Countries That Expanded In An Unexpected Way 

Poland in Kiribati was named in honor of Polish mechanic Stanisław Pełczyński, who greatly improved the island's coconut plantation by introducing a modified irrigation system that could effectively water palm trees during the dry season. Paris was named by French priest Emmanuel Rougier who lived there while running a coconut plantation. He named it Paris because he was homesick. London was originally named Londres by French priest Emmanuel Rougier, who was leasing the island from the UK from 1917 to 1939 and wanted to honor the island's British connection. In 1939, the island reverted to Britain and Londres was anglicized to London. And Banana got its name in the 1960s when over 4,000 American servicemen were on the island as part of Operation Dominic (a series of 31 nuclear test explosions)

It took me a moment to realize this was a real ad instead of Toycat doing a fake ad.

_"Are they going to make just more land ... no they are not going to do that"_ The Netherlands has left the chat.

British Columbia joined as a province before the prairie provinces did for several factors. The Confederation League, spearheaded by three future premiers of the province, Amor De Cosmos, Robert Beaven, and John Robson, took a leading role in pushing British Columbia towards becoming a province. Several factors for it including the fear of annexation to the US, the overwhelming debt created by rapid population growth, the need for government-funded services to support this population, and the economic depression caused by the end of the gold rush. With the agreement by the Canadian government to extend the Canadian Pacific Railway to British Columbia and assume the colony's debt, British Columbia became the sixth province to join in July 1871. The railway was completed in 1885

That map of Islam is weird, it shows most of Ethiopia, which has a christian majority, as being equally green as somewhere like Saudi Arabia which is entirely Muslim

The last toycat video I would expected my hometown of Hobart to appear on! As it happens the first place you dropped the pin in Hobart was immediately outside a building (Myer) which was rebuilt about 8-9 years ago, so if you had’ve gone back to older dates you would have, shock horror, seen things change in Tassie!

The reason Jordan has that weird border with Saudi Arabia is because the southern border between Transjordan and Arabia was considered strategic for Transjordan to avoid being landlocked. The southern region of Ma'an-Aqaba was administered by OETA East (later the Arab Kingdom of Syria, and then Mandatory Transjordan) and claimed by the Kingdom of Hejaz. The Kingdom of Hejaz was to take de facto control after Faisal I's administration (Faisal I ruled the Arab Kingdom of Syria as an unrecognized king) was defeated by the French. After the Saudi conquest of Hejaz, Hussein bin Ali's army fled to the Ma'an region. In 1925, the UK and Ibn Saud signed the Treaty of Hadda, which created a border between Jordan and Saudi territory consisting of six straight lines. Crucially, this border gave Transjordan a short outlet on the Gulf of Aqaba. In the early 1960s, discussions were held which resulted in creating the current boundary alignment of nine lines, as well as granting Jordan a slightly increased coast along the Gulf of Aqaba. There's a story called Winston's Hiccup about the Jordan-Saudi border where it's claimed it was done by a stroke of a pen but that's an urban myth. Contrary to Winston Churchill's frequently quoted boast, the country was not really created by a stroke of his pen in Cairo on a Sunday afternoon in 1921. As already indicated, Emir Abdullah in that year had already established himself in Amman by his own initiative, when the British agreed to grant him a six-month option to demonstrate his ability to govern the Transjordanian territory as part of their Palestinian mandate. Not to mention Winston didn't discuss the Transjordan-Nejd border during the 1921 Cairo Conference and he was in Jerusalem.

02:25 I found it so stressful going to the grocery store once every 2 weeks.........🤔

Honey, wake up. The Minecraft youtuber who Also does geography just uploaded

toycat trying not to get sidetracked for 20 minutes challenge (very hard)

The Chinese port that France had is called the "Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan" or the Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan which lasted between 1898 and 1945. The territory leased included islands lying in the bay, which enclosed an area 29 km long by 10 km wide and a minimum water depth of 10 meters. The capital of the territory was Fort-Bayard which is now part of present-day Zhanjiang. While not a constituent part of French Indochina, it was effectively administered by it. Industries included shipping and coal mining, though the French were more concerned with protecting Catholic missionaries there than trade. The port was also popular with smugglers as prior to the 1928 cancellation of the American ban on the export of commercial airplanes, it was used as a stop for Cantonese smugglers transporting military aircraft purchased in Manila to China. The return of the leased territory to China was promised after WWI at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, but the promise was not fulfilled until 1945 after it was occupied by Japan. The port that the Germans had is interesting too. The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory from 1898 to 1914. The impoverished fishing village of Tsingtau was laid out with wide streets, solid housing areas, government buildings, electrification throughout, a sewer system, and a safe drinking water supply, a rarity in large parts of Asia at that time and later. The area had the highest density of schools and highest per capita student enrollment in all of China. During the German period, Tsingtao Brewery was founded in 1903 by an English-German joint stock company, and Tsingtao is still around today, and Qingdao has a thriving beer culture thanks to the Germans.

Nothing is more weird than France owning French Guiana on mainland South America.

I think Petra is the most important place to visit in Jordan

Jordan is great, last time I was there was in 2018. I’m sure you’re going to Petra, but other places like Wadi Rum (used as a mars landscape for many films) and the Dead Sea (lowest land below sea level in the world -300m) are must visits. Amman is a great city too, sandstone everywhere and the most chaotic, yet perfect driving you’ll ever see. The car horn is a necessity lol

More videos like this. Just a map, a guy and really interesting world topics

Jordan is a safe place. I've been there recently and it is a good place to go to. The people are friendly as well. One interesting place to visit is the Petra ruins. If you're familiar with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you'll see the facade that they used came from Petra.

One of my fave 2cat vids in a while. I personally prefer the old-school rambly style though the new stye i good too! P.S. I hope your voice heals!

I like both styles of videos

~/o "O, Canada! America stands on guard for thee." (You hope.)

why do you bounce so much?

North East China was part of the Qing dynasty before Russia took it, they lost a lot of territory in the 1800s including Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Taiwan, Hong Kong

I enjoyed the old style

Toycat relentlessly to trying to end himself :O

Did you get a new mic or did your voice change?

Huh, Hobart does look a little like Belfast. Or at least, the first place I stuck a street view pin in Belfast did look like the bit in Hobart you did that to.

I'm the 69th subscriber on patreon and I will forever be proud of that now

18:27 lol I loaded up Geoguesser and I saw this exact same street what are the odds of that?

"It was very easy to get to California" Everyone who died of thirst walking there to find gold: 😮

yeeeeeesss best video style love it

I felt like i had to clear my throat the entire video 😂

It's not so much that China controlled Mongolia, but that Mongolia controlled China. The Yuan dynasty from Mongolia established by Kublai Khan took over China in 1279, ending the native Song dynasty.

great vid as always :-)

haha what do you mean 'unclaimed land', man? there were indigenous peoples and even proto-states living on those lands, in modern-day Eastern Russia too btw

Jordan has Petra. Be generous: tip your camel. I suspect there are a lot of interesting water projects. And the root irrigation. Floating in the Dead Sea... first marinate the English flesh in brine, then flash burn in the sun.

Toycat's got a blue marker in London, interesting ...

15:11 You seem to really have a thing for deserts

7:26 China did control Manchuria, Russia just had economic influence in the region. Outer Manchuria, now part of Russian far east, was desputed

Strong Belfast vibes, Hobart is the Belfast of the South

There were people there already

The Muslim expansion map you have at 13:00 is drastically wrong. The map claims all of Nigeria and India and many non Muslim majority states are Islamic.

I mean, there wasn't unclaimed land, though I know what you mean, it wasn't claimed by anyone that the great powers recognized as worthy of respect, but I don't think we should call colonized land unclaimed fun video though, I just did my degree in Canadian history so I'm kinda obsessive about that sort of thing, lol

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Why would Jordan not be safe toycat why wouldnt it be safe

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Hope you see Petra in Jordan!

Toycat is always on cocaine

13:42 damn persia you conquered Turkmenistan

Nothing has changed in Tasmania in 50 years. In fact it's regressed... no passenger rail anymore

Wait a min i thought the hello fresh thing was a joke

15:20 same as UK 😉

How to call people living in Tasmania? Tasmaniacs?

It sounds like Toycat starting smoking hash.

Who shops every two weeks?

I love both ❤️

Wait, why is most of Ethiopia considered Muslim, the east is, and other parts have less, it should be fuzzier, like only ⅓ of people are Muslim, hell we were Christian before europe, or before islam was a thing To be clear difrent religions have not been a problem, we all make friends all the time, we shop from both, etc

It's still rude to invade your neighbors even if they aren't nation-states lol.

The most notable thing about Jordan is Petra.

Do both styles yes

The Netherlands could simply expand into the North sea

A.k.a "MANIFEST DESTINY"

Americans go to the supermarket only every 2 weeks? I go almost every day

13:34 Toycat i cant fit all the comments in one comment, refer below and above for all the comments.

It;s wierd that in the map of the Islamic world, Bangladesh is shaded very lightly, but much of India is shaded like its majority Muslim loll

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I live beside shops and chipy and chinese so I don't need hello fresh

As Israel and Iran are likely to go to war against each other, I’m sure Jordan is vey safe. 😂 Have fun! (Ok, they will not, at least not that kind of war)

No one cares about those other parts of Australia.

He doesn't even know how to pronounce Kiribati, what a travesty.

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Majority of the British empire was unpopulated wasteland like in aus, Canada, and Africa. So you can say u are the largest empire in land mass but not really the largest in history. In terms of population the Roman Empire is probably the biggest followed by mongols