Why is Liechtenstein a Country?
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- Why is Liechtenstein a Country?
Over 38,000 people live in a nation smaller than a city - around 62 square miles or 160 square kilometers, to be exact. It ranks as one of the top 10 smallest countries to carve itself out on our maps yet has one of the world's top 3 GDPs per capita. Doubly landlocked between Austria and Switzerland, the nation of Liechtenstein has no airport nor army, and its entire plot of land lies within the Alpine Region. So, how did this compact and peaceful principality even become a country of its own?...
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Y'all made a mistake in the editing of the video. You said that liechenstein was 62 square miles but you wrote 62 square kilometers in the animation. Otherwise great video
Isn’t Liechtenstein at war with Germany still?
It's pronounced "lishtenstein", not "liktenstein"
How are the neighbors?
@@akeutmann79 2
I've always been fascinated by small countries with big histories, and Liechtenstein is definitely one of them. I learned a lot from this video, and I'm definitely going to do some more research on the country. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve had the privilege to spend many a summer in Liechtenstein. A truly beautiful and blessed swathe of land nestled in an idyllic valley somewhere beyond St. Gallen (CH) and the Rhine, and which one can easily drive past and miss - quite literally - in a blink of an eye…
Should you ever find yourself traveling between Switzerland and Austria (or vice versa) by train, car, motorcycle, or bicycle, be sure to visit the Fürstentum for a day or two (or even just a quick “Kaffeepause”)! It’s worth the memory!
Planning just such a trip! Added to the list 😊
would've been better to be born in it tho
I got a huff and mouth bath near there and was then electrocuted by a [Swiss] farmer.
Us [Royals love] Zermatt.
It takes about a half hour to drive across Liechtenstein. If you're blinking for, quite literally, 30 min. at a time, perhaps you should visit an ophthalmologist.😄
A big exaggeration - to miss it literally in the blink of an eye would mean it's only a few square meters in size when actually it's about 64 square miles!!!
Sent 80 soldiers returned with 81
Liechtensteiner: you like German beer?
Italian: yeah. You like pasta?
Liechtensteiner: wanna head back to my place and watch Fifa? (Yes ik it didn't exist yet)
Italian: f**k yeah let's go!
😂😂😂
I like this comment a lot
👏👏👏
Sir we got -1 casualties
Interesting fact: The royal family of Liechtenstein owns the opera palace in Vienna! Additionally, when I traveled there in 2003, the Liechtenstein estate in the Moravian area of the Czech Republic was beginning a renovation, to correct the harms done to it during the Soviet era.
In short, after Napoleon's defeat there was a German Confederation of 39 states, in which Lichtenstein could build up its structure as a state. Later, neither Austria-Hungary nor the Third Reich sought to incorporate Lichtenstein.
Actually the principal family had close ties with the Habsburgs and a close economic and monetary union with it.
Only after WWI they switched to an economic and monetary union with Switzerland, though today Liechtenstein is actually closer bonded to the EU then to Switzerland, but for instance in sports, they are still close to Switzerland
The Prince of Liechtenstein and the Head of the house of Habsburg-Lorraine are second cousins once removed, actually (both descendants of archiduke Karl Ludwig of Austria)
It is deeper than that, the lickers defeated the suckers and the rest is history.
The map at 2:20 shows the location of the wrong castle. Liechtenstein is named for the Liechtenstein Castle in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), not the Lichtenstein Castle (note missing letter e) in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
And there are many misspellings.
Liechtenstein was created by the Holy Roman emperor in order to give a certain prince imperial immediacy (not subject to any other ruler than the Holy Roman emperor) so they granted him the area around Vaduz (the present capital) but the name came from a castle in another part of Austria. Actually the princes of Liechtenstein resided almost exclusively either in Vienna or in palaces in other parts of the Habsburg dominions and they even didn't bother to ever go to the Vaduz area (present day Liechtenstein) until much much later. That's how I understand the history of this principality.
Money - Asset launderers!
I like how around the time Little Liechtenstein formation all the major powers didn't really care for this area They all thought it was useless It's always funny to see a Little country Appear in an area That it gets ignore by its former country
So if other countries don't invade the country, that means it's "useless," not that European German states had good relations with each other. That arrogant history-ignorant language sounds like it comes from an American, what a surprise.
Liechtenstein wasn't a part of any Nation in the Past
Liechtenstein is the only nation to have participated in a war and come back with a negative number of casualties. When returning home from that war, the contingent brought a friend along!
It’s crazy that Liechtenstein almost bought Alaska
India advised them not to. The Indian people interpret Alaska as
A Loss ka......means a deal of loss.
😊😊😊
@Pyaaz_Kaat_Ke am Indian and never heard that this happend maybe some Pakis interrupt 'em cause they wanna have Alaska to their PAW PAW 'Murica
Fun fact: Liechtenstein has the same land area as Washington, DC (62 square miles), but DC has at least 16 times as many people!
And none of them can vote for Congress
@@nintendomusicchannel1317 As is proper. The Congress of the United States. DC is a Federal district created by the Constitution to host the federal government outside the jurisdiction of any state. It is not a state of the United States. For the same reason, it is absurd that it now gets three votes for US president.
Nope not fun at all
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Whatevs, you're just boring
@@markalexander832 Yeah, and imagine, people still have to live there, because, imagine, any city requires a fucking civilian population to run.
Nothing about ignoring the voice of an entire city is proper.
A very good Explanation about Liechtenstein for dont know where the tiny Country is. Im from Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein is very unique as it's the last unbroken remnant of the Holy Roman Empire and European Medieval Feudalism.
The house of Liechtenstein considered their various castles scattered throughout Austrian and Czech lands to be their real home and the Alpine Principality was only purchased so they could be represented in the HRE's Imperial Diet.
They didn't even live in the Principality until 1938.
Thank you for doing this overview over the History of Liechtenstein - a tiny, but very interesting Country.
More videos on micro-nations please! Nauru, San Marino and Grenada would be a good start.
A video on the Native American reservations would be nice too. CGPGrey has been promising one for years but has never delivered.***
San Marino would be great, it's been a sovereign state since 301 AD, the oldest continuous country in the world. And through similar manoeuvrings as Liechtenstein
I visited there about 15 years ago during summertime, lovely place
That's cool
20 years for me. I ate rabbit for the first time in a restaurant in Veduz.
I've seen it in winter and summer...thought it was romantic in winter, like a fairy tale
Fun fact: there are no kangaroos🦘in Liechtenstein, they live only in neighbouring country Australia.
I assume there are zoo's no?
I'd be surprised if there was even one zoo in Liechtenstein, and not to mention it holding kangaroos
neighbouring country Australia?😲
@@cykablyat6531 people confuse AUS and Austria all the time and ask for Kangaroos in the alps :D
Yeah, during the time of the Australo-Hungarian Empire, the Kangaroos sided with the humans against Emus, and it was a mess and really nobody won, but the Emus claim it as a victory
Fun fact: That southern part of England held by France is where Monty Python's King Arthur encountered the French castle. "You silly English kniggits!"
It is telling, that the current Principality of Liechtenstein was so unimportant for the Liechtensteins themselves, that the first member of the family visited(!) the country only 100 years(!) after they acquired it. Most of the family's possesions were for centuries in Czechia and they eventually became one of the largest landholders in the country and one of the richest of the Czech noble families. The total area of their land holdings in Czechia was many times larger than the territory of the current Liechtenstein. They lost a large part of it after WWI during the land reform and the rest of it after WWII. The dispute ower this confiscation between the House of Liechtenstein and Czechia hasn't been settled to this day.
The House of Liechtenstein's Texas landholdings are greater in size than Liechtenstein itself.
They kept their head down and never gave anyone a reason to mess with them.
it is mainly just a bunch of super rich people.
no one will bother you when you can just pay them to leave you alone and launder money for you
they originated in Liechtenstein castle in Lower Austria, not Lichtenstein castle in Württemberg
what do you know!
I live like 5 miles away from Liechtenstein I’ve been there multiple times, beautiful place.
I live in Liechtenstein.
Can you lend me some money?
@@SunsetNovamy Croat family is the same. They think we drive on golden roads in Switzerland. In CRO most have an own house. In CH most rent apartments. My Mom worked as Dr. post war. Thx to my Mom we have a house too, but now prices start at ~1 million. Life in CH is costly.
A rare encounter indeed:D Grüß Gott aus Finnland
It is so expensive !!
will you adopt me?
Beside said attributes (luck, innocence, diplomacy), let's not forget its geographical position. It is situated at the periphery of both the German Empire and the Austrian Empire, while backed up by neutral Switzerland from the other side. Another German speaking state could not have held its independence, however hard it had tried, simply because of being completely surrounded by one or two much larger empires.
Indeed, exactly.
Now imagine if Liechtenstein actually bought Alaska, it would be so much bigger, and much richer (because of oil), but they didn't know that at the time.
The lineage of the Royal Family there is almost strictly male-line/agnatic, with some male-preference primogeniture added to the mix.
Wow!!!Lietchtenstein is one of my favourite countries ever and this is a fascinating history about the nation,good friends!!!I do want to visit there once in my lifetime and it is one of the best respective smallest countries in the world!!!LONG LIVE LIECHTENSTEIN 🇱🇮 !!!👍🏾
It was said, ‘around 62 square miles or 160 square kilometres to be exact.’ However, in the video appeared written ‘62 sq/km’
I’ve been to Lichtenstein! Beautiful place. 😊
Woooww would love to go with you nxt tym
Since when the frakinsh empire has lands on south of England? ( 1:18 )
Maybe they were thinking of 1066.
Liechtenstein gdp per capita is explained because it’s a micro nation with not a bunch of people which means a decent amount of people just have a lot of money
You should do one about Monaco🇲🇨. Just no BS, I live there so I know its history 😆
at 1:03 when the frankish empire is shown, map depicts that they had control over some parts of the southern england, i want to know is that true that they were controling this land or is it just a simple mistake, because as far i as i know they never had this in their realm
Oh, I want to travel or move to this land..,
1:42 County. Great video.
Because it’s not near China or Russia.
I wish I could like this more than just once!
Or the US
@@Sohlah24 lmao there’s a reason why nearly all of china neighbors hate it.
Or the United States plus it doesn’t any oil 😅 no need for regime change there huh
@@brizzle3903 regime change? When was the last time the ccp was replaced?
Fun fact: The beef between Czechia and Lichtenstein is still going on... Currently, they are sueing over some castles in Czechia, notably mentioning that they lost some lawsuits in 2022 and 2023.
Nice vid
Some countries are just paradises where some can hide the money
It helped that Liechtenstein ALSO bordered perpetually neutral Switzerland to stay out of wars.
What a peaceful history of small and great Leinchinstein principality .
It's got a lot of Banks where the netanyahu family routes it's money on the way to Geneva
I thought switzerland is "obligated" to defend liechtenstein, we also represent them in some diplomatic things. Dk when switzerland did promise to defend liechtenstein, would be interesting to know when that was.
No wer not. I served in the Swiss Air Force (which consists of Croats and Serbvs mainly btw. u Swiss vaginas 😂). If they work here, they have to serve. But we wud probably defend them versus Austria and Italy. Depends on the current status. 70/30 yes defend. I GUESS.
What was the southern part of England that was coloured as part of Frankish empire?
That's where Monty Python's King Arthur encountered the French castle
Amazing! 🇱🇮
If Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 were an astrological sign, it would be a neutral Aquarian ♒️. 😂
Question: is this narration done by an AI? This is an American accent, and we have a very crisp “Six-th” with the “th” being a full on “edth” pronunciation. This sounds like a confused accent between American English and British English.
it's also pronounced "Leektenstein"
I hope AI would actually have pronounced the word Liechtenstein halfway correctly at least once.
The Princes of Liechtenstein still had a castle in the former Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. But the Czechs expropriated the property because the claim was too old.
Otherwise, Lichtenstein stayed out of all conflicts in Europe, always claiming it was too small.
How could one portion of the[ ]system stay out of conflict in other portions of said[ ]system?
@5:38 "Austira"? Surely that's a typo.
Look how the Netherlands is shaped...
5.50 - Austira?
Why do you have Soo many subscribers but only two videos and low views on both
some errors, Liechtenstein country is named after the ruling family. The Family got the name from the original residence Liechtenstein in Austria. That where they owned land long befor they bought the country, that was later on united and named Liechtenstein.
This country has no zeal and enthusiasm to do anything. In last 75 years India has been equally neutral and has built a formidable cricket team. Sad this European country does not even have a cricket team. What good are the people there for. India has won 17 IPL which no other country has won. That is why one should be living in a country like India where cricket and only cricket is important than anything.
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Lucky they didn’t have astronomical amounts of oil. Or they would have swiftly found the need for some “freedom” and “democracy” from someone
It would be nice if the writer and narrator could confer to clarify the distinction between "soured" and "soared," but there's a lot of sloppy with in this vid
They serve with us in the Swiss Army. They have the Swiss Franc. (Allthough as I served in the army I know, Switzerland wudnt defend Liechtenstein in a war, but probably wud after all).
Liechtenstein, a country in Europe
Yes
One overlooked point, too many mountains!
It’s not worth the trouble to try and march through snow and rough terrain.
I live in a rural county in Pennsylvania with more people and land area than Liechtenstein.
Very good history ❤❤
Interesting! It is a shame that the maps of the present day fail to show Austria fully on the eastern border of Lichtenstein, not just to the southeast.
I study there. Ask me all questions you guys have.
How beautiful is the scenery
@@nickylc8475very beautiful
Is there good food
Do you have great Chinese food? Ya boy loves him some crab Rangoon.😂🤣
Can an average person live and work their or is it too expensive
Forgot to mention the three times when Liechtenstein was invaded by the Swiss.
by accident, the border is invisible :D
FL and CH also share currency and post codes; easy to miss the transfer
Couldve been [marketed] as invasion.
@@rivenoakexcept the Rhine river separates the countries. Austria has the land border with Liechtenstein.
@@DPMConnachtrivers move
I have a struggle of memorizing this tiny HRE's spelling along with countries with Guineas on it
Surprised that Leichtenstein has survived independently so long, one would think one of her neighbors would have taken it over long ago. Perhaps one day it will be incorporated into another country.
With prosperous Germany, next door, I wonder if the people of Leichtenstein would vote to become a German state if a referendum for it was available?
Have you seen Germany today? They would not like to join them
@@nandinhocunha440 Germany has the best economy in Europe, so far why would it not be popular?
Why Germany? Liechtenstein has closer bonds to Switzerland.
Liechtenstein doesn't have a border with Germany. Also, Liechtenstein is way more prosperous than germany.
@@theawesomeman9821 illegals Arabs
they got accidentaly invaded by switzerland once due to a faulty map (or dumb officier) who got lost with it's regiment in liechtenstein during an exercices
4:00 you forgot to mention that out of 80 men 81 returned.
Yes, 81. :D
Ulrich Von Lichtenstein has been spreading awareness for decades.
First time I have ever seen square kilometer denoted as "sq/km".. What does squares per kilometer mean?
Well done
So, seriously: A dude sets out to make a video about a country... and never bothers to find out how to say its name properly? Imagine me as a continental twerp setting off to make a video about Virrsester or Nev Yairrsay. Sorry, bit of a grump today, but gosh it sometimes rubs me the wrong way how Anglophones think everything out there is really just English in drag.
I made the pronunciation comment 3 times...I'm with you on that
Allegedly, and unconfirmed, it’s rumored that cousin Frankenstein sometimes summered there.
So you completely failed to explain the origin of the NAME of Lichtenstein Castle.
And what would that origin be? A castle on top of a very shiny rock?
@@raudigerrudiger9713 Yes. More specifically, "lichten" is "light" and "stein" is "rock", in German.
That is an absolutely essential detail for a video purporting to tell the history of Lichtenstein.
« Licktensstain » 🙃
Two pieces of nonsense on this video are
(1) Unlike the map which shows a part of southern England to belong to the Frankish Empire, that empire never owned any part of the island of Britain.
(2) The commentator horribly mispronounces the name of the country. It's not "Lick-ten-stine" but "Leekh-ten-shtine" (ch in German is pronounced the same as in Scottish "loch").
'ch' in German
has two pronunciations: one as in 'loch,' the other does not exist in any other language I know, so I cannot describe it here except to say that it's like in 'ich' ("I') in german. it is a very soft sound and it's the one that appliies to 'Lichtenstein.'
@@yon8378 if it's any help, they speak High Alemannic dialects in LI, so the Loch sound (and in some cases a softer variant that still isn't the ich sound) is actually right on the money.
Your AI narration needs work (soured pronounce ‘soared’). Also, misspelled Austria-Hungary as Austira-Hungary.
That crazy history
I was involved in a semi successful frozen custard MLM there in the 80’s.
Wait, since when did the Franks control parts of the British Islands?
it´s "Austria" not "Austira" (map 12:42)
I've been told that the Liechtenstein language is hard to understand by German/Austrian speakers.
I thought they just established this country so they could film a Knight's Tale.
Adam adreas really said let me cook 🔥
I love this country but very rear to migrate there!
Fun fact Liechtenstein was offered Rusdia America (Alaska) for purchase prior to settling on an agreement with young republic. Tsar Alexander III was a great admirer of the r pertinent known as young republic particularly Alexander Hamiltons banking system. He was more reform indeed than most leaders and he wanted to incorporate that banking sister into imperial Russia that was part of an agreement and one reason Alaska was sold at that price. Fresh back in Russia boyars/ oligarchs were not happy and had Alexander was assassinated in street of Moscow. He was assassinated ending any such move . Imagine what could have been. He also protected young republicans in thier civil war keeping Prussia France England out of it was close to becoming a world war. Tsar Alexander III had war ships in rivers off coast of Atlantic Bering and Pacific Ocean s protecting Americas shores. At one time imperial Russia was an Allie our first allie. We both had issues with England. Notice common denominator is always England . We were friendly with Tehran and in 1953,Tehran was only democratic government in Middle East. Was a parliamentarian system. The shah was simply king in name only had no power whatsoever . Prime minister had the power. Than England asked USA to depose prime minister and his government installed shah who was far worse than pol pot. This was a free democratic society in this time. Imagine losing your freedom over night. Say one word you’re sent to jail or simply disappeared. Remember Argentina under pinachet and all citizens that went disappeared was on a far greater scale in Iran. Justctobgivecyou an idea where hate started festering for United States. UK is friendly with Iran while United States is enemy #1 all started in 1953 because Iran had a long border with USSR. John Dulles thought it would be a good idea to be there. 1953 you have generation after generation of Iranians brought up in thier culture the United States is the super villain. People just didn’t think Einstein’s theory of cause and effect. Every action has a just similar action in turn to action taken. We are now experiencing said actions worldwide. Don’t forget thank UK and USA they are equal partners in this endeavor. As they say the barbarians at the gate are getting louder…
It was probably marketed as agreement. You did learn much of what is required to have some act as if they in agreement right?
9:34 That's just what they want you to think!
Lichtenstein:
Warfare: 0
Luck: 999
Diplomacy: 99999
Funny how we ask why this principality is a country but never ask the same for dictatorships like Belarus and other's.
were there micro nations within the boundaries or borders of the Roman empire?
Yes
They had a number of client kings that would perhaps qualify, depending on your definition.
Liechtenstein, like it’s neighbor Switzerland and the Grand Cayman Islands, is a tax-dodger financial haven. Also, the national ISN’T a constitutional monarchy, it is a semi-constitutional monarchy where the prince has the power override parliamentary decisions and to appoint all government ministers.
For the glory of the great Liechtensteinian people!
Let's be honest, it only exists because Switzerland hasn't had the balls yet to annex it.
Hier in Österreich 🇦🇹, wir leben Liechtenstein 🇱🇮! 💕✌🏼💖🫶🏻🇦🇹🇱🇮🇪🇺
The nooks and crannies of Europe.
They have real history, that's reason
One wonders if it would still exist if it wasn't for Switzerland 🤔
next video: who invented france? and why?
What the hell were they thinking?
There was no King Charles. The name is Carl. Also, wth is "Liktenstein"?
The narrator says 62 sq miles. The video grafic says 62 sq kms
12:14 / 12:42