Which Country is the OLDEST in the World? 

Its so cool that Hinduism never tried to actively convert anyone and stayed in the same place for like forever, and despite so many invasions as well as religious discriminations, forced conversions, it never disappeared. Hell, let alone disappear, it actually became one of the major ones. Truly amazing in my view.

Bangladesh is not that old it became a country only after 1971, historically it was a part of India but then the British showed up and divided bengal region into two parts. That's exactly why we Bengalis still have a state called West Bengal in India🇮🇳

Actually Indus Valley Civilisation (Hindustan/Bharat) is the oldest in the world, hence Hindustan/Bharat is the oldest Civilized place. We cannot describe it as a nation, because the concept of nation is more recent. But we can say The Kingdom of Bharat is the oldest

india is way older by the name of bharat

Bro India is 7000-10000 yrs old.....we have proves of temples and other stuff.....we have the oldest language and culture.

Recent settlements discoverd in southern part of India they discovered the tools and other artifacts which are pre dating 1.5+ million years old and what's interesting is the archeology survey is only 10% complete in the area

Republics aren’t the only subdivisions of Russia, they have okrugs krais oblasts and more

2:28 Drew is actually right here, French Guiana isn't (politically) an overseas territory, and is represented in the French parliament like every other administrative region

Recent News:- Archeologists have found that Indus Valley civilisation dates back to 7000 to 10000 BC

11:08 fun fact: the word "Lithuania" is actually older than the country itself as it was first mentioned back in 1009 by some German scholars in Kvedenburg annals.

Vietnam's provinces are are like districts here in India imao.. India has 806 districts

Ha ha, a filipino definitely made the first video 😂. Russia has 83 internationally recognized (or 89) "states" called federal subjects. They aren't all the same type though, they have oblasts (regions), an autonomous oblast (the Jewish one), krais (territories), autonomous okrugs (places with influential ethnic minorities), republics (mostly non-ethnically-russian places), and federal cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol).

I love Drew’s reaction when he finds out that countries have more subdivisions that the USA 4:26

8:50 fun fact: Britain yoinked Guyana from the Dutch, so that’s why it’s in both. (Also prisoners from India)

based on that they used as definition for other countries (Indus valley civilization for India e.g.), the oldest country should probably be Iraq with the Sumerians dating back over 7,000 years

The "oldest country" thing is very very debatable on what you count and what you don't as a predecessor state. By the same logic as many here, you could count the Roman Empirre for modern day Italy, just like the Persian Empire was for modern day Iran. Similarly, the old Jewish kingdoms could be counted for Israel.

russia actually has 83 subdivisions, the video only counted the *republics*

2:01 everyone knows Germany has 17 states. Mallorca is the honorary 17th Bundesland

Greece is older than the 2798 years you show. The Mycenean age ran from about 1500 till 1100 BC when the Dorians migrated to the Greek south.

In the UK we refer to our "states" differently in different contexts. For example, we reffered to Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland as "home nations" in a sporting context but as "devolved parliaments" in a political context. I can confirm that we definitely do not have 4 Kingdoms 😂 EDIT: to clarify, England is not considered a devolved parliament as it is represented directly by Westminster, the greater UK parliament, and as a result has no need for a devolved parliament to increase representation like the devolved states do. There is an argument that by granting a devolved parliament to England the entire UK could benefit from increased representation by way of a federalised state, with Westminster taking the role of a federal government and the states granted the right to set their own laws on any subject not already covered by Westminster law. Unfortunately, independence movements are much more popular than reformist movements in the UK even though the support they gather doesn't last as long, for example, UKIP has existed roughly a decade more than the English Democrats but, while UKIP exploded in popularity and has been bleeding support, the ED has remained a fringe party but has retained a steady rate of growth. EDIT: changed example parties because I'm an idiot, credit to Qalziel for the correction.

(Czech here) 1:53 We also include Prague as Region (Kraj), so we have (technically) 14 Regions. The Regions (Kraje) as form of state existed since 13. century, however, their current form exists since year 2000 and are established around cities which have significiant industrial/economical, governmental, and educational value and often have high population. + Kraje are divided into smaller Districts (Okresy [singular: Okres]) which are 76.

Regarding subdivisions, not only is population density a factor, but also minority groups

Bangladesh how 1432 year old😂 Before 1947 its part of india 😊

0:46 Drew - Bigger states have less people Laughing in Uttar Pradesh

As a Greek from Creta island, it's my duty to say that there was a civilaization in my island, the Minoans, rooted back to 3.500 B.C. They even had their writing system linear A and it was succeded by linear B, which is the very first form of modern Greek writing system. Linear A has never been deciphered.

3:42 India other than states also have Union territories which are 8

12:25 East Frankia is arguably the earliest thing that's close to a unified "Germany"

If You're Counting Civilizations, Iraq Is First As The mesopotamian Civilization Goes back to 8,300-7,600 BC.

Fun fact: The prevailing belief is that the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia arose in the year 3500 BC, while the civilization of ancient Egypt appeared after that in the year 3200 BC, and therefore the civilization in Iraq is the oldest.

A lot of the countries mentioned in the last video don't really make sense imo. Like, saying ancient egypt and current egypt are, in ANY way the same country, is like saying Mexico is the same country as the aztec empire. And the same goes for so many of them, most of the countries in that video were absolutely not actually that old. If I take my own country, Denmark as an example, the video used a mythical, not widely supported year as the founding of Denmark, even though there is a widely supported, well established founding date of Denmark, which is about 300 years later than what the video is claiming.

Loved this video!

(11:37) I find it interesting that they chose 1052 years old for Sweden. Too often I see the usage of year 1905 or year 1523, but if you count the ages of those other countries then Sweden is really old. The year chosen is before the year 1000.

Fun fact, us Latvians had about 110 municipalities at one point, around 42 now. Those are administrative territories. But we mostly identify regions into 4 regions, 5 if we go historical. Any other country with this kind of interesting tid bit?

2:43 actually, no. Map in the video shows only republics, but Russia have other territorial subject types, like oblasts, krays, autonomus okrugs, autonomus oblasts and federal cities. In total, there is 89 regions. You can tell that all regions of the Russian Federation isn't t shown there, at least by the fact that most of the map is gray lol

9:05 I'm pretty sure creator of the video went for when each Country technically was founded, but there were some quite weird/interesting choices Also personally, I would have put Kingdom of the West Francia for France and kingdom of the East Francia for Germany, as both kingdoms represent each of their modern counterparts practically.

2:51 it's strange that only 21 Republics are shown, but not all 89 regions - the territory shown in gray contains all Oblasts, Krais, Autonomous Districts, Federal Cities and the only Autonomous Oblast. There are also larger-scale entities called Federal Districts, which are 8, however, they don't have many functions and status.

That 1st video was so.... Damn. Russia has like, 80+ subdivisions! Slovenia has around 200 or something!

3:51 Not necessarily a bad thing depending on who you talk to, but as Drew mentioned, this just lets them make senators out of nowhere

1:40 Canada has 10 provinces. Meanwhile, Canada also has 3 territories that they show, but don't mention for some reason.

It should be noted to that many of those countries don't go beyond the province/departments/states subdivisions, while the US does break it down further into counties, parishes and boroughs of which there are 3,143 in the 50 states and 3,243 if you include the territories as well. Edit: I'd argue the Thai date given is inaccurate, the fact that they label the Khmer Empire as the start date when that really should go to Cambodia since that empire centered around what is present day Cambodia, if they were to give a start date for Thailand then it should be attributed to the Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351) whom eventually conquered the Khmer in 1431. Likewise if they are using old empires in the same basic geographic location as a metric for start date, then Iraq should have been first given that Sumeria predates ancient Egypt by 2,400 years.

As a Sri Lankan I can tell you it's been 2500 years since we started writing our history. That's the date I think this video based on. But oldest homo sepian sepian skeleton that was found in Sri Lanka is over 100,000 years old. And that's the oldest skeleton found in a rainforest anywhere on earth some arrowheads and some items were found along side it. Google it. That human was smarter coz the pray was smaller and quicker and had to be really stealth and courtseous and patient to get really close to the prey to hunt coz unlike Savannah in the jungle you can't shoot far.

South of the Himalayas are terrai areas and it is also called indian subcontinent

With the subdivisions it really depends on which one you pick. Because for the UK you could pick Countries, Counties, Constituencies or Councils. Because there are 100 Counties in the UK (although the number varies based on definition), and 650 Constituencies. I don’t know how other countries extra subdivisions work. But considering we have several counties with higher population than a couple American states (Looking at you Wyoming). I think it’s arguable to do counties over countries with the UK.

When they stated Indus Valley civilisation for India, it changes the definition so those nations that came before are actually older by that definition.

India has 28 states n 8 union territories(small states govened by centeral govt)

India actually has 28 States but also 8 union territories with big ones like Kashmir and Ladakh which account for alone more 100K Square kilometres of Area of land so in total India has 36 Provinces!

There is an ancient Hindu god vishnu sculpture placed in American museum given by Tibet dilailama when china invaded them It was carbon dated 28000 years ago It's called kalpa vigraha

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I guess instead of the oldest country, we could say the oldest culture / sociopolitical entity in the region.

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1:25 land formations and oceanic boundaries play a major role in drawing borders.

actually united georgian kingdom is about 1000 years old but the first georgian kingdom (there were serperate georgian kingdoms) is atleast 3200 years old, it probably is older but the earliest historical document mentioning it is from 12 century bc

China is not 4020 years old It

We should also consider how much further are these states/provinces further subdivided into! Like Czechia having 13 but do they have smaller ones within those?

What I dont really get from the first video is that they didnt always take the biggest subdivions for each country. I think the Philippines has regions (as seen on the map) in which the provinces are grouped. France and Italy would get a lot more subdivions if the regions weren't counted

These country start dates are stretching it so much I don't even know where to start.

Armenia was the first Christian country. It dosn't show it in the video but it is.

Canada’s real Independence Day was July 1, 1867. We were still part of the British empire but we had full self autonomy so we could do whatever we wanted. But it’s always shown as 1931 is when we got our independence and that is because we asked to leave the British empire and that was granted.

13:48, just so you know, there were Egyptian archeologists studying the pyramids.

Funfact : Before 1947(independence) India was having around 75 princely states

INDIA ❤

13:06 "Nation called Iberia" who's gonna tell him?

Japan's Emperor Jimmy has got me cracking up! 😂

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Indian civilization actually is 8000 years old by recent discoveries and Indian civilization invented first times many foundational things like knowledge universities maths medicine etc first time in world

They labeled the start of Thailand as the Khmer empire. Enraged, so sad, shaking, crying

I think that this video groups them weirdly because it’s only a counting for the proper subdivisions like it’s not accounting for territories, even if they’re not overseas like Canada‘s three territories

considering england as the start of the uk but not castille as the start ofspain is... something

"I feel like there's gonna be a controversial one" *ignores Ukraine being 1162 years old

San Marino is to my knowledge the oldest continuous nation which is why it's often called the oldest country

1:34 the reason Poland has 16 voivodships is because it's easier to manage than 48/49 voivodships

The division of provinces in the Philippines was for the most part artificial but some are actually base on ethnic group division mainly in Cordillera is base on ethnic group

That first one with the states and provinces is quite misleading. It just shows to highest level of subdivision of each country, but it's not like if it stops there. Some countries have like 3, 4 or even more levels of managed subdivisions.

‘Bangladesh smashes a lot of people’ -Drew Durnil (1:00)

Most of these countries are new. Like, modern Greece is around 200 years old and 2000 years preceeding that it didn't exist, was a subject of Roman Empire. Currently actual oldest civilization seems to be Gobekli Tepe civilization in Turkey.

8:59 it is safe to say, we are kind of Swiss but in religious way 😅

Russia have only 21 republics, sure, but with other regions the number is actually 83 (89 if we include Crimea, Sevastopol and newly annexed regions)

India and Egypt are modern nations but oldest civilizations

People gotta make a "Youngest countries 1776-2011."

In germany, the federal states (Bundesländer) have Subdivisions integrated (Regierungsbezirke), which also have other Divisions (Landkreise). I don't know how far one should take it, but I'd guess the thing you wanted to point out at 2:05 would reflect in the Regierungsbezirke (f.e. Swabia, Upper Bavaria, Franconia, etc...), as they mostly define the culture influenced by history in germany. They are only present in 4 out of the 16 states Landkreise would be the equivalent to US Counties I believe and we have 294 of them + 106 cities / urban areas that do not belong to any Landkreis

Fun fact: Legoland (Denmark), is actually broken down into 98 communes and would therefore technically top the list😮 I feel overlooked 🥺

I'm noticing a pattern of India in THUMBNAIL 👀 views 📈

Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy, and agriculture". It is recognised as the cradle of some of the world's earliest civilizations

This list left off Uganda which has 111 states

11:36 Yes Georgia is much much older than that! There is a factual misunderstanding made by the channel you are reacting to. The history of Georgian states dates back to seccond millenia BC. The date they showed is when the peak of the power the kingdom had...13:08 Yes! Iberia was the old name for ancient Georgia!

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Btw Austria 🇦🇹 is 1027 Years old (Year 996). Sad that it has been forgotten

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google about Kalpavigrha statue(atleast 20,000 year old shiva statue)...you cant imagine how much hinduism old..not even hindus..😅

The oldest country is India always

I was compelled shock seeing my country having the most states/province

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5:02 doesn't Slovenia have like 200 first level administrative divisions?

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10:30 actually Türkiye in Anatolia started in 1071 with the arrival of Seljuk Turks.

In New Zealand its a bit weird and complicated so I don't even know if it should be counted, as we have overseas territories and we have regions (Waikato Auckland etc), we have a stake in Antarctica, you have the antipodes, Auckland islands, Stewart island (which are disputed to be their own) its all a bit weird

Iraq more older than egypt

Now I'm just wondering if you could count the ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia as the beginning of Iraq, there's not really that much continuity(?) but I'm also just guessing

Can u make more country balls drew Druil?

The date for the UK should say "England". The Kingdom of England was founded in 927; though it effectively existed since 886 (when Alfred the Great became "King of the Anglo-Saxons", but England was considered to be multiple separate kingdoms with a single ruler). The United Kingdom was founded in 1707; though, similarly to England, it effectively existed before then, since 1603 (when James VI/I became king of both Scotland and England).