hey everybody welcome back to flagslash
fan friday hope you like the federated
city of micronesia episode as you know
this is the part where i kind of
addressed things that didn't quite make
it into the video for one i wanted to
mention operation santa the us military
drops off care packages to the island of
kapingamarangi and it's been going on
ever since the 50s there was also a part
where noah mentioned that the country
has the longest coastline to land area
ratio in the world in the food section
we forgot to mention that the pompeian
pepper is very popular they cook a lot
of dishes with it on toal island they
have these devil masks they're
traditionally used to scare off bad
spirits i didn't get to mention any of
the traditional dances like these and i
also forgot to mention that the non
madol ruins are sometimes called the
venice of the pacific because they were
built with little canals but yeah those
are kind of like the biggest things
otherwise uh yeah let's move on to the
flag so without further ado
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micronesia is interesting because it has
thousands of years of history but in
terms of contemporary sovereignty it's
relatively new first of all the flag is
a blue banner with four five-pointed
stars on it assembled in a diamond
pattern the blue stands for the pacific
ocean and the stars represent the four
states of the federation pompeii chuuk
yap and kosrae and that's it but that
was too simple so let's break down the
flags of each of the states now pompei's
flag contains two wreaths of coconut
leaves and a ceremonial sacao cup made
of a hollowed out coconut shell with 11
stars and a circular pattern symbolizing
the 11 municipalities chuuk's flag has a
palm tree in the center with 40 stars
encircling it representing the 40
municipalities and atolls of the area
yap's flag is interesting it contains a
white ring with a silhouette of a
traditional sailboat with a white ring
inside representing the traditional rye
stones you can find all over the islands
finally cosrae which has two palm
wreaths on either side of a traditional
fafa stone these were used to grind up
tarot above the stone are four stars
representing the four municipalities of
coastride keep in mind prior to this
they were part of a trust territory of
the usa and they used this flag with six
stars six representing each of the
states except for close rate cosray used
to belong to pompeii as well as the
mariana islands and palau mariana
islands decided to opt out of the whole
independence thing whereas palau decided
to not join in the federation and become
their own country and prior to that
they're under the u.n and all the other
empires that took over them like the
japanese empire the germans the the
spanish or something yeah the spanish
yada yada yada anyway the national seal
in the center the seal contains a light
blue disc with an ocean and in the ocean
is a floating sprouted coconut with four
leaves and four stars emblazoned above
it on the upper half representing the
states of the federation a white banner
below reading peace unity and liberty as
well as 1979 the year that they gained
independence with another label reading
government of the federated states of
micronesia this seal was actually made
in 1986 shortly after signing the
compact of free association with the usa
which basically means that they could
kind of work really well with the usa
and move about each other's countries
all that other details i mentioned in
the episode and yeah this is the only
national seal they've had which means we
are done which means you know what time
it is geogra fan mail time all right so
we got quite a bit of fan mail i'm gonna
try to open it all in this room because
uh there's no guest stars this week and
i'm kind of a little bit on a time
crunch so here we go all right so you
know how we start postcards is really
cool aaron visited costa vincentina
portugal sasha visited london i can't
really quite read your names they
visited the principality of andorra alex
and gerta turku finland i want that
saamiyaki ice cream so bad francois who
lives in galicia spain steph from
dunsborough western australia alex sent
this from shanghai china costa kalida
sent from ismail alex sent this from
japan and this is really cool this is
the first wooden
wooden postcard i've gotten tristan from
macau he didn't visit he's a native
resident oh that's really cool jacob who
did a kibbutz program in israel sal
visited sicily italy jamie from
australia visited the ice risenvelt the
world's largest ice cave in austria and
finally this is really cool luca visited
lao all right time for some letters uh
benjamin sends a letter from japan he
says he's been living in nagaoka nigita
japan for since 2007. he actually wrote
an essay in japanese about general uh
yamamoto i believe it's really cool how
you became fluent and you live in that
country and it's your home now toby from
arizona so toby drew this really cool
flag map of the world but then he sent
this it's a former ussr military medal
it has the hammer and sickle let's see
if i can read the cyrillic trudeau
okay how did some random guy in arizona
get come across a ussr military medal
that's weird all right tobias from bill
fell germany he says it's not a very
famous town and usually germans kind of
joke about how it doesn't exist but one
thing that they are famous for is how
they had institutions for mentally ill
people during hitler's reign he wanted
to put them in concentration camps and
execute them but famous leader pastor
bolda schwing deliberately opposed
hitler and said he would not comply and
he sends a lot of uh beaufeld uh tourism
stuff home is where your pudding is
because they're famous for pudding
a lot of cool things you can do them
beaufield biofeld is like in bold dude
tobias you really love your hometown
don't you well uh everybody if you're
interested look up billfell germany uh
nick from minnesota said he got all the
way to washington dc and the geography
bee wow so grant runs the vexological
association of kansas city this way it
looks like a k but if you flip it over
it looks like a knc for kansas city
that's pretty clever so will is from
florida and he sent a bunch of stuff he
said he's been watching the show for
several months he really enjoyed
episodes like ireland liechtenstein
hungary and iceland he goes to florida
university go gators and uh there's a
russian store close to him and he sent
me some russian snacks i'm surprised
you're in florida i thought you were
going to send something like cuban but
uh
what is this
wow russians make halwa really i didn't
know that i thought it was like a middle
eastern thing czar nicholas russian
green tea i didn't know russians were
even into green tea all right i got this
package from john from san antonio texas
john did not write a letter but he sent
a ton of random things yeah for those
who know san antonio is a very beautiful
colorful city of course a texas flag
very similar to the chile flag but don't
get them mistaken uh for some reason you
sent me this asterix comic and finally
it really does look like old paper or
old parchment oh my gosh it's the united
states constitution and the preamble he
also sends a lincoln's gettysburg
address well john that was very texan
and american of you thank you man
sometimes you know i just gotta bring it
back to my roots my american roots okay
benjamin sent this box and it
deliberately says do not open until the
micronesia fan friday episode well this
is that episode ah you sent a coconut
water you know that i like coconut water
thanks and what
is this
that's okay man i'm pretty sure korean's
not your first language you got one
letter off but that's okay i i
appreciate it uh he goes to nwmsu go
bearcats i hope things are going well
for you and your friends at gn and your
new house so i send you some stuff i
know you'll love he also says give my
girlfriend elisa a shout out when you
read this hey elisa uh sebastian from
spain all right oh it's a lock with the
basque flag a bunch of uh playing cards
it's a little coffee mug oh and it has
like spanish french and basque written
all over it obviously your football team
and he sends all these cool postcards of
beautiful places like bita soa sebastian
iron hey i'm vasconium oh you've sent me
some stuff before haven't you i'm
sending you and the crew tons of goodies
i wanted to send some food stuffs
especially for keith but the restrictive
postal codes won't allow it in spain he
says the lock with a nice basque flag on
it is to keep ken nicely locked well yes
thank you vesconium um yeah ken chewed
through the last lock so i needed a new
one anyway thank you and finally this is
from denmark i love denmark it was the
very first european country i ever went
to i'm from ahu's denmark my mom is from
denmark and my dad is from bosnia
herzegovina oh okay i've been subscribed
since surprise surprise the denmark
episode i've watched almost every single
one of your videos and you are without
my favorite youtuber yeah i recently
visited my grandfather in serbia and i
brought you some serbian snacks oh dang
well let's look into this box shall we
the danish and the serbian flags oh i've
had these jaffa cakes they're really
good
serbia yeah you got my size men's medium
all right here we go kind of hard to do
this while holding a box
dude your dad works at the factory that
makes these
yeah you know i'm a liquor guy
geographer now does not endorse underage
drinking if you are underage do not
drink i am of age so i can drink this
just letting you know oh and you sent
the serbian liquor drink too is this
spirits i don't even know what this is
dude i think this was in my bosnian
herzegovina video this stuff aivar it's
like made out of bell peppers and stuff
i've never had this i've wanted to try
it though that's so cool maybe i'll do
like an instagram story of uh me trying
this or something no freaking way if you
guys don't know what this is this is
probably like the most famous like soft
drink in all of denmark last time i
tried this was like four years ago
denmark and serbia all right so that's
just about it for now but before we go
you know what time it is return a dress
contest i take one of your names out of
this bag that has all your return
addresses and whoever wins gets the
scratch off map provided from geography
federico he sells them on his website so
if you don't win you can buy one right
here thank you frederico all right so
here i go i'm just gonna pick one gonna
pick one
uh martium from malaysia you just won
all right guys well this was really cool
i love when you guys put your home towns
and home countries on display i'm gonna
share some of this with my friends i
can't have it all to myself and uh yeah
until next time thank you stay cool stay
tuned you've just been flagged i can't i
can't really do the salute thing but you
know what i'm doing
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