There are NOT 195 countries

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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[bryannichols]

The fact that Bhutan doesn’t recognize either china or Taiwan maybe the funniest thing I have ever heard

[Hugawt]

I like the fact that Barbs from Geography Now appeared just to say "of".

[ALTnOtes]

8:52 TREE MEN TREE MEN TREE TREE TREE MEN MEN

[davidgannon]

In 2014, as a contractor at the U.S. Mint Manufacturing Department, I set about creating a document that itemized and categorized all countries' coins in the world, including the coins' relative value to the dollar and the material from which they're made.

The total number of countries I came up with was 207, not all of which even had coins, and several of which used U.S. currency!

[pplo]

Un recognised country ❌
Bhutan recognised country ✅

[splatter_proto]

The density of jokes-per-minute in these videos is wild

[edwardbrown]

Funny tidbit from a lifelong Montevideano, there's a rumour that the Montevideo treaty was defined specifically to exclude the Republic of Parva Domus, a gentlemen's club not far away from the hotel where the convention was taking place, which claims, as a joke, to be an independent country.

[wojtekpolska]

Bhutan not recognizing either China or Taiwan is a bit of a longer story - Bhutan doesn't have a list of "these are the countries i recognize as real countries", what people say Bhutan recognizes is actually countries Bhutan has diplomatic relations with, but the thing is that Bhutan is very isolationist, only opening relations on a need-to basis, having India handle most of their daily affairs.

so its not Bhutan not recognizing China or Taiwan, its Bhutan deciding they don't need any business with them so they don't send a diplomatic mission to them.
If you define Bhutan recognizing a country by whether they sent a mission to them, then by this definition Bhutan doesn't recognize the United States nor UK, and only recognizing Germany since 2020. In fact Bhutan only holds relations with 54 countries.

EDIT: I fixed the spelling of Bhutan as I mistakenly wrote "Buthan" every time, sorry.

[hotelmario]

The special effects on those worms are, I am not joking, some of the best visual effects work this channel has ever put out

[shawngray]

To be honest, Map Men videos are my comfort videos. I watch them when I feel overwhelmed. Or just for fun. Thank you both for making Map Men!

[space_]

“Unrecognized countries- sorry, UN recognized countries” 😂😂😂

[scotandiamapping]

2:45 for anyone wondering, SMOM is the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta", a successor to the Knights Hospitaller which is considered a country under international law, but doesn't control any territory.

[yip]

1:53 "Take Taiwan" "Something China wants to do" got me lmao

[Onebadger-je]

You know it’s a good year when jay foreman uploads

[Ultraw]

UN: Do you believe in China or Taiwan?

Bhutan: Neither. Nothing. All i see is emptiness

[magiciangob]

Mum knocking over the vase for no reason is basically the reason I subscribe to this channel.

[fixcz]

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!

[Anonymous-sbrr]

We should start calling England a province of the UK.

[rateeightx]

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.

[SimulatorAdventures]

0:47 Pretty smooth editing changing 2023 to 2024. Time travel is possible by the power of editing :)