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This is every country in the world… by Wend over Productions. We’ll start with Afghanistan, the first country alphabetically. Afghanistan is one of the few countries world wide to be offset from Greenwich Mean Time by a 30 minute interval, its at GMT +4:30, while China is one of the many countries to only have one timezone… except its ginormous. It aligns to GMT+ 8 so that means that stepping over the 47 mile long Afghanistan-China border jumps you forward by 3.5 hours. That’s the largest single time zone jump on earth. China in all its craziness has rather ambitious plans to build a high-speed railroad from Beijing, up across the Bering Strait, and down into the United States, which happens to be the home of 41% of Wend over Productions viewers. Up in the north-west of the US, Point Roberts,a part of the mainland US, is cut off from the US by Canada and since it doesn’t have a high-school, students have to cross in to Canada then back into the US each day on their way to school. Canada happens to be the second largest country on earth and has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Its so huge, in fact, that its easternmost point is closer to Croatia than it is to Vancouver. One of Croatia’s thousands of islands is Rab, the birthplace of the sculptor Marinas who went on and founded San Marino, the fifth smallest country in the world and one of three to be completely surrounded by another country. One of the others is the Vatican—the smallest sovereign state in the world—and there’s also Lesotho, which is home to one of Africa’s seven ski resorts. Leso thois of course surrounded by South Africa which is the only country in the world to have three capitals—Cape Town is the seat of the Parliament, Pretoria is the home of the president, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. South Africa also almost completely surrounds another country—Swaziland, where roads are so bad that two of the last four transport ministers died incar accidents. While mostly surrounded by South Africa, Swaziland’ seastern border is with Mozambique, whose name scores higher in scrabblethan any other one-word country, but in second place for scrabble is Kyrgyzstan which is home to six enclaves, the smallest of which is part of Uzbekistan and is only 2 miles wide. In Uzbekistan, no river leads to the Ocean—they all drain into end orheic basins where all the water evaporates out. Uzbekistan is one of only two countries worldwide to be double-landlocked—as in, landlocked by landlocked countries.
In this case, every surrounding country of Uzbekistan also ends in -stan—Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan,and Turkmenistan. The other double-landlocked country is Liechtenstein—a tiny and historically neutral nation. In their last military engagement in 1886,none of the 80 soldiers were injured or killed, and they actually returned with 81 peoplesince they made a “new italian friend.” Italy is home to the Breuil Cervinia ski resortwhere you can ski across the border into Switzerland. Switzerland is rather paranoid about war tothe extent that 3,000 points of entry into the country are rigged to blow at an instant in case of invasion. Switzerland is also home to one end of theshortest regularly-scheduled commercial international flight in the world—a six minute, 10 milejaunt over to Germany where its not actually illegal to escape prison. Seriously—they say its only human nature. Germany is home to half of one of the world’s few internationally divided islands, and the Polish side of this island, despite being only 200 feet from mainland Poland, is not connected by any bridges to Poland, so just like point Roberts, residents have to cross international borders to get to their own country. Poland also happens to have been a part of Sweden’s monarchy for a brief eight years in the 16 thcentury. Sweden has an internationally divided island too, and this one is a mere 7 acres large. The border looks like this because Finland accidentally built a lighthouse in Swedish territory andso they just readjusted the border to make everyone happy. Finland has exactly 187,888 lakes, and its northernmost point is actually closer to Greenland than Poland due to the curvature of the earth. Greenland isn’t actually a country so I’mnot allowed to talk about it—its a dependency of Denmark, where its impossible to be more than 30 miles from the ocean. The wife of Denmark’s Crown Prince, Crown Princess Mary, was born in Australia which is the 6th largest country on earth and is home to the longest fence in the world—a 3,500 mile structure to keep wild dogs out of the the fertile south-east region. The middle of Australia also has practically nobody and nothing in it except a 297 mile long precisely straight section of rail road track. Australia freed the country of Brunei from occupation back in WWII which is one of the few countries worldwide to be comprised of two comparably sized sections.
St Kitts and Nevis is also split into two but that’s because its a two island nation and also the smallest country in the Americas. In Saint Kitts and Nevis you can gain citizenship by making a $400 thousand real estate investment much like Bulgaria, where people nod up and down to signify no and shake left and right to mean yes. Bulgaria is one of the few countries to havean embassy in North Korea which created its own time zone in 2015 for no real reason than to be different. North Korea is only separated by one country from Norway, where more than half the population lives below this line.
Between Norway and North Korea is of course Russia—the largest country in the world. Its easternmost point is, in fact, closer to Mexico than Moscow. Mexico once had three different presidents in one hour during a military coup, but also accustomed to short regimes is Alsace-Lorraine in France which was an fully-recognized independent country for 12 short days between being part of Germany and France at the end of World War One. France, of course, hadan enormous empire including Algeria which is the largest country in Africa and unlike some of its neighboring countries, is quite nice to women. 70% of the countries lawyers are female. Right next door to Algeria is Morocco which has de facto control of some of Western Sahara,a place that not really part of any country.
This is similar to Kiribati—a nation comprising of a few dozen islands in the Pacific. Kiribati is the first place on-earth to experience New Year’s since their time zone is UTC +14—a time zone exclusive to these islands. Kiribati is close friends with Cuba since Cuba sent doctors to the islands who reduced the child mortality rate by 80%. Cuba—the only Caribbean island to have commercial railroad—is one of the few remaining communist states. One of the others is Laos—the only landlocked country in south-east Asia—which borders Vietnam—also communist and the thermostat populous country in the world despite having the size of about New Mexico. Vietnam Osgood political friends with Venezuela who is not great friends with bordering Guyana since Guyana thinks the border looks like this and Venezuela thinks the border looks like this. Guyana—the only English-speaking country in South America—borders Suriname—the smallest country in South America and the only country other than the Netherlands whose sole primary language is Dutch. Suriname was our 98th country so that means that we’re halfway through and that that’s the end of part one of Every Country in the World, however, part two will be out on Tuesday, December 13th so make sure you’re subscribed-to catch that right when it comes out. If you enjoyed this and other Wend over Productions videos, please consider supporting the channel on Patron. Every dollar contributed over there goes right-into the channel and I even release expense reports to show you where your money went.
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Year:
2006
Publisher:
DK Publishing
Language:
english
Pages:
300
ISBN 10:
0756619521
ISBN 13:
9780756619527
File:
PDF, 97.15 MB
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