Fun Fact About Every Country in the World - Part 1

hello and welcome to a fun fact about every country in the world part one these videos are going to be pretty long so let's just get started right now afghanistan changed its flag 18 times during the 20th century and four more since then with its current flag having been used since 2013. the reason for these changes isn't so fun though so let's just move on albania has more than 173 thousand concrete bunkers spread across its land that's nearly 15 bunkers per square mile on average algeria is the largest country in africa but only about 10 of the country is actually inhabitable with the rest being comprised of the sahara desert andorra is the largest country in the world with no airport the capital city of angola luanda is considered to be the most expensive city in the world for expats in 2009 antigua and barbuda renamed the country's highest point mount obama after u.s president barack obama despite the fact that he's never actually been there the name was changed back in 2016 to the original name of boggy peak during the december 2001 crisis argentina had five different presidents in just two weeks in armenia chess is a part of a child's primary school curriculum australia has by far the most national parks of any country with 685 for comparison second place thailand has 147 in austria there's a small village of about 100 people called they've had issues with people stealing the sign [Music] as of the 1st of january 2021 this is actually no longer true the town has changed its name and is now called fogging which personally i think sounds much much worse baku azerbaijan is home to the world's largest kfc at about 1600 square meters the bahamas has an island that is inhabited only by swimming pigs the aptly named pig beach has become a tourist attraction the recently deceased prime minister of bahrain had been serving since 1970 and was the longest serving pm of any government in the world he passed away in november 2020 in december of 2004 bangladesh broke a guinness world record forming the longest human chain with more than five million participants the chains span the distance of the entire country more than one thousand kilometers long in 2008 the prime minister of barbados created a new national holiday called rihanna day to be celebrated on the 22nd of february in belarus there was a tv show called the theorists which was just a blatant rip-off of the us tv show the big bang theory [Music] is however there was nothing that warner brothers could do about it because the tv company that produced the show is owned by the belarusian government in 2010 to 2011 belgium went 589 days without a government a world record at the time until it was broken in 2020 by belgium this time going 652 days without a government [Music] a construction company in belize destroyed a 2300 year old mayan pyramid to build a new road in 2013 the flag of the kingdom of bannon features a guy being decapitated with a sword bhutan is the most mountainous country in the world with 98.8 land area covered in mountains the average elevation of the country is three thousand two hundred and eighty meters above sea level bolivia has a navy of about five thousand personnel despite being a landlocked country bosnian-herzegovina has an estimated 150 landmines per square kilometer in botswana there are parliamentary constituencies called kanye north and kanye south there's no kanye west brazil is believed to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet one paper estimates up to 210 000 known species and up to 2.4 million in total the sultan of brunei has an estimated net worth of 20 billion dollars and lives in the largest residential palace in the world valued at 350 million dollars [Music] what is believed to be the oldest gold treasure in the world dating back earlier than 4 000 bc was discovered at the vernon acropolis in bulgaria [Music] burkina faso's name means land of incorruptible people but in 2019 only scored 40 of 100 on transparency international's corruption index in 1996 burundi became the poorest ever country to win a gold medal at the olympic games achieved by venusti neon gabo in the 5 000 meters in parts of cambodia people have made their own improvised trains out of bamboo known as nori's after regular services stopped running during the great depression in the united states cameroon raised money to help the american people they raised 3.77 [Music] canada has more lakes than every other country in the world combined cape verde ranks number one among african nations for a wide variety of different criteria barack obama has referred to the country as a real success story [Music] the central african republic and chad are the first consecutive countries alphabetically that also border each other and speaking of chad chad and romania both have the exact same flag the largest permanent settlement on antarctica is a chilean town called via las estrellas its population is about 150 during the summer which drops to around 80 during the winter china only has one time zone despite being one of the largest countries in the world which should span five different time zones the whole country follows beijing time [Music] colombia spelled with two o's and not a u is by far the world's largest producer of emeralds making up 50 to 90 percent of the world's supply the name of comoros derives from the arabic word for moon the democratic republic of the congo is home to the world's largest lava lake the two congos have the closest capital cities of any two countries in the world in 1949 costa rica completely abolished its military with a population of over 5 million it's by far the largest and most populous country without a military [Music] footballer dda drogba brought an end to a five year civil war in his home country the ivory coast worn by millions of people every day the necktie originates from croatia cuba is one of only two countries in the world in which coca-cola is not sold you can probably guess what the other one is the capital city of cyprus nicosia has been described as the world's last remaining divided capital czechia consumes more beer per capita than any other country about 192 liters per capita per annum that's nearly twice as much as germany [Music] denmark is apparently the least corrupt country in the world djibouti gets its name from the country's capital city also called djibouti which is home to more than 70 of the country's population dominica is the only national flag that features the color purple the dominican republic is the most visited country in the caribbean with more than 6.5 million annual visitors the word timor derives from the melee word for east so the country's name is literally just east east the peak of the ecuadorian mountain chimborazo is the farthest point from the center of the earth it's farther away than the peak of mount everest due to the slight equatorial bulge of the earth [Music] of the seven wonders of the ancient world the great pyramid of giza is by far the oldest and the only one that remains intact today el salvador is the only country in north america with no coastline on the atlantic despite its name the equator does not actually pass through equatorial guinea eritrea's capital city asmara has the nickname new rome due to its architecture being so similar to that of italy eritrea was under italian rule for more than 50 years estonia was the first country in the world to adopt online voting way back in 2005. [Music] now known as esswatini the country changed its name from swaziland in 2018 to avoid confusion with switzerland due to the ethiopian calendar which has 13 months 12 months exactly 30 days plus a 13th month with five or six days it is currently the start of 2013 in ethiopia maybe we should warn them about 2020. the company fiji water ran a joke advert saying the label says fiji because it's not bottled in cleveland taking offense to this cleveland did some tests that showed that their tap water is actually purer than fiji's finland has an annual beer floating event in helsinki in which participants float down the river drinking beer france is the most visited country in the world with more than 89 million annual tourists well normally anyway certainly not in 2020 gabon has the world's only natural nuclear fission reactor the gambia has got to be one of the strangest shaped countries in the world its borders closely follow the meandering river gambia and is completely surrounded by senegal the very of kina cave in georgia is the deepest cave in the world with a known depth of 2212 meters and a total length of 13.5 kilometers the old east-west division of berlin can still be seen to this day from space by a difference in street lighting [Music] kevin prince boating and jerome boat team became the first brothers to play against one another in the fifa world cup in the ghana vs germany match in south africa 2010 [Music] the first ever olympic games took place in olympia greece in 776 bc granada has an underwater sculpture park with 75 in total the sculptures can only be seen by snorkeling or scuba diving the entire city of antigua former capital of guatemala is a unesco world heritage site guinea pigs originate from the andes mountain region of south america not guinea the origin of the animal's name is unknown people from guinea bassao are referred to as bisalginians despite being a south american country guyana is actually an english-speaking country due to it being colonized by the british haiti unknowingly had the exact same flag as liechtenstein until 1936 when the two countries met at the olympics and the similarity was discovered [Music] once a year in euro honduras it rains fishes this is known as la yuvia de pesas and has apparently been occurring for more than a century with the reason still unknown in the 1940s hungary experienced the worst hyperinflation of all time the exchange rate to one us dollar went from five pengo to millions billions then trillions of pengo and beyond in 1946 the country printed a 100 quintillion pengo banknote the largest denomination bell ever printed [Music] in the 2018 fifa world cup iceland became the least populous nation ever to qualify with a population of about 350 000 india is the most vegetarian country in the world with 20 to 30 percent of the population refraining from eating meat india actually has more vegetarians than the rest of the world combined in indonesia a dead manta ray can be worth up to 500 us dollars but it was calculated that each manta ray throughout its lifetime is worth around one million dollars in tourism and therefore a ban on fishing them was introduced in 2014. indonesia has now become the world's largest sanctuary for manta rays there was a world record attempt in iran to make the world's longest sandwich but people started eating the sandwich before it could be measured by the officials of the guinness book of world records the earliest known usage of the wheel possibly dates back 5 500 years in mesopotamia modern day iraq ireland has won the eurovision song contest more times than any other country seven times including three consecutive wins in 92 93 and 94. albert einstein was once offered the israeli presidency he politely declined in 2004 two lamborghini gallagher supercars were donated to the italian police jamaica is the only country in the world his flag does not feature red white or blue [Music] japan has more than 80 000 people over the age of 100 that's one in every 1500 people [Music] constructed as early as perhaps 300 bc petra wasn't discovered by the western world until the 19th century by a swiss explorer [Music] in 2012 after the kazakh shooting team won a gold medal in kuwait the event organizers played the parody national anthem from the sacha barakone film [Applause] [Music] kenyan athlete elliot kipchoge currently holds the marathon world record at a time of 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds completed at the berlin marathon in 2018. the last three record holders were also from kenya and also achieved at the berlin marathon kirabas has the world's most advanced time zone utc plus 14 and is the reason for the oddly shaped international dateline kimmel song is considered the eternal president of north korea the presidency of the country was abolished after his death the present head of state is called the supreme leader the flag of south korea has a lot of symbolism the white represents peace and purity the red is positive the blue negative and the circle as a whole is the balance in the universe the four trigrams are the four classic elements heaven water fire and earth the currency of kuwait has the highest nominal value of any national currency in the world one q8 dinar is worth about 3.27 u.s [Music] kyrgyzstan has some pretty weird borders with its neighbors uzbekistan and tajikistan with several exclaves of said neighbours enclaved within courage territory laos is known as the land of a million elephants but unfortunately there are only an estimated 800 or so left in the country latvia's independence day is may the fourth i.e star wars day may the foss be with him beloved canadian actor keanu reeves was actually born in beirut capital of lebanon lesotho is the world's largest enclave the country is entirely surrounded by south africa liberia was founded by freed american slaves who chose to imitate the us flag and constitution libya has only had one king in its history idris the first from 1951 to 1969 during this time the country was called the united kingdom of libya the entire country of liechtenstein can be rented for seventy thousand dollars per night according to a study by a french scientist in 1989 the geographical centre of europe depending on how it's measured is located in lithuania 26 kilometers north of vilnius there's a monument marking the location [Music] in 2020 luxembourg became the first country in the world to make all public transport free to use for everyone and that's all for part one for part two we'll do the remaining countries from m to zed i'm happy to say that the second part of this video is already well underway so i'm hoping to upload part two in just a few weeks so be sure to subscribe if you aren't already and hit that bell icon to be notified when it's ready i have one quick announcement before ending i finally decided to start patreon for the first time this will hopefully allow me a bit more creative freedom moving forward and perhaps take on some bigger projects like this one so if you'd like to help me out i would greatly appreciate any support i know it's been a really long time since my last video but i plan on being much more active in 2021 so thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in part two [Music]

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Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 07 2021