Why Does Kiribati Have Such Weird Place Names?
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"London is found around forty minutes away from Banana by car and has a population about double that of banana" - This guy
And if you happen to go by boat, you may reach Paris, driving from Paris you can reach Poland
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@@M-SHR00M..it's quite fitting that London is on the north side of the channel while Paris is on the south side
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@@alinaqirizvi1441 “Oo I wanna spend my vacation in banana”
"Fine you're not invited" -Kiribati government
Huge meme
Naming those villages is almost like me trying to name places when I was a kid tho. 💀
London, UK
London, Kentucky
London, Ohio
London, Pennsylvania
London, California
London, Wisconsin
London, Minnesota
London, Arkansas
London, Canada
London, Kiribati
bruh
That looks........................
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Im dying tho 💀
You forgot
London, Philippines
@@jihandesai7640fr
@@Crztl isn't that what he meant by London, Canada
I think more pictures of the actual villages would have been nice.
Real though. Imagine something poor is also beautiful.
I think those places are so isolated and sparsely populated that there aren't even a lot of intreating pictures of them to show
The atoll you showed is called Kiritimati and in Gilbertese all "ti"s are pronounced like an "s". So Kiritimati is pronounced Kirismas. The name is indeed derived from the English word "Christmas", hence the atoll is also called the Christmas Island.
And Kiribati itself is the local pronunciation of Gilberts. The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British colony; the first became independent as Kiribati, and the latter as Tuvalu.
Kiritimati is the world's largest atoll!
woah
What does the other Christmas Island say about that?
@@beorlingoThey mostly don't really seem to care. But one of my teachers was from Christmas Island 🇨🇽 and they mentioned how some Christmas Islanders "have a friendly rivalry" with I-Kiribati, since they're aware that the two islands are both incredibly jolly 🎄
-I live in Banana
-how do you find that?
-peels great man!
Lol, bananas are just their imagination. 🤣💀
GOOD ONE!!!
Ayo I'm from Banana, a port in Congo 🇨🇩💀
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Rip Congo being exploited by foreign companies and civil war and corrupt
you do NOT live in the doctor congo
I kind of remember that. Congo having the largest banana in the world. Also, I remember North Korea has the shortest bananas tho. 💀
Also:
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@@ash_11117 there are 2 different congos:
Dr congo 🇨🇩
Republic pf congo 🇨🇬
A lot of Polish people must've gotten very excited when you called their country central European, not eastern.
they did indeed ;-)
what who cares abt these details i didnt even realise when he said it
Why excited? He said what’s obvious
It's central or eastern europian.
I believe Poland is eastern European.
The mechanic thing is just a local legend. The actual reason this place is named Poland is the fact that one of the administrators (in the era of Emmanuel Rougier being the renter of Kiribati) was a Frenchman of Polish descent, Charles Malinowski.
Well descent yes but he was fluent in Polish so like he was a Pole living in France at the time basically
I'm a born and bred Australian and my wife is born and bred from Kiribati. When she was born the country was still known as the Gilbert Islands
And bred?
@@Didyouknowthatiexist don't you know the meaning of "and bred"? It means that you also grew up in that place!
@@frizzy60 so what did you guys breed
@@blackkennedy3966 Children!
@@frizzy60 What 💀
When you accidentally book your flight for London, Kiribati
There is a town and indeed a local government area in Queensland, Australia called Banana.
So are you telling me that Australia has a banana republic?
I remember messing around on Google Maps with my friend and finding Kiribati, it felt like a glitch in the matrix lmao
Banana guy: Mom, I wanna go to London!
Mom: Sure honey, we have London at home!
London at home:
My favourite has to be Poland because it was named because a mechanic who happened to be polish was so good at his job that it was decided his country deserved a shout out on the little island.
Kiribati is the only country found in all four hemispheres, not including unincorporated overseas holdings (e.g. Guam and American Samoa for the US).
You're forgetting France I think...
@@KaotikBOOO Nope. French Guyana is in the northern hemisphere.
@@AtarahDerek i think he means french polyesia or island down south indian ocean
@@reinhardheinzwarfelr8215 Yes, and I already specified that I'm not counting overseas territories. French Guyana is fully incorporated into France, and so it can be said that France's longest border is shared with Brazil. Greenland is fully incorporated into Denmark, and so it can be said that Denmark is the northernmost country in the world. But American Samoa is not incorporated into the US and is merely a territory, and so it cannot be said that the US extends into the southern hemisphere.
Now, if you were to include all territories, protectorates and commonwealths, the UK would to this very day still be located in almost every time zone. And several countries would simultaneously claim to be the southernmost countries in the world, as Antarctica is divided into slices like a pie, with all holdings converging at the geographical south pole.
As a Pole, I must visit I this nation now❤.
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@@maikotter9945 what
@@maikotter9945what
It’s all fun and games until you place a village called “germany” next to poland
Personally, I like the name of the airport.
Don't forget the Bay of Wrecks. And they're all on the same island in the same island amongst 33 in the country.
3:47 They actually named the place Poland due to the guy's name being hard to pronounce for the locals. Their idea in the first place was to name it after his name but ended up with naming it the mechanic's country of origin instead. The name of the person is Stanisław Pełczyński
What should they care about the bad pronunciation of some ŗёŧæřðëð pacific Islanders?
@@Quarequieus I'm just sharing the reason for the name. I don't know what's your problem
Jay Foreman: "Some parts of Tuvalu look rude"
Kiribati: "Am I invisible to you?"
I recommend searching more about this island. There was a plantation manager named Joe English who experienced many unusual sometimes extreme adventures there and was left on the island if I'm not mistaken for over 1.5 years. This is a very interesting island:)
Nymphia wind would love it here
Paris
London
...Banana
I like to think it's a homage to Brazil.
keep up the good work
The polish are everywhere
They certainly are. Australia's tallest mountain is called Mt Kosciuszko named after a famous Pole.
@@freeman10000 thats new zealand lad
@@tiranozaurasreksas8810it’s in Australia. It’s called Mount Kosciuszko, tallest mountain in Australia like previously mentioned mentioned
is that something bad?
So the name of the towns found on Kiribati:
London…
Paris…
Poland…
BANANA
So where you from?
London
So, you're from England.
No, it's Kiribati.
No, from London, Ontario.
@@yrv9228 No, from London, USA
"Eita" in portuguese is like a suprise expression like "Wow!"
amazing vid
Poland - small village named after Polish explorer and engineer Stanisław Pełczyński who aided the villagers. He helped the local inhabitants solve the problem with watering palm trees in dry season by building new irrigating system and teaching them how to use it
There is a short but very interesting documentary about the people in this village:
Paris - It was the home of Father Emmanuel Rougier, a French priest who leased the island from 1917 to 1939 and planted some 800,000 coconut trees there. Now the settlement is abandoned
London - unfortunately I can’t find any official information, but it’s not hard to guess how this settlement got its name knowing that it was a colony of British Empire
Kiribati:I can explain
Poland:No you can't
1:15 My question is, why the heck is there a church of latter day saints on the island?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_Pacific_Islanders
pacific islanders ! you can be a mormon too.
A mormon that beliiiiiieves
"The country covers a DISTANCE of 811 km squared"...
Ok, there are so many things wrong with this video I don't know where to start.
1. That's an AREA, not a distance
2. The place shown on your map is Kiritimati, one of the 30+ atolls that make up the nation
3. You're allegedly creating an educational video, even being mildly smug about "most people not knowing so and so about Kiribati" and you mess up like this. Dude. Just delete this altogether, do research that's more thorough than reading a Reddit post and remake the video. This is disgraceful.
Look at the names for a bunch of towns in Maine (Mexico, China, Moscow, Norway, etc.)
“Banana” gotme dying 💀
Somewhat interesting
This week's zingers:'
'The country covers a distance of around 811 km squared'
'Perhaps the island was once traded for bananas...'
They have an island called the 1k :)
indonesia has that too.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 English or another language (Indonesian has its own language if I recall)
In the Philippines, there's a town called Mexico.
@@NanobanaKinako lol like Fucking in Austria or Yass in NSW Australia (with McDonald's as picture, looks like My Ass)
@@NanobanaKinakoAlso Barcelona in Sorsogon
as someone who randomly goes around zooming into random countries, I wondered the same lmao
Couldn't help spotting "Torbens beach". Torben is a quite common name in Denmark and Germany. Any connection...?
The island's also called "Kiritimati," meaning Christmas.
Why did this Polish guy name it Poland, instead of Warsaw?
I was stationed in Kiribati in 1958/9. For the British Nuclear Weapons Tests. Then we lived in tents. It took 5 days to get there .
Hi geography bible
Fun fact: you can travel from london to banana to paris to poland with only a bike
“Where do you wanna go”
“Banana”
minion vacation
OK, before I watch the video I'm going to guess at the answer: they were the names of the invasion beaches in World War II. Now on with the show! Well, I was wrong but the video was interesting.
"Where do you live?"
"Banana."
Something the Minions would say with pride 😊
"Okay i'm coming i'm in poland."
Its name is Tungaru.
It's nuclear, not nucular.
Yes
From Finnish perspective, Rungata is also a funny name
actually the country Poland was named after the village, Poland, if u didn’t know
4:02 "Eita" for portuguese speakers 🤣
eita lasquera
“I’m going to Poland!”
“That’s a long flight we’re live in Australia but let’s Go!”
“Why are we in the beach?”
"Son, were are going to Paris"
"LET'S GO!!!"
"But it is in Kiribati!
"FU-
Londres is pronounced "lon (the same lon as in long) - dre (the same e as in the)", the s is silent
It seems you have twitter too hahaha
“londress” “londrez” but makes fun of ppl not knowing we say kiribass instead of kiribati
i was just looking at this on google maps
Just saw Kiritimati on the map, which if we apply the pronunciation of Kiribati to it, sounds like Christmas. Do you know if that's the case?
Yes, kirimati is just the distortion of the word "Christmas".
If i had a nickel for every abandoned town named paris, id have two nickels. Its not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
(Paris Yukon and Paris Kiribati)
anyone else think that atoll looks like some lich's hand? 👀
i find that more disturbing than the names
I saw this on Google once safe to say it was pretty confused
The police in banana is probably called "banana police"
Because they like it and i too
"Nuke-yoo-lar" 😢
Can't understand why so many people, some of them highly educated, are unable to pronounce "nuclear" correctly! I'm sure they have no problem saying either "new" or "clear" separately but the inability to put the two together makes them sound like idiots.
And, by the way, if "Londres" was indeed originally so named by a Frenchman, it wouldn't have been pronounced "Lon-dress"!
I love London and Paris in Kiribati
“I want to go to Poland”
“Ok”
“wait, why are Kiribati”
“You said you wanted to go to Poland”
🤦
I thought about that a week ago, bruh
Just see NYS city names. I love west Hannibal
I want a t-shirt that says London - Paris - Banana
I found one thing is there makin in Kiribati is my friends name makin😂😂😂
I mean hey, at least they have a cool flag
What are these place names? I love em!
1:18 there are Banana Mormons
Bulgaria: I can explain!
Russia: no u cant
1:48 2:14 yo i had these clips in one of my videos
When they settled it they asked, “what’s the name of this town?” And the locals said, “it has no name”, to which the settlers replied, “That’s bananas”, and the locals said: 😮banana
Bit ironic how we're taught how to pronounce Kiribati and then the narrator immediately proceeds to mispronouncing Londres 😅
I'm going to London, Kiribati.
all you did is read the wikipedia articles for each city
Neato
If we can pronounce Kiribati as Kiribas, then apparently we can pronounce nuclear as nukyular.
The island where CNPs lives, everything that are copied are there
The name Tarawa should be familiar to anyone who knows anything about WWII.
Not everyone knows anything about the pacific theater.
@Quarequieus
Yeah, it was a significant battle, yet still not as well known as Midway, Guadalcanal, or Iwo Jima.
i have a conspiracy theory.
They wanted more tourists. So they named their places after famous tourist destination.
They will soon build airports and ik for some reasons some idiots might actually book the flight to kiriwatian london or paris or poland.
I did made a meme of this
Been there... MAURI!
Wonder why they didn't called the church, the church of the holy banana
They didn't bother to learn the native names for these places. Lol
Mom I wanna go to london
We have london at home💀💀💀
why not name Poland after the person then?
You just wanted to keep saying banana lol
That all pales in comparison to the hiking spot called Zhytomyr... 💀
Что не так с Житомиром?
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: Pretty much let's ask one of my less popular, but past colony of mine, it's name is Kiribati.
France 🇫🇷: Sure! I want to see a past british colony!
United States 🇺🇸: Oh, if you two want to, I'll join then.
Poland 🇵🇱: Also me as an additional!
United States 🇺🇸: We'll agree.
Poland 🇵🇱: Thanks!
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: Also thanks for having the strongest country in the world with us.
France 🇫🇷: Just like Russia though.
United States 🇺🇸: Let's go now!
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: Ok. This country is located in Oceania, 4,000km far at north east of Australia.
New Zealand 🇳🇿: Wait, you mean my big brother?
Australia 🇦🇺: I mean someone here in Oceania.
New Zealand 🇳🇿: Oh get it.
Travel to Kiribati:
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Huh, why is that british colonizer of me going here?
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: Hey Kiribati!
Kiribati 🇰🇮: So what?
France 🇫🇷: Can we take a look at your places?
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Sure! Firstly, my capital city is Tarawa. It is named by "the passage" of my sub languages, Gilbertese.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: Considering your official language now is English?
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Yes. But I have one village called Banana.
France 🇫🇷: What?! How! Because that village is rich in bananas?!
United States 🇺🇸: Actually, I just found out something. Last time when I ask 4,000 troops to do a nuclear test in the Pacific, they ended up calling the village Banana.
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Btw, I also have 2 villages, named London and Paris.
Poland 🇵🇱: What?! How those villages haved names of capital cities of France and UK?!
France 🇫🇷: Well while that part was used to be my colony, I just gave it to UK. So my own way of calling it by French is "Londres."
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: So, I just renamed it to to the english version, London my capital.
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Also guys, I also have an unpopulated village named Paris as well.
France 🇫🇷: Oh, that's just my colony in you that I didn't gave to UK. And that guy that named Londres lives in that southern lagoon. Also I like the vibe their, love summer.
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Last one, another village at the south of Paris is Poland.
Poland 🇵🇱: Wait, my name?!
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Just because a man working in this village as a tool worker. And you know the reference of those.
Poland 🇵🇱: My weapons!
Kiribati 🇰🇮: Yes.
United States 🇺🇸: He must be a chad. 🗿
THE END :D
Sorry for long comment 😞
Man I realized real Athens Portsmouth London and Cambridge was actually in Ohio
banana, D.R.C
Yo sorry I got to go to banana brb 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀