Countries With Similar Names! | Video Compilation 

There is a good video on the breakup of Yugoslavia by Feature History.

Macedonia is the northern part of Greece however North Macedonia is the country formed out of the southern part of Yugoslavia

America and Armenia

Nigeria has the ia at the end referring to Britannia ( roman Britain ) of the times the UK ruled Nigeria?

Why did you upload a video 4x as long as normal on vacation? lol

lol i would want that

Can I have that shirt please?

Ya that would be cool to wear

I got a cup similar to that

It actually translates to "There are no Kangaroos in Austria" I am from there and have seen that shirt. It's quiete popular.

Australia would be XAustria_Gamer01X

Yeah i had account Manbasi and Then a milion other people started making names very close to eachother

r/floridiawoman

Imagine someone typing HelloThisIsVryMislpeldNdWeeCnBeeAngreeAbtSorryThisUsernameAlreadyExists2626262738393998271625254334536271810092827262652524331342527278393003 just for it to be a username that exists

Agree hahaha

Since I am Iranian people always say “did you RUN from Iran to America” (i live in America) then they burst out laughing

Watch out watch out. Amir gota bomb.

Creepy DepressedChic everyone gangsta till Amir shouts Tenno Heika Banzi

@@Ethan-vj5mt 😂

That's from z-flo's Arab song right?

Crikey this song is the best.

of course a kpop stan thought that lmao

He was he just happened to live in Austria.

Ah yes, Mozart... the great composer who wrote such masterworks as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the Magic Flute, Waltzing Matilda, highway to Hell....

You mean to tell me Mozart didn't write "Down under"?

know.

I always thought it was "Slovenska". As in "Slovenska Republika". Why is it "Slovensko"? Sounds like an adjective for a beer or something.

Goran Sekulic My bad, it’s actually Slovenska

not completly wrong but incomplete its Slovenská and it is just the adjective word part that always follows with "Republika" part for obvious reasons and its the official full name of the country Slovensko is the short commonly used name as a noun word, for the country, just like the full name of France and Italy is French Republic and Italian Republic but everyone just calls them France and Italy.

@@goransekulic3671 it is a bit complicated, but let´s make it simple you´ll not say Czechia Republic but the Czech Republic same goes for Slovakia not Slovakia/Slovensko Repulic but Slovenská/Slovak Republic. The Slovak language is extremely hard to learn for English native speaker

India & Indiana & Indonesia Combodia & colambiya

I used this ignorant clip about Iraq and Iran as an example of why the internet is not always a good source of information. My students were amazed of how much time and energy was put in to garbage information. How ignorance can sound like a documentary. Every time I listen to it I am reminded that retarded people have access to the internet also.

Lel

Thanks

For some reason people confuse Sweden and Switzerland also... .

Lake? Weird.

@@gato-junino maybe because they didn't know it was a sea before. Like they didn't know it was connected through the straight between Denmark and Sweden so they thought it was a lake

But sjø also means sea? If not it would be very weird for us to call the North Sea "Nordsjøen". I don't if there's something special with Swedish, but in Norwegian lake is called "innsjø" (inner sea) and sjø just means sea, or a bigger body of water.

@@sugarinmywounds oh really! That's very interesting. But yeah, in Swedish sjö is lake and sea is hav, but the meaning must've changed. Also I'm a huge esc fan aswell lol

@@neville1311 Yeah. We also use hav. But it's kinda more like hav=ocean and sjø=sea. Though the saying "the seven seas" translates to "de syv hav" so it's not exact. But I feel like hav is used for even bigger bodys of water even further out. Norskehavet, Barentshavet, Nordishavet, Atlanterhavet. While when it's closer and more limited I guess, like the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, we use sjø "Østersjøen" and "Nordsjøen". But a bit interesting: we have a few names of places that has "sjø" in them. Like Mosjøen, Sandnessjøen and Sjusjøen. And while Sjusjøen lies in the far inner part of the country, by a lake with the name "Sjusjøen", both Mosjøen and especially Sandnessjøen lies by the coast of northern Norway, or more specifically Helgelandskysten. (The coast of Helgeland, which is beautiful and very underrated btw.) Mosjøen lies a bit further in, because it is the kind of inner end of a fjord (Vefsnfjorden). Mosjøen's most known and appreciated street/area is Sjøgata (or Sjygato, as the inhabitants would say) where there are a lot of beautiful old houses right by the water. Then we also say "Å dra ut på sjøen" about going out "on the sea/ocean" typically to fish or etc. And it could often be used when someone is going to work on a boat or a platform out on the sea for å long period of time, especially when we say it like "til sjøs". But it could also mean going out on a lake, although I think we just would say "dra på sjøen" not "ut på sjøen" for that one. (Possibly "inn på sjøen", but I'm not really from a place where we have a lot of big lakes. I grew up on a little island by the coast, so fjords and seas and oceans are more common to us.) Yeah I thought I recognized you from somewhere. Probably the comments of tons of esc-videos hahah.

@Pedro Pony B R U H

Pedro Pony Serbian spotted, sir!

@John Boudreaux thanks!

Its not only kosovo its kosovo and metohija. Kosovo means on serbian black bird and metohija means on greek land of monasteries

Lol I’m not even Serbian just Russo-Manchuria but I also had to state that technically Kosovo isn’t independent yet lol

It means black.

guinea means faraway land. simple as that.

French guyana is not a country IT a part of france

Guinea means black, so when European people showed up and saw people with dark skin they acted... accordingly. Guyana and French Guiana along with Suriname are part of a region known as "the Guianas". They're separate because they were originally British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, and French Guiana. French Guiana remained a part of France to this day, while Dutch Guiana became Suriname and British Guiana became simply Guyana.

Its french giuana not french guyana

Greetings from Greenland! 🇬🇱🤝🇹🇼

@@joshimations1964 Thank you! 🇹🇼🤝🇬🇱

I find this fascinating too 😊

Sveiki .-.

Sveiki .-.

The kiwi approves.

Slovawhereakia ?))

Czechia recognised Kosovo

🇽🇰 is independent

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Kosovo is serbia

косово је србија!

Mate, the names of Slovakia and Slovenia are easy to mistake in its familiar languages, especially in Slovak, where Slovakia is Slovensko and Slovenia is Slovinsko. In Slovene Slovakia is Slovačka and Slovenia is Slovenija. I 'm also the Slav, but not a Slovak nor even a Slovene. My country's name was mistaken with the recent name of The Netherlands (Poland - Holand). And in my language is possible to say "Niderlandy" instead "Holandia". But "Holandia" is also still acceptable.

@@przemysawdata6246 i didnt say anything about that, also slovakia in slovene is Slovaška and slovene (language) in slovene is slovenščina😘

But...... How?

@@dzerhoba The q in Iraq is ق in arabic which sounds nothing like q [k] in english. Also, the i in Iraq is pronounced ع which is also very different to the letter i.

Aurelijus Jankus simply put turn Iraq to Araq the the first A is pronounced like “A” in Axe, and the second “a” sounds like the “A” in Ark. then the “q” is pronounced like “r” in French. And Iran is just Iran, not as Eye ran but ee run (just like the word run)

@@Vario99 you're totally wrong you spelled the persian spelling of Iraq!! "I" is a unique arabic sound it's a throated A it's non found in another languages. "R" is like rolled spanish R. "A" is just an A sound. "Q" is another unique arabic sound it is like a palatial rough k sound but it is nothing like k sound.

@@dzerhoba copy "عراق" in google translate than click the little speaker icon incide the arabic text box

Cool in what sense -- like cold or like awesome?

@@aformofmatter8913 awesome.

@Nallib Fadel that’s what he said.

Just north of you we call Latvia "Letonia" and Lithuania "Lituania" so it's also very confusing

The same in Croatia

It’s funny, in Persian we call Latvia "Letoni" and Lithuania "Litvâni" which causes a lot of confusion. Nowadays though it’s slowly becoming more common to use "Lâtviā" for of course Latvia. As a bonus and just in case you were wondering what we call your countries: Bulgaria -> Bolghārestân Romania -> Români Croatia -> Korovâsi

jrt818 reexer and the south georgia sea which is down by south america

Just make georgia (us) part of georgia. Lmao

Use Sakartvelo

@@LA-MJ Since Georgia is an exonym that sounds like a solution .

@@jana31415 You got georgia on your mind

AngryJack where are the Cros at?

Maybe they should just be the Cos

@@willhendrix3140 co

We all know how accurate the Chinese government is and how they expect everything they say to be taken as fact lol

It's an exonym, derived from the province of Fars/Pars, which is where the Achaemenid and later Sassanid empires were centered. It was changed under the Pahlavi dynasty of the 20th century, who wanted to modernize and I suspect emulate the old native Persian empires in some way, since the name they gave themselves was Eran

İran has always been called Iran by indeginous population , regardless of which Empire ruled . Persis was a Greek name for Pars .

Does that mean Pakistan is "hard"? Can't it just take a cold shower?? Thanks folks! I'll be performing here all week. 😊

Us (Iraq) and Iran has a hard time loving each other (aka: we hate each other toooooooooo much)

@@markmh835 what about Afghanistan? Doesn't it exist?

@@alvarogarcia519 -- Is Afghanistan a "hard" place? ..... Well, it does have that strange appendage to the east, abutting China...... Hmmm.......

@@markmh835 If you ask numerous empires in history, Afghanistan is indeed a hard place.

Cro-ats?

26/5000 はい、わかりませんでした。

When did he say it?? I missed it

He also says Botic instead of Baltic.

@@azuregriffin1116 Yeah. CROW-atts.

Ireland means land of eiru, the Gaelic matron goddess of the country Iceland is obvious.

Munjee Syed its also known as eswatini now so no worries

@@scolipede1549 No, it's properly knows as Eswatini as it changed its name officially in every language

I get more confused with Suez and Swiss 😅

ALEKSANDER GREAT WERE BORN IN HELLAS NOT GAY NO RTH MACEDONIA

This is an old video put into the compilation, before the name change

It took like half a century to get that compromise. Malakes can at least use the official name! (I know the orig vid was probs before the change)

@@oligultonn Don't put down gay people by associating then with Skopia!

blackcollarbish ATFU U ARE ANTI HELLAS FUCK HELLAS WILL RISE N TAKE SKPGAYJA U WILL SEE WAT HELLAS POWER MEAN!!!

It was called something along the lines of furthest south when it was first found by the dutch, not completely sure but as an Australian im confident in my national history

As a australian the name cames from land fir south

Österreich not Ostërreich and yes its german: Osten - East , Reich - Empire

When Australia was discovered by the Dutch they called it "Nova Hollandicus" (New Holland) After their homeland due to The Netherlands also being known as "Holland". After that but before the British came across it was known in Latin as "Terra Australis Incognita" (Unknown Southern Land). The British then renamed it to "Terra Australis" which was then changed again to "Australia" while the western half was still known as "New Holland", until the entire country adopted the name Australia in 1824.

*Ö. In Swedish Austria is Österrike, which means the exact same thing XD

Same here.

I went looking for this comment when I got to that section! I’m surprised theres not more of these. The comments are all focused on Slovenia/Slovakia and Iran/Iraq

although it was written correctly failed to spell it right every single time XD

Bfdi_Pencil e

Usign the Czech voice. But yeah, better to look up IPA.

@@Liggliluff It's not that easy. Better than not looking it up at all. Besides, he was pretty close coming up with "slovenyin" instead of "slovenin".

Very interesting. I guess it makes sense that the Baltics would be associated with water, or at least more than the Balkans are.

Toaru Nyanko thank you, I wanted to say this, but I searched for a comment first. I agree, there’s a whole bunch of difference in japanese between long and short vowels. I hate this global transcript of japanese words, cause you won’t learn the length. If it were written like “Tōkyō”, and “Kyōto”, anyone could learn the difference.

If it was written in IPA, it's even more clear: Tokyo: [toːkʲoː], Kyoto: [kʲoꜜːto] And it also shows that it isn't tok-i-o or ki-o-to, that's a palatalised K.

Vowel

Toaru, it's perfectly fine to call the other scripts by name: Hiragana and Katakana.

@@Morghan999 Be happy Japanese uses pictographs. Vietnamese, thanks to the French and Portuguese, uses a shortened Roman alphabet. The thing both have in common is inflection, the key to all meaning and context in each language.

Julian Fejzo well both of these are correct, but the official language of Taiwan is not a formosan language.

@@deadlive3212 I never said the official language of Taiwan/ROC was a Formosan one.

Julian Fejzo in the video he said that the language of the people in taiwan is sino tibetan, which is true. You comment seemed like you said that this is not true.

@@deadlive3212 He referred to the Aboriginal Taiwanese, the Taiwanese of Chinese origin indeed speak Sino-Tibetan languages but are not indigenous of Taiwan.

Julian Fejzo watch the video again. He referred to the chinese one. 9:35

The Irish thank the Norse Vikings for starting their cities, but not much else.

i am waiting for the video to mention these two but i take it from your comment i am probably wasting my time

just finished the video and Ireland/Iceland was not mentioned, have to ask why? there has to be a reason since both differs by one letter, i demand a this video should be remade

ireland comes from eire and iceland literally comes from ice. how dumb you need to be to need a video explaining that

@@andymccoy8370 it was joke. calm yourself. don't be that person.

I ran from an oppressive theocracy.

I'm persian and that's correct

From Iran obviously

i ran is an exonym i guess?

yez so annoying hahaa سلام عليكم

Now THIS DESERVES an episode!

@@goransekulic3671 da

@ yes,Slavonija

Guinea Bissau

Aussie here..... Ummm, no. No we don't.

Ray Ok maybe not in your part of australia but most people I know do so you can’t really make that claim that we straight up dont

LOL Baltic for very cold, as in Baltic countries? You Aussies clearly haven't been in the Nordic countries then, come here in January and you can feel the cold!

We straight up don’t

Nigeria has Edo? ...wow!

I always tell people how similar Japanese is to a lot of African languages. I've a very strong suspicion that we are being lied to a lot about this planet's history. My language has a lot of similarities with Japanese language, I'm African also.

Obama, Japan

@@aerospherology2001 I know you are trolling, but I'll reply sensibly I'm not from Edo but close to Edo and the same tribe as most Edo in Nigeria and even my language has similar words to japanese like Osaki which sounds like Osaka but then you realise Japan also has Osaki as well, in my language Osaki means stand up while in Japanese Osaka means high something or something standing tall like a hill or high place, there are many other similarities too. one time I saw a Japanese firstname with an English last name and assumed the person was Nigerian Ijaw which is a tribe that cuts across several states in Nigeria including Edo state only to find out the person was a Japanese lady and not Nigerian. I was surprised and that was when I started looking more into the similarities

@@h.m.5724 obviously without a doubt we have been lied to intentionally or not, remember history is written by those who won and during slavery, colonialism and all that Africans and Africa lost alot we did have our victories but we lost alot, lost especially our history since most people who passed oral history, language and culture were killed, enslaved and what have you without them passing these knowledge or writing it down. We had writing systems but Islam, slavery, colonialism like I said killed all that, most sculptures and artifacts were destroyed because in Islam they are not allowed way of dressing was changed, languages were replaced and killed by Arabic which was the language of the Koran, we had indigenous writing systems like the Nsibidi complete with alphabets, numbers and so on, we sailed the world evidenced by how black people are native to everywhere on earth from India to Arabia to the America's there are "Black" African people who are aborigines of those places how did they get there? Even before the modern day inhabitants of those places got there? So we have alot of missing information the world does not want us to know.

العراق (Iraq) ايران (Iran)

العراق (Iraq) ايران (Iran)

True

I hat when people say آی ران instead of ایران

BKKG or Eye Rack instead of Iraq lol

And Montenegro split from Serbia-Montenegro.

Wot

And I oops!

@@blackpinksdiscography100 and I oop sksksksksk

@@Brown9622 stfu vsco girl

Wut

Well, Tōto. It should be Tōkyō and Kyōto, but people don't always put those macrōns there, which marks long vowel (that is, a prolonged vowel).

Then you wonder what the famous band’s name has to do with Africa and where it comes from...

Probably some influence, or just a coincidence. Words are borrowed and adapted in different languages.

Paris is a city in France not a country, but otherwise I'll take your word for the corrections!

> _"Then there's times when the post goes to the wrong continent because there's similarly named cities"_ That can't be true, because you have to list the country you're sending it to. If you're going to send to London Ontario, you list it as: "{STREET} / London, ON N6B 1T6 / CANADA" and if you're sending to London UK, you list it as: "{STREET} / LONDON / WC2N 5DU / UNITED KINGDOM" (slashes marks line breaks). If someone in say Russia is sending these letters, it should be clear where to send them based on the country name listed at the bottom. Another example is Gerogia and US Georgia. To send to US Georgia, you list it as "{STREET} / Atlanta, GA 30334 / USA" and to send to Georgia, you list it as "{STREET} / Tbilisi 0112 / GEORGIA". If you send that second mail from USA, I can see someone confusing Georgia for the state, and the format is kinda similar. But other post offices around the world should know about the country Georgia unless they assume that the country name "USA" was not included. I can't say that it doesn't happen, and it probably happens a few times. Probably not if you're sending to London from Europe, but if you're sending to London within USA/Canada maybe. But I doubt it happens that often if you format the letters correctly.

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No

ElectricDoggo ok good

el águila negra lands of Turks and Turkmens. Both origins are coming from Turks in Central Asia

No one confuses Turkey with Turkmenistan.

1 is long, 1 is short. Use Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Greatland

Geogoria

Germany

@@jinokep3256 germany isn't asian, and i've never heard of Greatland

@@redkampretz Greeland

but in Slovakian its Slovínsko and Slovensko, just one letter diffrence

@@stefansolciansky7302 and next door you have a region called Slovácko in Czech. and then there's Slavonija next to Slovenia in Croatia.

Also in German: Slowenien and Slowakei

Spot on.

@ minus the W and the E being pronounced, yes

The "kyo" is the same in both. (It means "capital.") And the "to" in "Tokyo" means "eastern." I'm not sure what the "to" in "Kyoto" means, though.

Japanese is metronomic. The to transliteration as to in Tokyo is two syllables. To-o. The to in Kyoto is one syllable.

@@grantorino2325 -to city

You took all of Russia and gave it to Japan.

I bet quite some people would like to be a part of the Boii tribe lol