Everybody welcome back to flag / fan Friday
Hope you liked the Kyrgyzstan episode, so you know the deal before we go into that little intro song thing
I got to kind of fix up the small things that I made mistakes on in the episode surprisingly
Surprisingly, I don't think there were a lot
I got a lot of feedback from the kyrkgz subscribers until like yeah, who's overall pretty good
But there were still a few for one
I said the Epic of Manas was the longest epic poem in all the world if we're just counting the number of lines and verses
Then kind of technically - is the longest one it has about half a million
But if we're talking about overall word length then the Sanskrit
Mahabharata from India and the Epic of King Gesar are from Tibet are longer even though they each only have about
200,000 lines and verses and so you know you decide also I believe this image that I use for cutter coal is not actually cut
a call its choppin otta
Which is a resort on ecq lake?
They're both on the same lake, but you know is just different picture and yes
I am fully aware that in the friend zone the animation included a flag of Switzerland to symbolize medical aid
It's funny because I literally had this discussion with Ken the day before we uploaded. I'm like Ken you used a Swiss flag
You know we're gonna get a lot of comments on this and we did so for the 19 thousand four hundred and eighty fifth time
Ken you're fired, I just can't go on without Ken alright, Ken you're rehired alright
so that just about does it let's go into the intro slide shall we without further ado a
Cutest and Kazakhstan party animal little brother you can't help, but just love the guy
He's got some great dance moves so anyway the flag the flag of Kyrgyzstan is a red banner with a Yellow Sun
Containing 40 uniformly spaced rays crossed by two sets of three lines yes
I am fully aware that it looks like the Xbox logo, okay like
9422 of you guys already wrote that to me prior to making this video the three cross lines are actually supposed to symbolize the upper
cross rods or Duke of the sealing center of a yurt the traditional nomadic housing structure of kyrgyzstan this and return
symbolizes the origin of life unity and home the Sun stands for peace and prosperity
Whereas the 40 Rays are said to represent the original 40 tribes of?
Kyrgyzstan, which were all united under the national hero - and the red stands for
Bravery and valor sorry no animation this week hey. I don't make the rules of flags
I just report it now keep in mind this flag was actually adopted in 1992 after independence
And it was actually kind of like their first real
Sovereign state flag prior to this care Gaston was pretty much under every version of the Russian Empire and the Soviet empire after the Soviets
They were the Kyrgyz SSR which they use this flag and for seven months after independence
They used the same flag
But just without the hammer and sickle as they were trying to figure out a new flag for their country, but yeah
This was kind of like the real first Kilgus flag alright moving on now the national emblem
Which is interesting because it has a lot of blue in it the emblem contains a blue disc flanked with wheat and cotton sheaves on?
The side with the tian shan mountains in front of a Rising Sun in the background
With EC kul lake at the bottom in front of everything is a Falcom or auction mark with wings spreading symbolizing freedom
generosity and vigilance on the top and bottom you find the words written in Cyrillic Kyrgyz Republic caste or
Kilgus Republic now keep in mind this emblem was actually just adopted in
2016 prior to that they had another emblem that was almost completely identical except the colors were just a little off shaded oh
Yeah, and during Soviet times
They used this Wow like yeah wow yeah Soviet symbolism has always kind of pushed the limits of detail quantity and quality so yeah
That's pretty much it for the kicker, Stan. There's only one thing left to do you know what time it is
Geography real time. Okay. I'm not even joking one of these packages is making a sound listen
Just like usual we start off with postcards all right Allison sends this from
Lithuania NIC sends this from the Philippines also a guy with a cool name echo sent this from the Philippines as well
It's a rice terrace david sends this from washington d.c
Kate sends this from melbourne australia Anna who is Estonian, but sent this from Hungary and you wrote a lot on this postcard
It's like the smallest print ever and Fabian is from the Netherlands, but he sent this from Japan
I think your name is Nelly sent this from Estonia Nico. You sent this from Turku Finland okay now
These are the coolest postcards ever Anna from Turkey look what she drew that is that is so cool geography now like the Hollywood logo
Sign Wow you did such a good that is such a great drawing. I love that
I got a hit you up for the turkey episode and this austin from ohio sent this from Pitcairn Island. Oh my god
This is such a remote place
How did you even get there dude last week we got something from Antarctica the week before that or something we got something from like
Tristan da Cunha, I feel like it's a geography now
Olympics like who can send the thing from the most
area on the planet really cool when have you sent something from like Chad or like I don't know Burkina Faso or
Somalia or that would be cool better time Connor from Tulsa, Oklahoma
He's from Hale High School in his class says hi, Duncan from Los Angeles. You're from my town
He just got back from a trip from Havana Cuba and brought back some Cuban currency. It's a trace pay, so it's three pesos
It's one of the few countries that does a denomination of three in their currency
Also, you guys don't know Cuba has a weird currency system
They kind of have like bills for tourists and bills for their locals
But they're not pegged to the same amount just keep that in mind. I'm Nick from
Cebu City the Philippines, thank you for your cool-looking card
And he says shoutout to John Gabriel Fabi Joe Mira Brian and Bundy, SH. I gave a little shout out to your friends
I think your name is Karthik from India wrote this letter with a little joke for now logo, and he says he won
His school's geography quiz. Thanks to the geographer now videos awesome. Good for you and finally package time
Roaming from New York some travel brochures of things to see and a
2018 calendar of the Erie Canal ah this is so cool is this is this embroidered to check this out
That is amazing woah
This is literally embroidered onto like a piece of fabric the logo and like all these flags
I even got Batman Dia Terra right there, dude. I'm gonna put this on my desk. Ah mark from Ontario, Canada. Ah dude
That's really cool
So mark is a part of a team of artists that draw superheroes
representing countries of the world he actually sent superheroes representing all the nations of my
nationalities RIA
France Italy Ireland
And of course my home country the US if you would like to know more about their brand visit the heroes of the world com
Yeah, mark man really appreciate this you're great artist, and yeah, this is so cool man guys check out their website Benjamin from, Missouri
Oh my god. This is so cool. So this is actually an old Soviet, USSR Atlas his parents got it
I guess from Ukraine back in the day
Everything's written in Cyrillic and wow that's so so interesting to see this he also sends
I guess these are all Ukrainian Soviet postcards
It's so crazy to see how much Russia had such a geopolitical impact on that entire area
It's just the USSR the Soviets knew that no just just there's so much behind it I find it fascinating ok
Thanks a lot Benjamin. Oh this is from Shane from Malaysia
Whoa ok there's food your banana chips exploded in the pack, and they kind of fell over, but yeah
I appreciate that penstock sauce on our walk
Oh, it's like a paste mix that you put in with noodles and other stuff. Don't try this Oh SOT
I walk flag look at that huge Sarawak flag kind of looks like the German flag. Oh, and I guess this uh
Mini former starter wok flag he just uh he wrote a ton of information on, Malaysia
Did you even write like a personal letter or you literally just sent a bunch of information about Malaysia?
But you didn't write no personal. Okay. Well Shane. I appreciate this. This is really cool
I mean they take a lot of the information you sent and I use it for the Malaysia episode oh
My gosh that whole time my mic wasn't even on. Oh well see
Hugo from Luxembourg have we gotten anything from Luxembourg before I don't know
Yeah, okay, you live in Luxembourg, but you send me a book about Portugal or the Portuguese
number one best-selling book a revealing portrait of an inconspicuous and fascinating country
Portugal whoa, that's an interesting Wow oh, and it comes with a bookmark well
You're gonna have to wait a little bit for the Portugal episode because you know we go alphabetically
But this will be a great resource. I have no doubt. Thank you so much Hugo
I could always use more help with anything Portuguese related and finally
I
Don't know your name, but you're from Brooklyn, New York, okay, I'm guessing you're a star Wars fan
So this was making that noise a little r2d2, uh-huh, okay, I'll put him on my shoulder
No, he's not he's not gonna balance. Okay. Yeah, that was a bad idea little Irish flag
I'm guessing you're probably Irish American. He sent ramen noodles for some reason. Uh is this a this is a power bank
Thank you Brooklyn Law School are these mints you're sending me a bunch of weird random stuff, dude, and what is this?
It's a it's a green highlighter. Oh and to top it all off for some reason you sent me tissues, okay?
Yeah, thank you. This is like the most random package. I've ever gotten hey Bart
My name is ander Basques from andrew. I live in new york and i'm mostly Castilian Spanish
With a little Irish hence why there's an Irish flag, and he tried to draw the Basque flag
But then he wrote I got too lazy to finish
And I don't know who you are, but you're freakin hilarious
I love this guy he sends weird random stuff and tissues and ramen and an r2d2 and
You're amazing. I love this guy all right
So that's all of it before we go you know what time it is it's time for return address contest
I put your return addresses in this bag. I take one out and whoever wins I send a little gift too here we go
I'm not gonna look. I'm not gonna look. I'm gonna pick a big one this time last time. It was a small one
Joshua from Wichita Falls, Texas you just won right guys well
I really appreciate this all this cool stuff and random stuff that you sent
And uh putting your hometowns on display subscribe if you'd like and stay cool stay tuned have a good one