Bir Tawil - the land that nobody wants

welcome to mock men where the men and here's the map today's map is of the disputed border between Egypt and Sudan Saddam Saddam in particular this bit here called beer tawil a bit of land the size of London which nobody wants as with many badly drawn borders it starts with the British so we'll draw a line in the middle of the desert ignoring all tribal boundaries cuz we own this place anyway so I don't really see it being a problem can I please have a sandwich it turns out the British got very good at drawing straight lines seemingly unaware of all the trouble they was of course but once a lines being drawn that's final right unwrite three years later in 1902 the British through a new line to better reflect cultural differences we should never have drawn that straight line I can assure you the man who drew that line has been shamed so now there were two borders a straight one and a squiggly one and here came the problem this area known as the Halle triangle was valuable and both sides wanted to control it so Egypt claimed the straight line and Sudan claimed the squiggly line the side effect if either side claimed theater will they'd have to give up the Halle triangle it remains the only disputed territory in the world where both sides insist it's not theirs so we could just go and claim it technically yes in 2014 an American named Jeremiah Heaton travelled to bear to will and claimed it for himself so that his seven-year-old daughter could fulfill her dream of being a real princess ain't nothing more important than my daughter's happiness and now she's got everything she ever wanted isn't that right sugarplum so due to the value of the Halle triangle Theatre will with literally nothing in it is internationally recognized as terra nullius and although many people have tried to claim it including worryingly google a lack of UN recognition or indeed any kind of recognition from anybody has left these claims as hollow as this globe goodbye you

Channel: Jay Foreman

Views: 2,727,764

Rating: 4.9286866 out of 5

Keywords: Jay Foreman, Mark Cooper-Jones, Map Men, Geography, Bir Tawil, Hala'ib, Hala'ib Triangle, unclaimed land, Border, Dispute, Egypt, Sudan, British, Jeremiah Heaton, Princess, daughter, Kingdom of North Sudan, Egypt Sudan border

Id: J5iJSXaVvao

Length: 2min 13sec (133 seconds)

Published: Tue May 03 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/Quinny898]

This video is part of a series! There's a few more:

• The India/Bangladesh border

• The North/South divide of England

• The Mappa Mundi

• An East German map of Berlin (with a hole where West Berlin should be)

• Who owns the South China sea?

If you like these, there's also Unfinished London and (British) Politics Unboringed, both of which I highly recommend. Unfinished London is also getting two more episodes soon, unless they ended up being Geoff and Jay go up the A1 (which was also very good). Jay does songs too, most of which are a bit strange

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[u/DR3GSZ]

Seen the video before, but this is the first time I noticed their outro music (noise) is "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... Pretty clever.

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[u/belgarath113]

I love that the Outro is the song Maps

[u/CaptainEurope]

Same thing actually applies to the western bank of the Danube river, which neither Croatia or Serbia wants to claim, and one Czech guy established sovereign nation of "Liberland" there.

[u/Defur]

Left guy in the thumbnail looks like he could be Beardymans brother

[u/RochelleH]

Urrr, that's a pretty cool little fuckin' channel there.