Countries That Are SHRINKING In Size Right Now

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  • @molexi6537
    @molexi6537 6 років тому +131

    If you convert something to freedom units, atleast use the correct ones, for example, my house is about 5 AR-15s tall

    • @lukedetering4490
      @lukedetering4490 6 років тому +5

      Rolexi my house is 3 elephant heads tall

    • @victorious5906
      @victorious5906 6 років тому +25

      My house is 5 oil barrels high

    • @molexi6537
      @molexi6537 6 років тому +16

      "Did someone mention... OIL???" *invades*

    • @hunterolson3744
      @hunterolson3744 6 років тому +2

      My house is 11 pizza boxes tall

    • @maximumthrottle5391
      @maximumthrottle5391 5 років тому

      @@benny_lee probably something to do with the republican party and their use of the elephant as a icon.

  • @HahtaanDaetori
    @HahtaanDaetori 6 років тому +68

    *Western Sahara is Antarctica*

  • @lukedetering4490
    @lukedetering4490 6 років тому +92

    I love how accurate your imperial system conversions are :)

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 2 роки тому +1

      I like fortnite!

    • @ItsWazzza
      @ItsWazzza 2 роки тому

      @@duffal0 good for you

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 2 роки тому +1

      @@ItsWazzza I like fortnite!

  • @molexi6537
    @molexi6537 6 років тому +32

    You are talking about Maldives like they would be the first country without land but the Knights of Malta haven't had any in a long time

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  6 років тому +15

      First UN member state that will lose it's territory / also the first people group. I still think it'll be an interesting precedent, but I perhaps should've mentioned the sovereign order or Malta you're right

    • @molexi6537
      @molexi6537 6 років тому +1

      I guess I wasn't focusing enough. Sorry about that. Could you do a video about Knight of Malta some day? I don't think alot of people know about them

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 6 років тому

      the knights of Malta are officially a recognized sovereign group but do not actually have any land and borders.

  • @damjanivanovski801
    @damjanivanovski801 6 років тому +63

    Country:Mr World, i dont feel so good.

  • @sobs291
    @sobs291 6 років тому +16

    Do a video on Liberland

  • @coatigoatb3171
    @coatigoatb3171 4 роки тому +9

    Toycat: The Maldives might be the first digital only country!
    The Sovereign Military Order of Malta: :(

  • @Daniel-br4nc
    @Daniel-br4nc 6 років тому +36

    Let's just use a few boats and pick up the islands then bring them to the land!

    • @wafflepenguin4440
      @wafflepenguin4440 6 років тому +4

      Great idea! That would be definitely possible to do and it would certainly work!

    • @uyuman1
      @uyuman1 6 років тому +1

      Whose land?

    • @Daniel-br4nc
      @Daniel-br4nc 6 років тому +3

      uyu man The islands can stay at my house

    • @sonnydog830
      @sonnydog830 6 років тому +4

      Daniel LET'S TAKE BIKINI BOTTOM, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!

  • @stacey8347
    @stacey8347 2 роки тому +4

    Oh how 4:55 aged over the course of a couple years.

  • @Saturntwilight
    @Saturntwilight 6 років тому +2

    Keep up these great geography videos toycat!

  • @tjvanderyacht9806
    @tjvanderyacht9806 6 років тому +14

    I would love to see a video on how Chile got its such weird shape and pretty much owning the pacific ocean on the western south america xD

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 6 років тому +2

      TJ VanderYacht when the Spanish ruled most of the continent they split it up into different divisions to rule it easier. Chile happened to be one of those divisions. as each nation gained independence separately, it was left as a skinny strip down the continent. Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru plus Argentina set their borders, with the Andes as the main border (and wierd river bends)
      wonderwhy does a grear video on this

    • @colewalker2916
      @colewalker2916 3 роки тому

      They took over the coast from Bolivia and stuff that’s it

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 2 роки тому +2

      They separated the South American countries by their Fortnite wins, and Chile had the most so they got the whole coast

  • @brandon9172
    @brandon9172 6 років тому +91

    Kosovo is Australian

    • @machonacho2767
      @machonacho2767 6 років тому +4

      Australia is Mongolia!

    • @thetrashmaster1352
      @thetrashmaster1352 6 років тому +2

      I'm Australian. I can confirm Kosovo is Australia and Australia is the United Kingdom.

    • @burinvoyager8964
      @burinvoyager8964 6 років тому +1

      No both are Canada and Canada is united kingdom

    • @kylejackson3742
      @kylejackson3742 5 років тому

      Astoris Minecraft is Sweden.

    • @LunaBari
      @LunaBari 5 років тому

      Are you insane?

  • @himtraldi
    @himtraldi 6 років тому +8

    As a Dane I prefer Greenland voting in referendums to stay because they want to, not be cause they can't afford not to.

  • @pvfsm
    @pvfsm 5 років тому +8

    At 18:37 When you say "unrecognized territories like this part of Armenia" you actually showed the Nakhchivan Exclave which belongs to Azerbaijan and it's undisputed territory. You probably wanted to point to Artsakh aka Nagorno-Karabakh which is east of Armenia, not west, but doesn't show on google maps as disputed area. I guess it's not shown as disputed area by google maps because even tough it's de facto ruled by ethnic Armenians who want a union with Armenia, Armenia never officially claimed the territory even if they support the local forces in their fight against Azerbaijan, but I'm not actually 100% sure whether they claim it or not.
    Sorry for being "that guy" always pointing the small mistakes in your videos, the truth is that i like your videos and i think they have quality so when I spot something a little detail that you missed I like to let you know.

  • @HahtaanDaetori
    @HahtaanDaetori 6 років тому +56

    *Crimea is Kosovo*

    • @HahtaanDaetori
      @HahtaanDaetori 6 років тому +4

      Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff lol, it's a joke calm down 😂

    • @user-pv7vc9kp9k
      @user-pv7vc9kp9k 3 роки тому +2

      Taiwan is Crimean kosovo

  • @HeviErkka
    @HeviErkka 6 років тому +9

    I think in year 2120 Maldivians are a people group without a country. Like Romani people. Or they have became like half-Maldivian half-Indian people.

    • @thatoneguy9582
      @thatoneguy9582 6 років тому +1

      Bhaalspawn84
      Or they’ll go to Sri Lanka

  • @WizardToby
    @WizardToby 6 років тому +18

    I've always considered Greenland it's own country even though they're technically part of Denmark XD

  • @turkeycooktime458
    @turkeycooktime458 4 роки тому +2

    I have heard that Tonga is actually growing in size, because of new volcanic islands along the Tonga Trench

  • @_Dalton_
    @_Dalton_ 2 роки тому +3

    4:47 well that didn't age well.....

  • @FilK79
    @FilK79 6 років тому +22

    You are so cool. At my time in Yugoslavia young people in school actually cared to study history and geography and felt proud and cool to demostrate knolledge about it. Then I moved to Western Europe and I found myself in a place where my schoolmates knew shit about the world and geopolitics. Like totally ignorant and not even wishing to know anything about it. I really need to say that despite Serbia/Yugoslavia had not been a Eastern Bloc country, it had a communist regime, and in regard of education, all these countries did so well in making schools actually educate youngsters from early age about important world stuff. For instance, I studied 2nd and 3rd grade in elementary school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in late 1980s and we already had there history and geography. I left Serbia to Portugal in 1988 with 10 years and already knowing all geography and history of Yugoslavia and most important stuff of the world. When I came to Portugal I went to 4th grade and saw them playing as babies wihout knowing or studiing any of this.

    • @ivandjurdjevic7463
      @ivandjurdjevic7463 6 років тому +3

      Kosovo is Serbia

    • @Nikodem2008
      @Nikodem2008 5 років тому

      Unlike Britain, they know ZERO about geography. At school there was a little Europe poster and they thought Bulgaria was in Spain and they spelt
      “Bolgayra” wrong. It also said Prague was in Spain and it also said some random sea which was between uk and Denmark but it was in Baltic Sea. Come on seriously

    • @duffal0
      @duffal0 2 роки тому +1

      I live in the US and I’d be shocked if half the people I know could name a European country outside of the the UK, France, Germany, Italy, or Russia

    • @sidimightbe
      @sidimightbe 2 роки тому

      I think that has to do with you being in portuqal, I bet it’s better in the actual west

    • @sidimightbe
      @sidimightbe 2 роки тому

      @@duffal0 the us is western centric cause it is wester and only briefly talks about Russia

  • @comicallytv6046
    @comicallytv6046 2 роки тому +1

    Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Nauru, and Kiribati are all sinking as well

  • @adaaam37
    @adaaam37 6 років тому +5

    What about France and Spain? There's an island between them that changes from France to Spain every 6 months

    • @thatoneguy9582
      @thatoneguy9582 6 років тому +3

      Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff
      No, there’s a different one

    • @smpark12
      @smpark12 6 років тому

      claim it at the second it switches. SAJAKA SHALL OVERCOME! are you talking about Andorra tho? that's a country that is half owned as a king and a president and ahhh complicated

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 6 років тому +1

      Philippe Léon Viviane Jean-Claude Worontzoff Andorra's leader is referred to as a prince, which is just a fancy term of head of state (not royal). the island referred to is Pheasant Island on a river border in the Pyreenes region.
      the island is uninhabited by humans and changes hands every six months due to a 17th century treaty between France and Spain. it is more of a technicality as pretty much anyone can navigate the river.

    • @towaritch
      @towaritch 4 роки тому

      @@SantomPh the Bidaxxoa river is small it is only navigated by fishermen and tourists canoes . There is a French monument (stele) on Pheasant islet that dates back to the 18th century.

  • @oxcaxx
    @oxcaxx 6 років тому +59

    Do countries that are growing. For example UAE and the Netherlands making artificial islands.

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 6 років тому

      A flood deleting all of European Netherlands and they would suddenly need to move to Belgium and Carribean.

    • @4N9vxO3WnK
      @4N9vxO3WnK 6 років тому +1

      You could also add countries that are affected by post-glacial rebound to that list.

    • @シロダサンダー
      @シロダサンダー 6 років тому

      Erkin Alp Güney nah, we'd just reclaim the land again.

    • @towaritch
      @towaritch 4 роки тому

      Monaco also is building a 6 ha artificial polder.

    • @underplugground10
      @underplugground10 4 роки тому

      And China is doing it illegally

  • @illeatyourbird4149
    @illeatyourbird4149 6 років тому +1

    Hey you should do a video on the chesapeake bay

  • @lukaskarlstrom7548
    @lukaskarlstrom7548 6 років тому +5

    Denmark is expanding in mass... lol

  • @pyr4911
    @pyr4911 6 років тому +14

    Atlantis is going to be real...

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 6 років тому +1

      Kosovo has always been Serbia, it's just occupied currently just like East Timor for example was occupied by Indonesia.

    • @TobuscusGameing
      @TobuscusGameing 6 років тому

      Pyrope
      Nope

    • @Tuberex
      @Tuberex 3 роки тому

      @@kostam.1113 Who asked

  • @jakobsmith4046
    @jakobsmith4046 6 років тому +2

    Eleven minutes into this video and i have already learned more than i did all day at school.

  • @deanseawa
    @deanseawa 6 років тому

    I like your show and share your love of maps. But I have one request. Can you slow down on the zooming in and zooming out and jerking left and right. It really gets hard to see anything when you do that.

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  6 років тому

      thanks for the tip - I do it "live" so it takes some mental training but I'm trying to make smoother pans :)

  • @ludvigwitschel7801
    @ludvigwitschel7801 4 роки тому +1

    I'm Danish, and I only know a few people who've been to Greenland. We maybe spend two or three hours learning about it in class, and many Danes don't even recognise their flag. I wouldn't even call it a part of the country of Denmark, only the Kingdom of Denmark.

  • @decorn2542
    @decorn2542 6 років тому +2

    Please make a video on Hungary.

  • @IkeReviews
    @IkeReviews 6 років тому +2

    Where's memelantis

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen 6 років тому +2

    What happens when a country has no land anymore? Well they stay as an observer state in UN, like the Sovereign Military Order of Malta did centuries ago. No land anymore, but on a lot of levels is still a "country".

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 6 років тому +2

      Frahamen nothing happens. unless there is a government in exile (like Tibet) the instruments of state cease to exist.

    • @towaritch
      @towaritch 4 роки тому +1

      A "country" reduced to a building in Rome 😁😃

  • @xp_strikerobloxian7296
    @xp_strikerobloxian7296 6 років тому

    I can’t wait to watch the whole video!

  • @psd_seth
    @psd_seth 6 років тому

    You should make a video on Villa Las Estrellas!

  • @Mr.Nichan
    @Mr.Nichan 3 роки тому +1

    18:37 "This part of Armenia is one."
    I think you messed that up a bit. If that pat of Azerbaijan is de facto independent (which makes sense; I think it was a special Soviet Republic), then Azerbaijan has 2 different de facto independent states in it, the other being Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh west of Armenia (and connected to Armenia by regions of Azerbaijan that were occupied by Armenia until the 2020 war, after which what remains of Artsakh has only been connected to Armenia by a thin Russia-occupied corridor).

  • @Luredreier
    @Luredreier 6 років тому +1

    The Faero Islands will probably also become independent at some point.
    And another thing, neither the Faero islands nor Greenland actually belong to Denmark, they belong to the Danish Kingdom, something Denmark also do.
    But it's more of a we have a same owner who due to customs follow the decisions of our parliament kind of thing then a we own you kind of thing.

  • @jordanobeid2305
    @jordanobeid2305 6 років тому +1

    in a perfect world some country will give a small section of land to Maldives
    in a perfect world

  • @erkinalp
    @erkinalp 6 років тому +1

    You pointed the wrong part. Disputed one is Artsakh, not Nakhchivan. Nakhchivan is a sparsely-populated Azerbaijani territory. Armenia proposed corridor exchange plan, swapping Nakhchivan and eastern Artsakh with a small linking corridor from Nakhchivan remaining, Azerbaijan and Turkey disagreed.

  • @Jan-hm1xz
    @Jan-hm1xz 6 років тому +1

    you said in the video that it is beneficial to be a small country but. what are the benefits of being a small country?

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  6 років тому +2

      most small countries do significantly better in the modern age

  • @Random_Evolution
    @Random_Evolution 3 роки тому +1

    Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran are in thread of shrinking too.

  • @smpark12
    @smpark12 6 років тому +2

    Toycat make a video on the Democratic Monarchy of Sajaka

  • @Knutwolf
    @Knutwolf 6 років тому

    Can you once and for all tell us what name you go by on UA-cam? You always say it so quickly during the startup, but I have never been able to pick up on what it is. Other than that: keep up the good work.

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  6 років тому

      toycat, or 2cat

  • @LaUtErKnALL04
    @LaUtErKnALL04 6 років тому +2

    Please make a video about Kosovo. It's very interesting :)

    • @anonim0022
      @anonim0022 6 років тому +3

      theo steinmann and very Serbian as well ;)

  • @Styggejoe
    @Styggejoe 6 років тому +1

    Greenland has a seats in the danish parliament, few, but some.

  • @keithwolfe1942
    @keithwolfe1942 4 роки тому

    Instead of sea rising, it is the island chain that is sinking.

  • @josephpaterson8274
    @josephpaterson8274 6 років тому +24

    South Sudan is Sudanese!!!

    • @KenrickBrown75
      @KenrickBrown75 6 років тому +1

      Tbh the best way for Africa to advance itself is to federalize its governments into several or maybe even a handful or one

    • @uyuman1
      @uyuman1 6 років тому +16

      South Sudan is Serbia.

    • @lukedetering4490
      @lukedetering4490 6 років тому

      Kenrick Brown honestly it might be best to let africa fight itself. That way the ethnic groups that want to be together can be

    • @engineer4931
      @engineer4931 6 років тому

      Everything is Érie

    • @IhaveBigFeet
      @IhaveBigFeet 6 років тому

      Irelandball Gamez South Sudan je Srbja

  • @Triadii
    @Triadii 4 роки тому

    The 6 donkey heads joke got me 😂

  • @DominoLarry
    @DominoLarry 4 роки тому

    ibx2cat: "The average size of countries will be shrinking over the next hundred years!"
    Russia: "Challenge accepted!"

  • @ramuk1933
    @ramuk1933 2 роки тому +1

    What about Artsakh and Somaliland?

  • @Hollywood2021
    @Hollywood2021 5 років тому

    Was Greenland’s Parliament working out of a classroom?

  • @KitKitsuneVixen
    @KitKitsuneVixen 4 роки тому

    This video is 2 years and 1 day old

  • @RealMozart
    @RealMozart 6 років тому

    I love your intro

  • @reskypanda5197
    @reskypanda5197 6 років тому +1

    Correction British empire was 1/3 of worlds land and commonwealth is 1/3 of the worlds population

  • @emieloverduin5542
    @emieloverduin5542 6 років тому

    THE SEALEVEL IS RISING??????? HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY COME

  • @GlobeOil0030official
    @GlobeOil0030official 6 років тому

    Basically countries that would no longer be countries

  • @towaritch
    @towaritch 4 роки тому

    The majority of people in S Tyrol want to reunite with Tirol but Italy is blocking it.

  • @ZAvier8021
    @ZAvier8021 6 років тому +2

    Make the cities Float. If Iceberg can do it so can we.

  • @jahangirkhizer6289
    @jahangirkhizer6289 6 років тому

    What about sria

  • @ieppuux
    @ieppuux 6 років тому +1

    Well Finland is gaining more land mass :))

  • @Phantomminer-be5xs
    @Phantomminer-be5xs 6 років тому

    Learning with Toycat

  • @henktwerda291
    @henktwerda291 6 років тому

    If China can artificially make islands ij the South China sea, than the Maldives can artificially increase the height of some of their islands.

  • @spacestationz
    @spacestationz 6 років тому

    All I can think of is Yakko's World right now. I'mma sing along to it right after this. Gotta love animaniacs

  • @mario7049
    @mario7049 6 років тому +1

    The Maldives are rapidly sinking

  • @marcchef98
    @marcchef98 5 років тому

    you pronounce abkhazia wrong, it's with ipa x (like scottish loch) and not with a k, for the kh

  • @Hoehlenmaensch
    @Hoehlenmaensch 6 років тому

    31 Seats. Pretty sure stuff gets passed real quick in that parliament.

  • @contermann2
    @contermann2 6 років тому +1

    But Abchasia and Ossetia were influenced by Russia whereas Kosovo wanted independence by itself! So it is different!

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  6 років тому

      Influence from Albania is not hard to argue, though

  • @samjl584
    @samjl584 6 років тому

    r.i.p maldives in the next 100 years

  • @louiethepitt
    @louiethepitt 6 років тому

    a lot of this examples fall under "Countries that are administer by other countries".... autonomous territories and autonomous countries inside other countries....guess all Federations fall into this one like Russia, UK, USA, Spain, etc.... in the case of Georgia I think this 2 small republics are official, same goes for Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan.... we are not even counting the De facto self Proclaim countries that are recognize by other countries but not the Administer of the territory like Nagorno-karabakh which has its own coin, military, ID, parlament and minister and laws....and its recognize by very few countries...same goes for Taiwan.

  • @darthsawlex8257
    @darthsawlex8257 6 років тому +1

    Scotland voted to stay in the UK therefore they aren't leaving. Angry rant over. Nice video 2cat!

  • @chimefloon-w-4146
    @chimefloon-w-4146 6 років тому

    how bout you do a border vid with rhe german states like you did with the us states? :P

  • @execat
    @execat 6 років тому

    He almost convinced me that I should care about the second channel.

  • @gott7574
    @gott7574 6 років тому +4

    Germany is going to expand into Poland in the next 100 years? Nice

  • @Khloya69
    @Khloya69 6 років тому

    Japan has more islands than Maldives

  • @TobuscusGameing
    @TobuscusGameing 6 років тому +9

    Kosovo is Kazakhstan

  • @mapacore4152
    @mapacore4152 4 роки тому

    can someone count how many times he said "in the next (number) years"

  • @bigbadbear2962
    @bigbadbear2962 6 років тому

    I’ve been on holiday in the thumbnail

  • @samuelquintin5787
    @samuelquintin5787 6 років тому

    Russia is also dealing with its own separatist movements. Most of the territories at the heart of these movements are federal subjects of Russia, and have been demanding either whole or partial autonomy or campaigning for absolute freedom from Moscow’s rule for a long time. Of these, the movements centering Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, and Tatarstan, have historically been the most robust and often bloody. It's only a matter of time before Russia breaks up and becomes smaller.

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 6 років тому

      Kaliningrad+Moscovia+Primorye would be successor of Russia. Greater Finland, Armenocaucasia, Turkic Union, Greater Mongolia would take all the remaining parts.

  • @NeoFlorian1
    @NeoFlorian1 6 років тому +1

    im 13 so i will probably live until 2100

  • @sploofd6902
    @sploofd6902 4 роки тому +1

    South Sudan is Sudan

  • @dhawthorne1634
    @dhawthorne1634 6 років тому

    The US seems to be growing more land pretty quickly at the moment.

    • @sonnydog830
      @sonnydog830 6 років тому

      D Hawthorne their east coast is shrinking, while their west is growing. Not to mention Hawaii.

  • @PeterBuvik
    @PeterBuvik 6 років тому

    Iceland is Norway

  • @MemilyLove
    @MemilyLove 6 років тому

    The moment I read the title I thought “oxbow lake”

  • @swissintro7000
    @swissintro7000 9 місяців тому

    1:44

  • @republicofgoldlandia838
    @republicofgoldlandia838 6 років тому

    God The creator and narrator of reality: 20,00 years later republic of gold landia after 2034 in 2035: America we want independence America: no : republic of gold landia: *goes to war with America America: ok ok your independent jeez

  • @grizzley6937
    @grizzley6937 5 років тому

    We should take Bikini Bottom, and push it somewhere else!

  • @arposkraft3616
    @arposkraft3616 3 роки тому

    we can make land for the maldives if we want to

  • @Triadii
    @Triadii 4 роки тому

    I accidentally watched the whole video

  • @clairemayes6218
    @clairemayes6218 6 років тому

    Save the ruffiya ....NOW THERE IS GONNA BE FLOTING MONEY NOOOOOO because im a money collector and i dont like floating money hehe

  • @uzumrazvan719
    @uzumrazvan719 6 років тому

    basarabia is romania

  • @subsetsgaming8412
    @subsetsgaming8412 6 років тому

    There is a something on earth with 1 populaion

  • @westernautocrat
    @westernautocrat 6 років тому +2

    KOSOVO IS SERBIAN

  • @gigachadkartik
    @gigachadkartik 6 років тому

    India, as China is expanding it's border

  • @ryanvogel2027
    @ryanvogel2027 6 років тому

    China is growing (south China sea)

  • @chrisrus1965
    @chrisrus1965 2 роки тому

    Please do one about Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia Please

  • @principalmcvicker6530
    @principalmcvicker6530 2 роки тому

    This video turns 4 today

  • @ausintune9014
    @ausintune9014 6 років тому

    if your gonna say kosovo is real then you have to announce that crimea is rightful.

  • @CDADRacer
    @CDADRacer 2 роки тому

    THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA!!

  • @dorkaholic_
    @dorkaholic_ 6 років тому

    How about Wakanda? Black panther died

  • @TheOrangePick
    @TheOrangePick 6 років тому

    Bangladesh too

  • @psenpai1987
    @psenpai1987 6 років тому

    Việt Nam lạc trôi