11 Country Names That Might Not Exist In The Future 

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I like the unnecessary long screen time for F.U.K.

I suspect that at least some of the people who suggested renaming the UK to the Formerly United Kingdom did so _because_ of the acronym.

F.U.K. is an absolute perfect name for the UK as it is nowadays

East african Federation Knuckles doesnt have the same ring to it.

Video idea: Why do Uruguay and Paraguay have such similar names (endings)?

If Romania and Moldova were to unite the name would stay Romania. And if it would change it wuold be Dacia. ( I think)

Waloons sounds like an insult :D

An other possible name change is that the whole FYROM controversy is finally fixed, but I think that's just as unlikely as Palestine and Israel working out something any time soon.

You need a second channel called alternatenaminghub

FUK that's a bad name.

I’m from Scotland and when you scored out great and said it would just be Britain made me feel superior because as a Scotsman I feel that in sports England tend to be better except rugby and maybe cycling but hearing it wouldn’t be great without Scotland was kinda satisfying so thanks.

It's the English language that found itself without a single word name for the Czech Republic. There is no such problem in Czech or other languages, especially in the region (like my native Polish).

Concerning Czechia: the reason most Czechs don't like it is because "Čechy" is Czech for "Bohemia", one of the three constituting regions of the country. Calling it Czechia (essentially just Bohemia) leaves out Moravians and Silesians.

Interesting and well-made video! I had no idea that those East African countries were considering merging. Fascinating to follow its development in the future! BTW I do have one nitpicking: Whereas it is true that the Belgian variety of Dutch is often informally and colloquially referred to as "Flemish", its official name in Belgium is still "Dutch". So perhaps you were referring to it a little bit too much as "Flemish" throughout the video. It is actually in a rather complicated situation and the term "Flemish" is rather ambiguous. Most of the dialects spoken in Flanders are crossing the border to the Netherlands, so linguistically, you cannot really separate out Netherlands Dutch from Belgian Dutch like that. On the other hand, there is an intermediate language emerging in Flanders that stands in between the official Dutch and local dialects called "tussentaal". This is often referred to as "Flemish" too. There is a lot more to this, but maybe that is something for an entire video. If you would like some help with it, just let me know!

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2:40 No... EPIC SAX LAND!

EEEEEEE You mentioned the East African Federation!

I really want the name Czechia more than Czech Republic because it sounds more catchy and it is shorter, love your video because it is very interesting! :)

Next video should be all countries that have changed their names in the past

In Romanian we call the country Cehia and the people cehi.Pronounced similar to czech.

I'm from Kazakhstan. The absurdness of changing our country's name that was brought to our attention in 2014 was off the roof. First of all, Kazakhstan and Kazakh Yeli mean the exact same thing. The "stan" in country's name stands for "land of", e.g. Pakistan = land of the paks, Uzbekistan = land of the uzbeks and Kazakhstan = land of the kazakhs. "stan" is a persian word, however, and "yeli" is kazakh. But still, putting aside the fact that the actual meaning behind the word wouldn't change, the name "kazakh yeli" itself sounds really stupid for foreigners. And idk where you got that people dislike the name "kazachia" because it sounds like "rossia". I don't know anyone who used this argument. It has to do more with the fact that Kazakhstan is a very multi-cultural country and "Kazachia" sounds a bit nationalistic. On the other hand, czech people wanting to change their country's name to "Czhechia" is so logical. Idk about other parts of the world, but in all of the CIS everyone calls their country as "Czechia". No one calls it "the Czech Republic".

Goddamn I just love your animations

Belgium is the only country that owes its independence to an opera performance -after Napoleon's defeat the area was incorporated into the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Belgians hated this -in 1830 a performance of Daniel Auber's grand opera MASANIELLO was held at the Brussels opera house(The Monnaie) the theme of this opera was the 17th century uprising of the Neapolitans against their Spanish masters -the audience saw themselves in the same situation as the downtrodden Neapolitans -people rushed out at the end of the peerformance and were so triggered they mounted barricades and fended off the Dutch police -it was the first stage in the granting of independence for Belgium in 1830 under Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty.

Northern Ireland may join the republic of Ireland too

Belgium was created for UK and Germany to have a neutral ground where to resolve their differences (source: Top Gear)

"Oh yeah, I live in the FUK" - Me after Scotland leaves

"Where country are you from?" "I`m from F.U.K."

Why not the Modern United Kingdom of England Wales and Northern Ireland? M.U.K. so they can all muck in together.

Dude in Parliament: Hey Theresa why don't we rename the UK to F.U.K when Scoxit happens? (Scoxit is Scotland Exit XD) Theresa May: RENAME IT TO WHAT?!?!

Great video! Video idea: Why does Indonesia, Poland, and Monaco have such similar flags.

Out of curiosity does this explain the reason there are 2 separate charts for Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium?

Istanbul should be Constantinople

Romania is an union of 3 principalities: Wallachia (the most important, populated, also in Romanian, the name of Wallachia is "The Romanian Country", this is where the name of Romania came) little parts: Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobrogea (1/3 from Dobrogea is now in Hungary) most time occupied by Turks (even if all principates were, this was the longest time anexed by Ottoman Empire) Moldova, most time occupied by Russia. It's shared between Moldova, Bassarabia, Cetatea Alba (or..idk how to call it), Bucovina and Herta land. Next WW2, to evite a funny annexation by USSR, Romania was supposed to give Northern part of Bucovina, Basarabia, Cetatea Alba and Herta land to it. when USSR broke up, Basarabia+A little part from another land, Transnistria (with a questionable Romanian minority). The rest, got in Ukraine. Transylvania, most time occupied by Hungary and Austrian states (all of them). Shared in: Ardeal, Maramures, Crisana and Banat. Is the newest in Romania. (Wallachia and Moldova got freedom in 1856 (or smth like that) from Ottoman Empire and created Romania. Transylvania couldn't get freedom from Austria-Hungary (or Austrian Empire...idk). In ww1, Romania got Transylvania and the country started the greatest era from it's existence. Transylvania is more diverse at considerably minorities. So, if Moldova Rep. (Basarabia) joins in Romania, there will be no reasons to recall the country "Molmenia" (also this will be very unfair for Transylvanians). Modlova will be just more complete and Romania as well.

Flanders that name just cracks me and it is also wallonia’s neighbor so yeah

Why did you not discuss Catalonia/Spain, since Catalonia may be the most likely region to become independent in the near future?

While I do like your videos, they are mostly done from Anglophone perspective. For example, Czechia is just English language term, as the native Czech name wouldn't change at all. It's worth remembering that. You made a lot videos explaining names, or why some of them are so similar, but those are questions that only English speaking people would ask. Another example of that would be video explaining differences between Austria and Australia, or Slovenia and Slovakia. In their native languages, people don't have such problems, as names are totally different from each other, or their similarity can be explaining by looking at the words alone. I do of course realize that most of your viewers are Anglophones as well. And don't get me started on the pronounciation... But that, of course has to do with English language itself. It's easier for a non English speaker to pronounce English names, than other way around. Still, it would be nice to pronounce W in Wallonia or Wallachia as a V, because that W sounds so... bad.

“Britain only became great when Scotland got involved.” Me: *RISE CALODONIA TO YOUR ANCIENT PRAYER, HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL LET OUR STANDARDS BEAR*

the thumbnail had me thinking you were going to suggest that Scotland would change it's name

You should've talked about Portugalicia, a suggested fusion between Portugal, and the autonomous comunity of Galicia, in Spain.

Here in Mexico, our former president tried to shorten our official name (from United Mexican States to Mexico). He couldn't. It could sound like a good idea, but all the bureaucracy needed to do so would cost millions.

Prince Henry should be the King of Scotland and North Ireland, William can have England and Wales. It'll be like Polish-Lithuania or Austro-Hungary, one but separate.

There are so many others movements taking in place rn! I thought you were gonna talk about more cases not just those..

Czechia would spare me so much time spelling the whole long name... on the other hand, most of the western world thinks we are a part of Germany, or still czechoslovakia sooo (and I wont even mention the "chechnya x czechia " incident from US news )

In Indonesia, we refer Czech Rep. as Ceko.

Kazakhstan mean land of the Kazakhs in Persian

The translation of Czech Republic in Dutch is Tsjechië, which pronunciation is very similar to Czechia.

Interesting thing is that in Norway we have always reffered to Czechia as that or (Tsjekkia in norwegian,) since it split from slovakia.

In Romanian we actually do say Cehia. No one uses Republica Cehă.

2020: "Make Britain Great Again." Here we go again....

Good video. I enjoyed it.

You didn't mention the problem of Slovenia and Slovakia. Different countries with similar names. I'm not sure which of both recently had a discussion about changing its name to avoid confusion..... Also you didn't mention FYR Macedonia which seems to change its name in Northern Macedonia quite soon. ;)

Actually, five nations are in the U.K. If you count Cornwall.

Very very true about Belgium! And I say indeed that I'm Flemish and not Belgian, but I want to be Belgian and I'm proud to be a Belgian, no matter what people say (because most people say that it's a 'fictional country', ofcourse to joke, :p)

That last bit was hilarious!

According to some of my Belgian friends, both Flemish and Walloon, the divide really stems from Wallonia's entitled attitude despite their disproportional contribution to the nation as a whole. It just seems Walloons don't want to put mutual effort into their country.

Molmania? WTF?

eSwatini and Northern Macedonia :)

2:45 Molmania is a little too close to the board-game Molmania which is Dutch for Molemania which is a game about moles

5:47 I was like "Oh fuck." No pun intended.

2:42 that name is stupid af

czechia is like greek because the czech republik in greek is chehia

Scotland Independence Party have actually been advertising on here.

The stan names are fine, it's just a place name suffix. We have other place name suffixes and nobody says we should replace them for something else. We have land (England, Scotland, Finland), tlan (Tenochtitlan, Mazatlan), ia (Romania, India), ny (Albany, Brittany), sex (Sussex, Essex, Wessex), sylvania (Pennsylvania, Transylvania, Westsylvania), ique (Mozambique, Martinique), etc.

*sees thumbnail* bu.... bu... WHY US?

Belgium might aswell be renamed Belgianstan

You should have talked about Burma/Myanmar or whatever they call themselves nowadays..

4:56 what about Isle Of Mann ?

I think Molmania is terrible and its sound like a name given if the Mormons made a nation no offence to Mormons. Second I think that if both join they should be called Dacia like how the Roman used to call it

talks about the UK splitting up but doesn't mention Northern Ireland, ok :|

One Question where does Antarctica get it’s name from

Can you do a video about Football? (Soccer and American football.)

Well, about Moldova and Romania: 1. Molmania is a bad name 2. Moldova has a pro-Russian president (we only elected him last year) 3. Don't forget about Transnistria (also called Pridnestrovie) which is a part of Moldova, but behaves as a separate country now and wants to become a part of Russia later. PS They really don't speak Romanian in there 4. There is also an partly autonomous region in Moldova called Gagauzia (officially Gagauz yeri) where people also almost don't speak Romanian at all 5. Please don't start a 3rd WW in my country. In a unification takes place, Russia will certainly be mad. PS remember Transnistria? Russia has its troops there...

The union formerly known as the UK. I really want them to split up. United Ireland, free Scotland, London City State! Do it!

Same thing happened in Canada. Quebec (the French part) got to vote whether or not to stay a part of the country, and only narrowly voted to stay. There's still a major divide between French-Canada and English-Canada. I don't blame them for wanting to retain their culture surrounded by English speakers.

An Stereotypic American:Where do you live? A citizen of Former United Kingdom: I live in FUK An Elder lady:Don't swear for god's sake.

Basrabia: pământ românesc

Molmania for the win.

What was he trying to say at 4:03?

I'm shocked that you completely missed FYROM.

just to add there is a New England in New South Wales Australia and below that is Newcastle just outside of Sydney

5:50 LOL

You got Belgium a bit wrong. Belgium has three communities: Dutch speaking, French speaking, German speaking and also three regions: Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels Brussels is not part of Flanders, and even though it's surrounded by what is officially Flanders, the radius of Brussels is larger than the distance you have to travel to get in Wallonia from Brussels. Also, a small majority of Brussels speaks French.

We officially call the Czech Republic "Tsjekkia" (Czhecia) in Norway

Sounded like you choked on your tongue at 4:00... Happens to the best of us lol.

Excuse me, could you explain the origin of Cambodia? The locals call it Kampuchea in Khmer language. Who first called us Cambodia? Is there any relation to Kamboya in India?

I don't want to be rude, but im laughing at 2:00 "Rossiya" XD As a russian speaker, I love hearing people try their best to pronounce the words. Btw its "Ra- see - ya " but you roll the "r" . just cuz until he said "the Russian name for Russia" I thought Rossiya was a whole different country.

Me: *Sees thumbnail* *rages in Scottish Pokemon trainer*

Czechia is already the (informal) name for Czech Republic in many languages (Swedish: 'Tjeckien', the same way Australia becomes 'Australien').

Idea for a video: Why flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

What about Bosnia and Herzegovina? Any name news in the news?

4:04 The Flemish speaking what now?

3:00 You mean that dead meme?

Strange how you didn't mention Macedonia here, with the name dispute with Greece.

Tell us about Caltalans also you should have mentioned

5:45 lol 😂

Did he say, Flanders? Didily!

3:07 proposition

Of course there's also the possibility of Irish re-unification, leaving Northern Irelands former parent nation as the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1707 style \o/ Or, in case of both incident, just (Kingdom of) England (I know Wales is not included in this name and it might seem unfair, but Wales isn't and never was a kingdom but a principality in or under England).

also you forgot northern ireland and the irish republic possible merging so N.I. remain in the E.U.