9:56 the USA has been adding stars to the flag since it began, we're currently in the longest period of having an unchanged flag. (The flag didn't have 50 stars during WW2)
Dear Diary, I was already confused with the Slovenia and Slovakia thing and Drew has me more confusing now. I congratulated Drew for doing what I thought was not even possible
Pche, it’s easy. Slovensko - Slovakia in Slovak language. Slovinsko - Slovenia in Slovak language. Slovák - Slovak man in Slovak language. Slovenka - Slovak woman in Slovak language.
The Chugoku reference looks accurate and correct to me, even the kanji for Chugoku-chiho is just the same (referring to China in chinese characters). After all, "China" in Chinese also literally means "middle country", just like Chugoku-chiho in Japan. Definitely a reference to Japan from the 1930s to 1945.
Chūgoku can both be Japanese mid west area and China. Same pronunciation and character. But in ww2 china is commonly called shina in Japan. So yeah, that comic is confusing since that five star china flag came after ww2.
In short, no? tl;dr It's where most of the province that far but not that far from capital is, so they called 中国, the mid (distanced) province. So, both Japan and China used 中國 as their "name of the land" (since the idea of country doesn't exist in the way we all know by that time). But Japan, is not just 中国, it is 葦原中国, ashiharano-nakatsukuni for pronunciation, not really sure about it's meaning but historian seems quite sure that it mostly had the meaning of "this world" or "the land we living in". So it's a bit different from China's usage. (You would notice that the word 國/国 had somewhat unclear meaning, it can be land, country, province etc.) But if so, why only this place in Japan use it as a name to the point that Japanese changed how they call China in case for confusion? Well, the commonly explanation is, in the Heian period, province was sorted by the power of it and the distance from the Heiankyō(the capital). Chūgoku chihō, also called San-yō-san-in chihō(another confusing name), was mostly where the "mid distanced province" is , thus the name 中国. Additionally, there is Kingoku(近国, close distanced province), Engoku(遠国, far distanced province), Kinai(畿内, province around capital), Daikoku(大国, the province with greatest power) Jougoku, Gegoku(上国, 下国, 2nd and 4th also lowest level of the power of province) Also, the island in the Chūgoku's south, is called 四国 even nowadays, named by the four province on the island. And last headache, the only province that both power and distance is 中国, is Notō, located in nowadays Notō peninsula, QUITE FAR from Chūgoku chihō actually.
@@one5e I'm leaning on the "smart enough to keep quiet" side, considering Trudeau himself was a vocal Venezuela-tankie, all the way until pretending that the Venezuelan socialist experiment hadn't turned into a dictatorship (same as every single socialist experiment in history) was no longer a credible stance to hold and was hurting his approval with fence-sitters.
Yeah, somehow everyone always forgets that part. Thanks to winds, the entire midwest (not just Nevada) had more exposure to radiation than all of Chernobyl. America literally nuked itself in the foot. 🤦♂
The Russian ruble is at a higher value now than when they began the invasion. You need to learn math, they are just selling oil to people who pay in rubles now instead of US dollars. Biden is destroying America, giving weapons to the taliban, and sending US material to a puppet country. You deserve what your gonna get but the rest of us don't.
5:22 as a hungarian when i saw the "FÖLD" (that means in hungarian language "dirt" and the "Earth"), first i didnt understand why the heck is that there.
Fun fact: Drew, I found a phone and called the police. They know about the anime-centric cult you have set up, and how you kidnapped me and several others to sacrifice to Pikachu. The authorities will be at your location soon.
I just realised that the union jack is inaccurate on the UKball. (The red stripes are centred). Or that might just be how the design of the countryball, I don't know.
@@shadowlord1418 well I was wrong myanmar was part of the british raj but even if you include myanmar, the size of the british raj is less than 2 million square miles compared to the size of australia being 2.99 million square miles and canada being 3.86 million square miles
Hey Drew, I recommend D-Day, it is a game on roblox that is about the Allies landing at the beaches of Normandy, it is super addicting and is a fun game, I am already hooked in just a week! I love your work and it inspires me.
There is actually already a design ready to go for the USA flag to have 51 stars if we ever get around to like making Puerto Rico a state, or a couple of other options, like DC become it's own state.
yo drew in your next video you should talk about a croatian politician holding a bag of cocaine while giving a speech in the parliament. He found it around presidents house.
When you’re trying to catch up to Drews videos and youjust finished watching all the Drew Countryball memes but you realize this playlist is only like 1% of all his videos and he’s littarly been doing UA-cam forever and he has like 4K videos😊: 😊😊😊 😅😅😅😅😅😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Soo that whole China Japan weird population think, chukoku is Chinese ancestry group which has its last remaining true descendants in Japan. Basically Chinese chukoku group is exting but they are closest relatives to Chinese and not Japanese so calling the Chinese chukoku would make sense if chinese were placed under Japanese rule.
A guy from Slovenia here... The Slovaks call our country "Slovinsko" because we produce great wine (wine is called VINO in practically all the Slavic languages) and heck, even our national anthem revolves around wine-drinking... Cheers!
I know this is random, but you talk about canada so much and it seems like you really like it so maybe can you travel to Canada for a video (I'm a Canadian btw)
I am from Slovakia and i was on vacation in Slovenia 4 days ago. And to make things even more confusing, in Slovakia if we call something Slovakian we say ,,Slovenský" and Slovenians say ,,Slovenski" which sounds nearly exactly same just a bit shorter.
“What are you doing step turk” Me: proceeds to print out and register the remaining of it Also me: *proceeds to commit an hilter just before ww2 ended*
I do love that it's a Canadian communist arguing that Russia could totally go toe to toe with the US. Considering Justin's courting of the Chinese it's more appropriate than one might expect and also quite worrisome.
Constituent word *exists
Drew Durnil: *confused screaming
9:56 the USA has been adding stars to the flag since it began, we're currently in the longest period of having an unchanged flag. (The flag didn't have 50 stars during WW2)
Whatever dude, it looks sexy to me and USSR flag also looked a lil bit cool and also Indian flag
O wait whaaaa
Let’s start adding more
@@ethanmcfarland8240 nah
@@haku_68 hi
A Czech and an Australian playing chess, has to be the most difficult game to ever be played, ever.
How
@@itzdola4253 Czech, Mate!!
@@mrb740 thx you!
Mate
@@mrb740 You beat me to it.
I love the fact that Albania is The Castle / ruk in the chess comic
It's probably a reference to them having the most bunkers in one country
What if they just make the whole country a bunker lol.
@@Muster_Muckee_II they put a giant concrete dome on the country that reaches the stratosphere. That would be brilliant.
As a Japanese person, when I was a child I literally thought Chugoku region was called Chugoku because it used to be part of Chugoku (China).
Dear Diary,
I was already confused with the Slovenia and Slovakia thing and Drew has me more confusing now. I congratulated Drew for doing what I thought was not even possible
Yes.
Yes.
Wait until you hear about the Croatian region slavonia
חע
Pche, it’s easy.
Slovensko - Slovakia in Slovak language.
Slovinsko - Slovenia in Slovak language.
Slovák - Slovak man in Slovak language.
Slovenka - Slovak woman in Slovak language.
The Chugoku reference looks accurate and correct to me, even the kanji for Chugoku-chiho is just the same (referring to China in chinese characters). After all, "China" in Chinese also literally means "middle country", just like Chugoku-chiho in Japan. Definitely a reference to Japan from the 1930s to 1945.
As a Japanese person, when I was a child I literally thought Chugoku region was called Chugoku because it used to be part of Chugoku (China).
yeah chugoku means middle nation or middle of nation
that was a trilingual bonus
@@mangonel +15 social credits
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 you get interesting things, don't you? 😁
The Soviet and USA playing chess as the cold War, was actually a reference to one of the ways the two tried to stop the war: A chess match
Wat.
@@theboxygenie is true
Russia is like dad to Alaska, A dad who came back after his son reached something in life
Not technically Alaska is older than modern day Russia, so Russia is the nefew who wants attention
@@dreamrose1582 but russia is more of alaska's bro
@@randomboi5225 step bro :>
russia left alaska for milk bc he was useless but then usa bought em and found oil and hes usefull
more like dad came to his son that mom took after a breakup
Chūgoku can both be Japanese mid west area and China.
Same pronunciation and character.
But in ww2 china is commonly called shina in Japan.
So yeah, that comic is confusing since that five star china flag came after ww2.
Is the name based on the Chinese calling themselves the Middle Kingdom?
In short, no?
tl;dr
It's where most of the province that far but not that far from capital is, so they called 中国, the mid (distanced) province.
So, both Japan and China used 中國 as their "name of the land" (since the idea of country doesn't exist in the way we all know by that time).
But Japan, is not just 中国, it is 葦原中国, ashiharano-nakatsukuni for pronunciation, not really sure about it's meaning but historian seems quite sure that it mostly had the meaning of "this world" or "the land we living in". So it's a bit different from China's usage.
(You would notice that the word 國/国 had somewhat unclear meaning, it can be land, country, province etc.)
But if so, why only this place in Japan use it as a name to the point that Japanese changed how they call China in case for confusion?
Well, the commonly explanation is, in the Heian period, province was sorted by the power of it and the distance from the Heiankyō(the capital). Chūgoku chihō, also called San-yō-san-in chihō(another confusing name), was mostly where the "mid distanced province" is , thus the name 中国.
Additionally, there is Kingoku(近国, close distanced province),
Engoku(遠国, far distanced province),
Kinai(畿内, province around capital),
Daikoku(大国, the province with greatest power)
Jougoku, Gegoku(上国, 下国, 2nd and 4th also lowest level of the power of province)
Also, the island in the Chūgoku's south, is called 四国 even nowadays, named by the four province on the island.
And last headache, the only province that both power and distance is 中国, is Notō, located in nowadays Notō peninsula, QUITE FAR from Chūgoku chihō actually.
8:20 japan is referring to China, Chugoku is the transliteration of the japanese word for china
The Canadian tankie looked so hilarious, it's just as I would imagine how a Canadian tankie is in real life
Tankies here in Canada are either small enough or just barely smart enough not to have a much voice or presence since the beginning of the war
sadly there are more in the US
bit ironic considering the history of the US
@@one5e I'm leaning on the "smart enough to keep quiet" side, considering Trudeau himself was a vocal Venezuela-tankie, all the way until pretending that the Venezuelan socialist experiment hadn't turned into a dictatorship (same as every single socialist experiment in history) was no longer a credible stance to hold and was hurting his approval with fence-sitters.
Where?
Like I have said, Poland Ball animators are going to have a field day with the Ukraine-Russo War.
Oh and also countryhumans, although it'll be much worse
"Poland" ball is also confused here cause forgot her real name is Monaco. What a happy family.
As an approved submitter, I approve this message.
Indonesia*
Wait is ukraine attacking russia or russia attacking ukraine I’m confused
1:10 fun fact, the slovak word for slav can also be confused with slovakian
i love that language
8:21
Chūgoku in Japanese generally means China, the region is written out differently that China and its specific to context.
5:54 Russia’s flag was actually different when they sold Alaska. Black on top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom
The Russian Empire right?
@@adrienkahlil5968 yes.
Me looking at islands being sad about radiation poison ,
America being nuked by themselves on purpose over 500 times
*sad Nevada noises*
@@theclockworksolution8521 lol
Yeah, somehow everyone always forgets that part. Thanks to winds, the entire midwest (not just Nevada) had more exposure to radiation than all of Chernobyl. America literally nuked itself in the foot. 🤦♂
@@josiahhockenberry9846 what are they?
Belka!
America suffered more then almost all those nuked islands
5:40 as a Canadian I can confirm this is 100% accurate
Same 🙃
5:12 as an irishman
@@chverxs you have Miami in your about section…
@@NotALandLubber Yeah I know, I use to live in Canada when I was Younger for 5 years until I was 10.
4:00 -- No respect for the best dominion?
...
Newfoundland.
71K Indians Died in WW2
It was Like a Deal With the British For Independence
Ahh !
5 or 6 milion Polish people died, British sold Poland to USSR
@@republicofformosa8644
They are like that in most part of the history
(2:40) And Sweden has a king, therefore only can move vertical and horizontal. But joking aside, there's more than one queen in the world.
Russia: Tanks their economy with the invasion
Every bank to their Russian assets: *Is for me?* 🥺👉👈
🥺
👉👈
ban all foreign banks that do not use rubles.
Random people in coastal countries:
Hippity hoppity,your yacht is now my property
The Russian ruble is at a higher value now than when they began the invasion.
You need to learn math, they are just selling oil to people who pay in rubles now instead of US dollars.
Biden is destroying America, giving weapons to the taliban, and sending US material to a puppet country.
You deserve what your gonna get but the rest of us don't.
5:22 as a hungarian when i saw the "FÖLD" (that means in hungarian language "dirt" and the "Earth"), first i didnt understand why the heck is that there.
Fun fact: Drew, I found a phone and called the police. They know about the anime-centric cult you have set up, and how you kidnapped me and several others to sacrifice to Pikachu. The authorities will be at your location soon.
1:19 super war crime bros
I just realised that the union jack is inaccurate on the UKball. (The red stripes are centred). Or that might just be how the design of the countryball, I don't know.
Is no one gonna question the fact that Canadaball had a USSR flag on his wall?
I always knew the Canadians were hoarding commies.
Average Iphone leftist
its a tankie
0:28 me from slovakia: what did u sayyyyy
Idea: Make a egyptian country ball and make it a pharaoh
Amazing how much history you can learn this way.
3:47 DREW DIDN'T SAY NO NO GERMANS
*Demonetization has been set to yes*
SUS
4:48 the British Raj provided more troops for the British during WWI and WWII than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa combined
Its also like 10 times bigger
@@shadowlord1418 Australia and canada are both bigger than the British Raj (British Raj being India, Pakistan and bangladesh)
@@DD-nb9rn your kidding right..
@@shadowlord1418 well I was wrong myanmar was part of the british raj but even if you include myanmar, the size of the british raj is less than 2 million square miles compared to the size of australia being 2.99 million square miles and canada being 3.86 million square miles
@@DD-nb9rn most of which is desert or tundra we are talking about population
Petition for Drew to do voice overs in famous tv shows 😂😂
Why? He can’t read or say common words!?
10:27 I almost sh*t myself from laughing 😂😂😂
10:26 after "clergy too" poland should say" keep your hands off papa" XD
2:00 is protecting themselves not Ukraine
3:17 don’t forget Australia
As a Scottish person even though it’s freezing in December it rarely snows. It only rains.
Always around Feb is when there is snow.
gotta love them british isles
As a Scot I have to agree all it does is rain here even though its freezing all the time.
You should have named this latest set of country balls the Commonwealth Crew
3:28
Spain and Finland:Are we a joke to you???
Haha broken arrow go brrr
I like how Drew evades cursing in Polish by pronouncing it wrong.
The Canadian ball looks angry lol
Hey Drew, I recommend D-Day, it is a game on roblox that is about the Allies landing at the beaches of Normandy, it is super addicting and is a fun game, I am already hooked in just a week! I love your work and it inspires me.
Drew: _says constituent incorrectly_
Also Drew: _congratulates himself anyways_
There is actually already a design ready to go for the USA flag to have 51 stars if we ever get around to like making Puerto Rico a state, or a couple of other options, like DC become it's own state.
love how Germany just is King on booth sides :P
yo drew in your next video you should talk about a croatian politician holding a bag of cocaine while giving a speech in the parliament. He found it around presidents house.
Fun fact: Russia is so big that it can fit wide Putin in it without reality collapsing
2:13 this comic forgot two places, *Nenetsia and New Mexico*
0:18 when do you record these? I saw this comic at school today at around 12:00 warsaw time
When you’re trying to catch up to Drews videos and youjust finished watching all the Drew Countryball memes but you realize this playlist is only like 1% of all his videos and he’s littarly been doing UA-cam forever and he has like 4K videos😊: 😊😊😊 😅😅😅😅😅😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I wish I'm a new fan too so I could binge watch all of his videos again
@@uesugigenki6078 theres no binging 4000 videos thats gonna take 5 years. because his videos are 15min-1 hour long
@@hkuijpers Exactly 😎
I wonder if Drew can sell a Reichtangle country ball
3:06 are we not gonna talk about nanking?
8:56 the entire nation of japan wanted 2 trillon dollar reward
0:43 I dont think nice things will happen
Would love it if you did some stuff with micronations, it goes a lot deeper than jokes about Sealand's significance!
Soo that whole China Japan weird population think, chukoku is Chinese ancestry group which has its last remaining true descendants in Japan. Basically Chinese chukoku group is exting but they are closest relatives to Chinese and not Japanese so calling the Chinese chukoku would make sense if chinese were placed under Japanese rule.
As someone from Scotland, I can confirm that that is what the weather is like in Scotland
Listening to him trying to pronounce czechia is pretty funny to me.
Welcome to the:
DREW and his KALEIDOSCOPIC SHIRT channel!!!
WOO HOO BABY!!!!
For next country ball you should do Israel cube, Ukrainian ball( once the war is over) and Japan ball
A guy from Slovenia here... The Slovaks call our country "Slovinsko" because we produce great wine (wine is called VINO in practically all the Slavic languages) and heck, even our national anthem revolves around wine-drinking... Cheers!
I know this is random, but you talk about canada so much and it seems like you really like it so maybe can you travel to Canada for a video (I'm a Canadian btw)
0:04 anakin ian ball
The only time Drew Does not say No-No Germany. 3:47
10:08 ah yes the greater game
4:40 You have no idea.
The rain is ideal December weather.
2:24 you didn't know?
3:46 omg drew didn't say no no Germany
I am from Slovakia and i was on vacation in Slovenia 4 days ago. And to make things even more confusing, in Slovakia if we call something Slovakian we say ,,Slovenský" and Slovenians say ,,Slovenski" which sounds nearly exactly same just a bit shorter.
the comic with Russia and Ukraine at the beginning was so well done
As a fun fact, Canada actually fought in the Pacific theatre in WW2
“What are you doing step turk”
Me: proceeds to print out and register the remaining of it
Also me: *proceeds to commit an hilter just before ww2 ended*
1:40 czech is the king because he is in check the lnight is a L shape away
5:45 This is very accurate.
2:15 thanks for that frame of "some more context". 👍
The first few minutes were epic (someone remembers my country, czechia)
5:21 the fact that germany said "FÖLD" is killing me
(Föld in hungarian means dirt/ground/Earth)
5:38 MOMENTS BEFORE DISASTER
Fun fact: During the Soviet Union,450 nuclear tests took place in Kazakhstan.
Not related but...
Me: *waiting for Drew to drop the filipino ball*
Chugoku means two things in Japanese, China and an area of Japan called the chugoku area. I know. It’s confusing.
5:43 as a Scottish person I can confirm
I do love that it's a Canadian communist arguing that Russia could totally go toe to toe with the US. Considering Justin's courting of the Chinese it's more appropriate than one might expect and also quite worrisome.
Like how the Balkans look like pirates
0:51 WHY IS THE POLISH FLAG ALWAYS UPSIDE DOWN
It’s the lore
5:40 MPHH!
Chuugoku means China in Japanese.
I’m Canadian and I want the Canadian ball but i realize im to poor :(
"There is more than one way to troubleshoot a computer"
TROUBLESHOOTING A COMPUTER IS NOT ENOUGH!YOU NEED PROTEGENT!
I am very honored to have my comic read.
nice job
248th day of asking Drew to visit Italy
Continua a perseverare, un giorno ci andrà
8:53 😳😳😳😂😂
France tested atomic bombs in the desert of Algeria in a godamn inhabited zone called Reggan.
1:58
Glory to 2th Great October Revolution...
Completely off topic but Eid Mubarak to all muslims who watch drew ☺️
thanks brodaa
I'm from Scotland so I can approve the Scotland comic with the rain and snow
Yoooo, I'm the one who posted the context for the Socialist Fraternal Kiss. Glad he saw that.
I love you drew you handsome silly man. I glad your making a living lolling about geopolitics.