There are NOT 195 countries 

How could you have posted this 7 hours ago when the video has only been out for 17 seconds?

Awhhh but I don't wanna 😢

8 hours how the fu-

Thank you for including the cue dot. It's presumably very important.

@@jammyjamjars6995 it was probably unlisted until now

They have a complicated relationship status.

they dont recognise half of the world. I wonder how their maps look like

and they border china

I actually was so suprised by this that I just had to google it. Apparently it is due to their isolationism.

@@9Caloriesno they don't! China does not exist.

There's not tree, only two.

Or Jay's Tree's National Anthem: MAN TREE MAN TREE MAN MAN MAN TREE TREE

Don't read my name

And with those two as leaders, a fair pair of c*ntrees jk jk

MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN

Did you expect a larger portion than "or"?😂

Bro really only spoke 1 word and it only contains 2 letters

i was so confused

nice cameo bro!!!

99:59:59

The UN is being grumpy that the say the nation of NZ is exercising control over these nations by including them in the Realm of New Zealand. There are other Realms, such as Denmark including Greenland; the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and nations in Free Association with the US. Faroe Islands isn't allowed to have an entry in Eurovision independent of Denmark, as it is part of the Danish Realm, and EBU has decided that makes them a territory or teh equivalent of Wales within the UK, who they also won't let compete - they might actually do a lot better than "Aucun point".

it's the I consent, I consent, I don't consent meme

I always believed the Cook Islands were part of the UK commonwealth and, therefore, recocnised. They play rugby league and everything.

The myth of consensual statehood

I consider them countries. My total of how many countries is 199. (They even have emoji flags! 🇨🇰 🇳🇺)

Bros become "guest presenter" for less than 1 second

That was cool!!

I didn't know who that was, but he's credited as "guest presenter". 😊

Don't read my name

Up there with when they got Tom Scott for a 1 second cutaway of him pretending to feed a coin into a light pole

*NOW*

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who is it?

I literally had to rewind it to make sure I wasn't going crazy

Jay foreman did a video with Geography Now. i bet this was recorded around that time

time to wait for people to mention all the definetly countries that werent mentioned on there lol

“Greenland’s not a real country even though it’s really big” it was mentioned in the song though, would it be a country or not then?

to bad you arent real

How are porn bots saying such interesting things in the RU-vid comments sections these days xD

@@ycylchgames wait i didnt even notice lmao

Absolute magnific

Like a humor neutron star

Like Airplane

The dictionary page itself that only lasts a second or two is worth pausing a good 5min for to try and read the 240p definitions they wrote out for each.

I saw the thumbnail change from "Is this a country?"

That one liner was so on the nose and unexpected I actually laughed so hard that I started crying

I was watching this while brushing my teeth. Made me drop my phone in my sink…

too bad china doesnt actually want to take taiwan.

@@temple69Uh… they have been openly saying so for many years now.

@@artugert as a chinese person i can say that you are tellin the truth

Honestly great, isolationism is underrated

@@teteeheeted It's rightly underrated... Bhutan is a very underdeveloped country.

@@teteeheeted this is essentially what north korea's juche ideology is about (spoiler alert: isolationism doesn't actually work when you're trying to sustain a country's worth of people)

@@teteeheeted Sure bro, keep saying that till you realise the devide you used to type that silly comment is likely to be made in china.

@@joshk. North Korea's only isolated because the US is deliberately imposing it on them - same with blockading Cuba. Creating those problems is the whole point. You're confusing independence with isolationism I think, the DPRK has always had relations with other countries and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Socialism is generally international by nature - which is why its enemies seek to isolate those countries. They're still truckin' though, that's what a focus on independence and resilience gets ya

Actually, there's a bunch of countries that don't recognise Jay Foreman as existing. It depends who you ask.

Idk, the extra fingers spouting out of Jays hands will forever live in my nightmares

Ha I thought he actually covered himself in worms!

As someone with an irrational fear of worms, it was really convincing lol

Low bar achievement.

​@@KingfisherTalkingPictures but it was still an achievement. (Drops mike in saucy pirate swagger)

It's funny and tragic at the same time.

I came to the comments to find this, thank you ☕️💦

It's a bit of silly propaganda by the Pentagon to keep suggesting that Tiwan (which says it's part of China) is not a part of China. Also that China has no legal rights or legitimate interest in the South China Sea. Which is a bit silly if you just know the name of the sea.

@@TheGrinningViking, Taiwan IS part of China, the Republic of China. The communist China is also part of Republic of China legally. China does not legal rights to their claim of South China Sea, we have international law that determines maritime borders and they apply to every country equally, the name of the sea is literally irrelevant, just like the Gulf of Mexico doesn't belong to Mexico.

@@TheGrinningViking, Pentagon has nothing to do with it. Government in Taiwan is the legitimate government of the Republic of China, what you call "China" is actually the communist china. China does not have legal rights to their claim of South China Sea, we have international laws that define the maritime borders very clearly. The "name of the sea" argument is idiotic, The Gulf of Mexico doesn't belong to Mexico, Norwegian Sea doesn't belong to Norway, Indian Ocean doesn't belong to India, Philippine Sea doesn't belong to the Philippines, Gulf of Guinea doesn't belong to Guinea etc etc, and South China Sea doesn't belong to China either. Territorial Sea is the area 12 nautical miles from the shore and exclusive economic zone is 200NM from the shore, that is set in stone.

I didn’t get this joke, could you explain it?

@@australiangamer7956 if you wrote it as UNrecognised countries can be read both as unrecognised and UN recognised

UN is TERRORISM madness

yes that is something that they said in the video but why did you type it out again

Too bad the only grammatically correct way to write this is with a hyphen: "UN-recognized countries." Written without a hyphen, it is a statement where UN is the subject who did the act of recognizing countries.

Thank you for the explanation!

This is the most intelligent comment I've ever seen that misspells the subject of the comment 20 times in a row.

@@jeffallen55 or could it be that the 30 occurrences of the subject are all spelt perfectly but the rest of the comment refers to something unrelated?

@@dinky9216 The name of the country is spelled Bhutan, not Buthan

@@lishark843 But what if @wojtekpolska1013 was referring to the little-known micronation of Buthan?

I've actually been to Whangamomona and stayed overnight. Compared to other micro nations, I'd say they don't really take the matter seriously, and it's just a tourist and marketing gimmick based on the Forgotten World brand, whereas others such as Hutt River Province (surrounded by the State of Western Australia and created by a farmer due to issues with his crops) went the whole hog with stamps and, I think, currency. (Spell Check didn't recognise the name either)

Well, to be fair, Graham Hughes's hat wasn't completely accurate...

​@@LeafHuntressMy mum totally did smash a vase though 😂

​@@politicssocialuk _Note to self: buy mom a cool exotic vase on my journey_ 200-ish countries later: *_Entering the UK..._* "S*** S*** S*** I FORGOT THE VASE! WHERE DO I BUY A TOBLERONE?!"

Good job, mate. Welcome to the Map Men club!

Your comment reminded me I was not subscribed. - this has been fixed.

Thanks for explaining.

I had such a difficulty understanding what they said. I read and googled SMOM but I just couldn't hear in the video and thought they skipped it or said another word instead. But no, they were just talking quickly and just spelled SMOM.

@@supershinigami1 yeah I actually had to turn on the subtitles to realise what they were saying. Even then I wasn't sure what SMOM meant until I googled it, but once I did it all made sense

Don't read my name

Fun fact: It's full name is actually "the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta", and since no shortform name has ever been OFFICIALLY adopted, this makes it the longest name of any country in the world.

They can just overdub it with 'Nigel Farage'...

@@russellmassey9324 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder. _AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA_

@@russellmassey9324 ...and shortly after that redo the entire video, because there will be a bloody revolution with Scottish Highlanders marching on London, brandishing tartan colored EU flags.

lmao

@@russellmassey9324labour could say absolutely nothing for 2 weeks and still win a massive majority, although to be fair reform could be the opposition

Cue dots 😁

So thats what that is! I've been wondering for years why he kept adding it.

Cue dots are a cue to the regional commercial TV stations to be ready to press play on their regional adverts tape recorder kinda thing. A bit like the big black dot in films in the cinema which did a very similar job of alerting the projectionist to be ready to press play on the next reel of film projector. As mentioned nearby, they can also be used by the more observant of us to nip off to the loo. Lastly, in another example of Concordian backwards progress, there were TV receivers and recorders which used them to allow their owners to skip the adverts entirely. These put the viewers first marvels were quickly made illegal, I kid you not! Now that you know that they're there, it'll probably be a while before you forget the fact so I apologise for being one of a number here who has brought them to your attention. If only there were an unobtrusive aural version that pinged just before the programme was about to start again so that you knew when to take the tea bags out!

And the theme tune on glockenspiel the cherry on top 🤩

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@@njoshua3265 map men year

Map men is back

Map men eternity

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ultraw???? the dev on roblox?? dang, didnt expect to see you here..

@@AboveRBLX sameee i love restaurant tycoon 2

I thought they were being clever like Tom Scott somehow

Yooo Simulator adventures, you're here!!

They forgot to edit it in the 3200 BC or 5223 BN joke

@@MarinoMoons

Of all the people to find in the comments of a Jay Foreman video

Jay has a fair few videos on his own

It’s like daft punk where Thomas Bangalter is more known than Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

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Not even timezone

​@@Liggliluff England time

@@vez3834 Tea time

you timestamp this and don't call out the DUB OVER OF THE YEAR?

Blink and you miss it

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3nB688xBYdY.html

BOT

Where ?

@@Absurdi5t 10:32, a big ol barb "of"

the what who did WHAT

There was a fucking rebel government in _Sealand????_

Please explain more about this interesting history of Sealand.

They will absolutely sell you knighthood and lord/lady status, though!

Oh my god that second part is some of the funniest shit I’ve heard all day

As a Dutchy... hmmm... how's that taalstrijd going? And the wafelijzerpolitiek? Come home to momma baby! ~wrings hands in anticipation~ (it's a joke!) [werkelijk]

@@LeafHuntress wat

Facts!

I can't believe you Terrans insist on using that horrific term. That's why the rest of the galaxy has ostracized you.

​@@LeafHuntress as a Frenchman, let's cut the cake in two. /Germany entered the chat/ Oh crap.

As a not-Uruguayan, your country certainly does have a lot of U's in it.

As an 8th Uruguayan, I support this statement.

Cool.

Haha funny one Cisplatense man

U r gay.

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these bots are getting too advanced

​@@piter4595damn I didn't even notice

Shame the "definition of a state" sheet a few seconds earlier said "a 50th of the USA" instead of "a 48th", though.

@@piter4595 They copy other people's comments.

The same answer applies to the question: "How many continents are there?"

But why not Liberland?

also palestine!🇵🇸🇵🇸

They're there because they have emoji flags and that's the case because they're in the ISO list of territories.

🏳️‍🌈Gay is my favorite country

@@lirachonyr🏁

France 🏳️

*all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet (hyphens required)

This channel has the only advertisements that I never skip. I still remember their skillshare song where they swapped their voices.

Also the little bit in the top right corner just before the ad is a reference to a thing that used to appear on TV in the UK before ads

Sporcle counts 197 and has a nice detailed article on how they got to that number.

That's why I think there should be exactly 200. It's just a nice number.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 200 is a pretty boring number, although I'm not sure Srinivasa Ramanujan would agree.

@@Deimos2k5Is that just the UN‘s 195 plus Taiwan and Kosovo? Pretty good list I‘d say, as those two are far closer to being actual countries than like Abkhazia or Niue for example.

Con Air

*Crunchie* Chocolate bar with a honeycomb centre. The holes get bigger towards the middle for reasons to do with VAT.

I think, having read through all of them, "cow" is my favourite.

Sideways bastard

Constantinople’s been removed for some reason

ok i (American) was looking for an explanation of what that was a reference to. thank you lol

@@screetchycello glad I could be "that comment"

@@screetchycello in the UK knowing when the ad was coming allowed you to nip of for a quick brew

I 400% agree.

Oh The voice replacement!

I thought something was off. I played it back at .25 speed and sure enough. The lip movements don’t match the words.

2017 actually

Are you counting the year of 0?

@@Ambo100yes, aren’t we all?

These guys are silly, but they do know their stuff.

another comment stole yours :(

@@mikihirai335 these damned bots!

And there also a few more rebelions who are generally not really seen as full-on unrecognised countries becouse they are too weak to be seen as such, but who claim to be such, and control their own small territories. And there also a cases of some territories in politically unstable regions that are fully sovereign from the countries they are in, but do not claim full independence to not really cause more international and internal conflicts (like some areas in Somalia or Myanmar, and formerly in Mexico)

Well, any country recognizing those countries probably chooses a faction to align themselves with, so it's all the same in terms of overall count. You probably won't have a country recognizing multiple warring factions as legitimate ruling governments of the same territory, and if you do, it certainly won't be a significant enough number to impact the count.

@@cabin98 That's only true if all factions involved have ambitions to control exactly the same borders. If there are some separatists inside a recognized state that only want to control a part of that state, it gets tricky.

They can’t enter into agreements with other states without the permission of the federal government.

Yeah, there are a bunch of countries that are made up of federal states in the world. But the limiting factor in the Montevideo definition is that they would usually need permission from the bigger country they are a part of to enter into agreements with other countries. They can't just do what they want in that regard. Northrhinewestfalia and Kentucky aren't going to start entering political agreements between only themselves, because they are parts of the US and Germany, which have international relations on their scale.

​@@somethingcraft3148Unless you regard those other US States as countries. And that's the problem with the Montevideo definition - it's circular.

​@@somethingcraft3148 That tends to happen when the threat of killing 750000 people still hangs in the air

Until the Civil War, we were These United States. And then the Republicans had to screw it all up

Yes! this would be great!

Is CGP Catalog of U S Government Publications? Cambodia Genocide Program? Controlled Goods Program? Community Grant Program? Certified Guitar Player? Something else perhaps? Any accurate information you are able to provide is appreciated.

@@Tom.Livanos "CGP Grey" is the name of a RU-vid channel, which has uploaded videos whose subjects are sometimes similar to the ones found in videos on the "Map Men" RU-vid channel.

@@VAB0L0 Understood. Is 'CGP' a random sequence of three letter, or does it mean something?

@@Tom.Livanos It's the guy's name. Colin Gregory Palmer Grey.

@@ReadyToHarvest Ah. Much appreciated. Good that it is the person's name. For me, this is from a reliability point of view.

Thank you! I twigged it as one of the old ITV jingles, but I wasnae sure which.

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