Welcome to the land of "Wind and poets" and dang, for a country mostly covered in sand they sure know how to talk to dolphins! As one of the least visited countries of the world #Mauritania remains quite the controversial enigma on a global scale and today we attempt to scratch the surface. The hot, dry sandy surface. ENJOY!
I am from Morocco, and the only thing I should know about Mauritania is that it should belong to us, and that it's empty, dry, and full of sand and iron.
Hi Paul! I hope you make justice to the saharawi people in the Mauritania and Morocco episodes. Western Sahara is legally the last colony in Africa. We've suffered a lot and still have to live in refugee camps, under ocupation or abroad. Families are separated, people barely have their basic needs and human rights fullfilled and youth have a future with very little oportunities. Me myself I live abroad in Spain, but i was born and raised in the refugee camps in Algeria. I want to send you a letter and items from my culture, but I'm waiting to gather with some friends. Hope it will be soon! Free Western Sahara!
I'm from the Phillipines and I went to Mauritania back in May 2012 with my parents because my dad is a seaman and me and mom invited us to join with him in his work inside of a cargo ship (my dad's ship came from Israel so me and mom have to travel to see him and we travel to Mauritania to dock) If I remember, we docked to Nouadhibou and we decided to go to buy supplies. We have a tour guide from that place and he is VERY NICE. I asked him what language did they use and he said Arabic and French. We stopped to a Chinese restaurant there to eat in Nouadhibou where they are also Chinese that are working there. I remember that there is a train that is so long! Our tour guide told us they are importing dynamite? I forgot but I heard it is dynamite. I wish we could travel more in Mauritania but we only have a short time to go back to our ship. I never got a chance to try their actual food from Mauritania (just the Chinese restaurant there) but next time. Love from the Philippines! 🇵🇭🇲🇷
I favorited this so that it will appear in the top comments so that hopefully a tourism board will see it and possibly consider sponsoring. BUT HEY! I mean YOU STARTED IT So......
I'm from Mauritania and I can tell you've made some mistakes. For example, Nouakchott doesn't mean "place of winds", it means "Camels of Beach" (Nouak = Camels) and (chott = beach). but thank you most of the information in the video are correct.
I lived in Mauritania when I was a kid and, yes, this description is spot on correct. It's a harsh, desolate land and it's amazing how the culture developed here. Good job as usual! As for food, the description should basically be mint tea, goat, and couscous, then more mint tea, goat, and couscous, then more...
Lol seing this type of talk being told about my country is so funny. No we're just normal people. Very kind and ordinary. That's why there isn't much attention towards us.
yagyag yahee it does.. there are both white and black people in mauritania.. and it kinda make sense cause we’re between Morocco (99% white) and Senegal (99% black)
It's amazing the way you handle each country. It is clear that you conduct in-depth research on each country and its culture, knowing points that value each region of the world, and this is what, for me, makes your content even more extraordinary.
I'd like to take a guess what the flag represents. Star represents the people. The crescent for Islam. Yellow for the sandy land that makes up majority of the country. Green represents the hope for better future. Maybe even Islam again. And then red. *(begin violently mentally headbanging) BBBBLOOOOODDDD OFF THOOOSE WHOOO FIIIGHT FOORRRR THE FREEDOMMMMMMM**
Shark Team The addition of the red is fairly new, and along with the raising of the rebel flag over Libya, makes the Jamaican flag the only country flag on earth to have neither red, white, nor blue.
Mongolia is gonna be sooooo interesting. It’s like the 20th largest country but 230th most densely populated. I feel like no one knows ANYTHING about it other than the mongols. That’s one I’m really looking forward to
Mauritania is very interesting country, I was working in theirs offshore sector for almost two years. Mauritians are friendly persons. In my opinion someone should invest there in tourism, this country has big potential in this sector.
lol at 2:32 he showed a photo of the Meteor Crater site (Barringer Crater) in Arizona when talking about Kiffa. The snow-capped mountains in the background and the road leading to the impact site should've been dead giveaways. Kiffa was a very small meteorite impact in 1970. Tenoumer is the large ancient impact crater in Mauritania.
Another former Arizona resident here, now living in southern Utah... I went to college in Flagstaff at the foot of those mountains in the background. They're called the San Francisco Mountains, but it's not because you can see all the way to San Francisco from the top. It just seems that way. Anyway, I was going to comment that the Mauritanian crater bore a striking resemblance to Meteor Crater in Arizona, but I'm a couple of years too slow I guess. YYeah, the snow-capped peaks gave it away.😯
I love the guest stars. Your Ethiopia, Ecuador, Ireland, Egypt, and South Korea episodes are so cool with the guests you had in them! Looking forward to seeing nick and hopefully more guest stars!
I sailed across the Atlantic from The Grand Canaries to the Caribbean, on the way we passed just to far away from Mauritania to see. Looking at the GPS was the first time I’d seen the name nouakchott, ever since I’ve wanted to visit this mysterious place I spent so much time so close to, but never being able to visit
PolSmokesPot ! Akhi thank you very much for your kindness we LOVE you too ❤🇸🇾❤ 🇲🇦❤ I also hope that i one day can visit Casablanca , Marrakesch , and Of course Chefchoun 💙💙 Long live Morocco ✌❤
Barby!! You are seriously THE BEST geography UA-camr out there!! I've looked briefly at other channels and none come even remotely close to how awesome your videos are. I challenge anyone to say otherwise!!!
You’ve missed something about the Ethnicity In Mauritania 🇲🇷 you can find those 4 major ethnicity 1Bidan ( Maures black and white) 2-Fulani 3-Wolof 4-Soninké And not peoples from Congo and Niger 🇳🇪 even though you can find some Fulani all across the era.
@A They hassanit Beni Ḥassan (Arabic: بني حسان "Children of Ḥassān") is a nomadic group of Arabian origin, one of the four sub-tribes of the Maqil Arab tribes who emigrated in the 10th century to the Maghreb with the Bani Hilal and Banu Sulaym tribes.[1] In Morocco, they first settled, alongside their Maqil relatives, in the area between Tadla and the Moulouya River. The Sous Almohad governor called upon them for help against a rebellion in the Sous, and they resettled in and around that region.[2] They later moved to Mauritania,[3] and from the 16th century onwards, they managed to push back all black Mauritanians southwards to the Senegal Valley river.[4] The Beni Hassan and other warrior Arab tribes dominated the Sanhaja Berber tribes of the area after the Char Bouba war of the 17th century. As a result, Arabian culture and language came to dominate, and the Berber tribes underwent some Arabisation. The Bani Hassan dialect of Arabic became used in the region and is still spoken, in the form of Hassaniya Arabic.
Not only do I love your videos but I love how positive the comments section is too. The world is so divided these days, but the GN fam is from all over and it makes me happy.
TheTastyDuck i was in Mauritanië for 3 days and actually saw that train, the people where really just sitting on the ores (mostly it was stone with some gold inside)
@@leaderofthelewishpeople6382 it's a long answer; in the past if you obey Saddam & his officers you would be fine for the most part, not saying that it was easy or at least humain, but you didn't have to worry about your father not coming back from work because of a car bomb or assassination by the various radical militias often for dump or no reasons. However, almost all people used to sleep hungry, and now the economic situation is slightly better even though poverty is still a major issue. Also, Iraqis didn't quite got freedom; just last month the Gov. cut down the internet for a couple of days because there were big demonstrations against corruption and asking for basic rights like drinking water and power so it's clearly "fake freedom"... I can't give you the full idea in one comment but Iraq now is unstable with no sign of permenent relief.
Looks like a beautiful country. I usually make friends with locals wherever I travel -hopefully I'll be able to meet wonderful people there as well. Love from Canada 🇨🇦
Is it true in mauritania, when a bride is about get married she had to eat a lot of food in order get fat due to the vision of "well fed" people are healthier *sorry for my english btw Also Fun Fact: I our language "Wilaya" literally means "region" (with H)
Pardon_ noo ur talking about something that u have no knowledge about. first of ll they don't cut finger, yes they force u to be fat and it was horrible, but it was a tradition and people approved of it during the period of time they lived in. After a while people found out that it was bad and very primitive and now most people don't practice it anymore. It was a tradition used by uneducated people like when Chinese used to practice footbinding or some people can say that practicing ballet dancing is bad because kids break their fingers practicing it
There was a ship that had almost the same name as this country! One of Cunard's 'ocean greyhounds' -- RMS Mauretania, which held the Blue Riband (the unofficial record for fastest transatlantic crossing) for 20 years!
It seems like the historical part from Almoravids (12th century) to Portuguese (16th) was just ignored. I mean after the Almoravids, Mauritania was still under the moroccan kingdoms influences, after the alaouites came in and the annexation again (with Ismail's campaign). The wolof states were still around there in the south by the end of the 19th century
Mauritiana is buffer zone between Morocco and black Africa essiently It's ethier been controlled by the various West African kingdoms or Moroccan dynasty's.
@PolSmokesPot ! Yes there was even before Islam. I agree. I'm saying is Mauritania is were the two meet its mix of Berber,Arab and West African culturally and geneticly. I'm not dissing on Mauritania I'm just stateing the fact that's it's always been a middle ground between two.
I was thinking the same thing. When you look at the landscape on Google Earth, it looks like something major happened to west Mauritania. Perhaps massive flooding related to a 12,000 year old crater just discovered in Greenland?
I think it is from the ottomans who used to divide their territory into adminstrative regions by the same name. Tho it is Arabic I think they popularised it.
Fun fact, the eye of the Sahara is sometimes referred as the Atlantis because the Maoris had a king named atlas and it is said by a Greek cartographer that his city ( a big one) was there back when the zone wasn’t that arid and it is speculated that it even had rivers
Great Video! I'm so excited for the Mexico episode, when ever that may be. I'm sure it'll be great as it's such a big country rich in many things. Been watching since the first video waiting for Mexico. And now that we hit the M's I'm more hyped.
Welcome to the land of "Wind and poets" and dang, for a country mostly covered in sand they sure know how to talk to dolphins! As one of the least visited countries of the world #Mauritania remains quite the controversial enigma on a global scale and today we attempt to scratch the surface. The hot, dry sandy surface. ENJOY!
Geography Now hi Barry I am a huge fan
I am from Morocco, and the only thing I should know about Mauritania is that it should belong to us, and that it's empty, dry, and full of sand and iron.
Geography Now Dembele or Dumbelame
Hi Paul! I hope you make justice to the saharawi people in the Mauritania and Morocco episodes. Western Sahara is legally the last colony in Africa. We've suffered a lot and still have to live in refugee camps, under ocupation or abroad. Families are separated, people barely have their basic needs and human rights fullfilled and youth have a future with very little oportunities. Me myself I live abroad in Spain, but i was born and raised in the refugee camps in Algeria. I want to send you a letter and items from my culture, but I'm waiting to gather with some friends. Hope it will be soon! Free Western Sahara!
Geography Now HELLO BARBY!!!
Thank you I always wondered what the red on their flag stood for
Welll you know.... stay tuned for Friday ;)
good grief, if only this episode starts around 1 or 2 years early it wouldn't happened XD
Geography Now yeah I will you are my favorite food channel
Always? Sure, its there since last year. :D
Ggdivhjkjl ofc lol son
Geography Now! Zimbabwe
Hey everyone, I am your host Barby Jr.
btw Ken Jr. , you are fired.
Rhodesia*
xD
Hope Barby reads this. Dont forget all the nations exist until this
Rhodesians never die
Zimbabwe wont even Exist Sadly :C
This is the best educational channel on UA-cam
Dragon King add brave wilderness to that list
Justin Mason Both of those channels are awesome!
Agreed
*whataboutvsauce*
MinuteEarth, Historia Civilis, Extra Credit, Ollie Bye and Crash Course.
I'm from Mauritania, and thank you for this well searched episode, eventhough theres some mistakes. Great video!
10,000 Subscribers with 3 videos ? No
I want to go to mauritania will you help me?
Lol
Is your Arabic dialect very different from egyptian, syrian, lebanese, and Iraqi arabic?
@@Eacm114 yes obviously, it's in north west africa
I'm from the Phillipines and I went to Mauritania back in May 2012 with my parents because my dad is a seaman and me and mom invited us to join with him in his work inside of a cargo ship (my dad's ship came from Israel so me and mom have to travel to see him and we travel to Mauritania to dock) If I remember, we docked to Nouadhibou and we decided to go to buy supplies. We have a tour guide from that place and he is VERY NICE. I asked him what language did they use and he said Arabic and French. We stopped to a Chinese restaurant there to eat in Nouadhibou where they are also Chinese that are working there. I remember that there is a train that is so long! Our tour guide told us they are importing dynamite? I forgot but I heard it is dynamite. I wish we could travel more in Mauritania but we only have a short time to go back to our ship. I never got a chance to try their actual food from Mauritania (just the Chinese restaurant there) but next time. Love from the Philippines! 🇵🇭🇲🇷
I am from Mauritania, thank you very much, hello to the Filipino people, and we hope you will come back.
I’m Filipino Mauritania Glad that you liked it
مزفطك
@@ramonacamarillo5253
Are you Filipino Mauritania?
You are very welcome to visit us again to show the culture, and the food
Can we please get Nick for the male voice of Alexa
Wow
Trueee
Nikolina
Woah! So awesome! You really bring countries to life! Surprised you don’t get sponsors from tourism boards
I favorited this so that it will appear in the top comments so that hopefully a tourism board will see it and possibly consider sponsoring. BUT HEY! I mean YOU STARTED IT So......
The buthan episode got a few comments.
Rami Mroueh he got sponsered to go to greenland
Rami Mroueh most boards are not national wide
Red 7
Boards also aren’t
I'm from Mauritania and I can tell you've made some mistakes. For example, Nouakchott doesn't mean "place of winds", it means "Camels of Beach" (Nouak = Camels) and (chott = beach). but thank you most of the information in the video are correct.
@PolSmokesPot ! Yeah I'm Mauritanian and i wish that too, no lie, it would've been amazing if we were one country
@PolSmokesPot ! I'm here in morocco right now lol
Tijani Tij krdtaaaak 😁
I also want to correct that nouakchott doesn't mean Camels of beach it means ( Noua = Hot ; Kchott = Wood ) in Tamazight language
Oky
Anyone else here after watching Bald and Bankrupt in Mauretania?
😂😂😂 Me 😂😂😂
that video was a disaster for us mauritanian , a lot of prejudices
@@medou7287 why do you think it was bad?
RoliTheOne Me Xd
Yeah
I lived in Mauritania when I was a kid and, yes, this description is spot on correct. It's a harsh, desolate land and it's amazing how the culture developed here. Good job as usual! As for food, the description should basically be mint tea, goat, and couscous, then more mint tea, goat, and couscous, then more...
I'll buy that "The Saget Saga" if you sell it
I already pre ordered it
I'll steal it if I have to!
Mauritania indeed seems like a mysterious place.
Lol seing this type of talk being told about my country is so funny. No we're just normal people. Very kind and ordinary. That's why there isn't much attention towards us.
mina Chercheuse that’s true, we litterally don’t have any problems or anything with the outside we’re just watching it all happen.
@@minachercheuse7299check out bald and bankrupt's new video.. There's a reason why the govt advises no one to travel there.
@@minachercheuse7299 "Kind and ordinary" isn't a good indicator why people don't travel there.
I have never heard of this place....my entire life has been a lie
One of my favorite African countries. I'm from Ghana.
yagyag yahee it does.. there are both white and black people in mauritania.. and it kinda make sense cause we’re between Morocco (99% white) and Senegal (99% black)
@@mauritaniamint isn't Mauritania like 50% berber
Thanks brother
@Hamoody Deeb youre wrong arabophones are arab speakers
@سعودي و القلب فلسطيني I'm from Bani Hassan, Tejikanet from my dad, Kinta from my mom
It's amazing the way you handle each country. It is clear that you conduct in-depth research on each country and its culture, knowing points that value each region of the world, and this is what, for me, makes your content even more extraordinary.
I'd like to take a guess what the flag represents.
Star represents the people.
The crescent for Islam.
Yellow for the sandy land that makes up majority of the country.
Green represents the hope for better future. Maybe even Islam again.
And then red. *(begin violently mentally headbanging) BBBBLOOOOODDDD OFF THOOOSE WHOOO FIIIGHT FOORRRR THE FREEDOMMMMMMM**
Shark Team The addition of the red is fairly new, and along with the raising of the rebel flag over Libya, makes the Jamaican flag the only country flag on earth to have neither red, white, nor blue.
Señor Sirowatko *hmm*
🇨🇨🇲🇷🇯🇲
Cocos is under Australia though, not independent country
Juicy Lemon and the other is the old Maurit flag
the red is actually in memory of soldiers who fought for freedom 😂😂😂😂
Love to our Mauritanian brothers from Morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇷
Viva Mauritania 🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷
*l am half Mauritania and Moroccan*
*Thank you brother*
Yes shout out to all moroccans from a mauritanian
@@hbenabda1966 is it true more than half Mauritanians are Hafiz Quran
Bazil Adnan as a Muslim country lhmdllh we tend to focus on Quran recitation, so yes a decent amount of the population is lhmdllh hafiz❤️
I don't really get why people only the countries they know...I think learning about a country you knew almost nothing about is far more entertaining!
Definitely. I especially adore the tiny pacific island nations.
@@Lugmillord Yeah the Pacific islands are my favorite.
I love learning more about countries that I know the least about!
Agreed, love these ones
Mongolia is gonna be sooooo interesting. It’s like the 20th largest country but 230th most densely populated. I feel like no one knows ANYTHING about it other than the mongols. That’s one I’m really looking forward to
Much love to Mauritania from Lebanon!
Love lebanon from argentina!
Much love to lebanon😍😍😍😍 from Mauritania
oh i'm mauritanian and live in Lebanon
Mauritania is very interesting country, I was working in theirs offshore sector for almost two years. Mauritians are friendly persons. In my opinion someone should invest there in tourism, this country has big potential in this sector.
This person is progressing very fast! Watching since Bahamas. Love you 😍
Yeah jokes aside I think he will be at Zimbabwe next year.
Comments:
80% LOVE YOU MAURITANIA
10% You forgot Atlantis
10% other
lol at 2:32 he showed a photo of the Meteor Crater site (Barringer Crater) in Arizona when talking about Kiffa. The snow-capped mountains in the background and the road leading to the impact site should've been dead giveaways. Kiffa was a very small meteorite impact in 1970. Tenoumer is the large ancient impact crater in Mauritania.
It took me too much scrolling to find this! Came to say the same!
I live in Arizona and thank you for noticing that! I've been to the crater and it seemed familiar lol.
@@liamvarin6209 DST is trash right?
Another former Arizona resident here, now living in southern Utah... I went to college in Flagstaff at the foot of those mountains in the background. They're called the San Francisco Mountains, but it's not because you can see all the way to San Francisco from the top. It just seems that way. Anyway, I was going to comment that the Mauritanian crater bore a striking resemblance to Meteor Crater in Arizona, but I'm a couple of years too slow I guess. YYeah, the snow-capped peaks gave it away.😯
I love the guest stars. Your Ethiopia, Ecuador, Ireland, Egypt, and South Korea episodes are so cool with the guests you had in them! Looking forward to seeing nick and hopefully more guest stars!
I can't believe we started to follow your channel 3 years ago. It has helped me a lot with english. Look forward to see venezuela.
I sailed across the Atlantic from The Grand Canaries to the Caribbean, on the way we passed just to far away from Mauritania to see. Looking at the GPS was the first time I’d seen the name nouakchott, ever since I’ve wanted to visit this mysterious place I spent so much time so close to, but never being able to visit
You are welcome
Love you MAURITANIA from India🇮🇳
And Mauritania loves you brother.
Slaver country
Love to you brother 💙
we love you too
Mauritania has big connection with india ..
*Home of the lost city of Atlantis*
Yeah the ass of sahara is atlantis
Sorry for the auto correct the eye of Africa
As a Morrocan Mauritania is such a mysterious place not talked about alot on the news
Thanks a lot for the effort you puts in I'm a mauritanian citizen and I really appreciate it
"pretty difficult to transition from that topic. Err... Here's Keith on base!"
It is weird he said that at the moment I was reading your comment .XD
Much love to our Mauritanian Brothers from Syria
PolSmokesPot !
Akhi thank you very much for your kindness we LOVE you too
❤🇸🇾❤ 🇲🇦❤
I also hope that i one day can visit Casablanca , Marrakesch , and Of course Chefchoun 💙💙
Long live Morocco ✌❤
MYM Love to Syria and Morocco ❤️✌🏾👍🏾🤝💪🏾
@@proeuropean5703 ❤❤
MYM ❤️❤️
How's the war going?
سلام and love from افغانستان (Afghanistan) to my Mauritanian brothers & sisters.
Barby!! You are seriously THE BEST geography UA-camr out there!! I've looked briefly at other channels and none come even remotely close to how awesome your videos are. I challenge anyone to say otherwise!!!
I like how you make geography fun. Cant wait for you to reach Zambia
ITS TIME TO LEARN GEOGRAPHY
*NOW!*
Love to mauritania 🇲🇷 from england 🏴
Thank you brother, long live Arsenal and London❤️❤️
All-day England northwestern Europe all-day 💯🤟🏽
This video reminds me of Mauritanian I've ever met
such a smart, kind, gentle, and polite
I wanna visit here in one day
Patheera Maka you’re welcome anytime
I m from nouakchott. Mauritania
You have the internet?
@@benyameenyitzhak1036 no 😒 we have 4g here and a fiber optique
@@medozil7023 so much potential for this country!
@@medozil7023 Ptdr depuis quand y'a la 4 g en Mauritanie ?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You’ve missed something about the Ethnicity
In Mauritania 🇲🇷 you can find those 4 major ethnicity
1Bidan ( Maures black and white)
2-Fulani
3-Wolof
4-Soninké
And not peoples from Congo and Niger 🇳🇪 even though you can find some Fulani all across the era.
Black Pharaon you forgot about the berber’s .
Forgot about the Haratine
@@AbdaToumbou we dont have berbers.
@@carlluis1427 yea we do, I am.
@A
They hassanit
Beni Ḥassan (Arabic: بني حسان "Children of Ḥassān") is a nomadic group of Arabian origin, one of the four sub-tribes of the Maqil Arab tribes who emigrated in the 10th century to the Maghreb with the Bani Hilal and Banu Sulaym tribes.[1]
In Morocco, they first settled, alongside their Maqil relatives, in the area between Tadla and the Moulouya River. The Sous Almohad governor called upon them for help against a rebellion in the Sous, and they resettled in and around that region.[2]
They later moved to Mauritania,[3] and from the 16th century onwards, they managed to push back all black Mauritanians southwards to the Senegal Valley river.[4] The Beni Hassan and other warrior Arab tribes dominated the Sanhaja Berber tribes of the area after the Char Bouba war of the 17th century. As a result, Arabian culture and language came to dominate, and the Berber tribes underwent some Arabisation. The Bani Hassan dialect of Arabic became used in the region and is still spoken, in the form of Hassaniya Arabic.
I know it’s been said before, but your animation and editing skills are getting better and better with each episode.
I LOVE MAURITANIA
💟🇲🇷🇩🇿🇲🇦🇱🇾🇹🇳💟
3:48 It looks like the Big Red Spot on Jupiter.
Not only do I love your videos but I love how positive the comments section is too. The world is so divided these days, but the GN fam is from all over and it makes me happy.
LOVE mauritanian brothers from france !! Salam, peace upon you all
Sağ ol türk kardeşim
Merhaba🤗
Lettuce Seed we also love Turkish people 💕
Lettuce Seed çok teşekkür ederim ☺️
Lettuce Seed thaaank you we love you here tooo 💜💜💜
2:16 "But you can also ride it as a passenger" alright, I'll try sitting in ores and coal for a change of scenery
TheTastyDuck i was in Mauritanië for 3 days and actually saw that train, the people where really just sitting on the ores (mostly it was stone with some gold inside)
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Love to our Mauritanians brothers from Iraq
I am from Iraq too 👍👍👍
Indeed
@@thirdyespedido9606 lel
@@leaderofthelewishpeople6382 You'll have to define peaceful first. Do you consider a prisoner in a cage "peaceful"?
@@leaderofthelewishpeople6382 it's a long answer; in the past if you obey Saddam & his officers you would be fine for the most part, not saying that it was easy or at least humain, but you didn't have to worry about your father not coming back from work because of a car bomb or assassination by the various radical militias often for dump or no reasons. However, almost all people used to sleep hungry, and now the economic situation is slightly better even though poverty is still a major issue. Also, Iraqis didn't quite got freedom; just last month the Gov. cut down the internet for a couple of days because there were big demonstrations against corruption and asking for basic rights like drinking water and power so it's clearly "fake freedom"... I can't give you the full idea in one comment but Iraq now is unstable with no sign of permenent relief.
My dad was born there (we are French). He'll love this episode
What do you mean ?
A bon ton père es né en Mauritanie ?
@@keja500 oui, à Rosso
@@remyfarnert Cool mec je suis mauritanien né en France, ma grande soeur es aussi né a Rosso.
I am from Mauritania greetings to everyone great video 🇲🇷🇲🇷🇲🇷♥️♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹شكرا وتحياتي للجميع
I am from India I love Mauritania specially it's ship yard and Sahara desert love from india🇮🇳❤️🇲🇷
but Mauritania support Pakistan
@@playersbhai1153 neutral
Thank you for this episode Barbie and thanks everyone for your positive comments.
Looks like a beautiful country. I usually make friends with locals wherever I travel -hopefully I'll be able to meet wonderful people there as well. Love from Canada 🇨🇦
I'm from the USA. Despite my interest in world geography, I can't think of another large country that I know less about. The food looks great!
I’m from Mauritania living in the US and I can tell you that it definitely is
Nick was awesome! Hope to see him filling in several more segments for episodes to come!
Wow!!! I LOVE IT WHEN I SEE MY FAVOURITE UA-camR TALKING ABOUT MY COUNTRY ❤
It truly feels great!
Keep up the good work! Been here since the Australia episode. :)
Jimmy Jones Been here since Albania.
Love Mauritania from wales🏴🇲🇷❤️
Love to Wales . I'm from Mauritania
The Richat structure is the remains of Atlantis. It matches Plato's description exactly.
No it isn't and no it doesn't.
Amazing episode with a wealth of information about my country thank you so much .
I can't wait for the Serbia episode in 2047!
Dank
The Serb is video comment section should be disabled though cause it'll be too toxic
Serbia Episode will be all about War Crimes, ethnic cleansing, alcoholics, incest and sadists.
serbia is two episodes away now
Zimbabwe episode will be ready in 2047 ...
Getting ready for vietnam boys
Is it true in mauritania, when a bride is about get married she had to eat a lot of food in order get fat due to the vision of "well fed" people are healthier
*sorry for my english btw
Also Fun Fact:
I our language "Wilaya" literally means "region" (with H)
yes it was a tradition but it died because Mauritanians now live in the 21st century
The cut her fingers to force her to drink camel milk to be fat!! That’s horrible
Pardon_ noo ur talking about something that u have no knowledge about. first of ll they don't cut finger, yes they force u to be fat and it was horrible, but it was a tradition and people approved of it during the period of time they lived in. After a while people found out that it was bad and very primitive and now most people don't practice it anymore. It was a tradition used by uneducated people like when Chinese used to practice footbinding or some people can say that practicing ballet dancing is bad because kids break their fingers practicing it
There are over 70 reasons that you have to go through to cut someone's hands off in islamic jurisprudence
Are u Malaysian😁
The land of Wind and poets looks so rich culturally love from india
Thanks
Love from here (Mauritania)
love you man
they stole our senegalese culture
LOVE FROM TUNISIA
There was a ship that had almost the same name as this country! One of Cunard's 'ocean greyhounds' -- RMS Mauretania, which held the Blue Riband (the unofficial record for fastest transatlantic crossing) for 20 years!
From Mouritania 🇲🇷
Love you bro
I'm from Mauritania I really like your video, good job broo
Arent they still enslaving black people
I can't wait to visit Mauritania. They have the best food, and the people are so nice. I can deal with the sand in exchange for those simple things.
My french teacher is from Mauritania!
wolfpack, where are you from?
And where does he teach you?
wolfpack1061 im guessing you’re from canada
Je n'ai de jamais eu de proffeseur de français.
He is good
@@redditclipps1 Impossible
1:15 That explains why the "BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM" segments used to be awesome and graphic, now they're tame and boring.
Ken needs to be fired, its long over due
Ken is just the worst
Great episode
#Respect from Mauritania
Oh my! We're so close to Nigeria!
nigeria!!
hello a mauritanian her, just want to tell you that this is a great video even i lerned a new thing or a two about my country thank you
Always nice to know more about fellow muslim brothers. Salam from Pakistan.
Zhin The Tyrant Pakistan is rightful Indian land da ah coo!
Salam to you and to all the Pakistani 🇵🇰 brothers and sisters from Nouakchott
Mauritania was part of the Moroccan sultanate for nearly 1000 years before the French came.
Thank you for making me fall in love with Mauritania 🇯🇲🇨🇦
Pretty sure that’s the Jamaican flag 😂
@@britishbavarian4592 and the Canadian flag you missed that too
@@elaztic well yes but that was the correct flag lol
It seems like the historical part from Almoravids (12th century) to Portuguese (16th) was just ignored.
I mean after the Almoravids, Mauritania was still under the moroccan kingdoms influences, after the alaouites came in and the annexation again (with Ismail's campaign).
The wolof states were still around there in the south by the end of the 19th century
mauritania is moroccan. no doubt about that.
Mauritiana is buffer zone between Morocco and black Africa essiently It's ethier been controlled by the various West African kingdoms or Moroccan dynasty's.
@PolSmokesPot ! Yes there was even before Islam. I agree. I'm saying is Mauritania is were the two meet its mix of Berber,Arab and West African culturally and geneticly. I'm not dissing on Mauritania I'm just stateing the fact that's it's always been a middle ground between two.
how about you take Ceuta and Melila first before you claim another sovereign country?!
@Stanley Dougé Geo Topnymes in Mauritana are mostly berbers...flagrant proof it's an amazigh territory
"The land of poets"? That sure sounds like Somalia to me. Those two countries should get together, and make a poetry club.
I was gonna say the same hahaha
Or a literature club 👀
Shark Team doki doki literature club featuring Somalia and Mauretania
DOKI DOKI
They don't speak the same language tho..
For people who want 'Maur' of 'Mauritania', you'll be left with 'itania'
I,Tonya the film
2:33 That's Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona. I know because I have been there
I’m from Mauritania and you did a great job filming this episode. ❤
Did Mauritania’s flag once not have any red white or blue
Im so hyped for the Poland episode :O If its not 20 minutes long you missed something :D
Yo cuz give me a shout out here is my vid ua-cam.com/video/Z0A9MCZUAWI/v-deo.html
We do not care about poland why should we give it 20 minutes .there is nothing exceptionnal there
he better do that wonderful state justice
The China episode was barely 20 minutes long, so I doubt it:-)
Everyone is waiting for the Poland episode
From Senegambia, I love the country ❤️. I been there for over 19 years and am 23 now. So y'all can guest🤗.
You should say that Richat Structure is believed to be lost city of Atlantis, according to Plato description
I was thinking the same thing. When you look at the landscape on Google Earth, it looks like something major happened to west Mauritania. Perhaps massive flooding related to a 12,000 year old crater just discovered in Greenland?
Thank you endlessly for this "such great" video.
Mexico is coming up soon!!! So excited!!!
Notification squad in the house!! 🇲🇷
U enslave black people
EUROVISION SQUAD ❤❤❤
Chin Tiki lol
Huh, unicode didn't change the Mauritanian flag to the new one, eh?
*Big Support to your channel Barby✨😍💞 Keep up the great work 😍☺️💖*
When my sister got married she used 6 or 7 dresses one of them was like the one in the video I think it is used also in the Moroccan sahara.
Love this site! Dude is sharp 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Mauritania have a very appealing flag in my opinion. The colors and symbol look really nice.
“Wilaya” means region, in Indonesia, region is “wilayah”. Almost the same 👍🇮🇩
Influences from Arab traders I guess
Wilaya is also a Swahili name meaning region
@@FairyCRat yes
In Algeria we say that too
:-)
I think it is from the ottomans who used to divide their territory into adminstrative regions by the same name. Tho it is Arabic I think they popularised it.
Mauritius episode gonna be real good
Mauritania, I'm like so proud of being mauritanian right now. The way he pronounces hassaniya (language in Mauritania) super funny.
Denba Mohamed BIGUE but you guys are actually not ethnically arab, you just have been arabised. Your tribes are mostly of berber origin
@@donlegend1169 Couldn't agree moor. Lol
Don Legend the same for moroccov
Potato Cake definitely
@@donlegend1169 bro we never haved arabised 80% is arab we are arabs in dna 20% is berber so acept it bro we are the real arabs in africa
Hello I am Canadian from Mauritania and I am so happy to watch your episode brother.
Fun fact, the eye of the Sahara is sometimes referred as the Atlantis because the Maoris had a king named atlas and it is said by a Greek cartographer that his city ( a big one) was there back when the zone wasn’t that arid and it is speculated that it even had rivers
I CANT WAIT FOR THE MOROCCO EPISODE
Omar C.C Me too, I’m half Moroccan :D
Omar C.C kydayir labas?
UA-cam User Good. I’m not Moroccan though, I’m egyptian. But I have a lot of Moroccan friends
Omar C.C oh sorry lol
Me too
Greetings from Mauritania 🇲🇷🇲🇷😁
Something is soothing about nicks voice....especially when he says "Avacado Pudding"
Just so you know, the picture you used for the Kiffa meteorite crash is actually a picture of Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona.
Great Video! I'm so excited for the Mexico episode, when ever that may be. I'm sure it'll be great as it's such a big country rich in many things. Been watching since the first video waiting for Mexico. And now that we hit the M's I'm more hyped.