How many continents are there? 

i'm not getting it :(

Now you've pointed that one out I'm actually astonished they didn't use it! It's totally on brand!

@@Rodman200818 thanks :))

I’m absolutely furious that we didn’t think of this! Is it too late to go back and film it again? :(

Jay Foreman not at all. In fact I’ll be happy to watch the video again, or several more times if you do manage to think of some other jokes

Man Maps*

@@jiddybit thanks for the correction

Have you seen the france episode?

Biology charts be like

@Tom Simons ᨆ this guy spams every video with this link this is the fifth time i see him this week

Monty??

Also the difference between contaminate and contaminate.

why did you make me read it? poor Monty :(

Also constantinople

rip monty

Same in Mexico. For us, "Australia" is just the country.

@@lera_vasi This is how I remember being taught it in the UK too

Spain joins the Oceania gang

@@lera_vasi Same for me in the US. Oh, who am I kidding? We didn't learn anything about any other countries.

Same in italy

gah

Possibly something about drift, too

Oh piss off. Take my like and go away.

@@markcooper-jones7494 How come you don't get any recognition with RU-vid? I hope Jay is sharing the ad revenue.

@@festethephule7553 That's the most english thing i've read in a while.

Yes... it’s the first time I have willingly and eagerly watched an embedded advert from start to finish... and thoroughly enjoyed it!!

@@johnlacey3857 you should look at more ads made by this channel, most of them are pure gold

@@MihkelKukk Agreed... Jay and Mark are pure gold!

@@johnlacey3857 They put almost as much effort into the ads as they do the episode. High water mark for online advertising.

Most vids you can skip the paid product placements. Not in a Jay Foreman video though

Yee, Brazillian here, and basically same, but it's confusing, sometimes, it's said that the 3 subdivisions of america are in fact separate continents (Due to some cultural aspects and all), and Eurasia/Afro-Eurasia are just a landmass thing

United States here, teachers got fucking pissed at me for daring to mention Oceania for some reason. I was taught NA, SA, AS, EU, Anartic and Anartica

​@@itadakitontaro36what I found weird was that they decided to separate Central America into it's own thing when it's basically just a little stretch of mass between Mexico and Colombia and afaik isn't culturally different enough from either to really matter

@@SaloCh It may not be culturally different to the rest of the continent, but still, when talking about political differences, that may be it

America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America.

And then we have the Alps and other things, that don't separate continents

So is India a continent? How about Chile?

Is western NA a different continent than Eastern NA...the same for SA? If you define as separated a around by natural oceans or water straights...then there are 4 continents: Asia/Europe/Africa is one America is two Australia (or Oceania) is three Antarctica is four Five if you consider Greenland big enough and not part of the American shelf.

Urals considered a border but not Himalayas… lol Europe is not a continent cmon

Obviously, how do they keep uploading at the same time

@@BenianausKI It's really not that much of a conspiracy theory. We just both happen to do Mondays at 4pm.

@@JayForeman hi jay ;))

@@JayForeman hi Jay!!!

@@JayForeman coincidence?

He lived in France for a time (:

@@paradoxmo yeah, nearly a decade I think

He's really boned up on his dog speaking as well! (sorry couldn't help myself!)

And at least they tried to speak spanish, It wasn't flawless but it was good

@@sinaarrgghh604 that pun was ruff.

Amazing that you remember the specifics of a geography lesson that you had 70 years ago.

wait, what did he say?

@@fyu1945 Thirty-Second (32nd)

Because you can't bear knowing that you're Armenian for more than 30 seconds

It was interesting to see the surnames be slowly anglicized.

It's pretty obvious why someone might be Armenian isn't it? No need to be confused about it for 30 seconds.

C'est vrai!

yes, including the canine part

Or indeed Eurovision.

no it isn't. his quebecois accent is atrocious

Especially the part where the french speaker is saying nonsense.

@Tom Simons ᨆ reported. Stop spamming.

MULTIPLE? I'm gonna need a few sources for that

prove it nerd

Europeans before the discovery of Australia, the americas, and antartica.

Eurasioceanamerantafrica

Idk his dog is better imo

It's good, not perfect come on.

With an Antoine De Caunes stance

quite alright

@@torilazzalini-machecler5268, true indeed.

Congrats on reaching 69 likes!

Ah yes, stacking literally all of my units in Australia so I could get those sweet 2 bonus units every turn.

true

Asia is the worst continent confirmed

Ukraine is the key to it all!!!

In war : America

correction. in WAR?: Against EMUS.

Oceania have the nicest name out all of them

Hotel: trivago

On maps? We're lucky to be remembered.

Jay foreman speaking English in a French accent lol

As a native french speaker, I confirm his english-french accent is on point. That's actually quite impressive.

It's a nice joke, but unfortunately it's *mostly* a myth. The IOC did define it that way for a brief period in the late 1940's, but it was dropped after nobody could find any evidence the creator of the flag intended it that way. Since then the colours have not been tied to any particular continents.

“Red for North America “ meaning Native Americans

So, basically the power rangers model?

@@Croz89 the official choice of those colors is that one or more of those colors are found on every country flag in the world.

@@LandoBando-pj5ox the north of america doesnt get its own ring. ALL of america gets ONE ring.....and if it's based on skin tone, then that ring would be brown, as most americans are brown.

In theory theres 4: America, Africaneurasia, Australia and Antarctica

So basically it's the place that inhabited by human and the place that aren't?

3. USA

@@fullmetalboomer8089 I'd guess they're referring to submerged land bridges.

Afroeurasia (1st Human Frontier) -> Polystralia (2nd Human Frontier ca. 50k bc) & the Americas (3rd Human Frontier - ca. 15k bc) -> Antarctica (the Lost Continent)

InternetHistorian's and Graystillplays' ones are great too.

@@thescooshinator used to enjoy watching Greys content but when he started changing his content I stopped watching about 4 years ago. Miss his long dark series

Try Lindybeige

The word "only" is awfully misused here.

@@rare80 shut the fuck up. It ain't a bloody grammar test

Bof

Can we collectively coherently can the clarity of your clarification?

Ah, the Seven C's I've heard about

*coughs in indian subcontinet*

Middle east and North Africa aswell

@@NuclearTopSpot *coughs in Indonesia*

Middle-East continent Indian continent Southeast Asia continent East Asia continent Central-North-Caucassian-Asia continent

@@michaelnajoan5104 nahh SEA pretty similiar

Good for you. 😄❤️ If Australia can pretend to be a continent rather than an island, I don't see why New Zealand shouldn't.

Just dump something heavy on the other end of your tectonic plates to lift zealandia up out of the water :p

@@000Dragon50000 hey! as a Chilean I will kindly ask Zealanders to not do that :c

That needed to be New Zealandia....

You are part of Oceania.

Jay Foreman x Bill Bailey. It will be glorious.

I last watched that depressing abomination in 1985. I had no idea whatsoever that we were still doing that.

do you think the UK wants to win the eurovision?! if they did, they'd try to send good songs!

@@ethanbennett7 sure but trying to win might help you win

They could sing one sentence in every European language and one in Dog. Cats may feel a bit left out though.

Where does he brush his hair back?

@@LurkerPatrol5 On the top of the podium in the Olympics scene, for one

I had to Google "zooey deschanel no bangs" xD

what the heck

@@tempestive1 now you’ll never sleep the same

Greenland is a continet Change my mind.

@@ipadair7345 No, greenland is a clickbaiter, so it doesn't deserve the status of continent

@@potatoesandducks958 what about Madagascar, Borneo, Java, Britain, Ireland, The Main island in Cuba, Newfoundland, Baffin Island,

@@ipadair7345 Those aren't clickbaiters, so they do have a chance of receiving the status of continent

@@potatoesandducks958 Thats nice to hear :) Edit: *see, I'm reading comments

Wait... It isn't???

Not quite as good as Super Sexy Time Tonight.

@@joebleasdale5557 I Have Love in My Pockets if You Have Time in Yours!

As an Armenian I wouldn’t mind

Et les mots anglais vraiment presque comme les Français 😂😂😂

@vbddfy euuyt i dont think you got the joke there the "large lake" whittering's talking about is the Pacifc/Atlantic/Indian Ocean.

By definition a lake must be surrounded by land tho, and the oceans aren't.

Correct, there is only 1 continent, Ameri-Afro-Euras-Oceani-Antarctica

@@azaria_phd It's a pond then.

@@azaria_phd If you count the oceans as one big lake, it is surrounded by land.

this one was worse than normal too lmao

I have to believe they are doing it intentionally for maximum quirkiness.

You took the best intro to any show ever, and ruined it It's great!

No, he isn't an expert at singing one beat out of sync. What he is an expert at, however, is singing one syllable out of sync...

Not in Italy or France, 7 continents

@@commonomics not a surprise europeans are usually united statians and british suckers....

Interesting choices to combine the Americas as one continent but Europe and Asia separate.

@@commonomics 6 continenti. Il continente è un grande pezzo di terra che ha intorno l'acqua. I continenti sono: l'Europa, l'Asia, l'Africa, l'Oceania, le Americhe e l'Antartide. I continenti sono molto estesi e sono formati da tante placche.

​@@OldDistantHermit America is a continent! If not, then what is America?

currently*

@@noname_atall saying "currently" implies that there is landmass under the Arctic ice, there is not. At least not any more so than in any ocean. The Arctic is a floating mass of ice. The shallowest part under the Arctic icecap is the Lomonosov Ridge, which has at its shallowest part around 400 meters down to the ocean floor.

​@@SwitchAndLever The Arctic is actually a region, beyond just the Arctic Ocean. As well, the Arctic Ocean isn't permanently covered by ice; in the summer melt, it shrinks by about half.

@@WilliamAndrea region ≠ continent, and continents are generally beholden to a landmass, something which the Arctic polar icecap lacks. A floating piece of ice is not land, even though you can step on it and walk around on it. The Arctic region includes areas of several countries on different continents. I should know, I grew up just by the Polar Circle, which is what defines the Arctic region, in the north of Sweden 😄

@@SwitchAndLever Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I'm not saying the Arctic is a continent by any means. I was trying to clarify that you wrote "Arctic" in some places where you meant "Arctic Ocean" and that there's no ice cap per se on the Arctic Ocean. There's a pack of sea ice, but it's impermanent. On the other hand, Greenland does have an ice cap (technically an ice "sheet", I just found out), which is in the Arctic.

We still haven't figured it out.

@@TalesOfWar If you had figured it out, you wouldn't have left.

The giant space scissors part is only slightly an exaggeration for burning centuries of diplomatic goodwill, halving a country's entire food supply, ditching whole industries (hello mussels producers), upsetting Irish nationalists again, and tossing any influence on European matters to the bin.

@@TalesOfWar By any time soon?

@@leogama3422 They can't even work out if they've been to any parties or not so god help us on this.

Surely it's therefore Jay singing 1 syllable out?

@@Diamondman164 Thus making it a reference to Jay's series of singing songs with the lyrics one beat behind the music. It's very clever and somewhat disorientating, which makes me feel rather stupid and, erm, disorientated, which is why I don't listen to them.

Doesn’t he sing one syllable out of sync, so in this case shouldn’t he be more like Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Instead of Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men

Mark is one syllable out of sync, Jay is two syllables out. The previous one (or before i dunno) had the both of them a syllable out of sync. Seems like they know people are anticipating how will they do to the intro now, since they did the extra 'men'

That’s a brilliant fact, and I wish we’d explored it in this video.

Nonsense. It was barely possible because of political reasons. The Northern route was complicated because the mongol and tatar empires roamed free there. The Southern route through modern Turkey was blocked by the Persians and later the Islamic empires. But all these areas are not blocked by mountains or sea. You can get to Central Asia(!) via Russia fast, and you can get to Persia easily too. In fact, the sea actually makes Asia more accessible.

@@mardasman428 because the inhospitable steppes and frozen tundra could not hold back people

@@mardasman428 i'd like to see you walk from france to china.

@@lowlsqwid We are civilized now. We take trains. Which you can do, you can go by rail from Portugal to South Vietnam in a single trip (transfers not withstanding), through Russian, Mongolia and China, among other train routes between the two continents. And as you should know, trains don't really like very steep angles, which means before the age of trains and cars, there were considerably flat and walkable routes, on foot and horseback, between the two "continents". Probably the same ones the Mongols used to harass people all the way up to Germany, a thing that did happen.

who wouldnt

unironically better than Embers

Last time UK did well in Eurovision was... let me check, ah yes! 2017 with Lucie Jones.

When you put zero effort in it's not terribly surprising

Eurovision is a joke anyway

Eurovision is pretty much a formality for a lot of countries, just send some rando and get drunk watching

Watch it another time, snep.

What came first the hen or the egg ??

@@Doc.O.K. the land was separated first politics of history and wars come in second.

@@Doc.O.K. the egg,because chickens evolved pretty recently

define large. because some may say australia is a continent, while others could say it's an island. is greenland a continent?

How many oceans are there?

Same with the Vietnamese text?

Thanks I was going to google that

Vietnamese myself, can confirm

It's the same in Vietnamese just in a very arkward overtly formal tone.

I suppose that's a useful phrase to know.

I have always found that break up to be idiotic. It is visually obvious were the division between the north and south American continents would be but looking at the map there is no distinction as to where the division between Asia and Europe is. If any definition of the continents combines north and south America - how can it not also separate Asia and Europe?

SBS is in the EBU, which is the only criterion for entry. In any case, Europe only exists as a cultural distinction from Asia, which is also more or less true of us in Australia. We’re a southeast Asian island that’s culturally separate from the rest of Southeast Asia so we are basically European.

As an Australian the single reason against the swathe of reasons FOR joining Eurovision is the first four letters of the show's name. If they called it 'Camp Pop Song Bangers' Australia would have joined decades ago.

@@gormster true, but with that criteria Qatar can join Eurovision.

@@eavocado5890pppj I wonder why they haven’t…

@@gormster there were talks about joining, but nothing came of it.

that's so interesting

That makes sense.

In Indonesia school Only one America or Americas North america Caribbean Central america and South America

same in Norway!

Wow :o

*ruler intensifies*

@@aysenur6761 I just cackled this is a hilarious comment

Middle East Geography intensifies.

did someone say straight lines?

@@aysenur6761 in both senses of the word!

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@@JayForeman not a millionaire so sorry but count me out

​@@JayForeman AMERICA is a CONTINENT made up of 35 countries and more than 1 billion inhabitants ALL of us born in AMERICA from Canada to Argentina are AMERICANS North America Central America Insular America (Caribbean Islands) and South America are GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS of CONTINENT AMERICA NORTH AMERICA, as its name indicates, is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT that is located in the NORTH of the AMERICA CONTINENT and is made up of 3 countries, Canada, the USA, and Mexico, which is not in north Asia. CENTRAL AMERICA as its name indicates is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT that is located in the CENTER of the AMERICA CONTINENT is not in the center of Africa INSULAR AMERICA, as its name indicates, is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT ISLAND lands set of ISLANDS of the AMERICA CONTINENT (Caribbean Islands) SOUTH AMERICA as its name indicates is a GEOGRAPHICAL REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT that is located in the SOUTH of the AMERICA CONTINENT is not in the south of Europe LATIN AMERICA, as its name indicates, is a REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT where languages ​​derived from the European language, Latin, are spoken, as well as the European languages ​​SPANISH and PORTUGUESE. HISPANIC AMERICA, as its name indicates, is a REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT where the European language is spoken, SPANISH, the most widely spoken language in AMERICA and by AMERICANS of the 35 countries of AMERICA in 18, SPANISH is spoken with more than 500 million speakers. throughout AMERICA being by far SPANISH the most spoken language in AMERICA and by AMERICANS ANGLO-SAXON AMERICA, as its name indicates, is a REGION of the AMERICA CONTINENT where the European Anglo-Saxon language, ENGLISH, is spoken. Educate yourself and stop consuming counterfeit adulterated garbage made in the USA that DOES NOT EXIST

@@maxropercalvo6132yapper

@@maxropercalvo6132 Lol. Shut up.

Another alliteration adeptly assembled, all adverbs and adjectives are adequately articulated and admirably announced, an astoundingly amazing achievement!

I want to breed with you

Ayo what the fuck?

@@crpticshock lol

Why are you everywhere ? Are you even a real person ?

Yeah I heard it as “30 second Armenian” Like he was just chilling in Armenia for 30 seconds and then left

AAAAARRRRGH!!!!! I’M ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS WE DIDN’T THINK OF THAT!!!!! 😡

@@JayForeman :D

@@JayForeman I've never seen Jay this angry before.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 He couldn't bear the fact that Mark understood French, and that he was Armenian for more than 30 seconds

Very interesting!

Here in Finland they teach about continents like Eurasia and subcontinents such as Europe and Asia. And those can further be split into regions, such as the Middle East, South Asia or Central Europe. Tectonics are taught separately.

Same in Dutch

"Regions of the world" is a lot more useful of a term. There's no use in grouping Italy, Scotland and Spain with China, Japan and Vietnam into a single continent - but there's also no way to defend Europe is a continent as we understand it. It's not even like Africa, that is connected only by a small peninsula. Europe is indistinguishable from Asia if you didn't already know it's supposed to be a continent.

... and same in Norwegian. (That's not to say there's NO confusion. But still less.

The song offsetting 🤯

Canon like Bach!

Also the intro speech seems a bit fast too.

Jass

just don't take it from them then lol

@@Drabkikker I knew it- This confirms that Vietnamese is technically a long-lost Scandinavian/North Germanic language

@@Drabkikker DANISH???? I’M OFFENDED

@@Drabkikker notice in pictures, Nords used spoon, fork, knife to eat one thing, while Viêts need chopstick for everything

Wow, did you learn that on Rosetta Stone?

They all say it

Im not the only one who thought the same thing?

Genius

That's 🙏 the 🙏 joke

uuh I missed that!

Lol

This one was very hard to listen to

The rightest one was the one that ended with “men, men men… men”

@@josefruiz3435 Still my favorite one is Hommes cartes, hommes cartes, hommes cartes, cartes, cartes

@@rockonileva Would “homens mapas, homens mapas, mapas mapas mapas homens homens… homens” work? Or would that sound too weird?

@@coyotelong4349 Hahahahahhaha I laughed so loud singing this now!!!!! It's kiiinda weird but mostly because of the nonsensical humor of this..but it works! Eg.. Birdman is translated into Portuguese as Homem Passaro

But by that logic shouldn't india be a separate continent?

We have similar thing in Czechia - officially we recognize 5 "kontinentů" (Americas, Eurasia, Antarctica, Oceania/Australia, Africa), but 7 "světadílů" (splitting Americas and Eurasia). However in casual conversations these terms are often used interchangeably

Teutonic plates? What do platters have to do with continents? (Yes, obviously I know what was meant)

@@vedritmathias9193 xD haven't even noticed that typo, thx

​@@parker4406 Yes but no, teсtonic plates also should be divided by water mostly. So if India does not have huge land connection with Eurasia it can be separate continent.

Can confirm, I did, except I thought Map Men already did a video on this

@@andreas98welsch i though it was a reupload

@@Rigger-bx1zq Wait... this isn't a re-upload?

I was thinking that too

Same with the "Who Owns Antarctica? " episode

Not really. Eurasia is so ridiculously big that, for most of history, there just wasn't any relation between China, India and Europe. Yeah, trade existed, but that was pretty much all about it. Spaniards, for example, didn't know shit about China, but they knew about England, Denmark or the Ottoman Empire. You'd never see many Portuguese people living in India, only a few merchants in coastal cities. You wouldn't expect a war between France and Mongolia, because what do they stand to win? There's also the Muslim world that was a big no-no for Christian Europe, so regions like Israel or Egypt were excluded from European history as soon as Islam became common. Of course, the borders get blurry and it's hard to determine where in Russia Europe stops, or whether Turkey is European or Asia. But there's definitely a division between Spain and China that is A LOT bigger than the division between the US and Colombia.

@@azaria_phd yawn You're eurasian. Thats it

​@@azaria_phd No the OP makes a point. The way the Europeans divided Europe and Asia was majority based on culture. It is pretty much man made.

​@@azaria_phd The ancient Greek already had contact with the Chinese in 300 BC, and later the Romans did. After the fall of Rome that watered down. But the Spaniards knew Asia was there. That's how they discovered America. They tried to find a route that would bypass The Ottomans and Columbus who was hired by the Spanish stumbled upon the Americas, Also the Mongols got pretty close to French as they almost reached Vienna. But the French and Mongols actually tried to be allies because the pope wanted to have them joining in on a little crusading to retake the Holy Land. But it didn't really work out despite having a common enemy: The Islamic caliphates

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan the fact that it's an interesting bit of trivia that the Romans had contact with the Chinese is a good argument that they're separate continents. No one has to make the point that the Chinese had contact with India, or that Rome had contact with the Germans.

This is a good distinction - still, what's the basis for those 6 continents I wonder?

@@markcooper-jones7494 same stuff about tectonic plates, and world parts is more like regions that includes continents and islands

But Asia is a bad "world part", it's at least divided into three areas: West Eurasia, South Asia and East Asia (also Siberia or North Asia but that's like Antarctica: no fireworks allowed).

@@markcooper-jones7494 - They are large landmasses mostly surrounded by oceans (and in rare cases joined to others by a minuscle isthmus, conveniently bored to make a man-made canal).

Thank you!!! I remember being taught that as well, coming from Slovakia. But apparently the only one who remembers it, bcs I later talked to my friends and they all thought I was crazy for thinking "kontinent" and "svetadiel" are 2 different concepts. I've started to doubt myself. Vindication!

It's the dividing line between global east and global west.

please, what the heck is that thing. i must know.

Yes! That was the true WTF! moment for me in the video. I'm assuming it was just a joke to rile up us nerds, but if it wasn't....WTF?

It's my favorite continent.

I first glance thought it was a sample of a time zone, but immediately saw that Africa wasn't right. Interesting. So far the east-west division sounds most likely, but then again it's from the european point of view, the maps in for example Far East and US place their own regions in the middle of a world map, making this line of east-west kind weird. Plus there's Australia, which is more in the east than Far East, but nobody thinks of it as an eastern country. Hmm, granted, our views of the world seem to be very local...