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So this is gonna be a filler week, a double filler week you guys have made a few suggestions on topics that
we can cover in these videos, and I took two of them, and I think I think you're gonna like them
But also guys I need a week off
We're gonna finish this year off with the two twin countries, the Koreas
But also I got to get ready to go to Canada for the very first
Geography now Geogrobee!
The very first school that I will go and host this Geography Bee will be at *drum roll*
L'Ècole Aememienne Sourp Hagop school in Montreal Quebec, Canada
And I'm actually gonna be doing two geogra-bees there one for the younger kids and one for the older kids so two
Students at that school will win these coveted trophies
Today's topic is gonna be really cool
It's the shortest-lived countries in the world but before we get into it really cool
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Now today's topic: "The Shortest-Lived Countries in the World"
And I should elaborate a little more
I'm gonna mention the shortest lived recognized countries in the world that means these countries were actually recognized by an actual sovereign state
So let's begin number 5. This is an interesting one lasting 36 days recognized technically by Soviet Russia
The Transcaucasian Federation basically after the February revolution in Tzarist Russia in the early 20th century things were getting a little messy
Immediately the Caucasus region was like hey now's our chance to kind of do something so it's kind of weird
But for a very brief short period of time the
Azerbaijanis Armenians and
Georgians
Actually kind of got together and made their own country the problem was if you don't really know this area very well the people groups
In this area don't really quite get along very well
The government was a mess the Ottomans were invading people couldn't agree on anything
And it shortly dissolved and the Russians came over and kind of took over everything all over again, so yeah
But it's kind of interesting these three nations actually kind of made something for 36 days coming in at number four the Republic of Kuwait
Now this one's kind of weird because today in order to kind of take over the land area of another country
It's kind of like a weird shady loophole system that you can kind of do in order to avoid worldwide conflict
And that is you have to kind of
Influence the governing authorities of that area to
Secede from the country that they're from and then apply for annexation to your country
This tactic actually has happened quite a few times, and that's what happened with the Republic of Kuwait back in the 90s
There was a guy named Saddam Hussein
There's also a thing called the Gulf War basically Saddam Hussein wanted to make Kuwait a province of Iraq
But he couldn't just take it so what he did was he kind of went in and implemented his own
Proxy puppet government created by his own political party with the agenda of Assuaging that new
"Government" to apply for annexation into Iraq unfortunately though
It never really happened and the Gulf War kind of raged on and Kuwait became its own thing, but yeah
It's funny because for 24 days they were their own thing interesting right coming in at number three lasting for only two weeks
Recognized by Hungary with the capital of Timișoara the Banat Republic basically World War one was crazy the
Austro-hungarian Empire was dissolving and when that happened everything just became one big mess everybody was like oh, what are we gonna
Do what areas are gonna become their own countries?
How are we gonna split things up and for two weeks this area recognized by Hungary was like I'm gonna be my own thing
Unfortunately
I didn't really last that long and the Serbian army came in and they just kind of split it up between them and then
Romania and Hungary yeah for two weeks they kind of held their ground, and yeah, it didn't really last that long
But it was a thing coming in at number two recognized for only five days
Recognized by the UK with the capital of Hargeisa the state of Somaliland now
This is an interesting one because it was kind of created because a delay back in 1960 the British agreed to relinquish British, Somaliland
Under the intention that it would join the Trust Territory of Somaliland under Italian
Administration or basically modern-day, Somalia so the two legislative bodies agreed that they would join together
But the problem was the rest of Somalia still had to kind of do their paperwork for five more days so British Somaliland
gained Independence but they had to wait five days to join with the rest of Somalia so
Technically that meant for five days they were on their own, and they were their own kind of technical country
This is kind of a touchy subject because today
There are a kind of separatist groups going on in the northern areas of Somalia known as modern-day, Somaliland
And they are totally vying for independence from the rest of Somalia kind of interesting to see all that go down
But yeah, for five days
They kind of were their own thing and finally coming in at number one
Lasting only one day recognized by Russia Capitol Sevastopol the Republic of Crimea now
This one's a really interesting tricky one because first of all it only happened in 2014 so pretty recent
But also because of like the loophole politics involved basically it's kind of similar to what happened with the Republic of Kuwait the high population
Of pro-russian separatists in this area held a referendum and essentially kind of took over their own
Sovereignty apart from the Ukrainians that means that technically they did kind of create their own state however
It was never really intended to last long due to the fact that they were vying for annexation back into Russia
So that's why every time I add a cutout of Russia into geography now
I always add a light green disputed Crimea area into the Russian Federation
This is because Crimea is kind of disputed by the outside world from Russia
But if you think about it through the weird loophole shady system it kind of is
Russian but a lot of people are saying no, but Russians say yes, and they show you the paperwork
And it says kind of yes
Crimea is very messy territory that I hate getting into because it's such a mess so many people have so many opinions about it
But what it basically
Boils down to is it is a lava field that you do not want to step on so that's about it. The top five shortest lived
Recognized
Sovereign states now keep in mind
There are other states that were short-lived such as the Republic of Benin, Carpatho-Ukraine
The Republic of Puerto Rico Mindanao even the Faroe Islands have their own little thing going on
But those states were not recognized by not even one fully sovereign state. Yeah, that was pretty fun
I hope you guys learned something and I look forward to finishing off 2017 with you guys stay cool stay tuned