Why is Vietnam So Long and Narrow? 

to bad I already have a account with them. Works perfect if I want to watch some good old BBC outside of the UK.

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There are 148,939,063.133 Km squared of land in this world and someone took all the ugly ones and put em into Yemen! Oman that was a burn

@@arolemaprarath6615 musyrikin always hate the last prophet until the day of judgement.

@@isyraf9989 Idiots still believe men made fantasy that was clearly derived from other nations older mythologies and older religions with little to no basis on reality and yet declared as and insisted as truth. LOL.

@@isyraf9989 Muhammad is the same as Hitler. No difference.

@@wonderplaceholder Colombia too,but almost all population is on one side though

Chile is included lol

*Laughs in Iran*

@@augustuscaesar8287 laughs in greece

@@vassily-labroslabrakos2263 Laughs in Switzerland

Also applies to Norway and Chile who also suffers from long-thin syndrom

In Vietnamese that mountain range is actually called "Long Mountain" lol :))

@@BritskNguyen 長山 :) If it be Vietnamese than it's Núi Dài

@@karaqakkzl It's "Trường Sơn" for you

Damn I was gonna type that

"Vietnam" as a geographic country did not existed until 1802/1804. Vietnam back then were main three kingdoms: Angkor, Champa, Dai Viet. It is always a multiethnic country. The Annamite empire wasn't kinda "colonized by French" but was shattered into three pieces that became under France Republic protection by 1887.

@@phamnguyenminhquan the Annamite empire of nguyen dynasty before French colonization.

@@hermannboyen5392 I'm assuming you're looking at this from a French perspective. Before the French colonization they were still named Dai Viet, however the Chinese still call them An Nam. Because Dai Viet is unknown to the western world at this point so the French colonizers simply call it Annam, Annamite is basically "Annamese" in English which is the name the French gave for the people there. Dai Viet at this point was considered an empire because of it manpower, manly in the Nguyen dynasty early years. However the Nguyen quickly decline due to the ruler's bad policies, one of them is hunting down priests (the Nguyen was worried of spies and they saw the priests as one of the highest risk to national security). The French and Spanish used this as a justification to invade Vietnam and they succeeded. They then divided it into 3 pieces like you said which are colony, half colony half protection and protection on paper. But the overall policies and laws makes it entirely a colony just like others.

@@kharkovluzhin8333 not French perspective. The world maps of 19th century back then always feature the kingdom of Annam / Royaume d'Annam/Annamite empire /Empire d'Annam or Vietnam, and was named such long before the French colonization, at least the early 17th century. You could search around walmart to see these old maps.

@@kharkovluzhin8333 so by 1802, the Nguyen dynasty's Annamite empire was basically the amalgamation empire of multiple kingdoms and dominions: Dai Viet, Champa, Angkor that had existed for thousand of years. By the time of the French military arrival in 1858 that empire had been weakened and the vietnamese court accepted French protectorate and sovereignty while China wanted to keep the vietnamese court within their tributary system. And France drove the Chinese out of Vietnam in request of the Vietnamese emperor Hiep hoa, which mean it was not a "brutal colonial subjugation" like post-colonial popular assumptions about French Indochina.

Nah signed a peace treaty with them in 73 and usa left meaning u can't lose if u aren't participating. Also kd ratio and agent orange going brrrrr

@@ZTOXZZ I'm not saying what side won,, because I don't really care. But the quitting thing seen as winning is such a lame excuse

@@crowpotking1100 well both sides quit so??? Since it was a peace treaty. It's a valid thing to say

@@ZTOXZZ cope

@@comradekenobi6908 seethe harder

Thank you for your comment, you made me crave to visit Vietnam, love from London

Do you consider yourself culturally southeast asian though?

@@rikadomez8201 we're closer to northeast asia countries (mostly China) in culture so we are quite stand out from other countries in region. But food is a mix between southeast asia and northeast asian.

Love your country by the way. Beautiful sceneries, hotels at very low rates and fantastic local cuisine. I'm from the Philippines, but my gf is actually from Da Nang, and she looks very East Asian (though it infuriates her everytime I call her as some who looks like of Chinese descent). I just wonder what percentage of the country are of East asian ethnicity and how many are Austronesians like us Filipinos, Indonesians and Malaysians.

@@musicloversylver6723 Hi. It's pretty hard to estimate but I guess the majority of the Vietnamese look like a mix between East Asian and Southeast Asian (or Austronesian look, hope I don't generalize too much), but definitely the mix has more East Asian element. Ethnicity is really complex to talk about because although ethnic Kinh Vietnamese people sharing the same language, their 'look' may be pretty diverse. Many Vietnamese people do resemble ethnic Chinese, but not everyone does. And it doesn't mean that any Chinese-looking Vietnamese has Chinese ancestry. (Due to past and present animosity between Vietnam and China, telling a Vietnamese person that he/she looks like Chinese may cause some awkwardness, though some of us do look quite/very Chinese). But Vietnam also has people that look like those from other Southeast Asian countries. I met many Filipinos and I believe that they can easily blend in a Vietnamese crowd. From my experience, Vietnamese people tend to have bigger eyes compared to typical East Asians. Regarding skin color, many Vietnamese are quite light-skinned, including me. But many have darker shade as well. Vietnam has some truly Austronesian population (speaking Austronesian languages and having ancestry). They include the Cham people (Champa kingdom in the past) and numerous tribes in the central highlands of Vietnam. One of the most famous Austronesian Vietnamese is Miss Universe Vietnam in 2018.

I'm Vietnamese but have never heard anyone describe our country like a Yin Yang symbol. That's quite cool.

@@vnXun this is the "justification" for the reason why we were invaded so many times throughout history by some people, kinda self-importing; and the shape is also quite arbitrary - Tonlé Sap (Biển Hồ) is not that big anyway - but serve quite nice as a random geographic trivia I guess

The Annamites is one of several tangled tails of the Himalayas

@@DarkDragon5551669 The Tonle Sap (ទន្លេសាប) doesn't look big, but trust me, it's very big. Because Cambodia is a very humid and low country, it floods all the time and expands to double or triple the size.

Damn Zhanjiang Peninsula, ruining the cool thing

Vietnamese here. One common miss conception about the vietnam war is about kill count, but we both know that american use kill count to justify racial superiority. "The estimates for the number of North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas killed during the Vietnam War range from around 400,000 to over 1 million. The lower number is likely to be closer to the truth, as the North Vietnamese government only officially confirmed around 1 million military and civilian deaths on both sides." That statement suggests that the actual number of North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas killed during the Vietnam War is likely to be lower than the estimated range of 400,000 to over 1 million. The lower end of that range is considered to be more accurate, as the North Vietnamese government only officially confirmed around 1 million military and civilian deaths on both sides. There are several possible reasons why the US military have inflated the body count of enemy soldiers killed during the Vietnam War: Pressure to show progress: The US government and military were under pressure to demonstrate progress in the war effort to justify the continued investment of resources and lives. Inflating the body count have been seen as a way to show that the US was making progress and winning the war. Rewards and promotions: US military personnel who reported high body counts were often rewarded with medals, promotions, and other forms of recognition. This created an incentive for soldiers to inflate their reports in order to receive recognition and rewards. Lack of accurate information: The difficult terrain, dense jungle, and guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong made it difficult to accurately estimate the number of enemy soldiers killed. In many cases, soldiers have overestimated the number of enemy casualties due to the chaos and confusion of the battlefield. Propaganda: Inflating the body count was seen as a way to boost morale among US troops and the American public. By portraying the enemy as weak and vulnerable (racial superiority), the military may have hoped to undermine support for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese government.

Just ruining some guy's copium It's true that the Americans overestimated the number of Vietnamese soldiers they killed during the Vietnam War. The body count was a common metric used by the US military to measure their success in the war. However, the actual number of enemy soldiers killed was often inflated due to a variety of factors, such as the inclusion of civilians, double-counting, and the misidentification of bodies. This overestimation of the enemy body count led to a distorted view of the progress of the war and contributed to the public's disillusionment with the conflict. To be honest, I think it's important to see other's perspective in war. Maybe those american who tries to cope still think they did only good in vietnam. You should watch video Vietnam War #3 (Rape&Murder), those former soldiers talk about the SOP (Standard Operating Protocol) towards civilians, and mostly towards women. There were cases of enslavement and lot of miss treatment towards girls, and that's why family hides them from american troops who were well known to commit those horrible crimes. No wonder the vietnamese had more rage towards them and wanted to kick them out of the country. Many americans also talk about torture, saying that vietnamese tortured american soldiers while not realising american did just as bad. If you learn history, you'll realise that everyone can do bad things, no one is innocent, just like the vietnamese in the past who massacred the native people (but those native also massacred other neighboor and vietnamese villages). There's no such thing as a superior or good/league of justice race running around in some pajamas.

@@KFC431 This looks AI generated and appears to be massive copium

@@KFC431Womp womp enjoy napalm

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@@buiquanghuy7589 Mình lúc đầu cũng tưởng vậy v: Bây giờ mình mới biết

Dude you don’t to explain like that, all countries are beautiful and Vietnam also beautiful. We got many beautiful culture and many thing, but I really appreciate your work ? Very thank you!!

Hello đồng bào :D

Dude : tui là Việt Nam

Could you please explain a bit more? Why did Nguyen specifically become so widespread? Like why isn't a name like let's say Cheng as big

Whenever a new dynasty took over, people associated to the previous one (such as through their surname) got persecuted, so many change their name to avoid such fate as well as to pledge allegiance to the new lord. So, to answer your question, it is probably due to the fact that "Nguyễn" was the last dynasty in VN. Once the feudal system was abolished, people stopped changing surnames.

Just like to add that "Cheng" is not a Vietnamese name lol, it's Chinese. Kinda similar to calling someone named Alejandro by Alexander.

@@samuelwhite1228 Surname like Lê,Trần..etc still very common, not as common as Nguyễn but it also a result of dynasty. Other non-vietnamese dynasty relates surname usually come from smaller clan or of old chinese root. For example my surname is Hoàng, it not a very common surname and it directly related to old chinese settler from area like fuzhou, it gradually turn into vietnamese and turned into the surname Huỳnh but some family still remain with the surname Hoàng. Also Cheng is a chinese surname, the closest thing to Cheng in Vietnamese is Trịnh which is a uncommon but not rare surname.

Nguyen was originally Chinese forced surname for various tribes in northern Vietnam during the Han dynasty. But the latter Nguyen clan (actually the Nguyen Phuc clan) were not the ancestry of all Vietnamese Nguyen surname bearers.

Where do you live? Sounds like Vietnam food is pretty popular in your country? I’m a bit curious

Well, we add some herbs as well as gingers while making Pho broth to create its signature aroma. That's probably why Pho makes you feel better.

when you sick, hot food is very helpul for health. this trick vietnamese used thousand of years :)

It's the broth that makes it different from other noodles :)

Norway: Can I join you guys?

Long boi gang

@@TuPham-sk6gv r/woooosh

Let's make it happen in a virtual reality

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And Chile shall be the leader of them all

And croatia 🇭🇷

it's actually pretty simple. Chile and argentina are separated by the andes mountain range, the second highest mountain range. Chile can't realistically expand into argentina nor can argentina expand into chile due to these mountains. It's like a wall

@@akai4942 Yeah I know, I'm Chilean, I just want to see a video from the perspective of a foreigner.

@@mapache-ehcapam a bueno, saluditos desde el otro lado de la cordillera 😎👍

It’s cuz we have less money and so spread in less land in general cuz of some colonization history and stupidly high taxes. Now our governments have debt they cannot pay. Ofc this except for China i forgot the reason why it was populated high…

Vietnam isn't East Asian though

amen brother

'Crusade' is a good word to use for that. It's literally an outsider trying to impose their own rule on something that is still accessible to them in the form it takes when following native conventions. j/k: It's fine to pronounce it with an s, I think it's just rude to shame people for using the other pronunciation.

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Lao = demonym Laos = country I will pronounce the "s" just to differentiate between the name of the country and its demonym.

I don't understand why it has an S tho? who romanized their name?

If you want to study about a country, pick up a geography book first, not history book . For example Germany, if you want to go there and study you need to know the culture and geography, not “THE HISTORY “💀

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZQtfwjSMY3A.html more medieval vietnam content, specifically when the mongols got fucking impaled on spikes when trying to escape vietnam through the bach dang river after failing to conquer it

@@gururu1286 I mean in germany's case it does not hurt to know about hitory, and what is kinda taboo here

u still know vietnamese no?

@@user-sg9ql8nk1u Yeah, I speak Viet with my parents

Vietnamese call our country "the S country"

@@spookyengie735 It really does look like an S.

@@adarshmohapatra5058 it looks more like a c turned the wrong way around but who am I to judge when my country is a literal number 7

@@abdiabdi3225 wait are you from Somalia?

@@abdiabdi3225 did't Italy look kind a like the S too or was it the T shape

Really?

@@undergroundlace1686 really

@@undergroundlace1686 Most of it, but the efforts are there and he nailed it

As a viet - I'm also surprised by how well he pronounces Viet names too!

I'm not Vietnamese but I'm glad to see people appreciating this because I do too (as an African). Other youtubers, especially American really don't care about researching the correct pronunciations

@@colourqueen22 I know right? It makes me a bit annoyed and a bit sad at the same time (though that's partially personal pedantry because I'm into foreign languages and I always try to pronounce foreign things as best as I can, and I shouldn't really blame others for not being as obsessive as I am :P)

@@floppyearfriend I am obsessive too 😅 I try to pronounce everybody's names as accurate as possible be it Asian, Latin American, European... So maybe that's why I (and we) pay particular attention

Thanks ^^

Tukish people are kinda warm-hearted and very unite.

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And that was how the Vietnamese imperialists colonized Cambodia and Laos during the early 19th century under two emperor Gia Long and Minh Mang, but that brutal Vietnamese occupation and genocide of Cambodia from 1813 to 1845 is now simply forgotten, still remembered by the Cambodian people and Western academies. 7:30 He'd intended to cover that period, but then dropped so to avoid the dark past and his video get demonized

@@hermannboyen5392 Vietnam stronk 💪💪🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

@@hermannboyen5392 Like other country colonized as angel

As a Lao we do not hate Vietnamese as others would make such claim and I would assume the same with Cambodian 🇻🇳🇰🇭🇱🇦✌️

@@evilherojain4412 Yeah bro , Lao is good brother. Cambodian do hate us though

I run into that problem when worldbuilding. Many devices have a "translate page" option. My solution was to just type the phrase I want to Google on Google Translate into the preferred language; then Copy-paste it in the search bar; go to the page I want; press "translate page" and read. I'm sure the countries wrote about their own history, so fly my little one and explore

Ethnic Vietnamese =/= Vietnam's territory. The Vietnamese call themselves Kinh, not Vietnamese. "Vietnamese" is exonym. Without the political unification in 1802 of Gia Long, there's never a nation called Vietnam. Gia Long unified them, and gave the first idea of Vietnam, ruled the first empire of Vietnam. Without him, there's no Vietnam, and the fragmented Vietnamese still found themselves divided into different kingdoms and domains north, central and south.

@@cudanmang_theog technically we do call ourselves the Vietnamese as in “người việt” literally the viet people

​@@cudanmang_theog without Vietnam, there is Dai Viet

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Bên Việt mới là bên không tôn trọng phát âm, nhất là tên người Hàn. Kang Sae Byuk hay Park Hang Seo vì tiếng Anh u đọc là ơ (eo) vì tôn trọng phiên âm tiếng Hàn, chứ như mấy ông cố chấp bảo như thế mới giống tiếng Việt mình rồi lúc thì Paris đọc Pa-ri hay Pe-rít chứ Pa-ghi (đọc kiểu pháp) bảo thằng này phát âm sai r, Seo đọc là sờ eo seo, Byuk lại Bi-úc, chế là bảng Latin hoá kiểu Việt Nam đọc là Sơ với Biếc cho xong

the Chams lost their final capital in 1471, after which it is safe to say they're in a constant state of retreat from the tremendous pressure from the north (I quote many of the history books on the Chams). the Cham civilisation is indeed relevant to the long shape of Vietnam, but they are by no means the backbone of the country. the North had always been the centre of politics until the 16th century, and the existence of the kingdom of Dang Trong in the south never mde them any less relevant. the kingdom of Dang Trong itself relied on the vibrant trade with the outside world, on new agricultural practices from the north, from Vietnamese settlers and of course from the Chams who stayed, but saying that Champa was responsible for the rise of Vietnam is a bit of stretch.

And the ancient city port of Kauthara too.

Norway, Eritrea and Somalia should join the club too

@@blackman5867 add in Somalia 2.0 Djibouti to your list

@@blackman5867 I just a slight issue with your comment I know it is a joke but I just want to clarify that Somalia never took Ethiopians coast as much as it was Ethiopia coming from the mountains to take the ogaden

@@abdiabdi3225 what ? I was just listing the countries that blocks the others access to the sea. No one mentioned if they stole it or not. Simply just because it looks funny

And that's why Cambodian netizens are demanding Ho Chi Minh city and a large part of the South

@@caupikachumatday7227 we don't

Who? I am from Vietnam and I don’t know her

@@khanggamr7454 she was the reason why vietnam had Hue and Quang Tri to this day

@@vaninhhuu3215 ohh

No, "bắc bộ" is beibu in Chinese, not beiguo, mean Northern Region, but it gradually became less common in favor of a more native name "miền bắc".

部 bu bộ 国 guo quốc 面 mian diện (non-sino-viet miền)

Probably not mandarin as that's a fairly modern Chinese dialect, but middle Chinese so think Shanghainese and Cantonese.

Not Mandarin but Middle Chinese aka Han language which is closer to Cantonese.

No, u re wrong. Cantonese have more influence the Vietnamese language. u can check out on the youtube how they pronoun it like 80% the same. Cantonese and Vietnamese also known Yue people of 100 yue group. and Vietnamese and Cantonese were a part of NANYUE KINGDOM.

They ruled Vietnam for centuries.

like almost all thing in history it comes down to the French and British almost going to war and bullying countries again and Myanmar Burma whatever you want to call it was the British being Britain taking random pieces of land without any afterthought.

@@abdiabdi3225 I don't know how it happened but the long tail of Myanmar has been around since before the British. But other than that I don't know much. That's why I was asking.

it's because of a mountain range again

@@thekingminn for Thailand's, it used to be part of Malay kingdoms but Thai influence and eventually conquest spread when the Malay were weakened

When will you invade Cambodia again?

@@scintillam_dei When Cambodia raid us again, duh?

@@shreowotheartist253 (I didn't say you SHOULDN'T invade)

@@scintillam_dei wtf we never invade cambodia pon pot invade south vietnam first and we fight back

@@scintillam_dei They didn't invade them, Pol Pot, USA and the revisionist Deng invaded Vietnam.

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Pretty sure it isn’t though. Having been to Laos a while ago I remember the s being pronounced, and Wikipedia seems to agree. Doors anyone has a source for the S not being pronounced?

Also Austroasiatic can also be called Mon-Khmer if you think both term are two confusing

@@Frahamen Mon-Khmer is only one of the 3 major branches of the austroasiatic, so not exactly accurate either.

It not that complicate if compare to 12 su Quan aka the 12 warlord period where Dinh Tien hoang emperor manage to defeat the other warlord and unite the country after Ngo Quyen die still lost some land up north to china though

I'm glad you like it ☺️ There are many more, you will be overweight if you spent your whole life discover all of them 😆😆😆😆. Anyways, really happy that foreigners like you like our cuisine 😘

Silly speaking. Where your home town in Vietnam?

Probably not since it a name that the chinese force on us

@@spookyengie735 Well the Chinese are trying to rule the world, especially their neighbors, so perhaps it would make Xi happy to hear Nam Viet again!

@@spookyengie735 Well, it was technically Zhao Tuo that named it to us, so at least be happy that our nation even got a proper name lol

honestly Dai Viet is the only suitable name for this country. Nam indicates it is the southern kingdom from China and China should no longer be viewed as the centre of the world.

Rice farmer: Want to try 😑

@@thefirstkingdogo1126 Viet Nam ❤ Trung Quoc

Ironically, Vietnam's borders actually benefited from French colonialism: as the French took land from China, which they then "gave" to Vietnam (the far northwest of the country today), and allowed the Vietnamese to keep lands that they'd already taken from Cambodia. And on the flip side, so did Cambodia: as the French forced Thailand to give land back to Cambodia immediately after WWII I suspect only Laos never got anything; as it was one of three colonies where the French did absolutely nothing to help develop : Mauritania, Central African Republic, and Laos.

@@Suite_annamite lol my guy... vietnam took in parts of yunnan (nanzhao) full of mountains whereas the french gave the chinese chunks of cao bang, lang son and quang ninh which have more arable and fertile land. Vietnam also lost houphan in laos and chunks of central vietnam that crossed over to laos and lost chunks of kampot, svay rieng, takeo that extended.all the way to sihannoulville. Vietnam actially lost more land with french colonization.