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[GeographyNow]

Did you know technically Uruguay has 3 co-official flags? What do they mean? And what is that sun thing with the human face on it? And how does JONAS know how to speak Spanish? This any many more questions will be answered in today's FLAG/ FAN DAY!!

[leandrojulian]

"Yorugua" is because Argentinians love to change syllables order to play with words. This is known as "metathesis"... It's a characteristic of Lunfardo slang / argot of Spanish from Buenos Aires... So, the actual word is "uruguayo" (Uruguayan), but with the last syllable ("yo") put at the beginning of the word

[Airmanshead]

"Rioplatense" refereces to both Argentinians and Uruguayans, The Rio de La Plata is what divides us politically but is also what unifies us culturally

[patricioiasielski]

Also, we argentinians refer to uruguayans (mainly in the context of football matches) as Charrúas (from the Charrúas native people); it's not at all a despective term or anything like that. I don't know if uruguayans refer to themselvs as charruas too.
And, btw, as a porteño myself although the term "porteño" might be used in a despective manner, it's not despective per se, is similar to "yankee", it might be despective or not, just depends on the context.

[TheAmericanPrometheus]

you might think that no one watches these videos, but ever since they were spun out into their own separate thing after the Cuba episode they've always been my favorite part. vexillology is so insanely underrated

[apmoy]

So, besides the similarities between the two flags, the Uruguayan & Greek national mottos are identical: Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος - Libertad o Muerte - Freedom or Death

[joermnyc]

Yes, definitely update the early countries, at least add in the new segments. Our daughter is adopted from Bulgaria and the food there is AMAZING, and I’m pretty sure it’s mostly farm to table. Also they have wineries, rose oil is huge, but there’s also lavender oil too. The ONLY thing we were told they can’t produce much of is olive oil, so they use sunflower oil or just import it from the EU.

[ElMundoDeHadesOK]

Porteños, call themselves Porteños ((people from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires)) so... nope we dont take it as an insult ♥

[kevinelruler]

Inti appears in the Ecuadorian flag too. I believe Bolivia and Peru also have it.

[jonasalden]

I had been waiting for the Uruguay episode eagerly. Thanks, Barbs. And btw, I watched your video about future plans. I hope Discovery Channel, CNN or BBC come knocking soon (unless you wanna stay indie). You've done fantastic work throughout these years and it's been great watching the way you've evolved the channel.

[edmundfarrow]

I always wondered what that sun meant. Thanks Paul!

[jorgemelide]

Whenever you want to make another great video of our little but great country, may i suggest the anathems ? Thanks for showing us as we are. Greetings from Uruguay 🇺🇾

[PapacyLeoneXIV]

Flag / fan Friday

Thanks Uruguay 🇺🇾

[ZidaneHamid]

Can anyone appreciate how much hard work he has been putting nonstop for like, 5-6 years? He is doing a great job and fulfilling the commitment of geography everywhere. Keep it up, its time for zimbabwe!

[mkb]

"Libertad O Muerte" is the slogan of the Greek revolution, and even the Greek and Uruguayan flags are similar. It's interesting, is there any connection?

[Mr.WestcottX]

🇺🇾 is a lovely country indeed, can't wait for 🇺🇿 episode.
( probably in October 🎃)

[eric]

Porteño is not a denigrative term, mostly

[HarryFrost-quth]

A hand stitched map, that is really cool.

[cjhenderson]

2:04 "Love me some whiskey sours and an old fashion"

You can take the Minnesotan out of Minnesota but not the Minnesota out of the Minnesotan 😅

[marcosmartinez]

heeey, do not mess with line 76! I always take that bus at the same time every day, and it's not that bad, there's far worse than that, although I agree as a frequent user of line 76, it just sucks from time to time.
And for that graffiti you mentioned, I'm sure I have seen pictures of it, but not about 76, rather about line 104 which does a completely different route along Montevideo, and is also infamous for just being late (if you catch the bus that is)

Also, that picture of the 76 is quite old. I'm pretty sure it wasn't easy to find a good quality picture of it but just by the paint you can tell its early 2016 or older, why?
Because Montevideo today has 4 main bus companies (CUTCSA, COME, UCOT, COETC) but in the past there used to be a 5th, called RAINCOOP.
They had line 76 (among others like 2, 14, 21, 71 and 79) but they went bankrupt in June 2016, leaving all lines mentioned just dead, that remained for about a week while the city gov. made a deal with the remaining 4 companies to take all RAINCOOP lines and put them back into service. 76 has been managed by COETC since, and they paint their buses with the colour red, while RAINCOOP used white and blue, which you can see in the picture at 1:27

Anyways, as the graffiti says, la vida pasa, el 104 no.