The Oldest Countries in the World 

India and France are indeed missing from this and are great examples of very old countries / civilizations! Do you have any more suggestions?

"Ethiopia is one of the few African country that wasn't part of a European colonizer." Italy: *Triggered*

Ethiopia, the most mysterious place where you can find from ancient Historical cites to amazing natural wonders, from the acid river in Danakil depression to the great blue Nile fall and many more, what an amazing place.

I’m Persian from Iran, In the southwest of Iran, we have civilizations that are more than ten thousand years old. I think the first civilization was formed along the Karun and Dejah rivers.

Respect from Greece , I am Greek and I very like Ancient History and throughly agree with the countries that you present ...👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Greece and Armenia was like a same nation , we had a lot of similarities , live together thousands of years, married together , had faith in the same Gods... so thank you very much for this nice video...!😊😊

Title: oldest countries in the world USA: Ight imma head out

Now I know why Ethiopia and Armenia started practicing Christianity at the same time.

With respect to all countries from Armenia, especially to Greece and Iran.

Armenia and Greece, two beautiful countries

Iran, Armenia, Greece, China, Japan, India and Ethiopia are the oldest counties. Georgia is quiet an old country as well. All these nations have unique and beautiful alphabets and language.

Respect and love to all countries and cultures especially Greece, Armenia, Egypt and China. from Iran ❤️🌹😘 we love human and humanity.

Armenia is an under represented country with an amazing history. It would be valuable to document Armenia's history thoroughly.

Ethiopia 🇪🇹 loved and proud nation! the cradle of human kind , the pride of Africa

San Marino, the world's oldest republic. It's very nice there. I like to cheer for their national football team and hope they score...some how

Regarding Armenia, besides the Orontid, Artaxiad and Arsacid, you should also add the dynasty of the Bagratid from 885 AD to 1045 AD. Although in a slightly different geographical area to the west, you can also add the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1080-1375 with the Rubenids, Hethumids and the Lusignans. Specially regarding the Bagratids, they are in the similar area of greater Armenia.

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ από καρδιάς για όλους εσάς που έχετε δουλέψει σκληρά για όλες αυτές τις χρήσιμες πληροφορίες.❤❤❤

Respect to all Especially Armenia and Greece from Iran 🌷🌷❤❤

Alexander didn't make the Seleucid Empire, his general Seleucius did.

You did a great video! Thanks a lot! Cheers

What an amazing content Tnk for your hard working

General knowledge: "eventually almost reaching into Europe" European Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe: Am I a joke to you?

*When i see a Little Finland flag:* Portugal is here?

Iran has not become "Iran" after the 1979 movement. It has always been Iran, but had called "Persia" by westerns. The former King (Shah) announced to the international post system that we no longer accept letters under "Persia" as the name of country.

ኢትዮጲያ ለዘላለም ኑሩ ታላቅ ሀገር❤❤❤❤ Ethiopia is beautiful people and culture blessed country ❤️💕❤️ and Ethiopia traditional food is very healthy

From Abyssinia ethiopia and I'm proud to be ethiopian Love you ኢትዮጵያዬ 😘😘

YES ARMENIA🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲. You did well to mention Hayk, the Father of the Armenian nation who fought Bel, the builder of the Babylonian tower, to liberate the Armenian people from the enslavement, but that did not happen in 2107 B.C (which source tells you that?); according to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi it happened in 2492 B.C. Also the first Armenian kingdoms did not start at 331 B.C. The Kingdom of Ararat, or better known by the Assyrian sources as the Kingdom of Urartu, was truly the first unified and centralized Armenian Kingdom established at around 880 B.C. And before that there were the Armenian tribes and small kingdoms: Hayassa-Azzi, Arme-Shupria and Nayiri.

The most interesting thing is that Armenian alphabet and Ethiopian alphabet are so similar 🤔

Worth mentioning Sri Lanka (Ceylon/ Serendib etc) and old India (Bharat/ Jambudvipa etc) Territory-wise Sri Lanka is older than India but overall India has older history. But both have written/unwritten history back to King Rama-Ravana times and even before to Indus Valley Civilisation. Sri Lanka has had a continuous record of human settlement for more than two millennia and was a separate country throughout history developing a unique identity over the ages despite the Indian and colonial invesions & influences.

Georgia and its Kartli Kingdom is one of the ancient countries 🇬🇪 and one of the ancient languages still used today alongside with Armenian and Ethiopian

For some weeeird reason, I like the old Portuguese flag very much… Greetings from Finland! 😉🇫🇮

I wonder why ancient languages of Ethiopia Geez/Amharic are given in many universities in Europe and Canada. Besides the 'tone', the graphic nature of the letter scripts depicts and contains a lot of mystery of civilization preserved artifacts. For example: A full manuscript of Astronomy book with paints are documented with names of solar systems, galaxis, with uncracked mathematical equations, just to mention a few. ... The countries, I feel missed in the video are : Persia, Iraq and India I think they do have rich ancient history too. I know ancient Ethiopia is also linked to Persia and India.

Nice and very informative video, i am surprised most of the old civilisations are in the east ..

From Ethiopia, Peace to ancient and new countries.

I'm Brazilian/Portuguese myself but Armenia is very underrated, country with such a huge history.

I am from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ☺️ thanks for sharing 👍

That border you showed is when Egypt made an empire an ruled other lands but Egyptians in ancient Egypt have always been from the delta to the first cataract and that’s where the modern Egyptian Arabic is spoken this day and there’s still two major accents in upper and lower Egypt just like before and the people still have celebrations and beliefs. It’s also a favours centralized government due to its geography and which is why most of its history it was ruled together thus making it really the oldest country in the world.

Bulgaria is found in 681AD.Great old Bulgaria existed even earlier but its not counted because it consisted only from proto-bulgarians and the one from 681AD consists also with Slavs and Thracians. Bulgaria is also the oldest country in Europe besides San Marino and it never changed its name!

🇸🇪 here. Of course I haven’t read ALL +11,000 coms, so I do not know if anybody already has mentioned it. Denmark was consolidated into a unified kingdom in the 8th century AD and has continued to exist pretty much within the same borders since then. In fact, the only times they were occupied by a foreign power were by Swedes a few months during the 17th c. and for a few years by the nazis in the 1940s. I strongly think this is worth mentioning here.

I'm interested in all these earliest civilisations. China, Japan, Korea, India, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, etc.

In a matter of fact, the first time Bulgaria is mentioned in written document as a organized state on a territory, corresponding to its present days borders, is during the Third Council of Constantinople, during which, among other subjects, a question arises about the war with Bulgaria, 680-681. Although there has been certain periods in history through which Bulgaria ceased to exist as a independent state, the unique culture, language and the common sense of nationality have survived and have helped several time for the restoration of Bulgaria, to be precise, during the times of the Second Empire (1185-1396/1422) and the Third Bulgarian state (1878 onwards). So, in short, pretty much like Armenia, with which we share some sort of mutual fate of fading throughout the ages, Bulgaria deserves to be on that list of the oldest still existing countries in history, too. Actually, mayby second in Europe's history, after San Marino, of course. P.S. My apologies if I've made any spelling mistakes, I don't really write in English so often. P.P.S. Greatings from България! :)

Man... the US is like a infant compared to these

I have to correct the part where it says the end of the Pahlavi dynasty turned the country into "Iran". The name Iran is extremely old and has been in use even prior to the middle and ancient Parsi language periods, to the point that it has undergone changes in dialect and pronunciation. The reason why some Westerners mistakenly believe that the name "Iran" is a recent thing is because while the Persians have called themselves "Iran" for ages, to the Western world they were known as "Persia". This continued until the last king of Iran made an official request that the country be internationally identified as "Iran" and not "Persia". The word Iran has nothing to do with the most recent government of this country.

Last video I watched you had the Radetzkey March, and this video youve got unter dem doppelladler song and dem land tirol die treue. At least I think. Love it🇦🇹 (sorry, I can’t spell well in German).

Bulgaria was founded 681 AD, just saying

I'm from Ethiopia ♥️ and respect to China, Armenia & Portugal 💪

You forgot Georgia.

Alexander the Great did not found the Selucide empire. Seleucus one of his generals was the founder of the Selucide empire after Alexanders death. Macedonian empire also maintained all of the greek city states, that are not shown in the map, (except sparta) by the time of its peak and i think this part could also be mentioned on the section about Greece. Some inacuracies...but other than that nice contend!

I’m proud to be Ethiopian 💚💛❤️

Interesting video, although I want to point out a few issues I saw with the Armenia portion. Armenia’s statehood can be traced to the Hurrian state of Mitanni (~1500-1200 BC). Following its collapse as a result of the joint Hittite and Assyrian invasions the local chieftains (or princes) came together to form the Nairi Confederation (~1200-900 BC). Eventually one of the princes of the Nairi states, Arame I of Biani (or Van in modern-day southeastern Turkey) decided to unify the states under his control in 858 BC. The Assyrians called his state Urartu, the Bible refers to it as Ararat. One of the most famous Kings of the Urartian Dynasty, Argishti I built the Fortress of Erebuni (modern-day Yerevan, the capital of Armenia since 1918) in 782 BC. Eventually the Kingdom of Urartu fell in 585 BC to invading Iranian tribes, the Scythian from the north, but more importantly the Medes from the south. Around 570 BC Yervand I or Orontes I established the Yervanduni/Orontid Dynasty that ruled over Armenia as Satraps or Kings, under Achaemenid suzerainty. With the collapse of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 331 BC to the forces of Alexander the Great, Armenia was temporarily occupied by Alexandrian forces in 331-321 BC, but in 321 the state regained its autonomy. The Yervadunis would continue to rule until 200 BC when Armenia plunged into a civil war as the Seleucids triggered a relative of the King, a general named Artashes/Artaxias to launch a rebellion. By 190 BC the Artashesian/Artaxiad Dynasty was established over Armenia and ruled until 12 CE. The most famous Armenian king, Tigran II or Tigran the Great ruled from 95-55 BC. Tigran II created a short-lived empire in 88-66 BC, that for a time became the strongest state east of Rome. From 12-53 CE Armenia was basically fought over by the Romans and Parthians. From 53-428 CE the country came under the rule of the Arshakuni or Arsacid Dynasty which was related to the ruling dynasty of Parthia in modern-day Iran. Under the Arshakunis the Armenian state converted to Christianity in 314, making it the first in the world and in 405 a unique alphabet was created that is still used by Armenians to this day. From 428-645 Armenia was a Marz or Province of Sassanid Persia. Most times the Marzban or Governor was an ethnic Armenian, unless it was during a rebellion when an ethnic Persian governor was put into power. From 645-885 Armenia became an autonomous Emirate in the Islamic Caliphate. While a Muslim Arab Emir ruled over Armenia, a local prince was elected from the powerful noble families and declared Prince of Princes (Ishkhanats Ishkhan) and he was the de facto ruler of the country, while the Emir was simply the Caliph’s ambassador in Armenia. From 885-1065 the Bagratunis/Bagratids, who had long been the Prince of Princes came to be crowned the Kings of Armenia. While their original capital city of Ani fell to the Byzantines in 1045, the outpost capital at Kars held out until 1065, when it fell to the invading Seljuk Turks. In 1080, a noblemen who fled from Armenia Major/Greater Armenia to Cilicia established a principality in the mountains. It’s said that this prince, Ruben, was a relative of the last Bagratuni King. Ruben’s descendants formed the Rubinian/Rubenid dynasty that ruled over Cilicia as princes until 1198 when they became Kings, taking on the title of King of Armenia. In 1252 the Hethumian/Hethumids came to control the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia until the Lusinian/Lusignan family of mixed Armenian-French origin came to power in 1342. The last Armenian King, Levon VI surrendered in 1375 to the Mamluks of Egypt. Armenia would later be reborn as an independent country nearly six centuries later in 1918 after World War One and the Armenian Genocide. It would become the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920-1991. Since 1991 the Republic if Armenia has been able to secure its spot in global society. I thought it would be important to mention the times before 331 BC and after 428 CE when Armenia was still a state.

One note, in an image you can see "Portucale(Porto)", which is wrong, Portucale, Portus Cale, is not in reference to the modern city of Porto, but rather Vila Nova de Gaia which is on the other margin of the river Douro. Portus Cale, translated to english as Port of the Gauls, refered to the most important location of that region, of celtic ancestry, which was the port city of Cale. The modern city of Porto as far as its known, at the time of the foundation of Portugal, was just a village on the other side of the river, it then grew and overcame Gaia in importance, and because its named Porto (translated to port in english) there's a common misconception that its where from Portugal's name derives.

A little correction: 10:35 Hunnic Empire founded in 209 BC is considered the first Mongolian state; it’s considered the main reason why the Great Wall construction initiative started as the border 10:59 Mongolia was ruled by Manchurian and Mongolian coalition - not Chinese. One of the Chinese states briefly occupied the most of Mongolia between 1919 and 1921.

2.46 MAGNA ARMENIA 🇦🇲❤

Thank you! Greetings from Armenia!

Hi? just wondering if you could explain what happened @ 7;30? Thanks.

Bulgaria is officially established and recognized by East Roman empire in 681 AD.

I always proud to be an Ethiopian 💜💜💜 The mystery land of the world!

The beginning of Iran is usually attributed to Cyrus the great. But, his father was the king of Anshan and his mother was the daughter of the last Median king. Then, he became the king to both kingdoms. So, the area already consisted of two kingdoms and Cyrus was the one who united these kingdoms (and, ofcourse added more territory). If you bring in the history of these two kingdoms, the beginning of Iran goes back to 11th century BC.

Good information thanks 😂

I don’t think you have made enough research about Morocco, a north african country that has been continuously (according to your criteria: territory, language, rules, dynasty) the same since 8th century

Balkan nations such as the Hungarians and Bulgarians have a long line of continuity. Bulgaria was founded in 681 AD which was oldest country. Older then Portugal. Hungary was founded in 895 AD.

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Australian aborigines have had a constant and ubiquitous culture in what we now call Australia (whatever they called it back then) for over 40,000 years - within its own borders, being the largest island and smallest continent. It doesn't seem to count in this discussion. Strange.

Iran, Armenia, Greece, China, Japan, India, Ethiopia, Poland, Egypt, Georgia, San Marino, Romania, Illyria, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Are The Oldest.

Almost everyone who visits Ethiopia falls in love with it right away. Maybe it being very old has something to do with it. I visited in 2013, I been going back every two years ever since 😆.

Missing countries: India, France, Georgia and Bulgaria. Part 2. However, civilizations are different from countries. Must choose modern countries.

Thank you

The Greek civilisation had started well before 12 BC,the Aegean civilisation ,Crete and Mycenaean included,where Ancient Greek was already spoken (linear B)has started at least in 17 BC.

Sorry but this is patromony: "Portugal, caralho"

Love and respect from Iran to all of the old countries in the world 🇮🇷❤🌹😘

Among the very ancient countries you list China is the sole country with almost continuous existence. Egypt and Greece which would be the only real competitors were not existing as politically independant countries over many centuries. Ethiopia is a potential contender, but we do not know that much about its very long history. Other countries are either much more recent, or have a quite convoluted history.

Nice video so proud of myself as an Mongolian

7:13 "Dem Schwabenland die Treue" as background music :D Nice Videe, greetings from the Schwabenland

Bulgaria needs to be included - since 681. Also I would suggest making the video chronological. It is very confusing right now.

When the people of Europe did not even know how to hunt, our ancestors found planets in the sky, Saptarishi is an example.Soap, shampoo, plastic surgery, five systems, zero, pie are all inventions of our ancestors.

Alexander the Great,Spartan Leonidas,Socrates etc.so many I will writing for years 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

Egypt and Greece have been friends for.thousands of years

Why is the background music the tyrolean anthem (Dem Land Tirol die Treue)? I like it.

Well grounded truth !!!

I love you Mama ethiopia 🇪🇹🙏

Ethiopia (Abyssinia)❤🇪🇹

Os teus vídeos são tão bons.

Criteria is a plural form. The heading should read 'The main criterion'

I’m Greek and I’m super proud! Είμαι Έλληνας και είμαι υπερβολικά περήφανος! 🇬🇷❤️

As a greek we still use words like Athenian Spartan etc.. and each region is a little different from the other

By the way : The oldest human skeleton was recently found in Morocco (North Africa) and it was concluded that it's at least 300.000 years old . Check it out.

Iran, Morocco, England, France, Russia .... Many coutries are worth mentioning since occupations in the 20th century or before doesn't affect your criterion of territory..... waiting for a 2nd part !

Love to everyone from an Armenian in diaspora ❤️🇦🇲❤️

I am proud by our Ethiopian father's 🍏🍋🍎 ፩ ኢትዮጵያ 🙏

Source: Trust me bro.

Bosnia dates back to 4th century based on some letters, which means it already existed for many years before that. Name was Bassania back then. It’s piramids in the town of Visoko are 29,000 years old and are older than Egyptian’s.

I'd love to see how you make these videos, especially how you incorparate the hand drawings

“Portugal is the oldest nation in the Iberian peninsula” Out of what, all two of them? Lol (no I’m not including Andorra)

No matter new or old Love to the world From iran ❤️

Suitable title: how to discredit 1.4 billion people of their civilizational achievements within around 14 minutes.

I believe Bulgaria should be part of this list. The state was funded in 683, extended at some point over the whole Balkan regions and then conquered by the ottomans who ruled the country for 500 years. But the country, language and culture still remain. The Cyrillic alphabet which was designed there is now one of the most important used alphabet in the world

adoro como não perdes uma oportunidade de promover Portugal xD

Ancient Aut (56b.c. -6000ad) Waria (56bc -6000a.d.)

Iran - 3200 BCE Egypt - 3100 BCE Vietnam - 2879 BCE Armenia - 2492 BCE North Korea - 2333 BCE China - 2070 BCE India - 2000 BCE Georgia - 1300 BCE Israel - 1300 BCE Sudan - 1070 BCE Afghanistan - 678 BCE

Respect from on of the oldest countries Armenia and Georgia 🇬🇪🖤🇦🇲