Hey everybody, welcome back to Fan/Flag Friday, hope you liked the Kiribati episode.
So first off, let me address a few things.
Number one: In the video, I kept pronouncing "Kiritimati" when it's actually pronounced "Kiritimas".
It's so crazy. In the video, I explain the language thing but I kept getting it wrong throughout the enitre video!
I also want to talk a little bit more about how Kiribati was trying to become a more energy efficient but it's like really hard.
You can't really install wind turbines on Kiribati because, A) There's not much waiting to begin with
B) Even is there was wind, all the tall palm trees that they need would be blocking the air flow
and C) There is like hardly any land for them to build it on.
Also Kiribati has no native mammals however,
They do have a lot of endemic species of fish and birds including the trigger fish
Which you can find on the opening intro song slide of geography now
I love that fish it looks so stupid and dopey I love dopey-looking animals, but anyway
We got to get into the flag and stuff, so let's just jump in without further ado you?
All right so before we jump into the flag
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Thank you guys for just supporting geography now, so now cuter poses flag and stuff. I love Pacific island nations
I feel like they get the least amount of attention out of every country
Area on this planet first of all the flag of kidder bus is a horizontal by color of red and blue with half a Golden
Sun with 17 Ray's
Located in the center off the horizon as well as a gold frigate bird with three white wavy lines the red has no specific meaning
But it is set to compliment the Rising Sun which is centered to represent the position of the country around the equator the 17 Ray's
Stand for the sixteen Gilbert Islands along with banaba the blue of course symbolizes the ocean and the three wavy lines stand for the three
island chains of the country the Gilbert the Phoenix
And the line islands and finally the Gold frigate bird
represents the command of the sea power and freedom keep in mind this wife looks pretty similar to the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic flag as
Well as the company of Scotland flag whereas the flags of British?
Columbia or the Isle of Wight have similar
Configurations with waves or sons now the coat of arms
Which is only going to take like 11 seconds to explain the qualifier basically just depicts the exact
Same image as the flag
But is condensed in a shield shape format all the symbolism is the same as the flag and the only addition is the banner below
That reads to Maori to tally out a top oma, which means health peace and prosperity and that's about it
I mean under the British there under this flag, but otherwise they they keep it pretty bold and simple
I like that you know simple yet a little unconventional
Good for you kid a bus alright so with that done and said you know what time it is geography fan mail time
So today's a little lighter
Which is good, because that means I have less work in prose production to make this video whoa first
Let's do the postcards gene Darrell ascends this from Czechia Jason sent this from the capital, Washington DC. Interestingly enough
It says this was printed with soy ink this cool aditya sense this from tokyo if you say it's really close like the painting of
The great wave of Kanagawa, but there's tokyo tower in the background
Okay
This is weird
Adi who was born in India is a citizen of New Zealand but lives in Australia and his videos in Korea wow
That's like 90 things going on in this one postcard
Holden from Rhode Island I am NOT a gun set Native American oh cool
I've never met a non-constant Native American and he drew me in cartoon form Oh Mars. I think that's your name. Oh Mars
He lives in Georgia, but his family is Jordanian you drew
There's a country follows map thing, but what I like is right here you put Greenland, and it says I love the Mercator
Eugene from Denmark oh, it's a Moldovan flag. I'm guessing your Moldovan it Barb's
I'm Eugene currently studying in Denmark, but I was born and raised in Kishinev Republic of Moldova
Yeah, there you go. I remember I subscribe to your channel right before you uploaded the 8k sub special
Hope you stopped eating fried eggs with bare hand what yeah, when did I do medical video? Oh?
Oh
I can't watch my old videos. Well. Oh you remember that doesn't even have like 20,000 views
It's like wow I can't look at old me it's I hate old me
Moldova has a lot to offer
But you should hurry because I heard that a number of Chinese tourists are increasing every
Le who is Irish says Ivan a hand-drawn map when a flag of a mystical country named eagle. I hope you like it
Yeah, check it out. There's the map and this is a flag of each. Oh, you know what Ellie. I want to show you something
When I was younger not as young as you but I think maybe in high school
I used to make up my own Maps, too
I mean this place called
New Earth and I even drew like all the trading routes across the fake oceans and I like wrote all of this
Cultural stuff of the people that lived in the areas it's not alone Ally
There's a whole group of us that like to create our own worlds, Andrew from, Florida
And he drew the countries of his origin and i--i and Jonna from Boston
We have loved your videos since the Egypt episode
We are Egyptian Lebanese and American since you didn't do the Lebanon episode yet
We can give you a couple of facts about Lebanon the trees in Lebanon are very why there are many different cultures and religions
Lebanese Arabic is unique from all the other types of Arabic some popular foods are to who they fattoush and baba
Ghanoush that's cool represent your heritage all right John from Wales. Oh, what do we got here your Barb's?
I thought you might be interested in these flags silks concede us cigarettes whoa
So I guess these are images that were originally on cigarette packets
And they are flags of the world from a long time this Irish Free State whoa, okay?
So this has to be like in the early 20th century. No. They used to do this on cigarette packets
I learned something Liam from New York. I'm living in New York, but I'm originally from Israel
I am Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish so my heritage is a little messy most of my family is from Poland except for my great great
Grandparents on my grandfather's side they're from Spain, but then they moved to Egypt uh-huh and he sends a Israeli shekels
Hye-young and out of from India look how many postage stamps. They had to put on this like just to send it Jen
I love India hat hey Barb's greetings from India. Thanks for the birthday
wish I remember you guys you emailed me and you asked if I could send your brother a
Greetings in video form and I did it. Yes. I remember you we would love it if you could say these Hindi phrases namaste
Um Barbie hi minute Channel, huh?
Swagga, hi my hot dish cake bothering my main son Justin that means namaste
My name is Barb's welcome to my channel. I teach you about every country in the world ah okay and finally jobbed from
But it's in a u.s.. Priority Mail thing. Oh, yes, of course
Lebanon of course more lot more Lebanon and even more Lebanon you guys wear these in Lebanon and of course these
Beautiful postcards of things in Lebanon, I'm gonna wear both of these hats. I don't care
I I want you guys to know that I appreciate your stuff, so you know I'm gonna keep working it. Hey bar
My name is John
I'm from Lebanon a wonderfully culturally and religiously diverse
Country in the Middle East I sent you some flags along with a few postcards and the traditional table bush hat at which you could
Visit soon here are some reasons why the wonderful culture and landscape the fact that you can use American currency free to me
Oh, I didn't know that the kind of people and many more right guys so that's about it
But you know time it is it's time for my turn a dress contest. I put all your return addresses in this bag
I pick one out and whoever I pick gets a little gift from me alright. Okay, so I'm just gonna take one
I'm not gonna look. I'm not gonna look
Let's take a cardboard one this time see
Francisco from Buenos Aires, Argentina
You just want 20 guys. Thank you so much
I really like putting your countries and home areas on display subscribe to this channel if you'd like you've just been flagged
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