There are NOT 195 countries
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Published 2024-06-23
How many countries are there? Does the UN's official list of 195 include them all? Which ones are missing? Does Sealand count? Does England count for that matter? And why are Mark and Jay up a tree?
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MARK COOPER-JONES www.twitter.com/markcooperjones
Director/DOP
JADE NAGI www.twitter.com/jade_nagi
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Runner
ABBY TIMMS
VFX
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Additional music
THE TIM TRAVELLER / @thetimtraveller
Voice of translator
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Taiwan National anthem, music notation animation
DAVID BENNETT / @davidbennettpiano
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BARBS / @geographynow
All Comments (21)
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The fact that Bhutan doesn’t recognize either china or Taiwan maybe the funniest thing I have ever heard
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I like the fact that Barbs from Geography Now appeared just to say "of".
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10:32 -ew wtf is that
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2:43 It's honestly really weird that Niue and the Cook Islands aren't recognised by the U.N., like, New Zealand says they're independent countries, and they say they're independent countries, but everyone else says they're part of New Zealand.
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8:52 TREE MEN TREE MEN TREE TREE TREE MEN MEN
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10:32 Geography Now jumpscare
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The real way to tell if something is a country or not is to see if it was mentioned in the squarest country song
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The fact that it jumped from 195 to 199 when the UK was split into 4 meant all 5 of: UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were all being considered countries at the same time
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The density of jokes-per-minute in these videos is wild
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1:53 "Take Taiwan" "Something China wants to do" got me lmao
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It’s a common misconception that Bhutan doesn’t recognise half the world, including both Chinas. In reality they just lack diplomatic relations, not recognition.
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man i have to say, the CGI worms really worked on me. great job.
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The special effects on those worms are, I am not joking, some of the best visual effects work this channel has ever put out
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“Unrecognized countries- sorry, UN recognized countries” 😂😂😂
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This is incredibile. Last night I tought "hey, Jay Foreman exists and I miss him" and now i can watch this video!!! Thank you!!! (Mark, on the contrary, is always in my thoughts and I never forget about him)
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I 100% appreciate the little Cue Mark animation at the top right before the advert.
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"Take Taiwan..." "Something China wants to do." I splurted out my coffee
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UN: Do you believe in China or Taiwan? Bhutan: Neither. Nothing. All i see is emptiness
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I am always amazed at how much effort you put into every millisecond of your videos. You make a special graphic and texting for each of 10 different microcountries just for showing them for a time so short it is hardly pausable to read it. I love it!
