For an episode on Kiribati we sure got a lot of "Lebanon- themed" stuff. Cool! Hope you enjoy this last country before we finish this year off with the two TWINS. You know who I'm talking about. OH and last time there was a fake account using GN's username and thumbnail. If you see anything like that again, DO NOT click on any links and Report them IMMEDIATELY.
There is a name for creating fictional countries and everything that's involved in it: geofiction. I'm in a geofiction interaction project with a few friends where we have several fictional countries interacting with one another and we even met some new people to join us along the way. We even created our own flags and languages. It's a pretty fun hobby, but it does require some creativity and preferably some drawing skills and story writing. But yeah, it's a thing with a name, and there are multiple platforms you can participate in. Nice to see some other people having the same hobby. _The more you know..._
The book that had your own country in it was so neatly written that I'm jealous. It just looks so perfect. I think it would be really cool if you could show us all of it as a side or filler video. :D
Nicely done, Paul! It was very cool of you to share a bit of your younger years in "world building" with the viewer who sent in his... Very cool... mad props!
What a great video! I love how you go through all the mail. Soon I'll post a video of our girls singing your opening song when they talk about how they're homeschooled.
lyrics to the national anthem of North Korea: We are a side-effect of World War Two. Our sense of liberty is quite askew. You try to leave us you will realize defectors here in North Korea dies. We don't have much money but still we spend a lot on border guards and army men. North Korea marches better than them all. Some cities are houses with just one wall. By other nations we are seen as thugs we counterfeit your money traffic drugs. With the South we're in a constant state of war. Our leader is a real dic(k)tator.
It's real easy to learn, takes you under an hour. But you then gotta retain it by reading and perhaps even writing a few lines every so often. Every day at first and then less and less. I come across Korean often enough to keep it all in there... same with Cyrillic, Devanagari and ye I study Japanese so that's a different story. Greek I can kinda figure out by combining my Latin and Cyrillic lol. nvr spent too much time with it tho.
Going by the Second Spanish Republic flag right under the Irish Free State one, those flag silks were printed in the early 30s. Ireland dropped the name “Irish Free State” in 37, and the Second Spanish Republic ended in 39 (although there was the whole civil war situation going on since 36...)
The Portuguese flag on that old collection is the Monarchist flag, so either the collection is from before 1911 (we became a republic in late 1910 and changed the flag in 1911), or they didn't bother to update the design or were unaware of the change.
5:29 those have to be older because the portuguese flag represented was the old monarchic one and so it had to be before 1910! The new and current portuguese flag ("A Portuguesa") came along with the establishment of the 1st Portuguese Republic!
Thank you for the Kiribati episode! One of the best ones i've ever seen on your channel. :) The absolute best one is the FINLAND episode. ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL THE 100TH INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION DAY. \o/ NOTE: Next year Finlands FLAG will celebrate IT'S 100th year anniversary. Lots of
We still have the rest of the k-countries, all of the L and M -countries as well as like 8 other N-countries before us. It's still a really long time before we get to see it. Beklager kompis.
Well, if Barby doesn't have a filler week anymore and ignores Kosovo, he can still finish the K this year. Then the schedule would be: 6 December - North Korea 13 December - South Korea 20 December - Kuwait 27 December - Kyrgyzstan Et voila, the K is done and 2018 starts with the L
The thing that i liked and made me confused is that the time difference between kiribati and the next eastern island is 26 hours...this mean that is more than a day. Can u imagine? ..MORE THAN A DAY OMG !
Barb, can you make a series where us fans make alternative country is based on the events in history. Have us include a country name, flag and a little blurb of how it all started and how that alternative country would have influenced us toady. Check out alternative history hubs take on it I would like to see you do it I think will be a great and successful series
Since you brought up the "invented country/continent" - I'm currently doing something similar. I plan to turn it into a real game and oh boy, world building is so much fun!
hey, I just realized that in 5:21 shows 2 of the state flags from Malaysia (my home) let's see here, the top left one is the state flag of Johor and the one below is the state flag of Selangor next to the Irish Flag that u read said the Irish Free State
Geography now I have a simple question, are you planning to do a video on Puerto Rico??? I’m asking because you have mentioned before PR when you were speaking of the DR and Cuba.
hi halfpipe He made it so simple and he might have got his flag symbolism from the net. He was right about the rays of the sun and the 3 groups of islands. But the rest is crap. The red sky has meaning. The yellow sun has meaning. The yellow frigate bird reflecting the sun rays off the sea surface has meaning. The sun half risen has meaning. Good day
I had a geography game when I was very little and I thought the flag of Kiribati was one of the coolest. But I always thought until today that the bird was a sea gull.
When you finish this series you should do another about historic countries like New Spain, the P-L Commonwealth, Gurkani, and of course the whole Holy Roman Empire.
Wind turbines can be placed at sea, which is actually the preferred place, since sea farms are more predictable and less hampered by terrain. Doesn't mean that Kiribati have any suitable areas, but palm trees getting in the way, and lack of land, is not a complete argument against them.
regarding the creating worlds thing, what would a nation that is exactly equal distance from bermuda and the azores islands have as as climate? i would think that it would be tropical
Hi Barb, what caught my attention was at the minutes 5:10 regarding the Flag Silk supposed on the cigarettes package, there are some flag of British countries, but I saw some Malay states flag too, they are the Yellow and Red checkered, which is the Selangor State flag of today's Malaysia, and there are the Blue flag with red box on the top left corner, that is Johor state flag of today's Malaysia, there are also red flag with crescent moon which I believe the Kelantanese State flag of Today's Malaysia. So now you know that at one time these Malay States was actually exists as their own country before they decided to form a Federation of Malaysia, pretty much like the U.S which 50 states has their own state government and their own flag, in the case of Malaysia, we had 13 states that has their own government and their own flag, and off course they had representatives to the Federation in the Parliament at Kuala Lumpur. So yeah, historically at least 3 of them (because we are unsure if that was all the country of Malay states listed in the cigarettes pack) are being recognize as a country, which are quite interesting to know that.
I have an idea. It would be cool if you did geography now episodes on previous existing nations. I know this may be harder than your normal episodes but it would be cool! You would have to call it "geography then".
This next episode will be very interesting as the Geography Gang uncovers the secrets of the Hermit Kingdom, so stay tuned! Rocket Mann is coming up next!
The Kiribati flag is so beautiful!
Love from Kiribati.
🇰🇮
I know. As s kid, I fell in love w flags. Gotta say Kiribati's stands out.
Kiritimati -> (ti = s) -> Kirismas -> Christmas
Mind
Equals
*Blown*
Seriously! He got it wrong TWICE omfg. Barby you dummy! :P
Hil co -> hell go = Hell no
Merry Kurismasu ~
satoshiketchump kurisutina
For an episode on Kiribati we sure got a lot of "Lebanon- themed" stuff. Cool! Hope you enjoy this last country before we finish this year off with the two TWINS. You know who I'm talking about.
OH and last time there was a fake account using GN's username and thumbnail. If you see anything like that again, DO NOT click on any links and Report them IMMEDIATELY.
Geography Now WHAT IS THAT OUTRO SONG?! I WANT IT
Geography Now
Bro do Marshall Islands next!!!
yoshi lorak dude you do realize they haven’t even finished the “K” countries yet?
GEOGRAPHY IS THE ONLY THING WHO MAKES ME ALIVE
-LOOKS AT FLAGS-
I don't know why it took you so long to have merch. But I'm glad it's here now, I could brag to all my classmates I'm a geography nerd 😄
There is a name for creating fictional countries and everything that's involved in it: geofiction. I'm in a geofiction interaction project with a few friends where we have several fictional countries interacting with one another and we even met some new people to join us along the way. We even created our own flags and languages. It's a pretty fun hobby, but it does require some creativity and preferably some drawing skills and story writing. But yeah, it's a thing with a name, and there are multiple platforms you can participate in. Nice to see some other people having the same hobby.
_The more you know..._
It's also known as conworlding, a word modelled after conlanging (the making of conlangs ~ con·structed lang·uages).
Or just worldbuilding
The book that had your own country in it was so neatly written that I'm jealous. It just looks so perfect. I think it would be really cool if you could show us all of it as a side or filler video. :D
Barby is KiriBASED
bonecanoe86 or KiriBIASED?
I want to KiriBASH someone
Barby always keeps his videos KiriUNBIASED!
You can see yourself out.
Take my upvote and f*** off
5:23 - 5:24 i saw the flags of Malaysian states of Kelantan, Selangor and Johore...
revin hatol Try 5:19 the 1st flag…
Very cool flag! Let’s keep this country above the water!! Happy Weekend Everyone. Any Micronesians here? 🇰🇮
Barbs: "The red has no specific meaning."
Me: "Darn it!"
Paul Watson same I was hoping it was for the blood of those who fight for freedom haha
@@lucaugustson9847 wth??
it means the blood of those who fights for their lands. Im from Kiribati. thanks
Nicely done, Paul! It was very cool of you to share a bit of your younger years in "world building" with the viewer who sent in his... Very cool... mad props!
Merchandise idea: flag and/or flagpins of Bandiaterra** (thanks a defiant skittle)
Franz Perez *Bandiaterra
Ahhh I knew I screwed that up. thanks
What a great video! I love how you go through all the mail. Soon I'll post a video of our girls singing your opening song when they talk about how they're homeschooled.
The Aquatic Federation of Kiribati, Aqua Girl, Ocean Boy, Sea Man, Marine Woman. Defenders of the rising dawn
0:13 Offshore wind farms and wave power converter do exist, but they are more expensive to maintain than classic land-based wind farms.
Awesome video BTW on that Kiribati 🇰🇮
The Lebanon flag was the answer to a final jeopardy question yesterday. Something about the tree being mentioned in the bible twice
When the "ti" becomes an S-sound, wouldn't it be pronounced "Kirismas"?
Marc Exner Oh and that's why it's Christmas island! :o
Correct 👌🏻
hory shituuuu
No, it's just Kiriba(si)
Hey Barby, shouldn't Kiritimati be pronounced as Kirismas, hence Christmas Island? Because you say the letters ti make a 's' sound
Daan Beckers corrected in the video
He got it wrong twice, omfg. I was triggered. How do you correct the last syllable but not the middle one, haha.
Daan Beckers don't you mean spelt not pronounced plus don't try and change our language.
Wow...I spotted a packages from wales contain 3 states flag in Malaysia (Kelantan, Johor, Selangor). Interesting.
I'm going to learn hangul for the Korea episodes.
lyrics to the national anthem of North Korea:
We are a side-effect of World War Two.
Our sense of liberty is quite askew.
You try to leave us you will realize
defectors here in North Korea dies.
We don't have much money but still we spend a lot on border guards and army men.
North Korea marches better than them all.
Some cities are houses with just one wall.
By other nations we are seen as thugs
we counterfeit your money traffic drugs.
With the South we're in a constant state of war.
Our leader is a real dic(k)tator.
Our leader is a real dic(k)tator.
traitor
never seen before
It won't take you a lot of time, I literally learned hangul in 20 minutes
It's real easy to learn, takes you under an hour. But you then gotta retain it by reading and perhaps even writing a few lines every so often. Every day at first and then less and less.
I come across Korean often enough to keep it all in there... same with Cyrillic, Devanagari and ye I study Japanese so that's a different story.
Greek I can kinda figure out by combining my Latin and Cyrillic lol. nvr spent too much time with it tho.
I knew it! I thought I saw something like Kiribati’s flag! I travel to Vancouver, Canada a lot so I see the British Columbia flag everywhere.
Going by the Second Spanish Republic flag right under the Irish Free State one, those flag silks were printed in the early 30s. Ireland dropped the name “Irish Free State” in 37, and the Second Spanish Republic ended in 39 (although there was the whole civil war situation going on since 36...)
The Portuguese flag on that old collection is the Monarchist flag, so either the collection is from before 1911 (we became a republic in late 1910 and changed the flag in 1911), or they didn't bother to update the design or were unaware of the change.
Worldbuilding is so fun! I go ham on mine too, trying to draw in the ocean currents, thinking about tectonics, biology, migration and stuff.
5:29 those have to be older because the portuguese flag represented was the old monarchic one and so it had to be before 1910! The new and current portuguese flag ("A Portuguesa") came along with the establishment of the 1st Portuguese Republic!
“I love that fish, it looks so stupid and dopey, I love dopey looking animals.” TRIGGERED!!! 0:41
0:38 my bad
“A good flag should be able to be drawn by a 4-year-old within 10 seconds”
Kiribati isn’t really on the right track at all
Raȥenaja, Japan's flag fits the bill as well as all of its prefecture flags. The Japanese really do know good design.
Libya's old flag
Libyas old flag is BORING!!!!
Thank you for the Kiribati episode! One of the best ones i've ever seen on your channel. :) The absolute best one is the FINLAND episode. ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL THE 100TH INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION DAY. \o/ NOTE: Next year Finlands FLAG will celebrate IT'S 100th year anniversary. Lots of
much love
I too created my own map called Daminy
I make my own fictional countries and maps all the time so seeing his interest in this was really cool to see!
Omg I'm actually early!
Oh no now I'm pressured to make a good joke!
The British Indian Ocean Territory flag has the blue and white wavy lines too
Yay Norway will be here soon! As Barby said, "Everybody loves NORWAY!!"
We still have the rest of the k-countries, all of the L and M -countries as well as like 8 other N-countries before us. It's still a really long time before we get to see it. Beklager kompis.
Jakob Exactly
Flame Feather i think its everybody loves Cameroon
Who would have guessed that a nation of bloodthirsty Vikings would end up being the happiest country in the world?
Well, if Barby doesn't have a filler week anymore and ignores Kosovo, he can still finish the K this year. Then the schedule would be:
6 December - North Korea
13 December - South Korea
20 December - Kuwait
27 December - Kyrgyzstan
Et voila, the K is done and 2018 starts with the L
5:20
Are those Selangor and Johor flag?!?!
harith hilmi I think so... Mungkin...
The thing that i liked and made me confused is that the time difference between kiribati and the next eastern island is 26 hours...this mean that is more than a day.
Can u imagine? ..MORE THAN A DAY OMG !
Barb, can you make a series where us fans make alternative country is based on the events in history. Have us include a country name, flag and a little blurb of how it all started and how that alternative country would have influenced us toady. Check out alternative history hubs take on it I would like to see you do it I think will be a great and successful series
Since you brought up the "invented country/continent" - I'm currently doing something similar. I plan to turn it into a real game and oh boy, world building is so much fun!
Ayyyy, fellow worldbuilders! Began my worldbuilding adventure in elementary school :-) Absolutely love it, one of my favorite hobbies.
hey, I just realized that in 5:21 shows 2 of the state flags from Malaysia (my home)
let's see here, the top left one is the state flag of Johor and the one below is the state flag of Selangor next to the Irish Flag that u read said the Irish Free State
Geography now I have a simple question, are you planning to do a video on Puerto Rico??? I’m asking because you have mentioned before PR when you were speaking of the DR and Cuba.
Love your videos, fun and educational, that's what I'm talking about :) greetings from Stuttgart originally from Zagreb
Happy Central Africa day!!!
Also, making you own worlds?! Wow. I make my own towns... Lol
That is amazing. It looks amazing as well.
Dude!!! Turn that into a novel or something. The art on the last page with the Android or cyborg is it? That was gold.
It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one that writes and draws his own maps. Huhuhu. 💜💛💚
4:35 I always draw made up world's in school
Ayyyyy surprised to see the Isle of Wight flag in a Geography now video before the UK episode.
Oh my. I also did my own version of country with maps and stuff when I was a child. Can't believe I'm not alone! 😂😂
5:22 Johor and Selangor :))
the sun is half shown symbolizing a rising sun/a sunset.
and that is why the sky is red !
Let's jump into the flag; the water's lovely.
What?! The red on the flag doesn't mean anything? Not even the *blood of those who fought for the freedom* ?
hi halfpipe
He made it so simple and he might have got his flag symbolism from the net. He was right about the rays of the sun and the 3 groups of islands. But the rest is crap. The red sky has meaning. The yellow sun has meaning. The yellow frigate bird reflecting the sun rays off the sea surface has meaning. The sun half risen has meaning.
Good day
Here is the meaning of the red on our flag(Kiribati)..."the bloody war of WW2 which held in Tarawa capital of Kiribati" between America and Japan
@@kakasohoo8190 So, it means: *”THE BLOOD OF THOSE, WHO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM!!!”.* 😃🇰🇮
I had a geography game when I was very little and I thought the flag of Kiribati was one of the coolest. But I always thought until today that the bird was a sea gull.
Love this flag!
Lol, I like to get pixelated maps of Europe and I love messing with the borders as well as their flags
Wow what a crazy and awesome flag!
Great video as always barby, would love to send you some salmiakki from Finland but dunno how lol. Greetings from finland
I want blood of those who fight for the freedom merch!!!!
Trigger fish are cool especially titans and queen triggers
When you finish this series you should do another about historic countries like New Spain, the P-L Commonwealth, Gurkani, and of course the whole Holy Roman Empire.
Big up John. I’m from Wales as well
Doesnt it kind of look like the flag of Soviet Latvia and Estonia?
You know the red with some waves on the bottom.
Lol i didnt think he would say that in a video :D
Ill watch the video before commenting next time..
You should do a vid on canada province flags and usa state flags
3:16 Oooooo "Hang my on your wall, or I will hack you" oooooooo
Wind turbines can be placed at sea, which is actually the preferred place, since sea farms are more predictable and less hampered by terrain.
Doesn't mean that Kiribati have any suitable areas, but palm trees getting in the way, and lack of land, is not a complete argument against them.
what a beautiful FLAG
regarding the creating worlds thing, what would a nation that is exactly equal distance from bermuda and the azores islands have as as climate? i would think that it would be tropical
Really Barby? Do you enjoy creating your own places? Great to know.
Greetings from Bandiaterra!
1:32 Gold Fricking Bird?
Selangor, Kelantan and Johor flag in cigarettes packets?
Ikr I was surprised
Hi Barb, what caught my attention was at the minutes 5:10 regarding the Flag Silk supposed on the cigarettes package, there are some flag of British countries, but I saw some Malay states flag too, they are the Yellow and Red checkered, which is the Selangor State flag of today's Malaysia, and there are the Blue flag with red box on the top left corner, that is Johor state flag of today's Malaysia, there are also red flag with crescent moon which I believe the Kelantanese State flag of Today's Malaysia. So now you know that at one time these Malay States was actually exists as their own country before they decided to form a Federation of Malaysia, pretty much like the U.S which 50 states has their own state government and their own flag, in the case of Malaysia, we had 13 states that has their own government and their own flag, and off course they had representatives to the Federation in the Parliament at Kuala Lumpur. So yeah, historically at least 3 of them (because we are unsure if that was all the country of Malay states listed in the cigarettes pack) are being recognize as a country, which are quite interesting to know that.
2:05, i live on the isle of wight!
Hi Paul...will you do a Greenland video? I was sad to see there wasn’t one in the G countries.
Consiutent countries will be covered after he finishes the alphabet
Yeaaay ! Finally a tshirt !!
Who else thought paul sweating like mad?
Looking forward to the Koreas episodes. :)
looks like you have good new material for the upcoming Lebanon episode
4:23 when the fam does everything you do
0:41 Hey, it's Adam Sandler in seal form! :D
I have a friend from kiribati
Joel G Nice
Really?
I'm half I-kiribati
livi cai that's so cool!
Kiribati is so cool!
0:06 that's still wrong, the "ti" sound is like that both times, kiriTImaTI, kiriSmaS, as in "christmas"
Barby:”And now, the coat of arms which is going to take like 11 seconds to explain.”
*Me:But it takes 10!*
That's a beautifully designed flag
doing my reasearch paper on Kiribati because of you
KI-RIS-I-MAS!!! Like "Christmas!"
Thanks very much I thought I only know kiribati
I have an idea. It would be cool if you did geography now episodes on previous existing nations. I know this may be harder than your normal episodes but it would be cool! You would have to call it "geography then".
Add Guam & The Mariana Islands to your Oceania Playlist Put Fabot (Please)
so the merch link isn't in the description... or my computer is just hecked
IM SOOOOO EXCITED FOR THE KOREA EPS! KIMCHIIIII (and BTS, blackpink, seventeen and twice ❤)
This next episode will be very interesting as the Geography Gang uncovers the secrets of the Hermit Kingdom, so stay tuned! Rocket Mann is coming up next!
Yes That's Why Every Time I See KIRIBATI Flag I'ts Like LSSR
Is anyone else getting no video, just audio. I keep refreshing and nothing changes.
Wait, is that a conlang at 4:37? :O
Geography is the best scientific field. I have been watching since the Azerbaijan video.
Barby: "This'll only take about 11secs."
Me: "Actually 14secs."
Sorry people this is just who I am 🙃😂
Is barb’s sweating through his shirt in the video?!
Paul I have a question why didn’t you do Aruba 🇦🇼 it was a independent country it gained independence in January 1986
Because its a constituent country of the Netherlands. Constituent countries will be covered after fully sovereign UN recognized countries
Barbs: Trigger fish
Me: Oh, you mean the humuhumunukunukuapua'a