Hey everybody, welcome back to flag fan Friday. Hope you like the Nepal episode as you know this department
I kind of fix the mistakes that were in the video or I talk about things that didn't quite make it into the video first
Of all wrong book monastery is actually in Tibet China not Nepal
That was a mistake now sprout to mention that although nepali is the official language
There are two other recognized languages might Ely spoken by about 12% and butch Puri spoken by about 6%
They're only Co official in the South though specifically my TV with province one
Also, I forgot to mention that Nepal has a strange time zone. They are UTC plus 5 and 45 minutes interesting
I forgot to talk about the wildlife there about 850 species of birds 185 species of mammals
There's even a species of freshwater dolphin now
We did talk a lot about Hinduism and Buddhism
But what I forgot to mention was the ki raat religion about 3% of the population actually adheres to this religion
And it's kind of like an animist shamaness type of religion
It venerates nature and ancestor worship in some areas that even follow their own unique calendar system
also
I forgot to talk about some of the controversial things that you guys wanted me to highlight in the episode some of the things that
You guys mentioned included things like human rights violations on human trafficking child labor and the underground drug trade and finally
I was told that there's kind of like a little bit of drama
between most Nepal E's and the modeski people something about Nepali is moving in the Hill people into their areas and something about
Under-representation since they don't really culturally relate to the rest of Nepal
It's a very complex issue though
If you are Modjeski, and if you want to explain write it in the comment section
That's a lot and we still got a lot more to cover to the flag. So without further ado
Now if there's any flag fan friday episode you might want to watch this would probably be one of the most important ones because
Clearly you can tell this flag is unique. There's no other country on earth that has this type of configuration shape
first of all
The flag is the only double pennant
Or double triangle edged flag used by a sovereign state in the world the upper pennant being slightly narrower than the bottom
The flag is shaped that way for a few reasons
Many will say it imitates the shape of the himalayas others will say that it also symbolizes the important families the Shahs for the upper
Areas, and the Hirata's for the lower parts. None of us the government-sanctioned
Representation states that it stands for Hinduism Buddhism the two main religions of the country. The flag has a blue border the color symbolizing
Peace and harmony, the crimson red interior stands for bravery and the rhododendron the national flower no blood this time again
Geez, we need more blood
otherwise inside the flag lies these two white simple images the upper one being a
Horizontal crescent moon with a Rising Sun and the lower one being a 12 pointed Sun
These images are placed to represent the permanence and hope for longevity as a nation. It also stands for purity of spirit
And for the temperature extremes the moon being for the cold Himalayas and the Sun for the hot warmth RI
Lowland regions in the south. All right and keep in mind
This is pretty much the only flag they had since they were never colonized. I mean prior to 1962
They actually used kind of like the exact same flag, except the symbols have little happy smiley faces on them Oh charming
All right, and that's just about it. So time for the emblem
The emblem was adopted in 2008 after the end of the monarchy and depicts the land of Nepal summarized with Mount Everest in the background
The green hilly region and the yellow Terai at the bottom the male and female
Hands joined symbolize unity between all peoples and a garland of rhododendron
flowers adorns the sides the flag and map of Nepal can be found on the top and middle of the emblem and finally at the
bottom lines a stroll with Sun script writing
Translating to something roughly along the lines of mother and motherland are greater than heaven
Now keep in mind prior to the new government switch up in the end of the monarchy
They had a few other emblems
they all usually
depicted Mount Everest with Gurkha soldiers on the sides some have the national bird the green pheasant some have the Hindu god Gorakh nut and
Some have the royal headdress. Oh, yeah after the monarchy was deposed
They kind of switched it up and took away all of the royal imagery
So yeah, that's just about it Dan. That means you know what time it is. It's time for geography fan mail time. Yeah
All right, we're gonna do this
But before we do we need a guest star so you know her for the first time Hannah is here
Hi guys, Hannah. You've never done this before basically we start off with postcards
This is Robbie from Toronto Canada. Thank you. This one is from Soren
Goodbye
Luke and ghouls shot you guys have actually mailed this before. Thank you
This is mail from Denmark is from jam from hungry, but who is in Cincinnati, Ohio?
levity visited Tangier, Morocco
Greetings from Indonesia and I think this is the coolest postcard that I've ever seen by the way. I'm sorry
I just ate a bunch of garlic he stuffs with my breath smells horrible
Craig and Amy. Joy from Johannesburg South Africa
So this is cents from Dallas Texas. It's like the most American thing ever, but you're Canadian
This is from Matthew and it's from Japan Jimmy who?
Visited no, he's from Taiwan the Republic of China. It was just really cool rock beach thing Robby from London
UK awesome quick question here. Now if you could go anywhere, would you like to go Oh
Jerusalem there's so much history so much history
Egypt, that's a cool one, too. I Daniel from Belize and there was a poster here, but
Your your letter got ripped. Sorry guys, this sometimes happens. All right Hannah. Let's learn a little bit more about you
What was your experience being on geography now for the first time? What did you think of it? It was awesome
We got to film it like this super cool YouTube space, which is sick. Yeah, and all of you guys are just so awesome
Yeah, these guys are so down to earth and chill
Great I think your name is taffy. So taffy from Madagascar you send all these really cool like Madagascar
Postcards chicasarita cont Madagascar Merciful, excellent lovicott. Why totally keep avec face
Um, um pay we have C. So to to Dawa
Mentioning to Gary. Oh did Gary he's a famous guy from Madagascar. Oh, yeah. Alright
This one is from Brian from Sacramento
and Brian is actually a social studies teacher at the only food job' uh
School charter school in the United States Wow located in Sacramento, which is so cool
I don't even know we had those in beautiful cursive. Um, look at this handwriting
Kym's graphics are awesome
It's yours less. So
Fun fact in the first few episodes
I did all the animations so they're horrible, but I was so proud of them because I had never done animations before up. Next is
Jaron from the Philippines look at all this all this information on the Philippines took a scroll
Will see 100 pesos we played a we played poker at my place
with Hannah and her husband Ian and a bunch of other Caleb and Julian the prize money was like a bunch of extra banknotes you
Guys Tintin and what happened? I won the game and I got to take it all home and it is faces on with me
Yeah, you still have everything I think we're gonna play again. Okay. Okay. It's a new game
We've created with all the stuff that you guys it random souvenirs as currency for poker. No
this is from
Yeah before you go actually, oh no
He's here too, but he's gotta leave I gotta head out
Good to see you Brian from Toronto and Ontario a lot of Canadians today Wow, but my family is from Korea
But we are hockey Oh Oh Chinese people living in Korea. Got it. They even speak their own Chinese Korean Creole
That's awesome. So this is really interesting. These are really old. They don't even make these anymore
This is like one cent and you might win them in a poker game again
Didn't you win like a constitution?
So this guy wrote in from Texas and he's French and his last name is champagne
Yeah
We got this letter from Lindsey who is from Dellen, Florida, she's learning Arabic
She wants to know is this the correct way to write their geography now in Arabic?
This is the Soviets in Canada Oh
ketchup flavored Lay's potato chips
You want to try any let's try one by the way, fun fact Hanna can eat anything
All right, what do you think let me know when you first taste it it just tastes like a McDonald's chip
They have McDonald's fries with ketchup. It kind of does yeah
One question. What was the craziest thing? You've ever eaten? Oh one time in high school. We made a pizza
that was like this big and
All yeah, I was like you stacked it like we stacked we stacked pizza on pizza on pizza it was huge it was great
Oh the Cook Islands. So for those, you know, the Cook Islands is an overseas territory of New Zealand
Rarotonga that's the capital your Barb's ken Keith Noah and the judge for now Dean
I hope you enjoyed these reusable bamboo straws that I picked up while they're on holiday with my family
So this one is from Nadia and they visited Beryl Nassau
Belgium
That goes right through Belgium and
Sofia Bulgaria from Gaudreau the packages from Bulgaria, but I'm guessing your Armenian
This book is called highest and why I love Armenia one side note when I did Armenia
That was the first time I realized this job is gonna come with a lot of controversy fun fun
Yeah that happens Hanna what's something you want people to learn about you? What's a fun fact about Hanna? Um, I can play the clarinet
That's my weirdest fact. I think favorite food go green bean casserole green bean casserole
Bama and we love our casserole
Okay with the fried onions. Oh, yeah best part. All right
Well one last package cuz this from James remove Eiland what do you know?
Watch it. We have some twisties news new InStyle twisties Kamara crisps pineapple. Um,
Whitakers creamy milk
Cha-ching says and I like how you guys I'm still so chill and simple unlike other channels. Also. I love Noah's voice
It's so smooth and flowing
I'd love to see some a piece bass laughing and episodes - oh we can get that Anna
You should give some of these to you maybe
Alright guys, so that's just about it. But you know what time it is
Reacher a dress contest
so I put all of your return addresses in this bag Hannah's gonna pick one out and whoever wins gets a
This little notepad and button and if you don't win you can get them off of geography now calm
All right and Hannah go for it. All right Hannah. Who do we got we have
Prashant from India India Prashant you just won. All right guys
Well, thank you for just sending else cool stuff
I love putting your hometowns and country's on display Thank You Hannah for being in this episode
Any last words you want to say to the jump in our community? You guys are so great. Thank you for being supportive
Yeah
Thank you guys everyone see