention
@@НиколаБећаговић Kosovo is not Serbia, if Kosovo was Serbia then why does Kosovo have their own passwords?
Sint.Maarten and Curacao achieved country status in 2010...
came here to read kosovo comments
kosovo is serbia
stevan no
You are lacking behind in your mindset. Kosovo is Albania. Keep Dreaming, reality is different.
Kosovo is Sealand :P
1:41 Armenia is fully in Asia
100th dislike
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
But really i didnt mean to dislike
Normie
Technically, like Cabo Verde and Côté D’Ivoire, East Timor prefers to be called Timor-Leste in all official cqpacities